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 Under the RadarOctober 2025 |
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The dilemmas of working women : stories
by Fumio Yamamoto
Six sharp portraits of modern Japanese women who resist societal pressures that equate worth with employment, exploring themes of loss, illness, and identity as they challenge the restrictive roles imposed by a male-dominated work culture.
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Family spirit : a novel
by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
In Philadelphia, the eccentric Mace family and their clairvoyant“knowing” are threatened by gentrification and internal rifts, forcing estranged Lil and her niece Ayana to battle for their home, culture and traditions. 30,000 first printing.
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Moderation
by Elaine Castillo
When Girlie Delmundo's parent company purchases Fairground—the preeminent VR content provider—she becomes an elite VR moderator, which solves her family's money and mobility problems, despite the isolation that VR requires; but when she meets Playground's cofounder William Cheung, she finds herself falling in love.
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The peculiar gift of July : a novel
by Ashley Ream
When 14-year-old July arrives in the isolated island town of Ebey's End, her uncanny ability to sense what people need begins quietly transforming the community, forcing its residents—and herself—to confront unexpected truths about their lives.
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A resistance of witches
by Morgan Ryan
In WWII-era Europe, witch Lydia Polk races to find a deadly magical grimoire before the Nazis do, teaming up with a resistance fighter and a rogue historian as supernatural threats close in and betrayal looms.
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Sunbirth : a novel
by An Yu
As the sun ominously diminishes over the desolate village of Five Poems Lake, a young pharmacist and her sister Dong Ji search for answers in their father's past and the arrival of mysterious Beacons, hoping to survive a surreal, encroaching darkness that threatens to consume their world.
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This here is love : a novel
by Princess Joy L. Perry
In 17th-century Virginia, enslaved girl Bless, freeborn Black child David, and indentured servant Jack Dane each grapple with survival, identity, and belonging as their lives converge on contested land, forcing them to redefine freedom, family and love in a brutal new world.
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This kind of trouble : a novel
by Tochi Eze
In newly independent 1960s Lagos, Margaret and Benjamin—drawn together by love and shared heritage—must confront mental illness, cultural dissonance, and a buried past that resurfaces decades later through their grandson's struggles, forcing a reunion shaped by memory and legacy.
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The unbroken coast
by Nalini Jones
In 1978 Bombay, retired professor Francis Almeida crosses paths with a sick infant in a nearby fishing village, unknowingly beginning a bond that will resurface years later amid shifting urban landscapes, generational change, and the quiet unraveling of place and purpose.
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What hunger
by Catherine Dang
In the summer before high school, Ronny Nguyen drifts through boredom and sibling anxiety until tragedy fractures her Vietnamese American family, awakening in her a strange, primal hunger that blurs the line between grief, identity, and a dark new power she cannot fully control.
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