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A Dark and Hollow Star (A Dark and Hollow Star)

The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones in this thrilling fantasy where four queer teens race to stop a serial killer before their crimes expose the hidden world of faeries to humans.Choose your player.The half-fae outcast, desperate for acceptance. The tempestuous Fury, exiled and hellbent on revenge. The dutiful prince, determined to earn his place. The brooding guardian, burdened by a terrible secret. Each holds a key to solving a series of ritualistic murders that threaten to expose faeries to the human world. But they cannot do it alone. To track down the killer, they will have to form a tenuous alliance, putting their differences - and conflicts - aside. Failure risks the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. And time is running out. Time to roll the dice.

A Dark and Hollow Star (A Dark and Hollow Star)

The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones in this thrilling urban fantasy set in the magical underworld of Toronto where four queer teens race to stop a serial killer before their crimes expose the hidden world of faeries to humans.Choose your player.The half-fae outcast, desperate for acceptance. The tempestuous Fury, exiled and hellbent on revenge. The dutiful prince, determined to earn his place. The brooding guardian, burdened by a terrible secret. Each holds a key to solving a series of ritualistic murders that threaten to expose faeries to the human world. But they cannot do it alone. To track down the killer, they will have to form a tenuous alliance, putting their differences - and conflicts - aside. Failure risks the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. And time is running out. Time to roll the dice.(P)2021 Simon & Schuster Audio

A Dark and Hollow Star (Hollow Star Saga #1)

&“Beautifully written and deliciously complex…I couldn&’t get enough.&” —Nicki Pau Preto, author of the Crown of Feathers series The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones in this thrilling urban fantasy set in the magical underworld of Toronto that follows a queer cast of characters racing to stop a serial killer whose crimes could expose the hidden world of faeries to humans.Choose your player. The &“ironborn&” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family. A tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge. A dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne. The prince&’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret. For centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts—until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world. Four queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. If that&’s not bad enough, there&’s a war brewing between the Mortal and Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales. The only question is: which way? Wish them luck. They&’re going to need it.

A Grim and Sunken Vow (Hollow Star Saga #3)

Arlo and her friends must decide how far they&’re willing to go to depose a cruel ruler in this third book in the Hollow Star Saga that&’s The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones and &“offers vicious and thrilling intrigue&” (Kirkus Reviews).The die is cast. The era of Spring is over. Riadne&’s bloody coup on the Summer Solstice changed Arlo&’s life forever. In one fell swoop and a fool&’s bargain, she lost both her family and free will to the newly crowned High Queen. Now, with Arlo forced to use her powers as Luck&’s Hollow Star to help summon the rest of the seven deadly sins, Riadne stands closer than ever to achieving her dark goals. And Arlo isn&’t the only one trapped in a frightening new role. Her ex-Fury girlfriend, Nausicaä, is determined to do whatever it takes to stay by Arlo&’s side, even if that means becoming Riadne&’s pet assassin. Aurelian and Vehan, torn apart, struggle to survive on their own. Meanwhile, Celadon has been revealed as Riadne&’s illegitimate son—and heir to both Spring and Summer, the ultimate offense in the faerie world. But the High Prince has secret plans of his own, plans made all the more complicated when the beautiful and deadly immortal Hunter Lethe takes an interest in him… Five budding legacies will need more than luck if they hope to stand a chance against the greatest adversary the Courts have faced. For nothing&’s more dangerous than a faerie tale… except the one who tells it, and maybe what they&’re going to need is no longer that story&’s hero but its villain.

A Wild and Ruined Song (Hollow Star Saga #4)

Arlo and her friends struggle to rally against an overwhelming foe before time runs out in this gripping final book in the Hollow Star Saga, the urban fantasy series about fae in Toronto that&’s The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones!Arlo Jarsdel has lost everything. Her family. Her freedom. Her name. And now that she&’s sharing her body with Ruin, the formidable titan of devastation, she&’s even beginning to lose herself. In their most dangerous game of deception yet, Arlo has just one goal: destroy the three Bone Crowns corrupting the mortal and immortal realms before her time runs out and Ruin takes permanent control of her being. With Celadon fighting on the political front against the ruthless High Queen Riadne—now armed with the cataclysmic power of her Crown, the Sins, and Ruin—Vehan and Aurelian are scrambling in secret to build an army to rival the Riadne&’s infernal forces. Meanwhile, Nausicaä will do whatever it takes to save her girlfriend from obliteration, despite knowing the odds of survival are nearly nonexistent. When the line between hero and villain becomes blurred, and bonds are put to the ultimate test, it has never been more imperative—or more difficult—to stand united. For this is not the first lifetime that these five friends have faced the evil behind this impending war, but if they can&’t find their way back to each other, it might just be their last.

Honeymoons in Temporary Locations

Eclectic, experimental, and wildly imaginative climate fictions from a familiar world hauntingly transformed Climate disaster–induced fugue states, mutinous polar bears, support groups for recently displaced millionaires, men who hear trees, and women who lose their wives on environmental refugee resettlement trips. In these dispatches from a weirding world, the absurd and fantastic are increasingly indistinguishable from reality. Exploring this liminal moment, Ashley Shelby&’s collection of climate fictions imagines a near future that is both unnervingly familiar and subversively strange. Set in the same post-climate-impact era, these stories range from playfully satirical to poignantly humane, bending traditional narrative forms and coming together into a brilliant and unusual contemplation of our changing world. Featuring the Hugo-nominated novelette &“Muri,&” Honeymoons in Temporary Locations processes the unthinkable through riotous inventions like guided tours of submerged cities, Craigslist ads placed by climate refugees, and cynical pharmaceutical efforts to market a drug to treat solastalgia, the existential distress caused by environmental change. Shelby reengineers the dystopic bleakness that characterizes so much climate fiction by embracing an eclectic experimentalism leavened with humor, irony, and the inevitable bathos that characterizes the human experience. Unexpected and clever, this innovative collection confirms her status as a visionary writer whose work expands the forms, attitudes, and possibilities of climate fiction.

The Peculiar Gift of July: A Novel

With a dash of magic and a cast of oddball, small-town characters, this feel-good novel explores forgiveness, family, and the sense of humor it takes to live with the ones we love the most.Ebey&’s End is a small town on an island off the Pacific coast, reachable only by ferry (assuming the gods are with you and it&’s not a Tuesday). It&’s a comfortable, familiar (but okay, fine, sometimes lonely) life for its resident grocer Anita Odom. That is, until fourteen-year-old July shows up on her doorstep.Taking in the recently orphaned daughter of an estranged cousin had not been on Anita&’s to-do list. In fact, it&’s a terrible idea. Anita is ill-suited, ill-prepared, and absolutely certain the entire enterprise will end in disaster—for both of them.From the moment she arrives, July seems to &“know&” what each customer at the Island Grocery needs. They&’re small things: a housekeeping magazine slipped into old Mr. Daly&’s basket or a coconut cream pie pressed into the hands of Pastor Chet. But one by one, these gifts start to change the lives of nearly everyone in town in ways much larger than they—or July—could have imagined.It's not long before secrets are exposed and questions emerge, and everyone in Ebey&’s End has to open their hearts a little wider to make room for it all.

The Prank (Night Fall ™)

Pranks make Jordan nervous. But when a group of popular kids invites her along on a series of practical jokes, she doesn't turn them down. As the pranks begin to go horribly wrong, Jordan and her crush, Charlie, work to discover the cause of the accidents. Is the spirit of a prank victim who died twenty years earlier to blame? And can Jordan stop the final prank, or will the haunting continue?

A Novel Love Story

A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction…literally, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and The Dead Romantics. <P><P> Eileen Merriweather loves to get lost in a good happily-ever-after. The fictional kind, anyway. Because at least imaginary men don’t leave you at the altar. She feels safe in a book. At home. Which might be why she’s so set on going her annual book club retreat this year—she needs good friends, cheap wine, and grand romantic gestures—no matter what. <P><P> But when her car unexpectedly breaks down on the way, she finds herself stranded in a quaint town that feels like it’s right out of a novel… <P><P> Because it is. <P><P> This place can’t be real, and yet… she’s here, in Eloraton, the town of her favorite romance series, where the candy store’s honey taffy is always sweet, the local bar’s burgers are always a little burnt, and rain always comes in the afternoon. It feels like home. It’s perfect—and perfectly frozen, trapped in the late author’s last unfinished story. <P><P> Elsy is sure that’s why she must be here: to help bring the town to its storybook ending. <P><P> Except there is a character in Eloraton that she can’t place—a grumpy bookstore owner with mint-green eyes, an irritatingly sexy mouth and impeccable taste in novels. And he does not want her finishing this book. <P><P> Which is a problem because Elsy is beginning to think the town’s happily-ever-after might just be intertwined with her own. <p> <b>New York Times Bestseller</b>

Among the Beasts & Briars

Ashley Poston, acclaimed author of Heart of Iron, returns with a dark, lush fairy tale–inspired fantasy for fans of Sara Raasch and Susan Dennard.Cerys is safe in the Kingdom of Aloriya. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed, and forbidden.Cerys knows this all too well: When she was young, she barely escaped as the woods killed her friends and her mother. Now Cerys carries a small bit of the curse—the magic—in her blood, a reminder of the day she lost everything.As a new queen is crowned, however, things long hidden in the woods descend on the kingdom itself. Cerys is forced on the run, her only companions a small and irritating fox from the royal garden and the magic in her veins. It’s up to her to find the legendary Lady of the Wilds and beg for a way to save her home.But the road is darker and more dangerous than she knows, and as secrets from the past are uncovered amid the teeth and roots of the forest, it’s going to take everything she has just to survive.

El amor ha muerto

Una escritora por encargo con un don muy especial deberá terminar una novela sobre el amor (en el que ya no cree) para quitarse de encima al fantasma de su editor. «El amor ha muerto es un rompecabezas maravillosamente elaborado: al final, todas las piezas encajan perfectamente en su sitioy la imagen que forman es a la vez emotiva, divertida, sorprendente, esperanzadora y soñadora».Ali Hazelwood, autora de La hipótesis del amor Florence Day escribe por encargo para una de las autoras de romántica más prolíficas de la industria, pero tiene un problema: tras una ruptura terrible, ha dejado de creer en el amor. Para ella, está muerto y enterrado. Y de esto Florence sabe mucho, porque tiene un don que le permite ver fantasmas desde niña. Cuando su nuevo editor no acepta darle una prórroga para su última entrega, Florence se prepara para decirle adiós a su carrera, pero justo entonces recibe una llamada sobre otra despedida que la obliga a volver a casa. Y, aunque Florence espera encontrarse su pueblo natal casi como lo dejó, se lleva una sorpresa cuando un fantasma inesperado la sorprende en la puerta de la funeraria familiar.Para ella, el romanticismo ha pasado a mejor vida... pero lo mismo le ha sucedido a Benji, su editor, y su asunto sin resolver hará que Florence se cuestione todo lo que siempre ha creído saber sobre las historias de amor. La crítica ha dicho:«Me encantó este libro. Es una historia preciosa y emotiva, llena de personajes preciosos y conmovedores. Florence es exactamente la protagonista adorable, entrañable y fácil de entender de la que me quiero enamorar, y su viaje para aprender a amar de nuevo me hizo chillar, suspirar y reír».Ali Hazelwood, autora de La hipótesis del amor«El amor ha muerto es una delicia absoluta e inesperada. Viva, extravagante y divertida; las páginas probablemente brillen (pero con purpurina negra)».Christina Lauren, autoras de Una luna sin miel «Un antídoto contra la desesperanza, un romance honesto sobre el hecho de que la vida se acaba y el tiempo pasa, pero que sin embargo insiste en que no somos novelas góticas de terror. Somos historias de amor. Este es un libro que te hará reír durante la escena fúnebre y llorar cuando comience el baile».The New York Times «A todos nos hace falta una buena historia veraniega de fantasmas, y no hay ninguna mejor que el debut literario de Ashley Poston».Entertainment Weekly «Una refrescante novela sobre el amor, la pérdida y la esperanza... Consigue tanto reafirmar a los cínicos como dar esperanza a los románticos, abrazando y transformando simultáneamente las tramas típicas de las comedias románticas. Los diálogos chispeantes hacen que los personajes cobren vida, incluso los que están muertos. Los lectores no podrán dejar de leer».Publishers Weekly «El romanticismo, el caos y las complicaciones son componentes centrales de las refrescantesy divertidas comedias románticas de Poston, y El amor ha muerto no es una excepción. La belleza y el encanto de la narrativa de la autora sigue convirtiendo en milagrosos finales felices los líos en los que la gente corriente suele verse envuelta».Shelf Awareness

Hawkeye: Bishop Takes King

New York Times bestselling author Ashley Poston shows Kate Bishop's Hawkeye still figuring out how to be a Super Hero—and a functioning human being—in this thrilling YA mystery adventure.When Kate Bishop, the young Hawkeye, solves a minor crime and saves the surprisingly cute Milo in the process, she counts it as a rare win. But a mix-up of their bags means that nope, Kate's life is still refusing to run smoothly. In that bag is a mysterious book that holds powerful, dangerous secrets—ones that New York City's most powerful super villain, the Kingpin, would kill to uncover.Kate finds herself on the run, searching for Milo and what he knows, texting her Super Hero besties for moral support, and trying to solve the mystery she's blundered into before she becomes the victim of her own story. Just like its main character, Kate Bishop, New York Times bestselling author Ashley Poston's Super Hero adventure doesn't miss a single shot in one of the funniest, twistiest Marvel stories ever told.

Heart of Iron

*A 2019 Rainbow Book List Selection*An action-packed tale full of romance, royalty, and adventure, inspired by the story of Anastasia. Perfect for fans of Six of Crows,Cinder, and the cult classic television show Firefly.Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09—one of the last remaining illegal Metals—has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him.Ana’s desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to a lost ship that could offer all the answers. But at the last moment, a spoiled Ironblood boy beats Ana to her prize. He has his own reasons for taking the coordinates, and he doesn’t care what he’ll sacrifice to keep them.When everything goes wrong, she and the Ironblood end up as fugitives on the run. Now their entire kingdom is after them—and the coordinates—and not everyone wants them captured alive.What they find in a lost corner of the universe will change all their lives—and unearth dangerous secrets. But when a darkness from Ana’s past returns, she must face an impossible choice: does she protect a kingdom that wants her dead or save the Metal boy she loves?

Soul of Stars (Heart of Iron)

The highly anticipated sequel to Heart of Iron, Soul of Stars is a thrilling sci-fi adventure packed with romance, shocking twists, and witty banter, perfect for fans of Six of Crows and Cinder.Once Ana was an orphaned space outlaw. Then she was the Empress of the Iron Kingdom. Now, thought dead by most of the galaxy after she escaped from the dark AI program called the HIVE, Ana is desperate for a way to save Di from the HIVE’s evil clutches and take back her kingdom.Ana’s only option is to find Starbright, the one person who hacked into the HIVE and lived to tell the tale. But when Ana’s desperation costs the crew of the Dossier a terrible price, Ana and her friends are sent spiraling through the most perilous reaches of the Iron Kingdom to stop the true arbiter of evil in her world: an ancient world-ending deity called the Great Dark.Their journey will take their sharp-witted pilot, Jax, to the home he never wanted to return to and the dangerous fate he left behind. And when Robb finds out who Jax really is, he must contend with his own feelings for the boy he barely knows, and question whether he truly belongs with this group of outcasts.When facing the worst odds, can Ana and her crew of misfits find a way to stop the Great Dark once and for all?

Sounds Like Love

A hitmaking songwriter and a bitter musician share a startling and inexplicable connection that they&’ll do anything to shake, in the next sparkling, magical book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and A Novel Love Story.Named a Most Anticipated book of Summer 2025 by The New York Times ∙ People ∙ USA Today ∙ Marie Claire ∙ E! News ∙ Brit + Co ∙ Yahoo! Life ∙ She Reads ∙ and more!Joni Lark has a secret. She&’s one of the most coveted songwriters in LA, and yet she can&’t write. There&’s an emptiness inside her, and nothing seems to fill it.When she returns to her hometown of Vienna Shores, North Carolina, she hopes that the sand, the surf, and the concerts at The Revelry, her family&’s music venue, will spark inspiration. But when Joni gets there, nothing is how she left it. Her best friend is hiding something, her mother&’s memories are fading fast, and The Revelry is closing.How can Joni write when her world is leaving her behind?Until she hears it. A melody in her head, lyric-less and half-formed, and an alluring and addictive voice to go with it—belonging, apparently, to a wry musician with an emptiness of his own.Surely, he&’s a figment of Joni&’s overworked imagination.Then a very real man shows up in Vienna Shores. He&’s arrogant and guarded—nothing like the sweet, funny voice in Joni&’s head—and he has a plan for breaking their inconvenient telepathic connection: finish the song haunting them both and hope they don&’t risk their hearts—or their secrets—in the process.Because that melody, the one drawing them together . . . what if it&’s there for a reason?

The Bewitching Hour (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Prequels)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan-favorite and LGBTQIA+ icon Tara Maclay gets the main character treatment in this YA prequel full of '90s nostalgia, mysterious murders, and a star-crossed romance, written by New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Ashley Poston.Tara Maclay isn&’t thrilled to be starting her senior year of high school in a new town. But if she can just keep her head down, then maybe she can make it through this year in Hellborne, Vermont without the town living up to its name.Of course, her plan falls apart immediately, as dead students start turning up around her, and she&’s suddenly voted Most Likely To Have Murdered Them by the rest of the senior class. Oh, and the fellow new girl Tara&’s crushing on? Turns out to be a witch-hunter.. . . So maybe it&’s not the worst thing that Tara&’s magic is majorly malfunctioning.As the body count rises, Tara has to overcome her fears, reconnect with her magic, and cast herself in a more central role to save the town—even if it means putting her new relationship at risk.

The Dead Romantics

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick!"I LOVED this book! ...Funny, breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy.&”—Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis"One of the Summer's Hottest Reads"—Entertainment WeeklyA disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, has to find her way back home in this sparkling adult debut from national bestselling author Ashley Poston.Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem—after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It&’s as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won't give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time in a decade to help her family bury her beloved father. For ten years, she's run from the town that never understood her, and even though she misses the sound of a warm Southern night and her eccentric, loving family and their funeral parlor, she can&’t bring herself to stay. Even with her father gone, it feels like nothing in this town has changed. And she hates it. Until she finds a ghost standing at the funeral parlor&’s front door, just as broad and infuriatingly handsome as ever, and he&’s just as confused about why he&’s there as she is. Romance is most certainly dead . . . but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she&’s ever known about love stories.

First Amendment (Stargate SG-1)

Major Morley kept the grenade by Kinsey's ear. Kinsey, who normally considered himself a journalist, wondered if he had made the right career choice.

Highlander: Scimitar

Stargate SG-1

An awesome force of evil, bent on domination and destruction, has blasted its way through the Stargate, threatening the survival of Earth.

The Morpheus Factor (Stargate SG-1)

The SG-1 team encounters a race of seemingly friendly natives on a hospitable world, but soon they all start hallucinating...

The Price You Pay (Stargate SG-1)

O'Neill took his time walking back down to the square, trying to figure out why his feeling of unease was growing. Uh-oh, where was the Dial-Home Device?

Sexuality in Role-Playing Games (Routledge Advances in Game Studies)

Role-playing games offer a chance to pretend, make believe, and share fantasy. They often invoke heavy themes into their game play: morality, violence, politics, spirituality, or sexuality. Although interesting moral debates perennially appear in the media and academia concerning the appropriateness of games’ ability to deal with such adult concepts, very little is known about the intersection between games, playfulness, and sexuality and what this might mean for players. This book offers an in-depth, ethnographic look into the phenomenon of erotic role-play through the experiences of players in multiplayer and tabletop role-playing games. Brown explores why participants engage in erotic role-play; discusses the rules involved in erotic role-play; and uncovers what playing with sexuality in ludic environments means for players, their partners, and their everyday lives. Taken together, this book provides a rich, nuanced, and detailed account of a provocative topic.

Niagara Motel

Set in the early 1990s, Ashley Little's follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang introduces readers to eleven-year-old Tucker Malone--the only child of a narcoleptic touring stripper--who believes his father is Sam Malone, the Boston barkeep who regularly appears on Tucker's TV screen. He and his mother move from motel to motel until, one night in Niagara Falls, his mother is hit by a car after falling asleep in the street.Tucker is sent to live in a youth group home where he meets Meredith, a pregnant sixteen-year-old with hopes of her own; he convinces her to join him on a road trip across the border to America in order to find his father, which takes them from Boston to the west coast. Along the way they encounter some of the most notorious criminals of the 1990s, and arrive in Los Angeles just as the Rodney King riots are unfolding.His cross-country search becomes an epic depiction of mid-90s America at a crossroads as seen through the eyes of a boy, for whom finding his father is the one thing that will make him whole. Told in spare, straightforward prose, Niagara Motel is a biting chronicle during the rise of mass-media in the decade that defined the MTV Generation, and the bittersweet story of a young boy who must learn hard lessons on his way to becoming a man.Ashley Little is the author of Anatomy of a Girl Gang, winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award.

The Intergalactic Collection of Knowledge and Records

Neptunians Milo and Desmund are the keepers of all the information and records of the universe. Their work is interrupted one day with a unique donation—a human girl named Paige who has been abducted by aliens.