Cannonball Read 17

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Video Games & Grief of All Kinds

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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SADIE GREEN, YOU HAVE DIED OF DYSENTERY! Sam Masur and Sadie Green were childhood friends who had a major falling out, and they haven’t spoken to one another in years. But one winter day they bump into each other at a T station, and it is the start of a collaborative partnership that will define the rest of their lives. Sadie is studying video game design, and when she shares one of her class assignments with Sam, he realizes that together they could build something […]

Death & Intrigue at a Wizarding School

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

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Ivy Gamble is a private detective who is also kind of a mess. She drinks too much, she has trouble forming lasting relationships, and she is tired of following cheating husbands and uncovering insurance fraud; Ivy wants to prove herself as a real investigator. So when the headmaster of the Osthorne School for Young Mages appears in her office and wants to hire her to investigate a mysterious death at the school, Ivy jumps at the chance. But Osthorne isn’t just a magic school, it’s […]

Mystery, Political Intrigue, Science Fiction, and Quiet Romance

The Mars House by Natasha Pulley

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January Stirling is a ballet dancer in a future England, forced to flee Earth as a climate refugee when his city – and seemingly much of Britain – becomes submerged in a massive flood. Climate refugees who manage to get off-planet are sent to Tharsis, the only city on a terraformed Mars, where their strength – unaffected by the weaker gravity and thinner atmosphere of Mars – causes them to be a major threat to the naturalized Martians. Earthstrongers, as they are called, are required […]

Come for the Murder, Stay for the Food

Murder and Mamon by Mia P. Manansala

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You do have to wonder how many murders have to happen in your small town before you consider that it might be time to move away. But for Lila Macapagal, solving a murder is just a part of her life now, just like the Brew-Ha Café that she runs with her two closest friends, and her aunties April, Mae, and June, also known as the Calendar Crew. In this, the fourth installment of Mia P. Manansala’s cozy murder mystery series, the Calendar Crew come to […]

Here’s How to Identify a Werewolf: They’re the Ones That Never Grow Up

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

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This is a werewolf story. And like all werewolf stories, according to our narrator, it always means more than one thing. Mongrels follows a family of werewolves – aunt Libby, uncle Darren, and our unnamed narrator – as they migrate back and forth across the southern US, moving whenever towns become too hot to hold them. Mongrels is a coming-of-age story, following our narrator from late childhood into his teenage years, navigating familial bonds and first loves. Mongrels is a story of being poor in […]

The Houseguest From Hell

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

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When you think of T. Kingfisher your mind probably goes to her horror novels first. Maybe you think of What Moves the Dead, or A House With Good Bones. But her fantasy work should not be ignored, and her latest – A Sorceress Comes to Call – is an astonishing mix of fantasy, horror, and Regency novel all in one. Cordelia is a girl who has been abused and controlled by her mother all her life. There are no secrets allowed in their house, nor […]



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