Compound Fracture

London, 1883. Der sechzehnjährige Silas Bell ist trans und würde sich lieber seine violetten Augen ausreißen, als eine gehorsame Speaker-Ehefrau zu werden. Doch es spielt keine Rolle, dass er ein Junge ist und nicht das Mädchen, das die Welt unbedingt in ihm sehen will. Nach einem gescheiterten Versuch, einer arrangierten Ehe zu entkommen, wird bei Silas die Schleierkrankheit diagnostiziert - eine mysteriöse Krankheit, die violettäugige Frauen in den Wahnsinn treibt - und er wird in das Braxton-Sanatorium verfrachtet. Als die Geister vermisster Schüler Silas um Hilfe bitten, beschließt er, in Braxtons Inneres vorzudringen und der Welt dessen Eingeweide zu zeigen - vorausgesetzt, die Schule wird ihn nicht vorher zerstören.

Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange for unwavering loyalty and fresh corpses, these hives offer a few struggling humans salvation. A fresh start. It's an offer that none refuse. Crane is grateful. Among his hive's followers, Crane has found a chance to transition, to never speak again, to live a life that won't destroy him. He even met Levi: a handsome ex-Marine and brutal killer who treats him like a real man, mostly. But when Levi gets Crane pregnant-and the hive demands the child's birth, no matter the cost-Crane's desperation to make it stop will drive the community that saved him into a devastating spiral that can only end in blood.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<BR><BR>A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors.<BR><BR>"A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus." —The New York Times<BR><BR> Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.<BR>  <BR> But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all.    <BR>  <BR> Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick’s terms…until he discovers the ALC’s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation.<BR><BR> A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year<BR> A William C. Morris Award Finalist<BR> A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year<BR> A YAVA Award Nominee!<BR> A Booklist Editors' Choice Selection<BR>A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book<BR>Named to the ALA Rainbow Roundtable's Rainbow Book List

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!<BR>A Stonewall Honor Book in Young Adult Literature!<BR><BR>A blood-soaked and nauseating triumph that cuts like a scalpel and reads like your darkest nightmare.<BR><BR>New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with the transgressive gothic horror of our time!<BR><BR>Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.<BR><BR>London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old trans, autistic Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife.<BR><BR>After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness—a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness—and shipped away to Braxton’s Finishing School and Sanitorium. When the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton’s innards and expose its guts to the world—so long as the school doesn’t break him first.<BR><BR>Featuring an autistic trans protagonist in a historical setting, Andrew Joseph White’s much-anticipated sophomore novel does not back down from exposing the violence of the patriarchy and the harm inflicted on trans youth who are forced into conformity.<BR><BR>A Stonewall Honor Book in Young Adult Literature<BR>Selected for the Rise: Feminist Book List<BR>Named to the ALA Rainbow List<BR>Named a Best Book of the Year by Shelf Awareness, School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and more!<BR>A Chicago Public Library 'Best of the Best' Book<BR>A Locus Award Finalist<BR>A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book!<BR>A Booklist Editors’ Choice

A Washington Post and Publishers Weekly Best SF/Fantasy/Horror Novel of 2025<BR> <BR>Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White about identity, survival, and transformation amidst an alien invasion in rural West Virginia.<BR><BR>Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange for unwavering loyalty and fresh corpses, these hives offer a few struggling humans salvation. A fresh start. It’s an offer that none refuse.<BR><BR>Crane is grateful. Among his hive’s followers, Crane has found a chance to transition, to never speak again, to live a life that won’t destroy him. He even met Levi: a handsome ex-Marine and brutal killer who treats him like a real man, mostly. But when Levi gets Crane pregnant—and the hive demands the child’s birth, no matter the cost—Crane’s desperation to make it stop will drive the community that saved him into a devastating spiral that can only end in blood.<BR><BR>You Weren’t Meant to Be Human is a deeply personal horror; a visceral statement about the lives of marginalized people in a hostile world, echoing the works of Stephen Graham Jones and Eric LaRocca.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<BR><BR>A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors.<BR><BR>"A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus." —The New York Times<BR><BR> Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.<BR>  <BR> But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all.    <BR>  <BR> Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick’s terms…until he discovers the ALC’s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation.<BR><BR> A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year<BR> A William C. Morris Award Finalist<BR> A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year<BR> A YAVA Award Nominee!<BR> A Booklist Editors' Choice Selection<BR>A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book<BR>Named to the ALA Rainbow Roundtable's Rainbow Book List

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he'll be married by the end of the year. It doesn't matter that he's needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing. After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sicknessa mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madnessand shipped away to Braxton's Sanitorium and Finishing School. The facility is cold, the instructors merciless, and the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. So when the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton's innards and expose its rotten guts to the worldas long as the school doesn't break him first.

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised himthe fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji's darkest secret: the cult's bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick's terms...until he discovers the ALC's mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.

Mach dich bereit zu sterben. Sein Reich ist nah. Der sechzehnjährige Transjunge Benji ist auf der Flucht vor den Menschen, die ihn großgezogen haben - einer fundamentalistischen Sekte, die ein Armageddon verursacht und fast die ganze Weltbevölkerung ausgelöscht hat. Verzweifelt sucht er nach einem Ort, an dem die Sekte ihn, oder noch viel wichtiger die Biowaffe, mit der sie ihn infiziert hat, nicht in die Finger bekommen kann. Als ihn Monster in die Enge treiben, wird Benji von einer Gruppe Jugendlicher aus dem örtlichen Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, ALZ genannt, gerettet. Ihr Anführer Nick, ist wunderschön, autistisch und ein tödlicher Scharfschütze. Er kennt Benjis dunkles Geheimnis: Die Biowaffe der Sekte lässt ihn zu einem Monster mutieren, das tödlich genug ist, um die Menschheit endgültig zu vernichten. Dennoch bietet Nick Benji Unterschlupf in seiner Gruppe queerer Teenager, solange er das Monster kontrollieren und seine Kraft zur Verteidigung des ALZ einsetzen kann. Benji will unbedingt dazugehören und akzeptiert Nicks Bedingungen ... bis er herausfindet, dass der mysteriöse Anführer des ALZ einen ganz eigenen Plan verfolgt und mehr als nur ein paar Geheimnisse hat. Ein queerer Roman voller Wut, in dem es darum geht, das Monster in einem selbst anzunehmen und mit seiner Hilfe gegen Unterdrückung anzugehen. Perfekt für Fans von "Ich bin Gideon" und "Auslöschung".