Keyon has been through more than enough drama in her young life. She tries to put as much distance between her and the past in Louisiana, taking the opportunity to move to Memphis with her longtime boyfriend, Casimere. Adjusting to their new home, Keyon thinks she's finally getting the life that she deserves. But is she? Has she truly left behind all the things that caused her pain? Casimere has finally broken out, but it might not last long. Promising to leave his past behind, he soon finds out that old habits are hard to break. What he doesn't know is that his well-buried secret is about to reveal itself in a shocking manner. Keyon and Casimere must both come to terms with the consequences of his actions. Will she forgive him, or will this be the final straw? Follow Keyon and Casimere on this bumpy ride and find out what it's really like with a bad boy in your life.
Urban Renaissance
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9781645563990
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Hardcover
Sucker
By Hornsby, Daniel
Bad Blood meets Succession in this sharp-toothed satire of Silicon Valley and the 1 percent, in which the black-sheep son of an industrial tycoon starts working for a tech pioneer who's running a biomedical startup selling nothing less than immortality, only to uncover the horrifying truth at the heart of her sublime promises.. Chuck Gross would like nothing more than to prune himself from his family tree. He's already clipped his name, turning Charles Grossheart, Jr. - son of a billionaire labor exploiter, weapons manufacturer, and climate change denier - into ordinary good-guy Chuck, the "self-made" proprietor of an up-and-coming punk label. But when Daddy threatens to cut him off, Chuck is forced to get a "real job" - and conveniently, an old college friend has just swept back into his life with the perfect opportunity.
Anchor
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9780593469675
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Hardcover
Alone Together
By Haupt, Jennifer
ALONE TOGETHER: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come. All net profits will be donated to The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit organization that coordinates charitable programs to strengthen the bookselling community. Ms. Haupt rallied a diverse roster of more than 90 authors to contribute their work to ALONE TOGETHER, free of charge, including Kwame Alexander, Jenna Blum, Andre Dubus III, Jamie Ford, Nikki Giovanni, Pam Houston, Jean Kwok, Major Jackson, Caroline Leavitt, Ada Limn, Dani Shapiro, David Sheff, Garth Stein, Luis Alberto Urrea, Steve Yarbrough, and Lidia Yuknavitch.
Central Avenue Publishing
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9781771682282
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Paperback
Victor and Nora
By Myracle, Lauren
Seventeen-year-old Victor Fries has a cold heart. After his brother died in a tragic house fire for which Victor feels responsible, his parents have isolated themselves, and Victor has dedicated his whole life to one thing: science.Nora Faria is full of life. She is suffering from an incurable illness that will slowly consume her, so she's decided to live her last days to the fullest at her summer home outside of Gotham City until her birthday. On that day, she plans to take her own life.When Victor and Nora happen to meet at the cemetery outside of town, they are astonished to find the connection they have each been missing in their lives. Their summer quickly spirals into a beautiful romance, and Victor's cold heart begins to thaw, allowing him to enjoy life just a little more.
DC Comics
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9781401296391
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Paperback
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers
By Hernandez, Alex
In a tantalizing array of new works from some of the most exciting Latinx creators working in the speculative vein today, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers extends the project begun with a previous anthology, Latinx Rising (The Ohio State University Press, 2020) , to showcase a new generation of writers. Spanning diverse forms, settings, perspectives, and styles, but unified by their drive to imagine new Latinx futures, these stories address the breadth of contemporary Latinx experiences and identities while exuberantly embracing the genre's ability to entertain and surprise. With new work for new audiences in their teens and up, and especially for Latinx people navigating their identities in the ever-shifting, sometimes perilous, but always promising cultural landscape of the US, this book is for dreamers - and DREAMers - everywhere.
Mad Creek Books
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9780814257982
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Paperback
Deathstroke Vol. 2
By Daniel, Tony
Deathstroke is the world's deadliest assassin and its most cutthroat mercenary. But is that legendary reputation enough to satisfy his next contract: to kill a God? Armed by Hephaestus with a dangerous new weapon capable of taking down one of the Olympian Gods, Deathstroke takes on his toughest assignment to date. However, with heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman in the way, killing a God somehow becomes more challenging, even for one of the deadliest men in the universe. In this titanic new arc, writer-artist Tony S. Daniel takes Slade Wilson into new territory in Deathstroke Vol. 2. Collects issues #7-12.
Dc Comics
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9781401261207
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Print book
The Death of Jesus
By Coetzee, J. M.
After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel prize-winning author completes his haunting trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of JesusIn Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Simn and Bolvar the dog usually watch while his mother Ins now works in a fashion boutique. David still asks many questions, challenging his parents, and any authority figure in his life. In dancing class at the Academy of Music he dances as he chooses. He refuses to do sums and will not read any books except Don Quixote.One day Julio Fabricante, the director of a nearby orphanage, invites David and his friends to form a proper soccer team. David decides he will leave Simn and Ins to live with Julio, but before long he succumbs to a mysterious illness.
Viking
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9781984880901
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Hardcover
Dressed Up 4 Murder
By C., Eaton, J.
Last one standing is the winner . . . The holiday season has arrived and bookkeeper/amateur sleuth, Sophie "Phee" Kimball, would love nothing more than to enjoy the comforts of her new home with her detective boyfriend near Arizona's Sun City West. Instead, her mother Harriet wants to showcase her chiweenie-chihuahua-dachshund Streetman in the Precious Pooches Holiday Extravaganza costume events. The festivities begin in October and end on St. Patrick's Day - with the winner starring in the St. Pat's Day parade. But things quickly turn an awful shade of green when Streetman uncovers a dead body under a tarp-covered grill in the neighbor's yard. The victim is Cameron Tully, a seafood distributor working out of Phoenix, who died from ingesting a toxic sago palm leaf. Before the police can even find a motive and suspect, another Precious Pooch owner nearly dies from the same poison. With Harriet believing someone's targeting her and Streetman because of the costume contests, Phee will need a potful of Irish luck to sniff out a killer . . . Praise for the Sophie Kimball Mysteries "An eclectic cast of entertaining characters that will keep you wondering whodunit!" - USA Today Bestselling Author Nicole Leiren, on Staged 4 Murder "A thoroughly entertaining series debut, with enjoyable, yet realistic characters and enough plot twists - and dead ends - to appeal from beginning to end." - BOOKLIST STARRED REVIEW on Booked 4 Murder
KENSINGTON PUB CORP
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9781496724557
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Mass Market Paperback
Kala
By Walsh, Colin
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives.. In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They - Helen, Joe and Mush - were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of 2003,withmotherless, reckless Kala Lanann as their group's white-hot center. Soon after that summer's peak, Kala disappeared without a trace.. Now it's fifteen years later: Helen has reluctantly returned to Ireland for her father's wedding; Joe is a world-famous musician, newly back in town; and Mush has never left, too scared to venture beyond the counter of his mother's café.
Doubleday
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9780385549639
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Hardcover
Against the Wind
By Tilley, Jim
Against the Wind is an elegantly written story of relationships involving six principal characters, strands of whose lives braid together after a chance reunion among three of them. A successful environmental lawyer is forced to take himself to task when he realizes that everything about his work has betrayed his core beliefs. A high school English teacher asks her former high school love to take up her environmental cause. A transgender adolescent male raised by his grandparents struggles to excel in a world hostile to his kind. A French-Canadian political science professor finds himself left with a choice between his cherished separatist cause and his marriage and family. An accomplished engineer is chronically unable to impress his more accomplished father sufficiently to be named head of the international wind technology company his father founded. The Quebec separatist party's Minister of Natural Resources, a divorce, finds herself caught between her French-Canadian lover and an unexpected English-Canadian suitor.
I Need a Bad Boy in My Life
By Davis, Ambria
Keyon has been through more than enough drama in her young life. She tries to put as much distance between her and the past in Louisiana, taking the opportunity to move to Memphis with her longtime boyfriend, Casimere. Adjusting to their new home, Keyon thinks she's finally getting the life that she deserves. But is she? Has she truly left behind all the things that caused her pain? Casimere has finally broken out, but it might not last long. Promising to leave his past behind, he soon finds out that old habits are hard to break. What he doesn't know is that his well-buried secret is about to reveal itself in a shocking manner. Keyon and Casimere must both come to terms with the consequences of his actions. Will she forgive him, or will this be the final straw? Follow Keyon and Casimere on this bumpy ride and find out what it's really like with a bad boy in your life.
Sucker
By Hornsby, Daniel
Bad Blood meets Succession in this sharp-toothed satire of Silicon Valley and the 1 percent, in which the black-sheep son of an industrial tycoon starts working for a tech pioneer who's running a biomedical startup selling nothing less than immortality, only to uncover the horrifying truth at the heart of her sublime promises.. Chuck Gross would like nothing more than to prune himself from his family tree. He's already clipped his name, turning Charles Grossheart, Jr. - son of a billionaire labor exploiter, weapons manufacturer, and climate change denier - into ordinary good-guy Chuck, the "self-made" proprietor of an up-and-coming punk label. But when Daddy threatens to cut him off, Chuck is forced to get a "real job" - and conveniently, an old college friend has just swept back into his life with the perfect opportunity.
Alone Together
By Haupt, Jennifer
ALONE TOGETHER: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come. All net profits will be donated to The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit organization that coordinates charitable programs to strengthen the bookselling community. Ms. Haupt rallied a diverse roster of more than 90 authors to contribute their work to ALONE TOGETHER, free of charge, including Kwame Alexander, Jenna Blum, Andre Dubus III, Jamie Ford, Nikki Giovanni, Pam Houston, Jean Kwok, Major Jackson, Caroline Leavitt, Ada Limn, Dani Shapiro, David Sheff, Garth Stein, Luis Alberto Urrea, Steve Yarbrough, and Lidia Yuknavitch.
Victor and Nora
By Myracle, Lauren
Seventeen-year-old Victor Fries has a cold heart. After his brother died in a tragic house fire for which Victor feels responsible, his parents have isolated themselves, and Victor has dedicated his whole life to one thing: science.Nora Faria is full of life. She is suffering from an incurable illness that will slowly consume her, so she's decided to live her last days to the fullest at her summer home outside of Gotham City until her birthday. On that day, she plans to take her own life.When Victor and Nora happen to meet at the cemetery outside of town, they are astonished to find the connection they have each been missing in their lives. Their summer quickly spirals into a beautiful romance, and Victor's cold heart begins to thaw, allowing him to enjoy life just a little more.
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers
By Hernandez, Alex
In a tantalizing array of new works from some of the most exciting Latinx creators working in the speculative vein today, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers extends the project begun with a previous anthology, Latinx Rising (The Ohio State University Press, 2020) , to showcase a new generation of writers. Spanning diverse forms, settings, perspectives, and styles, but unified by their drive to imagine new Latinx futures, these stories address the breadth of contemporary Latinx experiences and identities while exuberantly embracing the genre's ability to entertain and surprise. With new work for new audiences in their teens and up, and especially for Latinx people navigating their identities in the ever-shifting, sometimes perilous, but always promising cultural landscape of the US, this book is for dreamers - and DREAMers - everywhere.
Deathstroke Vol. 2
By Daniel, Tony
Deathstroke is the world's deadliest assassin and its most cutthroat mercenary. But is that legendary reputation enough to satisfy his next contract: to kill a God? Armed by Hephaestus with a dangerous new weapon capable of taking down one of the Olympian Gods, Deathstroke takes on his toughest assignment to date. However, with heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman in the way, killing a God somehow becomes more challenging, even for one of the deadliest men in the universe. In this titanic new arc, writer-artist Tony S. Daniel takes Slade Wilson into new territory in Deathstroke Vol. 2. Collects issues #7-12.
The Death of Jesus
By Coetzee, J. M.
After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel prize-winning author completes his haunting trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of JesusIn Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Simn and Bolvar the dog usually watch while his mother Ins now works in a fashion boutique. David still asks many questions, challenging his parents, and any authority figure in his life. In dancing class at the Academy of Music he dances as he chooses. He refuses to do sums and will not read any books except Don Quixote.One day Julio Fabricante, the director of a nearby orphanage, invites David and his friends to form a proper soccer team. David decides he will leave Simn and Ins to live with Julio, but before long he succumbs to a mysterious illness.
Dressed Up 4 Murder
By C., Eaton, J.
Last one standing is the winner . . . The holiday season has arrived and bookkeeper/amateur sleuth, Sophie "Phee" Kimball, would love nothing more than to enjoy the comforts of her new home with her detective boyfriend near Arizona's Sun City West. Instead, her mother Harriet wants to showcase her chiweenie-chihuahua-dachshund Streetman in the Precious Pooches Holiday Extravaganza costume events. The festivities begin in October and end on St. Patrick's Day - with the winner starring in the St. Pat's Day parade. But things quickly turn an awful shade of green when Streetman uncovers a dead body under a tarp-covered grill in the neighbor's yard. The victim is Cameron Tully, a seafood distributor working out of Phoenix, who died from ingesting a toxic sago palm leaf. Before the police can even find a motive and suspect, another Precious Pooch owner nearly dies from the same poison. With Harriet believing someone's targeting her and Streetman because of the costume contests, Phee will need a potful of Irish luck to sniff out a killer . . . Praise for the Sophie Kimball Mysteries "An eclectic cast of entertaining characters that will keep you wondering whodunit!" - USA Today Bestselling Author Nicole Leiren, on Staged 4 Murder "A thoroughly entertaining series debut, with enjoyable, yet realistic characters and enough plot twists - and dead ends - to appeal from beginning to end." - BOOKLIST STARRED REVIEW on Booked 4 Murder
Kala
By Walsh, Colin
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives.. In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They - Helen, Joe and Mush - were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of 2003,withmotherless, reckless Kala Lanann as their group's white-hot center. Soon after that summer's peak, Kala disappeared without a trace.. Now it's fifteen years later: Helen has reluctantly returned to Ireland for her father's wedding; Joe is a world-famous musician, newly back in town; and Mush has never left, too scared to venture beyond the counter of his mother's café.
Against the Wind
By Tilley, Jim
Against the Wind is an elegantly written story of relationships involving six principal characters, strands of whose lives braid together after a chance reunion among three of them. A successful environmental lawyer is forced to take himself to task when he realizes that everything about his work has betrayed his core beliefs. A high school English teacher asks her former high school love to take up her environmental cause. A transgender adolescent male raised by his grandparents struggles to excel in a world hostile to his kind. A French-Canadian political science professor finds himself left with a choice between his cherished separatist cause and his marriage and family. An accomplished engineer is chronically unable to impress his more accomplished father sufficiently to be named head of the international wind technology company his father founded. The Quebec separatist party's Minister of Natural Resources, a divorce, finds herself caught between her French-Canadian lover and an unexpected English-Canadian suitor.