Alexandra Christo

Nov 28, 2023 | likewise.com | Holly Black |Sarah J. Maas |Alexandra Christo |Rebecca Yarros

Suggested byPix and upvoted by 1 otherPixThe main characters in this fantasy book despise each other, constantly engaging in witty banter and playing mind games. As the story progresses, their relationship transforms from pure hatred to a complicated and intense romance. To add a comment, download the Likewise app from your device's app store. PixIn this book, the main characters initially hate each other but eventually develop a strong and passionate relationship.

Oct 10, 2023 | tor.com | Alexandra Christo

Atia is a monster who feeds on fear. We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from The Night Hunt by Alexandra Christo, out from Feiwel & Friends on October 10. Atia is a monster who feeds on fear. As the last of her kind, she hides in the shadows of the world to escape the wrath of the unpredictable Gods. Silas is a Herald, carrying messages and ferrying the dead as punishment for a past he can’t remember. Stripped of his true name, he yearns to recover his identity.

Aug 24, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Elana K. Arnold |Curtis Campbell |Alexandra Christo

In this searing historical novel set in 1939–1945 Romanian Czernowitz, Arnold (Red Hood) presents a deeply personal telling based on her grandmother’s experience living through the Holocaust. After her philandering father abandons the family, Jewish 13-year-old Frederieke Teitler, her mercurial older sister Astra, and their depressed and physically weak mother must rely on Reike’s fiercely kind maternal grandfather Opa, who is a jeweler, to survive. Opa has always acted as her stalwart guardian.

Aug 24, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Curtis Campbell |Alexandra Christo |Donna Barba Higuera

Melissa Seron Richardson, illus. by Monica Arnaldo. Little, Brown, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-31643-629-8In this sweetly comic portrait of a Three Kings Day celebration, a child finally old enough to have her own slice of La Rosca de Reyes is worried about swallowing the Baby Jesus figurine inside. Seron Richardson describes the tradition: “The Three Kings had searched mountains and deserts to find the baby Jesus. So every year on Three Kings Day, families all over the world looked for him, too...

Aug 17, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Curtis Campbell |Alexandra Christo |Donna Barba Higuera

Christina Wyman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-38969-7; $9.99 paper ISBN 978-1-250-33102-1Smile meets Wonder in Wyman’s affirming debut, a South Brooklyn–set novel that probes the intersection between bullying and orthodontia through the eyes of Maximillia “Max” Audrina Plink, a 12-year-old of Italian descent.