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• The Sword of Shannara

  Brooks, Terry

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  "A sword -and-sorcery narrative a la Tolkien...As in The Lord of the Rings, a small band of comrades--Man, Elf, Dwarf--must undertake a desperate journey into a kingdom of dread under the guidance of a mighty seer, while their threatened homeland…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughter of the Moon Goddess

  a Novel

  Tan, Sue Lynn

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  "The prose is lovely and fluid, lush descriptions of magic and immortal life buoying the narrative. A standard court fantasy, unique in its expansion on the story of the Mid-Autumn Festival." --Kirkus

• Black Sun

  Roanhorse, Rebecca

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  A celestial event unbalances the world in this Nebula, Hugo, and Locus award-winner by Indigenous author Roanhorse. This is the first of a new trilogy set in a fantasy version of pre-Columbian South America.

• White Trash Warlock

  Slayton, David R.

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  Adam Binder has always had the Sight since he was young. This has made his life difficult as although it runs in his family through his Father's bloodline he grew up disconnected from this side of the family after his Father left him when he was a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is How You Lose the Time War

  El-Mohtar, Amal

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  Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hell-bent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Torqued Man

  a Novel

  Mann, Peter, 1981-

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  Berlin, September, 1945. Two manuscripts are found in rubble, each one narrating conflicting versions of the life of an Irish spy during the war. One of them is the journal of a German military intelligence officer and anti-Nazi cowed into silence…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Must Be Living Twice

  New & Selected Poems, 1975-2014

  Myles, Eileen

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  This collection of verse both old and new comes from celebrated poet, modern cult icon and author of "Chelsea Girls" Eileen Mylles. Known for their blend of fiction and reality, the fantastic and the mundane. Taking familiar places like the East…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Horoscopes for the Dead

  Poems

  Collins, Billy

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  In this new collection, "America's most popular poet" covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, life and death, youth and aging, solitude and union.

• Works and Days

  Mayer, Bernadette

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  Part springtime journal ("why are there thorns?"),Works and Days meditates on the first wasps and chipmunks of the season, times' passage, grackle hearts, and dandelions, while also collecting dozens of poems considering the Catholic Church, Sir…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Super Gay Poems

  LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall

  Burt, Stephanie, 1971-

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  Super Gay Poems brings together fifty-one works encompassing the wide range of queer and trans verse after the Stonewall uprising of 1969. The poems in this anthology represent the great variety of queer and trans life itself. They include…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Also a Poet

  Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

  Calhoun, Ada

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  Ada Calhoun is the child of celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl who forty years prior had started work on a never completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara. Now four decades later Ada has found the cassette tapes of the interviews her father…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moral Agents

  Eight Twentieth-century American Writers

  Mendelson, Edward

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  One of contemporary America's leading critics and scholars offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of eight influential twentieth- century American writers: Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, W.H. Auden, William Maxwell, Saul Bellow,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City Poet

  the Life and Times of Frank O'Hara

  Gooch, Brad, 1952-

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  This 1993 biography of Frank O'Hara dives into the life they lived and gave one of the first intimate glaces behind the curtain into their life available for the public to consume.