And when she comes to, she can remember nothing of the last two years-not California, not coming to terms with her sexuality, not even Nora. They also had a plan: to leave their small, ultra-conservative town and families behind after graduation and move to California, where they could finally stop hiding that love.īut then Stevie has a terrible fall. A secret, epic, once-in-a-lifetime kind of love. What would you do if you forgot the love of your life ever even existed? A catastrophic secret.Īnd the shocking truth that will change everything about the way Chase sees Lia-and herself.īuy it: Bookshop | Amazon Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick True love.īut when Lia disappears, Chase’s life turns into a series of grim snapshots. Best friends for years-weekend trips to Montauk, sleepovers on a yacht-and then, first love. Meet Chase Ohara and Lia Vestiano: the driven overachiever and the impulsive wanderer, the future CEO and the free spirit. Welcome to Meadowlark, Long Island-expensive homes and good schools, ambition and loneliness. As she roots out the house’s rot, she must also face the truth of who she is and who she must become to save them all.īuy it: Bookshop | Amazon | IndieBound I Will Find You Again by Sarah Lyu Maybe, this time, she can keep her family together. With help from a delinquent girl, Jade will prove this house–the home they have always wanted–will not rest until it destroys them. Neither Ba nor her sweet sister Lily believe that there is anything strange happening. And at night Jade can’t ignore the ghost of the beautiful bride who leaves cryptic warnings: Don’t eat. She finds curious traces of her ancestors in the gardens they once tended. The walls exude a thrumming sound while bugs leave their legs and feelers in places they don’t belong. Night after night, Jade wakes up paralyzed. She’s always lied to fit in, so if she’s straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, she can get out with the college money he promised.īut the house has other plans. When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. Happy AAPI Heritage Month! As always, we’re celebrating with fabulous books starring Asian American and Pacific Islander protagonists, written by AAPI authors! Titles posted in full in previous years will not be included here, so for even more recs, check out previous years’ posts! Books to Buy Now She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao