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Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature—from Lucy Westnera, a victim of Stoker’s Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester’s attic-bound wife in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre—as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Kage Baker's series of SF adventure continues now in a direct sequel to The Life of the World to Come, The Machine's Child. Alec Checkerfield's piratical Al, Captain Morgan, has masterminded the rescue of Mendoza the botanist. It takes a lot to kill an immortal, and they tried hard to kill Mendoza, whose body is destroyed and whose memory has been nearly totally erased. So she is grown a new body and raised to consciousness. The captain has also...
43) Borrowed time
Author
Publisher
Bombardier Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Joshua Mason has been alive for thousands of years. He doesn't know how or why it happened, only that he can die like any man, but will always return. When you live forever, everything you love will die, so he decided long ago to not become attached. That all changed when he met Doreen. With her, he found something more than the woman he loves, after thousands of years of wandering, he found his place in the world. Now she's dying of old age. Distraught,...
Author
Series
Gael song volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Viking King of Dublin is dead. His young widow, Gormflaith, has ambitions for her son...Gormflaith also has a secret. She is one of the Fomorians, an immortal race who can do fire-magic. She has kept her powers hidden at all costs...Faodla is one ofthe Tuatha Dae Danann with the gift of healing. Her kind dwell hidden in a fortress, forbidden to live amongst the mortals...She finds a land on the brink of war--a war she is desperate to stop"--
"The...
45) Bitter medicine
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this inspired contemporary fantasy, a Chinese immortal and a French elf try to balance new romance, familial loyalty, and workplace demands. In her debut novel, Taiwanese American author Mia Tsai has created an unforgettable paranormal adventure that is full of humor, passion, and depth. As a descendant of the Chinese god of medicine, ignored middle child Elle was destined to be a doctor. Instead, she is underemployed as a mediocre magical calligrapher...
46) Halcyon: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author and National Book Award finalist, a chilling new novel that reimagines the United States emerging from a different outcome in a pivotal presidential election. Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Ournarrator, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. Ableson died a few years earlier. Or did he? When it becomes clear that scientists,...
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The tumultuous 1960s was a watershed decade for American science fiction. While acknowledged masters from the genre's golden age reached the height of their powers, a new wave of brilliant young voices emerged, upending the genre's pulp conventions with newfound literary sophistication. SF writers experimented and crossed boundaries, questioning their predecessors' often utopian faith in technological progress and boldly imagining new possibilities...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet-saving the politically polarized, rapidly warming world from itself-in this slyly funny contemporary take on Arthurian legend. Being reborn as an immortal defender of the realm gets awfully damn tiring over the years-or at least that's what Sir Kay's thinking as he claws his way up from beneath the earth, yet again. Kay fought at Hastings, and at Waterloo, and in both World Wars....
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