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Zamanın Gölgesinde Efes by Unknown (2025)

Zamanın Gölgesinde: Efes is a historical fiction novel that blends mystery, time displacement, and inner transformation. The story follows Mutlu, a modern man whose visit to the ancient city of Ephesus turns into an unexpected journey across time. As the boundaries between past and present begin to dissolve, Mutlu finds himself confronting the Roman era, hidden truths, and his own unresolved questions. History is no longer distant; it becomes personal, emotional, and transformative. Through its rich historical atmosphere and introspective narrative, the novel explores themes of time, fate, love, and identity, inviting the reader to reflect on the enduring connection between history and the human soul.

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (2026)

*Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There*, published in late 1871, is a sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. While the previous book begins with Alice falling down a rabbit hole into a world of playing cards, this volume finds her step through a parlor mirror into a realm totally designed like a game of chess.

Everdark by N.A. Soleil (2023)

“If I stay … I’ll kill them all.” Sixteen year old Redd is a runaway with psionic powers and PTSD. While escaping the parents who experimented on her, Redd unwittingly opens a portal to a planet populated by the last remnant of the angelic species. Trouble follows. With nowhere else to go, she is caught up in an intergalactic conflict: the militant, space-faring Rangers and their allies must prevent the fortress Everdark, the angels' last bastion, from being overrun by evil forces. The abuse Redd survived takes its toll in the form of nightmares, mood swings, and paranoia — but there is comfort in combat, so she joins the front line. There, she discovers that she can wield terrible power at the behest of a mysterious entity residing somewhere within her, though the transaction is not in her favor. Clinging to an often nebulous connection to shared reality, she becomes inextricably involved with more than just the battle to protect the angels. The events of Everdark are the key to a mechanism that, with Redd and her companions as integral gears, will start a countdown. And at zero … a shift in the core of the metacosm, one written into its very code before Time began. *** Everdark is book one in the Metacosm Chronicles, a science fantasy universe decades in the making between its two authors, N. and A. Soleil. More information at http://www.metacosmchronicles.com or on your friendly neighborhood social media.

The Midnight Factory by Russell Luyt (2025)

**Shimmer makes you forget—until it takes everything.** In the near-future and rain-soaked New Albion, shimmer is both escape and enslavement—and the Bureau for Virtue, always watching, ensures the world stays hooked. Anouk Walker only wanted to survive until her next fix. But when a Bureau raid tears her closest friend away, she’s pulled into a Resistance whose ideals are as compromised as its methods. Time is short; she must rescue Jimmy before the Factory erases who he is. To bring him back, she must confront the Factory itself—a dark place whispered about in fear, where shimmer’s horrific origins are hidden. What begins as a desperate rescue becomes something larger: a fight over truth, loyalty and the human cost of hope. As the Bureau closes in and the lure of shimmer calls from the darkness, Anouk must decide not just who she’s willing to save, but what she’s willing to become. *The Midnight Factory* is a gritty, haunting and psychological dystopian thriller about addiction, complicity and the fragile rebellions we build with the people we refuse to abandon. Perfect for fans of Margaret Atwood, Suzanne Collins, and P.D. James.

Kiki Strike by Kirsten Miller (2006)

Life becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein when, at the age of twelve, she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she, too, wants to explore the subterranean world.

Burned by Ellen Hopkins (2006)

NY Times bestseller, is the story of a young woman, struggling to find her place in the world in the face of abuse by the person she most adores: her father. She questions her family, her faith, and her ability to love and be loved. Suspended from school, she is sent to rural Nevada to live with an aunt whom she barely knows. There she finds love, acceptance and new knowledge about the things that have made her father like he is. But even there, her demons find her. - See more at: http://ellenhopkins.com/YoungAdult/burned/#sthash.Kf8tIiN5.dpuf

Escaping Peril by Tui T. Sutherland (2015)

"The New York Times and USA Today bestselling series soars to even greater heights with a new prophecy and five new dragonets ready to claim their destiny! Peril has been loyal to Queen Scarlet, who used her fatal firescales to kill countless dragons in the SkyWing arena. Now, Peril is loyal to Clay, the only dragonet who has ever been her friend. So when Scarlet threatens Jade Mountain Academy, Peril sets off to find her former queen, stop her, and save the day, no matter what it takes. There's just one problem: a strangely persistent SeaWing, Turtle, insists on coming along, too. Turtle is worried about his friends, who left to search for Scarlet and haven't returned. Peril is worried that she might accidentally burn Turtle -- or burn him on purpose, for being so annoying -- and frustrated that she keeps saying and doing the wrong things. She can't escape her firescales, and she can't escape her reputation as the deadliest dragon in Pyrrhia. So when she's offered a chance to trade everything for a second chance, Peril has to decide who she's really loyal to . . . and whether her own scales might actually be worth saving."

The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer (2007)

In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappear-ance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known.As Isaac navigates the tedium and terrors of prison, forging tenuous trusts, his wife feverishly searches for him, suspecting, all the while, that their once-trusted housekeeper has turned on them and is now acting as an informer. And as his daughter, in a childlike attempt to stop the wave of baseless arrests, engages in illicit activities, his son, sent to New York before the rise of the Ayatollahs, struggles to find happiness even as he realizes that his family may soon be forced to embark on a journey of incalculable danger.A page-turning literary debut, The Septembers of Shiraz simmers with questions of identity, alienation, and love, not simply for a spouse or a child, but for all the intangible sights and smells of the place we call home.

UnWholly by Neal Shusterman (2012)

"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not only continue, but expand, allowing the unwinding of prisoners and the impoverished. Cam is a teen who does not exist. He is made entirely out of the parts of other unwinds. Cam, a 21st century Frankenstein, struggles with a search for identity and meaning, as well as the concept of his own soul, if indeed a rewound being can have one. When a sadistic bounty hunter who takes "trophies" from the unwinds he captures starts to pursue Connor, Risa and Lev, Cam finds his fate inextricably bound with theirs"--

Breasts and Eggs by 川上未映子 (2020)

Tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old unmarried narrator, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's daughter Midoriko. Unable to come to terms with her changed body after giving birth, Makiko becomes obsessed with the prospect of getting breast enhancement surgery. Meanwhile, her twelve-year-old daughter Midoriko is paralyzed by the fear of her oncoming puberty and finds herself unable to voice the vague, yet overwhelming anxieties associated with growing up. The narrator, who remains unnamed for most of the story, struggles with her own indeterminable identity of being neither a "daughter" nor a "mother." Set over three stiflingly hot days in Tokyo, the book tells of a reunion of sorts between two sisters, and the passage into womanhood of young Midoriko.

Trial by fire by J. A. Jance (2009)

In the heat of the Arizona desert, a raging fire pushes temperatures to a deadly degree, and one woman is left to burn. Pulled naked and barely breathing from the fire, the victim has no idea who she is, let alone who would do this to her--or why

The Loser's Guide to Life and Love by A. E. Cannon (2008)

Over the summer, Salt Lake City high school student Ed McIff works at the video store wearing a shirt with the name Sergio on it, and when a beautiful new girl comes into the store, he decides to take on a new, more suave identity, resulting in a series of misunderstandings and star-crossed encounters.

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

In this electric and provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella 'Especially Heinous,' Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show naively assumeded had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.

The hypnotists by Gordon Korman (2013)

Twelve-year-old Jackson Opus is descended from two powerful hypnotist bloodlines, but he has just begun to realize that he can control other peoples' actions with sometimes frightening results--especially when the head of the Sentia Institute plans to use Jackson for his own benefit.

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (2013)

Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton (2014)

Born with bird wings, Ava Lavender is well aware that love has long made fools of her family. When pious Nathaniel Sorrows mistakes her bird wings for angel wings, 16-year-old Ava faces the man's growing obsession, which comes to a head with the rain and feathers that fly through the air during a nighttime summer solstice celebration.