Everyone loves a good academic refresh. These new and popular novels are all the rage for this year's fall semester.
The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu
When an elderly substitute teacher at Baldwin High School is found dead in the faculty lounge, the teachers spontaneously scatter his ashes on the school grounds, setting in motion a year that can only be described as wild, bizarre, tragic, mundane, beautiful, and humorous all at once.
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Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury
When a gruesome murder rocks Sunny's private school, with her own brother as the main suspect, she takes it upon herself to discover the real killer--and uncovers a slew of dark family secrets in the process.
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González
Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death. Moving back and forth through time and told from the perspectives of both women, Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a propulsive, witty examination of power, love, and art, daring to ask who gets to be remembered and who is left behind in the rarefied world of the elite.
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I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang
Channeling her frustrations into email drafts--ones that she'd never send--seemingly perfect Sadie Wen finds her carefully crafted, conflict-free life turned upside down when the email is sent out accidentally, and the only person growing to appreciate the real Sadie is the only boy she's sworn to hate.