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The Library Thief: A Novel
Par Kuchenga Shenjé. 2024
The library is under lock and key. But its secrets can't be contained. 1896. After he brought her home from…
Jamaica as a baby, Florence's father had her hair hot-combed to make her look like the other girls. But as a young woman, Florence is not so easy to tame—and when she brings scandal to his door, the bookbinder throws her onto the streets of Manchester. Intercepting her father's latest commission, Florence talks her way into the forbidding Rose Hall to restore its rare books. Lord Francis Belfield's library is old and full of secrets—but none so intriguing as the whispers about his late wife… Evocative, arresting and tightly plotted, The Library Thief is at once a propulsive Gothic mystery and a striking exploration of race, gender and self-discovery in Victorian England.The Ministry of Time: One of the Observer's Debut Novels of 2024
Par Kaliane Bradley. 2024
'Fast moving and riotously entertaining, a genre-busting blend of wit and wonder'10 best new novelists for 2024, ObserverA 2024 literary…
highlight in the Sunday Times, BBC, Grazia, Dazed, Sunday Express, GQ, i-D, Stylist, Bookseller and Literary Friction, and an Elle Collective Book Club pick'Clever, witty and thought-provoking'KATE MOSSE, author of The Ghost Ship'Make room on your bookshelves for a new classic'MAX PORTER, author of Shy'As electric, charming, whimsical and strange as its ripped-from-history cast'EMILY HENRY, author of Happy Place'Thought-provoking and horribly clever - but it also made me laugh out loud'ALICE WINN, author of In Memoriam'Funny, moving, original, intelligent, beautifully written and with a thunderous plot'NATHAN FILER, author of The Shock of the Fall'Outrageously brilliant'ELEANOR CATTON, author of Birnam Wood 'A feast of a novel - singular, alarming and (above all) incredibly sexy'JULIA ARMFIELD, author of Our Wives Under the Sea'A weird, kind, clever, heartsick little time bomb of a book'FRANCIS SPUFFORD, author of Golden Hill'You'll want to fall in love with these characters over and over again'DIANA REID, author of Love & VirtueA BOY MEETS A GIRL. THE PAST MEETS THE FUTURE. A FINGER MEETS A TRIGGER. THE BEGINNING MEETS THE END. ENGLAND IS FOREVER. ENGLAND MUST FALL.In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering 'expats' from across history to test the limits of time-travel.Her role is to work as a 'bridge': living with, assisting and monitoring the expat known as '1847' - Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin's doomed expedition to the Arctic, so he's a little disoriented to find himself alive and surrounded by outlandish concepts such as 'washing machine', 'Spotify' and 'the collapse of the British Empire'. With an appetite for discovery and a seven-a-day cigarette habit, he soon adjusts; and during a long, sultry summer he and his bridge move from awkwardness to genuine friendship, to something more.But as the true shape of the project that brought them together begins to emerge, Gore and the bridge are forced to confront their past choices and imagined futures. Can love triumph over the structures and histories that have shaped them? And how do you defy history when history is living in your house?The Takedown
Par Lily Chu. 2024
DEE KWAN'S FIVE EASY STEPS TO WIN THE DAY AND GET THE GUY:STEP ONE: Meet Mr. Perfect. Flirt. Daydream. Hope.…
STEP TWO: Discover he's secretly the son of your uber-problematic new fashion industry boss. STEP THREE: Realize your uber-problematic new boss is seriously, actually a problem. STEP FOUR: Team up with Mr. Perfect in a dizzying corporate coup like something out of a glamorous Old Hollywood movie. (Costume changes! Impulsive Parisian jaunts! Mr. Perfect being, well, perfect!) STEP FIVE: Win at everything and take over the whole dang world."Hilarious and relatable." —TALIA HIBBERT, USA Today bestselling author for The Stand-InFor Dee Kwan, every day is the perfect day. No, really. She has a house she loves, a job she adores, and a ridiculously attractive "nemesis" who never seems to mind when she wins their favorite online game. How can life possibly get better? (It can't, obviously. It can only get much, much worse.)Soon Dee is forced to share her adorably cozy home with her parents and prickly estranged grandmother. Then she's tossed into the deep end, tasked with cleaning up a scandal for intimidatingly chic luxury fashion firm Celeste. If that weren't enough, she discovers her hot-nemesis works there, too…and Teddy is nothing like the man she thought she knew.Before she can cry foul, Teddy comes clean about his double life: he's the heir to the CEO and he needs her help to make Celeste a better place—for everyone. But that means taking down the old guard—including his father—intent on standing in their way. Now in the center of a dizzying corporate coup, Dee is forced to decide whether she's ready to stop watching the world through rose-colored glasses and instead face the truth: about herself, about her feelings for Teddy, and about what she's willing to do to truly make a difference.MORE BOOKS BY LILY CHU:The Stand-InThe ComebackThe Only Black Girl in the Room: A Novel
Par Alex Travis. 2024
An ambitious reporter stuck doing diversity checks for her white colleagues gets her big break in this compelling debut novel…
perfect for fans of Jayne Allen, Jasmine Guillory, and Zakiya Dalila Harris.Genevieve Francis, a 25-year-old Black reporter, assumed she&’d go into her fourth year at her newspaper job with a bigger story than the latest seasonal ice cream flavor. Instead, she&’s relegated to doing copyedits and sensitivity reads on the articles her white colleagues write. So when Gen finally gets the opportunity to cover a prominent CEO&’s gala, she leaps at the chance—this will be her biggest assignment to date. The only problem: The CEO is her ex, Jude, whose marriage proposal she publicly rejected four years prior.Following their awkward run-in, Jude personally requests Gen to write the first-ever authorized profile of him. The potential for scandal, if anyone digs into their past, is high, but Gen decides to risk it—if she proves herself with this profile, it could jumpstart her dream of writing articles centered on Black voices. But between the racist backlash from her colleagues and her conflicting feelings toward her ex, Gen soon realizes she&’s in way over her head. And it may be more than just her career on the line. Timely and thoughtful, this energetic debut explores what it means to believe in your future when everyone and everything is working against you.América del Norte
Par Nicolás Medina Mora. 2024
Moving between New York City, Mexico City, and Iowa City, a young member of the Mexican elite sees his life…
splinter in a centuries-spanning debut that blends the Latin American traditions of Roberto Bolaño and Fernanda Melchor with the autofiction of US writers like Ben Lerner and Teju Cole.Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in the University of Iowa&’s MFA program.But Sebastián&’s life is shaken by the Trump administration&’s restrictions on immigrants, his mother&’s terminal cancer, the cracks in his relationship, and his father&’s forced resignation at the hands of Mexico&’s new president. As he struggles through the Trump and López Obrador years, Sebastián must confront his father&’s role in the Mexican drug war and navigate his whiteness in Mexican contexts even as he is often perceived as a person of color in the US. As he does so, the novel moves through centuries of Mexican literary history, from the 17th century letters of a peevishly polymathic Spanish colonizer to the contemporary packaging of Mexican writers for a US audience.Split between the US and Mexico, this stunning debut explores whiteness, power, immigration, and the history of Mexican literature, to wrestle with the contradictory relationship between two countries bound by geography and torn apart by politics.The Ministry of Time: One of the Observer's Debut Novels of 2024
Par Kaliane Bradley. 2024
The Time Traveller's Wife meets David Mitchell meets Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow meets Kate & Leopold in this debut…
novel from an award-winning writer.There are several ways to tell a story.A boy meets a girl. The past meets the future. A finger meets a trigger. The beginning meets the end. England is forever; England must fall.A civil servant starts working as a 'bridge' - a liaison, helpmeet and housemate - in an experimental project that brings expatriates from the past into the twenty-first century. This is a science-fiction story.In a London safehouse in the 2020s, a disorientated Victorian polar explorer chain smokes while listening to Spotify and learning about political correctness. This is a comedy.During a long, sultry summer - as the shadows around them grow long and dangerous - two people fall in love, against all odds. This is a romance.The Ministry of Time is a novel about Commander Graham Gore (R.N. c.1809-c.1847) and a woman known only as the bridge. As their relationship turns from the strictly professional into something more and uneasy truths begin to emerge, they are forced to face the reality of the project that brought them together. Can love triumph over the structures and histories that shape them? (P)2024 Hodder & Stoughton LimitedTroubled Waters
Par Mary Annaïse Heglar. 2024
In this intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother come to terms with what it means to…
heal when the world is on your shoulders.The world is burning, and Corinne will do anything to put out the flames. After her brother died aboard an oil boat on the Mississippi River in 2013, Corrine awakened to the realities of climate change and its perpetrators. Now, a year later, she finds herself trapped in a lonely cycle of mourning both her brother and the very planet she stands on. She&’s convinced that in order to save her future, she has to make sure that her brother&’s life meant something. But in the act of honoring her brother&’s spirit, she resurrects family ghosts she knows little about—ghosts her grandmother Cora knows intimately.Cora&’s ghosts have followed her from her days as a child desegregating schools in 1950s Nashville to her new life as a mother, grandmother, and teacher in Mississippi. As a child of the Civil Rights movement, she&’s done her best to keep those specters away from her granddaughter. She faced those demons, she reasons to herself, so that Corinne would never know they existed. Cora knows what it feels like to carry the weight of the world—and that it can crush you.When Corrine&’s plan to stage a dramatic act of resistance peels back the scabs of her family wounds and puts her safety in jeopardy, both grandmother and granddaughter must bring their secrets into the light to find a path to healing and wholeness.In heartfelt, lyrical prose based on her own family&’s history, Mary Annaïse Heglar weaves an unforgettable story of the climate crisis, Black resistance, and the enduring power of love.Perfect for fans of Jesmyn Ward, Yaa Gyasi, and Tayari JonesStand-alone novelBook length: 84,000 wordsIncludes discussion questions for book clubsDragonfruit
Par Makiia Lucier. 2024
From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythology. In the old tales, it is…
written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person’s greatest sorrow. But as with all things that offer hope when hope had gone, the tale came with a warning.Every wish demands a price.Hanalei of Tamarind is the cherished daughter of an old island family. But when her father steals a seadragon egg meant for an ailing princess, she is forced into a life of exile. In the years that follow, Hanalei finds solace in studying the majestic seadragons that roam the Nominomi Sea. Until, one day, an encounter with a female dragon offers her what she desires most. A chance to return home, and to right a terrible wrong.Samahtitamahenele, Sam, is the last remaining prince of Tamarind. But he can never inherit the throne, for Tamarind is a matriarchal society. With his mother ill and his grandmother nearing the end of her reign. Sam is left with two choices: to marry, or to find a cure for the sickness that has plagued his mother for ten long years. When a childhood companion returns from exile, she brings with her something he has not felt in a very long time-hope.But Hanalei and Sam are not the only ones searching for the dragonfruit. And as they battle enemies both near and far, there is another danger they cannot escape…that of the dragonfruit itself.Burning Season (Alayna Curry #1)
Par Kiki Swinson. 2023
National bestselling author Kiki Swinson's novels set it off with killer plot twists, merciless characters—and an unsparing portrayal of Southern…
struggling, lying, betraying . . . and dying. Now everything is on the line as a female firefighter desperate for money gets caught up in a man-made disaster . . .Set your schemes . . . A volunteer Virginia Beach firefighter, Alayna Curry faces death every day—and is proud to carry on her retired father's legacy. But with cash always tight and her long-time boyfriend Levi pressuring her to give up what she loves to make more money, she knows she needs more cash flow to stay afloat. . .Set your traps . . . All Alayna has to do is keep quiet about a scheme to burn down buildings for insurance-hungry &“clients.&” And for a while she&’s on fire from the rush, making insane cash—and finding new passion in all the wrong places. But when the money suddenly stops rolling in—and one &“client&” after another pushes back against the deal—Alayna and the rest of the crew stop watching out for each other and start fighting for their lives . . .Set your life on fire . . . Now with the cops turning up the heat and every firefighter for themselves, Alayna must walk an impossible line to get out from under. But between betrayal, secrets, and broken duty, will what loyalty she has left be the one thing that burns her life to the ground for good?