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The Ghost Women : a novel

Murphy, Jennifer, 1956 February 14-,

"A mysterious art academy in the woods, a deck of ancient tarot cards, a centuries-old secret On a hot August morning in 1972, the body of Abel Montague, a student at St. Luke's Institute of the Arts, is found hanging from a tree in the forest. An ancient Hanged Man tarot card is found in the back pocket of his pants and his body has been positioned into the exact pose illustrated on the card. When Detective Lola Germany arrives at St. Luke's-a former monastery that once housed a secret order of monks who carried out witch trials and executions-she believes they are dealing with a ritualistic murder. While interviewing school administrators and Abel's classmates, Lola discovers Abel's live-in girlfriend, Pearl, seems shaken but also might be hiding something-along with her group of friends who call themselves witches. When more students are found dead, each body arranged like a tarot card, Lola realizes she is trapped in a web of power and ambition that spans centuries. Soon the lines between past and present, spiritual and tangible, begin to blur, and the only way to survive is to seek answers from places she never imagined"-- Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2026

The German Wife

Rimmer, Kelly,

"A novel"--Jacket. Includes reader's extras. "Berlin, Germany, 1930. When the Nazis rise to power, Jurgen Rhodes is offered a high-level position in their burgeoning rocket program. Jurgen and his wife Sofie fiercely oppose Hitler's radical views, and joining his ranks is unthinkable. Yet it soon becomes clear that if Jurgen does not accept the job, their income would be put on the line, and so would their lives. Huntsville, Alabama, 1950. Jurgen is one of many German scientists pardoned and granted a position in America's space program. For Sofie, this is a chance to leave the horrors of her past behind. But when rumors about the Rhodes family's affiliation with the Nazi party spreads, idle gossip turns to bitter rage, and the act of violence that results tears apart a family and leaves the community wondering if it's an act of vengeance--or justice"--

Date Published:2022

The Last Star

Yancey, Richard,

The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They're down here, they're up there, they're nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves. In these last days, Earth's remaining survivors will need to decide what's more important: saving themselves ... or saving what makes us human.

Date Published:2017

The Infinite Sea

Yancey, Richard.

"Cassie Sullivan and her companions lived through the Others' four waves of destruction. Now, with the human race nearly exterminated and the 5th Wave rolling across the landscape, they face a choice: brace for winter and hope for Evan Walker's return, or set out in search of other survivors before the enemy closes in"--

Date Published:2015

The 5th Wave

Yancey, Richard.

School Library Journal, April 2013 Booklist starred, February 2013 Pub Weekly, February 2013 Kirkus Starred, April 2013 New York Times, May 2013 Horn Book, May 2013 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), September 2013 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2013 Library Media Connection, October 2013 School Library Journal Booklist starred Pub Weekly "Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2013

A Parade Of Horribles

Dinniman, Matt,

Includes part eight of the exclusive bonus story "Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret." It's off to the races in the explosive eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series--featuring bonus material exclusive to this print edition. As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they're forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon.Races. Get from point A to point B, and don't come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple. Ignore those strange glitches that are occurring with increasing frequency. Don't listen to those whispers about what's happening on the mysterious eleventh floor, something the system AI calls A Parade of Horribles. Nobody, not even the showrunners, knows what that means. Just that the AI has ominously dubbed it "a coming-out party for the ages. "Everything is fine, Crawler. I repeat, everything is fine." Carl hates that it's business as usual. The rules of this floor have taken away his agency. That just will not do. So Carl is planning a party of his own. It's a plan so dangerous, so insane, he can't even consult his friends lest the AI put a stop to it. Because if it goes wrong, it's not just the end of Carl and Donut. No. The stakes are higher than they've ever been.

Date Published:2026

Yesteryear : a novel

Burke, Caro Claire,

Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the heir to a political dynasty? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it. Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a ruthless reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible.

Date Published:2026

Alchemised

SenLinYu,

Contains content warnings. Reader discretion is advised. Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner--of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia's new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive. According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is she truly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hiding some vital piece of the Resistance's final gambit? To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena's fight--to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self--is just beginning. For her prison and captor have secrets of their own ... secrets Helena must unearth, whatever the cost.

Date Published:2025

Starside : a novel

Aster, Alex,

Hundreds of years ago, a brutal war split a land in two. Starside is the realm of magic and immortals—the descendants of the gods, living in a power-rich paradise. Stormside is where mortals fight for scraps of that magic. Every fifty years, the gates between them open, and fifty challengers are allowed to journey across Starside on a deadly quest to access a pool of magic that can heal, grant wealth, or extend life. Everyone has their reasons for entering, but Aris has only one: vengeance. As a child, a goddess set fire to her village, killing her family. Aris isn’t after the gods’ magic—she’s going to kill them.

Date Published:2026

The Devils

Abercrombie, Joe,

Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters. The mission he is tasked with will require bloody measures from them all in order to achieve its righteous ends. Elves lurk at our borders and hunger for our flesh, while greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions and comfort. With a hellish journey before him, it's a good thing Brother Diaz has the devils on his side.

Date Published:2025

End Of Days : Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the unmaking of America

Jennings, Chris, 1982-,

Prologue: The end -- Introduction: America apocalypse -- Part I: Level ground. Home place -- The turn -- Have you heard the bad news? -- The thrilling doctrine -- Going under on the Plains -- Unchurched -- Things unseen -- Part II: Across the great divide. Away! -- Midnight in America -- Give me death -- Identity politics -- Small-town talk -- The order -- So much for the stud finder -- Two chainsaws -- Part III: Tribulation. Go to hell -- A time of great depression -- Time has turned against us -- Ambush -- Lamentation on high places -- Siege -- A whimper, not a bang -- Epilogue: Slipping into the future. "On August 21, 1992, shots rang out while federal agents were surveilling a cabin in Boundary County, Idaho as part of an operation to arrest Randy Weaver--a reclusive, mountain-dwelling survivalist--for failure to appear in court on a gun charge. When Weaver finally surrendered to the authorities eleven days later, his wife, son, and dog lay dead, as did a US Marshal. Ever since, America has been trying to make sense of what happened on Ruby Ridge. Today, the question could not be more urgent, as the shock waves from Ruby Ridge have amplified and compounded, cracking the very foundations of our democracy. In End of Days, Chris Jennings explains the significance of this historic siege by setting the story of the Weaver family within the long history of apocalyptic Christianity in the United States, illuminating the ways in which that faith has gradually transformed the nation. The strain of doomsday Christianity that gripped the Weavers, he shows, was grounded in a particular reading of biblical prophecy that can be traced back to the 1870s and up through the twentieth-century rise of Christian fundamentalism to the right-wing conspiracism that now defines American society and politics. The events at Ruby Ridge acted as an accelerant for this spreading worldview, and are essential to understanding the crisis that our nation confronts today." --

Date Published:2026

Wolfpack : inside Hitler's U-boat war

Moorhouse, Roger,

"Over the course of World War II, Germany's Nazi U-boat submariners sank over three thousand Allied ships, nearly three-quarters of Allied shipping losses in all theaters of the war. In the process the submariners endured horrific conditions and suffered a 75 percent death rate, the highest of any arm of service in the conflict. In Wolfpack, historian Roger Moorhouse tells the story of the Battle of the Atlantic from the point of view of the German submariners. He tracks these men from the enthusiasm of the war's early days, buoyed with optimism about their cause, through the challenges of the Allied counterthreat, to the final horrors of enemy capture and death in the depths. Drawing extensively on war diaries, archival records, and the voices of the German submariners themselves, Wolfpack is a story of technological brilliance, dramatic naval engagements, and extraordinary human endurance"-- Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2025

Rasputin : the downfall of the Romanovs

Beevor, Antony, 1946-,

Crossroads in Siberia -- Young Rasputin -- The New Reign -- The Curse of Khodynka -- The First Guru and the Heir -- The War Against Japan -- The Near-revolution of 1905 -- Rasputin in St Petersburg -- The Dowager Empress's Dream -- The Mad Monk Iliodor - 'A Monster of Audacity' -- Rasputin in the Nursery -- The Assassination in Kiev -- Rasputin and his Arch-enemy -- Saving the Tsarevich at Spa±a -- The Romanov Tercentenary, 1913 -- Felix and Dmitry -- The Stabbing of Rasputin -- Outbreak of War - Kissing the Tsar's Shadow -- Rasputin and Women -- Bad Behaviour -- Scandal and Threat -- The Tsar Takes Command -- The Empress's Boudoir Cabinet, Autumn 1915 -- Russian Farce -- Ministerial Leapfrog -- On the Eve of the Apocalypse -- The Assassins -- The Deed -- 'Murdered by Monsters' -- A Family Affair. "From one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history's most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the imperial household, contributed to the collapse of the greatest autocracy in the world When Russia's Dowager Empress was pregnant with the future Tsar, she dreamed that a peasant would one day kill her son. The idea terrified her, and for the rest of her days she 'lived under the pressure of the prophecy'. Did the prophecy come true with the arrival at court of a mysterious, barely literate moujhik from Siberia, Grigori Rasputin? In this extraordinary portrait of an enigmatic character, Antony Beevor brings readers closer than ever before to Rasputin's scandalous life and death. Though he had no official position at court, Rasputin's hold over the Romanovs became the stuff of legend. Exaggerated accounts of political and financial corruption swirled around him, to say nothing of the stories of his debauchery with the Empress and even her daughters. The consequences of the rumor and conspiracy theories were devastating-when the February revolution broke out in 1917, hardly a sword was raised in the Tsar's defense. Through extensive use of previously unpublished reports, interviews, and interrogations, Beevor shows the truth of Rasputin's rampant lust and opportunism, victimization of poor and vulnerable women, and deep hypocrisy and corruption. Part political thriller, part gothic mystery, Rasputin is a fascinating story of human perversity"-- Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2026

The Undiscovered Country : triumph, tragedy, and the shaping of the American West

Hutton, Paul Andrew, 1949-,

"The epic of the American West became a tale of progress, redemption, and glorious conquest that came to shape the identity of a new nation. Over time a darker story emerged--one of ghastly violence and environmental spoliation that stained this identity. The Undiscovered Country strips away the layers of myth to reveal the true story of this first epoch of American history. From the forests of Pennsylvania and Kentucky to the snow-crested California Sierras, and from the harsh deserts of the Southwest to the buffalo range of the Great Plains, Paul Andrew Hutton masterfully chronicles a story that defined America and its people. From Braddock's 1755 defeat to the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, he unfolds a grand narrative steeped in romantic impulses and tragic consequences. Hutton uses seven main protagonists--Daniel Boone, Red Eagle, Davy Crockett, Mangas Coloradas, Kit Carson, Sitting Bull, and William "Buffalo Bill" Cody--as the biographical threads by which to weave a tapestry across seven generations, revealing a story of heroic conquest and dark tragedy, of sacrifice and greed, and of man-made wonders and environmental ruin. The American frontier movement has proven eternally fascinating around the world--the subject of countless books, paintings, poems, television shows, and films. The Undiscovered Country reveals the truth behind America's great creation myth"--

Date Published:2025

The War Within A War : the Black struggle in Vietnam and at home

Haygood, Wil,

Doc Nelson Lands in the War Zone -- Refuge in Soul Alley -- Ia Drang is More than Unforgiving -- In the Dark Green Jungle, A Star is Born -- The Piano Player Caught in A Racial Quagmire -- Wallace Terry's Special Saigon Assignment -- The Gambler, the Segregationist, and the Withering of a Dream -- A Murdered Minister, and a Prison Revolt -- Dorothy Harris Would Like Another Coca-Cola, Please -- Fred Cherry Parachutes Into Hell -- Some Badass Marines Are Humping the Hills Around Danang -- A Dancing Motown Comes to See the Blood on the Wall -- Requiem for Art Gregg -- Mr. Jellybean, in Twilight -- A Mirage and an Endgame -- Some Are Asking : Who the Hell is Maude deVictor? -- Flashback : 105 Degrees and Rising -- The Long Way Home from a Long War. "DR. ELBERT NELSON: A Black doctor who came to Vietnam after watching TV footage of the Watts racial riot in Los Angeles, but soon found himself in the midst of Black Soldier protests; FRED CHERRY: Air Force pilot who became the first Black military officer captured by the North Vietnamese, becoming a hero to twenty million Black Americans; JOE ANDERSON: The first Black cinematic star of the war after his exploits in Vietnam inspired the academy award winning film The Anderson Platoon; DOROTHY HARRIS: A nurse stationed at Cu Chi, thirty miles from Saigon, where one particular death would haunt her forever...; WALLACE TERRY: An Ivy League grad who became the most visible Black reporter in Vietnam, determined, more than anyone, to investigate the racial dynamics of the decade-long conflict; GEORGE FORREST: The gauntlet he ran through enemy territory during the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang to get back to his men became the stuff of legend; HENRY REED: A marine officer feared by the North Vietnamese, and who came to stand up against the racism in the Marine Corps; PHILIPPA SCHUYLER: A biracial concert pianist who went to Vietnam to rescue mixed-race orphans, many fathered by Black soldiers, and who died fleeing Vietnam with some of those orphans. These are the central characters Haygood uses to examine the role of Blacks in Vietnam and at home during and immediately after the war. Through the prism of their lives as well as many other crucial figures of that era-Marvin Gaye and Berry Gordy, Dwight Johnson (a war hero, who is shattered and ultimately destroyed by his experiences), Maude deVictor (who took up the cause of Agent Orange on behalf of veterans), Lyndon Johnson, William J. Fulbright, Martin Luther King, and still many others, Haygood reveals the tragedies and triumphs, the honor and hypocrisies, the courage and the cowardice that shaped an era and whose repercussions resonate today"-- Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2026

Black Out Loud : the revolutionary history of Black comedy from vaudeville to '90s sitcoms

Bennett, Geoff, (Journalist),

Black comedians have long played a pivotal role in shaping the American sense of humor. The 1990s showcased a golden era for Black comedy, highlighted by the surge of iconic sitcoms that redefined television and left a lasting cultural imprint. Shows like In Living Color, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Living Single, Martin, and A Different World stood on the shoulders of decades of groundbreaking work by Black comedians, both on-screen and on-stage, to deliver nuanced portrayals of life, family, and culture. Yet, just decades earlier, the idea of Black artists dominating American airwaves with characters that were both hilarious and heartfelt would have been unimaginable. How did it come to be?

Date Published:2026

Kings And Pawns : jackie robinson and paul robeson in america

Bryant, Howard,

"KINGS AND PAWNS is the untold story of sports and fame, Black America and the promise of integration through the Cold War lens of two transformative events: The first occurred July 18, 1949, in Washington, D.C., when a reluctant Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball star who integrated the game and at the time the most famous Black man in America, appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities to discredit Paul Robeson, the legendary athlete, baritone, and actor-himself once the most famous Black man in America. The testimony would forever be a defining moment in Robinson's life and contribute heavily to the destruction of Robeson's iconic reputation in the eyes of America. The second occurred June 12, 1956, in the midst of the last, demagogic roar of McCarthyism, when a battered, defiant Robeson-prohibited from leaving the United States - faced off in a final showdown with HUAC in the same setting Robinson appeared seven years earlier. These two moments would epitomize the ongoing Black American conflict between patriotism and protest. On the cusp of a nascent civil rights movement, Robinson and Robeson would represent two poles of a people pitted against itself by forces that demanded loyalty without equality in return-one man testifying in conflicted service to and the other in ferocious critique of, a country that would decisively wound both. In a time of great division, with America in the midst of a new era of retrenchment and Black athletes again chilled into silence advocating for civil rights, the story of these two titans reverberates today within and beyond Black America. From the revival of government overreach to curb civil liberties to the Cold War-era rhetoric of "the enemy within" levied against fellow citizens, KINGS AND PAWNS is a story of a moment that remains hauntingly present"--

Date Published:2026

Light Bringer

Brown, Pierce, 1988-,

Series statement from jacket. The legendary Reaper, Darrow, to defend Mars from a bloodthirsty would-be conqueror, begins his long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield--Publisher's description.

Date Published:2024

Not Quite Dead Yet : a novel

Jackson, Holly, 1992-,

In seven days, Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old and back home, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time. Until Halloween night, when she is violently attacked by an unseen intruder, suffering a catastrophic head injury. Doctors are certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a fatal aneurysm. To her parents’ dismay, Jet rejects an extremely risky operation in order to guarantee herself at least a few more days. Jet never thought of herself as having enemies. But now, in the one week she has left, she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend. As her condition deteriorates, she reconnects with her childhood friend Billy, the only one willing to help her. With Billy at her side, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish something:.

Date Published:2025

The Savage, Noble Death Of Babs Dionne

Currie, Ron, Jr., 1975-,

Babs Dionne, proud Franco-American, doting grandmother, and vicious crime matriarch, rules her small town of Waterville, Maine, with an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs into Little Canada with the help of her loyal lieutenants, girlfriends since they were teenagers, and her eldest daughter, Lori, a Marine vet struggling with addiction. When a drug kingpin discovers that his numbers are down in the upper northeast, he sends a malevolent force, known only as The Man, to investigate. At the same time, Babs's youngest daughter, Sis, has gone missing, which doesn't seem at all like a coincidence. In twenty-four hours, Sis will be found dead, and the whole town will seek shelter from Babs’s wrath.

Date Published:2025