★ Daniel Kwan, debut creator Julia Pott, and illustrator Sean Lewis’s “playfully existential will-they-or-won’t-they” picture book HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A GHOST? “proves gently reassuring and deeply profound”
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- Probing religious trauma and personal growth, Alisa Dean’s debut is an equal parts sensual and affecting exploration of love and identity. With as many laugh-out-loud moments as tear-jerking ones, this powerful and immersive new adult romance stuns.
- Jen Calonita “charmingly blends tender lessons about sisterly bonds and self-reliance with sweetly predictable romance” in her “feel-good, pumpkin-spice-latte-coded” YA rom-com PRACTICALLY MAGIC
- Journalist Jon Ronson delivers a by turns amusing and harrowing report on the desultory state of contemporary men. Ronson’s intuitive but still rigorous approach makes this a blockbuster portrait of men gone mad. @riverheadbooks
- NBA star LeBron James and illustrator Ariel Landy’s “lighthearted” picture book HAPPY SPOOKY HALLOWEEN! “will have readers making their own party plans”
- In their picture book THE HAUNTED PLAYGROUND about a “rollicking account of a ghostly gathering,” R.J. Palacio and illustrator Brett Helquist present a “nocturnal treat [that] seems likely to earn a regular bedtime summoning”
- Gilligan, a psychologist primarily known for her theories on ethics and gender, follows her 2009 novel Kyra with a deeply felt narrative of a couple’s push-pull dynamic over decades.... This artful novel is both cosmopolitan and exquisitely intimate.
- ★ “Putting a contemporary supernatural twist on 'Little Women' proves the springboard for a gripping, heartwarming story” in Máire Roche’s “innovative” middle grade novel LITTLE MONSTERS
- Historian and journalist Crawford takes readers on ‘a journey to the literal and ideological frontiers of extraction’ in this sweeping account of the toll the pursuit of endless economic growth has taken on the planet.
- Set in 1980s Rome, Recchia’s irresistible English-language debut follows a family’s struggle to rebuild after a teenage girl’s murder.... Cinematic in pacing and scope, this is nearly impossible to put down.
- ★ Seán Farrelly’s “assured” debut YA novel TOM BURNE HAS LEFT THE CHAT “expertly captures the tension between digital perception and lived reality”
- ★ Frances Hardinge’s “rousing, medieval-inspired” YA historical fantasy TRAITORS’ NEST is a “spirited tale of derring-do that’s a triumph and a joy from start to finish”
- Schnipper debuts with a wrenching account of his toddler’s sudden death from a congenital abnormality.... It’s a powerful record of a broken heart.
