New Adult Fiction: Tuesday, September 9

Need something new to read? Stop by when you can (we’re open til 8 pm). We have many options! To place a title on hold online, visit https://owwl.org and sign in to your account using your library card number. Pick up your book from the shelves near the circulation desk when you have time.

Here are a few of the new fiction books that have arrived at the library recently. We invite you to check them out.

The Magician of Tiger Castle

Long ago and faraway lies the kingdom of Esquaveta. There, Princess Tullia is in nearly as much peril as her struggling kingdom. Esquaveta desperately needs to forge an alliance with Oxatania, and to that end, Tullia’s father has arranged a marriage between her and the odious Oxatanian Prince. However, one month before the “Wedding of the Century,” Tullia falls in love with a lowly apprentice scribe. The king turns to Anatole, his much-maligned magician. The only one who still believes in him is the princess. When the king orders Anatole to brew a potion that will ensure Tullia agrees to the wedding, Anatole is faced with an impossible choice. With one chance to save the marriage, the kingdom, and his reputation, will he betray the princess—or risk ruin?

Automatic Noodle

You don’t have to eat food to know the way to a city’s heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned ghost kitchen, they decide to make their own way doing what they know: making food—the tastiest hand-pulled noodles around—for the humans of San Francisco, who are recovering from a devastating war. But when their robot-run business starts causing a stir, a targeted wave of one-star reviews threatens to boil over into a crisis. To keep their doors open, they’ll have to call on their customers, their community, and each other—and find a way to survive and thrive in a world that wasn’t built for them.

House of Monstrous Women

Josephine del Rosario feels like a pariah in her town. Long orphaned after her father’s political campaign ends in tragedy, she’s all alone taking care of the family home while her older brother is off in Manila, where a revolution brews. When she receives a letter from her cherished childhood friend Hiraya, inviting her to play a game, she jumps at the reason to leave town. Josephine will have whatever her heart desires if she wins. It doesn’t matter that dark rumors have always surrounded Hiraya. What’s worse is there’s something her old friend isn’t telling her. There’s something insidious about this invitation, and if Josephine isn’t careful, she’ll find that change is sometimes bought with blood.