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Magic Realism
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Magic Realism
Read This! February 2024
Staff Picked Books by POC Authors
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"From a New York Times bestselling author, an astounding work of fiction, both incredibly funny and heartfelt, asking readers to embrace the fantastical in order to get to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon not only Black Americans, but America as a whole"--
2) Breakneck
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Arliss Cutter novels volume 5
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"Cameron's novels hook you from the first line, cement your eyes to the page, and grip your heart in a vice. I can't think of another writer whose work I admire more." -William Kent Krueger
"Looking for authentic action, suspense, drama, and mystery? Look no further than U.S. Marshals Service veteran Marc Cameron whose thrillers capture the visceral nature of life in the trenches as only one who has lived it truly can." -Jack Carr
A train ride...
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Kingdom of the wicked (Maniscalco) volume 2
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English
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Emilia, a witch in the Kingdom of Italy, travels to Hell to uncover her twin sister's murderer while combatting her growing affections for the Prince of Wrath.
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Nico di Angelo adventures volume 1
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2023.
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Nico, the son of Hades, and his boyfriend Will, the son of Apollo, travel to Tartarus, the deepest, darkest part of the Underworld as they attempt to rescue an old friend.
5) Sign here
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"A darkly humorous, surprisingly poignant, and utterly gripping debut novel about a guy who works in Hell (literally) and is on the cusp of a big promotion if only he can get one more member of the wealthy Harrison family to sell their soul Peyote Trip has a pretty good gig in the deals department on the fifth floor of Hell. Sure, none of the pens work, the coffee machine has been out of order for a century, and the only drink on offer is Jägermeister,...
6) Doomed
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"The continued adventures of Madison, the heroine of Damned, who escapes Hell and comes back to Earth"--
8) Green hell
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Jack Taylor series volume 11
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The award-winning crime writer Ken Bruen is as joyously unapologetic in his writing as he is wickedly poetic, mixing high and low with hypnotic mastery. In the previous book in the series, Purgatory, ex-cop Jack Taylor had finally turned his life around, only to be taunted back into fighting Galway's corruption by a twisted serial killer named C33. In the new novel Green Hell, Bruen's dark angel of a protagonist has again hit rock bottom: one of his...
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When Odelia Grey and her husband, Greg, attend a rugby match to cheer for their quadriplegic friends, the last thing they expect is to witness a murder on the playing court. Complicating matters is their friendship with the prime suspect. It doesn't help that Odelia's pompous boss is embroiled in a mystery of his own-one that leaves more than his super-sized ego bruised and battered. Odelia enlists the help of family and friends and gets some surprising...
10) Hell: a guide
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Anthony DeStefano, the bestselling author of A Travel Guide to Heaven, takes us on an exploration of hell, the devil, demons, and evil itself. Written with clarity, logic, and vivid storytelling, Hell: A Guide takes up questions such as:
• Is hell a place or a state of being?
• What does hell look like?
• What kind of suffering do people in hell experience?
• What are the devil and demons really like?
Rooted in solid, orthodox Christian scholarship,...
11) Unforgiven
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Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 5
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English
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Cam is more familiar than most of his fellow angels with Hell, and high school is no easier. Cam aches to see Lilith, the girl of his dreams, pay for the crimes that Cam committed. Thanks to a bet with Lucifer, Cam now has 15 days to make Lilith fall back in love with him. Failure will send Cam straight back to Hell. Here, at last, is Cam's story
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"From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing...
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Publisher Annotation: Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson...
14) The nest
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Valancourt Books
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[2019]
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"It was just an ordinary garbage dump on peaceful Cape Cod. No one ever imagined that conditions were perfect for breeding, that it was a warm womb, fetid, moist, and with food so plentiful that everything creeping, crawling, and slithering could gorge to satiation. Then a change in poison control was made, resulting in an unforeseen mutation. Now the giant mutant cockroaches are ready to leave their nest--in search of human flesh!"-- Back cover.
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Sigma Force novels volume 15
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To save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present in this page-turning thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins that combines cutting-edge science, historical mystery, mythology, and pulse-pounding action.
For eons, the city of Troy—whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad—was believed to be
...16) Beach read
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"A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next...
18) Cape Hell
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U. S. Deputy Page Murdock is ordered by Federal Judge Harlan A. Blackthorne to Cape Hell, Mexico, to verify a report that former Confederate Captain Oscar Childress is raising an army to take over Mexico City--and then intends to turn north to rekindle the Civil War.
Childress, it seems, has the weapons, wealth, and moral compass to do it. Unable to talk himself out of the mission, Murdock heads south on a steam train named El Espanto--The Ghost.
With...
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Heirs of Alexandria volume 6
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Baen
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[2018]
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English
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"Orkise is loose. The snake god of plague has been awakened by Lucia del Maino, daughter of the recently overthrown duke of Milan. With the venomous magic of Orkise at her command, Lucia plots to marry then murder the current ruler of Milan, Carlo Sforza--otherwise know as the Wolf of the North. Other trouble is brewing as well. Sforza's bastard son, having conquered the Byzantine empire, has a score to settle with his father. Additionally, the terrifying...
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