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Trisha McClanahan’s The Needlepoint Theory frames friendship, betrayal and regret through the image of a needlepoint canvas seen from the back.

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Maithil Sahitya Prakashan has released Satish Jha’s Hindi poetry collection The Village Did Not Leave in New Delhi in 2026. The book uses four linked movements and more than 50 poems to explore memory, speech, labour and civic life.

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Jan Lloyd will publish Arbel: Majesty and Sorrow on September 2, 2026, with the historical novel centering on Lady Arbella Stuart, a cousin of Elizabeth I and one of the leading claimants to the English throne.

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Novelist and former teacher Chris Orcutt is promoting his nine-book Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome series as New York students return to phone-free classrooms for the 2026-27 school year.

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PixAI launched Visual Novel Mode in Mio.2, letting creators build branching story pages through chat instead of manually scripting layouts.

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Debut author Mary Mathis Burke has released Amid Vapors: A Clandestine Adventure, a self-published spy novel centered on a retired nurse pulled into a global espionage program.

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Erica Ahmed has released The Owner’s Box: The Inheritance, a historical novel inspired by her grandfather’s Negro football legacy and the broader history of Black professional football.

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Poet Luis A. Estable’s Religious, Ten Songs And Thirty Sonnets was named a winner in the 2026 NYC Big Book Award’s Poetry-Spirit, Philosophy & the Sacred category.

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Kristin Kagawa Bedford’s Where the Bamboo Bends opens Sept. 10 and centers on the little-documented lives of Japanese women in early 20th-century Texas.

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Cowboy and rancher Grahame Beer has published This Cowboyin’ Thing: Ranch and Farm Tales from the North West, a new poetry collection drawn from more than 40 years on the Canadian prairies.

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Joseph Howse’s The Circus and the Atom won top honors in World Literature and Audiobook-Fiction at the 2026 NYC Big Book Award, with additional recognition for cover design.

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Psychotherapist Dr. Maureen B. Roberts has published StarDreaming, a nonfiction account of a prophetic dream that preceded and foreshadowed her relationship with award-winning science fiction author Damien Broderick.

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USA TODAY bestselling author J.J. Hebert’s urban fantasy novel The Breaking of Time: Chronicles of the Arvynth won the Gold Medal in the Fiction – Fantasy – Urban category at the 2026 Readers’ Favorite International Book Award Contest.

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Gary E Smith’s And So It Goes won first place in the Political Thriller category at the 2026 NYC Big Book Award.

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The Lab Press is turning its first year of publishing into an awards run, with honors across the IPPY Awards, IBPA, Foreword INDIES and other book and design contests.

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Author and educator Brooke Carnwath has released Far From the Ocean’s Edge, a middle-grade novel about a Maine girl searching for the father she has never met. The book, published by She Writes Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster, centers on…

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Author and nurse leader Cherie L. Davis has released The Maps We Make: A Poetry Collection, a seven-movement book shaped by personal experiences from childhood, marriage and healthcare to therapy, recovery and reflection.

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Ran Dolph Poole’s The Provident Events follows two men whose friendship deepens as their personal crises escalate, then comes under strain from secrets, family danger and emotional fallout.

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Michael Sabella’s THROUGH BLOOD AND FOG follows a young Sicilian man pulled into corruption, violence, and family secrets that stretch from 1889 Sicily to 1890s San Francisco.

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Plotsy has signed Kindle Storyteller Award winner G J Ogden for Forsaken Commander, the first Aternien Wars novel, as the next title for its Plotsy vBook format.