Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Fire
By Cashore, Kristin
2009-10 - Dial Books
9780803734616
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Exquisitely romantic, this companion to the acclaimed "Graceling" has an entirely new cast of characters, save for one person who plays a pivotal role in the previous book. This story features a girl named Fire, whose beauty is impossibly irresistible and who can control the minds of everyone around her.
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Year of the Horse
By Allen, Justin
2009-10 - Overlook Press
9781590202739
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When Yen Tzu-lu (nicknamed Lu) hears his grandfather speaking in Chinese with a mysterious white man named Jack Straw about some kind of mission, he never dreams that he will be plucked from his Mississippi River hometown to join it. Jack, a legendary gunslinger, is leading a group of roughnecks that includes a former slave who fought in the Union army, a Mexican outlaw and ex-Confederate John MacLemore and his daughter. They're out to reclaim a gold mine that MacLemore says belongs to him, and Lu has been hired as an explosives expert. (He's not, but only Jack knows that.)
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The Midnight Guardian: A Millennial Novel
By Stratford, Sarah Jane
2009-10 - St. Martin's Press
9780312560133
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Although it is not the vampire way to interfere with human politics, they remember the destruction of the first World War. When London's vampire tribunal senses that Hitler is paving the way for another human war, they are determined to break the spine of the Nazis before more damage is done.
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Flesh and Fire: Book One of the Vineart War
By Gilman, Laura Anne
2009-10 - Pocket Books
9781439101414
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In the first volume in a unique trilogy about a world in which magic derives from the process of winemaking, the young slave Jerzy and his master unearth a plot of such great magnitude and danger that it could destroy the Vinearts forever.
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Neuropath
By Bakker, R. Scott
2009-10 - Tom Doherty Associates
9780765321893
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"Neuropath" . . . crackles with energy, a thriller that presents a frighteningly plausible look into the future of neuroscience. . . . [I]t raises some big, big questions about free will and the nature of the human mind"--Douglas Preston, "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Blasphemy."
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Boneshaker
By Priest, Cherie
2009-09 - Tom Doherty Associates
9780765318411
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"Boneshaker" is] a steampunk-zombie-airship adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions, full of wonderfully gnarly details.--Scott Westerfeld, author of "Leviathan."
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