Marta and her twin brother Nick have always been haunted and fascinated by an ancestral legend that holds that members of their family are doomed to various types of falls. And when their own family falls apart in the wake of a revelation and a resulting devastating fight with their Catholic mother, the twins move to Prague, the city in which their "falling curse" began. There Marta and Nick try to forge a new life for themselves. But their ties to the past and each other prove difficult to disentangle, and when they ultimately return to their midwestern home and Nick falls from a window himself, they are forced to confront the truths they've hidden from each other and themselves. Through this compelling, exuberant exploration of all the ways there are to fall-from defenestration in nineteenth century Prague to the pratfalls of their childhood idol Buster Keaton, from falling in love to falling midflight from an airplane-Defenestrate is a stunning, unsettling, and deeply original debut. Grappling with family myths, repression, and mental illness, Renee Branum shows us how stories reveal and conceal life's secrets and how they affect one particular family as they try to protect one another from their true history

Magical boy. Volume 1

By Kao Studios, author, illustrator | 2021

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Cinder & glass

By De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971- author | 2022

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League of liars

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Ever since his mother was killed, seventeen-year-old Cayder Broduck has had one goal--to see illegal users of magic brought to justice. People who carelessly use extradimensional magic for their own self-interest, without a care to the damage it does to society or those around them, deserve the worst kind of punishment as far as Cayder is concerned. Because magic always has a price. So when Cayder lands a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to apprentice under a premier public defender, he takes it. If he can learn all the tricks of public defense, the better he'll be able to dismantle defense arguments when he's a prosecutor. Then he'll finally be able to punish the guilty without mercy. But when he meets the three criminals he's supposed to defend, it no longer seems so black and white. They're teenagers, like him, and their stories are... complicated, like his. Vardean, the prison where Cayder's new clients are incarcerated, also happens to be at the very heart of the horrible tear in the veil between their world and another dimension--where all magic comes from.

The bone spindle

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A game of fate

By St. Clair, Scarlett, author | 2021

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By Spencer, Kate, 1979- author | 2022

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Divided fire

By San Filippo, Jennifer, author | 2020

Boots

By Hannigan, Kate, author | 2021

Defenestrate : a novel

By Branum, Renee, author | 2022

Magical boy. Volume 1

By Kao Studios, author, illustrator | 2021

Cinder & glass

By De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971- author | 2022

League of liars

By Scholte, Astrid, author | 2022

The bone spindle

By Vedder, Leslie, author | 2022

A game of fate

By St. Clair, Scarlett, author | 2021

The department of rare books and special collections : a novel

By Jurczyk, Eva, author | 2022

In a New York minute

By Spencer, Kate, 1979- author | 2022