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"For as long as seventeen-year-old apothecary Rose Allgood can remember, the towering stone Wall surrounding Noah's Valley has protected her people. No one leaves. No one fights. And no one questions why. But their paradise has been hiding its thorns. When Rose's mother becomes the Valley's first murder victim and her twin brother is swiftly condemned, she alone is searching for the real killer. Determined to find the truth, she follows a trail of...

"An unforgettable debut novel, indelible, knowing, powerful, consuming. This marks the start of a major career." --Alexander Chee, author of How To Write an Autobiographical Novel A fierce and gorgeous debut novel about a teenager who runs away from her abusive home to live in a boarding house for single women as a global financial crash threatens the people of Seoul. "It's summer 2008, and Seoul is no place for a teenage girl. While the city gets...

Tramps Like Us by Joe Westmoreland is a raw, autobiographical novel tracing Joe’s journey from an abusive childhood in Kansas City to the hedonistic queer scenes of New Orleans and San Francisco in the 1970s and early ’80s. Alongside fellow outcast Ali, Joe seeks freedom, identity, and belonging amid sex, drugs, music, and chosen family. As the AIDS crisis looms, their vibrant world darkens, but the story endures as a heartfelt tribute...

Set in Longview, Texas, during the mid-1980s, this novel follows the Anderson family, whose social influence dominates the town. Nellie Anderson and her mother, Charleigh, navigate local power structures shaped by wealth, reputation, and long-standing social divisions. Charleigh’s past experiences with exclusion and class struggle inform her determination to maintain her family’s status. When a newly arrived family unsettles established...

"Seventeen-year-old Phoebe was never interested in her birth family. But on the cusp of her high school graduation, her adoptive mother, Greta, insists on a visit to meet her biological parents and siblings. The encounter is a jolt, a revelation that derails Phoebe. With the help of her best friend Luna, Phoebe runs away--as far as their friend Patrick O'Connor's chaotic home, where she hopes to go unnoticed among his thirteen siblings. What begins...

"In Ray Nayler's speculative novel of the recent past, four teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect"-- Provided by publisher. Neriya, a young Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a biologist, has befriended a local flock of crows in her shtetl. Czeslaw is an underage Polish soldier who deserts the Red Army and runs into the freezing...

"In this story of intense friendship and grit, two down-and-out teens escape the hopelessness of their lives and chase a different future through rock climbing"-- Provided by publisher. "Dan and Tamma are two teenagers in their last year of high school in the southern Mojave Desert. One is a gifted golden child, the other a mouthy burnout. Climbing boulders in trash-strewn parking lots during cold desert nights, they seal their unique bond and dream...

"Fourteen-year-old Ida was born with a hole in her heart. Forbidden from most physical activities and considered strange by her teachers and peers, she prefers spending time alone, memorizing countries and capitals on her globe and imagining the world outside the tiny logging town of Mineral, Washington. One afternoon, in walks her cousin Elna, here to stay for a few weeks. Ida hasn't seen Elna since they were young, and she's immediately drawn to...

Over the course of a single weekend, two teenage girls are found dead in an affluent Chicago suburb. As the community responds to the deaths, Abby Rosso, a high school counselor at the girls' school, begins to question whether her son may have had undisclosed connections to them. Her concerns are shaped by her professional experience and by personal history, including a family member's past criminal conviction. As Abby investigates the circumstances...

"Sandra dies suddenly at a death conference in Nepal attended by academics and mystics. Days later, back in America, her teenage son, Trip, runs away with a man who picks him up on the side of a road. Sandra tries to get a message back to Trip through the mystics, but the mystics are distracted, and her son and the strange man set out to sea. Amie Barrodale's first novel features restless souls, Buddhist deities, divorcées in recovery programs,...