Check out these highly anticipated May releases featuring fiction and nonfiction titles. Click on the title to request a copy or get your name on the waitlist. Don’t forget to watch for more featured releases next month!
Fiction
Holly Black debuts her first adult fantasy book about a world of shadow magic. For a cost, shadows can be altered for beauty or power, but the alterations take hours or days off your life. In this magical world, Charlie Hall is a bartender with a side hustle as a low-level con artist. When a figure from her past returns, Charlie is dragged into the magical underground market for shadow trading in this new modern dark fantasy series.
Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate to be a star. Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, she knows how dangerous the movie business is and how limited the roles are for a Chinese American girl from Hungarian Hill. The studios want to own everything from her face to her name to the women she loves, and they run on a system of bargains made in blood and ancient magic, powered by the endless sacrifice of unlucky starlets like her. But she doesn't care-she’d rather play a monster than a maid.
It’s been five years since the accident that
killed the love of Feyi’s life and she’s
almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio, and sharing an apartment with her best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease
back into the dating scene. An encounter
at a party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined, but her new relationship might be sabotaged by the thrill Feyi feels every time she
locks eyes with the one person in the house who is most definitely off-limits.
Nonfiction
For millennia the location of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe – and extend their colonial empires.
The National Book Award-winning nature writer, novelist and environmentalist has been sorely missed since his death in 2020. His final work, a collection of essays that includes five pieces that were never published, is a moving reminder of this literary giant’s legacy. As Lopez takes readers along with him to California, New York, Oregon, Antarctica and beyond, their attention will be drawn over and over again to small details of natural beauty that Lopez was famous for noticing.
We can only imagine what it’s like growing up in the spotlight and not being able to be your true self at all times, but why does it always take a tragic moment to finally cause us to make overdue changes? Part memoir, part confession and part cautionary tale, Colton Haynes pulls back the curtain on his life and career, revealing the incredible highs and devastating lows. From his unorthodox childhood in a small Kansas town, to coming to terms with his sexuality, he keeps nothing back.
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