**Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick“Part ghost story, part love story, and part tale of hardscrabble immigrant life...

**Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick“Part ghost story, part love story, and part tale of hardscrabble immigrant life...

**"Come for the crackling queer banter, stay for the history of magic (steeped in shrewd social consciousness).”—Ryan Douglass, New York Times bestselling author of The Taking of Jake Livingston"The perfect witchy read" —BuzzFeed**Magically brilliant, academically perfect, chronically overcommitted—Shay Johnson has all the makings of a successful witch. As a junior at T.K. Anderson Magical Magnet School, she’s determined to win th...

A queer historical romantic suspense novel about a young engineer working for Gustave Eiffel caught in a web of deceit that could destroy both him and the famous tower.Fin Tighe is clinging to respectability by his nail-bitten fingers. He may be the illegitimate son of an English earl, but he hasn’t spoken to his father in a decade, and his engineer’s salary is barely enough to support him and his cousin Aurelie. A dancer in the corps de ballet, Aurelie is...

A captivating and intimate debut novel interwoven with folktale and myth, Wendy Chen’s Their Divine Fires tells the story of the love affairs of three generations of Chinese women across one hundred years of revolutions both political and personal.In 1917, at the dawn of the Chinese Revolution, Yunhong grows up in the southern China countryside and falls deeply in love with the son of a wealthy landlord despite her brother's objections. On the night of her...

**'Indispensable and timely' - Melissa Chan, Emmy-nominated international affairs correspondent'Few books qualify as essential reading but Ghost Nation is one of them' - Clive Hamilton, bestselling co-author of The Hidden HandThe gripping story of Taiwan's past and precarious present from one of Taiwan's top foreign correspondents.**With all eyes on Ukraine and the Middle East, Taiwan is emerging as the next geopolitical tinderbox. Despite sitting ...

FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FOR FICTIONFINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE MASS BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION"That rarest phenomenon: a war novel that feels at once timeless and precisely of the moment…" —Washington PostA poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Da...

“A tender depiction of loss and healing that raises questions about guilt and blame in the age of climate change.”—People“As with The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Lefteri transports the reader to a once lush and now destroyed world.”—Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The NightingaleIn present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches children to re...

The Witch’s Heart meets The Foxglove King in this spellbinding dark fantasy debut about a young woman with the extraordinary power of necromancy, and the ill-fated princess whose life she is determined to save, no matter the cost.The first time Hellevir visited Death, she was ten years old…Since she was a little girl, Hellevir has been able to raise the dead. Every creature can be saved for a pric...

A New York Times, USA Today, and national indie bestseller.A Feast of Wonder!Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this breathtaking guide transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven continents, Gastro Obscura serves up a loaded plate of incredible ingredients, food adventures, and edible wonders. Ready for a beer made from fog in Chile? Sardinia’s “Threads of God...

Dua Lipa's September Book Club Pick!Included in The Guardian's Best Translated Fiction of 2024""[Bad Habit] shows us that a 'trans novel' can actually be anything it wants to be."" –New York Times""A novel that could very well serve as a surrogate mother for future children who grow up lonely and trans."" –Washington PostCombining the raw realism a...

Both epic and intimate, Shield Maiden is the brilliantly imagined retelling of Beowulf from the perspective of a fierce young woman reclaiming her power.Fryda has grown up hearing tales of her uncle, King Beowulf, and his spectacular defeat of the monstrous Grendel. Her one desire is to become a shield maiden in her own right, but a terrible accident during her childhood has thwarted this dream. Yet still, somehow, she feels an uncontrollable power begin t...