Robots starting a noodle shop, a cat who runs around the cosmos in his homemade space craft, a library where books are filled with passed one’s memories that the government is now destroying for their own benefit, and a little ghost who, instead of a sheet, is a quilt and finds the joys of winter celebrations are just some of the awesome titles coming out this month!
Which of these covers catches your eye??
August 5, 2025
A novella about leftover robots opening their own noodle shop.
Maybe I’ve got a soft spot for robots after “In the Lives of Puppets” by TJ Klune, but robots and a noodle shop?! Yesss.
By: Annalee Newitz
Birdie was a thirteen-year-old model under modeling agent Harriet Goldman – but after two years, she met a thirty-one-year-old rock star and her life changed. Now, thirty years later, Birdie is invited to celebrate Harriet’s fifty-year career, but Birdie has been avoiding her past for years. Now, she must face it if she wants to make her own future.
By: Amy Rossi
August 12, 2025
Nimmi has wanted to see her mother in Sri Lanka, but her overprotective father has always refused. After her father gets an assignment in Sri Lanka and Nimmi sneaks onboard the plane, it’s a little too late to say no. But it’s Christmas 2004, and the tsunami hits Sri Lanka. Now, came Nimmi still reunite with her mother, even amidst the devastation?
By: SJ Sindu
Periwinkle is no ordinary pampered house pet. By day, he’s spoiled with scratches, cuddles, and delicious snacks. By night, he races through the cosmos in his custom-built space ship. This graphic novel has beautiful artwork from Tana Ford and is perfect for cat lovers out there.
By: Nnedi Okorafor
August 26, 2025
Okay, this one has a library, the Time Space, that holds the memories of those who have passed, and it’s only accessed by these special watches. Lisavet basically grows up here and she finds out that government officials are coming into the library and destroying books so the past fits their personal narratives of what they wanted to happen. But when Lisavet meets American spy Ernest Duquesne and sets her on the course to change history and possible time space itself. In 1965, sixteen-year-old Amelia is mourning the disappearance of her Uncle Ernest when a CIA agents enlists her for help. When Amelia steps into the Time Space for the first time, she realizes time is not a linear as she once thought.
By: Hayley Gelfuso
A little ghost quilt discovers the holiday of winter in this adorable Children’s book.
I had a chunk of it done, but by the time I could actually put time into it, it was halfway over and I didn’t think anyone would want to know what I was stoked for in the past… I don’t know, maybe I should have still posted it? I know a lot of people don’t really read this – that this is more for myself. But I need to do better at remembering to actually get this done – cause here I am at 11 am Tuesday morning, trying to get this together 🙂 Still a work in progress I guess haha.
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