Award-winning novel: Best novel for young adults, Sweden An accidentally sawed off thumb throws the reader right into high school-outsider Maja's journey in pursuit of identity. With a suddenly disappeared mom and and a reluctant crush on the boy next door, this spring nothing turns out as Maja has imagined.

P.I. Billie Bly’s psychic tells her she will stumble upon a murder, but neglects to mention she is to be the victim. Maybe her psychic doesn't want to give her more to worry about with a million dollar lawsuit looming and a missing client who doesn't want to be found. She is determined to learn who wants her dead and why as people start dying around her. The trail leads deep inside Portland’s City Hall and involves a mayor who wants to be governor at any cost; his mistress, who wants to tag along with or without her city auditor husband; a city commissioner who hires a P.I. to spy on Billie; and an ambitious cop lurking in the background waiting for his opportunity for advancement. The pressure mounts as the mayor attempts to put Billie under house arrest for her own good; and an assassin tries to kill her in a drive-by shooting, narrowly misses blowing her up with her car and garage, and kills a chief witness at the Portland Pirate Festival. When the cops start a manhunt for Billie’s former partner, whom she still has a crush on, as their main suspect, she decides one of them must die to unravel the truth. Will her psychic prove to be right after all, or will Billie finally flush out the killer responsible for the murders of four people? It comes down to a late-night shootout with a vicious killer on a Portland riverfront to learn why she must die.

A scorching examination of how we treat endometriosis today Have you ever been told that your pain is imaginary? That feeling better just takes yoga, CBD oil, and the blood of a unicorn on a full moon? That’s the reality of the more than 190 million people suffering the excruciating condition known as endometriosis. This disease affecting one in ten cis women and uncounted numbers of others is chronically overlooked, underfunded, and misunderstood — and improperly treated across the medical system. Discrimination and medical gaslighting are rife in endo care, often leaving patients worse off than when they arrived. Journalist Tracey Lindeman knows it all too well. Decades of suffering from endometriosis propelled the creation of BLEED — part memoir, part investigative journalism, and all scathing indictment of how the medical system fails patients. Through extensive interviews and research, BLEED tracks the modern endo experience to the origins of medicine and how the system gained its power by marginalizing women. Using an intersectional lens, BLEED dives into how the system perpetuates misogyny, racism, classism, ageism, transphobia, fatphobia, and other prejudices to this day. BLEED isn’t a self-help book. It’s an evidence file and an eye-opening, enraging read. It will validate those who have been gaslit, mistreated, or ignored by medicine and spur readers to fight for nothing short of revolution.

The second book in a new urban fantasy series featuring mosquito-sized fairies with poisonous bites that drive humans insane.

Looking forward to an unexpected afternoon off, a cheerful, eighteen-year-old Scott Hay comes home early to find his mother frantic because his father is missing. Beginning with that moment, Scott’s world undergoes such a violent alteration that it will take him years to regain his footing. As events swirl chaotically around him, he’s astonished to discover that he’s become one of two suspects in his father’s disappearance…and what he learns next will forever alter his perception of the meaning of love. A dark, revelatory, and ultimately inspiring chronicle of deeply buried secrets, family dysfunction, abuse, and murder. Bleeding Hearts will challenge everything you think you know about familial relationships.

Chesbro's roller coaster ride mixes Stephen King and Raymond Chandler and introduces Mongo, a great new character in mystery fiction. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.