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What We’ll Burn Last by Heather Chavez English | 2024 | Mystery & Thriller From the acclaimed author of Before She Finds Me comes “a nuanced story of fiery secrets” (The Washington Post) and a “beautifully written, cinematic thriller” (Ashley Winstead) about two entangled families in a California neighborhood who must race to find answers
The Family by Mandasue Heller English | 2024 | Mystery & Thriller HER BOYFRIEND’S A DREAM. HIS FAMILY’S A NIGHTMARE. Since her mother died of an overdose, kind-hearted Cheryl’s always had to look out for herself. Until Dale Moran walks into her life. Dale and his family have just bought the house across the street,
No Road Home by John Fram English | 2024 | Mystery & Thriller In this “whip-smart, horror-tinged whodunnit in the style of early Stephen King” (Julia Bartz, New York Times bestselling author), a young father must clear his name and protect his queer son when his wealthy new wife’s televangelist grandfather is found murdered. For
Markless by C.G. Malburi English | 2024 | YA Fantasy Ruti is Markless. In a society where worth is determined by the mark on your palm and the magic it grants you, this also deems her worthless. Except she’s also a hardened survivor, a protector of the Markless… and the most powerful witch in Somanchi.
So Witches We Became by Jill Baguchinsky English | 2024 | YA Horror A queer, feminist spin on Stephen King’s The Mist, this ode to female-rage is a perfect pick for fans of She Is a Haunting, and a reminder that if “boys will be boys”, girls will fight back. For high school senior Nell
The Drowning House by Cherie Priest English | 2024 | Mystery & Thriller Houses fall into the Pacific Ocean all the time. Not one has ever come back. Until today. A violent storm washes a mysterious house onto a rural Pacific Northwest beach, stopping the heart of the only woman who knows what it means.
Liars by Sarah Manguso English | 2024 | General Fiction An “eviscerating” (The New York Times) novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all—from the author of Very Cold People and 300 Arguments A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I’d always known that.
The Dissonance by Shaun Hamill English | 2024 | Horror From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters (“I loved it” —Stephen King) comes an epic contemporary fantasy, a mixture of The Magicians and It: a story of dark magic, terrible mistakes, and second chances. “You can never go home again,” the saying goes—but
The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl by Bart Yates English | 2024 | General Fiction Both sweeping and exquisitely intimate, award-winning author Bart Yates blends historical fact and fiction in a surprising, thought-provoking saga spanning 12 significant days across nearly 100 years in the life of a single man, beginning in 1920s
The Lost Souls of Benzaiten by Kelly Murashige English | 2024 | YA Fantasy This heartfelt and quirky young adult fantasy debut follows a young outcast on a journey of transformation . . . into a robot vacuum cleaner. A fresh twist on Japanese mythology that doubles as a deep, honest dive into mental health.
Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio English | 2024 | General Fiction A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies on two continents, and the tantalizing possibilities of love and freedom When Catalina
The New York Times Best Sellers – July 28, 2024 English | Fiction | VA The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. It is published weekly in The New York Times Book Review magazine, which is published in the Sunday edition of
The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves, China Miéville English | 2024 | Sci-Fi & Fantasy An “action-packed [and] profoundly stylish” (Los Angeles Times) epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, unlike anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before, inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books She said, We needed a tool.
Nicked by M. T. Anderson English | 2024 | Fantasy From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut. Based on a bizarre but true quest to steal the mystical corpse of a long-dead saint, Nicked is a fantastical, genre-defying, and delightfully queer historical romp The year