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Moonlight Desires: A Cinderella Retelling by David Tocher

Elegant and restrained, with quiet emotional depth… Tocher’s latest transforms a well-known fairy tale into a restrained meditation on compassion, pride, and the uneasy boundary between virtue and self-interest. Trapped in a life of cruelty, Aurelia never believed escape was…
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She Who Hunts: The Tale of T’lejhánka by David Tocher

Beautifully told, thematically rich, and quietly devastating; a stunner. A soul-hungry spider-spirit stalks the forests of Gitlu’quam Island in Tocher’s elegant, elemental dark fable. A group of children, orphaned by the monstrous T’lejhánkha, a creature who feeds not only on…
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Spider Seeds by David Tocher

Dark, unsettling, and impossible to put down… A houseplant becomes the harbinger of terror in Tocher’s chilling tale. Maddy Perth is fascinated with plants. When she sees a strange, spindly specimen in a small shop in Victoria, British Columbia, she…