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1) By the horns
Author
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"In a world of magical artifacts and fantastical beings, a woman with a deadly magic secret needs the help of the minotaur she's trying to forget in the sizzling sequel of New York Times bestselling author Ruby Dixon's new steamy monster romance series. Gwenna has always considered herself a normal person. A former servant, she wants nothing more than to land a steady job with the Royal Artifactual Guild so she can make some steady coin to send home...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
[2026]
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Dallergut Dream Department Store, and The Midnight Library, a sweetly magical and uplifting novel about a young woman who inherits an enchanted bakery that spirits visit on their last stop before the afterlife"-- Provided by publisher.
Twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa has inherited a neighborhood bakery from her grandmother. Curiously, her grandmother's will spells out two conditions: Yeon-hwa must keep...
3) Katabasis
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she's going in after him. Because...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Publication Date
[2026]
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Simone St. James, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel, returns with her scariest, most shocking novel yet in this pulse-pounding story about siblings who return to the house they fled 18 years before, called back by the ghost of their long-missing brother and his haunting request: Come home. Strange things happen in Fell, New York. A mysterious drowning at the town's roadside motel. The unexplained death of a young girl whose...
5) The whistler
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For fear of summoning evil spirits, Native superstition says you should never, ever whistle at night. Henry Hotard was on the verge of fame, gaining a following and traction with his eerie ghost-hunting videos. Then his dreams came to a screeching halt. Now, he's learning to navigate a new life in a wheelchair, back on the reservation where he grew up, relying on his grandparents' care while he recovers. And he's being haunted. His girlfriend, Jade,...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Korean folklore and modern culture entwine in this epic fantasy about a reluctant heroine who must deny her fated love to battle thedark forces that threaten to end her worlds"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Elsewhere Editions
Publication Date
2026.
Physical Desc
81 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
City-girl Little Yu just spent a glorious summer in the countryside with her grandparents. On the last day of her vacation, wishing she could stay forever, Little Yu notices peach blossom petals marching along the surface of the river. They sink and bob to the surface again, a pink rivulet flowing into the distance. Little Yu follows the blossoms to an enormous, mossy stone tablet carved with the histories of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the words:...
Author
Publisher
Inhabit Media Inc
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Every solstice, Jupi--just as his father did before him, and his before him--must make a nearly impossible pilgrimage to light an oil lamp at the base of a remote cliff. There he must wait for Kipik, an ancient being who has bound Jupi's family to a mammoth task: share a story every visit that appeases the fickle Kipik, or suffer unthinkable consequences. For decades Jupi has made the trek, growing grey and exhausted carrying this burden. Nearing...
Author
Publisher
A Starscape Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After rescuing the Children of Night, Abeni and her friends are in search of the elder spirits--who they hope can protect Asha. But before the group can reach their destination, they're captured and held prisoner by the Kingdom of the Gold Spinners, whose magics manipulate gold to build and achieve wonders. To secure their freedom, the companions make an agreement to retrieve the kingdom's sacred and mystical Golden Throne, the very soul of their...
Author
Publisher
Ace
Publication Date
[2026]
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two scholars of magical veterinary science must put their lust and loathing aside to save the world as they know it in this fantastical, romantic dark academia novel. All Gwendolynne Chan needs is to get through final year. As the top student in the magical familiars stream, she is on track to be awarded Dux of the entire school-as long as the unbearably pretentious Harrisford Briggs doesn't beat her to it. Harrisford Briggs' father, the Chief Financial...
11) Cat dragon
Author
Publisher
One More Chapter
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the whimsical world of Tangleroot Valley, magic flows like the seasons, and every witch has her cat dragon – except Aloysia Papplewick. She’s far from bonding with her fiery feline familiar, and with her magical farm in chaos, her prattling pumpkin patch meddling in her life and the annual Harvest Festival to prepare for, Aloysia has enough to handle – even before her best friend’s insufferable brother, Hollis, brings...
12) Salt bones
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
374 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the edge of the Salton Sea, in the blistering borderlands, something is out hunting... Malamar Veracruz has never left the dust-choked town of El Valle. Here, Mal has done her best to build a good life: She's raised two children, worked hard, and tried to forget the painful, unexplained disappearance of her sister, Elena. When another local girl goes missing, Mal plunges into a fresh yet familiar nightmare. As a desperate Mal hunts for answers,...
13) Vigil
Author
Publication Date
[2026]
Language
English
Description
"Not for the first time, Jill "Doll" Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet anothersoul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion. She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death arges, as a rule, have been greatly comforted in their final moments is charge,...
14) The last tiger
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a land oppressed by the Dragon Empire, sixteen-year-old Lee Seung, a poor cleaner, and privileged Choi Eunji form an unlikely bond, only to find themselves on opposite sides of a battle for the last tiger--a magical spirit key to their nation's liberation and their intertwined destinies.
In a colonized land where tigers are being hunted to extinction and ancient magic stirs, two star-crossed teens from opposite worlds--Lee Seung, a servant yearning...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A young woman who wields the unimaginable power of the dragon spirit must decide who to support--and who to love--in this enthralling fantasy that reimagines the legend of Mulan. The explosive conclusion to The Night Ends with Fire! The war may be over, but Hai Meilin is still paying a heavy toll. In spite of securing victory for the kingdom of Anlai, she is imprisoned upon her return. Her crime? Wielding a sword as a woman. In the palace, Meilin...
Author
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the day he dies. He follows his morning routine as voices from his past echo in his mind, and looks around the empty house one last time, before stepping onto his beloved boat. His dog, dead these many years, leaps aboard with him, and then the other dead begin to emerge - from the woods along the fjord, from each of the ferry stops along the route, from his logbook full of memories and...
17) Cape fever
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in 1920 within a colonial city, this novel follows a young woman who becomes a personal maid to an eccentric widow. As she settles into her new role, she discovers that the household holds secrets and supernatural presences that blur the line between reality and imagination. A ritual of dictating letters to her employer strengthens the bond between the two women but also introduces psychological tension. Combining elements of gothic fiction, folklore,...
19) Snake-eater
Author
Publisher
47North
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A young woman relocates to a desert town to inhabit her late aunt's house, hoping to leave her past behind. As she adjusts to her new surroundings, she encounters local beliefs involving spirits and desert deities. Her aunt's journal reveals that the property is linked to an ancient supernatural presence with unresolved obligations. As Selena learns more about the area's history and folklore, she becomes entangled in the entity's lingering influence....
20) Futility
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
For readers of Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister the Serial Killer and Bella Mackie's How to Kill Your Family, this is a monstrous, gleeful, bitingly funny tale of murder, body-swapping and bloody vengeance from the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award(R) for Lifetime Achievement and 'Queen of African Horror'. Betrayed by the men in their lives, two women seethe with rage and bitterness. When a trickster spirit offers them the gift of revenge, they cannot...

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