Black Light
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Author | Robin McKinley |
ISBN | 0441328091 |
Aerin could not remember a time when she had not known the story; she had grown up knowing it.
It was the story of her mother, the witchwoman who enspelled the king into marrying her, to get an heir that would rule Damar; and it was told that she turned her face to the wall and died of despair when she...
Author | Robin McKinley |
ISBN | 0515138819 |
Okay, so I seriously pondered over whether to give this book three stars or four. In the end, I DID enjoy it so I felt generous and gave it four, but it's not without its faults.
Once, when I was a little kid, my parents bought me my favourite ice cream. There's actually only one kind of ice cream that...
Author | Katherine Kurtz |
ISBN | 0345295161 |
What Magic Can Stop Adolf Hitler -- History's Most Evil Black Magician?
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The year is 1940. Hitler's Germany is about to employ the secret arts of evil witchcraft to destroy England. What can stop them?
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Author | Kate Elliott |
ISBN | 0756400953 |
The first book of Kate Elliott’s epic Novels of the Jaran, set in an alien-controlled galaxy where a young woman seeks to find her own life and love, but is tied to her brother’s revolutionary fate
In the future, Earth is just one of the planets ruled by the vast Chapalii empire. The volatility...
Author | Diana Pharaoh Francis |
ISBN | 0451459504 |
In the land of Kodu Riik, becoming ahalad-kaaslane is the highest honor one can achieve. It mans the Lady has chosen you to bond and be united forever with one of Her specially blessed animals -- soul to soul...
Abandoned by her parents as an infant, Reisil grew up perpetually reminded that she...
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
Author | Dana Thomas |
ISBN | 0735224013 |
An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it
What should I wear? It's one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something...
Author | Nalo Hopkinson |
ISBN | 0446678031 |
A new collection of short stories from Hopkinson, including "Greedy Choke Puppy," which Africana.com called "a cleverly crafted West Indian story featuring the appearance of both the soucouyant (vampire) & lagahoo (werewolf)," "Ganger (Ball Lightning)," praised by the Washington Post Book...
Author | Jeremy Haun |
ISBN | 1632155508 |
Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty. What if there was a way to guarantee you could become more and more beautiful every day? What if it was a sexually transmitted disease?
In the world of The Beauty, physical perfection is only one sexual encounter away. The vast majority of the population...
Author | Pamela Sargent |
ISBN | 1932100369 |
I really enjoyed this book's exploration of daring feminist themes like "Wouldn't it be awful if the world was controlled by domineering man-hating lesbian separatists who forced all the men to live in primitive squalor? I bet they'd ostracize any woman who even wondered if men should be treated like...
Two never-before-published stories from the archives of one of science fiction’s all-time masters
The novella “A Necessary Being” showcases Octavia E. Butler’s ability to create alien yet fully believable “others.” Tahneh’s father was a Hao, one of a dwindling race whose...
Sefira and Other Betrayals
Author | John Langan |
ISBN | 1614981922 |
John Langan’s new book is certain to solidify his place among the strongest voices in modern literary horror. Placed together within the same cover for the first time, a theme emerges from the tales that binds and unites them–and it is signaled in the title of the book.
“These are stories...
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
Author | Ellen Datlow |
ISBN | 1534413472 |
The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay.
Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially...
Author | Katherine Kurtz |
ISBN | 0345347676 |
Camber was the greatest of the Deryni—that race of men who were gifted with arcane mental powers that set them above normal humans. In later legends, he was to become a figure of mystery, known as both the defender of humanity and the patron saint of dark magic. But now he sought only retirement on his...
Author | Jo Clayton |
ISBN | 0886771692 |
This fast-paced, gritty space adventure introduces the unforgettable Skeen, a hard-edged heroine and intergalactic thief trapped in an unknown universe.
Jo Clayton, creator of the popular Diadem Saga, introduces a delightfully unforgettable new character—a tough, sexy, futuristic...
Author | Jeremy Haun |
ISBN | 1632159104 |
Before the Beauty, the world was blissfully unaware...but far from innocent.
Collecting issues #7-11 of the critically acclaimed series from writer/artist Jeremy Haun (Constantine, Batwoman) and co-writer Jason A. Hurley, the second volume of The Beauty introduces new characters who encounter...
Sister Light, Sister Dark
Author | Jane Yolen |
ISBN | 0765343576 |
Then Great Alta plaited the left side of her hair, the golden side, and let in fall into the sinkhole of the night. And there she drew up the queen of shadows and set her upon the earth. Next she plaited the right side of her hair, the dark side, and with it caught the queen of light. And she set her next to the black...
Author | Matthew V. Brockmeyer |
ISBN | 9781733778 |
Twenty tales of darkness and transgression from Matthew V. Brockmeyer, award-winning author of KIND NEPENTHE.
Enter a disturbing dreamscape where your worst fears are illuminated and taboos are mockingly shattered.
In MINE a child hangs precariously between the isthmus of innocence...
Author | Jeremy Haun |
ISBN | 1534306536 |
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I got this book from a coworker and while reading it, I couldn't help but feel like I was missing part of the story. Well, that's because I was. My dumb self couldn't be bothered to read the #4 on the spine. Oops. I was lucky enough...