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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
In the night garden	Catherynne M. Valente	A Book of Wonders for Grown-Up ReadersEvery once in a great while a book comes along that reminds us of the magic spell that stories can cast over us--to dazzle, entertain, and enlighten. Welcome to …	OL12284322W
Filter house	Nisi Shawl	Filter House is a collection of short fiction by Nisi Shawl, with an introduction by Eileen Gunn (author of Stable Strategies). The collection's fourteen tales offer a haunting montage that works its…	OL13778455W
Magic's Price (The Last Herald-Mage Series, Book 3)	Mercedes Lackey	The final chapter in Mercedes Lackey's spellbinding fantasy trilogy! The Herald-Mage, Vanyel, and his Companion, Yfandes, are alone responsible for saving the once-peaceful kingdom of Valdemar from t…	OL14913391W
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg	Dubravka Ugresic,Dubravka Ugrešić,Dubravka Ugresic	Baba Yaga is a witch-like character who flies around on a giant mortar, kidnapping (and presumably eating) small children. She lives in a house on chicken feet. She is generally a terrifying figure, …	OL15179914W
The German	Lee Thomas	Set during the height of World War II, The German examines the effect a series of ritualistic murders has on a small, Texas community. A killer preys on the young men of Barnard, Texas, leaving crypt…	OL15444805W
Beyond binary	Brit Mandelo	Speculative fiction is the literature of questions, of challenges and imagination, and what better to question than the ways in which gender and sexuality have been rigidly defined, partitioned off, …	OL16521415W
Green thumb	Tom Cardamone	Mutability blooms in the Florida Keys after the Red War and the genie boxes. King Pelicans with the brains of scientists and a single human hand in place of one webbed foot rule the ruins of half-dro…	OL16572526W
Point of dreams	Melissa Scott,Lisa A. Barnett	The city of Astreiant has gone crazy with enthusiasm for a new play, The Drowned Island, a lurid farrago of melodrama and innuendo. Pointsman Nicolas Rathe is not amused, however, at a real dead body…	OL1697243W
Ariah	B.R. Sanders,B R Sanders	Ariah's magical training has been interrupted. Forced to rely on a mentor, Dirva, who is not who he claims to be, and a teacher who is foreign and powerful, Ariah is drawn into a culture wholly diffe…	OL17406059W
The Girl in the Road	Monica Byrne	Waking up in a futuristic Mumbai with five snake bites, Meena is compelled to return to her native Ethiopia by way of a forbidden path spanning the Arabian Sea; while a girl from a different time, Ma…	OL17413625W
Infidel	Kameron Hurley	The only thing worse than war is revolution. Especially when you’re already losing the war… Nyx used to be a bel dame, a government-funded assassin with a talent for cutting off heads for cash. No…	OL17499190W
lizard radio	Pat Schmatz	Fifteen-year-old bender Kivali has had a rough time in a gender-rigid culture. Abandoned as a baby and raised by Sheila, an ardent nonconformist, Kivali has always been surrounded by uncertainty. Whe…	OL17827358W
The James Tiptree Award anthology 2	Karen Joy Fowler	Stories for women, for men, and for the rest of us. Female, male, gay, bisexual, straight, transgender, human, alien, or simply other, the Tiptree Award honors fiction that explores and expands ou…	OL18512977W
The fifth sacred thing	Starhawk	A world without poverty or hunger that honors the Four Sacred Things that sustain life--earth, air, fire, and water--is poised to clash with a nightmare society of authoritarian regimes and food and …	OL1852086W
Shadow man	Melissa Scott	Living on a planet where one's sex is a matter of choice, Warreven, whose decision to be a man precluded his marriage to the planet's prince, suffers a bizarre identity crisis.	OL18594528W
Worlds Apart	Lyn Paleo,Camilla Decarnin,Eric Garber	20cm.317	OL18993538W
Bitter Waters	Geoff Ryman,Chaz Brenchley	The average adult male is approximately 60% water. Blood tastes salty as more than two thirds of the sodium circulating throughout your body is carried in arteries and veins. Which means that your he…	OL19342781W
Freshwater	Akwaeke Emezi	Both a recounting of trauma and its impacts, as well as a retelling of a Nigerian fable. The main character's multiple experiences of trauma are retold and the author unflinchingly explores how they …	OL19343569W
The Stars Are Legion	Kameron Hurley,Nicole Poole,Teri Schnaubelt	396 pages ; 20 cm	OL19618080W
The rules and regulations for mediating myths & magic	F. T. Lukens	Desperate to pay for college, Bridger Whitt is willing to overlook the peculiarities of his new job--entering via the roof, the weird stacks of old books and even older scrolls, the seemingly incorpo…	OL19724621W