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* Tell Jonathan Buckley. New Directions, $14.95 trade paper(160p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3791-8 This mesmerizing page-turner from Buckley (Live; Live; Live) takes the form of a transcribed interview with a woman employed [...]

* The Understory Sanung Sangsuk, trans, from the Thai by Mui Poopoksakul. Deep Vellum, $17.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-6460-5275-2 The evocative latest from Sangsuk (White Shadow) concerns magic, storytelling, [...]

It Watches in the Dark (Eek! #1) Jeff Strand. Sourcebooks Young Readers, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-7282-7759-2; $8.99 paper ISBN 978-1-7282-7762-2 When their father is injured during a rafting trip meant [...]

The Fall Will Probably Kill You! Brian McMahon. Some OtherTime, $16.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 979-8-9879181-0-4 McMahon (Seaview Road) delivers an ambitious and thought-provoking if unwieldy campus novel wrapped in [...]

The Long Swim Terese Svoboda. Univ. of Massachusetts, $19.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-62534-807-4 In these often exquisite if occasionally myopic stories from Svoboda (Dog on Fire), women grapple with [...]

* The Summer She Went Missing Chelsea Ichaso. Sourcebooks Fire, $11.99 paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-728251-09-7 This tautly paced thriller by Ichaso (They're Watching You) follows small-town secrets to a deadly [...]

Last One to Die Cynthia Murphy. Delacorte, $12.99 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-593705-54-4 While attending a six-week drama course in London, Irish 16-year-old Niamh struggles to stay one step ahead of [...]

Manila Takes Manhattan Carla De Guzman. Afterglow, $12.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-335-04160-9 Cultures attract and conflict in this raunchy rom-com from De Guzman (Blooming Love). Music producer Raymond "Mon" [...]

Right on Cue Falon Ballard. Putnam, $18 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-71290-0 Ballard (Just My Type) serves up a feisty and fast-paced Hollywood fantasy in this addictive contemporary. Emmy Harper, [...]

These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart Izzy Wasserstein. Tachyon, $15.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-61696-412-2 A queer anarchist commune in near-future Kansas City is threatened by corporate espionage in this [...]

The Palisades Gail Lynn Hanson. Slippery Fish, $16.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 979-8-9882874-0-7 Hanson debuts with an impressive and suspenseful tale of the thorny relationship between two unusual women. In [...]

The Mystery Writer Sulari Gentill. Poisoned Pen, $16.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-72828-518-4 Gentill (The Woman in the Library) nimbly balances the plausible with the outlandish in this sly thriller [...]

Next Stop Debbie Fong. Random House Graphic, $21.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-5934-2520-6; $13.99 paper ISBN 978-0-593-42518-3 To take her mind off changing family dynamics, middle schooler Pia Xing goes on a [...]

Pizza for Your Soul: My Sicilian Family Recipes Salvatore Mandreucci. Post Hill, $16.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-63758-991-5 TikTok creator Mandreucci (better known as "Sally Slices") debuts with a personable [...]

Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War Volodymyr Ishchenko. Verso, $19.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-804-29554-0 In this pugnacious debut treatise, sociologist Ishchenko accuses Ukrainian "national-liberal intellectuals" of using [...]

I Hate Old Music, Too: How Familiarity and Overuse Killed Our Favorite Music Dave Thompson. Backbeat, $24.95 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-1-4930-7351-1 Muisc critic Thompson (/ Hate New Musk) issues [...]

The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation David Baker. The Experiment, $16.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-891-01134-4 In this amusing romp, science historian Baker (The [...]

* Sex, Lies, and Sensibility Nikki Payne. Berkley, $18 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-593-44096-4 Payne's sparkling and sultry latest diverse Jane Austen adaptation (her Pride and Protest) puts a refreshing [...]

The Catch Amy Lea. Berkley, $18 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-33661-8 Lea tugs the heart strings in her final Influencer romance (after ExesandO's). Boston fashion influencer Melanie "Mel" Karlsen may [...]

Your Shadow Half Remains Sunny Moraine. Nightfire, $16.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-250-89220-1 Moraine (Casting the Bones) sets this sharp, tension-filled psychological thriller in a world stricken by a strange [...]

The Rain Artist Claire Rudy Foster. Moonstruck, $19 trade paper (268p) ISBN 979-8-9888154-0-2 With this slim and uneven blend of dystopian, neo-noir, and weird fiction, Foster (Shine of the Ever) [...]

A Woman of Pleasure Kiyoko Murato, trans, from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter. Counterpoint, $17.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-6400-9579-3 Murato's chilling and poignant Englishlanguage debut centers on a [...]

Hamlet Is Not OK R.A. Sprat. Penguin, $15.99 paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-377927-8 Sixteen-year-old Selby Michaels isn't a reader, something that her bookish family--which also owns the town's local bookstore--has never [...]

The Many Deaths of Barnaby James Brian Nathanson, Neil Gibson, and Piotr Kowalski. Dark Horse, $19.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-5067-4013-3 This perverse fairy tale from Twisted Comics publisher Gibson [...]

Girl Abroad Elle Kennedy. Bloom, $16.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-72829-979-2 Bestseller Kennedy (The Graham Effect) delivers an angsty and addictive new adult romance. Abby Bly, 1 9, rhe only [...]

Ghost Pains Jessi Jezewska Stevens. And Other Stories, $19.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-913505-84-4 Stevens (The Visitors) returns with a skillful and expansive collection ranging from Nabokovian confessions to fabulist [...]

Little Boy Lost: A Story of Hope and Redemption, Set Amidst the Backdrop of a Mother's Suicide David W. Peters. 12 West Circle, $16.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 979-8-9888683-0-9 In [...]

Studio of the Voice Marcia Aldrich. Wandering Aengus, $20 trade paper (208p) ISBN 979-8-218-20486-0 Aldrich (Edge), a creative writing professor at Michigan State University, presents intense personal essays in this [...]

How to End a Love Story Yulin Kuang. Avon, $18.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-331068-1 Screenwriter Kuang's debut marvelously probes the lingering effects of grief and guilt while offering readers [...]

Blood of Gods Simon A.G. Spencer. Brain Lag, $18.99 trade paper (392p) ISBN 978-1-998795-15-4 Spencer's jam-packed sequel to 2022's Shadows of Slavery successfully juggles multiple plotlines. Marissa Rhapsody, a former [...]

About Uncle Rebecca Gisler, trans, from the French by Jordan Stump. Two Lines, $16.95 trade paper (148p) ISBN 978-1-949641-55-4 The droll and occasionally disturbing debut from Gisler features an unlikely [...]

The Case of the Golden Bone (Detective Sweet Pea #1) Sara Varan. First Second, $22.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-250-23637-1; $14.99 paper ISBN 978-1-250-34840-1 Blue-hued pooch Sweet Pea lives a carefree life [...]

Wolfpitch Balazs Lorinczi.Top Shelf, $19.99 paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-603-09539-6 A bass-playing werewolf with a temper, a milkshake-loving ghost keyboardist, and a disgruntled human drummer team up to compete in a [...]

The Tale of a Thousand Faces (Rune #1) Carlos Sanchez. Flying Eye, $15.99 paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-83874-121-1 After fleeing from bullies at their orphanage in Little Valley, besties Chiri and [...]

Empowered to Repair: Becoming People Who Mend Broken Systems and Heal Our Communities Brenda Salter McNeil. Brazos, $19.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-58743-448-8 McNeil (Becoming Brave), an associate professor of [...]

Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo. Univ. of Arizona, $26.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-8165-5331-0 In this dry monograph, Quintana-Vallejo (Children of Globalization), an English professor [...]

The Pain Project: A Couple's Story of Confronting Chronic Pain Kara Stanley, with Simon Paradis. Greystone, $19.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-77164-840-0 Stanley's 2015 memoir, Fallen, chronicled how she and [...]

* Exile in Guyville Amy Lee Lillard. BOA Editions, $18 trade paper (138p) ISBN 978-1-960145-20-8 Each of these six enthralling speculative shorts from Lillard {Dig Me Out) explores female agency [...]

College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight Shawn Cohen. Sourcebooks, $17.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-7282-7299-3 Former Westchester, N.Y., Journal News crime [...]

Earls Trip Jenny Holiday. Kensington, $17.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4967-4507-1 Holiday (Canadian Boyfriend) makes the playfully anachronistic tone clear from the very first line of this fun Regency series [...]

Savor It Tarah DeWitt. Griffin, $18 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-32942-4 DeWitt (Funny Feelings) pairs a smalltown teacher with a burned-out chef from the big city in this thoroughly enjoyable [...]

Seven Summers Paige Toon. Putnam, $18 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-593-54435-8 This heart-wrenching romance from Toon (Only Love Can Hurt Like This) jumps between seven summers in the life of [...]

Second Night Stand Karelia and Fay Stetz-Waters. Forever, $16.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-5387-5611-9 Karelia Stetz-Waters (Behind the Scenes) and her wife, debut author Fay Stetz-Waters, lay out their mission [...]

The Belt Dale E. Lehman. Red Tales, $14.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-958906-04-0 In this jam-packed science fiction thriller from Lehman (The Realm of Tiny Giants), ambitious Mars colony exobiologist [...]

* Look on the Bright Side Kristan Higgins. Berkley, $19 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-593-54765-6 Bestseller Higgins (Pack Up the Moon) proves her mastery of the romance genre in this [...]

The Silverblood Promise James Logan. Tor, $19.99 trade paper (528p) ISBN 978-1-250-34580-6 Positioned squarely in the tradition of fantasy caper novels, the winning debut and Last Legacy series launch from [...]

* How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying Django Wexler. Orbit, $19.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-39220-4 By turning the themes of chosen-one fantasy on their head, this [...]

Still Waters Matt Goldman. Forge, $18.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-32569-3 In this brisk and enjoyable mystery from bestseller Goldman (A Good Family), estranged siblings reunite to solve their brother's [...]

The Paris Affair Maureen Marshall. Grand Central, $19.99 trade paper (412p) ISBN 978-1-5387-5780-2 A young engineer in 1880s Paris weathers romance and danger while helping to build the Eiffel Tower [...]

* Black Bell Alison C. Rollins. Copper Canyon, $22 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-55659-700-8 The astute second collection from Rollins (Library of Small Catastrophes) delivers an unsettling encounter with American [...]