New Book Releases: October 12, 2021

Each week, I’ll catalog the biggest and most exciting adult and YA fiction — and the occasional nonfiction — coming out that Tuesday.

THE BRIDES OF MARACOOR, Gregory Maguire. In this novel by the author of Wicked, Elphaba’s granddaughter washes up on the beach of a mysterious island, disrupting the group of seven women who have always lived there. A “complex, enticing fantasy,” says Publisher’s Weekly. “An expertly crafted introduction to a new series of magic and adventure,” writes Kirkus in a starred review. Bookshop.

NO ONE WILL MISS HER, Kat Rosenfield. An outcast of a rural town in Maine is found murdered, and a local detective begins to make a connection between her death and a wealthy social media influencer who has been renting the murdered woman’s home. “The superb character-driven plot delivers an astonishing, believable jolt,” writes Publisher’s Weekly in a starred review. Bookshop.

WHEN TWO FEATHERS FELL FROM THE SKY, Margaret Verble. In 1920s Nashville, a young Cherokee horse-diver and her best friend must solve the mystery of what’s plaguing the amusement park where they work. “This lands perfectly,” writes Publisher’s Weekly in a starred review. Bookshop.

ALONG THE SALTWISE SEA, A. Deborah Baker. Two friends must work off their debt to a pirate queen and embark upon a dangerous, magical sea voyage in this fantasy novella by the author Seanan McGuire. Bookshop.

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