Stranger Things: The Dustin Experiment
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By J.L. D’Amato
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Release Date: October 29, 2024

Geeky high school freshman Dustin Henderson finds an unlikely ally in metalhead Eddie Munson when they road trip outside of Hawkins to a science fair where they team up to uncover the competition’s saboteur in this latest installment in the Stranger Things book series, The Dustin Experiment.

Dustin Henderson has always trusted and relied on his friends Mike, Will, and Lucas, but lately they’ve all seemed preoccupied. The once-inseparable pals went from spending time reading comic books, watching movies, playing Dungeons & Dragons, to later battling monsters that invaded their once-quiet town of Hawkins, Indiana, to now barely seeing each other. Will is in California; Mike is distracted by his long-distance girlfriend El, who is living with Will’s family; and Lucas, whose relationship with Max is strained, is more interested in making the basketball team than hanging out with the “The Party” (the name of their old D&D group). So Dustin invites Mike and Lucas to build something with him for them to enter into an Indianapolis science fair, figuring the experience will help them reconnect. Unfortunately, it’s not to be, so the young teen decides to go it alone. Well, not quite alone, since he still needs a ride to the big city. For this, Dustin manages to enlist local teenage metalhead Eddie Munson, who not only introduces him to heavy metal during their road trip, but also contributes to the science project and helps solve a mystery at the competition.

Gate To Kagoshima
Book 1: Ancestor Memories Fantasy
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By Poppy Kuroki
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: January 28, 2025

In Gate To Kagoshima, a new historical romance-fantasy that begins in early 21st century Japan, a Scottish women researching her Japanese ancestry experiences both love and war after she’s transported back in time during the Satsuma Rebellion, the bloody 19th century conflict which saw the samurai make their final stand.

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
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By Grady Hendrix
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: January 14, 2025

After being secreted away at a home for wayward girls, a desperate pregnant teen turns to witchcraft for help unaware of its severe consequences in Grady Hendrix‘s captivating new body horror, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls.

Neva Craven was an average 15-year-old girl living in the American South in 1970, socializing with friends in high school and landing the lead in the school play. She even had a boyfriend on Valentine’s Day for the first time. But when Neva learns she’s pregnant, her family sends her away to a secluded Maternity Home to finish out her pregnancy in secret. After giving birth, she’s expected to give her baby up for adoption, then return home to her old life as if nothing ever happened.

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
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By Clay McLeod Chapman
Publisher: Quirk Books
Release Date: January 7, 2025

An obsession with social media and far-right news programs sends an average American family into a downward spiral, causing mass hysteria and an epidemic of supernatural proportions in Clay McLeod Chapman‘s daring new social horror Wake Up and Open Your Eyes.

Red Side Story
Book 2: Shades of Grey
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By Jasper Fforde
Publisher: Soho Press
Release Date: May 7, 2024

Jasper Fforde‘s Red Side Story, the long-awaited sequel to Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron, dives back into world of Chromatacia, where a person’s social status is based on their color perception. In this dystopian setting 500 years in the future, the Purples are the ruling class, while the Greys are peasants at the bottom, deprived of privilege and made to do the grunt work. The various shades of red, blue, and yellow are in the middle, with each group grasping for a bit of power.