New Age Fiction

Moving philosophy and New Age insights given long ago. The Chicago Post reviewer said, “The words bring to one’s ears the magnificent myths of Ecclesiasticus. The work of a great man.”

In early March 2020 in New Rochelle, New York, teenager Geth Montego is fumbling with the present and uncertain about her future. She only has three friends: her best friend Tovah, who’s been acting weird ever since they started applying to college; Diego, who she wants to ask to prom; and the K-pop band BTS, because the group always seems to be there for her when she needs them (at least in her head).

St. Lawrence Academy is supposed to have everything Kass's old school didn’t: safe hallways, small classes, and, most important, a chance to dive. But since transferring, all Kass can think about is what’s missing. Like her best friend, Aleah, who’s starting to pull away. Or the comfortable life so many of her classmates enjoy while Kass’s family’s restaurant struggles to stay afloat. Even the excitement she always felt in the pool, now that she’s on the same team as Amber Moore—the best diver in the state, who’s barely said two words to her all year.

For Debbie King, life began feeling like it was all too difficult. At fourteen, she continuously felt like she would never achieve, she would never have friends, and she would simply never fit in. When she meets Craig - someone new who seems just like her, also with low self-esteem and no belief in himself and what he has to offer - Debbie finds the strength to focus more on him and less on herself. They are both unpractised in making friends, but they find it in each other. When they discover their musical talents, their lives entwine further. Living unhealthily, the time comes when Debbie...

The Nezel are refugee servants, toiling in a desert land where their culture is barely tolerated. Two friends, prowling through secret tunnels, uncover a villainous plot that places the Nezel in jeopardy. Almond and Quartz hatch a desperate plan to aid Finch, rightful heir to the throne. Even with the help of unexpected allies, their heroic efforts may not be enough - and the Time of Naming cannot be delayed.

I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class, still might, still might. I step into the shower and almost faint, an image of taking the day by the throat and bashing its head against the wall floating in my mind. Thirty-year-old Millie just can't pull it together. Misanthropic and morose, she spends her days killing time at a thankless temp job until she can return home to her empty apartment, where she oscillates wildly between self-recrimination and mild delusion....

"Any thoughts?" Ruth Ann asks the group. I raise my hand, noticing any timidity or prior insecurity I once felt is gone. I am free to be myself at this place. "Yes, Camille." She points at me. I feel joy at the mention of my new name. "So, let me get this straight!" I try to collect my thoughts. "If my mother, father, or guidance counselor tells me something that goes against the Bible..."

In the Aldridge family, nothing's off limits - no dream is too big, no achievement is unreachable, and there are no rules to hold anyone back. It's 1980 in New Rochelle, New York, and 17-year-old Shawn, the baby of the family, is a lost soul trying to find his own way in the grit and grime of nearby New York. As the rest of the family focuses on making his violin prodigy sister famous and rescuing their cousin from a cult, Shawn dates not one, but two girls - one a Times Square peep show dancer and the other a virginal neighborhood girl.

He's the forbidden fruit, my best friend's arrogant and untouchable bad boy billionaire brother who I've always despised. But after two decades of simmering resentment, I hatch a devious plan to bring him down a peg by fake dating him. In school, his family's wealth and status made him the center of attention, but I never fell for his charms. I saw how he treated my hardworking aunt, who was employed by his family. So when he appears at my bookstore twenty years later, all grown up, exuding a dangerous charm like candy, that I can't help but devour with my eyes… But as we pretend to be in...

Being ordinary is all I've ever craved. One formidable obstacle, however, stands between me and normalcy: Unbridled Magic. It's wild, unpredictable, and threatens to upend my life at every turn. When my mom relocates us to her dream town, I see it as a golden opportunity – a fresh start, a new circle of friends, and a place to tame my unruly powers. But just as I begin to harness my abilities, an unexpected incident shatters the tranquil town – my mom's friend, Maggie, mysteriously vanishes. The terrifying sight of two men abducting Maggie is etched into my mind, but my claims fall on ...

In the uncharted depths of space, challenges await that will push them beyond their limits… After testing their new ship the Hermes, gifted to them by an advanced species from the distant planet Pandooma, charismatic teenage adventurer Samantha and her multi-talented young crew head back out into space, hungry for new discoveries. However, attacked by pirates determined to resume their reign of terror, the crew has to flee the planet they were exploring—leaving two of their number behind. When two more crew members disappear, the priority of those left on the Hermes has to be to save ...

The National Book Award finalist for Refund returns with a new collection of stories that boldly examines the changes in American culture over the last two years through the increasing presence of violence, bigotry, sexual harassment, and the emotional costs of living under constant threat. In the title story, the competition between two middle school cellists is affected by a shooting at their school, and it is only years later that they realize how the intrusion of violence affected the course of their lives.

Meet the Stonewardens... The youngest member of the Stonewarden family, Charlotte (Charlie), is 18 years old. As with everyone in her family when they reach that age, she's been told that when she turns 19, she'll be recruited into the family business. She has her warning that she has one year to do anything else she wishes to do - travel, study, work. Whatever she wants to do, she has 365 days to do it. On her next birthday, her life will effectively stop being her own. But Charlie wants nothing to do with the business. The youngest of six, with five older brothers, she wants a different ...

Two worlds collide... For the first time in the long histories of two families, a night is coming when both will be present with their eyes on the same prize. On one side is a family who work theft with precision. They have the charisma and charm to create an image … an illusion. When they're around, something can be there one minute and gone the next, never to be seen again. On the other side is a family with members who are rash, impatient and violent. They won't pretend to be what they're not and they waste no time on such things as charm. On one night a clash of methods will result in...

No one ever thinks after building a good life with someone they love that they will have to start over, but that is exactly where Margaret Brooks finds herself. The death of her husband of 30-plus years leaves her grief-stricken and uncertain about the future. Her children recognize her struggle and step in to take care of her. However, it’s not so much taking care of as taking over! Margaret realizes she must strike out on her own to find her way as a newly single middle-aged woman.

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Katherine Maddock's life goes from medically predictable to dishing one near-death occurrence after another over the course of a summer she will never forget. She's almost sad to see it end, thinking her return home means a return to maintaining her mother's issues. It doesn't. The home Katherine returns to is not the one she left, and as the secrets she's grown up with unravel around her, she's left to deal with the fact that it never really was.

Triumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mundane, filtered through the fantastical. Superheroes are, appropriately enough, a sort of super-genre, encompassing all other story types. This YA anthology features thirteen short stories that creatively turn superhero tropes on their head, while still paying homage to the genre that has found fans for more than eight decades. And there will be no mistake—superheroes don’t have to just be generic handsome white dudes.

Marco should be at university, studying biomedicine. Instead, he's been sent to live on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean with his estranged uncle, all because of a 'blip' everyone else is convinced was a panic attack. (Which it most definitely was not.) And even though Marco's trip is supposed to provide answers - about himself, about his family - all he finds on board the Ocean Melody are more and more questions. But then his best friend CeCe proposes a new plan: for someone who has always done the right thing, in every possible way, it's time for Marco to get a few things wrong.

Amelia is no stranger to sex and death. Her job in her family’s funeral parlour, doing make-up on the dead, might be unusual, but she’s good at it. Life and warmth comes from the men she meets online - combining with someone else’s body at night in order to become something else, at least for a while. But when a sudden loss severs her ties with someone she loves, Amelia sets off on a 72-hour mission to outrun her grief - skipping out on the funeral, running away to stay with her father in Tasmania and experimenting on the local BDSM scene.