“Things can happen anytime, anywhere. There is no way to account for every what-if.” When her older sister is found mysteriously drowned in the river that cuts through their small coastal town, Soojin Han disregards every rule and uses her ancestral magic to bring Mirae back from the dead. At first, the sisters are overjoyed,…
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The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
“Let’s form a secret society….A League. The League of Secret Storytellers.We shall tell all the stories that are never told. Stories about bad husbands and murderous wives and mad gods and mothers and heroes and darkness and friends and sisters and lovers…Yes! And above all…stories about brave women who don’t take shit from anyone.” In…
The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
“The lake was like a mirror, sky and earth lay there upside down.” The Birds tells the story of Mattis, a deeply sensitive, intellectually disabled young man living in a small house in the Norwegian countryside with his sister Hege. Eking out a modest living knitting sweaters, Hege encourages her brother to find work to…
The Night Ends with Fire by K.X. Song
“I needed to prove that I, as a woman, could be better than the rest of them. That I too could belong. That I too could be free.” The Three Kingdoms are at war, but Meilin’s father refuses to answer the imperial draft. Trapped by his opium addiction, he plans to sell Meilin for her…
Eartheater by Dolores Reyes
“Señorita Ana came to me on nights I slept without waking. In my dreams, below the sign she was found under and over earth made electric by the acrid light that exuded off bones turning to dust, Señorita Ana rotted like flesh off a dead dog on the road. Her bones weren’t meek like domesticated…
The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat
“The Tail Is the Teeth. I had heard those words all my life. They meant that no matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t escape who you were or where you came from. But they couldn’t be true. I wouldn’t let them be true.” As the assistant to the most celebrated mapmaker in Mangkon, twelve-year-old…
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
“Forgetting was not the same as healing.” Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Her. She…
The Great Book Wyrm 