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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
I thought it was about time that non-fiction books made it over to the blog. After all, it is my second most-read genre after sff books. And what better book to start with than my favourite of all time? Synopsis: As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with…
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Prophet by Sin Blanché and Helen Macdonald
Synopsis: Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things―about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns…
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malina Lo
Synopsis: A story of love and duty set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the Red Scare. “That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown…
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A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
Synopsis: 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, Al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is…
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The Unrelenting Earth by Kritika H. Rao
Here is my review of book 1 of this series: The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao Synopsis: In this dazzling sequel to the The Surviving Sky, Ahilya and Iravan risk everything—their lives, their culture, and their fragile marriage—in pursuit of the earth-shattering truth about their existence. Two months have passed since Ahilya and Iravan…
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Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Synopsis: The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world…
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