MISSING, PRESUMED DEAD d’Emma Berquist

When eighteen-year-old Lexi foresees the brutal murder of a young woman outside a club in downtown L.A., she is powerless to stop it. A haunting and atmospheric YA murder mystery tackling themes of depression, loneliness, love, and identity.

MISSING, PRESUMED DEAD
by Emma Berquist
Greenwillow, May 2019

With a touch, Lexi can sense how and when someone will die. Some say it’s a gift. But to Lexi it’s a curse—one that keeps her friendless and alone. All that changes when Lexi foresees the violent death of a young woman, Jane, outside a club. Jane doesn’t go to the afterlife quietly. Her ghost remains behind, determined to hunt down her murderer, and she needs Lexi’s help. In life, Jane was everything Lexi is not—outgoing, happy, popular. But in death, all Jane wants is revenge. Lexi will do anything to help Jane, to make up for the fact that she didn’t—couldn’t—save Jane’s life, and to keep this beautiful ghost of a girl by her side for as long as possible.
This high-concept novel is for fans of Holly Black’s
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown and Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me series.

Emma Berquist grew up in Austin, Texas. She currently lives in New Zealand with her husband. Her first novel was Devils Unto Dust.

JADE FIRE GOLD de June Tan

An epic YA fantasy about family, revenge, and forgiveness, inspired by Chinese mythology and folktales.

JADE FIRE GOLD
by June Tan
HarperTeen, October 2021

In a desert outpost of the turbulent Shi Empire, Ahn lives as a dishwasher and thief. When her magic finally manifests, she becomes the most powerful weapon in the empire, but also a target of the ruthless priests loyal to the Dragon Throne. Instead of being burnt at the stake, Ahn is saved by a mysterious priest and taken to the Imperial Palace where everyone seeks to use her powers for themselves. Meanwhile, his own family murdered and his birthright hijacked, Altan must find this new powerful girl who will be the tool for his vengeance. Altan and Ahn begin an uneasy alliance but soon, the truth and depth of Ahn’s dark powers make them both question whether they’ll be able to survive the journey, let alone restore the empire.

June Tan writes science fiction and fantasy inspired by her childhood in Singapore. She has an MA in Cinema Studies from NYU.

ABENI’S SONG de P. Djèlí Clark

The enchanting beginning of an epic West African and African Diaspora-inspired fantasy adventure for middle-grade readers about a reluctant apprentice to magic and the stolen villagers she sets out to save, by author P. Djèlí Clark, winner of the Nebula, Alex, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards.

ABENI’S SONG
by P. Djèlí Clark
Starscape/Tor, July 2023
(via The Gernert Company)

In darkness, a song can lead the way. Beware which one you listen to. On the day of the spirits festival, the old woman who lives in the forest appears in Abeni’s village with a terrible message: “You ignored my warnings. It’s too late to run. They are coming.”
The old woman hasn’t come to save them, only to collect one child as payment for her years of service and protection. When warriors with burning blades storm the village and a man with a cursed flute plays an impossibly alluring song, everyone Abeni has ever known and loved is captured and marched toward far-off ghost ships set for even more distant lands.
But not Abeni. Abeni escapes the warriors in the clutches of the old woman, magically whisked into the forest away from all she’s ever known. And there she begins her unwanted magical apprenticeship, her journey to escape the witch, and her impossible mission to bring her people home.
ABENI’S SONG is the beginning of a timeless, enchanting fantasy adventure about a reluctant apprentice, a team of spirit kids, and the village they set out to save from the evil Witch Priest who stole away Abeni’s people.

Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, P. Djèlí Clark spent the formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago. He is the author of the novel A Master of Djinn and the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums, and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. He has won the Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards and been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon Awards. His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.comDaily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies, including Griots, Hidden Youth, and Clockwork Cairo. He is also a founding member of FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons.

Luca Guadagnino et Timothée Chalamet travailleront à nouveau ensemble pour l’adaptation de BONES & ALL de Camille DeAngelis

Mise à jour du16/4/2021 : droits cédés à Albin Michel Jeunesse

Une adaptation du roman de Camille DeAngelis sera réalisée prochainement pour le cinéma par l’Italien Luca Guadagnino, réalisateur de Call Me by Your Name sorti en 2017, dans lequel Timothée Chalamet incarnait un des personnages principaux. Le jeune acteur franco-américain sera de nouveau à l’affiche de Bones & All, sans doute aux côtés de Taylor Russell, pressentie pour le rôle principal féminin. Aucune date n’a été annoncée pour l’instant. (Lire l’article de Deadline)

Publié en 2015 chez St. Martin’s Press aux États-Unis, BONES & ALL raconte l’incroyable voyage d’une jeune fille au sombre secret pour retrouver son père qu’elle n’a jamais connu. Ce roman qui s’apparente au genre de l’horreur (la protagoniste est cannibale) explore également des thèmes plus profonds tels que la solitude, la famille, l’amitié et la féminité. Il s’adresse aussi bien aux adolescents qu’aux adultes.

THE ROBBER GIRL de Franny Billingsley

Part literary mystery, part magical tour de force, THE ROBBER GIRL is an incantatory novel of fierce beauty, lyricism, and originality.

THE ROBBER GIRL
by Franny Billingsley
Candlewick, September 2021

We matched each other, my dagger and I. The dagger was sharp, I was sharp. Together we were sharp, together we were wild.

A brilliant puzzle of a book from the author of Chime and The Folk Keeper plunges us into the vulnerable psyche of one of the most memorable unreliable narrators to grace the page in decades. The Robber Girl has a good dagger. Its voice in her head is as sharp as its two edges that taper down to a point. Today, the Robber Girl and her dagger will ride with Gentleman Jack into the Indigo Heart to claim the gold that’s rightfully his. But instead of gold, the Robber Girl finds a dollhouse cottage with doorknobs the size of apple seeds. She finds two dolls who give her three tasks, even though she knows that three is too many tasks. The right number of tasks is two, like Grandmother gave to Gentleman Jack: Fetch unto me the mountain’s gold, to build our city fair. Fetch unto me the wingless bird, and I shall make you my heir. The Robber Girl finds what might be a home, but to fight is easier than to trust when you’re a mystery even to yourself and you’re torn between loyalty and love. THE ROBBER GIRL is at once achingly real—wise to the nuances of trauma—and loaded with magic, action, and intrigue. Every sentence shines, sharp as a blade, in a beautifully crafted novel about memory, identity, and the power of language to heal and reconstruct our lives.

Franny Billingsley is the highly acclaimed author of three fantasy novels—National Book Award Finalist Chime, Boston GlobeHorn Book Award winner The Folk Keeper, and Well Wished. Utterly original, enchanting and compulsive, THE ROBBER GIRL is her most ambitious and powerful work to date.