Vessel

Vessel

Sarah Beth Durst

Fiction D939v

Liyana has trained her entire life to be the vessel of a goddess. She will dance and summon her tribe's diety, who will inhabit Liyana's body and use magic to bring rain to the desert. But when the dance ends, Liyana is still there.Her goddess has not come. Abandoned by her tribe, Liyana expects to die in the desert. Until a boy walks out of the dust in search of her.

Korbyn is a god inside his vessel, and a trickster god at that. He tells Liyana that five other gods are missing, and they set off across the desert in search of the other vessels. The desert tribes cannot survive without the magic of their gods. But the journey is dangerous, even with a god’s help. And not everyone is willing to believe the trickster god’s tale.

The closer she grows to Korbyn, the less Liyana wants to disappear to make way for her goddess. But she has no choice—she must die so her tribe can live. Unless a trickster god can help her to trick fate—or a human girl can muster some magic of her own

Keyhole Factory

Keyhole Factory

William Gillepsie

Fiction G412k

From Uni Alum William Gillespie comes an imaginative free-for-all and a deeply felt examination of isolation and survival. Keyhole Factory tracks the interwoven destinies of disparate characters up to and beyond the end of the world-as-we-know-it, brought on by a global super-virus. The novel's web of stories includes a poet-astronaut in deep space, a microbiologist contemplating an exit strategy from her high-level job designing biological weapons, a sports-car-driving sociopath who murders utopian commune-dwellers, and a lone pirate radio disc jockey who believes she is the last person left alive broadcasting her story to nobody. In Keyhole Factory the individual lives shine through the chaos.

That's Not a Feeling

That's Not a Feeling

Dan Josefson

Fiction J773t

Benjamin arrives with his parents for a tour of Roaring Orchards, a therapeutic boarding school tucked away in upstate New York. Suddenly, his parents are gone and Benjamin is there to stay. At sixteen years old, with two failed suicide attempts, Benjamin must navigate his way through a new world of morning meds, popped privileges, candor meetings and cartoon brunches--all run by adults with questionable methods, during a year in which the school and its eccentric founder seem to be falling apart.