Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
In the night garden 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 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
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg 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 Girl in the Road 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
lizard radio 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
When the Moon Was Ours When the Moon Was Ours Anna-Marie McLemore As their deep friendship turns to love, Latina teenager Miel, who grows roses from her wrist, and Italian-Pakistani Samir, a transgender boy, fear their secrets will be exposed by the beautiful Bonne… OL17934980W
Freshwater 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
White Queen White Queen Gwyneth Jones,Gwyneth Jones It's 2038 and the earth has been devastated by tectonic shifts accompanied by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The U.S. has undergone a socialist revolution, retro-viruses are rampant and most tec… OL2354527W
Black wine Black wine Candas Jane Dorsey An old woman hangs in a cage; a young woman slaves on a rich lord's estate. How does a woman discover and assert her identity in a primeval, barbaric world? From slave dens to merchant cities to isol… OL2898561W
Set This House in Order Set This House in Order Matt Ruff Andy Gage was born in 1965 and murdered not long after by his stepfather... It was no ordinary murder. Though the torture and abuse that killed him were real, Andy Gage's death wasn't. Only his soul … OL3298264W
The Kappa Child The Kappa Child Hiromi Goto From the award-winning author of Chorus of Mushrooms, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean and Canadian Region and was co-winner of the Canada Japan Book Awa… OL3615811W
Camouflage Camouflage Joe Haldeman An unidentified artifact, found seven miles below the surface of the sea, stumps the scientists examining it but calls out to the two immortal creatures who have wandered the Earth for centuries, nev… OL461302W
The Carhullan army The Carhullan army Sarah Hall From Booker and Orange Prize-nominated author Sarah Hall comes the tale of an imaginary England, a future dystopian society where the right to bear a child is determined by a state lottery system. … OL5771058W
The Left Hand of Darkness The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin [Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969) > One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin… OL59800W
The knife of never letting go The knife of never letting go Patrick Ness,Nick Podehl An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer.Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear eve… OL6073271W
Wild life Wild life Molly Gloss Set among lava sinkholes and logging camps at the fringe of the Northwest frontier in the early 1900s, WILD LIFE charts the life — both real and imagined — of the free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouse… OL79740W