Awake in the Floating City
"A mesmerizing novel about the importance of remembrance and human connection when everything around you is drowning."
Susanna Kwan's debut novel, Awake in the Floating City, is an ode to her hometown of San Francisco, nostalgic about the city's past and poignantly speculative of a post-apocalyptic future. Middle-aged painter Bo has lived her whole life in the city, ...
So Many Stars
"A powerful oral history of the lives of trans and nonbinary elders of color."
Caro de Robertis' So Many Stars shares the personal stories of 20 trans and nonbinary people of color over age 50 who, through their activism, art, and courage, have helped pave the way for the LGBTQ+ community as we know it today. The book is ...
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June 18, 2025
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Another Word for Love
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing.
Endling
"Maria Reva breaks the fourth wall in her novel about Ukrainian romance tours."
Maria Reva's debut novel Endling follows a group of Ukrainian women involved in "romance tours"—a cultural phenomenon akin to the mail-order bride system in which men from around the world come to meet Ukrainian women with the goal of marriage....
The Ghostwriter
"family secrets that kept me hooked"
"everyone is an unreliable narrator." Ooooh this one was SO GOOD. It had me hooked from the start. Olivia is in a really tough spot. She's burned some bridges recently in her ghost writing career ...
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In the early '70s, Laura taught senior English in Charleston, WV. Half a century later, some of the students have formed a book club with 84-year-old...
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Birnam Wood
The Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive.
Murderland
"An in-depth look at the connection between environmental exposure to lead and other heavy metals and the rise in serial killers in the Pacific Northwest of the 1970s."
America in the 1970s has been described as "the golden age of serial killers." The I-5 Killer, BTK, the Night Stalker, the Hillside Stranglers, the Grocery Bag Killer, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and more were active during the decade...
The Sister's Curse
Meet Me at the Crossroads
"A young woman grapples with loss after her twin sister goes missing in a mysterious spiritual realm."
When the parents of twin sisters Ayanna and Olivia divorce, each takes primary custody of one daughter. Though both girls are growing up Black in the Midwest, their upbringings could not be more different. Their mother raises Olivia as a devout ...
Tilt
Set over the course of one day, a heart-racing debut about a woman facing the unimaginable, determined to find safety.
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The Slip
"A bold, relevant, and entertaining mystery of a teenager's disappearance intertwining the transformative power of boxing with an eclectic group of characters to delve into identity, gender, race, immigration, and the systems built into American life."
The Slip by Lucas Schaefer begins with a newspaper clipping highlighting the ten-year disappearance of Nathaniel Rothstein. Nathaniel, a troubled Jewish sixteen-year-old from Newton, Massachusetts, was sent to spend the summer of 1998 in Austin, ...
