ALTER EGO by Alex Segura
9781250801777 | 12/3/24
Annie Bustamante is a cultural force like none other: an acclaimed filmmaker, an author, a comic book artist known for one of the all time best superhero comics in recent memory. But she’s never been able to tackle her longtime favorite superhero, the Lethal Lynx. Only known to the most die-hard comics fans and long out of print, the rights were never available—until now.
But Annie is skeptical of who is making the offer: Bert Carlyle’s father started Triumph Comics, and has long claimed ownership of the Lynx. When she starts getting anonymous messages urging her not to trust anyone, Annie’s inner alarms go off. Even worse? Carlyle wants to pair her with a disgraced filmmaker for a desperate media play.
Annie, who has been called a genius, a sell-out, a visionary, a hack, and everything else under the sun, is sick of the money grab. For the first time since she started reading a tattered copy of The Legendary Lynx #1 as a kid, she feels a pure, creative spark. The chance to tell a story her way. She’s not about to let that go. Even if it means uncovering the dark truth about the character she loves.
Sharply written, deftly plotted, and with a palpable affection for all kinds of storytelling, ALTER EGO is a one-of-a-kind reading experience.
THE LAST ONE AT THE WEDDING by Jason Rekulak
9781250895783 | 10/8/24
Frank Szatowski is shocked when his daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He was convinced that their estrangement would become permanent. He’s even more surprised when she invites him to her upcoming wedding in New Hampshire. Frank is ecstatic, and determined to finally make things right.
He arrives to find that the wedding is at a private estate—very secluded, very luxurious, very much out of his league. It seems that Maggie failed to mention that she’s marrying Aidan Gardner, the son of a famous tech billionaire. Feeling desperately out of place, Frank focuses on reconnecting with Maggie and getting to know her new family. But it’s difficult: Aidan is withdrawn and evasive; Maggie doesn’t seem to have time for him; and he finds that the locals are disturbingly hostile to the Gardners. Frank needs to know more about this family his daughter is marrying into, but if he pushes too hard, he could lose Maggie forever.
An edge-of-your-seat thriller that delves deep into the heart of one family, THE LAST ONE AT THE WEDDING is a work of brilliant suspense from a true modern master.
THE BOYFRIEND HYPOTHESIS by Susannah Nix
9781035025978 | 12/31/24
THE BOYFRIEND HYPOTHESIS by Susannah Nix is the third in the Chemistry Lessons series of standalone rom-coms featuring heroines who work in STEM fields.
After a string of lousy boyfriends, chemical engineer Penny Popplestone is developing a theory: boys are nothing but trouble! So she swears off men until she can figure out why they keep cheating on her. But her no-men resolution hits a snag when the mysterious and superhumanly hot barista at her favourite coffee shop strikes up a friendship with her.
Penny strives to keep things platonic, but when Caleb gives her the kiss of her life, she realizes he wants to be more than just friends. Tired of always being “good little Penny,” she throws caution to the wind and pursues a no-strings fling with the hottie barista. It’s not like they have anything in common beyond scorching physical chemistry, so what does she have to lose?
Her heart, it turns out. Now, this fanfic-reading, plus-size heroine faces an unsolvable problem. What do you do when being apart is unbearable . . . but being together is impossible?
THE SOUND OF US by Sarah Castille
9781250289919 | 11/26/24
Skye Jordan thought she had it all figured out. Eighteen months ago, she was in college and dreaming of a basketball career. But in a split second her world fell apart. Now she’s back at Havencrest U, broke and desperate. She has no use for sexy, bad boy musicians who kiss her senseless. . . until she lands an internship at the radio station where he works.
DJ Dante Romano has lost every person close to his heart. All he has is his music. Consumed by guilt and driven by vengeance, he has no time for love, and yet the fiery new intern who shares his passion and feels his pain tempts him like no other. For Dante, Skye is off limits. And yet from the moment he meets her, he can’t turn away.
Soon their scorching attraction develops into something deeper. Together they could make beautiful music, but will their untold secrets force them apart?
MONSTROUS NIGHTS by Genoveva Dimova
9781250877352 | 10/22/24
With her magic reclaimed and her role in the community of Chernograd restored, Kosara’s life should finally be back to normal—but, of course, things can’t possibly be that simple.
She is now in possession of twelve witch’s shadows, which belonged to a series of young, magically powerful women lured into the deadly marriage with the Zmey that Kosara only narrowly escaped as a young woman. Holding them may grant her unprecedented power, but that doesn’t mean they’re always willing to do her bidding.
Across the wall in Belograd, Asen chases the only lead on his latest case, one of several unsolved witch murders, even against the orders of his direct superior and the mayor. He’s convinced the smuggling kingpin Konstantin Karaivanov is behind them, and follows his trail to an underground monster auction—which leads him right back to Chernograd.
There, sinister events follow one after another: snow falls in midsummer, a witch with two shadows is found dead, monsters that should only appear during the FOUL DAYS have been sighted, and cracks appear in the sky that only Kosara seems able to see. The barrier between worlds thins . . . and Kosara can’t help but feel her actions are the cause.
THAT LIBRARIAN: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones
9781639733538 | 8/27/24
One of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones values most about books is how they can affirm a young person’s sense of self. So in 2022, when she caught wind of a local public hearing that would discuss “book content,” she knew what was at stake. Schools and libraries nationwide have been bombarded by demands for books with LGTBQ+ references, discussions of racism, and more to be purged from the shelves. Amanda would be damned if her community were to ban stories representing minority groups. She spoke out that night at the meeting. Days later, she woke up to a nightmare that is still ongoing.
Amanda Jones has been called a groomer, a pedo, and a porn-pusher; she has faced death threats and attacks from strangers and friends alike. Her decision to support a collection of books with diverse perspectives made her a target for extremists using book banning campaigns—funded by dark money organizations and advanced by hard right politicians—in a crusade to make America more white, straight, and “Christian.” But Amanda Jones wouldn’t give up without a fight: she sued her harassers for defamation and urged others to join her in the resistance.
Mapping the book banning crisis occurring all across the nation, THAT LIBRARIAN draws the battle lines in the war against equity and inclusion, calling book lovers everywhere to rise in defense of our readers.
THE SING SING FLIES: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice by Dan Slepian
9781250897701 | 9/3/24
On a cold day in December, 2002, Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velaquez, a convicted murderer who said he was innocent, finally succeeded in getting a journalist to visit him at Green Hill Correctional Facility in New York.
Dan Slepian, a veteran NBC News investigative producer, had scanned some of the thousands of pages of court documents that JJ had sent him and was impressed enough to make the trip. He told JJ that he would look into his case but still was skeptical. He made a point of telling him that if he learned that a single thing he had told him had been a lie he would never see him again. His response surprised him: JJ challenged Slepian in return to prove he was guilty.
Instead Slepian, a dogged investigator, proved his innocence, and on September 9, 2021, after 23 years, seven months and eight days in prison, Jon-Adrian Velaquez walked out of Sing Sing a free man.
THE SING SING FLIES takes the reader along for the 20 years of shoe leather reporting, battles with New York prosecutors and police, and periods of hope and despair that eventually led to JJ’s freedom. And it tells the story of the deep friendship that developed between the two men as well as the remarkable innocence team they became as JJ connected Slepian with other wrongfully imprisoned men whose cases he took on and ultimately freed.
The dramatic story of how an indefatigable reporter who never went anywhere without his camera and uncovered the truth about six innocent men, THE SING SING FLIES is a searing look at the root causes of wrongful convictions and false imprisonment, and ultimately a plea for justice that every citizen should hear.
MUTUAL INTEREST by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
9781639733323 | 2/4/25
Vivian Lesperance wants nothing more than to flee her origins in Utica, New York, and avoid repeating her parents’ dull, limited life. When she meets Oscar Schmidt, a middle manager at a soap company, Vivian finds a partner she feels she can guide and steer to build the life she wants—not least because, uninterested in women himself, Oscar will leave Vivian alone to tend her own romances. But Vivian’s plans require capital, so the two pair up with Squire Clancey, scion of an old American fortune, to found Clancey & Schmidt, a preeminent manufacturer of soap, perfume, and candles. When Oscar and Squire fall in love, the trio form a new kind of partnership, all while building Clancey & Schmidt into an empire of personal care products unmatched in their time.
Vivian reaches the pinnacle of her power running the business, operating behind the image of both men. But the threat of exposure—and of an arranged marriage for Squire—looms, and together, the trio must work to maintain the life they’ve dreamed up, and made real, for themselves.
For readers of Hernan Diaz’s TRUST and Colm Tóibín’s THE MAGICIAN, with echoes of Gustave Flaubert and E. M. Forster, MUTUAL INTEREST is a fresh and beguiling story of romance, empire, and power.
BRINGER OF DUST by J. M. Miro
9781250833839 | 9/17/24
Agrigento, Sicily, 1883. With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished. His only hope of rescue lies in a fabled second orsine—long-hidden, thought lost—which might not even exist.
But when a body is discovered in the shadow of Cairndale, a body wreathed in the corrupted dust of the drughr, Charlie and the Talents realize there is even more at stake than they’d feared. For a new drughr has arisen, ferocious, horned, seemingly able to move in their world at will—and it is not alone. A malevolent figure, known only as the Abbess, desires the dust for her own ends. And deep in the world of the dead, a terrible evil stirs—an evil that the corrupted dust just might hold the secret to reviving or destroying forever.
So the dark journey begun in ORDINARY MONSTERS surges forward, from the sinister underworld of the London exiles, to the mysteries of a sunlit villa in nineteenth-century Sicily, to the deep catacombs hidden under Paris. Against bone witches, mud glyphics, and a house of twilight that exists in a netherworld all its own, the Talents must work together—if they are to have any hope of staving off the world of the dead, and saving their long-lost friend.
HERA by Jennifer Saint
9781250855602 | 8/13/24
When the immortal goddess Hera and her brother Zeus overthrow their tyrannical father, she dreams of ruling at his side. But as they establish their reign on Mount Olympus, Hera begins to see that Zeus is just as ruthless and cruel as the father they betrayed. While Zeus ascends, Hera is relegated to the role of wife and mother, a role she never wanted. She was always born to rule, but must she lose herself in perpetuating this cycle of violence and cruelty? Or can she find a way to forge a better world?
In this enthralling retelling, Greek mythology’s most famous and maligned goddess finally tells her own story, as power, passion, and divine strength collide in the heart of Olympus.
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