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Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange
Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. He has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre in an exceptionally powerful book.
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Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder
by Kerryn Mayne
Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. Lenny Marks is also very, very good at not remembering what happened the day her mother and stepfather disappeared when she was still a child, until a letter from the parole board arrives in the mail and she starts to unravel. For the first time, she finds herself forced to connect with the community around her, and unexpected new relationships begin to bloom. Equal parts heartbreaking and heartwarming, this is an irresistible novel about truth, secrets, vengeance, and family lost and found.
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Intermezzo
by Sally Rooney
In the wake of their father's death, two brothers, successful Dublin lawyer, Peter, and his younger brother Ivan, a competitive chess player, find different ways to deal with their grief, which affects not only their lives, but the lives of those they hold dear. An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family--but especially love--from the global phenomenon, Sally Rooney.
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Panenka
by Rónán Hession
His name is Joseph, but he’s lived with the nickname Panenka since committing a disastrous mistake 25 years ago. Now, at 50, he’s beginning to rebuild a family life with his estranged daughter and her seven-year-old son. But at night, he still faces crippling headaches and fears losing everything. Will he and Esther, a new woman in town with her own disappointments, find resonance in each other’s experiences and learn new ways to let love into their lives? Contemplative and expressive, a good heart beats at the center of this book.
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The River Has Roots
by Amal El-Mohtar
In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family. There, they tend and harvest the enchanted willows and honor an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic, none more devotedly than daughters Esther and Ysabel, who cherish each other as much as they cherish the ancient trees. But when Esther rejects a forceful suitor in favor of a lover from the land of Faerie, not only the sisters' bond, but also their lives, will be at risk. Follow the river Liss and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death.
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The Killer Question
by Janice Hallett
Sue and Mal Eastwood run an isolated rural pub called "The Case is Altered" where a weekly trivia game has revived its flagging fortunes; that is, until a body is found in the nearby river. Soon after, a mysterious new team arrives and shakes up the diverse field of regulars by scoring top marks every week. Meanwhile, Sue and Mal have a secret of their own. Before arriving here, they were caught up in a secret police operation which meant they had to leave town, and whatever happened back then seems to have finally caught up with them.
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Infinite Archive
by Mur Lafferty
Mallory Viridian has had a quiet few months. Even with the increased influx of humans visiting Station Eternity, she hasn't seen so much as a bar brawl. Used to people dying left and right around her, the lack of murders to solve has left her unexpectedly bored. But a giant data ship called Metis is bringing the entire Internet from Earth, as well as a mystery fan convention. On top of that, Mallory's literary agent is aboard, and he tells Mallory that she's the keynote speaker. It's almost a relief when a killer decides to strike at the convention. When Mallory finds her agent dead, she knows she has to work fast to find the murderer.
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Deep End
by Ali Hazelwood
A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance. Scarlett Vandermeer is a junior at Stanford and a student athlete who specializes in platform diving, She is concentrating on getting into med school and has no time for relationships. Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It's how he wins gold medals and breaks records. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common, until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes.
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The Way of the Househusband
by Kousuke Oono
He was the fiercest member of the yakuza, a man who left countless underworld legends in his wake. They called him "the Immortal Dragon." But one day he walked away from it all to walk another path, the path of the househusband. But it's not easy to walk away from the gangster life, and what should be mundane household tasks are anything but! This is the first volume in a cozy yakuza comedy series.
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A Scatter of Light
by Malinda Lo
The summer of 2013 in the Bay is a momentous one for eighteen-year-old Aria Tang West, for the working-class queer community she finds herself in, and for her artist grandmother. Last Night at the Telegraph Club author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful queer coming-of-age story, this time set against the backdrop of the first major Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage.
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Summer of Fire and Blood
by Lyndal Roper
The German Peasants' War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. In 1524 and 1525, it swept across Germany as over a hundred thousand people massed in armed bands to demand a more egalitarian order. Peasants took control of vast areas of southern and middle Germany, but they proved no match for the forces of the lords, who slayed between seventy and a hundred thousand peasants in just over two months. In the first history of the German Peasants' War in a generation, historian Lyndal Roper exposes the far-reaching ramifications of this rebellion.
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Witchcraft
by Marion Gibson
A dramatic journey through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous, like the Salem witch trials, and some lesser-known: In Norway in the 1620s, an indigenous Sami woman was accused of murder, and in France in 1731, a young woman was pitted against her cult leader. Exploring how witchcraft became feared, decriminalized, reimagined, and eventually reframed as gendered persecution, Witchcraft takes on the intersections between gender and power, indigenous spirituality and colonial rule, and political conspiracy and individual resistance.
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Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History
by Chuck D
A comprehensive, chronological survey of rap and hip-hop from 1973 to the present, written by one of the industry's most influential lyricists, is based on his long-running show on Rapstation.com and details the most iconic moments and relevant songs from the genre's recorded history.
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Simply More
by Cynthia Erivo
Cynthia Erivo learned the music to Wicked a decade before she needed it, not knowing those same lyrics would change her life. Now she has performed those songs on the world stage, showing us there is always time to keep discovering ourselves and illustrating that it's often the parts of ourselves we are told to bury that make us shine. In a series of powerful, personal vignettes, Cynthia reflects on the ways she has grown as an actor and human and the practices she's learned over years of performing.
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The Spy in the Archive
by Gordon Corera
How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret, heavily guarded archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. Be so quiet that no one knows what you are up to. The work goes on for decades, but remains so low key, that even after your escape, no one even notices you are gone. This is the story of how Vasili Mitrokhin, the in-house archivist for the KGB, exposed secrets, turning him first into a dissident and then a spy, a traitor to his country, but determined to expose the truth about the forces that had subverted Russia.
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