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FREE RIDE de Noraly Schoenmaker

The debut memoir by the massively popular female adventure travelers and the creator behind the 2.4-Million follower YouTube account Itchy Boots, taking readers behind the scenes of her first 20,000 mile motorcycle journey through the world’s most remarkable and remote places.

FREE RIDE:
Heartbreak, Courage, and the 20,000-Mile Motorcycle Journey that Changed my Life
by Noraly Schoenmaker
Atria, June 2025
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In 2018, Noraly Schoenmaker was a thirty-something geologist living in the Netherlands when she learned that her live-in partner had been having a long-term affair. Suddenly without a place to stay, she quit her job, sold her house, and flew to India, planning to spend a year exploring before returning home. But an excursion on a rented motorcycle through the Himalayas changed her life forever—she had found a new obsession. Soon, she decided to purchase a motorcycle and a GoPro, and set off on more unconventional adventures.

When she first left Delhi, climbing mountain passes and crossing rickety wooden bridges into Myanmar, she had no idea that her journeys would come to surpass one-hundred-sixty-thousand kilometers (and counting) through sixty countries on five continents. All she knew was that on the back of her motorcycle, she felt instantly and profoundly free while riding.

FREE RIDE recounts Noraly’s first twenty thousand miles from India to Southeast Asia, then the Middle East, Central Asia, and finally back through Russia and Europe to the Netherlands. More Bruce Chatwin, Cheryl Strayed, and The Motorcycle Diaries than Elizabeth Gilbert, FREE RIDE is a travel memoir like no other because Noraly is a traveler like no other.

Noraly Schoenmaker is the creator of Itchy Boots, a YouTube channel with more than two million loyal subscribers. A motorcycling obsessive, her journeys have taken her the length of the American continent, from Argentina to Alaska; from the northernmost point of Europe to the southernmost point of Africa; and to some of the least traveled regions of the globe. Trained as a biologist and geologist, she is based in the Netherlands.

INTO THE STORM de Cecelia Ahern

A storm lies ahead of her. Freedom lies beyond it …

INTO THE STORM
by Cecelia Ahern
HarperCollins UK, October 2024
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Enya is driving home on a dark and rainy night in the Dublin mountains when she stumbles across an accident. As a fierce storm rages, a teenage boy her own son’s age lies between life and death. A doctor, Enya provides life-saving CPR. But soon the police are asking her about the accident, the taxi driver first to the scene is stalking her at work and at home, and her soon to be ex-husband is wondering why she was on those Dublin mountain roads in the first place.

Fixated on the teenage boy who now lies in a coma, Enya leaves her husband and takes a temporary physician’s gig in a small rural village. Her life spiraling, she hopes to anchor and empower herself again in a new community. But as the wheel of the year turns and she tries to reconcile her past and forge a new future, the secrets that drove her from Dublin begin to rise, and Enya is faced with an inevitable choice that could lead to the destruction of life as she knows it.

“A terrific story! It had me completely gripped from the very first page.” —Karin Slaughter, NYT Bestselling author of Pretty Girls

Cecelia Ahern was born and grew up in Dublin. Her novels have been translated into thirty-five languages and have sold more than twenty-five million copies in over fifty countries. Two of her books (Ps, I Love You and Love, Rosie) have been adapted as films and she has created several TV series. She and her books have won numerous awards, including the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction for The Year I Met You. She lives in Dublin with her family.

WHEN THE BONES SING de Ginny Myers Sain

From New York Times bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies comes a new southern gothic supernatural thriller about a teen girl in a small Ozark town who can hear the bones of the dead.

WHEN THE BONES SING
by Ginny Myers Sain
Razorbill, March 2025
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The past three years have been tough for Lucifer’s Creek, Arkansas, a small town quietly tucked away in the Ozark mountains. More than two dozen people have disappeared on the local hiking trails; there one moment, gone the next, not a trace left behind, until their buried bodies are discovered.

17-year-old Dovie doesn’t believe in magic even though she comes from a long line of women who can hear the bones of the dead sing, and for the past few years the bones have been crooning nonstop, calling out to Dovie to dig them up.

Some of the old-timers believe that it’s the monstrous Ozarks howler snatching people off the Aux Arc Trail. Well Dovie doesn’t believe in the howler, and she doesn’t believe her best friend Lo when he tells her he is being haunted by dark shadows. All she believes in is her talent that guides the local sheriff to the bones when they begin their song, then reuniting the dead with their families to give them some peace.

Lo doesn’t know peace, though. The shadows follow him everywhere. He soon learns they’re the murdered hikers and they want answers. But the truth of their deaths isn’t buried with their bones; it’s hidden somewhere deep in the hills. And Lo and Dovie must unearth it before anyone else is killed.

Ginny Myers Sain is the New York Times bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies, Secrets So Deep, and One Last Breath. She lives in Florida and has spent the past twenty years working closely with teens as a director and acting instructor in a program designed for high school students seriously intent on pursuing a career in the professional theatre. Having grown up in deeply rural America, she is interested in telling stories about resilient kids who come of age in remote settings.

SONG OF THE WIND de Ying Ping Low

A lyrical coming-of-age fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore, for fans of Kelly Barnhill’s The Girl Who Drank the Moon and Annet Schaap’s Lampie and the Children of the Sea, centered on a young girl who is thrust into adventure when she crosses paths with a young emperor on the run from murderous traitors, and in search of the power of the mythical Dragon’s Pulse.

SONG OF THE WIND
by Ying Ping Low
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, July 2026
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The Village has no name, hidden from outsiders for as long as anyone can remember–until today. Kaixuan, a 12-year-old emperor on the run from murderous traitors, has stumbled into the Village while seeking the fabled power of the Dragon’s Pulse, the key to vanquishing his enemies. Free-spirited Mengyao, a village orphan on the same cusp of adolescence, only wants to hold onto her belief in magic and become a divine healer to her people.

As the words of an old legend bring their fates together, sparking the hope of restoring rightful rule to the kingdom, the two set out in search of the Dragon’s Pulse. With help from unexpected quarters—a jade hare, a kitchen god, a moon goddess, and a spell woven from a handful of promises—they must reach their destination before they turn 13 and lose faith in the Dragon’s Pulse and its magic entirely…and before the enemies at their tail capture them, or worse.

An ode to the power of storytelling, suspenseful with the universal ticking clock of childhood’s end, SONG feels like a new classic in the making, spun together with a remarkable author’s magical touch.

Ying Ping Low lives in Singapore and has had several middle-grade novels published there: Prophecy of the Underworld with Penguin Random House Southeast Asia; and the Mount Emily quartet with Epigram Books. Her books have won the Singapore Book Awards, and been shortlisted for the Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award, and a short story won second prize in The British Fantasy Society’s Short Story Competition 2018. She holds degrees in English Literature from the University of Leeds and the University of Warwick and worked in education prior to becoming a writer. SONG OF THE WIND will be her first novel published into the US market.

LOVE ON PAPER de Danielle Parker

From the author of You Bet Your Heart comes a heartfelt romance about two aspiring teen novelists finding love, good food, and a little bit of mystery at an exclusive writers’ retreat. Perfect for fans of K.L. Walther!

LOVE ON PAPER
by Danielle Parker
Delacorte, January 2025
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Macy Descanso is a writer. Who cares if her bestselling-author mother pulled some strings to get her into a prestigious writing retreat? Macy belongs here. Even when the coordinators unexpectedly announce that this year’s theme is romance, Macy—a total cynic—is up for the challenge.

But she’s not prepared for her critique partner to be fellow publishing nepo baby Caleb Bernard. While Caleb may be what most romance writers would describe as “swoony,” he’s off-limits, because the Descansos and Bernards have beef.

With a chance at publication at their fingertips, though, Macy and Caleb have to put aside their issues. But is four weeks enough time to fight through writer’s block, step out of their parents’ shadows, and find the courage to create their own love story?

Danielle Parker has over ten years of experience as a high school English teacher, during which her greatest pleasure was helping reluctant readers find a novel they absolutely loved. Danielle now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family. When she’s not writing, Danielle can be found looking for a pool to splash in, thinking about dessert, or taking a quick nap.