Eric Bittle, former Junior Figure Skating Champion and amateur baker, is starting college this year. Instead of figure skating, he’s joining up with the Samwell University hockey team, a big group of talented sports jocks led by Jack, the stoic team Captain who isn’t in the NFL solely because he skipped drafts for his mental […]
Chika does not understand love. At least not in the sense other high schoolers seem to. She has never been in love or had a crush, and has no desire for any kind of romantic intimacy. Everyone tells her she just hasn’t met “the one,” but Chika isn’t sure that will ever happen. When Chika […]
High school senior Aya Osawa’s life keeps a steady rhythm that anyone would be happy to play along to. She’s popular, fashionable, and on the cusp of graduating with something of a plan in mind for how the soundtrack of her life will sound. There’s just one thing, one very important thing, that she keeps […]
Does anything truly stay dead? At the far edge of the cosmos ruled by the Emperor sits the Ninth House, a lonely planet of dwindling life. It is the responsibility of the necromancer heir to the House to save it, but the Reverend Daughter, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, can’t do that alone, no matter how much she […]
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe centers on narrator Aristotle (Ari), a fifteen-year-old in El Paso, Texas, particularly his friendship with another boy, Dante. In this coming-of-age story, Sáenz expertly explores the tension and confusion that are central to the adolescent experience as well as the challenges that come with navigating same-sex […]
It’s 1087. The plague is sweeping through Anderson’s fantasy version of Italy, just as it was in the real world. A Benedictine monk named Nicephorus is having visions of St. Nicholas calling him to minister to the sick and dying. And a team of relic hunters, the dog-headed Reprobus and silver-tongued Tyun, are looking for […]
Gadriel, the fallen angel of petty temptations, has never agreed with the point system of Sin and Virtue that decides a human’s fate after they die. Why should eating chocolate cost you a ½ point of Sin? Despite this, she stays out of the way and tries not to catch the notice of other angelic […]
Truly Livingston is a romance author and hopeless romantic. She believes in happily ever afters. And then…she walks in on her fiance cheating on her. Not only that, her parents, whom she believed to be in the perfect marriage, have announced they are separating. She is devastated, angry, and lost AND she was just invited […]
During the Golden Age of Piracy, Jacquotte Delahaye, the daughter of a French father and Haitian mother, is forced to flee her life as a shipwright in Santo Domingo when her father is assassinated. Unfortunately, the ship she escapes on is captured by pirates. She and a fellow refugee named Teresa are made indentured servants […]
There are two things that Wren Martin hates more than anything: The Valentine’s Day Dance at Rapture High, and his Student Council Vice President, Leo Reyes. When Wren becomes Student Council President (by a technicality, but that’s not important) he’s determined to make the school better by doing away with the Dance and using the […]
