Fantasy

The Secret Service of Tea and Treason by India Holton: Witty and Dangerously Good

Two rival spies must brave pirates, witches, and fake matrimony to save the Queen. Known as Agent A, Alice is the top operative within the Agency of Undercover Note Takers, a secret government intelligence group that is fortunately better at espionage than at naming itself. From managing deceptive witches to bored aristocratic ladies, nothing is […]

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Con-Fusion 2023: Five Days of Fun

In just under two weeks, Con-Fusion 2023 will kick off. What is Con-Fusion? It is a multi day, multi genre convention that is based at five different City of Phoenix libraries. Created by author Jenn Czep along with several others such as Deborah Dwyer and KellyAnn Bonnell, Con-Fusion was created to promote and support local

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What the Hex by Jessica Clare: Fun and Romantic

Penny Roundtree wants nothing more than to be a familiar to a witch. She’s been a member of the Society of Familiars ever since she was old enough to join the Fam. There’s just a small problem—no one’s hiring. Witches and warlocks are so long-lived that there are far more familiars available than witches to

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Spell Bound by F.T.Lukens: Sweet LGBTQ YA Romance

Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers and protect their own magic in this lively young adult romantic adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of In Deeper Waters and So This Is Ever After. Edison Rooker isn’t sure what to expect when he enters the office of Antonia Hex,

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Thorn of Chaos by Jeremiah Cain: Excellent Worldbuilding

Finn is no hero, chosen born, or noble. Despite escalating tensions from the Dayigan soldier’s occupation of Feah lands, the happy-go-lucky twenty-five-year-old is content to spend his days fishing and flirting with the other men in his Celtic-like village. But everything changes at their midyear’s eve festival when an angry Dayigan commander catches Finn in

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The Way Spring Arrives and other stories: collection by Yu Chen: Beautiful Diversity

In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world can bloom. Written, edited, and translated

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Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind by Misa Suguira: Wonderful Characters

All Momo wants for her twelfth birthday is an ordinary life—like everyone else’s. At home, she has to take care of her absentminded widowed mother. At school, kids ridicule her for mixing up reality with the magical stories her mother used to tell her. But then Momo’s mother falls gravely ill, and a death hag

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The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa: All about Family

El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen with a mission of revenge, redemption, and revolution. On Mar León de la Rosa’s sixteenth birthday, el Diablo comes calling. Mar is a transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate hiding a magical ability to manipulate fire and ice. But their magic

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The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill: Layered with Emotion

A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mom, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it’s been just the three of them―her mom has brought home guests at times, but none have ever stayed. Yet when her mom

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The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall: Witty and Engaging

In this charming, witty, and weird fantasy novel, Alexis Hall pays homage to Sherlock Holmes with a new twist on those renowned characters. Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere to live, and expediency forces him to take

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