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The Lion Women of Tehran

The Lion Women of Tehran

A mesmerizing tale of love and courage, and a sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young, set against three transformative decades...

Better Catch Up, Krishna Kumar

Better Catch Up, Krishna Kumar

Buckle up for a wild ride with this cheeky and charming rom-com where one girl’s quest across India to seal her first kiss turns into finding first love in the...

Whidbey

Whidbey

A portrait of three women connected through one man in the aftermath of his murder—a stunning literary achievement and the explosive and highly anticipated debut novel from beloved award-winning memoirist...

The Obake Code

The Obake Code

An all-new, stand-alone sci-fi caper from the author of Hammajang Luck: a bored hacker is forced by vicious gangsters to take down a crooked politician…only to find herself up against...

An Expanse of Blue

An Expanse of Blue

A powerful, romantic debut novel-in-verse about a Native Hawaiian girl’s fight to find belonging in a fracturing family, sharing a message of love with resounding emotional truth. Aouli Elizabeth Smith...

The Killing Spell

The Killing Spell

In this spellbinding fantasy debut set in a future where language magic reigns, a young Hawaiian woman must solve a murder to clear her name. Kea Petrova is dealing with...

Leave Your Mess at Home

Leave Your Mess at Home

A debut about the uncomfortable, unbreakable ties of family as four adult siblings come home to confront the state of their own lives and each other. The Longe siblings are...

The Subtle Art of Folding Space

The Subtle Art of Folding Space

The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of...

The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie

The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos. In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle physicist Dr....

I Love You Don’t Die

I Love You Don’t Die

Acclaimed author Jade Song (Chlorine) returns with her latest literary exploration: a lyrical, poignant, and heartfelt novel about the meaning of love, friendship, debt, depression, and death in New York...

One & Only

One & Only

A funny and fresh love story of a woman thrown a curveball by fate, and the family secret that will make her question everything. She knows what her happily ever...

The Poet Empress

The Poet Empress

Debut author Shen Tao introduces readers to the lush, deadly world of The Poet Empress, a sweeping, epic and intimate fantasy. Wei Yin is desperate. After the fifth death of...

To Ride a Rising Storm, Book 2

To Ride a Rising Storm, Book 2

A young indigenous woman and her dragon fight for the independence of their homeland in this epic sequel to the bestselling and multi-award-winning To Shape a Dragon’s Breath. Anequs has...

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Book 1

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Book 1

The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all...

Where the Wildflowers Grow

Where the Wildflowers Grow

From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living. Leigh is the last of...

Bad Asians

Bad Asians

An affecting novel about an unforgettable group of friends trying to make their way in the world without losing themselves, or one another. Diana, Justin, Errol, and Vivian were always...

The Midnight Taxi

The Midnight Taxi

When the last fare of the night turns up dead in her backseat, a Sri Lankan American taxi driver works off the clock to clear her name in this mystery...

Superfan

Superfan

A novel about a pop idol and his superfan, whose stories shockingly collide. Freshman Minnie is adrift at college in Austin, Texas, when she discovers a boy band called HOURglass...

Island Queen

Island Queen

A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true-life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest...

The Last of Earth

The Last of Earth

A stunning historical novel set in nineteenth-century Tibet that follows two outsiders—an Indian schoolteacher spying for the British Empire and an English “lady” explorer—as they venture into a forbidden kingdom....

Fire Sword and Sea

Fire Sword and Sea

The real Pirates of the Caribbean were Black, and women! From Vanessa Riley, acclaimed author of Queen of Exiles, comes a sweeping, immersive saga based on the life of the...

An Arcane Inheritance

An Arcane Inheritance

A modern-day dark academia fantasy with a twist. Warren University has stood amongst the ivy elite for centuries, built on the bones―and forbidden magic―of its most prized BIPOC students…hiding the...

Homeland Elegies

Homeland Elegies

Blending fact and fiction, Homeland Elegies follows an immigrant father and his son as they search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other. A deeply personal work about identity...

A Cup of Quiet

A Cup of Quiet

From award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a beautiful picture book about the special bond between a child and grandparent. When the squeal of tires and thrum of Grandpa’s hammer fill...

Gajarah

Gajarah

With stunning lyricism, Gajarah tells the story of a fearless woman torn between two worlds—Pakistan and Canada—whose life is upended by sexual violence. Emahn is big haired, mischievous, and larger...

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

A love letter to Syria and its people, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is a speculative novel set amid the Syrian Revolution, burning with the fires of hope,...

Stronger Than

Stronger Than

Renowned author Nikki Grimes and debut picture book writer Stacy Wells (Choctaw) lend their resonant voices to award-winning artist E. B. Lewis’s (Lenni Lenape) rich watercolors in this story of...

The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story

The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story

Page-turning WW2 hidden history masterfully told by award winner Daniel Nayeri. 1941. The German armies are storming across Europe. Iran is a neutral country occupied by British forces on one...

The Intentions of Thunder

The Intentions of Thunder

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2025

A collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of the most groundbreaking voices in contemporary poetry. The Intentions of Thunder gathers, for the first time, the essential...

We Are Green and Trembling

We Are Green and Trembling

Lyrical and swashbuckling, tender and surreal, Gabriela Cabezón Camara’s new novel finds glimmers of hope for the future in the brutal history of colonial Latin America. Deep in the wilds...

Bad Cree

Bad Cree

In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of...

Moon Witch, Spider King, Book 2

Moon Witch, Spider King, Book 2

From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy.

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Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Book 1

Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Book 1

In the stunning first novel in Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing...

Etna

Etna

Paul Yoon is back with the unforgettable story of a working dog, Etna, who, after a devastating war, embarks on an odyssey in the hopes of returning home. Set in...

Cool Machine, Book 3

Cool Machine, Book 3

An exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of Harlem Trilogy. 1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin...

The Typing Lady

The Typing Lady

A spellbinding story collection from Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki, about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget, and the stories that shape us long after...

Babylon, South Dakota

Babylon, South Dakota

A tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful, mysterious, and morally dubious military secret shapes their lives. When...

Last Night in Brooklyn

Last Night in Brooklyn

A young woman whose life becomes ensnared in her glamorous neighbor’s secret past. SPRING, 2007 At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She’s in a long-distance relationship,...

Python’s Kiss

Python’s Kiss

It was as though I was chosen—marked out by the python’s kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of...

My Dear You

My Dear You

A brilliant short story collection about love, life, and the anguish of becoming oneself in a time when it’s so easy to be someone else. The characters in My Dear...

Days of Love and Rage

Days of Love and Rage

From Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist Anand Gopal, a mesmerizing and powerful account of six Syrians fighting for a better world, in the tradition of classic works by Philip...

The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts

The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts

From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century comes The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts—an eerie, spellbinding novel of grief and guilt, with a...

On Morrison

On Morrison

An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by award-winning novelist and Harvard professor Namwali Serpell. Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and one of our most beloved writers, has...

The Radiance

The Radiance

A mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and investigation in Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar’s most daring work yet — a visionary novel of...

The Bone Thief

The Bone Thief

When a Native teenager vanishes from her small town—a place with dark ties to an elite historical society—archaeologist Syd Walker is called to investigate…from bestselling author Vanessa Lillie. In the...

The Great Mann

The Great Mann

In this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.’s Black elite, a young veteran finds his way post-war, pulled into a new world of tantalizing possibilities—and explosive tensions....

A Quantum Love Story

A Quantum Love Story

The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them. Grieving her best friend’s recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start...

Autobiography of Cotton

Autobiography of Cotton

In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers’ strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel, Human Mourning. In her...

The True Happiness Company

The True Happiness Company

In this darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, a young Indian American woman’s dreams of being a well-adjusted college student get wildly derailed when her struggles with mental health land...

The Faithless, Book 2

The Faithless, Book 2

In the second installment of C.L. Clark’s Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess Luca must return to Balladaire to reclaim Luca’s throne and to face the consequences...

The Sovereign, Book 3

The Sovereign, Book 3

The Sovereign brings princess Luca and soldier Touraine together one last time in the thrilling conclusion to C. L. Clark’s beloved queer political fantasy trilogy. Luca is the new queen...

The Unbroken, Book 1

The Unbroken, Book 1

On the far outreaches of a crumbling desert empire, two women—a princess and a soldier—will haggle over the price of a nation in this richly imagined, breath-taking sapphic epic fantasy...

Light Years from Home

Light Years from Home

Every family has issues. Most can’t blame them on extraterrestrials. Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, aren’t on speaking terms. Fifteen years ago on a family camping trip, their father...

Klara and the Sun

Klara and the Sun

Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who,...

A Brief History of Seven Killings

A Brief History of Seven Killings

A “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard, Red...

The Book of Night Women

The Book of Night Women

A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into...

The Fifth Season, Book 1

The Fifth Season, Book 1

At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. This...

The Spear Cuts Through Water

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds....

Peri Peri Paprika

Peri Peri Paprika

Moss is a pilot aboard the Rusty Raccoon, a trash collection ship traveling through interstellar space. Moss is sleepwalking through existence, but when she stumbles across her supervisor Turnip attempting...

The City We Became, Book 1

The City We Became, Book 1

Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, a “glorious” story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York...

The World We Make, Book 2

The World We Make, Book 2

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity, resistance, magic and myth. All is not well in the city that never...

The World Wasn’t Ready for You

The World Wasn’t Ready for You

A gripping story collection reminiscent of the work of Octavia E. Butler, which deftly blends science fiction, horror, and fantasy to examine issues of race, class, and prejudice—an electrifying, oftentimes...

The Deep Sky

The Deep Sky

Yume Kitasei’s The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the...

The Hospital at the End of the World

The Hospital at the End of the World

From the author of the acclaimed The World Wasn’t Ready for You comes a thrilling first novel, set in a near future where artificial intelligence runs the world, involving a...

The Butcher of the Forest

The Butcher of the Forest

A world-weary woman races against the clock to survive a deadly forest in this dark, otherworldly fairytale from Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Premee Mohamed. At the northern edge...

Remote Control

Remote Control

An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death’s adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor....

An Unkindness of Ghosts

An Unkindness of Ghosts

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth...

The Genesis of Misery

The Genesis of Misery

An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy, Neon Yang’s debut novel The Genesis of Misery is full of high-tech space battles and political machinations, starring a queer and diverse array of pilots, princesses,...

The Celestial Seas

The Celestial Seas

A tale of identity, love, and the hunt for vengeance in the darkest corners of space. Ishara Ming is the sole survivor of a spacefaring whaler destroyed by the Ballena,...

Son of the Morning

Son of the Morning

A steamy paranormal romance set in the Black South—a bold new foray that takes us on a journey of magic and fantasy, from the whispering creeks outside the city of...

A Little Kissing Between Friends

A Little Kissing Between Friends

Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the studio to the flirty femmes she fools around with. Her ever-rotating roster...

The Siege of Burning Grass

The Siege of Burning Grass

A stunning meditation on war, nationalism, violence and courage by a rising star of the genre. The Empires of Varkal and Med’ariz have always been at war. Alefret, the founder...

My Chicano Heart

My Chicano Heart

My Chicano Heart is a collection of author Daniel A. Olivas’s favorite previously published tales about love, along with five new stories, that explore the complex, mysterious, and occasionally absurd...

Chicano Frankenstein

Chicano Frankenstein

A modern retelling of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley classic that addresses issues of belonging and assimilation. An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a...

We Have Always Been Here

We Have Always Been Here

A sci-fi thriller that explores AI ethics and the effects of climate change. Aboard a ship manned by humans and androids, one doctor must discover the source of her crew’s...

The Old Drift

The Old Drift

1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at...

The Furrows

The Furrows

From one of the most celebrated new voices in American literature, a brilliantly inventive novel about the eternal bonds of family and the mysteries of love and loss. I don’t...

Sorrowland

Sorrowland

A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction. Vern―seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised―flees...

The Reformatory

The Reformatory

A gripping, page-turning horror novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where...

Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf

Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf

Set in the blockbuster and award-winning universe of League of Legends: Arcane and written by award-winning author C. L. Clark, discover a thrilling epic fantasy novel where Ambessa Medarda truly...

The Stardust Grail

The Stardust Grail

Save one world. Doom her own. Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations―until a disastrous job...

Saltcrop

Saltcrop

From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister―and Earth’s environmental salvation. In Earth’s...

Model Home

Model Home

Welcome to Rivers Solomon’s dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where...

Far from the Light of Heaven

Far from the Light of Heaven

A tense and thrilling vision of humanity’s future in the chilling emptiness of space from rising giant in science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tade Thompson. The colony ship...

The Dawnhounds, Book 1

The Dawnhounds, Book 1

A genre-bending queer fantasy debut inspired by Maori culture, Asian folklore, and sci-fi noir—where murder, resurrection, and rebellion collide on the high seas. In the port city of Hainak, everything...

The Sunforge, Book 2

The Sunforge, Book 2

Sascha Stronach’s queer, Maori-inspired Endsong trilogy reopens on a city in flames, where a magic-wielding pirate crew uncovers an age-old fight between the gods that threatens their world. The steel...

The Secret World of Briar Rose

The Secret World of Briar Rose

A lush and immersive queer “Sleeping Beauty” retelling about escapism, grief, and dreaming of a better world, as imagined by YouTube star Cindy Pham. One hundred years have passed since...

The Perishing

The Perishing

A Black immortal in 1930’s Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is. Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in...

Dawn, Book 1

Dawn, Book 1

One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. When...

Imago, Book 3

Imago, Book 3

After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity — before their powers destroy what is left of humankind. Since a...