New this week
The latest additions to The Library's collection
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In the stacks
Speculative
Dystopian
Dollhouse | Maya Westerly | Dystopian (NT) (I) (F)→($)
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Liam has been living a life in hiding for all of his adult life, but when an experimental procedure offers him the chance to live as his true self, he jumps at the opportunity. In Dollhouse, find out what Liam must give up to be who he truly is, and how much it will really cost. A cautionary tale in fighting what you wish for, and what must be done in order to get it. Dollhouse is an intro to a much longer series in the works, and is a good starter read to build familiarity with a deviant world.
Fantasy
Heaven and Earth: The Heshra Chronicles | A.M. Ward | Fantasy (suitable for both young adults and regular adults) (N) (I) (F)
All Rahn wants is to be strong as Veyta girls should be–a hunter, a warrior. But the strength of the Veyta is in their eyes. And when Rahn climbs the mountain for the third time to attempt the Ceremony of Awakening, no Sight comes to her brown eyes. She is cursed, shunned by her tribe. The only person Rahn can count on is her clairvoyant cousin, Azayan. But as Azayan’s visions grow stronger, pulling her into a trance, Rahn is cast out from her home with nothing but a waterskin and a charge from Azayan to retrieve a sword from the tomb of Abashar, a legendary king. To find it, Rahn must make her way across the waterless plains and retrieve the sword before the charismatic warlord Tarsa can claim it. For if he does, Tarsa will have the power to rule the steppe–and to release from the earth an ancient being that does not wish to remain bound.
Thriller & Mystery
The Education of Lisa Rose | T. D. Wolf | Crime Fiction (N) (I) (F)
Los Angeles, in the year 2048. A city of pimps and parties, blackouts, and brothels. Where the cops are so corrupt they had to invent a new police force. And at the top of the criminal underworld is a woman with menacing plans, and her eyes on a new technology that could make her unstoppable. Into this world enters Lisa Rose, an ambitious young woman haunted by her past, who’s come to L.A. to reinvent herself. Tempted by the lure of sex, drugs and easy money, she enters a dark world whose only price is her eternal soul.
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Advance Review Copy (ARC)
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From the Stacks
Featuring a different, randomly-selected book every week.
Literary
Beautiful but Unlikely | Julie Weigley | Literary (N) (C) (F)
Beautiful but Unlikely is a coming-of-age novel about finding your place in the world on your own terms in your own time. The way the measure of a man should be taken—by the money he makes or the leadership he exhibits. In both cases, courage is needed to cross boundaries and not be ruled by what others think. Amy Templeton is a college graduate full of private passions, but in need of public markers. She stumbles her way from crisis to crisis in her journey, watching for her ‘knights, in the form of money or men.' Drawing on the legend of her beloved Birman cats, each of whom carries the soul of a priest released to heaven upon the feline’s death, she manages to change over time, in her own time, from a spectator at loose ends to the type of purposeful individual she could once only admire.
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