More New Book Deals of NoteAmong this week’s offerings are two new novels by
Saou Ichikawa, whose
Hunchback was longlisted for the International Booker and National Book Award;
Alexandra F. Coego’s debut,
Confessions, in which a struggling young woman “returns to her hometown for the summer and begins a secret affair with a man from her past”; and
Hadeer Elsbai’s horror novella,
You Just Have to Ask Me, following a “bride who is abandoned at the altar by her groom for his ex-girlfriend.”
The Latest in Children’s and YA DealsNew projects this week include
Fool Me Twice by
Amy Noelle Parks, a YA rom-com caper in which a teen follows in her mother’s vigilante footsteps to take down a corrupt tech company, while teaming up with the boy who once broke her heart;
Royal Person Fiction by
Amanda DeWitt and
Maria Ingrande Mora, an academic rivals-to-queerplatonic besties YA fantasy-comedy, following the daughter of the legendary heroes who united a kingdom and the son of the notorious villain who opposed them, as they hatch a fake dating scheme to separate themselves from their parents’ legacies; and
Summer in Free Fall by
Elliott Wiltrout, a debut queer YA romance about two teens who must work together to save their beloved beachfront amusement park from a money-hungry developer.
Metropolitan Lands Khalil’s Detention Memoir
