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Blue Ticket: A Novel by Sophie Mackintosh

Sophie Mackintosh | Blue Ticket: A Novel | ‘Blue Ticket is a wonder…Be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes.’–Deborah Levy

From the author of the Man Booker Prize longl

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Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

Melissa Bashardoust | Girl, Serpent, Thorn | Melissa Bashardoust’s captivating queer fairy tale follows the story of a princess with a curse: She is poisonous to the touch. Soraya has spent her l

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Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Sarah Gailey | Upright Women Wanted | ‘Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her-a

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Smoketown by Tenea D. Johnson

Tenea D. Johnson | Smoketown | In the neurosis-filled city of Smoketown, where birds are outlawed after being blamed for a devastating plague, three purposes collide to alter the ci

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Neither Here Nor There by Nikki Harmon

Nikki Harmon | Neither Here Nor There | Kim is your typical rebellious black gay nerd aspiring astrophysicist, biding her time in college until she can get to her dream job at NASA. Returnin

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The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

N.K. Jemisin | The Broken Earth Trilogy | The Fifth Season

Book One in The Broken Earth Trilogy

This is the way the world endsÂ…for the last time. A season of endings has begun. It

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Rescues and the Rhyssa by TS Porter

TS Porter | Rescues and the Rhyssa | Cadan is cousin to the King of Nidum star system, and his favorite weapon to needle the Imperial forces encroaching on their territory. With her comba

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Two Moons by Krystal A. Smith

Krystal A. Smith | Two Moons | A splendid debut collection of speculative fiction that traverses the connections between earth and the heavens, the living and the spectral, human an

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Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi

Jacqueline Koyanagi | Ascension | Alana Quick is the best damned sky surgeon in Heliodor City, but repairing starship engines barely pays the bills. When the desperate crew of a cargo

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The Power Of Mercy by Fiona Zedde

Fiona Zedde | The Power Of Mercy | To her family, Mai Redstone is weak. Her shape-shifting power is nowhere near as impressive as their abilities to literally alter the world around the