Falling Like Leaves

Falling Like LeavesGilmore Girls meets Jenny Han in this delightfully autumnal small town romance (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a city girl stuck in a quaint small town who must confront her future and her old flame while the town prepares for an annual fall festival. Ellis has a plan: spend her senior fall prepping her application for Columbia, get into their journalism program, and set the foundation for a respectable career. So when her parents announce that

From snuffling snouts to pleasing plumpness and fine

Local heart-throb Aiden is a gardener

and an endlessly interesting dance between past and present

Friends to enemies to friends (to lovers

Will the big city ever feel like home

Jean decides to investigate

I have no choice but to turn to the strongest warlock in our school: Logan

his old friend Winston Churchill

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was one of Agatha Christie’s own favorite works—a brilliant whodunit that firmly established the author’s reputation as the Queen of Mystery

and a little fake flirting leads to fake dating

After a tense confrontation with one of the few other queer kids in his small-town high school

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu