“Nobody will ever fuck you the way I’m about to fuck you, Saeris Fane. I’m about to introduce you to all seven gods. When you meet them, don’t forget to tell them I’m the one you worship on your knees.” Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers…
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Angelica and the Bear Prince by Trung Le Nguyen
“Everyone grieves differently. There’s no way to do it. It shows up some days, and it passes on other days.” After burning out last year, Angelica is ready to get her life back together. Thankfully she has amazing friends to support her…including Peri the Bear, the mascot of her town’s local theater. At her lowest…
Best Wishes From the Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki
In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they’ll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a Christmas-time Kyoto moon. Satomi is devoted to her…
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
“Somebody,” said Jacques, “your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour–and in the oddest places!–for the lack of it.” Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between…
Teacher of the Year by M.A. Wardell
“My trust issues mean I sometimes struggle with being vulnerable, but you’re starting to weasel your way into my heart. Truly. I’m going to do my best to let you in.” Those who can, teach. Marvin Block is one of the best kindergarten teachers out there. And despite his anxiety, Marvin’s life is sweet. He…
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History by Moudhy Al-Rashid
“You can learn a lot about a culture from the things its people throw away, and the layers left behind are precisely why we have to dig.” Mesopotamia saw the first cities, devised the original writing system, sowed the early seeds of agriculture, and developed myths, medicine, and astronomy that all went on to influence…
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
“After all, as a proverb from southern Africa says, ‘When the lions have historians, then the hunters will cease to be heroes.’” For too long, Africa’s history has been neglected. Dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, its past has been fragmented, overlooked and denied its rightful place in our global story. Now, Zeinab…
Marigold Mind Laundry by Jungeun Yun
“Perhaps the only thing we never have to work for is the morning, which comes around to greet us every day.” Overnight, in the village of Marigold on top of a hill, old Jieun has conjured up a magical Mind Laundry, where she cleanses painful experiences from her customer’s hearts, transferring them into stains on…
What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher
“In general I rather like Americans—they’re usually so terribly earnest—but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a bit nervous. One American can really fill a room. I assume it only takes a hundred or so to really fill a country.” Alex Easton does not want to visit America. They particularly do not want…
Sabriel by Garth Nix
“Five Great Charters knit the landTogether linked, hand in handOne in the people who wear the crownTwo in the folk who keep the Dead downThree and Five became stone and mortarFour sees all in frozen water.” Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random…
The Great Book Wyrm 