New this week
The latest additions to The Library's collection
Some weeks, The Library gets a bumper crop of new books, and other weeks we get to dig into our stacks and share a few extra random selections from our vast storehouse of Substack treasures. We hope you enjoy these bonus books!
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From the Stacks
Featuring a different, randomly-selected book every week.
Speculative
Fantasy
The Butterfly Koi | A. Sherman Karlsson | Contemporary Fantasy (N) (I) (F)
Magic is here, ready to store your data and keep your cell phone charged... endlessly. What the packaging won’t say is magic doesn’t work for everyone. Eika Fujiwara, heiress to the Fujiwara Heavy Industries mining empire and face of Diet Breakfast Water, is determined to repair the magical damage caused by her family’s ecological misdeeds. Together with her best friend, the brilliant engineer Misora Toyama, she’s paving the way for the next generation of magitech, this time available to all. But when development hits a roadblock, the pressure is on to use any tool, legal or not, to continue. What trade-offs are they willing to make for an invention that might change magic forever?
The Hanged Man (Book 1 of The Webbd Wheel series) | Jennifer Rose | Fantasy (N) (I) (F)
Textured and embellished with mythology, legend, symbology, and occult from around the world, this is a tale of choices, consequences, learning, resilience, complexity, and ultimate redemption. The Webbd series is filled with familiar characters from folk, fairytale, and oral tradition, as well as new characters. Structured around the pagan Wheel of the Year and Tarot cards, the story of Webbd is sprinkled with magic and marble lore.
Supernatural
Snooze: A Story of Awakening | Sol Luckman | Visionary Fiction, New Age Fiction (N) (C) ($)
From acclaimed author Sol Luckman comes SNOOZE, the riveting, coming-of-age tale of one extraordinary boy’s awakening to the world-changing reality of his dreams, winner of the 2015 National Indie Excellence Award for New Age Fiction. Join Max Diver, aka “Snooze,” along the razor’s edge of a quest to rescue his astronaut father from a fate stranger than death in the exotic, perilous Otherworld of sleep. An insightful look at a plethora of paranormal subjects, from Bigfoot and lucid dreaming to time travel via the Bermuda Triangle, SNOOZE also shines as a work of literature featuring iconic characters, intense drama and breathless pacing to stir you wide awake! Written with young adult and young-at-heart readers in mind, SNOOZE further proved its literary merit by being selected as a 2016 Readers’ Favorite International Book Award Finalist in the Young Adult-Coming of Age category and receiving an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Beach Book Festival Prize competition in the General Fiction category.
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