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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad) is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. From Wikipedia: “One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo. Soon after its founding, Macondo became a town frequented by unusual and extraordinary events that involve the generations of the Buendía family, who are unable or unwilling to escape their periodic (mostly self-inflicted) misfortunes.

The magical realist style and thematic substance of the book established it as an important representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, which was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban Vanguardia (Avant-Garde) literary movement.

Since it was first published in May 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana, the book has been translated into 46 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. One Hundred Years of Solitude is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. It was recognized as one of the most important works of the Spanish language during the 4th International Conference of the Spanish Language held in Cartagena de Indias in March 2007.

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“Portrait of a Girl in Glass” is a 1948 work of short fiction by Tennessee Williams, first appearing in the collection One Arm and Other Stories published by New Directions. From Wikipedia: "Written from a first-person point-of-view, the narrative revolves around four characters. Amanda Wingfield is an aging Southern belle whose husband has long ago absconded leaving her to raise two children. They live in a seedy industrial section of St. Louis, Missouri. The eldest is her 20-something daughter Laura, whose social anxieties are such that she stays in her bedroom much of the time, a recluse. Painfully sensitive, she occupies herself with a collection of delicate glass objects while listening to old musical recordings on her victrola, among them “Whispering”, “Sleepytime Gal” and “Dardanella.” The story ends with Tom, the narrator, leaving home to lead the life of a drifter. He is haunted by the memory of his sister and her glass collection: "hundreds of little transparent pieces of very delicate colors."

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Three Parts Dead is a 2012 novel by Max Gladstone. From the book’s official summary: “A God has died, and it’s up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without Him, the metropolis’s steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Tara’s job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in. Her only help is Abelard, a chain-smoking priest of the dead God, who’s having an understandable crisis of faith. But when the duo discover that Kos was murdered, they have to make a case in Alt Coulumb’s courts—and their quest for truth endangers their partnership, their lives, and the city’s slim hope of survival.”

Publishers Weekly gave Three Parts Dead a starred review, writing: “The combination of legal thriller and steam-powered fantasy may seem improbable, but Gladstone makes it work with an appealing cast and a setting rich with imaginative details, like a priest who shows his devotion to a fire-god by chain-smoking, junkies getting high on vampire bites, cops who become part of a hive-mind when on duty, and the binding of divine power by legal contracts.”

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Every Heart a Doorway is a 2016 fantasy novella by American writer Seanan McGuire, the first in the Wayward Children series. From Wikipedia: “Rarely, children may find doorways that transport them to other worlds. As a child, Nancy found a doorway that led her to the land of the dead. When she is returned to the real world, her parents do not believe her story. Nancy is sent to a boarding school for children who have had similar experiences.

Every Heart a Doorway was well-received by critics, including starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus Reviews. The American Library Association selected it for their 2017 Rainbow Book List. The novella won the 2016 Nebula award, the 2017 Locus award, and the 2017 Hugo award.

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Daughter of Smoke and Bone is a 2011 fantasy novel by Laini Taylor. From Wikipedia: “The story follows Karou, a seventeen-year-old Prague art student. Karou was raised by chimaera, or creatures that have attributes of different animals and humans. The chimaera she lives with demand teeth in exchange for wishes and send Karou to fetch these teeth for them. In the beginning, Karou has yet to discover what the teeth are eventually used for and why there are rules such as "no baby teeth" and "no rotting". While on one of these missions, Karou finds a seraph named Akiva who finds something familiar in her.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone received positive from The New York Times and Kirkus Reviews. The novel is the first in a trilogy.

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The Ruin of Angels is a 2017 fantasy novel by Max Gladstone. From the novel's official summary: “The God Wars destroyed the city of Alikand. Now, a century and a half and a great many construction contracts later, Agdel Lex rises in its place. Dead deities litter the surrounding desert, streets shift when people aren’t looking, a squidlike tower dominates the skyline, and the foreign Iskari Rectification Authority keeps strict order in this once-independent city—while treasure seekers, criminals, combat librarians, nightmare artists, angels, demons, dispossessed knights, grad students, and other fools gather in its ever-changing alleys, hungry for the next big score. Priestess/investment banker Kai Pohala (last seen in Full Fathom Five) hits town to corner Agdel Lex’s burgeoning nightmare startup scene, and to visit her estranged sister Ley. But Kai finds Ley desperate at the center of a shadowy, and rapidly unravelling, business deal. When Ley ends up on the run, wanted for a crime she most definitely committed, Kai races to track her sister down before the Authority finds her first. But Ley has her own plans, involving her ex-girlfriend, a daring heist into the god-haunted desert, and, perhaps, freedom for an occupied city. Because Alikand might not be completely dead—and some people want to finish the job.”

The Ruin of Angels received praise from Publishers Weekly, NPR, and The Washington Post. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly wrote: “Gladstone packs a lot into his tale (including a brilliant sequence in which Kai encounters another trans person who lacked Kai’s access to divine resources), and longtime readers may find some of his choices surprising.”