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Storytime returns to Little Village!
Let our storytime be one more tool in your parenting toolkit: explore new books, connect with other parents, and encourage early literacy. Storytime is every Monday (excluding holidays) at 11 AM in our Book Annex starting August 12th. We hope you can join us for another way to Play, Laugh, Learn!
Adult Fiction
The Bookshop Sisterhood - Michelle Lindo-Rice
The Most - Jessica Anthony
The Wedding People - Alison Espach
Off The Books - Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
Maria: A Novel of Maria Von Trapp - Michelle Moran
Someone Like Us - Dinaw Mengetsu
Arts & Entertainment
The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 - Chris Nashawaty
Body, Mind, & Spirit
The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity - Timothy C. Winegard
Board Books
We're Going on a Ghost Hunt: A Lift-The-Flap Adventure - Martha Mumford
Hey! Look at You!: A Captivating Mirror Book - Sandra Boynton
Dinosaur's Binkit - Sandra Boynton
Trucks, Cars, and Things with Wings! (Sesame Street) - Andrea Posner-Sanchez
Children's Poetry
Into the Goblin Market - Vikki Vansickle
Current Events & Politics
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge - Ted Conover
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons: Quests from the Infinite Staircase (D&d Adventure Book)
Horror
Looking Glass Sound - Catriona Ward
Ghost Camera - Darcy Coates
Heads Will Roll - Josh Winning
Manga & Adult Graphic Novels
Stoker's Dracula - Roy Thomas
Middle Readers
The Great Catnapping - Emily Ecton
Mystery & Thriller
Hard to Kill: Meet the Toughest, Smartest, Doesn't-Give-A-****-Est Thriller Heroine Ever - James Patterson, Mike Lupica
What Have You Done? - Shari Lapena
Puzzle Books
New York Times Games Easiest Crosswords Volume 2: 100 Easy Crossword Puzzles - Will Shortz
Romance
Long Live Evil - Sarah Rees Brennan
Slow Dance - Rainbow Rowell
The Fiance Dilemma - Elena Armas
The Rogue King - Abigail Owen
The Blood King - Abigail Owen
Runaway Love - Melanie Harlow
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Annihilation (10th Anniversary Edition) - Jeff VanderMeer
Authority (10th Anniversary Edition) - Jeff VanderMeer
Acceptance (10th Anniversary Edition) - Jeff VanderMeer
Young Adult
Beneath These Cursed Stars - Lexi Ryan
The Grandest Game 1HC - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Nothing More to Tell - Karen M. McManus
Such Charming Liars - Karen M. McManus
Eighteen Roses - Shannon C.F. Rogers
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER - A Best Book of 2023(Vulture) - A Best Horror Book of All Time (Cosmopolitan) - A Best Horror Book of 2023 (Esquire) - An Indie Next Pick - A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick!
The author of The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward, delivers a masterful story about friendship and betrayal, dark obsessions, and the impossibility of escaping your own story. "Here's your next obsession." (Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble)
In a cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow has begun the last book he will ever write.
It is the story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in Whistler Bay, and the blood-stained path of the killer that stalked his small vacation town. About the terrible secret he and his companions, Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay. And how the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades, forever shaping their lives.
But the more Wilder writes, the less he trusts himself and his memory. He starts to see things that can't be real - notes hidden in the cabin, from an old friend now dead; a woman with dark hair drowning in the icy waters below, calling for help; entire chapters he doesn't recall typing, appearing overnight. Who, or what, is haunting Wilder?
No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does.
" An origami puzzle of a book, the mystery so beautifully crafted you don't see the folds, with edges sharp as a paper cut."--Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls
Get ready for a new series that brings readers deeper into the lush, romantic, and puzzle-filled world of the #1 bestselling Inheritance Games series (over 3 million copies sold!), set a year after we last saw Avery and the Hawthornes.
Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime.
Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, this year's game requires one of seven golden tickets to enter. With millions on the line, those seven players will do whatever it takes to win.
Some of the players are in it for the money. Some for power. Some for reasons all their own. Every single one of them has secrets. Amidst it all is Grayson Hawthorne, tasked with a vital role in this year's game. But as tensions rise and the mind-bending challenges push the players to their limits--physically, mentally, and emotionally--it soon becomes clear that not everyone is playing by the rules.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes delivers a brand-new series in the world of The Inheritance Games, where fan-favorite and new characters collide in a game you'll never forget.
Do you have what it takes to play?
"Bloody, uplifting, and fun! Every copy should come with a bucket of popcorn." --Gus Moreno, author of This Thing Between Us
Willow's worst nightmare was being canceled. But the shadows in the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more than her reputation.
After sitcom star Willow tweets herself into infamy and stumbles blind-drunk into a swimming pool, her agent ships her off to Camp Castaway. Nestled deep in upstate New York, Castaway is a summer camp for adults who are desperate to leave their mistakes behind. No real names, no phones . . . no way to call for help.
Willow's fellow campers seem okay. Her own favorite actress is even here, making a s'more. And did that jaded writer, Dani, just wink at her? But the peaceful vibe is shattered when one of the campers vanishes and Willow finds a mutilated doll in her room with a threatening message rolled up inside its mouth. Terror grips the group, campers begin to lose their heads--literally--and disturbing past deeds come to light.
Is Willow about to get cancelled all over again, this time for good?
Dark - Addictive - Twisty - Chilling - Domestic Suspense
"Lapena is a master of manipulation." --USA Today
The new unputdownable novel from the "queen of the one-sit read," and New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door
Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont. But this morning that will change. And one innocent question could be deadly. What have you done?
The teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard. The parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from school. Everyone knows everyone. Curtains rarely twitch. Front doors are left unlocked.
But Diana Brewer isn't lying safely in her bed where she belongs. Instead she lies in a hayfield, circled by vultures, discovered by a local farmer.
How quickly a girl becomes a ghost. How quickly a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects, a place of fear and paranoia.
Someone in Fairhill did this. Everyone wants answers.
"With Jane Smith, Alex Cross has reason to be jealous" (Good Morning America). Hard to Kill features James Patterson's greatest character yet-a tough-as-nails attorney up against a relentless killer.
Attorney Jane Smith is mounting an impossible criminal defense.
Her client, Rob Jacobson, is the unluckiest of the unlucky. No sooner is he accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons than a second family is gunned down.
It's not double jeopardy. It's not double murder. It's double triple homicide.
Jane's career has spanned from NYPD beat cop to Hamptons courtroom. She's tough to beat. She's even tougher to kill.
The defense may never rest.
We realize these aren’t Olympic sports, but it’s all in the spirit of outdoor fun and friendly competition.
“While collecting items for this post I realized I had never personally heard of Bocce Ball (which happens to be an Olympic sport). Soooo I went down a rabbit hole and found some interesting history behind the game I thought would be fun to share.” - Tristan
From HGTV.com:
A Brief History of Bocce
The first documented history of the game was in 5200 BC in a painting in an Egyptian tomb.
Bocce spread through Palestine and by 600 BC was adopted by the Greeks, who passed it on to the Romans.
In 1319 AD, bocce was prohibited from play by anyone of lesser than noble status, as it was feared that it took too much time away from practical endeavors and military training.
By 1519, the game once again became public and spread to places like Belgium and Holland.
The Republic of Venice condemned the sport in 1576 and the Catholic Church prohibited clergymen from playing bocce.
Guissepi Garibaldi, sometimes referred to as the George Washington of Italy, popularized the sport and made it what it is today whilst unifying Italy.
In 1896, the first Bocce Olympiad was played in Athens, Greece. It has been an international sport ever since.
The first bocce clubs were formed in Italy and the first recorded Italian league was established in 1947. This was also the first year of the annual Bocce World Championships.
You can read the full article on the HGTV website here.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED: The perfect family afternoon starts with the perfect bocce ball set. Whether it’s your first bocce set or you’re teaching the next generation, this classic set includes everything you need
READY TO PLAY: The set includes (8) 90mm bocce balls: (2) red, (2) blue, (2) yellow, and (2) green. It also comes with (1) 40mm pallino scoring jack
ALL-WEATHER DEPENDABILITY: Sturdy bocce balls provide all-weather reliability, making them the ideal set for family barbecues, on the beach, or just on the lawn. Play on sand or grass—bocce balls go anywhere
STURDY, RUGGED, QUALITY: Dependable quality makes this bocce ball set the ideal recreational game for the whole family to enjoy
COMPACT CARRYING: The carrying box provides ample room for the entire set of Franklin bocce balls, but it’s lightweight and portable enough to keep your bocce ball set compact and easy to carry
Features:
Designed for the beginner, this tee has a flexible post designed to absorb the momentum of the swing to prevent the tee from falling over
Minimal resistance ball holder adjustment from 23" to 33"
Sturdy x design with weighted legs for added stability
High impact post with flex joint
Easy twist and lock height
Includes:
1 Foam Baseball
1 Batting Tee
1 22" Foam Bat
PLAY IN THE AIR - slackers is a Colorado-based company that focuses on active kids' toys that will inspire children to play in the air. Your kids will enjoy this fun and exciting addition to their ninja warrior course.
EASY TO INSTALL - The colorful slackers climbing rope is easy to install. Our signature poly rope includes a steel carabiner designed specifically for a quick attachment to your Ninjaline obstacle course.
SAFETY FIRST - At slackers, we are focused on creating safe, reliable obstacle course equipment, ideal for building up your inner ninja warrior. Our Ninjaline accessories are rated ages 5+ and hold up to 250 LBS.
QUALITY DESIGN - At slackers, we focus on making quality children's active play games at affordable prices. The Ninjaline climbing ropes durable design holds up to even the most enthusiastic play.
PLAY IN THE AIR- Have fun playing and training as a real ninja with our signature Slackers Ninjaline. Create your very own backyard gym. Watch your children play in the air and unleash their warrior within.
CONVENIENT AND PORTABLE- With its versatile design, the Slackers Ninjaline is easy to install and fun for all ages. Easily hang your Ninjaline between two healthy trees or wooden posts, attache your obstacles, and enjoy.
QUALITY DESIGN- Quality is our top priority. We use only the best materials for our outdoor play equipment. With the Slacker Ninjaline we made no exceptions. All components are carefully tested for strength and durability.
SAFETY FIRST- At Slackers, we are focused on creating safe, reliable obstacle course equipment, ideal for building up your inner ninja warrior. Our Ninjalines are rated ages 5+ and hold up to 250 LBS. Parental supervision required.
ENHANCE BALANCE & CORE STRENGTH - Master balance skills and strengthen core muscles with this 50-foot fluorescent yellow slackline set.
COMPLETE KIT FOR BEGINNERS & EXPERTS - Includes a bonus 50-foot teaching line with a metal ratchet, perfect for beginners. Advanced users can enjoy the challenge with the main slackline.
PORTABLE & CONVENIENT - Comes with a storage bag for easy transport to parks, camping sites, or friends' houses. Setup between healthy trees (within 40 feet) for outdoor fun.
SAFE & VERSATILE FOR ALL AGES - Suitable for ages 5 and above, with a maximum weight capacity of 350 lbs. Adult supervision required for safe usage.
ELEVATE OUTDOOR PLAY - Elevate kids' outdoor experiences! Within minutes, they'll be walking the line, improving balance, confidence, and strength while having a blast.
Slacklines help improve core strength, and balance
Set up in 10 minutes
The kits comes with 2 sets of lines for easy set up and take down
Comes with bonus "teaching line"
Attractive carry bag
Adult Fiction
The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia - Juliet Grames
Catalina - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Nicked - M.T. Anderson
Day - Michael Cunningham
Another Person - Kang Hwagil
Adult Science
The Metaverse: Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Building the Spatial Internet - Matthew Ball
Biography
Diana, William, and Harry: The Heartbreaking Story of a Princess and Mother - James Patterson, Chris Mooney
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight - Andrew Leland
Chapter Books
Numbers Queen [Addy McBean 1] - Margery Cuyler
Current Events & Politics
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World - Anne Applebaum
Graphic Novels
Wagnificent: The Adventures of Thunder and Sage - Bethanie Murguia
The Ghostkeeper - Johanna Taylor
Homestead
Traditional Bushcraft: Simple Projects for Wild Woodcraft: Tools, Tables, Live Fire Cooking and More - Craig Caudill
Manga & Adult Graphic Novels
Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection - Junji Ito
Search and Destroy Vol. 1 - Atsushi Kaneko, Osamu Tezuka
X-Men: Reign of X by Jonathan Hickman Vol. 1 - Jonathan Hickman, Marvel Various
Poison Ivy Vol. 2: Unethical Consumption - Willow G. Wilson
Middle Readers
Something Like Home - Andrea Beatriz Arango
The Great Zoodini - P.J. Gardner
My First Readers
Ollie the Stomper Level My First - Olivier Dunrea
Gossie Level My First - Olivier Dunrea
Mystery & Thriller
Run, Rose, Run - James Patterson, Dolly Parton
Nature
Do You Know Where the Animals Live?: Discovering the Incredible Creatures All Around Us - Peter Wohllenben
Picture Books
Trick or Treat on Scary Street - Lance Bass
Romance
A Photo Finish - Elsie Silver
The Duke and I and the Viscount Who Loved Me: Bridgerton Collector's Edition - Julia Quinn
The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love - India Holton
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Book of Elsewhere - Keanu Reeves, China Mieville
Social Sciences
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years - Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Spinner Rack Books
Just a Nap - Mercer Mayer
True Crime
A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Chang... - Kim Mager, Lisa Pulitzer
Young Adult
Time and Time Again - Chatham Greenfield
So Witches We Became - Jill Baguchinsky
A stunning collectible edition containing the first two novels in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn's beloved Bridgerton series. This edition features:
gorgeous sprayed edges intricate foil iconography ribbon bookmark beautiful endpapers
See these beloved stories come to life on screen in Bridgerton, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix.
The Duke and I
When Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, agree to a fake courtship, they think they've found the perfect solution to their problems. Romantically associated with one of London's most desirable catches, Daphne's prospects among the ton will soar. For avowed bachelor Simon, an attachment to Daphne will deter would-be brides and their ambitious mamas. Their plan works like a charm--at first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London's elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule. . .
The Viscount Who Loved Me
London's most elusive bachelor, Anthony Bridgerton is determined to wed. But one obstacle stands in his way--his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield, who is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal. Kate is quite sure that reformed rakes do not make the best husbands, and Anthony Bridgerton is the most wicked rogue of them all. She's determined to protect her sister--even as she fears she may not be able to resist the reprehensible and oh so desirable rake herself . . .
One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna brings us a sparkling--by turns funny and moving--novel about a young American woman turned amateur detective in a small village in Southern Italy ("Terrific" -Boston Globe).
Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there's no mail, either.
Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don't the police come and investigate? When the local priest's housekeeper begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions. As an outsider, she might be the only person who can uncover the truth. Or she might be getting in over her head. As she attempts to juggle a nosy landlady, a suspiciously dashing shepherd, and a network of local families bound together by a code of silence, Francesca finds herself forced to choose between the charitable mission that brought her to Santa Chionia, and her future happiness, between truth and survival.
Set in the wild heart of Calabria, a land of sheer cliff faces, ancient tradition, dazzling sunlight--and one of the world's most ruthless criminal syndicates-- The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is a suspenseful puzzle mystery, a captivating romance, and an affecting portrait of a young woman in search of a meaningful life.
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut. Based on a bizarre but true quest to steal the mystical corpse of a long-dead saint, Nicked is a fantastical, genre-defying, and delightfully queer historical romp
"Miracles, marvels, saints, sinners, love, plague, and treachery! M. T. Anderson has laid out a medieval feast of a novel, stuffed with everything I could have wished for. If I could canonize him for it, I would. But I'll settle for shouting about how much I love this book."--Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love
"M. T. Anderson is one of our greatest and most precious voices. His books aren't just brilliantly witty and vastly entertaining, they're fixed stars of wisdom and sanity in our increasingly unhinged universe. When lost, I use them to steer by."--Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians Trilogy
The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to serve the sick. But his superiors, and the power brokers they serve, have different plans for the tender-hearted Brother Nicephorus.
Enter Tyun, a charismatic treasure hunter renowned for "liberating" holy relics from their tombs. The seven-hundred-year-old bones of Saint Nicholas are rumored to weep a mysterious liquid that can heal the sick, Tyun says. For the humble price of a small fortune, he will steal the bones and deliver them to Bari, curing the plague and restoring glory to the fallen city. And Nicephorus, the "dreamer," will be his guide.
What follows is a heist for the ages, as Nicephorus is swept away on strange tides, and alongside even stranger bedfellows, to commit sacrilegious theft. Based on real historical accounts, Nicked is a swashbuckling saga, a medieval novel noir, a meditation on the miraculous, and a monastic meet-cute, filled with wide-eyed wonder at the world that awaits beyond our own borders.
NATIONAL BESTELLER - An "exquisite" (The Boston Globe) exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family life--and how we all must learn to live together and apart--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours
"The only problem with Michael Cunningham's prose is that it ruins you for mere mortals' work. He is the most elegant writer in America."--The Washington Post
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Harper's Bazaar, Chicago Public Library, Lit Hub, Paste, Kirkus Reviews
April 5, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, husband and wife, are slowly drifting apart--and both, it seems, are a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, is living vicariously through a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house--and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while his sister, Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents.
April 5, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown, the cozy brownstone is starting to feel more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan communicate mostly in veiled sleights and frustrated sighs. And dear Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts--and his secret Instagram life--for company.
April 5, 2021 Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family reckons with a new, very different reality--and with what they've learned, what they've lost, and how they might go on.
A collection full of grotesque imagination and surreal urban legends.
Every night, a young man hears children playing outside his boarding house--but the alley below his window is fenced off from the world. Then, when a young woman's family starts acting strangely at the same time she begins having bizarre dreams, she decides to stay with her aunt, but the town she heads for has neither addresses nor roads... Also, an all-you-can-eat ice cream bus that's more sinister than sweet!
Legendary horror author Junji Ito presents ten bloodcurdling short stories.
Today's staff pick is Tinderblox! A brand new game that just hit the shelves thanks to a glowing recommendation from one of our lovely customers.
Rules:
Draw a card and use your tweezers to add what's shown to the growing campfire.
Be careful, if you knock over the fire, you're out!
Be the last player standing to prove that you are the best camper.
Today's match is Tristan vs. Katherine...
"Tristan is playing left-handed so you should definitely cut him some slack." - Totally Not Tristan 😏
"I loved it, I wanted to play it more. 🥰" - Katherine
Adult Fiction
Beep - Bill Roorbach
The Lost Story - Meg Shaffer
Bright Objects - Ruby Todd
Adult Science
The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession - Amy Stewart
Adult Art
Crochet Monsters: With More Than 35 Body Patterns and Options for Horns, Limbs, Antennae and So Much - Megan Lapp
Animals
Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World - Brandon Keim
Biography
JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography - Rosemarie Terenzio, Liz McNeil
Body, Mind, & Spirit
Herod and Mary: The True Story of the Tyrant King and the Mother of the Risen Savior - Kathie Lee Gifford
Board Books
Happy Halloween, Little Black Cat - Amanda Wood
Mother Bruce - Ryan T. Higgins
Chapter Books
Welcome to Camp Croak! : [Ghost Scouts 1] - Taylor Dolan
Hullabaloo at Camp Croak! : [Ghost Scouts 2] - Taylor Dolan
Welcome to Scare School : [Scare School 1] - Jarrett Lerner
I'm Your Biggest Phantom : [Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol 22] - Andres Miedoso
Current Events & Politics
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears... - Andrea Freeman
Graphic Novels
Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1 - Erin Hunter
Gamerville - Johnnie Christmas
Real Pigeons Peck Punches ([Real Pigeons 5] - Andrew McDonald
History
Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great - Rachel Kousser
Horror
I Was a Teenage Slasher - Stephen Graham Jones
Maeve Fly - C.J. Leede
Manga & Adult Graphic Novels
Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder - Chip Zdarsky, Leah Williams
Bloodborne: The Bleak Dominion - Cullen Bunn
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, Volume 2 - Takayuki Yanase
My First Readers
Pete the Cat: Scaredy Cat! Level 1 - James Dean, Kimberly Dean
Mystery & Thriller
The Wilds - Sarah Pearse
The Exchange: After the Firm - John Grisham
Personal Growth
Loving Me After We: The Essential Guide to Healing, Growing, and Thriving After a Toxic Relationship - Ginger Dean
Picture Books
Little Ghost Makes a Friend - Maggie Edkins Willis
Wolfgang in the Meadow - Lenny Wen
On a Mushroom Day - Chris Baker
Prunella - Beth Ferry
Poetry
Mother - M.S. Redcherries
Romance
The Body in the Backyard: A Riley Thorn Novel - Lucy Score
The Au Pair Affair - Tessa Bailey
Not Another Love Song - Julie Soto
Beautiful Villain - Rebecca Kenney
Business Casual - B.K. Borison
The Backtrack - Erin La Rosa
The Ex Vows - Jessica Joyce
Just One Taste - Lizzy Dent
Science & Nature
There Are No Ants in This Book - Rosemary Mosco
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Black Bird Oracle - Deborah Harkness
A Rose by Any Other Name - Mary McMyne
Sword Catcher - Cassandra Clare
Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself--and her family history--in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series.
"The Black Bird Oracle deftly explores the nexus of memory, history, and parenthood--the magic, pain, and promises mothers pass onto their children."--Jodi Picoult
The stunning hardcover of The Black Bird Oracle features a custom-stamped case, beautiful endpapers, and a premium dust jacket!
Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana's family line.
Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family's future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It's time you came home, Diana.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - John Grisham delivers high-flying international suspense in a stunning new legal thriller that marks the return of Mitch McDeere, the brilliant hero of The Firm.
What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of America's favorite storyteller. It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister plot that has worldwide implications--and once again endangers his colleagues, friends, and family. Mitch has become a master at staying one step ahead of his adversaries, but this time there's nowhere to hide.
From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Left Behind
Her spray-tanned, self-absorbed news anchor ex-husband careening back into her life was not on this psychic detective's bingo card.
But not only does Griffin Gentry show up unexpectedly at Riley Thorn's door--the real shock is that he's begging for her help. However, Riley's hot private investigator boyfriend Nick Santiago refusing to take the job is...well, less of a surprise.
Too bad for Nick that his octogenarian business partner overrules him and decides to take the lead on Griffin's case. And when a dead body makes it clear someone really is out to get Riley's ex, the mile-long suspect list puts all hands on deck at Santiago Investigations. Even the wrinkly, retired ones.
It's only a matter of time before Griffin brings danger directly to Riley's doorstep. And with she and Nick busy interviewing suspects, their elderly roommates are wreaking havoc in the surveillance department. Can Riley block out the chaos and focus on her psychic visions long enough to narrow down the list of suspects, or will Griffin Gentry's karma be the downfall of them all?
Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award - A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee - One of Esquire's Best Horror Books of the Year - An Indie Next Pick!
"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight."--Stephen Graham Jones
A provocative and unforgettable debut that is both a blood-soaked love letter to Los Angeles and a gleeful send-up to iconic horror villains, Maeve Fly will thrill fans of slashers and the macabre.
By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child's favorite ice princess.
By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes.
But when Gideon Green - her best friend's brother - moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet.
Untethered, Maeve ditches her discontented act and tries on a new persona. A bolder, bloodier one, inspired by the pages of American Psycho. Step aside Patrick Bateman, it's Maeve's turn with the knife.
"An apocalyptic Anaheim Psycho." --Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House
From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story with a twist--perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Grady Hendrix.
1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton--and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, the unfairness of being on the outside, through the slasher horror he lives but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.
