New month, new books!
March brings a new LGBTQ+ graphic novel, stunning epic fantasy, moving contemporaries, thrilling mysteries, twisty sci-fi, major swoons, and more! Keep reading to check out the full list of new releases and don't miss a single page.
On the island of Bellona, they worship the sun. Seventeen-year-old Veda understands that keeping the sun content ensures plentiful crops, peace and harmony, and a thriving economy. But as a member of the Basso class, she never reaps those benefits.
Life as a Basso is one fraught with back-breaking work and imposing rules. Her close friendship with Nico is Vedaâs one saving grace in a cruel world where the division between her people and the ruling Dogio is as wide and winding as the canals that snake through their island.
But when Vedaâs grandfather is chosen as the next sacrificial offering to keep the sunâs favor, Veda is forced to see the injustice of her world. Turning away from the sun means she must join the nightâand an underground revolution sheâs been taught to fear all her life.
On Sale: March 12, 2019
Edie Kits has a learning disability. Well, not a learning disability exactly, but a disability that impacts her learning. It isnât visible, it isnât obvious, and it isnât something she likes to advertise. In fact, sheâs successfully hidden it from nearly everyone in her life, including her college roommate and best friend, Serena.
And for the first half of her freshman year, she has managed without assistance. Edie thought she was in control of her disability, until she meets her match with French 101 and a professor unwilling to hear her out.
Edie finds herself caught between getting the help she needs and convincing her professor that she isnât looking for an easy out. Luckily for her, Hudson, the badly dressed but undoubtedly adorable TA in her French class, ambles in to help her out...
On Sale: March 12, 2019
Squad by Mariah MacCarthy
Jenna Watson is a cheerleader. And she wants you to know itâs not some Hollywood crap: they are not every guyâs fantasy. They are not the âmean girlsâ of Marsen High School. Theyâre literally just human females trying to live their lives and do a perfect toe touch. And their team is at the top of their game. Theyâre a family.
But all that changes when Jennaâs best friend stops talking to her. Suddenly, sheâs not getting invited out with the rest of the squad. Sheâs always a step behind. And she has no idea why.
While grappling with post-cheer life, Jenna explores things she never allowed herself to like, including LARPing (live action role playing) and a relationship with a trans guy that feels a lot like love.
When Jenna loses the sport and the friends sheâs always loved, she has to ask herself: What else is left?
On Sale: March 12, 2019
Mads is pretty happy with her life. She goes to church with her family, and minor league baseball games with her dad. She goofs off with her best friend Cat, and has thus far managed to avoid getting kissed by Adam, the boy next door. It's everything she hoped high school would beâĤ until all of a sudden, it's not.
Her dad is hiding something bigâso big it could tear her family apart. And thatâs just the beginning of her problems: Mads is starting to figure out that she doesn't want to kiss AdamâĤ because the only person she wants to kiss is Cat.
Just like that, Mads's tidy little life has gotten epically messyâand epically heartbreaking. And when your heart is broken, it takes more than an awkward, uncomfortable, tooth-clashing, friendship-ending kiss to put things right again.
It takes a whole bunch of them.
On Sale: March 12, 2019
Small Town Hearts by Lillie Vale
Babe Vogel has spent her whole life in the postcard-perfect small coastal town of Oarâs Rest, Maine. She works at the local coffee shop, the Busy Bean, lives in a lighthouse, and has a tight group of friends sheâs known since birth.
When NYC-based artist Levi Keller turns up at the Busy Bean, Babe can immediately tell heâs from âout of town.â Levi is determined to live like a hermit and remain a mystery to the Oarâs Rest natives, but Babe wonât allow it. She takes Levi under her wing and shows him how the Maine locals live.
But as the seasons pass and Babe and Leviâs friendship becomes something more, they both have to figure out if they can balance small-town living with big-city dreams. Is Levi just a âsummer boy," destined to go home when the seasons change, or is he in Oarâs Rest to stay?
On Sale: March 19, 2019
Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But she settles for acting out and skipping school.
Until she meets Alexandria, a furious loner. After a horrific accident leaves Alexandria with a broken arm, the girls are brought together despite themselvesâand Ryann learns Alexandriaâs secret: Her mother is an astronaut on a one-way trip past the edge of the solar system.
Every night, Alexandria waits for radio signals from her mother. And now Ryann lifts Alexandria onto the roof day after day, until the silence between them grows into friendship... and eventually something more.
On Sale: March 19, 2019
Fear of Missing Out by Kate McGovern
Every teen has a fear of missing out on somethingâa party, a basketball game, a hangout after school. But what about missing out on life? When Astrid learns that her cancer has returned, she hears about a radical technology called cryopreservation that allows terminally ill patients to freeze themselves until a future time where there is a cure. She sets out with her supportive boyfriend, Mohit, and her best friend, Chloe, to see if this is the path she really wants to take.
What will Astrid miss out on if she goes through with cryopreservation? What will she miss out on if she doesn't?
On Sale: March 19, 2019
Celebrity-studded parties that last long into the night. Camera flashes and designer clothes. And a body found floating in the Venice Beach canals.
But letâs start at the beginning.
Justine Childs is your average teenage girl, until the day ex-child-star Eva Kate Kelly moves in across the way. Eva Kate is gorgeous, seductive, and eager to invite Justine into her glittery world. Their relationship intensifies quickly, but there is a lot they aren't telling each other, and in the midst of the whirlwind a girl lies dead. Who killed Eva Kate? Justine swears her innocenceâand sheâd like you to hear her side of the story.
On Sale: March 26, 2019
Unleaving by Melissa Ostrom
After surviving an assault at an off-campus party, nineteen-year-old Maggie is escaping her college town, and, because her reporting the crime has led to the expulsion of some popular athletes, many peopleâin particular, the outraged Tigers fansâare happy to see her go.
Maggie moves in with her Aunt Wren, a sculptor who lives in an isolated cabin bordered by nothing but woods and water. Maggie wants to forget, heal, and hide, but her auntâs place harbors secrets and situations that complicate the plan. Worse, the trauma Maggie hoped to leave behind has followed her, haunting her in ways she canât control, including flashbacks, insomnia and a sense of panic. Her troubles intensify when she begins to receive messages from another student who has survived a rape on her old campus. Just when Maggie musters the courage to answer her emails, the young woman goes silent.
On Sale: March 26, 2019
Elin's family has an important responsibility: caring for the fearsome water serpents that form the core of their kingdom's army. So when some of the beasts mysteriously die, Elin's mother is sentenced to death as punishment. With her last breath she manages to send her daughter to safety.
Alone, far from home, Elin soon discovers that she can talk to both the terrifying water serpents and the majestic flying beasts that guard her queen. This skill gives her great powers, but it also involves her in deadly plots that could cost her life. Can she save herself and prevent her beloved beasts from being used as tools of war? Or is there no way of escaping the terrible battles to come?
On Sale: March 26, 2019
