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The Once and Future Me
by Melissa Duggan Pace
Dark Matter meets Girl, Interrupted in this spellbinding psychological thriller about a young woman teetering on the edge of reality.
Virginia 1954. A young woman wakes, agitated and confused, on a patient transport bus arriving at Hanover State Psychiatric Hospital. She remembers nothing of her life before that moment. Once she's been subdued, doctors tell her she's Dorothy Frasier, a paranoid schizophrenic, committed to Hanover for treatments they hope will quell her increasingly violent delusions. She’s certain they’re wrong—until disturbing visions begin to invade her reality: of a dystopian future where frantic scientists urge her to complete "the mission" and save humankind. Convinced it's Hanover causing the hallucinations, she tells no one, focuses only on escape…Until a visitor comes, a man whose loving face—and touch—she remembers.
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Tantrum
by Rachel Eve Moulton
An exhausted mother thinks her newborn might be a monster. And she’s right.
Thea’s third pregnancy was her easiest. She wasn’t consumed with anxiety about the baby. But when the nurses handed Lucia to her, Thea just knew. Her baby girl was a monster. Not only was Lucia born with a full set of teeth and a devilish glint in her eye, but she’s always hungry. Indiscriminately so. As Lucia starts growing faster and talking more, dark memories bubble to the surface--flashes from Thea’s childhood that won’t release their hooks from her heart.
Lucia wants to eat the world. Thea might just let her.
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Black Flame
by Gretchen Felker-Martin
A historical horror about one woman's deadly obsession with a haunted film, perfect for fans of Midsommar and Night Film.
Ellen, a deeply closeted lesbian spends all her time in solitude, restoring films at a failing archive in New York City. When a group of German academics present her with a print of an infamous exploitation film believed to have been destroyed during the Holocaust, Ellen finds herself forced to confront her own repressed sexuality. And the more she works on the restoration, the more obsessed she becomes over its depictions of occult practices and queer debauchery.
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House of the Beast
by Michelle Wong
A dark fantasy debut from The Legend of Korra graphic novel illustrator Michelle Wong, about a young woman who strikes a deal with a god to seek revenge on her family.
Born out of wedlock and shunned by society, Alma learned to make her peace with solitude, so long as she had her mother by her side. When her mother becomes gravely ill, the girl writes a message to her estranged father begging for help. Little does she know her father is a vessel of the Dread Beast, the most frightening god of all and a harbinger of death. Desperately seeking medicine for her mother, she agrees to a contract binding her to the House Avera. But when her mother dies and she is mistreated by her relatives, Alma becomes determined to destroy the house that took everything away from her.
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The Dead Husband Cookbook
by Danielle Valentine
She has the recipe for the perfect murder...
Maria Capello is a celebrity chef like no other: A household name, an inspiration, an icon. She has dozens of cookbooks and weekly television show, broadcast from her beautiful Italian-style kitchen, not to mention her line of bestselling supermarket sauces. Once just the timid wife of famous chef Damien Capello, she stepped into the spotlight after Damien's mysterious disappearance twenty years before–An event she's never spoken about publicly until now, when it is announced that she is looking for a publisher for her memoirs.
Why is Maria willing to finally break her silence? Why does she turn down seven-figure offers from large publishing houses and sign up with a small press? And why does she do so on the condition that it is edited by Thea Woods?
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The Island of Last Things
by Emma Sloley
A soaring, propulsive, and unforgettably poignant novel about two zookeepers at the last zoo in the world.
The wild has nearly disappeared, but as a zookeeper at the last zoo in the world–on Alcatraz Island–Camille spends her days caring for playful chimpanzees, gentle tree frogs, and a restless jaguar. Outside, resistance groups and brutal cartels fight to shape the world’s future, but Camille is safe within her routines. That is, until a new zookeeper, Sailor, arrives from Paris.
Sailor knows all too well the dangers beyond Alcatraz, but she increasingly chafes at the zoo’s rigid rules. She hatches a reckless plan to smuggle one of the most prized animals off the island to freedom, and invites Camille to join her. The consequences if they fail would be catastrophic. Camille must decide if she’s ready to risk everything for the promise of a better world.
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Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom
by Ranita Ray
A powerful exposé of the American public education system's indifference toward marginalized children and the "slow violence" that fashions schools into hostile work and learning environments.
In 2017, sociologist Ranita Ray stepped inside a fourth-grade classroom in one of the nation’s largest majority-minority districts in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was there to conduct research on the lack of resources and budget cuts that regularly face public schools. However, a few months into her immersion, Ray recognized that that greatest impediment to students was the routine indifference, racism, abuse, and harassment that teachers and administrators perpetrate routinely against the most vulnerable children in our schools. Bolstered by an empathetic and passionate voice as well as the latest breaking research in the social sciences, Ray goes beyond timeworn discussions about the school-to-prison pipeline, funding, and achievement gaps to directly address what happens behind the closed doors of classrooms.
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The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West
by Paul Andrew Hutton
The true story of the American West, revealing how American ambition clashed with the realities of violence and exploitation.
The epic of the American West became a tale of progress, redemption, and glorious conquest that came to shape the identity of a new nation. Over time a darker story emerged—one of ghastly violence and environmental spoliation that stained this identity. Hutton uses seven main protagonists—Daniel Boone, Red Eagle, Davy Crockett, Mangas Coloradas, Kit Carson, Sitting Bull, and William “Buffalo Bill” Cody—as the biographical threads by which to weave a tapestry across seven generations, revealing a story of heroic conquest and dark tragedy.
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The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
by David Baron
A truly bizarre tale reconstructed through newly discovered clippings, letters, and photographs by bestselling science writer David Baron.
Percival Lowell, a wealthy Harvard scion, was so certain of his Mars discovery that he (almost) convinced a generation of astronomers that grainy telescopic photographs of the red planet revealed meltwater and an intricate canal system. He declared, “there can be no doubt that living beings inhabit our neighboring world.” So frenzied was the reaction that international controversies arose. Tesla announced he had received Martian radio signals. Biologists debated whether Martians were winged or gilled. Martians headlined Broadway shows, and a new genre called science fiction arose. While Lowell’s claims were savagely debunked, his influence sparked a compulsive interest in Mars and life in outer space that continues to this day.
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Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State
by Caleb Gayle
The remarkable story of Edward McCabe, a Black man who tried to establish a Black state within the United States.
As the sweeping changes and brief glimpses of hope brought by the Civil War and Reconstruction began to wither, anger at the opportunities available to newly freed Black people were on the rise. As a result, both Blacks and whites searched for new places to settle. That was when Edward McCabe, a Black businessman and a rising political star in the American West, set in motion his plans to found a state within the Union for Black people to live in and govern. He chose Oklahoma, a place that the U.S. government had deeded to Indigenous people in the 1830s. McCabe’s rising profile as a leader and spokesman for Black people as well as his willingness to confront white politicians led him to become known as Black Moses. And like his biblical counterpart, McCabe nearly made it to the promised land but was ultimately foiled by politics, business interests, and the growing ambitions of white settlers who also wanted the land.
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This Happened to Me: A Reckoning
by Kate Price
For readers of Educated, The Glass Castle, and Know My Name comes a powerful new memoir that is a remarkable testament of survival and resilience.
Kate Price grew up in a small mill town in central Pennsylvania with her sister and parents in northern Appalachia. Escaping the abuse that plagued her family for generations, Price started a new life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in pursuit of her master’s and PhD. But despite having left this dark world behind, it still kept a firm grip on her. Overcome with unexplainable grief and sadness, Price sought out Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a trauma specialist to help heal her constant emotional pain through EMDR therapy. He went on to write the bestselling book, The Body Keeps the Score, which features Price's story, as the two worked together to find out about her past. In this exquisitely rendered, transformative memoir, Price describes how she went on to create a purpose-driven life and family, eventually returning to the same Appalachian community to ensure children are given the attention, protection, and services that she never received.
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Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity
by Joseph Lee
An exploration of Indigenous identity that builds on the author’s experiences and questions as an Aquinnah Wampanoag from Martha’s Vineyard.
Growing up Aquinnah Wampanoag, Joseph Lee grappled with what it means to be an Indigenous person in the world today, especially as tribal land, culture, and community face new threats. Starting with the story of his own tribe, which is from the iconic Martha’s Vineyard, Lee tackles key questions around Indigenous identity and the stubborn legacy of colonialism. Lee weaves his own story—and that of his family—with conversations with Indigenous leaders, artists, and scholars from around the world about everything from culture and language to climate change and the politics of belonging. As he unpacks the meaning of Indigenous identity, Lee grants us a new understanding of our nation and what a better community might look like.
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