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Fiction
The Power
2017
When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power to cause pain and death.
Parable of the Sower
2012
In a futuristic America where the gap between the haves and have-nots spawns anarchy, Lauren Olamina, an empath crippled by the pain she feels in others, becomes the leader of a band of seekers after her world is shattered by random violence.
The City of Brass
2017
Nahri, a young con artist of unsurpassed talent, inadvertently summons a mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, revealing the existence of true magic before the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom falls into her hands.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
2015
Joining the crew of the aging Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that has seen better days, loner Rosemary Harper must unexpectedly risk her life when they are offered the job of a lifetime.
My Favorite Thing is Monsters (Book One)
2017
In this fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder.
Magic for Liars
2019
Detective Ivy Gamble searches for a killer at a California private academy for mages where her estranged, magically-gifted twin, Tabitha, hides in plain sight.
The Princess Bride
2007
A classic, swashbuckling romance retelling the tale of a drunken swordsman and a gentle giant who come to the aid of Westley, a handsome farm boy, and Buttercup, a princess in dire need of rescue from the evil schemers surrounding her.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
2010
After Yeine Darr is summoned to the city of Sky and named heiress to the king of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, she is thrust into a fierce power struggle, and drawn ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death.
The Left Hand of Darkness
2003
While on a mission to the planet Gethen, earthling Genly Ai is sent by leaders of the nation of Orgoreyn to a concentration camp from which the exiled prime minister of the nation of Karhide tries to rescue him.
Jade City
2017
When a powerful new drug emerges letting anyone-- even foreigners-- utilize the magical properties of jade, the simmering tension between the Kauls and the rival Ayt family erupts into open violence on the island of Kekon.
Warm Bodies
2014
Alienated from his fellow zombies for his dislike of killing humans and love of Sinatra music, "R" meets a living girl who sharply contrasts with his cold and dreary world and whom he resolves to protect in spite of her delicious appearance.
Cloud Atlas
2004
The connected stories of people from the past and distant future are recounted, from a 19th-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
Signal to Noise
2015
Returing to Mexico City to attend her father's funeral, Meche runs into an old friend with whom she discovered she could cast spells using music, reviving buried memories that cause her to question her estrangement from her loved ones.
Spinning Silver
2018
Deciding to collect on the outstanding debts owed her family of moneylenders, a young woman is overheard boasting about being able to turn silver into gold by the creatures who haunt the wood, in a reimagining of the Rumpelstiltskin story.
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Binti
2018
Binti is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy.
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Reincarnation Blues
2017
A man who has been reincarnated nearly 10,000 times, living lives in regions from ancient India and Renaissance Italy to outer space and the modern world, searches for the secret to immortality so he can be with his beloved, the incarnation of Death.
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Guards! Guards!
2007
Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned king.
Chilling Effect
2019
After her sister is kidnapped by a shadowy syndicate, the foul-mouthed Captain Eva Innocente and her motley crew aboard La Sirena Negra must pay the ransom through a series of dangerous missions.
Borne
2017
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a scavenger named Rachel finds a creature named Borne, a leftover from a biotech firm, which she takes back to her underground lair and shields from her drug-dealer boyfriend.
Nonfiction
Norse Mythology
2017
This rendering of the major Norse pantheon traces the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and the exploits of its characters, illuminating the characters and natures of iconic figures Odin, Thor and Loki.
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I'm a library associate and I seem to find a new book for my reading list around every corner. Just don't count on my reading them all, since I like to take my sweet time becoming fully immersed in each story and subject (whether fictional, historical or technical) once I'm hooked. Otherwise, you'll find me cartooning, dreaming up new stories and hitting the trails of Ohio for more hiking and nature-watching.
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