April Genevieve Tucholke. Dial, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3889-8
Tucholke debuts with a thoroughly eerie novel set in a quintessential horror-story location: a quaint Maine town. Violet White and her 17-year-old twin brother are living in the dilapidated glory of their family’s coastal estate while their parents...
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Edited by April Genevieve Tucholke. Dial, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8037-4173-7
In this gruesome collection of horror stories, 14 authors including Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu, Jonathan Maberry, and Carrie Ryan take inspiration from movies, books, songs, and television, twisting, reworking, and combining them to create something...
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April Genevieve Tucholke. Dial, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8037-4048-8
Tucholke (Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea) rapidly alternates among the perspectives of teenagers Wink, Poppy, and Midnight in a dark, unpredictable mystery that subverts literary conventions like the hero’s journey while shimmering with...
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April Genevieve Tucholke. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-30706-6
In this evocative fantasy loosely inspired by Beowulf, four young women who have devoted their lives to ritual mercy killing as “Mercies” or “Boneless Mercies” decide to give up that sad, dark work in favor of more satisfying pursuits: honor, glory,
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April Genevieve Tucholke. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-30709-7
In this elegant YA fantasy inspired by Arthurian legend and ancient Norse culture, a young woman embarks upon a dangerous quest to rescue her sister, who’s been taken by a ruthless band of roving wolf-priests led by a power-hungry she-wolf. After...
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April Genevieve Tucholke, illus. by Khoa Le. Algonquin, $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-6437-5157-3
An instance of compassion prompts two siblings to overcome their emotional distance in Tucholke’s gothic-inflected picture book debut. “Beatrice likes the dark dark dark/ and the dark dark dark likes her,” reads incantatory prose as readers see the...
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April Genevieve Tucholke, illus. by Rebecca Santo. Algonquin, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-64375-238-9
Narrator Merry is a northern saw-whet owl with “big yellow eyes that scan the dark world below.” Of the conifers in the forest, Hark is Merry’s favorite—she’s a Norway spruce who is “strong, and proud, and gentle.” In their wood, the owls gather to...
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