Tuesday, February 22, 2022

New Fiction

Fifteen-year-olds Nina and Oli come from different words--she is a Lipan Apache living in Texas and he is a cottonmouth from the Reflecting World--but their lives intersect when Oli journeys to Earth to find a cure for his ailing friend. -Summary
“When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move.” -WorldCat

A gut-wrenching, startling historical thriller about communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation. -Summary

In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons get to be whomever they want. Tess, stubbornly, is a troublemaker. As her family plans to send her to a nunnery, Tess yanks on her boots and sets out on a journey across the Southlands, alone and pretending to be a boy. -Summary
One Upon A Broken Heart marks the launch of a new series from Stephanie Garber about love, curses, and the lengths that people will go to for happily ever after. -Summary
Addie makes a pact with the devil, she trades her soul for immortality. But there's always a price - the devil takes away her place in the world. Fleeing her tiny home town in 18th-Century France, Addie begins a journey that takes her across the world, learning to live a life where no one remembers her. Summary


These are the Strangers, each haunted in her own way. Between flickering moments of warmth and support, the women diverge and reconnect, fighting to survive in a fractured system that pretends to offer success but expects them to fail. -Summary
When two girls go backpacking deep in the woods of the Pisgah National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains, things go very wrong when they cross paths with a serial killer. -Summary



A novel in prose and verse that follows the experiences of a teen who finds courage in the story of a 15th-century avenger when her sister's rapist is set free without prison time. -Summary
Kingdom of Cards; Book One
“In a city covered in ice and ruin, a group of magicians face off in a daring game of magical feats to find the next headliner of the Conquering Circus, only to find themselves under the threat of an unseen danger striking behind the scenes. As each act becomes more and more risky and the number of missing magicians piles up, three are forced to reckon with their secrets before the darkness comes for them next.” -Amazon