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2 days ago | bookpage.com | Mariel Fechik

To hear young adult novelist K. Ancrum speak about her work is like stumbling upon a rare illuminated manuscript. The text itself stands alone as a beautiful and precious thing—but its marginalia reveal secret paths to new lenses through which to view the world. It’s like swimming after Ariel into her grotto of treasures, spinning in wonder as the shelves of fascinating whosits and whatsits extend beyond your line of sight.

2 days ago | bookpage.com | Carole V. Bell

Great Big Beautiful Life takes readers on a suspenseful romantic journey that echoes two of Emily Henry’s most beloved books. The sparkling dialogue and competitive enemies-to-friends-to-lovers frisson between celebrity magazine journalist Alice Scott and her literary darling rival, Hayden Anderson, harkens back to Henry’s adult debut, Beach Read, the first of five consecutive number one bestsellers for Henry.

2 days ago | bookpage.com | Mariel Fechik

The small town where 17-year-old Hollis Brown has spent his life is “a forgotten American dreamscape”—the type of marginal Midwestern community that survived a mass exodus of industry, but no longer has the means to start over somewhere new. Hollis has loving parents and fiercely protective best friends, but there is a gnawing emptiness inside him that eats away at any light that tries to get in.

2 weeks ago | bookpage.com | Yi Jiang

The protagonist of Another Word for Neighbor, Han, only likes his tea, the newspaper and his plants—the latter because they can’t talk. So it’s not exactly a match made in heaven when young Kate and Olly, who happen to be especially chatty, move in next door. No matter how much Han ignores or chastises the pair, they persist in knocking on Han’s door, climbing up his peach tree, committing federal offenses by opening up his mailbox and asking lots of questions.

3 weeks ago | bookpage.com | Jamie Orsini

The endlessly endearing Vera Wong is back in a new installment of Jesse Q. Sutanto’s hilarious cozy mystery series. Vera Wong is a Chinese mother, tea shop owner and part-time murder investigator. She’s ready for a new mystery to solve, and when she meets a young woman named Millie who believes her friend Thomas is missing, Vera takes on the case. Unfortunately, her investigation reveals that Thomas is dead, and that Millie only knew him by an alias.