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Jo Alvarez has one chance to prove she belongs: finish an elite wilderness navigation race and keep the schola

adult · Supernatural fiction

A Door Left Open

Mara Vale came back to Baltimore to sell her late aunt's locksmith shop, pay the debts, and leave before the b

young_adult · family fiction

A List of People Who Owe Me Nothing

by WILLIAM G BOND

When a rent increase lands at her family's St

Small-business crime thriller · Neighborhood suspense

The Barber Shop Book

In a Philadelphia barbershop, people talk when they have nowhere else to put the truth.

juvenile · mystery

The Borrowed Badge Mystery

by FREDDY MELO-LEDESMA

When the school kindness badge vanishes from its hook, ten-year-old hallway helper Anwar knows exactly who wil

Medical suspense · Workplace gothic thriller

The Last Clean Room

Hana Okafor works in the part of the hospital nobody notices unless something goes wrong

adult · Heist/caper

The Auction of Lost Days

When Cleveland puts a dead woman's storage unit on the auction block, former municipal auctioneer Marla Vane r

School suspense · Community legal drama

The Classroom Door

Yvette Halloway teaches adults who come to class after work, after daycare pickup, and after long rides across

Mystery thriller · Workplace suspense and found-family drama

The Last Checkout

Tessa Crane only has to survive one more week as night manager of a closing discount grocery store in a dying

young_adult · fantasy

The Borrowed Crown of Marrow Street

A story waiting to be discovered.

Small-business mystery thriller · Community suspense

The Corner Pharmacy

Damaris Holt has spent decades earning the trust of her Cleveland neighborhood, one prescription and one hard

Legal suspense · Domestic and institutional thriller

The Intake List

A shelter placement supervisor notices that families returning from “safe” housing all carry the same strange,

adult · Thriller

The Price of a Clear Day

At 5:42 in the morning, air-quality modeler Mina Park watches Long Beach's public dashboard turn green while a

Romantic Mystery

A Chorus of Glass

by Josh A Rebber

When sound becomes evidence, the past has nowhere left to hide.

Small-business suspense · Neighborhood crime

The Corner Store Credit

Evaristo Lane has kept his Newark corner store alive through bad winters, thin margins, and favors written in

Urban mystery · Romantic suspense

The Girl in Apartment 9B

Lena Ortiz becomes superintendent of a Brooklyn apartment building after her divorce

young_adult · contemporary romance

The Houseboat Exchange

When seventeen-year-old Priya Shah inherits her grandmother’s battered houseboat in a floating marina outside

adult · Rescue fiction

The Relay of Other People

When a rail-dispatch trainer discovers that an automated evacuation system has erased whole communities from i

Contemporary suspense · Social-services crime thriller

The Courtesy Call

Nadège Bellamy has spent years calming people down

Contemporary Art Mystery

The Garden Design

by Josh A Rebber

Who gets remembered as a genius?

young_adult · Contemporary family fiction

The Last Good Apology

Sixteen-year-old Dani Flores can write an apology for almost anyone

Contemporary mystery thriller · Civic suspense

The Library Card Index

Odelia Finch has spent thirty years making the library feel safe, useful, and boring

adult · Contemporary family fiction

The Shape of a Rival

Six weeks before a major Chicago museum opens its exhibition on women erased from American architecture, Mira

Gothic suspense · Romantic mystery

A Wedding in Blackwater

June Bell plans weddings at Blackwater House, a restored river hotel known for candlelit ceremonies and whispe

Workplace Romantic Suspense

The Borrowed Blueprint

by Josh A Rebber

A beautiful object can still carry a dangerous secret.

Psychological social suspense · Community mystery

The Listening Circle

At a nonprofit counseling center in St

adult · Transformation fiction

The Shape of a Second Life

Nine weeks after a stroke changes her speech and balance, Mara Ellison returns to the Denver documentary studi

young_adult · Speculative fiction

Under the Stadium, the River

When a waterlogged school trophy shows fifteen-year-old Amaya Torres her apartment building underwater, she as

adult · Historical fiction

The Country of Borrowed Names

by ROLAND HERNANDEZ

When a county clerk marks a box of wartime property files for destruction, court translator Aya Mori has only

juvenile · family conflict

The House of Four Kitchens

by SIRE REPOLIO

Leena Patel likes lists because lists stay where you put them

adult · Heist/caper

A Favor in Blue Water

by NOAH BRIA FISH

When marine-insurance adjuster Nora Voss finds a claim photograph showing a clean rectangular absence behind t

young_adult · Historical fantasy

A Crown for the Uncounted

by CYNTHIA HOWARD

When a census ledger burns through its lock and names seventeen-year-old courier Elian Rusk as heir, she becom

juvenile · Arts ambition

The Featherweight Engineers

by JENNIFER ROE

When ten-year-old Celeste Reyes sees a warbler strike the glass wall of St

adult · Competition Fiction

The Competition of Ordinary Things

by CLARA ADKINS

Cal Merritt can hear the difference between a bad belt and a dying motor

juvenile · speculative dilemma

A Pocketful of Unfinished Stars

by BARRY D BLAGMON

When twelve-year-old Leo Bell makes a jar of tiny stars glow, he thinks he has found the perfect science-fair

young_adult · Contemporary romance

The Atlas of Almost Here

by CALVIN THORNTON

When sixteen-year-old Rowan finds a postcard hidden in a dead bouquet at the flower shop where she works, it p

young_adult · Sports ambition

A Match for the Unready

by JOHN MAYS-THOMPSON

On a televised junior-tennis point in Phoenix, sixteen-year-old Ren freezes

juvenile · transformation fantasy

A Pocketful of Comets

by MAYLENE BOONE

When a summer storm sends tiny blue comets into the drains beneath Mina's Queens apartment building, ten-year-

adult · Contemporary romance

A House for the Living

by ERIC DILL

When divorce mediator Lena Ward inherits a rain-worn Craftsman in Eugene, Oregon, she expects a final piece of

young_adult · Fantasy adventure

The Atlas of Almost Home

by DEBORAH HALL

Anika opens her father’s map and finds the library basement door leading somewhere outside the known city grid

juvenile · sports/arts ambition

A Team for the Unfinished Game

by DIJON AMMONS

When twelve-year-old Rowan's wheelchair basketball club loses its gym time to a glossy private-academy showcas

adult · Speculative fiction

A House That Moves Slowly

by ALISHA TERUEL

When public defender Mara LeBlanc inherits her grandmother's raised house, she expects title trouble, flood da

adult · Contemporary romance

A Borrowed Season of Rain

by HEATHER ABELL

When a drought emergency shuts off the well at her family's Sonoma County vineyard, water-rights attorney Mara

young_adult · Contemporary family fiction

A Place to Put the Storm

by SAMANTHA JACKSON

After a storm destroys her family’s coastal South Carolina motel, seventeen-year-old Jo expects the school gym

juvenile · Transformation fantasy

A Pocketful of Sunday

by BILLIE A THOMPSON

A story waiting to be discovered.

young_adult · science fiction

A Little Less Than Gravity

by CHRISTOPHER COLLINS

A story waiting to be discovered.

adult · Contemporary literary-commercial fiction

A Practice of Leaving

by EMANN DAVIS

Ninety days before North Star Public Radio goes dark, senior producer Mara Ellison is handed the closure memo

juvenile · Speculative wonder

The Boy Who Borrowed a Whale Song

by ARNEETUS PAYNE

Ten-year-old Jalen knows the sounds of the Oregon harbor better than almost anyone: buoy bells, gull cries, bo

juvenile · competition

A Team Called Maybe

by ELLA TALBERT

A story waiting to be discovered.

young_adult · Fantasy romance

A Kingdom Built for Leaving

by MARCOS ROJAS

When seventeen-year-old Elian finds a child she once escorted listed in a flood ledger beside a village that h

adult · Contemporary speculative fiction

A Brief History of Fire Escapes

by NAOMI GONZALEZ

When fire-safety inspector Mira Vale touches the corroded escape behind a West Side Chicago apartment building

adult · Adventure fiction

Against the Current

by DAISY JENKINS

When dead fish clog the intake screen of Mara Ledoux's towboat, she knows the Mississippi is carrying more tha

young_adult · Contemporary family fiction

A Place for the Unfinished

by KATHY BRADY

A contemporary young adult novel about sisters, care, and a future that cannot be postponed.

juvenile · family conflict

A Seat for the Stray Dog

by TIFFANY MACKS

When ten-year-old Priya finds a shaggy dog asleep on Chicago's number 18 bus, she knows he needs help

adult · Courtroom drama

A Different Kind of Witness

by ASHANTI GREENE

When forensic acoustician Claire Voss finds a twelve-minute gap in a workplace recording, the problem is not a

young_adult · heist/caper

A Map of Borrowed Faces

by TAMMY STEINMAN

When seventeen-year-old transit-sign painter Nia sees her missing mother's face on a campaign poster, she know

young_adult · Contemporary romance

A Different Kind of Dare

by DAISY MCNUER

Mae Chen has spent graduation week doing what she does best: noticing the rules everyone else pretends not to

juvenile · social comedy

The Day the Buses Swapped Names

by LOMBARD MARTINEZ

When a software update gives several Houston school buses the wrong route names, twelve-year-old Omar is blame

adult · Survival fiction

The Fireline Agreement

by RICHARD GROVE JR

At the county wildfire command post, logistics coordinator Mara Vance discovers that the official evacuation m

juvenile · social comedy

A Hundred Ways to Cross the Gym

by BRENDA FOWLER

When a folding-chair collision turns lunch transition into chaos, eleven-year-old Priya Patel thinks she knows

young_adult · Contemporary family fiction

Borrowed Summer House

by TOSHA ELLENBURG

Priya knows every failing hinge, leaky pipe, and booking deadline at her grandmother's Finger Lakes rental hou

adult · Speculative fiction

A Manual for Public Weather

by LENA BURRELL

When a private weather platform paints her New Orleans neighborhood red, municipal climate auditor Mara Velez

adult · Contemporary upmarket fiction

A House With Open Windows

by HASSAN BAKKAR

When Mara Keane inherits a vast Victorian house in Buffalo, she expects paperwork, taxes, and a difficult sale

juvenile · rescue adventure

A Door for the Missing Birds

by OLGA MARTINEZ

Eleven-year-old Nola Voss knows the coastal marsh behind her New Jersey town by its tide lines, bird calls, an

young_adult · horror

How to Keep a Ghost from Moving In

by JODY CONNERS

Sixteen-year-old Priya Rao knows how to keep an old apartment building running: reset the boiler, unjam a lock

adult · Speculative dilemma

A Different Kind of Weather

by NADIA WATSON

When atmospheric engineer Mara Voss discovers that the celebrated Meridian system does not stop hurricanes but

young_adult · Speculative dilemma

A League of Their Own Weather

by LINDA LUBS

Sixteen-year-old Keira Vale can read a weather sensor the way other people read a mood

juvenile · family conflict

The Borrowed Birthday

by DARLING CONTES

Ten-year-old Bea knows how to make a list, find a missing chair, and get a whole apartment building moving in

juvenile · supernatural threat

A Door for the Winter Birds

by TERRY LEWIS

When the first snow quiets Buffalo, nine-year-old Willa finds a tiny door beneath the eaves of her family’s ne

adult · historical fiction

A Manual for Quiet Fires

by DONNA CERDA

In 1918 Chicago, a small cutting-room fire leaves a seamstress burned and an industrial chemist with a questio

young_adult · Historical fiction

A Choir for the Uncounted

by MILDRED BYRD

In 1955 New Orleans, sixteen-year-old Celeste knows how to hold a choir together: count the beats, catch a mis

adult · Contemporary romance

A Practical Mercy

by NORMAN JONES

When a Denver hospital prepares to discharge Elias Vale, two contradictory signatures turn a routine transitio

juvenile · rivalry

A Rival for the Rainy-Day Club

by MARQUEITA BIAGAS

When Portland rain traps recess indoors for the third week in a row, eleven-year-old Tessa turns cardboard, we

young_adult · Historical fantasy

A Crown for the Uninvited

by PAMELA SWAIN

Seventeen-year-old Elsie Vale can mend almost anything made of thread, but the royal cloak on her worktable re