If you visit the library, you'll notice that we've updated some of our new books displays--including, for the first time, displaying new books in our short story and science fiction collections near the circulation desk, by the new fiction and mysteries! We hope you'll visit and take a look, and in the meantime, here's a selection of some of the new books from these two displays. PS: If you didn't already know, older titles in these collections are shelved beyond our mystery section, near the reference computers. Feel free to ask for directions at the reference desk!
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Mickey7
by Edward Ashton A disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim, Mickey7, who can regenerate after dying, must keep his newly arrived clone a secret from the rest of the colony as the survival of all lifeforms comes down to him. Borrow the e-book via partner network CW MARS or the e-audiobook via Boston Public Library using Libby/Overdrive. |
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Admit This to No One : Collected Stories
by Leslie Pietrzyk A collection of short stories that follows a group of women, including daughters, wives, and lovers all connected to an all-powerful but elusive Speaker of the House whose higher political aspirations have stopped short due to his extra-marital affairs. Borrow the e-book using Hoopla. |
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We have always been here
by Lena Nguyen Dr. Grace Park is the behavioral psychologist onboard a survey ship headed to a planet ripe for colonization. En route, she must determine the origin of a strange phenomenon that is causing the crew to suffer mental breaks without losing her own mind in the process. Borrow the e-book or e-audiobook via Boston Public Library using Libby/Overdrive. |
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On girlhood : 15 stories from the Well-Read Black Girl library
by Glory Edim At times heartbreaking and at times hilarious, this first entry in the Well-Read Black Girl Library Series is a meticulously selected anthology that features a wide range of unique voices, groundbreaking short stories that explore the thin yet imperative line between Black girlhood and womanhood. Borrow the e-book via partner network CLAMS using Libby/Overdrive. |
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The wandering earth
by Cixin Liu From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale which is the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix. These eleven stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Borrow the e-book via Boston Public Library or the e-audiobook using Libby/Overdrive. |
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Among the Lilies
by Daniel Mills The long-awaited new collection of short stories from Daniel Mills, whose literary antecedents include Poe, Hawthorne, Vernon Lee, and John Darnielle. This collection of 12 grotesqueries inspired by the natural and psychological landscapes of New England and by the ghosts that walk the places in-between contains the long out-of-print novella "The Account of David Stonehouse, Exile," and two new stories written expressly for this collection. |
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Destroyer of light
by Jennifer Marie Brissett Interlocking stories featuring a young woman with inhuman powers, genetically modified twin brothers, and the abduction of a young girl converge across the three habitable areas of planet Eleusis after alien conquerors resettle the remains of humanity. |
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Blank pages : and other stories
by Bernard MacLaverty Tinged with melancholy but rooted in resiliency, the exquisite stories of Bernard MacLaverty's Blank Pages display the perseverance of the human spirit. This collection elegantly probes MacLaverty's signature themes--domestic love, Catholicism, the Troubles, aging--with compassion and insight, reminding us again why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. |
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Swashbucklers
by Dan Hanks When Cisco Collins returns to his home town thirty years after saving it from being swallowed by a hell mouth opened by an ancient pirate ghost, he realizes that being a childhood hero isn't like it was in the movies. Especially when nobody remembers the heroic bits--even the friends who once fought alongside him. Borrow the e-audiobook using Hoopla. |
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Mrs. Spring Fragrance and other writings
by Sui Sin Far A rediscovered classic of linked short stories set in San Francisco's Chinatown, portraying Chinese Americans as they fall in love, encounter racism, and wrestle with their new, hyphenated identities-a century before writers like Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan. By turns ironic and heart-rending, these stories are windows into the lives of everyday people in an unforgiving, often racist city who find solidarity and hope in the most unexpected places. Borrow the e-book using Hoopla. |
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Goliath
by Tochi Onyebuchi After those with the means to do so leave Earth in a mass exodus to the space colonies in the 2050s, those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure and try to find purpose. Borrow the e-book via partner network OCLN or the e-audiobook using Libby/Overdrive. |
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Jerusalem Beach : stories
by Iddo Gefen A debut collection of short stories that provide glimpses into contemporary Israeli life, including the tale of a scheming tech start-up executive whose ambition has dire consequences and an army platoon of the elderly looking for purpose. Borrow the e-audiobook using Hoopla. |
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The body scout : a novel
by Lincoln Michel Kobo's cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister loan sharks knocking on his door, and his work scouting for a baseball league run by pharmaceutical companies is about to go belly-up. Then his childhood best friend--Monsanto Mets slugger J.J. Zunz--is murdered at home plate. Determined to find the killer, Kobo plunges into the dark corners and glittering cloud condos of a world ravaged by climate change and repeat pandemics, and where genetic editing and advanced drugs mean you can have any body you want--as long as you can afford it. But even among the philosophical Neanderthals, zootech weapons, and genetically modified CEOs, there's a curveball he never could have called. Borrow the e-book via partner network SAILS or the e-audiobook via partner network CLAMS using Libby/Overdrive. |
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How to wrestle a girl : stories
by Venita Blackburn A hilarious, tough, and tender story collection pressurized by grief, sexual longing, the spectrum of gender, and girls with muscle. A rising star, Blackburn is a trailblazing stylist, and in How to Wrestle a Girl she masterfully shakes loose a vision of girlhood that is raw, vulnerable, and never at ease. Borrow the e-book via partner network CLAMS using Libby/Overdrive. |
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Winter's orbit
by Everina Maxwell After being forced by his emperor grandfather into a marriage of convenience to unite their planets, Prince Kiem discovers that his intended, Count Jainan, is a suspect in his late husband’s death despite its being ruled an accident. Borrow the e-book using Libby/Overdrive or the e-audiobook using Hoopla. |
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Slug : and other stories
by Megan Milks A revised and expanded version of Megan Milks's out-of-print cult classic KILL MARGUERITE AND OTHER STORIES, SLUG AND OTHER STORIES is a collection of fifteen stories that experiment in genre and explore the visceral, absurd, and queer qualities of gender, physiology, species, and identity: a woman metamorphoses into a slug; another eats her heart out; hair sprouts from the walls; and more. Borrow the e-book or e-audiobook using Hoopla. |