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Huda F Would Love You?: A Graphic Novel with Huda Fahmy (Dial Books, 2026)
Huda Fahmy's latest, Huda F Would Love You? (Dial Books, 2026) is a funny and tender finale to the Huda F series, Huda has a plan to find love—but she might need to find herself first! It’s the summer after Huda’s high school graduation, and love is in the air! Or it’s about to be, anyway. Because Huda has the ingredients for a perfect love story: a butt-kicking girl power squad of new friends, and a plan to woo all the aunties into setting her up with their eligible sons. But when she finds herself caught between her friends and her heart, gender roles and ambitions, and her fears and dreams, Huda begins to realize that finding her own “happily ever after” might require changing herself—or her expectations.
19 Oct 2026
The Age of Fury with John Stephens (Random House, 2026)
John Stephen's The Age of Fury (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2026) takes place in Gilded Age New York, a fierce seventeen year-old Irish girl joins forces with a notorious gangster to hunt down her sister's killer. Told from both perspectives, their search for justice pulls them from the city’s darkest corners to glittering ballrooms, where a secret can mean death, and love comes at a perilous price. Two unlikely allies must venture into dangerous places--perhaps into each other's arms--to solve a brutal crime.
Caitlin
Mary, my darling twin. I came on the instant of getting your letter. Leaving home in Ireland, crossing the ocean and still arriving too late. Because you're gone. Murdered and left in a dark alley! But I will avenge you, my love. I swear it. Even if I must make a deal with the devil. Or, in this case, the most blood-soaked gangster in New York.
William
There is blood on my hands I cannot wash away. But if finding this girl's killer proves that I am more than the dark thing inside me, more than a monster, then I will. Only I did not forsee Caitlin. Now I have to make a choice. About who I am, who I will be, and who I love.
A producer, director, and writer for shows like Gossip Girl, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., and Gotham turns his attention to the underbelly of Gilded Age New York in this riveting suspense novel that blends tension and humanity--and deftly showcases a heart-stirring exploration of truth, identity, and love.
4 Oct 2026
The Stitches Between Us with Taylor D Lott (Hawes & Jenkins, 2025)
Taylor D. Lott's The Stitches Between Us (Hawes & Jenkins, 2025) tells the story of Theo, a quiet, imaginative boy growing up in a home where sensitivity is punished and creativity is met with cruelty. He learns early to retreat inward, expressing what he cannot say through fabric, sketches, and observation. In a world that leaves little room for softness, Theo finds refuge in Danielle-unguarded, curious, and gently defiant. She recognizes his talent without trying to reshape him, and their connection becomes a fragile lifeline. Something fractures that lifeline. What once grounded Theo is slipping away, leaving him unmoored and overwhelmed. As the pressure inside his home mounts and the one place he felt seen becomes unreachable, Theo is pushed toward a breaking point. A final confrontation with his father sends him fleeing into the night, abandoning his family without explanation. Years later, Theo's older brother Noah built a successful career as a respected journalist, known for reporting on war zones, global crises, and international diplomacy. When he is assigned to cover a high-profile fashion show in Paris, he enters a world he doesn't understand-and one that feels disturbingly familiar. Recognition comes quietly. There is no announcement. No reunion. Only an unspoken awareness beneath the bright lights of Paris and the shadows of the past. As Noah navigates the spectacle surrounding the show, he must decide what kind of witness he wants to be: whether to turn private survival into public spectacle, or to protect a truth someone fought desperately to keep buried.
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