Announcing Fall 2025 Titles from Sibylline Press!

Other People's Kids: A Novel

by Kim Culbertson

After a violent incident at her prestigious Bay Area school, English teacher Chelsea Garden returns to her rural hometown seeking refuge and a fresh start. There, she reconnects with a burned-out principal and an old flame, both working at the local high school. Other People’s Kids follows three educators at different stages of their careers as they navigate second chances, personal crossroads, and the risks of starting over.

“A gripping, cozy drama about the careers and lives of teachers.” ​
—Kirkus Reviews

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“This big-hearted, sweet-souled, tenderly funny book is just the balm we’ve all been wishing for.” ​
​—Josh Weil, California Book Award–winning author of The Age of Perpetual Light

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Collateral Stardust: Chasing Warren Beatty and Other Foolish Things

by Nikki Nash

Raised in a chaotic, bohemian Hollywood household, teenage Nikki Nash becomes fixated on a bold mission: meet and win over Warren Beatty. With determination and a detailed plan, at eighteen, working in a restaurant near the Beverly Wilshire, her long-shot dream collides with reality. While Warren remains ever present in her life, this is really the story of one woman navigating Hollywood as a producer, comedian, and actor as she maneuvers through the eccentric fringes of L.A., brushing up against fame, danger, and dysfunction.

“A dazzling kiss-and-tell that brings vintage Hollywood to life.”

—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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“Dotted with star-studded moments, Nash’s honest reflections steal the spotlight.” ​
​—Booklist

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Seeds of the Pomegranate: A Novel

by Suzanne Uttaro Samuels

After illness derails her dreams of becoming a painter in Sicily, Mimi Inglese immigrates to New York, only to be dragged into her father’s criminal underworld. When he’s imprisoned, she turns to counterfeiting to survive, using her artistic gift to forge a path through Gangland chaos. As violence closes in, Mimi must risk everything to escape a life built on desperation and reclaim the future she once imagined.

“A riveting and intelligent novel with a powerful message.”

—Kirkus Reviews

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“In Samuels’s impressive debut, an artist reckons with illness and loss while pursuing her career in early 1900s Sicily and New York City." ​
​—Publishers Weekly

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You Could Be Happy Here: A Novel

by Erin Van Rheenen

When Lucy loses her mother and discovers her real father may be a man from her childhood summers in Costa Rica, she sets out to find him—and herself. But the town she returns to is no longer the paradise she remembers, and her search raises more questions than it answers. You Could Be Happy Here is a story of identity, belonging, and of opening your heart to a deeper understanding of kinship and home.

“A brilliant debut, You Could Be Happy Here is engaging, touching, and sometimes wryly funny. A beautiful tale of personal discovery, blended with travelers’ insights and natural history tidbits that made me laugh out loud.”

—Pat Murphy, Nebula–winning author of The Falling Woman and Rachel in Love

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“Van Rheenen's debut novel . . . never goes where you think it's going, but always takes you someplace wonderful.” ​
​—Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and Booth

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The House of Cavanaugh: A Novel

by Polly Dugan

In 1964, Joan Cavanaugh has a secret affair that leads to the birth of a daughter whose true paternity she takes to her grave. Fifty years later, when 23andMe unearths the buried truth, the foundations of two tightly connected families are deeply shaken. The House of Cavanaugh is a gripping story of hidden pasts, unraveling loyalties, and what it really means to be family.

“The House of Cavanaugh is a moving, elegantly told novel about life and death, about familial love and familial secrets, and about how the past persists in the present, no matter how much we'd like to think otherwise. Polly Dugan is a wise and sensitive writer, and with this beautiful novel she'll break your heart.”

—Edan Lepucki, NYT bestselling author of Times’ Mouth and California

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“Polly Dugan writes like a dream. Her sentences are piercing and true. This book takes clean aim at the messy truths of the human heart. I couldn’t put it down.” ​
​—Steve Almond, author of All the Secrets of the World and Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow

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Widow's Walk: A Novel

by Jane Willan

When Reverend Miranda McCurdy brings progressive change to a tradition-bound coastal church in Maine, her efforts spark fierce resistance—especially after she challenges the town’s beloved Thanksgiving pageant. As the congregation splinters and a woman seeking sanctuary raises the stakes, Miranda must choose between fleeing back to her old life or staying to fight for the community she’s slowly come to love. A stray dog and a mysterious stranger may tip the scales in this story of conviction, belonging, and second chances.

“A heartwarming tale of second chances and spiritual awakening.” ​
​—Mary Karnes, author of The Wedding Planner Mystery Series

“Jane Willan’s Widow’s Walk take readers on a journey of hope through the eyes of people in a small coastal town in Downeast Maine. She balances a fast-paced story with a lot of heart for every character, handling each one with tenderness learned in her own profession as a clergywoman. And, when a hurricane’s trajectory head straight for town, well... readers will stay up late to find out what happens.” ​
​—Maren C. Tirabassi, former Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH, LAMDA Prize nominee, and author of The Rev and Rye Mystery Series

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Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress

by Deborah Lee Luskin

At sixty, longtime writer, gardener, and teacher Luskin feels a wild new calling: to leave the safety of her garden and venture into the forest where, contrary to everything that has gone before, she learns to hunt deer. Reviving Artemis follows her late-in-life transformation as she confronts fear, embraces the forest, and reclaims a primal connection to nature. Blending humor, vulnerability, and myth, this is the story of a woman choosing to age on her own fierce terms.

“An honest, tender and engaging story about building relationship with land and community, about conservation, about reciprocity and responsibility, about death and change, about choosing to step bravely and humbly into the unknown.” ​
​—Ethan Tapper, author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

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“Luskin’s insights are not just limited to the woods. With a sharp intellect, she opens new doors of awareness about community and connectedness.” ​
​—Kate Troll, author of All in Due Time: A Memoir of Siblings, Genealogy, Secrets and Love

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Our announcement of our Sibylline Digital First titles for Fall 2025.

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