by Jacquie Pham
Debut author Jacquie Pham builds a novel that is a complex murder mystery and an exploration of the problematic nature of colonization. Duy, Minh, Phong, and Edmond are close friends at one of the most prestigious boarding schools in 1917 Vietnam when they sneak out on a forbidden visit to a fortune teller. What starts as a young boys' lark ends on a dark note when they receive a prophecy: "The four of you. One will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agonize.... One will die." A decade later, the final
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by Jason Reynolds
Multi-award-winning author and 2020-2022 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Jason Reynolds enters the world of YA romance with Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...: A LOVE Story, a hilariously sweet, candid, and guileless story about two Black teens preparing to have sex with each other for the first time.
Seventeen-year-old Neon and his girlfriend, Aria, have been dating for two years and have decided that they are both ready to have sex. At book's open, Neon is stuck in Aria's bathroom talking
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by Katherine Rundell
"We risk losing all this magnificence before we begin to understand it," writes Katherine Rundell in Vanishing Treasures. In her bestiary of 23 extraordinary, endangered creatures, Rundell (Impossible Creatures), an award-winning children's author, reveals wonders of the world that humans might still be able to protect. She illuminates this collection of essays with fable, legend, and truth stranger than fiction, passionately arguing that as "we have lost more than half of all wild things that lived....
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by Emily Lloyd-Jones
Emily Lloyd-Jones returns to the beloved world of The Bone Houses and The Drowned Woods in The Wild Huntress, an enrapturing, action-filled standalone fantasy.
The immortal King Arawn of Annwvyn and the mortal King Pwyll of Dyfed celebrate their kingdoms' friendship every five years with the Wild Hunt, a "revel of blood and magic and madness." The victor of the Hunt receives a boon: any wish that magic or power can grant.
Gwydion of Gwynedd is a 19-year-old trickster and diviner. He wants the Hunt's boon to
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by Eliza Clark
British novelist Eliza Clark's first short story collection, She's Always Hungry, is packed with darkly funny, often speculative pieces, each with a hefty punch. In "Build a Body Like Mine," a young woman becomes obsessed with growing parasites in her gut to maintain her goal weight. Women's self-destructive desires take center stage in other pieces, too, while men's hunger for submission is explored in "Goth GF," in which a bartender develops an insatiable infatuation with his sharp-tongued coworker. Finally,
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by Melanie Cheng
Australian author and physician Melanie Cheng's third title, The Burrow, is an exquisite gem about a damaged family suffering in the aftermath of tragedy. Though her book is dominated by grief, Cheng is an expertly balanced storyteller, leavening the mourning with unexpected laughter, comforting cuddles, surprising grace, and the human need to win the love of grumpy (furry) creatures.
Jin and Amy Lee and their 10-year-old daughter, Lucie, live in metropolitan Melbourne. Four years ago, the family was
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