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T. Kingfisher brings her signature wit and eerie imagination to this dark retelling of Snow White.
Anja, a healer with an unusual specialty (she tests poisons and antidotes on herself) finds her quiet life disrupted when the king summons her to save his daughter, Snow. But what looks like a straightforward case of poisoning soon reveals something stranger, tied to a hidden world inside a magic mirror. With the help of a stoic guard and a haughty talking cat, Anja must confront forces far beyond her training.
Creepy, clever, and unexpectedly funny, Hemlock and Silver is both a sharp twist on a familiar fairy tale and an inventive fantasy in its own right. Readers who enjoy dark retellings, strong heroines, and a touch of the bizarre will find themselves enchanted.
Peter Mann’s World Pacific is a sharp, darkly funny historical novel set on the eve of World War II. Adventurer and writer Richard Halifax (loosely based on real-life travel writer Richard Halliburton) vanishes at sea in 1939, yet his tall tales and unfinished schemes ripple through the lives of those left behind.
Told through three distinct voices - Hildegard, a German painter searching for answers about her twin brother’s collapse; Simon, a bumbling British intelligence officer stationed in California; and Halifax himself, whose brash letters hint at more than simple adventure - the novel blends espionage, satire, and literary wit.
Against the backdrop of the San Francisco World’s Fair and a world sliding toward war, Mann explores exile, betrayal, and the absurd performances we cling to in order to survive. Both madcap and deeply pointed, World Pacific is an inventive take on prewar intrigue with a comic edge that makes it stand apart.
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Octavia E. Butler changed science fiction forever, imagining futures that put Black women at the center of the story while confronting power, race, and survival in ways that still feel startlingly relevant today.
In Positive Obsession, Susana M. Morris draws on Butler’s personal journals and archives to paint a vivid portrait of her life and work. From her childhood in Pasadena through her breakthrough as the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur “genius” grant, Morris shows how Butler’s persistence—what she called her “positive obsession”—shaped her into one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
More than a biography, this book illuminates how Butler’s struggles and triumphs continue to guide readers and writers toward more expansive, inclusive futures.
Nicholas Boggs offers a powerful and deeply intimate portrait of James Baldwin in Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of the writer in thirty years.
Centering love as its guiding theme, Boggs traces Baldwin’s life through his most significant relationships - mentors, lovers, and friends - showing how each shaped both the man and his art. From Baldwin’s early years in Harlem and his breakthrough as a writer, through his decades in Paris, Istanbul, and the South of France, Boggs captures Baldwin’s fierce intellect, restless creativity, and uncompromising demand for truth.
This biography is more than a record of Baldwin’s public voice in civil rights and literature; it’s a look at the private struggles and passions that fueled his vision. Richly researched and vividly told, it reminds us why Baldwin’s insistence on love, as both salvation and revolution, still resonates with urgency today.