#hardcover #fiction #youngadult #fantasy #youngadultfiction #botm #theseviolentdelights #bookofthemonth #historical #ya

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! A BuzzFeed Best Young Adult Book of 2020 Perfect for fans of The Last Magician and Serpent & Dove, this heart-stopping debut is an imaginative Romeo and Juliet retelling set in 1920s Shanghai, with rival gangs and a monster in the depths of the Huangpu River. The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery. A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang—a network of criminals far above the law. Their only rivals in power are the White Flowers, who have fought the Scarlets for generations. And behind every move is their heir, Roma Montagov, Juliette’s first love…and first betrayal. But when gangsters on both sides show signs of instability culminating in clawing their own throats out, the people start to whisper. Of a contagion, a madness. Of a monster in the shadows. As the deaths stack up, Juliette and Roma must set their guns—and grudges—aside and work together, for if they can’t stop this mayhem, then there will be no city left for either to rule.

These Violent Delights

5da43898-93b6-4b86-bda4-0ac02e04aac4-1

How the Moral Values Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together

As a three-term Republican senator from Missouri and an Episcopal priest, John Danforth has watched the changes in his party and the church with growing alarm. Now he wants to voice his concerns and call for change. Danforth speaks out clearly against the

Faith and Politics

06a69fb4-51c4-4607-b312-6327b38fc457-1

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Everyone's favorite pranksters are at it again! School's out, and Miles and Niles are running wild
in the woods outside town: climbing trees, exploring caves, and, yes, pranking. But these leafy,
lazy days of mischief darken when bully Josh Barkin and his cadets from a nearby kids' boot camp
discover the merrymakers-and vow to destroy them. Are our heroes' sharp minds any match for
these hooligans' hard fists? The third installment of the witty, on-target illustrated series is another
"fast paced, laugh-out-loud novel" (School Library Journal on The Terrible Two) that proves once again
that, in the hands of the powerless, pranks can be tools of justice-plus, they're funny.

The Terrible Two Go Wild

e8d83243-d679-4817-bc05-a014f5f0a1f2-1

Agatha Raisin meets Sookie Stackhouse, with croquet and crumpets.

An adventure with zombies. And vampires. And romance. And croquet.

Toni Windsor is trying to live a quiet life in the green and pleasant county of Staffordshire. She'd love to finally master the rules of croquet, acquire a decent boyfriend and make some commission as an estate agent...

...but first she's got to deal with zombies rising from their graves, vampires sneaking out of their coffins and a murder to solve.

It's all made rather more complicated by the fact that she's the one raising all the zombies--oh, and she's dating one of the vampires. Really, what's a girl meant to do?

ARC - Grave Secrets

62da0371-f326-4a3d-a050-1d7ed6f3a670-1

#paperback #fiction #theguynottaken #jenniferweiner 

Stories

A collection of short stories that explores the progress of love and relationships over a course of a lifetime, from a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to a widow accepting two young women into her home.

The Guy Not Taken

5c921ffb-5aa9-4d82-83f5-5adbab861c6e-1

The wild but defeated Tempest finds healing in the kindness of strangers who introduce him to a restoring God in this second volume of the manga-style Hand of the Morningstar series.

Resurrection

27daa9d6-0744-4a1e-a1e5-70038a68edc3-1

LARGE PRINT EDITION  #paperback #themarriagepact #thriller #suspense #mystery #largeprint #marriage #michellerichmond

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

How far is too far when it comes to protecting your marriage? Find out in this relentlessly paced novel of psychological suspense for anyone who loved The Couple Next Door.

"Ranks with The Stepford Wives and Gone Girl as a terrifying look at what it really means to say 'I do.'"--Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of The Switch

Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice, once a singer in a well-known rock band, is now a successful lawyer. Jake is a partner in an up-and-coming psychology practice. Their life together holds endless possibilities. After receiving an enticing wedding gift from one of Alice's prominent clients, they decide to join an exclusive and mysterious group known only as The Pact.

The goal of The Pact seems simple: to keep marriages happy and intact. And most of its rules make sense. Always answer the phone when your spouse calls. Exchange thoughtful gifts monthly. Plan a trip together once per quarter. . . .

Never mention The Pact to anyone.

Alice and Jake are initially seduced by the glamorous parties, the sense of community, their widening social circle of like-minded couples.

And then one of them breaks the rules.

The young lovers are about to discover that for adherents to The Pact, membership, like marriage, is for life. And The Pact will go to any lengths to enforce that rule.

For Jake and Alice, the marriage of their dreams is about to become their worst nightmare.

Praise for The Marriage Pact

"This fast-paced nail-biter goes in unpredictable directions. . . . It also raises thoughtful questions about individual agency and marital commitment. With strong writing, intriguing characters, and a compelling conceit, this psychological thriller seems destined for the top of summer reading lists. Recommended as a fresh voice for readers of Gillian Flynn or Ruth Ware."--Library Journal (starred review)
 
"Creepy and engrossing . . . [The Marriage Pact takes] readers deep into the heart of a marriage and exposes some of the darker drives, such as possession and control, that can lurk within even the most harmonious of unions."--Booklist

"Gripping, thought-provoking, and irresistible."--Dean Koontz

"Riveting psychological suspense! This book will keep you up all night, while making you second-guess everything you know and everyone you've ever loved."--Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Right Behind You

The Marriage Pact

ba0570fd-6a7e-4868-9854-775a3c0132cb-1

#hardcover #childrens #kids #bilingual #cooking #bestseller Previous library book with ample wear and tear. Please review photos. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

While learning to make tortillas on her seventh birthday, Magda tries to make perfectly round ones like those made by her grandmother but instead creates a variety of wonderful shapes.

Magda's Tortillas (Las Tortillas de Magda)

40d0ea51-fb73-44b2-bbee-e3bfee0b605a-1

#fiction #romance #love #paperback #witchcraft #romcom #witchy #spooky #witches 

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong. Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths...and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn't use her magic this way, but with only an "orchard hayride" scented candle on hand, she isn't worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two. That is until Rhys Penhallow, descendent of the town's ancestors, breaker of hearts, and annoyingly just as gorgeous as he always was, returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. What should be a quick trip to recharge the town's ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival turns disastrously wrong. With one calamity after another striking Rhys, Vivi realizes her silly little Ex Hex may not have been so harmless after all. Suddenly, Graves Glen is under attack from murderous wind-up toys, a pissed off ghost, and a talking cat with some interesting things to say. Vivi and Rhys have to ignore their off the charts chemistry to work together to save the town and find a way to break the break-up curse before it's too late.

The Ex Hex

0c49bd9f-e311-48d7-ab07-963363f4d98d

#worncopy #fiction #paperback #kundera #brilliant #pathos #love #relationships #original

Set in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, the story revolves around a young doctor who has a way with women and an aversion to politics. He suddenly finds himself caught up in his country's political turmoil and in a crisis of commitment with the women in his life.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

63a1ece7-f1b8-4aff-9d59-118b6ac337c6-1

Miles Murphy is not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy town that's famous for one thing and one thing only: cows. In his old school, everyone knew him as the town's best prankster, but Miles quickly discovers that Yawnee Valley already has a prankster, and a great one. If Miles is going to take the title from this mystery kid, he is going to have to raise his game. It's prankster against prankster in an epic war of trickery, until the two finally decide to join forces and pull off the biggest prank ever seen: a prank so huge that it would make the members of the International Order of Disorder proud. In The Terrible Two, bestselling authors Mac Barnett and Jory John have created a series that has its roots in classic middle-grade literature yet feels fresh and new at the same time.

The Terrible Two

391f4108-ee2f-4666-83d7-1fdaaf0ff6f8-1

#hardcover #fiction #romance #janetevanovich #neverreadit #small-town #suspense 

Lacking the money to open a bed and breakfast in her parents' summer house in Michigan, former magazine editor Kate takes a questionable undercover job from a brewery owner who wants to find out who has been sabotaging his company, a situation that is compromised by Kate's distaste for beer and her crush on her employer. Co-written the best-selling author of the Stephanie Plum series. 1 million first printing.

Love in a Nutshell

e7e2d172-2775-4271-9a79-0f759a1d354c

#hardcover #religion #Jesus #evangelical 

'There is no writer in the evangelical world that I admire and appreciate more.'Billy GrahamPhilip Yancey helps reveal what two thousand years of history covered upWhat happens when a respected Christian journalist decides to put his preconceptions aside and take a long look at the Jesus described in the Gospels? How does the Jesus of the New Testament compare to the 'new, rediscovered' Jesus---or even the Jesus we think we know so well? Philip Yancey offers a new and different perspective on the life of Christ and his work---his teachings, his miracles, his death and resurrection---and ultimately, who he was and why he came. From the manger in Bethlehem to the cross in Jerusalem, Yancey presents a complex character who generates questions as well as answers; a disturbing and exhilarating Jesus who wants to radically transform your life and stretch your faith.The Jesus I Never Knew uncovers a Jesus who is brilliant, creative, challenging, fearless, compassionate, unpredictable, and ultimately satisfying. 'No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same,' says Yancey. 'Jesus has rocked my own preconceptions and has made me ask hard questions about why those of us who bear his name don't do a better job of following him.'

The Jesus I Never Knew

64c94b3d-5ed2-4dab-9852-0aa9f337899d-1

 #fiction #youngadult #prettylittleliars 

First book in the Pretty Little Liars series & The Perfectionist

Everyone has something to hide—especially high school juniors Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna. Spencer covets her sister's boyfriend. Aria's fantasizing about her English teacher. Emily's crushing on the new girl at school. And Hanna uses some ugly tricks to stay beautiful. But they've all kept an even bigger secret since their friend Alison vanished. How do I know? Because I know everything about the bad girls they were and the naughty girls they are now. And guess what? I'm telling.

Pretty Little Liars & The Perfectionist

098219af-3800-4aab-b262-0c651b2eb107-1

#paperback #fiction #romance #andreaciman

A New York Times Bestseller In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love. In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever. Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic. Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.

Find Me

455fb3e8-c45f-4d89-9187-c93973178ac0

#paperback #bullyromance #romance #highschoolromance #darkromance 

Dark New Adult High School Bully Romance

He stole my first kiss... and now he thinks everything else is his.GemmaI said no to the one person no one at this school dares to refuse.Now I'm targeted by jealous girls, guys that compete to be the first to "break the prude", and by him. After one kiss, the king of the school hunts me down like I'm a conquest to win. He'll have to fight harder than that, because I'm no one's trophy.They all want a piece of me, but I will not bend or break for them.No one refuses the king.LucasOne case of mistaken identity and a hasty kiss turned my world upside down.The new girl refused me. Not only that, she threw down the gauntlet. That won't stand. No one ever says no to me. This school is mine and she'll learn her place as a loyal follower or her life is going up in flames.I'll make her say yes. She'll be screaming it before I'm finished breaking her.Warning: Wicked Saint is a dark new adult high school bully romance intended for readers 18+. This book is part of a series but can be enjoyed as a standalone. This mature new adult romance contains crude language, dubious situations, and detailed intense sexual/violent content that some readers might find triggering or offensive. Please proceed with caution.

Chloe Gong

These Violent Delights

John Danforth

Faith and Politics

Mac Barnett; Jory John; Kevin Cornell (Illustrator)

The Terrible Two Go Wild

Alice James

ARC - Grave Secrets

Jennifer Weiner

The Guy Not Taken

Lamp Post, Inc. Staff (Contribution by); Mike Miller (Illustrator); Bud Rogers (Editor); Brett M. Burner

Resurrection

Michelle Richmond

The Marriage Pact

Becky Chavarria-Chairez; Anne Vega (Illustrator); Julia Mercedes Castilla (Translator)

Magda's Tortillas (Las Tortillas de Magda)

Erin Sterling

The Ex Hex

Milan Kundera; Michael Henry Heim (Translator)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Mac Barnett; Jory John

The Terrible Two

Janet Evanovich; Dorien Kelly

Love in a Nutshell

Philip Yancey

The Jesus I Never Knew

Sara Shepard

Pretty Little Liars & The Perfectionist

André Aciman; André Aciman

Find Me

Veronica Eden

Wicked Saint