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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 91 ratingsBarcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written...Categorized as:
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![Neverwhere: BBC Dramatisation by Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs]()
Neverwhere: BBC Dramatisation by Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBeneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere.An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of London... -
![Del tiempo y sus demonios by Diego Armando Arciniegas Malagón]()
Del tiempo y sus demonios by Diego Armando Arciniegas Malagón
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDEL TIEMPO Y SUS DEMONIOS: PERSIGUIENDO LA VERDADEsta novela se desarrolla en un pequeño y misterioso pueblo. En un territorio hermoso, inhóspito a la luz de aquellas certezas que las mayorías consideran irrefutables. Lejos del tiempo que, arbitrariamente, tomara la sabia decisión de separar el bien del mal... -
![The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies]()
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe complete volume of Robertson Davies's acclaimed trilogy, featuring Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Fifth Business Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and...Categorized as:
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![The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón]()
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsBarcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife Bea have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julian, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past...Categorized as:
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![Black: The Birth of Evil by Ted Dekker]()
Black: The Birth of Evil by Ted Dekker
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsEnter an adrenaline-laced epic where dreams and reality collide.Fleeing his assailants through deserted alleyways, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of a building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head...and his world goes black.From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world-a world where evil is contained... -
![Rectify Injustice by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle]()
Rectify Injustice by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSophia Beaufont hopes that she can turn an enemy into an ally. She just has to trqck down the steampunk cyborg.The problem is that Trin Currante thinks that Dragon Elite want her dead. And she's excellent at avoiding death - as her history of surviving and prevailing over adversity has shown.Meanwhile, Hiker still still struggles to hone his powers. .Categorized as:
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![Murder on the Lamplight Express by Morgan Stang]()
Murder on the Lamplight Express by Morgan Stang
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll aboard for mysteries, murders and monsters on the Lamplight Express .The orders given to Isabeau Agarwal and her partner are simple: ensure the safety of all passengers and crew until point of destination. But on the maiden voyage of this luxury train, nothing is quite what it seems... -
![The Lighthouse by Ron Ripley]()
The Lighthouse by Ron Ripley
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEx-marine Shane Ryan is a ghost hunter whose troubled past haunts him almost as much as the ghosts he encounters in the line of duty. He’s the best. And his reward for excellence? The punishment of being in high demand for jobs to eradicate the worst kind of ghosts – the kind that kill... -
![Weaveworld by Clive Barker]()
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsClive Barker has made his mark on modern fiction by exposing all that is surreal and magical in the ordinary world --- and exploring the profound and overwhelming terror that results...Categorized as:
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![Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón]()
Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsFifteen-year-old Oscar Drai meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of Barcelona. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave... -
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Redwood by Mark Z. Danielewski
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Season One finale of this riveting multisensory masterpiece from the visionary author of House of Leaves... -
![Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko]()
Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe third book in the bestselling Russian trilogy that is part fantasy, part vampire story, and part detective story, tells of an ancient race of humans who have supernatural powers and swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. In Twilight Watch, they face their greatest threat yet...Categorized as:
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![Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate The Magic of Reading & Writing YA by Emily X.R. Pan, Nova Ren Suma]()
Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate The Magic of Reading & Writing YA by Emily X.R. Pan, Nova Ren Suma
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThirteen Short Stories from Bold New YA Voices & Writing Advice from YA IconsCreated by New York Times bestselling authors Emily X. R. Pan and Nova Ren Suma, Foreshadow is so much more than a short story collection...Categorized as:
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![Bad Things by Tamara Thorne]()
Bad Things by Tamara Thorne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe house has been in his family for generations. But it really belongs to them…The Piper clan emigrated from Scotland and founded the town of Santo Verde, California. The Gothic Victorian estate built there has housed the family for generations, and has also become home to an ancient evil forever linked to the Piper name…As a boy, Rick Piper discovered he had “the sight... -
![Alone, Untouched, Soulless by Robert J. Crane]()
Alone, Untouched, Soulless by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis is a collection of the first three titles in The Girl in the Box Series, which are about a teenage girl who develops powers far beyond those of a normal human, and her battles against those who would use her against her will. (Approx. 185,000 words total.)Books included:1. Alone2. Untouched3... -
![The Little Country by Charles de Lint]()
The Little Country by Charles de Lint
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWhen folk musician Janey Little finds a mysterious manuscript in an old trunk in her grandfather's cottage, she is swept into a dangerous realm both strange and familiar. But true magic lurks within the pages of The Little Country, drawing genuine danger from across the oceans into Janey's life, impelling her--armed only with her music--toward a terrifying confrontation...Categorized as:
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![Peace by Gene Wolfe]()
Peace by Gene Wolfe
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMesmerizing sci-fi from the author the Denver Post calls "one of the literary giants of science fiction." The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living in a small midwestern town, reveals a miraculous dimension. For Weer's imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself...Categorized as:
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![The Last Hot Time by John M. Ford]()
The Last Hot Time by John M. Ford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Danny Holman leaves the cornfields of Iowa for the bright lights of Chicago, he expects his life to change. He just can't guess how much and how fast. A violent incident on the road brings Danny the favor of a man known only as Mr. Patrise, who gives Danny a job, a home, and a new identity.The City is a different world from the one Danny — now called Doc — knew, and literally so... -
![The Dragon Coin by Aiden James]()
The Dragon Coin by Aiden James
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsASIN B00DPVP5ME moved to the most recent edition with new title Immortal DragonFree of the threat of Viktor Kaslow, William Barrow (aka Judas Iscariot) is tantalizingly close to finally having the life he has dreamed of with Beatrice and Alistair. A life blessed with youthful optimism and renewed companionship—things he once feared were forever lost. But such optimism is short lived... -
![The Glass Republic by Tom Pollock]()
The Glass Republic by Tom Pollock
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPen Khan is burdened by a life of secrets, the biggest of which is written across her face. Following a devastatingly close encounter with a living coil of barbed wire called the Wire Mistress that almost killed her and her best friend Beth, Pen's face is strangely disfigured by dozens of crisscrossing scars, making her an outcast among her peers...Categorized as:
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![The Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper]()
The Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTHE ONCE FERTILE EARTH OF DORA HENRY'S CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN UNDERVALUED AND OVERDEVELOPED. NOW NATURE, APPARENTLY, HAS DECIDED TO FIGHT BACK. Police officer Dora Henry is investigating the bizarre murders of three geneticists. Meanwhile, strange things are happening everywhere she turns. Weeds are becoming trees; trees are becoming forests...Categorized as:
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![The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien]()
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence...Categorized as:
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![The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror by Daniel Pinkwater]()
The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror by Daniel Pinkwater
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGreat questions have always been raised by literature. Moby Dick asks, "Doesn't anyone ever get seasick?" The Odyssey asks, "Doesn't anyone ever get seasick?" The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror asks: "Why doesn't everyone get food poisoning? How do they survive so many greasy snacks?" "Is Dr...Categorized as:
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![Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl]()
Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsIn Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl.Topping and tailing this collection are The Visitor and Bitch, stories featuring Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or plain old Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous...Categorized as:
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![City of the Lost by Stephen Blackmoore]()
City of the Lost by Stephen Blackmoore
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReturning as a zombie after being bumped off by a rival crime boss, Joe Sunday tries to locate a talisman that can grant immortality before every other thug in Los Angeles can find it... -
![The Double by José Saramago]()
The Double by José Saramago
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsTertuliano Maximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night, noises in his apartment wake him...Categorized as:
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![Tidal by Amanda Hocking]()
Tidal by Amanda Hocking
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe magical world of Watersong is about to change forever. The answers Gemma and her friends have been searching for are finally revealed - but evil is closing in and time is running out....Gemma and Harper Fisher are facing the fight of their lives... -
![Alone by Robert J. Crane]()
Alone by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsSienna Nealon was a 17 year-old girl who had been held prisoner in her own house by her mother for twelve years. Then one day her mother vanished, and Sienna woke up to find two strange men in her home... -
![The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle by T.L. Huchu]()
The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle by T.L. Huchu
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEveryone’s favorite fifteen-year-old ghostalker, Ropa, arrives at the worldwide Society of Skeptical Enquirers’ biennial conference just in time to be tied into a mystery—a locked room mystery, if an entire creepy haunted castle on lockdown counts. One of the magical attendees has stolen a valuable magical scroll... -
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Pacific Fire by Greg Van Eekhout
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPacific Fire: Another thrilling ride through Greg van Eekhout's wildly imaginative world of California Bones, featuring entertaining new characters and a dangerous magical plot unfolding in Los Angeles.I'm Sam. I'm just this guy.Okay, yeah, I'm a golem created from the substance of his own magic by the late Hierarch of Southern California. With a lot of work, I might be able to wield magic myself...Categorized as:
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![The Prestige by Christopher Priest]()
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another.Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences... -
![The Body Library by Jeff Noon]()
The Body Library by Jeff Noon
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJeff Noon returns with a staggering hallucinogenic sequel to A Man of Shadows, taking hapless investigator John Nyquist into a city where reality is contaminated by the imagination of its citizensIn a city dissolving into an infected sprawl of ideas, where words come to life and reality is contaminated by stories, John Nyquist wakes up in a room with a dead body.. -
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Fluke by James Herbert
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFluke was a mongrel cur, wandering the streets of a great city, hunting a quarry he could not define. But he was something more. For somewhere in the depths of his consciousness was a memory clawing its way to the surface, the memory of what he had once been . . . a man... -
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![The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón]()
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsFrom master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game — a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love...Categorized as:
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![Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld]()
Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsBixby, Oklahoma, is full of secrets. Some come out at midnight. Some should stay hidden.As the Midnighters search for the truth about the secret hour, they uncover terrifying mysteries woven into the very fabric of Bixby’s history, and a conspiracy that touches the world of daylight...Categorized as:
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![The Collector of Dying Breaths: A Novel of Suspense by M.J. Rose, Phil Gigante]()
The Collector of Dying Breaths: A Novel of Suspense by M.J. Rose, Phil Gigante
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom one of America's most imaginative storytellers comes a passionate tale of love and treachery, spanning the days of Catherine de Medici's court to the twenty-first century and starring a woman drawn back, time and again, to the past. In 1533, an Italian orphan with an uncanny knack for creating fragrance is plucked from poverty to become Catherine de Medici's perfumer... -
![The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton, José Laurênio de Mello]()
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton, José Laurênio de Mello
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsG. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory...Categorized as:
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![Relentless Melt by Jeremy P. Bushnell]()
Relentless Melt by Jeremy P. Bushnell
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStranger Things meets the Golden Age of Detective fiction in a rollicking supernatural detective thriller that introduces Artie Quick, a sales assistant at Filene’s in Boston, who moonlights as a amateur detective.The year is 1909, and Artie Quick—an ambitious, unorthodox and inquisitive young Bostonian—wants to learn about crime... -
![The Time Stopper by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires]()
The Time Stopper by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom a USA Today bestselling author comes a novelette in the Mind Dimensions series. This short story does not require you to have read the other books in the series. I can stop time, but I can’t change anything. I can access memories, but not far enough. My name is Mira, and my life is about finding the Russian mobster who killed my family...Categorized as:
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![Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge by Rob MacGregor]()
Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge by Rob MacGregor
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Wash in EvilLondon, 1927. Since losing his beloved in the Amazon a year ago, Indiana Jones has settled down with his Ph.D. and taught Celtic archaeology, thinking he has left adventure behind. Yet Indy is rather tempted when a wild-eyed Russian doctor, Vladimir Zobolotsky, tries to recruit him for an expedition to search for Noah’s Ark . . -
![Blue Noon by Scott Westerfeld]()
Blue Noon by Scott Westerfeld
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsThe darklings will hunt once again.The secret hour when time freezes arrives every night at midnight in Bixby, Oklahoma. It’s a dangerous time, when five teenagers are the only humans awake and dark creatures crawl out of the shadows, but at least the midnight hour is regular and predictable.Until suddenly, the blue time comes ... in the middle of the day.The noise of school stops...Categorized as:
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Touch by Claire North
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsKepler had never meant to die this way — viciously beaten to death by a stinking vagrant in a dark back alley. But when reaching out to the murderer for salvation in those last dying moments, a sudden switch takes place.Now Kepler is looking out through the eyes of the killer himself, staring down at a broken and ruined body lying in the dirt of the alley...Categorized as:
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![Oracle by Andrew Pyper, Joshua Jackson]()
Oracle by Andrew Pyper, Joshua Jackson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOracle is a psychological thriller audiobook following Nate Russo, an FBI psychic who helps solve abductions and homicides by touching those close to the missing persons. His unique gift comes with a terrible price: He sees the horrific moments before the victims disappeared... -
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![The Thought Readers by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires]()
The Thought Readers by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA new series about mind readers from USA Today bestselling author... Everyone thinks I’m a genius. Everyone is wrong. Sure, I finished Harvard at eighteen and now make crazy money at a hedge fund. But that’s not because I’m unusually smart or hard-working. It’s because I cheat. You see, I have a unique ability... -
![Fade by Robert Cormier]()
Fade by Robert Cormier
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIT IS THE summer of 1938 when young Paul Moreaux discovers he can “fade.” First bewildered, then thrilled with the power of invisibility, Paul experiments. But his “gift” soon shows him shocking secrets and drives him toward a chilling act.“Imagine what might happen if Holden Caufield stepped into H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, and you’ll have an idea how good Fade is. . .Categorized as:
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The Secret of Sarek by Maurice Leblanc
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThis early work by Maurice Leblanc was originally published in 1919 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. In "The Secret of Sarek," the action takes place almost entirely on the fictional Island of Sarek in 1917, in which Leblanc deftly blends crime fantasy and science fiction. Maurice Marie �mile Leblanc was born on 11th November 1864 in Rouen, Normandy, France... -
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The Switch by Anthony Horowitz
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor Tad Spencer, only son of a fabulously wealthy businessman, every day is like Christmas. He lives in a mansion, has a maid, servants, every toy imaginable. He has it all - until the day he wishes he was someone else. Suddenly, Tad wakes up as Bob Snarby, trapped in a filthy and corrupt carnival world inhabited by hostile ingrates, hopeless criminals, and mysterious fortune tellers...Categorized as:
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White Cat by Holly Black
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsCassel comes from a family of curse worker people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, all by the slightest touch of their hands. Since curse work is illegal, they're all criminals. But not Cassel. He hasn't got the magic touch, so he's an outsider- the straight kid in a crooked family- as long as you ignore one small detail: He killed his best friend, Lila...Categorized as:
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![The Insides by Jeremy P. Bushnell]()
The Insides by Jeremy P. Bushnell
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“With The Insides, Jeremy P. Bushnell doesn’t so much mash genres together as slice them apart to find the filets. It’s a literary urban fantasy with sharp things to say about the way we live now, darkened by a touch of Scandinavian thriller: rich and urgent and weird, a novel that defies categorization but demands to be consumed.”—Robin Sloan, author of Mr...Categorized as:
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