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Showing posts with label Jared Shurin. Show all posts
Saturday, April 22, 2017

Black Powder, by Maria Dahvana Headley

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Find this book (Horror) The Kid wants to the other kids in high school to pay attention to him, so he steals a rifle. The rifle he steals ...

Majnun, by Helene Wecker

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Find this book (Modern Fantasy) In modern Morocco, Zahid gets called for the most difficult exorcism jobs. This one is going to be a doozy...

Authenticity, by Monica Byrne

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Find this book (Mainstream) A woman sneaks out to watch her boyfriend make a porn movie. (3,530 words;  Time : 11m) Rating: Not Rated No...

Glass Lights, by JY Yang

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Find this book (Modern Fantasy) Mena is a Malaysian woman working in China. Family history says her grandmother was a djinn, but that does...

Hurrem and the Djinn, by Claire North

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Find this book (Historical Ottoman Fantasy) High officials in the Empire fear that the sultana has used djinns to bewitch the sultan, and ...

How We Remember You, by Kuzhali Manickavel

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Find this book (Modern Fantasy) In 1984 India, four Muslim teenagers befriend, then betray a young djinn—and then obsess over it. (3,006 ...

The Congregation, by Kamila Shamsie

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Find this book (Arabian Fantasy) Qasim meets a djinn boy his age at the mosque one morning, and he becomes obsessed with finding him again...

History, by Nnedi Okorafor

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Find this book (Contemporary Fantasy) She’s a great witch and a great entertainer, but tonight’s performance is going to be a night to rem...

Emperors of Jinn, by Usman Malik

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Find this book (Contemporary Fantasy) Four well-to-do Pakistani kids spend the summer together trying to summon a djinn. (4,758 words;  T...

The Spite House, by Kirsty Logan

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Find this book (Modern Fantasy) The djinn are all mortal now, but when Esha goes out at nights, she dreams of having some of the power her...

The Righteous Guide of Arabsat, by Sophia Al-Maria

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Find this book (Horror) Khalid is sure his new wife has been possessed by a djinn. (4,429 words;  Time : 14m) Rating: Not Rated No Specu...

Duende 2077, by Jamal Mahjoub

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Find this book (Dystopic Mystery) In future London, Dhaka investigates a murder, but people in the Caliphate that runs the city have an un...

Bring Your Own Spoon, by Saad Z. Hossain

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Find this book (Dystopic Fantasy) In a future, polluted Dhaka, Hanu makes friends with a djinn, and they decide to open a restaurant—even ...

Message in a Bottle, by K.J. Parker

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Find this book (High Fantasy) The narrator seeks a plague cure a long-dead scholar may have left in a bottle. Or it might be a new kind of...

The Jinn Hunter’s Apprentice, by E.J. Swift

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Find this book (Future Fantasy) The Ganymede mission is stuck in Mars orbit until a jinn hunter can come and exorcize the jinn that are ha...

Queen of Sheba, by Catherine Faris King

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Find this book (Historical Fantasy) In 1953 Los Angeles, 12-year-old Juanita starts seeing visions. Aunt Opal is a little strange, but she...

Reap, by Sami Shah

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Find this book (Horror) Grant works on a drone team for the US airforce in New Mexico. They see something in Pakistan that’s hard to belie...

The Sand in the Glass is Right, by James Smythe

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Find this book (Horror) You can force a jinn to grant you a wish, but they always find a way to twist it. Simon Bond figures out a wish th...

A Tale of Ash in Seven Birds, by Amal El-Mohtar

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Find this book (Poetic Fantasy) The narrators keep changing form to evade attack by the wizard-nation. (1,418 words;  Time : 04m) Rating:...

The Djinn Falls in Love, and Other Stories, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin

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Find this book (Fantasy) Nineteen original stories about djinn (aka genies) in the past, present, and even the future. (107,480 words...