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With empathy and creativity, MOTHERSUCKER fuses the horror of the supernatural with the all-too-real horror of misogynistic violence. @VintageAnchor bookpage.com/?p=234224

A young woman with dreams of stardom makes a wish—and things go downhill from there in Tananarive Due’s terrific, complex MAZYWOOD. @GalleryBooks bookpage.com/?p=234222

With thorough reporting about the killing of subway performer Jordan Neely, Anand Giridharadas’ MAN IN THE MIRROR reflects our divided nation and the costs of our disconnection from one another. @AAKnopf bookpage.com/?p=233901

Ezra Claytan Daniels and Camilla Sucre’s smoldering swamp noir takes off from the history of the despicable racist trope of Black children being used as alligator bait. @WmMorrowBooks bookpage.com/?p=233971

LUNA, PHOENIX, QUEEN is a rich, humanist tale that brilliantly explores the idea that we’re all damaged goods, for one reason or another. @AAKnopf bookpage.com/?p=233969

Maylis Daufresne’s LUNA AND THE NIGHT encourages readers to apply a sort of creative gamesmanship to their own anxieties, which is what Luna does to conquer her fear of the dark. @FlorisBooks bookpage.com/?p=233899

David Litchfield’s LITTLE GHOST AND THE ROBOT is a tale of finding friends and family just when you need them most. It’s a scintillating romp with a heart of gold. @quartokids bookpage.com/?p=233897

In this wrenching, heart-in-your-throat comics anthology, I Won’t Pretend These Missiles Are Stars, 15 cartoonists from Tehran describe living through the 2025 Israeli bombing. @ bookpage.com/?p=233967

Fans of puzzles, meta storytelling and mysteries about mysteries will devour Jessica Brody’s love letter to classic crime fiction. @randomhouse bookpage.com/?p=233965

In her sparkling history of the 1963 March on Washington, Pulitzer Prize-winner Marcia Chatelain illuminates how Black women powered the Civil Rights Movement. @pantheonbooks bookpage.com/?p=233963

In HOLDING LIGHTNING, Emily Lordi passionately testifies to Whitney Houston’s brilliance and capacious genius, providing a needed revision of the standard portrait of the artist as a woman doomed to self-destruction. @marinerbooks bookpage.com/?p=233961

Alexis Nikole Nelson, known on social media as Black Forager, pads practical advice and inventive recipes with humor in her vegan cookbook, HAPPY SNACKING, DON’T DIE! @_SimonElement bookpage.com/?p=233959

B.K. Borison’s grim reaper and guardian angel romance is delicious and will delight readers who want a dash of magic in their love stories. @avonbooks bookpage.com/?p=233957

In his insightful and delightful memoir, FICTIONAL SELVES, Kyle MacLachlan gets philosophical about his role as the coffee- and cherry pie-loving Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks. @crownpublishing bookpage.com/?p=233955

It’s really difficult to deliver a complex blend of the personal and the political in fiction. In FEMALE LIFE ON PLANET EARTH, Laleh Khadivi does it gorgeously. @eccobooks bookpage.com/?p=233953

Emily St. John Mandel’s EXIT PARTY offers comfort, warmth and diverting strangeness through its unsettling vision of the near future. @AAKnopf bookpage.com/?p=233951

Penetrating and sobering, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor’s END TIMES FASCISM is sure to cause a stir—and that’s the point. @fsgbooks bookpage.com/?p=233949

In EMPIRE, her conclusion to the duology that began with Heir, Sabaa Tahir thoughtfully examines the cost of war and its harsh effects on the most vulnerable. @penguinkids bookpage.com/?p=233947

Author-illustrator Shawn Harris won a Caldecott Medal for his authorial debut, Have You Ever Seen A Flower? in 2022, and his accolades as an artist have been racking up ever since his 2017 illustrative debut, Her Right Foot, written by Dave Eggers. In true Harris fashion, he experimented with a new artistic medium in his upcoming picture book, DUEL, featuring colorful finger-painted, mirrored illustrations of a showdown between two knights. @NealPorterBooks bookpage.com/?p=234218

DOOM & GLOOM marks the start of a zany new graphic series, full of villainy and comic charm personified by a lovable pair of goofball felines. @ bookpage.com/?p=234216