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Mittens and Pity

Mittens and Pity

Mittens and Pity is what Yoshimoto calls the greatest achievement of her writing life since Dead-End Memories. Set between Kanazawa, Helsinki, Taipei, Rome, Hong Kong, and Hachijo-jima, the six stories...

The Dragon and the Sun Lotus, Book 2

The Dragon and the Sun Lotus, Book 2

In the breathtaking sequel to The Scorpion and the Night Blossom, the battle has just begun. With Àn’yīng’s kingdom teetering on the brink of destruction, and amidst a budding forbidden...

Emeka, Eat Egusi!

Emeka, Eat Egusi!

From award-winning author Candice Iloh and New York Times illustrator Bea Jackson comes a warmhearted picture book celebration of traditional Nigerian home cooking and the surprising joys of trying new...

Kin

Kin

An unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy....

The Starter Ex

The Starter Ex

The best worst girlfriend finally meets her match . . . Vanessa Cordero used to run a profitable side gig: For a reasonable fee, she’d date your crush . ....

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin—newly arrived from India—into their house in rural Wyoming where they’ll all live together....

On Witness and Respair: Essays

On Witness and Respair: Essays

The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay. Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after despair. From...

Carnival Fantástico

Carnival Fantástico

An unputdownable romantasy following a young woman posing as fortune-teller at a magical traveling carnival, where the handsome boy who once broke her heart resurfaces and warns her that the...

Estela, Undrowning

Estela, Undrowning

In her raw and resonant debut novel, René Peña-Govea seamlessly interweaves prose and poetry to uplift the power of language, the courage to fight injustice, and the complex beauty of...

Cursed Ever After

Cursed Ever After

Cursed Ever After is a dazzling romantic fantasy debut brimming with snark, humor, and banter-filled romance. Love is not for cursed girls. Risa is better off without it. Risa Porto...

I Didn’t Do It

I Didn’t Do It

A YA thriller about the daughter of a killer who must prove her innocence after a night of fun turns deadly. Dina Soto is used to laying low. Ever since...

If We Never End

If We Never End

An epic romance spanning life and death, from New York Times bestselling author Laura Taylor Namey. Sylvie Castellano is used to goodbyes. Every summer, her friends leave to vacation at...

We Could Be Anyone

We Could Be Anyone

Two teen con-artists must execute an almost impossible scam at an exclusive mansion in this teen thriller. Lola and I grew up hearing that we could become anything, but our...

You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom

You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom

Demons clash with inheritance claims as secrets unfold and violence is unleashed over twelve harrowing hours trapped in a house with the worst thing imaginable: family. When Papi Ramon, the...

The Last Contract of Isako

The Last Contract of Isako

A battle-worn corporate samurai undertakes one last mission on a merciless planet where death is always a mere breath away, in this standalone dystopian epic from the author of the...

Hold Me Like a Grudge

Hold Me Like a Grudge

When a fierce rivalry between two professional wrestlers grows increasingly heated, neither man can fight the attraction burning between them, in this dazzling debut romance. From dramatic character gimmicks to...

Eureka

Eureka

Eureka is a gorgeous and emotionally resonant novel-in-verse by multiple-award-winning poet Victoria Chang that sensitively and lyrically renders the tragic events surrounding the 1885 expulsion of Chinese Americans from Eureka,...

Score, Book 2

Score, Book 2

A scorching second-chance romance between a talented screenwriter and a phenomenal musician. You never forget your first love. Isn’t that what they say? Verity Hill knows this truth intimately. She...

Until the Clock Strikes Midnight

Until the Clock Strikes Midnight

A cozy, romantic fantasy from award-winning author Alechia Dow. Darling is the most talented―and unusual―Guardian to get a chance at winning the coveted once-in-a-generation Mortal Outcome Council mentorship. Getting the...

Boring Asian Female

Boring Asian Female

“Thank you for your interest in our school, but we regret to inform you that…” you’re not special. You’re too average. You’re too boring. Well, in that case, she’ll have...

Our Sister’s Keeper

Our Sister’s Keeper

Mississippi, 1927. The groanings are coming. No town is perfect, but East Cobb comes close. It’s a wealthy all-Black Free Town―untouched by white oppression―where ambitious Thea Elliot and her husband...

Such a Perfect Family

Such a Perfect Family

A man with a deadly past marries into the perfect, most respectable family in this riveting thriller from New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh. . . . A woman...

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...

The Star from Calcutta, Book 5

The Star from Calcutta, Book 5

A movie censor murdered, a leading lady vanished—the glamour, romance, and intrigue of the beginnings of Bollywood come to vivid life in the thrilling new installment of the Perveen Mistry...

I Don’t Wish You Well

I Don’t Wish You Well

A teen investigative podcaster decides to dig into the truth behind a grisly murder spree that rocked his hometown five years ago, but soon discovers that this cold case is...

The Genie Game

The Genie Game

The start of a thrilling new middle-grade series from Jordan Ifueko, author of the New York Times bestselling fantasy Raybearer. Valentine Adesanya has two missions: 1) become a Feared and...

Charmed and Dangerous

Charmed and Dangerous

A teen mystic will do anything to solve a series of love-related magical mishaps plaguing her high school, including fake dating her boss’s daughter, in this charming sapphic romance. Magic...

Light Burned, Book 3

Light Burned, Book 3

Prophecies collide in this explosive finale to USA Today bestselling author Jayci Lee’s epic romantasy series. Can one obstinate fox spirit save the worlds, even if it means destroying her...

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 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 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,...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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 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...

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...

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping

An enchanting novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magical powers—and her life—back on track, from the national bestselling author of The Very Secret Society...

His Mortal Demise, Book 2

His Mortal Demise, Book 2

These Violent Delights meets Divine Rivals in the explosive finale to The Last Bloodcarver duology — with a riveting medical magic system and lush Vietnam-inspired romantasy world. Kochin is a...

Brewed with Love

Brewed with Love

A cozy sapphic romantasy about a teen witch trying to keep her family’s apothecary up and running, with a little help from her ex-best friend—and first crush. Plant witch Sage...

Good Dirt

Good Dirt

The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from Charmaine Wilkerson. When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman...

Homeseeking

Homeseeking

An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find...

I Think They Love You

I Think They Love You

With his funny, big-hearted adult rom com debut, bestselling, award-winning YA author Julian Winters shows sometimes fake dating your ex can turn into a second chance. When Denzel “Denz” Carter’s...

Goddess Complex

Goddess Complex

Sanjana Satyanandais trying to recover her life. It’s been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune in India, after a...

Dream Count

Dream Count

Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her...

The Original Daughter

The Original Daughter

In this dazzling debut, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore. Before Arin, Genevieve Yang...

The Emperor of Gladness

The Emperor of Gladness

Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. One late summer evening in the post-industrial town...

Julie Chan Is Dead

Julie Chan Is Dead

In this razor-sharp, diabolical debut thriller, a young woman steps into her deceased twin’s influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade. Julie Chan has...

Immortal

Immortal

A young ruler must forge a delicate alliance with the untrustworthy yet magnetic God of War to protect her kingdom in this stunning romantic fantasy filled with dangerous secrets, forbidden...

Katabasis

Katabasis

Two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own. Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek: The story of...

Death of the Author

Death of the Author

In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises,...

Hammajang Luck

Hammajang Luck

Ocean’s 8 meets Blade Runner in this trail-blazing debut science fiction novel and swashbuckling love letter to Hawai’i about being forced to find a new home and striving to build...

The Manor of Dreams

The Manor of Dreams

This novel by Christina Li is about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese...

I Am Not Jessica Chen

I Am Not Jessica Chen

Jenna Chen has spent her life in the shadow of her flawless cousin. Jessica Chen is so smart she gets the top score on every test. Jessica Chen is so...

Needy Little Things

Needy Little Things

In this debut speculative YA mystery, a Black teen with premonition-like powers must solve her friend’s disappearance before she finds herself in the same danger, perfect for fans of Ace...

They Bloom At Night

They Bloom At Night

The author of the New York Times bestselling horror phenomenon She Is a Haunting is back with a novel about the monsters that swim beneath us . . . and...

You’ll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist

You’ll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist

The compelling, edgy, compassionate, laugh-out-loud memoir from Kari Ferrell, formerly known as the “Hipster Grifter”. Before Anna Delvey, before the Tinder Swindler, there was Kari Ferrell. Adopted at a young...

Black in Blues

Black in Blues

A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani Perry Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has...

Solving for the Unknown

Solving for the Unknown

In this sweet, incredibly heartfelt companion to A Pho Love Story, Vietnamese Americans Viet and Evie juggle family expectations with their desire to forge their own path in between college...

Patterns That Remain: A Guide to Healing for Asian Children of Immigrants

Patterns That Remain: A Guide to Healing for Asian Children of Immigrants

This empowering book blends history, storytelling, and culturally grounded techniques to equip readers with the tools needed to promote self-reflection, personal growth, and diasporic healing. Asian Americans represent the fastest...

Bingsu for Two

Bingsu for Two

Meet River Langston-Lee. In the past 24 hours, he’s dumped his girlfriend, walked out of his SATs, and quit his job at his parents’ cafe in spectacularly disastrous fashion—even for...

We Do Not Part

We Do Not Part

We Do Not Part tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter in Korean history. One winter morning, Kyungha receives an urgent...

Good Girl

Good Girl

An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery—“a stunning coming-of-age story” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a portrait of the artist as a...

Death Takes Me

Death Takes Me

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana’s Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence. A city is...

The Life of Herod the Great

The Life of Herod the Great

A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great—not the villain the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and...

The Haunting of Room 904

The Haunting of Room 904

Olivia Becente was never supposed to have the gift. The ability to commune with the dead was the specialty of her sister, Naiche. But when Naiche dies unexpectedly and under...

Casualties of Truth

Casualties of Truth

A riveting literary novel with the sharp edges of a thriller about the abuses of history and the costs of revenge, set between Washington, D.C., and Johannesburg, South Africa. Prudence...

Ugliness

Ugliness

How do power and beauty join forces to determine who is considered ugly? What role does that ugliness play in fomenting hatred? Moshtari Hilal, an Afghan-born author and artist who...

The Persians

The Persians

An irreverent and deeply-felt debut novel about a family confronting a past that is both keeping them together and preventing them from breaking free. Meet the Valiat family. In Iran,...

Audition

Audition

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Two people...

Sucker Punch

Sucker Punch

The long-awaited follow-up from one of the most original and hilarious voices writing today. Scaachi Koul’s first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the...

Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History

Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History

A poignant memoir by journalist Margaret Juhae Lee, who sets out on a search for her family’s history lost to the darkness of Korea’s colonial decades, and contends with the...

Sister Snake

Sister Snake

A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are bound by an ancient secret. Sisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads...

The Dilemmas of Working Women

The Dilemmas of Working Women

A spiky, edgy collection of five wickedly funny stories spotlighting clear-eyed and “difficult” women who are navigating their identities as workers and women in contemporary Japan—a feminist, anti-capitalist modern classic...

The Gloomy Girl Variety Show

The Gloomy Girl Variety Show

Merging memoir, poetry, and criticism, this radical literary revue traces a first-generation Nigerian American’s search for home and belonging on her own terms. In The Gloomy Girl Variety Show, Freda...

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