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The Hymn to Dionysus
by Natasha Pulley
A timely retelling of the story of Dionysus, the Greek God of ecstasy and madness, revelry and ruin.
Raised in a Greek legion, Phaidros has been taught to fight for the homeland he’s never seen and to follow his commander’s orders at all costs. Yet, when Phaidros rescues a baby from a fire at Thebes’s palace, he is ordered to abandon the blue-eyed boy at the temple and never tell a soul of the baby’s existence.
Years later, Phaidros is a training master for young soldiers when Thebes’s young crown prince disappears. Drawn into the search for the prince, Phaidros meets a blue-eyed witch named Dionysus, who brings sudden outbursts of riots and unrest. Everywhere the witch goes, rumors follow about a new god–one sired by Zeus but lost in a fire.
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The Dream Hotel
by Laila Lalami
A woman fights for freedom in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.
Returning home from a conference abroad, Sara is pulled aside by Risk Assessment Administration agents: using data from her dreams, RAA has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days.
At a retention center, Sara is held with other dreamers–all who happen to be women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes. Any deviation from the strict and ever-shifting rules of the facility extends their stay. Months pass and Sara seems no closer to release. Then one day, a new resident arrives...leading Sara on a collision course with the very companies that have deprived her of her freedom.
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Fan Service
by Rosie Danan
The truth is stranger than fan fiction in the new sexy, paranormal romcom.
Small-town outcast Alex Lawson only fits in online…in the fan forum she built for a werewolf detective show, Arcane. Her dedication to archiving supernatural lore has made her famous, despite her secret disdain for Arcane’s star, Devin Ashwod.
Devin’s life and career have spiraled since Arcane went off the air, but waking up naked outside his LA home with no memory of the night before is a new low. What at first seems like a party night gone wrong quickly becomes something else when Devin is afflicted with claws, fangs, and bouts of howling. Desperate for answers, Devin finds Alex-the closest thing to an expert on werewolves. If only he could convince her to stop hating his guts long enough to help…
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White Line Fever
by K.C. Jones
A harrowing thrill ride about friendship, trauma, and learning how to take the wheel of your own life.
At a passing glance, County Road 951 is an entirely unremarkable stretch of blacktop, a two-lane scar across the Cascade foothills of Central Oregon. But the road is known by another name, coined by those who’ve had to clean up after all those scenic detours went horribly wrong: The Devil’s Driveway. When Livia and her friends take the Driveway as a shortcut to a weekend getaway, what begins as a morning joyride quickly becomes a drive for their lives.
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Luminous
by Silvia Park
A sweeping debut novel set in a unified Korea about three siblings–two human, one robot–as they settle old scores and make sense of their shattered childhood.
In a reunified Korea of the future, robots have been integrated into society as surrogates, servants, children, and even lovers. Though boundaries between bionic and organic frequently blur, these robots are decidedly second-class citizens. Jun and Morgan, two siblings estranged for many years, are haunted by the memory of their lost brother, Yoyo, who was warm, sensitive, and very nearly human.
Jun, now a detective, becomes consumed with an investigation that not only reconnects him to Morgan, but to Yoyo. The three siblings must find their way back to each other to reckon with their pasts and the future ahead of them.
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Killer Potential
by Hannah Deitch
An edge-of-your-seat thrill ride that follows two unlikely fugitives: an SAT tutor who finds her rich employers brutally murdered, and the bound woman she frees from their mansion.
A former straight-A student, Evie Gordon has fallen short of her once-glowing potential: after graduating from an elite university, she finds herself drowning in debt and working as an SAT tutor for the super-rich of Los Angeles. Then, one Sunday, everything changes: instead of finding a bored teenager waiting for their weekly lesson at the Victors’ estate, she finds the bloody remains of the parents and a woman crying for help in a closet.
Suddenly at the heart of a manhunt, Evie knows the only way to clear her name is to find the real killer. But first she’ll have to break down the barriers of her companion--a mysterious woman who refuses to speak.
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I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan
by Giaae Kwon
A personal and insightful essay collection exploring the author’s love affair with K-Pop.
In a unique blend of memoir and cultural criticism, I’ll Love You Forever traces the progressive growth and explosive phenomenon of K-Pop from the perspective of a bilingual and bicultural Korean-American. Exploring the collision of music and identity, Kwon connects profiles of K-Pop idols with topics such as Korea’s obsession with academics, its attitudes toward plastic surgery, and female sexuality and desire. Combining insightful critique and adoring analysis, I’ll Love You Forever provides readers with a fuller picture of the machine and heart behind K-Pop’s popularity.
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Free: My Search for Meaning
by Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox reflects on her world-famous confinement in an Italian prison—and her return to an “ordinary” life—to reveal hard-won truths about purpose and fulfillment.
Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit—and became a notorious tabloid story in the process. Alhough she was exonerated, it’s taken more than a decade to reclaim her identity and truly feel free. In this new book, Knox recounts how she survived incarceration, as well as the mistakes she made and misadventures she had reintegrating into society. With harrowing (and sometimes hilarious) detail, Amanda reveals her personal growth and hard-fought wisdom, recasting her public reckoning as a private reflection on the search for meaning and purpose.
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King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
by Jeanne Theoharis
A radical reframing of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South. Yet, in this myth-shattering book, award-winning historian Jeanne Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago—outside Dixie—was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice. Theoharis follows King as he crisscrosses the country from the Northeast to the West Coast, challenging school segregation, police brutality, housing segregation, and job discrimination. In this bold retelling, King emerges as more than someone who led a movement–radically expanding our understanding of King’s life and work.
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The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night that saved America
by Kostya Kennedy
Timed for the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s legendary ride, this new account provides fresh research into little-known aspects of the myth that every American learns in school.
On April 18, 1775, a Boston-based silversmith Paul Revere set out on a borrowed horse to alert American colonists of advancing British troops. This ride was like no other, and its consequences became one of our founding legends.
Kostya Kennedy presents a dramatic new narrative of the events of April 18 and 19, 1775, informed by fresh primary and secondary source research. Revere’s ride is revealed to be more complex than it is usually portrayed; While Revere was central to the ride and its plotting, Kennedy highlights other individuals who helped to set in motion the events that would lead to America’s independence.
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Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
by Alexander Clapp
The first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade.
Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. Disputes about what to do with the millions of tons of garbage have given rise to waste wars waged almost everywhere you look. Journalist Alexander Clapp spent two years roaming five continents to discover one crucial truth: While some trash is tossed onto roadsides or buried underground, much of it actually lives a secret second life–getting shipped, sold, or smuggled from one country to another, often with devastating consequences for the poorest nations of the world. If the handling of our trash reveals deeper truths about our Western society, what does the globalized business of garbage say about our world today?
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Mind Your Body: A Revolutionary Method to Release Chronic Pain and Anxiety
by Nicole J. Sachs
Learn how understanding the puzzle of your mind can transform your physical health and heal chronic pain.
Clients who come to Nicole Sachs have exhausted all other paths to cope with their chronic back pain, IBS, sciatica, pelvic pain, migraines, nerve inflammation, skin conditions, panic disorders, and more. Yet these kinds of syndromes are often not caused by a physical source–rather, they are fueled by trauma responses that trigger the brain and the nervous system into fight or flight. In Mind Your Body, Sachs teaches readers about mind-body medicine and how to turn inwards using her revolutionary JournalSpeak practice. At a time when chronic pain has reached epidemic proportions, Mind Your Body shares evidence-based practices that can help deliver you from desperation to freedom.
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