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Book SynopsisThe final chapter in Ashok K. Banker’s acclaimed Burnt Empire Saga, The Blind King’s Wrath depicts the climactic battle between Krushni and her father, the Demonlord Jarsun, for the Burning Throne and the fate of the Krushan dynastyThe Demonlord Jarsun is poised to claim the Burning Throne and cement his rule over the Burnt Empire. Standing in his way is his daughter, now reincarnated into a new avatar named Krushni, who is determined to avenge her mother’s death by his hand—and put an end to her father’s reign of terror once and for all. Aligned with him is the vast army of the Empire, the One Hundred children of Emperor Adri, and their former guru, the legendary warrior Dronas.Krushni has allies too. Also opposing the tyrant Jarsun are the children of his nephew Shvate—the supernaturally-gifted quintet known as the Five. But Krushni and The Five are vastly outnumbered, while other rogue individuals like La

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Book SynopsisThe woman in the jacket has no choice but to trek through the woods alone in the aftermath of the Crisis in this postapocalyptic retelling of Little Red Riding Hood from the author of Alice. Original.

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Book SynopsisThe Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur, king of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skillful achievement in the use of Old English alliterative meter, in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur’s expedition overseas into distant heathen lands, of Guinevere’s flight from Camelot, of the great sea battle on Arthur’s return to Britain, in the portrait of the traitor Mordred, in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle.Unhappily, The Fall of Arthur was one of several long narrative poems that Tolkien abandoned. He evidently began it in the 1930s, and it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 and urgently pressed him, You simply must finish it! But in vain: he abandoned it at some unkn

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Book SynopsisGenre-bending and darkly comic, Grushin''s fourth novel is a weird and wonderful triumph. –O, the Oprah MagazineCinderella wants her Prince Charming dead in this sophisticated fairy-tale for the twenty-first century. Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up and exhausted, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron, Cinderella doesn''t ask for a love spell to win back her Prince Charming. Instead, she wants him dead. Endlessly surprising, wildly inventive, and decidedly modern, The Charmed Wife weaves together time and place, fantasy and reality, to conjure a world unlike any other. Nothing in it is quite what it seems--the twists and turns of its magical, dark, and swiftly shifting paths take us deep into the heart of what makes us unique, of romance and marriage, and of the very nature of storytelling.

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Book SynopsisA sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a major new literary talent from India“A marvel of magical realism.”—O: The Oprah Magazine A spellbinding work of literature, Latitudes of Longing follows the interconnected lives of characters searching for true intimacy. The novel sweeps across India, from an island, to a valley, a city, and a snow desert, to tell a love story of epic proportions. We follow a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who speaks to them; a geologist working to end futile wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a mother struggling to free her revolutionary son; a yeti who seeks human companionship; a turtle who transforms first into a boat and then a woman; and the ghost of an evaporated ocean as restless as the continents. Binding them all together is a vision of life as vast as the universe itself.  A young writer awarded one o

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Book Synopsis“Fresh and original . . . full of lush writing and detailed worldbuilding . . . [with a] rich fantasy landscape and an almost Shakespearean feel.”—PasteTwins imbued with incredible magic and near-immortality will do anything to keep their family in power—even if it tears the family apart—in the first book of a mythic epic fantasy duology from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls.ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—BookPage  Rhea and Lexos were born into a family unlike any other. Together with their siblings, they control the seasons, the tides, and the stars, and help their father rule their kingdom. Thanks to their magic, the family has ruled for an eternity, and plan to rule for an eternity more.  But Rhea and Lexos are special: They are twins, bonded down to the bone, and for the past hundred years, that bond has protected them as their father becomes an unpredictable tyrant—and his worsening temper threatens the family’s grip on power.   Now, with rival nations ready to attack, and a rebel movement within their own borders, Rhea and Lexos must fight to keep the kingdom—and the family—together, even as treachery, deceit, and drama threaten to strand the twins on opposite sides of the battlefield.  In a Garden Burning Gold is a vividly written, atmospheric saga that explores the limits of power and the bonds of family—and how far both can be bent before they break.

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Book SynopsisSiblings torn apart by betrayal grapple with their broken bonds?and fight to regain their power?in this stunning conclusion to a mythic epic fantasy duology from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls.The Argyros siblings have lost everything. With their father dead and their family home captured, they?re no longer the rulers of their fractured kingdom?and no longer bound to each other.In the frozen north, Rhea struggles to wield her newly inherited command over death and to find her place in an increasingly distrustful rebel group. Chrysanthi travels to a distant, war-torn land in search of her elusive brother Nitsos, certain that he is there on a dangerous mission to restore the family to its former glory, this time with himself at its head. And Lexos, now stripped of all his power and a political prisoner of the Domina family, is left to rot in a hauntingly desolate palace with nothing but thoughts of revenge. Alone and farther apart than they?ve ever been, the siblings must reckon with the pain of their past and find a new path forward?or risk their own destruction. In an Orchard Grown from Ash is the dramatic finale of a darkly beautiful, atmospheric saga that explores the cost of power and the weight of legacy.

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Book SynopsisIn this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman?s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.A mystery and a horror story about grief, but one with defiant hope in its beating heart. ?Paul Tremblay, authorof A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers ClubWhenMackenzie wakes up with a severed crow''s head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears.Night after night, Mackenzie?s dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina?s untimely death: a weekend at the family?s lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt. But when the waking world starts closing in, too?a murder of crows stalks her every move around the city, she wakes up from a dream of drowning throwing up water, and gets threatening text messages from someone claiming to be Sabrina?Mackenzie knows this is more than she can handle alone.Traveling north to her rural hometown in Alberta, she finds her family still steeped in the same grief that she ran away to Vancouver to escape. They welcome her back, but their shaky reunion only seems to intensify her dreams?and make them more dangerous.What really happened that night at the lake, and what did it have to do with Sabrina?s death? Only a bad Cree would put their family at risk, but what if whatever has been calling Mackenzie home was already inside?

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Book SynopsisOne-Smoke Stories is a collection of folk tales from Native American, Spanish Colonial, mestizo, and European American peoples of the Southwest retold in the enthralling words of one of the bestselling writers of her day, Mary Austin.

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Book Synopsis“The best one,” as Clarice Lispector called The Apple in the Dark, her famously intense 1961 novelTrade Review"The Apple in the Dark is a retelling, a reversal, a recasting of the creation myth: a very unlikely bestseller, it’s very, very different from anything else she ever wrote. If you put it between The Besieged City, which comes before it, and The Passion According to G. H., which comes after, you’ll see just how radically experimental she was: how little she repeated herself, how she ‘made it new’ every single time." -- Benjamin Moser"A fitting capstone to a remarkable publishing endeavor." -- Sophia Stewart - The Millions"An experimental novel about becoming, existing, and being remade: seductive." -- Kirkus Reviews"May we all, after reading The Apple in the Dark, ‘stand in the calm profundity of the mystery." -- Carlos Valladares - Frieze"This existential epic of a desperate criminal…stands among Lispector’s finest and most enigmatic achievements." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)""What in other hands might make for the premise behind a noir novel, Clarice Lispector uses to explore metaphysical questions of being, of existence expressed in a coiling language in which concrete nouns torque into abstract conceptions pushing sense to the limits of coherence…The Apple in the Dark represents Lispector at the height of her creative powers.”" -- Tom Bowden - The Book Beat

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Book SynopsisWinner of the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Jeannette Ng brings a stunningly different Victorian fantasy that mixes Crimson Peak with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Victorian missionaries travel into the heart of the newly discovered lands of the Fae, in a stunningly different fantasy that mixes Crimson Peak with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Catherine Helstone’s brother, Laon, has disappeared in Arcadia, legendary land of the magical fae. Desperate for news of him, she makes the perilous journey, but once there, she finds herself alone and isolated in the sinister house of Gethsemane. At last there comes news: her beloved brother is riding to be reunited with her soon but the Queen of the Fae and her insane court are hard on his heels.File Under: Fantasy [ In Arcadia Seek and Hide The Queen of Moths Lands of the Damned ] Trade Review“An opulently atmospheric piece of neo-Victorian fantasy set in a 19th century in which the British are sending missionaries to Fairyland. It’s a strange, brooding and occasionally perverse debut.”– The Guardian, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2017“An evocative, claustrophobic Gothic novel with strikingly creepy set-pieces, which repeatedly dislocates its reader’s and characters’ worldview in a forceful examination of faith and the power of stories.”– Aliette de Bodard, Nebula, Locus and BSFA Award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings“Under the Pendulum Sun is a weird, ingenious, and ravishing story of the Fae and the outsiders driven to discover their secrets, told with a heady melange of disturbing beauty and enticing dangers.”– Kate Elliott, author of Cold Magic, Black Wolves, and Court of Fives“Poetic, elegant, the writing feels filigreed and heavy with silk… the most nonchalantly menacing thing I’ve ever read.”– Cassandra Khaw, author of Hammers on Bone"Threads together the Brontës, Fae mythology and the Biblical Apocrypha into an intricate gothic tapestry, the sort that seems to shift slightly when you glance away, the sort that throws away imagery in every half-sentence that makes the “shifting tapestry” metaphor in the previous sentence wince at being a bit predictable." – Kieron Gillen, co-creator of The Wicked + The Divine“An enchanting literary debut – I couldn’t put it down!”– Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award winning author of A Man Lies Dreaming and Central Station“Jeanette Ng has no time for Victorian attempts to sanitise and prettify Faerie. A story as intriguing as it is eerily disturbing.”– Juliet McKenna"Extremely beautiful, entertaining, and emotionally compelling...read this excellent book."– Grimdark magazine "Intriguing... fascinating."– Publishers Weekly“The world-building and atmosphere are just incredible. It’s especially gripping because the normal rules don’t apply, and nothing is as it seems.”– Syfy Wire, The 10 Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books of 2017“This is The Woman in Black, Heart of Darkness and fae all mixed up in a magical debut novel.”– Morpheus Tales Reviews“Under the Pendulum Sun is without a shadow of doubt one of the best fantasy stories I’ve read in 2017. I was engrossed in the mystery, delighted by the scope of the intertextuality, thrilled by the reversal of situations I hadn’t seen coming, and amazed by the world building. Under the Pendulum Sun not only has a fantastic cover, it also has a great story to tell that I would urge any fantasy reader, particularly if they are keen on gritty Victoriana, to try.”– Black Girl Nerds“A brave and startling debut, one that’s both sensual and sinister, a foundation for what should be a glowing career.”– British Fantasy Society“Under the Pendulum Sun contains wonders and terrors, sweet love and brittle disgust. ”– Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog“A brilliant fantasy that challenges the characters’ faith and hearts, and creates a world entirely of its own.”– Scifi Now“Jeannette Ng’s Under the Pendulum Sun is big and unruly and spills over in various directions in ways that genuinely excite.”– Strange Horizons“Jeannette Ng weaves an incredible tale in the vein of a creepy Victorian novel that blends elements of fantasy, historical fiction, mystery, and more into a dark and captivating tale.”– San Francisco Book Review“A perfectly twisted novel.”– SFF World"A stroke of pure brilliance."– the Guardian“Hauntingly beautiful and masterfully told. This looks like the start of a brilliant career.”– Keith Yatsuhashi, author of Kokoro“Jeannette Ng's imagery is breathtaking, her setting dark and delightful, and her use of theology is pure genius. Like some sinister elf, Under the Pendulum Sun will steal your imagination and never give it back.”– N S Dolkart, author of Among the Fallen“Under the Pendulum Sun does live up to its fabulous pitch. A richly woven fantasy from a brilliant imagination. Definitely one for readers interested in fairy lore and Gothic fantasy.”– Rod Duncan, author of The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter“Imagine Northanger Abbey’s Catherine Morland confined to a particularly mysterious corner of Gormenghast with the Faeries of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell for company and you start to get an idea of how delightfully intricate and beautifully realised a novel Under the Pendulum Sunis. A remarkable debut.”– Jonathan L Howard, author of Johannes Cabal the Necromancer series“Under the Pendulum Sun is a delicious fusion of repressed Victorian missionary values and the horror of the Fae. A sumptuous account of the journey into the land of the Fae, and into the darkest recesses of the human soul, this book delighted and shocked in all the best ways.”– Emma Newman“A novel whose big heart enables it to engage with big ideas. Read it carefully, and be rewarded.”– Andrew Wallace, author of Sons of the Crystal Mind"Jeannette Ng has written an utterly brilliant gothic novel, using all the tropes and cliches of the genre and rising above them in magnificent style. I highly recommend it."– Intellectus Speculativus“Ng draws us into the fantastic quickly, with gorgeously imaginative details.”– Shoreline of Infinity“There is a wisdom, but also an exquisite beauty in her words that stun you... Under the Pendulum Sun is a gorgeous book.”– Utopia State of Mind“An intricate distortion of myth and history… A pre-Halloween puzzle box of a book.”– Victorian Soul Critiques“A deep, rich and very definitely eerie gothic novel that asks some very hard, very interesting questions about god, faith, the nature of truth and what stories and storytelling have to do with all of it.”– Kam Reads and Recs“Under the Pendulum Sun is a dark, psychological fantasy in a gothic vein, paying considerable literary homage to authors such as the Brontës. Impressively, Jeannette Ng manages to keep her debut novel grounded in historical reality despite its taking place entirely in the faelands.”– The Fancy Hat Lady Reads“Holy wah. Holy wah! Holy WAH! This book was an amazing read!”– Purple Owl Reviews“Jeannette Ng’s Under the Pendulum Sun expertly weaves fantasy, the Gothic, academia, and religion in this compelling novel about missionaries to Arcadia, the land of the Fae.”– Fairy Book Mother“The writing and the world building are an absolute treat and the story is very original.”– Helen’s Bookshelf“Under the Pendulum Sun is a towering work of imagination.”– Alan Brenik“Jeannette Ng has subverted the Gothic novel and given it a fresh lease of life.”– Strange Alliances“The writing is, in a word, beautiful.”– YA On My Mind“Beautifully crafted and structured, but containing a deeper, hidden heart that takes patience to reach. 5 Stars: Excellent.”– Occasionally Random Book Reviews“Under the Pendulum Sun is an amazing debut novel from an author to watch.”– The Illustrated Page“A book that will pull you in about fourteen different directions and refresh your imagination.”– Chain Interaction“Ng’s writing is first rate and this is an enjoyable, immersive book that is able both to take seriously the perspective of its Victorian characters and to show their worldview under assault from a cultural encounter for which they’re wholly unfitted. It’s a haunting, intricate book which is like nothing I’d read before. I’d strongly recommend it.”– Blue Book Balloon“The author does an excellent job of building suspense and setting throughout, and gives us interesting characters.”– JD DeHart“A stunningly different fantasy that mixes Crimson Peak with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.”– Fine Print“Under the Pendulum Sun is a debut novel from a writer who knows her prose craft.”– Pop-Verse“Really interesting and refreshing.”– Bofinkins vlog“Under the Pendulum Sun is fantastic and I can’t wait to see what Jeannette Ng writes next.”– Pretty Terrible“Ng’s writing is stunning. It’s rich and lush, full of description and atmosphere. You can practically feel things moving in the shadows as you’re reading. The language Ng has used fits perfectly with the story she’s writing -- descriptions balancing on the edge of over-done, utilising old-fashioned styles of perhaps ’telling’ more than is common now. It’s all beautifully done and Under the Pendulum Sun could easily sit next to any of the classic Gothic Romance novels.”– Foxes & Fairytales“Utterly captivating and super weird. Loved it.”– Way Too Fantasy“A rich, strange, increasingly nightmarish phantasmagoria of both horror and beauty. It’s impressively erudite and sly. It draws the reader expertly in, builds steady tension, then lays shocking plot twist after plot twist. It’s a novel that opens into landscapes of wonder, and becomes a moving, even rapturous, journey. ”– It’s a Jumble“An excellent eerie trip… If you would like a chance from fantasy that constantly looks for a quest or quasi-detective story then I think this would be a perfect novel to take you away but you may not be quite the same person afterwards. Pass the salt…”– Runalong the Shelves“So much its own thing that I don’t hesitate to recommend it, and am extremely curious to see what Ng does next.”– Asking the Wrong Questions“Under the Pendulum Sun is without a shadow of doubt one of the best fantasy stories I’ve read in 2017. I was engrossed in the mystery, delighted by the scope of the intertextuality, thrilled by the reversal of situations I hadn’t seen coming and amazed by the world building. Under the Pendulum Sun not only has a fantastic cover, it also has a great story to tell that I would urge any fantasy reader, particularly if they are keen on gritty Victoriana, to try.”– The Middle Shelf“Under the Pendulum Sun is a fascinating story.”– Earl Grey“Ng’s novel is a dream that does not disappoint. It’s a rich, strange, increasingly nightmarish phantasmagoria of both horror and beauty. It’s impressively erudite and sly. It draws the reader expertly in, builds steady tension, then lays shocking plot twist after plot twist. It’s a novel that opens into landscapes of wonder, and becomes a moving, even rapturous, journey. ”– It’s a Jumble“I loved this book… A genuinely delightful and thought provoking read.”– Fox Spirit“Under the Pendulum Sun is no fairytale; its ancestors are Jane Eyre and Ann Radcliffe, not the faerie-tinged historical fantasies of Susanna Clarke and Zen Cho.”– The English Student“Under the Pendulum Sun is more than a simple novel of the Fae (to quote it’s subtitle) but instead is quite a rather clever morality tale that shows what can happen to those who believe their culture is far superior to everyone else’s. It’s a great novel and ... I enjoyed it alot.”– Resolute Reader“I’d be lying if I said this book hadn’t utterly blown me away. As debut novels go, I think this is a damned hard one to beat, and I’ve read some really great ones. In fairness, both to it and to others, though, I’ve never read anything quite like this. As an example of SFF at its finest, it shines like a faerie moon hanging before an angler fish. Just watch out for those teeth.”– Over The Effing Rainbow“Beautifully written.”– Fantasy Book Review“Ms Ng’s rendering of the Fae world is a must-read. Such vast imagination that takes authors years to build. Weird, quirky, and intricate details that are so subtle yet immensely powerful–like a well-added spice.”– Moore Fantasy“Geat prose, effectively told story, utterly captivating and super weird. Loved it.”– Way Too Fantasy“Stanislaw Lem meets George MacDonald meets VC Andrews meets Sylvia Townsend Warner. If having your expectations swung back and forth sounds like fun give this a go.”– 10 Bad Habits“Captivating, thoroughly recommended.”– Novel Gazing Redux“This is a masterful debut, although it won’t be for everyone – it’s slow, often ambiguous, as religious as it is profane, and takes great joy in its broken edges. Bravo.”– One More“Vibrant, complex, and engrossing... a sorrowful, heartfelt masterpiece.”– Literary Nocturne Review“This tale weaves folklore, history, and the gothic tradition into a tapestry of horror, unease and suspense that I just couldn’t put down, this combines with a beautiful insta-worthy cover meant it was definitely a big favourite of my year.”– The Trouble with Tribbles“An interesting read and a beautiful one and definitely worth the effort.”– Fangs for the Fantasy“The premise is irresistible and strange, and Ng’s crisp and luminous prose is ideal for navigating faeland, a gloomy world, full of secrets and mysteries, and casual cruelty.”– Head Shoulders Knees & Toes“The writing in this book was phenomenal, and the way the world was designed and built was so intricately done, so extraordinary and just a pleasure to read. ”– Ayundabhuwana’s Blog"There are times when the 'real' crosses over into delightful absurdism that reminds readers of the work of Lewis Carol or Hayao Miyazaki. But above all one of the most captivating elements of this book is its novel and alluring premise: Victorian missonairies travel to the Faelands to convert the fae folk to Christianity."– The Writer's Corner"Basically, I really love this book and would highly recommend it!"– Brenhines Books

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Book SynopsisThe Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club PickINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world. Kirkus (starred review)An utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin LeeQuick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother's Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for.Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master's dying wish: that Ren find the man's finger, lost years ago in an accident, and bury it with his body. Ren has 49 days to do so, or his master's soul will wander the earth forever.As the days tick relentlessly by, a series o

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Book SynopsisA National Book Award Finalist, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's enchanting and inventive first novel is a groundbreaking, contemporary classicWhen a girl falls into a mysterious, impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm of her dreams begin to disappear: A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer stumbles into the role of pornographer; a beautiful young wife grows to resemble her husband's viol. Madeleine, the dreamer, travels in their midst, trying to make sense of her own metamorphosis. She leaves home, joins a gypsy circus, and falls into an unexpected triangle of desire and love. Embracing the earthy and the ethereal, the comical and the poignant, Madeleine Is Sleeping is part fairy tale, part coming-of-age story, and above all, an adventure in the discovery of art, sexuality, community, and the self.

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Book SynopsisEpic fantasy at its finestan homage to storytelling and legend, richly told and endlessly engaging.Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard DaughterDon't miss the first novel in this stunning Silk Road-inspired epic fantasy series from R.R. Virdia saga of legends, lies, and the secretive storyteller who's spun them all.All legends are born of truths. And just as much lies. These are mine. Judge me for what you will. But you will hear my story first.I buried the village of Ampur under a mountain of ice and snow. Then I killed their god. I''ve stolen old magics and been cursed for it. I started a war with those that walked before mankind and lost the princess I loved, and wanted to save. I''ve called lightning and bound fire. I am legend. And I am a monster. My name is Ari. And this is the story of how I let loose the first evil.Rich world-building, plenty of action, and devious twists abound. Very highly recommen

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Book SynopsisA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Library Journal, Electric Literature, The New York Public Library, PopMattersA Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Story PrizeNational Book Award finalist Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's highly anticipated return weaves together like and unlike, mythic and modernIn nine stories that range from the real to the unreal, strange to familiar, funny to frightening, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum reminds us why her wildly original debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping, and her masterful Ms. Hempel Chronicles have become contemporary classics--celebrated and beloved.In a nimble dance of lightness and gravity, Likes explores the full range and contradictions of our contemporary moment. Through unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars, the struggle to gain a foothold in the capitalist shell-game of work, the Instagram posts of a twelve-year-oldthese stori

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Book SynopsisFrom national bestselling author Nick McDonell, The Council of Animals is a captivating fable for humans of all agesdreamers and cynics alikewho believe (if nothing else) in the power of timeless storytelling.Now,' continued the cat, there is nothing more difficult than changing an animal's mind. But I will say, in case I can change yours: humans are more useful to us outside our bellies than in.'Perhaps.After The Calamity, the animals thought the humans had managed to do themselves in. But, it turns out, a few are cowering in makeshift villages. So the animalsamong them a cat, a dog, a crow, a baboon, a horse, and a bearhave convened to debate whether to help the last human stragglers . . . or to eat them.Rest assured, there is a happy ending. Sort of.Featuring illustrations by Steven Tabbutt

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