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Cold Days

Jim Butcher · Roc; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

After being murdered and then brought back to life, Harry Dresden soon realizes that maybe death wasnt all that bad. Because he is no longer Chicagos only professional wizard. He is now Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. Her word is his command. And her first command...
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Daughter of the House: A Novel

Rosie Thomas · The Overlook Press, 2015.
Pages: 503
Format: Print book

The enchanting sequal to Rosie Thomas's celebrated story of magic and intrigue, The Illusionists. The year is 1910: Eliza's life has been utterly transformed since she dove head-first into the bohemian world of the Palmyra Theatre, becoming first a stage player and, since her marriage...
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Texas Tall

Janet Dailey · Kensington Pub Corporation
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

She can t forget him. The born rancher who stole her heart, her ex husband, the tough, tender father of her child Tori Tyler can t let Will Tyler go to prison for a crime that was a simple accident. But she can t deny that her feelings for the man run much deeper than loyalty, and her desire...
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Half World: A Novel

Scott O'Connor · Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Pages: 412
Format: Print book

A "beautiful literary thriller" (Los Angeles Review of Books) inspired by the shocking history of a secret CIA mind-control program, Half World is "the perfect book for our present moment" (The Daily Beast).In the 1950s the CIA began a decades-long clandestine operation,...
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The Reactive

Masande Ntshanga · Two Dollar Radio
Pages: 212
Format: Print book

"With The Reactive, [Ntshanga] has created an immersive and powerful portrait of drug use, community, and health issues by exploring what it was like to be young, black, South African, and HIV positive in the early aughts." - VICE"A seminal work confronting [a] period in our country's...
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Rocket Raccoon #5: Storytailer

Skottie Young · Marvel Age
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

In the aftermath of clearing his name, Rocket decides to take a break with Groot and tell some eager campers stories around a bonfire, including Groot's retelling of their quest to find a mysterious treasure. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight...
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A Place Called Hope: A Novel

Philip Gulley · Center Street
Pages: 239
Format: Hardcover

When Quaker Pastor Sam Gardner is asked by the ill Unitarian minister to oversee a wedding in his place, Sam naturally agrees. It's not until the couple stands before him that he realizes they're two women. In the tempest of strong opinions and misunderstandings that follows the incident,...
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Skandalon

Julie Maroh · Arsenal Pulp Press
Format: Book

Julie Maroh burst onto the scene in 2013 with Blue Is the Warmest Color, a tender, bittersweet graphic novel about lesbian love, in which a young woman named Clementine becomes infatuated with Emma, a girl with blue hair. The book spawned a controversial and acclaimed feature film that...
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We Begin Our Ascent

Joe Mungo Reed · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"A dazzling debut by an exciting and essential new talent: fast, harrowing, compelling, masterfully structured, genuinely moving. Reed is a true stylist." - George Saunders "Joe Mungo Reed's unforgettable debut novel introduces us to a powerful new literary voice, as riveting...
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The Laird

Grace Burrowes · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Format: Book

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes delivers another passionate Regency romance...He left his bride to go to war...After years of soldiering, Michael Brodie returns to his Highland estate to find that the bride he left behind has become a stranger. Brenna is self-sufficient,...
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Violent Crimes: An Amanda Jaffe Novel

Phillip Margolin · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In this mesmerizing tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin, attorney Amanda Jaffe - star of Wild Justice, Ties That Bind, Proof Positive, and Fugitive - becomes entangled in a murder case involving Big Oil, an estranged father and son, and the greatest...
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The Chemist

Stephenie Meyer · Little
Pages: 521
Format: Print book

In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. She used to work for the U.S. government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency...
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All the Dirty Parts

Daniel Handler · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) , a gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man.Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends. But none of this...
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Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure

Ryan North · Riverhead Books, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Romeo loves Juliet. Or Rosaline. And Juliet loves Romeo. Or Viola. Or Orlando. It's Shakespeare as you've never played him before. In this choose-your-own-path version of Romeo and Juliet, you choose where the story goes every time you read! What if Romeo never met Juliet? What if Juliet...
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Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt

Yasmine El Rashidi · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A young Egyptian woman recounts her personal and political coming of age in this brilliant debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom...
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