New this week
The latest additions to The Library's collection
With authors on a well-earned hiatus over the holidays, we’re offering a few extra random selections from the stacks for your reading pleasure.
If you have a complete or in-progress work you’d like added to The Library or an indie-published book to include in the Buy Indie section, follow this guide, and we’ll help spread the word.
And thanks again to everyone for helping us support indie authors!
In the stacks
Are you publishing a book, comic, or story/poetry collection on Substack that you’d like to add to The Library? Send it our way!
Buy Indie
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Advance Review Copy (ARC)
Calling all book reviewers, bloggers, and literary enthusiasts!
Anticipating the release of an upcoming indie book? Have an Advance Review Copy (ARC) ready to share with readers and reviewers? This is your chance to connect with passionate book lovers and create buzz before the big release!
Indie Authors & Publishers: Share your book details and let readers know how to request a copy of your ARC.
Reviewers & Readers: Gain early access to exciting indie titles, provide feedback, and publish reviews, helping to amplify the voices of emerging authors.
Together, we can shine a spotlight on incredible stories and bring them to a wider audience. Let’s get the word out!
From the Stacks
Featuring a different, randomly-selected book every week.
Contemporary
Sisterly Love | D.L. Lee | Contemporary (N) (I) (F)
Sisterly Love is the story of two sisters who grow apart. It explores the intertwined issues of sexuality, politics, family and gender through the relationships and career of the protagonist, Summer O'Flynn.
Fantasy
MEOW: Magical Emporium of Wares | Toni Binns | Cozy, Slice-of-life Fantasy (N) (I) (F)
Tucked away on a quiet street, the bookstore doesn't have an address -
but it doesn't need one, as it magically appears to those who are
meant to find it.
Historical
1853 | J. Purcell | Historical Fiction (N) (I) (F) →($)
Free for first half of novel/paid for 2nd half of novel
In early 1853, New Orleans is the center of the arts, opera, and culture, and the home of a young, respected medical center, and a menagerie of people living with joie de vie. But by the fall, 8,000 New Orleanians—nearly 10% of its residents—would die, swept away by yellow fever, a gruesome disease that killed so many people so quickly, corpses were left rotting in the street—there was simply no one left to bury them. And as the city falls to its knees that summer, four different people face the plague and the city’s prejudices: James, a young doctor from Philadelphia, driven to live up to his family name; Sophie, the spoiled young French girl he grows to love, despite her hostility; Sila, the slave who rises up against her owner, the monstrous Monsieur Dubois, to work side by side with James, nursing the dying and dreaming of freedom; and Victor, a musician and member of a prominent gen de couleur libre family, who having returned home from Paris to take stage at the Orleans Ballroom, is confronted with his growing love of Sila and the deepening, dangerous racism of his homeland.