The meeting did not go well for Zach. Teddy doesn’t like Zach because he’s wealthy, entitled, and smug. But is he really all of those things? ‘For Your Own Good,’ by Samantha Downing.Penguin Decide for yourself in this exclusive excerpt.For Your Own Goodhits shelves Tuesday. A text from his father interrupts him. He didn’t even hear his dad drive up, much less enter the house. Zach types a message to his friend Lucas....
Book will be published in March. This is the third book King has written for Hard Case Crime, following 2005’sThe Colorado Kidand 2013’sJoyland. Laterwill be published March 2 and the standard editioncan be pre-ordered now. Credit: Shane Leonard Both covers feature artwork by Gregory Manchess. Exclusively read an excerpt fromLaterand see those two hardback covers below. Ours was the fanciest one. Hard Case Crime His eyes were bloodshot and his hair was all crazied up in gray spikes....
I’ve only ever worked to make them proud. Now they’ll think all their sacrifices were wasted on a monster. I don’t notice the black car following me until a few houses down. Credit: Feiwel & Friends (2) I swallow, walking faster. I’m probably being paranoid, I tell myself, glancing at the car window. As I push the keycode into the pad and rush through, I hear the car engine switch off....
EW has an exclusive sneak peek at Ayana Gray’s highly-anticipated new book. This week, the hunt begins and a new fantasy trilogy launches. It didn’t last long; memories of the previous night found her soon enough. ‘Beasts of Prey’. Then she remembered theeyes. They were a fathomless black, fixed firmly in her mind. When she’d risen, she’d come face-to-face with a monsterand not justanymonster. She’d known what it was instantly....
The following is an excerpt fromBlood Heir, the debut YA novel by authorAmelie Wen Zhao. After rereading the book, Zhao reversed course, deciding to move ahead with some revisions in April. I researched extensively on that subject and on indentured labor throughout the world, and specifically from my heritage. Credit: Random House Children’s Books The novel publishes Nov. 19, and isavailable for pre-order. Had she not expected that? No, Ana thought suddenly, touching a finger to her wound....
A new friend upends an expectant mother’s life in Katherine Faulkner’s novel. Protagonist Helen is finally pregnant after years of fertility struggles when things around her start going very wrong. As Rachel pushes her way into Helen’s life, some long-buried secrets threaten to surface. Read an excerpt from the book below, or listen to it above, as read by Laura Kirman. What did you do that day, after I was convicted?...
X + Y = My Actual Nightmare School smells different here. Here it is like everything else: foreign. Like bleach and eraser. Credit: andreanna paptheodorou All of that is erased now. I have come to the land where everything is possible. Math is the first class of the day. The classroom: too many posters, like a box lined with magazine ads. The kids: arm in arm and laughing even though the teacher is speaking....
Benson is Black, a native of the Houston melting pot that Bryan Washington calls home. Here, an excerpt from the book we need right now. My parents pretend I’m not gay. Dailey Hubbard It’s easier for them than it sounds. Before that, we took most of our family dinners downtown. My father was a meteorologist. It was a status thing. My mother never debated him or cussed him out or anything like that....
The musically inclined novel is one of spring’s hottest debuts. The only reason it got to me is because of how it was affecting Nev. That the regular people like to beat back what’s different, because it scares them half to death. You’d talk and vapor would be pouring out your mouth. You’d open his cabinets and all you saw was Campbell’s soup. What had me bothered was when he stopped scribbling down lyrics, stopped fooling around on the guitar....
The No-Show hits shelves on April 12. Beth O’Leary is steadily building a name for herself as the author of achingly romantic fiction. EW has an exclusive excerpt fromThe No-Show.Check it out after the image below. ‘The No-Show’ is bestselling author Beth O’Leary’s new book.Holly Bobbins Photography; Penguin Carter is waiting on the platform when Miranda arrives in Winchester. “Hello,” he says as she approaches him. “You look lovely.” She may not think he’s a serial killer, but he’s still not in her good books....
Check out the new book from former EW editor Doug Brod. Doug Brodwas around 11 when he first sawKISSperforming on the television. “They had all of that. Credit: Hachette Books I was totally in love with the visual aspect. In the book, Brod details problems between the road crews of KISS andAerosmith. “KISS and Aerosmith played shows together. I heard stories about knives coming out. No one got stabbed, but there were threats....
The debut by Kai Harris is on shelves now. Granddaddy’s house is quiet in the morning. This morning don’t feel like those. Kai Harris' debut novel ‘What the Fireflies Knew’ is out now on Phoebe Robinson’s new imprint.Tiny Reparations Books Granddaddy sits at the table quiet, drinking black coffee from a plain white mug. Nia don’t speak, so I don’t, either. She finds a box of oatmeal in the kitchen and makes a bowl that she puts in the microwave....
Below, read an exclusive excerpt fromThe Woods Are Always Watchingbefore it hits shelves on Aug. 31. ** For as long as I live, she vowed, I will never go camping again. Business done and wiped, she reached for her pants. ‘The Woods Are Always Watching’. A faint crack rang out from beyond the thicket the sound of a twig snapping. It’s nothing, she thought. But then another twig snapped. Frantically, she hunted for the source, but the mist had swollen into a fog....
