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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A finalist for the 2025 Giller Prize Named a Must-Read Pick by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, People, Associated Press, Marie Claire, Bustle,...

Big Little Lies meets Tiger King in this fun and propulsive debut novel about three suburban women who, over the course of one summer, each use the growing hysteria around a big cat sighting to achieve their own agendas--some more sinister than others. Former...

In this "engrossing" (Los Angeles Times) novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, a grieving young man is drawn into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader who forces him to reconsider why people give up control--and what it takes, ultimately, to find one...

One of Goodreads, Book Riot, and AV Club's Most Anticipated Horror Novels of the Year "Incendiary...this one hits hard." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) * "Intense, visceral, and not to be missed." --Booklist (starred review) *...

AN INDIE NEXT AND LIBRARYREADS PICK! The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and...

Virginia Feito's Mrs. March was hailed as "a brilliant debut . . . [by] a writer who keeps pace with the grandees she invokes" (Sarah Ditum, Guardian)--from Daphne Du Maurier and Shirley Jackson to Patricia Highsmith. Now, Feito returns with her "silver-polish sentences and her eerie psychological...

"Clever, honest, sexy, funny, emotional, unique, and deeply romantic . . . Kate Goldbeck is in a class by herself!"--Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A jaded twentysomething is stuck living at home, her...

A princess with a mostly useless magical talent takes on horrible monsters, a dozen identical masked heroes, and a talking lion in a quest to save a kingdom--and herself--in this feminist fairy tale satire. "The Princess Bride meets Shrek."--Susie Dumond, author of...

The story of a runaway mother's ten days of freedom--and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment--from Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes. "The White Hot has the effect of pressing your hand to a barbed live wire. April's is one...

A wry and tender novel from the author of Fault Lines about three very different sisters reunited in adulthood for one short summer in coastal Japan, navigating domestic life with their sharp-edged grandmother and decidedly avoiding resurfaced memories of their mother's disappearance--for readers...

BEST OF FALL: Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, People, Oprah Daily, Writer's Digest, W Magazine * RUPAUL'S BOOK CLUB PICK * An engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship. "A transcendent work of art." --Boston...

From Jess Kidd, the bestselling author of Things in Jars who "is so good it isn't fair" (Erika Swyler, nationally bestselling author), the first in a cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small seaside town after her pen pal mysteriously disappears.<...

"You will compulsively turn these pages well into the dead of night."-Paul Tremblay, New York Times best-selling author of Horror Movie and The Cabin at the End of the World A queer woman must fight her way out of a craft store run by a megachurch in this...

Guy Shadowfade is dead, and after a lifetime as the dark sorcerer's right-hand, Violet Thistlewaite is determined to start over - not as the fearsome Thornwitch, but as someone kind. Someone better. Someone good. The quaint town of Dragon's Rest, Violet decides, will be her second chance - she'll...

"Lockwood has written a roving chronicle of the madness of illness and the frightening porousness of what it means to be yourself in the hilariously profound way that only she could." - Vulture "Bonkers." - The New York Times "Reliably brilliant." - The...

From Wataru Nadatani, the creator of Cat + Gamer, comes CAT + CRAZY, a humorous cat manga for all animal and cat lovers! High schooler Kensuke Fuji adores cats, but others in his family are allergic, so he's never really been able to spend time with any. When he meets a mysteriously skilled cat guru...

The perfect summer read, full of charm and heart, written in the vein of The Thursday Murder Club or Only Murders in the Building but with a southern California twist. Mrs. B, the landlady of The Marigold Cottages is a stubborn idealist who only rents to people...

"Equal parts mischievous, moony, and tart...Her prose offers, in a single page, poetic candor, sly wit, dad jokes, and contemporary therapyspeak." ― The New Yorker "Her weirdest and funniest yet -- in the best way possible." ― Los Angeles Times ...

National Bestseller * A New York Times Editor's Choice Pick * Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME and Kirkus Reviews * The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides in this haunting debut about five sisters in a small village in eighteenth-century England...

"Utterly charming . . . I would read a hundred of these stories." --Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures Seven struggling customers are given the unique opportunity to take home a "blanket cat" . . . but only for three days,...

Drawing on inspiration from the Mauryan Empire of Ancient India, debut author Maithree Wijesekara plunges readers into the first amazing book of the Obsidian Throne trilogy, a new fantasy series of hunted witches, romantic angst, and political intrigue. Perfect for fans of The Hurricane Wars...