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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 [...]

Star-Touched Queen, The

Fate, Love, and Demon Horses Author: Roshani Chokshi Maya’s horoscope has kept her sequestered. She is hated in the harem. Outcast by the other women. After all, her doomed future could spill over onto them, onto their children. She is destined to bring death and destruction, and many think that the kingdom would be better without her presence. Her mother is already dead. Who else is next? The weird thing about prophecy, however, is the twists and turns you take to arrive at a final destiny. On the eve of the destruction of her empire, as Maya prepares to end her [...]