Kristen McDermott
The Degenerates
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There is so much about this novel that shouldn’t work—multiple points of view, long episodes of the abuse of young women, ...Read Review
The Enigma Game
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Wein returns to her ever-increasing cadre of young pilots, spies, and support crew in this additional prequel to her award-winning World War II ...Read Review
Trouble the Saints
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Best known for her YA science fiction and fantasy, Johnson returns to adult fiction in this alternate-reality noir adventure set in New York ...Read Review
War Is Over
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How does a child who has known only war begin to envision peace? This short, poignant story for young readers presents a boy ...Read Review
The Master’s Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend
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Pötzsch’s popular Hangman’s Daughter series of historical mysteries has reached eight volumes, but the prolific author switches gears in this ...Read Review
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (The Shadow Histories 1)
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The concept of this ambitious fantasy historical works neatly: substitute “magic” for “freedom,” and the French Revolution and the Abolition movement in England ...Read Review
Shadows in the Stone: A Book of Transformations
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Dann is a well-regarded editor of many science fiction and fantasy anthologies. In this historical fantasy based on Renaissance hermetic mysticism, he imagines ...Read Review
Devil Darling Spy
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Killeen’s Orphan Monster series addresses contemporary issues of war, trauma, political resistance, racism, and sexism through the pulse-pounding espionage adventures of Sarah ...Read Review
The Henna Artist
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This debut novel is as warm and comforting as a cup of chai. The first-person narrator, Lakshmi, is a woman of mysterious origins ...Read Review
A Bond Undone (Legends of the Condor Heroes Book 2)
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Films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon introduced Western audiences to the wuxia genre, in which martial arts meet mythic fantasy and romance in ...Read Review