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  • Alone Out Here
    Alone Out Here
    Riley Redgate
    Hardcover: 04/05/2022
     
    The year is 2072. Soon a volcanic eruption will trigger catastrophic devastation, and the only way out is up. ...
  • Hotel Magnifique
    Hotel Magnifique
    Emily J. Taylor
    Hardcover: 04/05/2022
     
    Decadent and darkly enchanting, this lavish YA fantasy debut follows seventeen-year-old Jani as she uncovers ...
  • Watch Over Me
    Watch Over Me
    Nina LaCour
    Paperback: 01/18/2022
     
    Nina LaCour delivers another emotional knockout with Watch Over Me, the much-anticipated follow-up to the ...
  • My Fine Fellow
    My Fine Fellow
    Jennieke Cohen
    Hardcover: 01/11/2022
     
    Culinary delights abound, romance lingers in the air, and plans go terribly, wonderfully astray in this gender...
  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club
    Last Night at the Telegraph Club
    Malinda Lo
    Paperback: 12/28/2021
     
    Acclaimed author of Ash Malinda Lo returns with her most personal and ambitious novel yet, a gripping story of...
  • All of Us Villains
    All of Us Villains: All of Us Villains #1
    Amanda Foody, Christine Herman
    Hardcover: 11/09/2021
     
    The blockbuster co-writing debut of Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman, All of Us Villains begins a dark ...
  • Skin of the Sea
    Skin of the Sea
    Natasha Bowen
    Hardcover: 11/02/2021
     
    An unforgettable fantasy debut inspired by West African mythology, this is Children of Blood and Bone meets ...

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