The Assassin's Guide to Babysitting

The Assassin's Guide to Babysitting

Natalie C. Parker

Natalie C. Parker

An action-packed speculative YA thriller for fans of the Amazon Prime series The Boys, books by Marie Lu and Veronica Roth's Divergent.'A high-octane adventure with killer tension' - Chloe Gong, global bestselling author of These Violent DelightsLesson One: Never tell anyone what you truly areTru and her friends are trainee assassins. But Tru has to keep the full extent of her skills a secret from everyone – if people knew, she'd be considered Dangerous. For now, she and her secrets are protected by undercover super-assassin turned guardian, Logan Dire, her protecter ever since her parents were murdered when she was 10. Logan bakes, he keeps house – and he secretly gives her lessons on how to stay alive.Lesson Two: When you think you're beat – runThen Tru takes a random babysitting job one evening. When the house is attacked by assassins who've clearly come for Baby Thea, Tru...
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Meridian Rising

Meridian Rising

Known for "Blue Yodel (T for Texas)," "Waiting for a Train," and "In the Jailhouse Now," Jimmie Rodgers's impact on American music is incalculable. Paul Burch's bio-fictional tale of the short and poignant life of the "Father of Country Music" includes an imagined first-person memoir, accompanied by spirited, hilarious, and often conflicting recollections of Jimmie's family and music colleagues, along with period black-and-white illustrations.Born in 1897 in Meridian, Mississippi, Rodgers remains the only artist voted into the Rock & Roll, Country, Blues, and Songwriters Halls of Fame. Generations of fans from B. B. King and Johnny Cash to George Harrison and Dolly Parton recall a Rodgers record as the first music played in their home. But his fame extended far beyond America to Africa, Ireland, England, Australia, and Russia. His disciples include Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, John Prine, the Clash's Joe Strummer, Jack White, and anyone over the last century who has picked up...
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Holmes of Kyoto: Volume 20

Holmes of Kyoto: Volume 20

Mai Mochizuki

Mai Mochizuki

During the summer break of her third year of university, Aoi is interning in management at the Kyoto National Museum when she receives a phone call from Yilin Jing, who found Ensho’s paintings displayed at an art gallery in Hong Kong. What will Kiyotaka and Komatsu find when they fly there in search of the man who disappeared without a trace? And what did Ensho mean by his elusive parting words?
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Embracing His Syn

Embracing His Syn

A. E. Via

Gay and Lesbian

Syn transferred to God and Day's drug task force to make a name for himself. His entire life has been focused on being a great detective. There's been no time for romance, or love. After witnessing the love between his Lieutenants, Syn begins to feel something's missing in his life. When he walks into a pub and lays eyes on Furi, the long-haired tattooed bartender. He thinks he may have found it,
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Fuecoco, I Choose You! (Pokémon Chapter Book)

Fuecoco, I Choose You! (Pokémon Chapter Book)

Maria S. Barbo

Maria S. Barbo

Join Liko and Roy, the new protagonists of Pokemon animation, in an action-packed illustrated chapter book!The new Pokemon Trainers are here! Join Liko, Roy, and their friends and Pokemon pals as they sail toward adventure on an airship steered by Captain Pikachu! They work to discover the mysteries of Pokemon — as well as the mysteries of a special pendant Liko was given by her grandmother, which seems to hold great power. Get ready for the start of something big!This is the first chapter book debuting the new Trainers and First Partner Pokemon! Adapted from episodes of the new Pokemon Horizons animated series that launched in March 2024, with black-and-white illustrations throughout.
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Saraswati

Saraswati

Gurnaik Johal

Gurnaik Johal

* AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST 2025* AN INDEPENDENT BEST BOOK OF 2025 * A TELEGRAPH GREATEST BOOK OF 2025 *'An ambitious, stylishly delivered novel ... Reminiscent of Salman Rushdie' OBSERVER'Johal has written a major novel, and at his very first attempt ... almost everything in Saraswati works beautifully' TELEGRAPH, 5-STAR REVIEW'Saraswati is a major achievement, and Johal a huge talent. This should be one of the biggest novels of the year' Martin MacInnes, Booker-longlisted author of In AscensionCenturies ago, the myths say, the holy river Saraswati flowed through what is now Northern India. But when Satnam arrives in his ancestral village for his grandmother's funeral, he is astonished to find water in the long-dry well behind her house. The discovery sets in motion a contentious scheme to unearth the lost river and build a gleaming new city on its banks, and Satnam - adrift...
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Scandal

Scandal

Navessa Allen

Navessa Allen

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lights Out and Caught Up comes a seriously scandalous why-choose historical romance: Secrets. Spies. Everyone lies. Katherine, the Duchess of Hampshire, is a liar. Her marriage is one of convenience. Of necessity. But it's becoming increasingly difficult to remind herself of this when she's in the company of her enigmatic husband John and his lover, an artist by the name of Henry Fletcher. Everything changes between the three of them after an otherwise uneventful evening. Words once left unsaid are spoken, repressed feelings can no longer be contained, and with just a few fevered whispers, their futures are forever altered. But there is a darkness drawing closer to them, and just when they think they have a chance at true happiness, it's snatched from their fingers by an unseen enemy.Scandal is an erotic historical fiction set amidst the chaos and intrigue of the...
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Other Evolutions

Other Evolutions

Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

"A phantom ache made real. Garcia vividly chronicles the fraught love within a splintered family, their isolated world rippling with a hint of the uncanny beneath her polished prose." —Andrew F. Sullivan, author of The Marigold With sharp human insight and unflinching prose, Other Evolutions is O. Henry Prize-winning author Rebecca Hirsch Garcia's dark, speculative debut, perfect for readers of Iain Reid and Emily St. John Mandel. Alma Alt, the sheltered youngest daughter of an interfaith, interracial Jewish-Mexican couple, rarely ventures far from her home on a wealthy tree-lined street in Ottawa, where nothing ever happens. The one time she did, striking out to visit her older sister, Marnie, in Montreal, things ended in disaster as she found out that beautiful, blonde Marnie had been lying about their family's background, trying to pass herself off as white. The fallout from that betrayal leads to a devastating accident, one...
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