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THE WEAVER BRIDE de Lydia Gregovic

A sweeping fantasy about a witch who must navigate a ruthless marriage competition—and try not to fall in love along the way. Part twisting mystery, part thrilling romance, The Weaver Bride is an unputdownable romantasy steeped in a lush magical world.

THE WEAVER BRIDE
by Lydia Gregovic
Delacorte, September 2025
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Lovett Tamerlane is a silkwitch. Like all girls of her kind, she holds a rare magic—a magic that can be harnessed only through marriage to a Weaver. But finding a Weaver husband requires status, refinement, and money, all of which Lovett sadly lacks. Her one secret ability, to open any door, is her saving grace. Hidden in plain sight, Lovett spends her days using her gift to steal from wealthy families and her nights avoiding the fate imposed on all unwed silkwitches: a life confined to the cloisters.

But opening doors can be dangerous, and when Lovett steals from the wrong person, she finds herself face to face with Eliot Lear, the notorious son of a prominent Weaver. It turns out Eliot’s been watching Lovett. He knows she’s a silkwitch, and he offers her a life-altering opportunity: entrance to the Vainglory, a competition with the ultimate prize—marriage to Noé Alaire, heir to generations of Weaver wealth. The catch? Last year, the Vainglory ended in tragedy. The winner died. And the winner was Eliot’s sister.

The arrangement is simple: If Lovett solves the mystery of Ophelia Lear’s death and unmasks her killer, Eliot will ensure she has her pick of Weaver suitors, regardless of who wins the competition. Yet unraveling Ophelia’s murder proves far more complicated than either of them anticipated. And Lovett should know better than to take a Weaver at his word.

After all . . . what is love without betrayal?

Lydia Gregovic is a Brooklyn-based author and editor whose identity is rooted in the Texas Gulf and along the coastline of Montenegro. She lives in New York with her complete collection of the works of Jane Austen and several half-dead plants. She is the author of The Monstrous Kind.

THE MOON WITHOUT STARS de Chanel Miller

The Newbery Honor–winning author of Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All explores the way growing up, finding friends, and discovering who you are can be both awkward and empowering in this heartfelt middle school novel.

THE MOON WITHOUT STARS
by Chanel Miller
Philomel Books, January 2026
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At the beginning of seventh grade, Luna knows who she is: an observant, quiet girl who loves writing and making zines with her best friend, Scott. But when one of their zines takes off, Luna is somehow swept up into the popular group and learns just how much of herself she’s going to have to compromise to stay there. Will she give up her writing? Her best friend? What about her own beliefs about who she is and what she stands for?

Featuring author-illustrator Chanel Miller’s signature line drawings, The Moon Without Stars is a deeply personal and often funny novel about what it means to lose and then find yourself again during the vulnerable, life-changing years of middle school.

« Authentic and raw, this story is at once a timeless account of growing up and a tale that’s specific to this generation . . . Genuine and poignant; has the makings of a modern classic.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Subtle, original, and lightly suspenseful, Luna’s journey toward learning to balance the complex ins and outs of social interaction with her own desires will resonate with those seeking community and understanding.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Miller accurately captures stigmas that persist through middle-school life, from periods to peer pressure. But young readers won’t only see a reflection of their experiences on these pages, they’ll find new perspectives . . . An unflinching, nuanced take on contemporary middle-school life.” —Booklist, starred review

“Miller (Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All) writes Luna’s voice with authenticity and warmth, capturing the awkward humor, emotion, and self-discovery that define early adolescence . . . An authentic coming-of-age story that encourages empathy, accountability, and confidence.” —School Library Journal, starred review

“Miller has crafted a sensitive, authentic voice for the protagonist . . . Readers will find comfort in the moments of levity and small acts of kindness in the story that balance these darker plot lines while also knowing that they, like Luna’s bibliotherapy subjects, are not alone.” —The Horn Book, starred review

Chanel Miller is a writer and artist. Her first children’s book, Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All, was a Newbery Honor winner and an instant New York Times bestseller. It was also a TODAY show Read with Jenna Jr selection, a Good Housekeeping Best Kids’ Book Awards winner, a New York Times for Kids pick, a The Week Junior book club selection, a People magazine summer reading pick, a Junior Library Guild selection, and an Indie Next pick. Her memoir, Know My Name, was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Ridenhour Book Prize, and the California Book Award. It was also a best book of the year in TIME, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, NPR, and People, among others. She was named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 and a Time Next 100 honoree and was a Glamour Woman of the Year honoree. You can visit her online at Chanel-Miller.com or follow her on Instagram @Chanel_Miller.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF MAGIC de Daniel Loedel

A professor’s mysterious death exposes the dark magic her students can’t escape.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF MAGIC
by Daniel Loedel
Algonquin, Spring 2028
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Martin arrives at Brown as a freshman in 2008, feeling a bit of an outcast. As he struggles to find his footing and his people, he becomes engrossed in a class called “The Philosophy of Magic.” The dynamic professor, who clearly has her favorites and a bit of a cult following at the university, initiates Martin and five other “special” students with a particular and profound kind of magical gift, involving contracts signed in actual blood. However, as the novel opens, her body is found hanging from her ceiling fan in her apartment. And so we go back in time to learn what role, if any, her devoted students played in her demise, as well as how her death affects their futures indelibly, for better and for worse.

Daniel Loedel is the author of Hades, Argentina, which won the Prix du Premier Roman, was a finalist for the Prix Femina and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, LitHub, and other publications. He was a book editor for twelve years, first with Simon and Schuster and then with Bloomsbury. The authors he has worked with have won or been nominated for the Booker Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and many other accolades. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner and four cats.



PEOPLE PERSON de Brad Gira

PEOPLE PERSON is as unrelenting as its anti-heroine; a summer-to-remember tale revitalized and made unforgettably new with chilly glee.

PEOPLE PERSON
by Brad Gira
Viking, Spring 2027
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No one really likes Jodie, but no one bullies her either. She inspires too much apathy for the popular kids she reveres to bother.

As graduation approaches, Jodie accepts that she will never see her crush again: Caelab, the carelessly charismatic, sporty bad boy who would never recognize a girl like her. Then, on the night of graduation, Caelab dies drunk driving and Jodie’s chances of getting with Caelab plummet from implausible to impossible. In the aftermath Jodie crosses paths with Caelab’s various memorials and quickly nserts herself into the life of Caelab’s identical (albeit preppier) twin, Adam, who soaks up her seeming concern at a time of acute suffering.

Though strained and occasionally hostile, their summer fling moves fast, nudging Jodie up the social ladder she’d long watched from afar, even as the twins’ friends remain confused by her presence.

But by summer’s end a quiet suspicion takes hold: is Adam really the twin she’s been left with? The possibility of deception fills Jodie’s mind with both hope and dread. As she races to confirm that she has been with her true crush all along, her elaborate scheme backfires, putting herself (and the surviving twin) in grave danger.

What first appears to be a classic coming-of-age story of delayed jutice—an unfairly overlooked teen outcast finally gets her due—instead reveals itself as the eerie rise of an unremarkable young woman made increasingly terrifying by her determination to capture a taste of life among the admired, envied desirables. Brad Gira’s ruthlessly assured, stealthily profound debut charts this fraught affair from its grisly beginning to its grisly end.

Brad Gira is a playwright who was raised in Maryland and now lives in New York. PEOPLE PERSON is his very first novel.

INNAMORATA d’Ava Reid

A visionary and atmospheric gothic fantasy about necromancy, vengeance, and soul-consuming love, the first in a duology from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady Macbeth.

INNAMORATA
by Ava Reid
Del Rey Books, March 2026
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Once there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy.

A conqueror’s blade brought them low, burning their libraries, killing their lords, and extinguishing their eldritch magic.

But defiant against the new order stands the House of Teeth and its last living members: beautiful Marozia, the heiress to the House, and her cousin, the uncanny Lady Agnes.

Though she has not spoken a word in seven years, Agnes is the true carrier of the House’s legacy. And she has her orders. She must recapture the secrets of death magic and avenge her family’s fallen honor. She must arrange the betrothal of her beloved cousin Marozia to Liuprand, heir to the conqueror’s throne, for access to the forbidden library in his grotesquely grand castle.

Revenge burns in Agnes’s heart but so do stranger passions—and it is Liuprand, the golden prince, who speaks to her soul. This passion is as treasonous as it is powerful, poisoning the kingdom’s roots and threatening to tear the already shattered realm in two.

For Agnes’s final order is the gravest: She must not fall in love.

Ava Reid is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning, Lady Macbeth, and other novels. Her books have been published in more than fourteen territories. She lives in the New York area.