F-V Adult Patron Picks 2022

This list is compiled from patron recommendations at our monthly Suggestions on the Spot meeting.

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Book cover for "The Blue Sword"
Star rating for The Blue Sword
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.
Book cover for "Dark skies"
Star rating for Dark skies
Series:
Dark shores volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Lydia is a scholar, but books are her downfall when she meddles in the plots of the most powerful man in the Celendor Empire. Her life in danger, she flees west to the far side of the Endless Seas and finds herself entangled in a foreign war where her burgeoning powers are sought by both sides"--
Book cover for "Every heart a doorway"
Star rating for Every heart a doorway
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:

Winner of the Hugo Award, Hugo Award for Best Series, Alex Award, Locus Award, and Nebula Award
Nominated for the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, and Tiptree Honor List
"A mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy — a jewel of a book that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll's and C. S. Lewis' classics" —NPR
New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire

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Book cover for "Good omens"
Star rating for Good omens
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
The world is going to end next Saturday, but there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race.
Book cover for "The hero and the crown"
Star rating for The hero and the crown
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the Blue Sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.
Book cover for "The house on Tradd Street"
Star rating for The house on Tradd Street
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
A brilliant, chilling series debut, "The House on Tradd Street" features a Charleston real estate agent who loves old houses--and the secret histories inside them.
Book cover for "The Kingdom of Back"
Star rating for The Kingdom of Back
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
"Desperate to be forever remembered for her music, Nannerl Mozart makes a dangerous pact with a mysterious stranger from a magical land, which may cost her everything"--
Book cover for "The passage"
Star rating for The passage
Series:
Passage trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte can stop.
Book cover for "Practical magic"
Star rating for Practical magic
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Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
Sorcery is the legacy of Gillian and Sally Owens, a legacy they both try to escape until they realize their magic is a gift, not an affliction.
Book cover for "Soulless"
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Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Description:
Buffy meets Jane Austen in the first book of this wickedly funny NYT bestselling series about a young woman whose brush with the supernatural leads to a deadly investigation of London's high society.
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social...
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
"Naomi Novik, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale. Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon...