“Where women are not, the devil, he will bring them.” Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out….
Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa
“But a change of plans on the journey doesn’t keep you from the destination.” In a twenty-four-hour span, Rafael Alvarez led North Amistad High School’s Mariachi Alma de la Frontera to their eleventh consecutive first-place win in the Mariachi Extravaganza de Nacional; and met, made out with, and almost hooked up with one of the…
When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
“Gentle souls cast as devils in humankind’s ongoing stage play of existence. It’s Oppression 101: find a bad guy, and if you can’t, make one up.” On Kupala Night, Dymitr arrives in Chicago’s monstrous, magical underworld with a perilous mission: pick the mythical fern flower and offer it to a cursed creature in exchange for…
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
“It hurt to lose love. I knew first hand how much. And the wounds from tearing one’s heart free of someone else’s always left scars. What good is passion if it comes without trust?” Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty’s most luxurious interstellar passenger liner! Room and board are included, new bodies are graciously…
Don’t Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo
“Be a little kind to yourself, please. If you can be whoever you want, wouldn’t it be nice to be someone you liked?” Nick Carraway―paper soldier and novelist―has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the late thirties. He’s good at watching, and he’s even…
Under the Oak Tree: Vol. 1 (The Novel) by Suji Kim
“If you ever speak about my wife that way again,” Riftan spat out each word with blistering menace, “I will slice you open from mouth to groin.” Lady Maximilian is the daughter of the powerful Duke Croyso, but she is rarely allowed outside her family’s sprawling castle for fear that her stutter will tarnish their…
Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang
“It’s much easier to tell yourself you’re a good person than it is to actually be one.” An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to…
The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen by Yuta Takahashi
‘Of course,’ he said, ‘please come back whenever you like. We’ll be expecting you, and we’ll make sure we have something delicious prepared.’ In a remote seaside town outside of Tokyo, Kotoko makes her way along a seashell path, lured by whispers of an enigmatic restaurant whose kagezen, or traditional meals offered in remembrance of…
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
“People who are treated as less than fully human by the social order are more susceptible to tuberculosis but it’s not because of their moral codes or choices or genetics, it’s because they are treated as less than fully human by the social order.” Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as…
Malice by John Gwynne
“I shall stay and tell my tale, hope that it may serve some purpose, that eyes shall see it and learn, that the future will not repeat the mistakes of the past. That is my prayer, but what use is prayer to a god that has abandoned all things . . .” Young Corban watches…
The Great Book Wyrm 