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Spirit Crossing: a novel by William Kent Krueger (fiction)

William Kent Krueger offers “one of his most puzzling mysteries yet” (Publishers Weekly) as a disappearance and a dead body puts Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twentieth book of the New York Times successful series. The disappearance of a local politician’s teenage daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O’Connor’s grandson stumbles upon the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman – but no one seems really interested. No one, except Cork and the new Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police. As Cork and tribal officers investigate the circumstances of this mysterious and dark discovery, they discover a connection to the missing teenager. And soon, it becomes clear that Cork’s grandson may be the killer’s next victim in this white-knuckled mystery from a “master storyteller at the top of his game” (Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author).

Somewhere beyond the sea by TJ Klune (fiction)

Hope is what happens with feathers. And hope is what comes with fire. Featuring beautiful golden yellow sprayed edges! Somewhere beyond the sea is the highly anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s film The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the most beloved and best-selling fantasy novels of the last decade. A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything. Arthur Parnassus lives a good life, built on the ashes of a bad one. He is the director of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon become the adoptive father of the six magical and supposedly dangerous children who live there. Arthur works hard and loves with all his heart so that none of his children will feel the neglect and pain he once felt as an orphan on this same island so long ago. And he is not alone: ​​at his side is the love of his life, Linus Baker, former social worker for the Department in charge of magical youth; Zoe Chapelwhite, the island sprite; and his girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do everything to protect the children. But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself leading a fight for the future that his family and all magical beings deserve. And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home – a child who finds the power to call himself a monster, a name from which Arthur has worked so hard to protect his children – Arthur knows they are at a point breakup: their family will do it. Either he becomes stronger than ever, or he collapses. Welcome to the island of Marsyas. This is Arthur’s story. Somewhere beyond the sea is a lovingly told story of resistance about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it.