Hello, everyone! I hope you had a wonderful Turkey Day (in our case, it was a goose day, since turkey is dry and joyless but goose is mouthwateringly tender). Before the holiday, I had the pleasure of attending Book Buzz at Cuyahoga County Public Library. Representatives from Penguin Random House, W. W. Norton & Company, Harlequin, and HarperCollins were on hand to tell us about some of their hot and tempting upcoming titles.

The books below really had my ears perkin’; we’ve got a book about a daughter getting revenge on the mother who abused her due to Munchausen syndrome by proxy; a terrifying book about experimentation on Black Americans, “part The Handmaid’s Tale, part The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”; a tale about a boy from a strict Muslim family who becomes a queer drag queen; a novel of the undead that sounds wildly entertaining and bouncy, and more. Which book is which? Look them up and find out, so you can share in my giddiness!

• Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
• Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
• American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson
• The Return by Rachel Harrison
• Illness Lesson by Clare Beams
• Weather by Jennifer Offill
• Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
• The Other Mrs. by Mary Kublica
• The Unwilling by Kelly Braffet
• Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther by Craig Pittman
• My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
• Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
• Lakewood by Megan Giddings
• Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman
• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
• The Ghost Factory by Jenny McCartney
• Unicorn by Amrou Al-Kadhi
• Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin
• The Great Unknown by Peg Kingman
• A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet