**From award-winning author Mark Oshiro comes a powerful fantasy novel about finding home and falling in love amidst the dangers of a desert where stories come to life.** Xochital is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking her troubled village's stories into its arid winds. Her only companion

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Greymane believed he'd outrun his past. With his school for swordsmanship in Falar, he was looking forward to a quiet life, although his colleague Kyle wasn't as enamoured with life outside the mercenary company, the Crimson Guard. However, it seems it is not so easy for an ex-Fist of the Malazan Em

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Cyborg Cinder has always been alone in the world. When she learns that shes going to be adopted, her whole life changes she gets an all-new family, complete with a mostly-absent father, two step-sisters and an unwelcoming stepmother. How will she cope with being the only cyborg in the family? This s

**A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST AND KIRKUS BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF 2019** **Award-winning author Michael Swanwick returns to the gritty, post-industrial faerie world of his New York Times Notable Book *The Iron Dragon's Daughter* with the standalone adventure fantasy *The Iron Dragon's M

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The staff of New York's premier supernatural catering company have their work cut out for them as the goblin king and his queen celebrate the marriage of their son to his human bride.