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• Borderline

  Baker, Mishell,

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  A year ago Millie, who suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder, lost her legs and her filmmaking career in a failed suicide attempt. Just when she's sure the credits have rolled on her life story, she gets a second chance with the Arcadia…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Warrior's Apprentice

  Bujold, Lois Mcmaster

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  The Vorkosigan Saga is one of the most famous and awarded series in science fiction. Between the seemingly impossible tasks of living up to his warrior-father's legend and surmounting his own physical limitations, Miles Vorkosigan faces some truly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Spear Cuts Through Water

  Jimenez, Simon, 1989-

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  The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Power Unbound

  Marske, Freya,

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  Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. After the death of his twin sister, he thought he was done with magic for good. But with the threat of a dangerous ritual hanging over every magician in Britain, he’s drawn…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Archive Undying

  Candon, Emma Mieko,

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  When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests, its city, and all its wondrous works. But in its final death throes, the god brought one thing back to its favorite child, Sunai. For the seventeen…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear

  McGuire, Seanan

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  Nadya never considered herself less than whole, not until her adoptive parents fitted her with a prosthetic arm against her will, seeking to replace the one she'd been missing from birth. It was cumbersome; it was uncomfortable; it was wrong. It…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Into the Drowning Deep

  Grant, Mira,

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  Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a “mockumentary” bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a maritime…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Sun

  Roanhorse, Rebecca,

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  In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fourth Wing

  Yarros, Rebecca,

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  Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hollow Places

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  Kingfisher, T.,

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  Pray they are hungry. Kara finds these words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Machinehood

  Divya, S. B.,

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  A science fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, sentience, and labor rights in a near future dominated by the gig economy. Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Devouring Gray

  Herman, Christine Lynn,

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  On the edge of town a beast haunts the woods, trapped in the Gray, its bonds loosening… Uprooted from the city, Violet Saunders doesn’t have much hope of fitting in at her new school in Four Paths, a town almost buried in the woodlands of rural New…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Way of Kings

  Sanderson, Brandon,

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  Book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion, featuring many characters with a variety of disabilities. Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Iron Widow

  Zhao, Xiran Jay,

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  The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hench

  a Novel

  Walschots, Natalie Zina, 1983-

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  Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn’t glamorous. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Witches of New York

  a Novel

  McKay, Ami, 1968-

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  The year is 1880. Two hundred years after the trials in Salem, Adelaide Thom ('Moth' from The Virgin Cure) has left her life in the sideshow to open a tea shop with another young woman who feels it's finally safe enough to describe herself as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unbroken

  Clark, C. L. (Cherae L.),

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  Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood may be stronger than…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Vela: The Complete Season 1

  Huang, SL

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  Asala Sikou is used to looking after number one while crisis reigns in her dying planetary system. But when she's hired to find a missing refugee ship, she discovers that this is no ordinary rescue mission, and she must play a role in deciding the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Curse of Chalion

  Bujold, Lois McMaster,

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  A disgraced former knight, broken after years as a prisoner of war, returns to court to tutor the royal princess. There, he must battle old enemies and rivals, while seeking to dismantle the curse that overshadows the entire royal family. Magic,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood Books. Volume 1

  Huff, Tanya

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  Vicki Nelson has recently retired from the Toronto Police Department due to a debilitating eye condition. She's about to get on the subway when she hears a scream. Racing to the scene, she sees a shadowy, dark figure disappearing. Now Vicki is…Read moreRead more of this annotation