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Chapters and excerpts of novels and graphic novels from various publishers.

Read Two Story Excerpts From the New Horror Anthology Night of the Living Queers

Thu Sep 28, 2023 3:00pm

Horror, Young Adult || No matter its name or occasion, Halloween is more than a Hallmark holiday, it’s a symbol of transformation.

Read an Excerpt From The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

Samit Basu

Wed Sep 27, 2023 3:00pm

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Science Fiction || Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rulers aren’t helping anyone but themselves.

Read an Excerpt From This Dark Descent

Kalyn Josephson

Tue Sep 26, 2023 3:00pm

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Fantasy, Young Adult || Mikira Rusel’s family has long been famous for breeding enchanted horses, but their prestige is no match for their rising debts.

Read the Fourth Chapter of V.E. Schwab’s The Fragile Threads of Power

V.E. Schwab

Mon Sep 25, 2023 1:00pm

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Fantasy || Volume One of Threads of Power: Once, there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London.

Read an Excerpt From The Death I Gave Him

Em X. Liu

Thu Sep 21, 2023 3:00pm

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Read an Excerpt From The House of Saints

Derek Künsken

Wed Sep 20, 2023 3:00pm

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Science Fiction, Space Opera || Book Two of Venus Ascendant:

Read an Excerpt From After World

Debbie Urbanski

Tue Sep 19, 2023 3:00pm

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Science Fiction || Faced with uncontrolled and accelerating environmental collapse, humanity asks an artificial intelligence to find a solution. Its answer is simple: remove humans from the ecosystem.

Read an Excerpt From Cassandra Clare’s Sword Catcher

Cassandra Clare

Mon Sep 18, 2023 3:00pm

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Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery || Book One of Sword Catcher: Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher—the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian.

Read an Excerpt From Candelaria

Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Thu Sep 14, 2023 3:00pm

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Read an Excerpt From Bloom

Delilah S. Dawson

Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:00pm

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Read the First Two Chapters of Under the Smokestrewn Sky

A. Deborah Baker

Tue Sep 12, 2023 1:00pm

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Fantasy || Book Four of The Up-and-Under: Since stumbling from their world into the Up and Under, Avery and Zib have walked the improbable road across forests, seas and skies.

Read the Third Chapter of V.E. Schwab’s The Fragile Threads of Power

V.E. Schwab

Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:00pm

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Fantasy || Volume One of Threads of Power: Once, there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London.

Read an Excerpt From Princess of Dune

Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson

Thu Sep 7, 2023 3:00pm

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Read “The Price of Rye”— A Horror Story Set in the World of Alex Grecian’s Red Rabbit

Alex Grecian

Wed Sep 6, 2023 3:00pm

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Horror, Western || Sadie Grace is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive).

Read an Excerpt From Medusa’s Sisters

Lauren J.A. Bear

Thu Aug 31, 2023 3:00pm

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Fairy Tales and Folklore, Fantasy || Even before they were transformed into Gorgons, Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale were unique among their immortal family.

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