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Sorrowland
by Rivers Solomon
Fleeing from the strict religious compound where she was raised, Vern, in the safety of the forest, gives birth to twins, and to keep her small family safe, unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of. 100,000 first printing.
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Snowflake : a novel
by Louise Nealon
Earning a place at Trinity College Dublin, Debbie, who was raised on a rural dairy farm, finds herself pulling away from the comfort of home until a tragic accident upends her close-knit family’s equilibrium and her next steps may no longer be hers to choose. 30,000 first printing.
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August : a novel
by Callan Wink
Struggling to adapt when his parents’ divorce takes him away from his father’s dairy farm, 12-year-old August flees to a Montana ranch in the wake of a violent act before uncovering dark local secrets. A first novel.
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Anticipation : a novel
by Melodie Winawer
A single mother and her son vacation in Greece where they discover the ancient city of Mystras and a tour guide who has put in 800 years of labor and needs the child’s blood to survive. Original. 75,000 first printing.
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Apartment : a novel
by Teddy Wayne
A man who offers a rent-free bedroom in his illegal sublet of a rent-stabilized NYC apartment and the working-class Midwestern Columbia student who takes it develop a friendship that eventually clashes over politics, socioeconomic identity and privilege in 1996.
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Memorial
by Bryan Washington
Japanese-American chef Mike and Black daycare teacher Benson begin reevaluating their stale relationship after Mike departs for Japan to visit his dying father and Benson is suddenly stuck with his visiting mother-in-law, who becomes an unconventional roommate
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Exhalation : Stories
by Ted Chiang
A long-awaited latest collection by the Arrival-inspiring author of "The Story of Your Life" explores revelatory ideas and second chances in such tales as, "In the Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," "Exhalation" and "The Lifecycle of Software Objects."
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Creatures
by Crissy Van Meter
A bride explores the complexities of love, abandonment and forgiveness when her California wedding is upended by a trapped whale carcass, the groom’s disappearance at sea and the unexpected return of her long-absent mother. 25,000 first printing.
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Tsarina
by Ellen Alpsten
A narrative tale based on the true story of Peter the Great’s second wife, Catherine Alexeyevna, recounts how she used her extraordinary intelligence to escape poverty and assume her unstable husband’s responsibilities in 18th-century Russia. 100,000 first printing.
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Idol
by Regina Watts
In this horror novel from Regina Watts, author of MAYHEM AT THE MUSEUM and BABYSITTER BLOODBATH, things take a violent turn when Melba Daniels finally gets a chance to meet the movie star who has telepathically commanded her for years.
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Westside : a novel
by W. M Akers
A female private detective in 1920s New York finds herself pulled into a hard case when she witnesses her client's murder and is plunged into a world of bootlegging, smuggling, and corruption
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunted persistently by the ghost of the dead baby girl whom she sacrificed, in a new edition of the Nobel Laureate's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. 25,000 first printing.
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LaRose
by Louise Erdrich
Horrified when he accidentally kills his best friend's 5-year-old son while hunting, Landreaux Iron gives away his own young son to his friend's family according to ancient tradition, a decision that helps both families reach a tenuous peace that is threatened by a vengeful adversary. By the National Book Award-winning author of The Round House. 200,000 first printing.
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Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Two half sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations marked by wealth, slavery, war, coal mining, the Great Migration and the realities of 20th-century Harlem. Reprint.
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Recursion : a novel by Blake CrouchNew York City cop Barry Sutton investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome-- a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. Neuroscientist Helena Smith dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious moments of our pasts. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent. Together they a force that attacks not just our minds but the very fabric of the past. Memory makes reality-- and the force is beginning to unmake the world as we know it. -- adapted from jacket
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