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Sixteen-year-old Amina Conteh has ever believed successful utilizing her lingua arsenic her weapon—even erstwhile it gets her into trouble. After cursing astatine a classmate, her begetter forces her to unpaid astatine their religion with Pastor Johnson.  

But Pastor Johnson isn’t the beatified antheral everyone thinks helium is.

The aforesaid dependable Amina uses to combat falls quiescent the nighttime she is sexually assaulted by Pastor Johnson. After that, her beingness starts to unravel: her begetter is frustrated that her grades are slipping, and her champion person and fellow don’t recognize wherefore the erstwhile large and arrogant miss is present quiescent and distant. In a satellite that claims to enactment survivors, Amina wonders who volition enactment her erstwhile her attacker is everyone’s favourite assemblage leader. 

When Pastor Johnson is arrested for a antithetic crime, the assemblage is shaken and divided; immoderate telephone him a monster and others support him. But Amina is secretly relieved. She nary longer has to talk due to the fact that Pastor Johnson can’t wounded her anymore–or so she believes.

To regain her dependable and consciousness of self, Amina indispensable find the powerfulness to face her abuser—in the courtroom and her heart—and larn to usage each the warring parts wrong her.

No 1 survived the enactment astatine the penthouse. Except Athan.

Athanasios “Athan” Bakirtzis has made it acold successful beingness relying connected his charm and bully looks, adjacent securing an invitation to a mysterious penthouse soiree for New York City’s artsy elite. But erstwhile helium sneaks disconnected to the bathroom, helium hears a slam, followed by a scream. Athan peers outside, lone to beryllium pushed backmost successful by a lad his age. The lad gravely tells him not to unfastened the door, past closes Athan in.

Outside the door, the enactment descends into chaos. Through hours of howls, laughter, and sobs, Athan stays hidden. When helium yet emerges, helium discovers a massacre wherever the corpses look to person arranged themselves into a disturbingly elegant sculpture―and Athan’s mysterious savior is obscurity to beryllium found. Athan―the lone known survivor―is present the superior suspect.

In a contention to beryllium his innocence, Athan is swept up successful a supernatural mystery, 1 of concealed occult societies and deadly eldritch horrors with rather distinctive taste. Something evil is waking up successful the walls of New York City, and it’s compelling victims toward violence, chaos, and self-destruction. Bound to him by a mysterious hereditary power, Athan has felt this evil hiding down his reflection his full life, watching him. Waiting. Now, it’s taking over.

Emmett Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfy location and blessed disposition seemed to unite immoderate of the champion blessings of beingness and had lived astir eighteen years successful the satellite with precise small to distress oregon vex him.

Emmett knows he’s blessed. And due to the fact that of that, helium tries to springiness back: from foundation enactment to letting the often irritating Georgia beryllium astatine his array astatine lunch, helium knows it’s important to beryllium nice. And recently, he’s recovered a caller mode of giving back: matchmaking. He acceptable up his champion person Taylor with her caller fellow and it’s gone perfectly. So erstwhile his occasional friend-with-benefits Harrison starts saying helium wants a fellow (something Emmett definitely does NOT privation to be), helium decides to effort and find Harrison the cleanable antheral astatine Highbury Academy, the candy-colored backstage schoolhouse they be conscionable extracurricular Los Angeles. 

Emmett’s puerility friend, Miles, thinks uncovering a fellow for a feline you slumber with is simply a atrocious idea. But Miles is straight, and Emmett says this is cheery beingness – your friends, your lovers, your boyfriends – they each travel from the aforesaid precise tiny pool. That’s why Emmett doesn’t day – to support things clean. He knows the quality encephalon isn’t done processing until twenty-five, truthful immoderate narration helium enters into earlier past would inevitably extremity successful a breakup, successful loss. And he’s seen what nonaccomplishment tin do. His parent died 4 years agone and his Dad hasn’t been the aforesaid since. 

But the lines Emmett tries to gully are much porous than helium thinks, and arsenic helium tries to find Harrison the cleanable match, helium learns that talented arsenic helium whitethorn be, possibly helium has nary thought what he’s doing erstwhile it comes to love.  

Modern and precise gay, with a charmingly conceited pb who is convinced helium knows it all, and the occasional notation to the classical movie Clueless, Emmett brings you lush romance each portion exploring the complexities of queer culture—where your lovers and friends are sometimes the aforesaid person, but the idiosyncratic you autumn successful emotion with mightiness beryllium a full surprise.

Fatima Tate wants to beryllium a baker AND bask immoderate guiltless flirting with her blistery person Raheem—but her strict Muslim parents would ne'er o.k. of either…

Seventeen-year-old Fatima Tate, aspiring baker (100% against her blimpish parents’ wishes), leads a beauteous mean beingness successful Albuquerque: agelong drives with BFF Zaynab, play services astatine the mosque, large household parties, crockery room volunteering (the champion mode to cleanable her flaky dough recipe!), stressing astir college.

But everything changes erstwhile she meets a charming assemblage pupil named Raheem. Knowing the ‘rents would FREAK, Fatima keeps their burgeoning narration a secret… and then, 1 day, her parents and his parents determine to put their marriage. Amazing! True serendipity!

Except it’s not amazing. As soon arsenic the ringing is connected Fatima’s finger, Raheem’s charm transforms into power and manipulation. Fatima knows she has to telephone the full happening off, but Raheem doesn’t similar to lose. He threatens to uncover their premarital intersexual past and destruct her and her family’s estimation successful their tight-knit Muslim community.

Fatima indispensable find the interior spot to blaze her ain way by owning her body, her choices, and her future. Combining the frank authenticity of Elizabeth Acevedo and the analyzable societal dynamics of Ibi Zoboi, FATIMA TATE TAKES THE CAKE is simply a almighty coming-of-age communicative that gives a much-needed dependable to young Black Muslim women.

In a satellite locked successful eternal wintertime and haunted by prophecy, a young lad trains for years to go the Chosen One, lone for different to emergence and assertion his spot successful the commencement of an unmissable epic from a rising prima successful fantasy. 

The northlands of Crua are locked successful eternal winter, but prophecy tells of the chosen child–who volition regularisation successful the sanction of their God, and instrumentality warmth backmost from the South. Cahal du Nahere was raised to beryllium this person: the Cowl-Rai, the saviour. Taken from his parents and prepared for his destiny.

But his clip ne'er came.

When helium was 15 helium ceased to matter. Another Cowl-Rai had risen, different chosen one, raised successful the sanction of a antithetic God. The years of vicious carnal and intelligence grooming helium had endured, the sacrifice, each for nothing. He became nothing.

Twenty years later, and Cahal lives a beingness of secrecy connected the edges of Crua’s elephantine forests–hiding what helium is, moving from what helium tin do. But erstwhile helium is forced to uncover his existent nature, helium sets disconnected a series of events that volition uncover secrets that volition shingle the bedrock of his full world, and exposure lies that person persisted for generations.

Set much than 1 100 years aft the Borden murders, this propulsive, supernatural thriller imagines what mightiness hap if past repeated itself today. Perfect for fans of Kara Thomas and Courtney Summers!

When Mariella Morse accuses her boyfriend, Vik Gomez, of murdering her affluent parents with an axe, the municipality is speedy to judge her. It doesn’t assistance that Vik is caught lasting implicit her parents’ bodies with humor connected his hands, incapable to retrieve thing astir the nighttime successful question.

But Vik’s sister, Tessa, knows that Vik would ne'er beryllium susceptible of specified a gruesome crime. Haunted by the mistakes she made that led her household to determination to Fall River, MA successful the archetypal place, she sets retired to beryllium her brother’s innocence.

Tessa’s hunt for answers volition pb her into a sprawling, notoriously cursed forest, wherever she and Mariella indispensable look a acheronian that has lurked wrong their municipality since earlier the days of Lizzie Borden—the archetypal axe murderess of Fall River.

How overmuch would you springiness to triumph the world?

Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding precocious aft her triumph that tore confederate China from its Mongol masters. Now she burns with a caller desire: to prehend the throne and crown herself emperor.

But Zhu isn’t the lone 1 with imperial ambitions. Her neighbour successful the south, the courtesan Madam Zhang, wants the throne for her husband―and she’s beardown capable to hitch Zhu disconnected the map. To enactment successful the game, Zhu volition person to gamble everything connected a risky confederation with an aged enemy: the talented but unstable eunuch wide Ouyang, who has already sacrificed everything for a accidental astatine revenge connected his father’s killer, the Great Khan.

Unbeknownst to the southerners, a caller contender is adjacent person to the throne. The scorned student Wang Baoxiang has maneuvered his mode into the capital, and his lethal tribunal games endanger to bring the empire to its knees. For Baoxiang besides desires revenge: to go the astir degenerate Great Khan successful history―and successful truthful doing, marque a mockery of each worth his Mongol warrior household loved much than him.

All the contenders are determined to bash immoderate it takes to win. But erstwhile tendency is the size of the world, the terms could beryllium excessively overmuch for adjacent the astir ruthless bosom to bear…

A witch struggling to regain what she has mislaid casts a forbidden spell—only to observe overmuch much than she expected, successful this enchanting caller rom-com by New York Times bestselling writer Lana Harper.

Six months aft having been deed by a powerfulness surge that astir obliterated her memory, Delilah Harlow is inactive picking up the pieces. Her erstwhile diamond-sharp caput has go shaky and unreliable, and bristly, self-sufficient Delilah is forced to trust connected friends, family, and her raven acquainted for help. In an effort to reclaim her wits and erstwhile independence, she casts a unsafe humor spell meant to harness powerfulness with healing capacities.

While the spell does reconstruct clarity, it besides unexpectedly turns Delilah into an irresistible beacon for the benignant of malevolent supernatural creatures that person ne'er earlier ventured into Thistle Grove. One night—just arsenic things are astir to spell terribly sideways with a rogue succubus—a mysterious alien appears successful the nick of clip to prevention Delilah’s soul.

Gorgeous, sultry, and arsenic unsafe arsenic the knives she carries, Catriona Quinn is simply a huntsman of monsters—and half-human, half-fae herself, she is the benignant of sly and morally grey carnal Delilah would usually find horrifying. Though Delilah balks astatine the thought of a partnership, she has nary prime but to rotation the dice connected their collaboration. As the 2 delve deeper into the powerfulness that underlies Thistle Grove, they uncover not lone the town’s hidden past but besides a risky attraction that could upend Delilah’s full life.

All her life, Zofia has recovered comfortableness successful 2 things during times of hardship: books and her champion friend, Janina. But nary 1 could person imagined the horrors of the Nazi concern successful Warsaw. As the bombs rainfall down and Hitler’s forces loot and destruct the city, Zofia finds that present books are besides successful request of saving.

With the decease number rising and persecution intensifying, Zofia jumps to enactment to prevention her person and salvage immoderate books she tin from the wreckage, hiding them distant and adjacent starting a clandestine publication club. She and her dearest person ne'er surrender their emotion of reading, adjacent erstwhile Janina is forced into the recently formed ghetto.

But the person Warsaw creeps toward liberation, the much unsafe beingness becomes for the women and their families—and flight whitethorn not beryllium imaginable for everyone. As the demolition rages astir them, Zofia indispensable combat to prevention her person and sphere her civilization and assemblage utilizing the lone limb they person left—literature.

Secrets! Magic! Enemies to. . .something more?

Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, would emotion a nice, safe, comfy life. After the decease of his duplicate sister, helium thought helium was done with magic for good. But with the menace of a unsafe ritual hanging implicit each magician successful Britain, he’s drawn reluctantly backmost into that world.

Now Jack is surviving successful a bizarre puzzle-box of a magical London townhouse, helping an improbable radical of friends way down the last portion of the Last Contract earlier their enemies tin bash the same. And to marque matters worse, they request the assistance of writer and thief Alan Ross.

Cagey and argumentative, Alan is lone successful this for the money. The aristocratic Lord Hawthorn, with each his unearned power, is everything that Alan hates. And unfortunately, Alan happens to beryllium everything that Jack wants successful 1 gorgeous, infuriating package.

When a crippled to prehend unimaginable powerfulness comes to a caput astatine Cheetham Hall―Jack’s ancestral household estate, a onshore truthful aged and bound successful oaths that it’s grown a property arsenic prickly arsenic its owner―Jack, Alan and their allies volition go entangled successful a nighttime of champagne, secrets, and bloody sacrifice . . . and the foundations of magic successful Britain volition beryllium torn up by the roots earlier the end.

A fake narration aft a horrible one-night basal is thing but an enactment successful this witty and heartfelt caller romanticist drama by Ashley Herring Blake.

Everyone astir Iris Kelly is successful love. Her champion friends are each coupled up, her siblings person partners that are cleanable for them, and her parents are inactive blissfully married. And she’s blessed for each of them, truly. Iris doesn’t privation immoderate of that—dating, love, romance. She’ll instrumentality to her commitment-free hookups, acknowledgment precise much, but nary 1 successful her beingness volition conscionable fto her be. Everyone wants to spot her settled down, but she holds firmly to her nary dating rule. There’s lone 1 problem—Iris is simply a romance writer facing an imminent deadline for her 2nd book, and she’s wholly retired of ideas.

Perfectly blessed to disregard her problems arsenic per usual, Iris goes to a barroom successful Portland and meets a sexy stranger, Stefania, and a nighttime of dancing and making retired turns into the worst one-night basal Iris has had successful her life. To get her caput disconnected everything, Iris tries retired for the pb relation successful a section play, a queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing, but comes face-to-face with Stefania, whose existent sanction turns retired to beryllium Stevie. Desperate to prevention look successful beforehand of her friends, Stevie asks Iris to play on arsenic her girlfriend. Iris is shocked, but erstwhile she realizes the statement mightiness supply her with immoderate much-needed romanticist contented for her book, she agrees. As the 2 women play the portion of a blessed couple, lines commencement to blur, and they’re near wondering who volition marque the existent archetypal move….

Raise a solid to Cece Barton, a widowed azygous ma and caller L.A.-to-California-wine-country transplant who abruptly finds herself astatine the halfway of a execution probe successful this sparkling caller enigma bid from Agatha Award-winning writer Maddie Day.

As the manager of Vino y Vida Wine Bar successful Colinas, Cecelia “Cece” Barton’s archetypal Alexander Valley harvest is simply a whirlwind of activity. Her duplicate sister, Allie Halstead, who owns a adjacent Victorian furniture & breakfast, is accustomed to the hustle and bustle of highest tourer season. But Cece hardly has a infinitesimal to bask her caller location successful betwixt worrying astir her estranged college-age daughter, juggling her responsibilities astatine the bar, and navigating the sticky authorities of the section vino association. Just erstwhile it seems things can’t turn immoderate much intense, Colinas is rocked by a execution wrong the vino assemblage . . . and Cece is identified arsenic a imaginable suspect!

With her estimation and her livelihood connected the line—and the Sonoma County lawman sheriff breathing down her neck—Cece has nary prime but to unfastened up her ain execution investigation. Tensions are already precocious successful the valley, arsenic a monolithic wildfire creeps toward Colinas, threatening homes, vineyards, and the captious tourer trade. And now, with a murderer connected the loose, and Cece’s sleuthing exposing the valley’s bitterest aged rivalries and concealed caller alliances, Colinas feels acceptable to pop! But with Allie’s help, Cece is determined to drawback the slayer and wide her sanction earlier everything she’s worked truthful hard for goes up successful flames.

Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her household by making alchemical golden and gems for the affluent to devour successful bid to enactment young forever. But for now, she’s trapped successful her impoverished colony successful confederate China, practicing an amerciable signifier of alchemy to support nutrient connected the table—resurrecting the dead, for a price.

When Zilan yet has the accidental to implicit her imperial exams, she ventures to the superior to vie against the champion alchemists successful the state successful tasks she’ll beryllium fortunate to survive, fto unsocial pass. On apical of that, her estimation for raising the dormant has followed her to the capital, and the Crown Prince himself seeks retired her help, suspecting a coming assassination attempt.

The much Zilan succeeds successful her alchemy, the much she gets caught successful the unsafe governmental games of the royal family. There are monsters lurking wrong the palace walls, and it’s lone a substance of clip earlier they—and secrets of Zilan’s past—catch up with her.

Sophomore Kalvin Shmelton has yet perfected his underground candy-selling hustle astatine school. He keeps his prices reasonable, his inventory fresh, and himself retired of the drama. But erstwhile a heartbroken Sterling Glistern—Kal’s longtime crush— barges into the retention closet wherever helium keeps his candy supply, a caller root of income unexpectedly presents itself: narration therapist. Sure, helium lone meant to assistance Sterling recognize she’s been dating a jerk—and possibly triumph her over—but quality spreads accelerated that Kalvin’s not conscionable the maestro of sweets…but hearts, too! And arsenic the lad of 2 celebrated therapists, helium leans into this newfound estimation and the wealth that comes with it.

The truth, however, is that Kalvin’s parents’ “perfect” matrimony is crumbling. He was expected to woo the miss of his dreams, hole his parents’ relationship, and lend a listening receptor to a school-full of heartbroken teens. But a jealous boyfriend, a vengeful competitor, and Kalvin’s ain increasing ego endanger those plans, forcing Kal to rethink each helium thought helium knew astir friendship, family, and love.

Both epic and intimate, Shield Maiden is the brilliantly imagined retelling of Beowulf from the perspective of a fierce young pistillate reclaiming her power.

Fryda has grown up proceeding tales of her uncle, King Beowulf, and his spectacular decision of the monstrous Grendel. Her 1 tendency is to go a shield maiden successful her ain right, but a unspeakable mishap during her puerility has thwarted this dream. Yet still, somehow, she feels an uncontrollable powerfulness statesman to emergence wrong herself.

The past happening Fryda wants is to beryllium forced into a governmental marriage, particularly arsenic her bosom belongs to her lifelong friend, Theow. However, arsenic overseas kings and chieftains descend upon her location to observe Beowulf’s 50 years arsenic the king of Geatland, the concern begins to look inevitable.

That is, until, amidst the lavish gifts and drunken revelry, a find is made that threatens the information of Fryda’s full clan – and her ain life. Incensed by this betrayal, Fryda resolves to combat for her radical nary substance the cost. As a queen should. As a shield maiden would.

And arsenic the perilous concern worsens, Fryda’s powers look lone to turn stronger. But she is not the lone 1 to consciousness the effects of her new-found battle-magic. For, buried heavy successful her gilded lair, a dragon is drawn to Fryda’s untamed power, and is dilatory awakening from a long, cursed sleep…

Five harrowing novellas of fearfulness and speculative fiction, from the singular caput of the New York Times bestselling writer of Bird Box.

Josh Malerman is simply a maestro weaver of stories—and successful this spine-chilling postulation helium spins 5 twisted tales from the shadows of the quality soul:

A sister insists to her small member that “Half the House Is Haunted” by a unusual presence. But is it the location that’s haunted—or their childhoods?

In “Argyle,” a dying antheral confesses to homicides helium ne'er committed, and reveals long-kept secrets acold much sinister than murder.

A tourer takes the eventual travel to outer abstraction successful “The Jupiter Drop,” but the existent travel is into his ain acheronian past.

In “Doug and Judy Buy the House Washer,” a trendy joined mates buys the latest location gadget lone to find themselves trapped by their possessions, their history… and each other.

And successful “Egorov,” a affluent aged cretin murders a young man, not knowing the unfortunate was a triplet. The 2 surviving brothers signifier a savage faux-haunting, playing the shade of their slain brother, with the purpose of driving the aged murderer mad.

Corazon yearns to yet commencement grooming arsenic a babaylan (a mystical healer and tone guide) nether her almighty guardian, Aunt Tina. As soon arsenic her magic awakens, Corazon plans to bring her parents backmost from the dormant and nary longer person to trust connected a psyche cardinal to let visits with her their ghosts for a fewer hours each Saturday night.

But erstwhile a vengeful shade steals Corazon’s precious key, the fragile equilibrium betwixt the quality satellite and the tone satellite is thrown retired of whack. Aunt Tina reveals that if Corazon wants her magic to awaken, past she conscionable laic the shade to remainder by fashioning a caller psyche key. 

With her alternatively bloodthirsty gecko companion, Saso, Corazon embarks connected a quest done the tone realms. But they indispensable determination quickly, for  if the shade gets  through the tone glass, each anticipation volition beryllium lost.

Roshani Chokshi pays tribute to her Filipino practice successful this publication that has each the magic, sparkle, and bosom that made her Aru Shah bid a phantasy classic.

A saccharine and magical caller middle-grade graphic caller astir a boba café, an earthquake-causing monster, and an unforgettable summer

In the fog laden hills of San Francisco sits a sleepy autarkic boba café. Run by Jing Li and guarded by her kitty Bao, it comfortably fades into the background. But wrong the boba café, there’s a secret. Jing is the keeper of the monster of San Francisco. Each time she prepares 1 elephantine boba for 9 hours to provender it.

When Jing’s granddaughter, Aria, comes to enactment with her for the summertime she makes it her ngo to crook the café around. Aria is rapidly aided by Bao, who gives commencement to 8 cleanable kittens. Aria spreads the quality of the boba feline café connected societal media and overnight it is overrun with excited customers. Each time Nainai Li (Grandma Li) finds reasons to adjacent the café but the request lone increases.

When she opens, the elevation monster is near bare and tiny earthquakes statesman to plague the city. When Aria secretly follows her Nainai to the elevation monster cave she isn’t definite what awaits. Will Aria beryllium capable to crushed with the monster oregon go its caller favourite meal? Or volition she disturb its underground beingness and origin the Big One?