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Abraham, Daniel. Age of Ash. Orbit. Feb. 2022. 560p. ISBN 9780316421843. $28. FANTASY

Blake, Sarah. Clean Air. Algonquin. Feb. 2022. 320p. ISBN 9781643751061. $25.95. DYSTOPIAN

Heuvelt , Thomas Olde. Echo. Tor Nightfire. Feb. 2022. 416p. ISBN 9781250759559. $29.99. HORROR

Larkwood, A.K. The Thousand Eyes. Tor. Feb. 2022. 384p. ISBN 9781250238948. $29.99. FANTASY

Lund. Emme. The Boy with a Bird in His Chest. Atria. Feb. 2022. 320p. ISBN 9781982171933. $27. MAGICAL REALISM

Ross, Rebecca. A River Enchanted. Harper Voyager. Feb. 2020. 368p. ISBN 9780063055988. $27.99. FANTASY

First in the “Kithamar” trilogy, set in an ancient city with a blood-bathed history, Nebula-nominated, Hugo-winning Abraham’s Age of Ash tells the story of a thief named Alys whose hunt for her brother’s murderer reveals secrets that could bring down rulers (40,000-copy first printing). With Clean Air, award-winning author Blake introduces a postapocalyptic world where trees are so overgrown that pollen chokes the world and people must live in domes that someone is viciously slashing. From Hugo nominee and internationally best-selling Dutch author Heuvelt, sends Nick Grevers and climbing partner Augustin up a remote mountain in the Swiss Alps called the Maudit (“cursed” in French), whose eerie stillness presages the horror to come (150,000-copy first printing). In The Thousand Eyes, a follow-up to Larkwood’s LJ-starred debut, The Unspoken Name, Csorwe has defied the wizard she served and disappeared into the unknown to lead a quiet life with her mage-girlfriend—but not for long (150,000-copy first printing). Owen, The Boy with the Bird in His Chest in Lund’s debut, is hidden away by his mother for years to protect him but decides to risk an outing in the woods that turns catastrophic (60,000-copy first printing). Successful YA author Ross’s first adult fantasy, A River Enchanted takes place on an island as magical as Prospero’s, where spirits responding only to a bard’s music thrive—and the trouble they are stirring up forces just-returned musician Jack and his nemesis, heiress Adaira, to cooperate (50,000-copy first printing).

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