Sofía, a freedwoman born into slavery, arrives at the island of Isla Bestia to find her twin brother and encounters the intoxicating, otherworldly Carnaval de Bestias. As she follows whispers of her Taike’ri heritage through the carnival’s performances and secrets, she must confront those who profit from her people and resist a growing, uncanny pull that threatens to consume her.

Ten young women wake in a remote desert compound and discover they are being filmed for a televised competition; ten men will arrive soon and the contestants must compete for survival and prizes under constant surveillance. As alliances form and tensions rise, they face moral choices and the harsh realities of a controlled, voyeuristic contest.

Fiona Addai — a popular online sleuth known as @Princess_PI — tries to reclaim her late brother’s invention from a tech company and instead finds herself accused of murder. She hires Maurice Bennett, a jaded private investigator, to help clear her name and teach her real-world detective work. As they dig into a shady start-up, their partnership intensifies and they must learn to trust each other to uncover the truth.

A young girl living in a drab, lifeless city discovers a small seed and quietly nurtures it; over time the seed grows into a lush, life-filled oasis that brings color, animals, and a sense of wonder back to the people around her, illustrating how a single, gentle act can restore hope and reconnect a community with the natural world.

Elān, a storyteller, frees a raven that knows where the Koosh invaders’ lost weapon is. Tasked with captaining a canoe crewed by an unlikely team — including a bear-cousin, a massive wolf, and the vulgar raven — he must cross stormy seas and face giants and other dangers to retrieve it. As their world changes and alliances shift, Elān must decide what role he will play in the struggle to save his people.

On the foggy Oregon coast, a creature called the Watcher appears to feed on secrets. After Shay and her girlfriend Lauren are caught up in a strange attack, they recruit aspiring photographer Zoe and friends to document the legend before it exposes their hidden truths. Tense and atmospheric, the book blends queer romance and small-town mystery as the teens race to protect one another and their secrets.

Notes to John is Joan Didion’s journal of psychotherapy sessions begun in 1999 and kept for her husband, John Gregory Dunne. It records candid conversations about alcoholism, adoption, depression and anxiety, family relationships (including with her daughter Quintana), work, childhood, and questions of legacy, offering an intimate account of a decade‑long analysis.

Two veteran negotiators, Hussein Agha and Robert Malley, examine the collapse of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process and the roots of the 2023 violence. Drawing on decades of secret talks and experience advising Palestinian and U.S. leaders, they offer candid portraits of key figures and argue that policy choices — including an overreliance on technical fixes and the late embrace of a two‑state framework — helped make a lasting solution unlikely. They contend recent cycles of violence reflect deeper historical grievances and emotional divides that go beyond questions of territory, and consider what those realities mean for the future.

Eighteen-year-old Eternity Price, serving a death sentence, is offered a shot at clemency if she can win public votes on a high‑stakes reality show. As contestants fight for their survival and she longs to reunite with her younger brother, Eternity must navigate new friendships and impossible choices that test her ideas of forgiveness, family, and freedom—without knowing who she can trust.

Elfreda Marsden, an aspiring archaeologist, thinks she’s found proof of Viking activity on her family’s estate until the amulet is lost after a collision with Georgie Redmayne, her charming childhood enemy recently returned from London. Needing new evidence and cash, the two reluctantly team up to hunt for a hidden hoard of Viking gold, and the quest draws them into unexpected adventures that awaken feelings neither expected. This queer historical romance follows their slow-burn shift from rivalry to something more, with high stakes tied to the treasure they seek.

Inspector Henry Cutter has grown withdrawn, and Sergeant Gideon Bliss worries as a series of meticulously staged murders unfolds. The cases offer baffling clues and draw Bliss into investigations Cutter keeps oddly distant. With help from journalist Octavia Hillingdon, Bliss must step out of the inspector’s shadow to uncover hidden motives and confront difficult questions about truth, duty, and justice.

Seventh-grader Grace is struggling after her parents' divorce and the end of a close friendship. Feeling lost at school and at home, she becomes intrigued by the school's fencing club and wonders if learning the sport might help her gain confidence, make new friends, and find a place where she belongs.

Emily and her family run a bakery where they can bake emotions into their desserts—uplifting treats for confidence or comfort when you need it. After a sudden family loss, Emily breaks the one rule—never bake a bad feeling—and creates a crumble that offers numbness rather than healing. The graphic novel follows Emily and her friend Dae as they navigate grief, friendship, and the messy, complicated ways we try to cope.

Thirty-one-year-old Florence Grimes is a single, struggling mother whose life centers on her ten-year-old son, Dylan. When Alfie Risby—Dylan’s school bully—vanishes during a class trip and Dylan becomes the prime suspect, Florence must find the missing boy to clear her son. Unequipped for an investigation and facing hostility from the other parents, she races to uncover the truth while confronting uneasy questions about Dylan’s possible involvement.

How to Share an Egg is a culinary memoir in which Bonny Reichert explores how food shapes family, memory, and identity. Prompted by a trip to Poland and a bowl of borscht, she traces her culinary roots—from recipes learned at her grandmother’s elbow and a childhood in the restaurant business to her life as a chef and mother—using food and memories to reckon with her father’s history of wartime deprivation and what survival means across generations. The result is a quiet, food-centered meditation on inheritance, belonging, and finding one’s voice.

The Appalachian Sea is a collection of poems that inhabits the landscapes and livelihoods of the Shenandoah region, blending everyday work, memory, and the uncanny. Drawing on gothic imagery—haints, dark orchards, wandering ghosts—and the constant flow of rivers, the poems meditate on mortality, change, and the stubborn persistence that makes a home both beloved and strange.

Set in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, the novel follows Rose Valland, a Jeu de Paume curator who secretly documented Nazi art theft, and Alexandre Rosenberg, a young Free French soldier whose family lost its collection. Their paths converge as they join the Resistance’s efforts to protect and recover looted art amid the dangers of occupation and the Liberation — a tense, character-driven historical thriller inspired by real events.

A personal, graphic exploration of Black militant history framed by the author’s experiences during the upheaval in Philadelphia in 2020. Ben Passmore traces more than a century of armed resistance — from early 20th‑century confrontations through the Black Power era to recent uprisings — meeting the activists and families who shaped the movement and wrestling with the costs of state violence and what liberation might mean today.

Netherlands, 1887: when Lucy’s twin Sarah slips into a disturbing illness—mumbling, refusing food, and fixating on a centuries‑old corpse found on her husband’s estate—Lucy races to uncover the cause and protect her from being committed. As Sarah’s behavior grows more violent and inexplicable, Lucy must confront a mounting horror that may be either possession or madness, and decide what she’s willing to do to save her sister.

Mara awakens on a remote Irish island with no memory of how she died. As she tries to rebuild her life, she encounters strange customs, watchful residents, and a community determined to keep certain truths buried. Atmospheric and unsettling, the novel follows Mara’s search for identity as fragments of her past return and the island’s secrets close in.

Joe Dunthorne investigates his great‑grandfather Siegfried Merzbacher’s hidden past after uncovering a long, unpublished memoir. Merzbacher was a German‑Jewish chemist who created radioactive household products and later became involved in military chemical work in 1930s Germany. Dunthorne follows archival clues and travels across Europe and Turkey to confront the moral complexity and lasting consequences of his family’s history.

New Orleans, 1922: newly turned vampire Cora Velasquez lives in a speakeasy run by a coven and turns to the charismatic Father Orville Thibodeaux for salvation. When he learns her true nature, their clandestine bond becomes a tense, morally charged struggle over desire, power, and control.

After surviving an explosion at Antietam, former Union soldier Ovid Vesper begins having mysterious visions. In the 1880s American West he follows those visions across a nation still recovering from the Civil War, encountering hidden, otherworldly dangers and helping the people he meets while searching for personal peace and answers.

Dead Girl Cameo is a poetic collection in which m. mick powell interweaves memories of queer Black girlhood with reimagined lives of music icons—Aaliyah, Whitney Houston, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Phyllis Hyman, Selena, and others—to explore sexuality, survival, and queer mourning. Through sensual imagery, speculative verse, and lyric wordplay, the poems meditate on loss, friendship, love, and the afterlives of stardom, imagining how these women’s stories shape possibility and resilience.

In a fledgling world shaped from nothing, humanity’s violence summons a demigoddess from the sea who teaches a language of peace and helps a desert city arise. As order and chaos collide and unseen powers stir, the story follows love, war, and mortality in a visually inventive creation myth.