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Finding Baba Yaga — Jane Yolen

TITLE: Finding Baba Yaga AUTHOR: Jane Yolen RELEASES: October 30th, 2018; TorDotCom GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA PAGE COUNT: 144 SYNOPSIS: A harsh, controlling father. A quiescent mother. A house that feels like anything but a home. Natasha gathers the strength to leave, and comes upon a little house in the wood: A house that walks about on chicken feet and is inhabited by a fairy tale witch. In finding Baba Yaga, Natasha finds her voice, her power, herself…. I’ve always loved the story...

Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction — Irene Gallo

TITLE: Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction EDITORS: Irene Gallo RELEASES: September 4th, 2018; TorDotCom GENRE: Sci-fi & Fantasy AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Since it began in 2008 Tor.com has explored countless new worlds of fiction, delving into possible and impossible futures, alternate and intriguing pasts, and realms of fantasy previously unexplored. Its hundreds of remarkable stories span from science fiction to fantasy to horror, and everything in between. Now Tor.com is making some of those worlds available for the...

Time Was — Ian McDonald (ARC Review)

TITLE: Time Was AUTHOR: Ian McDonald RELEASES: April 24th, 2018; Tor.com GENRE: Science Fiction/Historical Fiction AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: A love story stitched across time and war, shaped by the power of books, and ultimately destroyed by it. In the heart of World War II, Tom and Ben became lovers. Brought together by a secret project designed to hide British targets from German radar, the two founded a love that could not be revealed. When the project went wrong, Tom and Ben vanished into...

The Barrow Will Send What it May — Margaret Killjoy

TITLE: The Barrow Will Send What it May AUTHOR: Margaret Killjoy SERIES: Danielle Cain, #2 RELEASES: April 3rd, 2018; Tor.com GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Margaret Killjoy’s Danielle Cain series is a dropkick-in-the-mouth anarcho-punk fantasy that pits traveling anarchist Danielle Cain against eternal spirits, hypocritical ideologues, and brutal, unfeeling officers of the law. Now a nascent demon-hunting crew on the lam, Danielle and her friends arrive in a small town that contains a secret occult library run by anarchists and residents who claim...

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion — Margaret Killjoy

TITLE: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion AUTHOR: Margaret Killjoy SERIES: Danielle Cain, #1 RELEASED: August 15th, 2017; Tor.com GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues about her best friend’s mysterious and sudden suicide, she ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa. All is not well in Freedom, however: things went awry after the town’s residents summoned a protector spirit to serve as their judge...

Every Heart a Doorway – Seanan McGuire

TITLE: Every Heart a Doorway AUTHOR: Seanan McGuire SERIES: Wayward Children, #1 RELEASED: April 5th, 2016; Tor.com GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere… else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced… they change a person. The children under Miss...

The Atrocities – Jeremy C. Shipp (ARC Review)

TITLE: The Atrocities AUTHOR: Jeremy C. Shipp RELEASES: April 17, 2018; Tor.com Publishing GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: When Isabella died, her parents were determined to ensure her education wouldn’t suffer. But Isabella’s parents had not informed her new governess of Isabella’s… condition, and when Ms Valdez arrives at the estate, having forced herself through a surreal nightmare maze of twisted human-like statues, she discovers that there is no girl to tutor. Or is there…? {GOODREADS . AMAZON . BOOKDEPOSITORY} Turn left at the screaming woman with...