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Gosh, it's been quiet around here!

What great things have you read recently that are totally obscure?  Something other people are unlikely to ever find on their own?

I'll go first:

Boris by Cynthia Rylant - if you've ever loved a pet, you'll like this one.  So sweet!  And, it's told in verse.

A teen sci-fi series that you'll like if you're a Star Trek nerd * - the Galahad series by Dom Testa.  A comet has infected the earth with a disease that is killing off all the adults.  As a last-ditch effort to save the human race, scientists build a spaceship to travel to another planet, and choose 251 disease-free teens who must learn how to get the ship there, and colonize the planet.  Lots of fun.  The first book is The Comet's Curse.



* No, not me.  Not a bit.

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Not recently, but The Last of Danu's Children by Alison Rush. Twentieth-century teenager Kate is worried about her older sister Anna's obsession with her new boyfriend, Edward Kelly (yep, it's him, and that's hardly the strangest thing that happens in this novel) and enlists her friend Matt to help figure out what's going on. Kelly, it turns out, has pledged Anna to Cernunnos in return for his own freedom from an old debt to the Horned God, so Kate and Matt set out to save her. It's not a straightforward quest story by any means, though, neither in the plotting nor the resolution. If you like Alan Garner and Penelope Lively, this will be right in your wheelhouse, I think.