Nicola Griffith
1) Spear
Author
Language
English
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"The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court. And so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides...
2) Hild
Author
Series
Hild sequence volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
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"A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest...
3) Slow river
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A rich woman escapes from her kidnapers and is taken in by a lesbian who deals in computer fraud and prostitution. The two work together, but the woman becomes revolted and returns home to learn the kidnaping was arranged by a family member.
4) So lucky
Author
Publisher
MCD/FSG Originals
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Mara Tagarelli is, professionally, the head of a multimillion-dollar AIDS foundation; personally, she is a committed martial artist. But her life has turned inside out like a sock. She can't rely on family, her body is letting her down, and friends and colleagues are turning away--they treat her like a victim. She needs to break that narrative: build her own community, learn new strengths, and fight. But what do you do when you find out that the story...
5) Menewood
Author
Series
Hild sequence volume 2
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Making a much-anticipated return to the world of Hild, Nicola Griffith’s Menewood transports readers back to seventh-century Britain, a land of rival kings and religions poised for epochal change. Hild is no longer the bright child who made a place in Edwin Overking’s court with her seemingly supernatural insight. She is eighteen, honed and tested, the formidable lady of Elmet, now building her personal stronghold in the valley of Menewood. But...
Publisher
Forest Avenue Press
Language
English
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Description
Too often, science fiction and fantasy stories erase--or cure--characters with disabilities. Soul Jar, edited by author and bookstore owner Annie Carl, features thirty-one stories by disabled authors, imagining such wonders as a shapeshifter on a first date, skin that sprouts orchid buds, and a cereal-box demon. An insulin pump diverts an undead mob. An autistic teen sets out to discover the local cranberry bog's sinister secret. A pizza delivery...
Author
Series
Publisher
Diabolical Plots, LLC
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom. But there are more stories loved
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