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Endicott Redux: Secret Histories: Ekaterina Sedia
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Until now, the underworld with its fantastic denizens have worked silently to protect Russia from the worst of its historical tragedies. But someone has learned how to open the doorway between the worlds -- and suddenly the modern world of Russian gangsters and thugs has begun to corrupt the underworld, endangering the world above with newfound power stolen from the fantastic.
The secret histories of Moscow are not just those of the city and the underworld. Galina, Yakov, and Fyodor will each find something essential about their past and their families, and discover a truth about themselves, as they journey through the underworld with its deep historical and cultural roots. Sedia writes about the underworld in a magical, lyrical voice (the rusalka -- water spirits of drowned girls -- are superb), but she also writes with dry, deadpan humor about the modern Moscow above. For example, she notes that the Zaporozhet, a little car that a thug drives to avoid being noticed, is "the make that in the city folklore was often compared to a pregnant ninth-grader, since both equaled the family disgrace."
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Old Tree Healing by Taiko Haessler
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Old Tree Healing
by Taiko Haessler
Lightning curls around the trunk of Old Tree.
Sap curdles close to the chestnut heart—
Knots and joints twist with electricity in the night air.
The strike retreats to the whirling sky,
powerless against charred black clouds
reeling it in.
Blackened skin peels away
revealing bright Green underneath . . .
Roots shiver into earth.
Quiet night, last whisper of storm fades.
Lightning, ashamed of what it's done,
Ghosts into death–blind, silent.
Old Tree sends its sap to sing in the calm
After the torment.
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Locus Online: Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading: 2007
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Recommended Reading: 2007
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- Grey, Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books)
- One for Sorrow, Christopher Barzak (Bantam Spectra)
- The Sword-Edged Blonde, Alex Bledsoe (Night Shade Books)
- City of Bones, Cassandra Clare (McElderry)
- Breakfast with the One You Love, Eliot Fintushel (Bantam Spectra)
- Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
- Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr (HarperTeen; HarperCollins Children's UK)
- Maledicte, Lane Robins (Del Rey)
- The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
- Flora Segunda, Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt; Scholastic UK as Flora Segunda at Crackpot Hall)
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- Grey, Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books)
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