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Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call. Mavis, Alison's estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only weeks to live. She wants to spend her remaining days with her daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters. But Alison grew up with her mother's alcoholism and violent abuse and...
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Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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In a post-apocalyptic world where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage, Riley, when a new neighbor moves in down the road, throws caution to the wind in her desperate need for human contact, and as they grow closer, she can no longer fight her deepest desires.
4) Borderless
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Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Caught in the cross hairs of gang violence, seventeen-year-old fashion designer, Maya, and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US-Mexico border.
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Melville House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets...When his little cousin is murdered, Nate shuns the graffiti murals, candlelight vigils, and Twitter hashtags that are commonplace after these senseless deaths. Instead, he leads 3 grief-stricken friends on a mission of retribution, kidnapping the descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, confronting the targets with their...
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Redhook
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A Dowry of Blood is a saga of obsession, desire and the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love. Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things. Finding comfort in the arms of her...
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Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers. He should refuse...
8) Pritty
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Jay is a soft soul in a world of concrete. While his older brother is everything people expect a man to be...Jay simply blends into the background to everyone, except when it comes to Leroy. Unsure of what he could have possibly done to catch the eye of the boy who could easily have anyone he wants, Jay isn't about to ignore the surprising but welcome attention. But as everything in his world begins to heat up, especially with Leroy, whispered rumors...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"New England, 1957. The Kindred sisters -- Ezra and Cinthy -- grew up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbors, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful village perched high up on coastal bluffs. But...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected...
11) Parasocial
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Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A fading genre-TV actor collides with an obsessed fan at a convention in the middle of a pandemic. Over the course of the insane, horrific night that follows, the actor will have to put on the greatest performance of his life simply to survive until dawn. Unless, of course, he's the real monster..."--Back cover.
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law's property, encounters the woman she used to love--leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she's built Abandoned by first her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by finding reserves of strength in herself, and...
13) Fury: a novel
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Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In a desert dotted with war-torn towns, Lázaro and Juan are two soldiers from opposing camps who abandon the war and, while fleeing, become lovers and discover a dark truth. Vicente Barrera, a salesman who swept into the lives of women who both hated and revered him, spends his last days tied up like a mad dog. A morgue worker, Salvador, gets lost in the desert and mistakes the cactus for the person he loves. Over the echoes of the stories of these...
14) Princess of Dune
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Series
Dune novels. Heroes of Dune volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set two years before Dune: Princess of Dune is the never-before-told story of two key women in the life of Paul Muad'Dib--Princess Irulan, his wife in name only, and Paul's true love, the Fremen Chani. Both women become central to Paul's galaxy-spanning Imperial reign. Raised in the Imperial court and born to be a political bargaining chip, Irulan was sent at an early age to be trained as a Bene Gesserit Sister. As Princess Royal, she also learned...
15) Icarus
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A thief who steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries while targeting Mr. Black, the man responsible for his mother's death, Icarus Gallagher is torn between family loyalty, revenge, escape and Mr. Black's son--the boy he's come to love.
"Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries. For years, one man--the wealthy Mr. Black--has been their target in...
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Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Two young women vanish in a seaside town. At the cliff's edge, nobody is who they seem. Desperate to escape the ghosts of his failed marriage, Cole upends his life. He leaves London behind for a remote stretch of coast, relishing the respite from the noise, drama, and relentless careerism that curdled his relationship and mental health. Leonora has made the same move for similar reasons. She's living a short walk from Cole's seaside cottage, preparing...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"El corredor es un alarido de metal y literatura cuya virtud primordial es llevar al lector a un paroxismo, a esa exaltación propia de los derviches y pilotos cuyos bólidos están avizorando, en fracciones de segundo, la pared donde habrán de estrellarse, el fuego donde serán desgarrados por engranajes y ángulos enfurecidos. Alejandro Vázquez Ortiz ha logrado escribir un mecanismo narrativo cromado, con varias capas de pintura, donde conviven...
18) Choujin X: 3
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Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Best friends Tokio and Azuma do everything together, even if most of the time it feels like Tokio is just stumbling along in Azuma's cooler, more talented footsteps. But when they're attacked one night by a superhuman mutant called a choujin, Tokio finally has a chance to shine--by turning into a choujin himself! While Tokio and Ely are working hard to become choujin protectors, Azuma is languishing as a normal student in a regular school. It's not...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From Confederate marauder to rebel gunfighter to repentant preacherman, circuit rider Taylor Callahan's road to perdition has been a hellish ride. Sinners beware. After riding with Missouri bushwhackers, Taylor Callahan vowed to never take another life. He's making good on it in Peaceful Valley. But this little settlement is about to become anything but peaceable. When the marshal takes a bullet in an ambush he pins a badge on Taylor, leaving the...
20) 3 mujeres
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Publisher
HarperCollins Ibérica, S.A
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Nunca ha conocido a las otras esposas. Ninguno de ellos se conoce y, debido a este arreglo poco convencional, solo puede ver a su esposo un día a la semana. Pero ella lo ama tanto que no le importa. O al menos eso es lo que se dijo a sí misma. Pero un día, mientras lava la ropa, encuentra un trozo de papel en su bolsillo, un recordatorio de una cita para una mujer llamada Hannah, y sabe que es otra de las esposas. Ella pensó que estaba bien con...
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