I've never had a great relationship with my parents. They were so much in love, that I was almost always an afterthought. That's okay. My cousin, Kristen, always had my back... even on my birthday when everything changed.

"THE MOST SURPRISING BOOK OF THE YEAR." —ROBIN SLOANA cozy noir for fans of Knives Out!, time loops, and old-time whodunits. Private eye One the Gun and his right-hand dame Two the True Blue are on the trail of the killer of Five the No Longer Alive. But as the numbers and the clues stack up, One the Gun realizes that today is exactly like yesterday—in fact maybe actually is yesterday—and he's pretty sure that at the end of yesterday he was shot to death. It's a dilly of a pickle as time continues to loop back on itself, one murder case becomes two, and the gumshoe races against the clock to smoke out his own killer—before that killer can stop his clock for keeps. Gigi Little's noir-soaked and delightfully surreal debut pays homage to the radio classics of the forties and fifties while investigating themes of greed, sexism, and the consequences of unchecked power.

'A charming and cosy read' – The SunSisters by chance; rivals by choice. A bookish cosy fantasy about two witches uncovering dark magic in a small town, for fans of Emily Grimoire and Erin Sterling.Sisters Effie and Bonnie might both be witches, but they're worlds apart. Reserved and bookish, Effie finds solace in library corners, while Bonnie knows all about being popular. They strive to stay away from one another - a challenging task in the confines of their small hometown, Yellowbrick Grove.When their estranged Uncle Oswald draws Bonnie into a magical scheme under the guise of helping the locals, Bonnie readily agrees. But it turns out no good deed goes unpunished – Oswald's real motives are truly wicked.Within a day, Bonnie's spells start misfiring and Effie notices something sinister taking root.Can they unite to reverse this magical mishap? Or is life as they knew it over for good?

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025: Vogue, Vulture, Harper’s Bazaar, W, Bustle, Lit Hub, The Millions “Enigmatic, opalescent, so precise.” —Jia TolentinoAn intimate and candid account of one of the most romantic and revolutionary of relationships: divorceDivorce was everything for Haley Mlotek. As a child, she listened to her twice-divorced grandmother tell stories about her “husbands.” As a pre-teen, she answered the phones for her mother’s mediation and marriage counseling practice and typed out the paperwork for couples in the process of leaving each other. She grew up with the sense that divorce was an outcome to both resist and desire, an ordeal that promised something better on the other side of something bad. But when she herself went on to marry—and then divorce—the man she had been with for twelve years, suddenly, she had to reconsider her...

A Harvard student from China discovers the fraught, hidden history of the Tiananmen Square massacre in this powerful novel of protest and suppression from the National Book Award–winning author.When the Chinese premier visits Harvard, international student Pei Lulu encounters a lone protester, who will drastically change her understanding of the People's Republic and her own place in the world. For the first time, Lulu learns of the 1989 protest movement and the government’s violent response. Determined to find out more, she seeks answers from her family, who share surprising stories of their involvement, and from a formative university course based on powerful firsthand accounts.At once a compelling coming-of-age tale and a poignant tribute to the courage of activists, Looking for Tank Man keeps this tragedy alive in the public memory and warns against the dangers of authoritarian regimes.

A violinist with lots of success but a messy private life. A genius but troubled sister caught up on the far left. A girlfriend who’s not the strait-laced government secretary she appears to be. A sapphic love story about courage, sisterhood, deceit and redemption. Copenhagen, 1973. Violinist Elinor has only ever known success. As a virtuoso, her job at the Royal Symphony is a breeze, and she goes casually from girlfriend to gorgeous girlfriend. The only trouble, which Elinor tries her best to forget, is the ghost of her tragic childhood and the distance of her sister, Helene, who has been pulled into the world of far-left revolutionaries. When Elinor is chosen to play at the ball for the Queen’s ascension, her triumph seems complete. The performance is a great success, and at the palace, Elinor meets Annemarie, the secretary to the Prime Minister. Annemarie, strait-laced and brilliant but with her own tragic past, is unlike any woman Elinor has known before. For the first time in her life, Elinor falls hard. Meanwhile, Helene drifts closer to violent extremism. Desperate to hold on to her, Elinor agrees to help her sister even if it means deceiving the government worker Annemarie. Elinor’s balancing act between her two worlds becomes ever more difficult. When Helene is betrayed by her fellow revolutionaries, Elinor is forced to make a terrible choice. A choice which reveals that neither Helene nor Annemarie are what they seem.