Maladies and Medicine
Title: Maladies and Medicine Author: Sara Read, Jennifer Evans, Genre: History Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Release Date: October 19, 2017 Maladies and Medicine offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. The introduction sets out the background in which the body was understood, covering the theory of the four humors and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualized. It also explains the hierarchy of healers from university trained physicians, to the itinerant […]
Enigma (Schrodinger’s Consortium, Book 2)
Title: Enigma Series: Schrodinger's Consortium, Book 2 Author: Tonya Kuper Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: Entangled: Teen Release Date: July 4, 2017 Pages: 304 What’s worse than having half of your secret race wanting to kill you? Having both sides want to control you. Feeling something for Reid Wentworth is not part of the plan. Josie Harper doesn’t have time to think about hot boys when she has to help unite the Resistance against the Consortium. To say her life has […]
Trusting You & Other Lies
Title: Trusting You and Other Lies Author: Nicole Williams Genre: Young Adult Fiction Publisher: Crown Books For Young Readers Release Date: June 20, 2017 Pages: 304 USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Nicole Williams delivers a seductive summer romance worth swooning over. Perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Stephanie Perkins. Phoenix can’t imagine anything worse than being shipped off to family summer camp. Her parents have been fighting for the past two years–do they seriously think being […]
Secrets of Skin and Stone
Title: Secrets of Skin and Stone Author: Wendy Laine Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Release Date: May 17, 2017 Format: Paperback Pages: 290 Something is wrong in Hidden Creek. The sleepy Alabama town is more haunted than any place fiend hunter Grisham Caso has ever seen. Unearthed graves, curse bags, and spilled blood all point to an evil that could destroy his gargoyle birthright. The town isn’t safe for anyone, and everyone says fiery Piper Devon knows why. Piper wants […]
The Witchfinder’s Sister
Title: The Witchfinder's Sister Author: Beth Underdown Genre: Fiction Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: 2017 Pages: 336 Essex, England, 1645. With a heavy heart, Alice Hopkins returns to the small town she grew up in. Widowed, with child, and without prospects, she is forced to find refuge at the house of her younger brother, Matthew. In the five years she has been gone, the boy she knew has become a man of influence and wealth—but more has changed than merely […]
The Suffering Tree
Title: The Suffering Tree Author: Elle Cosimano Genre: Young Adult Fiction Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Release Date: June 13, 2017 Pages: 368 “It’s dark magic brings him back.” Tori Burns and her family left D.C. for claustrophobic Chaptico, Maryland, after suddenly inheriting a house under mysterious circumstances. That inheritance puts her at odds with the entire town, especially Jesse Slaughter and his family-it’s their generations-old land the Burns have “stolen.” As the suspicious looks and muttered accusations of her neighbors build, so […]
Death Need Not Be Fatal
Title: Death Need Not Be Fatal Author: Malachy McCourt, Brian McDonald Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Center Street Release Date: May 16, 2017 Pages: 272 Before he runs out of time, Irish bon vivant MALACHY MCCOURT shares his views on death – sometimes hilarious and often poignant – and on what will or won’t happen after his last breath is drawn. During the course of his life, Malachy McCourt practically invented the single’s bar; was a pioneer in talk radio, […]
Grendel’s Guide to Love and War
Title: Grendel's Guide to Love and War Author: A. E. Kaplan Genre: Young Adult Fiction Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Release Date: April 18, 2017 Pages: 320 The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets Revenge of the Nerds in this tale of a teen misfit who seeks to take down the bro next door, but ends up falling for his enemy’s sister and uncovering difficult truths about his family in the process. Tom Grendel lives a quiet life–writing in […]
All the Forever Things
Title: All the Forever Things Author: Jolene Perry Genre: Young Adult Fiction Publisher: Albert Whitman and Company Release Date: April 1, 2017 Pages: 288 From growing up in the funeral home her family runs, Gabriella knows that death is a part of life and nothing is forever. Yet Bree, her best friend, has been a constant; it’s always been the two of them together against the world. But when Bree starts dating a guy—the worst guy— from that ultra-popular world, […]
Always
Title: Always Author: Sarah Jio Genre: Fiction Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: February 7, 2017 Pages: 288 A gripping novel about the kind of love that never lets go, and the heart’s capacity to remember, from the New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter and The Violetes of March Enjoying a romantic candlelit dinner with her fianc�, Ryan, at one of Seattle’s chicest restaurants, Kailey Crain can’t believe her good fortune: She has a great job as a journalist […]
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