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• Aunt Tigress

  Qin, Emily Yu-Hsuan,

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  Tam hasn’t eaten anyone in years. She is now Mama’s soft-spoken, vegan daughter — everything dangerous about her is cut out, repressed. Medicated. But when Tam’s estranged Aunt Tigress is found murdered and skinned, Tam inherits an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Keeper of Lonely Spirits

  Anderson, E. M. (Fantasy fiction author),

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  Find an angry spirit. Send it on its way before it causes trouble. Leave before anyone learns his name. After over two hundred years, Peter Shaughnessy is ready to die and end this cycle. But thanks to a youthful encounter with one o’…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• But Not Too Bold

  Pueyo, H.,

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  The old keeper of the keys is dead, and the creature who ate her is the volatile Lady of the Capricious House⁠―Anatema, an enormous humanoid spider with a taste for laudanum and human brides. Dália, the old keeper’s protégée, must take up…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• North Is the Night

  Rath, Emily

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  In the Finnish wilderness, more than wolves roam the dark forests. For Siiri and Aina, summer’s fading light is a harbinger of unwelcome change. Land-hungry Swedes venture north, threatening the peace; a zealous Christian priest denounces…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Hour Between Worlds

  Caruso, Melissa,

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  A whip-smart adventure fantasy packed with rival guilds, reality-bending magic, and sapphic pining, The Last Hour Between Worlds is the brilliant launch of a new series from David Gemmell Award-nominated author, Melissa Caruso. Kembral…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Swordcrossed

  Marske, Freya,

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  Mattinesh Jay, dutiful heir to his struggling family business, needs to hire an experienced swordsman to serve as best man for his arranged marriage. Sword-challenge at the ceremony could destroy all hope of restoring his family’s wealth,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Metal From Heaven

  a Confession at the End

  Clarke, H. A., 1997-

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  Ichorite is progress. More durable and malleable than steel, ichorite is the lifeblood of a dawning industrial revolution. Yann I. Chauncey owns the sole means of manufacturing this valuable metal, but his workers, who risk their health…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lucy Undying

  a Dracula Novel

  White, Kiersten,

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  Her name was written in the pages of someone else's story: Lucy Westenra was one of Dracula's first victims. But her death was only the beginning. Lucy rose from the grave a vampire, and has spent her immortal life trying to escape from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Voyage of the Damned

  White, Frances,

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  A mind-blowing murder mystery on a ship full of magical passengers. If Agatha Christie wrote fantasy, this would be it! For a thousand years, Concordia has maintained peace between its provinces. To mark this incredible feat, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Crimson Crown

  Walter, Heather, 1987-

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  Legends tell of a witch who became a queen—the heartless villain in the story of Snow White. But now the wicked queen is stepping out of Snow White’s shadow to become the heroine of her own legend. Her real “once upon a time” begins when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queen B

  the Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen

  Dawson, Juno,

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  It’s 1536 and the Queen has been beheaded. Lady Grace Fairfax, witch, knows that something foul is at play – that someone had betrayed Anne Boleyn and her coven. Wild with the loss of their leader – and her lover, a secret that if…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nicked

  Anderson, M. T.,

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  The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to serve the sick. But his superiors, and the power brokers they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Running Close to the Wind

  Rowland, Alexandra,

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  Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Araşti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world―and the only place to flee with a secret that big is the open sea. To find a buyer with deep…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

  a Cozy Fantasy Steeped With Love

  Thorne, Rebecca, 1991-

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  In the tradition of Legends & Lattes, comes a cozy fantasy steeped in sapphic romance about one of the Queen’s private guards and a powerful mage who want to open a bookshop and live happily ever after…if only the world would let…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Road to Ruin

  Lee, Hana, 1996-

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  Jin-Lu has the most dangerous job in the wasteland. She’s a magebike courier, one of the few who venture outside the domed cities on motorcycles powered by magic. Every day, she braves the wasteland’s dangers—deadly storms, roving…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fireborne Blade

  Bond, Charlotte,

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  Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honor. It’s that, or end up like countless knights before her, as a puddle of gore and molten armor. Maddileh is a knight. There aren’t many women in her line of work, and it often feels like…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Someone You Can Build a Nest in

  Wiswell, John, 1981-

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  Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Song of the Huntress

  Holland, Lucy,

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  Britain, 60AD. Hoping to save her lover, her land, and her people from the Romans, Herla makes a desperate pact with the king of the Otherworld. But years pass unheeded in his realm, and she escapes to find everyone she loved long dead.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Tainted Cup

  Bennett, Robert Jackson, 1984-

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  In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree spontaneously erupted from his body. Even in this canton at the borders of the Empire, where contagions abound and the blood of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Season of Monstrous Conceptions

  Rather, Lina,

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  In 17th-century London, unnatural babies are being born, with eyes made for the dark and webbed digits suited to the sea. Sarah Davis is intimately familiar with such strangeness―having hidden her uncanny nature all her life and fled to…Read moreRead more of this annotation