Kinsey leads a remote desert research outpost and values the solitude that keeps her life carefully controlled. After her team uncovers a strange creature in the sand and Kinsey breaks quarantine to bring it inside, its presence begins to unravel the crew as it searches for a new host.

In 1986 San Francisco, MIT dropout Martin Hench drifts into the nascent personal-computer scene and becomes an early practitioner of forensic accounting. Hired to investigate a Silicon Valley firm, he instead joins a scrappy women-led startup and is pulled into a dangerous, high-stakes rivalry where new technology reshapes business — and crime. The book follows Marty as he navigates ambition, loyalty, and the brutal culture of early PC-era startups without revealing the outcome.

Paul Lisicky traces how Joni Mitchell’s music shaped his life and craft, from a young songwriter in New Jersey to a writer wrestling with love, loss, and creative longing. Blending memoir and reflection, the book explores how her songs served as a guide and inspiration for his artistic identity.

After a hurricane damages her branch, children’s librarian Tansy Perkins must temporarily move the library into the county botanic gardens, where she clashes with the prickly assistant director, Jack Reid. Forced to collaborate on the spring festival, their uneasy partnership grows into a tentative attraction that makes both of them reevaluate the plans and protections they’ve built around their lives and responsibilities.

Charlie Book, who studies and lives aboard the half‑sunken freighter Christabel off Galveston, finds his quiet routine upended when Ruby Cahill returns with a terrified woman and an infant seeking refuge. They take shelter on the ship’s eerie “floating forest” as a violent storm gathers and a menacing group closes in, while restless flocks of birds scour the coastline. Tense and atmospheric, the story follows their desperate attempt to survive one long, dangerous night.

Two siblings, Hansel and Gretel, become lost in a shadowy forest and must rely on courage and cleverness as they face eerie dangers and unsettling encounters in this illustrated reimagining of the classic Grimm tale.

Sydney Parks is unexpectedly chosen for a sequestered jury in the high-profile case of Margot Kitsch, a reality TV star accused in her husband’s death. Her childhood best friend Damon—whom she hasn’t seen in a decade and with whom she once had more-than-friend feelings—is also on the jury, and old attractions and unresolved issues resurface despite rules against fraternizing. As the trial unfolds, Sydney must balance her personal history, new sparks, and the responsibility to keep the proceedings fair.

Robert Doughten Savile, nicknamed Doughty, is a delusional young man from Connecticut who drifts into early-’90s New York convinced that wealth and status are his birthright. He spins grandiose lies and cons his way into people’s lives while failing professionally and sliding into substance use and risky behavior. The novel is a darkly comic portrait of entitlement, manipulation, and the damage one person can inflict on others.

Cry For Me, Argentina is a memoir by Tamara Yajia about growing up between Argentina and the United States in an eccentric, often chaotic family. Balancing early experiences as a young performer with cultural displacement and creative hustle, Yajia writes with sharp, candid humor—sometimes raunchy—about identity, family ties, and coming of age.

Vinh Nguyen's memoir follows his family's escape from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and his later search for his father, who vanished during their exodus. Traveling through former refugee camps and abandoned family homes, he gathers scattered memories and stories to explore displacement, identity, and the long, personal aftermath of war.

On a summer morning seven mysterious doors appear, opening onto another world and upending ordinary life. Twin sisters Ayanna and Olivia—Black teens from the Midwest—are pulled in different directions; when one vanishes, the other must search for answers while confronting questions of family, faith, and identity.

Haley Mlotek mixes personal memoir with cultural and literary reflection to explore divorce in contemporary life. Drawing on her upbringing around divorce, her work in her mother’s mediation practice, and her own end to a twelve-year relationship, she reflects on how separation reshapes ideas of family, love, and identity while asking who divorce is for and what it reveals about marriage and the future.

Nikki returns to North Carolina at the summons of her estranged grandmother, Mother Rita, who shares the story of their ancestors’ mountain settlement — a community of formerly enslaved people who called their home the Kingdom of the Happy Land. As Nikki learns about Queen Luella and the family land that has shaped generations, she must reckon with her identity and what it will take to protect that legacy.

Singapore, 1972: in the city’s shadowy alleys, ancestral gods and unsanctioned magic persist through street gangs. Adeline Siow, a solitary schoolgirl who can summon flame, investigates her mother’s death and is drawn into the Red Butterfly, a gang of girls bound to a fire goddess. As rival gangs and strange new magic unsettle the streets, Adeline must navigate dangerous loyalties and a violent struggle for power.

Leah Zhang, who has always lived in Los Angeles and feels out of touch with her family’s culture, is sent on an intensive two‑week travel program across China to reconnect with her roots. On the trip she runs into Cyrus, a sarcastic former classmate, and their antagonism gives way to an unexpected connection as they explore cities, food, and landscapes together. The journey prompts Leah to rediscover parts of herself, reconsider what home means, and open up to new possibilities—without giving away the surprises along the way.

In a colonized land where tigers are nearly extinct and old magic stirs, a servant named Lee Seung and a noblewoman, Choi Eunji, form an uneasy alliance to try to change their fates. Their relationship shifts from allies to rivals as they clash over the last tiger—a symbol of their people’s freedom—while facing competing loyalties and a rival from the imperial court. Each sets out on a dangerous quest and must find the courage to shape their own destiny.

Kirby Tan, once the school’s top rock climber, is sidelined by an injury and ends up joining the newspaper for extra credit. Partnered with Bex Santos to co-write an astrology-based love column, Kirby finds herself confronting unexpected feelings as their project brings them closer. As she explores a slow-burn romance and her own identity, Kirby must also navigate tensions with her family and church.

Strata follows four pivotal chapters in Earth’s deep past—the rise of atmospheric oxygen, the global ice ages known as Snowball Earth, the spread of muddy land environments and plants, and the dinosaur-era hothouse—by reading rock layers and traveling with the scientists who study them. Through field visits and clear explanations, Laura Poppick shows how oceans, continents, atmosphere, ice, and life have interacted over deep time and what those interactions suggest for the planet’s future.

In this Southern Gothic historical fantasy, Phee St. Margaret—a sheltered daughter of a free Black business family during Reconstruction—defies her controlling mother to travel to Horizon and accept the role of pomp for her estranged aunt’s funeral. In her aunt’s unsettling house she begins to see visions and shadows that blur the line between life and death and reveal hidden family secrets.

After a normal afternoon bike ride, Amber—who died seven years earlier—suddenly reappears, upending the lives of her family and the small community that never stopped mourning her. Her older sister Melissa, estranged parents, friends, and even strangers must confront grief, memory, and the lingering effects of Amber’s life and death. As Amber tries to understand who she was and why she’s back, the story explores identity, loss, and how one person’s life can ripple outward.

A tightly wrought collection of stories that probes the messy, often destructive edges of love and desire, following ordinary people whose attachments — romantic, familial, and platonic — reveal the quiet violences and betrayals underlying everyday life. With spare, acutely observed prose and a darkly ironic tone, the book moves through moments of longing, obsession, and loss to show how small choices and withheld truths escalate into lasting consequences.

Arabella, a thirty-five-year-old New York theatre director, accepts an opportunity to stage a daring, cross-dressing take on a Shakespeare play in the West Bank as her career and love life stall. Her match‑making grandmother Zoya arranges a meeting with Aziz, a Palestinian American doctor, even as Arabella is attracted to Yoav, an Israeli American designer—tensions that echo Zoya’s own past and the unresolved choices of her sister Naya. The story follows family ties, desire, and how old secrets shape new relationships.

An illustrated, experimental memoir that invites middle-grade (and adult) readers to experience the author’s world through his disabling eye conditions. Through interactive visuals, short anecdotes, and playful reading exercises—vision tests, upside-down pages, and chased words—the book explores how perception shapes connection and how language can help bridge discomfort with disability. A short, immersive, spoiler-free look at seeing and being seen.

A collection of Thomas Mallon’s journal entries from the 1980s and 1990s that follows his early years as a gay writer in New York City. The entries capture daily life in the literary scene—relationships, friendships, the social world, and the effects of the emerging AIDS crisis—while tracing his personal and professional growth. Intimate and observant, the book offers a vivid, reflective portrait of that era.

Two linked stories — in 2016 Half Moon Bay, a woman waits for her missing father and follows cryptic instructions that lead her to a Berkeley library book; in 1933 Vienna, a young mathematician joins an intellectual circle as fascism rises and rumors spread of a mysterious “music box” said to affect time. As inquiries across decades intersect, the novel examines secrecy, memory, and obsession without revealing key plot twists. It’s an atmospheric historical mystery about people trying to understand loss and the uncertain nature of the past.