N. K Jemisin
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"Every great city has a soul. A human avatar that embodies their city's heart and wields its magic. New York? She's got six. But all is not well in the city that never sleeps. Though Brooklyn, Manny, Bronca, Venezia, Padmini, and Neek have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading--and destroying the entire universe in the process--the mysterious capital "E" Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. A new candidate for mayor...
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English
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"Essun--once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger--has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power--and her choices will break the world"--
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"THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted...
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"Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city from destruction in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. When a young man crosses the bridge into New York City, something changes. He doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even...
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 400 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Three-time Hugo Award winner N. K. Jemisin's first collection of short fiction challenges and enchants with breathtaking stories of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering...
7) Far sector
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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English
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"For the past six months, newly chosen Green Lantern Sojourner "Jo" Mullein has been protecting the City Enduring, a massive metropolis of 20 billion people. The city has maintained peace for over 500 years by stripping its citizens of their ability to feel. As a result, violent crime is virtually unheard of, and murder is nonexistent. But that's all about to change in this new graphic novel that gives a DC's Young Animal spin to the legacy of the...
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Inheritance trilogy (N. K. Jemisin) volume 3
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
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613 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Inheritance trilogy (N. K. Jemisin) volume 2
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
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411 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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After a band of killers begins murdering godlings, blind artist Oree Shoth wonders if her recent guest is at the heart of it, his presence putting her in danger.
10) The killing moon
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Dreamblood duology volume 1
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
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440 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
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xxi, 357 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Boundary-pushing and experimental, this diverse selection of science fiction and fantasy (SF/F) stories illuminates what it means to be human and explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SF/F today.
12) The shadowed sun
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Dreamblood duology volume 2
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
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519 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Series
Inheritance trilogy (N. K. Jemisin) volume 1
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2010
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1st ed.
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427 p. ; 21cm.
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English
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
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viii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele's anthology of all-new horror stories...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (382 pages)
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English
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"This volume showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding definitions of the genre and celebrates its current renaissance." -- Washington Post Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what the best of these stories do is the same across the genres -- they illuminate the whole gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears....