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Support a beloved local author and bring home a signed copy of Soulmatch — complete with exclusive brand-new character art, a bookmark, and a Carrefour sticker.
In a world rebuilt after World War III, eighteen-year-olds must face kirling — a government process that reveals their past lives, determines their future, and could land them in handcuffs. For Sivon, a girl whose uncanny chess instincts have always hinted at something unusual, the results are more shocking than she ever imagined. Suddenly thrust into the public eye and armed with an infuriating, off-limits bodyguard, she's caught in a high-stakes political game where souls are pawns, the rules don't exist, and one wrong move could cost everyone she loves their future.
"Clever, thrilling, and impossible to put down." — Kirkus Reviews
Perfect for fans of Scythe and Matched, this sharp and romantic YA speculative fiction is a must-read.
Caroline Chambers is a bestselling author and wildly popular Substack recipe developer who famously doesn’t feel like cooking—and she’s built a whole brand on that premise. Her superpowers are eliminating unnecessary steps; minimizing dirty dishes; and making dinnertime as simple, stress-free, and fun as possible. While plenty of obstacles stand between you and a delicious meal, being short on time is probably the biggest one. This exciting follow-up cookbook is once again organized into three time-based chapters. You’ll find recipes for 100 dinners, all of which are complete meals and can be made with no more than 30 minutes hands-on time in the kitchen—and yes, that includes chopping, marinating, and all other prep!
When Caroline Foster arrives at the Whitechapel Full Moon Society in search of her missing brother, she finds a dilapidated façade belying an interior as opulent as any exclusive gentlemen’s club. In exchange for room and board, Caroline is hired as the Full Moon’s maid, where she is given three orders: don’t ask personal questions, stay out of the iron-barred room on the second floor, and remain in her bedroom from sunup to sundown on the full moon. But when it is revealed that the previous maid was murdered—an early victim of Jack the Ripper—and her brother has left behind no answers, only more questions, Caroline begins to suspect her hosts might be hiding something. As more bodies turn up with a connection to the Society, Caroline fears she may have unwittingly stumbled into a bedtime story, the kind with monsters and curses, family secrets and ancient lore. Tantalizing and pulsing, Elizabeth DeLozier’s sophomore novel gives an exciting alternative look into the infamous Jack the Ripper story with a major, supernatural twist.
This is Moriarty's first-ever sequel, returning to the women of Big Little Lies — Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie — a decade after the events of the original novel. The story picks up when the school principal receives a threatening item in the mail, sending the community into an uproar. The kids they once fretted over playdates for are now teenagers navigating drugs, sex, and alcohol, and old secrets threaten to resurface. Celeste's mother-in-law is behaving strangely, Jane's marriage is fraying, and a stranger lurking near the school raises new alarm. The novel will also serve as the source material for Season 3 of the HBO adaptation.
A departure from Kuang's fantasy work, this is a coming-of-age literary novel about a college freshman studying abroad in Taipei. The main character travels there without having learned Chinese first, and then her grandfather unexpectedly passes away. Kuang has said the book grew out of her own grief after her grandfather's death, and grapples with language, culture shock, and loss. It's described as wry and humorous, in the style of writers like Elif Batuman and Patricia Lockwood. This marks Kuang's pivot from the dark academia of Katabasis to something more intimate and personal.
This historical novel is inspired by the real life of Grace O'Malley, the 16th-century Irish clan leader who became a legendary sea captain and pirate. Raised by her father, chief of clan O'Malley, Grace learns early that her dreams of the open water don't fit the expectations placed on a noble daughter. Married off against her will, she nonetheless builds loyalty among her people and eventually reclaims her place at sea, leading her clan's fleet. As Queen Elizabeth's forces push further into Ireland, Grace must defend her land and family against ruthless English deputies. Lawhon renders the brutal beauty of the period through an unforgettable, fiercely independent heroine.
Set in 2031 in a Los Angeles emerging from the collapse of the United States, the novel opens at a party celebrating the declaration of the "Republic of California." Ari, newly released from prison, arrives at the party with her friend just as this fragile new era begins — but something is very wrong, and people who shouldn't be there start appearing. The host vanishes, and doubles and doppelgangers disrupt the night in ways that fracture Ari's sense of reality for years afterward. The story later follows her to a different life in Paris, still haunted by what happened. Mandel weaves in echoes of her earlier novels (including a painting from The Glass Hotel) as she explores surveillance, safety, and survival across shattered timelines.
Set during the 1951 Festival of Britain, this historical novel follows Harry Flynn, a war-scarred former journalist trying to rebuild his career and life after a brutal stint in the Far East. He is haunted after one of his dates goes missing, and he's deemed the last person to have seen her alive, forcing him to wonder if he's somehow responsible. Surrounded by untrustworthy colleagues on the ragtag team preparing the Festival, Flynn must untangle both a mystery and his own guilt. Atkinson uses the Festival's optimistic, forward-looking spectacle as a backdrop for a nation still quietly grappling with its wartime past. It's a witty, sharply plotted story about how countries — and people — reinvent their own histories.
The second book in Osman's "We Solve Murders" series reunites detective trio Amy, Rosie, and Steve for their first proper case. At sunrise in the Italian hills, a body is found on the steps of a private villa, with a threatening note signed by a mysterious man. Their client has his own reasons for avoiding the police, and as the trio investigates, the suspect list balloons to include a wanted criminal, a shrewd ex-wife, and a bitter business rival. The case takes them from Italy to Barcelona to Palm Springs, with danger creeping ever closer to home. It's a globe-trotting, character-driven mystery in Osman's now-signature warm, funny style.
Diaz's third novel leaves behind the historical American settings of Trust and In the Distance for a speculative future. Centuries from now, an orphan grows up in a city where the state has been dismantled and people are reinventing how they coexist with nature and one another. She becomes a "pincher" — someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell on the black market — and gets pulled into the underground music scene she loves. That work eventually connects her to a massive scientific experiment that could upend reality itself. It's part Dickensian survival story, part scientific thriller, examining what technology does to selfhood and connection.
Kingsolver's first novel since the Pulitzer-winning Demon Copperhead centers on Livia Cable, a woman who has made peace with an ordinary life in Appalachian farm country. A shocking phone call from an old lover shakes her to the core, stirring up ghosts she's kept buried for a lifetime since her days as a music conservatory student. The novel moves between her present and her past as a gifted young pianist, framed by musical structure and terminology. It explores class barriers, the risks of ambition, and the pull of art on a life that took a different path.
Garmus's follow-up to Lessons in Chemistry is set in 1980s New York and centers on Batter Gray, a young man drawn to poetry despite his family's practical expectations. He talks his way into a job at Peck & Peck, a secretive poetry quarterly run out of a converted greenhouse that behaves like a cult, starting out running copiers in a basement. As an identical twin who lost his brother at birth, Batter is preoccupied with the dualities running through his life — right and wrong, truth and lies, rejection and acceptance. The novel blends workplace satire with a tender family mystery. It's being described as a charming, character-driven comedy about the power (and impracticality) of art.
The 21st installment in the Chief Inspector Gamache series begins with a frantic middle-of-the-night phone call reporting a body in a place called Lost Nation. Gamache has no idea where Lost Nation is, but he knows the caller sounded terrified — and the call seems to have come from his friend and neighbor, Clara Morrow. The body turns out to belong to a man who appears to be from a different century entirely, found on an unmarked grave in a long-abandoned cemetery. As Gamache's team digs deeper, the case pulls in a lost ship, a Victorian botanist's papers, and a rare plant that hasn't been seen in a hundred years. It's a typically atmospheric Three Pines mystery layered with old secrets and modern danger.
This is the long-awaited sequel to The Time Traveler's Wife, following Alba, the daughter of the original novel's protagonists, who has inherited her father's unpredictable time-traveling condition. Alba is an involuntary time traveler who slips through decades, carrying the weight of a future she can witness but not change, all while trying to maintain a normal life as a violinist. She's torn between two loves: Zach, who lives entirely in the present, and Oliver, who can travel through time just as she does. Her journey takes her from riot-torn Chicago to a flooded future London. It's a story about how to love and build a meaningful life amid chaos and uncertainty.
This is the long-awaited sixth book in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series, the first since 2021's A Court of Silver Flames. Maas revealed on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast that the story she originally planned as one book grew into something much bigger, and is now being split into multiple parts — Book 6 is part one of that larger story, with Book 7 following in January 2027. No official title or synopsis has been released yet, though fan speculation points toward Elain, Feyre's sister, as a likely central figure. Given the series' history, expect more of the political intrigue and romance between the Fae courts of Prythian that made the earlier books so popular.
Support a beloved local author and bring home a signed copy of Predestined — complete with exclusive brand-new character art, a bookmark, and a sticker.
From the author of Soulmatch comes a dystopian romantic thriller where a risk-averse teen trusts the future-predicting AI to identify potential threats, but it completely misses the mysterious rebel intent on upending her world.
Gloria St. John’s life is 88.3% predictable. It’s a great score. She makes smart choices, avoids unnecessary risks, and grumbles about the country’s oppressive predictability system while simultaneously reaping the rewards. That is, until her Futurecast app, the one that predicts her next twenty-four hours, alerts Gloria that she’ll suddenly vanish tomorrow morning. But that’s impossible. Must be a glitch, right? Right?
Turns out the “glitch” is linked to a mysterious rebel, Elwood, who knows far more than he should about Gloria, the predictability AI, and its developer—Gloria’s dad. Driven by growing resentment of her father’s control, Gloria agrees to meet Elwood in exchange for answers, but Elwood hasn’t come to help Gloria. He’s here to destroy her.
Gloria’s race against the clock to save herself and her loved ones unexpectedly turns up the truth about her mother’s unsolved murder. Soon she’s rethinking not only her past but her every step, especially since Futurecast insists she won’t survive the night.