The Year of the WitchingA young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society discovers dark powers within herself in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut. In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet's word is law, Immanuelle Moore's very existence is blasphemy. Her mother's union with an outsider of a different race cast her once proud family into disgrace, so Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead a life of submission, devotion, and

author of Greenteeth

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her girlfriend is mad at her

Determined to be the next Guardian

single-dad Archer never planned on moving to a small town

Dania counts down her days in prison until she can exact revenge on Mazin

Travis Baldree's novel of high fantasy and low stakes

And they're both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years--or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives

As sparks fly and cauldrons bubble

carols playing on repeat

and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold

with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch