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The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore
by Anika Fajardo
A magically insightful novel about a woman's journey to discover her roots and what it means to carry our ancestors with us.
In the span of a year, Dolores Moore has become a thirty-five-year-old orphan. After the funeral of the last living member of her family, Dorrie has never felt more lost and alone. That is, except for a Greek chorus of deceased relatives whose voices follow her around giving unsolicited advice and opinions. And they’re only amplifying Dorrie’s doubts about keeping the deathbed promise she made to return to her birthplace in Colombia. But when an old flame offers to house sit, the chorus agrees that there’s no room for excuses. Armed with only a scrap of a handdrawn map, Dorrie sets off to find out where—and who—she came from.
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Soul Searching (Sweetwater Peak #1)
by Lyla Sage
A brand-new story, featuring a small-town upholsterer in need of a fresh start, a photographer whose life has come to a screeching halt…and the supernatural forces that bring them together.
Sweetwater Peak, Wyoming, was supposed to be in Collins Cartwright’s rearview mirror, but when she finds out a developer is trying to buy her parents’ antique shop out from under them, she doesn’t have a choice but to go home. Lucky for her, the new-to-town upholsterer has a room for rent above his store.
When Brady Cooper agrees to let the elusive Collins Cartwright stay in his spare room, he doesn’t know that she’s absolutely bonkers—constantly talking to herself and having conversations with no one. But as they begin to get closer, the lines between them start to blur, leaving both of them—and the ghosts that have been pushing them together—wondering whether or not their temporary arrangement could be something more permanent.
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The Summer War
by Naomi Novik
A young witch who has inadvertently cursed her brother to live a life without love must find a way to undo her spell.
Celia discovered her talent for magic on the day her beloved oldest brother Argent left home. Furious at him for abandoning her, she lashed out, not realizing her angry words would become imbued with the power of prophecy–dooming him to a life without love. While Argent wanders the world, forced to seek only fame and glory instead of the love he truly desires, Celia attempts to undo the curse. Yet even as she grows from girl to woman, she cannot find the solution—until she learns the truth about the centuries-old war between her people and the summerlings: the immortal beings who hold a relentless grudge against their mortal neighbors.
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Fiend
by Alma Katsu
A terrifying tale about an all-powerful family with an ancient evil under its thumb.
The Berisha family runs one of the largest import-export companies in the world, and they’ve always been lucky. Their rivals suffer strokes. Inconvenient buildings catch on fire. Earthquakes swallow up manufacturing plants, destroying harmful evidence. Things always seem to work out for the Berishas. At least that is what Zef, the patriarch, has always told his three children. And each of them knows their place in the family—Dardan must prepare to take over as keeper of the Berisha secrets, Maris is expected to marry strategically, and Nora’s job, as the youngest, is to stay out of the way. But when things stop going as planned, and the family blessing starts looking more like a curse, the Berishas begin to splinter, each hatching their own secret scheme.
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A Land So Wide
by Erin A. Craig
An irresistible blend of dark fairytale and romantic fantasy set in the beautiful but brutal Canadian wilderness.
Like everyone else in the settlement of Mistaken, Greer Mackenzie is trapped. Founded by an ambitious Scottish lumber merchant, the tiny town is blessed with rich natural resources that have made its people prosperous—but at a cost. The same woods that have lined the townsfolks’ pockets harbor dangerous beasts: wolves, bears, and the Bright-Eyeds—monsters beyond description who have rained utter destruction down on nearby settlements.
Greer, a mapmaker and eccentric dreamer, has always ached to explore the world outside…until she watches in horror as her beloved, Ellis, disappears beyond the Warding Stones, pursued by a monstrous creature.Realizing that the stories she was raised on might be more myth than fact, Greer figures out a way to escape Mistaken for the very first time. Determined to rescue Ellis, she begins a quest to reclaim her lost love—and claim her own future.
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Alchemised
by SenLinYu
In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy.
Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner–of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war, Helena is held captive by Paladia’s new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers. To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena’s fight to protect her lost history and preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self is just beginning…
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The Eternal Forest: A Memoir of the Cuban Diaspora
by Elena Sheppard
A memoir of the Cuban diaspora that follows one family’s exile from the island.
Cifuentes, Cuba, in the 1950s was nearly idyllic—at least that’s how Elena’s grandparents, Rosita and Gustavo Delgado, remember the Eden they left. When Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, Gustavo was placed on a list of political undesirables, and by the end of 1960, the couple and their two daughters had fled to Florida. The Delgados were certain they would return to Cifuentes within a few months, after Castro’s reign had run its course. But they never went back, and a piece of each of their identities became frozen in that moment. In 1987, Elena was the first in Gustavo and Rosita’s family to be born in the United States. Through the memories that lived on through her grandmother, Cuba became the foundation of her childhood. Elena takes us inside these stories, and as we travel across the narrow Florida Straits that separate Miami and Havana, we also discover family secrets that are on the brink of being lost to time.
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Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine
by Ḥusayn Āghā and Robert Malley
Two insiders explain why the Israeli–Palestinian peace process failed, and anticipate what lies ahead.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas fighters killed more than eleven hundred Israelis and took more than two hundred hostages, prompting an Israeli response that has in turn taken tens of thousands of lives and devastated the Gaza Strip. Why did this happen, and can anything be done to grant peace and justice to Israelis and Palestinians alike? Analyst Hussein Agha and diplomat Robert Malley offer a personal and bracing perspective on how the hopes of the Oslo Peace Process became the horrors of the present. Drawing on their experience advising the Palestinian leadership (Arafat and Abbas) and US presidents (Clinton, Obama, and Biden), Agha and Malley offer candid portraits of leading figures and an interpretation of the conflict that exposes the delusions of all sides.
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The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
by Anne Sebba
Moving and powerful, this is a vivid portrait of the women who came together to form an orchestra in order to survive the horrors of Auschwitz.
In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a band that would play–in all weathers–marching music to other inmates. While still living amid the harshest of circumstances, with little more than a bowl of soup to eat, they were also made to give weekly concerts for Nazi officers, and individual members were sometimes summoned to give solo performances. For almost all of the musicians chosen to take part, being in the orchestra saved their lives. But at what cost?
What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women who owed their survival to their participation in a Nazi propaganda project? In The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, award-winning historian Anne Sebba traces these tangled questions of deep moral complexity with sensitivity and care.
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The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization
by Owen Rees
A revisionist history of the ancient world that shifts our focus from Athens and Rome to the long-ignored societies on the borders.
To many ancient Greeks and Romans, the outer reaches of their world was where civilization ceased to exist. But what was it like to live on the edges of these empires, on the boundaries of the known world? Thanks to new archaeological excavations, we now know that these border zones were thriving multicultural spaces where the boundaries of “civilized” and “barbarian” blurred. Through this globe-spanning historical tapestry, The Far Edges of the Known World offers us a rich new lens to see and understand the ancient world.
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Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent's Search for Hope and Justice
by John Edward
How a skeptical FBI agent reached out to a famous psychic for help on a baffling case–and the twenty-five-year crime-solving journey that followed.
In the summer of 1998, FBI agent Bob Hilland reluctantly picked up the phone to call the famous psychic John Edward. Bob didn’t expect much from the call, but he was working on an unsolvable cold case and had nowhere else to turn. What Bob never imagined was that the call would lead to a shattering of all his preconceived notions, a huge break in the cold case, and an unlikely crime-solving partnership that spanned twenty-five years. Centering on the investigation of the gruesome John Smith murders that rocked the nation, Chasing Evil is a heart-stopping story of murder, justice, and finding help in unexpected places.
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Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
by Stephen Greenblatt
A revelation of the daring and subversive life of Christopher Marlowe—Shakespeare’s contemporary, inspiration, and rival.
In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners were suspect and popular entertainment largely consisted of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world came an ambitious cobbler’s son with an uncanny ear for Latin poetry–a torment for most schoolboys, yet for a few, a secret portal to beauty, imagination, and dangerous skepticism. What Christopher Marlowe found on the other side of that door, and what he did with it, brought about a spectacular explosion of English literature, language, and culture, enabling the success of his collaborator and rival, William Shakespeare. With detailed historical insight, Greenblatt explores how the people Marlowe knew birthed the economic, scientific, and cultural power of the modern world
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