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<\/a>Bad Nature<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Ariel Courage<\/p>\nArmed with a terminal diagnosis, a grudge, and a rental car, Hester sets out to fulfill her lifelong dream of killing her father in this brilliantly subversive and bleakly funny debut novel.<\/em><\/p>\n When Hester is diagnosed with terminal cancer on her fortieth birthday, she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to California to kill her estranged father. With no friends or family tying her to the life she\u2019s built in New York City, she quits her wildly lucrative job in corporate law and starts driving west. She hasn\u2019t made it far when she runs into John, an environmental activist in need of a ride to different superfund sites across the United States. From five-star Midwestern hotels to cultish Southwestern compounds, the two slowly make their way across the country. But will the revelations they experience along the way dissuade Hester from her goal?<\/em><\/p>\n Ragingly singular and surprisingly moving, Bad Nature is a story of stunning detours and twists until its final destination. Part road-trip novel, part revenge tale, part lament for our ongoing ecological crisis, it\u2019s ultimately a deft examination of the indulgence of holding grudges, moral ambivalence, and the eternal possibility of redemption.<\/em> – Henry Holt and Co.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the winter of 1975, and Portland, Oregon, is all sleet and neon. Duane Minor is back home after a tour in Vietnam, a bartender just trying to stay sober; save his marriage with his wife, Heidi; and connect with his thirteen-year-old niece, Julia, now that he\u2019s responsible for raising her. Things aren\u2019t easy, but Minor is scraping by.<\/em><\/p>\n Then a vampire walks into his bar and ruins his life.<\/em><\/p>\n When Minor crosses John Varley, a killer who sleeps during the day beneath loose drifts of earth and grows teeth in the light of the moon, Varley brutally retaliates by murdering Heidi, leaving Minor broken with guilt and Julia filled with rage. What\u2019s left of their splintered family is united by only one desire: vengeance.<\/em><\/p>\n So begins a furious, frenzied pursuit across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. From grimy alleyways to desolate highways to snow-lashed plains, Minor and Julia are cast into the dark orbit of undead children, silver bullet casters, and the bevy of broken men transfixed by Varley\u2019s ferocity. Everyone\u2019s out for blood.<\/em><\/p>\n Gritty, unforgettable, and emotionally devastating, Coffin Moon asks what will be left of our humanity when grief transmutes into violence, when monsters wear human faces, and when our thirst for revenge eclipses everything else.<\/em> – Random House<\/p>\n In this swoony estranged-friends-to-lovers romance, a celebrity spin instructor and her longtime crush take a spontaneous cross-country road trip that turns into an unexpected but epic party hop, and end up en route to love.<\/em><\/p>\n When online cycling instructor Quinn Ray has a mid-class meltdown after a bad breakup\u2014dramatically off-brand for someone whose vibe is sunshine and rainbows\u2014her boss orders her to take a few weeks off work. And that\u2019s fine. In fact, a quiet road trip through America\u2019s most tranquil scenery is exactly what she needs.<\/em><\/p>\n But then Nate Reed, who\u2019s barely spoken to Quinn since their friendship imploded two years ago, asks to hitch a ride so he can reunite with their chaotically lovable pal Logan to discuss something important. Unfortunately, Logan seems to be dodging them on purpose. Meanwhile, the internet rallies so strongly behind Quinn post-breakup that her boss orders her to seize the opportunity to rebrand herself as everyone\u2019s favorite emblem of fun, empowered singledom.<\/em><\/p>\n So Quinn and Nate put aside the awkwardness between them and follow Logan 450 miles to a Las Vegas nightclub. And then chase him to a rooftop rager . . . baby shower? . . . in Denver. A rain-soaked country-western music festival in Kansas. A rowdy Nashville bachelorette party. As Quinn\u2019s peaceful road trip becomes a tour of America\u2019s biggest party spots with the guy she didn\u2019t know she still wanted, she realizes Nate might just be the silver lining she never thought to look for.<\/em> – Dutton<\/p>\n The four Endicott siblings\u2014Gemma, Connor, Roddy, and Jude\u2014were once inseparable, a bond created by the absence of their dazzling, mercurial mother, who would return for a few weeks each summer to whisk them off on sprawling road trips around the country.<\/em><\/p>\n Decades later, the unthinkable has happened: the Endicotts haven\u2019t spoken in years . . . until an out-of-the-blue text arrives from Jude, now a famous actress, summoning them to a small town in North Dakota. They\u2019re each at a crossroads: Gemma, who put her own ambitions aside to raise the others, now isn\u2019t sure if she wants to be a mother herself; Connor, a celebrated novelist, is floundering after his recent divorce and suffering from an epic case of writer\u2019s block; and Roddy, at the tail end of a professional soccer career, is dangerously close to losing his future husband for the chance at one last season.<\/em><\/p>\n Jude is the only Endicott who seems to have it all together\u2014but appearances can be deceiving. As the weekend unfolds, and the siblings wrestle with their shared past and uncertain futures, they\u2019ll discover that Jude has been keeping three secrets . . . each of which could change everything.<\/em><\/p>\n A captivating journey and an ode to forgiveness that takes readers across all fifty states, Fun for the Whole Family brims with heart and resonates long after the final page.<\/em> – Ballantine Books<\/p>\n Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father\u2019s forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. When her mother remarries, she jumps at the chance to tag along on the concert tour that just might be Gil and the Kills\u2019 wild ride to glory. But fame has sharper fangs than anybody realized, and as the band blazes up the charts, internal power struggles set Gil and his group on a collision course destined for a bloody reckoning\u2014one shrouded in mystery and lore for decades to come.<\/em><\/p>\n The only witness to a desperate act of violence, Suzanne spends the next twenty-nine years trying to disappear. She trades the music and mayhem of her youth for the quiet of the suburbs and the company of her mild-mannered husband Rob. But when her father\u2019s sudden death resurrects the troubled past she tried so hard to bury, she leaves it all behind and hits the road in search of answers. Hitching her fate and Gil\u2019s beloved car to two vagabonds who call an old Airstream trailer home, she finds everything she thought she\u2019d lost forever: desire, adventure, and the woman she once wanted to be. But Rob refuses to let her go. Determined to bring her back where she belongs, he chases her across the country\u2014and drives her to a desperation all her own.<\/em><\/p>\n Drenched in knock-down drag-out rock and roll, Hot Wax is a raucous, breakneck ride to hell and back\u2014where getting lost might be the only way to find yourself and save your soul.<\/em> – Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n Four housemates, looking for a fifth, the ad read. Queer preferred (we all are).<\/em><\/p>\n This is how Bernie, a film photographer, meets Leah, a writer, and from opposite sides of a thin bedroom wall in West Philadelphia, the two become closer than they ever could have imagined. When Leah volunteers to accompany Bernie on a road trip to settle a complicated inheritance, what ensues is an unexpected journey into the heart of America as the duo try to make sense of the times they are living in\u2014falling in love with each other and rediscovering the power of making art along the way.<\/em><\/p>\n With humor, warmth, and beautifully observed characters, and told through two generations of queer artists reflecting on the question of how a person should be, Housemates is a glorious celebration of creativity, body liberation, chosen family\u2014and of finding your place in an uncertain world.<\/em> – Hogarth<\/p>\n On one side of the world, Aleya Ana-Ulai is desperate for a chance. Her family have written her off as a mistake, but she\u2019s determined to prove every last one of them wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n On the other, Kirby of Wall\u2019s End is searching for redemption. An ancient curse tore her life apart, but to fix it, she\u2019ll have to leave everything behind.<\/em><\/p>\n Fate sets them both on the path to Nivela, a city once poised to conquer the world with the power of a thousand stolen gods. Now the gates are closed and the old magic slumbers. Dead \u2014 or waiting for a spark to light it anew\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n A character-driven science-fantasy road trip book with sword fights and a slowburn romance, Idolfire delves into the vastness of history and the terrifying power of organized faith.<\/em> – DAW<\/p>\n An electrifying debut about a nonbinary corporate burnout embarking on a road trip from Chicago to Arkansas to find their conspiracy-theorist father, who has gone missing<\/em><\/p>\n The newly nameless narrator of Make Sure You Die Screaming has rejected the gender binary, has flamed out with a vengeance at their corporate gig, is most likely brain damaged from a major tussle with their now ex-boyfriend, and is on a bender to end all benders.<\/em><\/p>\n A call from their mother with the news that their MAGA-friendly, conspiracy-theorist father has gone missing launches the narrator from Chicago to deep red Arkansas in a stolen car. Along the way, the narrator and their new bestie\u2014a self-proclaimed “garbage goth” with her own emotional baggage (and someone on her tail)\u2014unpack the narrator\u2019s childhood and a recent personal loss that they refuse to face head-on.<\/em><\/p>\n An unflinching interrogation of class rage, economic (im)mobility, gender expression, and the rot at the heart of capitalism, Make Sure You Die Screaming is the loud, funny, tragic, suspenseful road trip novel of our times.<\/em> – Flatiron Books<\/p>\n Katy Sweeney is looking for her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife trip, her free-spirited younger sister, Phoebe, vanished without a trace on the remote, achingly beautiful coastal highway in Western Australia. With no witnesses, no leads, and no DNA evidence, the case has gone cold. But Katy refuses to give up on her.<\/em><\/p>\n Using Phoebe\u2019s social media accounts as a map, Katy retraces her sister\u2019s steps, searching for any clues the police may have missed. Was Phoebe being followed? Who had she met along the way, and how dangerous were they?<\/em><\/p>\n And then Katy\u2019s path collides with that of Beth, who is on the run from her own dark past. Katy realizes that Beth might be her best\u2014and only\u2014chance of finding the truth, and the two women form an uneasy alliance to find out what really happened to Phoebe in this wild, beautiful, and perilous place.<\/em><\/p>\n Anna Downes takes us on a twist-filled journey into the dark side of solo female travel, in this gripping novel that explores what drives us to keep searching for those we have lost, the family bonds that can make or break us, and the deception of memory.<\/em> – Minotaur Books<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest man in Pondville, Massachusetts, if it weren\u2019t for the tragedies of his life: the sudden death of his eldest daughter and the way his marriage fell apart after that. Since then, PJ spends both his money and his time at the bar, and he probably doesn\u2019t have much time left\u2014he\u2019s had three heart attacks already.<\/em><\/p>\n But when PJ reads the obituary of his old romantic rival, he realizes his high school sweetheart, Michelle Cobb, is finally single again. Filled with a new enthusiasm for life, PJ decides he\u2019s going to drive across the country to the Tender Hearts Retirement Community in Arizona to win Michelle back.<\/em><\/p>\n Before PJ can hit the road, tragedy strikes Pondville, leaving PJ the sudden guardian of his estranged brother\u2019s grandchildren. Anyone else would be deterred from the planned trip, but PJ figures the orphaned kids might benefit from getting out of town. PJ also thinks he can ask Sophie, his adult daughter who\u2019s adrift in her twenties, to come along to babysit. And there\u2019s one more surprise addition to the roster: Pancakes, a former nursing home therapy cat with a knack of predicting death, who recently turned up outside PJ\u2019s home.<\/em><\/p>\n This could be the second chance PJ has long hoped for\u2014a fresh shot at love and parenting\u2014but does he have the strength to do both those things again? It\u2019s very possible his heart can\u2019t take it.<\/em> – Ballantine Books<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it\u2019s been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While it\u2019s a bit lonely, she sometimes admits, and a less exciting life than what she imagined for herself, it\u2019s mostly okay. Mostly.<\/em><\/p>\n Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she\u2019s his half sister. Reuben\u2014left behind by their dad thirty years ago\u2014has hired a detective to track down their father and a string of other half siblings. And he wants Mad to leave her home and join him for the craziest kind of road trip imaginable to find them all.<\/em><\/p>\n As Mad and Rube\u2014and eventually the others\u2014share stories of their father, who behaved so differently in each life he created, they begin to question what he was looking for with every new incarnation. Who are they to one another? What kind of man will they find? And how will these new relationships change Mad\u2019s previously solitary life on the farm?<\/em><\/p>\n Infused with deadpan wit, zany hijinks, and enormous heart, Run for the Hills is a sibling story like no other\u2014a novel about a family forged under the most unlikely circumstances and united by hope in an unknown future.<\/em> – Ecco<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n JP and Dulin have been the best of friends for decades. When JP finds out his cancer has aggressively returned, Dulin decides it\u2019s the perfect time for one last adventure: a week-long bus tour of North America\u2019s Impossibles, the physics-defying glitches and geographic miracles that started cropping up seven years earlier\u2014right after the Announcement that revealed our world to be merely a digital simulacrum. The outing, courtesy of Canterbury Trails Tours, promises the trip of a (not completely real) lifetime in a (not completely deluxe) coach.<\/em><\/p>\n Their fellow passengers are 21st-century pilgrims, each of them on the tour for their own reasons. There\u2019s a nun hunting for an absent God, a pregnant influencer determined to make her child too famous to be deleted, a crew of horny octogenarians living each day like it\u2019s their last, and a professor on the run from leather-clad sociopaths who take The Matrix as scripture. Each stop on this trip is stranger than the last\u2014a Tunnel outside of time, a zero gravity Geyser, the compound of motivational-speaking avatar\u2014with everyone barreling toward the tour\u2019s iconic final stop Ghost City, where unbeknownst to our travelers the answer to who is running the simulation may await.<\/em> – S&S \/ Saga Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Coffin Moon<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Keith Rosson<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Fun at Parties<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Jamie Harrow<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Fun for the Whole Family<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Jennifer E Smith<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Hot Wax<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by M.L. Rio<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Housemates<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Emma Copley Eisenberg<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Idolfire<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Grace Curtis<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Make Sure You Die Screaming<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Zee Carlstrom<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Red River Road<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Anna Downes<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Road to Tender Hearts<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by Annie Hartnett<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Run for the Hills<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kevin Wilson<\/p>\n
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<\/a>When We Were Real<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Daryl Gregory<\/p>\n