by Travis Baldree (2022)
Worn out after decades of packing into bloody battlefields, Viv, a battle-weary orc barbarian, decides to hang up her sword and open the first-ever coffee shop in the fantasy city of Thune. Along with a talented tiefling barista, a ratkin baker, and a mysterious dire-cat, Viv discovers the sweet flavor of second chances.
Travis Baldree
When an injury strands the young orc barbarian Viv in the sleepy seaside town of Murk, she takes shelter in a struggling local bookshop run by a desperate badger woman. Over the smell of dried leaves, fresh cinnamon rolls, and newly printed pages, Viv learns that adventure doesn’t always require a drawn sword.
Pete Koziar
"Set hundreds of years in the future, this novel tells the story of the crew of The Dauntless, one of mankind's first interstellar ships, as they return to Earth. It took them hundreds of years, Earth time, to make their voyage. When they return, they initially believe their adventuring to be over, but it is only then that their real journey begins. Their world had changed in unexpected ways. It is ruled by a supreme ruler, the king, accompanied by powerful creatures known as the Purnarkat. The crew faces several crisis points where they must decide whom to follow, and even whom to believe. They find themselves caught between the followers of the Purnarkat and an ancient creature, who has his own plans for the crew and their ship"--Publisher's description.
Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment. He must solve an extinction-level scientific puzzle with only an unexpected alien companion.
Bonnie Garmus
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with her mind.