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Lauren J A Bear
LAUREN J. A. BEAR was born in Boston and raised in Long Beach. After studying English at UCLA and Education at LMU, she taught middle-school Humanities for over a decade — and survived! She is a teaching fellow for the Holocaust Center for Humanity, and lives in Seattle with her husband and three young children.
She likes crossword puzzles and being on or near the water without getting wet. For more information --
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Genres: Fantasy
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Lauren J A Bear recommends
North Is the Night (2024)
(Tuonela Duet, book 1)
Emily Rath
"Rath recreates a folkloric Finland rife with magic and mayhem, where witches, goddesses, and two irrepressible human girls clash in epic battles of wit and heart . . . Rath's world is one I did not want to leave. Prepare to be captivated!"
The Witch of Colchis (2024)
Rosie Hewlett
"What's most powerful-and most heartbreaking-about Rosie Hewlett's The Witch of Colchis is its timelessness. Medea's story is 2,500 years old, but Hewlett's retelling resonates with urgency. With elegant prose and expertly crafted tension, the novel shows how years of abuse and toxicity lead to tragedy, and reminds the reader that we must offer our hand to the alone, the other, and the ostracized before it is too late."
A Rose by Any Other Name (2024)
Mary McMyne
"In A Rose by Any Other Name, the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's sonnets takes center stage. Rose Rushe is a woman of audacious passion, who laughs in the face of Elizabethan correctness. She is an artist, a lover, a witch, and she is all those things without shame or apology, shattering conventions in the same way she breaks hearts. This book is an alchemical combination of meticulous research and immersive storytelling. Mary McMyne takes up the Bard's quill and gives us a historical romantasy that will have you on the edge of your reading chair from the prologue to the very last scene."
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