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RAVENOUS BEAUTY d’Astrid Scholter

Dracula meets Beauty and the Beast.

RAVENOUS BEAUTY
by Astrid Scholter
Wednesday Books, Fall 2027
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Cursed 200 years ago by the boy she once loved, Dahlia sustains an endless half-life by ingesting the blood of others. She’s hunted across the land by a band of ruthless trackers, hellbent on ending her long life. The only way for Dahlia to break her curse is to reopen her ice-cold heart to the possibility of love, even if the man she’s falling for is the son of the head of the hunters—the last person she killed.

Astrid Scholte is the internationally bestselling and award-winning author of fantasy novels including Four Dead Queens, The Vanishing Deep and the League of Liars duology. When she’s not writing, she works in film and animation production on such movies as James Cameron’s Avatar, Lilo & Stitch and Wicked. She lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband, two cats and an ever-growing mountain of Disney merchandise.

P.S. DON’T FALL IN LOVE de Jenna Evans Welch

From the bestselling author of the Love & Gelato series comes a new story about two teens who swap lives for three weeks—and break the one rule they meant to follow: don’t fall in love.

P.S. DON’T FALL IN LOVE
by Jenna Evans Welch
Sourcebooks Fire, Spring 2028
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Birdie Hess and Mabel deRossi are strangers who’ve agreed to trade lives for three weeks—new city, new closet, new rules to follow via letters left behind. For heartbroken, love-averse Birdie, the deal seems simple enough: follow a list of cryptic clues around Manhattan, prove she had fun, and go home to Los Angeles no worse for wear. Mabel’s only real instruction is a postscript that should be easy to keep: P.S. Don’t fall in love.

Then there’s Santi—the infuriatingly charming boy next door who’s spent years perfecting the art of never saying goodbye, and who appoints himself Birdie’s tour guide whether she wants one or not. Clue by clue, he leads her through hidden gardens, all-night diners, and the best park bench in the city, and somewhere between the John Lennon memorial and the Brooklyn Bridge at midnight, Birdie starts to feel something she swore she’d locked away for good. The trouble is, Santi doesn’t do relationships, Birdie doesn’t do vulnerability, and neither of them is supposed to be doing this—falling for someone they’re only ever going to have to leave.

With three weeks ticking down and an ocean of unresolved grief, family secrets, and 2,455.5 miles standing between them, Birdie has to decide whether love is a risk worth taking twice. Because rules, it turns out, are so much easier to write than they are to keep.

Jenna Evans Welch was the kind of insatiable child reader who had no choice but to grow up to become a writer. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Love & Gelato, Love & Luck, and Love & Olives. When she isn’t writing girl abroad stories, Jenna can be found chasing her children or making elaborate messes in the kitchen. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and two young children. Visit her online at JennaEvansWelch.com.

HOW TO SAVE THE PLANET WITHOUT REALLY TRYING de Jessica Eise

Dr. Jessica Eise, a behavior and climate researcher, reveals a radical shift: people do want to help. The problem isn’t willpower—it’s that we’ve ignored how our brains and bodies are wired for action.

HOW TO SAVE THE PLANET WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
by Jessica Eise
Urano US, Fall 2027
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For over 40 years, climate change has dominated the headlines—and yet, meaningful action remains out of reach. We’re told it’s the system’s fault, that our choices don’t matter, and in the same breath, that none of us are doing enough. No wonder so many—especially the young—feel paralyzed and hopeless. What’s missing isn’t passion: it’s an understanding of how people actually work. In How to Save the Planet Without Really Trying, Dr. Jessica Eise, a behavior and climate researcher, reveals a radical shift: people do want to help. The problem isn’t willpower—it’s that we’ve ignored how our brains and bodies are wired for action.

It turns out human psychology and physiology are tailor-made for this fight. When we tap into our natural instincts, we can guide ourselves to want less meat, consume less, and live more closely in line with our values. The result? Freer, lighter, happier lives—and real progress on the climate crisis. This isn’t wishful thinking. It’s science.

In four powerful sections—Body, Space, People, Tools—Eise lays out an intuitive science of transformation and a practical playbook: simple, repeatable, or “plugand-play” tools scaled by impact and effort. The result is maximum climate impact with maximum pleasure. The future of sustainability has never looked so easy!

Blending the habit building clarity of Atomic Habit with the simplifying joy of Marie Kondo, How to Save the Planet will speak to the same audience as David Wallace-Wells’s The Uninhabitable Earth, Greta Thunberg, and Christina Figueres’s The Future We Choose. It only takes 3.5% of the population to bring about great change.

Dr. Jessica Eise is a social scientist and professor at Indiana University, recognized globally for her pioneering work on how cultural, political, and psychological forces shape responses to climate change. Author of How to Feed the World (Island Press), she is widely cited in and writes for popular media, in addition to her scholarly work. She received her PhD from Purdue and, unusually for an academic, has an MA in journalism from NYU.

THE MASQUERADERS de Betty Shamieh

A suspenseful, historical murder mystery, The Masqueraders follows a cast of flawed and unapologetic women as they forge a place for themselves in a deeply divided world.

THE MASQUERADERS
by Betty Shamieh
Avid Reader Press, Spring 2028
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When we meet Leila, her husband Meir has just flown her from their small Palestinian village to France to tell her he is not who she believes him to be. He is a spy—and has been from the moment they met.

Decades later, their Americanborn daughter, Eve, stands over her father’s body, murdered by stabbing. She is meant to fulfill the role of grieving daughter, but instead her training as a forensic pathologist has her thinking about cause of death, suspects, and motives. Eve knows about her father’s past, and her first suspect might have been her mother had she not been long dead.

Across an ocean, Raphaella, one of the Israeli agents who recruited Meir, has also just learned of Meir’s death and has her own questions: is someone hunting her former operatives?

Inspired by the true stories of Israeli spies who married Palestinian women and fathered children while undercover in the 1950s, The Masqueraders asks: what are the limits of love? What betrayals can be forgiven? How far is too far?

Betty Shamieh is the author of the novel Too Soon and fifteen plays. She is the playwrightin-residence at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. Her six New York play premieres include the sold-out off-Broadway runs of Roar and Malvolio, a sequel to Twelfth Night, which were both New York Times Critic’s Picks. Shamieh was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and named a UNESCO Young Artist for Intercultural Dialogue. She is a founding artistic director of The Semitic Root, a collective that supports innovative theatre cocreated by Arab and Jewish Americans. A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama, she lives with her family in San Francisco.

WINTERVEIL d’Ava Reid

The Secret History meets Ready Player One in #1 bestselling author Ava Reid’s brand new, thrilling alternate-future duology, where four teens are recruited to a century-long, virtual Cold War until they discover the truth and decide to fight back.

WINTERVEIL
by Ava Reid
HarperCollins, September 2026
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The top students at Valeran Academy should be in jail. Instead, they were offered a way out: enroll and pledge themselves to the nation. In their alternate future where the Cold War still rages, America needs patriots—don’t call them spies.

In the halls of America’s most covert military academy, all that matters is who is number one. Four students rise to the top: Julian, the politician; Klaudia, strategist; Nadiya, the soldier; and Giselle, the beauty queen with a secret that could change everything.

As they compete for the top ranking that would free them from their gilded cage, the four feel strangely drawn together. Underneath every rivalry lurks a desperate yearning, bringing the strongest of them down to their knees.

Too soon, they’re ripped from the safe walls of their school and recruited for a mysterious training mission that their elusive headmaster tells them is only a simulation. But the four teens quickly realize that they are merely pawns, designed to play off of each other in a dangerous game. Even their blossoming feelings will be used against them in this game of war.

To win, they will have to question everything: each other, themselves, even their very understanding of reality.

It was only supposed to be a game. But now lives and hearts are on the line. Are you brave enough to play?

“It’s a tense, fast-paced race to a cliff-hanger of a conclusion to this duology starter. Each character is easy to root for and immaculately rendered as sympathetic, despite distinct flaws. An absolute must-read for dystopian readers and history enthusiasts alike.” – Booklist Reviews (starred review)

“Reid is well regarded for her lyrical writing and nuanced characters; here she paints a vivid portrait of a world fallen to climate change and capitalism, juxtaposed against the ways love is redemptive. VERDICT A dark dystopian novel for readers craving something more mature than The Hunger Games. Perfect for high school collections.” – School Library Journal (starred review)

“A dark and gripping feminist tale.” – Kirkus Reviews

Ava Reid is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning, A Theory of Dreaming, Lady Macbeth, Juniper & Thorn, and The Wolf and the Woodsman. Her books have been published in over fourteen territories. She lives in the New York area. Follow her on Instagram @avasreid and find her online at tumblr.com/avasreid.