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New For You - Sci Fi & Fantasy - February 2025

Whether you like your fiction fueled by magic or advanced technology, you'll find great new reads in this list.

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  • A dark and enchanting fairy tale-inspired historical fantasy combining elements of "The Little Mermaid" and "Cinderella" into a wholly original tale of love, power, and betrayal.
    BookNew York : Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — FANTASY
  • Return to the Kingdom of Íseldur where enemies become lovers and dark secrets hide around each corner. This installment digs deeper into Íseldur’s forbidden magic and the simmering attraction growing between two unlikely couples.
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  • The lives of people (mostly women) who help to produce science or who are affected by it.The stories in Schrödinger's Wife (and Other Possibilities) travel through laboratories, observatories, rockets, hotel rooms, hospitals, out to the…
    BookLondon : Goldsmiths Press, 2024. — FICTION
  • Alchemy meets Agatha Christie in this dazzling Jazz Age fantasy when an archaeology student faces myth and monsters to protect her family and break a blood curse.
    BookAustralia : Allegorie Press, 2024. — FANTASY
  • A bladesmith blessed by the stars. A prince with a dangerous secret. A god bound in shadows.
    BookNew York : Avon, [2025] — FANTASY
  • This thrilling romantasy about king’s Blade, Keera, and her epic quest to avenge her lover, save her people, and bring down a tyrant king is the final installment of the series.
    BookNew York : Union Square & Co., [2025] — FANTASY
  • A murderess becomes the guardian of two very unusual girls in this mesmerizing gothic tale.
    BookNew York : Del Rey, 2025. — HORROR
  • If you could swap your life for a better one, which would you choose? On the outskirts of Rainbow Town, there is an old, abandoned house. They say that if you send a letter detailing your misfortunes there, you could receive a ticket.
    BookNew York : Ace, 2025. — FANTASY
  • The final book in the epic fantasy trilogy that began with Battlemage -- expect fireball-filled battles, otherworldly enemies, and heroically powerful mages. Voechenka is a city under siege. …
    BookNew York : Orbit, 2016. — FANTASY
  • An unexpected gift offers the power to change everything—but keeping it could cost Diem her life. The threat of war has arrived at Diem’s doorstep, along with a new discovery that could save her people. To use it, she must survive the…
    BookSydney : Simon & Schuster, 2024. — FANTASY