by Yiming Ma
Debut author Yiming Ma brilliantly, presciently constructs a future when the United States is Qin-America, long subsumed by Qin, a new China able to "crush [Western] enemies once and for all." Mindbanks--"devices... directly installed into the hippocampi"--"made Qin into this great empire."
A "MESSAGE FROM OWNER," its metadata redacted, opens what becomes a novel-in-stories, establishing a framing device in which the unnamed sender introduces his mother's "stories of a world before memories could be shared
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by Autumn Krause
A princess must marry then murder a prince in this dark YA romantasy featuring gorgeous prose, twisty reveals, and untraceable murders.
Radixan Princess Inessa Sinet was poisoned. The princess had attempted to save her monetarily floundering kingdom by marrying then killing Aeric, the prince of the powerful yet "haughty and detestable" Acus. She accomplished neither. Now, Inessa's twin sister, Madalina, must attempt the same task. Inessa, trapped in the purgatorial Bide, haunts Madalina, demanding her sister
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by Stacy Willingham
A New York investigative journalist's return to her Claxton, S.C., hometown prompts her to reinvestigate her older sister Natalie's disappearance 22 years ago in Stacy Willingham's engrossing, character-driven Forget Me Not.
Upset that she didn't receive an anticipated promotion, Claire Campbell impulsively quit her newspaper job. Eight weeks later, freelance work hasn't materialized; her morale is dwindling along with her bank account. Claire reluctantly agrees to spend a month or so in Claxton, helping her
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by Angeline Boulley
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley (Warrior Girl Unearthed) is a shocking, urgent YA thriller that centers Native voices and cultural identity as it reveals the failures of the foster-care system.
Six months after aging out of the foster-care system, 18-year-old Lucy survives a pipe-bomb attack. She wakes in a hospital with two strangers at her bedside: Daunis, her dead biological sister's best friend (and the protagonist of Boulley's debut, Firekeeper's Daughter), and Jamie, an attorney who helps Native
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by Jeannie Vanasco
In A Silent Treatment, her third memoir, Jeannie Vanasco (The Glass Eye; Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl) examines the many ways her mother uses silence: as punishment, as retreat, as enticement, as retribution, as unspoken longing. It all began when Vanasco's mother moved into the in-law suite in Vanasco's home. What started as an elegant solution to her mother's loneliness and distance quickly morphed into something less beautiful: silent treatments, lasting anywhere from days to months, at
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by Marker Snyder
A teen vampire whose adult fangs have come in tries to hide his new difficulties with being around blood--and the way one boy's pulse seems to call to him--in this savvy and sanguine middle-grade graphic novel.
Thirteen-year-old Ivan can't tell any of his friends, all of whom are human, that he's a vampire. When his fangs come in, he hides them, too happy at Day School with the human kids to go to Night School, even though this disappoints his family. He has always eaten a plant-based diet and doesn't understand
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by Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert has been an iconic memoirist in the U.S. since Eat Pray Love landed on bookshelves nearly 20 years ago. Now, in her first memoir in a decade, Gilbert takes readers to a darker, more complicated space. This is a harrowing, vital, and ultimately transcendent exploration of fierce love, codependency, and grief.
All the Way to the River is the story of Gilbert's profound and life-altering relationship with Rayya Elias. Their bond found new contours when Elias was diagnosed with
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