Opposites attract in this battle-robot-building YA romance from the NYT best-selling author of The Atlas Six.Bel would rather die than think about the future. College apps? You’re funny. Extracurriculars? Not a chance. But when she accidentally reveals a talent for engineering at school, she’s basically forced into joining the robotics club. Even worse? All the boys ignore Bel—and Neelam, the only other girl on the team, doesn't seem to like her either. Enter Mateo Luna, captain of the club, who recognizes Bel as a potential asset—until they start butting heads. Bel doesn’t care about Nationals, while Teo cares too much. But as the nights of after-school work grow longer and longer, Bel and Teo realize they've made more than just a combat-ready robot for the championship: they’ve made each other and the team better. Because girls do belong in STEM. In her YA debut, Alexene Farol Follmuth, author of The Atlas Six (under the penname Olivie Blake), explores both the challenges girls of color face in STEM and the vulnerability of first love with unfailing wit and honesty. With an adorable, opposites-attract romance at its center and lines that beg to be read aloud, My Mechanical Romance is swoonworthy perfection. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Aurelia Schwartz has spent twenty-three years maintaining the equilibrium between her carefully curated human life and the magical one that she endures in secret. With a devoted best friend and top marks at a prestigious university, she has everything one could possibly want neatly within her grasp. Except, her gift of green magic has begun to fade, and if that wasn’t enough to upset the balance of her life, a fateful run-in with another power-hungry witch with a penchant for stolen magic has threatened to bring it all to ruin. Cast into an unexpected alliance with her dreadfully arrogant classmate, Aurelia goes into hiding among a peculiar family of witches, where she discovers that the secret to their safety requires breaking rules she has followed all her life: Make no promises, Tell no one what you are, and Never stay the night.

Inspired by medieval India’s most epic love stories, this debut Romantasy blends rich storytelling, lush worldbuilding, and spice of every variety. Perfect for fans of Nisha J. Tuli and Tasha Suri. Nandapore is a city of secrets and spellcasters where seduction reigns and a power-hungry king is never satisfied, plotting to unleash a weapon that has only lived in myth…until now. To stop him, an ancient goddess seeks out a newly crowned queen, a heartsick prince, a common thief, and a courtesan with magic in her blood. Together, they chart a course through brothels, temples, taverns, and palaces, setting a trap for the empire’s most powerful men. Linked by desire, destiny, and a dangerous foe, they each must decide... What will they risk for a weapon worth dying for, and a love worth staying alive?

Meet Mei, a young Chinese American who has discovered she has the mystical ability to transport herself anywhere that is spiritually “China”—including Chinatowns around the world and different eras of Chinese history. As an adoptive child of the diaspora, Mei was raised in America with no knowledge of Chinese folklore or fairy tales, but when an antiques dealer friend needs help retrieving a mythic artifact—a jade carving of a peach that represented same-sex love in ancient China—she’s game to give it a try. Her quest sends Mei not only into the past, but on a journey of self-discovery. PRAISE “Full of queerness, generative solidarity, and gently profound insights into love and choice, Tan’s tale goes down smoothly but its wisdom lingers. Not to be missed.” —Shelley Parker Chan, author of She Who Became the Sun "Cecilia Tan has carved a jade peach, and then turned it real for you. Cup your hands around this enchanting tale of romance, art, and magic, and savor its juice. An absolute gem!" —Claire Light, author of Slightly Behind and to the Left/Jadie Jiang, author of Monkey Around "Bitten Peach's ingenious time travel narrative structure is as tight as it is playful. Its themes of displacement and yearning are equally exquisitely intertwined through gender, space, and culture. And it all comes together in delicious resonance with the nature of its Chinese history and spiral-time magic! It's the kind of story that burrows into my brain and lives there for years and years.": —Emma Mieke Candon, author of Ronin, and The Archive Undying

A reclusive witch who fled the burden of her bloodline rises to be the greatest among them in this lush and haunting fantasy debut. For New Orleans witchkin, there is no greater honor than to become the Prime—chosen to rule. But the title is meant to pass between two rival Houses of magic. Not to the prodigal daughter of the former Prime who died under mysterious circumstances. As a girl, Seraphine Barreau was dubbed the Tick Witch for her ability to feed on magic and make it her own. Even among those who alter fate and manipulate reality, she was a powerful outcast feared and misunderstood by her people. Now dragged back to continue the legacy that nearly destroyed her, Phine has her work cut out for her. She must earn the respect of her people, navigate the politics of the paranormal communities residing in her city, and heal a broken heart all the while battling a parasitic curse poisoning witchkin. Between her werewolf ex, power-hungry vampires, and the skeletons in her family’s closet, Phine must learn to make peace with her past to save her—and all of witchkin’s—future.

"Îşi mai amintea de curtea unei case la ţară, o curte uriaşă, un maidan aproape. Vara, bălăriile o podideau şi o transformau într-o pădure de nepătruns (totul redus, la scară, fireşte, dar şi el era mic pe atunci), traversată de câteva drumuri bătătorite, poteci de lăţimea a două tălpi desculţe puse una lângă cealaltă. Daca în curtea aia creştea şi vreo plantă cultivată de mâna omului? Îi e greu să răspundă la o asemenea întrebare acum, când nu ştie exact câţi ani au trecut de atunci. Ceva mai puţin de douăzeci, în tot cazul. E sigur, însă, că acea curte nu era străjuită de garduri pe toate cele patru laturi, deci nu era tocmai o curte. Avea totuşi o poartă (şi un simulacru de gard deci) în partea dinspre drumul prăfos (noroios, nămeţit etc). Tot dintr-acolo pornea printre bălării (sau culturi?) un drum ceva mai larg care se termina cu un loc de întors căruţa chiar în faţa grajdului, adică alături de porumbarul gol, de coteţul de păsări şi de cocina urât mirositoa­re a unui porc care sucombase demult şi a cărui dinastie nu mai fusese reîntronată. Bălăriile continuau să atace toate aceste ră­măşiţe ale unei gospodării ce fusese probabil înfloritoare cândva, astfel că tâşia de troscot dintre şleaurile roţilor de căruţă se lărgea nestingherită. [...]”

Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave. One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black.