by Caroline O'Donoghue
Time travel. Politics. Science fiction. Cultural conflict. Romance. Skipshock, the first title in a planned duology, is a gripping, mind-bending novel, layered in multiple genres, about a girl who accidentally slips through a portal and is now expected to save the world--"Or some of them."
Pale, redheaded, 16-year-old Margo is headed to a boarding school in Dublin, Ireland, for a "fresh start" after her father's death, when "a weird situation" occurs. Margo has inadvertently "bounced... undetected" through
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by Tochi Onyebuchi
In Harmattan Season, Tochi Onyebuchi (Goliath; Riot Baby) has created a fantasy noir tale perfect for fans of brooding sleuths and speculative magic. Onyebuchi's spare prose tells the story of Boubacar, a private detective in an alternate colonial West Africa where the French are very much still in charge. Bouba can move between the worlds of the colonizer and the colonized more easily than most, since he is a deux-fois, both Indigenous dugu and French.
But business has still been tough, and it's the beginning
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by Steve Cavanagh
Fifty Fifty, the fifth book in Steve Cavanagh's Eddie Flynn series (The Defense; The Plea; Thirteen), is an exhilarating hair-raiser that combines the moral seriousness of a legal thriller with the blood-drenched villainy of a horror novel.
Late one night, 20-something Alexandra Avellino calls 911 and says that her sister, Sofia, has stabbed their father, a former mayor of New York, in his Manhattan home. Seconds later, Sofia calls 911 and tells the same story, but with Alexandra as the stabber. Which sister
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by Daniel Tam-Claiborne
"Each of us has been uprooted from one place and, through a great series of chance and circumstance not entirely our own, been made to reinvent ourselves somewhere else." Transplants, the first novel by Daniel Tam-Claiborne, is a mesmerizing study of the immigrant experience told with warmth, nuance, and quiet beauty.
Chapters alternate between the perspectives of Lin He, a college student in China, and Liz Chen, a Chinese American teacher of the English language. Lin, who has long felt more kinship with her
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by Matt Braly, illus. by Ainsworth Lin
Thai American Matt Braly, creator of Disney's Amphibia animated series, debuts with the marvelously energetic Family Force V. Chinese American character designer Ainsworth Lin vividly illustrates Braly's kaiju-filled contemporary Los Angeles.
"Decades ago, alien invaders attacked Tokyo." Their "demonic appearance" earned them the moniker the Mazoku, meaning devil tribe. The universe sent mankind the "Moon Computer [which] gifted five young Japanese siblings incredible powers" that transformed them into "the
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by Stefanie Leder
Romancing the Stone meets Eat Pray Love in Love, Coffee, and Revolution, TV show runner Stefanie Leder's debut novel, a rom-com mash-up with gravitas. The rambunctious bildungsroman follows naive 21-year-old college dropout Dee Blum from the unfulfilling groves of academe at the University of California, Berkeley, to the steamy underbelly of the coffee farms of Costa Rica.
Dissatisfied with looming law studies, suffocated by a "close-knit" Jewish family, and trapped in a relationship with a domineering boyfriend,
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