Amanda Linsmeier

Starlings

A dark YA fantasy debut perfect for fans of House of Hollow and Small Favors. In the wake of her father's death, a teen girl discovers a side of her family she didn't know existed, and is pulled into a dark—and ancient—bargain she is next in line to fulfill. Kit’s father always told her he had no family, but his sudden death revealed the truth. Now Kit has a grandmother she never knew she had—Agatha Starling—and an invitation to visit her father’s hometown, Rosemont. And Rosemont is picture perfect: the famed eternal roses bloom all year, downtown is straight out of the 1950s . . . there’s even a cute guy to show Kit around. The longer Kit’s there, though, the stranger it all feels. The Starling family is revered, but there’s something off about how the Starling women seem to be at the center of the all the town’s important history. And as welcoming as the locals are, Kit can’t shake the feeling that they're hiding something from her. Agatha is so happy to finally meet her only granddaughter, and the town is truly charming, but Kit can’t help wondering, if everything is so great in Rosemont, why did her father leave? And why does it seem like he never wanted her to find it?

For the cursed, the wicked, the wild, the charmed, for those in their ever after, and for those on their way. A fairytale-inspired poetry collection in five parts.

Our Wild Magic

Six of Sorrow

"Trouble comes in threes, Grandma CeCe always said..." A baby. Just holding one sets Julia's heart thumping. She's wanted a child for so long. When she finally gets pregnant, she's bursting to tell the world...until a checkup from the doctor confirms a miscarriage. Julia's world feels like it's dissolving. This second tragedy following her father-in-law's death, shakes her and her husband Greg. To support his mother, they uproot their lives and move to Greg's childhood home. Under the bright Midwestern sky, Julia can feel a new world and new hope beginning. But trouble comes in threes, and soon a boy shows up at Julia's new daycare whose blue eyes and freckled face look eerily like Greg's. Despite her love for her husband, Julia finds her thoughts haunted by the boy's face, and she can't shake the feeling that her husband has a secret.

Ditch Flowers

Beach Glass & Other Broken Things is a collection of twenty-three stories about girls and women on the cusp of self-realization. It highlights the complexities of characters becoming who they really are, from a girl who tracks down her absent father, only to discover he's made a whole new life without her; to an eighty-four-year-old grandmother falling in love for the first time; to a woman who finds comfort with an unlikely life coach while grieving over her husband's suicide. Beach Glass & Other Broken Things delves into unimaginable fragility, and unbreakable hope. It celebrates women who are happy or broken, and the ones who save themselves or allow themselves to be saved.

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Beach Glass and Other Broken Things

Kit non avrebbe mai immaginato che suo padre fosse in grado di mentirle. Perché avrebbe dovuto dire una bugia sulla propria famiglia di origine? Eppure, dopo la sua morte improvvisa, Kit ha scoperto che non solo ha una nonna, Agatha Starling, ma che l’intera cittadina di Rosemont ha sempre desiderato conoscerla. Rosemont sembra uscita da una fiaba: le rose sono in fiore per tutto l’anno e le strade silenziose e curate sono degne di un film degli anni Cinquanta. Come se non bastasse, tutti paiono ansiosi di farla sentire accolta e a casa. Stando a quanto si dice, la dinastia Starling gode di una certa autorevolezza perché le donne della famiglia sono profondamente legate alla storia della città. Il problema è che nessuno vuole rivelarla nei dettagli. Pur trovandosi bene a Rosemont con la nonna, Kit non può fare a meno di chiedersi: perché suo padre se ne è andato da lì? E perché non ha mai voluto che lei arrivasse a Rosemont? Segreti di famiglia. Antiche maledizioni. Impossibile sfuggire al passato. «Una storia con meravigliosi elementi horror al femminile, inquietante e piena di fiori.» Kirkus Reviews «L’autrice sa ricreare con maestria la complessità delle emozioni dei personaggi. La suspense cresce gradualmente fino al culmine, e la trama è così ricca di sfumature che il lettore, come Kit, non potrà fidarsi di nessuno. Un romanzo affascinante e ricco di tensione.» Booklist Amanda Linsmeier È cresciuta tra i libri e ha sempre voluto diventare una scrittrice. Adora inventare storie che la spaventano un po’, cantare a squarciagola le sue canzoni preferite e darsi ai giochi d’acqua. Vive con la famiglia e cinque amici a quattro zampe. Meraviglioso. Starlings è il suo romanzo d’esordio.

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