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The Girl With Ghost Eyes by M. H. Boroson is the first book in the Daoshi Chronicles. It tells the story of Li-lin, a young woman who is a Daoshi priestess in Chinatown towards the end of the nineteenth century. She works with her father, another high-ranking Daoshi priest, where she unintentionally gets caught up…
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2001: A Space Odyssey was written by Arthur C. Clarke and based on the movie of the same name. It opens back in the stone age with some unusual rocks randomly appearing all over Earth and training or teaching early humans tools and tricks to help them progress. Eventually the mysterious rocks disappear as fast…
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This time around I picked a rather interesting theme for my monthly list as I decided to discuss series that involve a library. More specifically it has to be an unusual library of some sort and not just a regular library. It has to be a library that you cannot just walk into though I…
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Dragons of the Dwarven Depths is volume one of the Lost Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It is a companion series to the Dragonlance Chronicles and takes place just after the events of Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Having killed the dragonlord Verminaard the heroes are working to find a place for the refugees…
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Today we are going back to the mystical world of Greek Mythology with The Battle of the Labyrinth, book four of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan. It opens on Percy attending orientation at his soon to be new school only to be chased and attacked by a group of Empousa.…
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The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman is the first book in the series of the same name. Irene works in the library as a librarian whose job is to travel to alternate realities in order to find rare and/or one of a kind works of literature, many of which are found in only one alternate…
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Six Women of Salem by Marilynne K. Roach tells the story of the Salem Witch trials through the stories of six women that were involved. It opens by providing brief bios of each of the women prior to the witch trials before then covering the actual events of the year 1692. Starting in January it…
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Heir of Sea and Fire is the second book in the Riddle Master Trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip and continues the story started in the first book. It opens almost a year after the end of the previous book but focuses on Raederle, the young woman who was to be betrothed to Morgon, and her…
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City of Orphans by Avi takes place in New York City but in 1893. It tells the story of two young teenagers, Maks Geless and his new friend Willa. Maks is a newsie just trying to help his family make ends meet when he starts getting harassed by the Plug Ugly Gang. One day he…
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Shards of Earth is the first book in The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It tells the story of Idris Tellemier, a man who is also something known as an intermediary. The intermediaries were a group of humans that were experimented on to gain extrasensory powers fifty years previous to help fight a war…
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