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.

The shadows have risen, and the line is law. All Bree wanted was to uncover the truth behind her mother’s death. So she infiltrated the Legendborn Order, a secret society descended from King Arthur’s knights—only to discover her own ancestral power. Now, Bree has become someone new: A Medium. A Bloodcrafter. A Scion. But the ancient war between demons and the Order is rising to a deadly peak. And Nick, the Legendborn boy Bree fell in love with, has been kidnapped. Bree wants to fight, but the Regents who rule the Order won’t let her. To them, she is an unknown girl with unheard-of power, and as the living anchor for the spell that preserves the Legendborn cycle, she must be protected. When the Regents reveal they will do whatever it takes to hide the war, Bree and her friends must go on the run to rescue Nick themselves. But enemies are everywhere, Bree’s powers are unpredictable and dangerous, and she can’t escape her growing attraction to Selwyn, the mage sworn to protect Nick until death. If Bree has any hope of saving herself and the people she loves, she must learn to control her powers from the ancestors who wielded them first—without losing herself in the process.

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover—a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty—and discover how truth can survive becoming history. Nghi Vo returns to the empire of Ahn and The Singing Hills Cycle in this mesmerizing, lush standalone follow-up to The Empress of Salt and Fortune.

Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling. 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 achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry. When she finally claws her way up the ranks to become a highmage, however, she finds that her challenges have just begun. Her new colleagues will stop at nothing to let her know she is unwelcome, beginning with giving her a janitor instead of a qualified lab assistant. What neither Sciona nor her peers realize is that her taciturn assistant was once more than a janitor; before he mopped floors for the mages, Thomil was a nomadic hunter from beyond Tiran’s magical barrier. Ten years have passed since he survived the perilous crossing that killed his family. But working for a highmage, he sees the opportunity to finally understand the forces that decimated his tribe, drove him from his homeland, and keep the Tiranish in power. Through their fractious relationship, mage and outsider uncover an ancient secret that could change the course of magic forever—if it doesn’t get them killed first. Sciona has defined her life by the pursuit of truth, but how much is one truth worth with the fate of civilization in the balance? A standalone dark academia brimming with mystery, tragedy, and the damning echoes of the past. For fans of Leigh Bardugo, V. E. Schwab, and Fullmetal Alchemist. (Content warnings for gore, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation)