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The latest additions to The Library's collection
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Speculative
Fantasy
The Dread Eclipse | Mabel Harper & Weaver Webb | Urban Fantasy (N) (I) ($)
When hard-bitten professional “ratcatcher” Caren Navarrete accepts the job of hunting down Lex, the mysterious ganglord who ritually slaughtered eleven Martial Magi in Philadelphia on the night of the winter solstice, it’s way more than just another bounty. Lex’s twelfth victim, for reasons unknown, was Caren’s childhood friend and former love, Luke Langit—so this one’s personal. Caren teams up with Ashton Grenville, an aristocratic teen-prodigy alchemist who is, in his own words, “a walking crime lab,” and together the motley pair scour the Philly magic underworld for clues that could lead them to Lex. Their investigation gradually reveals an ancient plot to unravel the fabric of the universe itself…with the richest tech mogul in the world at its center. Keys to the coming apocalypse lie with Caren’s own hidden past—with a long-lost half-sister and a mythic power passed down from her precolonial Filipino ancestors—and with the close-kept dark secret of Valentine, an alluring androgynous influencer who shares Ash's illicit quest for the Elixir of Life. If you’re ready to devour an epic switchblade-and-sorcery adventure with a thoroughly unhinged queer cast, a wildly zigzagging plot, and hard-hitting themes of trauma, grief, guilt, mysticism, and redemption, The Dread Eclipse is for you.
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Contemporary
Patrons | Chris J. Franklin | Urban Fiction (NT)
Four friends... One big secret... On the anniversary of the disappearance of his wife, a man invites three of his friends to a restaurant to celebrate her life. It's a meal that will change their tight-knit group forever. Because for one of them, it's a meal that's going to be their last...
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From the Stacks
Featuring a different, randomly-selected book every week.
Contemporary
Eulogies for Strangers | Tracy Edward Wymer | Fiction (N) (I) (F)
Brief encounters with (dead) people. Fictional eulogies connecting humans in unexpected ways.
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