Thanks to author Thea Iberall for information on The Swallow and the Nightingale, a fable about a 4,000 year old secret brought through time by the birds. A scientist risks her life to help her daughter and heal the world. Are you ready for the Good? Review blurbs: “The book […]
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The River Wife is a simple and subtle story of love. The river wife—part human, part fish—has a duty to tend the river, but instead falls in love with a man. The age-old rhythms of her life irrevocably alter as he trespasses further and further into her heart at a […]
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Thanks to Claire Datnow for writing to tell us about her YA series, The Adventures of the Sizzling Six: Monarch Mysteries. There are now eight volumes out in this series. Media Mint Publishing describes the series: In Monarch Mysteries, the cast of plucky teenage girls pit themselves against foolish neighbors […]
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Mara’s island home is drowning as the ice caps melt and Earth loses its land to the ocean. But one night, in the ruined virtual world of the Weave, Mara meets the mysterious Fox, a fiery-eyed boy who tells her of sky cities that rise from the sea. Mara sets […]
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Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that—her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, and chatting with her best friend, Mallory. One night, Elsie and Mallory sneak out of their pasture; but while Mallory is interested in flirting with the neighboring bulls, Elsie finds herself […]
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Thanks to Canadian author Thomas Wharton for letting us know about his trilogy The Perilous Realm, two of which novels are out now: The Shadow of Malabron and The Fathomless Fire. Thomas says that the trilogy has a strong ecofiction focus. Long ago, Malabron the Night King tried to turn […]
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Before email, Facebook, and Twitter, people wrote letters. Thomas Wharton’s new novel tells the story of James Wheeler and Martha Geddes, who meet at an environmental conference in Iceland and feel a mutual attraction. The catch is that they live on opposite sides of a continent and one of them […]
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Lug discovers the Ice Age is coming and he has to bring warring clans together to save them not only from the freeze but also from a particularly unpleasant migrating pride of saber-toothed tigers. It’s no help that the elders are cavemen who can’t seem to get the concept of […]
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Click here for a review at Salon. On the grounds of a Caribbean island resort, newlyweds Deb and Chip—our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband who’s friendly to a fault—meet a marine biologist who says she’s sighted mermaids in a coral reef. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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See our interview with Sarah Holding, author of The SeaBEAN Trilogy. SeaRISE is her newest addition, published November 27, the final part of this exciting young people’s trilogy. In the thrilling final part of The SeaBEAN Trilogy, Alice and her five classmates are – for reasons they have yet to […]
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This bewitching drama for young adults set in the very near future entwines Celtic myth and climate-changed destinies to answer the fundamental question: can we escape our apparent fate? If our lives are governed by forces outside our control, where can we find hope? Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected — by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But […]
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The Alchemist and the Executioness is the unique collaborative effort of two leading science fiction authors, Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell. Working together for the first time, the authors stepped out of their comfort zone (both primarily write science fiction) to delve into fantasy, producing these linked stories that […]
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Larry Niven created his popular “Magic Goes Away” universe in 1967, and it has been a source of delight and inspiration ever since. By asking the simple question, What if magic were a finite resource?, Niven brought to life a mesmerizing world of wonder and loss, of hope and despair. […]
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Juna is the sole survivor of a team of surveyors marooned in the dense and isolated Tendu rain forest, an uninhabitable world for humans. Her only hope for survival is total transformation–and terrifying assimilation–into the amphibian Tendu species. Juna will learn more about her own human nature than ever before. […]
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