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Moss'd in Space
by Rebecca Thorne
Torian Razner finally bought a starship, and contrary to Amelia's assessment, it was not "a meteoric sign of stupidity." Sure, the alien starship may have been abandoned for a century, and it may be covered in moss now, but it's Torian's ticket to freedom. Except Torian's first flight reveals a surprise passenger: the moss is actually an organic computer with a snarky attitude and serious abandonment issues. The target of its loathing? The immortal alien who built it, the same alien who just found Torian and accused her of "stealing" the ship.
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Black Flame
by Gretchen Felker-Martin
One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing. A cursed film. A haunted past. A deadly secret. The Baroness, an infamous film long thought destroyed by Nazi fire, is discovered fifty years later. When lonely archivist Ellen Kramer--deeply closeted and pathologically repressed--begins restoring the movie, it unspools dark desires from deep within her. As Ellen is consumed by visions and voices, she becomes convinced the movie is real and that frame by frame, she is unleashing its occult horrors on the world.
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Teddy Spenser Isn't Looking for Love
by Kim Fielding
Some people search their whole lives to find love. He just wants to avoid it. Teddy Spenser spends his days selling design ideas to higher-ups, living or dying on each new pitch. Stodgy engineer types like Romeo Blue, his nemesis, if you can call someone who barely talks to you a nemesis, are a necessary evil. A cute, but necessary evil.
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When the Wolf Comes Home
by Nat Cassidy
One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy's father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives. As they attempt to evade the boy's increasingly desperate father, horrifying incidents of butchery follow them. At first Jess thinks she understands what they're up against, but she's about to learn that there's more to these surreal and grisly events than she could've ever imagined, and that when the wolf comes home, no one will be spared.
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Atmosphere
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. She comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program. In the summer of 1980, Joan begins training alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.
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Adam, Mine.
by K. Ancrum
Victor Frankenstein, a wealthy young prodigy, is determined to prove his theories about reanimation. After making a reckless wager, he uses a teen boy from a small village, Elias Hilfiker, in a forbidden experiment. Elias awakens scarred and voiceless. Victor, horrified by the consequences of his actions, searches for a way to undo them. Bound by a supernatural connection that lets them feel each other's emotions and pain, Victor and Elias pursue vengeance, forgiveness, and answers as the boundary between man and monster begins to blur.
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Names Have Been Changed
by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Ophir’s tale begins in Singapore, where a petty crime spins out of control, estranging her from home. Resorting to false identities and forged passports, she crisscrosses the globe. Broadcasting from an undisclosed location, Ophir is funny, prickly, tough, and vulnerable, entrancing listeners with an irresistible recounting of not only her crimes (plural), but also her deepest secrets and regrets. As she moves across class lines and continents, she grapples with the shock of dislocation, a reexamination of identity, and a yearning for home.
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Voyagers
by Meg Charlton
When the Signal - a mysterious transmission from the edge of the solar system - arrives, the world changes overnight, with many believing this could be first contact with extraterrestrial life. But for Alex, the Signal feels personal. Decades ago, Alex and his friend Ana both vanished for 36 hours. When they returned, their account had all the hallmarks of an alien abduction. As they reunite, what starts as a quest to confront the reality of their original experience becomes a larger reckoning with friendship, faith, family, and truth itself.
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Charity and Sylvia
by Tillie Walden
The (mostly) true story of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, two women who met and fell in love in Vermont in 1807 when Charity moved to Weybridge from Massachusetts. Being openly gay isn't easy in early America, but the two immediately connect and spend the next 44 years together, building a life in spite of the odds, as a lesbian couple in small town Vermont.
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Magical Boy Volume 1
by The Kao
Descended from a long line of Magical Girls tasked with defending humanity from a dark, ancient evil, Max, an average high school trans boy, wonders if he can take on his destiny, save the world, and become the new Magical Boy. A hilarious and heartfelt riff on the magical girl genre made popular by teen manga series, Magical Boy is a one-of-a-kind imaginative fantasy series that comic readers of all ages will love.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan, arrives in the heady world of Manhattan. He meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game. Ripley’s talent for self-invention is as unnerving―and unnervingly revealing of the American psyche―as ever.
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Rot
by Padraic X. Scanlan
In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom, that the blight's devastation reached apocalyptic levels, leaving more than a million people dead. Scanlan offers the definitive account of the Great Famine, showing how British imperialism left Ireland uniquely vulnerable to starvation. Uncovering the disaster's roots in Britain's deep imperial faith in markets, commerce, and capitalism, Rot completely reshapes our understanding of the Great Famine and its tragic legacy.
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Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
by Katherine Rundell
Katherine Rundell, one of the most accomplished modern children's writers, offers an extended essay about the pleasures and benefits of reading children's literature as an adult. Rundell explores how children's books ignite--and can re-ignite--the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives on the world. Infinitely wise and thought-provoking, Rundell's short book is a perfect read for any book-lover.
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The Care We Dream Of
by Zena Sharman
A hybrid book that weaves together the author's essays on topics like queering health and healing, transforming the health system, kinship, aging, and death, alongside stories, poetry and non-fiction pieces by a diverse group of LGBTQ+ writers. The book also includes interviews with activists, health care workers, and researchers whose work offers insights into what liberatory and transformative approaches to LGBTQ+ health can look like in practice.
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Happiness Included
by Eve Plumb
As Jan Brady, America's most memorable middle child on the beloved TV sitcom, The Brady Bunch, Eve Plumb has been an enduring icon of American pop culture for over 60 years. Now in an engaging, intimate memoir, she shares the behind-the-scenes story of her colorful and impressively versatile Hollywood career and revelatory recollections of her off-camera life along the way, complete with many photos from her private archives.
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