02886cam a2200445 i 4500 2633269040 TxAuBib 20251202120000.0 250725s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250885678 1250885671 TxAuBib rda Lu, Marie, 1984-, author. Red City / Marie Lu. First edition. New York : Tor, 2025. 420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The New Alchemists ; 1 Series statement and numbering from publisher's website. "The Godfather meets The Magicians in the sweeping adult debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu. Perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab, Red City is a dark and deadly contemporary fantasy of magical warfare, star-crossed ambition, and the pursuit of perfection at any cost, set in a glittering alternate Los Angeles. Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation. An exclusive power wielded by crime syndicates that market it to the world's elites in the form of sand, a drug that enhances those who take it into a more perfect version of themselves: more beautiful, more charismatic, simply more. Among the gleaming skyscrapers and rolling foothills of Angel City, alchemy is controlled by two rival syndicates. For years, Grand Central and Lumines have been balanced on a razor's edge between polite negotiation and outright violence. But when two childhood friends step into that delicate equation, the city--and the paths of their lives--will be irrevocably transformed. The daughter of a poor single mother, Sam would do anything to claw her way into the ranks of Grand Central in search of a better life. Plucked away from his family as a boy to become a Lumines apprentice, Ari is one of the syndicates' brightest rising stars. Once, they might have loved each other. But as the two alchemists face off across opposite sides of an ever-escalating conflict, ambition becomes power, loyalty becomes lies, and no transformation may be perfect enough for them both to survive the coming war"-- Provided by publisher. 20251202. Alchemy Fiction. Organized crime Fiction. Poor families Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Social classes Fiction. Apprentices Fiction. Fantasy. Los Angeles (Calif) Fiction. Science fiction. fast Fantasy fiction. fast Novels. fast Fiction. fast Paranormal fiction. fast Romans. rvmgf The New Alchemists ; 1.