Fantasy
A variety of recently published fantasy titles recommended by our librarians. (Updated July 2019)
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Beneath the Rising
Joanna “Johnny” Chambers and Nick Prasad are childhood friends who wind up facing changing feelings for one another and an awakened evil that Johnny accidentally unleashes via one of her genius creations.
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Mexican Gothic
Noemí rushes to her newly married cousin Catalina’s side when a disturbing letter appears and finds that High Place, Catalina’s husband’s estate, is rife and ripe with a creeping evil.
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New Suns
Winner of the Ignyte, World Fantasy, and Locus Award, this anthology of speculative fiction by people of color gets its title from this Octavia Butler quotation: “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
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A Deadly Education
The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter in this compulsively readable new series in which Galadriel meters out just enough of her formidable talent to survive student-eating monsters and ruthless classmates, but the odious Orion Lake keeps upsetting her plans.
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The Midnight Bargain
Set in Regency-era England, Beatrice Clayborn hopes to save her financially ruined family by becoming a sorceress rather than submitting to an arranged marriage that would strip her of her magic but a bargain with a luck spirit may cost her everything.
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Black Sun
Set in the pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas, this dark fantasy introduces Serapio, a blind man raised in secret to claim the throne of the Sun Priest, and Xiala, a queer ship captain and outcast, whose quest to Tova will alter the course of the world.
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The Emperor's Wolves
In this prequel to the Chronicles of Elantra series, the Wolves, the executioners for the Hall of Laws, set out to solve a decades-old murder in the kingdom.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
In 18th Century France a young woman gains her freedom from an arranged marriage in a deal with the devil. The price of her bargain? She is forgotten by everyone she meets.
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This Town Sleeps
A gay Ojibwe man hooks up with a closeted former classmate and starts to see a ghost dog following him, awakening the story of a young man’s murder years before on the Rez.
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Silver in the Wood
Myths of the Wild Man of Greenhollow keep most folks away from Tobias as he quietly tends the woods and its creatures but Henry Silver, Greenhollow Hall’s new owner, just can’t leave well enough alone in this luminous, romantic novella.
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