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My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones’s upcoming novel follows Jade, a young woman living on the fringes of a rapidly gentrifying lake town with a troubled family life. A social outcast, Jade takes solace from what seems like an unlikely source: horror movies– and Jade knows them all. But nothing can prepare her for the sudden violence that starts overtaking the town. It’s an homage to the horror genre, but it’s also so much more, with its taking on of trauma, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification.

Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood

This collection of stories by Black male and nonbinary authors is edited (and features work from) bestselling author Kwame Mbalia (Tristan Strong series) and celebrates Black boyhood, with all its ups, downs, growing pains and exciting moments (especially those joyful ups). Contributors include B.B. Alston, Jason Reynolds, Julian Winters and many, many more.

How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Moon Fuentez think it’s her fate to be a side character, lost in the background. But all that changes when she takes on an exciting new job working on a bus of touring influencers. And her new bunkmate, Santiago, is her also new enemy, totally obnoxious– but also someone Moon can’t help but be drawn to. Gilliland’s YA romance follows Moon on a summer road trip she’ll never forget, one where she learns not just about love, but about herself and her place in the universe.

Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America, edited by Margarita Longoria

This mixed media anthology is made up of twenty essays, poems, short stories and comics, all by Mexican American voices on their Mexican American experience, from what their cultural identity means to them to the struggles they’ve faced and the joy they’ve experienced.

Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis

Lewis’s debut novel follows Katrell, a girl whose problem isn’t that she can summon the dead, it’s that it hasn’t been paying the bills. Not only that, but the world from beyond is warning Katrell to stop interfering with them. But when her next summoning accidentally raises someone from the dead, Katrell realizes she might be able to turn her power into a lucrative business.