Penelope Bagieu, California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before The Mamas & the Papas

In Mike Cavallro's science fiction/fantasy, Decelerate Blue, a young woman is recruited into a resistance movement to resist a world in which speed and efficiency are everything, but can they succeed before the powers that be shut down their utopian experiment?

In Nidhi Chanani's first graphic novel, Pashmina, a girl growing up in the US wonders about her Indian heritage, until a mysterious pashmina transports her to a place more vivid and colorful than any guidebook or Bollywood film.  (children/elem)

In Kim Dwinell's graphic novel, Surfside Girls: The Secret of Danger Point, Samantha and her friend start investigating the weird stuff happening in Surfside--like ghosts, and pirates, and something even scarier!  (children/elem)

Take That, Adolf! is a compilation of more than 500 stunningly restored comics covers published during World War II featuring America’s greatest super-villain curated by film scholar Mark Fertig, who also contributes an introductory essay examining comics’ coming-of-age amidst the greatest cataclysm in modern history.

At its core, Michel Fiffe's comic, Zegas is a collection of interactions that map out orphaned siblings' most primal concerns: survival, sex, and mortality. 

In Nicole J. Georges' gorgeous graphic novel Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home she chronicles her symbiotic, codependent relationship with Beija, and probes what it means to care for and be responsible to another living thing—a living thing that occasionally lunges at toddlers.

Eric Grissom's science fiction graphic novel Gregory Suicide takes readers into a frightening future.  

Erin Hicks's Eisner Award-winning The Adventures of Superhero Girl presents the re-released, expanded version, featuring two new stories, and new art. (Expanded Edition) (children/elem)

Matt Holm, Swing It, Sunny (children/elem)

Janet Lee's Eisner-winning graphic novel, Return of the Dapper Men, blends clockwork whimsy with majestic art-nouveau visuals, into a hand-crafted fairy tale that feels both familiar and entirely new. (children/elem)

George O’Connor’s Artemis: Wild Goddess of the Hunt is a graphic novel that portrays the myth behind the Greek goddess Artemis.

In Molly Knox Ostertag’s graphic novel The Witch Boy, a boy identifies as a witch in a family where all boys become shapeshifters.

In Mimi Pond’s graphic novel The Customer is Always Wrong, a young woman’s art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholism.

Nate Powell's Omnibox: Featuring Swallow Me Whole, Any Empire, & You Don't Say

Trina Robbins, Last Girl Standing

Jason Shiga’s graphic novel Demon 2 is the second installment in a four volume mystery adventure about the shocking chaos one highly rational and utterly sociopathic man can create in the world, given a single simple supernatural power.

In his new comic book, Terms and Conditions master satirist Robert Sikoryak tackles the iTunes contract everyone agrees to but no one reads.

Mariko Tamaki’s graphic novel for children, Lumberjanes: Unicorn Power! (Lumberjanes #1) follows a group of unusual girls who have supernatural adventures at a special summer camp. 

Tillie Walden’s graphic memoir Spinning, captures what it’s like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know.

Scott Westerfeld’s The Spill is a graphic novel that follows the aftermath of an industrial spill in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Secret Coders: Secrets & Sequences is the third book in the graphic children’s novel Secret Coders series from Gene Luen Yang; in this installment, Principal Dean demands the secret coders turn over their most powerful robot.

In Anna Banks’ thrilling sequel to Nemesis, Princess Sepora of Serubel and King Tarik of Theoria have formed an uneasy truce--until traitors with powerful allies arise from unexpected places, challenging both their kingdoms forever.

Julie Buxbaum’s What to Say Next

Michael Buckley's best-selling The Sisters Grimm series, featuring two orphaned sisters, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, celebrates ten years with the republication of several of its most popular titles.

Set in 1932, Cecil Castellucci's illustrated children’s book Soupy Leaves Home, features two misfits with no place to call home, who build a relationship during a train hopping journey from the cold heartbreak of their eastern homes toward the sunny promise of California.

A charmed life of private planes and notoriety gives way to a life of being a little fish in a big pond in Veronica Chambers’ The Go-Between.

In Nidhi Chanani's first graphic novel, Pashmina, a girl growing up in the US wonders about her Indian heritage, until a mysterious pashmina transports her to a place more vivid and colorful than any guidebook or Bollywood film.

Buoyed by the rhythms, heat and lyrical lilt of contemporary Trinidad and Tobago, Tamika Gibson's YA novel Dreams Beyond the Shore, winner of the 2016 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, is a heartwarming story declaring that decisions matter far more than destiny.

In Cynthia Hand’s The Afterlife of Holly Chase a girl unwilling to change her spoiled ways before death is forced to gain some insight as the new ghost of Christmas past

Michelle Hodkin, author of the Mara Dyer Trilogy, shows readers what happens after happily ever after in The Becoming of Noah Shaw (The Shaw Confessions).

Sophie Chen Keller’s The Luster of Lost Things

In The Empress, S.J. Kincaid's thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel, The Diabolic, Tyrus has ascended to the throne with Nemesis by his side--but having power isn’t the same thing as keeping it, and change isn’t always welcomed.

Combining Viking lore and Western tales, Emmy Laybourne's Berserker portrays a young girl who struggles to control her murderous “gift” as she embarks on a perilous journey through the wilds of the American frontier.

In his all-new adventure based on the hit TV series, The Flash!,

In Apex, the thrilling finale to Mercedes Lackey’s bestselling series, our heroine Joy faces foes more powerful than ever and must team up with a treacherous former nemesis in order to end this brutal war- but can they be trusted?

Barry Lyga’s The Flash: Hocus Pocus must face a mysterious villain who can control the minds and actions of citizens.

Conor McCreery's graphic novel Juliet Lives! flashes back to five months after the death of Romeo, where Juliet is mourning yet another loved one – her mother.

Megan Miranda’s Fragments of the Lost

Ramon Perez’s Jane

Sara Shepard's The Amateurs, Book 2 Follow Me follows a team of amateur sleuths who are all linked by a true crime website down a twisted path crafted by a brilliant killer.

Maggie Thrash’s young adult fictional thriller Strange Lies traces the mystery of a horrific and tragic accident, the maiming of the student body president of an elite prep school in Atlanta. 

Tillie Walden’s graphic memoir Spinning, captures what it’s like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know.

Lynn Weingarten’s YA romantic thriller Bad Girls With Perfect Faces, follows the story of a young girl determined to prevent her best friend from reuniting with his cheating ex by creating a false online identity.

Kiersten White is the author of Now I Rise, the highly anticipated sequel to And I Darken—from the series that reads like HBO’s Game of Thrones, if it were set in the Ottoman Empire.

In her YA novel, American Street, author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing a lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou culture.