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"The love of monsters was uncomplicated.” Author: T. Kingfisher What if Sleeping Beauty was the villain? What if the fairy who arrived at her christening was trying to save both her and the kingdom from despair? Only T. Kingfisher can take a well-known fairy tale and flip it around, making the princess into the monster and bringing the magical world of the Green Teeth and fairy courts alive. And we’re here for every bit of it. The story opens with a lone fairy, Toadling, who mostly takes the form of a toad and watches a dense tangle of brambles that hide [...]

2026-06-20T18:19:42-07:00June 20th, 2026|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Cartographers, The

“Maps are love letters written to times and places their makers had explored.” Author: Peng Shepherd To us, maps may just be a means to an end, a way to navigate from point A to point B. But what are maps, actually? They are visual storytellers, magical doors that go beyond mere navigation to reveal the heart and beauty of a place, even its secrets. This is how Nell Young felt her whole life, learning from her esteemed father, Dr. Daniel Young, who is a legend in the field of cartography and high-up in the map-lovers academic paradise, the New York [...]

2026-05-06T11:23:03-07:00May 6th, 2026|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Oasis

"The desert . . . . it’ll devour you whole if you display any sign of weakness." Author: Katya De Becerra While I was reading Oasis, Trav and I were housebound by the Snowcrete, so a book set in a lovely hot desert with supernatural overtones sounded like the perfect way to break the ice and free me to adventure, if only in my mind. It starts, as these things inevitably do, with a band of young friends, freshly graduated from high school and looking for their last hurrah before going off to separate colleges. Alif is our main character. Her [...]

2026-04-09T17:50:16-07:00April 9th, 2026|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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