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Stripped of his magic, a pyromancer hunts for the sword that can save his daughter in this expansive, intriguing fantasy world. After the events of book one, Ashe is trying to save his comatose daughter. Still searching for the stolen klavensol Nixer (a black, curved sword whose Harm Hex prevents wounds from healing), he and […]

The therapy room at the memory-care clinic is done in pastels, with a recliner that tilts at the touch of a button. A doctor who trained in neuroscience has downloaded the easy-listening hits of 1965, and a nurse has just warmed a supermarket frozen dinner of hamburger steak and gravy, because that was what the […]

The house is quiet except for a piano somewhere down the hall, and the nanny is curled up in the den watching a documentary she has seen more than a dozen times. Noah Wilson, who has spent weeks avoiding being alone in a room with her, sits down at the far end of the sofa […]

An intricate, multiverse-hopping novel that hides the keys to survival in different timelines and different selves Multiple timelines. Different identities. One clear goal: Save the worlds from collapsing.  Luckily, Madders (an AI-assistant that’s carrying the history of physicist Matt Hudson) can see through the interweaving timelines and recognize what needs to be done in order […]

In June 1675 a Rhode Island official named John Easton crossed the water to Montaup to hear the grievances of Pumetacom, the Wampanoag leader the English called King Philip. Forty armed men stood with the sachem. What he told Easton was a parable of the colony’s own beginnings. When the English came, his father had […]

A darkly funny, off-kilter romance where watching and helping blur into the same thing Eden’s life begins in crisis. A survivor of domestic abuse, she has only her neighbor’s cat, Fritter, and her friend Paige to lean on, and within the first chapters she crosses paths with her ex-husband, Alex. What follows in Maxine Meyer’s […]

A 50-year true crime saga that underscores the shocking darkness—and unending lightness—of the human soul jack·light·ing | ˈjak-ˌlīt-iŋ | Noun The hunting method of shining artificial light on game at night to stun or freeze it in place—exploiting the “deer-in-the-headlights” effect to make it an easy target. By extension, the kill itself: an amoral killing […]