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2020
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The Staff of Fire and Bone
by Mikko Azul
Cedron Varkaras, the young halfdemon
son of the Regent of Dulnat,
struggles against both prejudice and
constant betrayal, to unite the warring
peoples of his land against a common
enemy that threatens to annihilate all
life on his world. Hunted and racing
against time, Cedron and his
companions take heroism to a
shocking level to save their world.
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Steel, Blood & Fire
by Allan Batchelder
Arrogant, ruthless and bloodthirsty
Tarmun Vykers may be the only thing
standing between the human race and
utter annihilation at the hands of a mad
wizard; while smaller, lesser folks
struggle to fulfill their own destinies,
folks like Aoife, burdened with a secret
so dark she is driven to do the
unimaginable and seek an alliance with
fey powers no mortal has ever
encountered.
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100 Demon Dialogues
by Lucy Bellwood
Navigating the rocky shores of
self doubt with charm and
honesty, 100 Demon Dialogues is
a collection of comics for
anyone who wants to talk
back to the little voice in their
head that says "You're no
good."
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After Alice Fell
by Kim Taylor Blakemore
New Hampshire, 1865: Marion Abbott has
just returned from serving as a nurse in the
Civil War. She is shocked to find her sister
Alice has died at the asylum she had been
committed. Marion expected Alice's release
and to continue caring for her. Instead, she
finds herself questioning the story the
asylum tells: that Alice picked her lock,
escaped the cell and slipped off the roof.
But the story doesn't add up, and Marion is
determined to find out what really
happened. She seeks atonement. She seeks
forgiveness. And she'll stop at nothing for
the truth.
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Fanny Newcomb and the
Irish Channel Ripper
by Ana Brazil
A Jack the Ripper copycat is
terrorizing the women of Gilded
Age New Orleans. Can amateur
detective Fanny Newcomb stop the
Irish Channel Ripper before he
murders again?
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La Luministe
by Paula Butterfield
La Luministe is about the life and work of
Berthe Morisot, the artist who survived the
German siege of Paris—and the love of
Edouard Manet—to help found the
Impressionist art movement.
Morisot was a fist inside a velvet glove.
While she epitomized femininity and
decorum, she was a quiet revolutionary.
The other Impressionists considered her
light-infused paintings of women the most
avant-garde of them all. And her life in
glittering 19th century Paris was no less
radical, encompassing romance, war, and
family secrets.
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Ten Ways to Hear Snow
by Cathy Camper
A snowy day, a trip to Grandma's, time
spent cooking with one another, and space
to pause and discover the world around
you come together in this perfect picture
book for reading and sharing on a cozy
winter day. With stunning illustrations by
Kenard Pak and thoughtful representation
of a modern Arab American family from
Cathy Camper, Ten Ways to Hear Snow is a
layered exploration of mindfulness,
empathy, and what we realize when the
world gets quiet.
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Lady's Revenge
by Edie Cay
Lady Lydia Somerset is an earl’s daughter who
isn’t seeking a husband. Instead, she seeks
revenge on the men who bet that taking her
virginity could cure a brothel’s plague.
Training in secret with a female boxer keeps
her sane, but when her instructor is hired
away, she hires former prizefighter John
Arthur. A street kid who dazzled with his fists,
he now works miracles on the London Stock
Exchange. John knows he shouldn’t tangle with
bluebloods, but…
Caught between revenge and finding love with
a man who understands her, Lady Lydia must
open her heart or close it forever.
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Amish Guys Don't Call
by Debby Dodds
Samantha is already facing scrutiny and
anxiety at the start of her junior year, as
she's finally been accepted into the popular
girls' clique. But when she realizes that her
new boyfriend Zach was raised Amish,
Sam must tackle a whole new set of
challenges. Zach has chosen not to end his
Rumspringa, instigating a potential
shunning from his family. Not only that,
but Sam's new friends can't miss this
opportunity to torment her in the form of
cyberbullying. Will her culture-crossed love
with Zach find a way? A funny and
engrossing romance- Kirkus Reviews
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The Last Agent
by Robert Dugoni
An American operative in Russia
is on the run for his life in a thriller
of heart-stopping betrayal and
international intrigue by the New
York Times bestselling author of
The Eighth Sister.
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Barbara and the Rage Brigade
(St. Rage Series)
by Karen Einsenbrey
Barbara's starting over.
She's happy to leave high school behind, but
she has no plans beyond driving school, a
part-time summer job, and community
college in the fall. OK, and getting control of
her rage-fueled superpowers. Just when an
invitation to open for another band's record
release explodes into the gig of a lifetime,
Barbara starts noticing weird circumstances
around a cult-like megachurch. Other
superpowered kids are showing up, looking
to her for guidance. She'll need all the help
she can get for this battle.
Look out, world -- here comes the Rage
Brigade.
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Given to Fly
by JD Estrada
Given to Fly is a middle-grade
adventure about a young boy who
discovers the house he’s moved
into has no magic whatsoever and
for one good reason, it lives further
down the road.
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Seven Stitches (Blue Thread Saga)
by Ruth Tenzer Feldman
The biblical woman Serakh has been the
subject of tales for centuries. The Blue
Thread Saga reimagines her as a timetraveler
entwined with young women in
their pursuit of justice. In Blue Thread, a
1912 suffragist helps biblical sisters fight to
inherit land. In The Ninth Day, a shy,
stuttering girl caught up in the 1960s Free
Speech Movement must save a baby in
twelfth century Paris. In Seven Stitches, a
survivor of the 2058 Pacific Northwest
earthquake struggles to find refuge for a
slave girl in sixteenth century Istanbul. In
every place and time, who decides how
much fairness is enough?
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Post Romantic
by Kathleen Flenniken
In her wide-ranging third poetry
collection, Kathleen Flenniken undertakes
the difficult task of reseeing what is before
us. Post Romantic fuses personal memory
with national and ecological upheaval,
interweaving narratives of family, nuclear
history, love of country, and a dangerous
age moving too fast. Flenniken takes these
challenging moments--bits and pieces of
childhood, marriage, cultural touchstones--
and holds them up to the light, seeking
comfort in a complicated world that is at
once heartbreaking, confounding, and
dear.
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Roger William's
Little Book of Virtues
by Becky Garrison
In Roger Williams’s Little Book of Virtues,
religion writer Becky Garrison delves into
the life of her eleventh great-grandfather to
uncover the untold story behind this
forgotten pioneer of religious liberty.
Employing a format reminiscent of How
Proust Can Change Your Life and The
Little Book of Atheist Spirituality,
Garrison examines Roger Williams’s work
through the lens of the four classical
virtues, which, as she observes, define
values that have an almost universal
consensus regardless of one’s particular
belief system.
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Don't Read This Book
by Ben Gorman
Magdalena Wallace is the greatest writer in
the world. She just doesn't know it.
When she wakes up chained to a desk next
to a stack of typed pages and the corpse of
the person who read them, she learns just
how dangerous her book can be. Rescued
by a vampire, a werewolf, and a golem,
she's on the run with the manuscript —
and the fate of humanity — in her
backpack, and a whole lot of monsters hot
on her heels!
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The Seige
by Lars D. H. Hedbor
Maimed in battle, Nathanial Wooster
returns home to recuperate and to try to
rebuild his life. His mother’s cottage in the
quiet port community of York-Town
seems like a good place to find some peace
and quiet, and he is slowly finding his way
in a life forever changed. But then the
British arrive in force, and he must draw
on everything within him just to keep
himself and those he loves alive. If you’ve
ever wondered what the final major battle
of the Revolution looked like from behind
enemy lines, you’ll find some of the answers
in The Siege.
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HOCUS
The Hermetic Order of Clandestine Urban Scribes is a
trimestral gathering of like-minded authors who believe in the
ritual aspects of writing, the beneficial aspects of community,
and the magical properties of the Bic four-color ballpoint pen.
Andrew Fort is the founder of HOCUS, as well as the author of
the novels The Emerald Ballroom and An Image in Lava
(forthcoming). His short stories have appeared in Lady
Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Field Report, and many others, as
well as being nominated for the James Kirkwood prize from the
UCLA Writers' Program.
Erik Arneson is the founder of Arnemancy, a Hermetic
Philosophy and Tarot reading technique. He has over twentyfive
years of experience with Tarot and has studied Hermeticism
for over two decades.
U R S U L A K . L E G U I N

No More Excuses:
Dismantling Rape Culture
by Amber J. Keyser
No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture is
a deep dive into rape culture: the beliefs,
behaviors, and norms of our culture that
excuse and normalize male sexual
aggression and violence. From the #MeToo
movement to the courtroom, from high
school hallways to Hollywood, this book
dissects the toxic gender stereotypes and
abuses of power that perpetuate rape
culture and offers readers the tools to
dismantle it.
U R S U L A K . L E G U I N

Emerge
(The Supernormal Legacy Series)
by LeeAnn McLennan
She has badass, monster-fighting
superpowers. Mountain of Ash
plans to use those powers to kill
everyone she loves. It all comes
down to this.
U R S U L A K . L E G U I N

sweethearts
by Elle Mitchell
co-organizer of Jolabokaflod PDX
Twenty-nine years after finding Laura
Hurst in a frozen lake, Ada is ready to
confront her past. Her return dredges
up more than sordid pieces of the
townsfolk’s lives.
Sam Pruette, a collector of innocents,
worries Ada may remember details
from that frigid day in November of
1988. Laura was only the first
sweetheart.
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Storm Wrack & Spindrift
by Margaret Pinard
co-organizer of Jolabokaflod PDX
Life on the Canada frontier is hard for
many, so the MacLeans must adapt.
Alisdair yearns for education to take
him off the farm, Mairi grows up wild
in the motherless mountains, and
Sheena returns home to Scotland, but
it's not like she remembers, at least not
in the ways she wants...For the MacLean
family, will opportunity for a better life
prove just as elusive?
Book 3 of the Remnants series
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Lava Red Feather Blue
by Molly Ringle
A fairy tale of a love story on a hidden
island country: a modern-day half-fae
man and a prince recently awoken from
a two-hundred-year sleep form an
unlikely alliance when they team up to
restore a broken truce between humans
and fae.
U R S U L A K . L E G U I N

You Call THIS Democracy?
by Elizabeth Rusch
We think we live in a democracy. One
person, one vote. But how democratic is
our government really? The hard truth is
that political power is not shared equally
among all citizens. It shouldn’t matter if
you are rich, poor, urban, rural, Democrat,
Republican, old, or young when you check
off a voting box. But it does. Rather than
pointing fingers at people and political
parties, You Call THIS Democracy? How to fix
our government and deliver power to the people
exposes flaws in the system—and offers a
clear way out of the mess we are in.
U R S U L A K . L E G U I N

Tooth and Claw
by Michaela Thorn
Vampires.
The Man in the Moon’s bloodthirsty
children forged from his scorn.
Shifters.
Mother Nature’s fearless, noble servants, who
risk death by bite in their constant struggle
to keep the vampires at bay.
Macy’s entire life has been devoted to
Mother Nature and upholding her glory,
despite Macy’s incompetence as a shifter.
When she’s bitten by a vampire but doesn’t
die from the venom, everything changes.
Overnight, she becomes one of the monsters
she reviled. Severed from her girlfriend, her
people, her home, and her faith, everything is
called into question.
U R S U L A K . L E G U I N

The Aloha Spirit
by Linda Ulleseit
When Dolores’s husband’s drinking leads to
physical abuse, only his relative Alberto tries
to help—and sparks passion within Dolores
that she hasn’t known before. Catholics can’t
divorce, however; so, after the Pearl Harbor
attack, Dolores flees with her daughters to
California, only to be followed by both
Manolo and Alberto. Manolo’s drinking
problems continue—and Alberto’s begin.
Outraged that another man in her life is
turning to the bottle for answers, Dolores
starts to doubt her feelings for Alberto. Is he
only going to disappoint her, as Manolo has?
Or is Alberto the embodiment of the aloha
spirit she’s been seeking?
U R S U L A K . L E G U I N

Canyons | Older Stories
by Evan Morgan Williams
Canyons | Older Stories is exactly that: a
collection of older stories, cutting deep
into the land and the lives of the people
who live there.The book won the 2019
gold medal in the Next Generation
Independent Book Awards (short story
collection category).
Canyons is a book that will terrify and
thrill you and leave you changed. -Toni
Hanner, author of The Raveling Braid
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