New Releases

New Releases

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The covers of As Long As You Loathe Me, Where No Shadow Stays, and The Celestial Seas. Descriptions of each may be found with the individual images within the post.

We have several intriguing stories to look forward to this week. As a side note, it’s also interesting that both Where No Shadow Stays and The Celestial Seas have a similar cover concept of a scene within the body of the featured character.

Book cover of As Long as You Loathe Me. There are two people standing on either side of the hot pink title. There are flames on some of the letters and above some of the letters are flames shaped like hearts. The person on the left is wearing long blue pants and an unbuttoned purple shirt over a white t-shirt. They have brown skin and wavy dark hair. They are looking to the white skinned red haired person on the right who is wearing a hot pink outfit that is a short skirt and v-necked crop top and the person is holding a pom pom while looking over at the other person. As Long as You Loathe Me by Swati Hegde
Delacorte Romance

When a teen tries to get back at her ex-best friend for stealing her crush, she ends up unexpectedly rekindling their complicated friendship and discovers that it’s not just her pride on the line, it’s her heart too.

Bring down the cheerleader. Just don’t fall in love with her.

Meera Rao-George is done being the dorky high school senior crushing on her neighbor Sushant, who only has eyes for cheerleader Lucy Hughson—Meera’s ex-best friend. After countless attempts to get his attention, Meera decides it’s time for a bold move: the Date Sushant & Dethrone Lucy Plan.

Lucy Hughson appears to have it all: a loving boyfriend, top grades, and a designer wardrobe. But beneath the surface, she battles anxiety, struggles with her identity, and questions her feelings for Sushant compared to what she felt for someone from her past.

As Meera cozies up to Lucy to execute her plan, she realizes her heart’s at risk. Their friendship ended for a reason—a secret Lucy won’t confront. Now, she must reevaluate everything she thought she knew about herself, and what a real shot at love ultimately looks like.

Book cover Where No Shadow Stays by Sara Hashem. The background is a hazy red color. The main part of the image is a person whose skin and clothing has a green cast. The eyes are the same color as the background. They have dark flowing hair that is lifted and blowing to the left. There are five different hands on the being's body. One on either side of the neck and on the arms all coming from behind. In the center of the chest though, a lit door is there with the silhouette of a person standing in front of it at the top of some steps. Where No Shadow Stays by Sara Hashem
Holiday House

A homecoming queen and a bad-boy loner team up to break a generational curse in this YA supernatural horror from a talented American Egyptian voice.

Seventeen-year-old Mina is always focused on what comes next: exams, school dances, opportunities for a picnic by the lake. Filling up the future keeps her from lingering over how little she knows about her history or where she comes from. Anytime she asks her father questions about Egypt–or about her mother’s mysterious death–he struggles to open up.

When Mina receives an invitation from an aunt she’s never met to visit the Haikal mansion, her mother’s childhood home in El Agamy, Mina accepts. She can’t resist the chance to learn more about her roots or what happened to her mother, even if it means lying to her loves ones for the first time in her life.

But when Mina returns from El Agamy, she doesn’t come back alone.

A sinister entity follows Mina from the Haikal mansion to her tiny California town. Mina is forced to abandon her friends, her father, and everything she loves in order to prevent the entity from violently possessing them. Isolated and fighting for her life, Mina must seek help from an unlikely ally: Jesse Talbot, the mortician’s hostile son and the only person who proves immune to possession. Jesse would rather floss with barbed wire than team up with social butterfly Mina, but he doesn’t exactly have a choice—after all, he’s running from family secrets of his own.

As Mina and Jesse dig deeper into Mina’s family lore, they uncover a bloody debt that must be satisfied if Mina wants to finish senior year alive.

Cover of the book The Celestial Seas by T.A. Chan. A brown skinned person with dark hair fills most of the image. They are in profile facing the right and their head is tilted down a bit. They seem to be thinking. The clothing of the person may be a jacket, but instead of being a real piece of clothing, it is a window into a colorful landscape. There are rocks that are yellow and hot pink along with some blue ground. There are two dark silhouettes in the scene. The Celestial Seas by T.A. Chan
Viking Books for Young Readers

Ishara Ming is the sole survivor of a spacefaring whaler destroyed by the Ballena, a legendary sentient spacecraft that haunts the darkness between stars. The fatal encounter left her with a metal-plated arm, a faulty memory chip, and a burning need for revenge.

To take on the Ballena, Ishara assembles a crew of capable misfits. Among them is Quinn—her trusted first mate, the girl with wildfire eyes, and the only person who always stands by her side, even when everyone else thinks Ishara is a delusional captain who hallucinated the Ballena.

That is, until Augustus, a ship mech armed with his own mysterious reasons for vengeance, convinces Ishara to let him join the crew. He brings the one thing Ishara’s never had before: a tracking method tailored for finding the Ballena. Pulled between Quinn’s and Augustus’s gravitational forces, the pressure to issue increasingly risky orders, and the feeling that her past is rapidly catching up with her future, Ishara has to decide what—or who—she is fighting for before she loses another ship.