by Julie Murphy
Julie Murphy (If the Shoe Fits) immerses readers in a Palm Springs retirement community full of aging Hollywood veterans in Vera Stein Is Fine. Forty-year-old Vera has been the assistant (and more) to Brody, one of Hollywood's famous himbos, for nearly half her life. When she realizes the job is a dead end, she camps out on her scream-queen grandmother Ruby's chaise lounge. To her surprise, the man she once married for a day on a dare from Brody is the community's doctor, who she is certain has hated her for
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by Temi Oh
Briar Minton's family was already falling apart--and then the world did, too. Her father had spiraled into doomsday prepping, ignoring his wife's pleas to stop and burying the family in debt. Her mother had given up on their marriage and the husband who wouldn't listen to her. Then a mysterious, catastrophic "Event" dealt a devastating blow to civilization.
Not with a Bang comes from Temi Oh, author of the speculative Do You Dream of Terra-Two? It blends the emotional intensity of family conflict with riveting
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by Tim Disney, JC Lacek, illus. by Vincent Jolas Dubourg, Lil' Zenten
The A.R.C.: A Virus That Kills You When You Lie, created by Tim Disney, co-written by Disney and JC Lacek, and drawn by Vincent Jolas Dubourg, is a head-nodding, finger-pointing, fist-pumping, guffaw-inducing wild ride of a graphic novel. The work opens with a literal black-and-white juxtaposition of "truth" and "lie" and their respective definitions--in case readers need a reminder.
Somewhere in the Amazon, the world's powerful elite gather for the Global Reinvestment for Tomorrow's inaugural international
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by Mina Elwell, A.C. Medina, illus. by Kit Wallis
Comics authors Mina Elwell and A.C. Medina and illustrator Kit Wallis (Quested Volume 1) deliver dizzy action, hilarious monsters, and a spooky mystery in the cinematic and madcap middle-grade graphic novel Undercover Monster.
Mia, a monster with a mostly human body and a massive pink right arm that ends in a claw, gets thrown out of monster school for her "record of violent outbursts." The Monster Schoolboard Association uses her expulsion as an opportunity: they send her to a human school to find a Dream
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by Randy Ribay
National Book Award finalist and Michael L. Printz Award winner Randy Ribay (Patron Saints of Nothing; Everything We Never Had) mines his Filipino heritage and its mythology for Nest of Tongues, an action-packed YA horror mystery about teen vampire siblings.
High school senior Lily and 15-year-old Caleb are manananggal, Filipino vampires who must keep their powers secret by living mediocre lives and hunting only enough small animals to survive. Their mother and their lola (grandmother) are also manananggal,
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