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Best Sci Fi & Fantasy - 2021
Hugo and Nebula Award Winners
Read Alikes For Fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Hugo and Nebula Award Winners
Read Alikes For Fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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"Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djeli Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one...
2) Competence
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Custard protocol volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Prim and the crew of the Custard embark on a mission to Peru, where they navigate airship pirates and are forced into extreme subterfuge to investigate rumors about a new kind of vampire.
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English
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When a researcher returns to Elendel with images of a mythical Lord Ruler artifact, believed to grant wearers his power, Waxillium Ladrian conducts an investigation in the southern city of New Seran, where he makes unsettling discoveries about the true goals of The Set.
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Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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"Arden Grey enjoys a life most women in 1898 London can't even dream of: she has the social status, wealth, and independence of a countess. She also has the ability to witness the final moments of a murder victim's life. But ever since the disappearance of her husband, Lucas, none of this means anything to her. Until one night, when Arden spies a man watching her-a man she recognizes as her missing husband. He's been ordered to assassinate Arden as...
5) Prudence
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Custard protocol volume 1
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English
Description
Twenty-year-old Prudence "Rue" Akeldama and her friends journey in a gaudy dirigible to India in search of a superior type of tea for her adoptive father, a wealthy vampire, only to run headfirst into danger, intrigue, and local politics.
6) Imprudence
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Custard protocol volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Rue and the crew of The Spotted Custard return from India with revelations that shake the foundations of England's scientific community. Queen Victoria is not amused, the vampires are tetchy, and something is wrong with the local werewolf pack. To top it all off, Rue's best friend, Primrose, keeps getting engaged to the most unacceptable military types. Rue has family problems as well. Her vampire father is angry, her werewolf father is crazy, and...
7) Everfair
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Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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A Neo-Victorian alternate-history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier.
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Parasol protectorate volume 1
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English
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Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate....
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His dark materials volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
11) The subtle knife
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His dark materials volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
12) Gormenghast
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Gormenghast trilogy volume 2
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English
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"The castle of Gormenghast is home to the ancient family of Groan, where nothing has changed in thousands of years. The dynasty is threatened by the charming and evil kitchen-boy, Steerpike. With the birth of a new heir, Titus Groan, Steerpike begins his ruthless ascent to power. As he charms, outwits and terrorizes the castle's inhabitants, only Titus, the young timid Earl of Groan, stands in Steerpike's way."--Container of video
13) Mortal engines
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Welcome to the astounding world of Predator Cities! Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon, London will feed. In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage - and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world.
14) The bone season
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Bone season volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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In the mid-21st century major world cities are controlled by a formidable security force and clairvoyant underworld cell member Paige commits acts of psychic treason before being captured by an otherworldly race that would make her a part of their supernatural army.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
In the distant future, when fifteen-year-old Wren Natsworthy, bored with life in Anchorage, steals an Old-Tech book for a Lost Boy, she sets off a sequence of events that leads her parents, Tom and Hester, back into battle with old enemies and new.
16) The mime order
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Series
Bone season volume 2
Language
English
Description
Fugitive Paige Mahoney flees Scion while Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare for a rare assembly of the clairvoyant community that is clouded by dark secrets, the emergence of the Rephaim, and an elusive Warden.
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A retelling of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. When Lucy arrives at Blackwell Manor to tend to her sick cousin, she finds that mysteries abound. A restless ghost roams the hallways, and Lord Miles is clearly hiding a secret. Working together, Miles and Lucy attempt to restore peace to Blackwell Manor.
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Tor
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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As the exciting adventures continue in George Mann's steampunk mystery series, Sir Maurice Newbury is in a race against time to fetch a clockwork heart for his trusty assistant Veronica Hobbes, a journey that will take him and Veronica's sister, Amelia, across Europe to St. Petersberg. No sooner do they take off then sinister goings-on start to plague the train, and it is discovered that an old villain, thought dead, is also on board and seeking revenge....
19) Reticence
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Series
Custard protocol volume 4
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Bookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's Custard Protocol series"--ǂcProvided bypublisher.
"Bookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling...
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Cinder spires volume 1
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English
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Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace.
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