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Danger No Problem
by Cindy Fazzi

Acclaimed author Cindy Fazzi takes readers on an action-packed ride full of wit and grit, as an immigrant turned recovery agent tracks down his most elusive assignmentand learns her explosive secret. Domingo's latest job is to bring in Monica Reed. Again. In all his years as a bounty hunter, Monica's the only target who's ever given him the slip-and the only one he's ever let go. Domingo takes his work seriously, rooting out fugitives who have no regard for the law. Added bonus: it gives him plenty of fodder for the book he's writing on the side. As Domingo works to flush out Monica for the third time, he uncovers more layers to her story. Dark secrets, hidden sacrifices, and shocking discoveries point to a dangerous truth she'll risk her life to expose. Now Domingo must decide which side he's actually on. Drawing on the author's own experience as an immigrant, Danger No Problem is an action-packed, humor-laden look at the pursuit of dreams and the desire for belonging.
The Witch's Orchard
by Archer Sullivan

Former Air Force Special Investigator Annie Gore is getting by as a private investigator and her latest case takes her to an Appalachian holler not unlike the one where she grew up.
The L.A. Times
A New New Me
by Helen Oyeyemi

Kinga, a woman experiencing life through seven distinct daily personas with varying traits and professions, faces internal chaos and external threat when one of her selves discovers a captive in their shared apartment, forcing a reckoning with a potential saboteur.
Katabasis
by R. F. Kuang

Alice has sacrificed everything to work with Professor Grimes at Cambridge, the world's greatest magician, but when he dies in a magical accident and is sent to Hell, she and rival Peter follow him, using only tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them.
Baldwin: A Love Story
by Nicholas Boggs

Drawing on new archival material, original research and interviews, a new biography reveals how profoundly James Baldwin's personal relationships shaped his life and work. 
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
by David Baron

Recounts early twentieth-century Mars mania, following Percival Lowell's rise and fall as he championed the belief in intelligent Martians, revealing how scientific speculation, public fascination, and cultural projection transformed the red planet into both a symbol of hope and a mirror of human ambition. 
The New York Times
Buckeye
by Patrick Ryan

In postwar Ohio, a stolen moment between Cal Jenkins and Margaret Salt reverberates through generations, as a small town's buried secrets and a wife's spiritual gift expose the longing for love and goodness.
Exiles
by Mason Coile

When a Mars colony mission arrives to find its setup crew of robots fractured and one missing, the astronauts must unravel conflicting accounts of what happened.
The Poisoned King
by Katherine Rundell

Christopher returns to the Archipelago to investigate the mysterious dragon deaths, embarking on a rescue mission alongside a princess seeking justice for her father.
The Secret of Secrets
by Dan Brown

When Katherine Solomon vanishes and her manuscript disappears following a murder in Prague, symbologist Robert Langdon races across three cities to uncover a hidden truth about consciousness, pursued by ancient myths, secret societies, and a revelation that could upend humanity's understanding of the mind.
The Wilderness
by Angela Flournoy

An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship. Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood - overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences - swoops in and stays. As these friends move from the late 2000’s into the late 2020’s, from young adults to grown women, they must figure out what they mean to one another - amid political upheaval, economic and environmental instability, and the increasing volatility of modern American life.
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why it Matters
by Christine E. Webb

An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species-and ourselves Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. 
All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
by Elizabeth Gilbert

A raw and unflinching memoir of love, addiction, heartbreak, and transformation from the author of Eat Pray Love traces her journey from deep friendship to destructive passion and the hard-won freedom from patterns that once felt impossible to escape. 
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
by Stephen Greenblatt

The story of how Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's greatest rival, leveraged his classical education to ignite an explosion of English literature, nourished the literary talent of Shakespeare and challenged societal norms with his transgressive genius.
NPR
Dominion
by Addie E. Citchens

In a taut Southern family drama, the sins of a favorite son rock a small Mississippi town.
The Emperor of Gladness
by Ocean Vuong

In the struggling town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai is saved from despair by Grazina, an elderly widow with dementia, forging an unexpected bond that reshapes their lives and reveals dynamics of love, memory, and resilience on the margins of society.
Hemlock & Silver
by T. Kingfisher

A dark reimagining of “Snow White” steeped in poison, intrigue and treason of the most magical kind.
If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You
by Leigh Stein

After a brutal breakup, Dayna joins an influencer renovating a crumbling mansion to reboot her life, but as she digs into the mystery of a missing tarot reader, the house's dark secrets threaten to consume her.
A Truce That Is Not Peace
by Miriam Toews

An internationally bestselling author offers a memoir of the will to write—a work of disobedient memory, humor and exquisite craft set against a content-hungry, prose-stuffed society.
The Wall Street Journal
The Color of Death
by Trey Gowdy

A dark mystery debut about a murder in a small South Carolina town. 
Flashout
by Alexis Soloski

A thrill-seeking young woman joins a radical theater troupe in a suspenseful novel of art, seduction and the deadly limits of liberation.
Ruth
by Kate Riley

Raised in a rigid Christian communist society where uniformity is sacred and questions are discouraged, Ruth navigates childhood, marriage, and motherhood while quietly wrestling with forbidden curiosity, struggling to reconcile her inner doubts with the life she's told will bring her fulfillment.
Art Work: On the Creative Life
by Sally Mann

The much-anticipated new book by artist and New York Times bestselling author Sally Mann about the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative process. 
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
by Moudhy N. Al-Rashid

Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time. What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the earliest depiction of a wheel and the first approximation of pi.... the world's first cities, the first writing system, early seeds of agriculture, and groundbreaking developments in medicine and astronomy.
Ready for My Closeup: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of the Hollywood Dream
by David M. Lubin

Delves into the creation of the classic 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, exploring how director Billy Wilder and his screenwriting partner, Charles Brackett, took the theme of fleeting fame and wealth and produced a deeply critical masterpiece about the corrupting influence of Hollywood's obsession with youth and stardom.
Victory '45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders
by James Holland

Focuses on six surrender ceremonies across Europe and Japan between May and September 1945 to examine the political tensions, personal motives, and emotional weight experienced by military leaders, civilians, and soldiers during the final moments of World War II.
Washington Post
The Midnight Shift
by Seon-ran Cheon

When a string of suspicious deaths at a hospital is dismissed as coincidence, determined officer Su-Yeon investigates alone, uncovering unsettling clues and joining forces with a vampire hunter who believes a supernatural predator is targeting the building's most vulnerable residents.
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
by Yiming Ma

In the future, China is the sole global superpower and citizens can record and transfer memories between minds.
Black Moses
by Caleb Gayle

The remarkable story of Edward McCabe, a Black man who tried to establish a Black state within the United States.
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