10 Must-Read New Books Out This Week

Summer and Aiko dated as teenagers, but their relationship somehow failed to launch. Now, Summer’s back in town to save the high school where they shared their first kiss — and Aiko’s overseeing the building’s demolition.

When a fire alights, 19-year-old Avery and her brother Cole are forced to flee their religious compound for the first time. Now on the outside, they’ll learn the terrible truth: their parents are not their parents, and everything they’ve been told about the world is a lie.

By tracing the author’s history of longstanding obsessions and repetitive, intrusive thoughts, Marianne Eloise’s memoir offers a glimpse into the inner workings of an “atypical” mind.

This slim, powerful memoir-in-essays attempts to map Isaac Fitzgerald’s chaotic life, from his unhoused childhood to a nomadic — and colorful — adulthood.

When she returns home to help her dying mother, Vera finds a tenant occupying the guest house — an artist, who’s there to be inspired by the horrors of Vera’s childhood. He must be the one leaving the notes she’s finding on the property, written in her dad’s handwriting... right?

A boudoir photographer who specializes in making fat women feel confident finds herself on the other side of the camera — and working side-by-side with her biggest business rival — in this playful new contemporary romance.

Someone’s murdering bloodsuckers at the Harcote School — an elite preparatory academy that caters to the children of wealthy vampires — and it’s up to two misfits, charity-case Kat and controversially lesbian Taylor, to crack the case, in Youngblood.

The sheltered daughter of a controversial scientist begins to seriously question the motives of her father and his patron when the patron’s son, Eduardo, shows up at their secluded home.

The 400-year-old ghost of a Spanish teenager falls in love with vacationing writer George Sand — a woman who can never know she exists — in this heartfelt work of literary fiction from memoirist Nell Stevens.

After their father is accused of witchcraft, sisters Isla and Blue take refuge in the ruins of Londinium — a Roman city on the Thames believed to be uninhabited — where they find a ragtag bunch of women running from similar allegations.