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Author
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"Stick Houses is the first story collection by Matthew Fletcher, a citizen of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians and a professor of law. The stories in Stick Houses run the spectrum from realism to science fiction. They explore the lives of Michigan Anishinaabe people and the modern identities of Native people. There is dispossession and separation, but there is also reunion and restoration. Indigenous people are everywhere, navigating...
Author
Series
When in Rome volume 1
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Amelia Rose, known as Rae Rose to her adoring fans, is burned-out from years of maintaining her “princess of pop” image. Inspired by her favorite Audrey Hepburn film, Roman Holiday, she drives off in the middle of the night for a break in Rome . . . Rome, Kentucky, that is. When Noah Walker finds Amelia on his front lawn in her broken-down car, he makes it clear he doesn’t have the time or patience for celebrity problems. He’s too busy running...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Khamilla Zahr-zad's life has been built on a foundation of violence and vengeance. Every home she's known has been destroyed by war. As the daughter of an emperor's clan, she spent her childhood training to maintain his throne. But when her clansmen are assassinated by a rival empire, plans change. With her heavenly magic of nur, Khamilla is a weapon even enemies would wield--especially those in the magical, scholarly city of Za'skar. Hiding her...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Cohn and Melissa de la Cruz comes a freewheeling journey through Vienna where two estranged friends search for their mutual ex--and a long-lost bond.Audrey and Ian were best friends--until they fell in love with the same man. To be precise, they fell in love with, married, and divorced the same man. And there's no coming back from that.Twenty-odd years later, they're right back at the beginning: Vienna,...
Author
Series
Souls burn brightest volume 1
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
Description
"A new romantasy, following a thief whose dramatic encounter with an assassin and a crown bodyguard (who happens to be a royal in disguise) launches her into a world of swirling palace intrigue, from New York Times bestselling author Chloe Neill. Fox is a thief with morals-she steals from those who can afford it and only a little at that. She has no choice. Fox and her closest companion are indentured servants to a wealthy noble in the stronghold....
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
Description
"The new year had barely begun when Grace White and Henry Adler both lost their spouses. Now, nearly a year later, the first holiday season since their "Great and Terrible Sadnesses" approaches. Although their mothers scheme to matchmake the two surviving spouses, it's clear that neither is ready to date again. Yet no one understands what they are going through better than each other, and a delicate friendship is born. When Henry sees an ad for a...
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
Description
"November, 1967, Iceland. Fourteen-year-old Marsi has a secret penpal - a boy who lives on the other side of the country - but she has been writing to him in her older sister's name. Now she is excited to meet him for the first time. But when the date arrives, Marsi is prevented from going, and during the night her sister Stina goes missing - her bloodstained anorak later found at the place where Marsi and her penpal had agreed to meet. November,...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"The St. Louis World's Fair, 1904: A miniature city of palaces and pavilions that becomes a backdrop for romance, betrayal - and murder. Cousins Grace and Lillie have been best friends since birth, despite Grace's vastly inferior social status ever since her mother married for love instead of wealth. When Lillie invites Grace to the biggest event of the century--the legendary World's Fair, also known as 'The Ivory City'--Grace hopes her fortunes might...
Author
Series
Hawkenlye mystery volume 5
Publisher
New English Library
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"An elderly pilgrim dies in Hawkenlye Vale. There's nothing suspicious about that: he was gravely ill when he arrived. Meanwhile Josse d'Acquin has a visit from Prince John, accompanied by his seer, and urgently seeking news of a mysterious stranger..." - Cover p. [4].
10) Simone in pieces
Author
Publisher
The University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
Description
Readers first meet Simone Lerrante, a Belgian war orphan, as a child refugee in Sussex, England, her memory damaged by trauma. This novel offers a kaleidoscopic vision of her fractured life and piecemeal understanding of self across multiple points of view. Following her from Cambridge to New York City and across the United States—through a disastrous marriage, thwarted desire, and the purgatory of academic backwaters—the novel charts Simone’s...
Author
Publisher
Regal House Publishing
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
Description
" I may have ended up more notorious than famous, but make no mistake: long before Aura Lockhart began commodifying her feminist rage ballads, I was the best-known person to come out of Keyhole, New Jersey." In 1977, twenty-six-year-old Lynda Boyle is desperate for fame and a way out of New Jersey. After failing to make her mark as an East Village poet and rubbing elbows with stars at Studio 54, she discovers a new path to glory through two local...
Author
Series
Gil Cunningham volume 10
Publisher
C & R Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
How should the Devil enter a religious house and carry off one of its members? How indeed? But Arnold Fleming, the widely dislike pensioner, or corrodian, lodged in the Dominican's house in Perth, has vanished from a chamber, and a local knight and his mistress claim to have seen the Devil abroad that very same night.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
Description
"In this follow-up to the critically-acclaimed The Laughter--winner of the Washington State Book Award--a middle-aged woman starts a firestorm when she holds a contest, based on an ancient Indian ritual, in which men must compete to win her affections"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Inklore
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"As her first winter in Anatol turns to spring, Lady Maximilian finds herself confronting an unfamiliar feeling: hope. Her voice and her magic strengthen every day; the only parts of Calypse Castle left to refurbish are its gardens, which she plans to fill with blooming flowers; and the way her husband, the recalcitrant war hero Sir Riftan, looks at her from across their bedroom makes her feel, for the first time in her life, that she might be worthy...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-year-old Sophia DeWinter has only known life bound to her cruel uncle, the Collector, thanks to a blood bond he exacted from her as a child. When she learns of Killmarth College, an elite academy for magic wielders outside of the Collector's control, she knows it is her only chance to finally break free. But to gain entry, she will have to compete against other illusionists, masquiers, botanists, and alchemists in a series of brutal trials...
16) Helm
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
Helm is a ferocious wind, part elemental god, part aerial demon blasting through the landscape of Northern England since the dawn of time. But now Dr. Selima Sutar fears human pollution is killing Helm.
Author
Language
English
Description
"David Trent is an aspiring novelist hoping to make a name for himself in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a place where ambitious writers lurk around every corner. He lives in an apartment above a Very Famous Author named Silas Hale who, beneath his celebrated image, is . . . haughty and disdainful, definitely not of the mentor variety. Until young David wins a prestigious award for his new book. Silas is at last interested . . . and jealous. But soon the...
19) Listen: a novel
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
Description
In 1989, twenty-year-old Marie jumps at the chance to work as au pair in Paris—even though it means dropping out of her prestigious art program in the Netherlands. The city, the language, the complicated French family she works for all quickly overshadow the turmoil and pain she'd been reckoning with in school. But years later, during the 2015 attacks in Paris, Marie is shocked to recognize her former teacher, the main reason she fled the Netherlands,...
20) Master of evil
Author
Publisher
Random House Worlds an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of Emperor Palpatine's rise to power, the true nature of his most sinister enforcer remains a mystery. Darth Vader is a dominant yet illusive figure: the shadow cast by a malignant Imperial regime, unknowable to even its top officials. But even as his humanity gives way to myth, Vader remains haunted by the promises of the dark side, seeking the ultimate power that his master has hinted at but withheld--the power to conquer death itself....


