Speculative fiction is a broad genre that includes fiction with supernatural, fantasy, magical realism, alternative history, or futuristic elements. Check out some of our new books! The Head of the Saint by Socorro Acioli Having arrived in Candeia, Brazil, starving and footsore, after walking sixteen days to fulfill his dying mother’s last wishes, young Samuel takes up residence in an […]
Here’s what’s new in Realistic Fiction this month: The Haters by Jesse Andrews Inspired by the years he spent playing bass in a band himself, The Haters is Andrews’s road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band. For Wes and his best friend, Corey, jazz camp turns out to be lame. […]
Are you waiting for the next book to come out? Check here to see if one of these new series books is on your to-read list: The Rose & The Dagger by Renée Ahdieh (Sequel to The Wrath & The Dawn) In this reimagining of The Arabian Nights, Shahrzad tries to uncover powers that may lie dormant within her in an attempt to […]
These new historical fiction books really make history come alive! Check them out: The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock In Alaska, 1970, being a teenager here isn’t like being a teenager anywhere else. Ruth has a secret that she can’t hide forever. Dora wonders if she can ever truly escape where she comes from, even when good luck […]
Check out our new Fantasy and Science Fiction titles: Guile by Constance Cooper Yonie Watereye lives in the bayou. The water there is full of guile, a power that changes people and objects. Yonie makes a living investigating objects affected by guile, but in fact it’s her talking cat, LaRue, who has the power to see guile. Yonie becomes aware […]
Check out what is new in realistic fiction: The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle Quinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful whose only worry used to be writing convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth. Of course, that was all before–before Quinn stopped going to school, before his mom started sleeping on the sofa…and […]
Are you in the mood for suspense? Check out some of our new mystery and thriller novels here: Snow Job by Charles Benoit Does who you are in high school brand you for life? Nick sure hopes not. It’s senior year, and he has decided that his loser friends may be going nowhere fast, but he isn’t . Instead, Nick […]
Are you waiting for the elusive “next book” to come out? Check here to see if one of our new continuing series books is on your to-read list: Dove Exiled by Karen Bao (Book 2 of Dove Arising) Phaet Theta is a fugitive. Hiding in plain sight with her friend Wes’s family on the drowned planet Earth, Phaet discovers the […]
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds is a book about a fifteen-year-old boy named Ali who uses boxing to avoid the dangerous street culture of his Bed-Stuy neighborhood in Brooklyn. Ali lives with his mother and little sister, Jazz. Ali’s life is complicated by his friends, Noodles, who always seems to be looking for trouble and Needles, who has Tourette’s syndrome. They […]
You might know Carrie Brownstein from her award winning show on IFC, Portlandia, but she is a woman of many talents. Her original claim to fame was as a guitarist in Sleater-Kinney. They were part of the 90s Riot Grrrl punk scene and they continue to make music. After a ten year hiatus, they released the album, No Cities to Love in January 2015. Brownstein is widely regarded as a […]
