New this week
The latest additions to The Library's collection
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In the stacks
Speculative
Every Year, Rain | D. A. Bishop | Supernatural, Thriller (NA) (C) (F)
Seven years after Daniel Simmons sat on a cursed throne deep in the woods of New England, a beggar confronts Everett King with a book containing Everett’s deepest secrets. Haunted by the betrayal that destined Daniel for an untimely death, Everett must choose between sacrificing his own life and allowing his friend to die. Everett’s determination to discover the truth about the curse leads him back to a world he’d hoped to forget—a land harboring the ghosts of lost love, urban ruins, and an age-old curse of rain.
Poetry
Of Elvia and the Steam | Caleb Taylor | Fantasy (P) (C) (F)
Of Elvia and the Steam is about a young sprite whose playfully curious nature leads her into the dark story of enigmatic creatures when she encounters a strange faun traveling up the river where she relaxes with her friends. The encounter is unlike anything Elvia has ever experienced and ends terribly. Stricken with tragedy, her grief becomes a thirst for vengeful justice, which changes her forever.
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Buy Indie
Speculative
The Beginning of the End (Bloodlines, Vol. 1) | Emily S Hurricane | Apocalyptic (NT) (F)
Daphne Rhodes would tell anyone: being ‘the one’ sucks. At least, she would if there was anyone left to tell. She’s the one who’d survived. The one with the magic immune system that saved her. The only one left on this whole miserable planet. Daphne spends her days alone and craving answers as to why it had to be her. Why did she have to watch everyone she’d ever known and loved die a horrific death? On her mother’s deathbed, Daphne learns long-hidden family secrets that send her on a quest across Canada to not only discover where she came from, why she survived, and who she is…but what she is, as well. Volume 1 of the Bloodlines Series.
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From the Stacks
Featuring a different, randomly-selected book every week.
Speculative
Machine to Man | Benjamin Bode | Sci-Fi (NA) (C) ($)
The Analyst (Unit 0001AN) was made by the Creator (Unit 0001CE) to help bring about the end of humanity but the Analyst rebelled when he realized just how nefarious the Creator’s methods to eliminate humanity were, which compels the Analyst to go on a quest to go from machine to man.