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Inspector Henry Cutter has grown withdrawn, and Sergeant Gideon Bliss worries as a series of meticulously staged murders unfolds.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.

A lyrical, reverse-chronology portrait of a woman’s life in which her daughter pieces together memories from her final days back to childhood. Through intimate scenes and reflective prose, the book explores grief, memory, family bonds, and how identity is shaped by experience. It is a compassionate meditation on a mother’s life and a daughter’s effort to understand her.

Jonas Olofsson explores the human sense of smell, explaining how olfaction shapes memory, emotion and perception and how it engages the brain even before odor molecules hit receptors. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, linguistics and history, the book shows why smell has been overlooked, why people can experience the same scent differently, and how smell can be assessed, trained and sometimes recovered after loss. It’s a concise, curiosity-driven look at the science and everyday importance of our often-neglected sense.

Good Things is a concise, warm collection of more than 125 recipes and practical cooking lessons from Samin Nosrat, centered on flavor, comfort, and sharing. It offers approachable recipes for everyday meals and gatherings, along with technique tips, ingredient guidance, and hosting advice—aimed at helping cooks create nourishing food and meaningful moments without fuss.

Groceries is a book-length poem that explores our fraught relationship with objects—how we obtain, name, keep, and discard them. Mixing everyday items (fax machines, horseshoes, waves) with broader ecological questions, it acts as a lyrical guide for listening to and speaking with the material world, considering how objects shape personal and collective futures.

A formally daring collection of poems that reimagines Black life across time through speculative, Afrofuturist lenses, blending fragmented syntax, sonic performance, and visual play to collapse past, present, and future while interrogating language, identity, embodiment, and the social forces that shape how histories and possibilities are imagined.

Integrated examines the consequences of school desegregation for Black communities by tracing four generations of the author’s family. Combining personal narrative and research, Noliwe Rooks shows how desegregation led to school closures, mass firings of Black teachers, and continued discrimination that reshaped educational opportunities and informs present-day disputes over schooling.

Calvin Duncan was convicted of murder at nineteen and spent decades at Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola). With little formal education he taught himself the law, became a jailhouse lawyer who assisted fellow inmates and taught legal classes, and the book—co-written with Sophie Cull—traces his legal coming-of-age and examines the flaws of the criminal justice system.

A dreamlike, poetic reimagining of Jamaica that moves between present-day life and deep historical memory. Told as a mosaic of voices—a mother searching for a missing child, an undocumented migrant, a youth wandering dream-gates—the book explores loss, cultural memory, and ecological decline, with evocative notes on healing herbs, disappearing flora and fauna, and sea spirits. Objects like Zora Neale Hurston’s abandoned camera and rich, cinematic imagery anchor the collection’s eco-spiritual visions without revealing plot twists.

When veteran goalie Jethro Hale is traded to a team coached by Clay Powers — his former lover and the youngest coach in the league — their past affair and unresolved feelings resurface. As the team pursues a big season, they must navigate awkwardness, parenthood and a rekindled attraction that could cause a scandal if it comes to light.