Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1Golem and the Jinni (2013)Golem and the Jinni (2013) 8.1/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2013New York in 1899 gives Chava, a clay golem, and Ahmad, a Syrian jinni, a problem no extraordinary power solves neatly: how to live among strangers. Wecker brings Jewish and Middle Eastern folklore into a city of workshops, tenements and immigrant networks. Their dependence on neighbours makes…0
  2. 2The ghost bride (2013)The ghost bride (2013) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2013Li Lan's family troubles make an offer of marriage to a dead man disturbingly attractive. In colonial Malacca in the 1890s, the bargain draws her into Choo's elaborate Chinese afterlife, where the living world's inequalities acquire further complications. Family status and a young woman's limited…0
  3. 3The bird king [large print] (2019)The bird king [large print] (2019) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2019Wilson sets The Bird King in 1491, in the last Muslim sultanate on the Iberian peninsula. Fatima's friend Hassan can make maps that change the places they depict, a power with obvious uses for rulers and terrifying consequences for its owner. Their escape makes questions of borders, faith and…0
  4. 4Gods of Jade and Shadow (2019)Gods of Jade and Shadow (2019) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2019Casiopea Tun's life of unpaid household work in 1920s Yucatán changes when she releases a Mayan death god. Moreno-Garcia sends her through a Mexico of motorcars, jazz-age possibility and older supernatural powers. The setting matters because modern freedom is unevenly available: class and family…0
  5. 5The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (2009)The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (2009) 6.7/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2009A Harvard graduate student's research in 1991 Massachusetts opens a trail towards the witch-trial past. Howe uses the hunt for a missing book to connect archives, domestic knowledge and the lives obscured by official accounts. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane imagines genuine inherited magic;…0
  6. 6The Bear and the Nightingale (2017)The Bear and the Nightingale (2017) 7.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2017Arden's fourteenth-century Rus is a place where getting through winter depends on food, fire and the household's protective spirits. Vasya's attention to those beings conflicts with the religious authority arriving in her village. The friction between Christian practice and older beliefs is…0
  7. 7A Master of Djinn (2021)A Master of Djinn (2021) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2021Cairo in 1912 has ministries, police work and an imperial history transformed by the arrival of djinn. Clark makes that change explicit: this Egypt has escaped British domination and become a great power. Investigator Fatma's case moves through the machinery and inequalities of the resulting city.…0
  8. 8The Reformatory (2023)The Reformatory (2023) 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2023In a fictional Florida town in 1950, twelve-year-old Robbie is sent to a segregated reform school where he can see the boys who never left alive. Due draws on the history of the Dozier School, but invents this institution and its characters. The ghosts expose what official authority suppresses,…0i
  9. 9The Monsters We Defy (2022)The Monsters We Defy (2022)Published 1 Jan 2022Washington, DC, in 1925 gives Clara Johnson's supernatural heist its particular opportunities and barriers. Her ability to speak to spirits has left her owing a dangerous debt, and the crew she gathers belongs to the city's Black social and artistic world. Penelope puts magical bargains beside…0
  10. 10Ring Shout (2020)Ring Shout (2020) 7.5/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2020In Georgia in 1922, Maryse Boudreaux and her companions fight Klansmen whose hatred has acquired a literal monstrous form. Clark makes racist propaganda, including The Birth of a Nation, part of the invented supernatural machinery. That choice turns the novella into an argument about the power of…0