Severed from the Legendborn. Oathbound to a monster. Bree Matthews is alone. She exiled herself from the Legendborn Order, cut her ancestral connections, and turned away from the friends who can’t understand the impossible cost of her powers. This is the only way to keep herself—and those she loves—safe. But Bree’s decision has come with a terrible price: an unbreakable bargain with the Shadow King himself, a shapeshifter who can move between humanity, the demon underworld, and the Legendborn secret society. In exchange for training to wield her unprecedented abilities, Bree has put her future in the Shadow King’s hands—and unwittingly bound herself to do his bidding as his new protégé. Meanwhile, the other Scions must face war with their Round Table fractured, leaderless, and missing its Kingsmage, as Selwyn has also disappeared. When Nick is detained by the Order’s Merlins, he invokes an ancient law that requires the High Council of Regents to convene at the Northern Keep and grant him an audience. No one knows what he will demand of them...or what secrets he has kept hidden from the Table. As a string of mysterious kidnappings escalates and Merlins are found dead, it becomes clear that no matter how hard Bree runs from who she is, the past will always find her.

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world 50 years ago when he opened up the veil between the magical and mundane realms, before vanishing into the unknown. This murderer claims to be al-Jahiz, returned to condemn the modern age for its social oppressions. His dangerous magical abilities instigate unrest in the streets of Cairo that threaten to spill over onto the global stage. Alongside her Ministry colleagues and her clever girlfriend Siti, Agent Fatma must unravel the mystery behind this imposter to restore peace to the city -or face the possibility he could be exactly who he seems…

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.

Keväällä 1921 helsinkiläisten juomavesisäiliöstä Vesilinnasta löytyy kuollut mies. Todisteet viittaavat siihen, että entinen punavanki olisi tappanut jääkäriupseerin kostaakseen kärsimänsä vääryyden. Sisäasiainministeriössä virkamies Karl Axel Björk ei niele selitystä. Murhatutkimukset vievät yksityisetsivän öisille retkille työläiskortteleihin ja salaliittolaisten ja vakoojien suosimiin hotelleihin ja ravintoloihin - sekä muotisalonkiin, jonka viehättävä omistaja on kenties muutakin kuin bolshevikkeja paennut aatelisnainen.

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story. Please don't combine it with the short story collection by the same name. An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story. Please don't combine it with the short story collection by the same name. An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with the short story of the same name. From Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of “pitch perfect” ( Boston Globe ) Small Things Like These ,   comes a triptych of stories about love, lust, betrayal, and the ever-intriguing interchanges between women and men. Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, considered “among the form’s most masterful practitioners” ( New York Times ), Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories, newly revised and expanded, together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan’s earliest to her most recent work.   In “So Late in the Day,” Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he behaved differently; in “The Long and Painful Death,” a writer’s arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll for a residency is disrupted by an academic who imposes his presence and opinions; and in “Antarctica,” a married woman travels out of town to see what it’s like to sleep with another man and ends up in the grip of a possessive stranger.  Each story probes the dynamics that corrupt what could be between women and a lack of generosity, the weight of expectation, the looming threat of violence. Potent, charged, and breathtakingly insightful, these three essential tales will linger with readers long after the book is closed.

The future of storytelling is here. Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister's wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy, high-achieving, judgmental family, she's not sure what comes next. In her hotel room that night, she takes the risk that will define her life - she decides to write a book VERY unlike her others. A science fiction drama about androids and AI after the extinction of humanity. And everything changes. What follows is a tale of love and loss, fame and infamy, of extraordinary events in one world, and another. And as Zelu's life evolves, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur. Because sometimes a story really does have the power to reshape the world.

Keväisessä kahvila Koivussa elämä tarjoaa välillä pelkkiä sitruunoita. Kristiina Kivimaa ja Tommi ovat viettäneet vuoden Adrianmeren rannalla. Lähestyvä kevät tuo parin takaisin Keski-Suomeen, mutta kun Kristiina joutuu kokemaan suurimman mahdollisen menetyksen, ei asettuminen uudelleen vanhaan elämään tunnu helpolta. Pyhävirran kylässä moni asia on muuttunut, kahvila Koivu on uusissa käsissä, vanhoista ystävistä osa on poissa ja Krissen voimat vähissä. Mutta kun menneisyydestä sukeltaa esiin outo perintö, täytyy Krissen kääriä hihat ja jatkaa eteenpäin. Tommin ja Krissen uusi koti nousee Pyhäjärven rantaan ja sinne on uskallettava kantaa huonekalujen lisäksi myös tunteet, toiveet ja ajatukset tulevaisuudesta. Kun kevätaurinko sulattaa hanget ja ensimmäiset valkovuokot kukkivat ojien pientareilla, kahvila Koivussa tuoksuvat jälleen tuoreet korvapuustit. Sitruunakevät on neliosaiseksi kasvaneen Kahvila Koivu -sarjan päätösosa. Kirjasarjan avasi Korvapuustikesä heinäkuussa 2022.

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena's a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn't even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I. So what if June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song--complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn't this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That's what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree. But June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface takes on questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation not only in the publishing industry but the persistent erasure of Asian-American voices and history by Western white society. R. F. Kuang's novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.

Keväisessä kahvila Koivussa elämä tarjoaa välillä pelkkiä sitruunoita. Kristiina Kivimaa ja Tommi ovat viettäneet vuoden Adrianmeren rannalla. Lähestyvä kevät tuo parin takaisin Keski-Suomeen, mutta kun Kristiina joutuu kokemaan suurimman mahdollisen menetyksen, ei asettuminen uudelleen vanhaan elämään tunnu helpolta. Pyhävirran kylässä moni asia on muuttunut, kahvila Koivu on uusissa käsissä, vanhoista ystävistä osa on poissa ja Krissen voimat vähissä. Mutta kun menneisyydestä sukeltaa esiin outo perintö, täytyy Krissen kääriä hihat ja jatkaa eteenpäin. Tommin ja Krissen uusi koti nousee Pyhäjärven rantaan ja sinne on uskallettava kantaa huonekalujen lisäksi myös tunteet, toiveet ja ajatukset tulevaisuudesta. Kun kevätaurinko sulattaa hanget ja ensimmäiset valkovuokot kukkivat ojien pientareilla, kahvila Koivussa tuoksuvat jälleen tuoreet korvapuustit. Sitruunakevät on neliosaiseksi kasvaneen Kahvila Koivu -sarjan päätösosa. Kirjasarjan avasi Korvapuustikesä heinäkuussa 2022.