Olivia A. Cole. HarperCollins/Tegen, $17.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-264421-3
Cole’s slow-burning adventure, first in a planned duology, is set in a distant future in which mankind has evacuated Earth (aka the Origin Planet) and established the colony of N’Terra on the planet Faloiv after a temporary pit stop became permanent.
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Olivia A. Cole. Little, Brown, $17.99 (384) ISBN 978-0-7595-5412-2
Following the death of her grandmother, 17-year-old white Shania Hester is uprooted from her rural life to the city of South Blue Rock, where her grandmother lived, to help her mother settle her affairs. There, Shania finds herself caught between...
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Olivia A. Cole. Labyrinth Road, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-48573-6
Cole (The Truth About White Lies) pens a dynamic portrait of one teenager confronting trauma surrounding her sexual assault in this intense verse novel inspired by the Greek tragedy of Medusa. When 16-year-old white Alicia Rivers’s religious best...
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Olivia A. Cole. Little, Brown, $16.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-44912-0
Devastating blazes once threatened to destroy the city of Prine, until scientist Dr. Lunata Elemneiri engineered a powerful, fireproof plant called lockwood. Now, dense lockwood shrouds Prine in darkness. To make ends meet, children small enough to...
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Olivia A. Cole. Labyrinth Road, $19.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-593-64466-9
Queer 17-year-old Ariel Burns begins to fear her own mind when intrusive thoughts about harming others intensify during a pivotal summer in this arresting verse novel by Cole (Dear Medusa). Ariel likens the thoughts to a “green and scaly” crocodile,
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Olivia A. Cole. Little, Brown, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-44942-7
A year after mysteriously vanishing into the woods near their home, white-cued Henrietta “Henry” Lightfoot’s explorer father unexpectedly returns on her 12th birthday. He claims to have “found the land of Truth” and gives her a strange map and...
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Olivia A. Cole. Fletchero Publishing (www.oliviaacole.com), $18 paper (472p) ISBN 978-0-9916155-0-6
Cole debuts with a tense and intelligent post-apocalyptic story. In a not-distant future, America is divided along sharp socioeconomic lines. Tasha Lockett, an orphaned African-American young woman, works at a designer pet shop catering to wealthy...
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Olivia A. Cole and Ashley Woodfolk. Simon & Schuster, $19.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-66596-714-3
Two high school seniors scheme against a heartbreaker classmate in this biting collaboration from Cole (Ariel Crashes a Train) and Woodfolk (Louder than Words). While makeup influencer Maia is “on a break” from her relationship with rugby captain...
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