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BAD COMPANY by Sara Paretsky 9781250412195 | 11/10/26
To all appearances, Lily Sedako is an unexceptional retiree—a seventy-something single woman living in Chicago, her days filled with the routine tasks of normal life. But underneath that exterior, lies a remarkable past. A former CIA field agent, she spent her career in various Central Asian countries, but most notably in Hayalistan, a former USSR territory. But everything went sideways when Lily’s connections to the mountain tribes resulted in her being moved to a new post and Rani, the tribal leader and first democratically elected President was removed, presumed killed, in a coup back in 2002.
All of this is long behind her when she receives an anonymous package containing a magazine with an article about Hayalistan—an article with a previously unknown photo showing Lily in the background. This was no mistake—someone out there is trying to expose Lily, after more than two decades, for reasons unknown.
Lily, however, is no one’s pawn, even now. She’s determined to find out who is behind this, how they obtained these forbidden photos, and what their goal is before she is a casualty in someone else’s scheme.
Using hard won skills and personal connections from her former life, Lily is determined to unravel the machinations going on now and what really happened back in Hayalstan more than twenty years ago.
In a powerful novel about love, power, corruption, aging, trust . . . and revenge, BAD COMPANY reaffirms Sara Paretsky’s place as one of the pre-eminent crime writers of our time.
CHOSEN SON by Adrienne Young 9781250794222 | 12/15/26
When the city fell, Maris lost everything—her freedom, her future, and the man she loved. Now, with Luca trapped behind the gates of Isara, she makes a choice that will change her life forever: to don the armor of the enemy and march back into the heart of the city she was forced to flee. Every step brings her closer to Luca, but also deeper into the blood-soaked machine of war.
Inside Isara’s walls, Luca wrestles with a truth more dangerous than any sword. Once the symbol of the Loyal Legion, he has lost the thing he was truly fighting for—Maris. The shift of the war has left him to question whether he has become a pawn of the gods, and with betrayal lurking in every shadow, Luca must decide who he is: the dutiful soldier forged by rebellion, or the man willing to risk everything for love.
Across battlefields and through broken temples, Maris and Luca’s treacherous paths through Isara are set to collide. And when the gods demand sacrifice, it comes in a form no one could have expected.
Drew Benson has a secret. She gets visions, something she hasn’t tapped into since she was a teenager, when her late aunt, a TV psychic known as Hannah Mystic, became the scapegoat in the unsolved disappearance of a local teenager. Twenty years later, Drew is happy to ignore her gift, focusing instead on keeping the metaphysical shop she inherited from Hannah afloat, wrangling her sole, astrology-obsessed employee, and dodging local rake Foster Banks in her picturesque lakeside hometown.
But when Drew’s arch-nemesis from high school, now a big city reporter, decides to investigate the cold case from all those years ago, it’s Drew’s ability that could finally make a break in the decades old mystery. With bills piling up, a disapproving mother laying on the guilt, and a local vandal who wants Drew and her witchy store gone, Drew has a lot to lose. But what she stands to gain—finding out what happened to the missing teen, clearing her aunt’s name, and a second chance at belonging—could change everything.
In THE MYSTIC AND THE MISSING GIRL, Vikki VanSickle seamlessly draws readers into an utterly charming world in this unputdownable, small town mystery.
Antigone is no stranger to death. For the women of her family, death always comes in the form of a black dog.
When Antigone’s own black dog arrives, she isn’t afraid. She invites it inside, where it soon becomes a daily source of companionship and comfort. It also forces her to reflect on the life she’s led—the parts of herself she’s hollowed out for the sake of others, and the bone-deep exhaustion that’s hounded her every step.
Her Death’s arrival must be a sign, permission to finally let go. To rest. Because while mortality is inevitable, living is a choice. But a good death comes at a price.
Margot Baxter Harriman has just survived her deadliest scandal as President of B&H Foods, and there’s nowhere to go but up. Which is why she’s organizing a fundraiser for the crowded, overworked city charity hospital, hoping to do good and give back–until a body falls past a third-floor window.
The nurse’s death is quickly ruled a suicide, but fellow nurse CeeCee Foxmoor isn’t so sure: this isn’t the first suspicious death. As Margot’s friend and the live-in partner of investigator Rett Mancini, CeeCee’s concerns draw both Margot and Rett into an undercover scheme to untangle the threads behind the deaths everyone else is ready to overlook.
But another death catches their attention: Margot’s old classmate checked into the Caspian, a luxury clinic catering to the New York elite, and never checked out. And the circumstances surrounding her death feel eerily familiar . . .
As both the secrets and bodies pile up, Rett and Margot realize that while money can buy anything, behind ward doors, everyone pays a price. This time, their search for the truth might cost the people they love.
When the Marquis of Queensbury left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February 1895, it bore only his name and five words, “For Oscar Wilde, posing Sodomite.” The celebrated playwright rose to the challenge and sued for the insult, a fateful decision which led to imprisonment, disgrace, and ultimately an early death. But what if he hadn’t responded this way? What course would Wilde’s life have taken?
John Boyne’s magnificent new novel, THE WEIGHT OF ANGELS, takes this fork in the road as a starting point and imagines what would have happened if Oscar were alive to bear witness to the momentous events of the first half of the twentieth century. How would his life have turned out, what might he have written, whom might he have met? Could the second half of his life have been as celebrated, dramatic, tumultuous, and exhilarating as the first?
In imagining the life that Oscar Wilde never had, John Boyne has written one of the great ‘what if’ stories of modern literature, giving the great Irish poet and playwright a fresh new voice and the opportunity to take an entirely different path through a world which was to change beyond recognition in a few short decades.
For the next fifty-plus years, he will experience triumph and tragedy, pleasure and pain, love and regret, all while witnessing the twentieth century unfold around him in this mesmerizing novel.
PAN by Francesco Dimitri, translated by Sophia McDougall 9781250406989 | 10/13/26
Across the sprawling metropolis of Rome, children dream of an island that doesn’t exist.
An old god returns. Anarchy, destruction, and extreme emotions nourish it. A new god has emerged. Order and subjugation are its intentions. They fought once before. This time it will be to the death.
Magic is returning to the world, and in the skies above the city, children clash with pirates while deities old and new fight for dominance of Rome. Below, the population moves on, oblivious, while the city watches and steels herself for the bloodshed to come. And the people will learn Pan is coming, and it’s coming for them.
In Camdyn, strangeness seeps from Wolford Manor like blood from an open wound. The manor swelters when it should freeze and the garden rots instead of grows—and the young nephew of Lord Montgomery suffers from crippling and pervasive nightmares. Desperate, the family calls upon Matiah Blood.
As a dreamwitch, Matiah can traverse and manipulate the realm of dreams. Wanting to bolster her reputation and support her struggling sister, Matiah travels to the manor—despite the threat of the huntsmen, an elusive sect who prey on dreamwitches.
While Matiah hurries to uncover Wolford’s secrets and prevent the nightmares from poisoning the rest of the household, she must rely on Atlas, the Montgomery’s handsome, brooding bodyguard, for protection. Forced to work together, the two can’t resist their growing attraction—despite Atlas’s devastating history with dreamwitches.
But something far more sinister than huntsmen and nightmares haunts Wolford, something Atlas can’t protect her from, that threatens to break the barrier between the world of dreams and reality. And if Matiah can’t find a way to save Wolford from the ghosts of its past, it might very well break her.
Under the iron fist of the Arcanum Order, magic belongs to the elite. By day, Scythe scrapes by in the city’s poorest district, by night she’s a paid assassin to provide for her family. When a job goes sideways, Scythe makes a desperate play: steal an invitation into the Guild, the Order’s stronghold where initiates are tested, broken, and buried in the ruthless pursuit of claiming magic.
Then Asher Kyrell—the Guild’s most enigmatic leader—claims her as his apprentice.
Forced to work by his side, Scythe begins to uncover fractures within the “perfect” Arcanum Order. Devotion demanded in blood and soul. And as Scythe’s lessons with Asher draw them closer, and dangers bind them tighter, Scythe can’t be certain if Asher is her greatest ally, or the most devastating lie of all.
The threat is not only the demons that hunt them, but what has been watching from within all along. When her loyalty is put to the test, Scythe risks losing everything, including her soul. Or she could become the spark that ignites a rebellion she never saw coming.
COUNTERTENOR by Anthony Roth Costanzo 9780374614669 | 10/27/26
The sound of a countertenor, often described as ethereal and otherworldly, is both familiar and foreign—it is a high voice type, somewhere between what we might expect of a male and a female opera singer. Though we recognize the countertenor range from countless pop stars, experiencing it within the context of opera, powerful and penetrating, and, most important, without any amplification, is unsettling, beautiful, and profoundly moving.
Countertenors today sing music written originally for castrati. Part oddity, part divinity, castrati are inextricably linked to the proliferation of opera from its inception in the seventeenth century through its expansion into the public sphere. The striking beauty of the male voice and the otherness of the sound make it fertile ground for creative invention and innovation, and evoke fascinating aspects of gender, sexuality, and identity.
In COUNTERTENOR, Anthony Roth Costanzo, one of the world’s leading opera singers—known in particular for his performance as Akhnaten in Philip Glass’s opera of the same name—takes us through both his life and the history of his rare and remarkable voice. With wit and humor, Costanzo explores fascinating contradictions contained within the countertenor and narrates his own musical education and interests. The result is a lively and stirring account of an art form in flux, a story of reinvention and a life lived in harmony with art.
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