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PUBLISHERS LUNCH BUZZ BOOKS 2020 SELECTION

Flights of Marigold tells an epic tale of addictions, survival, revenge, and redemption of three magiel sisters hiding in an insignificant hinterland. Can they hold on to happiness, dreams, and sisterhood when desire becomes addiction?

ONE RISK, ONE CHANCE.

Peace in the seven...

"Vera Violet is the most authentic and exciting debut I've read in a long time. At once gritty and jaw-droppingly lyrical, Peterson's voice is a clarion call for the downtrodden and disenchanted. Reading Vera Violet is nothing less than a visceral and stirring experience." —Jonathan Evison, author of Lawn Boy

Set against the backdrop of a decaying Pacific...

For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, a richly atmospheric and darkly unforgettable debut about lost innocence and life in the margins...

'Remarkable. Fiction debuts this accomplished don't come along very often... Smith is a writer of immense talent and rare imagination [and] this novel reads like a miracle' - NPR

'To be honest, we just weren't looking that...

From the beloved author of When You Read This, a smart, sharply observed novel about gender and class on a contemporary Southern college campus in the spirit of The Female Persuasion and Prep.

Carter University: “The Harvard of the South.”

Annie Stoddard was the smartest girl in her small public high school in Georgia, but now that she’s at Carter, it feels...

Genre and Steamy Level: High Steam Level. It is schmexy rompy New Adult Romance more than safe, polite Romantic Comedy.

What happens when my beautiful British crush du jour with serious-boyfriend-potential unexpectedly becomes my archenemy billionaire boss who's determined to fire me? I'm a total hot mess because I might just be falling in love.

Okay, it’s...

When a seemingly normal world suddenly rediscovers that it is full of magic, and has four races of Eedon Rath-ni, either Eagles, Ravens, Dragons, or Hawks, who each take riders known as Dravens, with special abilities in either combat, magic, spying, or can turn into a beast, it challenges everything they know about their own world as they know it. This...

On June 16, 1914, journalist Alec Bannon and his young wife Millie Bloom, a photographer, meet at the Museum of Natural Science of New York an Inuit called Piugaattoq (also known as Minik Wallace) who's father's bones are on display over there.

Minik hires the services of a Chinese tong and a Voodoo priest to assist him for revengefully replacing his...

Piper

Most people don’t think about the day they’ll die. They coast through life, blissfully unaware of how their time is ticking away. I wasn’t like most people. I welcomed death, wanted her to take me away from the prison I called life, but she refused. I tried twice only to survive. And then, when I thought I had nothing left it came.

A reason to live.

Rex...

Ten months—that’s how long twenty-six-year-old writer and aspiring actor Jay Sakovsky decides to stay and teach in the bohemian beach town of Soul City, California, to save up cash and overcome his anxiety before moving on to Hollywood.

But after several “friendly chats” with the vice principal about hangover sweats and black eyes from barroom brawls, Jay...

It is 2028 and nineteen-year-old Ella and her boyfriend Brandon are a vital part of something so new and quantumly huge that it could save the world from a climate disaster. The problem for Ella is whom to trust: Her psychic fiddle Lenore that she inherited from her beloved grandfather? Her professors at Brecken University who pull mysterious strings of...

A new chapter begins in the lives of childhood friends, Thomasine, Rachel, and Hope. Their friendship has stood the test of time, but more adventures are in store for them…Round ‘Bout Midnight. In this sequel to Time Will Tell, the unresolved issues and hurts Thomasine, Rachel, and Hope experienced during their youth don’t just vanish into thin air.

The...

What has time told you about the power of friendship?

Thomasine, Rachel, and Hope share laughs and heartaches, hopes and dreams over the years, but only Time Will Tell if their friendship can survive the drama.

Accountant Hope Jones-McCoy goes through life masquerading self-righteousness for saintliness until the world she spent ten years building comes...

Now that high school is over, Randi just wants to live her quiet life in her little town, but it doesn’t feel right without her friends there. Ever the daredevils, they’ve gone to seek adventure in the capital city of Grandin, and Randi can’t help but feel left behind. Not to mention that she definitely can’t stop thinking about that kiss she and Eddy...

Chad Gibbons and his best friend, Gary Lee Dillanger, have worked their way through the ranks of competitive go-karting with the legendary Kilgore racing family in Blue Springs, Alabama. Monroe Kilgore and his wife Uma see their racing world very differently, and Uma is haunted by how it affects and may destroy lives while tainting the morality of those who...

Life Happens on the Stairs

And there's no running when it's your turn...

1st place - The Maggie Award, Young Adult, Georgia Romance Writers, 2019

Solo Medalist Winner: Young Adult, 2019 New Apple Awards

Finalist - 2019 IAN Book of the Year Awards, Young Adult and First Novel

Winner of the 2018 Breakthrough Novel Awards

3rd Place, Young Adult Romance - 2016 Linda...

These four ex-boxers are ready to give love their best shot.

He’s huge, dark and deadly—the perfect bodyguard—until love sneaks up and hits him BELOW THE BELT…

Nothing can stop this contract killer from getting the job done. Then the perfect assassin makes FULL CONTACT…

She’s desperate for a baby, and he’s more than willing to take on the challenge...

Swallowtail is a deep dive into the dissection of popular culture, and how the brightness and horrors of it can be mirrors into the daily lived experiences of women in America.

Only the darkest and most dangerous of Mages are sentenced to pass through the gate to Asperfell.

Not one has ever returned.

Never did Briony dream she might set foot in the otherworldly prison of Asperfell. She was, after all, neither Mage nor criminal. She was simply her father’s little whirlwind—fingers smudged with ink, dresses caked with mud—forever lost...

Some superheroes want to save the world. Damian is just hoping to save himself.

In the post-Break world of superpowers, necromancy is the one gift nobody wants. Everyone knows what happens to Crows; they go mad and they go bad. That's the story of infamous mass murderers like Crimson Death, Gravedigger, and Sally Cemetery. It's also the story of David...

From debut Sci-Fi author A.J. Feagin comes Song of Nümenstar, an explosive new space opera adventurer thriller!

Exhausted from having served their time as consulars of the Daejic Szekta--the arbiters of security and peace within the galaxy--Myla and Karawn just want to run away together and live a quiet, happy life. But ongoing civil war still ravages their...

Girl meets boy.
Boy falls for girl.
Girl discovers boy is a runaway K-pop idol in hiding.

Merilee Hart has been doing her best to keep things together since her mother left, her art a welcome escape from her depressing new reality. But things seem to go even more awry the moment her next door neighbor's enigmatic and mysterious nephew arrives from South...