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NOT QUITE A GHOST Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award

Anne Ursu's NOT QUITE A GHOST was nominated for the 2025 Bram Stoker Award.

The Chicago Review of Books Names THE GLOOMY GIRL VARIETY SHOW a Most Anticipated Book of 2025

“I know it’s early to call it, but I’m certain Freda Epum’s debut The Gloomy Girl Variety Show will be one of the most important books published this year. Epum examines intersectional identities of being Black, disabled, female, and a first generation Nigerian American through an inventive and brilliant book structured as a search for the safety one can find in home.”

Publisher's Weekly Reviews THE LOVE WE FOUND

“Ten years after the heartbreaking events of bestseller Santopolo’s The Light We Lost, Lucy Carter Maxwell gets a second chance at life and love in this tear-jerking romance... Santopolo’s layered storytelling brings Lucy’s internal conflict to life while offering the perfect blend of heartache and hope. Readers should have tissues at the ready."

CIRCA Is One of Electric Literature's Books by Indian Diaspora Authors You Should be Reading

"In this lyrical coming of age novel, which follows Laskar’s acclaimed The Atlas of Reds and Blues, a young Indian American teenager feels caught between the traditional Bengali culture inside her house and the culture of the American South outside its doors...When a tragedy occurs on the cusp of adulthood, grief soaks into everything, altering the choices they make and the people they might otherwise have become. Told in second person, the narrative follows the evolution of the friends’ relationship."

THE ASTROCHIMPS Is One of Booklist's Top 10 Sci-Tech for Youth in 2024

"Cusick’s riveting and reverent history, packed with fascinating details and archival photos, focuses on often-forgotten players in the Space Race: chimpanzees, aka America’s first astronauts."