New ebooks!
Is your New Year resolution to read more books? Ebooks can really help you here! You don't even have to get out of bed to check a book out and you don't have to worry about returning them on time. We have added over 50 new ebooks to our Sora collection, ready for your new year reading. If you have not used Sora before, it's extremely easy to set up and check out ebooks and audiobooks. Here are the supersimple instructions.
Historical
The Brightwood Code by A gripping thriller set in the aftermath of the First World War. Edda was a telephone operator on the frontlines in France but a mistake she made there has come back to haunt her in Baltimore.
Brownstone by In one transformative summer, Almudena works with her estranged Guatemalan father to renovate a brownstone.
Flamboyants by Profiles of 12 notable queer Black people who helped shape the Harlem Renaissance.
Rising from the Ashes by Using the voices of eyewitnesses, this account looks at the 1992 LA uprising following the acquittal of the police officers charged with the brutal beating of a Black man, Rodney King.
Romance
Break to You by Two incarcerated teens find hope and connection within the pages of a shared journal.
The Rules of Royalty by Two princes from neighboring countries fall into a whirlwind royal romance.
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now ... by A sweetly hilarious story of two Black teens preparing to take a huge first step in their relationship.
Fantasy
Fledgling by An action-packed dystopia with a diverse cast of narrators, this first book in a duology chronicles the lead-up to the second revolution.
Grief in the Fourth Dimension by Two teens connect in the afterlife and are able to see and influence what's happening with their loved ones after their deaths.
Heir by The world is in danger from human and supernatural forces. Aiz knows the only way to protect her people is to assassinate a murderous tyrant.
Kindling by Kindlings are magic-wielding teenage soldiers, but once the war is over they are cast adrift. Loosely based on The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven, seven kindlings band together to protect a village.
Night Owls by Clara and Molly are estries - creatures from Jewish folklore who can shape-shift into owls and have a thirst for human blood. They've managed to keep their identities hidden for a century, but romances complicate everything.
Songlight by In the oppressive patriarchal theocracy of Brightland, officials intend to exterminate unhumans, who have access to powerful telepathic abilities called songlight. Elsa is one of those secret telepaths.
When the World Tips Over by Decades old family secrets and a sprinkle of magic drive this story of grief and love,
Mysteries and thrillers
Heist Royale by In this entertaining and satisfying follow-up to Thieves Gambit (also available in Sora), Ross Quest must compete against internationally renowned thieves with the help of her friends.
My Fairy God Somebody by Clae investigates her family history when she is on a summer journalism program in New York and finds there is much more than she expected.
Fantasy
The Brightness Between Us by In this sequel to The Darkness Outside (also available in Sora), two clones are raising their children on the planet Minerva.
The Dividing Sky by A heart-racing dual-perspective dystopian romance set in a cyberpunk, ultra-capitalistic vision of 2460 America.
Horror
Don't Let the Forest In by A gothic horror set in a boarding school, where two boys attempt to stop monsters which seem to be created from their macabre drawings. (Also available as an audiobook)
We Are the Beasts by When a beast terrorizes their village in rural France, two girls decide to use it as a way to escape their human abusers.
