Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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A celebration of bold, new perspectives and breakout talent, with stories of family struggles, resurrection, and difficult choices. This fiction debuts panel was part of Penguin Random House, Library Journal, and School Library Journal's Winter 2025 Virtual Book & Author Festival that debuted on December 4, 2025 and features the following authors:
(click on the links to learn more about each book)

Tolani Akinola, LEAVE YOUR MESS AT HOME (Pamela Dorman Books)
penguinrandomhouselibrary.com/book/?isbn=9780593834190

Heather Eng, DOUBLE HAPPINESS (Tiny Reparations Books)
penguinrandomhouselibrary.com/book/?isbn=9798217046980

Juliet Faithfull, LIAR'S DICE (Random House)
penguinrandomhouselibrary.com/book/?isbn=9798217153886

Rebecca Lehmann, THE BEHEADING GAME (Crown)
penguinrandomhouselibrary.com/book/?isbn=9798217086481

Erin L. McCoy, UNDERLAKE (Doubleday)
penguinrandomhouselibrary.com/book/?isbn=9780385552073

Moderator: Kristyn Dorfman, Lower and Middle School Librarian, Friends Academy (NY)