by Elizabeth Day
One of Us by Elizabeth Day (Paradise City; The Party) circles the captivating lives of the elite Fitzmaurice family. After Fliss Fitzmaurice's body washes up on a Bali beach, Martin, an old school friend of her brother Ben, wonders how Fliss met such an untimely end and why he has been invited to her funeral years after falling out with the family.
Martin is thrust back into the Fitzmaurices' world, resurrecting his feelings for Ben, yearning for the family's acceptance, and anger over how easily he was cast
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by Olivia Waite
Unanticipated life, rather than death, demands the attention of ship's detective Dorothy Gentleman when an infant mysteriously appears at her nephew's door in Nobody's Baby, the delightful second science fiction cozy mystery by Olivia Waite (The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows).
The population of the Fairweather generation starship is supposed to be fixed at 10,000 for its centuries-long voyage. As passengers age and die, their consciousnesses are copied from their memory books in the library into new adult
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by Helen Yoon, illus. by Helen Yoon
Author and illustrator Helen Yoon's Is This… Spring? expands her ongoing Is This…? series (Is This... Winter?) with a joyfully rambunctious ode to the glorious vernal equinox that can't be tempered, despite some powerful histamines.
"I love spring!" a small brown pup gleefully announces. While their human hangs up the laundry in the background, the pooch energetically enjoys the flowering open fields, romping, rolling, and making "spring angels!" But before they can finish their heartfelt declaration
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by Alex Kadis
Alex Kadis's debut novel, Big Nobody, is a wild, hilarious, heartbreaking coming-of-age seesaw of teenage angst and adult abuse set in East London in the mid-1970s. Constantina "Connie" Costa wants to kill her father, George, whom she calls "The Fat Murderer." She's 14 and reeling from the death of her mother and younger brothers, who died in a car crash that her father somehow survived. When not at school or at Greek Nights (or "Freak Nights," as she calls them) with her Greek Cypriot immigrant community,
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by L.M. Wilkinson, illus. by Lavanya Naidu
Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria, originally published in Australia in 2024, is the first in a darling and adventurous series for younger middle-grade readers by author L.M. Wilkinson and illustrator Lavanya Naidu.
Mouseling Tithonia Proudleaf daydreams of adventure, often at the expense of her chores. She loves the stories of Bravepaw, "the BRAVEST mouse who ever lived," and wants to be like him. When a "warrior" hare in a glider lands in their town, the Plateau, chased by many somethings "twisting
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