A talented sound editor, a former soap opera star and a cult film director team up to finish the director’s final film and hopefully undo a Nazi occult curse. But in "Silver Nitrate" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the world of horror isn’t confined to film. In "Charming," Jade Linwood tackles the question of how there are so many fairy tale princesses but only one Prince Charming. The answer? He's a con man and a thief, but Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and Snow White have compared notes and are joining forces to get their revenge.

Be inspired by the wide range of gardens featured in "Private Gardens of The Potomac and Chesapeake: Washington DC, Maryland, Northern Virginia" by Claudia Kousoulas. From urban rooftops to sprawling estates, it has everything you need to know. Learn more about the Western journalists covering WWII from Moscow’s historic Metropol Hotel in "The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin’s Propaganda War" by Alan Philips. The journalists were allowed to stay but faced extreme censorship from Stalin’s regime.

Middle grade readers will be moved by Cora Mae’s desire to bring electricity to her Appalachian community in 1937, but many members of her community, including her mother, are opposed in Toni Buzzeo’s "Light Comes to Shadow Mountain."

Teen readers will be gripped by the twists and turns in "The King is Dead" by Benjamin Dean. When James becomes England’s first Black king at the age of 17, he hides his sexuality, but when his boyfriend goes missing and there are leaks coming from inside the palace, he doesn’t know who he can trust.