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 | | Title No: 87670 THE CEMETERY OF UNTOLD STORIES Alvarez, Julia Literary fiction 272 pp Algonquin Books (April 2025) Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn’t want to end up like her novelist friend who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories—literally: she creates a graveyard for the manuscripts and pages, drafts, revisions, and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life, and that still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace. But they have other plans as they transform the cemetery into a mysterious and enchanted sanctuary for their true narratives. Filomena, a local and one of the few who gets past the cemetery's main gate by telling stories of her own, is soon hired as the caretaker. Filomena’s life and that of her sister, Perla, contain the epic drama of Greek myth, and Filomena becomes the sympathetic listener as Alma’s characters unspool themselves. Among them: Bienvenida, the abandoned wife of dictator Rafael Trujillo consigned to oblivion by history, and Manuel Cruz, based on Alma’s father, a doctor who fought in the Dominican underground and escaped to the U.S. Soon all who have been lain to rest are spinning out stories and weaving a spell. In The Cemetery of Untold Stories characters defy their author, come to life, and mingle with each other, rewriting and revising themselves. As Alma yearns to find meaning in her work, she must consider: whose stories get to be told, and whose buried? And what about the violence that a writer does by taking someone else’s story and making it over in the name of art? Finally, Alma finds the meaning she and her characters yearn for in the indestructible vitality of storytelling. Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library’s program “The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez.” In the Time of the Butterflies, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling. North America: Algonquin Books; Spanish (World): HarperCollins; UK: Charco Press and WF Howe; Russian: Alpina; Croatian: Petrine; Italian: Bompiani; | |
 | | Title No: 87696 STRAY CATS AND BAD FISH Silence of the Eels Coad, Rachel Graphic Novel / Comic 224 pp illustr. Upswell Publishing (September 2025) Holborn tube station 1977, a fish called ‘Creasy’ lives in the cistern of the men’s room. He’s a key player in London’s underworld. His nemesis Ratty from Spitalfields is gaining power. Ratty’s money launderer disappears, all animal appendages’ point to Creasy. It’s war on the Thames. Punk is here, and punkfish rule the waterways of London. Coked-up eels, a lion finds his purpose, and a fish improves his art collection. This is the brilliant second graphic novel written and illustrated by Rachel Coad. In a painting career spanning 20 years, Rachel Coad has exhibited in both Australia and the UK. In 2016 she was awarded Black Swan Prize for portraiture. She also has a history in illustration and design. Rachel’s first graphic novel was New York City GLOW: A snake, an octopus and the near death of Johnny Ramone. The almost true account of the 1977 New York City blackout. | |
 | | Title No: 87661 NOCTURNAL A Dark Academia Monster Romance Evans, Clio Romantasy 340 pp Independently published (February 2025) I was his toxic obsession. He was my sadistic monster. Nora: When I took a job at St. Thorns university as a psychology professor, I encountered something—someone—unexplainable. Fascinating. And deadly. Alec Briar had the eyes of a killer. He’s a botanist who would rather rot in his greenhouse alone than deal with students, professors, or me. When a monster stalks me, our relationship becomes corrupted in ways that bring us closer together, for better or worse. He has secrets—ones that will destroy him if he discovers the truth… Our minds twist to protect our souls, and Alec’s is the most warped of all. The only way to save him is to hurt him and accept the damnation doing so will bring. Alec: She was deadlier than belladonna, and yet I cannot resist her. Nora Woulfe has become my infatuation. As she pushes me to my breaking point, we spiral down a path that will be our downfall. A monster is trying to steal what is mine, and I will hunt him to the bitter end. Even if I have to use her to draw him out… Clio Evans is the author of the Citrus Cove Series, Creature Cafe Series, Warts & Claws Series, and more. A lover of myths, legends, and queer joy in media–Clio writes monsters that love harder than they bite and small-town romance suspense. They're from Austin, Texas, and living their best life eating chocolate and writing happy endings. | |
 | | Title No: 87697 ROSE OF JERICHO Grecian, Alex Horror 353 pp Tor Books (March 2025) An instant USA Today bestseller! From the author of Red Rabbit comes a supernatural horror where ghosts and ghouls are the least of a witch’s problems in nineteenth-century New England. Something wicked is going on in the village of Ascension. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and about. A boy trampled by a milk cart walks away from the accident. A hanged man can still speak, broken neck and all. The dead are not dying. When Rabbit and Sadie Grace accompany their friend Rose to Ascension to help take care of her ailing cousin, they immediately notice that their new house, Bethany Hall, is occupied by dozens of ghosts. And something is waiting for them in the attic. The villagers of Ascension are unwelcoming and wary of their weird visitors. As the three women attempt to find out what’s happening in the town, they must be careful not to be found out. But a much larger?and more dangerous?force is galloping straight for them… Alex Grecian is the national bestselling author of the 'Scotland Yard Murder Squad' novels, including THE YARD, THE BLACK COUNTRY, THE DEVIL'S WORKSHOP, THE HARVEST MAN and LOST AND GONE FOREVER. He also co-created the long-running and critically acclaimed graphic novel series PROOF, which NPR named one of the best books of 2009. He has written an original 'Murder Squad' e-book, THE BLUE GIRL, and an original graphic novel, SEVEN SONS, as well as a multitude of short stories, both comics and prose, for various anthologies. He lives in the Midwest with his wife and son. And a tarantula. UK: Rebellion; | |
 | | Title No: 87644 THE FLESH KING Discreet Eliminators Series Kadrey, Richard Horror 31.500 words Titan Books (October 2025) Tilda, Ford and Neuland hit NYC to hunt a flesh-eating monster in this bloody, macabre and witty supernatural noir packed twists, turns, betrayals and showdowns. Perfect for fans of Cassandra Khaw, Nat Cassidy and Chuck Tingle. Ford, Neuland, and Tilda return home after the events of THE PALE HOUSE DEVIL to try and make peace with the NYC crime syndicates. Then they’ll only be welcomed back if they take on a job for free–hunting down, and killing, The Flesh King, a gruesome killer who is stalking the city, leaving a macabre and bloody trail wherever he goes. Caught up in a twisted set of conspiracies and bloodletting, the monster hunters step up to do what they do best once more–take down the unstoppable evil. Richard Kadrey is the New York Times-bestselling author of the SANDMAN SLIM supernatural noir series, which was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime,” and is in development as a feature film. Some of Kadrey’s other books include THE DEAD TAKE THE A-TRAIN (with Cassandra Khaw) and THE PALE HOUSE DEVIL. His work has been nominated for both the BSFA and Locus awards. | |
 | | Title No: 87674 THE HOUSE NO ONE SEES King, Adina Thriller 304 pp Feiwel & Friends (March 2025) Penelope Ross has always felt like a passenger in her mother’s fairytale - until the night of her 17th birthday, when she is forced to enter her own. After a text from her estranged mother rips her away from a night with friends, Penny is forced into a kaleidoscope of memories locked inside the dark labyrinth of her childhood home. As Penny wanders between present and past?prose and verse?she must confront her mother's opioid addiction to mend her fractured past. But the house is tricky. The house is impossible. It wants her to dig up the dead to escape. And as Penny walks through herself to find herself, she is not sure she has the courage to free the light she trapped inside. Adina King is a middle grade English Language Arts teacher from Maine. Aside from teaching, she has worked in book stores, played roller derby, and dabbled in dogsledding. She received her MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. When she isn’t writing or covered in dirt from Olympic yard work, her natural habitat includes one or more of the following: roller skates, big dogs, mountains, chickadees, music, and really excellent food. | |
 | | Title No: 87700 THE MARTIAN CONTINGENCY Lady Astronaut Series Volume 4 Kowal, Mary Robinette Science Fiction 400 pp Tor Books (March 2025) Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, D.C.?triggering an extinction-level global warming event?Earth’s survivors have started an international effort to establish homes on space stations and the Moon. The next step – Mars. Elma York, the Lady Astronaut, lands on the Red Planet, optimistic about preparing for the first true wave of inhabitants. The mission objective is more than just building the infrastructure of a habitat – they are trying to preserve the many cultures and nuances of life on Earth without importing the hate. But from the moment she arrives, something is off. Disturbing signs hint at a hidden disaster during the First Mars Expedition that never made it into the official transcript. As Elma and her crew try to investigate, they face a wall of silence and obfuscation. Their attempts to build a thriving Martian community grind to a halt. What you don’t know CAN harm you. And if the truth doesn’t come to light, the ripple effects could leave humanity stranded on a dying Earth… Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning alternate history novel, The Calculating Stars, the first book in the Lady Astronaut series. She is also the author of The Glamourist Histories series and Ghost Talkers and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo Awards, the Nebula, and Locus Awards. Her stories appear in Asimov’s, Uncanny, and several Year’s Best anthologies. Mary Robinette has also worked as a professional puppeteer, is a member of the Award-winning podcast Writing Excuses, and performs as a voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), recording fiction for authors including Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow, and Neal Stephenson. | |
 | | Title No: 87646 PROMISES Kyomuhendo, Goretti General fiction 296 pp Catalyst Press (April 2025) Promises reminds us of the humanity of those who cross borders searching for a better life. Set in Uganda, it offers a compassionate view of middle class urban Africa contrasted with village life. From the streets of Kampala to the dirt paths of ancestral homes, East Africa is vibrant and organically intertwined with the story. Adjuna and Kagaba have scraped, to afford one ticket to London. Educated in economics but unable to find work in Uganda, Kagaba flies to the to find a good job. He leaves behind his pregnant wife Ajuna and as her loneliness grows, the lines between her family’s help and something more begin to blur. In London, desperate to find work, Kagaba confronts a maze of bureaucracy and frightening detention centers. This bewildering underbelly of immigration enforcement and the systems developed to evade deportation have spawned a shadow world of exploitation and a class of people who live in constant fear on the legal margins. In the pressure cooker of London’s immigrant community, Kagaba finds friends who can help – but to accept, he may unintentionally give up more of himself than Ajuna will tolerate. Who we are and the relationships and promises we keep or break are profoundly tested by circumstance and small twists of fate. This heartfelt story details the unintended consequences of fighting for a better life. Goretti Kyomuhendo is one of Uganda’s leading novelists and founding director of the African Writers Trust. Her novels include The First Daughter (1996), Secrets No More (1999), which won the Uganda National Literary Award for Best Novel in the same year. Goretti holds an MA degree in Creative Writing from the University of KwaZulu, Natal, South Africa, and taught creative writing in the same university in 2004. | |
 | | Title No: 87550 BUZZ KILL A Jane and Lila Pool Thriller Lennon, J. Robert Thriller 309 pp Mulholland Books (March 2025) When the shadowy circumstances of a relative’s death are brought to light, Jane and Lila are plunged into the recesses of an underground drug operation with links to a burgeoning fascist movement. The Pool sisters have gone into business together: a down-home if unequal P.I. enterprise. That is, until Lila is tipped off to an explosive piece of news. An old friend of their Aunt Ruth’s—a lawyer and academic who’d committed suicide years ago—believes that Ruth was murdered. Prior to her death, Ruth had represented a chemist who’d been struggling to patent a dangerous synthetic opioid. But once the client, Travis Nutt, was poised to lose, he went rogue and unleashed the adulterant as a street drug with the power of cartel funding behind him. Can the twins now bring this cult-like billionaire to justice? Meanwhile, the rest of the Pool family is staying busy. Jane, newly divorced, and doing things for herself for a change, has been invited to attend a writers conference. Teenaged Chloe becomes the victim of a deepfake campaign, and secretly pursues her own aggressors. And old Harry has stumbled on a piece of unknown history that opens a door in his personal life. Buzz Kill is a high-octane, juiced up, elastically braided narrative of a ride that shows Lennon is at the height of his powers. | |
 | | Title No: 87643 HOW TO COMMIT A POSTCOLONIAL MURDER McConigley, Nina General fiction ms 162 pp Pantheon (January 2026) In the summer of 1986, the Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyars and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and two young cousins—newly arrived from India—into their house in rural Wyoming where they will all live together. Because this is what families do. That is until the sisters decide that it’s time for one of their newly arrived family members to die. How To Commit a Postcolonial Murder is many things. It is a vivid portrait of an extended family; the moving story of the relationship between two sisters; a murder mystery (of sorts); a love letter to the 1980s; a formally-inventive amalgam of first person narration by Georgie Ayyars (the younger Creel sister), pen pal letters, and teen-magazine-style quizzes; and a powerful meditation on race, language, colonialism, trauma, and the meaning of independence. Spare, unflinching, and imaginative, How To Commit a Postcolonial Murder uses the landscape of the American West as the framework for a new kind of pioneer narrative. It brings to mind novels such as Jenny Offill’s Department of Speculation, Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Nina McConigley is the author of the acclaimed story collection Cowboys and East Indians, which won the PEN Open Book and High Plains Book Awards, and was longlisted for the 2014 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. She is the recipient of a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard and a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose, and was a 2024 National Magazine Award finalist for her column “Township and Range” in High Country News. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Orion, O, The Oprah Magazine, VQR and elsewhere. | |
 | | Title No: 87698 A FARM GIRL'S GUIDE TO RULING AS A BLOODTHIRSTY TYRANT Scandals of the Gifted, Book 2 Nyquist, Katy Romantasy 280 pp Podium (January 2026) When Bora swaps bodies with a homicidal duchess, the sweet-tempered wallflower must embrace her inner villainess to survive and save her country. Within an hour of Bora’s arrival in Arahasnor, she runs into her toxic ex-boyfriend, offends a malicious noblewoman, and narrowly escapes from the city guards. Never the type for adventures?unlike her sister, Holy Maiden Ysabel, who left the family farm and scandalously eloped with Dark Lord Kaine?Bora intends to quickly return home and settle back into her usual role as the plain, boring sister. That is, until there’s a freak magical accident. Suddenly, Bora finds herself in the life?and body?of the Blood Duchess, a woman who once threatened to have her killed. Now a noblewoman in a kingdom on the verge of economic collapse, the citizenry hangs her in effigy, and her staff spits in her food. It’s too much for a farm girl without a mean bone in her body to handle. Unfortunately, the previous ruler sold Arahasnor to three different foreign powers, and only their crippling fear of the Blood Duchess is holding them off . . . as long as Bora can successfully embody the ruthless villainess. At least she’s not alone in this bizarre charade; she has the support of Countess Donya, her heroic celebrity crush. And she’ll need it. Because if Bora’s real identity gets uncovered, she’ll die. But after an assassin named Ari mistakenly targets her for revenge, she strikes a deal with him: she’ll help find the actual duchess in exchange for his protection. As someone who struggles with body-image issues, Bora feels drawn to Ari’s confidence, rakish charm, and gender queerness. But a love triangle may be a distraction she can’t afford, especially when it turns out her sister is among the enemies coming to town to challenge the Blood Duchess. After spending years obsessing over her weight, the death threats scare Bora less than showing off her extremely generous curves in the Blood Duchess’s lowcut dresses. But if she can embrace the beauty of her new body, she might just learn to love her true self as well. Though, appearances will be irrelevant if the duchess’s adversaries remove her head from her shoulders . . . Katy Nyquist is a neurodiverse economist working in Washington DC. She has had short fiction published in Abyss & Apex Magazine, The Arcanist, Every Day Fiction, Strange Changes, and Magic, Mayhem, and Monsters. She twice received an honorable mention in the Writers of the Future Contest. | |
 | | Title No: 87337 A HOLY MAIDEN'S GUIDE TO GETTING KIDNAPPED Scandals of the Gifted, Book 1 Nyquist, Katy Romantasy 330 pp Podium (June 2025) In this fantasy world, magical gifts are common. They might be a simple trick to always keep your tea warm. They might literally move mountains and have the power to bring about the end times. Holy Maiden Ysabel has an incredible gift, she can heal any wound with a single touch. But every gift has a price. Everytime Ysabel heals, it costs her a day of her life. And once she’s almost dead, the elderly cardinals will obtain immortality by sacrificing her to the Sun God. Her supposed divine status forces her to act the part of a virginal healer. No one knows of her nightlife as a alcohol-loving dominatrix. Ysabel has fewer and fewer days left when she stumbles across something she didn't think was possible, a man who values a single day of her life more than healing his injuries. It just so happens that that man is Dark Lord Kaine. Dark Lord Kaine is a trans man leading a rebel army that is hellbent on attacking Ysabel's city. Despite this, Ysabel still offers to help him when he ends up trapped behind her walls. Kaine resolves to rescue Ysabel from her grisly fate—by kidnapping her. Before long, Kaine likes Ysabel enough to back off when she objects to his invasion of her country. Unfortunately, she likes him too, and the nagging survival instinct she tried to drown with booze and drugs comes back with a vengeance. But when the cardinals take her brother hostage to keep her as their puppet, Ysabel must either die as a proper Holy Maiden or risk it all to fight back. Katy Nyquist is a neurodiverse economist working in Washington DC. She has had short fiction published in Abyss & Apex Magazine, The Arcanist, Every Day Fiction, Strange Changes, and Magic, Mayhem, and Monsters. She twice received an honorable mention in the Writers of the Future Contest. This is her debut novel. | |
 | | Title No: 87634 TWO TIMES MURDER A Quiet Teacher Mystery (#2) Oyebanji, Adam Crime / Mystery 223 pp Severn House (November 2024) Meet Black British expat Greg Abimbola, a seemingly mild-mannered Russian language teacher at the prestigious and cutthroat Calderhill Academy. Only that’s not his real name—Greg has terrifying secrets, and used to be a spy in a former life. In A QUIET TEACHER (#1), when the murder of a wealthy parent on school premises shines an unwanted spotlight on Calderhill Academy, Greg will do anything to avoid attention. That is until Andrea Velasquez, one of the school custodians and the closest person to a true friend Greg has, is arrested for the murder. To prove her innocence, Greg will reluctantly emerge from the shadows and put his former spy skills to use. But doing so will put him in danger, as he can’t evade his past forever. In TWO TIMES MURDER (#2), Sergeant Rachel Lev of the Pittsburgh police seeks out Greg’s help solving the mysterious homicide of an unidentified man fished from the Allegheny River. With clues scant, and surrounded by colleagues who'd love to see Rachel side-lined, Greg is her final roll of the dice. But when a school trustee plunges to his demise after a heated board meeting, both deaths come with potentially lethal consequences for Greg and Rachel. Adam Oyebanji is the author of the Quiet Teacher Mysteries, the space opera Braking Day, and the forthcoming science fiction thriller Esperance. He is a graduate of Birmingham University and Harvard Law School. When he’s not plotting space adventures or twisty thrillers, Adam works in the field of counter-terrorist financing: helping banks choke off the money supply that builds weapons of mass destruction, narcotics empires, and human trafficking networks. World English Audio: Dreamscape; Nigeria: Masobe Books (English language); | |
 | | Title No: 87692 THE WORLD WITH ITS MOUTH OPEN Rafiq, Zahid Literary fiction Short Stories 192 pp Tin House Books (December 2024) In eleven stories, The World With Its Mouth Open follows the inner lives of people in Kashmir as they walk the uncertain terrain of their days, fractured from years of war. From a shopkeeper’s encounter with a mannequin, to an expectant mother walking on a precarious road, to a young boy wavering between dreams and reality, to two dogs wandering the city, these stories weave in larger, devastating themes of loss, grief, violence, longing, and injustice with the threads of smaller, everyday realities that confront the characters’ lives in profound ways. Although the stories circle the darker aspects of life, they are—at the same time—an attempt to run into life, into humor, into beauty, into another person who can offer refuge, if momentarily. Zahid Rafiq’s The World With Its Mouth Open is an original and powerful debut collection announcing the arrival of a new voice that bears witness to the human condition with nuance, heart, humor, and incredible insight. Zahid Rafiq is a writer living in Srinagar, Kashmir. He was a journalist for several years before turning to writing fiction. The World With Its Mouth Open is his first book. | |
 | | Title No: 87629 UNDER THE FALLS Russo, Richard Literary fiction 72.000 words Knopf (Summer 2026) UNDER THE FALLS charts new territory for Russo and involves elements of suspense. The novel focuses on a world-famous rock musician who returns to his hometown for the first time in years to play a fundraiser for the childhood friend whose life was changed by a terrible accident in which he was involved. Tragic events force him to grapple with his past and face life-threatening threats. | |
 | | Title No: 87658 HOLE IN THE SKY Wilson, Daniel H. Science Fiction 309 pp Doubleday (October 2025) Heliopause is a real place—the very outer edge of our solar system where the sun's solar winds are no longer strong enough to keep debris and intrusions from bombarding our system. It is the farthest edge of our protected boundary (it was recently crossed by Voyager), and the line beyond which space experts look for extraterrestrial presences. This is where Daniel Wilson's fascinating novel begins. Weaving together the story of Jim, a down-on-his-luck absentee father in the Osage territory of Oklahoma, and his daughter, Tawny, with those of a NASA engineer, a misfit anonymous genius who lives in military isolation analyzing a secret incoming "Pattern," and a CIA investigator tasked with tracking unexplained encounters, HOLE IN THE SKY explores a Native American first contact that pulls all five characters into something never before seen or imagined. Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse, its sequel, Robogenesis, and many other books, including How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Amped, and The Clockwork Dynasty. He earned a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Masters degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. He is also the author of The Andromeda Evolution, an authorized sequel to Michael Crichton's groundbreaking The Andromeda Strain. http://www.danielhwilson.com | |
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