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This week’s roundup includes navigating foxes, HGTV gone wrong, lunar magic, a caller Percy Jackson, and more.
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Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle, Designed by Greg Stadnyk Art by Signum Noir (October 3)
Emory mightiness beryllium a pupil astatine the prestigious Aldryn College for Lunar Magics, but her healing abilities person ever been mediocre astatine best—until a treacherous nighttime successful the Dovermere oversea caves leaves a radical of her classmates dormant and her arsenic the lone survivor. Now Emory is plagued by strange, intolerable powers that nary healer should possess.
Powers that would ruin her beingness if the incorrect idiosyncratic were to observe them.
To summation power of these caller abilities, Emory enlists the assistance of the school’s astir reclusive student, Baz—a lad already well-versed successful the deadly quality of darker magic, whose sister happened to beryllium 1 of the drowned students and Emory’s champion friend. Determined to find the information down the drownings and the cult-like concealed nine she’s convinced her classmates were progressive in, Emory is faced with adjacent much questions erstwhile the supposedly drowned students commencement washing ashore—alive—only for them each instantly to dice horrible, magical deaths.
And Emory is not the lone 1 seeking answers. When her caller magic captures the society’s attention, she finds herself drawn into their satellite of privilege and power, each portion wondering if the information she’s searching for mightiness pb her close backmost to Dovermere…to look the destiny she was ne'er meant to escape.
Hangman by Maya Binyam, Designed by Alex Merto, Art by Belkis Ayón (August 8)
In the morning, I received a telephone telephone and was told to committee a flight. The arrangements had been made connected my behalf. I packed no clothes, due to the fact that my apparel had been packed for me. A car arrived to prime maine up.
A antheral returns location to sub-Saharan Africa aft twenty-six years successful America. When helium arrives, helium finds that helium doesn’t admit the state oregon anyone successful it. Thankfully, idiosyncratic recognizes him, a antheral who calls him brother―setting him connected a quest to find his existent brother, who is dying.
In Hangman, Maya Binyam tells the communicative of that search, and of the phantoms, guides, tricksters, bureaucrats, debtors, taxi drivers, relatives, riddles, and strangers that volition pb to the truth.
It is an uncommonly assured debut: an existential journey; a tragic farce; a slapstick tragedy; and a strange, and strangely honest, communicative of 1 man’s stubborn quest to find refuge―in this satellite and successful the satellite that lies beyond it.
My Father, The Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang, Cover Art by Marcos Chin (August 29)
A poignant coming-of-age communicative told successful 2 alternating voices: a California teen railing against the Vietnamese culture, juxtaposed with her begetter arsenic an eleven-year-old vessel person on a harrowing and traumatic exile travel from Vietnam to the U.S.
San Jose, 1999. Jane knows her Vietnamese dada can’t power his temper. Lost successful a anserine daydream, she forgot to prime up her seven-year-old brother, Paul, from school. Inside their home, she hands her dada the instrumentality helium hits her with. This is however it’s ever been. She deserves this. Not due to the fact that she forgot to prime up Paul, but due to the fact that astatine the extremity of the summertime she’s going to permission him erstwhile she goes distant to college. As Paul retreats inward, Jane realizes she indispensable explicate where their dad’s choler comes from. The occupation is, she doesn’t rather recognize it herself.
Đà Nẵng, 1975. Phúc (pronounced /fo͞ok/, rhymes with duke) is eleven the archetypal clip his parent walks him done a tract of mines he’s ever been warned ne'er to enter. Guided by cracks of moonlight, Phúc moves past fallen airplanes and conflict debris to a exile boat. But earlier the prima adjacent has a accidental to rise, much than fractional the radical aboard volition perish. This is lone the opening of Phúc’s perilous travel crossed the Pacific, which volition beryllium fraught with Thai pirates, an unrelenting ocean, starvation, hallucination, and the unfortunate execution of a panda.
Told successful the alternating voices of Jane and Phúc, My Father, The Panda Killer is an unflinching communicative astir warfare and its interaction crossed aggregate generations, and however 1 American teen forges a way toward accepting her practice and herself.
The Navigating Fox by Christopher Row, Art by Yuko Shimizu (September 26)
Quintus Shu’al is the world’s lone navigating fox. He’s besides successful disgrace aft starring an expedition to its doom a twelvemonth earlier, with dozens of lives lost. Now Quintus has a accidental to redeem himself by starring a brand-new expedition to the gates of hell. In return, helium is promised the eventual information of his origins and his solitary existence.
Those who volition travel Quintus are the Holy Priest Scipio Aemilanus; student Octavia Delphina, whose sister was mislaid successful the archetypal expedition; the duplicate raccoon cartographers Loci and Foci; and the almighty bison ambassador Walks Along Woman.
As the travel grows much perilous and the agendas of its members much sinister, Quintus indispensable marque an intolerable prime betwixt obtaining the concealed of his creation, oregon sacrificing that anticipation everlastingly successful bid to prehend his destiny.
Nightbreaker by Coco Ma, Art by Cristi Balanescu, Design by Kristin Boyle (September 19)
Fifteen years ago, The Vanishing thrust Manhattan into darkness, everlastingly changing the City That Never Sleeps. By day, resilient New Yorkers person adapted, clinging to the vestiges of their cosmopolitan lives. By night—well, you ne'er spell retired astatine nighttime unless you person a decease wish.
Or unless you’re Rei Reynolds.
Rei attends an exclusive New York prep school, but dissimilar her classmates, she welcomes nightfall. That’s erstwhile she tin secretly hunt Deathlings, the deadly creatures that person prowled Manhattan’s subway tunnels and blood-soaked streets since the Vanishing. After they brutally slaughtered her parents years ago, Rei is hopeless for vengeance.
To get it, Rei indispensable suffice for—and win—the Tournament, a contention to articulation the ranks of the city’s legendary Deathling hunters. Rei’s nightly pursuits should springiness her an advantage, but the different competitors are fierce, and successful immoderate cases familiar: participate Kieran Cross, Rei’s astir infuriating rival . . . and ex-boyfriend.
As the Tournament progresses—and the cutthroat contention escalates—everything Rei believed astir who she tin spot is called into question. Soon enough, she’s caught successful the crosshairs of the elite who privation to support the city’s ruling people successful power, arsenic good arsenic those who volition halt astatine thing to bring it down. Because sometimes it’s not the monsters waiting successful the acheronian you should fearfulness . . . it’s the ones who situation to locomotion into the light.
Coco Ma’s exhilarating municipality phantasy thrusts readers into an immersive satellite of thrills and chills, featuring the smart, sardonic post-apocalyptic heroine you’ll soon privation you could be.
A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by KJ Charles (September 19)
Bridgerton goes Gothic successful this sweeping Regency romance by celebrated writer KJ Charles.
Major Rufus d’Aumesty has unexpectedly go the Earl of Oxney, maestro of a distant Norman manor connected the borderline of the infamous Romney Marsh. There he’s beset connected each sides, his presumption contested some by his greedy uncle and by Luke Doomsday, lad of a notorious smuggling clan.
The earl and the smuggler should beryllium earthy enemies, but cocksure, enragingly competent Luke is simply a trained caput and adept schemer—exactly the benignant of antheral Rufus needs by his side. Before long, Luke becomes an unexpected ally…and the person Rufus had ne'er hoped to find.
But Luke came to Stone Manor with an ulterior motive, 1 he’s hopeless to support hidden adjacent from the lord helium can’t resist. As the lies accumulate and household secrets endanger to destruct everything they clasp dear, maestro and antheral find themselves forced to determine whose broadside they’re truly on…and what they’re consenting to bash for love.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan (September 26)
The archetypal heroes from The Lightning Thief are reunited for their biggest situation yet: getting Percy to assemblage erstwhile the gods are lasting successful his way.
After redeeming the satellite aggregate times, Percy Jackson is hoping to person a mean elder year. Unfortunately, the gods aren’t rather done with him. Percy volition person to fulfill 3 quests successful bid to get the necessary three letters of proposal from Mount Olympus for college.
The archetypal quest is to assistance Zeus’s cup-bearer retrieve his goblet earlier it falls into the incorrect hands. Can Percy, Grover, and Annabeth find it successful time?
Readers caller to Percy Jackson (this publication tin beryllium enjoyed arsenic a standalone) and fans who person been awaiting this reunion for much than a decennary volition delight arsenic successful this latest hilarious instrumentality connected Greek mythology.
Promise by Rachel Eliza Griffith, Cover Art by Megan Gabrielle Harris (July 11)
The radical of Salt Point could so beryllium fearful astir the satellite beyond themselves; astir of them would beryllium calved and dice without ever having gone much than 20 oregon 30 miles from houses that were crammed with generations of their families. . . . But thing was shifting astatine the extremity of summertime 1957.
The Kindred sisters—Ezra and Cinthy—have grown up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who fto them judge that the stories they archer connected stars tin travel true. Love from their neighbors, the Junketts, the lone different Black household successful town, whose location is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And emotion for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beauteous Maine colony perched precocious up connected coastal bluffs.
But arsenic the girls deed adolescence, their achromatic neighbors, including Ezra’s champion friend, Ruby, commencement to spot their maturing bodies and minds successful a antithetic way. And arsenic the quality from distant parts of the state fills with calls for freedom, equality, and justness for Black Americans, the achromatic villagers of Salt Point statesman to presumption the Kindreds and the Junketts arsenic threats to their mode of life. Amid escalating violence, prejudice, and fear, bold Ezra and watchful Cinthy indispensable scope heavy wrong the wells of emotion they’ve built to perpetrate large acts of heroism and grace connected the way to survival.
In luminous, richly descriptive writing, Promise celebrates 1 family’s communicative of resistance. It’s a publication that volition interruption your heart—and past rebuild it with courage, hope, and love.
Same Bed, Different Dreams by Ed Park, Designed by Will Staehle (November 7)
A wild, sweeping caller that imagines an alternate concealed past of Korea and the traces it leaves connected the present—loaded with assassins and huffy poets, RPGs and slasher films, popular bands and the perils of societal media
March, 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots found the Korean Provisional Government to protestation the Japanese concern of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, though, and aft Japan’s decision successful World War II, the KPG dissolves and civilian warfare erupts, resulting successful the North-South divided that remains today.
But what if the KPG inactive existed now, today—working toward a unified Korea, secretly harnessing the mightiness of a elephantine tech institution to further its aims? That’s the outrageous premise of Same Bed Different Dreams, which weaves unneurotic 3 chiseled communicative voices and an archive of mysterious images and twists world similar a kaleidoscope, spinning Korean history, American popular culture, and our tech-fraught lives into an bonzer and unforgettable novel.
Early connected we conscionable Soon Sheen, who works astatine the sprawling planetary exertion institution GLOAT, and comes into possession of an unfinished publication authored by the KPG. The manuscript is simply a mysterious, revisionist history, tying celebrated names and obscure spot players to the KPG’s expansive project. This unusual manuscript links unneurotic figures from architect-poet Yi Sang to Jack London to Marilyn Monroe. M*A*S*H is successful here, too, and the Moonies, and a past of unit extending from the assassination of President McKinley to the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.
Just arsenic overseas countries person imposed their desires connected Korea, truthful excessively has Park tucked antithetic dreamers into this sprawling furniture of a novel. Among them: Parker Jotter, Korean War vet and appliance-store owner, who saw something–a UFO?–while flying implicit North Korea; Nora You, nail salon magnate; and Monk Zingapan, crippled decorator turned penning guru. Their links are revealed implicit time, adjacent arsenic the dreamers remain in the acheronian arsenic to their ain interconnectedness. A thrilling feat of imaginativeness and a measurement guardant from an award-winning author, Same Bed Different Dreams begins arsenic a comic caller and gradually pulls readers into different dimension—one successful which utopia is possible.
Sex, Lies, and Sensibility by Nikki Payne (November 21)
Two sisters rotation up their sleeves to tally a dilapidated, formation municipality inn but indispensable larn to enactment with the locals successful this deliciously spicy Sense and Sensibility inspired rom-com by Nikki Payne.
There’s ne'er a bully clip to learn you’re your father’s concealed 2nd family—especially not astatine the speechmaking of the will. To adhd insult to injury, Nora’s racy leaked videos conscionable went viral. Nora Dash has got nary reputation, nary dad, and lone a forgotten formation location successful agrarian Maine to her name. There are nary different Black radical for miles, the spot is abandoned, but astatine slightest nary 1 volition admit her O face in the backwoods. She and her free-spirited sister Yanne haven’t adjacent knocked the traveling particulate disconnected past season’s decorator boots erstwhile the archetypal occupation pops up: a fake parkland ranger giving tours of their spot similar it’s his own—and he’s hotter than the section lobster boil.
Ennis “Bear” Freeman is utilized to radical showing up unannounced connected his land. So erstwhile a beauteous metropolis miss shows up with the deed to his unofficial office successful 1 manicured hand, helium gives it a week earlier their full unit packs up and leaves. But it isn’t agelong earlier they find retired they enactment amended unneurotic than apart. To his surprise, Nora’s damned bully for Bear’s business, and his ain secrets mightiness crook retired to beryllium the happening that sends them packing.
Sleepless successful Dubai by Sajni Patel (October 24)
In this hate-to-love teen rom-com from the writer of My Sister’s Big Fat Indian Wedding, Nikki, an aspiring photographer, accompanies her household connected a travel to Dubai to observe the 5 days of Diwali successful style. It should beryllium the travel of a lifetime, if Yash, the lad adjacent door—with whom Nikki has a rocky history—weren’t connected board. In the festive spirit, Nikki’s household encourages her to get reacquainted with Yash. Turns retired a batch tin alteration connected a 12-hour formation beyond conscionable continents. But tin betrayals and conflicting ambitions beryllium acceptable speech agelong capable for the 2 teens to observe the existent meaning of the Festival of Lights?
Thank You For Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz, Art by Poppy Magda (September 9)
Daniel Rosenberg and Liyah Cohen-Jackson’s past conversation―fourteen years agone astatine summertime camp―ended their friendship. Until they find themselves seated adjacent to each different connected a plane, and bitterly prime up close wherever they near off. At slightest they tin spell their abstracted ways again aft landing…
That is, until Daniel’s selling steadfast gets hired by the Chicago depository wherever Liyah works arsenic a inferior curator, and they’re forced to collaborate with imaginable vocation changing promotions connected the line.
With each gathering and post-work societal gathering with colleagues, the hostility (and chemistry) betwixt Daniel and Liyah builds until they’re forced to face wherefore they broke isolated years agone astatine camp. But arsenic they find comfortableness successful their shared experiences arsenic Jews of colour and fumble towards friendship, tin they disregard their increasing feelings for each other?
With sexy charm and undeniable wit, Rachel Runya Katz’s sparkling debut, Thank You For Sharing, proves that if you’re unfastened to love, thing is possible.
Thieves’ Gambit by Kayvion Lewis (September 26)
The Inheritance Games meets Ocean’s Eleven in this cinematic heist thriller wherever a cutthroat contention brings unneurotic the world’s champion thieves and 1 thief is playing for the highest stakes of all: her mother’s life.
At lone seventeen years old, Ross Quest is already a maestro thief, particularly adept astatine flight plans. Until her program to tally distant from her legendary household of thieves takes an unexpected turn, leaving her mother’s beingness hanging successful the balance.
In a hopeless bid, she enters the Thieves’ Gambit, a bid of dangerous, planetary heists wherever sidesplitting the contention isn’t precisely disconnected limits, but the expansive prize is simply a privation for thing successful the world—a privation that could prevention her mom. When she learns 2 of her competitors see her puerility nemesis and a handsome, smooth-talking feline who mightiness besides privation to bargain her heart, winning the Gambit becomes trickier than she imagined.
Ross tries her champion to instrumentality to the household creed: spot nary 1 whose past sanction isn’t Quest. But with the stakes this high, Ross volition person to determine who to con and who to spot earlier clip runs out. After all, lone 1 of them tin win.
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