LibraryAware October 2025

Recent Releases

Accomplice to the villain
by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

The sunshine assistant to an evil villain has an unexpected romance with her boss. Original.

Alchemised
by Senlinyu

Alchemist Helena Marino, a prisoner with amnesia, fights to survive in a necromancy-ridden world as the ruthless High Reeve attempts to unearth the vital secrets hidden within her missing memories.

Alchemy of secrets : a novel
by Stephanie Garber

"The HOTLY ANTICIPATED adult debut novel by the beloved, #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of the Caraval and Once Upon a Broken Heart series It starts with a class in an old movie theater. Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by a woman called the Professor. Most students believe the Professor's stories are just fiction, but Holland St. James has always been convinced that magic is real. When she tracks down a local legend named the Watch Man, who can supposedly tell you when you'll die, the world finally makes sense. Except that the Watch Man tells her she will die at midnight tomorrow unless she finds an ancient object called the Alchemical Heart. With the clock ticking, Holland is pulled deeper into this magical world in the heart of Los Angeles-and into the path of a magnetic stranger. Everything about him feels like a bad idea, but he promises Holland that her sister sent him to protect her. As they chase clues and stories that take them closer to the Alchemical Heart, Holland realizes everyone in this intoxicating new world is lying to her, even this stranger. And if she can't figure out whom to trust, not even the Alchemical Heart will save her"-- Provided by publisher

The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand
by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene, eds.

Set during and after the events of Stephen King's highly acclaimed 1978 novel The Stand, this anthology collects new stories of human resilience after the apocalypse from authors like Poppy Z. Brite, Tananarive Due, Josh Malerman, and many more. Both a tribute to and an expansion of the original novel, fans of King's work will be delighted by the dedication on display from the contributors.

If Wishes Were Retail
by Auston Habershaw

Teenage Alex Delmore is desperate to escape her small town and go to her dream college. Thankfully a new business enterprise is opening at the local (dying) mall: a recently escaped genie is looking to sell wishes on demand, and needs human guidance to navigate the 21st century. For fans of: lightheartedly humorous but heartfelt cozy retail fantasy such as Miye Lee's The Dallergut Dream Department Store and Tsuchika Nishimura's The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store.

Among the Burning Flowers
by Samantha Shannon

A standalone legend to the New York Times bestselling fantasy series bridges the events of A Day of Fallen Night and The Priory of the Orange Tree.

Amplitudes : stories of queer and trans futurity
by Lee Mandelo

"From self-styled knights fighting in dystopian city streets to conservationists finding love in the Appalachian forests; from social media posts about domestic "bliss" in a lottery-based, state-housing skyscraper to herding feral cats off of one's scientific equipment; from street drugs that create doppelgangers to dance-club cruising at the edge of the galaxy-Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity interrogates the farthest borders of the sci-fi landscape to imagine how queer life will look centuries in the future-or ten years from now. Filled with brutal honesty, raw emotions, sexual escapades, and delightful whimsy, Amplitudes speaks to the longstanding tradition of queer fiction as protest. This essential collection serves as an evolving mapof our celebrations, anxieties, wishes, pitfalls, and-most of all-our rallying cry that we're here, we're queer-and the future is ours!"

Death of the author : a novel
by Nnedi Okorafor

After being fired and facing yet another novel rejection, aspiring author Zelu writes a futuristic epic about AI and robots, unknowingly setting herself on a path to literary stardom that could change the future of humanity. 150,000 first printing.

The dream hotel : a novel
by Laila Lalami

After a dream-analysis algorithm predicts that she will harm her husband, Sara is detained in a facility with similarly accused women, where she navigates shifting rules until a new arrival leads her to confront the forces controlling her fate.

Chaos
by Constance Fay

In this 3rd entry in the Uncharted Hearts series, the Calamity's engineer Caro Ogunyemi embarks on a solo mission to infiltrate a prison planet and prove herself to the crew. When she encounters the handsome but deadly super soldier Leviathan, Caro's mission becomes bigger than just getting out alive. Fans of Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries series will enjoy the rollicking chaos and likeable characters of this and the previous Uncharted Hearts entries.

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