Hello e-galley readers! Check out some of the exciting e-galleys that were recently added to Edelweiss for your downloading pleasure:
AUTHENTIC: THE MYTH OF BRINGING YOUR FULL SELF TO WORK by Jodi-Ann Burey
9781250882868 | 9/30/25
Workplace dynamics in recent years have been a dizzying storm of broken promises. Companies that once encouraged employees to “come as you are” and bring your full, authentic self to work are now shutting down initiatives, part of an ongoing cycle of trading on our identities when it’s convenient and profitable.
Jodi-Ann Burey, writer and critic known for her TED Talk “The Myth of Bringing Your Full, Authentic Self to Work,” delves into the dangers of disclosure in environments that aren’t built for our well-being. With insights from pop culture , academic research, and interviews with other professionals of color, Burey argues that we deserve better than shallow ploys for representation.
Our physical and emotional health are at risk, and too much is sacrificed—for ourselves and for collective progress—when our full potential is blocked by racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism. AUTHENTIC is a powerful reckoning—and now is the time to reclaim our agency. Even at work.
AMONG THE BURNING FLOWERS by Samantha Shannon
9781639736010 | 9/16/25
Marosa Vetalda, crown princess of Yscalin, longs for independence under the rule of her cold and high-handed father, King Sigoso. She looks forward to her marriage as a chance to remake her life.
Before Marosa can escape her father’s rule, though, she is forced to confront the king’s darkest and most dangerous secret: There are Draconic creatures beginning to stir in the mountains around the capital. When an earthquake racks the city, and the wyrm Fýredel awakens for the first time since the Grief of Ages, the capital falls to a flock of wyverns. Fýredel makes a puppet of King Sigoso.
Under the threat of death, Marosa swears allegiance to Fýredel, but even as a prisoner in her own home, she will not abandon her country to the Draconic Army. Turning to stealth and seeking new allies, Marosa sets out to change her own fate—and her nations’.
AMONG THE BURNING FLOWERS is a gorgeously written, beautifully illustrated, single-sitting read in Samantha Shannon’s New York Times bestselling “epic feminist fantasy” (Bustle) Roots of Chaos series.
LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE: INDIAN REVOLUTIONARES IN AMERICA AND THE FIGHT TO OVERTHROW THE BRITISH RAJ by Scott Miller
9780374609672 | 10/28/25
On the eve of World War I, a band of Indian immigrants living in the United States hatched an audacious plan to liberate their homeland from British colonial rule. Founded by a group of student radicals at UC Berkeley, the Ghadar Movement mounted one of the most significant challenges to the British Raj before the rise of the Indian National Congress under Gandhi—but unlike the INC, the Ghadar Movement advocated for a violent insurrection against colonial rule. From its bases on the West Coast of the US and Canada, the movement recruited thousands of supporters via its underground newspaper and sent hundreds of freedom fighters across the Pacific in an attempt to smuggle guns and seditious literature into India—an effort abetted by spies working for the German government, who were keen to undermine a wartime adversary. All the while, the Ghadar Movement was tracked by Britain’s intelligence service, which eventually convinced the US government to crack down.
The result was one of the most complex trials to date, culminating in a courtroom gun battle that shocked the nation. Scott Miller’s LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE is the first book to tell the story of this overlooked moment in Indian, and American, history—one that offers a new perspective on anticolonial struggle in the twentieth century.
DEALING WITH A DESPERATE DEMON by Charlotte Stein
9781250352354 | 10/7/25
The second standalone in Charlotte Stein’s Sanctuary for Supernatural Creatures series that is sure to get readers’ hearts pumping and have them rooting for the devil!
Nancy has just about given up on finding her special person when Jack Jackson—big, scary and the town loser—walks into her bookstore. He’s apparently even more desperate for help in the romance department than she is. And after a bit of gentle persuasion, he finally accepts her guidance in securing his dream girl. Practice dates, lessons in tenderness—you name it, she can teach it.
There’s just one problem: his dream girl might have more than an issue with his dating skills. Because Jack isn’t just a little clueless; he’s actually the demonic son of Satan, from the deepest depths of hell. He’s spent his entire long underlife dragging evildoers to their fates, while really trying not to live up to his dad’s expectations.
Now, it isn’t just about getting a date with his dream girl. He needs to become a better man to win over the woman he’s been cosmically bound to, in a Beauty and the Beast style pact. If he fails, everyone he cares for will face a terrible fate. Luckily for him, Nancy may well be the witch she’s always tried to pretend she wasn’t. She can save him, he knows it—and she’s starting to know it too. Even if every day spent with him is an agonising reminder that she isn’t the girl he’s fated for.
But as the deadline approaches she’s starting to wonder . . . Could it be that she’s finally found her Prince? Or is she about to lose her heart to hell?
THE GIRL IN THE GREEN DRESS by Mariah Fredericks
9781250367518 | 9/2/25
LEMONS AND LIES by Alexis Castellanos
9781547614080 | 9/16/25
Valeria Morales’ senior year is not off to a great start. Her twin brother isn’t talking to her, she’s realizing all of her friends were actually his friends, and now she’s failing math. Enter Gage Magnussen. Gage isn’t looking to take on any tutoring gigs now that his standing as valedictorian is at risk after letting a catastrophic breakup distract him—not to mention his parents expect Gage to coordinate their yearly charity auction alongside his cheating ex. So Valeria offers him a deal: If he helps her pass, she’ll take over the auction and pretend to be his girlfriend. A win-win-win! As their study sessions move to deep conversations and their fake dates begin feeling realer and realer, is it possible the lemons they’ve been dealt will turn to lemonade? Or will their arrangement only sting?
TRIGGER WARNING by Jacinda Townsend
9781644453544 | 9/16/25
Early in life, Ruth survived a series of devastating events: Her little brother died from a childhood illness, her mother died of grief, and then her father was shot by the police right in front of their home. In the years following her father’s murder, Ruth pushes her past underground. She changes her name and moves to Kentucky, marries a man named Myron, and together they raise a kid. It’s been two decades, and she is, by outside measures, living a good life—but why doesn’t it feel good? When her marriage comes to a sudden end, their house burns down in the middle of the night, and she learns that her estranged sister has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Ruth is jolted back into action. She flees again, this time back to her home state of California, with her nonbinary teenager in tow, perhaps ready at last to face her pain and retrieve her former self.
Searing, surprisingly witty, and deeply human, TRIGGER WARNING is a novel about the durational aftermath of anti-Black police violence. Through the perspectives of Ruth and Myron, and those of their friends and their child, Townsend explores divorce and desire, the heartbreaking brevity of parenting, the push and pull of old friendships, and the possibility, after incredible trauma, of reconnecting to what makes us feel alive.
SHIELD OF SPARROWS by Devney Perry
9781649378514 | 5/6/25
Long ago, the gods unleashed monsters upon the five kingdoms of Calandra to remind us that humans are insignificant—that we must pray to the gods for mercy throughout our fragile, fleeting lives.
I didn’t need a deity to remind me I was powerless. Being a princess had never been more than a performance—twenty-three years of empty titles and hollow traditions. My sister revels in the spectacle, basking in the attention and flawlessly playing her part. I was never asked to be part of the charade.
Until the day an infamous monster hunter sailed to our shores. The day a prince walked into my father’s throne room and ruined my life. The day I married a stranger, signed a magical treaty in blood, and set off across the continent to the most treacherous kingdom in all the realm.
That was the day I learned that not all myths are make-believe. That lies and legends are often the same. And that the only way to kill the monsters we fear was to become one . . .
EXTREMITY by Nicholas Binge
9781250373847 | 9/16/25
When once-renowned police detective Julia Torgrimsen is brought out of forced retirement to investigate the murder of Bruno Donaldson, a billionaire she worked with whilst undercover, she doesn’t expect to find two bodies. Both are Bruno—identical down to the fingerprints—and both have been shot.
As the investigation sucks her back into the macabre world of London’s rich elite, she finds herself on the hunt for a mysterious assassin who has been taking out the wealthy one by one. But when she finally catches up with her quarry, she unveils an entire world of secrets: impossible documents about future stock market crashes, photographs of dead clones, and a clandestine time-travelling conspiracy so insidious it might just mean the extinction of the entire human race.
If Julia is to have any chance of preventing this terrible future, she’ll have to revisit her own past, the terrible choices she made undercover, and the brutal act that destroyed her once legendary career.
THE TRAGEDY OF TRUE CRIME: FOUR GUILTY MEN AND THE STORIES THAT DEFINE US by John J. Lennon
9781250858245 | 9/23/25
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