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Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
This is the first novel in what will likely be a massive fantasy series by a very promising Nigerian author. Unlike several new epic fantasies, which I never quite got through, I finished this one in...
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The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith
I have a particular fondness for books about people who work with books—booksellers, writers and, of course, librarians. I couldn’t resist The Library of the Unwritten, subtitled “A Novel from Hell’s...
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The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
The cover copy says that this book takes place “in the world of The Goblin Emperor,” a novel that I read several years ago and remember very much liking. It was one of the first books I encountered...
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Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
I have been a fan of Rainbow Rowell since reading her first novel for young adults, Eleanor and Park, which remains one of my favorite nerd romances. I also very much liked Fangirl, about a young fan...
View ArticleNEWS ALERT NEWS ALERT
We have so much going on next week here in the store! Wednesday the 28th, we will be hosting a pop-up shop for Vinegar Syndrome, a fantastic boutique shop for the weird and wonderful on DVD and...
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The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune
This was supposed to be a review of TJ Klune’s newest book for young adults, Flash Fire, but that is a sequel to The Extraordinaries, and I found that I couldn’t write about the second book without...
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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
This brutal, magnificent historical novel takes place in central China (sort of around Wuhan, if my correlation between the map in the book and today’s maps is correct), when the Han Red Turban...
View ArticleSN Arly reading cancelled
Due to Coronavirus concerns, the reading originally scheduled for August 12th has been cancelled. Hopefully we will be able to reschedule it at a later date. Thank you. … Continue reading → The post SN...
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The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
Jake Livingston is a “medium” who can see ghosts and ghouls, mostly of people who died violently, replaying their deaths in fading “death loops” on street corners and in schools and just about...
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A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
Fatma el-Sha’awari, of the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities, prefers to wear European suits, always impeccably matched with shirt, tie, and bowler hat, of course....
View ArticleClosing for a couple of days…
Bookseller vacation time! DreamHaven will be closed Thursday, September 9th through Sunday, September 12th. We will re-open at noon on Monday, September 13th. (What do booksellers do on their...
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Burn by Patrick Ness
I have been a fan of British-American author Patrick Ness’ books since The Knife of Never Letting Go, which won the Tiptree (now Otherwise) Award in 2008. He also wrote another of my favorite fantasy...
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The Actual Star by Monica Byrne
This is a second novel for Byrne, whose first novel, The Girl in the Road, won the Tiptree (now Otherwise) Award in 2015. It is a dense, disturbing work, spanning two millennia and three human...
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The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente
The cover copy states that “hope is a fragile thing,” yet this brilliant little book is full of it. Despite having an overwhelming number of things to despair about, the narrator, Tetley Abednego,...
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How Do You Live by Genzaburo Yoshino
This book comes highly recommended by Neil Gaiman, who reports in the forward that it was Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki’s favorite book as a teenager, and was a huge influence on his life and...
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The Way of the Argosi by Sebastian De Castell
Every now and then, a reader needs to step away from great literature, or horror as metaphor, or fantasy that reflects the end of civilization, and pick up an old-fashioned, sword-and-sorcery...
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The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy by Anne Ursu
I’ve been a fan of Anne Ursu since reading her first fantasy for young adults, The Shadow Thieves, some years ago. I love her simple but elegant style, that never talks down to kids. I hadn’t known,...
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The Bookshop of Dust and Dreams by Mindy Thompson
As a bookseller, any story that features a bookstore makes me happy, but this time-travelling fantasy really stands out. The bookshop in question is named Rhyme and Reason, and is run by our teenage...
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Buckaroo Banzai’s second adventure arrives on the shelves at last
Fans of the 1984 film and book The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension will be thrilled to learn that, finally, the chronicles of the world-famous Buckaroo Banzai, MD, GBE...
View ArticleMo Dao Zu Shi, translated by Suika
Fans of the epic Chinese fantasy series “The Untamed” will be happy to hear that the first volume of the official, uncensored English translation of the novel by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu is now available....
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