“Everyone grieves differently. There’s no way to do it. It shows up some days, and it passes on other days.” After burning out last year, Angelica is ready to get her life back together. Thankfully she has amazing friends to support her…including Peri the Bear, the mascot of her town’s local theater. At her lowest…
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Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
“Somebody,” said Jacques, “your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour–and in the oddest places!–for the lack of it.” Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between…
Teacher of the Year by M.A. Wardell
“My trust issues mean I sometimes struggle with being vulnerable, but you’re starting to weasel your way into my heart. Truly. I’m going to do my best to let you in.” Those who can, teach. Marvin Block is one of the best kindergarten teachers out there. And despite his anxiety, Marvin’s life is sweet. He…
A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo
“Have you not had enough of what has happened here? Have you not learned enough, eaten enough, of us?” Wandering Cleric Chih of Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant come to the river town of Baolin chasing stories of a legendary famine. Amid tales of dishes served to royalty and desserts made of…
Vampires at Sea by Lindsay Merbaum
“A boring orgy is a painful affair.” Immortal beloveds Rebekah and Hugh are on vacation! Against a backdrop of ongoing war, this pair of chic emotional vampires from San Francisco sets off on a queer Black Sea Cruise, eager to relax, join an orgy, and feast upon their fellow passengers’ desires and sorrows. When Hugh…
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
“Bury my bones in the midnight soil, plant them shallow and water them deep, and in my place will grow a feral rose, soft red petals hiding sharp white teeth.” Three women over three different time periods are brought together by their mutual desire for more out of life. Maria wants to escape her lot…
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
“To serve is a tremendously humbling thing. How easy it is to mistake glory and fame for duty! But duty is thankless, invisible, Forgettable—but oh, so very necessary.” In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire’s reach, an impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air—abducted from…
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
“The fields of these lands are wet with the blood of many officers. And though we keep hoping the Empire grows more civilized, somehow it finds clever new ways to stay savage.” In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree spontaneously erupted from his body. Even…
Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa
“But a change of plans on the journey doesn’t keep you from the destination.” In a twenty-four-hour span, Rafael Alvarez led North Amistad High School’s Mariachi Alma de la Frontera to their eleventh consecutive first-place win in the Mariachi Extravaganza de Nacional; and met, made out with, and almost hooked up with one of the…
When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
“Gentle souls cast as devils in humankind’s ongoing stage play of existence. It’s Oppression 101: find a bad guy, and if you can’t, make one up.” On Kupala Night, Dymitr arrives in Chicago’s monstrous, magical underworld with a perilous mission: pick the mythical fern flower and offer it to a cursed creature in exchange for…
The Great Book Wyrm 