New Edelweiss E-galleys (8/19/2024)

Hello e-galley readers! Check out some of the exciting e-galleys that were recently added to Edelweiss for your downloading pleasure:

WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE by John Scalzi
9780765389091 | 3/25/25

One day soon, suddenly and without explanation, the moon as we know it is replaced with an orb of cheese with the exact same mass. Through the length of an entire lunar cycle, from new moon to a spectacular and possibly final solar eclipse, we follow multiple characters—schoolkids and scientists, billionaires and workers, preachers and politicians—as they confront the strange new world they live in, and the absurd, impossible moon that now hangs above all their lives.

CHAOS by Constance Fay
9781250330437 | 3/11/25

Desperate to prove herself to her crew of space mercenaries, engineer Caro Ogunyemi takes on a solo mission to infiltrate the top secret human experimentation laboratory run in a secret prison by the deadly Pierce family that rules her corner of the galaxy.

Caro realizes she really messed up right about the time Carmichael Pierce injects a bomb into her neck to control her. If that wasn’t enough all her engineering skills seem to be backfiring as a residual alien infection crashes the machinery in everything she touches. As she works her way deeper into the laboratory, Caro meets their star subject: Leviathan, a super soldier turned mindless killing machine by a chip in his head . . . until Caro touches him. The same alien infection jamming her datapad and ruining her life also breaks the control chip turning Leviathan into Pierce’s puppet.

In the heart of enemy territory, Caro and Leviathan must figure out how to escape and recover his agency before Caro’s alien infection heals and Leviathan is lost to her forever.

MY BIG FAT FAKE MARRIAGE by Charlotte Stein
9781250867971 | 3/11/25

Connie Evans has always distrusted nice guys. In her experience, they’re just waiting to reveal some horrible secret. And then she meets big, adorable, Henry Samuel Beckett—lover of bow ties, sweet as a superhero who wears his underpants over his tights, and so cheery she struggles to believe he’s real.

Until Henry Samuel Beckett—or Beck, as he’s known to most—tells her what truly lurks underneath his sunny surface. He’s been single all his life. But somehow seems to have told everyone he works with that he’s married. And when Connie can’t help defending him, she ends up being the wife he doesn’t have.

And now they’re on a writing retreat together, surrounded by people convinced this can’t be real, both of them sure that those people are right. Until they have to share their first kiss, their first touch, their first time in only one bed. Side by side, every night, as the simmering tension builds…something has to give.

The only question for Connie is—could it be her heart?

BROOKE SHIELDS IS NOT ALLOWED TO GET OLD: THOUGHTS ON AGING AS A WOMAN by Brooke Shields, with Rachel Bertsche
9781250346940 | 1/14/25

Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinized, her every decision judged. Today Brooke faces a different kind of scrutiny: that of being a “woman of a certain age.”

And yet, for Brooke, the passage of time has brought freedom. At fifty-nine, she feels more comfortable in her skin, more empowered and confident than she did decades ago in those famous Calvin Kleins. Now, in BROOKE SHIELDS IS NOT ALLOWED TO GET OLD, she’s changing the narrative about women and aging.

TEA YOU AT THE ALTER by Rebecca Thorne
9781250333254 | 3/4/25

Your favorite lesbian pirates are back in this third book in the Tomes and Tea series! Kianthe and Reyna are ready to finally walk down the aisle—in just seven days, their wedding of a wifetime will be a reality. There’s loads to do—but like all best laid plans, everything seems to be going awry.

Between their baby dragons causing mayhem in Tawney, Kianthe’s uptight parents inviting themselves to the wedding, and Reyna becoming embroiled in a secret plot to overthrow Queen Tilaine, the world seems against them—how are they going to live long enough to say “I do”?

YOU DESERVE TO KNOW by Aggie Blum Thompson
9781250892034 | 3/11/25

THE LIBRARY GAME: A SECRET STAIRCASE NOVEL by Gigi Pandian
9781250880239 | 3/18/25

Tempest Raj couldn’t be happier that the family business, Secret Staircase Construction, is finally getting the recognition it deserves. Known for enchanting architectural features like sliding bookshelves and secret passageways, the company is now taking on a dream project: transforming a home into a public library that celebrates history’s greatest fictional detectives.

Though the work is far from done, Gray House Library’s new owner is eager to host a murder mystery dinner and literary themed escape room. But when a rehearsal ends with an actor murdered and the body vanishes, Tempest is witness to a seemingly impossible crime. Fueled by her grandfather’s Scottish and Indian meals, Tempest and the rest of the crew must figure out who is making beloved classic mystery plots come to life in a deadly game.

THE HYMN TO DIONYSUS by Natasha Pulley
9781639732364 | 3/18/25

Raised in a Greek legion, Phaidros has been taught to fight for the homeland he’s never seen and to follow his commander’s orders at all costs. But when he rescues a baby from a fire at Thebes’s palace, his commander’s orders cease to make sense: Phaidros is forced to abandon the blue-eyed boy at a temple, and to keep the baby’s existence a secret. Years later, after a strange encounter that led to the death of his battalion, Phaidros has become a training master for young soldiers. He struggles with panic attacks and flashbacks, and he is not the only one: all around him, his fellow veterans are losing their minds.

Phaidros’s risk of madness is not his only problem: his life has become entangled with Thebes’s young crown prince, who wishes to escape the marriage his mother, the Queen, has chosen for him. When the prince vanishes, Phaidros is drawn into the search for him—a search that leads him to a blue-eyed witch named Dionysus, whose guidance is as wise as the events that surround him are strange. In Dionysus’s company, Phaidros witnesses sudden outbursts of riots and unrest, and everywhere Dionysus goes, rumors follow about a new god, one sired by Zeus but lost in a fire.

CLEAVAGE: MEN, WOMEN, AND THE SPACE BETWEEN US by Jennifer Finney Boylan
9781250261885 | 2/4/25

Jennifer Finney Boylan’s SHE’S NOT THERE was the first bestselling work written by a transgender American. Since its publication twenty years ago, she has become the go-to person for insight into the impact of gender on our lives, from the food we eat to the dreams we dream, both for ourselves and for our children. But CLEAVAGE is more than a deep dive into gender identity; it’s also a look at the difference between coming out as trans in 2000—when many people reacted to Boylan’s transition with love—and the present era of blowback and fear.

How does gender affect our sense of self? Our body image? The passage of time? The friends we lose—and keep? Boylan considers her womanhood, reflects on the boys and men who shaped her, and reconceives of herself as a writer, activist, parent, and spouse. With heart-wrenching honesty, she illustrates the feeling of liminality that followed her to adulthood, but demonstrates the redemptive power of love through it all.

With Boylan’s trademark humor and poignancy, CLEAVAGE is a sharp, witty, and captivating look at the triumphs and losses of a life lived in two genders. CLEAVAGE provides hope for a future in which we all have the freedom to live joyfully as men, as women, and in the space between us.

DATING & DISMEMBERMENT by A. L. Brody
9781649377616 | 10/8/24