Holly Black

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies in the vein of Ninth House and The Night Circus. One of Publishers Weekly's top ten most anticipated books of 2022! Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. Now, she's trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but going straight isn't easy. Bartending at a dive, she's still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic, and that her shadowless and possibly soulless boyfriend has been keeping secrets from her. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends back into a maelstrom of murder and lies. Determined to survive, she's up against a cast of doppelgängers, mercurial billionaires, gloamists, and the people she loves best in the world -- all trying to steal a secret that will allow them control of the shadow world and more. Dark, strange, thick with mystery and twists--Book of Night is everything delicious and frightening I've come to expect from Holly Black. It's a story so believable in its magic, you'll be keeping one eye on your shadow as you turn the pages. --Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House "Black is a master at world-building."--The New York Times Book Review "No one writes like Holly Black."--John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Book of Night

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Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

ASSISTANT WANTED...Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, unperturbable assistant for general office duties, admin work, and supporting staff for mayhem, terror, and Dark Things In General. Discretion necessary under pain of death. Excellent benefits.Evie Sage has been working for the Villain for exactly five months. She thought that being the assistant for Rennedawn's lord of darkness might make her a little more, yunno, evil. Instead, she's getting used to suspended severed heads, the screams of fear, and the odd squish of an errant eyeball beneath her heel.Of course, no job is perfect, especially when you have a teeeeny crush on your terrifying, temperamental, and undeniably hot boss. Don't find evil so attractive, Evie.Only something is rotten is growing in the kingdom of Rennedawn. Someone wants to take the Villain - and his entire nefarious empire - out. Now Evie is determined to figure out exactly who is sabotaging her boss, and ensure he makes them pay.After all, a good job is hard to find.And the monsters that we should fear aren?t the ones that live in the light - but the ones who hide in the shadows.

Assistant to the Villain

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Alix E. Harrow

Michigan

A new novel from New York Times Bestselling author Alix Harrow, Starling House is a contemporary Kentucky Gothic about a small town haunted by the history it can't quite seem to bury, and the clever, surly young woman who finds herself drawn to the house that sits at the crossroads of it all. No one in Eden remembers when Starling House was built. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the house--and its last lonely heir--go to rot. Starling House is uncanny and ugly and fully of secrets, just like its heir. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but it might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. It feels dangerously like something she's never had: a home. But Opal isn't the only one interested in the house, or the horrors and wonders that lie beneath it. If Opal wants a home, she'll have to fight for it. She'll have to dig up her family's ugly history and let herself dream of a better future. She'll have to go down, down into Underland, and claw her way back to the light. Also by Alix E. Harrow Fractured Fables series A Spindle Splintered A Mirror Mended Other Works The Ten Thousand Doors of January The Once and Future Witches

Starling House

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