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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Fantasy
Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and
created a magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was
turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the North
Reading Room of the Great Library of Alyssium.
This should have been the end of her story . . . Yet one day, Terlu
wakes in the cold of winter on a nearly-deserted island full of
hundreds of magical greenhouses. She’s starving and freezing, and the
only other human on the island is a grumpy gardener. To her surprise,
he offers Terlu a place to sleep, clean clothes, and freshly baked
honey cakes―at least until she’s ready to sail home.
But Terlu doesn’t want to return home, and as she grows closer with the
unwittingly charming gardener, Yarrow, she learns that the magic that
sustains the greenhouses is failing―causing the death of everything
within them. Terlu knows she must help, even if that means breaking the
law again.
This time, though, she isn’t alone. Assisted by Yarrow and a sentient
rose, Terlu must unravel the secrets of a long-dead sorcerer if she
wants to save the island―and have a fresh chance at happiness and love.
Funny, kind, and forgiving, The Enchanted Greenhouse is a story about
giving second chances―to others and to yourself.
"Megan Giddings's prose is brimming with wonder. The Women Could
Fly is a candid appraisal of grief, inheritance, and the merits of
unruliness." - Raven Leilani Reminiscent of the works of Margaret
Atwood, Deborah Harkness, and Octavia E. Butler, The Women Could
Fly is a feminist speculative novel that speaks to our times. A
piercing dystopian tale about the unbreakable bond between a young
woman and her absent mother, set in a world in which magic is real
and single women are closely monitored in case they are shown to be
witches . . . Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory
about her mother's disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murdered.
That she took on a new identity to start a new family. That she was
a witch. This is the most worrying charge, because in a world where
witches are real, peculiar behaviour raises suspicions and a woman
- especially a Black woman - can find herself on trial for
witchcraft. But fourteen years have passed since her mother's
disappearance, and now Jo is finally ready to let go of the past.
Yet her future is in doubt. The State mandates that all women marry
by the age of thirty - or enrol in a registry that allows them to
be monitored, effectively forfeiting their autonomy. At
twenty-eight, Jo is ambivalent about marriage. With her ability to
control her life on the line, she feels as if she has her never
understood her mother more. When she's offered the opportunity to
honour one last request from her mother's will, Jo leaves her
regular life to feel connected to her one last time. In this
powerful and timely novel, Megan Giddings explores the limits women
face - and the powers they have to transgress and transcend them.
'It can be tempting to read The Women Could Fly, which comes in the
shadow of the recent Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v.
Wade, and call the book timely. But the relationship at the heart
of this novel - between Jo and her mercurial mother - is much
closer to timeless.' - The New York Times
A new emperor; but can there be a new world?
Tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension, new emperor Elend Venture and his wife, the assassin Vin, are now hard-pressed to save the world.
This adventure brings the Mistborn epic fantasy trilogy to a dramatic and surprising climax as Sanderson's saga offers complex characters and a compelling plot, asking hard questions about loyalty, faith and responsibility.
When we came to America, we brought anger and socialism and hunger.
We also brought our demons. "One of the most powerful voices in
speculative fiction."--Catherynne M. Valente In Burning Girls and
Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes crosses borders and genres with
stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way
toward the center. This debut collection introduces readers to a
fantasist in the vein of Karen Russell and Kelly Link, with a voice
all her own. Emma Goldman--yes, that Emma Goldman--takes tea with
Baba Yaga and truths unfold inside of exquisitely crafted lies. In
Among the Thorns, a young woman in seventeenth century Germany is
intent on avenging the brutal murder of her peddler father, but
discovers that vengeance may consume all that it touches. In the
showstopping, awards-finalist title story, Burning Girls, Schanoes
invests the immigrant narrative with a fearsome fairytale quality
that tells a story about America that we may not want--but need--to
hear. Dreamy, dangerous, and precise, with the weight of the very
oldest tales we tell, Burning Girls and Other Stories introduces a
writer pushing the boundaries of both fantasy and contemporary
fiction. With a foreword by Jane Yolen
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