"Dark Stars, edited by John F.D. Taff, is a tribute to horror's longstanding short fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today's most noteworthy authors, with an introduction by bestselling author Josh Malerman and an afterword by Ramsey Campbell. Created as an homage to the 1980 classic horror anthology, Dark Forces, edited by Kirby McCauley, this collection contains 12 original novelettes showcasing today's top horror talent. Dark Stars features all-new stories from award-winning authors and up-and-coming voices like Stephen Graham Jones, Priya Sharma, Usman T. Malik, Caroline Kepnes, and Alma Katsu, with seasoned author John F.D. Taff at the helm. An afterword from original Dark Forces contributor Ramsey Campbell is a poignant finale to this bone-chilling collection. Within these pages you'll find tales of dead men walking, an insidious secret summer fling, an island harboring unspeakable power, and a dark hallway that beckons. You'll encounter terrible monsters-both human and supernatural-and be forever changed. The stories in Dark Stars run the gamut from traditional to modern, from dark fantasy to neo-noir, from explorations of beloved horror tropes to the unknown-possibly unknowable-threats. It's all in here because it's all out there, now, in horror."--

"Ranging from the gritty reality of the Australian goldfields to the grand institutions of Sydney, the bucolic English countryside to the charm of Maitland Town, this compelling historical mystery in the company of an eccentric and original heroine is rich with atmosphere and detail"--

"#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."--

"Ben Reilly--the clone of Spider-Man--is back! He's been through hell, but now with the support of a major corporation, Ben is thwipping once again and being the best Spider-Man he can be. But what will all this change and upheaval mean for Mary Jane, the Black Cat, Aunt May--and all of New York City?!"--

After losing her mother and sister in an air raid and her brother returns from the Great War to 1918 Paris a changed man, Vianne Mercier leaves for New York City to work as a dressmaker, until she must return to France and learns of a wartime secret that makes her question her future plans

"A savvy former street child working at a human rights law office in Mumbai fights for redemption and a chance to live life on her own terms in this fresh, propulsive debut novel about fortune and survival"--

"A TINY UPWARD SHOVE is a fictionalized account of real life Canadian serial killer Willie Pickton and his final victim. In the debut novel of award-winning essayist, Melissa Chadburn, we follow the life of Filipina foster youth Marina Salles and are submerged in the confluence of violence and empathy, fabulism and realism. A story of how both victim and monster emerge from the same world"--

"The debut novel from an award-winning short story writer: a multigenerational saga spanning Lebanon, Iraq, India, the United States, and Kuwait that brings to life the triumphs and failures of three generations of Arab women. In 2013, Sara is a philosophy professor at Kuwait University, having returned to Kuwait from Berkeley in the wake of her mother's sudden death eleven years earlier. Her main companions are her grandmother's talking parrot, Bebe Mitu; the family cook, Aasif; and Maria, her childhood ayah and the one person who has always been there for her. Sara's relationship with Kuwait is complicated; it is a country she always thought she would leave, and a country she recognizes less and less, and yet a certain inertia keeps her there. But when teaching Nietzsche in her Intro to Philosophy course leads to an accusation of blasphemy, which carries with it the threat of execution, Sara realizes she must reconcile her feelings and her place in the world once and for all. Interspersed with Sara's narrative are the stories of her grandmothers: beautiful and stubborn Yasmine, who marries the son of the Pasha of Basra and lives to regret it, and Lulwa, born poor in the old town of Kuwait, swept off her feet to an estate in India by the son of a successful merchant family; and her two mothers: Noura, who dreams of building a life in America and helping to shape its Mid-East policies, and Maria, who leaves her own children behind in Pune to raise Sara and her brother Karim and, in so doing, transforms many lives. Ranging from the 1920s to the near present, An Unlasting Home traces Kuwait's rise from a pearl-diving backwater to its reign as a thriving cosmopolitan city to the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion. At once intimate and sweeping, personal and political, it is an unforgettable epic and a spellbinding family saga."--

"Sześć sióstr. Choć urodziły się na różnych kontynentach, wychowały się w bajecznej posiadłości Atlantis na prywatnym półwyspie Jeziora Genewskiego. Adopcyjny ojciec, nazywany przez nie Pa Saltem, nadał im imiona mistycznych plejad. Każda ułożyła sobie życie po swojemu i rzadko mają okazję spotkać się wszystkie razem. Do domu ściąga je niespodziewana śmierc ojca, który zostawił każdej list i wskazówki mogące im pomóc w odkryciu własnych korzeni. I w znalezieniu odpowiedzi na pytanie, co się stało z siódma siostrą. Elektra - Elektra ma wszystko: jest słynną modelką, piękną i bogatą. A jednak traci kontrolę nad swoim życiem, zwłaszcza po śmierci Pa Salta, i sięga po alkohol i narkotyki. Kiedy stoi już na skraju załamania, otrzymuje list od kobiety, która twierdzi, że jest jej... babką. Rok 1939. Cecily Huntley-Morgan opuscza Nowy Jork i jedzie do Kenii, by leczyć złamane serce. Mieszka w pięknej posiadłości nad brzegami jeziora Naivasha, należącej do jej matki chrzestnej, Kiki, która wprowadza dziewczynę do osławionego dekadenckiego towarzystwa z Wesołej Doliny. Ale to pewien farmer utrzymujący bliskie kontakty z Masajami sprawia, że Cecily pozostaje w Afryce. Urodzona kilkadziesiąt lat później Elektra, broniąc się przed poznaniem losów przodków, niemal straciła szanse na szczęśliwe zakończenie. Bo czasem, aby iść naprzód, najpierw trzeba się zagłębic w labiryncie przeszłości."--Page 4 of cover

"Disaster strikes Gotham City, and all evidence points to the Next Batman. Red Hood must choose justice over his family and allies when the corrupt Magistrate enlists him to bring in the new Batman dead or alive. Featuring the entire cast from the popular Future State Batman titles, this story line kicks off the next chapter in this forbidding world of tomorrow, and does so in brilliant, monochromatic storytelling. This black-and-white collection will showcase the brutal world that's around the corner in Future State Gotham."--

"A collection of stories by the former books editor at Oprah.com about women and girls living the frontier Alaskan lives we associate with men"--

A collection of contemporary love stories that includes two novellas that complete the Rules of love series, Mr. Right now, and, Captain Romance, as well as three stories set in the Rules of love world: Kiss your tulips, Limo bang, and, DogFishing

"Three women who seemingly have nothing in common find that they're involved with the same man in this smart new rom-com by Beth O'Leary, bestselling author of The Flatshare. Siobhan is a quick-tempered life coach with way too much on her plate. Jane is a soft-spoken volunteer for the local charity shop with zero sense of self-worth. Miranda is a tree surgeon used to being treated as just one of the guys on the job. These three women are strangers who have only one thing in common: They've all been stood up on the same day, the very worst day to be stood up-Valentine's Day. And, unbeknownst to them, they've all been stood up by the same man. Once they've each forgiven him for standing them up, they let him back into their lives and are in serious danger of falling in love with a man who seems to have not just one or two but three women on the go.... Is there more to him than meets the eye? And will they each untangle the truth before they all get their hearts broken?"--

In a house full of secrets, the nanny hides her own. West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs England. Distant and withdrawn, Lilian shows little interest in her children or charming husband, and is far from the 'angel of the house' Ruby was expecting. As the warm, vivacious Charles welcomes Ruby into the family, a series of strange events forces her to question everything she thought she knew. Ostracised by the servants and feeling increasingly uneasy, Ruby must face her demons in order to prevent history from repeating itself

"This novel, written in the form of a memoir, follows the members of a search committee as they seek a new pastor for their church congregation. The narrator is a restaurant-review writer; meals at local restaurants and in committee members' homes occur in the course of the story. Recipes for twenty-five of the dishes are included."--

The story of Ruthie and her mother, both taken to Belzec Extermination Camp during World War II and the story of Ruthie's own daughter Noga, who tries to mend her relationship with Ruthie by learning more about her mother's childhood in Poland

Returning home to Hope Creek, South Carolina, to bury her mother, Kit Teague finds her remaining family divided and her twin sister working for a rival fishing business

"As ancient Irish clans fought to preserve their lands and their way of life, the Queen and her generals fought to tame the wild land and make it English. Hugh O'Neill, lord of the North, dubbed Earl of Tyrone by the Queen, is a divided man: the Queen gives to Hugh her love, and her commandments, through a little mirror of obsidian which he can never discard; and the ancient peoples of Ireland arise from their underworld to make Hugh their champion, the token of their vow a chip of flint. From the masterful author of Little, Big comes an exquisite fantasy of heartbreaking proportion."--

Лыков повышен в чине, теперь он статский советник. И стал ненадолго бюрократом: временно руководит Восьмым делопроизводством Департамента полиции. "Восьмерка" - всероссийский сыск, она координирует действия всех сыскных отделений империи. Но бюрократ из Лыкова не получается: кабинетная работа не для него. По счастью, Столыпин нашел Алексею Николаевичу лучшее применение. Премьер-министр обеспокоен участившимися экспроприациями в Петербурге и Москве. Гибнут люди, налетчики похищают крупные денежные суммы. Полиция не может найти преступников. И Лыкову поручают ликвидировать банды экспроприаторов в двух столицах. Создана временная группа дознавателей под его командой, с особыми полномочиями. Статский советник выходит на охоту...

To escape an abusive marriage, Frankie Saunders flees across the country to Los Angeles with her reckless, profane Aunt Daisy, who will do whatever it takes to settle old scores and resolve the past--no matter what the damage, forcing Frankie to make some hard choices

"New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the Herald, the city's most popular newspaper. Then she and her bohemian friend Carlotta Ackerman find a woman's body wrapped like a mummy in a freshly dug hole in Central Park--the intended site of an obelisk called Cleopatra's Needle. The macabre discovery takes Elizabeth away from the society pages to follow an investigation into New York City's darkest shadows. When more bodies turn up, each tied to Egyptian lore, Elizabeth is onto a headline-making scoop more sinister than she could have imagined. Her reporting has readers spellbound, and each new clue implicates New York's richest and most powerful citizens. And a serial killer is watching every headline. Now a madman with an indecipherable motive is coming after Elizabeth and everyone she loves. She wants a good story? She may have to die to get it." -- Back cover

"#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon returns with Shadow Fallen, a brand-new entry in her Dream-Hunter series. For centuries, Ariel has fought the forces of evil. Her task was to protect the souls of innocent mortals when they die. Captured by a powerful sorceress, she is transformed into a human who has no memory of her real life or calling. And is plunked into the middle of the Norman invasion of England. Cursed the moment he was born with a "demonic deformity," Valteri wants nothing of this earth except to depart it and will do his duty to his king until then. When a strange noblewoman is brought before him, Valteri realizes he has met her before, in his dreams. When others come for her, bringing with them preternatural predators, he is faced with a destiny he had no idea was waiting. One he wants no part of. The truth is that Valteri isn't just a knight of William the Conqueror. He is the son of one of the deadliest powers in existence, and if he doesn't restore Ariel to her place, she is not the only one who will be in peril. The world itself hangs in the balance, and he is the necessary key to hold back the powers of evil. But only if he can find a way to work with the woman who stands for everything in the universe he hates."--

A portrait of life in Ireland follows sixteen-year-old Nancy Martin, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine, as she embarks on an affair with a handsome gardener, setting off a devastating chain of events that continues to unfold over three generations

"Welcome to the All-Nighter, the only diner in town where you can get coffee and a meal from sunset to sunrise! The staff are friendly (kind of) and happy to serve you (sometimes), and it would never cross their minds to drink their customers' blood ... Alex and his fellow vampires, Joy, Cynthia, and Ian, have agreed to blend into human society. Inspired by superhero movies, one of few passions in his unlife, Alex decides to don a cape and start fighting bad guys."--

"Manny Dogra is the beautiful young CEO of Breakup, a highly successful company that helps people manage their relationship breakups. As preoccupied as she is with her business, she's also planning her wedding to handsome architect Adam Jamieson while dealing with the loss of her beloved parents. For reasons Manny has never understood, her mother and father, who were both born in India, always wanted her to become an 'All-American' girl. So that's what she did. She knows next to nothing about her South Asian heritage, and that's never been a problem--until her parents are no longer around, and an image of Manny that's been Photoshopped to make her skin look more white appears on a major magazine cover. Suddenly, the woman who built an empire encouraging people to be true to themselves is having her own identity crisis. But when an irritating client named Sammy Patel approaches Manny with an odd breakup request, the perfect solution presents itself: If they both agree to certain terms, he'll give her a crash course in being 'Indian' at his brother's wedding. What follows is days of dancing and dal, masala and mehndi as Manny meets the lovable, if endlessly interfering, aunties, and uncles of the Patel family, and, along the way, discovers much more than she could ever have anticipated."--

"An utterly delicious debut thriller that tells the story of the most likable murderess you will ever meet, perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Jessica Knoll"--

"Ally długo będzie sobie wyrzucać to, że kiedy ojciec umierał, spędzała upojne chwile z ukochanym. Intryguje ją wprawdzie zagadka związana z jej pochodzeniem, ale na razie musi się skupić na regatach żeglarskich, na których wystartuje u boku swojego mężczyzny. W najczarniejszej godzinie podąży jednak za wskazówkami Pa Salta i pozna historię fascynującej kobiety, która żyła przed ponad wiekiem. Historię Anny Landvik, dziewczyny z norweskiej wsi, mającej niebiański głos, który znali tylko ludzie z miejscowego kościoła i... krowy na pastwisku. Dopóki nie odkrył jej "łowca talentów" i nie zabrał do Christianii - dzisiejszego Oslo - by zaśpiewała na premierze Peer Gynta z muzyką Edwarda Griega. Im więcej Ally dowiaduje się o Annie, tym bardziej desperacko chce odkryć własne korzenie. Zwłaszcza że ma ku temu nowy powód."--

"Steven Harding is a handsome, well-respected professor. Ellie Masterson is a wide-eyed grad student. Together, they are driving south from New York for their first vacation: three days in an isolated cabin, far from the city. Ahead of them, the promise of long, dark nights--and the chance to get to know each other better, away from prying eyes. It should be a perfect romantic getaway for two. But when a snowstorm strands them in the house, each realizes the other harbors a dangerous secret--and soon it becomes clear one of them won't escape the weekend alive"--

Two years after her dearest friend Rory's death, Chiara Kennedy reconnects with Rory's husband, and as old emotions resurface, she struggles with guilt while cherishing the second chance at love she's been given--if she can only overcome the past

"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As they fall in love, they dream of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his big brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. But the threat of discovery is constant and the punishment unspeakable. And when several months later Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland, together with two strange men whose drunken banter belies murky pasts, he will need to summon all his inner strength and courage to try to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future. Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism and giving full voice to people rarely acknowledged in the literary world, Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the push and pull of family, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much."--

When her best friend of thirty years goes out of reach, seeking professional glory, while her husband seeks immortality, Susan begins to wonder if she has made the right choices about life, love, work and, most importantly, friendship

"Nastrojowa pełna magii saga rodzinna. Sześć sióstr. Choć urodziły się na różnych kontynentach, wychowały się w bajecznej posiadłości Atlantis na prywatnym półwyspie Jeziona Genewskiego. Adopcyjny ojciec, nazywany przez nie Pa Saltem, nadał im imiona mitycznych Plejad. Każda ułożyła sobie życie po swojemu i rzadko mają okazję spotkać się wszystkie razem. Do domu sciąga je niespodziewana śmierć ojca, który zostawił każdej list i wskazówki mogące im pomóc w odkryciu własnych korzeni. I w odnalezieniu odpowiedzi na pytanie, co się stało z siódmą siostrą. - Maja - Najstarsza z sióstr idąc za wskazówkami Pa Salta, dociera do Rio de Janeiro, gdzie przystojny brazylijski pisarz pokazuje jej uroki miasta i pomaga odkryć zagmatwaną przeszłość jej rodziny. Osiemdziesiąc lat wcześniej jej prababka Izabela, córka plantatora kawy, na życzenie ojca, zaręczyła się z arystokratą, którego nie kochała. Narzeczony był na tyle wspaniałomyślny, że zgodził się na jej wyjazd z przyjaciółką do Paryża. W tętniącym życiem Mieście Światła spragniona przygód dziewczyna spotkała ambitnego młodego rzeźbiarza. I poczuła, że nic już nie bedzie takie jak wcześniej. Czy historia prababki i matki pozwoli Mai odnaleźć drogę do własnego szczęścia.?"--Page 4 of cover

Tam Doan dumped her boyfriend after he threw away her gourmet cheese. Sure, it's a little more complicated than that, but the point is, he had it coming. Newly single and unemployed, Tam calls up her best friend from high school and utters the emergency code word--goldfish. Next thing she knows, she's on a plane back home. Josh O'Malley was a troubled, unconfident teenager. Now he's the successful owner of a multimillion-dollar ghost kitchen. Tam, his high school BFF and fellow member of the Nerd Herd friend group, was instrumental in building his self-esteem. When she calls him out of the blue, he jumps at the chance to return the favor. Josh and Tam immediately get to work fixing her life--but again, it's complicated. Their close friendship was always a lifeline between them; a blooming romance might confuse things. Still, at least one thing is for certain: their chemistry is un-brie-lievable

"A German Red Cross nurse joins the world's first guide dog training school for the blind and begins a quest to show a Jewish pianist who was blinded on the battlefield that life is worth living"--