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Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Aaronovitch, Ben | Moon Over Soho | Paranormal Mystery - Rivers of London #2 |
Aaronovitch, Ben | Rivers Of London | Paranormal Mystery - Rivers of London #1 |
Aaronovitch, Ben | Whispers Underground | Paranormal Mystery - Rivers of London #3 |
Ackerman, Sara | The Uncharted Flight Of Olivia West | The story of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark on a daring air race across the Pacific. |
Akbar, Kaveh | Martyr! | A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. |
Alderton, Dolly | Good Material | A story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both. |
Atangana Bekono, Simone | Confrontations | Fiction |
Austin, Emily R. | Interesting Facts About Space | At the end of the day there's only one person Enid can't outrun--herself. |
Austin, Lynn N. | All My Secrets | Christian Historical |
Avery, Amy | The Longest Autumn | Under the right circumstances, would even a god fall? |
Axelrod, Xio | Girls With Bad Reputations | Romance - The Lillys #2 |
Balogh, Mary | Always Remember | Historical Romance - Ravenswood #3 |
Barbery, Muriel | One Hour Of Fervor | Fiction |
Bearup, Jill | Just Stab Me Now | A desperate mother. A dubious escort. And a deranged author who won't leave them alone. |
Bennett, Robert Jackson | The Tainted Cup | An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder. |
Bennett, Ronan | Jaq: A Top Boy Story | Crime |
Berry, Steve | The Atlas Maneuver | Mystery - Cotton Malone #18 |
Bertino, Marie-Helene | Beautyland | A novel about a young woman who doesn't feel at home on this earth. |
Blackburn, Venita | Dead In Long Beach, California | A debut novel following one woman's fraying connection to reality. |
Blair, Melissa | A Vicious Game | Fantasy - Halfling Saga #3 |
Bonam-Young, Hannah | Next Of Kin | Two bickering strangers trying to foster their younger siblings team up to create a stable home, but the chemistry between them threatens to undo their plans. |
Box, C. J. | Three-Inch Teeth | Mystery - Joe Pickett #24 |
Brennan, Allison | The Missing Witness | Mystery - Quinn & Costa #5 |
Bunn, T. Davis | No Man's Land | Urban Fantasy - Rowan #2 |
Carpenter, Lea | Ilium | Espionage thriller |
Charles, Paula | Hammers And Homicide | First in a new mystery series: when a body is found in a hardware store, will Dawna Carpenter's sleuthing measure up to find the killer? |
Chen, Mike | A Quantum Love Story | The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them. |
Choo, Yangsze | The Fox Wife | Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . . |
Chung, Bora | Your Utopia | Speculative Short Stories |
Clayborn, Kate | Luck Of The Draw | Romance - Chance of a Lifetime #2 |
Clipston, Amy | The Heart's Shelter | Christian Fiction - Amish Legacy #4 |
Colanzi Serrate, Liliana | You Glow In The Dark | Horror Short Stories |
Collins, Sarah-Jane | Radiant Heat | Mystery |
Cooke, Christina | Broughtupsy | Debut novel about a young Jamaican woman grappling with grief as she discovers her family, her home, is always just out of reach. |
Correa, Armando Lucas | The Silence In Her Eyes | Thriller |
Crown, Zaire | Silent Judgement | Urban Fiction |
Cunningham, Avery | The Mayor Of Maxwell Street | An epic love story that explores the American Dream between the monolith of Jim Crow, the inflexible world of the original Black upper class, and the violence of 1920s Chicago. |
Dailey, Janet | One In A Million | Romance |
Dameron, DéLana R. A. | Redwood Court | A debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family and its youngest daughter's coming of age in the 1990s. |
Darraj, Susan Muaddi | Behind You Is The Sea | A debut that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore. |
Dickinson, Seth | Exordia | Science Fiction |
Donovan, Kemper | The Busy Body | A ghostwriter is chosen to collaborate on a presidential candidate's memoir, only to discover just how much trouble a smart woman with time on her hands can get up to . . . |
Doom, Erin | The Tearsmith | Romance |
Dovalpage, Teresa | Last Seen In Havana | Mystery - Havana #4 |
Eisenberg, Zoe | Significant Others | Two women test how much weight their friendship can hold. |
El-Arifi, Saara | Faebound | Two elven sisters become imprisoned in the intoxicating world of the fae, where danger and love lie in wait. |
Everhart, Donna | When The Jessamine Grows | Historical Fiction |
Fein, Louise | The London Bookshop Affair | Historical Fiction |
Ferraro, Nicolás | My Favorite Scar | Thriller |
Finn, A. J. | End Of Story | "I'll be dead in three months. Come tell my story." |
Fletcher, Jessica | Fit For Murder | Cozy Mystery - Murder, She Wrote #57 |
Ford, Olivia | Mrs. Quinn's Rise To Fame | Fiction |
Frankel, Laurie | Family Family | "Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don't we ever get that movie?" |
Fredericks, Mariah | The Wharton Plot | Follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton in the twilight years of the Gilded Age in New York as she tracks a killer. |
French, Tana | The Hunter | Mystery - Cal Hooper #2 |
Fruchter, Temim | City Of Laughter | A debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years. |
Gautier, Amina | The Best That You Can Do | Stories primarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico. |
Golden, Christopher | The House Of Last Resort | Horror |
Gonzalez Asendorf, Aracelis | Dressing The Saints | Short Stories |
Gonzalez James, Elizabeth | The Bullet Swallower | A Mexican bandido sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making. |
Goodwin, Daisy | Diva | A story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world. |
Graff, Andrew J. | True North | Fiction |
Greaney, Mark | The Chaos Agent | Thriller - Gray Man #13 |
Green, Amy Lynn | The Foxhole Victory Tour | Christian Historical |
Hallett, Janice | The Mysterious Case Of The Alperton Angels | A true crime journalist revives a long-buried case about a cult--and finds herself too close to the story. |
Hardy, Mina | Like A Mother | Thriller |
Hastings, Anastasia | Of Hoaxes And Homicide | Historical Mystery - Dear Miss Hermione #2 |
Hayes, Terry | The Year Of The Locust | Thriller |
Hazelwood, Ali | Bride | A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into. |
Helfer, Monika | Library For The War-Wounded | A daughter's portrait of her WWII veteran father, assembled from shards of memory. |
Hemans, Donna | The House Of Plain Truth | After living in Brooklyn for more than 30 years, a woman returns to her childhood home in Jamaica. |
Holiday, Jenny | Canadian Boyfriend | Fate brings together a ballet teacher and a hockey player. |
Hollander, Jenny | Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead | A debut thriller about a woman who is trying to escape the past and the horrific event she witnessed at the prestigious journalism school she attended. |
Holm, Sven | Termush | Science Fiction |
Hunt, Laird | Float Up, Sing Down | Short Stories |
Hunter, Stephen | Front Sight | Thriller - Earl Swagger |
Hunter, Travis | A Dark Place | When poor babies wind up missing, no one seems to care. |
Hurwitz, Gregg | Lone Wolf | Thriller - Orphan X #9 |
Janovsky, Timothy | The (Fake) Dating Game | Ready. Set. Faux. |
Johansson, Hanna | Antiquity | Fiction |
Kadyan | Lost In The Wild | Romantic Suspense |
Kahler, Abbott | Where You End | An unusual form of amnesia upends the lives of identical twins, forcing them to face the indelible, dangerous shadow of the past. |
Kaufman, Heather | Up From Dust: Martha's Story | Christian Historical |
Kellen, Alice | All That We Are Together | Romance - Let it Be #2 |
Kiefer, Jenny | This Wretched Valley | Four climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness to climb a newly discovered cliff face. But things start going wrong as soon as their expedition begins, suggesting something sinister may be present in the valley with them. |
Kingfisher, T. | What Feasts At Night | Horror - Sworn Soldier #2 |
Klune, TJ | Heartsong | Paranormal Romance - Green Creek #3 |
Kumar, Naina | Say You'll Be Mine | A teacher with big dreams joins forces with a no-nonsense engineer to survive an ex's wedding and escape matchmaking pressure from their Indian families. |
Lemming, Kimberly | That Time I Got Drunk And Yeeted A Love Potion At A Werewolf | Paranormal Romance - Mead Mishaps #2 |
Lester, Natasha | The Disappearance Of Astrid Bricard | In 1973, fashion icon Astrid Bricard disappeared at the legendary Versailles designer show-down. All that remained was a scrap of fabric...and a family unraveled. |
Levy, Heather | Hurt For Me | Romantic Suspense |
Lindström, Jon | Hollywood Hustle | Mystery |
Livesey, Margot | The Road From Belhaven | A novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late-nineteenth-century Scotland. |
Lovise, Lindsay | Never Blow A Kiss | Historical Romance - Secret Society of Governess Spies #1 |
Mallery, Susan | The Summer Book Club | Romance |
Marshall, Kate Alice | No One Can Know | Three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count. |
Matthews, Mimi | The Lily Of Ludgate Hill | Historical Romance - Belles of London #3 |
Mayfield, Jahmal | Smoke Kings | Thriller |
McCaulsky, Marlon | I'm Not Superwoman | Nia Scott, a gifted pre-med student at Clark Atlanta University, is focused on one goal: becoming a doctor. With her Superwoman mentality, she believes she can do it all. But challenges come along with dreams. |
Michaels, Anne | Held | Fiction |
Miller, C. L. | The Antique Hunter's Guide To Murder | What antique would you kill for? |
Miller, Derek B. | The Curse Of Pietro Houdini | Historical Fiction |
Miller, Vanessa | The American Queen | There is only one known queen who truly ruled a kingdom on American soil. |
Modesitt, L. E. Jr. | From The Forest | Fantasy - Saga of Recluce #23 |
Moorman, Jennifer | The Magic All Around | Sometimes a family treasure hunt unfurls new paths in life. |
Moraine, Sunny | Your Shadow Half Remains | One look can kill. |
Murphy, Monica | Crave And Torn | Romance - Billionaire Bachelors Club |
Myerson, Julie | Nonfiction | Fiction |
Nayler, Ray | The Tusks Of Extinction | When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. |
Nethercott, GennaRose | Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart | Fantasy Short Stories |
Nolan, Megan | Ordinary Human Failings | When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past. |
Ogle, Jamie | Of Love And Treason | Christian Historical |
Orange, Tommy | Wandering Stars | Traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family. |
Ordorica, Andrés N. | How We Named The Stars | A first-generation Mexican-American college student is altered by love. |
Outen, Karen | Dixon, Descending | A debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibility toward one another. |
Parekh, Nishita | The Night Of The Storm | A multigenerational Indian American family is marooned in a house with a murderer during Hurricane Harvey. |
Paris, B. A. | The Guest | Thriller |
Parker, Sarah A. | When The Moon Hatched | Fantasy Romance |
Patterson, James | Crosshairs | Mystery - Michael Bennett #16 |
Pearson, Robin W. | Dysfunction Junction | When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to reckon with a lifetime of memories they've long tried to bury. |
Pelecanos, George P. | Owning Up | Mystery Short Stories |
Penrose, Andrea | The Diamond Of London | A historical novel based on the real life of Lady Hester Stanhope, a British aristocrat born into an illustrious family of swashbuckling war heroes and brilliant political leaders. |
Pérez, Elba Iris | The Things We Didn't Know | This debut explores a young girl's childhood between 1950s Puerto Rico and a small Massachusetts factory town. |
Perry, Thomas | Hero | Thriller |
Petrie, Nicholas | The Price You Pay | Mystery - Peter Ash #8 |
Pettrey, Dani | One Wrong Move | Christian Suspense - Jeopardy Falls #1 |
Pham, Andrew X. | Twilight Territory | A sweeping first novel of love, war, and resistance in post-World War II Vietnam. |
Pokwatka, Aimee | The Parliament | When tens of thousands of angry owls descend on the town library, Madigan Purdy is trapped there with her students, whom she tries desperately to distract. |
Pook, Lizzie | Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge | A young woman searches for the truth about her sister, who boarded a ship headed to the frozen Arctic and never returned. |
Quindlen, Anna | After Annie | Fiction |
Quinn, Cate | The Clinic | Thriller |
Quinn, Kate, and Janie Chang | The Phoenix Crown | Historical Fiction |
Read, Sara | Principles Of (E)Motion | Fiction |
Reilly, Rebecca K. | Greta & Valdin | For fans of Schitt's Creek and Sally Rooney's Normal People. |
Reynolds, Alastair | Machine Vendetta | Science Fiction - Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies #3 |
Rice, Luanne | Last Night | Mystery |
Ritchie, Krista | Long Way Down | Romance - Calloway Sisters #4 |
Robert, Katee | Midnight Ruin | Romance - Dark Olympus #6 |
Rue, Gretchen | A Pie To Die For | Tit's the end of the tourist season in Split Pine, but a murder at the Lucky Pie Diner stirs up trouble for the sleepy town in this series debut. |
RuNyx | Gothikana | An unusual girl. An enigmatic man. An ancient castle. What could go wrong? |
Ryan, Hank Phillippi | One Wrong Word | Thriller |
Sanderson, Brandon | The Sunlit Man | Fantasy - Secret Projects #4 |
Saunders, Jessica | Love, Me | Some old flames can't be snuffed out, no matter how many years go by. |
Scott, Kylie | The Last Days Of Lilah Goodluck | Romance |
Shalvis, Jill | The Bright Spot | Romance - Sunrise Cove #5 |
Shawl, Nisi | Kinning | Science Fiction - Everfair #2 |
Sierra, Tracy | Nightwatching | Thriller |
Silver, Elsie | Hopeless | Romance - Chestnut Springs #5 |
Snelling, Lauraine | A Season Of Harvest | Christian Fiction - Leah's Garden #4 |
Steel, Danielle | Never Too Late | Fiction |
Stein, Charlotte | When Grumpy Met Sunshine | A steamy, opposites-attract romance with undeniable chemistry between a grumpy retired footballer and his fabulous and very sunshine-y ghostwriter. |
Summers, Georgia | The City Of Stardust | Everyone knows the Everly descendants are cursed: in each generation, a family member with special talents and a golden aura is taken and never seen again. |
Sundin, Sarah | Embers In The London Sky | Christian Historical |
Swan, Richard | The Trials Of Empire | Fantasy - Empire of the Wolf #3 |
Tan, Sue Lynn | Tales Of The Celestial Kingdom | Fantasy - Celestial Kingdom #3 |
Tanamachi, Cara | The Takeover | Sometimes, when you ask the universe for your soulmate, you wind up with your hate mate instead. |
Tate, Ashley | Twenty-Seven Minutes | Thriller |
Tate, ReShonda | The Queen Of Sugar Hill | A fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood's most prolific but woefully underappreciated stars. |
Taylor, Brad | Dead Man's Hand | Thriller - Pike Logan #18 |
Tremel, Joyce | Deadly To The Core | In this mystery series starter, when Kate Mulligan inherits her great uncle's fruit orchard, she quickly realizes that apples aren't the only thing that can have rotten cores. |
Tsamaase, Tlotlo | Womb City | Blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. |
Vardiashvili, Leo | Hard By A Great Forest | Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the past to rest. |
Verona, Emily Ruth | Midnight On Beacon Street | A teenager must overcome her own anxiety to protect the two children she's babysitting when strangers come knocking at the door. |
Walsh, Jane | The Secret Duchess | Historical Romance - Spinsters of Inverley #3 |
Webb, Heather | Queens Of London | Historical Fiction |
Weber, David | To Challenge Heaven | Science Fiction - Out of the Dark #3 |
Wei, Opal | Wild Life | Romance |
Wells, Brandi | The Cleaner | An unnamed cleaner cares for an office building and the people who work there in this quiet thriller. |
Wibberley, Emily | The Breakup Tour | A rising star musician has a second chance at love with an old flame she remembers all too well. |
Wijeyeratne, Subodhana | Triangulum : An Epic Of The Nine Worlds Of Surya | Science Fiction |
Williams, Tia | A Love Song For Ricki Wilde | A free-spirited florist and an enigmatic musician are irreversibly linked through the history, art, and magic of Harlem. |
Wilson, C. L. | Lord Of The Fading Lands | Fantasy Romance |
Wray, C. J. | The Excitements | Arriving in Paris to receive and award for their part in the liberation of France, the 90-something Williamson sisters use this opportunity to settle scores, avenge lost friends, and pull off one last daring heist before their illustrious careers are over. |
Wright, Alexis | Praiseworthy | Fiction |
Zapata, Mariana | All Rhodes Lead Here | The people we lose take a part of us with them...but they leave a part of themselves with us too. |
Zhao, Kyla | Valley Verified | When a fashion writer dives headfirst into the cutthroat Silicon Valley tech world, her future threatens to unravel. |
Easter Basket Murder | Mystery Anthology | |
Fourteen Days : A Literary Project Of The Authors Guild Of America | Each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. | |
Shook!: A Black Horror Anthology | Horror Short Stories |
December 2023
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Ailes, Kat | The Expectant Detectives | First in a new mystery series following a group of pregnant women who meet at a prenatal class and team up to solve the murder of someone in their village. |
Alban, Emma R. | Don't Want You Like A Best Friend | Two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other. |
Allain, Suzanne | The Ladies Rewrite The Rules | Historical Romance |
Aryanna | Imma Die Bout Mine | Whoever said love was pain knew how difficult relationships are, but they left out the part about love being savage. It can make you and destroy you in the same breath. So, beware! |
Aryanna | Imma Die Bout Mine 2 | Urban Fiction |
Ascher, Aurora | Sanctuary Of The Shadow | Some follow their destiny. Others fall for it. |
Ashley | Dirty Money: 20th Anniversary Edition | Urban Fiction |
Atrek, İnci | Holiday Country | Fiction |
Ayatsuji, Yukito | The Mill House Murders | Mystery |
Beers, Georgia | Playing With Matches | Romance |
Blake, Matthew | Anna O | A young woman commits a double murder while sleepwalking, then never opens her eyes again. |
Blake, Olivie | The Atlas Complex | Fantasy - Atlas #3 |
Bliss, Anna | Bonfire Night | Historical Fiction |
Bolden, Martell Troublesome | Cartel Money | Urban Fiction |
Brody, Kate | Rabbit Hole | A grieving woman becomes obsessed with solving her sister's cold-case disappearance via the true crime fandom. |
Brown, Amber | Perfect Little Lives | On Asher Lane, some secrets are worth killing for… |
Burke, James Lee | Harbor Lights : Stories | Crime Short Stories |
Burns, Amy Jo | Mercury | Fiction |
Burton, Jaci | Housebroke | A millionaire and a woman who thinks he's a house flipper are stuck living in a house together with a menagerie of rescue dogs as roommates. |
Campbell, Bonnie Jo | The Waters | On an island in Michigan's Great Massasauga Swamp, herbalist Hermine "Herself" Zook tends to 11-year-old granddaughter Dorothy, nicknamed Donkey, who was abandoned by a mother. |
Campbell, Nan | Like They Do In The Movies | Celebrity gossip writer Fran Underhill becomes Chelsea Cartwright's personal assistant with the aim of taking the popular actress down, but neither of them anticipates the clash of their attraction. |
Carr, John Dickson | The Problem Of The Wire Cage | Classic Mystery - Gideon Fell |
Carr, Robyn | The Friendship Club | Fiction |
Celeste, B. | Lose You To Find Me | Romance - Lindon U #3 |
Chan, Vanessa | The Storm We Made | Historical Fiction |
Cleeton, Chanel | I See London | Romance - International School #1 |
Coble, Colleen | Fragile Designs | Christian Suspense |
Connelly, Lucy | Death At A Scottish Wedding | Cozy Mystery - Scottish Isle #2 |
Conway, Elly | Argylle | Chronicles Aubrey Argylle's journey from hard-drinking, rough-around-the-edges everyman, living off the grid in the jungles of Thailand, to a debonaire secret agent. |
Cox, Mollie Ann | The Lace Widow | Could Alexander Hamilton be at the center of a vast murder plot engulfing Old New York? As his widow, Eliza, pieces together the puzzle, she unearths a heartbreaking secret that threatens to tear her family apart. |
Dailey, Janet | Lone Oaks Crossing | Romance - New Americana #8 |
Delany, Vicki | The Sign Of Four Spirits | Cozy Mystery - Sherlock Holmes Bookshop #9 |
Douglas, Penelope | Hideaway | Romantic Suspense - Devil's Night #2 |
Eason, Lynette | Double Take | Lainie Jackson survived her fiancé's murder plot and her attacker is dead--isn't he? |
Elston, Ashley | First Lie Wins | Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. |
Enrigue, Alvaro | You Dreamed Of Empires | A colonial revenge story. |
Fawcett, Heather | Emily Wilde's Map Of The Otherlands | Fantasy - Emily Wilde #2 |
Force, Marie | State Of Bliss | Romantic Suspense - First Family #6 |
Foster, Lori | The Fearless One | Romantic Suspense - Osborn Brothers #2 |
Glass, Seressia | Game On | When an unexpected Player Two enters her life, a gamer must decide if their relationship is worth leveling up. |
Glenn, Roy | A Motive For Murder | Convinced that the American partner of an Albanian mafia organization has murdered her friend, Shy enlists the aid of Ryder to maintain the fragile peace while she delves further into her investigation. |
Grippando, James | Goodbye Girl | Thriller - Jack Swyteck #18 |
Grumley, Michael C. | Deep Freeze | Thriller |
Hall, Araminta | One Of The Good Guys | Thriller |
Hannah, Kristin | The Women | Historical Fiction |
Hansen, Joseph | Nightwork | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #7 |
Hansen, Joseph | The Little Dog Laughed | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #8 |
Hansen, Joseph | Early Graves | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #9 |
Hansen, Joseph | Obedience | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #10 |
Hansen, Joseph | The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #11 |
Hansen, Joseph | A Country Of Old Men | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #12 |
Hartnett, Ana | Coasting And Crashing | Romance |
Hawkins, Rachel | The Heiress | Gothic Thriller |
Holladay, Maelan | The Storm Gathers | Fantasy - Stormfall #1 |
Howe, Jenny L. | On The Plus Side | Romance |
J-Blunt | Beautiful Lies And Ugly Truths | Urban Fiction |
Jessen, Lauren Kung | Red String Theory | Just a date . . . or a twist of fate? |
Johnson, Candice Y. | Every Black Girl Dances | Fiction |
Kantra, Virginia | The Fairytale Life of Dorothy Gale | Fiction |
Keese | No Time For Error | Urban Fiction |
Kellerman, Jonathan | The Ghost Orchid | Thriller - Alex Delaware #39 |
Khan, Shubnum | The Djinn Waits A Hundred Years | A gothic thriller about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous. |
Klassen, Julie | A Winter By The Sea | Christian Historical - On Devonshire Shores #2 |
Koontz, Dean R. | The Bad Weather Friend | Science Fiction |
Krentz, Jayne Ann | The Night Island | Romantic Suspense - Lost Night Files #2 |
Labuskes, Brianna | The Lies You Wrote | The double murder of a married couple in a small Washington town draws FBI forensic linguist Raisa Susanto into an investigation that mirrors a decades-old crime in which the perpetrator supposedly took his own life. |
Larner, Anna | Invisible | Romance |
Lee, Rosey | The Gardins Of Edin | When the bonds in their family begin to fray, four Black women fight to preserve their legacy, heal their wounds, and move forward together. |
Lefteri, Christy | The Book Of Fire | The wildfire that will consume their home, and their lives as they know it, races toward them. |
Lemming, Kimberly | That Time I Got Drunk And Saved A Demon | Spice trader Cinnamon's quiet life is turned upside down when she ends up on a quest with a fiery demon. |
Lescure, Aube Rey | River East, River West | Fiction |
Lief, Katia | Invisible Woman | Mystery |
Linden, Rachel | Recipe For A Charmed Life | After a day of unrivaled disappointments, a promising young chef finds every bite of food suddenly tastes bitter. To save her career, she travels to the Pacific Northwest to reconnect with her estranged mom, and discovers a family legacy she never suspected. |
Lister, Sheryl | No Reservations | Four friends, three struggling relationships, and one final wish: find your happiness. |
Locke, A. J. | Magic Corrupts, Magic Conquers | What if the world changed overnight...and it was all because of you? |
Maas, Sarah J. | House Of Flame And Shadow | Paranormal Romance - Crescent City #3 |
Marlantes, Karl | Cold Victory | Historical Fiction |
Marrs, John | The Vacation | Thriller |
Matar, Hisham | My Friends | A novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile. |
McCauley, Stephen | You Only Call When You're In Trouble | Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? |
McCorkle, Jill | Old Crimes | Short Stories |
McCulloch, Amy | Midnight | Thriller |
McFadden, Freida | The Teacher | Thriller |
McGuire, Seanan | Mislaid In Parts Half-Known | Fantasy - Wayward Children #9 |
Meesha | A Thug's Street Princess | After serving ten years in a Seattle women's detention center for a crime meant for her man, Honey Love is about to return to Chicago with a different mindset than when she went away. |
Michaelides, Alex | The Fury | Thriller |
Min, Katherine | The Fetishist | A grieving daughter's revenge on the man who caused her mother's death sets off a series of unexpected reckonings. |
Mohanty, Gourav | Sons Of Darkness | A grimdark fantasy reimagining of the ancient Indian epic the Mahabharata. |
O'Connor, Carlene | Irish Milkshake Murder | Mystery |
Parks, Adele | Two Dead Wives | Thriller |
Parlato, Terri | What Waits In The Woods | Thriller |
Patterson, James | Holmes, Marple & Poe | Mystery |
Patterson, James | Missing Persons | Thriller - Private #16 |
Payne, Fumiya | The Butterfly Mafia 2 | Urban Fiction |
Pease, Amy | Northwoods | Thriller |
Plantinga, Adam | The Ascent | Thriller |
Pope, M. T. | Boys In The Club | Losing themselves in their club personas to escape the pressures of life, four Black gay men and hard-working professionals find their excessive partying leading to bad decisions that could ruin their lives. |
Poyer, David | The Academy | Military - Dan Lenson #22 |
Radclyffe | Fire In The Sky | Romance |
Reid, Kiley | Come And Get It | A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students. |
Rico, Lauren E. | Familia | A baffling genealogy test connects two young women across cultures and class and sets in motion the events that might unravel a decades-old crime at last. |
Riley, Lia | Mister Hockey | Romance - Hellions Hockey #1 |
Rio, King | Steppers 2 | Urban Fiction |
Robb, J. D. | Random In Death | Mystery - Eve Dallas #58 |
Roberts, Tara Karr | Wild And Distant Seas | Historical Fiction |
Robinson, Corey | Love In The Trenches 2 | Urban Fiction |
Robinson, Corey | Thug Of Spades 2 | Urban Fiction |
Ruiz, Sarah Grunder | Last Call At The Local | Opposites attract when a free-spirited American singer-songwriter with ADHD teams up with a charming Irishman to revitalize his family's pub. |
Ryan, Annelise | Death In The Dark Woods | Mystery - Monster Hunter #2 |
Saintclare, Celine | Sugar, Baby | An unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of the internet. |
Santlofer, Jonathan | The Lost Van Gogh | Historical Fiction |
Shemilt, Jane | The Vacation House | Thriller |
Shiblī, ʻAdanīyah | Minor Detail | Historical Fiction |
Siyāmak Haravī | Tali Girls | An intimate look at the lives, loves, horrors, and dreams of girls and women in an Afghan mountain village under Taliban rule. |
Spence, Ken-Ken | The Lane | Urban Fiction |
Stevenson, Benjamin | Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect | Mystery - Ernest Cunningham #2 |
Swierczynski, Duane | California Bear | Four people--teen detective Matilda, her ex-con dad, and a retired cop and his genealogist wife--form an unofficial vigilante committee with the goal of bringing elusive criminals to justice. |
Swinson, Kiki | Wifey's Next Twisted Fate | Urban Fiction - Wifey's Next Hustle #4 |
Talabi, Wole | Mothersound: The Sauutiverse Anthology | Speculative Short Stories |
Walsh, Jenni L. | Unsinkable | The Titanic was only the beginning. What she survived has become legend. |
Weaver, Brynne | Butcher & Blackbird | A viral TikTok friends-to-lovers dark romantic comedy full of murder, chaos, and sizzling chemistry. |
Willingham, Stacy | Only If You're Lucky | Thriller |
Woolf, Maud | Thirteen Ways To Kill Lulabelle Rock | A washed up star creates a clone tasked with eliminating other clones of herself. |
Yarros, Rebecca | Beyond What Is Given | Romance - Flight & Glory #3 |
Yarros, Rebecca | Hallowed Ground | Romance - Flight & Glory #4 |
Zari | Double Life | A successful real estate agent by day and drug queenpin by night, Alexis Fox's worlds collide when her right-hand man is murdered and she must take a more hands-on role in her illicit side hustle. |
November 2023
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Adams, Katharine J. | Tonight, I Burn | Fantasy - Thorn Witch #1 |
Afshar, Tessa | The Peasant King | Christian Historical |
Alexander, T. J. | Second Chances In New Port Stephen | Romance |
Anderson, Justin Lee | The Bitter Crown | Fantasy - Eidyn Saga #2 |
Armstrong, Jess | The Curse Of Penryth Hall | Winner of the Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award |
Arthur, A. C. | Leave It To Us | An inheritance forces three estranged sisters to face past hurts and painful memories. |
Auster, Paul | Baumgartner | Fiction |
Awad, Amal | Courting Samira | A twenty-seven-year-old Palestinian woman who finds herself in an unexpected love triangle. |
Bah, Valerie | The Rage Letters | Fiction |
Baljeet Basra, Celina | Happy | The story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural village in Punjab to pursue his dreams. |
Beaulieu, Bradley P. | The Dragons Of Deepwood Fen | First in a new fantasy series that follows an unlikely pair as they expose the secrets at the heart of the mountain city of Ancris. |
Blædel, Sara, and Mads Peder Nordbo | Dissolved | Mystery |
Blakley-Cartwright, Sarah | Alice Sadie Celine | Fiction |
Bradford, Barbara Taylor | The Wonder Of It All | Historical Fiction - House of Falconer #3 |
Bridgewater, Bailey | Come Find Me In The Midnight Sun | In Alaska, disappearing is the easy part. When two men go missing, state trooper Louisa Linebach must solve the case, and when she thinks she's coming close, she's wrong. |
Broadbent, Carissa | The Serpent & The Wings Of Night | For humans and vampires, the rules of survival are the same: never trust, never yield, and always - always - guard your heart. |
Brooks, Terry | Sister Of Starlit Seas | Fantasy - Viridian Deep #3 |
Bump, Gabriel | The New Naturals | After losing her child and seeing the world as an increasingly dangerous place, a young Black woman from Boston decides to construct a separate society at an abandoned restaurant in Western Massachusetts. |
Burke, Anna | In The Roses Of Pieria | When Clara Eden is offered a job as an archivist working for eccentric estate owner Agatha Montague, she thinks her prayers have been answered. |
Butcher, James J. | Long Past Dues | Fantasy - Unorthodox Chronicles #2 |
Cameron, Marc | Command And Control | Thriller - Jack Ryan #23 |
Cantor, Jillian | The Fiction Writer | A writer hired by a handsome billionaire to write about his family history with Daphne du Maurier finds herself drawn into a tangled web of obsession, marital secrets, and stolen manuscripts. |
Cate, Sara | Mercy | Romance - Salacious Players' Club #4 |
Christensen, Kate | Welcome Home, Stranger | Can you ever truly go home again? |
Chunichi | A Gangster's Girl: 20th Year Anniversary Edition | Urban Fiction |
Clark, Tracy | Fall | Mystery - Harriet Foster #2 |
Clinch, Jon | The General And Julia | Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a president while writing his memoirs and reckoning with his complicated legacy. |
Clipston, Amy | Starstruck | Romance |
Cole, Courtney | A Wish For Christmas | Holiday Romance |
Connally, Celeste | Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Lord | Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in this first entry in a new Regency-era mystery series. |
Cook, Robin | Manner Of Death | Thriller - Stapleton/Montgomery #14 |
Cooper, Helen | The Couple In The Photo | Thriller |
Cooper, Tea | The Butterfly Collector | What connects a botanical illustration of a butterfly with a missing baby and an enigma fifty years in the making? |
Cornwell, Bernard | Uhtred's Feast : Inside The World Of The Last Kingdom | Historical Short Stories |
Cousens, Sophie | The Good Part | Is living the life you've wished for really a dream come true? |
Coyle, Cleo | Bulletproof Barista | Cozy Mystery - Coffeehouse #20 |
Cunningham, Michael | Day | Fiction |
Danan, Rosie | Do Your Worst | Sparks fly when an occult expert and a disgraced archeologist become rivals with benefits. |
Daniels, Devon | The Rom Con | Romance |
Denny, Emma | One Night In Hartswood | When his sister's betrothed vanishes the night before her politically arranged marriage, Raff Barden must track and return the elusive groom to restore his family's honour. |
Deutermann, P. T. | Iwo, 26 Charlie | Historical Fiction - WWII #10 |
Dolan, Naoise | The Happy Couple | A novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apart. |
Douglas, Penelope | Falling Away | Romance - Fall Away #4 |
Douglas, Penelope | Corrupt | Romantic Suspense - Devil's Night #1 |
Douglas, Penelope | Punk 57 | Romance |
Ductan, Monic | Daughters Of Muscadine: Stories | Fiction |
Dunmore, Evie | The Gentleman's Gambit | Historical Romance - League of Extraordinary Women #4 |
Edwards, Emily J. | Viviana Valentine And The Ticking Clock | Historical Mystery - Girl Friday #3 |
Ekpeki, Oghenechovwe Donald | The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction | Speculative Anthology |
Emanuel, Jake | The Edge Of Sleep | What if the whole world fell asleep...and didn't wake up again? |
Emelụmadụ, Chịkọdịlị | Dazzling | Fiction |
Evison, Jonathan | Again And Again | Fiction |
Fair, Ronald L. | Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable | Reprint of a 1965 classic. |
Falero, José | Pedro And Marques Take Stock | A modern picaresque novel and vivid satire on social mobility where the lives of two Brazilian supermarket stock clerks are upturned after their small-time marijuana business takes off. |
Faulkner, Katherine | The Other Mothers | Thriller |
Fay, Constance | Calamity | The captain of a ragtag mercenary ship is given an offer she can't refuse by the ruthless head of an intergalactic noble family. The only catch? She'll have to team up with his son--an upsettingly competent hardbody with his own agenda--to get her reward. |
Feeney, Elaine | How To Build A Boat | Fiction |
Ferguson, Lana | The Fake Mate | Paranormal Romance |
Flower, Amanda | I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died | Historical Mystery - Emily Dickinson #2 |
Frear, Caz | Five Bad Deeds | Thriller |
Gardel, Stênio | The Words That Remain | National Book Award winner. |
Gilbert, Victoria | Murder Checks Out | Cozy Mystery - Blue Ridge Library #8 |
Gould, Leslie | This Passing Hour | Christian Fiction - Amish Memories #2 |
Gray, Shelley Shepard | Her Secret Hope | Christian Fiction - Season in Pinecraft #3 |
Greer, Helena | For Never & Always | One surprise inheritance, two best friends (now bitter exes), and three months to prove he loves her, forever and always. |
Grey, Emma | The Last Love Note | You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again. |
Griffin, Laura | The Last Close Call | A talented genetic analyst teams up with a detective who's haunted by an elusive cold case. |
Grodstein, Lauren | We Must Not Think Of Ourselves | Historical Fiction |
Hanks, Diane | The Woman With A Purple Heart | Based on the real life of Lieutenant Annie Fox, Chief Nurse of Hickam Hospital. |
Harper, Elodie | The Temple Of Fortuna | Historical Fiction - Wolf Den #3 |
Harvey, Samantha | Orbital | Snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space--not towards the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. |
Hawley, Sarah | A Demon's Guide To Wooing A Witch | Calladia Cunnington curses the day she met Astaroth the demon, but when he shows up memoryless, why does she find him so helpless . . . and sort of hot? |
Hedlund, Jody | Calling On The Matchmaker | When a St. Louis Irish matchmaker pairs a shy young woman who spends her time caring for immigrants with a wealthy, flirtatious man whose father wants him to settle down, they can't imagine a more opposite pairing. |
Henry, Christina | Good Girls Don't Die | Thriller |
Higashino, Keigo | The Final Curtain | Mystery - Kyoichiro Kaga #4 |
House, Alexandria | Goal | Romance |
Howe, Katherine | A True Account : Hannah Masury's Sojourn Amongst The Pyrates, Written By Herself | A daring first-hand account of one young woman's unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time. |
Irvin, Kelly | The Year Of Goodbyes And Hellos | Two sisters seek a new balance in work, family, and love when one receives a diagnosis that sets the clock ticking. |
Jefferies, Dinah | Night Train To Marrakech | Historical Fiction - Daughters of War #3 |
Jennings, James W. | Wings Of Red | Fiction |
Jha, Sonora | The Laughter | A white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleague. |
Jin, Ha | The Woman Back From Moscow: In Pursuit Of Beauty | Historical Fiction |
Johansen, Erika | The Kingdom Of Sweets | This reimagining of The Nutcracker tells the tale of twin sisters, divided by envy and magic, set against each another one fateful Christmas Eve. |
Johnson, Chantal V. | Post-Traumatic | A young lawyer finally confronts her dark past so she can live in a more peaceful future. |
Kane, Darby | The Engagement Party | Thriller |
Kawabata, Yasunari | The Rainbow | A 1955 classic translated into English for the first time. |
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu | Before We Say Goodbye | Fiction - Before the Coffee Gets Cold #4 |
Kayode, Femi | Gaslight | Mystery - Philip Taiwo #2 |
Keegan, Claire | So Late In The Day | Short Stories |
Kellen, Alice | All That We Never Were | He'll do anything to bring the light back into her eyes. |
Kennedy, Louise | The End Of The World Is A Cul De Sac | Short Stories |
Kingsbury, Karen | Just Once | Christian Historical |
Korn, Gabrielle | Yours For The Taking | Dystopian Science Fiction |
La Rosa, Erin | Plot Twist | Romance - Hollywood #2 |
Lackey, Mercedes | Anything With Nothing | Fantasy - Valdemar Anthology |
Lawhon, Ariel | The Frozen River | A historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who found herself at the center of a murder trial. |
Lemmie, Asha | The Wildest Sun | A determined young woman searches for the larger-than-life literary figure she believes to be her father. |
Lindsay, Jeffry P. | The Fourth Rule | Mystery - Riley Wolfe #4 |
Lispector, Clarice | The Apple In The Dark | Classic Fiction |
Littles, T. C. | The Laws Of Loyalty | Intrigued by danger, attracted to the thrill, and feenin' for life in the fast lane, Morgan gives up everything she's ever known to go on the ride of her life with Javon. |
Lloyd-Barlow, Viktoria | All The Little Bird-Hearts | I lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards. |
Lynch, Paul | Prophet Song | Winner of 2023 Booker Prize. |
Mann, George | The Eye Of Darkness | Science Fiction - Star Wars: The High Republic |
Marcus, Danielle | Jack Girlz | Best friends Sophie, Diamond, and Angel find themselves with their backs against the wall and owing an extremely dangerous man. |
Martin, Alexa | Next-Door Nemesis | Two rival candidates for a homeowner's association presidency are about to find out how dirty suburbanites fight in this romantic comedy. |
McDermid, Val | Past Lying | Mystery - Karen Pirie #7 |
McFadden, Freida | Never Lie | Sometimes the truth kills... |
McMillan, Claire | Alchemy Of A Blackbird | Based on the true story of the 20th-century painters and tarot devotees Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington. |
Meadows, Foz | All The Hidden Paths | Fantasy - Tithenai Chronicles #2 |
Mitchard, Jacquelyn | A Very Inconvenient Scandal | Fiction |
Monroe, Mary | Lost Daughters | Fiction - Mama Ruby #3 |
Mulford, A. K. | A River Of Golden Bones | A sleeping curse. A fallen court. A secret twin. |
Nossett, Lauren | The Professor | For fans of Tana French, The Professor investigates the darkest corners of academic life: ambition, lies, and obsession. |
Novak, Brenda | The Talk Of Coyote Canyon | Romance - Coyote Canyon #2 |
Noyes, E. J. | Integrity | Romantic Suspense - Division #1 |
Noyes, E. J. | Leverage | Romantic Suspense - Division #2 |
Nunez, Sigrid | The Vulnerables | Set against the early days of New York City's Covid lockdowns, a woman finds unlikely--and uneasy--companionship in a troubled college student and his parents' friends' parrot. |
Okorafor, Nnedi | Like Thunder | Science Fiction - Desert Magician #2 |
Okungbowa, Suyi Davies | Warrior Of The Wind | Fantasy - Nameless Republic #2 |
Park, Ed | Same Bed Different Dreams | A novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present. |
Peterson, Tracie | Knowing You | Christian Historical - Pictures of the Heart #3 |
Pitoniak, Anna | The Helsinki Affair | Thriller |
Platt, Christine A. | Rebecca, Not Becky | Two upper-class stay-at-home mothers--one white, one Black--live in a 'perfect' suburb in this novel that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America's all-too-familiar racial reckoning. |
Qian, Cleo | Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go | Short Stories |
Rath, Emily | Pucking Around | Romance - Jacksonville Rays #1 |
Ridley, Erica | Defying The Earl | Historical Romance |
Rivero, Melissa | Flores And Miss Paula | A novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final chance to find common ground. |
Robb, Kate | This Spells Love | Paranormal Romance |
Rocha, Kit | Consort Of Fire | While fulfilling an ancient prophecy, Sachielle is sent to be the mortal consort of an ancient dragon god, but she and her handmaid, who is a trained assassin, plot to murder the dragon and break the curse. |
Rozan, S. J. | The Mayors Of New York | Mystery - Lydia Chin/Bill Smith #15 |
Sagara, Michelle | Shards Of Glass | Fantasy |
Schulman, Helen | Lucky Dogs | Fiction |
Segura, Jo | Raiders Of The Lost Heart | Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers--and hearts--in ruins. |
Shelton, Paige | Lost Hours | Mystery - Alaska Wild #5 |
Sheridan, Mia | Archer's Voice | An emotional, slow burn romance about a woman desperate to hide and the man who sees through her walls, for fans of Colleen Hoover and Lucy Score. |
Silver, Elsie | Reckless | Romance - Chestnut Springs #4 |
Singh, Nalini | There Should Have Been Eight | Seven friends. One sprawling mansion half in ruins. One last long weekend together. No more lies. Someone is going to confess. Because there should've been eight. |
Snelling, Lauraine | Fields Of Bounty | Christian Historical - Leah's Garden #3 |
Soloski, Alexis | Here In The Dark | A young theater critic is drawn into a dangerous game that blurs the lines between reality and performance. |
Spark, Anna Smith | A Woman Of The Sword | An epic fantasy seen through the eyes of an ordinary woman. |
Spark, Anna Smith | A Sword Of Bronze And Ashes | Fantasy |
Spotswood, Stephen | Murder Crossed Her Mind | Historical Mystery - Pentecost and Parker #4 |
Steel, Danielle | Upside Down | Fiction |
Stoker, Susan | Deserving Reese | Romance - Refuge #3 |
Stoker, Susan | Deserving Cora | Romance - Refuge #4 |
Thompson, Victoria | City Of Betrayal | Historical Mystery - Counterfeit Lady #7 |
Toon, Paige | Five Years From Now | Best friends. First kiss. First love. Five years from now, what will they be? |
Traunfeld, Samantha | The Legionnaire | Fantasy |
Turano, Jen | To Spark A Match | Christian Historical - Matchmakers #2 |
Upson, Nicola | Shot With Crimson | Historical Mystery - Josephine Tey #11 |
Urbanski, Debbie | After World | The story of the last human--and of the AI writing her life story. |
Urszenyi, Steve | Perfect Shot | A former Army sniper must fall back on her Special Ops skills when a friend's death uncovers a global nuclear threat. |
Vali, Ali | Rivals For Love | Romance |
Vassell, Charlotte | The Other Half | Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's--catered with cocaine and expensive champagne. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel jutting from under a bush. |
Vaz, Katherine | Above The Salt | A love story that follows two Portuguese refugees who flee religious violence and reignite their budding romance in Civil-War America. |
Wiesner, Melissa | The Second Chance Year | Romance |
Wilkes, Ally | Where The Dead Wait | Historical Thriller |
Williams, Denise | Technically Yours | Eight years ago, he fell in love with a stranger he couldn't have--today, she's back in his life and the sparks between them threaten to set her career on fire. |
Yardley, Cathy | Role Playing | An romantic comedy about two middle-aged gamers who grow their online connection into an IRL love story. |
Yarros, Rebecca | Full Measures | Romance - Flight & Glory #1 |
Yarros, Rebecca | Eyes Turned Skyward | Romance - Flight & Glory #2 |
Zahn, Timothy | The Icarus Twin | Science Fiction - Icarus #2 |
The Penguin Book Of Murder Mysteries | Crime Anthology |
October 2023
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Abdoh, Salar | A Nearby Country Called Love | A novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which a man struggles to find his place in an Iran on the brink of combusting. |
Akinmade-Akerström, Lola | Everything Is Not Enough | Can a career woman truly have it all? |
Albert, Susan Wittig | Someone Always Nearby | Historical Fiction |
Albom, Mitch | The Little Liar | Historical Fiction |
Alderman, Naomi | The Future | A handful of friends plan a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. |
Alers, Rochelle | Take The Long Way Home | One woman's remarkable journey through some of history's most turbulent eras--and the four men who impact her life along the way. |
Andrews, Donna | Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow! | Cozy Mystery - Meg Langslow #34 |
Angoe, Yasmin | It Ends With Knight | Thriller - Nena Knight #3 |
Arikawa, Hiro | The Goodbye Cat: Seven Cat Stories | In this follow-up to The Travelling Cat Chronicles, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives, climbing, comforting, nestling, and sometimes just tripping everyone up. |
Armentrout, Jennifer L. | A Fire In The Flesh | Paranormal Romance - Flesh and Fire #3 |
Armitage, Richard | Geneva | Thriller |
Arsén, Isa | Shoot The Moon | How far would you travel for love? |
Aryanna | Til Death 3 | Urban Fiction |
Asher, Lauren | Love Redesigned | Three entrepreneurial brothers who can't buy love. |
Ashley, Kristen | Too Good To Be True | Romantic Suspense |
Baird, Ginny | The Holiday Mix-Up | A diner waitress agrees to be her patron's fake date...only for him to land in a coma and her to be stuck playing his sweetheart with his family all week long. |
Baker, A. Deborah | Under The Smokestrewn Sky | Fantasy - Up-and-Under #4 |
Baker, Lacey | Snow Place Like Home | Romance |
Baldacci, David | The Edge | Mystery - 6:20 Man #2 |
Baldree, Travis | Bookshops & Bonedust | When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need isn't always what we seek. |
Barratt, Amanda | The Warsaw Sisters | Historical Fiction |
Barron, Stephanie | Jane And The Final Mystery | Historical Mysteries - Jane Austen #15 |
Biller, Anna | Bluebeard's Castle | Bluebeard gets a feminist Gothic makeover. |
Blakemore, A. K. | The Glutton | Historical Fiction |
Bowen, Rhys | The Proof Of The Pudding | Historical Mystery - Royal Spyness #17 |
Brinkley, Jamel | Witness | Short Stories |
Britain, Kristen | Spirit Of The Wood | Fantasy - Green Rider #8 |
Brown, Karma | What Wild Women Do | Two women's lives unexpectedly intertwine in this dual timeline novel. |
Brown, Rita Mae | Lost & Hound | Cozy Mystery - Jane Arnold #15 |
Bryn, D. N. | How To Sell Your Blood And Fall In Love | Paranormal Romance - Guides for Dating Vampires #2 |
Butcher, Jim | The Olympian Affair | Fantasy - Cinder Spires #2 |
Callender, Kacen | Stars In Your Eyes | The story of two grumpy/sunshine, fake-dating actors navigating their love story both on and offscreen. |
Caña, Natalie | A Dish Best Served Hot | Romance - Vega Family #2 |
Carlisle, Kate | The Twelve Books Of Christmas | Cozy Mystery - Bibliophile #17 |
Carr, Charlene | Hold My Girl | Two women. Two eggs. One life-altering mistake. |
Carriger, Gail | Divinity 36 | A warm and unique science fiction novel about the power of art, celebrity, and found family. |
Carriger, Gail | Demigod 12 | Science Fiction - Tinkered Starsong #2 |
Carriger, Gail | Dome 6 | Science Fiction - Tinkered Starsong #3 |
Cassidy, Nat | Nestlings | Horror |
Cate, Sara | Give Me More | Romance - Salacious Players' Club #3 |
Chang, K-Ming | Organ Meats | Two friends are bound by a red string, dog bloodlines, and the violence that is being a girl. |
Chante, Tequilla | Satin & Stone | A chance encounter in Forte Green, Brooklyn seemingly sets off a chain of events that lead to the resurfacing of unaddressed trauma, long withheld secrets, and desires for vengeance. |
Chao, A. Y. | Shanghai Immortal | Half vampire. Half fox-spirit. All trouble. |
Chizmar, Richard | Becoming The Boogeyman | Horror - Boogeyman #2 |
Chu, Wesley | The Art Of Destiny | Fantasy - War Arts Saga #2 |
Claire, Ann | Last Word To The Wise | Cozy Mystery - Christie Bookshop #2 |
Cole, Briana | In Their Shadows | Raised to be the ultimate scam artist, April has been many women to many people. |
Cole, Teju | Tremor | What constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world? |
Colgan, Jenny | Midnight At The Christmas Bookshop | Romance - Christmas Bookshop #2 |
Connealy, Mary | Marshaling Her Heart | Christian Historical - Wyoming Sunrise #3 |
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels | Unnatural Death | Mystery - Kay Scarpetta #27 |
Cussler, Dirk | The Corsican Shadow | Adventure - Dirk Pitt #27 |
Dawson, Delilah S. | Bloom | Horror |
Day, Sylvia | Too Far | Romantic Suspense - Blacklist #2 |
Deaver, Jeffery | The Watchmaker's Hand | Mystery - Lincoln Rhyme #16 |
Djanikian, Ariel | The Prospectors | Historical Fiction |
Due, Tananarive | The Reformatory | A novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors. |
Dumas, Luke | The Paleontologist | A haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is faced with a terrifying and murderous spirit. |
Epstein, Allison | Let The Dead Bury The Dead | Historical Fiction |
Fadipe, Kehinde | The Sun Sets In Singapore | Basking in Singapore's nonstop sunshine, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the glamorous expat dream--until a mysterious and handsome new arrival infiltrates their tight-knit community and ruins everything. |
Farmer, Kelly | It's A Fabulous Life | Holiday Romance |
Firkins, Jacqueline | The Predictable Heartbreaks Of Imogen Finch | Romance |
Fosse, Jon | A Shining | A walk in the forest leads to an inexplicable supernatural experience. |
Freeman, Elijah R. | Murda Was The Case 3 | Urban Fiction |
Freeman, Kimi | 'Tis The Damn Season | A Hollywood starlet caught in a scandal. The boy she never got over. A Christmas season they'll never forget... |
Freethy, Sarah | The Porcelain Maker | Two lovers caught at the crossroads of history. A daughter's search for the truth. |
Gauz' | Standing Heavy | All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible amongst the rich white fâlneurs--and yet the only ones who truly see. |
Gillig, Rachel | Two Twisted Crowns | Fantasy Romance - Shepherd King #2 |
Gilmore, Clare | Love Interest | Romance |
Glenn, Roy | Is It A Crime: 20th Anniversary Edition | Urban Fiction |
Goddard, Elizabeth | Cold Light Of Day | Police Chief Autumn Long is fighting to keep her job when an unexpected wave of violent crime sweeps through her small Alaskan town. |
Goddard, Elizabeth | Shadows At Dusk | Romantic Suspense - Missing in Alaska #2 |
Goldberg, Lee | Calico | Thriller |
Golden, Kate | A Dawn Of Onyx | Fantasy Romance - Sacred Stones #1 |
Grace, Hannah | Icebreaker | Sparks fly when a competitive figure skater and hockey team captain are forced to share a rink. |
Gray, Erick S. | Gun | Omar will soon take advantage of his right to bear arms--even though it might cost him his soul. |
Gray, Shelley Shepard | Her Secret Hope | Christian Fiction - Season in Pinecraft #3 |
Greenberg, Alison Rose | Maybe Once, Maybe Twice | Romance |
Greenwood, Kerry | Murder In Williamstown | Historical Mystery - Miss Fisher #22 |
Guel, M. B. | They Ain't Proper | When the past comes back to haunt the Lou and Florence, the fight for their independence--and their love--may become more deadly than either of them ever expected. |
Haddon, Seth | Reborn | Fantasy Romance |
Hall, Alexis J. | 10 Things That Never Happened | Fake amnesia. Real feelings? Real problems. |
Hannah, Sophie | Hercule Poirot's Silent Night | Mystery - Hercule Poirot #5 |
Hannon, Irene | Into The Fire | Instinct only takes you so far. After that, you need proof. |
Heath, Virginia | Never Wager With A Wallflower | Historical Romance - Merriwell Sisters #3 |
Helprin, Mark | The Oceans and the Stars | Fiction |
Hernandez, Treasure | Girls From Da Hood 15 | Urban Fiction |
Herod, Sheena | Finding Destiny | Urban Fiction |
Hogarth, Ainslie | Normal Women | A new mother becomes embroiled in danger when her friend, a controversial entrepreneur, goes missing. |
Huang, Ana | King Of Greed | Romance - Kings of Sin #3 |
Hughes, Lorena | The Queen Of The Valley | Against the backdrop of 1925 Columbia, this story plunges three strangers - a photographer, a young Spanish chocolatier in disguise, and a Palestinian-Colombian nun - into a perilous search for the missing owner of a coveted hacienda amidst an emerging cholera epidemic. |
Hunter, Lindsay | Hot Springs Drive | Jackie Newsome's best friend is dead, and everyone knows who killed her. |
Isaka, Kōtarō | The Mantis | Kabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him. |
J, Tallah | Mama, I'm In Love With A Thug: A Hood Love Story | A Harlem Kingpin meets a struggling, single mother. Hood love is in the air. |
Jacka, Benedict | An Inheritance Of Magic | The super-rich control everything--including magic. |
Jackson-Brown, Angela | Homeward | The country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing--and no one--will ever be the same. |
Jacobs, Bethany | These Burning Stars | A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones of a genocide. A carefully hidden secret that could collapse worlds, hunted by three women with secrets of their own. |
James, Sarah | Last Night At The Hollywood Canteen | When despised film critic Fiona Farris is found dead in the Canteen kitchen, murder mystery playwright Annie realizes any one of the Canteen's luminous volunteers could be guilty of the crime. |
Jenkins, Beverly | A Christmas To Remember | Romance - Blessings #11 |
Johnson, Kij | The Privilege Of The Happy Ending: Small, Medium, And Large Stories | Speculative Short Stories |
Johnston, Tim | Distant Sons | The actions of two young working men with secrets ignite the passions and violence of a small Wisconsin town still haunted by the unsolved disappearance of three boys in the 1970s. |
Jones, Stephen Mack | Deus X | Mystery - August Snow #4 |
Kadrey, Richard | The Pale House Devil | Ford and Neuland are paranormal mercenaries--one living, one undead; one of them kills the undead, the other kills the living. |
Karrington, Kaylha | The Side Effects Of Loving You | Urban Fiction |
Kelly, Simone | Journey's Revenge | Urban Fiction - #1544 #2 |
Kennedy, Elle | The Graham Effect | Romance |
Khan, Ausma Zehanat | Blood Betrayal | Mystery - Blackwater Falls #2 |
Khaw, Cassandra, and Richard Kadrey | The Dead Take The A Train | Horror - Carrion City #1 |
Kim, Nancy Jooyoun | What We Kept To Ourselves | A novel about a family's search for answers following the disappearance of their mother. |
Klavan, Andrew | The House Of Love And Death | Mystery - Cameron Winter #3 |
Koh, EJ | The Liberators | Spanning two continents and four generations, this debut novel captures two Korean families forever changed by fateful decisions made in love and war. |
Labatut, Benjamín | The Maniac | Historical Fiction |
Lafferty, Mur | Chaos Terminal | Science Fiction - Midsolar Murders #2 |
Lark, Sophie | There Are No Saints | She knows he's no saint, but she has no idea she's dancing with the devil. |
Ledwidge, Michael | The Girl In The Vault | Thriller |
Liese, Chloe | Better Hate Than Never | Romance - Wilmot Sisters #2 |
Lillie, Vanessa | Blood Sisters | A Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women...one of them her sister. |
Lupica, Mike | Robert B. Parker's Broken Trust | Mystery - Spenser #50 |
Macmillan, Gilly | The Manor House | Having won the lottery, childhood sweethearts Nicole and Tom live luxuriously in a custom-built Glass Barn on the grounds of a Gloucestershire Manor House, and all's well until Tom is found floating dead in the pool. |
Maguire, Gregory | The Witch Of Maracoor | Fantasy - Another Day #3 |
Margolin, Phillip | Betrayal | Mystery - Robin Lockwood #7 |
Marmery, Nikki | Lilith | Retelling |
Marske, Freya | A Power Unbound | Historical Fantasy - Last Binding #3 |
Martin, Charles | The Last Exchange | How far would you go---really---to save someone you love? |
McCall Smith, Alexander | From A Far And Lovely Country | Mystery - No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #24 |
McDermott, Alice | Absolution | Historical Fiction |
McDonald, Ed | Traitor Of Redwinter | Fantasy - Redwinter Chronicles #2 |
McDorman, Dann | West Heart Kill | A murder mystery set at a remote hunting lodge where everyone is a suspect, including the erratic detective on the scene. |
McGuire, Seanan | The Innocent Sleep | Urban Fantasy - October Daye #18 |
McKenna, Clara | Murder On Mistletoe Lane | Historical Mystery - Stella and Lyndy #5 |
Miller, Linda Lael | Christmas In Painted Pony Creek | Romance - Painted Pony Creek #4 |
Millet, Rebekah | Julia Monroe Begins Again | Christian Romance |
Milligan, A. Roy | Women Lie Men Lie 4 | Urban Fiction |
Moreau, Khalia | The Princess Of Thornwood Drive | Two sisters are trapped on opposite sides of reality. |
Morrissey, Hannah | When I'm Dead | Thriller - Black Harbor #3 |
Mukerji, Ritu | Murder By Degrees | For fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Charles Todd: a historical mystery set in 19th-century Philadelphia, following a pioneering woman doctor as she investigates the disappearance of a young patient who is presumed dead. |
Munier, Paula | Home At Night | Mystery - Mercy Carr #5 |
Murphy, Emily Bain | Enchanted Hill | Historical Mystery |
Murphy, Julie, and Sierra Simone | A Holly Jolly Ever After | An actress and a perpetually single former boy-band member are reunited as costars on a steamy holiday film. |
Nascosta, C. M. | How To Marry A Marble Marquis | Paranormal Romance |
Norris, Kelsey | House Gone Quiet: Stories | A debut story collection about the bonds and bounds of community and what it means to call a place home. |
Noyes, Emma | Guy's Girl | Ginny isn't sure which came first-the bad habit or the boy. |
O'Brien, Tim | America Fantastica | Fiction |
Ojeda, Monica | Nefando | A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game. |
Mitchell, Carol | What Start Bad A Mornin' | Amaya Lin has few memories of the years before she turned eighteen. Now in her forties, she has compensated by carefully cultivating a satisfying life as a wife, mother, and business professional. |
Palmer, Diana | Wyoming Proud | Romance - Wyoming Men #12 |
Partee, S. L. | Plan B Drama & Baby Mama's | Urban Fiction |
Patterson, James | Alex Cross Must Die | Thriller - Alex Cross #30 |
Peers, Lisa | Love At 350 Degrees | Food is their love language, but can they follow a recipe for romance? |
Perry, Anne | A Christmas Vanishing | Historical Mystery - Christmas #21 |
Peters, Amanda | The Berry Pickers | A four-year-old girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years. |
Phillips, Gary | The Unvarnished Gary Phillips: A Mondo Pulp Collection | Speculative Short Stories |
Piper, Hailey | A Light Most Hateful | A runaway working a dead-end job in Pennsylvania must fight to return home when an intense, otherworldly summer storm arrives bringing a mind-bending monster that enslaves the residents. |
Player, Delmont | The Birth Of A Gangster 4 | Urban Fiction |
Porter, Michelle | A Grandmother Begins The Story | The story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them. |
Pratchett, Terry | A Stroke Of The Pen: The Lost Stories | Speculative Short Stories |
Prose, Nita | The Mystery Guest | Mystery - Molly the Maid #2 |
Pung, Alice | One Hundred Days | Fiction |
Quinn, Spencer | Up On The Woof Top | Cozy Mystery - Chet and Bernie #14 |
Rader-Day, Lori | The Death Of Us | Thriller |
Rather, Lina | A Season Of Monstrous Conceptions | Historical Fantasy |
Rebelein, Sam | Edenville | Horror |
Reyes, Raquel V. | Barbacoa, Bomba, And Betrayal | Cozy Mystery - Caribbean Kitchen #3 |
Ridley, Erica | Taming the Rake | Historical Romance - Lords in Love #1 |
Riley, Vanessa | Murder In Drury Lane | Historical Mystery - Lady Worthing #2 |
Rio, King | Super Gremlin 3 | Urban Fiction |
Robert, Katee | Hunt On Dark Waters | A stern captain meets his witchy match in this first fantasy romance novel in the Crimson Sails series. |
Roberts, Nora | Inheritance | Paranormal Romance - Lost Bride #1 |
Robinson, Corey | Thug Of Spades | Daymion Myers has been locked up for seventeen long years. When he is finally set free, the only thing on his mind is finding his son. |
Rosen, Ali | Recipe For Second Chances | Romance |
Rosen, Lev AC | The Bell In The Fog | Historical Mystery - Evander Mills #2 |
Rosenfelt, David | 'Twas The Bite Before Christmas | Cozy Mystery - Andy Carpenter #28 |
Rothfuss, Patrick | The Narrow Road Between Desires | Fantasy - Kingkiller Chronicle |
Rumfitt, Alison | Brainwyrms | Horror |
Ryan, Kennedy | Hook Shot | Romance - Hoops #3 |
Sage, Lyla | Done And Dusted | She's off-limits, but he's never been good at following the rules. |
Salam, Anbara | Hazardous Spirits | In 1920s Edinburgh, Scotland, Evelyn Hazard is a young, middle-class housewife living the life she's always expected--until her husband, Robert, upends everything with a startling announcement: he can communicate with the dead. |
Salazar, Noelle | The Roaring Days Of Zora Lily | The discovery of a hidden label on a famous gown unearths the story of a talented young seamstress. |
Samuels, Talia | The Christmas Swap | A woman fake dates her friend...only to fall for his sister. |
Sanders, Shannon | Company: Stories | Follow the Collins family through a series of stories in which they meet, bicker, compete, celebrate, worry, keep and reveal secrets, build lives and careers, and endure with different guests in each story. |
Sheridan, Mia | All The Little Raindrops | Romantic Suspense |
Shipman, Viola | The Wishing Bridge | Holiday Romance |
Silver, Elsie | Powerless | Romance - Chestnut Springs #3 |
Simone, Sierra | Salt Kiss | Romance - Lyonesse #1 |
Skye, Aries | Love On The Ninth Floor | Trending on TikTok takes on an entirely new meaning when the 'for you' becomes a viral love story in the making. |
Smith, Wilbur A. | Testament | Historical Fiction - Ancient Egypt #9 |
Snowe, Jaqueline | Snowed In For Christmas | Holiday Romance |
Sobh, Alawiya | This Thing Called Love | Fiction |
Starling, Caitlin | Last To Leave The Room | The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. |
Steel, Danielle | The Ball At Versailles | Historical Fiction |
Stoker, Susan | The Royal | Romance - Game of Chance #2 |
Swanson, Peter | The Christmas Guest | An American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays at Starvewood Hall, her family's Cotswold manor house. |
Sweren-Becker, Daniel | Kill Show | Thriller |
Tan, Twan Eng | The House Of Doors | Historical Fiction |
Taylor, Clementine | Something About Her | Fiction |
Taylor, Jodi | The Good, The Bad And The History | Science Fiction - Chronicles of St. Mary's #14 |
Thayne, RaeAnne | Christmas At The Shelter Inn | Holiday Romance |
Thirlwell, Adam | The Future Future | Fiction |
Thorne, Rebecca | This Gilded Abyss | A soldier is forced to guard her ex-girlfriend, a cunning princess, on a trip to an undersea city. But their relationship complicates when passengers aboard the luxury submarine start murdering each other. |
Tieu, Julie | Fancy Meeting You Here | Every single one of Elise Ngo's close girlfriends--Rebecca, Jesse, and Beth--is getting married within the same few months, and every single one of them has asked her to be both bridesmaid and florist. |
Torres, Justin | Blackouts | Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. |
Toutonghi, Pauls | The Refugee Ocean | Two refugees find that their lives are inextricably linked--over time and distance--by the perils of history and a single haunting piece of music. |
Trujillo, Dani | Lizards Hold The Sun | Archaeology has historically been a field for white men only. |
Turnbull, Cadwell | We Are The Crisis | Urban Fantasy - Convergence Saga #2 |
Unger, Lisa | Christmas Presents | Thriller |
Vernon, Leah | The Dissent | Science Fiction - Union #2 |
Vidich, Paul | Beirut Station: Two Lives Of A Spy | Thriller |
Wardell, M. A. | Teacher Of The Year | Love: Not as easy as ABC. |
Wells, Martha | System Collapse | Science Fiction - Murderbot Diaries #7 |
Wiggs, Susan | The Twelve Dogs Of Christmas | Fiction |
Winterson, Jeanette | Night Side Of The River | Ghost Stories |
Wright, Jaime Jo | The Lost Boys Of Barlowe Theater | Christian Suspense |
Yarros, Rebecca | Iron Flame | Fantasy Romance - Empyrean #2 |
Yoon, Paul | The Hive And The Honey | Short Stories |
Yoshimoto, Banana | The Premonition | Fiction |
Young, Adrienne | The Unmaking Of June Farrow | A woman risks everything to end her family's centuries-old curse, solve her mother's disappearance, and find love. |
Christmas And Other Horrors: An Anthology of Solstice Horror | Holiday Anthology |
September 2023
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Abdullah, Kia | Perfectly Nice Neighbors | When your dream home comes with nightmare neighbors, how far will you go to keep your family safe? |
Adegoke, Yomi | The List | A high-profile female journalist's world is upended when her fiancé's name turns up in a viral social media post. |
Alexander, Tasha | A Cold Highland Wind | Historical Mystery - Lady Emily #17 |
Anderson, Demond Money | Product Of The Streets | Sworn to the streets, Young Mack has to do what he does to survive while murder, treachery, and betrayal lurks around every corner of the game. |
Arceneaux, Danielle | Glory Be | The first in a crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the hilariously uncensored amateur sleuth Glory Broussard. |
Archer, Jeffrey | Traitors Gate | Mystery - William Warwick #6 |
Armentrout, Jennifer L. | Fall Of Ruin And Wrath | Romantic Fantasy - Awakening #1 |
Armstrong, Kelley | Hemlock Island | Horror |
Aryanna | Til Death 2 | Urban Fiction |
Ashe, Lucy | The Dance Of The Dolls | The story of identical twin ballerinas rehearsing for the ballet Coppélia in London. |
Atkinson, Kate | Normal Rules Don't Apply | Short Stories |
Awad, Mona | Rouge | A lonely young woman is drawn to a cult-like spa in the wake of her mother's mysterious death. |
Bailey, Maggie Blake | Seams Deadly | When sewist Lydia Barnes finds a dead body soon after moving to a new town, she will need more than shear luck to find the killer. |
Bailey, Tessa | Wreck The Halls | Holiday Romance |
Bancroft, Josiah | The Hexologists | Magical mysteries abound and only one team can solve them: The Hexologists. |
Basu, Samit | The Jinn-Bot Of Shantiport | Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rulers aren't helping anyone but themselves. |
Beaton, M. C. | Dead On Target | Mystery - Agatha Raising #34 |
Bell, Alice | Grave Expectations | A burnt-out Millennial medium must utilize her ability to see ghosts and team-up with a band of oddball investigators to figure out which member(s) of a posh English family are guilty of murder. |
Bennett, S. J. | Murder Most Royal | Mystery - Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #3 |
Berney, Louis | Dark Ride | Thriller |
Blake, Ashley Herring | Iris Kelly Doesn't Date | Romance - Bright Falls #3 |
Broder, Melissa | Death Valley | Fiction |
Brown, Millie Bobby | Nineteen Steps | Love blooms in the darkest days… |
Bryce, Denny S. | The Other Princess | Historical Fiction |
Cárdenas, Juan Sebastián | The Devil Of The Provinces | After a series of failures, a biologist returns to his hometown to live with his grieving mother. |
Carrick, M. A. | Labyrinth's Heart | Fantasy - Rook & Rose #3 |
Chaarani, James | Between The Head And The Hands | The story of a young man abandoned by his family and religion and left searching for identity in an unfamiliar world. |
Charles, KJ | A Nobleman's Guide To Seducing A Scoundrel | Historical Romance - Doomsday Books #2 |
Child, Lee | The Secret | Thriller - Jack Reacher #28 |
Christopher, Andie J. | Unrealistic Expectations | Romance |
Chua, Amy | The Golden Gate | A historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. |
Clare, Cassandra | Sword Catcher | Two outcasts find themselves caught in a web of forbidden love, dangerous magic, and dark secrets that could change the world forever in the start of an epic fantasy series. |
Connelly, Michael | Resurrection Walk | Mystery - Lincoln Lawyer #7 |
Connolly, John | The Land Of Lost Things | Thriller - Book of Lost Things #2 |
Crichton, Michael | The Venom Business | Mystery |
Critchley, Emily | One Puzzling Afternoon | Mystery |
Cross, Juliette | Wolf Gone Wild | What's the worst thing that can happen to a werewolf? |
Cussler, Dirk | Clive Cussler The Corsican Shadow | Thriller - Dirk Pitt #27 |
Dams, Jeanne M. | Music And Murder | Historical Mystery - Oak Park Village #2 |
Davis, Lydia | Our Strangers | Short Stories |
DeMille, Nelson | Blood Lines | Mystery - Brodie & Taylor #2 |
Deniro, Anya Johanna | Okpsyche | Fiction |
Dey, Claudia | Daughter | A woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life--and art--of her own. |
Diop, David | Beyond The Door Of No Return | A historical novel about a French botanist's search for a mysterious woman who escaped from slavery in Senegal. |
Dorfman, Ariel | The Suicide Museum | A billionaire Holocaust survivor hires a writer to uncover the truth of Salvador Allende's death, and they must confront their own dark histories to find a path forward--for themselves and for our ravaged planet. |
Douglas, Penelope | Birthday Girl | Romance |
Dunbar, Carol | A Winter's Rime | Fiction |
Eekhout, Anne | Mary And The Birth Of Frankenstein | Historical Fiction |
Elliott, Alicia | And Then She Fell | Follows a young Indigenous woman who discovers the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences. |
Ellroy, James | The Enchanters | Historical Fiction |
Enoch, Suzanne | Every Duke Has His Day | Brain meets Beauty in this take on the classic Bringing Up Baby by way of Jane Austen. |
Enright, Anne | The Wren, The Wren | Fiction |
Eskens, Allen | Saving Emma | A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his own home. |
Evanovich, Janet | Dirty Thirty | Mystery - Stephanie Plum #30 |
Evans, Diana | A House For Alice | Fiction |
Fisher, Suzanne Woods | Lost And Found | Christian Romance |
Fountain, Ben | Devil Makes Three | Historical Fiction |
Francis, Felix | No Reserve | Mystery - Dick Francis Novels #12 |
Friend, William | Let Him In | "Daddy, there's a man in our room..." |
Fussner, Nora | The Invisible World | A gothic, ghostly horror novel set on a paranormal investigations TV show. |
Galbraith, Robert | The Running Grave | Mystery - Cormoran Strike #7 |
Gerritsen, Tess | The Spy Coast | A retired CIA operative in small-town Maine tackles the ghosts of her past. |
Godfrey, Sierra | The Second Chance Hotel | It's all fun and games until you accidentally marry a stranger in Greece and inherit a hotel. |
Goldbeck, Kate | You, Again | A commitment-phobe and a hopeless romantic clash over and over again--until heartbreak and unexpected chemistry bring them together. |
Grace, Hannah | Wildfire | Romance - Maple Hills #2 |
Gran, Sara | Come Closer | Demonic possession or psychic break? |
Griffith, Nicola | Menewood | Historical Fiction - Light of the World #2 |
Grisham, John | The Exchange | Mystery - Firm #2 |
Guanzon, Thea | The Hurricane Wars | The fates of two bitter enemies with opposing magical abilities are swept together. |
Hall, Codi | Along Came Holly | Romance - Mistletoe #3 |
Hamm, Jennifer | One Friday In Napa | Fiction |
Hand, Elizabeth | A Haunting On The Hill | A struggling playwright, her musician girlfriend, and a few friends find a creepy old mansion on an isolated hill from which to rehearse her most ambitious play. Ignoring the red flags about the house and setting, the friends soon find themselves fighting each other--and the house itself. |
Harris, Charlaine | All The Dead Shall Weep | Fantasy - Gunnie Rose #5 |
Harrison, Rachel | Black Sheep | Horror |
Harrow, Alix E. | Starling House | I dream sometimes about a house I've never seen … I should be scared, but in the dream I don't hesitate. In my dream, I'm home. |
Herbert, Brian | Princess Of Dune | Science Fiction - Heroes of Dune |
Herron, Mick | The Secret Hours | A standalone spy thriller from the author of the Slough House series. |
Hill, Halle | Good Women | Delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. |
Hill, Nathan | Wellness | Fiction |
Hunt, La Jill | Around The Way Girls: 20th Anniversary Edition | Urban Fiction |
Hunt, La Jill | Drama Queen: 20th Anniversary Edition | Urban Fiction |
Hunter, Cara | Murder In The Family | Thriller |
Hunter, Denise | Wildflower Falls | He's here to train her horses and then skip town. She's keeping her true identity a secret. But their spark complicates both of their plans. |
Jackson, Danielle | Accidentally In Love | When Sam is stuck sharing the streets for Chicago's summer festivals with a man she can't stand, she'll find it's often a bumpy road that leads to love… |
Jalaluddin, Uzma | Three Holidays And A Wedding | Holiday Romance |
Jance, Judith A. | Blessing Of The Lost Girls | Mystery - Joanna Brady #20 |
Jiles, Paulette | Chenneville | Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post-Civil War frontier. |
Kaner, Hannah | Godkiller | Enter a land of gods and monsters, soldiers and mercenaries, secrets and wishes. |
Kaplan, A. E. | The Pomegranate Gate | The first adventure in the Mirror Realm Cycle, a Spanish Inquisition-era fantasy trilogy inspired by Jewish folklore. |
Kelly, Julia | A Traitor In Whitehall | Historical Mystery - Parisian Orphan #1 |
Key, Justin C. | The World Wasn't Ready For You | Speculative Short Stories |
Kinsella, Sophie | The Burnout | Romance |
Knoll, Jessica | Bright Young Women | Two women from opposite sides of the country are brought together by violent acts of the same man, and become allies and sisters in arms as they pursue the justice that would otherwise elude them. |
Kwok, Jean | The Leftover Woman | Fleeing a controlling husband and searching for the daughter taken from her at birth, Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from a small village in China. Meanwhile, publishing executive Rebecca Whitney, whose contented life includes a newly adopted Chinese daughter, suddenly faces an industry scandal. |
Kyles, Cedric | Flipping Boxcars | The first novel from Cedric "The Entertainer," an engaging and entertaining historical crime caper. |
Lahiri, Jhumpa | Roman Stories | Short Stories |
Lai, Christine | Landscapes | Fiction |
Lakghomi, Babak | South | A hallucinatory reimagination of life in a world under totalitarianism, and an individual's quest for truth, agency, and understanding. |
Lamar, Jake | Viper's Dream | Historical Mystery |
Lennox, Lisa | The Addict | Urban Fiction |
Lewis, Beverly | The Heirloom | Christian Fiction - Heritage of Lancaster County |
Liu, Em X. | The Death I Gave Him | A sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller. |
Lopez, Angelina M. | Full Moon Over Freedom | Romance - Milagro Street #2 |
Lozada-Oliva, Melissa | Candelaria | A mystical, intergenerational novel about mothers, daughters, and unsettled pasts. |
Manansala, Mia P. | Murder And Mamon | Mystery - Tita Rosie's Kitchen #4 |
Maniscalco, Kerri | Throne Of The Fallen | Deception is the most wicked game of all. |
Mansbach, Adam | The Golem Of Brooklyn | Fiction |
March, Nev | The Spanish Diplomat's Secret | Historical Mystery - Captain Jim and Lady Diana #3 |
Martin, Celestine | Kiss And Spell | Paranormal Romance - Elemental Love #2 |
Martin, Domonique | Broken...But Not Shattered | Deena will have to take more risks than ever before to put the shattered pieces of her life back together and truly find happiness. |
Martin, Tori Anne | This Spells Disaster | A witch worries that the real feelings brewing between her and her crush were sparked by an accidental love potion, and the only way out of the disastrous spell is a healthy dose of the truth. |
Mason, Daniel | North Woods | A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries. |
Mathis, Ayana | The Unsettled | A multi-generational novel--set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama--about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival. |
Matlin, Lisa | The Stranger Upstairs | Most people wouldn't buy an infamous murder house to renovate for fun . . . but Sarah Slade is not most people. |
McElroy, Alex | People Collide | Fiction |
McFadden, Freida | The Coworker | Thriller |
McMahon, Jennifer | My Darling Girl | Horror |
Meesha | Baby, I'm Wintertime Cold 3 | Urban Fiction |
Méndez, Yamile Saied | Love Of My Lives | Romance |
Michaels, Fern | Santa & Company | Romance - Santa's Crew #2 |
Michaels, Sean | Do You Remember Being Born? | An aging poet laureate "sells out" by agreeing to collaborate with a Big Tech company's poetry AI. |
Milligan, A. Roy | Fifty Shades Of Snow | Urban Fiction |
Milligan, A. Roy | Fifty Shades Of Snow 2 | Urban Fiction |
Milligan, A. Roy | Fifty Shades Of Snow 3 | Urban Fiction |
Molotti | City Of Smoke 2 | Urban Fiction |
Morris, Heather | Sisters Under The Rising Sun | Historical Fiction |
Mosley, Walter | Touched | Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and completely evil converge in this dystopian fantasy. |
Nesbø, Jo | The Night House | When the voices call, don't answer. |
Norton, Graham | Forever Home | Fiction |
O'Keefe, Megan E. | The Fractured Dark | Science Fiction - Devoured Worlds #2 |
Okorafor, Nnedi | Shadow Speaker | In West Africa in 2074, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find her father's killer. |
O'Leary, Beth | The Wake-Up Call | Romance |
Orlando, Carissa | The September House | A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare. |
Ouologuem, Yambo | Bound To Violence | A critical edition of the epic 1968 Malian novel. |
Palahniuk, Chuck | Not Forever, But For Now | Fiction |
Palma, Raul | A Haunting In Hialeah Gardens | Fiction |
Percy, Benjamin | The Sky Vault | Science Fiction - Comet Cycle #3 |
Perry, Anne | The Traitor Among Us | Historical Mystery - Elena Standish #5 |
Phillips, C. N. | Libra Princesses | The death of their father sent twins Nori and Nadia "Nadi" Porter on two different paths in life. Nori found solace in furthering her life through education, while Nadi found peace in the streets with her longtime boyfriend, Kelz. |
Phillips, Jayne Anne | Night Watch | A story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. |
Powner, Katie | The Wind Blows In Sleeping Grass | For the first time in his life, Pete has everything to lose. |
Pyrple | Fantasy Island: Carl Weber Presents | Urban Fiction |
Ramunno, Oriana | Ashes In The Snow | Historical Mystery |
Randall, Breanne | The Unfortunate Side Effects Of Heartbreak And Magic | Sadie Revelare has always believed that the curse of four heartbreaks that accompanies her magic would be worth the price. |
Ray, Playa | Crime Boss 2 | Urban Fiction |
Raynor, Natisha | Fallin' For A Hustler Like Me | The number one rule that her father instilled in Khelani was to choose money over love. She has always done just what he wanted--until she meets Malachi and falls for him. |
Rio, King | Steppers | Urban Fiction |
Rock, Fly | Here Today Gone Tomorrow | Urban Fiction |
Rogerson, Phoenicia | Herc | This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures... everyone's favorite hero, right? Well, it's not. |
Rouda, Kaira Sturdivant | Beneath The Surface | On a weekend voyage, the power-hungry children of an aging billionaire are unprepared for a storm of deceptions. |
Runya Katz, Rachel | Thank You For Sharing | Childhood friends. To enemies. To lovers. |
Runyan, Aimie K. | A Bakery In Paris | Two women from different generations of the same family fiercely fight for their futures while running a small bakery in Montmartre. |
Ryan, Kennedy | Block Shot | Romance - Hoops #2 |
Ryan, Kennedy | The Kingmaker | In a world of haves and have-nots, Maxim Cade's family and their oil empire have it all...and he wants nothing to do with it. |
Ryan, Kennedy | The Rebel King | Romance - All the King's Men #2 |
Sanderson, Brandon | Yumi And The Nightmare Painter | Fantasy - Secret Projects #3 |
Sarr, Mohamed Mbougar | The Most Secret Memory Of Men | A gripping literary mystery in the vein of Bolaño's Savage Detectives, this coming-of-age novel unravels the fascinating life of a maligned Black author, based on Yambo Ouologuem. |
Saynomore | The Black Diamond Cartel 2 | Urban Fiction |
Scalzi, John | Starter Villain | Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. |
Schwab, Victoria | The Fragile Threads Of Power | Historical Fantasy |
Shepherd, Megan | Midnight Showing | Horror - Malice Compendium #2 |
Shepherd-Robinson, Laura | The Square Of Sevens | An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her deceased mother and uncovers shocking secrets about her family. |
Sheridan, Mia | Becoming Calder | Romance - Acadia #1 |
Sheridan, Mia | Finding Eden | Romance - Acadia #2 |
Shiloh, Toni | You Make It Feel Like Christmas | It's the most wonderful time of the year--for everyone except Starr Lewis. |
Shreve, Craig | The African Samurai | Historical Fiction |
Silver, Elsie | Flawless | Romance - Chestnut Springs #1 |
Silver, Elsie | Heartless | Romance - Chestnut Springs #2 |
Silver, Josie | A Winter In New York | A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love--and life--she's been looking for. |
Simon, Nina | Mother-Daughter Murder Night | Think: Gilmore Girls, but with murder. |
Smyth, Courtney | The Undetectables | Be gay, solve crime, take naps. |
Solomons, Natasha | Fair Rosaline | A subversive, powerful untelling of Romeo and Juliet. |
Stone, Emily | Love, Holly | Holiday Romance |
Taub, Melinda | The Scandalous Confessions Of Lydia Bennet, Witch | A reimagining of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the troublesome and--according to her--much-maligned youngest Bennet sister, Lydia. |
Tauhid, Prince A. | These Vicious Streets | Urban Fiction |
Thalassa, Laura | Pestilence | Fantasy Romance - Four Horsemen #1 |
Thomas, James Frankie | Idlewild | Fiction |
Tidhar, Lavie | The Circumference Of The World | Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read |
Tshuma, Novuyo Rosa | Digging Stars | Fiction |
Tuli, Nisha J. | Rule Of The Aurora King | Fantasy Romance - Artefacts of Ouranos #2 |
Tuli, Nisha J. | Trial Of The Sun Queen | Fantasy Romance - Artefacts of Ouranos #1 |
Umrigar, Thrity N. | The Museum Of Failures | An immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness. |
Vara, Vauhini | This Is Salvaged | Short Stories |
Varon, Jamie | Main Character Energy | Romance |
Vasquez Gilliland, Raquel | Witch Of Wild Things | Legend goes that long ago a Flores woman offended the old gods, and their family was cursed as a result. Now, every woman born to the family has a touch of magic. |
Vasyakina, Oksana | Wound | Follows a young poet on a journey from Moscow to her hometown in Siberia, where she has promised to bury her mother's ashes. |
Vo, Nghi | Mammoths At The Gates | Fantasy - Singing Hills Cycle #4 |
Ward, Jesmyn | Let Us Descend | Historical Fiction |
Washington, Bryan | Family Meal | A novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives collide again after a loss. |
Wendig, Chuck | Black River Orchard | A small town is transformed when seven strange trees begin bearing magical apples. |
Wiener, Gabriela | Undiscovered | An autobiographical novel that faces the legacy of colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. |
Wilsner, Meryl | Cleat Cute | Two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup. |
Winstead, Ashley | Midnight Is The Darkest Hour | A gothic Southern thriller about a killer haunting a small Louisiana town, where two outcasts--the preacher's daughter and the boy from the wrong side of the tracks--hold the key to uncovering the truth. |
Wjuanae | Soul Ties: A Ghetto Love Story | True love and loyalty are hard to come by. |
Woods, Stuart | Obsession | Mystery - Teddy Fay #6 |
Zhang, C Pam | Land Of Milk And Honey | A Chinese American chef, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the superrich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world. |
Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology | Anthology | |
Out There Screaming: An Anthology Of New Black Horror | Anthology |
August 2023
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Abreu, Andrea | Dogs Of Summer | Fiction |
Alam, Nigar | Under The Tamarind Tree | One night. Four friends. Countless secrets. |
Andrews, Donna | Birder, She Wrote | Cozy Mystery - Meg Langslow #33 |
Andrews, Mary Kay | Bright Lights, Big Christmas | Holiday |
Aoyama, Michiko | What You Are Looking For Is In The Library | The perfect book recommendation can change a readers' life. |
Archer, C. J. | The Untitled Books | Historical Mystery - Glass Library #3 |
Arias, John Manuel | Where There Was Fire | Three generations of a Costa Rican family wrestle with a deadly secret. |
Armas, Elena | The Long Game | Romance |
Basham, Brendan Shay | Swim Home To The Vanished | After the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young man seeks refuge and oblivion in a secluded fishing village dominated by a family of brujas. |
Bear, Lauren J. A. | Medusa's Sisters | Reimagining of the myth of Medusa and the sisters who loved her. |
Beck, Hazel | Big Little Spells | Romance - Witchlore #2 |
Benjamin, Melanie | California Golden | Two sisters navigate the thrilling, euphoric early days of California surf culture. |
Bentley, Don | Tom Clancy: Weapons Grade | Thriller - Jack Ryan, Jr. #11 |
Bernstein, Sarah | Study For Obedience | Fiction |
Beukes, Lauren | Bridge | A grieving daughter's search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities. |
Binyam, Maya | Hangman | Fiction |
Blaché, Sin, and Helen MacDonald | Prophet | Science Fiction |
Black, Regina | The Art Of Scandal | After discovering her husband has been unfaithful, a politician's wife revisits her life choices and everything she gave up for her husband's career. |
Blake, Olivie | Masters Of Death | Fantasy |
Bowen, Rhys | The Paris Assignment | Historical Fiction |
Brennan, Allison | North Of Nowhere | Mystery |
Brightwell, Emily | Mrs. Jeffries Aims To Win | Historical Mystery - Mrs. Jeffries #41 |
Brown, Graham | Clive Cussler: Condor's Fury | Thriller - NUMA Files #20 |
Brunstetter, Wanda E. | Letters Of Comfort | Christian Fiction - Friendship Letters #2 |
Bryn, D. N. | Stronger Still | Fantasy - No Man's Lander #2 |
Burke, Andie | Fly With Me | A one-way ticket to love or a bumpy ride ahead? |
Burrowes, Grace | A Gentleman Fallen On Hard Times | Historical Mystery |
Burstein, Michael A. | Jewish Futures | Science Fiction Short Stories |
Byler, Linda | Tapestry Of Love | Christian Fiction - New Directions #2 |
Byrne, James | Deadlock | Thriller - Dez Limerick #2 |
Cabot, Meg | Enchanted To Meet You | Paranormal Romance |
Cañas, Isabel | Vampires Of El Norte | Vampires, vaqueros, and star-crossed lovers face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western. |
Carter, Ally | The Blonde Identity | A road trip rom-com about a woman with amnesia who discovers she's the identical twin sister of a rogue spy who must team up with a rugged, grumpy operative to stay alive. |
Cast, P. C. | Out Of The Dawn | Science Fiction - Into the Mist #2 |
Chang, Alexandra | Tomb Sweeping | Short story collection about the histories, technologies, and generational divides that shape our relationships. |
Chiaverini, Jennifer | Canary Girls | A story about the "munitionettes" who built bombs in Britain's arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the soccer pitch. |
Chidgey, Catherine | Pet | Thriller |
Childs, Laura | Honey Drop Dead | Cozy Mystery - Tea Shop #26 |
Ciesielski, J'nell | To Free The Stars | Historical Romance - Jack and Ivy #2 |
Cleeves, Ann | The Raging Storm | Mystery - Matthew Venn #3 |
Coleman Foote, Kim | Coleman Hill | The story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in the wake of the Great Migration |
Coney, S. L. | Wild Spaces | Horror |
Connor, CJ | Board To Death | Cozy Mystery - Board Game Shop #1 |
Cox, Amanda | He Should Have Told The Bees | Uncovering long-held family secrets may sting at first--but the result can be sweeter than honey. |
Crooks, Noelle | Under The Influence | A young woman who takes a job working for an enigmatic influencer quickly discovers there's an ugly side to being a #GirlBoss. |
Cutter, Nick | The Handyman Method | When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives. |
Dinan, Nicola | Bellies | Fiction |
Donoghue, Emma | Learned By Heart | Historical Fiction |
Eason, Lynette | Countdown | Christian Suspense - Extreme Measures #4 |
Evans, Jon | Exadelic | Science Fiction |
Feeney, Alice | Good Bad Girl | Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. |
Follett, Ken | The Armor Of Light | Historical Fiction - Kingsbridge #5 |
Force, Marie | State Of Denial | Romantic Suspense - First Family #5 |
Freeman, Dianne | A Newlywed's Guide To Fortune And Murder | Historical Mystery - Countess of Harleigh #6 |
Gallon, Michael | The Murder Queens 4 | Urban Fiction |
Garza, Amber | In A Quiet Town | Thriller |
Goldberg, Lee | Malibu Burning | Thriller - Sharpe & Walker #1 |
Goldin, Megan | Dark Corners | Thriller - Rachel Krall #2 |
Groff, Lauren | The Vaster Wilds | Historical Fiction |
Habeck, Emily | Shark Heart | For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and intellect, but his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark. |
Hall, Rachel Howzell | What Never Happened | It's murder in paradise as a woman uncovers a host of secrets off the rocky California coast. |
Han, Jimin | The Apology | A pampered and defiant South Korean matriarch is thrust into the afterlife from which she seeks a second chance to make amends and fights off a tragic curse that could devastate generations to come. |
Hare, Louise | Harlem After Midnight | A body falls from a town house window in Harlem, and it looks just like the newest singer at the Apollo. |
Harper, Lana | In Charm's Way | Paranormal Romance - Witches of Thistle Grove #4 |
Hertz, Kyle Dillon | The Lookback Window | Fiction |
Huang, Christopher | Unnatural Ends | Sir Lawrence Linwood is dead. More accurately, he was murdered, and his heirs discover that the estate shall go to the one who solves his murder. |
Huang, S. L. | The Water Outlaws | Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, the water outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and ungovernable gender who are ready to make history--or tear it apart. |
Huchu, T. L. | The Mystery At Dunvegan Castle | Fantasy - Edinburgh Nights #3 |
Irvin, Kelly | The Heart's Bidding | Amish auctioneer Toby Miller and special education teacher Rachelle Lapp love their jobs so much, they're in danger of missing out on marriage and children of their own---until circumstances force them to face uncertain futures. |
Janovsky, Timothy | New Adult | Romance - Boy Meets Boy #3 |
Johnson, Craig | The Longmire Defense | Mystery - Longmire #19 |
Johnson, Liz | Summer In The Spotlight | Christian Fiction - Prince Edward Island Shores #3 |
Jones, Anita Gail | The Peach Seed | Fiction |
Jones, Sandie | The Trade Off | Would you tell a story, if you knew it was a lie? Or tell the truth and sleep at night? |
Joy, David | Those We Thought We Knew | A novel about the cracks that form in a small North Carolina community and the evils that unfurl from its center. |
Kakimoto, Megan Kamalei | Every Drop Is A Man's Nightmare | Short Stories |
Kearse, Stephen | Liquid Snakes | What if toxic pollutants traveled up the socioeconomic ladder rather than down it? |
Khalīfah, Khālid | No One Prayed Over Their Graves | The story of two friends whose lives are altered by a flood that devastates their Syrian village. |
Kim, Angie | Happiness Falls | When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another. |
King, Stephen | Holly | Thriller |
Kingfisher, T. | Thornhedge | The tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways. |
Kraus, Daniel | Whalefall | A scuba diver who's been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out. |
Krueger, William Kent | The River We Remember | Historical Fiction |
Leav, Lang | Others Were Emeralds | What comes first, the photograph or the memory? |
Lee, Victoria | A Shot In The Dark | A romance featuring a transgender man and an ex-Orthodox woman who find each other through their devotion to art, and fall in love despite all odds. |
Leichter, Hilary | Terrace Story | Fiction |
Lepucki, Edan | Time's Mouth | Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. |
Levine, Jenna | My Roommate Is A Vampire | Paranormal Romance |
Li, Yiyun | Wednesday's Child | Short Stories |
Lister, Sheryl | A Perfect Pairing | Fiction - Firefly Lake #2 |
Littlewood, Fran | Amazing Grace Adams | Fiction |
Lock, Nicholas | Confessions Of A Jackboy 3 | Urban Fiction |
Lockhart, C. M. | We Are Dying Gods | Fantasy |
Lord, Karen | The Blue, Beautiful World | As first contact transforms Earth, a team of gifted visionaries race to create a new future. |
Lyon, J. Vanessa | Lush Lives | Artist Glory Hopkins isn't thrilled about inheriting her Aunt Lucille's Harlem brownstone until she meets dynamic house appraiser Parkie de Groot. |
Maehrer, Hannah Nicole | Assistant To The Villain | Once Upon a Time meets The Office in this novel about the sunshine assistant to an Evil Villain...and their unexpected romance. |
Malerman, Josh | Spin A Black Yarn | Horror |
Manning, Kirsty | The Paris Mystery | Intrepid reporter Charlotte "Charlie" James arrives in Paris in 1938 eager to make a fresh start, but little does she know the trouble that awaits her... |
Martin, Madeline | The Keeper Of Hidden Books | Historical Fiction |
Maxwell, Alyssa | Murder At The Elms | Historical Mystery - Gilded Newport #11 |
McCall Smith, Alexander | The Discreet Charm Of The Big Bad Wolf | Mystery - Detective Varg #3 |
McFarlane, Mhairi | Between Us | Fiction |
McGuire, Seanan | Sleep No More | Urban Fantasy - October Daye #17 |
McIntire, Emily | Crossed | Romance - Never After #5 |
Meesha | Baby, I'm Wintertime Cold 3 | Urban Fiction |
Meltzer, Jean | Kissing Kosher | Step 1: Get the secret recipe. Step 2: Don't fall in love... |
Michaels, Fern | Rock Bottom | Romantic Suspense - Sisterhood #35 |
Miller, Vanessa | The Light On Halsey Street | Two girls' lives are irrevocably intertwined the summer of 1985 in the streets of Brooklyn, New York, and neither will ever be the same. |
Millhauser, Steven | Disruptions | Short Stories |
Millner, Denene | One Blood | A Black girl named Grace is separated from her beloved grandmother and sent north from 1960s Virginia to live with her high-aspiring aunt, then separated from the boy with whom she falls in love. |
Mills, Kyle | Code Red | Thriller - Mitch Rapp #22 |
Mina, Denise | The Second Murderer | Mystery - Philip Marlowe |
Miyashita, Robin | Silicon Hearts | The youngest and brightest of the tech world are invited to work for one of the most prestigious companies in Silicon Valley, but when they discover that only a precious few will be offered full-time jobs, reckless ambition and cut-throat competition eclipse their burgeoning friendships and romances. |
Modesitt, L. E. Jr. | Contrarian | Fantasy - Grand Illusion #3 |
Moehling, Joshua | Where The Dead Sleep | Mystery - Ben Packard #2 |
Moher, Laura | Curves For Days | How is Rose Barnes supposed to build the home (and life) of her dreams when her big, burly contractor keeps scowling at her? |
Molotti | Loyalty Is Everything 3 | Urban Fiction |
Molotti | City Of Smoke | Urban Fiction |
Montgomery, Selena | The Art Of Desire | Trouble comes in threes, but true love comes only once. |
Moore, Taylor | Ricochet | Thriller - Garrett Kohl #3 |
Morelli, Laura | The Last Masterpiece | In a race across Nazi-occupied Italy, two women--a German photographer and an American stenographer--hunt for priceless masterpieces looted from the Florentine art collections. |
Murray, Paul | The Bee Sting | Fiction |
Nettel, Guadalupe | Still Born | Fiction |
Nix, Garth | Sir Hereward And Mister Fitz | Fantasy Short Stories |
North, Claire | House Of Odysseus | Historical Fiction - Songs of Penelope #2 |
Novak, Brenda | Talulah's Back In Town | Sometimes the past we leave behind leads us right where we belong. |
O'Connor, Carlene | Halloween Cupcake Murder | Holiday |
Oh, Temi | More Perfect | A reimagining of the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus. |
Okosun, Ehigbor | Forged By Blood | A fantasy debut inspired by Nigerian mythology, in which a young woman fights to survive a tyrannical society. |
Osman, Richard | The Last Devil To Die | Mystery - Thursday Murder Club #4 |
Parker, Lucy | Codename Charming | Romance - Palace Insiders #2 |
Parker-Chan, Shelley | He Who Drowned The World | Historical Fantasy - Radiant Emperor #2 |
Patel, Sheena | I'm A Fan | I stalk a woman on the internet who is sleeping with the same man as I am. |
Patterson, James | 23 1/2 Lies | Mystery - Women's Murder Club #23.5 |
Patterson, James | 12 Months To Live | Thriller |
Payne, Fumiya | The Butterfly Mafia | Asha, Lo-Lo, and Noni are three fearless females who make up a sisterhood like none other. |
Payne, Fumiya | Salute My Savagery 2 | Urban Fiction |
Pearce, A. J. | Mrs. Porter Calling | Historical Fiction - Emmy Lake #3 |
Pederson, David S. | Murder At The Oasis | Mystery - Mason Adler #3 |
Player, Delmont | The Birth Of A Gangster 3 | Urban Fiction |
Power, Mona Susan | A Council Of Dolls | Three generations of Dakhóta women grapple with a legacy of mistreatment by the U.S. government. |
Preston, Douglas J. | Dead Mountain | Mystery - Nora Kelly #4 |
Purkert, Ben | The Men Can't Be Saved | What do our jobs do to our souls? |
Pyrple | Fantasy Island: Carl Weber Presents | Four women. One friendship. Can a trip to a magical place heal their open wounds, or will they succumb to their deepest desires? |
Quita, C | Turned Out By Dublin's Finest | Urban Fiction |
Quita, C | Turned Out By Dublin's Finest 2 | Urban Fiction |
Ragnar Jónasson | Reykjavík | Thriller |
Rambo, Cat | Devil's Gun | Science Fiction - Disco Space Opera #2 |
Ray, Shamara | The Referral Program | A group of single women come up with a plan to try and meet Mr. Right. |
Ridley, Erica | Chasing the Bride | Forbidden love blooms between a runaway bride and the man sent to find her. |
Ridley, Erica | Undressing the Duke | Historical Romance |
Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 10 | Urban Fiction |
Rio, King | Super Gremlin 2 | Urban Fiction |
Ro, Hazel | The Tangled Web | Urban Fiction |
Robb, J. D. | Payback In Death | Mystery - In Death #57 |
Robert, Katee | Cruel Seduction | Romance - Dark Olympus #5 |
Rock, Fly | Here Today, Gone Tomorrow 2 | Urban Fiction |
Rollins, James | Tides Of Fire | Thriller - Sigma Force #17 |
Rooney, Kathleen | From Dust To Stardust | Historical Fiction |
Rosson, Keith | Fever House | A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all. |
Rum, Etaf | Evil Eye | An exploration of the expectations of a Palestinian-American woman, the meaning of a fulfilling life, and the ways our unresolved pasts affect our presents. |
Ryan, Kennedy | Long Shot | Romance |
Saintcrow, Lilith | The Salt-Black Tree | Fantasy - Dead God's Heart #2 |
Salvatore, R. A. | Lolth's Warrior | Fantasy - Way of the Drow #3 |
Sandford, John | Judgment Prey | Mystery - Prey #33 |
Santiago, Esmeralda | Las Madres | In 2017, Luz returns home to Puerto Rico with family and friends, hoping to recover memories lost in a 1975 accident that took the lives of her accomplished scientist parents. |
Score, Lucy | Things We Left Behind | Romance - Knockemout #3 |
Sim, Tara | The Midnight Kingdom | Fantasy - Dark Gods #2 |
Smirnoff, Karin | The Girl In The Eagle's Talons | Mystery - Millennium #7 |
Smith, Zadie | The Fraud | Historical Fiction |
Steel, Danielle | Second Act | Fiction |
Sutanto, Jesse Q. | I'm Not Done With You Yet | Some friends--and friendships--are worth killing for. |
Swann, Leonie | The Sunset Years Of Agnes Sharp | A quirky group of seniors attempts to solve one murder while covering up another. |
Talabi, Wole | Shigidi And The Brass Head Of Obalufon | A mythic tale of disgruntled gods, revenge, and a heist across two worlds. |
Tauhid, Prince A. | Bloodline Of A Savage | Trevon Dietrich-Savage has a lot of promise and potential, but he has dreams that go against his upbringing, and the streets must beware. |
Thompson, Alicia | With Love, From Cold World | She has a to-do list a mile long and falling for her coworker isn't on it--yet somehow he's become her top priority. |
Todd, Anna | The Burning | Romance - Brightest Stars #2 |
Valdes, Valerie | Where Peace Is Lost | A refugee with a secret, a dangerous foe, and a road trip that could either save a planet or start a war. |
Vance, Anise | Hush Harbor | A resistance group takes America's racial reckoning into its own hands. |
Verma, Aparna | The Phoenix King | The fate of a futuristic desert kingdom rests in the hands of a princess desperate for power and an assassin with a dark secret. |
Waddell, Mark | The Body In The Back Garden | Luke Tremblay is about to discover that Crescent Cove has more than its fair share of secrets...and some might be deadlier than others. |
Ward, Catriona | Looking Glass Sound | In a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. |
Watkins, LaToya | Holler, Child | Short Stories |
Weiner, Jennifer | The Breakaway | Fiction |
White, Kiersten | Mister Magic | Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show--and discover the secret of its enigmatic host. |
Williams, Synithia | The Secret To A Southern Wedding | When her mom announces she's marrying a man she only just met on a dating app, Dr. Imani Kemp is determined to stop the wedding but met with resistance from her potential stepfather's handsome son. |
Yarros, Rebecca | In The Likely Event | Romance |
Zeineddine, Ghassan | Dearborn: Stories | A sharp, tender, and uproariously funny portrait of the lives of Arab American community members in Dearborn, Michigan. |
The Book of Witches | Anthology |
July 2023
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Abraham, Daniel | Blade Of Dream | Fantasy - Kithamar #2 |
Acevedo, Elizabeth | Family Lore | The story of one Dominican American family told through the voices of its women as they await a gathering that will forever change their lives. |
Adeleke, Remi | Chameleon | Thriller - Black Box #1 |
Aguirre, Ann | The Only Purple House in Town | Paranormal Romance |
Ahmed, Jamila | Every Rising Sun | In this take on One Thousand and One Nights, Shaherazade, at the center of her own story, uses wit and political mastery to navigate opulent palaces brimming with treachery and the perils of the Third Crusade as her Persian homeland teeters on the brink of destruction. |
Alicia, Kristen | You've Been Served | Romance |
Alkemade, Kim van | Counting Lost Stars | An unmarried college student who's given up her baby for adoption helps a Dutch Holocaust survivor search for his lost mother. |
Armentrout, Jennifer L. | A Soul Of Ash And Blood | Paranormal Romance - Blood and Ash #5 |
Ashing-Giwa, Kemi | The Splinter in The Sky | A young tea expert is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officials--a role that may empower her to win back her nation's independence. |
Ashley, Kristen | Perfect Together | Romance |
Bailey, Sarah | The Housemate | Mystery |
Baker, Chandler | Cutting Teeth | Is there anything a mother won't do for her children? |
Balogh, Mary | Remember Me | Historical Romance - Ravenswood #2 |
Barker, Lucy | The Other Side Of Mrs. Wood | Historical Fiction |
Barnard, Megan | Jezebel | A reimagining of the story of a fierce princess from Tyre and her infamous legacy. |
Bartz, Andrea | The Spare Room | Thriller |
Berenson, Laurien | Peg And Rose Stir Up Trouble | Cozy Mystery - Peg and Rose #2 |
Berry, Steve | The 9th Man | A historical adventure that sends Luke Daniels on an international manhunt for the truth about the assassination of President John Kennedy. |
Betancourt, Rose | Macarons Can Be Murder | Paris Kentucky Bakery #1 |
Bilal, Aaliyah | Temple Folk | A debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America. |
Billingham, Mark | The Last Dance | Mystery - Detective Miller #1 |
Blanchard, Alice | The Shadow Girls | Mystery - Natalie Lockhart #4 |
Blum, Hila | How To Love Your Daughter | The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling question: What damage do we do in the blindness of love? |
Borgos, Bruce | The Bitter Past | In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, a new series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck. |
Boucher, Chris | The Original Bucky Lew | Bucky Lew burst through pro basketball's color barrier to become the first Black player in an otherwise white league--and playing was just a start. |
Brayden, Melissa | Marigold | Marigold Lavender vows to take down Alexis Wakefield, the harsh food critic who blasts her younger sister's restaurant. If only she wasn't as sexy as she is mean. |
Brodeur, Adrienne | Little Monsters | Fiction |
Brown, Pierce | Light Bringer | Science Fiction - Red Rising #6 |
Brown, Sandra | Out Of Nowhere | Romantic Suspense |
Buoro, Stephen | The Five Sorrowful Mysteries Of Andy Africa | The story of an exceptional teenager coming of age in the shadow of colonialism and communal violence in Nigeria. |
Burke, James Lee | Flags On The Bayou | Historical Fiction |
Burns, Valerie | Murder Is A Piece Of Cake | Cozy Mystery - Baker Street #2 |
Candon, Emma Mieko | The Archive Undying | Science Fiction - Downworld Sequence #1 |
Cantor, Rachel | Half-Life Of A Stolen Sister | Reimagines the lives of the Brontë siblings--Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and brother Branwell--from their precocious childhoods, to the writing of their great novels, to their early deaths. |
Carey, Jacqueline | Cassiel's Servant | Fantasy Romance - Kushiel's Legacy #4 |
Castellano, Elizabeth | Save What's Left | A woman moves to a small beach town looking for peace, only to find herself in an all-out war with her neighbors. |
Castillo, Linda | An Evil Heart | Mystery - Kate Burkholder #15 |
Center, Katherine | Hello Stranger | Romance |
Chandrasekera, Vajra | The Saint Of Bright Doors | Fantasy |
Chau, C. K. | Good Fortune | A reimagination of Pride and Prejudice, set in contemporary Chinatown, exploring contemporary issues of class divides, family ties, cultural identity, and the pleasures and frustrations that come with falling in love. |
Chavez, Heather | Before She Finds Me | Two unlikely mothers race to uncover the truth behind a horrific attack--even after it becomes clear that the truth will destroy one of their families. |
Chin-Tanner, Wendy | King Of The Armadillos | Historical Fiction |
Clarke, Amy Suiter | Lay Your Body Down | A young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical pastor has poisoned everyone's minds--and may be covering up a murder. |
Cobb, May | A Likeable Woman | Thriller |
Coble, Colleen | Break Of Day | Christian Suspense - Annie Pederson #3 |
Coleman, Reed Farrel | Sleepless City | Mystery - Nick Ryan #1 |
Colgan, Jenny | The Summer Skies | Fiction |
Collins, Megan | Thicker Than Water | Thriller |
Connealy, Mary | The Laws Of Attraction | Christian Historical - Wyoming Sunrise #2 |
Córdova, Zoraida | Kiss The Girl | Romance - Meant to Be #3 |
Coxton, R. | New Orleans | Urban Fiction - Carl Weber's Kingpins |
Cravens, Claudia | Lucky Red | A debut set in the American West about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck--and finding friendship, romance, and her true calling along the way. |
Cross-Smith, Leesa | Goodbye Earl | Four women take fate into their own hands in this big-hearted story of friendship, resilience, and revenge on monstrous men. |
Crown, Zaire | Silence | Urban Fiction |
Da Costa, Denise | And The Walls Came Down | Back in the low-income neighbourhood where she was raised, a young woman rediscovers the importance of community, home, and finding one's voice. |
Dailey, Janet | The Sound Of Sleighbells | Romance - Christmas Tree Ranch #6 |
Dane, Clemence | Regiment Of Women | Classic Fiction |
Dawson, Delilah S. | Star Wars: Inquisitor: Rise Of The Red Blade | When the Jedi Order falls, an Inquisitor Rises. |
Dawson, Juno | The Shadow Cabinet | Fantasy - HMRC #2 |
Day, Jamie | The Block Party | Thriller |
Delany, Vicki | Steeped in Malice | Cozy Mystery - Tea by the Sea #4 |
Deng, Ashley | Dehiscent | Horror |
Desai, Sara | To Have And To Heist | To exonerate her best friend, one woman must mastermind a jewelry heist during the wedding of the season. |
deWitt, Patrick | The Librarianist | Fiction |
Dixon, Phyllis R | Intermission | The Diamonds, a 1990s girl band who broke up on the cusp of stardom, attempts a reunion years later as the women grapple with secrets, unspoken betrayals, and mid-life crises. |
Doiron, Paul | Dead Man's Wake | Mystery - Mike Bowditch #14 |
Douglas, Penelope | Credence | Fiction |
Downing, Samantha | A Twisted Love Story | Thriller |
Dramis, Kate | The Curse Of Saints | Romantic Fantasy |
Estep, Jennifer | Only Good Enemies | Science Fiction - Galactic Bonds #2 |
Etter, Sarah Rose | Ripe | A woman in Silicon Valley must decide how much she's willing to give up for success. |
Everlee, Jess | A Rulebook For Restless Rogues | Historical Romance - Lucky Lovers of London #2 |
Fergesen, Hannah | The Infinite Miles | Science Fiction |
Fluke, Joanne | Pink Lemonade Cake Murder | Cozy Mystery - Hannan Swensen #29 |
Frank, Alli | The Better Half | Fiction |
Freeman, Brian | Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Defiance | Thriller - Jason Bourne #18 |
Fuller, Kathleen | Two To Tango | Romance - Maple Falls #4 |
García, Cristina | Vanishing Maps | Follows three generations of a divided family against the tumultuous backdrops of Cuba, America, Germany, and Russia in the new millennium. |
George, Nina | The Little Village Of Book Lovers | A young woman with the extraordinary power to bring soulmates together searches for her own true love. |
Gibbs, Amiee | The Carnivale Of Curiosities | Historical Fantasy |
Gilbert, Victoria | A Cryptic Clue | A retired librarian gets back to the books--and into a devilish murder case--in this new mystery series. |
Gill, Amber Rose | Until I Met You | Will a tropical escape lead to a perfect romance? |
Gong, Chloe | Immortal Longings | Inspired by Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Immortal Longings is a fiery collision of power plays, spilled blood, and romance amidst a set of deadly games. |
Goosby, Nicole | Pretty Girls Do Nasty Things | Urban Fiction |
Gornichec, Genevieve | The Weaver And The Witch Queen | The lives of two women--one desperate only to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to become queen of Norway--intertwine in this novel of Viking Age history and myth. |
Griffiths, Rachel Eliza | Promise | Two Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their dreams as the Civil Rights Movement sweeps the nation. |
Harris, Terah Shelton | One Summer in Savannah | Two people discover what it means to truly forgive. |
Harvey, Kristy Woodson | The Summer Of Songbirds | Fiction |
Hasan, Anjum | History's Angel | A middle-aged man in contemporary India discovers that neither his life nor his country are as stable as he thought. |
Hashem, Sara | The Jasad Heir | A fugitive queen strikes a bargain with her greatest enemy that could resurrect her scorched kingdom or leave it in ashes forever in this Egyptian-inspired epic fantasy debut. |
Hay, Alex | The Housekeepers | The night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women downstairs plot a daring revenge heist against Mayfair society. |
Heaberlin, Julia | Night Will Find You | A brilliant young astrophysicist with an uncanny gift is asked to find a girl who vanished. |
Heller, Peter | The Last Ranger | Mystery |
Hirahara, Naomi | Evergreen | Historical Mystery - Japantown #2 |
Hoffman, Alice | The Invisible Hour | Fiction |
Howard, Catherine Ryan | The Trap | Thriller |
Hunt, Angela Elwell | The Woman From Lydia | Christian Historical |
Hunter, Travis | A Damaged Girl | A woman struggles to overcome a horrible past and take control of her life. With the help of her brother, they settle all past scores--but will her quest for revenge jeopardize her future? |
Irwin, Sophie | A Lady's Guide to Scandal | Historical Romance |
Jackson, Lisa | The Last Sinner | Mystery - Bentz & Montoya #9 |
James, Kelsey | The Woman in the Castello | Set in 1960s Italy, an ambitious American actress snags the starring role in a mysterious horror movie shooting on location in a crumbling medieval castle outside Rome. |
Jaworowski, Ken | Small Town Sins | Thriller |
Jewell, Lisa | None of This is True | A woman finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast. |
Juliano, Jimmy | Dead Eleven | On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son's death--but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated rules. |
Kae, Courtney | In The Case Of Heartbreak | Romance - Fern Falls #2 |
Karrington, Blake | Deeper Than Love | Urban Fiction |
Kennedy, Elle | The Summer Girl | Romance - Avalon Bay #3 |
Kepler, Lars | The Spider | Mystery - Detective Inspector Joona Linna #9 |
Kerin, Liz | Night's Edge | Horror |
Khabushani, Khashayar J. | I Will Greet The Sun Again | Fiction |
Kishko-Lut͡syshyna, Oksana | Ivan & Phoebe | Historical Fiction |
Kitasei, Yume | The Deep Sky | They left Earth to save humanity. They'll have to save themselves first. |
Klune, TJ | Ravensong | Paranormal Romance - Green Creek #2 |
Klune, TJ | Wolfsong | Paranormal Romance - Green Creek #1 |
Kobayashi, Erika | Sunrise | Short Stories |
Koontz, Dean | After Death | Science Fiction |
Koryta, Michael | An Honest Man | After discovering seven men murdered aboard their yacht--including two Senate rivals--Israel Pike is regarded as a prime suspect. |
Lackey, Mercedes | Gryphon in Light | Fantasy - Valdemar: Gryphon #1 |
Ladd, Sarah E. | In The Shelter Of Hollythorne House | Christian Historical |
Lange, Tracey | The Connellys Of County Down | Fiction |
Lapena, Shari | Everyone Here Is Lying | Thriller |
Lark, Sophie | Brutal Prince | They're a match made in Hell. |
LaRocca, Eric | Everything The Darkness Eats | An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained. |
Lee, Sharon | Salvage Right | Science Fiction - Liaden Universe #25 |
Legrand, Claire | A Crown Of Ivy And Glass | Fantasy Romance - Middlemist #1 |
Lippman, Laura | Prom Mom | Amber Glass is desperately trying to get away from her tabloid past but compulsively drawn back to the city of her youth and the prom date who destroyed everything she was reaching for. |
Livesay, Tracey | The Duchess Effect | Romance - American Royalty #2 |
Lockhart, Zelda | Trinity | Three generations of a family try to overcome trials and trauma and free themselves from the darkness of the past. |
Long, H. M. | Dark Water Daughter | Fantasy |
Lynch, Lindsay | Do Tell | Historical Fiction |
Lyons, Annie | The Air Raid Book Club | A story of found family, love, and making connections through books set against the bombing of London during WWII. |
Mackler, Carolyn | The Wife App | Three women create the Wife App to monetize the things wives do for free. |
Macomber, Debbie | Must Love Flowers | Romance |
Madievsky, Ruth | All-Night Pharmacy | Fiction |
Mallery, Susan | The Happiness Plan | Romance |
Manazir Siddiqi, Ayesha | The Centre | A London-based Pakistani translator furthers her stalled career by attending a mysterious language school that boasts near-instant fluency--but at a secret, sinister cost. |
Marts, Jennie | Take The Honey And Run | The town is all abuzz when a murder occurs in this debut cozy mystery, for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Amanda Flower. |
Massey, Sujata | The Mistress Of Bhatia House | Historical Mystery - Perveen Mistry #4 |
McAllister, Gillian | Just Another Missing Person | Mystery |
McBride, James | The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store | A novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them. |
McFadden, Freida | The Housemaid's Secret | Mystery - Housemaid #2 |
McKenzie, Catherine | Have You Seen Her | Thriller |
Mejia, Tehlor Kay | Sammy Espinoza's Last Review | A music critic stuck in a spiral of epic proportions targets her teenage crush for a career comeback and a chance at revenge. What could possibly go wrong? |
Mendelson, Charlotte | The Exhibitionist | Fiction |
Menéndez, Ana | The Apartment | A novel about the search for freedom and the power of community that spans decades of residents in one Florida apartment. |
Milas, John | The Militia House | Horror |
Miller, Sandra A. | Wednesdays At One | If you don't confront your past...it might confront you first. |
Mohamed, Premee | No One Will Come Back For Us | Short Stories |
Moondi, Romi | 24 Hours in Italy | Romance - 24 Hours #2 |
Moore, Michel | On A Mission | Urban Fiction |
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia | Silver Nitrate | A dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film--and awakens one woman's hidden powers. |
Morgan, Shannon | Her Little Flowers | A solitary women's quiet life spent in her crumbling ancestral manor house with the company of a child's ghost is dramatically interrupted when her estranged sister returns to share a horrific story of cruelty and desperation from decades earlier. |
Murphy, Dwyer | The Stolen Coast | Mystery |
Myers, Kate | Excavations | On a remote archeological site in Greece, the mythic home of the first Olympics, four women discover an unusual artifact. |
Nelson, Caleb Azumah | Small Worlds | Fiction |
Nguyen, Mai | Sunshine Nails | A Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto will do whatever it takes to protect their no-frills nail salon after a new high end salon opens up--even if it tears the family apart. |
O'Donoghue, Caroline | The Rachel Incident | Fiction |
Ogden, Aimee | Emergent Properties | Science Fiction |
Ogundimu, Alexandrine | The Longest Summer | Being queer in a small town? Bad. Your employer believing you stole ten thousand dollars? Worse. |
Ogundiran, Tobi | Jackal, Jackal: Tales Of The Dark And Fantastic | Short Stories |
Owusu, Derek | That Reminds Me | Fiction |
Patchett, Ann | Tom Lake | Fiction |
Patterson, James | Circle Of Death | Mystery - Shadow #2 |
Patterson, James | Lion & Lamb | Mystery |
Patterson, James | Obsessed | Thriller - Michael Bennett #15 |
Pekkanen, Sarah | Gone Tonight | Thriller |
Penelope, L. | Beastly Kingdom | Paranormal Romance - Bliss Wars #2 |
Peterson, Tracie | Finding Us | Christian Historical - Pictures of the Heart #2 |
Piñeiro, Claudia | A Little Luck | 20 years after a shocking accident, Mary Lohan returns to the Buenos Aires suburb she escaped in a fugue of guilt and isolation. |
Powell, Jason | No Man's Ghost | It's a FDNY firefighter's first-and possibly last--week on the job. |
Quinn, Spencer | Mrs. Plansky's Revenge | Mystery - Mrs. Plansky #1 |
Quintana Albertson, Alana | Kiss Me, Mi Amor | Romance - Love & Tacos #2 |
Rachman, Tom | The Imposters | Fiction |
Raman, R. V. | Praying Mantis | Mystery - Harith Athreya #3 |
Reichs, Kathy | The Bone Hacker | Mystery - Temperance Brennan #22 |
Riley, Vanessa | Queen Of Exiles | A novel based on the life of Haiti's Queen Marie-Louise Coidavid, who escaped a coup to set up her own royal court in Italy during the Regency era. |
Rimmer, Kelly | The Paris Agent | Historical Fiction |
Robards, Kate | The Three Deaths Of Willa Stannard | Thriller |
Rogers, Harold | Tropicália | In the heady days before a New Year's Eve party on the bustling sands of Brazil's Copacabana Beach, a family reckons with a matriarch's long-awaited return. |
Romero Lacruz, Gabriela | The Sun And The Void | Two women embark on a quest into a world of dark gods and ancient magic in this fantasy debut inspired by the history and folklore of colonial South America. |
Rosenberg, Zachary | Hungers As Old As This Land | Horror |
Rosenfelt, David | Flop Dead Gorgeous | Mystery - Andy Carpenter #27 |
Russo, Richard | Somebody's Fool | Fiction - North Bath #3 |
Ryan, Jennifer | Summer's Gift | Romance |
Sage, Lyla | Done And Dusted | She's off-limits, but he's never been good at following the rules. |
Sanders, Joshunda | Women of the Post | Inspired by true events, this book brings to life the heroines who proudly served in the all-Black battalion of the Women's Army Corps in WWII. |
Saxey, Esther | Unquiet | An intrepid young woman journeys across Victorian London and beyond in search of the truth behind the presumed death, and reappearance one icy evening, of her brother-in-law. |
Schorr, Meredith | Someone Just Like You | Two childhood rivals are forced to work together to plan their parents' anniversary party. |
Scott, Anika | Sinners of Starlight City | A historical drama about a woman determined to avenge the crimes against her family, set at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. |
Seales, Julia | A Most Agreeable Murder | When a wealthy bachelor drops dead at a ball, a young lady takes on the decidedly improper role of detective in this debut comedy of manners and murder. |
Sennefelder, Debra | How the Murder Crumbles | A Connecticut cookie shop owner with unreliable employees and a cheating boyfriend is suspected of murder after a blogger who accused her of stealing a recipe turns up dead. |
Sharma, Nisha | Tastes Like Shakkar | Romance - If Shakespeare Were an Auntie #2 |
Sheridan, Mia | Grayson's Vow | Romance |
Sheridan, Mia | Stinger | Romance |
Shiloh, Toni | The Love Script | Romance |
Sibhat, Mihret | The History of a Difficult Child | A debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family who must grow up in the wake of Ethiopia's socialist revolution. |
Siegel, Katie | Charlotte Illes is Not a Detective | A twentysomething former kid detective is coaxed out of retirement for one last case. |
Silva, Daniel | The Collector | Thriller - Gabriel Allon #23 |
Sims, Laura | How Can I Help You | No one knows Margo's real name. |
Singh, Nalini | Resonance Surge | Paranormal Romance - Psy-Changeling Trinity #7 |
Skyhorse, Brando | My Name is Iris | A novel set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens. |
Slaughter, Jodie | Play To Win | Romance |
Slaughter, Karin | After That Night | Mystery - Will Trent #11 |
Smith, Wilbur A. | Nemesis | Historical Fiction - Courtney #22 |
Solomon, Rachel Lynn | Business Or Pleasure | Romance |
Soria, Destiny | Thief Liar Lady | "Happily Ever After" is a total scam, but at least this time the princess is the one controlling the grift--until her true love arrives and threatens to ruin the whole scheme. |
Soto, Julie | Forget Me Not | A wedding planner with commitment issues lands the event of the season--if only she didn't have to deal with her grumpy ex... |
St. Clair. Scarlett | A Game Of Gods | Fantasy Romance - Hades X Persephone #6 |
Steel, Danielle | Happiness | Fiction |
Stoker, Susan | Finding Jodelle | Romance - Seal Team Hawaii #7 |
Tapper, Jake | All The Demons Are Here | Thriller |
Taylor, Sarah Stewart | A Stolen Child | Mystery - Maggie d'Arcy #4 |
Thompson, Marielle | Where Ivy Dares To Grow | A woman struggling with her mental health spends the winter with her cruel in-laws in their eerie, haunting manor that sweeps her back through time and into the arms of her fiancé's mysterious, alluring 19th century ancestor. |
Thor, Brad | Dead Fall | Thriller - Scot Harvath #22 |
Tingle, Chuck | Camp Damascus | A horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down. |
Torre, A. R. | A Fatal Affair | Thriller |
Tremblay, Paul | The Beast You Are | Short Stories |
Tyuna | Counterweight | A tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company's monomaniacal endeavor to build the world's first space elevator. |
Valentine, Danielle | Delicate Condition | A woman is convinced a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens--while the men in her life refuse to believe a word she says. |
Vee, Julia | Ebony Gate | A female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. |
Vine, Lucy | Seven Exes | A woman decides to revisit each of her seven exes, convinced that one of them is "the one who got away." |
Ward, Jessica | The St. Ambrose School for Girls | A coming-of-age novel set in a boarding school where the secrets are devastating--and deadly. |
Weir, Keziah | The Mythmakers | A journalist searches for answers after discovering herself in an enigmatic author's final, unpublished manuscript. |
Weis, Margaret, and Tracy Hickman | Dragons of Fate | Fantasy - Dragonlance Destinies #2 |
Wesley, Valerie Wilson | A Shimmer of Red | Mystery - Odessa Jones #3 |
Whitehead, Colson | Crook Manifesto | Historical Fiction - Ray Carney #2 |
Wiggs, Susan | Welcome to Beach Town | Fiction |
Wilder, Ava | Will They or Won't They | Romance |
Williams, Beatriz | The Beach at Summerly | Historical Fiction |
Williams, Pip | The Bookbinder | A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life. |
Williams, Racquel | The Faithful Side Chick | An unsuspecting wife finds herself in a love triangle that threatens her safety when her husband's side chick decides she wants her out of the way. |
Williams, Shanora | The Other Mistress | A novel of seduction, betrayal, and obsession about the increasingly dangerous alliance between a betrayed wife and the Other Mistress. |
Willis, Connie | The Road To Roswell | A novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are willing to believe--some of which may actually be true. |
Wilson, Emily H. | Inanna | Historical Fantasy |
Winning, Joshua | Burn The Negative | Horror |
Wolff, Tracy | Star Bringer | Firefly meets The Breakfast Club in this snarky, new adult romance. |
Yagisawa, Satoshi | Days At The Morisaki Bookshop | Fiction |
Yan, Ge | Elsewhere | Short Stories |
Yokomizo, Seishi | The Devil's Flute Murders | Mystery - Detective Kosuke Kindaichi |
Zapata, Mariana | The Wall Of Winnipeg And Me | Romance |
Fit for the Gods: Greek Mythology Reimagined | Short Stories |
June 2023
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Adelman, Melissa A. | What The Neighbors Saw | Thriller |
Alexander, Kianna | Can't Let Her Go | Friends to lovers? There's a lot to consider, a lot to hope for, and a lot at risk. |
Andrews, Ilona | Magic Tides | Urban Fantasy - Kate Daniels Wilmington Years #1 |
Andrews, Ilona | Magic Claims | Urban Fantasy - Kate Daniels Wilmington Years #2 |
Apostol, Gina | La Tercera | Philippine history from the 19th century to present day in the fragmented story of the Delgados, a family surviving across generations of colonization, catastrophe, and war. |
Bazterrica, Agustina María | Nineteen Claws And A Black Bird | Short Stories |
Benedict, Marie, and Victoria Christopher Murray | The First Ladies | Historical Fiction |
Beutner, Katharine | Killingly | Based on the unsolved real-life disappearance of a Mount Holyoke student in 1897. |
Bishop, Katie | The Girls Of Summer | Thriller |
Boland, Shalini | The Silent Bride | It's the wedding day of Alice's dreams. Until it becomes a nightmare... |
Brazier, Eliza Jane | Girls And Their Horses | Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show. |
Carr, John Dickson | The Seat Of The Scornful | Mystery - Dr. Gideon Fell #14 |
Cate, Sara | Eyes On Me | Romance - Salacious Players' Club #2 |
Cate, Sara | Praise | Romance - Salacious Players' Club #1 |
Chang, Elysha | A Quitter's Paradise | A young woman does everything she can to ignore her mother's death, even as unearthed family secrets become increasingly inextricable from her own. |
Cochran, Rachel | The Gulf | A debut thriller, set on the gulf coast of Texas in the 1970s at the height of the women's liberation movement, in which a closeted young woman attempts to solve her surrogate mother's murder in a tight-knit, religious small town. |
Darwin, Alexander | The Combat Codes | Science Fiction |
Dawson, J. R. | The First Bright Thing | If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today? |
Evans, Mary Anna | The Traitor Beside Her | Historical Mystery |
Fine, Julia | Maddalena And The Dark | Historical Fiction |
Ford, Richard | Be Mine | Fiction - Frank Bascombe #5 |
Fuentes, Javier | Countries Of Origin | Fiction |
Galang, M. Evelina | When The Hibiscus Falls | Seventeen stories traverse borderlines, mythic and real, in the lives of Filipino and Filipino American women and their ancestors. |
Gaynor, Hazel | The Last Lifeboat | Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters |
Gilbert, Sian | She Started It | Thriller |
Go, Nathan | Forgiving Imelda Marcos | Fiction |
Goingback, Owl | Evil Whispers | Horror |
Goldberg, Paul | The Dissident | A Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. |
Gray, Shelley Shepard | Her Only Wish | Inspirational - A Season in Pinecraft #2 |
Green, Chris | The Plug Of Lil Mexico 2 | Urban Fiction |
Griffin, Adele | The Favor | Two very different women make an unexpected connection when one decides to carry a baby for the other. |
Hanks, Tom | The Making Of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece | Historical Fiction |
Harrison, Kim | Demons Of Good And Evil | Urban Fantasy - Hollows #17 |
Haven, Josh | The Siberia Job | A Texas businessman travels to the furthest reaches of post-Soviet Russia in search of the country's new wealth -- and finds new dangers as well. |
Hazelwood, Ali | Love, Theoretically | Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans. |
Hoke, Henry | Open Throat | A novel narrated by a queer and hungry mountain lion living in the drought-devastated land beneath the Hollywood sign. |
Holborn, Stark | Ten Low | Firefly meets Dune in a breakneck race to escape across an alien moon thriving with aliens and criminals. |
Hostin, Sunny | Summer On Sag Harbor | Fiction - Summer Beach #2 |
Jalaluddin, Uzma | Much Ado About Nada | A second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion... |
James, E. L. | The Missus | What happens once the glass slipper fits...? |
James, Tania | Loot | A historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero's quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty years. |
Jane, Emily | On Earth As It Is On Television | When spaceships arrive and then depart suddenly without a word, the certainty that we are not alone in the universe turns to intense uncertainty as to our place within it. |
Knight, Eliza | Starring Adele Astaire | Historical Fiction |
Lee, Mirinae | 8 Lives Of A Century-Old Trickster | Life near the North Korean border is a zero-sum game, an ongoing battle in which you either win or you lose. |
Leede, CJ | Maeve Fly | Horror |
Lenhardt, Melissa | Run Baby Run | A mother, a daughter and a road trip that's about to take a hard left turn in this story about the sacrifices we make for love. |
Lin, Katherine | You Can't Stay Here Forever | Desperate to obliterate her past, a young widow flees California for the French Riviera. |
Lowe, T. I. | Indigo Isle | Christian Fiction |
MacMillan, Lindsay | Double-Decker Dreams | American consultant Kat is staffed on a six-month project in London and has two very small, very reasonable ambitions before returning home: get promoted to partner and fall in love with a handsome English aristocrat. |
Maldonado, Isabella | A Killer's Game | After witnessing the murder of the chief of staff for a powerful New York senator, FBI agent and former military codebreaker Daniela Vega goes deep undercover to unravel a bizarre conspiracy where she must play a killer's game alongside an assassin-turned-informant. |
Martineau, Maxym M. | Shadows Of The Lost | Once I was a Charmer, and the magical beasts of this world loved me. Now I'm something else. Something darker. |
McCombs, Theodore | Uranians | Short Stories |
McCown, Marjorie | Final Cut | When Hollywood costumer Joey Jessop stumbles across a dead body near the set of a big budget movie, she must find ways to protect her career--and herself--before it's too late. |
McNamara, Luna | Psyche And Eros | The god of desire is cursed to fall for a spirited young mortal woman, but if she looks upon his face they will be parted forever. |
Medie, Peace A. | Nightbloom | When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls, they were more than just cousins; they were inseparable confidantes. Then Selasi begins to change, becoming hostile and quiet and losing interest in everything. |
Michallon, Clémence | The Quiet Tenant | A thriller about a serial killer narrated by those closest to him: his 13-year-old daughter, his girlfriend--and the one victim he has spared. |
Mihalik, Jessie | Capture The Sun | Science Fiction - Starlight's Shadow #3 |
Miles, Tiya | The Cherokee Rose Of Gardens And Ghosts | Three women uncover the secrets of a Georgia plantation that embodies the intertwined histories of Indigenous and enslaved Black communities. |
Mitchell, Jamel | For The Love Of Blood 3 | Urban Fiction |
Monaghan, Annabel | Same Time Next Summer | Romance |
Montgomery, Erika | Our Place On The Island | Three generations of women reunite at their family's beach house. |
Moore, Lorrie | I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home | Fiction |
Mulford, A. K. | Evergreen Heir | Fantasy - Five Crowns of Okrith #4 |
Offutt, Chris | Code Of The Hills | Mystery - Mick Hardin #3 |
Ōmae, Ao | People Who Talk To Stuffed Animals Are Nice | Short Stories |
Patel, Namrata | Scent Of A Garden | A perfumer in Paris is forced to return to her California roots. |
Patterson, Richard North | Trial | Thriller |
Pride, Christine | You Were Always Mine | A book about "two women, one Black and one white, and the baby who will send them on a collision course to confront their past and their future. |
Rabess, Cecilia | Everything's Fine | When Jess Lands a job as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, she's less than thrilled to learn she'll be on the same team as Josh, her old sparring partner from college. |
Radclyffe | Finders Keepers | Romance - Rivers Community #8 |
Rao, Kritika H. | The Surviving Sky | High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity--plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. |
Rao, Nilima | A Disappearance In Fiji | A debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigating a missing persons case in colonial Fiji. |
Reay, Katherine | A Shadow In Moscow | In the thick of the Cold War, a betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6's best Soviet agent and the CIA's newest Moscow recruit. |
Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 9 | Urban Fiction |
Rosche, Janine | With Every Memory | Is the life she can't remember one she'd rather forget? |
Sager, Riley | The Only One Left | Thriller |
Sanderson, Brandon | The Frugal Wizard's Handbook For Surviving Medieval England | An amnesiac wizard must endure time travel shenanigans--where his only hope of survival lies in recovering his missing memories. |
Saynomore | The Black Diamond Cartel | Malachi Williams is an upcoming kingpin in brooklyn, new york who thrives while living a nefarious lifestyle full of danger and crime. |
Shalvis, Jill | The Sweetheart List | Romance - Sunrise Cove #4 |
Shipman, Viola | Famous In A Small Town | Fiction |
Slimani, Leïla | Watch Us Dance | The rebellions within an interracial family play out against the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s. |
Smale, Holly | Cassandra In Reverse | If you had the power to change the past...where would you start? |
Steel, Danielle | Palazzo | Fiction |
Sterling, Siena | The Game She Plays | Thriller |
Stewart, Polly | The Good Ones | Thriller |
Thai, Thao | Banyan Moon | A debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family's inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories. |
Trussoni, Danielle | The Puzzle Master | An expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery--one with explosive consequences for the fate of humanity. |
Tsukiyama, Gail | The Brightest Star | A historical novel based on the life of the actress Anna May Wong--the first and only Asian American woman to gain movie stardom in the early days of Hollywood. |
Turnbull, Cadwell | Many Worlds: Or, The Simulacra | Science Fiction Short Stories |
Walker, Tanai | Rise Of The Gorgon | Romance |
Walsh, Courtney | The Happy Life Of Isadora Bentley | What happens when a desperately lonely woman stumbles upon a magazine article outlining the "31 Ways to Be Happy" and decides to use it as a last-ditch attempt to turn her life around? |
Ware, Ruth | Zero Days | Thriller |
Wash, C. | King Dom | On the dark streets of Washington DC at fifteen years old, Felicio King's journey begins. |
Watson, Ruth P. | A Right Worthy Woman | A novel based on the remarkable true story of Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first Black woman to establish and preside over a bank in the United States. |
Westerson, Jeri | The Isolated Séance | Mystery - Irregular Detective #1 |
Whittall, Zoe | The Fake | Fiction |
Wilding, Rose | Speak Of The Devil | New Year's Eve, 1999. Seven women are gathered in a hotel room at midnight; a man's head sits in the center of the floor. They all had a motive to kill Jamie Spellman. They all swear they didn't. |
Willberg, T. A. | Marion Lane And The Raven's Revenge | Mystery - Marion Lane #3 |
Williams, Katie | My Murder | What if the murder you had to solve was your own? |
Willis, Deborah | Girlfriend On Mars | Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. |
Woods, Stuart | Near Miss | Mystery - Stone Barrington #64 |
Xie, Jenny | Holding Pattern | At 28, Kathleen Cheng returns home to live with her single mother, Marissa, an immigrant from China. |
Xie, Xiaohong | Owlish | A professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina in a mordant and uncanny fable of contemporary Hong Kong. |
Xtasy | Sanctified And Horny | Urban Fiction |
May 2023
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
---|---|---|
Abbott, Megan | Beware The Woman | Thriller |
Abdel Gawad, Aisha | Between Two Moons | Set in the Arab immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, this debut follows three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan. |
Ackerman, Elliot | Halcyon | Alternative History |
Adler, Sarah | Mrs. Nash's Ashes | A starry-eyed romantic, a cynical writer, and (the ashes of) an elderly woman take the road trip of a lifetime that just might upend everything they believe about true love. |
Agbaje-Williams, Ore | The Three Of Us | What if your two favorite people hated each other with a passion? |
Ah'million | It's Just Me And You 2 | Urban Fiction |
Alexander, T. J. | Chef's Choice | Romance - Chef's Kiss #2 |
Anderson, Justin Lee | The Lost War | A tale of magic, mayhem, and a ragtag group of adventurers who just might be the key to saving their kingdom. |
Armstrong, Kelley | The Poisoner's Ring | Historical Mystery - Rip Through Time #2 |
Audrain, Ashley | The Whispers | Four families' lives are changed when the unthinkable happens. |
Bailey, Tessa | Unfortunately Yours | Romance - Vine Mess #2 |
Bannalec, Jean-Luc | The King Arthur Case | Mystery - Brittany #7 |
Bannalec, Jean-Luc | The Body By The Sea | Mystery - Brittany #8 |
Banville, John | The Lock-Up | Mystery - St. John Strafford #2 |
Barclay, Linwood | The Lie Maker | Thriller |
Beharrie, Therese | Single Dads Club | Opposites attract when an ex-heiress and a single dad cross paths, only to find that their separate roads may lead them to the same destination. |
Bell, Celia | The Disenchantment | This debut follows a passionate love affair between two noblewomen who wish to free themselves from their repressive society, whatever the cost. |
Bellezza, Audrey, and Emily Harding | Emma Of 83rd Street | In this retelling of Jane Austen's Emma, a beautiful, clever, and rich Upper East Sider with a passion for matchmaking quickly discovers that the best match of all might just be the one she never saw coming. |
Berest, Anne | The Postcard | Mysterious mail initiates a family's search for their buried truths. |
Bessette, Alicia | Murder On Mustang Beach | Cozy Mystery - Outer Banks Bookshop #2 |
Blackgoose, Moniquill | To Shape A Dragon's Breath | The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations--until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon's egg and bonds with its hatchling. |
Blair, Melissa | A Shadow Crown | Fantasy - Halfling Saga #2 |
Bostwick, Marie | Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly | Fiction |
Boullosa, Carmen | The Book Of Eve | What if everything they've told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? |
Brady, Ali | The Comeback Summer | Two sisters have one summer to crush their comfort zones and save their grandmother's legacy. |
Brammer, Mikki | The Collected Regrets Of Clover | A debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own. |
Brown, Dale | Weapons Of Opportunity | Thriller - Nick Flynn #3 |
Burke, Sue | Dual Memory | Science Fiction |
Callaway, Joy | All The Pretty Places | Historical Fiction |
Cameron, Lindsay | No One Needs To Know | When an anonymous neighborhood forum gets hacked, the darkest secrets of New York's wealthiest residents come to light--including some worth killing for. |
Carr, Jack | Only The Dead | Thriller - Terminal List #6 |
Castillo, Ana | Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home | Short Stories |
Cervantes, J. C. | The Enchanted Hacienda | The Estrada family farm in Mexico houses an abundance of charmed flowers cultivated by Harlow's mother, sisters, aunt, and cousins. By harnessing the magic in these flowers, they can heal hearts, erase memories, interpret dreams--but not Harlow. |
Chang-Eppig, Rita | Deep As The Sky, Red As The Sea | A historical novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power. |
Chenault-Kilgore, Monica | Long Gone, Come Home | A story of perseverance, family, and ambition set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the racial intolerances of the early 20th century. |
Ch'ŏn, Myŏng-gwan | Whale | A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce, and fantasy--a masterpiece of modern fiction for fans of One Hundred Years of Solitude. |
Christie, Agatha | Midsummer Mysteries : Tales From The Queen Of Mystery | Mystery Short Stories |
Chu, Lily | The Comeback | A straitlaced woman's life is turned upside down when she unknowingly falls for one of the most famous men in the world. |
Clark, Mary Higgins | Where Are The Children Now? | Mystery - Where are the Children #2 |
Cogman, Genevieve | Scarlet | Revolution is a bloodthirsty business . . . especially when vampires are involved. |
Comey, James B. Jr. | Central Park West | Thriller |
Constantine, Liv | The Senator's Wife | A D.C. philanthropist suspects that her seemingly perfect employee is secretly plotting to steal her husband, her reputation--even her life. |
Cosby, S. A. | All The Sinners Bleed | The first Black sheriff in a small Southern town faces a questionable shooting, a Confederate pride march, and a serial killer. |
Cuffy, Nicole | Dances | A ballerina at the height of her powers becomes consumed with finding her missing brother. |
Davin, Felicia | The Scandalous Letters Of V And J | Historical Fiction |
Davis, Fiona | The Spectacular | Historical Fiction |
Davis, Jenny Fran | Dykette | A young woman embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two other queer couples. |
De los Santos, Marisa | Watch Us Shine | Fiction |
Deb, Siddhartha | The Light At The End Of The World | A sweeping tale of rebellion, courage, and brutality that connects India's tumultuous 19th and 20th centuries to its distant past and its potentially apocalyptic future. |
DiDomizio, Nicolas | The Gay Best Friend | Romance |
Dila, Dilman | Where Rivers Go To Die | Science Fiction Short Stories |
Dream, King | Blood And Games | Urban Fiction |
Dubus, Andre III | Such Kindness | Fiction |
Dugan, Jennifer | Love At First Set | A gym employee accidentally ruins her bosses' daughter's wedding, then even more accidentally falls for the runaway bride... |
Earling, Debra Magpie | The Lost Journals Of Sacajewea | Historical Fiction |
El-Arifi, Saara | The Battle Drum | Fantasy - Final Strife #2 |
Ferguson, Melissa | Famous For A Living | The world's most beloved social media star is about to get a rude awakening . . . she's going from Park Avenue to the Parks Department. |
Fischer, Bronwyn | The Adult | Fiction |
Foster, Lori | The Little Flower Shop | Romance |
Fournier, Jamesie | The Other Ones | Horror Short Stories |
Frank, Victoria Benton | My Magnolia Summer | Escape to the South Carolina Lowcountry, where family bonds and hidden secrets run deep. |
Gabhart, Ann H. | In The Shadow Of The River | Christian Historical |
Gagnon, Michelle | Killing Me | She escaped a serial killer. Then things got weird. |
Gallon, Michael | The Murder Queens 3 | Urban Fiction |
Gates, Eva | Death Knells And Wedding Bells | Cozy Mystery - Lighthouse Library #10 |
Gayle, Mike | The Museum Of Ordinary People | An old set of encyclopedias leads a young woman to a curious museum and one profoundly moving lesson: that every life is an extraordinary life. |
Gaylin, Alison | Robert B. Parker's Bad Influence | Mystery - Sunny Randall #11 |
Gigl, Robyn | Remain Silent | Mystery - Erin McCabe #3 |
Goldis, Jaclyn | The Chateau | A girls trip to a luxurious French chateau turns from dream vacation to nightmare. |
Goodman, Alison | The Benevolent Society Of Ill-Mannered Ladies | A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women. |
Gray, Claudia | The Late Mrs. Willoughby | Historical Mystery - Murder of Mr. Wickham #2 |
Greco, Stephen | Such Good Friends | This star-studded, evocative novel revels in the glamor, gossip, and casual betrayal of 1960s and '70s high society New York and the socialite "swans" that ruled this scandalous world. |
Grissom, Kathleen | Crow Mary | Historical Fiction |
Hall, Alexis J. | Mortal Follies | A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse. |
Hanrahan, Gareth | The Sword Defiant | Fantasy |
Harkaway, Nick | Titanium Noir | The story of a detective investigating the murder of a Titan, one of society's most powerful, medically-enhanced elites. |
Harmel, Kristin | The Paris Daughter | Historical Fiction |
Hart, Livy | Planes, Trains, And All The Feels | A series of mishaps unite two unlikely travel companions. |
Hedva, Johanna | Your Love Is Not Good | Fiction |
Heron, Farah | Jana Goes Wild | A woman trying to shed her perfect image at a destination wedding with hilarious -- and moving -- results. |
Herrera, Adriana | An Island Princess Starts A Scandal | Historical Romance - Las Leonas #2 |
Higgins, Kristan | A Little Ray Of Sunshine | Fiction |
Hilderbrand, Elin | The Five-Star Weekend | Fiction |
Hill, Donna | I Am Ayah: The Way Home | Shielding herself from the world behind the safety of her camera lens, photographer Ayah Fleming is pulled into the past when she returns home and uncovers the truth about her descendants with the help of a man who makes her long for a brighter future. |
Horan, Nancy | The House Of Lincoln | Historical Fiction |
Huang, Ana | King Of Pride | Romance - Kings of Sin #2 |
Hyde, Catherine Ryan | Just A Regular Boy | An orphaned boy raised by a survivalist wends his way into the real world. |
Ide, Joe | Fixit | Mystery - IQ #6 |
Isaacs, Susan | Bad, Bad Seymour Brown | Mystery - Corie Gellar #2 |
Islington, James | The Will Of The Many | At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets. |
Kay, Laura | Wild Things | What happens when a group of friends are actually brave enough to live the dream and give up their dreary city apartments to buy a house in the country together. |
Kelly, Lee | The Antiquity Affair | Two estranged sisters must band together to solve a puzzle three millennia in the making in this female-heroine take on Indiana Jones. |
Khavari, Kate | A Botanist's Guide To Flowers And Fatality | Historical Mystery - Saffron Everleigh #2 |
Lam, Laura | Dragonfall | Long-banished dragons, revered as gods, return to the mortal realm. |
Lane, Byron | Big Gay Wedding | Two grooms. One mother of a problem. |
Larsen, Samantha | A Novel Disguise | When Miss Tiffany Woodall assumes the identity of her half-brother after his death, she realizes she isn't the only one with a secret to hide in this historical series debut. |
Lawrence, Mark | The Book That Wouldn't Burn | Two strangers find themselves connected by a mysterious and vast library, which contains many wonders and even more secrets. |
Leckie, Ann | Translation State | The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across the stars. |
Lee, Thomas D. | Perilous Times | An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet--saving the politically polarized, rapidly warming world from itself. |
Leitch, Will | The Time Has Come | Seven strangers and one very intense evening at a small-town Georgia pharmacy. |
Liljestrand, Jens | Even If Everything Ends | Fiction |
Lim, Dominic | All The Right Notes | Sparks fly when a piano genius and a Hollywood heartthrob are thrown together for a charity performance of solos, heartfelt duets, and a big, showstopping finale. |
Maden, Mike | Fire Strike | Thriller - Oregon Files #17 |
Makhene, Magogodi oaMphela | Innards | Short Stories |
Mc Ivor, Breanne | The God Of Good Looks | Fiction |
McCall Smith, Alexander | The Private Life Of Spies And The Exquisite Art Of Getting Even | Short Stories |
McGill, C. E. | Our Hideous Progeny | It is not the monster you must fear, but the monster it makes of men. . . |
McKinlay, Jenn | Summer Reading | Romance |
McKnight, Rhonda | The Thing About Home | A disgraced social media star flees to South Carolina's Lowcountry in search of refuge and connection to the family she's never known. |
Meyer, Gabrielle | In This Moment | Christian Romance |
Michaels, Fern | Liar! | Thriller |
Milligan, A. Roy | Girls Fall Like Dominoes | Urban Fiction |
Milligan, A. Roy | Women Lie Men Lie | Urban Fiction |
Milligan, A. Roy | Naive To The Streets | Urban Fiction |
Milligan, A. Roy | Stack Before You Splurge | Urban Fiction |
Milligan, A. Roy | Women Lie Men Lie 3 | Urban Fiction |
Milligan, A. Roy | Women Lie Men Lie 2 | Urban Fiction |
Moore, Meg Mitchell | Summer Stage | Fiction |
Morrissey, Bridget | That Summer Feeling | Turns out you're never too old for a summer camp romance. Or a change of heart. |
Muchemi-Ndiritu, Irene | Lucky Girl | Longing for independence, a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a life in New York City that challenges all her beliefs about race, love, and family. |
Murphy, Nora | The New Mother | Isolated. Lonely. Tired. It's hard being The New Mother. Sometimes it's murder. |
Murray, Amita | Unladylike Lessons In Love | Historical Mystery - Marleigh Sisters #1 |
Neal, Jennifer | Notes On Her Color | Fiction |
Nesbø, Jo | Killing Moon | Mystery - Harry Hole #13 |
Newman, T. J. | Drowning : The Rescue Of Flight 1421 | Thriller |
Noble, Shelley | The Tiffany Girls | Historical Fiction |
Nworah, Adorah | House Woman | Thriller |
O'Keefe, Megan E. | The Blighted Stars | Stranded on a dead planet with her mortal enemy, a spy must survive and uncover a conspiracy. |
Omar, Idman Nur | The Private Apartments | Short Stories |
Page, Katherine Hall | The Body In The Web | Mystery - Faith Fairchild #26 |
Paolini, Christopher | Fractal Noise | Science Fiction - Fractalverse #2 |
Parker, T. Jefferson | The Rescue | Thriller |
Patrick, Phaedra | The Little Italian Hotel | When a relationship expert's own marriage falls apart, she invites four strangers to Italy for a vacation of healing and second chances. |
Patterson, James, and Adam Handy | Private Moscow | Thriller - Private #15 |
Payne, Fumiya | Salute My Savagery | After being imprisoned for the assault of an arch rival, Kavoni has reentered society with a scheme that'll require spilled blood, boldness and no compassion for the opp. |
Peterson, Tracie | The Heart's Choice | They must uncover the truth before it's buried forever. |
Pochoda, Ivy | Sing Her Down | No Country for Old Men meets Killing Eve in this gritty, feminist Western thriller. |
Polito, Frank Anthony | Rehearsed To Death | Cozy Mystery - Domestic Partners in Crime #2 |
Powers, Kevin | A Line In The Sand | Thriller |
Reid, Charish | Mickey Chambers Shakes It Up | Total opposites. Totally irresistible. |
Renee, Raevyn | Hood Defined Love | Growing up in difficult circumstances in the hood, Mikayla meets Jeremiah, who has also led a troubled life, and the pair discover that love can blossom anywhere. |
Renta | Ski Mask Money 2 | Urban Fiction |
Renta | Heaven Got A Ghetto 2 | Urban Fiction |
Rich, Senta | Hotel 21 | Fiction |
Riley, Lucinda | Atlas: The Story Of Pa Salt | Historical Romance - Seven Sisters #8 |
Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 8 | Urban Fiction |
Rio, King | Super Gremlin | Urban Fiction |
Ritchie, Krista and Becca | Kiss The Sky | Romance - Calloway Sisters #1 |
Robinson, Corey | Protege Of A Legend 3 | Urban Fiction |
Rosenberg, Joel C. | The Libyan Diversion | Thriller - Marcus Ryker #5 |
Rosenblum, Emma | Bad Summer People | A propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against an exclusive summer haven on Fire Island. |
Rovin, Jeff | Fallout | Thriller - Tom Clancy's Op-Center #22 |
Rowley, Steven | The Celebrants | Reuniting to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living "funerals," five friends find their pact upended when one of them reveals a shocking secret. |
Rudnick, Paul | Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style | Fiction |
Ryan, Kennedy | The Grip Trilogy | Romance |
Saint, Jennifer | Atalanta | Princess, Warrior, Lover, Hero |
Saynomore | Gorillaz In The Trenches 3 | Urban Fiction |
Saynomore | Soul Of A Hustler, Heart Of A Killer 3 | Urban Fiction |
Saynomore | Gorillaz In The Trenches 2 | Urban Fiction |
Schellman, Katharine | The Last Drop Of Hemlock | Historical Mystery - Last Call at the Nightingale #2 |
Sebastian, Cat | We Could Be So Good | Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century rom-dram about a scrappy reporter and a newspaper mogul's son. |
See, Lisa | Lady Tan's Circle Of Women | An immersive tale about an elite woman who becomes a physician in spite of societal restrictions during China's Ming Dynasty. |
Shaara, Jeff | The Old Lion | Historical Fiction |
Shade, Anne | Three Wishes | A magic lamp, a beautiful Jinni, and a cursed princess make for one unbelievable story. |
Shaffer, Meg | The Wishing Game | Make a wish, but be careful what you wish for: you might just get it. |
Sims, Jonathan | Family Business | Death. It's a dirty business. |
Sinclair, Shaun | Beats And Blow | Urban Fiction - Crescent Crew #5 |
Sloan, Holly Goldberg | Pieces Of Blue | A family tries to restore a ramshackle beachside motel--and their own lives. |
Smith, Ian K. | The Overnights | Mystery - Ashe Cayne #3 |
Smith, Martin Cruz | Independence Square | Mystery - Arkady Renko #10 |
Somtochukwu, Ani Kayode | And Then He Sang A Lullaby | Fiction |
Sönmez, Burhan | Stone And Shadow | This gorgeous, haunting saga tells the story of modern Turkey and its diverse communities through the life of a gravestone maker. |
Spencer, Minerva | The Dueling Duchess | Historical Romance - Wicked Women of Whitechapel #2 |
Stevette, Jaylonna | Almost Happy: The Chronicles of Tabby | Tabby's tale looks into love, sex, and conflict with the "bad boy" as she struggles to finally be happy. |
Styles, T. | An Ugly Girl's Diary 2 | Urban Fiction |
Sussman, Elissa | Once More With Feeling | Romance |
Tay, Self Made | Born In The Grave 3 | Urban Fiction |
Taylor, Brandon | The Late Americans | A loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. |
Tchaikovsky, Adrian | City Of Last Chances | Fantasy |
Thomas, Julia | The Radcliffe Ladies' Reading Club | Historical Fiction |
Thorogood, Robert | Death Comes To Marlow | Mystery - Marlow Murder Club #2 |
Törzs, Emma | Ink Blood Sister Scribe | Two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection. |
Tukes, Romell | Sosa Gang 3 | Urban Fiction |
Tukes, Romell | Sosa Gang 2 | Urban Fiction |
Urrea, Luis Alberto | Good Night, Irene | What if a friendship forged on the front lines of war defines a life forever? |
Varadarajan, Deepa | Late Bloomers | An Indian American family is turned upside down when the parents split up thirty-six years into their arranged marriage. |
Vásquez, Juan Gabriel | Retrospective | Fiction |
Wangtechawat, Pim | The Moon Represents My Heart | Follows a Chinese British family of time travelers as they seek connections over borders--both national borders and those created by time. |
Weaver, Ashley | Playing It Safe | Historical Mystery - Electra McDonnell #3 |
Weir, Alison | The King's Pleasure | Historical Fiction |
Wells, Martha | Witch King | From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes a remarkable story of power and friendship, of trust and betrayal, and of the families we choose. |
White, Karen | The House On Prytania | Mystery - Royal Street #2 |
White, Kate | Between Two Strangers | Thriller |
Whitlow, Robert | Double Indemnity | Christian Suspense |
Winstead, Ashley | The Boyfriend Candidate | Romance |
Wolfgang-Smith, Olivia | Glassworks | Follows one family across four generations to explore legacy and identity in all its forms. |
Yehoshua, Abraham B. | The Only Daughter | Fiction |
Zari | Penthouse View | Selling weed and then running her own robbing crew that targeted drug dealers was how Tori Phillips gained her entry into the Atlanta drug market. Their motto was, "Why buy drugs when you can steal them?" |
Even if the Sky is Falling | Romance Short Stories |
April 2023
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Abé, Shana | An American Beauty | Historical fiction inspired by the true rags-to-riches story of Arabella Huntington, who defied the constraints of her era to become the wealthiest self-made woman in America. |
Abrams, Stacey | Rogue Justice | Thriller - Avery Keene #2 |
Adams, Ellery | Paper Cuts | Cozy Mystery - Secret, Book, & Scone #6 |
Adams, Sarah | Practice Makes Perfect | Romantic Comedy |
Adams, Taylor | The Last Word | After posting a negative review of a horror novel, a woman staying at an isolated beach house begins to wonder if the author is a little touchy--or very, very dangerous. |
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame | Chain-Gang All-Stars | Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. |
Alexander, Neely Tubati | Love Buzz | A chance romantic encounter during a wild night at a Mardi Gras bachelorette party sends strait-laced Serena Khan's carefully constructed life into chaos |
Allen, Jayne | Black Girls Must Have It All | Fiction - Black Girls Must Die Exhausted #3 |
Allen, Samantha Jayne | Hard Rain | Mystery - Annie McIntyre #2 |
Allende, Isabel | The Wind Knows My Name | Historical Fiction |
Apostol, Gina | La Tercera | The fragmented story of the Delgados, a family surviving across generations of colonization, catastrophe, and war. |
Argento, Joy | Gin And Bear It | Romance |
Argy, Julia | The One | Fiction |
Arnaldur Indriðason | The Girl By The Bridge | Mystery - Detective Konrad #2 |
Ausubel, Ramona | The Last Animal | A single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process. |
Baker, Jo | The Midnight News | Historical Fiction |
Barker, Joanna L. | A Heart Worth Stealing | Historical Romance |
Barry, Dave | Swamp Story | Fiction |
Battis, Jes | The Winter Knight | Arthurian legends are reborn in this upbeat queer urban fantasy with a mystery at its heart. |
Bauermeister, Erica | No Two Persons | One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. |
Beagle, Peter S. | The Way Home : Two Novellas From The World Of The Last Unicorn | Fantasy |
Beers, Georgia | Dance With Me | Romance |
Bellefleur, Alexandria | The Fiancée Farce | A quiet bookseller and a romance novel cover model agree to a modern-day marriage of convenience. |
Bentley, Don | Tom Clancy Flash Point | Thriller - Jack Ryan, Jr. #10 |
Berman, Ella | Before We Were Innocent | A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home. |
Binge, Nicholas | Ascension | The sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human. |
Birchall, Katy | The Last Word | Romance |
Boyd, Jeff | The Weight | A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon. |
Bradley, Marcia | The Home For Wayward Girls | Growing up in the 1990s, a young girl escapes her abusive parents-and the "ranch" they ran for "bad" girls--and becomes an advocate for teen runaways. |
Brennan, Allison | Seven Girls Gone | Mystery - Quinn & Costa #4 |
Brotherton, Marcus, and Tosca Lee | The Long March Home | Historical Fiction |
Brown, Ness | The Scourge Between Stars | A tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a doomed generation ship harboring something terrible within its walls. |
Brussig, Thomas | The Short End Of The Sonnenallee | Fiction |
Bryant, Niobia | Madam X | Urban Fiction - Madam #2 |
Bunn, T. Davis | Shell Beach | Christian Fiction - Miramar Bay #7 |
Buoro, Stephen | The Five Sorrowful Mysteries Of Andy Africa | The story of an exceptional teenager coming of age in the shadow of colonialism and communal violence in Nigeria. |
Byler, Linda | The Weaving Of Life | Amish Romance - New Directions #1 |
Callahan Henry, Patti | The Secret Book Of Flora Lea | When a woman stumbles across a mysterious children's book, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed |
Cambridge, Colleen | Mastering The Art Of French Murder | A new mystery set in Paris and starring Julia Child's (fictional) best friend, confidant, and fellow American. |
Cameron, Marc | Breakneck | Thriller - Arliss Cutter #5 |
Campbell, Nan | The No Kiss Contract | Workaholic Davy believes she can get the top spot at her firm if the senior partners think she's settling down and about to start a family, but she needs the delightful yet dubious Anna's help by pretending to be her fiancée. |
Carcaterra, Lorenzo | Nonna Maria And The Case Of The Stolen Necklace | Cozy Mystery - Nonna Maria #2 |
Carey, M. R. | Infinity Gate | Science Fiction - Pandominion #1 |
Carlton, H. D. | Haunting Adeline | Fiction - Cat and Mouse Duet #1 |
Carlton, H. D. | Hunting Adeline | Fiction - Cat and Mouse Duet #2 |
Castro, V. | The Haunting Of Alejandra | A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history. |
Celeste, B. | Dare You To Hate Me | Romance - Lindon U #1 |
Celeste, B. | Beg You To Trust Me | Romance - Lindon U #2 |
Chalsen, Becky | Kismet | A sun-soaked debut about love, sisterhood, and destiny, set in the glorious beach town of Kismet, Fire Island . . . Can Amy's marriage survive Jo's wedding? |
Charry, Brinda | The East Indian | A debut novel about the first native of the Indian subcontinent to arrive in Colonial America. |
Chong, Corinna | The Whole Animal | Short Stories |
Chong, Kevin | The Double Life Of Benson Yu | Follows Benson Yu, a writer, who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown. |
Clare, Jessica | What The Hex | Romance |
Clawson, Megan | Falling Hard For The Royal Guard | Despite living in an actual castle, happily ever after is evading Margaret 'Maggie' Moore. |
Cleeton, Chanel | The Cuban Heiress | In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women's pasts collide on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana. |
Cline, Emma | The Guest | A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't. |
Clipston, Amy | Breaking New Ground | Christian Fiction - Amish Legacy #3 |
Connelly, Lucy | An American In Scotland | The small idyllic town of Sea Isle, Scotland, harbors some dark secrets, and Dr. Emilia McRoy is determined to uncover all of them--no matter what the diagnosis. |
Connolly, Rebecca | Under The Cover Of Mercy | Can one nurse on a mission of mercy and rebellion turn the tide of WWI? |
Cooney, Caroline B. | The Wrong Good Deed | She thought she had left that life behind forever. She was wrong. |
Cronin, Justin | The Ferryman | A standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia--where the truth isn't what it seems. |
Crooks, Jacqueline | Fire Rush | Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a story of love, loss, and self-discovery that vibrates with the liberating power of music. |
Cypher, Sarah | The Skin And Its Girl | A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great-aunt's secrets. |
Dalembert, Louis-Philippe | Milwaukee Blues | An eloquent fictionalized account of the events surrounding the death of George Floyd in 2020. |
Dallas, Sandra | Where Coyotes Howl | Historical Fiction |
Darke, Minnie | With Love From Wish & Co. | Two boxes, both alike in size and shape . . . |
Davenport, N. E. | The Blood Gift | Science Fiction - Blood Gift #2 |
Dekane, Trinity | Deceitful Vows | A wife has had enough of her husband's cheating ways, but he isn't willing to let her go without a fight. |
Denton-Hurst, Tembe | Homebodies | A debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and pens a searing manifesto about racism in the industry. |
Deveraux, Jude | My Heart Will Find You | Their love refused to stay quiet, echoing across time... |
Devi, Mahasweta | Truth/Untruth | Fiction |
Dimon, HelenKay | Moorewood Family Rules | A woman returns home from prison to her dysfunctional con artist family and tries to get them to go legit. |
Doctorow, Cory | Red Team Blues | Thriller |
Drake, Piper J. | Wings Once Cursed & Bound | Romantic Fantasy - Mythwoven #1 |
Due, Tananarive | The Wishing Pool And Other Stories | Horror Short Stories |
Edwards, Emily J. | Viviana Valentine Goes Up The River | Historical Mystery - Girl Friday #2 |
Elliott, Kate | Furious Heaven | Science Fiction - Sun Chronicles #2 |
Ellis, Philip | Love & Other Scams | Romance |
Faraday, Chris | Trine | Science Fiction |
Fay, Juliette | The Half Of It | One perfect night. Forty years of buried hurt. One chance to make it right. Can the past ever be fixed? |
Fein-Zachary, Jacqueline | Harvest Dreams | Romance |
Ferguson, Lana | The Nanny | A woman discovers the father of the child she is nannying may be her biggest (Only)Fan. |
Fisher, Suzanne Woods | The Secret To Happiness | Fisher - Cape Cod Creamery #2 |
Ford, Daniel M. | The Warden | A young woman must leave behind the relative luxury of her upbringing and recently graduated collegiate life to serve as a Warden, a wizardly protector, of a rural community at the rough edge of her kingdom. |
Fortune, Carley | Meet Me At The Lake | Romance |
Frazier, Charles | The Trackers | Historical Fiction |
Gamboa, Santiago | Colombian Psycho | Thriller |
Geary, Karl | Juno Loves Legs | Fiction |
Graham, Heather | Shadow Of Death | Romantic Suspense |
Graver, Elizabeth | Kantika | A multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home. |
Graves, Sarah | Death By Chocolate Marshmallow Pie | Cozy Mystery - Death By Chocolate #6 |
Gray, Anissa | Life And Other Love Songs | A father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century. |
Greenwald, Carlyn | Sizzle Reel | Fiction |
Griffiths, Elly | The Last Remains | Mystery - Ruth Galloway #15 |
Grillo, Christine | Hestia Strikes A Match | Set amid the devastation of a new American civil war, Hestia Strikes a Match is the story of a woman looking for love and friendship, even as the world collapses. |
Hackett, Nicole | The Perfect Ones | Two days after arriving in Iceland for a promotional trip, Instagram influencer Alabama Wood goes missing. |
Hakes, Jasmin 'Iolani | Hula | Set in Hilo, Hawai'i, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that unfolds through the lives of three generations of women--a tale of mothers and daughters, dance and destiny. |
Hall, Alexis J. | Something Spectacular | Historical Romance - Something Fabulous #2 |
Halperin, Hanna | I Could Live Here Forever | Fiction |
Hamburger, Aaron | Hotel Cuba | Historical Fiction |
Han, Kang | Greek Lessons | A woman finds herself without language at the same time that her instructor slowly loses his eyesight. |
Hankin, Laura | The Daydreams | A novel about the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s--and the reunion special, thirteen years after their scandalous flameout, that will either be their last chance at redemption, or destroy them all for good. |
Hanks, Tom | The Making Of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece | Fiction |
Harding, Lisa | Cloud Girls | Thrown together by a harrowing twist of fate, two girls will find hope and redemption in friendship. |
Harris, C. S. | Who Cries For The Lost | Historical Mystery - Sebastian St. Cyr #18 |
Harrison, Tiffany Clarke | Blue Hour | What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma, and an unraveling America? What it's always been--a love song. |
Heiny, Katherine | Games And Rituals | Short Stories |
Helfer, Monika | Last House Before The Mountain | Historical Fiction |
Hendricks, T. R. | The Instructor | Action |
Herchenroether, Sara | The Night Flowers | Thriller |
Hillerman, Anne | The Way Of The Bear | Mystery - Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #8 |
Holland, Sam | The Twenty | Mystery - Major Crimes #2 |
Holton, India | The Secret Service Of Tea And Treason | Historical Romance - Dangerous Damsels #3 |
Hostin, Sunny | Summer On Sag Harbor | Fiction - Summer Beach #2 |
Howard, Kat | A Sleight Of Shadows | Fantasy - Unseen World #2 |
Huang, Ana | King Of Wrath | Romance - Kings of Sin #1 |
Huang, Ling Ling | Natural Beauty | Follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost. |
Hyder, Liz | The Gifts | In England in 1840, at the crossroads of belief in religion and science, when society has very strict requirements on gender roles, the lives of five people unravel. |
Jackson, Buzzy | To Die Beautiful | Historical Fiction |
Jackson, Joshilyn | With My Little Eye | Thriller |
Jackson, Sarah K. | Not Alone | The harrowing journey of a mother and son fighting for survival and a future in a world ravaged by environmental disaster. |
Janowitz, Brenda | The Audrey Hepburn Estate | When Emma Jansen learns the Long Island estate where she grew up will be demolished, she returns for a last visit. But Emma finds she can't ignore the complicated memories of living over the garage, a child of the help |
Jennett, Meagan | You Know Her | Killing Eve meets Sharp Objects in this thriller about two women: a fledgling murderer and the cop hell-bent on catching her. |
Jimenez, Abby | Yours Truly | Romance - Part of Your World #2 |
Johansen, Iris | The Survivor | Mystery - Eve Duncan #30 |
Johnson, Clifford | Turned Up | Urban Fiction - Hot Shot #3 |
Jones, Gayl | Butter : Novellas, Stories, And Fragments | Short Stories |
Joseph, Paterson | The Secret Diaries Of Charles Ignatius Sancho | This debut novel comprises the rollicking fictionalized memoirs of a real-life Black British trailblazer who associated with David Garrick and Dr. Johnson, played Othello, served as a valet at Windsor Castle, was painted by Thomas Gainsborough, and voted for abolition. |
Karger, Sidney | Best Men | When two best men in a wedding party fall for each other, they realize love isn't a piece of cake. |
Keane, Mary Beth | The Half Moon | A couple in a small town must navigate the complexities of marriage, family, and longing. |
Keith, Ellen | The Dutch Orphan | Historical Fiction |
Kellogg, Camille | Just As You Are | The only thing worse than hating your boss? Being attracted to her. |
Kepnes, Caroline | For You And Only You | Mystery - Joe Goldberg #4 |
Keyes, J. Gregory | The Basilisk Throne | Fantasy |
Khaw, Cassandra | The Salt Grows Heavy | You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes. |
Kitt, Sandra | The Time Of Your Life | Romance - Millionaires Club #2 |
Kuang, R. F. | Yellowface | What happens when a midlist author steals a manuscript and publishes it as her own? |
La Salle, Eriq | Laws Of Wrath | Thriller - Martyr Maker #2 |
Lacey, Catherine | Biography Of X | When convention-smashing artist X unexpectedly drops dead, her grieving widow, CM, commits herself to writing X's biography and discovers well-kept secrets and destructive patches in X's life that she never knew. |
Lalli, Sonya | Jasmine And Jake Rock The Boat | Romance |
Larkin, Michelle | The Value Of Sylver And Gold | Romantic Suspense - Sylver and Gold #2 |
Lauren, Christina | The True Love Experiment | Romance |
Lee, Helen Elaine | Pomegranate | Fiction |
Leicht, Stina | Loki's Ring | Gita Chithra embarks on a mission through space to save the robot she loves as a daughter--or risk losing her. |
Lin-Greenberg, Karin | You Are Here | As a once-bustling mall prepares to shut its doors for the final time, the residents of an upstate New York town must reckon with a shocking act that forces them to reevaluate who they are. |
Little, Liv | Rosewater | Romance |
Luo, Susie | Paper Names | An unexpected act of violence brings together a Chinese-American family and a wealthy white lawyer. |
Malpas, Jodi Ellen | One Night With The Duke | Historical Romance - Belmore Square #1 |
McAvoy, J. J. | Verity And The Forbidden Suitor | Historical Romance - DuBells #2 |
McCammon, Robert R. | Swan Song | Science Fiction |
McCoy, Taj | Zora Books Her Happy Ever After | A heart-pounding, curvy romance about an indie bookstore owner who finds herself in a love triangle when she meets the author she's had a crush on for years...and his best friend. |
McKenna, Juliet E. | The Cleaving | Four women, four destinies - the future of King Arthur's court... |
McKinnon, Hannah Roberts | The Darlings | Fiction |
Medina, Nick | Sisters Of The Lost Nation | A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's reservation leads her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all while being haunted herself. |
Meier, Leslie | Mother Of The Bride Murder | Cozy Mystery - Lucy Stone #29 |
Meissner, Susan | Only The Beautiful | Historical Fiction |
Melchor, Fernanda | This Is Not Miami | Short Stories |
Mellors, Coco | Cleopatra & Frankenstein | A debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. |
Mensah, Elvin James | Small Joys | An unexpected friendship saves a young man's life. |
Metcalfe, Anna | Chrysalis | The story of a mysterious young woman transforming first her body and then her digital presence, told by three distinct people, each differently mesmerized by her. |
Milan, Joe Jr. | The All-American | Fiction |
Miller, Rowenna | The Fairy Bargains Of Prospect Hill | In the early 1900s, two sisters must navigate the magic and the dangers of the Fae in this enchanting and cozy historical fantasy about sisterhood and self-discovery. |
Moore, Susanna | The Lost Wife | Historical Fiction |
Moulton, Rachel Eve | The Insatiable Volt Sisters | Two sisters must reckon with family history on the mysterious island that is their ancestral home. |
Murray, Victoria Christopher | Pride | Fiction - 7 Deadly Sins #5 |
Nakamura, Fuminori | The Rope Artist | Mystery |
Neuvel, Sylvain | For The First Time, Again | Science Fiction - Take Them to the Stars #3 |
Novak, Brenda | The Seaside Library | Fiction |
Oza, Janika | A History Of Burning | In 1898, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor for the British on the East African Railway. Far from home, Pirbhai commits a brutal act in the name of survival that will haunt him and his family for years to come. |
Palmer, Diana | The Loner | Romance - Long, Tall Texans #53 |
Patterson, James | Cross Down | Thriller - Alex Cross and John Sampson #1 |
Paul, Crystal Smith | Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? | When white silver screen icon Kitty Karr Tate dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the three Black St. John sisters, it prompts questions. |
Perry, Anne | The Fourth Enemy | Historical Mystery - Daniel Pitt #6 |
Pinsker, Sarah | Lost Places | Speculative Short Stories |
Porter, Chana | The Thick And The Lean | In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God. But Beatrice Bolano is hungry |
Power, Rory | In An Orchard Grown From Ash | Fantasy - Wind-Up Garden #2 |
Prentiss, Molly | Old Flame | Fiction |
Quick, Amanda | The Bride Wore White | Historical Mystery - Burning Cove, California #7 |
Quinn, Julia, and Shonda Rhimes | Queen Charlotte | A novel of Bridgerton's Queen Charlotte and King George III's great love story. |
Quinn, Meghan | Vacation Wars | Romantic Comedy |
Raheem, Zara | The Retreat | Fiction |
Ramisetti, Kirthana | Advika And The Hollywood Wives | A down-on-her luck young woman meets and quickly marries a famed Hollywood producer even though he's 41 years her senior. |
Reimann, Brigitte | Siblings | A story of sibling love ruptured by the Iron Curtain. |
Roberts, Nora | Identity | Romantic Suspense |
Robinson, Peter | Standing In The Shadows | Mystery - Inspector Banks #28 |
Rose, Jeneva | You Shouldn't Have Come Here | Thriller |
Rose, Katia | The Devil Wears Tartan | Romance |
Rosen, Renée | Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl | It's 1938, and a young woman selling face cream out of a New York City beauty parlor is determined to prove she can have it all. Her name is Estée Lauder, and she's about to take the world by storm. |
Saintcrow, Lilith | Spring's Arcana | Fantasy |
Sawyer, Kim Vogel | The Tapestry Of Grace | A Mennonite widower struggling to raise his mischievous boys becomes the unwilling target of the well-intentioned women's benevolent society. |
Schuler, Alex | Rogue | When an estranged father and son find themselves on a terrifying journey through space, they must figure out what is wiping out advanced civilizations before earth becomes its next victim. |
Sharma, Annika | Sugar, Spice, And Can't Play Nice | Romance - Chai Masala Club #2 |
Shepard, Katie | Bear With Me Now | Love makes life a little wilder in this debut romantic comedy. |
Sheridan, Mia | Kyland | Romance |
Sherwood, Kim | Double Or Nothing | Thriller - Double 0 (James Bond) #1 |
Sin, Kyŏng-suk | I Went To See My Father | In the wake of a personal tragedy, a novelist goes back home in the Korean countryside to take care of her gentle father. |
Sky, Melissa | Outside The Lines | Romantic Suspense |
Skye, Evelyn | Damsel | A damsel in distress takes on the dragon herself. |
Slater, Alice | Death Of A Bookseller | In this debut, a disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. |
Smith, Michael F. | Salvage This World | Fiction |
Sochil Washington, Sharon | The Blue Is Where God Lives | An intergenerational examination of trauma, legacy, magic, and memory in the Black American experience. |
Sommers, Rachael | In Too Deep | Romance |
Stabenow, Dana | Not The Ones Dead | Mystery - Kate Shugak #23 |
Sternbergh, Adam | The Eden Test | A thriller about a couple looking to save their marriage by retreating to a cabin upstate. What could possibly go wrong? |
Stewart, Andrea | The Bone Shard War | Fantasy - Drowning Empire #3 |
Stradal, J. Ryan | Saturday Night At The Lakeside Supper Club | Fiction |
Strohmeyer, Sarah | We Love To Entertain | Thriller |
Sullivan, Andrew F. | The Marigold | In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environmental chaos and unfettered development, an unsettling new lifeform begins to grow beneath the surface, feeding off the past. |
Sullivan, Julie | The World Is Full Of Champions | Historical Fiction |
Swinson, Kiki | Burning Season | Everything is on the line as a female firefighter desperate for money gets caught up in a man-made disaster . . . |
Sze-Lorrain, Fiona | Dear Chrysanthemums | Fiction |
Tchaikovsky, Adrian | Lords Of Uncreation | Science Fiction - Final Architecture #3 |
Tesh, Emily | Some Desperate Glory | Science Fiction |
Thalassa, Laura | Bewitched | Fantasy Romance |
Thayer, Nancy | All The Days Of Summer | Fiction |
Thompson, Victoria | Murder On Bedford Street | Historical Mystery - Gaslight #26 |
Tina Marie | My Heart Still Beats For You | While Inaya, pregnant and newly independent, struggles to let Phantom go, Shahai is held hostage by someone out for serious revenge and rescued by Lox, who realizes the consequences of turning his back for even a moment. |
Toon, Paige | Only Love Can Hurt Like This | An earth-shattering secret. A life-changing love story. |
Unigwe, Chika | The Middle Daughter | Udodi's death was the beginning of the raging storm but at that moment, we thought that the worst had already happened, and that life would treat us with more kindness. |
Valdes, Alisa | Hollow Beasts | A wilderness thriller featuring Jodi Luna, a rookie game warden who takes on a terrorist group in rugged New Mexico. |
Varela, Alejandro | The People Who Report More Stress | Short Stories |
Verghese, Abraham | The Covenant Of Water | Fiction |
Walker, Tanai | Curse Of The Gorgon | Romantic Suspense - The Gorgon #2 |
Walters, Vanessa | The Nigerwife | White Lotus meets Big Little Lies in this riveting domestic drama about a young woman who goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria, and her estranged auntie who will stop at nothing to find her. |
Waters, Martha | To Swoon And To Spar | Historical Romance - Regency Vows #4 |
Weeks, Brent | Night Angel Nemesis | Fantasy - Kylar Chronicles #1 |
Welsh-Huggins, Andrew | The End Of The Road | A bank robber tries to leave behind his life of crime after serving his time. But getting out isn't so easy. |
Wharton, Wiz | Ghost Girl, Banana | Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother's homeland. |
Whishaw, Iona | To Track A Traitor | Historical Mystery - Lane Winslow #10 |
White, Edmund | The Humble Lover | A rich older man falls in love with a young ballerino. |
White, Tyriek | We Are A Haunting | Follows three generations of a working class family and their inherited ghosts in 1980s Brooklyn. |
Winter, Lee | Shattered | Speculative Romance |
Wiseman, Beth | Hopefully Ever After | Christian Romance - Amish Bookstore #3 |
Woods, Stuart | Near Miss | Mystery - Stone Barrington #64 |
Worrall, Patrick | The Partisan | Thriller |
Wray, John | Gone To The Wolves | A story of young friendship, musical obsession, and a missing person, set in the metal scene of the late eighties and early nineties. |
Yarros, Rebecca | Fourth Wing | Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders. |
Twice Cursed | Fantasy Anthology | |
Multiverses | Science Fiction Anthology |
March 2023
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Adams, Luci | Not That Kind Of Ever After | Romance |
d'Amérique, Jean | A Sun To Be Sewn | A creative young Haitian girl struggles against seemingly impossible odds to escape the cruel reality of her Port-au-Prince slum. |
Appiah, Krystle Zara | Rootless | Can you ever be rooted in a home that's on the brink of collapse? |
Ashton, Edward | Antimatter Blues | Science Fiction - Mickey7 #2 |
Baird, Ginny | Right Girl, Wrong Side | Romance |
Baldacci, David | Simply Lies | Mystery |
Beanland, Rachel | The House Is On Fire | Historical Fiction |
Bell, Darcey | Woman Of The Year | A thriller about the dark side of female friendship and a revenge plot that gets a little out of hand. |
Berg, Elizabeth | Earth's The Right Place For Love | The story of two young people growing up in Mason, Missouri, and how Arthur Moses, a shy young man, becomes the wise and compassionate person readers loved in The Story of Arthur Truluv. |
Biller, Diana | Hotel Of Secrets | Historical Romance |
Bird, Kristen | I Love It When You Lie | Thriller |
Blake, Olivie | One For My Enemy | An intricate web of love, magic, and rival witch families in New York City. |
Bose, Disha | Dirty Laundry | She was the perfect wife, with the perfect life. You would kill to have it. |
Bowen, Rhys | All That Is Hidden | Historical Mystery - Molly Murphy #19 |
Brashears, Monica | House Of Cotton | A young woman in Tennessee receives an odd yet intriguing business proposal in this Southern Gothic debut novel. |
Brayden, Melissa | Lucky In Lace | Romance |
Briscoe, Connie | You Never Know | Alexis Roberts can give few details about the intruder who broke into her home and tried to assault her; it was night, and without her cochlear implants she couldn't hear much. But her husband, Marcus, vanished after she learned that his first wife was missing and presumed dead, and she's terrified that he's come back. |
Brody, Frances | A Mansion For Murder | Historical Mystery - Kate Shackleton #13 |
Brouette, Goddess A. | Writings On The Wall: Arlissa's Story | A young woman chases a life worthy of a primetime drama and realizes the consequences of her actions a little too late. |
Brown, Rita Mae | Hiss & Tell | Cozy Mystery - Mrs. Murphy #31 |
Callanan, Liam | When In Rome | The story of an opportunity to start over at midlife, a chance to save a struggling convent in the Eternal City, and the dramatic re-emergence of an old flame. |
Chavez Macias, Annette | Too Soon For Adiós | A novel about a woman who embarks on an emotional journey when she meets her biological father on the day of her mother's funeral. |
Chern, Lina | Play The Fool | A cynical tarot card reader seeks to uncover the truth about her friend's mysterious death. |
Chong, Jinwoo | Flux | A young man's reality unravels when he suspects his mysterious employers have inadvertently discovered time travel--and are using it to cover up a string of violent crimes. |
Chung, Gina | Sea Change | Ro, a woman tossed overboard by heartbreak and loss, has to find her way back to stable shores with the help of a giant Pacific octopus at the mall aquarium where she works. |
Collins, Manda | A Spinster's Guide To Danger And Dukes | Historical Romance - Ladies Most Scandalous #3 |
Conklin, Tara | Community Board | A timely novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community. |
Coss Aquino, Melissa | Carmen And Grace | A coming-of-age drama about two cousins lured into the underground drug trade at a young age and the inextricable ties that bind them, as one woman seeks power and the other seeks a way out. |
Couto, Mia | The Drinker Of Horizons | Fiction - Sands of the Emperor #3 |
Cranor, Eli | Ozark Dogs | In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkansas town. |
Croucher, Lex | Infamous | Historical Romance |
Cruz, Michelle | Even When You Lie | Thriller |
Davis, Barbara | The Echo Of Old Books | Historical Fiction |
Day, Sylvia | So Close | A twisty tale of obsession and rage, as a trinity of women protect what they covet at any cost. |
De la Rosa, Liana | Ana María And The Fox | A forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd British politician makes for a tantalizing Victorian season. |
DeStefano, Ren | How I'll Kill You | A novel about three identical sisters who have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, and what happens when the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark. |
Dewes, J. S. | Rubicon | Live. Die. Reboot. |
Di Grado, Viola | Blue Hunger | Fiction |
Di͡achenko, Marina | Assassin Of Reality | Fantasy - Vita Nostra #2 |
Dugoni, Robert. | Her Deadly Game | A defense attorney is prepared to play. But is she a pawn in a master's deadly match? |
Eddings, Mazey | The Plus One | Romance |
Eding, Stephanie | Said No One Ever | Two handsome men with competing agendas cause mix-ups and betrayal. |
Estleman, Loren D. | City Walls | Mystery - Amos Walker #31 |
Flame | A Gangsta's Karma | Urban Fiction |
Flame | A Gangsta's Karma 2 | Urban Fiction |
Flame | A Gangsta's Karma 3 | Urban Fiction |
Fox, Hester | The Last Heir To Blackwood Library | In post-World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets. |
Fulton, Victoria | Ellie Is Cool Now | Meet the girl who's "Most Likely to Make Everything Worse." |
Garmus, Bonnie | Lessons In Chemistry | Meet Elizabeth Zott, a gifted research chemist in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show. |
Gerstenblatt, Julie | Daughters Of Nantucket | Set against Nantucket's Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women battling to save everything they hold dear. |
Gilmore, Lucy | The Lonely Hearts Book Club | A young librarian and an old curmudgeon forge the unlikeliest of friendships. |
Gómez-Jurado, Juan | Red Queen | Brilliant detective Antonia Scott refuses to work or even leave her apartment after personal trauma. Disgraced Bilbao police officer Jon Gutierrez is tasked with coaxing her back to solve a gruesome murder that seems to be spawning other crimes. |
Gould, Leslie | A Brighter Dawn | Christian Fiction |
Gout, Leopoldo | Piñata | They were worshiped by our ancestors. Now they are forgotten. Soon, they will make us remember. |
Gray, Shelley Shepard | Once Upon A Buggy | Inspirational - Amish of Apple Creek #2 |
Green, Dekker | The Scriptures | A debut about the end of the world following a nuclear attack on New York. |
Guertin, Chantel | Gigi, Listening | Romance |
Hammad, Isabella | Enter Ghost | Fiction |
Hannon, Irene | Windswept Way | Inspirational - Hope Harbor #9 |
Hardt, Helen | Chance | Romance - Steel Brothers Saga #25 |
Haydock, Sophie | The Flames | Set in the extravagant, Bohemian art world of early 20th century Vienna, the electrifying untold story of the four women who posed for and inspired the groundbreaking erotic art of controversial painter Egon Schiele. |
Heng, Rachel | The Great Reclamation | Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country. |
Henry, Emily | Happy Place | A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends. |
Hepworth, Sally | The Soulmate | Thriller |
Heron, Farah | How To Win A Breakup | An "it" couple's breakup becomes a sporting event. |
Hess, Al | World Running Down | Science Fiction |
Hoffs, Susanna | This Bird Has Flown | A semiforgotten singer seeks love and a new hit song in this debut from Hoffs, the co-founder of the Bangles. |
Hood, Joshua | Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone Rendition | Thriller - Treadstone #4 |
Hunt, Margot | Lovely Girls | A mother and daughter try to start over in an idyllic town only to get caught up in cliques, mind games...and murder. |
Hunter, Denise | A Novel Proposal | Christian Romance |
Jaffe, Rona | The Best Of Everything | A novel about New York City women in the workplace originally published in 1958. |
Jain, Vibhuti | Our Best Intentions | An immigrant family gets caught in the middle of a criminal investigation. |
Jennett, Meagan | You Know Her | Killing Eve meets Sharp Objects in this lush, savage Southern Gothic about two women: a fledgling murderer and the cop hell-bent on catching her. |
Jones, Lisa Renee | The Party Is Over | Thriller - Lilah Love #8 |
Joshi, Alka | The Perfumist Of Paris | Historical Fiction - Jaipur #3 |
Kang, Lydia | Cataclysm | Science Fiction - Star Wars: The High Republic |
Katsu, Alma | Red London | Mystery - Red Widow #2 |
Kelly, Martha Hall | The Golden Doves | Two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II. |
Kingfisher, T. | A House With Good Bones | A haunting Southern Gothic that explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family. |
Klune, TJ | In The Lives Of Puppets | A novel that invites readers deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts. |
Langbein, Julia | American Mermaid | A debut novel that follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood's violations. |
Lansdale, Joe R. | The Donut Legion | Mystery |
LaRocca, Eric | The Trees Grew Because I Bled There | Horror Short Stories |
Lehane, Dennis | Small Mercies | An all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston's history. |
Leigh, Lora | In Isabeau's Eyes | Romance - Kentucky Nights #1 |
Leon, Donna | So Shall You Reap | Mystery - Commissario Brunetti #32 |
Link, Kelly | White Cat, Black Dog | Short Stories |
Lobe, Max | 39 Berne Street | My mother says that there are things in life that she can't forgive . . . |
Loesch, Kristen | The Last Russian Doll | A debut novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union. |
Lyon, Annette | Just One More | A librarian investigates her husband's dark past and winds up dead. Now it's up to her best friend to uncover the truth. |
Malladi, Amulya | A Death In Denmark | Meet Gabriel Præst, an ex-Copenhagen cop, jazz aficionado, and relentless pursuer of truth as he explores Denmark's Nazi-collaborator past and anti-Muslim present. |
Mandelo, Lee | Feed Them Silence | A near-future novella about the minds of wolves. |
McCaulsky, Marlon | If I Was Your Girlfriend | Four lifelong friends find their bonds tested when personality differences and relationship issues threaten to pull them apart. |
McLaughlin, James A. | Panther Gap | Two siblings on the verge of inheriting millions discover dark secrets in their family's past. |
Michaels, Fern | On The Line | Thriller |
Min, Dolki | Walking Practice | An alien's hunt for food transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human. |
Mirabella, Richard | Brother & Sister Enter The Forest | This queer coming-of-age novel follows a young man's relationship with a violent older boyfriend--and how he and his sister survive a terrible crime. |
Miranda, Megan | The Only Survivors | Thriller |
Monroe, Mary | Love, Honor, Betray | Historical Fiction - Lexington, Alabama #3 |
Moore, Ian | Death And Croissants | Mystery - Follet Valley #1 |
Moreau, Lisa | Picture Perfect | Falling in love wasn't supposed to be part of the stakes for Olive and Gabby, rival photographers in the competition of a lifetime. |
Morton, Kate | Homecoming | Historical Mystery |
Mullen, Thomas | Blind Spots | Thriller |
Murray, Sabina | Muckross Abbey | Ghost Stories |
Nagendra, Harini | Murder Under A Red Moon | Cozy Mystery - Kaveri and Ramu #2 |
Napolitano, Ann | Hello Beautiful | |
Neubauer, Erica Ruth | Intrigue In Istanbul | |
Novey, Idra | Take What You Need | |
Oakley, Colleen | The Mostly True Story Of Tanner & Louise | |
Oates, Joyce Carol | 48 Clues Into The Disappearance Of My Sister | |
Oates, Nathan | A Flaw In The Design | |
Otoo, Sharon Dodua | Ada's Room | |
Pagán, Camille | Good For You | |
Painter, Lynn | The Love Wager | |
Palmer, Soraya | The Human Origins Of Beatrice Porter And Other Essential Ghosts | |
Pandian, Gigi | The Raven Thief | |
Park, Suzanne | The Do-Over | |
Patterson, James | The 23rd Midnight | Mystery - Women's Murder Club #23 |
Patterson, Sue | Things I Wish I Told My Mother | |
Pelayo, Cynthia | Lotería | |
Pelayo, Cynthia | The Shoemaker's Magician | |
Phillips, C. N. | Queens | Urban Fiction - Carl Weber's Five Families of New York #4 |
Pin, Cecile | Wandering Souls | |
Quintana, Pilar | Abyss | |
Read, Shelley | Go As A River | |
Ritchie, Krista | Addicted For Now | |
Robson, Jennifer | Coronation Year | |
Roper, Jane | The Society Of Shame | |
Rosenfelt, David | Good Dog, Bad Cop | |
Rosner, Jennifer | Once We Were Home | |
Row, Jess | The New Earth | |
Ryan, Donal | The Queen Of Dirt Island | |
Salman, Naomi | Nothing But The Rain | |
Sanderson, Brandon | Tress Of The Emerald Sea | The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. |
Sandford, John | Dark Angel | Mystery - Letty Davenport #2 |
Schine, Cathleen | Künstlers In Paradise | |
Shelton, Paige | Fateful Words | |
Shockley, Evie | Suddenly We | |
Siegel, Natasha | Solomon's Crown | |
Simmons, Julia Press | Strawberry Mansion | A dramatic tale of three young friends who must rely on their connection to each other to weather tragic storms. |
Simpson, Mona | Commitment | |
Sittenfeld, Curtis | Romantic Comedy | Fiction |
Slocumb, Brendan | Symphony Of Secrets | Music professor Bern Hendricks discovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time--his music may have been stolen from a Black Jazz Age prodigy named Josephine Reed. |
Song, Jade | Chlorine | Fiction |
Spence-Ash, Laura | Beyond That, The Sea | |
Steel, Danielle | The Wedding Planner | Fiction |
Sterling, Michelle Min | Camp Zero | In a near-future northern settlement, the fates of a young woman, a professor, and a mysterious collective of researchers collide. |
Stoker, Susan | The Protector | |
Stratton, L. S. | Not So Perfect Strangers | |
Stuart, Amy | A Death At The Party | |
Sullivan, Justine | He Said He Would Be Late | |
Sylvester, Cynthia J. | The Half-White Album | |
Therin, Allie | Liar City | |
Thoman, Lauren | I'll Stop The World | The end and the beginning become one in a coming-of-age mystery about the power of friendship, fate, and inexplicable second chances. |
Thomas, Sherry | A Tempest At Sea | |
Tsai, Mia | Bitter Medicine | |
Utomi, Moses Ose | The Lies Of The Ajungo | |
Varghese, Anuja | Chrysalis | |
Webb, Betty | Lost In Paris | |
Weitzel, Wil | Nights From This Galaxy | |
Wellington, David | Paradise-1 | |
Williams, Denise | Love And Other Flight Delays | |
Williams, Frances Mensah | Strictly Friends | She's travelled halfway round the world to paradise. But has it been on her doorstep all along? |
Willig, Lauren | Two Wars And A Wedding | A coming of age story with a dual timeline and a single heroine--a bold and adventuring young woman who finds herself caught up in two very different wars on both sides of the Atlantic. |
Winn, Alice | In Memoriam | |
Winslow, Don | City Of Dreams | |
Winspear, Jacqueline | The White Lady | |
Winters, Mary | Murder In Postscript | |
Ximba, Uvile | Dreaming In Color | |
Yi, Esther | Y/N | |
The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction | Short Stories | |
Garricks, Chimeka | A Broken People's Playlist | Short Stories |
February 2023
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Aboulela, Leila | River Spirit | An embattled young woman comes of age during the Mahdist War in 19th century Sudan. |
Aira, Cesar | Fulgentius | Novel about an aging Roman general on what may be his last campaign into the provinces. |
Alpert Florin, Daisy | My Last Innocent Year | Fiction |
Andrews, V. C. | Little Paula | Mystery - Eden #2 |
Angel-Ajani, Asale | A Country You Can Leave | A debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert. |
Archer, C. J. | The Medici Manuscript | Historical Mystery - The Glass Library #2 |
Armstrong, Kelley | Murder At Haven's Rock | First volume in a spinoff series that sees Casey Duncan and Eric Dalton starting a new town deep in the Yukon. |
Atwood, Margaret | Old Babes In The Wood | Short Stories |
Baker, Raymond | Entanglement | Urban Fiction |
Baptiste, Robert | The Streets Never Let Go 3 | Urban Fiction |
Barnhill, Kelly | The Crane Husband | Taking care of her small Midwestern family while her mother, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries, a 15-year-old girl must protect them all from an invasive creature whose demands could destroy everything - unless she changes the story. |
Bartz, Julia | The Writing Retreat | While attending a month-long writing retreat, Alex, determined to win a seemingly impossible contest, ignores the strange happenings around her until the disappearance of a fellow writer leads her on a desperate search for the truth. |
Beagin, Jen | Big Swiss | A novel about a sex therapist's transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. |
Bilow, Rochelle | Ruby Spencer's Whisky Year | When a thirtysomething American food writer moves to a Scottish village for one year to fulfill her dream of writing a cookbook, she finds more than inspiration--she meets a handsome Scotsman she can't resist. |
Black, Cara | Night Flight To Paris | Thriller - Kate Rees WWII #2 |
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane | Tell The Rest | Two estranged childhood friends find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart. |
Bond, Gwenda | Mr. & Mrs. Witch | A couple discovers at the altar the surprising secret identities they've kept from each other. |
Brown, Adrienne Maree | Maroons | Fantasy - Black Dawn #2 |
Brown, Carolyn | The Devine Doughnut Shop | Fiction |
Brown, Diane Marie | Black Candle Women | A family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family curse, and one very complicated year of heartache, miscommunication, and learning to let go. |
Brunstetter, Wanda E. | Letters Of Trust | Where is hope when Eleanor Lapp's life starts to fall apart as extreme grief drives her husband to drink to numb his pain? |
Campbell, Theresa A. | Marked At Birth | Christian Fiction |
Carlson, Melody | Second Time Around | Christian Romance |
Carr, Lakiesha | An Autobiography Of Skin | Interconnected generations of Southern black women demonstrate how their experiences are carried inside the body when a new mother experiences a devastating postpartum depression and a daughter returns home to fight the ghosts of her past. |
Casati, Costanza | Clytemnestra | For fans of Madeline Miller, a debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious villainess of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen. |
Catton, Eleanor | Birnam Wood | The founder of a guerilla gardening group that plants crops on roadsides, parks, and neglected yards fights an enigmatic billionaire over a parcel of land. |
Chakraborty, Shannon | The Adventures Of Amina Al-Sirafi | First in a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas: pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, and one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory--and write her own legend. |
Chang, Janie | The Porcelain Moon | A novel set in WWI France about two young women--one Chinese, one French--whose lives intersect with unexpected, potentially dangerous consequences. |
Charles, KJ | The Secret Lives Of Country Gentlemen | Gothic scandal meets Bridgerton intrigue in this swashbuckling Regency romance. |
Childs, Laura | Lemon Curd Killer | Cozy Mystery - Tea Shop #25 |
Chokshi, Roshani | The Last Tale Of The Flower Bride | A gothic-infused story about a marriage that is unraveled by dark secrets, a friendship cursed to end in tragedy, and the danger of believing in fairy tales. |
Chukwu, J. K. | The Unfortunates | A queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhausted by the racism at her elite college, sets out to find truth about The Unfortunates--the unlucky subset of Black undergrads who have been mysteriously dying. |
Church, Clay | All Good A Week Ago: In My Lifetime Series | An ex-undercover cop turned P.I., Vegas Wolfchild, picks up two cases that seem to be a walk in the park, "easy money." But both quickly turn life threatening. |
Church, Meagan | The Last Carolina Girl | A novel for fans of Where the Crawdad's Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own. |
Clark, C. L. | The Faithless | Fantasy - Magic of the Lost #2 |
Clifford, Stephanie | The Farewell Tour | A novel that tells the story of one unforgettable woman's rise in country and western music. |
Coben, Harlan | I Will Find You | Mystery |
Colgan, Jenny | Lessons At The School By The Sea | Fiction - School by the Sea #3 |
Conde, Maryse | The Gospel According To The New World | Fiction |
Connealy, Mary | Forged In Love | Christian Historical |
Cullen, Lynn | The Woman With The Cure | A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic. |
Dailey, Janet | A Calder At Heart | Romance - Calder Brand #3 |
Dalton, Julie Carrick | The Last Beekeeper | Fiction |
Daria, Alexis | Take The Lead | When a star dancer and a reluctant celebrity are teamed up on a reality dancing competition, their mutual dislike soon turns into a secret romance that could threaten everything they've worked for. |
Dazai, Osamu | The Flowers Of Buffoonery | For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai's hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human. |
Deibel, Jennifer | The Maid Of Ballymacool | The only home Brianna Kelly has ever known is Ballymacool Boarding School, but when the son of local gentry arrives at the school to deal with his unruly niece, an unexpected discovery uncovers the truth about her past--and the key to her future. |
Diesel, Von | Real G's Move In Silence | Urban Fiction |
Dimaline, Cherie | Venco | After finding a tarnished silver spoon humming with otherworldly energy, Métis millennial Lucky St. James, familiar with the magic of her Indigenous ancestors, and her cantankerous grandmother Stella are welcomed into the fold of VenCo - a network of witches working to return women to their rightful power. |
Dodd, Christina | Forget What You Know | Thriller |
Doller, Trish | Off The Map | A road trip romance through the Irish countryside where two new friends wonder at something more. |
Douaihy, Margot | Scorched Grace | Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this debut crime novel. |
Elliot, Amanda | Best Served Hot | Two restaurant critics learn their opposing tastes might make for a five-star relationship. |
Ellison, J. T. | It's One Of Us | Everybody lies. Even the ones you think you know best of all . . . |
Engberg, Katrine | The Sanctuary | Mystery - Korner and Werner #4 |
Estep, Jennifer | Conquer The Kingdom | Fantasy - Gargoyle Queen #3 |
Farmer, Bernard | Death Of A Bookseller | A British Library Crime Classic originally published in 1956. |
Fedor, Emma | At Sea | What happens when the man you love most in the world--who may be lying about everything--unexpectedly disappears and takes your small child with him? |
Ferguson, Sarah Duchess of York | A Most Intriguing Lady | A historical saga about a Duke's daughter--the perfect Victorian lady--who secretly moonlights as an amateur sleuth for high society's inner circle. |
Fields, Anthony | If You Cross Me Once | Urban Fiction |
Fields, Anthony | If You Cross Me Once 2 | Urban Fiction |
Finlay, Alex | What Have We Done | A stay-at-home mom with a past. A has-been rock star with a habit. A reality TV producer with a debt. Three disparate lives. One deadly secret. |
Forest, Kristina | The Neighbor Favor | A shy bookworm enlists her charming neighbor to help her score a date, not knowing he's the obscure author she's been corresponding with. |
Foster, Lori | The Dangerous One | Being alone is what he wanted... All he needed was her. |
Frumkin, Rafael | Confidence | Thriller |
George, Emily | A Half-Baked Murder | After a scathing food review and a messy breakup, a formally trained pastry chef returns home to California to launch a cannabis bakery with her quirky Aunt Dawn. |
Gilmartin, Sarah | Dinner Party | Fiction |
Gladstone, Max | Dead Country | Fantasy - Craft Wars #1 |
Goldsworthy, Vesna | Iron Curtain: A Love Story | Historical Fiction |
Grace, Hannah | Icebreaker | Sparks fly when a competitive figure skater and hockey team captain are forced to share a rink. |
Gray, Erick S. | Queens 2: The Kingdom | Urban Fiction |
Greaney, Mark | Burner | Thriller - Gray Man #12 |
Guns, Priya | Your Driver Is Waiting | A ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity, and financial security...until she decides she's done waiting. |
Hambly, Barbara | One Extra Corpse | Historical Mystery - Silver Screen #2 |
Hart, Emilia | Weyward | A debut that explores witchcraft and female intuitive powers, told over five centuries through three connected women, for fans of Kate Morton, Diane Setterfield, and Sarah Perry. |
Hawkins, S. | Pillow Princess | Urban Fiction |
Hawley, Sarah | A Witch's Guide To Fake Dating A Demon | Mariel Spark knows not to trust a demon, especially one that wants her soul, but what's a witch to do when he won't leave her side--and she kind of doesn't want him to? |
Head, Cheryl A. | Time's Undoing | A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist's search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago--inspired by the author's own family history. |
Hedlund, Jody | Last Chance Cowboy | Christian Romance |
Holland, Jacqueline | The God Of Endings | This debut spans history, weaving a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman. |
Holmes, Rupert | Murder Your Employer : The Mcmasters Guide To Homicide | The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts is a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of murder where earnest students study how best to "delete" their most deserving victim. |
Hurwitz, Gregg | The Last Orphan | Thriller - Orphan X #8 |
Jackson, Jenny | Pineapple Street | Fiction |
Jama-Everett, Ayize | Heroes Of An Unknown World | Science Fiction - Liminal People #4 |
Jance, J. A. | Collateral Damage | Mystery - Ali Reynolds #17 |
Jaswal, Balli Kaur | Now You See Us | The story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own. |
Jimenez, Claire | What Happened To Ruthy Ramirez | A Puerto Rican family in Staten Island discovers their long-missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home. |
Johnson, Joshua Phillip | The Endless Song | Fantasy - Tales of the Forever Sea #2 |
Kelly, Anita | Something Wild & Wonderful | A sparkling grumpy-meets-sunshine romance featuring two men's sweeping journey across the Western wilderness. |
Kelly, Julia | The Lost English Girl | Historical Fiction |
Kennedy, Elle | Rogue | Romance - Prep #2 |
Kent, Kathleen | Black Wolf | A story about a female CIA agent whose extraordinary facial recognition powers lead her into the dangerous heart of the Soviet Union--and the path of a killer who shouldn't exist. |
King, Owen | The Curator | A Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurers are the most wonderful criminals you can imagine. |
Klapecki, S. J. | Station Six | Science Fiction - Black Dawn #3 |
Koller Croft, Rachel | Stone Cold Fox | A debut novel about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families. |
Labuskes, Brianna | The Librarian Of Burned Books | Historical Fiction |
Lam, Thien-Kim | Full Exposure | Can a Big Easy fling become the real thing? |
Landay, William | All That Is Mine I Carry With Me | A mother vanished. A father presumed guilty. There is no proof. There are no witnesses. For the children, there is only doubt. |
Landsem, Stephanie | Code Name Edelweiss | Adolf Hitler is still a distant rumble on the horizon, but a Jewish spymaster and his courageous spies uncover a storm of Nazi terror in their own backyard. |
Lanza, R. P. | Observer | A neurosurgeon gets involved with a scientific research team's mind-bending project. |
Lavalle, Victor | Lone Women | A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and a bracing new vision of the American West. |
Lindsay, Rachel | Real Love | Reality-TV love may look tempting, but real love could change everything in the debut novel from the Bachelorette star and author of Miss Me with That. |
Lorac, E. C. R. | Post After Post-Mortem | Classic British Mystery originally published in 1936. |
Lostetter, Marina | The Cage Of Dark Hours | Fantasy - Five Penalties #2 |
Lowell, Joanna | Artfully Yours | Sparks fly between a lordly art critic and a lady forger in this Victorian historical romance. |
Lumsden, Katie | The Secrets Of Hartwood Hall | Historical Mystery |
Major, Cesca | Maybe Next Time | One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming and emotionally poignant novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate. |
Makkai, Rebecca | I Have Some Questions For You | When film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is invited back to the New Hampshire boarding school she attended as a teenager, she finds herself drawn to investigate the murder of a classmate in 1995. |
Mallery, Susan | The Sister Effect | Fiction |
Matthews, Owen | White Fox | A thriller about two competing KGB operatives on a race across Russia and against time to uncover the devastating truth behind the assassination of JFK. |
Mattia, Aurora | The Fifth Wound | Fiction |
Maxwell, Jessa | The Golden Spoon | A locked-room mystery where someone turns up dead on the set of TV's hottest baking competition--for fans of Nita Prose, Richard Osman, and Anthony Horowitz. |
May, Stephen | Sell Us The Rope | Historical Fiction |
McCauley, Jennifer Maritza | When Trying To Return Home : Stories | A short story collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond-and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms. |
McDaniel, Tiffany | On The Savage Side | Six women--mothers, daughters, sisters--gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims. |
McFarlane, Fiona | The Sun Walks Down | Historical Fiction |
McGuire, Seanan | Backpacking Through Bedlam | Urban Fantasy - InCryptid #12 |
Meesha | Baby, I'm Wintertime Cold 2 | Urban Fiction |
Mills Newman, Alison | Francisco | First published in 1974, actor-turned-minister Newman's only novel is a lush narrative of a young Black woman's love affair with a filmmaker. |
Mizushima, Margaret | Standing Dead | Mystery - Timber Creek K-9 #8 |
Moeng, Gothataone | Call And Response : Stories | Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate relationships, tradition and caretaking in a rapidly changing world. |
Molotti | Loyalty Is Everything | Cordale and Willis are best friends who came up together from the mud on their way to hood stardom. What starts as a nickel and dime hustle grows into a big-time drug operation, and then jealousy and grudges threaten to destroy everything they've built. |
Moore, Celeste | Terms & Conditions Of Creepin With A Rich Boss | Urban Fiction |
Moorman, Jennifer | The Baker's Man | In the Southern town of Mystic Water, magic is always in the wind--and in the ovens. |
Moustakis, Melinda 1982- | Homestead | A debut novel, set in Alaska, about the turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders. |
Ndala, Blaise | In The Belly Of The Congo | A gripping multigenerational novel that explores the history and human cost of colonialism in the Congo. |
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai | Dust Child | A richly poetic and suspenseful saga about two Vietnamese sisters, an American veteran, and an Amerasian man whose lives intersect in surprising ways, set during and after the war in Việt Nam. |
Nickson, Chris | The Dead Will Rise | Historical Mystery - Simon Westow #5 |
Nnuro, DK | What Napoleon Could Not Do | Envious of his sister, who achieved, as their father put it, "what Napoleon could not do," by graduating law school in the U.S. and marrying a wealthy black businessman from Texas, Jacob, fighting for a visa to join his wife in Virginia, must learn from his dashed hopes to fulfill his own dreams. |
North, Alex | The Angel Maker | Thriller |
Okri, Ben | The Last Gift Of The Master Artists | Fiction |
Older, Malka | The Mimicking Of Known Successes | A cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter. |
Pardo, Paz | The Shamshine Blind | This debut imagines a world where emotions have been weaponized, and a small-town law enforcement agent uncovers a conspiracy to take down what's left of American democracy. |
Parry, H. G. | The Magician's Daughter | Fantasy |
Patel, Sajni | Isha, Unscripted | Unwilling to yield to familial expectations, an aspiring screenwriter attempts to pursue her dreams during an unforgettable night of chaos. |
Patterson, James | Countdown | Thriller |
Penner, Sarah | The London Séance Society | From the author of the sensational bestseller The Lost Apothecary comes a spellbinding tale about two daring women who hunt for truth and justice in the perilous art of conjuring the dead. |
Peterson, Tracie | Remember Me | From the Yukon to Seattle, the hope of a new beginning waits just around the corner. |
Raybourn, Deanna | A Sinister Revenge | Historical Mystery - Veronica Speedwell #8 |
Read, Sara | Johanna Porter Is Not Sorry | Fiction |
Riddle, A. G. | Quantum Radio | At CERN, a scientist has just made an incredible discovery - a breakthrough that may answer the deepest questions about human existence. But what he's found is far more dangerous than he ever imagined. |
Rio, King | The Brick Man 5 | Urban Fiction |
Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 6 | Urban Fiction |
Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 7 | Urban Fiction |
Robinson, Corey | Love In The Trenches | Urban Fiction |
Robinson, Corey | Protege Of A Legend 2 | Urban Fiction |
Robotham, Michael | Lying Beside You | Thriller - Cyrus Haven #3 |
Roemer, Astrid | On A Woman's Madness | A classic of queer literature originally published in 1982. |
Rose, Karen | Cold-Blooded Liar | Mystery - San Diego Case Files #1 |
Roth, Veronica | Arch-Conspirator | A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Antigone. |
Ruff, Matt | The Destroyer Of Worlds | Horror - Lovecraft Country #2 |
Samano Cordova, Gerardo | Monstrilio | Horror |
Santopolo, Jill | Stars In An Italian Sky | A sweeping story of two star-crossed lovers in post-World War II Italy, and a blossoming relationship generations later that will reveal a long-buried family secret. |
Saynomore | Soul Of A Hustler, Heart Of A Killer 2 | Urban Fiction |
Schuyler, George S. | Black Empire | A pioneering work of Afrofuturism and antiracist fiction by the author of Black No More, about a Black scientist who masterminds a worldwide conspiracy to take back the African continent from imperial powers. |
Score, Lucy | Things We Hide From The Light | Romance - Knockemout #2 |
Scott, Kylie | End Of Story | Romance |
Scott, Sophfronia | Wild, Beautiful, And Free | The story of one young woman's bold journey to reclaim her birthright and carve out her own place in a world that tells her she doesn't belong. |
Scottoline, Lisa | Loyalty | An emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily. |
Shannon, Samantha | A Day Of Fallen Night | The standalone prequel to the bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree. |
Sharma, Nisha | The Karma Map | A youth group's temple road trip through India is a liberating escape for former mean girl Tara Bajaj and aspiring photojournalist Silas D'Souza-Gupta to explore their past and their feelings for each other. |
Shea, Susan C. | Murder Visits A French Village | When Ariel Shepherd inherits a rundown French château and with finances tight, she swaps her Manhattan lifestyle for a peaceful French village. But life becomes more complicated when a historian is found dead in the moat! |
Shipman, James D. | Beyond The Wire | Historical Fiction |
Sloan, Elissa R. | Hayley Aldridge Is Still Here | A forgotten child star and former Hollywood "It" Girl fights back against the conservatorship that has controlled her life for the past decade. |
Snyder, Lucy A. | Sister, Maiden, Monster | A visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet's disastrous transformation and told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare. |
Spalding, Amy | For Her Consideration | When an aspiring L.A. scriptwriter falls head-over-heels for a bossy and beautiful movie star after a devastating break-up, the two take a risk on love and cast themselves as the leading ladies of their own star-struck romance. |
Stage, Zoje | Mothered | A claustrophobic psychological thriller about one woman's nightmarish spiral while quarantined with her mother. |
Stoker, Susan | Finding Ashlyn | Romance - Seal Team Hawaii #6 |
Sutanto, Jesse Q. | Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice For Murderers | A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way. |
Swan, Richard | The Tyranny Of Faith | Fantasy - Empire of the Wolf #2 |
Swanson, Peter | The Kind Worth Saving | When a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, little does he know that the twisted trail will lead back to the woman who hired him. |
Tay, Self Made | Born In The Grave 2 | Urban Fiction |
Todd, Charles | The Cliff's Edge | Historical Mystery - Bess Crawford #13 |
Topp, Blacc | Tainted | Urban Fiction |
Tukes, Romell | Bodymore Kingpins | Urban Fiction |
Tukes, Romell | Bronx Savages | Urban Fiction |
Tukes, Romell | Sosa Gang | Urban Fiction |
Turano, Jen | Match In The Making | Christian Historical |
Variyar, Rajasree | The Daughters Of Madurai | Both a heartrending family story and a page-turning mystery about the secrets we must keep to protect those we love. |
Walls, Eoghan | The Gospel Of Orla | The coming-of-age story of a young girl, Orla, and the man she meets who has an astonishing and unique ability. |
Walls, Jeannette | Hang The Moon | Historical Fiction |
Walters, Monica and LaJill Hunt | Full Figured 18 | Urban Fiction |
Whitten, Hannah | The Foxglove King | A young woman's secret power to raise the dead plunges her into the dangerous and glamorous world of the Sainted King's royal court. |
Williams, Janelle M. | Gone Like Yesterday | Zahra, a young black woman who can hear the voices of her ancestors singing to her through moths, teams up with Sammie, an outspoken Trini-American teenager who can also hear them, as the pair search for Zahra's missing brother. |
Williams, Jibril | Money Mafia 2 | Urban Fiction |
Winnette, Colin | Users | Dystopian Fiction |
Winter, Lee | Chaos Agent | Romance - Villains #2 |
Winter, Lee | The Fixer | Romance - Villains #1 |
Woolridge, Addie | Anatomy Of A Meet Cute | Romance |
Yolen, Jane | The Scarlet Circus | Short Stories |
January 2023
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Abbas, Fatin | Ghost Season | A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. |
Adebayo, Ayobami | A Spell Of Good Things | A story of modern Nigeria and two people caught in the riptides of wealth, power, poverty, and corruption. |
Adjapon, Bisi | Daughter In Exile | Fiction |
Alsterdal, Tove | You Will Never Be Found | Mystery - High Coast #2 |
Amidon, Stephen | Locust Lane | Can anyone be trusted in this small town? |
Arend, Nicole | Vamps: Fresh Blood | At an elite vampire academy, a half vampire, half human struggles to hone his bloodthirsty side. |
Asher, April | Not Your Ex's Hexes | Romance - Supernatural Singles #2 |
Asher, Lauren | Final Offer | Romance - Dreamland Billionaires #3 |
Bailey, Tessa | Secretly Yours | Romance |
Ballard, Falon | Just My Type | To win the job of her dreams, a relationship-prone journalist needs to learn how to stay single. |
Beaton, M. C. | Death Of A Traitor | Mystery - Hamish Macbeth #35 |
Bennett, Michael | Better The Blood | A debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand's indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Māori screenwriter and director. |
Berne, Suzanne | The Blue Window | A therapist whose attempts to unlock the most difficult cases of her life reveal that the bigger the secret you're concealing, the more it conceals you. |
Berry, Steve | The Last Kingdom | Thriller - Cotton Malone #17 |
Black, Anna | Who Do I Run To Now? | Urban Fiction |
Blue, Elly | Bicycles & Broomsticks: Fantastical Feminist Stories About Witches On Bikes | Science Fiction |
Box, C. J. | Storm Watch | Mystery - Joe Pickett #23 |
Brannigan, Ellie | Murder At An Irish Castle | Brannigan debuts a new mystery series coupling the beauties of Ireland with murder. |
Brennan, Allison | Don't Open The Door | Mystery - Regan Merritt #2 |
Butler, Lyn Liao | Someone Else's Life | A new life in paradise should have healed her wounds. But for a woman struggling to hold on to her family and her sanity, one stormy night could change everything. |
Cai, Delia | Central Places | A young woman's past and present collide when she brings her white fiancé home to meet her Chinese immigrant parents. |
Carroll, Jonathan | Mr. Breakfast | Fiction |
Cauley, Kashana | The Survivalists | A single Black lawyer puts her career and personal moral code at risk when she moves in with her coffee entrepreneur boyfriend and his doomsday-prepping roommates. |
Chase, Kristen M. | A Thousand Miles To Graceland | The journey of a thousand miles begins with sequins and a beehive wig in this debut novel about mothers, daughters, and the surprising power of Elvis. |
Chen, Mike | Vampire Weekend | Being a vampire is far from glamorous...but it can be pretty punk rock. |
Clayborn, Kate | Georgie, All Along | Romance |
Coates, Darcy | The Twisted Dead | Horror - Gravekeeper #3 |
Coble, Colleen | Dark Of Night | Romantic Suspense - Annie Pederson #2 |
Colt, Peter | The Ambassador | Mystery - Andy Roark #4 |
Comfort, Jen | Midnight Duet | A romance about two musicians who collide on the stage of a Nevada opera house. |
Compton, Johnny | The Spite House | A debut horror tale that puts a modern spin on the haunted house story. |
Cosimano, Elle | Finlay Donovan Jumps The Gun | Mystery - Finlay Donovan #3 |
Cotterill, Colin | The Motion Picture Teller | Mystery |
Craig, Charmaine | My Nemesis | Fiction |
Crane, Marisa | I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself | Science Fiction |
Crewe, Tom | The New Life | Two marriages, two forbidden love affairs, and the passionate search for social and sexual freedom in late 19th-century London. |
Crombie, Deborah | A Killing Of Innocents | Mystery - Kincaid/James #19 |
Crownover, Jay | Rule | Opposites in every way . . . except the one that matters. |
Darwent, Heather | The Things We Do To Our Friends | Thriller |
De Cadenet, Gia | Not The Plan | An ambitious chief of staff risks her career and her heart when she falls hard for her new colleague. |
De Céspedes, Alba | Forbidden Notebook | A classic first published in Italy in 1952. |
Delany, Vicki | The Game Is A Footnote | Cozy Mystery - Sherlock Holmes Bookshop #8 |
DiLouie, Craig | Episode Thirteen | Horror |
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee | Independence | Set during the partition of British India in 1947, the sweeping story of three sisters caught up in events beyond their control, their unbreakable bond, and their incredible struggle against powerful odds. |
Divya, S. B. | Meru | One woman and her pilot are about to change the future of the species in an epic space opera about aspiration, compassion, and redemption. |
Dong, Maria | Liar, Dreamer, Thief | Thriller |
Douglas, Claire | The Girls Who Disappeared | A journalist's life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that happened twenty years earlier. |
Echevarre, Sarah | What We Remember | Fiction |
Elliott, Kate | The Keeper's Six | Fantasy |
Elsbai, Hadeer | The Daughters Of Izdihar | A debut set in a mix of modern Egypt and a timeless fantasy world. |
Enriquez, Mariana | Our Share Of Night | A woman's mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. |
Everett, Elizabeth | A Love By Design | Historical Romance - Secret Scientists of London #3 |
Fawcett, Heather | Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia Of Faeries | A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love. |
Fellowes, Jessica | The Mitford Secret | Historical Mystery - Mitford Murders #6 |
Fenkl, Heinz Insu | Skull Water | An intergenerational coming-of-age novel set in South Korea--about friendship, belonging, and displacement. |
Fuller, Kathleen | The Courtship Plan | Romance - Amish of Marigold #1 |
Gītāñjali Śrī | Tomb Of Sand | An epic set in contemporary northern India, about a family and the inimitable octogenarian matriarch at its heart. |
Godoy, Ariana | Through You | Romance - Hidalgo Brothers #2 |
Golden, Christopher | All Hallows | Horror |
Gray, Shelley Shepard | Sycamore Circle | Romance - Rumors in Ross County #2 |
Gray, Shelley Shepard | Her Heart's Desire | Romance - Season in Pinecraft #1 |
Hall, Alexis J. | Glitterland | Romance - Spires #1 |
Hallett, Janice | The Twyford Code | The mysterious connection between a teacher's disappearance and an unsolved code in a children's book is explored in this mystery. |
Harding, Paul | This Other Eden | Historical Fiction |
Hardt, Helen | Blush | What he wants from you will make you blush. |
Harper, Jordan | Everybody Knows | A publicist, who makes sure that everybody doesn't know about the shady dealings of the lawyers and private security firms for which she works, tries to discover the secret her boss took to his death. |
Harris, Anstey | When I First Held You | Silence tore them apart. Can the truth bring them back together? |
Hastings, Anastasia | Of Manners And Murder | First in a new historical mystery series. |
Haynes, David | Right By My Side | 30th anniversary edition of a classic novel. |
Haynes, Natalie | Stone Blind | The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. |
Heisey, Monica | Really Good, Actually | One woman's messy search for joy and meaning in the wake of an unexpected breakup. |
Hemon, Aleksandar | The World And All That It Holds | Historical Fiction |
Hernandez, Treasure, and LaJill Hunt | Around The Way Girls 12 | Urban Fiction |
Herrera, Jennifer | The Hunter | How can we uncover the truth when we are lying to ourselves? |
Hoover, Colleen, and Tarryn Fisher | Never Never | Romantic Suspense |
Hosein, Kevin Jared | Hungry Ghosts | The story of two families colliding in 1940s Trinidad--and a chilling mystery that shows how interconnected their lives truly are. |
Hunter, Stephen | The Bullet Garden | Thriller - Earl Swagger #4 |
Jenoff, Pam | Code Name Sapphire | A woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz. |
Jessen, Lauren Kung | Lunar Love | A debut enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy. |
Johansen, Iris, and Roy Johansen | More Than Meets The Eye | Mystery - Kendra Michaels #10 |
Johns, Jessica | Bad Cree | A young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community, and the land they call home. |
Johnson, Sadeqa | The House Of Eve | A story set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal. |
Jones, Stephen Graham | Don't Fear The Reaper | Horror - Indian Lake #2 |
Jones, Valona | Snuffed Out | Twin sisters Tabby and Sage co-own a candle shop, but will it all go up in flames? |
Joyce, Rachel | Maureen | Fiction - Harold Fry #3 |
Kellerman, Jonathan | Unnatural History | Mystery - Alex Delaware #38 |
Kelly, Jennifer Savran | Endpapers | A queer book conservator finds a mysterious old love letter, setting off a search for the author who wrote it and for a meaningful life beyond the binary in early-2000s New York City. |
Kois, Dan | Vintage Contemporaries | Pulled back into her past when a posthumous work needs a publisher, reconnecting her with an old friend, successful book editor and new mom Emily is forced to reckon with her decisions, her failures, and what kind of creative life she wants to lead. |
Laestadius, Ann-Helén | Stolen | Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesbø in this Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her family's reindeer herd and culture. |
Lea, Amy | Exes And O's | A romance novel-obsessed social media influencer revisits her exes on her hunt for true love. |
Lester, Natasha | The Three Lives Of Alix St. Pierre | Historical Fiction |
Lewis, Susannah B. | Della And Darby Of Sisters | In this small Mississippi town, everyone has long memories and loud opinions. |
Lichtarowicz, Paula | The Snow Hare | A woman dreams of becoming a doctor until World War II leads her instead into an astonishing love--and a fateful choice. |
Long, H. M. | Barrow Of Winter | Fantasy - Hall of Smoke #3 |
Ma, Kathryn | The Chinese Groove | A story about a blithely optimistic immigrant with big dreams, dire prospects, and a fractured extended family in need of his help--even if they don't know it yet. |
Maberry, Jonathan | Son Of The Poison Rose | Fantasy - Kagen the Damned #2 |
Malliet, G. M. | Invitation To A Killer | Mystery - Augusta Hawke #2 |
Markert, James | The Nightmare Man | A chilling horror novel that illustrates the fine line between humanity and monstrosity. |
Markley, Stephen | The Deluge | A sprawling epic of climate apocalypse. |
Maroo, Chetna | Western Lane | A debut novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself. |
Marshall, Heather | Looking For Jane | In this debut novel inspired by true stories, three women's lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose. |
Marshall, Kate Alice | What Lies In The Woods | Thriller |
Maxwell, Alyssa | A Fashionable Fatality | Historical Mystery - Lady and Lady's Maid #8 |
May, Peter | A Winter Grave | Thriller |
McGuire, Seanan | Lost In The Moment And Found | Fantasy - Wayward Children #8 |
Meier, Leslie, Lee Hollis, and Barbara Ross | Irish Coffee Murder | Cozy Mystery novellas |
Minnicks, Jamila | Moonrise Over New Jessup | Historical Fiction |
Moore, Scotto | Wild Massive | Science Fiction |
Mosley, Walter | Every Man A King | Mystery - King Oliver #2 |
Moyes, Jojo | Someone Else's Shoes | Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes? |
Mukherjee, Oindrila | The Dream Builders | After living in the US for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world. |
Mulford, A. K. | The High Mountain Court | Fantasy - Five Crowns of Okrith #1 |
Mulford, A. K. | The Witches' Blade | Fantasy - Five Crowns of Okrith #2 |
Newitz, Annalee | The Terraformers | Science Fiction |
Nkrumah, Nyaneba | Wade In The Water | A debut novel that explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s. |
O'Connor, Joseph | My Father's House | Historical Fiction |
Olson, Kayla | The Reunion | When two former teen stars reconnect at the 20th reunion for their hit TV show, they discover their ... feelings for each other are real--and mutual!--and not just what was scripted out for them all those years ago. |
Page, Sally | The Keeper Of Stories | Fiction |
Patterson, James | 3 Days To Live | Thriller |
Poeppel, Amy | The Sweet Spot | Fiction |
Pylväinen, Hanna | The End Of Drum-Time | Historical Fiction |
Quartey, Kwei | Last Seen In Lapaz | Mystery - Emma Djan #3 |
Raybon, Patricia | Double The Lies | Historical Mystery - Annalee Spain #2 |
Riedel, Josh | Please Report Your Bug Here | A dating app employee who discovers a glitch that transports him to other worlds. |
Riker, Martin | The Guest Lecture | A newly jobless academic rehearses a speech on John Maynard Keynes for a surprising audience. |
Robb, J. D. | Encore In Death | Mystery - In Death #56 |
Robert, Katee | Radiant Sin | Romance - Dark Olympus #4 |
Rollins, James | The Cradle Of Ice | Fantasy - Moonfall #2 |
Rumfitt, Alison | Tell Me I'm Worthless | A dark, unflinching haunted house story that confronts both supernatural and real-world horrors through the lens of the modern-day trans experience. |
Rushdie, Salman | Victory City | Historical Fiction |
Ryan, Anastasia | You Should Smile More | When Vanessa Blair is fired because of her "resting bitch face," her friends help her get revenge... |
Saab, Gabriella | Daughters Of Victory | Decades after defying her aristocratic family to join the Russian revolution, Svetlana Petrova opens her home to her eighteen-year-old granddaughter, Mila, who falls under the spell of the resistance when their remote village is overrun by Nazi invaders. |
Salesses, Matthew | The Sense Of Wonder | When Won Lee, the first Asian American in the NBA, stuns the world in a seven-game winning streak, the global media audience dubs it "The Wonder"--much to Won's chagrin. |
Sandgren, Lydia | Collected Works | A family saga following unsuccessful book publisher Martin Berg, who must confront life's banality in the aftermath of his wife's disappearance. |
Schwartz, Selby Wynn | After Sappho | Historical Fiction |
Scott, Kieran | Regrets Only | A single mom goes undercover to investigate a host of disturbing secrets held by the leaders of a local suburban parent-school association, including embezzlement, bribery, adultery, and murder. |
Seeck, Max | The Last Grudge | Mystery - Ghosts of the Past #3 |
Shah, Mansi | The Direction Of The Wind | A heartfelt story that spans continents and generations, about a young woman who searches for answers about a mother she barely remembers. |
Shalvis, Jill | The Backup Plan | Romance - Sunrise Cove #3 |
Shane, Lizzie | Sweeter Than Chocolate | Romance |
Shearer, Eleanor | River Sing Me Home | The story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery. |
Shepperson, Laura | Phaedra | Phaedra has been cast to the side all her life: daughter of an adulteress, sister of a monster, and now unwilling bride to the much-older, power-hungry Theseus. |
Sinclair, Shaun | Beats And Blow | His empire is worth a billion thanks to the drug-fueled wealth of his infamous Dirty South crew. But with unanticipated enemies gathering for a final devastating hit, will there be anyone left to rule? |
Smith, Tom Rob | Cold People | A mysterious force captures Earth and gives humanity thirty days to move to Antarctica, where they will be allowed to exist and survive in the planet's most extreme environment. |
Steel, Danielle | Worthy Opponents | Fiction |
Stetz-Waters, Karelia | Behind The Scenes | Romance |
Stokes-Chapman, Susan | Pandora | A historical novel set in Georgian London where the discovery of a mysterious ancient Greek vase sets in motion conspiracies, revelations, and romance. |
Suarez, Daniel | Critical Mass | A group of pioneering astropreneurs must overcome never-before-attempted engineering challenges to rescue colleagues stranded at a distant asteroid. |
Sullivan, Sophie | A Guide To Being Just Friends | Romance |
Sundin, Sarah | The Sound Of Light | Christian Historical |
Tanamachi, Cara | The Second You're Single | Romance |
Tchaikovsky, Adrian | Children Of Memory | Science Fiction - Children of Time #3 |
Thomas, Kai | In The Upper Country | The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act--intertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad. |
Torday, Daniel | The 12th Commandment | Fiction |
Tudor, C. J. | The Drift | Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption. |
Verble, Margaret | Stealing | A novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s. |
Voskuni, Taleen | Sorry, Bro | An Armenian-American woman rediscovers her roots and embraces who she really is in this heartfelt queer rom-com. |
Wachtel, Shirley Russak | A Castle In Brooklyn | Historical Fiction |
Waidner, Isabel | Sterling Karat Gold | Fiction |
Walters, Monica | Stuck On You | Urban Fiction |
Weber, Carl | The Family Business 6 | Urban Fiction |
Winslow, De'shawn Charles | Decent People | A sweeping novel of a Black community reeling from a triple homicide, and the secrets the killings reveal. |
Yamashita, Iris | City Under One Roof | A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone winters in the same high-rise building. |
Young, Louisa | Twelve Months And A Day | Romance |
Yu, An | Ghost Music | A former concert pianist searches for the truth about a vanished musician. |
Zhao, Kyla | The Fraud Squad | A working-class woman who infiltrates Singapore's high society to fulfill her dreams risks losing everything in the process--including herself. |
Zigman, Laura | Small World | Two offbeat and newly divorced sisters move in together as adults--and finally reckon with their childhood. |
December 2022
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Adams, Sean | The Thing in the Snow | A psychological thriller set at an all-but-abandoned research institute in an unspecified chilly north. |
Aiken, G. A. | The Heretic Royal | Fantasy Romance - Scarred Earth Saga #3 |
Andrews, V. C. | Eden's Children | Mystery - Eden #1 |
B, Knowledge | Tha Khronicles | Urban Fiction |
Bardugo, Leigh | Hell Bent | Fantasy - Alex Stern #2 |
Beers, Georgia | Camp Lost and Found | Romance |
Bell, Marcella | The Rodeo Queen | The rules of being a rodeo queen: no creases, no boyfriends, no mistakes. |
Benedict, Marie | The Mitford Affair | Historical Fiction |
Berenson, Laurien | Killer Cupid | Cozy Mystery - Melanie Travis #29 |
Berg, Sibylle | Grime | This novel in translation addresses the question currently being debated around the world: where will climate change, artificial intelligence, the rise of right-wing populism, and the inexorable expansion of surveillance lead? |
Bhagat, Vinaya | The Girl in the Mist | It lurks in the shadows. It lives in your worst nightmares. It feeds on your deepest fears. And it's coming to get you. |
Biswas, Damyanti | The Blue Bar | On the dark streets of Mumbai, the paths of a missing dancer, a serial killer, and an inspector with a haunted past converge. |
Blake, Dena | A Spark in the Air | Romance |
Blaque, Erica | Among Wolves | Thriller |
Blauner, Peter | Picture in the Sand | An intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world. |
Breslin, Kate | In Love's Time | Christian Historical |
Brown, Amber | Someone Had to Do It | A fashion intern overhears a shocking secret about her employer, with disastrous consequences for all. |
Bujold, Lois McMaster | Penric's Labors | Fantasy - Penric & Desdemona |
Bunn, T. Davis | Forbidden | Fantasy |
Buonaguro, Gina | The Virgins of Venice | Historical Fiction |
Butler, Octavia E. | Bloodchild and Other Stories | Science Fiction |
Cameron, W. Bruce | Love, Clancy: Diary Of a Good Dog | Fiction |
Carew, Leo | The Cuckoo | Fantasy - Under the Northern Sky #3 |
Carlsson, Christoffer | Blaze Me a Sun | A Swedish police officer obsessed with a serial killer that became active in 1986, on the same night the prime minister was assassinated, fails to solve the case, until a novelist returns to Halland and begins interviewing him decades later. |
Church, Daniel | Hollows | Folk horror meets ancient gods in a remote snowbound Peak District town where several murders take place. |
Clark, Tracy | Hide | A mystery featuring hard-boiled Chicago detective Harriet Foster, who's on the hunt for a serial killer with a deadly affinity for redheads. |
Clipston, Amy | Something Old, Something New | Sometimes treasure can be found where you least expect it. |
Collins, Flora | A Small Affair | A young woman's life is torn apart when her wealthy ex-lover is found dead -- along with his wife. |
Coltrane, Kit | All the Way Happy | Their differences made them enemies. One summer tied them together forever. |
Cooper, Sharon C. | In It to Win It | Two entrepreneurs compete for a property but secure the biggest win of all--each other--in this second chance romantic comedy. |
Correa, Armando Lucas | The Night Travelers | Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall. |
Crouch, Blake | Abandon | Thriller |
Crutcher, Paige | The Lost Witch | Paranormal Romance |
Dailey, Janet | Blue Moon Haven | Romance - New Americana #7 |
Datlow, Ellen | The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume Fourteen | Horror Anthology |
de Leon, Aya | That Dangerous Energy | Marrying a billionaire will fulfill this struggling artist's dreams--and enable her to make a difference. But exposing the truth will put all her convictions on one dangerous line . . . |
Dykes, Amanda | All the Lost Places | Discovered floating in a basket along the canals of Venice, Sebastien Trovato wrestles with questions of his origins. |
Eason, Lynette | Critical Threat | Christian Suspense - Extreme Measures #3 |
Fletcher, Jessica | Death On The Emerald Isle | Cozy Mystery - Murder, She Wrote #56 |
Force, Marie | State Of Shock | Romantic Suspense - First Family #4 |
Fowler, Christopher | Peculiar London | Thinking of a jaunt to England? Let Arthur Bryant and John May, London's oldest police detectives, show you the oddities behind the city's façades in this tongue-in-cheek travel guide. |
Gable, Michelle | The Lipstick Bureau | Historical Fiction |
Ganeshananthan, V. V. | Brotherless Night | A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor. |
Garza, Amber | A Mother Would Know | A mother questions everything she knows about her son when a local woman is found dead. |
George, Jessica | Maame | A debut about a young British Ghanaian woman as she navigates her twenties and finds her place in the world, for readers of Queenie and The Other Black Girl. |
Glenn, Roy | Cold Blooded | Urban Fiction - Mike Black #39 |
Goodman, Allegra | Sam | Fiction |
Greene, Charlotte | Picture-Perfect Christmas | Two former rivals compete to capture the essence of their small mountain town at Christmas, all the while fighting old and new feelings. |
Halston, Sidney | The Valentine's Hate | An enemy to lovers/fake engagement rom-com themed around Valentine's Day. |
Hardt, Helen | Flare | Romance - Steel Brothers Saga #23 |
Hardt, Helen | Scorch | Romance - Steel Brothers Saga #24 |
Harper, Jane | Exiles | Mystery - Aaron Falk #3 |
Harper, Lana | Back In A Spell | Paranormal Romance - Witches of Thistle Grove #3 |
Hatcher, Robin Lee | All She Ever Dreamed | Christian Romance - Boulder Creek #2 |
Hatcher, Robin Lee | Even Forever | Christian Romance - Boulder Creek #1 |
Hawkins, Rachel | The Villa | While on a girls trip to Italy with her best friend, Chess, Emily discovers their high-end villa was once the scene of a brutal murder, and, digging into the past, finds the truth seeping into the present as dangerous betrayals emerge. |
Hazelwood, Ali | Loathe To Love You | Romance |
Hedlund, Jody | Stay With Me | Historical Romance - Waters of Time #3 |
Hendrix, Grady | How to Sell a Haunted House | Forced to return to the small Southern town where she grew up to sell her late parents' house, Louise discovers that her and her brother's old grudges pale in comparison to the terror that still lurks within its walls. |
Higashino, Keigo | A Death In Tokyo | Mystery - Kyochichro Kaga #3 |
Hoover, Colleen | Heart Bones | Two young adults from completely different backgrounds embark on a tentative romance, unaware of what the future holds. |
Ichijo, Misaki | Even if This Love Disappears Tonight | Fantasy Romance |
Itō, Hiromi | The Thorn Puller | In this first novel to appear in English by an award-winning Japanese author, the narrator, who cares for her husband and daughters in California and her aging parents in Japan, creates a powerful and entertaining narrative as she shuttles back and forth between two different cultures. |
Jennings, Regina | Engaging Deception | Christian Historical - Joplin Chronicles #3 |
Johnstone, Carole | The Blackhouse | Thriller |
Joseph, Lauren John | At Certain Points We Touch | From a new voice in fiction comes a novel of queer friendship, first love, and unbridled youth. |
Kapoor, Deepti | Age Of Vice | This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. |
Kendall, Beverley | Token | Founding Token, a boutique PR agency that helps "diversity-challenged" companies and celebrities, Kennedy Mitchell, with business booming, discovers that some messes are not so easily fixed when she is drawn into a PR scandal of her own. |
Kennedy, Elle | Misfit | New Adult Romance |
Konen, Leah | You Should Have Told Me | A new mother chases the secrets her partner left behind after his sudden disappearance. |
Koontz, Dean | The House at the End of the World | Suspense |
Kubica, Mary | Just The Nicest Couple | When her husband Jack vanishes without a trace, Nina Hayes will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, which, unbeknownst to her, is inextricably linked to their close friends, who may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. |
Lackey, Mercedes | Into The West | Fantasy - Founding of Valdemar #2 |
Lau, Jamie Marina | Gunk Baby | A black comedy workplace thriller set in a sprawling indoor shopping mall about a cabal of low-wage workers who plot violent acts of "resistance" against their managers. |
Lehane, Cornelius | Murder by Definition | Mystery - 42nd Street Library #4 |
Lipman, Elinor | Ms. Demeanor | Fiction |
Littles, T. C. | Starving for Love | A spoiled rich girl falls for one of the most notorious thugs in Detroit. Will she give up everything, including the successful future her parents had planned for her? |
Mactague, Lise | Winter's Moons | Urban Fantasy |
Malhotra, Aanchal | The Book of Everlasting Things | When their beloved city is ravaged by Partition, Hindu perfumer Samir Vij and Muslim calligrapher Firdaus Khan, now on opposite sides, their love forbidden, make a series of fateful decisions that will change the course of their lives forever. |
Manenzhe, Rešoketšwe | Scatterlings | Tells the story of a multiracial family when the Immorality Act is passed in South Africa, revealing one family's scattered souls in the wake of history. |
Marsh, Beezy | Queen of Thieves | A historical adventure about a ring of bold and resourceful women thieves in post-World War II London. |
Masters, Priscilla | Undue Influence | Mystery - Florence Shaw #1 |
McGill, Jerry | The Color of Family | Paralyzed for life after a car accident, Devon Payne, over the course of a decade, visits his seven siblings now scattered across the globe, confronting the guilt and heartbreaking betrayals that followed in the wake of the tragedy and discovering to power of forgiveness to live free in the present. |
Miller, Carol | Death Rides a Pony | Cozy Mystery - Fortune Telling #2 |
Murphy, Kitty | Death in Heels | When Fi went to support her best friend's drag debut, she didn't imagine a killer would be going to watch it too. And they're waiting for their grand finale... |
Noyes, E. J. | Schuss | They're best friends who're secretly in love with each other, but what if admitting that ruins the best friendship either of them have had? |
O'Shea, TJ | To be With You | Romance |
Parks, Adele | One Last Secret | Everyone has secrets, don't they? |
Parlato, Terri | All the Dark Places | A savage murder rocks a quiet Massachusetts suburb, revealing the dark secrets at the center of a group of friends and setting two women - one with a traumatic past, the other a Boston police detective - on a hunt for truth. |
Parrott, Thomas | Compromised | Science Fiction - Tom Clancy's The Division |
Patterson, James | The House Of Wolves | Thriller |
Payne, Melissa | A Light in the Forest | An emotional and suspenseful novel about the weight of secrets and the healing power of friends and family. |
Pellegrino, Amanda | The Social Climber | When you ' re on top, you can get away with anything... |
Perry, Thomas | Murder Book | An ex-cop takes on a widespread criminal organization targeting midwestern towns. |
Peyton, Tracey Rose | Night Wherever We Go | A debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners. |
Preston, Douglas | The Cabinet Of Dr. Leng | Thriller - Agent Pendergast #21 |
Radclyffe | Only This Summer | Romance |
Reyes, Ana | The House in the Pines | Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend's sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers. |
Rinehart, Mary Roberts | The Album | Classic Mystery |
Rosenfield, Kat | You Must Remember This | A Knives Out-style whodunnit featuring a long-ago love affair, icy death, and a rich family gone bad. |
Rouda, Kaira Sturdivant | The Widow | Thriller |
Ryan, Renee | The Secret Society Of Salzburg | Inspired by true events, a story of two very different women united to bring light to the darkest days of World War II. |
Sagara, Michelle | Cast In Eternity | Fantasy - Chronicles of Elantra #18 |
Shroff, Parini | The Bandit Queens | A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful--until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands. |
Skyy | Dumb | Determined to win the one she thinks is for her, Paige finds herself making one foolish decision after another. |
Spotswood, Stephen | Secrets Typed In Blood | Historical Mystery - Pentecost And Parker #3 |
St Clair, Scarlett | Queen Of Myth And Monsters | Paranormal Romance - Adrian X Isolde #2 |
Stevenson, Benjamin | Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone | A fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery. |
Stoker, Susan | Deserving Henley | Romance - Refuge #2 |
Taylor, Brad | The Devil's Ransom | Thriller - Pike Logan #17 |
Tracy, P. J. | The Devil You Know | Mystery - Detective Margaret Nolan #3 |
Tuomala, A. M. | The Map And The Territory | Fantasy |
Van Stry, John | Summer's End | Sometimes a dark past can haunt you. Other times, it just may be the only thing keeping you alive. |
Vernon, Leah | The Union | A dystopian novel that explores the power of friendship in a future society built on violence and division. |
Wegert, Tessa | The Kind To Kill | Mystery - Shana Merchant #4 |
Westerson, Jeri | Courting Dragons | Introducing Will Somers, the king's jester but nobody's fool in this mystery set in Tudor England, the first in a new series. |
Wilde, Darcie | The Secret Of The Lost Pearls | Cozy Mystery - Rosalind Thorne #6 |
Willingham, Stacy | All The Dangerous Things | A mother desperately hopes to mobilize the true-crime community's armchair detectives to find her son, Mason, who was abducted from his bedroom a year earlier. |
Shenanigans: All-New Tales Of Valdemar | Fantasy Anthology |
November 2022
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Abbott, Cordy | Dead Men Don't Decorate | Art, murder, and a secret dating back centuries collide in this cozy mystery series debut. |
Afshar, Tessa | The Hidden Prince | Christian Historical |
Andersson, Liv | Little Red House | Thriller |
Armentrout, Jennifer L. | A Light in the Flame | Paranormal Romance - Flesh and Fire #2 |
Armstrong, Kelley | Christmas at Thorne Manor | Fantasy Romance |
Baldree, Travis | Legends & Lattes | After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword. The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success -- not to mention the fact that no one has the faintest idea what coffee actually is. |
Banks, Russell | The Magic Kingdom | Historical Fiction |
Baron, Melissa | Twice in a Lifetime | Romance |
Basham, Pepper | Authentically, Izzy | Christian Romance |
Beaton, M. C. | Devil's Delight | Cozy Mystery - Agatha Raisin #33 |
Belle, Kimberly | The Personal Assistant | Thriller |
Berkeley, Anthony | Murder in the Basement | Classic Mystery |
Blake, Olivie | Alone With You in the Ether | Fantasy Romance |
Bolden, Martell Troublesome | Rich Savage 3 | Urban Fiction |
Bowen, Rhys | Peril in Paris | Historical Mystery - Royal Spyness #16 |
Brayden, Melissa | The Forever Factor | Romance |
Brooks-Dalton, Lily | The Light Pirate | Fiction |
brown, adrienne maree | Fables and Spells | Speculative Stories and Poetry |
Brown, Carolyn | The Sandcastle Hurricane | Romance |
Brown, Wesley | Blue in Green | Historical Fiction |
Bruce, Camilla | All The Blood We Share | A sinister novel based on the real Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers in the old West bound by butchery and obscured by the shadows of American history. |
Buckhanon, Kalisha | Running to Fall | Tragedy Powell tries to feel she has it all- until her and her husband's perfect life online becomes a whirlwind of spilled secrets about Tragedy's drinking, a missing woman and their all-white town. |
Calderón, Gabe | Màgòdiz | Science Fiction |
Cameron, Marc | Tom Clancy Red Winter | Thriller - Jack Ryan #22 |
Carter, Shmel | Taking Down a Boss | Urban Fiction |
Caruso, Melissa | The Ivory Tomb | Fantasy - Rooks and Ruin #3 |
Castro, V. | Out Of Aztlan | Horror Short Stories |
Christie, William | The Double Agent | A Russian/German double agent loyal only to himself again becomes a double agent in a desperate bid to protect himself, this time for the English. |
Chronister, Kay | Desert Creatures | In a world grown desiccated and treacherous, one young woman will find salvation or become just another rot-lonely skull in the sand. |
Chung, Bora | Cursed Bunny: Stories | Surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) bite. |
Claire, Ann | Dead and Gondola | In this series debut, a mysterious bookshop visitor dies under murderous circumstances, compelling the Christie sisters and their cat, Agatha, to call on all they've learned about solving mysteries from their favorite novelist. |
Clark, Aaron Philip | Blue Like Me | Mystery - Trevor Finnegan #2 |
Cook, Robin | Night Shift | Thriller - Stapleton/Montgomery #13 |
Córdova, Zoraida | Star Wars: Convergence | Science Fiction - The High Republic |
Cosby, S. A. | My Darkest Prayer | Mystery |
Crittendon, Denise | Where it Rains in Color | Lileala has just been named the Rare Indigo - beauty among beauties - and is about to embrace her stardom, until something threatens to change her whole lifestyle and turn the planet of Swazembi upside down. |
Cross, Tracy | Rootwork | Set in a small Louisiana parish, deep in the segregated South, Rootwork follows school-age sisters, Betty, Ann, and Pee Wee during one life-changing summer. |
Cumming, Charles | Judas 62 | Thriller - Box 88 #2 |
Czerneda, Julie | To Each This World | Science Fiction |
Dade, Olivia | Ship Wrecked | Romance - Spoiler Alert #3 |
Davis, Ambria | I Need a Bad Boy in My Life | Urban Fiction |
DeLuca, Jen | Well Traveled | Romance - Well Met #4 |
DeuxMoi | Anon Pls. | A debut novel about a stylist assistant whose drunken decision to turn her Instagram into a celeb gossip account turns her life completely upside down. |
Dev, Sonali | The Vibrant Years | Three generations of the Desai women navigate bad dates, reemerging exes and secrets that refuse to remain hidden as they embark on a daring shared journey of self-discovery to live their most authentic lives. |
Dewberry, John Gary | Hang All the Mistletoe | Holiday |
Du Brul, Jack B. | Clive Cussler The Sea Wolves | Adventure - Isaac Bell #13 |
Dumas, Luke | A History of Fear | A University of Edinburgh student taking on a ghostwriting job for a mysterious stranger begins to suspect he is working for the devil himself. |
Edwards, Emily J. | Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man | Life as a secretary in New York gets tougher when Viviana Valentine's boss goes M.I.A in this debut historical mystery. |
Eisler, Barry | Amok | When the government offers a twenty-six-year-old former Marine a five-figure payday, there's only one question: Who does he have to kill? |
Elliott, Lauren | Steeped in Secrets | The first installment in a new series featuring amateur detective Shay Myers, intuitive gemologist and owner of a New Age tea and crystals shop. |
Evans, Erin M. | Empire of Exiles | Magic, mystery, and revolution collide in this fantasy epic where an unlikely team of mages, scribes, and archivists must band together to unearth a conspiracy that might topple their empire. |
Everlee, Jess | The Gentleman's Book of Vices | Is their real-life love story doomed to be a tragedy, or can they rewrite the ending? |
Fader, Molly | The Sunshine Girls | Two friends. A lifetime of secrets. One sparkling story. |
Ferrada, Maria Jose | How to Turn into a Bird | Fiction |
Fields, Kerika | With Your Bad Self | Historical Fiction |
Flower, Amanda | Frozen Detective | Mystery - Piper and Porter #2 |
Flynn, Avery | Witcha Gonna Do? | Paranormal Romance |
Francis, Felix | Hands Down | Mystery - Dick Francis #11 |
Fre$h | Betrayal of a Thug 2 | Urban Fiction |
Fredericks, Mariah | The Lindbergh Nanny | America's most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime. |
Friedman, Elyse | The Opportunist | When her wealthy 76-year-old father announces he is marrying his 28-year-old nurse, hardworking single mother Alana Shropshire, ordered by her brothers to make the gold digger go away, is faced with a formidable foe who refuses to go down without a fight. |
Gallen, Michelle | Factory Girls | Historical Fiction |
Gilbert, Victoria | Death in the Margins | Cozy Mystery - Blue Ridge Library #7 |
Graham, Heather, and John Land | Blood Moon | Science Fiction - Rising #2 |
Gray, Shelley Shepard | Christmas at the Amish Market | Holiday |
Green, Amy Lynn | The Blackout Book Club | Historical Fiction |
Gregory, Philippa | Dawnlands | Historical Fiction - Fairmile #3 |
Griffiths, Elly | Bleeding Heart Yard | Mystery - Harbinder Kaur #3 |
Grippando, James | Code 6 | At what price do we open our lives to Big Data? |
Harris, Charlaine | The Serpent in Heaven | Historical Fantasy - Gunnie Rose #4 |
Hatcher, Robin Lee | Like the Wind | Christian Fiction |
Haven, Josh | Fake Money, Blue Smoke | A skilled counterfeiter hires a crew of career criminals to steal an artwork from a speeding train. |
Heath, Virginia | Never Rescue a Rogue | Historical Romance - Merriwell Sisters #2 |
Henderson, Alice | A Ghost of Caribou | Mystery - Alex Carter #3 |
Henderson, Craig | Welcome To The Game | Nearly bankrupt and losing control of the cocktail of drugs and alcohol that gets him through the day, widower and ex-rally driver Spencer Burnham gets more than he bargains for when he agrees to be the getaway driver for a lethal gangster who wants to pull off one last heist. |
Henry, Christina | Into The Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga | Fantasy Short Stories |
Herbert, Brian, and Kevin J. Anderson | The Heir of Caladan | Science Fiction - Dune Caladan #3 |
Herring Blake, Ashley | Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail | An interior designer who is never without the perfect plan learns to renovate her love life without one. |
Holloway, Warren | Murder and Deception | Urban Fiction |
Howrey, Meg | They're Going to Love You | Fiction |
Hunt, Taran | The Immortality Thief | Science Fiction |
Hyde, Catherine Ryan | So Long, Chester Wheeler | Fiction |
Jackson, Kosoko | A Dash of Salt and Pepper | Sometimes two cooks in the kitchen are better than one in this romantic comedy. |
Jackson, Lisa, and Nancy Bush | Wicked Dreams | Thriller - Wicked #5 |
Jefferies, Dinah | The Hidden Palace | Historical Fiction - Daughters of War #2 |
Joella, Ethan | A Quiet Life | Three people's lives intersect in unforeseen ways. |
Johnson, Damian L. | Break the Chain: Part 1: Hustle Game Too Hard | Urban Fiction |
Jones, Darynda | A Hard Day for a Hangover | Mystery - Sunshine Vicram #3 |
Kane, Darby | The Last Invitation | They meet the second Tuesday of every month and vote...and then someone dies. |
Kapelke-Dale, Rachel | The Ingenue | When the family estate is bequeathed to a man she shares a complicated history with, former piano prodigy Saskia Kreis is forced to reexamine her own past. |
Karp, Marshall | NYPD Red 7: The Murder Sorority | Thriller - NYPD Red #7 |
Khaw, Cassandra | Breakable Things | Horror Short Stories |
Kingsbury, Karen | A Thousand Tomorrows | Christian Fiction |
Kirsanow, Peter | W. E. B. Griffin The Devil's Weapons | Thriller - Men at War #8 |
Klassen, Julie | The Sisters of Sea View | Some guests have come for a holiday, others for hidden reasons of their own . . . |
Krasznahorkai, László | A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East | Fiction |
Krentz, Jayne Ann | Sleep No More | First in a new romantic suspense trilogy about a night that changed three women forever--but that none of them can remember. |
Landvik, Lorna | Last Circle of Love | Fiction |
Laurent, Caroline | An Impossible Return | Historical Fiction |
Lemberg, R. B. | Geometries of Belonging | Speculative Stories and Poetry |
Lemberg, R. B. | The Unbalancing | New love blossoms between an impatient starkeeper and a reclusive poet as they try together to save their island home. |
Levine, Laura | Death By Smoothie | Cozy Mystery - Jaine Austen #19 |
Lewis, Linden A. | The Last Hero | Science Fiction - First Sister #3 |
Liese, Chloe | Two Wrongs Make a Right | Opposites become allies to fool their matchmaking friends in this reimagining of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. |
Lindsay, Jeff | Three-Edged Sword | Thriller - Riley Wolfe #3 |
Lipsyte, Sam | No One Left to Come Looking for You | Fiction |
London, Stefanie | Pets of Park Avenue | Romance - Paws in the City #2 |
Louis, Lia | The Key to My Heart | Romance |
Lovesey, Peter | Showstopper | Mystery - Peter Diamond #21 |
Mackintosh, Clare | The Last Party | At midnight, one of them is dead. By morning, all of them are suspects. |
Malpas, Jodi Ellen | This Woman | Romance - This Man #5 |
Margolin, Phillip | Murder at Black Oaks | Mystery - Robin Lockwood #6 |
Martin, Alexa | Better Than Fiction | A romantic comedy about a bookseller discovering how to be the main character in her story. |
Martin, Kat | One Last Chance | Mystery - Blood Ties #3 |
McCarthy, Cormac | Stella Maris | Fiction - Passenger #2 |
Meadows, Rae | Winterland | A young girl is tapped to be a part of the Soviet Union's gymnastics system. |
Mestanna | The Devil's Bedroom | Urban Fiction |
Mikhail, Dunya | The Bird Tattoo | A powerful and sweeping novel set over two tumultuous decades in Iraq. |
Miller, Madeline | Galatea: A Short Story | Boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. |
Miller, Vanessa | What We Found in Hallelujah | Christian Fiction |
Mitchell, Jamel | For the Love of Blood 2 | Urban Fiction |
Moorcock, Michael | The Citadel of Forgotten Myths | Fantasy - Elric Saga #1 |
Morimi, Tomihiko | The Tatami Galaxy | An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog's Day-esque campus chronicle. |
Morrison, Ewan | How to Survive Everything | Kidnapped by their doomsday-prepper father to keep them safe from a supposedly new pandemic, Haley and Ben are confined to his compound with no outside contact and no idea if the threat is even real. |
Morrissey, Hannah | The Widowmaker | Thriller - Black Harbor #1 |
Muñoz, Manuel | The Consequences | Short Stories |
Murray, Amita | Arya Winters and the Cupcakes Of Doom | Cozy Mystery - Arya Winters #2 |
Newman, Catherine | We All Want Impossible Things | Fiction |
Nossett, Lauren | The Resemblance | On a chilly November morning, a fraternity brother steps off a busy crosswalk and is struck dead by an oncoming car. More than a dozen witnesses all agree on two things: the driver looked identical to the victim, and he was smiling. |
Palmer, Diana | Wyoming Homecoming | Romance - Wyoming Men #11 |
Palmer, Rod | The Things We Bring to the Table | Fiction |
Parikh, Amita | The Circus Train | A World War II debut about a magnificent travelling circus, a star-crossed romance, and one girl's coming-of-age during the darkest of times. |
Payne, Nikki | Pride and Protest | A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threatening to destroy her neighborhood in this retelling of Pride and Prejudice. |
Pederson, David S. | Murder at Union Station | Mystery - Mason Adler #2 |
Perrin, Kayla | We'll Never Tell | A night of revenge turns deadly. |
Perrin, Kayla | What's Done in Darkness | Jealousy is a strong motive. People kill for love every day... |
Perry, Anne | A Christmas Deliverance | Historical Mystery - Christmas #20 |
Phillips, Gary | Witnesses for the Dead | Short Stories |
Pitzorno, Bianca | The Seamstress of Sardinia | In 1900 Sardinia, an intelligent and ambitious young woman with an impossible dream is drawn into a world far different than her own. |
Pokwatka, Aimee | Self-Portrait With Nothing | After discovering her birth mother is Ula Frost, a reclusive artist who claims her portraits summon their subjects' doppelgängers from parallel universes, Pepper Rafferty wonders if there is a universe, in which she is better able to accept love, and in which Ula decided she was worth keeping. |
Polk, C. L. | Even Though I Knew the End | An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell. When she turns it down, her client sweetens the pot by offering up the one payment she can't resist: the chance to have a future... |
Priest, Cherie | Flight Risk | Paranormal Mystery - Booking Agents #2 |
Prusa, Carolyn | None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive | Fiction |
Ray, Playa | Crime Boss | Urban Fiction |
Rehman, Bushra | Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion | While attending a prestigious high school in Manhattan, Razia Mirza, from a tight-knit Muslim-American community, falls in love with Angela, a fellow student, and must choose between her family and her own future when their relationship is discovered. |
Reid, Maryann | The Professional Wife | A beautiful woman is hired to be "professional wife" to celebrities. But what happens when she falls in love with the wrong one? |
Rickloff, Alix | The Girls in Navy Blue | Historical Fiction |
Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 5 | Urban Fiction |
Roanhorse, Rebecca | Tread of Angels | In the 1883 mining town of Goetia ruled by the Virtues, a card sharp with a need for justice takes on the role of devil's advocate to defend her sister, accused of murdering a Virtue. |
Roberts, Bethan | My Policeman | Historical Fiction |
Robin, Emery | The Stars Undying | Science Fiction Romance |
Ross, Rebecca | A Fire Endless | Fantasy - Elements of Cadence #2 |
Rowell, Donna M. | Never Name the Dead | In this debut, old grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land of her ancestors. |
Ryan, Kennedy | Before I Let Go | After a devastating tragedy, a married couple discover that love isn't enough to save their marriage, but it eventually might be enough to bring them back together for a second time around. |
Salazar, Noelle | Angels of the Resistance | Historical Fiction |
Samuel, Amber | The Many Dates of indigo | Hair done. Nails too. Make-up flawless. Indigo Clark is an accomplished, independent woman. Now she wants a partner to share her fabulous life. |
Sanderson, Brandon | The Lost Metal | Fantasy - Mistborn #7 |
Saundra | Long Live the Queen | A good girl-turned Cali drug Queenpin goes nationwide, where the success is explosive, the new conspiracies brutal--and the betrayals could finally take her down for the count... |
Sebastian, Cat | Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots | Historical Romance - Cabots #3 |
Shelton, Paige | Winter's End | Mystery - Alaska Wild #4 |
Shinkai, Makoto, and Naruki Nagakawa | She and Her Cat: Stories | A collection of four interrelated, stream-of-consciousness short stories follows women and their cat companions as they explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication. |
Shipman, Viola | A Wish For Winter | Holiday Romance |
Simpson, Rosemary | Death at the Falls | Historical Mystery - Gilded Age #7 |
Simsion, Graeme, and Anne Buist | Two Steps Onward | Fiction - Two Steps #2 |
Smiley, Jane | A Dangerous Business | In 1850s Gold Rush California, two young prostitutes--best friends Eliza and Jean--follow a trail of missing girls. |
Soop, Alex | Midnight Storm Moonless Sky: Indigenous Horror Stories | Short Stories |
Spencer, Minerva | The Boxing Baroness | Agreeing to help the Duke of Staunton rescue his brother, Marianne Simpson, a boxer in her uncle's circus, braces for the fight of her life - and of her heart. |
St. James, Dorothy | A Book Club to Die For | Cozy Mystery - Beloved Bookroom #3 |
Steel, Danielle | Without a Trace | Fiction |
Sten, Viveca | Hidden in Snow | The splendor of the Swedish mountains becomes the backdrop for a bone-chilling crime. |
Strong, Lynn Steger | Flight | Three siblings gather with their spouses and children for a fraught Christmas. |
Szeker, Brandi Elise | The Puppeteer and the Poisoned Pawn | Horror |
Tan, Sue Lynn | Heart of the Sun Warrior | Fantasy - Celestial Kingdom #2 |
Tavares, Nathan | A Fractured Infinity | A thrilling race across the multiverse to save the infinite Earths - and the love of your life - from total destruction. |
Tchaikovsky, Adrian | Dogs of War | A bio-engineered dog fights for its life and its right to life. |
Thompson, Victoria | City of Fortune | Historical Mystery - Counterfeit Lady #6 |
Tolkien, J. R. R. | The Fall of Númenor: And Other Tales From the Second Age of Middle-Earth | Fantasy |
Tudor, C. J. | A Sliver of Darkness | Suspense Stories |
Turonek, E. Raye | Unrequited Love | Urban Fiction - Rural Route 8 #2 |
Unger, Lisa | Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six | Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling locked-room thriller. |
Usami, Rin | Idol, Burning | Fiction |
Wang, Michael X. | Lost in the Long March | An epic historical novel, set against the tense backdrop of the Long March and Mao's rise to power, that tells a powerful and moving story of two ordinary people. |
Wendig, Chuck | Wayward | Science Fiction - Wanderers #2 |
Williams, Preslaysa | A Sweet Lowcountry Proposal | Romance |
Wilson, Kevin | Now is Not the Time to Panic | Two teenage misfits collide one fateful summer, and the art they make changes their lives forever. |
Zeldis, Kitty | The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights | Historical Fiction |
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction | Short Stories |
October 2022
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Abdullah, Kia | Next Of Kin | When Leila Syed accidentally leaves her toddler nephew in her car, leading to tragedy, the tense, subsequent trial tears her family apart, but as the case progresses, it becomes clear there is more to the incident than meets the eye. |
Adams, Lyssa Kay | A Very Merry Bromance | Romance - Bromance Book Club #5 |
Adrianne | Life At The Club | Urban Fiction |
Alexander, Claire | Meredith, Alone | Meredith, after spending three years inside her house, figures out how to rejoin the world one step at a time. |
Amadou Amal, Djaïli | The Impatient | Fiction |
Anderson, Gerald C., Sr. | Fatal Misperceptions: Red Flags Rise Everywhere, But Will She Notice? | Urban Fiction |
Andrews, Donna | Dashing Through The Snowbirds | Cozy Mystery - Meg Langslow #32 |
Anie, Sussie | To Fill A Yellow House | Fiction |
Asghar, Fatimah | When We Were Sisters | After the death of their parents, three Muslim American sisters are left to raise one another. |
Bailey, Tessa | Too Beautiful To Break | Romance - Romancing the Clarksons #4 |
Bailey, Tessa | Too Hard To Forget | Romance - Romancing the Clarksons #3 |
Bailey, Tessa | Too Wild To Tame | Romance - Romancing the Clarksons #2 |
Bailey, Tessa | Too Hot To Handle | Romance - Romancing the Clarksons #1 |
Banville, John | The Singularities | Released from prison, a man with a borrowed name arrives at the estate of his youth where he must vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family while dealing with a wealthy and beautiful woman from his past. |
Benedict, Alexandra | The Christmas Murder Game | Twelve clues. Twelve keys. Twelve days of Christmas. But how many will die before Twelfth Night? |
Blake, Olivie | The Atlas Paradox | Fantasy - Atlas #2 |
Block, Lawrence | The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown | Mystery - Bernie Rhodenbarr #13 |
Bouchet, Amanda | A Curse Of Queens | Fantasy Romance - Kingmaker Chronicles #4 |
Boum, Hemley | Days Come And Go | Chronicling the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon, Days Come and Go is the remarkable story of three generations of women both within and beyond its borders. |
Braverman, Blair | Small Game | A survival reality show gone wrong leaves a group of strangers stranded in the northern wilds. |
Brecher, Christin | Photo Finished | A Manhattan photographer finds murder at a high-society ball in t his mystery series debut. |
Brown, Tracy | Hold You Down | Historical Fiction |
Bruce, Camilla | The Witch In The Well | Thriller |
Bublitz, Jacqueline | Before You Knew My Name | Two women--one alive, one dead--are brought together in the dark underbelly of New York City to solve a tragic murder. |
Bunn, T. Davis | The Christmas Hummingbird | Holiday |
Burnet, Graeme Macrae | Case Study | Blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination. |
Butcher, James J. | Dead Man's Hand | A young man must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor in this debut. |
Chakraborty, S. A. | The River Of Silver | Fantasy Short Stories - Daevabad #4 |
Chambers, Christopher | Standalone | Mystery - Dickie Cornish #2 |
Chen, Kevin | Ghost Town | Fleeing the oppression of his village in Berlin to find acceptance as a gay man, Chen Tien-Hong, the only son of a traditional Taiwanese family, returns home after 10 years and a prison sentence to find his family gone. |
Church, Wendy | Murder On The Spanish Seas | Mystery |
Ciesielski, J'Nell | The Brilliance Of Stars | Amid the chaos of the Great War, two elite assassins learn precisely how dangerous it is to have something--or someone--worth losing. |
Coburn, Jennifer | Cradles Of The Reich | At Heim Hochland, a Nazi sanctioned maternity home in Bavaria, three women's fates are irrevocably intertwined. |
Cochrun, Alison | Kiss Her Once For Me | A romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord...only to fall for his sister. |
Cohen, Leonard | A Ballet Of Lepers | Fiction |
Cole, Briana | Behind Her Lives | A story of secrets, sibling rivalry, and a woman searching for a missing sister who may not want to be found. |
Constantinou, Marissa | Women Of The Harlem Renaissance | Collection |
Cousens, Sophie | Before I Do | What would you do if the one that got away turned up the night before your wedding? |
Crais, Robert | Racing The Light | Mystery - Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #19 |
Davidson, Andy | The Hollow Kind | An epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by an ancient evil. |
Deaver, Jeffery | Hunting Time | Mystery - Colter Shaw #4 |
Delaney, Edward J. | The Acrobat | "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant," mused the world's most famous leading man. Even I want to be Cary Grant." |
Denton, Lauren K. | A Place To Land | A hidden past isn't past at all. |
Deveraux, Jude | Thief Of Fate | Paranormal Romance - Providence Falls #3 |
Dillon, Alena | Eyes Turned Skyward | An empty nester and primary caretaker for her elderly, ailing mother inadvertently discovers that her mom was a Women Airforce Service Pilot who is now filled with regrets as she confronts the end of her life. |
Dunn, Katherine | Toad | The reflections of a deeply scarred and reclusive woman. |
Ernaux, Annie | Do What They Say Or Else | The story of a fifteen-year-old girl named Anne who lives with her working-class parents in a small town in Normandy, France. |
Evans, Richard Paul | A Christmas Memory | Holiday |
Everett, Percival | Dr. No | A sly, madcap novel about supervillains. |
Feehan, Christine | Dark Whisper | Paranormal Romance - Carpathian #36 |
Fisher, Suzanne Woods | Anything But Plain | Christian Fiction |
Frank, Alli, and Asha Youmans | Never Meant To Meet You | While dealing with a new class of kindergarteners, her son's puberty, and her annoying ex-husband, Marjette navigates a ritual of loss with the help of her neighbor, and together they find the strength to remake their lives. |
French, Nicci | The Favor | A young woman agrees to do a favor for her first love, but when things go horribly wrong, one small task turns into a murder investigation that completely upends her life, ensnaring her in a deadly web of secrets and lies. |
Friday, T. | Carl Weber's Kingpins: The Ultimate Hustle | This pastor's daughter has some choices to make. Does she return to the flock, or fully enter the world of these kingpins? |
Gervais, Simon | Robert Ludlum's The Blackbriar Genesis | The assassination of a Treadstone agent leads two Blackbriar operatives down a rabbit hole of deceit and betrayal in this new series from the world of Jason Bourne. |
Geum-yi, Lee | The Picture Bride | In 1918, Willow, a young Korean picture bride, arrives in Hawaii to start a new life but her dreams are soon shattered by a husband who doesn't want her and by the escalation of the Korean independence movements, which threaten to divide her family and friends. |
Gibson, S. T. | A Dowry Of Blood | The tale of Dracula's first bride, Constanta. |
Gilman, Laura Anne | Uncanny Times | Monster hunting siblings set out to solve a series of murders. |
Givhan, Jennifer | River Woman, River Demon | When Eva's husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her murky past and embrace her magick to find out what really happened that night on the river. |
Gomez, Anna | Where The Sun Rises: Volume 2 | Romance - From Kona With Love #2 |
Gomez, Anna | Moments Like This: From Kona With Love | Romance |
Graham, Heather | Voice Of Fear | Paranormal Romance - Krewe of Hunters #38 |
Gray, Shelley Shepard | Happily Ever Amish | In this first in a new series, welcome to Apple Creek, Ohio--a small, vibrant Amish community where everyone seems to know everyone else. |
Greer, Helena | Season Of Love | When she inherits half of her great-aunt's Jewish-run Christmas tree farm, Miriam Blum must save the business from going under with the help of the farm's grumpy manager, Noelle. |
Griffis, Gigi | The Empress | Historical Fiction |
Hairston, Andrea | Will Do Magic For Small Change | A tale of alien science and earthbound magic and the secrets families keep from each other. |
Halfon, Eduardo | Canción | Fiction |
Hall, Alexis | Paris Daillencourt Is About To Crumble | Romance - Winner Bakes it All #2 |
Hannah, Sophie | The Couple At The Table | Mystery - Culver Valley Crime #11 |
Hannon, Irene | Body Of Evidence | Christian Suspense - Triple Threat #3 |
Hawker, Olivia | The Fire And The Ore | Three spirited wives in nineteenth-century Utah. One husband. |
Hays, Katy | The Cloisters | A circle of researchers uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. |
Hedlund, Jody | Falling For The Cowgirl | Christian Historical - Colorado Cowboys #4 |
Herrera, Adriana | On The Hustle | Romance - Dating in Dallas #2 |
Herron, Mick | Standing By The Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas | Mystery - Slough House |
Hogle, Sarah | Just Like Magic | The holidays were never her thing, until she accidentally conjures the Holiday Spirit...before her very eyes. |
Holiday, Jenny | So This Is Christmas | Holiday Romance |
Hood, Christopher M. | The Revivalists | A debut novel about a couple's harrowing journey across a ravaged America to save their daughter. |
Hornby, Gill | Godmersham Park | A novel inspired by the true story of Anne Sharp, a governess who became very close with Jane Austen and her family. |
Horowitz, Anthony | The Twist Of A Knife | Mystery - Hawthorne and Horowitz #4 |
Howey, Hugh | Across The Sand | Science Fiction - Sand Chronicles #2 |
Ifedigbo, Sylva Nze | Believers And Hustlers | Mystery |
Irving, Dionne | The Islands: Stories | The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women--immigrants or the descendants of immigrants--who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism. |
Isaka, Kōtarō | Three Assassins | Set in Tokyo's criminal underworld, this thriller pits an ordinary man against a group of talented and very unusual assassins. |
J-Blunt | Torn Between A Gangster And A Gentleman | Urban Fiction |
Jemisin, N. K. | The World We Make | Fantasy - Great Cities #2 |
Johnson, Toni Ann | Light Skin Gone To Waste | Short Stories |
Karunatilaka, Shehan | The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida | Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, this novel is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war. |
Keegan, Claire | Foster | An Irish child taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm finds the love and affection she never knew before and begins to thrive. |
Keese | Hood Consigliere 2 | Urban Fiction |
Kennedy, Louise | Trespasses | Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a debut novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and unsanctioned love. |
Khan, Ausma Zehanat | Blackwater Falls: A Thriller | The first in a new mystery series featuring Detective Inaya Rahman. |
Khan, Vaseem | The Perfect Crime | Mystery Short Stories |
King, Stephen, Stuart O'Nan, and Richard Chizmar | A Face In The Crowd And The Longest December | Horror |
Kowal, Mary Robinette | The Spare Man | Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and heiress, finds her honeymoon interrupted by murder, and with her husband accused of the crime, she, armed with witty banter, martinis, and her small service dog, must solve this mystery and stop the real killer from striking again. |
La Salle, Eriq | Laws Of Depravity | Thriller |
Larocca, Eric | They Were Here Before Us | Horror |
Lau, Jackie | The Stand-Up Groomsman | A bridesmaid and groomsman put their differences aside to get their best friends down the aisle in this opposites-attract romantic comedy. |
Lawhon, Ariel, Kristina McMorris, and Susan Meissner | When We Had Wings | Historical Fiction |
Lico Albanese, Laurie | Hester | Who is the real Hester Prynne? An origin story for The Scarlet Letter. |
Lorac, E. C. R. | These Names Make Clues | An invitation to a treasure hunt open to thriller writers and lesser mortals confronts Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Macdonald with two baffling deaths. |
Lux, Claudia | Sign Here | A debut novel about a guy who works in Hell (literally) and is on the cusp of a big promotion if only he can get one more member of the wealthy Harrison family to sell their soul. |
Ly, David | Queer Little Nightmares | Horror Anthology |
Maguire, Gregory | The Oracle Of Maracoor | Fantasy - Another Day #2 |
Manning, Kate | Gilded Mountain | Set in early 1900s Colorado, the tale of a young woman who bravely faces the consequences of speaking out against injustice. |
Marske, Freya | A Restless Truth | Historical Fantasy - Last Binding #2 |
Mathews, Francine | Death On A Winter Stroll | Mystery - Merry Folger #7 |
Matthews, Mimi | The Belle Of Belgrave Square | Historical Romance - Belles of London #2 |
Maxwell, Everina | Ocean's Echo | Science Fiction |
McCracken, Elizabeth | The Hero Of This Book | Fiction |
McDermid, Val | 1989 | Mystery - Allie Burns #2 |
McGee, Stephenia H. | The Secrets Of Emberwild | Christian Historical |
McKinlay, Jenn | The Plot And The Pendulum | Cozy Mystery - Library Lover's #13 |
Meesha | Baby, I'm Wintertime Cold | Urban Fiction |
Michelle, Niko | Dear Diary | Urban Fiction |
Miller, Sarah | Marmee | A retelling of Louisa May Alcott's beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret "Marmee" March. |
Millet, Lydia | Dinosaurs | Fiction |
Moalem, Sharon | Wrath | In a future much nearer than you think, where scientific experimentation is exploited for commercial profit, unwisely under-supervised cutting-edge technology creates a menace that threatens the very fabric of human existence. |
Moore, Alan | Illuminations | Speculative Short Stories |
Morris, Wanda M. | Anywhere You Run | After the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country...But can they escape the secrets they left behind? |
Mujica, Barbara Louise | Miss Del Río | A historical novel that traces the life of a trailblazing woman whose legacy in Hollywood and in Mexico still shines bright today. |
Nam-Joo, Cho | Saha | A chilling dystopian fable for fans of Netflix's Squid Game. |
Nwabineli, Onyi | Someday, Maybe | After her husband commits suicide, a young woman finds the strength to move on with the help of her tight-knit Nigerian family and happy memories of the man she'll never forget. |
Oliveras, Priscilla | Kiss Me, Catalina | Romance |
O'Malley, Daniel | Blitz | Fantasy - Rook Files #3 |
Oyamada, Hiroko | Weasels In The Attic | A novel that explores fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary Japan. |
Oyebanji, Adam | A Quiet Teacher | A teacher trying to hide in the shadows finds himself embroiled in a murder investigation. |
Pariat, Janice | Everything The Light Touches | Historical Fiction |
Paris, B. A. | The Prisoner | A woman marries in to a family with deadly intentions. |
Patterson, James, and Brian Sitts | The Perfect Assassin | Prof. Brandt Savage, grandson of the legendary action hero, is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. |
Penny, Louise | A World Of Curiosities | Mystery - Chief Inspector Gamache #18 |
Power-Greene, Ousmane K. | The Confessions Of Matthew Strong | Thriller |
Quick, Matthew | We Are The Light | A novel about a widower who takes in a grieving teenager and inspires a magical revival in their small town. |
Rai, Alisha | Partners In Crime | While settling her aunt's affairs with the help of a man she rejected, Mira finds herself in a mad dash through Las Vegas, following clues to untangle the mess her family left behind, which puts both their lives in danger. |
Rankin, Ian | A Heart Full Of Headstones | Mystery - Inspector Rebus #24 |
Rendon, Marcie R. | Sinister Graves | Mystery - Cash Blackbear #3 |
Reyes, Raquel V. | Calypso, Corpses, And Cooking | Cozy Mystery - Caribbean Kitchen #2 |
Robert, Katee | The Demon's Bargain | Paranormal Romance |
Robert, Katee | The Kraken's Sacrifice | Paranormal Romance - Deal with a Demon #2 |
Robert, Katee | The Dragon's Bride | Paranormal Romance - Deal with a Demon #1 |
Roberts, Nora | The Choice | Paranormal Romance - Dragon Heart Legacy #3 |
Robinson, Shauna | The Banned Bookshop Of Maggie Banks | I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books. If only, I, Maggie Banks, believed in following the rules. |
Rosen, Lev AC | Lavender House | Knives Out with a queer historical twist. |
Rosenfelt, David | Santa's Little Yelpers | Cozy Mystery - Andy Carpenter #26 |
Roth, Veronica | Poster Girl | The story of a woman's desperate search for a missing girl after the collapse of an oppressive dystopian regime...and the dark secrets about her family and community she uncovers along the way. |
Santos, Yaffa S. | A Touch Of Moonlight | A young woman must navigate her family's expectations, the demands of her job, a new love, and a secret about her magical identity. |
Saunders, George | Liberation Day: Stories | Short Stories |
Schweblin, Samanta | Seven Empty Houses | Short Stories |
Scodellaro, Giada | Some Of Them Will Carry Me | Short Stories |
Scotch, Allison Winn | The Rewind | Two exes wake up together with wedding bands on their fingers--and no idea how they got there. They have just one New Year's Eve at the end of 1999 to figure it out. |
Scott, Omar | Loyal To A Fault | Loyalty is a word that gets thrown around a lot, but is rarely put to the test. For Dez, a promising DEA agent that managed to work his way off the streets of Brooklyn, it just got real. |
Shapiro, Dani | Signal Fires | On a summer night in 1985, three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything changes. |
Shawl, Nisi | Our Fruiting Bodies: Short Fiction | Short Stories |
Shepherd, Megan | Malice House | Horror |
Slayton, David R. | Deadbeat Druid | Fantasy - Adam Binder #3 |
Smith, Wilbur A. | Titans Of War | Historical Fiction - Ancient Egyptian #8 |
Soto, Adam | Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep | Ghost Stories |
Spector, Elijah Kinch | Kalyna The Soothsayer | A woman born without the Gift of future sight that has been her family's legacy for generations must pretend to tell fortunes for a prince who holds her family hostage--and navigate the potential collapse of the kingdom. |
Stabenow, Dana | Theft Of An Idol | Historical Mystery - Eye of Isis #3 |
Steadman, Catherine | The Family Game | THE RULES: 1. Listen carefully. 2. Do your research. 3. Trust no one. 4. Run for your life. |
Steel, Danielle | The Whittiers | Fiction |
Stoker, Susan | Finding Carly | Romance - SEAL Team Hawaii #5 |
Stone, Emily | One Last Gift | When a young woman finds herself lost and at a crossroads, one last gift from her brother just might give her another chance at life and at love. |
Takamura, Kaoru | Lady Joker v. 2 | Thriller |
Thomas, Sheree R. | Black Panther: Panther's Rage | Superhero |
Tran, E. M. | Daughters Of The New Year | In present day New Orleans, three sisters begin to encounter glimpses of long-buried secrets from their ancestors. |
Tsujimura, Mizuki | Lonely Castle In The Mirror | Seven students find unusual common ground in this warm, puzzle-like Japanese bestseller laced with gentle fantasy and compassionate insight. |
Turton, Tanya | Jade Is A Twisted Green | A coming-of-age story about queer Black identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life's pleasures after loss. |
Vo, Nghi | Into The Riverlands | Fantasy - Singing Hills Cycle #3 |
Wagenstein, Angel | Isaac's Torah | Historical Fiction |
Ward, Catriona | Little Eve | Horror |
Warren, Susan May | Sundown | Christian Romance - Sky King Ranch #3 |
Wells, Christine | One Woman's War | The story of WWII British Naval Intelligence officer Victoire Bennett, the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character Miss Moneypenny. |
Wilsner, Meryl | Mistakes Were Made | A rom-com about a college senior who accidentally hooks up with her best friend's mom. |
Wiseman, Beth | The Story Of Love | Romance - Amish Bookstore #2 |
Wurth, Erika T. | White Horse | An Indigenous woman must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother's spirit. |
Yakovleva, Yulia | Punishment Of A Hunter: A Leningrad Confidential | The debut of a noir detective series set in Stalinist Russia. |
September 2022
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Adams, Erin E. | Jackal | A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white rust belt town. But she's not the first--and she may not be the last. |
Adams, Sarah | When In Rome | Opposites attract for a stranded pop star and small-town baker in this slice of romance adapted from Roman Holiday |
Adler-Olsen, Jussi | The Shadow Murders | Mystery - Department Q #9 |
Aguirre, Ann | Extra Witchy | Romance - Fix-It Witches #3 |
Alexander, Tasha | Secrets Of The Nile | Historical Mystery - Lady Emily #16 |
Angoe, Yasmin | They Come At Knight | Thriller - Nena Knight #2 |
Archer, C. J. | The Librarian Of Crooked Lane | A librarian with a mysterious past, a war hero with a secret, and the heist of a magic painting. |
Archer, Jeffrey | Next In Line | Mystery - William Warwick #5 |
Armas, Elena | The American Roommate Experiment | In this follow up to The Spanish Love Deception, Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín are forced to share a New York apartment. |
Atkinson, Kate | Shrines Of Gaiety | A tale of seduction and betrayal set in Jazz Age London. |
Baldacci, David | Long Shadows | Mystery - Memory Man/Amos Decker #7 |
Balson, Ronald H. | An Affair Of Spies | Historical Fiction |
Bannen, Megan | The Undertaking Of Hart And Mercy | Fantasy Romance |
Baxter, Stephen | Galaxias | What would happen to the world if the sun went out? |
Beers, Georgia | Cherry On Top | Romance |
Beharrie, Therese | A Ghost In Shining Armor | A woman with a supernatural talent is haunted by one persistent spirit--and a seductive, impossible love . . . |
Benn, James R. | From The Shadows | Historical Mystery - Billy Boyle #17 |
Brooks, Terry | Daughter Of Darkness | Fantasy - Child of Light #2 |
Burgis, Stephanie | Scales And Sensibility | A frothy Regency rom-com full of pet dragons and magical misadventures. |
Cardinal, Ann Dávila | The Storyteller's Death | A Puerto Rican teenager who finds herself gifted (or cursed?) with a strange ability. |
Carty-Williams, Candice | People Person | An aspiring lifestyle influencer saddled with a terrible and wayward boyfriend, 30-year-old Dimple Pennington has never felt so alone in her life until a dramatic event brings her half siblings crashing back into her life, forcing them all to reconnect with the absent father they never really knew. |
Castle, Jayne | Sweetwater And The Witch | Paranormal Romance - Harmony #15 |
Child, Lee, and Andrew Child | No Plan B | Thriller - Jack Reacher #27 |
Christie, Agatha | Marple : Twelve New Stories | Mystery Stories |
Chupeco, Rin | Silver Under Nightfall | Fantasy |
CJ, Piper | The Night And Its Moon | Fantasy Romance |
Clark, Marcia | The Fall Girl | Thriller |
Coates, Darcy | Gallows Hill | Horror |
Collette, Abby | Soul Of A Killer | Cozy Mystery - Books & Biscuits #2 |
Connelly, Michael | Desert Star | Mystery - Renee Ballard #5 |
Connolly, John | The Furies | Mystery - Charlie Parker #20 |
Cornwell, Patricia | Livid | Mystery - Kay Scarpetta #26 |
Cruz, Angie | How Not To Drown In A Glass Of Water | Forced back into the job market after losing her factory gig during the Great Recession, 50-something Cara Romero narrates the story of her life to her career counselor and confronts her darkest secrets and regrets. |
De'kari | Straight Beast Mode 2 | Urban Fiction |
DeMille, Nelson | The Maze | Thriller - John Corey #8 |
Duke, Gloria | When Life Gives You Vampires | Single (plus size) vampire, desperately in search of a life. |
Eddings, Mazey | Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake | A two-night-stand doesn't go exactly as expected. |
Ennes, Hiron | Leech | In an isolated chateau housing the Interprovincial Medical Institute, a parasite invades, spreading madness in this already dark pit of secrets, lies, violence and fear. |
Enoch, Suzanne | Something In The Heir | Smart, capable heiress Emmeline Pershing will do anything to keep her beloved home; and all it takes is an arranged marriage and a teeny white lie to fulfill her family's silly inheritance rules. |
Escoffery, Jonathan | If I Survive You | A collection of humorous and harrowing linked stories following a Jamaican-American family as they seek stability upon moving to Miami. |
Eskens, Allen | Forsaken Country | Mystery |
Estep, Jennifer | Only Bad Options | Science Fiction Romance |
Evanovich, Janet | Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine | Mystery - Stephanie Plum #29 |
Evans, Davinia | Notorious Sorcerer | In a city filled with dangerous yet heavily regulated alchemical magic, a man from the slums discovers he may be its only hope to survive certain destruction. |
Finger, Bobby | The Old Place | A debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town. |
Flower, Amanda | Because I Could Not Stop For Death | Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series. |
Freeman, Elijah R. | Murda Was The Case 2 | Urban Fiction |
Friedland, Elyssa | The Most Likely Club | At their milestone high school reunion, a group of friends make a pact to finally achieve their high school superlatives one way or another. |
Gagnon, Jilly | All Dressed Up | A remote hotel. A murder mystery. A missing woman. Everyone has a role to play, but what's real and what's part of the game? |
Gallon, Michael | The Murder Queens 2 | Urban Fiction |
Ghost | King Of The Trenches 3 | Urban Fiction |
Gray, Erick S. | Carl Weber's Kingpins : Queens | It's 1999, and Sincere has finished his tour in the United States Army. He's come back home just in time to find his little brother, Maurice, taking his place in the streets. |
Gray, Shelley Shepard, et. al | An Amish Christmas Star | Holiday |
Green, Chris | Classic City | Urban Fiction |
Greer, Andrew Sean | Less Is Lost | Fiction - Arthur Less #2 |
Grisham, John | The Boys From Biloxi | Thriller |
Guillory, Jasmine | Drunk On Love | Romance |
Harper, Elodie | The House With The Golden Door | Historical Fiction - Wolf Den #2 |
Harris, Robert | Act Of Oblivion | A historical novel that imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail. |
Harrison, Rachel | Such Sharp Teeth | A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside. |
Henderson, Alexis | House Of Hunger | A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this Gothic novel. |
Hilderbrand, Elin | Endless Summer : Stories | Short Stories |
Hogarth, Ainslie | Motherthing | A domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. |
Hoover, Colleen | Verity | Romantic Suspense - re-release featuring an exclusive new chapter. |
Hoover, Colleen | It Starts With Us | Romance - It Ends with Us #2 |
Hoover, Colleen | Maybe Now | Romance - Maybe Someday #3 |
House, Silas | Lark Ascending | A timely, powerful story of survival set in the not-too-distant future. |
Howe, Jenny L. | The Make-Up Test | Two college exes find themselves battling against each other--and their unresolved feelings--for a spot in a prestigious literature Ph.D. program. |
Howell, Dorothy | Seams Like Murder | A brand new cozy mystery series featuring Abbey Chandler and her fellow sewing circle members in the quaint, touristy town of Hideaway Cove. |
Hunter, Denise | Harvest Moon | Romance - Riverbend Romance #3 |
Huynh, Carolyn | The Fortunes Of Jaded Women | Part of a family of women cursed never to find love and happiness, Mai Nguyen seeks guidance from her trusted psychic, whose unexpected prophecy brings together her entire estranged family--for better or for worse. |
Igharo, Jane | Where We End & Begin | Romance |
Irving, John | The Last Chairlift | Fiction |
Jamnia, Naseem | The Bruising Of Qilwa | Historical Fantasy |
Janovsky, Timothy | You're A Mean One, Matthew Prince | Romance - Boy Meets Boy #2 |
Jaye, Lola | The Attic Child | Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret. |
Johnson, Cary Alan | Desire Lines | A Black teenager growing up gay in Brooklyn is captivated by a vision of life on the other side in Manhattan. |
Johnson, Craig | Hell And Back | Mystery - Longmire #18 |
Jones, Gayl | The Birdcatcher | On the white-washed island of Ibiza, the narrator describes in great detail her peculiar relationship with her closet friend, a gifted sculptor who is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her. |
Kennedy, Elle | Bad Girl Reputation | Romance - Avalon Bay #2 |
Kidd, Jess | The Night Ship | Based on a real-life event, a historical novel that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island. |
Killjoy, Margaret | We Won't Be Here Tomorrow: And Other Stories | Speculative Short Stories |
King, Ella | Bad Fruit | Thriller |
King, Laurie R. | Back To The Garden | A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life--with potentially fatal consequences--in this standalone novel from the author of the Mary Russell series. |
Kingsolver, Barbara | Demon Copperhead | The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. |
Kirkpatrick, Jane | Beneath The Bending Skies | A young woman torn between duty and her own happiness defies her father to become the wife of a man with few prospects. |
Knox, Maggie | All I Want For Christmas | A holiday rom-com about two oil-and-water reality-star country singers who must fake a relationship in order to win the opportunity of a lifetime. |
Kolluri, Talia Lakshmi | What We Fed To The Manticore | Short Stories |
Lafferty, Mur | Station Eternity | Amateur detective Mallory Viridian's talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an alien space station, but her problems still follow her. |
LaQuette | Vanessa Jared's Got A Man | When a sexy sheriff shows up on her doorstop, wanting her to keep his sister from marrying her no-good ex, 40-something divorcee Vanessa Jared is not down for this at all until she discovers he's stolen something from her and the game is on. |
LaRocca, Eric | Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, And Other Misfortunes | Horror Stories |
Lasky, Kathryn | Light On Bone | Step aside Miss Marple, Eugenia Potter, and Kinsey Millhone - Georgia O'Keeffe is the new sleuth in town. |
Lavalle, Victor | The Ballad Of Black Tom | Horror |
Lee, Sarah | An Ocean Apart | Inspired by real life stories of the Windrush Generation and her mother's own experiences as a nurse in the 1950s, Sarah Lee's debut novel is a must for fans of Call the Midwife. |
Li, Yiyun | The Book Of Goose | When her friend Fabienne passes away, Agnès is free to tell her story of a long-ago childhood in a war-ravaged, backwater town along the French countryside where Fabienne hatched a plan that changed everything, sending Agnès on an epic journey through fame, fortune and terrible loss. |
Lien, Tracey | All That's Left Unsaid | A young Vietnamese-Australian woman returns home to her family in the wake of her brother's murder and becomes determined to discover what happened. |
Ma, Ling | Bliss Montage | Short Stories |
MacNeal, Susan Elia | Mother Daughter Traitor Spy | A mother and daughter find the courage to go undercover after stumbling upon a Nazi cell in Los Angeles during the early days of World War II. |
Macomber, Debbie | The Christmas Spirit | Holiday |
Mah, Ann | Jacqueline In Paris | A portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris. |
Malerman, Josh | Daphne | A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre. |
Mallery, Susan | Home Sweet Christmas | Romance - Wishing Tree #2 |
Manansala, Mia P. | Blackmail And Bibingka | Cozy Mystery - Tita Rosie's Kitchen #3 |
Marais, Bianca | The Witches Of Moonshyne Manor | A coven of modern-day witches. A magical heist-gone-wrong. A looming threat. |
Martin, Celestine | Witchful Thinking | When she accidentally hexes herself and is suddenly unable to say no, Lucy Caraway agrees to help her high school crush unjinx his new house and discovers that love is the trickiest spell of all. |
Matthews, Olivia | Murder Out Of Character | Mystery - Peach Coast Library #2 |
Mayor, Archer | Fall Guy | Mystery - Joe Gunter #33 |
Mayr, Suzette | The Sleeping Car Porter | When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair. |
McAvoy, J. J. | Aphrodite And The Duke | Back in London for her sister's society debut, Aphrodite Du Bell is intent on avoiding Evander Eagleman, the man who jilted her and broke her heart by marring someone else years ago, but who is now an unattached widower. |
McCarthy, Cormac | The Passenger | The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God. |
McEwan, Ian | Lessons | The story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. |
Mesa, Desideria | Bindle Punk Bruja | Hiding her supernatural and Latina identity in pursuit of owning an illegal jazz club, Rose negotiates with dangerous criminals as she climbs up Kansas City's bootlegging ladder, but when she finds herself surrounded by greed and bigotry, she must use her earth magic to save her friends and family. |
Mills, Kyle | Oath Of Loyalty | Thriller - Mitch Rapp #21 |
Montgomery, Selena | Rules Of Engagement | Romantic Suspense |
Muir, Tamsyn | Nona The Ninth | Science Fiction - Locked Tomb #3 |
Murphy, Julie | A Merry Little Meet Cute | A steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star she falls in love with. |
Nayler, Ray | The Mountain In The Sea | Following a mysterious murder on an island off the coast of Vietnam, a research team convenes to study an octopus community that seems to be developing its own language and culture. |
Nethercott, GennaRose | Thistlefoot | A debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance. |
North, Claire | Ithaca | This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. |
Novik, Naomi | The Golden Enclaves | Fantasy - Scholomance #3 |
Nunn, Kayte | The Only Child | Mystery |
Oates, Joyce Carol | Babysitter | Thriller |
O'Connor, Carlene, et. al | Christmas Scarf Murder | Mystery Stories |
Ogunyemi, Omolola Ijeoma | Jollof Rice And Other Revolutions: A Novel In Interlocking Stories | Fiction |
Parks, Carrie Stuart | Fallout | Christian Suspense |
Patterson, James | Triple Cross | Thriller - Alex Cross #30 |
Patterson, James | The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days Of Christmas | Holiday |
Perry, Anne | A Truth To Lie For | Historical Mystery - Elena Standish #4 |
Peterson, Tracie | Under The Starry Skies | Inspirational - Love on the Santa Fe #3 |
Picoult, Jodi, and Jennifer Finney Boylan | Mad Honey | Fiction |
Quinn, Joanna | The Whalebone Theatre | A debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre in the gargantuan cavity of a beached whale into undercover operations during World War II. |
Reid, Iain | We Spread | Thriller |
Reynolds, Anthony | Ruination | Fantasy - League of Legends |
Rio, King | The Brick Man 4 | Urban Fiction |
Robards, Karen | The Girl From Guernica | Historical Fiction |
Robinson, Corey | Protege Of A Legend | Urban Fiction |
Ryan, Annelise | A Death In Door County | A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first installment of a new mystery series. |
Sampson, Freya | The Lost Ticket | Strangers on a London bus unite to help an elderly man find his missed love connection. |
Sanderson, Brandon | Mistborn : Secret History | Fantasy - Mistborn |
Sawyer, Kim Vogel | Still My Forever | Can a frustrated composer find new inspiration with the woman who once made his heart sing? |
Saynomore | Gorillaz In The Trenches | In Amityville, New York, there are no rules to abide by in the cold ruthless streets where only the most heartless men survive. |
Serpell, Namwali | The Furrows | Haunted by the accidental death of her little brother Wayne years ago, Cassandra Williams begins seeing her brother everywhere and meets a man both mysterious and familiar who is also searching for someone and for his own place in the world - his name is Wayne. |
Shamsie, Kamila | Best Of Friends | Two best friends who grew up in Karachi must confront their differences thirty years later when two troubling figures from their past resurface. |
Shiloh, Toni | To Win A Prince | Christian Romance |
Smith, Sarah | The Boy With The Bookstore | When a baker meets the bookshop owner of her dreams, and he turns into her nemesis, they'll both have to read between the lines to avoid a career-ending recipe for disaster. |
Snelling, Lauraine | The Florence Legacy | Christian Fiction |
Socha, Kelsey | An Archive Of Brightness | A flock of crows build an archive of brightness by observing and collecting moments of tenderness in a series of queer human relationships. |
Steel, Danielle | The High Notes | Fiction |
Sterling, Erin | The Kiss Curse | The follow-up to The Ex Hex features fan favorite Gwyn and the spine-tinglingly handsome Wells Penhallow as they battle a new band of witches and their own magical chemistry. |
Strout, Elizabeth | Lucy By The Sea | Fiction - Amgash #4 |
Styles, T. | An Ugly Girl's Diary | On the opening night of his restaurant, bad boy Tye Gates finds a diary moments after being unfaithful to his fiance. |
Thorne, Sally | Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match | When assisting in her brother Victor's experiment to bring a reassembled man back to life, Angelika Frankenstein gets an idea. But can love be built in a laboratory? |
Toston, Jerz | Bound By Dna | Urban Fiction |
Trai'quan | A Gangsta's Paradise | Urban Fiction |
Tukes, Romell | Jack Boys Vs Dope Boys 2 | Urban Fiction |
Tukes, Romell | Jack Boys Vs Dope Boys 3 | Urban Fiction |
Turow, Scott | Suspect | Mystery - Kindle County #12 |
Urquhart, Alaina | The Butcher And The Wren | From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads. |
Walsh, Jane | The Inconvenient Heiress | Historical Romance |
Warrell, Laura | Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm | When he discovers free-spirited drummer Maggie, the woman who is secretly closest to his heart, is pregnant by him, 40-year-old trumpet player and old-school ladies' man who refuses to be tied down, Circus Palmer flees, setting off a chain of interlocking revelations from the various women in his life. |
Williams, Darrius | Things Come Together | Urban Fiction |
Williams, Darrius | Things Come Together 2 | Urban Fiction |
Williams, Denise | Do You Take This Man | After butting heads, an event planner and a wedding officiant begin an enemies with benefits arrangement as wedding bells chime around them. |
Wong, Ryan Lee | Which Side Are You On | Fiction |
Woods, Rita | The Last Dreamwalker | The story of two women, separated by nearly two centuries yet inextricably linked by the Gullah-Geechee Islands off the coast of South Carolina--and their connection to a mysterious and extraordinary gift passed from generation to generation. |
Woods, Stuart | Distant Thunder | Mystery - Stone Barrington #63 |
Yagi, Emi | Diary Of A Void | A woman in Tokyo avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she's pregnant. |
Yang, Neon | The Genesis Of Misery | As those in power seek to use them to win a terrible war, Misery Nomaki, who possesses a dangerous magic that only "saints" are said to have, is thought to be the new Messiah and decides to embrace their destiny as they grow close to a rebellious royal. |
Young, Adrienne | Spells For Forgetting | Fiction |
Zusy, Jeannie | The Frederick Sisters Are Living The Dream | Fiction |
August 2022
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Abbott, Jeff | Traitor's Dance | Thriller - Sam Capra #6 |
Abreu, Andrea | Dogs of Summer | Fiction |
Acampora, Lauren | The Hundred Waters | Fiction |
Ackerman, Sara | The Codebreaker's Secret | A brilliant female codebreaker. An "unbreakable" naval code. A pilot on a top-secret mission that could change the course of WWII. |
Ah'million | It's Just Me and You | Urban Fiction |
Alderson, Ben | King of Immortal Tithe | What if Hades fell in love with Persephone's brother instead? |
Allen, Sarah Addison | Other Birds | Fiction |
Andrews, Ilona | Ruby Fever | Urban Fantasy - Hidden Legacy #6 |
Armstead, Krystal | Romeo and Juliet of The Projects | Can two people with a painful past build a better future? Does love really conquer all? |
Armstrong, Addison | The War Librarian | The Paris Library meets The Flight Girls in this historical novel inspired by the first female volunteer librarians during World War I and the first women accepted into the U.S. Naval Academy. |
Aryanna | A Dope Boy's Queen: The Game Ain't Fair | Urban Fiction |
Aryanna | A Dope Boy's Queen 2 | Urban Fiction |
Backman, Fredrik | The Winners | Fiction - Beartown #3 |
Baptiste, Robert | Caught Up in the Life: Down For Her Man | Urban Fiction |
Baptiste, Robert | Caught Up in the Life 2: Shantell's Secret | Urban Fiction |
Baptiste, Robert | Caught Up in the Life 3 | Urban Fiction |
Barnes, Julian | Elizabeth Finch | Fiction |
Beck, Hazel | Small Town, Big Magic | There's no such thing as witches...right? |
Bentley, Cade | Where Wild Peaches Grow | Estranged sisters wrestle with the choices they've made and confront circumstances beyond their control. |
Berenson, Laurien | Peg and Rose Solve A Murder | Murder, She Wrote meets The Odd Couple in this series debut featuring cantankerous Peg and soft-spoken Rose--who'll put aside their differences to stop a killer... if they don't throttle each other first! |
Bissonnette, Zac | A Killing in Costumes | Stardom fades fast when you're on the line for murder in this debut cozy mystery. |
Box, C. J. | Treasure State | Mystery - Cassie Dewell #6 |
Briggs, Patricia | Soul Taken | Urban Fantasy - Mercy Thompson #13 |
Burns, Valerie | Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder | This cozy mystery series debut introduces a social media expert who's #StartingOver in small town Michigan after inheriting her great-aunt's bakery...and a 200-pound English Mastiff named Baby. |
Burton, Jessie | The House of Fortune | Historical fiction from the author of The Miniaturist. |
Byler, Linda | All In Good Time | Inspirational - Long Road Home #3 |
Ca$h | Restraining Order: Some Men Can't Take No for an Answer | Urban Fiction |
Ca$h | Restraining Order 2: A Tragic Love | Urban Fiction |
Cannon, Joanna | A Tidy Ending | Linda lives a quiet suburban life, but things aren't always what they seem... |
Carey, C. J. | Widowland | Fatherland meets The Handmaid's Tale in this what-might-have-been tale. |
Charyn, Jerome | Big Red | Reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. |
Childs, Laura | A Dark and Stormy Tea | Cozy Mystery - Tea Shop #24 |
Chu, Wesley | The Art of Prophecy | When the prophecy anoints the wrong hero, Jian decides to save the kingdom anyway with the help of a ragtag group of allies, including a grandmaster of magical martial arts, a straight-laced warrior, and a chaotic assassin. |
Cleeves, Ann | The Rising Tide | Mystery - Vera Stanhope #10 |
Clipston, Amy | Building A Future | Inspirational - Amish Legacy #2 |
Coffee | Restraining Order: Some Men Can't Take No For An Answer | Urban Fiction |
Colgan, Jenny | Rules At The School By The Sea | Fiction - Little School by the Sea #2 |
Coll, Susan | Bookish People | Fiction |
Davis, Christine N. | Trap Queen | Fed up with feeling powerless, Lihanny takes the drug world by storm when she meets Malaki. But what happens when the love for the game trumps everything else? |
Degollado, Rubén | The Family Izquierdo | A debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love, and a curse. |
Donoghue, Emma | Haven | Three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. |
Du Bois, W. E. B. | Darkwater | Du Bois' foundational investigation of social justice and civil rights by means of essay, poetry, prayer, and short science fiction. |
Eason, Lynette | Crossfire | Christian Suspense - Extreme Measures #2 |
Edwards, Shaunna J. and Alyson Richman | The Thread Collectors | Historical Fiction |
Feeney, Alice | Daisy Darker | A family reunion on a tiny tidal island leads to murder. |
Fielding, Joy | The Housekeeper | A woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents--only to watch as she takes over their lives. |
Flowers, Ashley | All Good People Here | A journalist uncovers her hometown's dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor--and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later. |
Fofana, Sidik | Stories From The Tenants Downstairs | A debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it. |
Franqui, Leah | After The Hurricane | A daughter returns to Puerto Rico to search for her troubled father, who has gone missing after Hurricane Maria. |
Freeman, Brian | I Remember You | Thriller |
Fuller, Kathleen | Sold On Love | Christian Romance - Maple Falls #3 |
Galbraith, Robert | The Ink Black Heart | Thriller - Cormoran Strike #6 |
Gamarra, Katalina | Ben and Beatriz | There's nothing like falling for your worst enemy. |
Garza, Kimberly | The Last Karankawas | A debut about a tight-knit community of Mexican and Filipino families on the Texas coast. |
Giddings, Megan | The Women Could Fly | A dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored. |
Goldin, Megan | Stay Awake | Thriller |
Gunty, Tess | The Rabbit Hutch | A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest. |
Gurnah, Abdulrazak | Afterlives | A sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. |
Hannaham, James | Didn't Nobody Give A Shit What Happened To Carlotta | A trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men's prison. |
Hazelwood, Ali | Love On The Brain | Romance |
Howard, Amalie | Always Be My Duchess | Pretty Woman meets the Bridgertons in this historical take on 90s romcoms. |
Howard, Catherine Ryan | Run Time | Thriller |
Huff, Tanya | Into The Broken Lands | Fantasy |
Janson, Julie | Benevolence | A reimagining of the first contact between Indigenous people and white British settlers and the far-reaching consequences for one Aboriginal girl coming of age in an unsteady and dangerous world. |
Jayatissa, Amanda | You're Invited | What could be worse than your ex-boyfriend marrying your childhood best friend? Getting accused of her murder... |
Jenkins Reid, Taylor | Carrie Soto Is Back | An epic adventure about a female athlete perhaps past her prime, brought back to the tennis court for one last grand slam. |
Jenkins, Beverly | To Catch A Raven | Historical Romance - Women Who Dare #3 |
Jenkins, Jerry B. | Dead Sea Conspiracy | Christian Suspense - Dead Sea Chronicles #2 |
Jewell, Lisa | The Family Remains | Mystery - The Family Upstairs #2 |
Jimenez, Simon | The Spear Cuts Through Water | Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family. |
Johansen, Iris | Captive | Mystery - Eve Duncan #29 |
Johnson, Liz | The Last Way Home | Christian Romance |
Johnson, Tyrell | The Lost Kings | A woman is forced to confront the darkest moment in her childhood in order to move on from her past and open her heart to love. |
Jones, Sandie | The Blame Game | Games can be dangerous. But blame can be deadly. |
Kae, Courtney | In The Event of Love | Returning home after her event-planning career implodes, Morgan Ross decides to help her one-time-best-friend crush, Rachel Reed, save her struggling tree farm from corporate greed by planning her best fundraiser yet, bringing about unexpected romance. |
Kellerman, Faye | The Hunt | Mystery - Decker and Lazarus #27 |
King, Joy Deja | Sugar Babies...A Titillating Tale | Urban Fiction |
King, Stephen | Fairy Tale | A seventeen-year-old boy inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war. |
Kirwan, Noué | Long Past Summer | It's hard to move on from a broken heart -- and harder to move on from a broken friendship. |
Kiste, Gwendolyn | Reluctant Immortals | Horror |
Krueger, William Kent | Fox Creek | Mystery - Cork O'Connor #19 |
Ku, Pyŏng-mo | The Old Woman With The Knife | The story of a sixty-five-year old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the twilight of her career. |
Kuang, R. F. | Babel : Or The Necessity of Violence | Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. |
Kumarasamy, Akil | Meet Us By The Roaring Sea | A genre-bending exploration of memory, war, technology, friendship, love, consciousness, and the challenges of caring for others. |
Laflare, Reese | The Cocaine Diaries 2: Gucci's Story | Urban Fiction |
Laflare, Reese | The Cocaine Diaries 3: Gucci's Story | Urban Fiction |
Lagercrantz, David | Dark Music | A murder investigation in which two unlikely allies race to uncover a shadowy international conspiracy. |
Langer, Adam | Cyclorama | Ten teenagers are brought together by a high school production of The Diary of Anne Frank that will influence the rest of their lives. |
Levin, Adam | Mount Chicago | Fiction |
Lewis, Beverly | The Orchard | Inspirational |
Li, Winnie M. | Complicit | After a long-buried, harrowing incident, a woman whose promising film career was derailed has an opportunity for revenge. |
Lim, Roselle | Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club | A novel about the power of loneliness and the strength of love that overcomes it. |
Lister, Sheryl | A Table For Two | One woman must learn to love again with the help of her supper club friends and the man next door. |
Lucia, Natalia Macias | Girls of Salt and Sea | Fantasy |
Lupica, Mike | Robert B. Parker's Fallout | Mystery - Jesse Stone #21 |
Maden, Mike | Clive Cussler's Hellburner | Thriller - Oregon Files #16 |
Mandanna, Sangu | The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches | An uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family--and a new love--changes the course of her life. |
Manibo, Victor | The Sleepless | A mysterious pandemic causes a quarter of the world to permanently lose the ability to sleep. |
Mann, Michael | Heat 2 | A return to the universe and characters of the crime film Heat. |
Maxwell, Alyssa | Murder At Beacon Rock | Historical Mystery - Gilded Newport #10 |
McAllister, Gillian | Wrong Place Wrong Time | Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? |
McCall Smith, Alexander | A Song of Comfortable Chairs | Mystery - No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #23 |
McFarlane, Mhairi | Mad About You | Romance |
McGuire, Seanan | Be The Serpent | Fantasy - October Daye #16 |
McMorris, Kristina | The Ways We Hide | The tale of an illusionist whose recruitment by British intelligence sets her on a perilous, heartrending path during World War II. |
Medoff, Jillian | When We Were Bright and Beautiful | Fiction |
Meltzer, Jean | Mr. Perfect On Paper | A third-generation Jewish matchmaker unwittingly finds her own search for love thrust into the spotlight. |
Mestre-Reed, Ernesto | Sacrificio | Historical Fiction |
Michaels, Fern | Tick Tock | Holiday |
Michaels, Fern | Falling Stars | Romantic Suspense - Sisterhood #34 |
Mo, Johanna | The Shadow Lily | It's a race against time as an island searches for a murderer and a missing child. |
Modesitt, L. E. Jr. | Councilor | Fantasy - Grand Illusion #2 |
Moore, Taylor | Firestorm | Thriller - Garrett Kohl #2 |
Newson, Rasheed | My Government Means To Kill Me | A coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young, gay, Black man in 1980s New York City. |
Ng, Celeste | Our Missing Hearts | From the author of Little Fires Everywhere, anovel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. |
Nguyen, Phong | Bronze Drum | A novel of ancient Vietnam based on the true story of two warrior sisters who raised an army of women to overthrow the Han Chinese and rule as kings over a united people. |
O'Farrell, Maggie | The Marriage Portrait | A fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court. |
Osman, Richard | The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery | Mystery - Thursday Murder Club #3 |
Patterson, James, and Brendan DuBois | Blowback | Thriller |
Patterson, James, and Richard DiLallo | The Ninth Month | Thriller |
Peñaranda, Chloe C | A Clash of Three Courts | In a war of hearts, fates will be sealed. But in a battle of thrones, no bond may be truly unbreakable. |
Penelope, L. | The Monsters We Defy | A woman able to communicate with spirits must assemble a ragtag crew to pull off a daring heist to save her community in this historical fantasy that weaves ogether African American folk magic, history, and romance. |
Player, Delmont | The Birth of A Gangster 2 | Urban Fiction |
Pollard, Clare | Delphi | A British classics professor intersperses her lockdown diary with a taxonomy of ancient systems of prophecy. |
Quinn, Spencer | Bark To The Future | Mystery - Chet and Bernie #13 |
Raybourn, Deanna | Killers of A Certain Age | Four female assassins on the brink of retirement are brought back into the game by a surprising assassination attempt--on them. |
Revis, Beth | The Princess and The Scoundrel | Spending their honeymoon on a luxury vessel journeying to the most wondrous worlds in the galaxy, Han Solo and Princess Leia soon discover that the war is not over as the remnants of the Empire still cling to power, bringing the fight to them. |
Reynolds, Alastair | Eversion | A dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and space, where Doctor Silas Coade is tasked with keeping his crew safe as they adventure across the galaxy in search of a mysterious artifact. |
Riley, Vanessa | Murder In Westminster | When she stumbles upon the body of her neighbor's wife, Lady Abigail Worthing teams up with the widower and dives into the treacherous waters of London's high society to find the truth. |
Ro, Hazel | I Didn't Think You Existed 2: A Fool In Love | Urban Fiction |
Robb, J. D. | Desperation In Death | Mystery - In Death #55 |
Robert, Katee | Court of The Vampire Queen | Three powerfully alluring vampire men and one queen to rule them all. |
Robson, Kelly | High Times In The Low Parliament | A lighthearted romp through an 18th-century London featuring flirtatious scribes, irritable fairies, and the dangers of Parliament. |
Roby, Kimberla Lawson | Sister Friends Forever | Follows four lifelong friends as each faces a crisis in family, love, and forgiveness. |
Rocha, Kit | Dance With The Devil | Romance - Mercenary Librarians #3 |
Rose, Karen | Quarter To Midnight | A series opener set in New Orleans and featuring a tough team of high-end private investigators who are after justice--no matter what they have to do to get it. |
Rowland, Alexandra | A Taste of Gold and Iron | Fantasy |
Ruiz, Sarah Grunder | Luck and Last Resorts | Romance |
Salvatore, R. A. | Glacier's Edge | Fantasy - Way of the Drow #2 |
Sandford, John | Righteous Prey | Mystery - Prey #32 |
Scrivenor, Hayley | Dirt Creek | In this small-town debut mystery, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together. |
Seckel, Emma | The Wild Hunt | The islanders have only three rules: don't stick your nose where it's not wanted, don't mention the war, and never let your guard down during October. |
Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson | On The Rooftop | A mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives, set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco. |
Simpson, W. A. | Tinderbox | Isbet returns home to find the witch who raised her murdered and her prized possession, the Tinderbox, stolen. |
Singh, Nalini | Storm Echo | Paranormal Romance - Psy-Changeling Trinity #6 |
Slaughter, Karin | Girl, Forgotten | Thriller |
Sparks, Nicholas | Dreamland | Fiction |
Stoker, Susan | Deserving Alaska | The Refuge is a place to heal. Where those who have experienced traumatic events can go to heal. It's run by seven former military men who've seen more than their fair share of the ugliness in the world. |
Sun, Kung Li | Begin The World Over | Alternative History |
Suri, Tasha | The Oleander Sword | Fantasy - The Burning Kingdoms #2 |
Tang, Belinda Huijuan | A Map For The Missing | Historical Fiction |
Taylor, Jodi | A Catalogue of Catastrophe | Science Fiction - Chronicles of St. Mary's #13 |
Thankam Mathews, Sarah | All This Could be Different | Fiction |
Thompson, Alicia | Love in the Time of Serial Killers | Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating-and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst. |
Tukes, Romell | Jack Boyz N Da Bronx 2 | Urban Fiction |
Tukes, Romell | A Dopeboy's Dream 3 | Urban Fiction |
Tukes, Romell | Jack Boys Vs Dope Boys | Urban Fiction |
Umubyeyi Mairesse, Beata | All Your Children, Scattered | Fiction |
Valdes, Valerie | Fault Tolerance | Science Fiction - Chilling Effect #3 |
Virdi, R. R. | The First Binding | My name is Ari. And this is the story of how I let loose the first evil. Thus begins the tale of a storyteller and a singer on the run and hoping to find obscurity in a tavern bar. |
Watkins, LaToya | Perish | A family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed. |
Weber, Carl | Black Hamptons | When a piece of land comes up for sale in this exclusive community, it sparks a war between the Brittons and the Johnsons. |
Weis, Margaret | Dragons of Deceit | Fantasy - Dragonlance Destinies #1 |
West, Catherine Adel | The Two Lives of Sara | A young mother finds refuge and friendship at a boardinghouse in 1960s Memphis, Tennessee, where family encompasses more than just blood and hidden truths can bury you or set you free. |
Whelan, Julia | Thank You For Listening | A former actress turned successful audiobook narrator, who has lost sight of her dreams after a tragic accident, agrees to narrate one last romance novel. |
Wiggins, Marianne | Properties of Thirst | Historical Fiction |
Winstead, Ashley | The Last Housewife | Thriller |
Wiseman, Ellen Marie | The Lost Girls of Willowbrook | Historical Fiction |
Woodsmall, Cindy | Yesterday's Gone | Christian Fiction |
Giving The Devil His Due | Horror |
July 2022
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Afia, Nekesa | Harlem Sunset | Historical Mystery - Harlem Renaissance #2 |
Alers, Rochelle | Along the Shore | Romance - Book Club #2 |
Alexander, Kianna | Can't Resist Her | Two very determined women--in love, at odds, and risking a lot on a second chance. |
Andrews, Donna | Round Up the Usual Peacocks | Cozy Mystery - Meg Langslow #31 |
Armfield, Julia | Our Wives Under the Sea | Fiction |
Arthur, A. C. | Happy is on Hiatus | Fiction |
Austin, Lynn N. | Long Way Home | Christian Historical |
Avery, Joy | Sweeter than Honey | Romance - Honey Hill #2 |
Babalola, Bolu | Honey and Spice | A young woman who has no interest in love unexpectedly finds herself caught up in a fake relationship with the man she warned her girls about. |
Baker, Camille | The Moment We Met | A meddling app says she's about to meet her match, but which of the four possibilities is the one--and more importantly, is she ready for love? |
Baldacci, David | The 6:20 Man | Mystery |
Balogh, Mary | Remember Love | Historical Romance - Ravenswood #1 |
Barrett, Ruby | The Romance Recipe | Romance |
Bazawule, Blitz | The Scent of Burnt Flowers | Fleeing persecution in 1960s America, a Black couple seeks asylum in Ghana, but fresh dangers and old secrets threaten their newfound freedom. |
Beauman, Ned | Venomous Lumpsucker | A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism. |
Bennett, Robert Jackson | Locklands | Urban Fantasy - Founders #3 |
Bhat, Shashi | The Most Precious Substance on Earth | Fiction |
Billingham, Mark | The Murder Book | Mystery - Tom Thorne #18 |
Blair, Melissa | A Broken Blade | Keera is a killer. As the king's Blade and his most gifted assassin, she is called upon to hunt down a mysterious figure called the Shadow who is moving against the Crown. |
Blumberg, Chandra | Stirring Up Love | Two rivals whose passion for food and their communities brings them together in ways they never expected. |
Bowen, Rhys | Where the Sky Begins | Historical Fiction |
Brayden, Melissa | The Last Lavender Sister | Romance |
Brenner, Jamie | Gilt | A famous family jewelry dynasty and the hidden past that could topple it all. |
Bromley, Kate | Here for the Drama | Working as an assistant for a celebrated, feminist playwright, an aspiring author is invited to London to help stage a play and finds herself falling for her boss's nephew. |
Brook, Kate | Not Exactly What I Had in Mind | Fiction |
Brown, Eleanor | Any Other Family | Three very different adoptive mothers who face the impossible question: What makes a family? |
Brown, Sandra | Overkill | Thriller |
Brown-Newton, Dorothy | Reign and Jahiem: Luvin' on his New York Swag | Urban Fiction |
Brunstetter, Wanda E. | The Apple Creek Announcement | Inspirational - Creektown Discoveries #3 |
Bulle, Estelle-Sarah | Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails | The tales of one family and their larger-than-many-lives sister, Antoine, weaves together the vibrant, epic story of Guadeloupe and its diaspora. |
Burton, Jeffrey B. | The Lost | Mystery - Mace Reid K-9 #3 |
Cambron, Kristy | The Italian Ballerina | At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save innocent lives. |
Carlisle, Kate | The Paper Caper | Cozy Mystery - Bibliophile #16 |
Cast, P. C. | Into the Mist | Practical Magic meets Station Eleven in this gripping take on female power and the inevitable, destructive path of violent patriarchies. |
Castillo, Linda | The Hidden One | Mystery - Kate Burkholder #14 |
Center, Katherine | The Bodyguard | Hired as superstar actor Jack Stapleton's bodyguard, Hannah Brooks must pose as his girlfriend while visiting his family's ranch in Texas. |
Chambers, Becky | A Prayer for the Crown-Shy | Science Fiction - Monk and Robot #2 |
Chang, K-Ming | Gods of Want | Short Stories |
Chiaverini, Jennifer | Switchboard Soldiers | Historical Fiction |
Child, Lincoln | Chrysalis | Thriller |
Christopher, Adam | Shadow of the Sith | Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian return in this essential novel set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. |
Clark, Julie | The Lies I Tell | Thriller |
Coble, Colleen | Edge of Dusk | A brand-new series set in the Upper Peninsula that incorporates beloved characters from Coble's Rock Harbor series. |
Coleman, Ashley M. | Good Morning, Love | Follows Carlisa Henton as her life comes undone after a chance meeting with a rising pop star. |
Colgan, Jenny | An Island Wedding | Romance - Mure #5 |
Cooper, Helen | The Other Guest | After a shocking death at a luxurious Italian resort, two very different women must question everything-and everyone-they love in order to untangle truth from lies. |
Coulter, Catherine | Reckoning | Mystery - FBI Thriller #26 |
Crawford, Isis | A Catered Doggie Wedding | Cozy Mystery - Mystery with Recipes #17 |
Crewe, Paddy | My name is Yip | Western |
Crouch, Blake | Upgrade | When his DNA is rewritten with a genetic-engineering breakthrough beyond anything the world has seen, Logan Ramsey finds his transformation threatening everything around him as he is forced to take sides in a fight to save humankind. |
Dailey, Janet | Somebody like Santa | Romance |
Dark, Alice Elliott | Fellowship Point | Fiction |
Davis, Ambria | Can't Be That Other Woman | This blazing tale of a dangerous love triangle will leave you wondering: Can two women share one man? |
Davis, Brandie | Brooklyn | Urban Fiction - Carl Weber's Kingpins |
Davis, Davey | X | Fiction |
Davis, Lindsey | Desperate Undertaking | Historical Mystery - Flavia Albia #10 |
Dean, Sunyi | The Book Eaters | Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. |
Deb, Sopan | Keya Das's Second Act | A box in the attic leads one Bengali American family down a path toward understanding the importance of family, even when splintered. |
Delany, Martin R. | Blake; Or the Huts of America | Historical Fiction |
Delany, Vicki | Murder Spills the Tea | Cozy Mystery - Tea by the Sea #3 |
Dodd, Christina | Point Last Seen | Thriller |
Doiron, Paul | Hatchet Island | Mystery - Mike Bowditch #13 |
Douglas, Claire | The Couple at Number 9 | A couple who inherit what seems to be their dream home, until they make a horrifying discovery. |
Edwards, Rachel | Lucky | Fiction |
El-Arifi, Saara | The Final Strife | In the first book of a fantasy trilogy with its roots in the mythology of Africa and Arabia, three women band together against a cruel empire that divides people by blood. |
Ellis, David | Look Closer | Thriller |
Emerson, Ramona | Shutter | A forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force who sees the ghosts of crime victims is caught in the crosshairs of one of Albuquerque's most dangerous cartels when a furious ghost sets her on a path of vengeance. |
Emrys, Ruthanna | A Half-Built Garden | Science Fiction |
Erlick, Nikki | The Measure | When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy. |
Estleman, Loren D. | Monkey in the Middle | Mystery - Amos Walker #30 |
Fairbrother, Alison | The Catch | A young woman searches for the truth about her father and the secrets of her family. |
Feehan, Christine | Red on the River | Paranormal Romance - Sunrise Lake #2 |
Feist, Raymond E. | Master of Furies | Fantasy - Firemane #3 |
Fischer, Nan | Some of It Was Real | A psychic on the verge of stardom who isn't sure she believes in herself and a cynical journalist with one last chance at redemption are brought together by secrets from the past that also threaten to tear them apart. |
Ford, Jamie | The Many Daughters of Afong Moy | A powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations. |
Francis, Felix | Iced | Mystery - Dick Francis #10 |
Freeman, Brian | Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Sacrifice | Thriller - Jason Bourne #17 |
Gailey, Sarah | Just Like Home | Called back home by her mother, Vera must not only face the love she had for her serial-killer father, but also confront the secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder house. |
Garwood, Julie | Grace Under Fire | Romantic Suspense - Buchanan/FBI #14 |
Gerritsen, Tess | Listen to Me | Mystery - Rizzoli & Isles #13 |
Gervais, June | Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair | An artistic teen growing up in a conventional Long Island town in 1985 convinces her older brother to give her a job in his tattoo parlor where she learns to embrace her quirkiness in her art and her life. |
Goldberg, Lee | Movieland | Mystery - Eve Ronin #4 |
Gomillion, Agnes | The Seed of Cain | Science Fiction - Record Keeper #2 |
Goodman, Carol | The Disinvited Guest | A group of friends are isolated on a remote island with a history of foul play. |
Graham, Heather | Aura of Night | Paranormal Romance - Krewe of Hunters #37 |
Greaney, Mark | Armored | After losing part of his left leg, a former Close Protection Agent takes a job as a mall cop in Virginia to support his family, but runs into an old friend who has a much more intriguing job offer. |
Griffiths, Elly | The Locked Room | Mystery - Dr. Ruth Galloway #14 |
Habib, Conner | Hawk Mountain | An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder. |
Haddad, Joumana | The Book of Queens | A book of history, heritage, loyalty, religion, feminism, families, and the Armenian genocide. |
Hadero, Meron. | A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times | Short Stories |
Hall, Alexis J. | Husband Material | Romance - London Calling #2 |
Hall, Rachel Howzell | We lie here | |
Hamid, Mohsin | The Last White Man | As people across the land awaken in new incarnations, Anders, whose skin turns dark, confides only in Oona, an old friend turned new lover, deciding to use this as chance at a kind of rebirth. |
Hardt, Helen | Smolder | Romance - Steel Brothers #22 |
Hare, Louise | Miss Aldridge Regrets | In 1936 London, down-on-her-luck actress Lena Aldridge is offered the role of a lifetime in New York, and, sailing aboard the Queen Mary, is drawn into the fold of an obscenely wealthy family and their bizarre family dynamic where her greatest performance will be for her life. |
Hariri-Kia, Iman | A Hundred Other Girls | How far would you go to keep the job a hundred other girls are ready to take? |
Herbert, Brian | Sands of Dune | Science Fiction Short Stories |
Hillier, Jennifer | Things We Do in the Dark | Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future. |
Ho, Lauren | Lucie Yi is not a romantic | An ambitious career woman signs up for a co-parenting website only to find a match she never expected. |
Hockman, Angie | Dream On | A law student wakes up from a car accident with memories of a boyfriend she's never met, only to run into him in a flower shop a year later. |
Hokeah, Oscar | Calling for a Blanket Dance | A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man finding strength in his familial identity. |
Iglesias, Gabino | The Devil Takes You Home | A genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence. |
Irwin, Sophie | A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting | Historical Romance |
Itäranta, Emmi | The Moonday Letters | Science Fiction |
Jackson, Brenda | The House on Blueberry Lane | Romance - Catalina Cove #6 |
Jackson, Danielle | The Accidental Pinup | Rival photographers are forced to collaborate on a body-positive lingerie campaign, but they might have to readjust their focus when sparks fly. |
Jackson, K. M. | Knot Again | Romance - Real Men Knit #2 |
Jackson, Lisa | The Girl Who Survived | Romantic Suspense |
Jackson-Brown, Angela | The Light Always Breaks | Historical Fiction |
James, Holly | Nothing But the Truth | Fiction |
Jamieson, Trent | The Stone Road | Fantasy |
Jean, Emiko | Mika in Real Life | Mika is at her lowest point when she receives a phone call from Penny--the daughter she placed for adoption sixteen years ago. |
Jennings, Alex | The Ballad of Perilous Graves | Music is magic in this vibrant and imaginative debut novel set in a fantastical version of New Orleans where a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song. |
Jin, Meng | Self-Portrait with Ghost | Short Stories |
Johnson, Mat | Invisible Things | Science Fiction |
Kaplan, Isabel | NSFW | A novel about a young woman trying to succeed in Hollywood without selling her soul. |
Khalid, Zain | Brother Alive | A debut novel about family, sexuality, and capitalist systems of control, following three adopted brothers who live above a mosque in Staten Island with their imam father. |
Kingfisher, T. | What Moves the Dead | A gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic The Fall of the House of Usher. |
Knecht, Rosalie | Vera Kelly: Lost and Found | Mystery - Vera Kelly #3 |
Kochai, Jamil Jan | The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories | Short Stories |
Koontz, Dean R. | The Big Dark Sky | Thriller |
Krow, Leyna | Fire Season | The story of three scheming opportunists--a banker, a conman, and a woman with an extraordinary gift--whose lives collide in the wake of a devastating fire in the American West. |
La Rosa, Erin | For Butter or Worse | Chef Nina Lyon finds her dreams of stardom dashed after clashing with her cooking challenge show co-host so badly it causes her to quit on live tv, forcing her nemesis to beg for her return. |
Lee, Jayci | Booked on a Feeling | Romance |
Liu, Ken | Speaking Bones | Fantasy - Dandelion Dynasty #4 |
Livesay, Tracey | American Royalty | A prince who wants to live out of the spotlight falls for a daring American rapper who turns his life, and the palace, upside down. |
Lopez, Angelina M. | After Hours on Milagro Street | Opposites attract in this rivals-to-lovers romance. |
Macomber, Debbie | The Best Is Yet to Come | Romance |
Malliet, G. M. | Augsta Hawke | Crime writer Augusta Hawke puts her sleuthing skills to the test to solve the mystery of her disappearing neighbors in the first entry in a new series. |
Manfredi, Francesca | The Empire of Dirt | Three generations of women must face their secrets and regrets when an old family curse awakens. |
Mantel, Hilary | Learning to Talk | Short Stories |
March, Nev | Peril at the Exposition | Historical Mystery - Captain Jim and Lady Diana #2 |
Marra, Anthony | Mercury Pictures presents | A brilliant woman must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles. |
Martin, Charles | The Record Keeper | Fiction |
Martin, Jessica | For the Love of the Bard | Romance |
Martin, Madeline | The Librarian Spy | A novel inspired by the true history of America's library spies of World War II. |
Matheson, Nadine | The Binding Room | Mystery - Inspector Anjelica Henley #2 |
McCall Smith, Alexander | The Sweet Remnants of Summer | Mystery -Isabel Dalhousie #14 |
McClellan, Brian | In the Shadow of Lightning | An epic fantasy where magic is a finite resource--and it's running out. |
McDonald, Ed | Daughter of Redwinter | Fantasy |
McKinney-Whetstone, Diane | Our Gen | Residents of an active-living retirement community revert to lives of youthful indulgence, even as time-bomb secrets of their pasts tick toward explosion. |
Mead, Tom | Death and the Conjuror | Stumped by a confounding murder, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage magician-turned-part-time sleuth Joseph Spector in this series opener. |
Meadows, Foz | A Strange and Stubborn Endurance | Historical Fantasy |
Méndez, Yamile Saied | Twice a Quinceañera | An accomplished young woman decides to throw herself a quinceañera (times two) for her 30th birthday after calling off her wedding. |
Menon, Lily | The Sizzle Paradox | Romance |
Migo, Black | Queen of the Zoo 2 | Urban Fiction |
Mihalik, Jessie | Eclipse the Moon | Science Fiction Romance - Starlight's Shadow #2 |
Mina, Denise | Confidence | Mystery - Anna and Fin #2 |
Miranda, Megan | The Last to Vanish | A thriller that opens with the disappearance of a journalist who is investigating a string of vanishings in the resort town of Cutter's Pass. |
Monroe, Katrina | They Drown Our Daughters | Horror |
Montimore, Margarita | Acts of Violet | Fiction |
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia | The Daughter of Doctor Moreau | When the arrival of Eduardo Lizalde sets in motion a dangerous chain of events, Carlota Moreau finds her carefully constructed world falling down around her as passion is ignited in the sweltering heat of the jungle where a motley group of monstrosities await. |
Morrow, Rebecca | Corinne | Fiction |
Murata, Sayaka | Life Ceremony | Short Stories |
Na'Cole | Tori and Jace: Trapped in His Love | Urban Fiction |
Nicieza, Fabian | The Self-Made Widow | Two unlikely sleuths investigate a murder that reveals the dark underbelly of suburban marriage. |
Nieh, Daniel | Take No Names | A young man on the run from a furtive past, in search of a quick payday in Mexico City, finds himself in the crosshairs of a dangerous international scheme. |
Obaro, Tomi | Dele weds Destiny | The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty years. |
Obuobi, Shirlene | On rotation | With her life crashes down around her, a med student who's spent her life being the Perfect Immigrant Daughter questions everything - her career, her friendships and her taste in men - until she meets someone who changes everything. |
Okparanta, Chinelo | Harry Sylvester Bird | Fiction |
Onda, Riku | Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight | Part psychological thriller, part murder mystery. |
Patterson, James | Shattered | Thriller - Michael Bennett #14 |
Pearse, Sarah | The Retreat | Detective Elin Warner uncovers the truth behind the suspicious deaths on a stunning island getaway. |
Peltier, N. G. | Don't Go Baking My Heart | Romance - Island Bites #2 |
Peterson, Tracie | Beyond the Desert Sands | Christian Historical - Love on the Santa Fe #2 |
Poston, Ashley | The Dead Romantics | Romance |
Pulley, Natasha | The Half Life of Valery K | An epic Cold War novel set in a mysterious town in Soviet Russia. |
Ragnar Jónasson | Outside | Mystery |
Reichs, Kathy | Cold, Cold Bones | Mystery - Temperance Brennan #21 |
Reid, Ava | Juniper & Thorn | A young witch seeks to discover her identity and escape the domination of her abusive wizard father. |
Reilly, Matthew | The One Impossible Labyrinth | Thriller - Jack West Jr. #7 |
Reynolds, Allie | The swell | Point Break meets And Then There Were None in a pulse-pounding beach read that explores the dangerous ties between a group of elite surfers who are determined to find the perfect waves at any cost...even murder. |
Riley, Vanessa | Sister Mother Warrior | A novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women. |
Rimmer, Kelly | The German Wife | Historical Fiction |
Rochon, Farrah | The Hookup Plan | Romance - Boyfriend Project #3 |
Roffey, Monique | The Mermaid of Black Conch | Fiction |
Rosenberg, Lisa Williamson | Embers on the Wind | The past and the present converge in this tale of women connected by motherhood, slavery's legacy, and histories that span centuries. |
Rosenfelt, David | Holy Chow | Cozy Mystery - Andy Carpenter #25 |
Roy, Lucinda | Flying the Coop | Science Fiction - Dreambird Chronicles #2 |
Schaitkin, Alexis | Elsewhere | A community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. |
Schubach, Alanna | The Nobodies | Fiction |
Scott, Anika | The Soviet Sisters | A historical novel filled with secrets, lies, and betrayals, following two spy sisters during the Cold War. |
Shipman, Viola | The Edge of Summer | Fiction |
Silva, Daniel | Portrait of an Unknown Woman | Thriller - Gabriel Allon #22 |
Sims, Jonathan | Thirteen Storeys | The only way out is up. |
Sivak, Zoe | Mademoiselle Revolution | The story of a biracial heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. |
Slaughter, Jodie | Bet on It | Romance |
Slmn | Godless | Mystery - Bloodlines #2 |
Smith, Wilbur A. | Storm Tide | A historical epic set against the backdrop of the American revolution. |
Soomro, Taymour | Other Names for Love | A debut novel about a boy's life-changing summer in rural Pakistan. |
Steel, Danielle | The Challenge | Fiction |
Stevens, Nell | Briefly, a Delicious Life | A lively, daring ghost story about a teenage ghost who falls in love with a writer who doesn't know she exists. |
Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah | Big Girl | A young, plus-size girl in 1990s Harlem tries to meet the lofty expectations of her painfully proper mother, sharp-tongued grandmother and her mostly white Upper East Side prep school while finding solace in the music of Biggie Smalls and Aaliyah. |
Swinson, Kiki | Playing Their Games | Mystery - Yoshi Lomax #2 |
Talty, Morgan | Night of the Living Rez | Twelve striking, luminescent stories that breathe life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future. |
Taylor, Sarah Stewart | The Drowning Sea | Mystery - Maggie d'Arcy #3 |
Thompson, Jean | The Poet's House | A young woman gets swept up in the rivalries and love affairs of a dramatic group of writers. |
Thor, Brad | Rising Tiger | Thriller - Scot Harvath #21 |
Tieu, Julie | Circling Back to You | Romance |
Todd, Anna | The Falling | Romance |
Tremblay, Paul | The Pallbearers Club | A volunteer pallbearer for poorly attended funerals in the 80s, a 17-year-old loner meets a cool girl who has an obsessive knowledge of strange, terrifying things. He tries to make sense of it years later, but she keeps making cuts to his manuscript. |
Turonek, E. Raye | Rural Route 8 | Urban Fiction |
Turtledove, Harry | Three Miles Down | Science Fiction |
Vaughan, Sarah | Reputation | A politician whose less-than-perfect personal life is thrust into the spotlight when a body is discovered in her home. |
Walters, Minette | The Swift and the Harrier | Historical Fiction |
Ware, Ruth. | The It Girl | A woman searches for answers a decade after her friend's murder. |
Weaver, Ashley | The Key to Deceit | Mystery - Electra McDonnell #2 |
Wenzel, Olivia | 1,000 Coils of Fear | Fiction |
Wesley, Jamie | Fake It Till You Bake It | A reality star and a cupcake-baking football player pretend to be a couple in order to save his bakery. |
White, Alex | August Kitko and the Mechas from Space | When an army of giant robot AIs threatens to devastate Earth, a virtuoso pianist becomes humanity's last hope. |
White, Kate | The Second Husband | A woman's seemingly perfect second marriage is rocked by a discovery about the death of her first husband. |
Wiggs, Susan | Sugar and Salt | Fiction |
Williams, Racquel | Riding Shotgun | Urban Fiction |
Williams, Shanora | The Wife Before | A new bride's fairytale marriage becomes a prison of secrets. |
Williams, Tad | Into the Narrowdark | Fantasy - Last King of Osten Ard #3.1 |
Wisdom, Alison | The Burning Season | Fiction |
Wise, A. C. | Hooked | A reimagining about what happened to Captain Hook after Neverland. |
Wojtas, Olga | Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Vampire Menace | Mystery - The Prefect's Adventures #2 |
Wong, Cecily | Kaleidoscope | Fiction |
Woods, Stuart | Black Dog | Mystery - Stone Barrington #62 |
Wynne, Phoebe | The Ruins | Fiction |
Yuknavitch, Lidia | Thrust | As rising waters--and an encroaching police state--endanger her life and family, a girl with the gifts of a carrier travels through water and time to rescue vulnerable figures from the margins of history. |
Zari | Absolute Power | War may be bad for business, but sometimes, it's necessary to move your business into the future. |
Zevin, Gabrielle | Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow | Two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. |
Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology | Horror | |
Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror | Horror |
June 2022
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Aaron, Rachel | The Last Stand of Mary Good Crow | Better than gold, magical crystals kick off the Great Sioux War of 1876. Mary Good Crow can hear the voice in the rocks, but guiding miners with it leads her to secrets everyone will kill for. |
Abreu, Caio Fernando | Moldy Strawberries | In eighteen exhilarating stories, Caio Fernando Abreu navigates a Brazil transformed by the AIDS epidemic and stifling military dictatorship of the 80s. |
Addison, Katherine | The Grief of Stones | Fantasy - Cemeteries of Amalo #2 |
Alford, Mary | Among the Innocent | Ten years ago, Leah Miller's entire Amish family was murdered. Now, after a string of new homicides with the same MO, it appears the killer has returned with one target in mind: Leah. Can she and the new chief of police stop the killer before it's too late? |
Anderson, Toni | Cold Silence | Romantic Suspense |
Bailey, Tessa | My Killer Vacation | Romance |
Barrett, Lorna | Clause of Death | Cozy Mystery - Booktown #16 |
Barton, Fiona | Local Gone Missing | Detective Elise King investigates a man's disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and weekenders are at odds. |
Basu, Samit | The City Inside | Science Fiction |
Bayard, Louis | Jackie & Me | A historical novel depicting Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings. |
Belfer, Lauren | Ashton Hall | A frustrated academic still reeling from her husband's betrayal moves into Ashton Hall with her young son and tries to come up with answers after they discover the remains of a woman walled into a forgotten part of the manor. |
Bervoets, Hanna | We Had to Remove This Post | A group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors--reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation--who convince themselves they're in control . . . until the violence strikes closer to home. |
Binnie, Imogen | Nevada | Fiction |
Bondurant, Matt | Oleander City | Historical Fiction |
Brady, Ali | The Beach Trap | Two best friends torn apart by a life-altering secret. One summer to set the record straight. |
Brooks, Geraldine | Horse | A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history. |
Carlson, Mindy | Her Dying Day | A mystery writer's sudden disappearance leads a budding filmmaker down a dark road to treachery, murder, and long-buried sins. |
Christopher, Andie J. | Thank You, Next | Alex Turner is never The One--but always the last one an ex dates before finding love--and now she's determined to find out why. |
Clark, Georgia | Island Time | This is one island you won't want to be rescued from. |
Clarke, Diana | The Hop | Fiction |
Coates, Darcy | From Below | No light. No air. No escape. Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits... |
Cole, Audrey J. | The Final Hunt | Thriller |
Cross, Ty | N2 Deep | Teka is a correctional officer, who gets entangled with two inmates who where friends. |
Dawson, Juno | Her Majesty's Royal Coven | A Discovery of Witches meets The Craft in this epic fantasy about a group of childhood friends who are also witches. |
Deane, Maya | Wrath Goddess Sing | Historical Fantasy |
Dermansky, Marcy | Hurricane Girl | Fiction |
Dimitri, Francesco | Never the Wind | Fantasy |
Dorn, Anna | Exalted | Fiction |
Drew, Alan | The Recruit | Thriller |
Edwards, Martin | Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries | Classic Mystery |
Escobar, Mario | The Teacher of Warsaw | Historical Fiction |
Evans, Mary Anna | The Physicists' Daughter | A 20-year-old factory assembly line worker discovers the carbon parts she assemble have nothing to do with boats, but are intended for a secret government initiative-The Manhattan Project-and that her factory may be a target for sabotage. |
Finney, Katoya | Toy Chest | Urban Fiction |
Fordham, Rachel | Where the Road Bends | Christian Historical |
Freeman, Ru | Sleeping Alone | Short Stories |
Goldberg, Leonard S. | The Blue Diamond | Historical Mystery - Daughter of Sherlock #6 |
Hahn, Taylor | The Lifestyle | This debut recasts Jane Austen's meddlesome heroine Emma as a 30-something New York lawyer, and her plan for solving everyone's relationship issues is a foray into the swinger scene. |
Hallinan, Timothy | Rock of Ages | Mystery - Junior Bender #8 |
Harlan, Kathryn | Fruiting Bodies | Short Stories |
Harrison, Kim | Trouble with the Cursed | Urban Fantasy - Hollows #16 |
Harrow, Alix E. | A Mirror Mended | Fantasy - Fractured Fables #2 |
Hartstone, Joey | The Local | A freewheeling, small-town attorney takes on a national murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge in Texas. |
Herzog, Werner | The Twilight World | Historical Fiction |
Hilderbrand, Elin | The Hotel Nantucket | Fiction |
Holleran, Andrew | The Kingdom of Sand | A man who moved to Florida to look after his aging parents--during the height of the AIDS epidemic--and has found himself unable to leave after their deaths. |
Holmes, Linda | Flying Solo | A woman returns to her small Maine hometown, uncovering family secrets that take her on a journey of self-discovery and new love. |
Hutchings, Ren | Under Fortunate Stars | Science Fiction |
Hutson, Ashley | One's Company | Fiction |
Johansen, Iris | A Face to Die For | Mystery - Eve Duncan #28 |
Kandic Torres, Christine | The Girls in Queens | Reunited when their beloved Mets are on a historic run for the playoffs, two Latinx women, Kelly and Brisma, must decide if the fierce loyalty of their past is enough to sustain the future when their friend, Brian is accused of sexual assault. |
Lane, S. R. | Eight Weeks in Paris | A lost novel of Bell Epoque Paris comes to the silver screen with an A-list cast. But will on-set drama doom the filming of this gay love story before it starts? |
Lapierre, Alexandra | Belle Greene | Based on the true story of Belle da Costa Greene, a woman who defied all odds to carve out a destiny of her own choosing. |
Laskey, Celia | So Happy for You | A wedding weekend spirals out of control in this bold, electrifying, hilarious novel about the complexities of female friendship. |
Libby, Gillian | Four Ways to Wear a Dress | Romance |
Lovering, Carola | Can't Look Away | Thriller |
Maberry, Jonathan | Kagen the Damned | Fantasy |
McKeegan, Colleen | The Wild One | A deadly childhood secret that binds three young women threatens to destroy their lives. |
Mehl, Nancy | Free Fall | Christian Suspense - Quantico Files #3 |
Miller, Sam J. | Boys, Beasts & Men | A teen who can control the ambient digital cloud falls for a con man, and a survivor of an alien invasion worries he brought something infectious back from the Arctic. |
Moehling, Joshua | And There He Kept Her | When misguided teenagers Jesse Crawford and Jenny Wheeler are forced to rob Emmett Brown to escape impossible circumstances, what starts as a home invasion quickly turns into a nightmare for the teens. |
Mollen, Jenny | City of Likes | Fiction |
Moore, Meg Mitchell | Vacationland | Fiction |
Moshfegh, Ottessa | Lapvona | In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test. |
Moss, Tara | The Ghosts of Paris | Mystery - Billie Walker #2 |
Nunez, Elizabeth | Now Lila Knows | Caribbean professor Lila Bonnard arrives in Vermont for a short-term teaching position and is forced to confront the terrible legacy of American (in)justice. |
O'Donnell, Paraic | The Maker of Swans | In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. |
Ohman, Jules | Body Grammar | A coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling. |
Oke, Janette | Unfailing Love | Inspirational - When Hope Calls #3 |
Parker, Amy | Virgins in Their Beds | A feminist retelling of One Thousand and One Nights. |
Patel, Namrata | The Candid life of Meena Dave | A woman embarks on an unexpected journey into her past in a novel about identity, family secrets, and rediscovering the need to belong. |
Patterson, James | Escape | Mystery - Black Book Thriller #3 |
Pook, Lizzie | Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter | An adventure story set against the backdrop of the dangerous pearl diving industry in 19th-century Western Australia. |
Rukeyser, Rebecca | The Seaplane on Final Approach | A young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead. |
Sager, Riley | The House Across the Lake | A recently fired Broadway star flees to a remote Vermont lake house, only to find out that the area has a history of missing women. |
Santos Donaldson, David | Greenland | Fiction |
Schorr, Meredith | As Seen on TV | A rom-com about a city girl who goes in search of small-town happiness, only to discover life--and love--are nothing like the TV movies. |
Seifert, Mary | Maverick, Movies & Murders | Cozy Mystery |
Shalvis, Jill | The Friendship Pact | Romance - Sunrise Cove #2 |
Steel, Danielle | Suspects | Thriller |
Stronach, Sascha | The Dawnhounds | Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Māori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it. |
Swirsky, Rachel | January Fifteenth | Science Fiction |
Taddeo, Lisa | Ghost Lover | Short Stories |
Taylor, Jodi | Another Time, Another Place | Science Fiction - Chronicles of St. Mary's #12 |
Vatner, Jonathan | The Bridesmaids Union | Fiction |
Wang, Jack | We Two Alone | Short Stories |
Webb, Brandon, and John David Mann | Cold Fear | Thriller - Finn #2 |
Whishaw, Iona | Framed in Fire | Historical Mystery - Lane Winslow #9 |
White, Adam | The Midcoast | Fiction |
Wilder, Ava | How to Fake it in Hollywood | A talented Hollywood starlet and a reclusive A-lister enter into a fake relationship...and discover that their feelings might be more than a PR stunt. |
Witemeyer, Karen | In Honor's Defense | Inspirational - Hanger's Horsemen #3 |
Wolfe, Toya | Last Summer on State Street | A coming-of-age debut about friendship, community, and resilience, set in the housing projects of Chicago during one life-changing summer. |
Woods, Caroline | The Lunar Housewife | An up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine. |
Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous | Horror |
May 2022
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Abdullah, Chelsea | The Stardust Thief | Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, The Stardust Thief weaves the gripping tale of a legendary smuggler, a cowardly prince, and a dangerous quest across the desert to find a legendary, magical lamp. |
Adelmann, Maria | How to Be Eaten | Debut novel that reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. |
Albert, Susan Wittig | The Darling Dahlias and the Red Hot Poker | Mystery - Darling Dahlias #10 |
Alharthi, Jokha | Bitter Orange Tree | Fiction |
Armentrout, Jennifer L. | The War of Two Queens | Paranormal Romance - Blood and Ash #4 |
Armstrong, Kelley | A Rip Through Time | While visiting her dying grandmother in Edinburgh, a homicide detective out on a jog is beaten unconscious and wakes up in the body of a housemaid, left for dead in the exact same spot in 1869. |
Bamford, Emma | Deep Water | Responding to a rescue call in the Indian Ocean, a captain discovers a mortally injured man and his traumatized wife, who describes how their exotic trip to a tiny, remote island forced her to become a murderer. |
Banker, Ashok K. | The Blind King's Wrath | Fantasy - Burnt Empire Saga #3 |
Barclay, Linwood | Take Your Breath Away | Thriller |
Barnhill, Kelly Regan | When Women Were Dragons | After the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when thousands of women, including her beloved Aunt Marla, transformed into dragons, left a trail fiery destruction and took to the skies, young Alex Green must face the consequences of this event as she learns to accept people as they really are. |
Batsha, Nishant | Mother Ocean Father Nation | On a fictional island in the Pacific blending aspects of Fiji, Uganda, and Trinidad, two siblings take different paths when violence against the Indian community explodes in 1985. |
Batuman, Elif | Either/Or | During her sophomore year at Harvard, Selin's quest for self-knowledge leads to certain conclusions about the universal importance of parties, alcohol, and sex, in the follow-up to The Idiot. |
Bays, Carter | The Mutual Friend | Romance |
Bentley, Don | Tom Clancy: Zero Hour | Thriller - Jack Ryan, Jr. #9 |
Berry, Steve | The Omega Factor | Thriller |
Bessette, Alicia | Smile Beach Murder | This all-new mystery series stars Callie Padget, a former reporter-turned-bookshop clerk in the Outer Banks, who is drawn into a mystery involving a deadly fall at a lighthouse that could be linked to her past. |
Blake, Audrey | The Surgeon's Daughter | In the 19th century, Nora Beady is chosen to work with the only female professor in her medical school to develop the caesarian section, drawing the wrath of her male peers and professors as she risks everything to help revolutionize this life-saving surgery. |
Bliss, Jackson | Amnesia of June Bugs | Fiction |
Brown, Dale | Countdown to Midnight | Thriller - Nick Flynn #2 |
Brown, Graham | Clive Cussler's Dark Vector | Thriller - NUMA Files #19 |
Brown, Rita Mae | Thrill of the Hunt | Cozy Mystery - Jane Arnold #14 |
Bryce, Denny S. | In the Face of the Sun | To escape an abusive marriage, Frankie Saunders flees across the country to Los Angeles with her reckless, profane Aunt Daisy, who will do whatever it takes to settle old scores and resolve the past. |
Burke, James Lee | Every Cloak Rolled in Blood | Mystery - Holland Family #4 |
Butcher, Jim, et. al | Heroic Hearts | Fantasy Short Stories |
Byrne, James | The Gatekeeper | Thriller |
Cain, Matt | The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle | Forced into retirement, former postman Albert Entwistle, with no friends, family or hobbies, forms a brave plan to start truly living, seek the happiness he's always denied himself and find the courage to look for the man he loved and lost years ago but has never forgotten. |
Caña, Natalie | A Proposal They Can't Refuse | Kamilah, a Puerto Rican chef and Liam, an Irish American whiskey distiller, are blackmailed by their grandfathers into getting married or risk losing the building that houses both their businesses. |
Carr, Jack | In the Blood | Thriller - James Reece #5 |
Chaon, Dan | Sleepwalk | A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a bighearted mercenary. |
Chavez, Lorenzo | The Light of a Cuban Son | The moving story of a boy determined to stay true to who he is and find happiness against all odds. |
Chen, Kirstin | Counterfeit | The story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise--an incisive and glittering blend of fashion, crime, and friendship. |
Chen, Mike | Brotherhood | Science Fiction - Star Wars |
Cleeton, Chanel | Our Last Days in Barcelona | When Isabel Perez travels to Barcelona to save her sister Beatriz, she discovers a shocking family secret. |
Clipston, Amy | The View from Coral Cove | When a jilted romance novelist returns to the small beach town she once loved, she discovers not only inspiration but also a romance to call her own. |
Cobb, May K. | My Summer Darlings | Three lifelong friends plus a dangerous, sexy new stranger in town add up to a scorching summer of manipulation, obsession, and murder. |
Cowie, Amber | Last One Alive | A team of researchers exploring the myth of a witch find their numbers mysteriously dwindling. |
Crosley, Sloane | Cult Classic | Fiction |
Cross-Smith, Leesa | Half-Blown Rose | A woman remakes her life after her husband's betrayal, leading to a year of travel, art, and passion. |
Dayle, Dennard | Everything Abridged | Short Stories |
Dent, Lizzy | The Setup | One woman's impulsive fib jump starts a summer of reinvention and learning about love, life, and what it means to accept yourself. |
Dev, Sonali | The Emma Project | Romance - Rajes #4 |
Edwards, K. D. | The Hourglass Throne | Urban Fantasy - Tarot Sequence #3 |
El-Wardany, Salma | These Impossible Things | A debut novel of three best friends navigating love, sex, faith, and the one night that changes it all. |
Espach, Alison | Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance | Fiction |
Estep, Jennifer | Tear Down the Throne | Fantasy - Gargoyle Queen #2 |
Evans, Robert | After the Revolution | Science Fiction |
Fajardo-Anstine, Kali | Woman of light | In 1930s Denver, Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, begins having visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory where she must save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion. |
Feltman, Amy | All the Things We Don't Talk About | Raised by their neurodivergent father, a nonbinary teenager grapples with the sudden reappearance of his dazzling and destructive mother, Zoe, who abandoned them and fled to Europe on their first birthday. |
Fishman, Lillian | Acts of Service | Fiction |
Flores, Fernando A. | Valleyesque | Short Stories |
Foley, Aaron | Boys Come First | Three Black, gay, Millennial men search for love and professional success in Detroit while navigating real friendships, Grindr hookups and family drama in the debut novel. |
Fortune, Carley | Every Summer After | Fiction |
Foster, Lori | The Honeymoon Cottage | Romance |
Fowler, Therese Anne | It All Comes Down to This | Three sisters come together to sell the family's summer cottage in Maine, which becomes complicated by an enigmatic ex-con with his own hidden past. |
Gates, Eva | Death by Beach Read | Cozy Mystery - Lighthouse Library #9 |
Gear, Kathleen O'Neal | The Ice Ghost | Science Fiction - Rewilding Reports #2 |
Gentill, Sulari | The Woman in the Library | Four strangers in a library strike up a friendship. One of them is a murderer. As they each share their stories, which one has something to hide? |
Giffin, Emily | Meant to Be | A restless golden boy and a girl with a troubled past navigate a love story that may be doomed before it even begins. |
Gilbert, Victoria | A Fatal Booking | Cozy Mystery - Book Lover's B&B #3 |
Graham, Heather | Sound of Darkness | Paranormal Romance - Krewe of Hunters #36 |
Greenwood, Kerry | The Lady With the Gun Asks the Questions | Short Stories - Phryne Fisher |
Guillory, Jasmine | By the Book | Romance - Meant to Be #2 |
Gutierrez, Katie | More Than You'll Ever Know | Told through alternating timelines, this mystery and family drama follows struggling crime writer Cassie Brown as she becomes obsessed with a 1985 murder case involving a woman whose double life led to murder. |
Hall, Alexis J. | A Lady for a Duke | Presumed dead, Viola Carroll takes the opportunity to live freely despite losing her wealth, title, and closest companion, unaware of the shattering impact her loss has had on him. |
Han, Joseph | Nuclear Family | Fiction |
Hansen, Joseph | Gravedigger | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #6 |
Hardt, Helen | Garnet | Romantic Suspense - Gems of Wolfe Island #3 |
Harper, Lana | From Bad to Cursed | Paranormal Romance - Witches of Thistle Grove #2 |
Hatcher, Robin Lee | I'll Be Seeing You | Christian Fiction |
Heartfield, Kate | The Embroidered Book | Historical Fiction |
Heltzel, Anne | Just Like Mother | The last time Maeve saw her cousin, Andrea, was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in; then, years later, Andrea suddenly reappears. |
Hemley, Robin | Oblivion | Fiction |
Henry, M. B. | All the Lights Above Us | Historical Fiction |
Hernandez, Treasure | Daughter of a Queen Pin | When tragedy strikes, Krystal is faced with decisions that could alter the fate of her entire generation for years to come. |
Herrera, Adriana | A Caribbean Heiress in Paris | Three best friends at the 1889 World's Fair have goals: going to the most scandalous places in Paris, kissing disreputable men and absolutely not falling in love. |
Herron, Mick | Bad Actors | Thriller - Slough House #8 |
Higgins, Kristan | Out of the Clear Blue Sky | Fiction |
Holm, Chris F. | Child Zero | Science Fiction |
Horowitz, Anthony | With a Mind to Kill | Thriller - James Bond #41 |
Hua, Vanessa | Forbidden City | A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a heroine of the Cultural Revolution. |
Hughes, A. J. | A Life: Worth Living | Romance |
Huguley, Piper | By Her Own Design | The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of the most famous wedding dresses in US history. |
Hunt, Angela | Apostle's Sister | Christian Historical |
Ishola-Ayodeji, Abi | Patience is a Subtle Thief | Embarking on a desperate search to find her mother, who was banished from their compound in Nigeria years ago, Patience unexpectedly reconnects with her cousin who draws into a world of crime. |
Jenner, Natalie | Bloomsbury Girls | Historical Fiction |
Jensen, Danielle L. | The Inadequate Heir | Fantasy Romance |
Karp, Marshall | Snowstorm in August | Mystery |
Kawakami, Mieko | All the Lovers in the Night | Fiction |
Kay, Guy Gavriel | All the Seas of the World | Historical Fantasy |
Keese | Hood Consigliere | Two street-wise hustlers have been successfully robbing big time drug dealers throughout the city for years, but their luck could be running out. |
Khavari, Kate | A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons | Attempting to blaze a new trail for women at the University College London in 1923, research assistant Saffron Everleigh becomes involved in solving the murder of a professor's wife who appeared to have been poisoned at a school dinner party. First in a new series. |
Kingpen | Concrete Killa 3 | Urban Fiction |
Koepp, David | Aurora | When a solar storm knocks out the power across the globe, Aubrey Wheeler, in Aurora, Illinois, becomes the fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood, while across the country, her brother, a Silicon Valley CEO, hunkers down in his gilded desert bunker, leading to a long-overdue reckoning between siblings. |
Korelitz, Jean Hanff | The Latecomer | When her triplets, who have no strong familial bond and cannot wait to go their separate ways, leave for college, their mother Johanna decides to have a fourth child and wonders what role the "latecomer" will play in her already fractured family. |
Kotomi, Li | Solo Dance | Fiction |
Ladd, Sarah E. | The Letter From Briarton Park | In Regency England, one letter will alter a young woman's fate when it summons her to Briarton Park---an ancient place that holds the secrets of her past and the keys to her future. |
Lama, Tsering Yangzom | We measure the earth with our bodies | The story of a Tibetan family's journey through exile. |
Laskar, Devi S. | Circa | Follows a young Indian American woman who, in the wake of tragedy, must navigate her family's expectations as she grapples with a complicated love and loss. |
Lauren, Christina | Something Wilder | Romance |
Lea, Amy | Set on You | A gym nemesis pushes a fitness influencer to the max in this steamy debut romantic comedy. |
Leary, Ann | The Foundling | The story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test when they meet years later at a controversial institution--one as an employee; the other, an inmate. |
Lee, Don | The Partition | Short Stories |
Lee, Marie Myung-Ok | Evening Hero | Fiction |
Little, Jacqueline | The Narrative of The Life of Theresa | Christian Fiction |
London, Stefanie | The Dachshund Wears Prada | How do you start over when the biggest mistake of your life has more than one million views? |
Lustbader, Eric | Omega Rules | Thriller - Evan Ryder #3 |
MacMillan, Lindsay | The Heart of the Deal | Fiction |
Magee, Audrey | The Colony | In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west coast in search of their own answers, despite what it may cost the islanders. |
Mallery, Susan | The Boardwalk Bookshop | Fiction |
Manawatu, Becky | Auē | Fiction |
March, Joseph Moncure | The Set-Up | Written in 1928, The Set-Up is a long narrative poem about the boxing underworld - a hard-boiled tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. |
Martin, Kat | The Last Mile | Mystery - Blood Ties, The Logans #2 |
McCoy, Sarah | Mustique Island | A sun-splashed romp with a rich divorcee and her two wayward daughters in 1970s Mustique, the world's most exclusive private island. |
McKenzie, Moses | An Olive Grove in Ends | A young man is faced with a fraught decision: escape a dangerous past alone, or brave his old life and keep the woman he loves. |
McKevett, G. A. | Murder most Grave | Cozy Mystery - Granny Reid #4 |
McKinty, Adrian | The Island | A family that just wanted a nice vacation finds themselves running for their lives. |
McNeil, Peter | Postal Reboot | Urban Fiction |
McNeil, Peter | Postal ll Redemption | Urban Fiction |
McPhail, Diane C. | The Seamstress of New Orleans | Historical Fiction |
McTiernan, Dervla | The Murder Rule | Mystery |
Melchor, Fernanda | Paradais | Fiction |
Michalski, Liz | Darling Girl | In this modern-day reimagining of the classic, to save her daughter's life one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan--who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to be . . . |
Michelle, Niko | Jilted | Avery Booker is beautiful, successful, and ready to pledge forever to Lloyd, starting with the elaborate wedding ceremony she's wanted for so long. Avery's happy; Lloyd's happy, but the pregnant woman who objects is not. |
Miro, J. M. | Ordinary Monsters | At an institute where children with gifts have been gathered, they discover the truth about their abilities and that the worst monsters sometimes come bearing the sweetest gifts. |
Momplaisir, Francesca | The Garden of Broken Things | A novel about one family wading through the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010. |
Monaghan, Annabel | Nora goes off script | A heartwarming and hilarious novel about a divorced romance channel screenwriter whose script about her marriage's collapse just might help her reclaim her life and find love. |
Moore, Christopher | Razzmatazz | Fantasy - Sammy and the Cheese #2 |
Mottley, Leila | Nightcrawling | When a drunken altercation with a stranger turns into a job she desperately needs, Kiara starts nightcrawling until her name surfaces in an investigation exposing her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland Police Department. |
Murphy, Nora | The Favor | Thriller |
Natera, Cleyvis | Neruda on the Park | An upwardly mobile young Manhattan lawyer and her parents react to the gentrification of their Dominican neighborhood. |
Nawaz, Zarqa | Jameela Green ruins everything | A disillusioned American Muslim woman becomes embroiled in a plot to infiltrate an international terrorist organization, and in the process, reconnects with her loved ones and her faith. |
Noyes, E. J. | If I Don't Ask | Romance |
O'Connell, Ryan | Just by Looking at Him | A gay TV writer with cerebral palsy fights addiction and searches for acceptance in an overwhelmingly ableist world. |
Odle, E. V. | The Clockwork Man | Science Fiction |
Offutt, Chris | Shifty's Boys | Mystery - Mick Hardin #2 |
Oliveras, Priscilla | West Side Love Story | A heart-stirring romance of star-crossed love, feuding familias, and the bonds of sisterhood. |
Orenstein, Hannah | Meant to be Mine | Fiction |
Palmer, Daniel | My Wife is Missing | Thriller |
Patel, Naheed Phiroze | Mirror Made of Rain | Fiction |
Patrick, Phaedra | The Messy Lives of Book People | The house cleaner of a famous author must carry out her employer's shocking last wish. |
Pavone, Chris | Two Nights in Lisbon | Mystery |
Payne, Marcus | The Set Up: Part I | Denarius Payne must choose between his family, his values, and his love for the streets. |
Peguero, Robin | With Prejudice | No one knows what happened that night. Seven strangers must decide. |
Perrotta, Tom | Tracy Flick Can't Win | A new satirical novel about ambition, coming-of-age in adulthood, and never really leaving high school politics behind--featuring Perotta's most iconic character of all time. |
Polito, Frank Anthony | Renovated to Death | Just as they are about to start filming the renovation of twin brothers Terry and Tom Cash's local Tudor, real-life domestic partners and stars of a new reality TV show Peter and JP discover Tom Cash dead and must chip away at the clues to catch a killer. |
Pooley, Clare | Iona Iverson's rules for commuting | Romance |
Quirk, Matthew | Red Warning | Thriller |
Rari, Paper Boi | Ran Off on da Plug | Urban Fiction |
Ray, Cate | Good Husbands | Three wives, one letter, and an explosive secret that will change everything. |
Rekulak, Jason | Hidden Pictures | A supernatural thriller about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. |
Riley, Lucinda | The Murders at Fleat House | Mystery |
Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 4 | Urban Fiction |
Robert, Katee | Wicked Beauty | Romance - Dark Olympus #3 |
Robert, Katee | Desperate Measures: A Dark Fairy Tale Romance | Romance - Wicked Villains #1 |
Robert, Katee | Learn My Lesson: A Dark Fairy Tale Romance | Romance - Wicked Villains #2 |
Robert, Katee | A Worthy Opponent: A Dark Fairy Tale Romance | Romance - Wicked Villains #3 |
Robert, Katee | The Beast: A Dark Fairy Tale Romance | Romance - Wicked Villains #4 |
Robert, Katee | The Sea Witch: A Dark Fairy Tale Romance | Romance - Wicked Villains #5 |
Robert, Katee | Queen Takes Rose: A Dark Fairy Tale Romance | Romance - Wicked Villains #6 |
Rovin, Jeff | Call of Duty | Thriller - Tom Clancy's Op-center #21 |
Rowe, Christopher | These Prisoning Hills | A post-apocalyptic Appalachian weird fiction novella. |
Runde, Katie | The Shore | A mother and her two daughters grapple with heartbreak, young love, and the weight of family secrets. |
Ryan, Eimear | Holding Her Breath | Fiction |
Ryan, Jennifer | The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle | Three plucky women lift the spirits of home-front brides in wartime Britain, where clothes rationing leaves little opportunity for pomp or celebration. |
Schellman, Katharine | Last Call at The Nightingale | First in a captivating Jazz age mystery series. |
Sebastian, Cat | The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes | Fleeing to the countryside after shooting her evil, murderous husband, the Duchess of Clare turns to a charismatic blackmailer, highwayman and con-artist for help. |
Sereno, Annie | Blame it on the Brontës | She's going to write her own happy ending. |
Shapiro, Barbara A. | Metropolis | The interlocking stories of six characters whose only connection is their units at a storage facility, where a tragic accident will either tear them apart or help them salvage their own precarious lives. |
Shipstead, Maggie | You have a friend in 10A | Short Stories |
Sinclair, Roslyn | Truth and Measure | What happens when the world's fiercest fashion editor learns she's pregnant-and her distracting assistant is the only one she can turn to? |
Smith, Ali | Companion Piece | Fiction |
Snelling, Lauraine | A Time to Bloom | Christian Historical |
Songsiridej, Alyssa | Little Rabbit | Fiction |
St Clair, Scarlett | A Game of Retribution | Fantasy Romance - Hades Saga #2 |
Sterling, Siena | Tell Us No Secrets | Thriller |
Stibbe, Nina | One Day I Shall Astonish the World | A frank, tender, and poignantly funny story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime. |
Stoker, Susan | Finding Monica | Romance - Seal Team Hawaii #4 |
Swan, Erin | Walk the Vanished Earth | In the tradition of Station Eleven, Severance and The Dog Stars, a beautifully written and emotionally stirring dystopian novel about how our dreams of the future may shift as our environment changes rapidly, even as the earth continues to spin. |
Taylor, Phoebe Atwood | The Cape Cod Mystery | Mystery |
Toltz, Steve | Here Goes Nothing | Fiction |
Townsend, Jacinda | Mother Country | Fiction |
Untamed | Never Again, No More 6: Karma's Payback | Urban Fiction |
Vercher, John | After the Lights Go Out | A harrowing and spellbinding story about family, the complications of mixed-race relationships, misplaced loyalties, and the price athletes pay to entertain. |
Villada, Camila | Bad Girls | Fiction |
Vowel, Chelsea | Buffalo Is the New Buffalo | Powerful stories of "Métis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, and colonization. |
Walker, Sarai | The Cherry Robbers | A feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up. |
Walter, Heather | Misrule | Fantasy - Malice #2 |
Warren, Susan May | Sunburst | Christian Romance - Sky King Ranch #2 |
Waxman, Abbi | Adult Assembly Required | A young woman arrives in Los Angeles determined to start over and discovers she doesn't need to leave everything behind after all. |
Weir, Alison | The Last White Rose | Historical Fiction - Tudor Rose #1 |
White, Kiersten | Hide | Fourteen contestants embark on a seven-day competition and the chance to win $50,000 if they can successfully play hide and seek in an abandoned amusement park without being found and eliminated. |
Whitten, Hannah | For the Throne | Fantasy - Wilderwood #2 |
Williams, Beatriz, et. al | The Lost Summers of Newport | A novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the present day. |
Yolen, Jane, et. al | The Reinvented Heart : Tales of Futuristic Relationships | Romance Short Stories |
Yoon, David | City of Orange | A man wakes up alone and injured in an apocalyptic landscape and must learn how to survive with only vague memories of how he got there. |
Zak, Erin | The hummingbird sanctuary | Romance |
April 2022
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Aaronovitch, Ben | Amongst Our Weapons | Fantasy - Rivers of London #9 |
Adams, Ellery | The Vanishing Type | Cozy Mystery - Secret, Book, and Scone #5 |
Adams, Sarah | The Cheat Sheet | Is it ever too late to leave the friend zone? The heartwarming friends to lovers romance that became a sensation on TikTok. |
Al-Nakib, Mai | An Unlasting Home | A multigenerational saga spanning Lebanon, Iraq, India, the United States, and Kuwait that brings to life the triumphs and failures of three generations of Arab women. |
Alexander, Tj | Chef's Kiss | A high-strung pastry chef's professional goals are interrupted by an unexpected career transition and the introduction of her wildly attractive nonbinary kitchen manager. |
Ali, Monica | Love Marriage | A captivating social comedy and a profoundly moving, revelatory story of two cultures, two families, and two people trying to understand one another. |
Allen, Samantha Jayne | Pay Dirt Road | Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town debut mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress. |
Andrews, Mary Kay | The Homewreckers | Fiction |
Atherton, Nancy | Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage | Cozy Mystery - Aunt Dimity #25 |
Barnhill, Kelly | When Women Were Dragons | In 1950s America, thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons. |
Bellinger, Demisty D. | New to Liberty | Depicting the strength and resolve of three unforgettable women growing up in a society that refuses to evolve, this novel, told in three parts - in 1933, 1947, and 1966 - offers a snapshot of mid-century America during which these women's actions have consequences for generations to come. |
Benson, Jendella | Hope and Glory | Leaving her glamorous life in LA, Glory Akindele returns to London to mourn her father's death and discovers that her previously close family has fallen apart and decides to stay and try to reunite them. |
Bestor-Siegal, Amanda | The Caretakers | A debut told from the points of view of six women and centered around a group of au pairs in a wealthy Parisian suburb, one of whom is arrested after a sudden and suspicious tragedy strikes her host family. |
Birch, Tony | The White Girl | Australia's leading indigenous storyteller makes his American debut with this immersive and deeply resonant novel, set in the 1960s, that explores the lengths we'll go to save the people we love. |
Birchall, Katy | The Wedding Season | Romance |
Bird, Sarah | Last Dance on the Starlight Pier | Historical Fiction |
Bird-Wilson, Lisa | Probably Ruby | An Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable debut novel about family, race, and history. |
Black, Anna | Who Do I Run To | A love triangle with a married man spirals out of control. |
Black, Holly | Book of Night | Best-selling YA author Black makes her adult debut with this urban fantasy where the shadows have not only eyes but teeth as well--and feeding them is the way to magical power. |
Black, Juneau | Mirror Lake | Cozy Mystery - Shady Hollow #3 |
Blaque | Dirty DNA | Urban Fiction |
Blaque | Dirty DNA 2 | Urban Fiction |
Blaque | Dirty DNA 3 | Urban Fiction |
Bohjalian, Chris | The Lioness | A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage. |
Bowery, Liz | Love, Hate & Clickbait | When a misleading photo of them goes viral, political consultant Thom Morgan and data analyst Clay Parker--sworn enemies working with a presidential candidate--are forced to fake a relationship to save the campaign. |
Brennan, Allison | The Wrong Victim | Mystery - Quinn & Costa #3 |
Brock, Kimberly | The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare | Historical Fiction |
Brown, Janelle | I'll be You | Two identical twin sisters and former child actors have grown apart--until one disappears. |
Brown, Taylor | Wingwalkers | A former WWI ace pilot and his wingwalker wife barnstorm across Depression-era America, performing acts of aerial daring. |
Bunn, Davis | Emerald Tide | Christian Fiction - Miramar Bay #6 |
Cameron, Marc | Cold Snap | Thriller - Arliss Cutter #4 |
Carcaterra, Lorenzo | Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride | When a crime on a beautiful Italian island stumps the police, locals turn to the nosy, elderly widow Nonna Maria. |
Cañas, Isabel | The Hacienda | Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches... |
Chadburn, Melissa | A Tiny Upward Shove | A fictionalized account of real life Canadian serial killer Willie Pickton and his final victim. |
Chavez, Heather | Blood Will Tell | A twisty novel about the bond between two sisters--and the crimes one covers up to protect the other. |
Chen, Lisa | Activities of Daily Living | A debut novel on the interconnection between work and life, loneliness and kinship, and the projects that occupy our time. |
Chu, Lily | The Stand-In | A famous actress wants Gracie to be her stand-in, but she must be escorted by the most attractive and infuriating man she's ever met. |
Clare, Jessica | Go Hex Yourself | Romance |
Close, Jennifer | Marrying the Ketchups | A comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the private jokes, ancient grudges, broken hearts, and deep, abiding love that feeds them all. |
Cooney, C. S. E. | Saint Death's Daughter | Fantasy |
Cotugno, Katie | Birds of California | Romance |
Crowley, John | Flint and Mirror | From the author of Little, Big comes an exquisite fantasy. |
Dailey, Janet | Hope Creek | Romance - New Americana #6 |
Dalglish, David | The Bladed Faith | A usurped prince prepares to take up the mantel of a deadly assassin and reclaim his kingdom, his people, and his slain gods. |
Dallas, Sandra | Little Souls | Historical Fiction |
Davidson, Paul | The Small Stuff | What if the reason we find the love of our life isn't due to fate, chance, or plain dumb luck-but because of the decisions everyone around us ends up making? |
Davis, Elizabeth | I Love You, I Hate You | Romance |
Day, Elizabeth | Magpie | A taut, psychological suspense novel about a perfect couple and their seemingly perfect roommate. |
Devlin, Malcolm | And Then I Woke Up | In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. |
Diaz, Hernan | Trust | Historical Fiction |
Dillsworth, Lianne | Theatre of Marvels | Set in Victorian London, an irresistible story of an ambitious young Black actress, an orphan from the slums who has finally achieved a dubious stardom as "The Great Amazonia, a savage African queen"--but everything she has fought for depends on hiding the secret of her own identity. |
Dumond, Susie | Queerly Beloved | A people-pleasing bridesmaid-for-hire falls for the crushable new lesbian in town. Will she finally find her happily ever after--and her own voice? |
Elliott, K. | Street Fame | Urban Fiction |
Emezi, Akwaeke | You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty | Learning how to feel joy while healing from loss, Feyi Adekola starts dating the perfect guy, but discovers she has feelings for someone else who is off limits and must decide just how far she is willing to go for a second chance at love. |
Fisher, Suzanne Woods | The Sweet Life | Christian Fiction |
Fisher, Tarryn | An Honest Lie | Thriller |
Ford, John M. | Aspects | Fantasy |
Fre$h | Betrayal of a Thug | Orphaned Yayo goes from rags to riches, but his ascension is rife with turmoil and tragedy. |
Fuller, Kathleen | Love in Plain Sight | Christian Romance - Amish Mail-Order Bride #3 |
Gabhart, Ann H. | When the Meadow Blooms | Christian Historical |
Gallon, Michael | The Murder Queens | Urban Fiction |
Gibson, Rachel | Drop Dead Gorgeous | Fiction |
Glass, Julia | Vigil Harbor | When two unexpected visitors arrive in an insular coastal village, they threaten the equilibrium of a community already confronting climate instability, political violence, and domestic upheavals. |
Gray, Claudia | The Murder of Mr. Wickham | A summer house party turns into a thrilling whodunit when Jane Austen's Mr. Wickham--one of literature's most notorious villains--meets a sudden and suspicious end. |
Griffith, Nicola | Spear | Forging her own bright path, a young woman, armed with a stolen hunting spear and mended armor, embarks on a journey to the court of Artos, king of Caer Leon. |
Grisham, John | Sparring Partners | Short Stories |
Gwynne, John | The Hunger of the Gods | Fantasy - Bloodsworn #2 |
Hadlock, Jody | The Lives of Diamond Bessie | Historical Mystery |
Harper, Rachel M. | The Other Mother | While attending Brown, Jenry, a musical prodigy, sets out to learn about his late father until his estranged grandfather makes an admission that leads Jenry down a new path - one that ends a web of secrecy that binds this family together even as it keeps them apart. |
Hart, Michelle | We Do What We Do in the Dark | A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. |
Hartnett, Annie | Unlikely Animals | A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances. |
Hedlund, Jody | To Tame a Cowboy | Christian Romance - Colorado Cowboys #3 |
Henry, Emily | Book Lovers | One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... |
Hightower, Laurel | Below | How far would you go to help a stranger? |
Hillerman, Anne | The Sacred Bridge | Mystery - Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito #7 |
Hossain, Saad Z. | Kundo Wakes Up | Science Fiction |
Hubbard, Colleen | Housebreaking | Following a long-standing feud and looking to settle the score, a woman decides to dismantle her home--alone and by hand--and move it across a frozen pond during a harsh New England winter. |
Hunter, Denise | Mulberry Hollow | Christian Romance - Riverbend #2 |
Janovsky, Timothy | Never Been Kissed | Romance |
Jimenez, Abby | Part of Your world | Romance |
Kann, Claire | The Romantic Agenda | Joy is in love with Malcolm. But Malcolm really likes Summer. Summer is in love with love. And Fox is Summer's ex-boyfriend. |
Katsu, Alma | The Fervor | The author of literary horror novels The Hunger and The Deep turns her psychological and supernatural eye on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II. |
Kenyon, Sherrilyn | Shadow Fallen | Paranormal Romance - Dream-Hunter #5 |
Kingfisher, T. | Nettle & Bone | This isn't the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince. It's the one where she kills him. |
Kingsbury, Karen | The Baxters: A Prequel | Christian Romance |
Knight, Eliza | The Mayfair Bookshop | A dual-narrative story about Nancy Mitford--one of 1930s London's hottest socialites, authors, and a member of the scandalous Mitford Sisters--and a modern American desperate for change. |
Kohda, Claire | Woman, Eating | A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger in this debut novel. |
Koomson, Dorothy | I Know What You've Done | Do you have any idea what the people you know are capable of? |
Kurkov, Andreĭ | Grey Bees | With a warm yet political humor, Ukraine's most famous novelist presents a balanced and illuminating portrait of modern conflict. |
Lacour, Nina | Yerba Buena | The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two women on a star-crossed journey toward each other. |
Lanier, Martina M. | A Resilient Love | Urban Fiction |
Larkin, Michelle | Secret Agent | Romance |
Lazar, Zachary | The Apartment on Calle Uruguay | Fiction |
Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma | A Woman of Endurance | This groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history--the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade--witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear more slaves. |
Lowkee | Finessed: play chess or get check'd | A story of love, loss, loyalty and the strength it requires to survive the streets. |
Marcelo, Tif | Know You by Heart | Romance |
Martinez, Guillermo | The Oxford Brotherhood | Mystery |
McBrayer, Lauren | Like a House on Fire | A debut novel about a woman at a turning point in her life, and what happens when she discovers the spark that makes her feel whole again. |
McCulloch, Amy | Breathless | Thriller |
McGuire, Seanan | Seasonal Fears | Fantasy - Alchemical Journeys #2 |
McMahon, Jennifer | The Children on the Hill | Thriller |
McMillan, Rachel | The Mozart Code | Christian Historical |
Meyer, Deon | The Dark Flood | Mystery - Benny Griessel #7 |
Michaels, Fern | Secrets | Thriller |
Miller, Kirsten | The Change | Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick in this story about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers, putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town. |
Miller, Linda Lael | Country Born | Romance - Painted Pony Creek #3 |
Moore, Niyah | My Hustler, My Enemy : Rise of a Street Queen | Crime kingpins learn the hard way to "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer..." |
Moore, Yolanda | The Streets Will Talk | Urban Fiction |
Naga, Noor | If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English | An Egyptian American woman visiting her parents' homeland begins a dark romance with an unemployed photographer who is addicted to cocaine and living in a rooftop shack in Cairo. |
Nagendra, Harini | The Bangalore Detectives Club | The first in a charming, joyful crime series set in 1920s Bangalore, featuring amateur detective Kaveri and her husband Ramu. |
Newman, Leigh | Nobody Gets Out Alive | Short Stories |
Oduor, Okwiri | Things They Lost | This debut novel tells the story of a lonely girl living in a small African town and her struggle to free herself from her mercurial, charming mother. |
Paretsky, Sara | Overboard | Mystery - V.I. Warshawski #22 |
Patel, Vaishnavi | Kaikeyi | This debut reimagines the life of the infamous queen from the Indian epic the Ramayana, an extraordinary woman determined to leave her mark in a world where gods and men dictate the shape of things to come. |
Pen, Kween | Mona Liza | Urban Fiction |
Penelope, L. | Savage City | Paranormal Romance |
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen | Take My Hand | A novel about a young Black nurse's shocking discovery and burning quest for justice in post-segregation Alabama. |
Phillips, Gary | One-Shot Harry | 1963 Los Angeles provides a powerful backdrop in this historical crime novel about an African American forensic photographer seeking justice for a friend--perfect for fans of Walter Mosley, James Ellroy, and George Pelecanos. |
Pinborough, Sarah | Insomnia | Emma Averill worries that her crippling insomnia is a sign that she's slowly going insane--like the mother she's worked so hard to leave in her past. |
Player, Delmont | The Birth of a Gangster | Urban Fiction |
Pratt, Tim | Prison of Sleep | Science Fiction - Journals of Zaxony Delatree #2 |
Quick, Amanda | When She Dreams | Romantic Suspense - Burning Cove, CA #6 |
Richardson, Kim Michele | The Book Woman's Daughter | Fiction - Book Woman of Troublesome Creek #2 |
Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 2 | Urban Fiction |
Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 3 | Urban Fiction |
Roberts, Nora | Nightwork | Romantic Suspense |
Rodale, Maya | The Mad Girls of New York | A novel based on the fearless reporter Nellie Bly, who would stop at nothing to expose injustices against women in 19th century New York. |
Rollins, James | Kingdom of Bones | Thriller - Sigma Force #16 |
Rose, Jeneva | One of Us Is Dead | Opulence. Sex. Betrayal ... Sometimes friendship can be deadly. |
Rothchild, Sascha | Blood Sugar | Introducing the most likable murderess you will ever meet. |
Rubio, Marytza K. | Maria, Maria: & Other Stories | Short Stories |
Saint, Jennifer | Elektra | A reimagining of the story of one of Greek mythology's most infamous heroines. |
Saynomore | Mob Ties 6 | Urban Fiction |
Scherm, Rebecca | A House Between Earth and the Moon | Fiction |
Scott, Maryn | Standom | Romance |
Sequaia | Loving a Girl Like You | Fame and love combined can be either the greatest combination or the worst. For these star-crossed lovers, which will it be? |
Shin, Kyung-Sook | Violets | Follows a neglected young woman's search for human connection in contemporary Seoul. |
Simon, Christine | The Patron Saint of Second Chances | The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the cost in this debut novel. |
Sinha, Madi | At Least You Have Your Health | Behind the chic veneer of a wellness clinic lies a dangerous secret. |
Slmn | Race | A gripping thriller about a reporter risking his life to expose corrupt policing and destroy the system from within before it destroys him. |
Stanford, Claire | Happy for You | A novel about a young woman who takes a job at a tech company looking to break into the "happiness market"--even as her own happiness feels more unknowable than ever. |
Starford, Rebecca | An Unlikely Spy | Historical Fiction |
Story, Rosalyn M. | Sing Her Name | The intertwined stories of two singers whose lives connect across time. |
Straub, Emma | This Time Tomorrow | Fiction |
Sussman, Elissa | Funny You Should Ask | Fiction |
Tchaikovsky, Adrian | Eyes of the Void | Science Fiction - The Final Architecture #2 |
Thayer, Nancy | Summer Love | Fiction |
Thayne, RaeAnne | Summer at the Cape | Romance - Cape Sanctuary #4 |
Thompson, Victoria | Murder on Madison Square | Historical Mystery - Gaslight #25 |
Thorogood, Robert | The Marlow Murder Club | To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero... |
Tukes, Romell | Coke Girlz | Urban Fiction |
Van Pelt, Shelby | Remarkably Bright Creatures | For fans of A Man Called Ove, a ... debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium--and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago. |
Vara, Vauhini | The Immortal King Rao | A debut novel rewrites the history of big tech into a mythic immigrant story of dystopian proportions. |
Vo, Nghi | Siren Queen | Immortality is just a casting call away... |
Waters, John | Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance | Fiction |
Weiner, Jennifer | The Summer Place | Fiction |
Wiley, Soon | When We Fell Apart | A young Korean American man's search for answers about his girlfriend's mysterious death becomes a soul-searching journey into his own bi-cultural identity. |
Williams, Racquel | Lovin' a Virginia Bad Girl | Nyesha, Kymani, and Yohan get caught up in a messy, page-turning love triangle. |
Wilson, Carter | The New Neighbor | Thriller |
Winn, Karen | Our Little World | Fiction |
Winslow, Don | City on Fire | The first novel in an epic crime saga. |
Winter, Dawn | Sedating Elaine | Fiction |
Wiseman, Beth | The Bookseller's Promise | Christian Fiction - Amish Bookstore #1 |
Wright, Jaime Jo | The Souls of Lost Lake | Wren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a youth camp. But when a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess, who still roams the woods. |
March 2022
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Abu-Jaber, Diana | Fencing with the King | Amani discovers a poem on an airmail paper that slipped out of one of her father's books and becomes determined to learn more about its author, her grandmother, who arrived in Jordan during World War I. |
Aguirre, Ann | Boss Witch | Romance - Fix-It Witches #2 |
Ahmad, Aamina | The Return of Faraz Ali | Sent back to his birthplace, Lahore's notorious red-light district, to hush up the murder of a girl, a man finds himself in an unexpected reckoning with his past. |
Akers, W. M. | Westside Lights | Historical Mystery - Westside #3 |
Alexander, Ellie | Lost Coast Literary | A young editor inherits her grandmother's estate only to learn that her editing pen has the power not only to change stories but also to change lives. |
Ali, Kasim | Good Intentions | A debut novel about a young man who has hidden a romance from his parents, unable to choose between familial obligation and the future he truly wants. |
Allingham, Merryn | Murder at Primrose Cottage | Cozy Mystery - Flora Steele #3 |
Alpsten, Ellen | The Tsarina's Daughter | Historical - Tsarina #2 |
Andrews, Brian | Dark Angel | Thriller - Shepherds #2 |
Andrews, V. C. | Becoming My Sister | Two sisters face love, rivalry, and a shocking disappearance amidst the luxury of Palm Springs. |
Bahr, Dane | The Houseboat | This psychological thriller set in small town Iowa in the 1960s pits a detective struggling with his own demons against a mysterious outcast who may or may not be a serial killer. |
Baldree, Travis. | Legends & Lattes | A hot cup of fantasy slice-of-life with a dollop of romantic froth. |
Banwo, Ayanna Lloyd | When We Were Birds | A mythic love story set in Trinidad, this radiant debut introduces two unforgettable outsiders brought together by their connection with the dead. |
Barasch, Caitlin | A Novel Obsession | An aspiring novelist finds herself stalking--and writing about--her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend. |
Barenbaum, Rachel | Atomic Anna | Three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their past. |
Bennett, Claire-Louise | Checkout 19 | Fiction |
Bennett, S. J. | All the Queen's Men | Cozy Mystery - Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #2 |
Bhanoo, Sindya | Seeking Fortune Elsewhere | Short Stories |
Bishop, Anne | Crowbones | Urban Fantasy - World of the Others #3 |
Black, Cara | Murder at the Porte de Versailles | Mystery - Aimée Leduc #20 |
Blanco Calderón, Rodrigo | The Night | Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. |
Blædel, Sara. | A Harmless Lie | Mystery - Louise Rick/Camilla Lind #10 |
Bond, Gwenda | The Date from Hell | Paranormal Romance - Match Made in Hell #2 |
Bova, Ben | Sam Gunn Jr. | Science Fiction - Sam Gunn #3 |
Brayden, Melissa | Exclusive | Skylar Ruiz lands the TV reporting job of a lifetime, but is she willing to sacrifice it all for the love of her longtime crush, anchorwoman Carolyn McNamara? |
Broaddus, Maurice | Sweep of Stars | When the old powers seek to destroy the Muungano empire and all that they've built, three people leader Amachi Adisa, warrior Fela Buhari and captain Stacia Chikeke prepare for battle while searching for the answers that could save them all. |
Bulawayo, NoViolet | Glory | Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup of the longtime president of Zimbabwe, the book describes a fictional nation of animals on the path to true liberation after the sudden fall of Old Horse. |
Burchell, Kristin | Court of Venom | Fantasy |
Burton, Tara Isabella | The World Cannot Give | Arriving at St. Dunstan's Academy in Maine, shy, sensitive Laura Stearns falls under the spell of charismatic, neurotic overachiever Virginia, who gives her purpose until the new school chaplain challenges Virginia, forcing Laura to decide how far she will let her devotion to Virginia go. |
Byler, Linda | A Beacon of Light | Inspirational Romance - Long Road Home #2 |
Carr, Robyn | A Family Affair | Romance |
Chou, Elaine Hsieh | Disorientation | While finishing her PhD dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou, graduate student Ingrid Yang discovers a curious note in the archives and upends her entire life trying to unravel the note's message, ultimately making an explosive discovery. |
Clark, Andrea Yaryura | On a Night of a Thousand Stars | A young couple confronts the start of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later. |
Cole, Lee | Groundskeeping | Fiction |
Colgan, Jenny | Welcome to the School by the Sea | The first book of a new series, set at a charming English boarding school on the sea. |
Comfort, Jen | The Astronaut and the Star | A romantic comedy featuring an astronaut tasked with training a Hollywood actor for a space flick. |
Cooper, Sharon C. | Business Not as Usual | Romance |
Corey, James S. A. | Memory's Legion | Science Fiction Short Stories |
Cranor, Eli | Don't Know Tough | Fiction |
Crosby, Ellen | Bitter Roots | Cozy Mystery - Wine Country #12 |
Croucher, Lex | Reputation | When she meets a wealthy member of the in-crowd, bookish and sheltered Georgina is introduced to the upper levels of Regency aristocracy where she begins to wonder if she'll ever fit in - or if the price of entry into this glittering world is higher than she's willing to pay. |
Davenport, N. E. | The Blood Trials | Blending fantasy and science fiction, this debut kicks off a duology of loyalty and rebellion, in which a young Black woman must survive deadly trials in a racist and misogynistic society to become an elite warrior. |
DeYoung, Andrew | The Temps | They're underemployed. Underpaid. And trying to survive the end of the world while trapped inside an office complex. Who knew temp work could be this dangerous? |
Deeds, Marion | Comeuppance Served Cold | A hard-boiled historical fantasy of criminality and magic, couched in the glamour of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. |
Dolan, Lian | Lost and Found in Paris | When her husband announces he's fathered twins with another woman, Joan books a last-minute trip to Paris as an art courier where she, after the priceless drawings are stolen, is led on a treasure hunt all over the city hoping to recover the lost art, and her own sense of adventure. |
Doller, Trish | The Suite Spot | Romance |
Downes, Anna | The Shadow House | Thriller |
Eason, Lynette | Driving Force | Christian Suspense - Elite Guardians #1 |
Elliot, Amanda | Sadie on a Plate | Landing a coveted spot on her favorite TV show, chef Sadie, a rising star in the trendy Seattle restaurant scene, arrives in NYC and has a spontaneous one-night fling, or she thought was a one night, until she arrives on set and gets the surprise of her life. |
Ellis, Shelly | Truth, Lies, and Mr. Grey | Fiction - Three Mrs. Greys #2 |
Folk, Kate | Out There: Stories | Short Stories |
Fu, Melissa | Peach Blossom Spring | Historical Fiction |
Gainza, María | Portrait of an Unknown Lady | The story of an auction house employee on the trail of an enigmatic master forger. |
Galgut, Damon | The Promise | Fiction |
Garmus, Bonnie | Lessons in Chemistry | In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo. |
Garrett, Kellye | Like a Sister | When death of her half-sister Desiree, a disgraced reality TV star, is ruled an overdose, Lena Scott knows that can't be the case and becomes determined to find justice for Desiree, even if means unraveling her family's darkest secrets - or ending up dead herself. |
Gelernter, J. H. | Captain Grey's Gambit | Historical Fiction - Captain Grey #2 |
Gillham, David R. | Shadows of Berlin | Historical Fiction |
Ginder, Grant | Let's Not Do That Again | Fiction |
Gladstone, Max | Last Exit | After being able to travel between alternate realities, wizard Zelda Quiang gathers her friends from the past to help defend the world against her ex-lover, Sal. |
Glenn, Roy | Manipulation | Urban Fiction |
Gorcheva-Newberry, Kristina | The Orchard | Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union--but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. |
Graham, Heather | Crimson Summer | Romantic Suspense |
Grande, Reyna | A Ballad of Love and Glory | A sweeping historical saga following a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight, first for their survival and then for love, amidst the atrocity of the Mexican-American War |
Graves, Sarah | Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake | Cozy Mystery - Death By Chocolate #5 |
Green, Jane | Sister Stardust | Inspired by a true story, this book reimagines the glamorous and tragic life of fashion icon and socialite Talitha Getty through the eyes of Claire, a young woman in search of adventure who is drawn into Talitha's orbit, forever changing her life. |
Gurnah, Abdulrazak | Admiring Silence | Fiction |
Gurnah, Abdulrazak | Memory of Departure | Fiction |
Gurnah, Abdulrazak | Pilgrims Way | An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England. |
Hannon, Irene | Sea Glass Cottage | Inspirational - Hope Harbor #8 |
Hansen, Joseph | Skinflick | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #5 |
Harkin, Jo | Tell Me An Ending | Never Let Me Go meets Black Mirror in this speculative debut about a tech company that deletes unwanted memories. |
Harper, Elodie | The Wolf Den | A slave and prostitute in Pompeii's notorious Wolf Den brothel, Amara, once the beloved daughter of a doctor in Greece, is buoyed by the sisterhood she forges with the other women and dream of a new beginning - if she can pay the high price for her freedom. |
Harris, C. S. | When Blood Lies | Historical Mystery - Sebastian St. Cyr #17 |
Harvey, Kristy Woodson | The Wedding Veil | Follows four extraordinary women across generations, bound by a beautiful wedding veil and a connection to the Vanderbilt legacy that changes their lives - and history as they know it. |
Heath, Lorraine | Girls of Flight City | Historical Fiction |
Hepworth, Sally | The Younger Wife | Thriller |
Heron, Farah | Kamila Knows Best | Too busy with her friends' love lives, hardly giving thought to her own, Kamila Hussain refuses to let herself get distracted by her growing feelings for a longtime friend of the family until her secret nemesis sets her sights on him. |
Hetherington, Victoria | Autonomy | In a near future ravaged by illness, one woman and her AI companion enter a dangerous bubble of the superrich. |
Hill, Edwin | The Secrets We Share | Thriller |
Hill, Susan | A Change of Circumstance | Mystery - Simon Serrallier #11 |
Holland, Sam | The Echo Man | Thriller |
Holmberg, Charlie N. | Star Father | Fantasy - Star Mother #2 |
Holton, India | The League of Gentlewomen Witches | Paranormal Romance - Dangerous Damsels #2 |
Hood, Joshua | Robert Ludlum's the Treadstone Transgression | Thriller - Treadstone #3 |
Hubbard, Ladee | The Last Suspicious Holdout | Short Stories |
Hubscher, Libby | If You Ask Me | When an advice columnist's picture-perfect life implodes, she opts to go rogue. |
Huchu, T. L. | Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments | Urban Fantasy - Edinburgh Nights #2 |
Hyde, Allegra | Eleutheria | After meeting a renowned Harvard professor who betrays her, a naïve, young idealist finds a guide to fighting climate change and is inspired to move to Eleutheria in the Bahamas to join the author and his ecowarriors. |
India | Rich Wives Association | The life of a celebrity wife is supposed to be all glitz and glamour. However, when the lights dim and the paparazzi fade, living life in the fab lane comes with a price. |
Johnson, Chantal V. | Post-Traumatic | A dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients makes a bold move during a family reunion that leaves her alone in new and terrifying ways, causing her to unravel. |
Jones, Solomon | C.R.E.A.M. about the Streets | Urban Fiction - C.R.E.A.M. #1 |
Jones, Solomon | Payback: The Return of C.R.E.A.M. | Urban Fiction - C.R.E.A.M. #2 |
K'wan | Promise Broken | After losing her mother and the abandonment of her father, Promise has two goals: graduate from high school and be loved. Her pursuit of these goals will lead to life-altering events. |
Kava, Alex | Fallen Creed | Mystery - Ryder Creed K9 #7 |
Kazbek, Katya | Little Foxes Took Up Matches | A powerful story of sexual awakening and acceptance voiced by a protagonist coming of age in post-Soviet Russia. |
Keneally, Thomas | The Dickens Boy | The son of England's most famous author, Edward Dickens, is sent to Australia to make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye - where he works hard to prove to his parents and himself that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness. |
Kenyon, Sherrilyn | Eve of Destruction | Paranormal Romance - League: Eve of Destruction #1 |
Keyes, Marian | Again, Rachel | Fiction |
Kravetz, Lee Daniel | The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. | Bridging fact and fiction to imagine the life of a revered writer, this masterful literary novel follows a seasoned curator as she, vetting the 55-year-old handwritten journals of Sylvia Plath, discovers she is connected to Plath's legacy in an unexpected way. |
Lansdale, Joe R. | Born for Trouble : The Further Adventures of Hap and Leonard | Mystery |
Lastufka, Alan | Face the Night | Rookie police sketch artist Adriana just drew the wrong face. A face with no name, with no voice, but with one hell of a secret... |
Lewis, Amy O. | Half-Told Truths | Mystery - Colorado Skies #2 |
Li, Grace D. | Portrait of a Thief | Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in this heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums. |
Lin, Hudson | Going Public | Romance - Jade Harbour Capital #2 |
Loizou, Polis | A Good Year | Horror |
Luna, Louisa | Hideout | Mystery - Alice Vega #3 |
Lupica, Mike | Robert B. Parker's Revenge Tour | Mystery - Sunny Randall #10 |
Macmillan, Gilly | The Long Weekend | A group of women travel to the most remote place in England for a weekend escape, only to discover a startling note that one of their husbands will be killed before they return home. |
Margolin, Phillip | The Darkest Place | Mystery - Robin Lockwood #5 |
Marie, Tina | My Heart Beats for You | Sometimes, even true love isn't enough to prevent bad choices. |
May, Francesca | Wild and Wicked Things | In the aftermath of World War I, a naive woman is swept into a glittering world filled with dark magic, romance, and murder. |
Maz, William | The Bucharest Dossier | Thriller |
McCoy, Taj | Savvy Sheldon Feels Good As Hell | While renovating her house and her life, Savvy Sheldon finds things going not as planned and soon realizes that she should have started her renovation the other way around, beginning with how she sees and loves herself before she can love someone else. |
Medel, Elena | The Wonders | During the Women's March in 2018 Madrid, Alicia, unaware that the mother who left her years ago is in the crowd, searches for a man who, for a few hours, will make her forget her husband and the life he expects them to live. |
Miller, Carol | The Fool Dies Last | The Bailey sisters may be the only ones able to interpret the meaning behind a bizarre series of murders in the first entry in the Fortune Telling Mysteries series. |
Miller, Vanessa | Something Good | When three women find their lives inextricably linked after one terrible mistake, they must work together to make the most of their futures and the challenges before them. |
Monroe, Mary | Empty Vows | Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man. |
Montgomery, Jess | The Echoes | Historical Mystery - Kinship #4 |
Monáe, Janelle | The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer | In a totalitarian world where thoughts - as a means of self-conception - are controlled or erased by a select few, and your life is dictated by those who feel they have the right to decide your fate, Jane 57821 remembers and breaks free. |
Morrey, Beth | Delphine Jones Takes a Chance | Fiction |
Mueller, Sara A. | The Bone Orchard | A dying emperor charges his favorite concubine with solving his own murder, and preventing the culprit, which undoubtedly is one of his three terrible sons, from taking control of an empire. |
Murphy, Jennifer | Scarlet in Blue | Follows Blue and her artist mother Scarlet as they finally settle down in a small Michigan beachfront town where Blue thrives as her mother prepares to escape the shadow of her traumatic past, no matter what the cost. |
Neuvel, Sylvain | Until the Last of Me | Science Fiction - : Take Them to the Stars #2 |
Novak, Brenda | Summer on the Island | Romance |
Nović, Sara | True Biz | Taking readers into a residential school for the deaf, this coming-of-age novel follows three people - a rebellious transfer student, the school's golden boy and the headmistress - as they each deal with personal and political crises and find their lives inextricable from one another - and changed forever. |
O'Leary, Beth | The No-Show | Three women who seemingly have nothing in common find that they're involved with the same man. |
O'Nan, Stewart | Ocean State | A story of working-class life in Rhode Island and the terrible things love makes us do, told through the alternating perspectives of four women at the heart of the murder of a high school student. |
O'Shea, T.J. | Beyond the Blue | Romance |
Osman, Diriye | The Butterfly Jungle | Short Stories |
Osunde, Eloghosa | Vagabonds! | In Nigeria, the lives of a group of vagabonds - the poor, the queer, the drivers and dancers, the abused, displaced and vulnerable - intertwine in bustling markets and underground clubs, churches and hotel rooms where they are seized and challenged by spirits who command the city's dark energy. |
Oyebanji, Adam | Braking Day | An engineer-in-training on a generation ship that escaped an inhospitable Earth sees a young woman floating out in space without a helmet and must decide whether to ignore it and secure his family's place among the elite or uncover the truth. |
Painter, Lynn | Mr. Wrong Number | A steamy message from a random wrong number turns into an anonymous relationship. |
Pandian, Gigi | Under Lock & Skeleton Key | Tempest Raj, while visiting her dad's latest renovation project, discovers the body of her former stage double and wonders if she was the original target. |
Patterson, James, and Maxine Paetro | 22 Seconds | Mystery |
Patterson, James, and J.D. Barker | Death of the Black Widow | Thriller |
Pederson, David S. | Murder on Monte Vista | Historical Mystery |
Pellegrino, Amanda | Smile and Look Pretty | What happens when four assistants risk everything to say enough is enough? |
Perry, Anne | Three Debts Paid | Historical Mystery - Daniel Pitt #5 |
Powell, Gareth | Stars and Bones | When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her. |
Power, Rory | In a Garden Burning Gold | Twins Rhea and Lexos have spent an eternity working with their father to keep control over the seasons, tides, stars and people but might face each other on the battlefield as an independence movement grows, putting the siblings at odds. |
Reedus, Norman | The Ravaged | Fiction |
Reich, Christopher | Once a Thief | Thriller - Simon Riske #4 |
Rigetti, Susan | Cover Story | An ambitious young woman gets trapped in a charismatic con artist's scam. |
Riley, Vanessa | A Duke, the Spy, an Artist, and a Lie | Historical Romance - Rogues and Remarkable Women #3 |
Roanhorse, Rebecca | Fevered Star | Fantasy - Between Earth and Sky #2 |
Roe, Lisa | Welcome to the Neighborhood | Ginny Miller's remarriage is a great opportunity to move with her quirky eleven year-old daughter to an upscale New Jersey suburb, but reality in the Real Housewives of NJ town isn't everything she hoped it would be. |
Ronan, Kelsey | Chevy in the Hole | The love story of an interracial couple, recovering addict August "Gus" Molloy and urban farmer Monae Livingston, as told through two generations of their families living in and around Detroit. |
Rosenfelt, David | Citizen K-9 | Cozy Mystery - K Team #3 |
Runcie, James | The Great Passion | Told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew's Passion, this meditation on grief and music follows 13-year-old Stefan Silbermann who is taken under the tutelage of Bach and drawn into Bach's family life, escaping the cruelty of his classmates. |
Scalzi, John | The Kaiju Preservation Society | When an old acquaintance desperately needs her help, Jamie Gray is transported to an alternate dimension where she must save large creatures called Kaiju from others who have found their way to the world - and who threaten humankind back on Earth with their carelessness. |
Scurati, Antonio | M: Son of the Century | An epic historical novel that chronicles the birth and rise of fascism in Italy through the eyes of its founder, Benito Mussolini. |
Searles, John | Her Last Affair | In this tense and atmospheric thriller of love found and lost again, three individuals find their lives intertwined as they reconnect with their past, to deadly effect. |
Segura, Alex | Secret identity | In 1975, when the comic book industry is struggling, Carmen Valdes, an assistant at Triumph Comics, finds things taking a strange turn when she helps create a new female character - a project that leads to murder and plunges her into a dangerous world of secrets and resentments. |
Shade, Anne | Her Heart's Desire | Romance |
Sharma, Nisha | Dating Dr. Dil | Romance |
Shelton, Paige | The Burning Pages | Cozy Mystery - Scottish Bookshop #7 |
Shepherd, Peng | The Cartographers | When her estranged father is found dead with a seemingly worthless map hidden in his desk, cartographer Nell Young soon discovers the map is extremely valuable - and that a mysterious collector will stop at nothing to destroy it and anyone who gets in the way. |
Shocklee, Michelle | Count the Nights by Stars | Christian Historical |
Sim, Tara | The City of Dusk | Fantasy |
Singh, Sonya | Sari, Not Sari | The beautiful young CEO of Breakup, a highly successful company helping people manage their relationship breakups, Manny Dogra has an identity crisis and makes a deal with an irritating client who agrees to give her a crash course in being "Indian." |
Sorell, Gina | The Wise Women | A popular advice columnist for 40 years, Wendy Wise decides to meddle in her own troubled daughters' lives even though they are holding on some resentments from childhood, while her daughters discover that Wendy has been hiding more than a few problems of her own. |
Sosa, Mia | The Wedding Crasher | Crashing the wedding of complete strangers who don't belong together, Solange agrees to be the former groom's pretend girlfriend to make up for her interference, and as they fake date for the benefit of his colleagues, they form an undeniable connection. |
Spencer, Kate | In a New York Minute | Romance |
Spindler, Erica | The Detective's Daughter | A woman risks everything to solve the cold case that destroyed her father-but will it destroy her as well? |
Steel, Danielle | Beautiful | Fiction |
Sten, Camilla | The Resting Place | Eleanor inherits a house tucked away in the Swedish woods from her cruel grandmother and seeks the truth about her grandmother's murder. |
Straight, Susan. | Mecca | Fiction |
Stringfellow, Tara M. | Memphis | Told over the course of 70 years, this debut novel traces three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter, who, channeling her rage into art, discovers with the power of her paint brush, she can change her family's legacy. |
Stuart, Douglas | Young Mungo | In Glasgow, Mungo and James, who should be enemies due to their religious beliefs, fall in love, dreaming of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him to protect them both from the danger their relationship brings. |
Sutanto, Jesse Q. | Four Aunties and a Wedding | Romance - Aunties #2 |
Swanson, Peter | Nine Lives | Mystery |
Tawada, Yōko | Scattered All Over the Earth | A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by a winner of the National Book Award. |
Tector, Amy | The Honeybee Emeralds | Alice Ahmadi, a shy intern at a struggling Parisian magazine, finds herself drawn into decades-old secrets when she discovers a priceless necklace previously owned by some of history's most iconic and glamorous women. |
Trigiani, Adriana | The Good Left Undone | Historical Fiction |
Varela, Alejandro | The Town of Babylon | Returning to his hometown to care for his ailing father, Andres, a gay Latinx professor, decides to attend his 20-year high school reunion where he encounters the long-lost characters of his youth and must confront these relationships to better understand his own life. |
Wallace, David Foster | Something to Do with Paying Attention | Fiction |
Ward, Amanda Eyre | The Lifeguards | Three mothers who have raised their kids together find the perfect world they have so painstakingly created shattered by the unthinkable when a secret their three boys - all lifeguards - have been keeping is revealed. |
Ward, J. R. | Lover Arisen | Paranormal Romance - Black Dagger Brotherhood #20 |
Warner, Sondi | Lead Me Astray | Paranormal Romance |
Waters, Martha | To Marry and to Meddle | Historical Romance - Regency Vows #3 |
Wegert, Tessa | Dead Wind | Mystery - Shana Merchant #3 |
White, Karen | The Shop on Royal Street | Mystery |
Wilkes, Ally | All the White Spaces | Something deadly and mysterious stalks the members of an isolated polar expedition. |
Williams, Sheila | Things Past Telling | Recalling the last 100-plus years of her triumphant and tumultuous life, the narrator shares how her midwifery skills allowed her to sometimes transcend the racial and class barriers of her enslavement and how she never lost her sense of self. |
Winning, Josh | The Shadow Glass | A thrilling race against the clock to save the world from fantasy creatures from a cult 80s film. |
Winstead, Ashley | Fool Me Once | Romance |
Wong, Khan | The Circus Infinite | A circus takes down a crime boss on the galaxy's infamous pleasure moon. |
Zarou, Paul Aziz | Arab Boy Delivered | Michael Haddad, the teenage son of Palestinian immigrants, comes of age during the tumultuous sixties in his family's neighborhood grocery store in New York City. |
Zhang, Jenny Tinghui | Four Treasures of the Sky | A Chinese girl struggles to find her place in the 1880s American West after being kidnapped and smuggled, working at a calligraphy school and a San Francisco brothel as anti-Chinese sentiment sweeps across the country. |
February 2022
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Abraham, Daniel | Age of Ash | First volume of a monumental epic fantasy trilogy that unfolds within the walls of a single great city, over the course of one tumultuous year, where every story matters, and the fate of the city is woven from them all. |
Albert, Annabeth | Sink or Swim | Romance - Shore Leave #2 |
Alexander, Kianna | Carolina Built | The novelized life of real estate magnate Josephine N. Leary in a previously untold story of passion, perseverance, and building a legacy after emancipation in North Carolina. |
Andrews, Ilona | Fated Blades | Two members of the genetically-enhanced ruling families of planet Rada, in a constant fight for power and dominance for eons, must put aside their ill will and work together secretly to prevent evil forces from using universe-altering technology. |
Armas, Elena | The Spanish Love Deception | A romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date a colleague and bring him to her sister's wedding. |
Armstrong, Kelley | The Deepest of Secrets | Mystery - Casey Duncan #7 |
Asher, April | Not the Witch You Wed | Paranormal Romance |
Ashley, T. | Capturing Celeste | Urban Fiction |
Ashton, Edward | Mickey7 | The Martian meets Dark Matter in this science fiction thriller, in which Mickey7, an expendable, refuses to let his replacement clone Mickey8 take his place. |
Au, Jessica | Cold Enough for Snow | Fiction |
Bailey, Tessa | Hook, Line, and Sinker | Romance - Bellinger Sisters #2 |
Baldacci, David | Dream Town | Thriller - Aloysius Archer #3 |
Barr, Lisa | Woman on Fire | A gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece. |
Barron, Stephanie | Jane and the Year Without a Summer | Historical Mystery - Jane Austen #14 |
Barry, Quan | When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East | In a windswept Mongolia, estranged twin brothers make a journey of duty, conflict, and renewed understanding. |
Beaton, M. C. | Death of a Green-Eyed Monster | Cozy Mystery - Hamish Macbeth #34 |
Belloc Lowndes, Marie | The Chianti Flask | Classic Mystery |
Billingsley, ReShonda Tate | Miss Pearly's Girls | Four estranged sisters must return to rural Arkansas when their mother is diagnosed with a terminal illness. |
Bird, Kristen | The Night She Went Missing | Each mother is sure she knows who is responsible, but they all have their own secrets to keep and reputations to protect. And the lies they tell themselves and each other may just have the potential to be lethal in this riveting debut. |
Birdsong, Destiny O. | Nobody's Magic | Three novellas about African American women grappling with their families' and communities' attitudes toward their albinism. |
Black, Juneau | Cold Clay | Cozy Mystery - Shady Hollow #2 |
Blackburn, Lynn H. | Malicious Intent | Christian Suspense - Defend and Protect #2 |
Blake, Olivie | The Atlas Six | Chosen to compete for five spots within The Alexandrian Society, the protectors and benefactors of the world's greatest source of knowledge, six powerful young magicians must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to win one of the coveted spots. |
Bowen, Rhys | Wild Irish Rose | Historical Mystery - Molly Murphy #18 |
Box, C. J. | Shadows Reel | Mystery - Joe Pickett #22 |
Brown, Vanessa | The Darker Side of Me | Fiction |
Brunstetter, Wanda E. | The Sugarcreek Surprise | Inspirational - Creekside Discoveries #2 |
Candlish, Louise | The Heights | Thriller |
Cannon, Julie | My Secret Valentine | Romance |
Carlson, Melody | Looking for Leroy | Christian Romance |
Chase-Riboud, Barbara | The Great Mrs. Elias | The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s. |
Clark, Ashley | Where the Last Rose Blooms | Christian Fiction |
Clipston, Amy | Foundation of Love | In the first installment of a new series, an Amish widower with three grown sons discovers that another chance at love may be waiting for him. |
Coben, Harlan | The Match | Mystery - Wilde #2 |
Connealy, Mary | The Element of Love | Christian Historical |
Coulter, Catherine | The Grayson Sherbrooke Otherworldly Adventures | Historical Mystery - Books 1-5 |
Cramer, Sofie | Text for You | Fiction |
Crimp, Imogen | A Very Nice Girl | An ambitious young opera singer is caught between devotion to her craft and an all-consuming affair with an older man. |
Dailey, Janet | Calder Grit | Romance - Calder Brand #2 |
Dams, Jeanne M. | Murder in the Park | Introducing spirited female sleuth Elizabeth Fairchild in the first of the new Oak Park Village mystery series, set in 1920s Illinois. |
Darnielle, John | Devil House | Mystery |
Deibel, Jennifer | Lady of Galway Manor | Christian Historical |
Deveraux, Jude | A Relative Murder | Mystery - Medlar #4 |
Dick, Kay | They | A dark, dystopian portrait of artists struggling to resist violent suppression. |
Dixon, Ariel Delgado | Don't Say We Didn't Warn You | Two sisters unite to survive a traumatic upbringing--from absentee parents to a wilderness camp for troubled teens. |
Domingo, Anni | Breaking the Maafa Chain | The story of two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century as their paths diverge in the middle passage--one to the court of Queen Victoria, the other to an American plantation. |
Donnelly, Lara Elena | Base Notes | A New York City perfumer accepts an intricate and dangerous commission from a super wealthy client and manipulates struggling artists into being his accomplices until plans start to unravel and a tenacious private investigator is on his heels. |
Doyle, Roddy | Life Without Children | Short Stories |
Drakeford, Scott | Rise of the Mages | Emrael Ire must embrace his abilities as a warrior and his place as last of the ancient Mage Kings to save his brother with the help of an undercover mage. |
Dugoni, Robert | The Silent Sisters | Thriller - Charles Jenkins #3 |
Eddings, Mazey | A Brush with Love | While anxiously awaiting placement into a top oral surgery residency program, Harper doesn't have time to be more than "just friends" with an adorable first year dental student who threatens to undo her carefully ordered life. |
Egan, Jennifer | The Candy House | A "sibling novel" to A Visit from the Goon Squad--an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world where memories and identities are no longer private. |
Engberg, Katrine | The Harbor | Mystery - Korner and Werner #3 |
Evanovich, Janet | The Recovery Agent | The launch of a new series that blends wild adventure, hugely appealing characters, and pitch-perfect humor. |
Everett, Elizabeth | A Perfect Equation | Historical Romance - Secret Scientists of London #2 |
Falade, David Wright | Black Cloud Rising | Sergeant Richard Etheridge, the son of a slave and her master, must prove that his troops in the African Brigade are skilled and trustworthy as they raid the areas occupied by the Confederate Partisan Rangers in the fall of 1863. |
Fawcett, Jennifer | Beneath the Stairs | A woman returns to her hometown after her childhood friend attempts suicide at a local haunted house--the same place where a traumatic incident shattered their lives twenty years ago. |
Fay, Kim | Love & Saffron | This witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best medicine. |
Feehan, Christine | Phantom Game | Paranormal Romance - GhostWalker #18 |
Felker-Martin, Gretchen | Manhunt | Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. |
Fellman, Isaac | Dead Collections | A whirlwind romance between a vampire archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body. |
Ferencik, Erica | Girl in Ice | Thriller |
Finlay, Alex | The Night Shift | Thriller |
Fluke, Joanne | Caramel Pecan Roll Murder | Cozy Mystery - Hannah Swenson #28 |
Fowler, Karen Joy | Booth | Describes the multiple scandals, family triumphs and disasters that took their toll on the 10 children of celebrated Shakespearean actor Junius Booth as the North and the South reached a boiling point and the Civil War broke out. |
Frost, Caroline | Shadows of Pecan Hollow | Fourteen years after being abducted and forced into a life of crime, Kit must reckon with her past when her kidnapper shows up on her doorstep, drawing her back into his orbit. |
Gould, Leslie | Threads of Hope | Christian Fiction |
Gran, Sara | The Book of the Most Precious Substance | A mysterious book that promises unlimited power and unrivaled sexual pleasure. A down-on-her-luck book dealer hoping for the sale of a lifetime. And a twist so shocking, no one will come out unscathed. |
Gray, Shelley Shepard | Edgewater Road | Mystery - Rumors in Ross County #1 |
Greaney, Mark | Sierra Six | Thriller - Gray Man #11 |
Hamilton, Hugo | The Pages | Historical Fiction |
Hansen, Joseph | The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #4 |
Hardt, Helen | Blaze | Romance - Steel Brothers Saga #21 |
Harrison, Cora | Spring of Hope | Historical Mystery - Gaslight #4 |
Harrison, Suzette D. | The Dust Bowl Orphans | Historical Fiction |
Hart, Rob | The Paradox Hotel | Science Fiction |
Hendricks, Greer | The Golden Couple | A maverick therapist who lost her license due to controversial methods, Avery agrees to help golden couple Marissa and Mathew Bishop overcome Marisa's cheating, setting all three of them on a collision course. |
Henwood Hoen, Tory | The ARC | Fiction |
Herring Blake, Ashley | Delilah Green Doesn't Care | Pressured into photographing her estranged step-sister's wedding, Delilah Green reluctantly returns home to Bright Falls where she finds herself falling for one of the stuck-up bridesmaids after the pair are forced together during party preparations. |
Heti, Sheila | Pure Colour | Fiction |
Hill, Whitney | Secrets and Truths | Paranormal Romance - Otherside Heat #1 |
Jackson, Kosoko | I'm So (Not) Over You | Pretending to still be his ex's current boyfriend in front of his parents, Kian reluctantly winds up being Hudson's plus-one at a splashy Georgia wedding and the pair find themselves in need of hashing out their true feelings. |
Jenkins, James D. | The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories | Short Stories |
Jio, Sarah | With Love from London | When a woman inherits her estranged mother's bookstore in London's Primrose Hill, she finds herself thrust into the pages of a new story--hers. |
Johansen, Roy | Killer View | Mystery - Kendra Michaels #9 |
Jorge, Lídia | The Wind Whistling in the Cranes | Fiction |
Kanon, Joseph | The Berlin Exchange | Historical Thriller |
Kate, Lauren | By Any Other Name | Romance |
Kauffman, Rebecca | Chorus | Each of the seven Shaw siblings describe their own versions of the two events that altered their lives, first the untimely death of their mother and second a shocking teen pregnancy in a story of familial loss, recovery and hope. |
Kelly, Simone | #1544 | A suspenseful and mystical twist-filled thriller about a father and daughter with supernatural abilities. |
Kistler, Bonnie | The Cage | Two professional women--colleagues at an international fashion conglomerate--enter an elevator together . . . but only one is alive when they reach the ground floor. |
Kuhns, John D. | They Call Me Ishmael | Historical Fiction |
Larkwood, A. K. | The Thousand Eyes | Fantasy - The Serpent Gates #2 |
Lashay, Taveyah | Requiem: Origins | Urban Fiction |
Lashay, Taveyah | Requiem: Exposed | Urban Fiction |
Ledwidge, Michael | Beach Wedding | When Terry Rourke is invited to a small town in the Hamptons for his brother's wedding, he can't help but take another look at a decades-old murder trial there that rocked the very foundations of his family. |
Lee, Stan | The Devil's Quintet: The Armageddon Code | Science Fiction |
Leon, Donna | Give Unto Others | Mystery - Guido Brunetti #31 |
Liardet, Frances | Think of Me | Historical Fiction |
Lloyd, Ellery | The Club | A smart and sinister murder mystery set in the secretive world of exclusive celebrity clubs. |
Lund, Emme | The Boy With a Bird in his Chest | Fleeing to Washington to hide in plain sight with his family, Owen Tanner, who has a bird in his chest, feels joy and acceptance, despite living in a constant state of fear, in a community that embraces him for who he is. |
Macallister, Greer | Scorpica | Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. |
MacNeal, Elizabeth | Circus of Wonders | Historical Fiction |
Mallery, Susan | The Summer Getaway | Romance |
Mandel, Emily St. John | Sea of Tranquility | A novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. |
Manguso, Sarah | Very Cold People | Growing up in the frozen, snow-padded town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, Ruthie, dealing with shame handed down from her immigrant ancestors and her indomitable mother, and violence endured by her high school friends, wonders if she'll ever get out of this town alive. |
Mayquist, Kit | Tripping Arcadia | Working for one of Boston's most elite families, Lena discovers they are responsible for the ruin of her own family and embarks on a poison-filled quest for revenge that leads her into a hedonistic world where she must decide how much she is willing to risk for payback. |
McGuire, Seanan | Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor's Guide to the Underworld | Urban Fantasy - InCryptid #11 |
McHugh, Mandy | Chloe Cates is Missing | The disappearance of a young internet celebrity ignites a firestorm of speculation on social media, and to find her a detective will have to extinguish the blaze. |
McKenzie, Pepi | Street Life: Redemption | Urban Fiction |
Mellors, Coco | Cleopatra and Frankenstein | Fiction |
Meltzer, Brad | The Lightning Rod | Thriller - Zig and Nola #2 |
Miasha | Secret Society: All We Have Is Us | Urban Fiction - 15th Anniversary Edition |
Michaels, Fern | Fear Thy Neighbor | Romantic Suspense |
Mihalik, Jessie | Hunt the Stars | To earn enough money to keep her bounty hunting crew together, Octavia Zarola accepts a job from her sworn enemy, a ruthless former general who ignites her anger and desire, and uncovers a peace-threatening political plot. |
Montgomery, Brielle | The Appraisal 2 | Urban Fiction |
Moorcock, Michael | Elric of Melnibone | Fantasy - Elric Saga #1 |
Morris, Amelia | Wildcat | Fiction |
Moss, Sarah | The Fell | Thriller |
Moustadraf, Malika | Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories | Short Stories |
Murugan, Perumal | Pyre | After meeting in a small southern Indian town where he works, Saroja and Kumaresan quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan's family village, where they hope to build a happy life together. But they are harboring a terrible secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in grave danger |
Myers, Adele | The Tobacco Wives | Historical Fiction |
Nickson, Chris | The Blood Covenant | Historical Mystery - Simon Westlow #4 |
Ojeda, Mónica | Jawbone | Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? |
Osho, Andi | Asking for a friend | Three best friends decide it's time to ditch the dating apps and play the love game by their own rules. They're going to ask people out in real life...but only for each other. What could possibly go wrong? |
Pataki, Allison | The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post | Historical Fiction |
Pek, Jane | The Verifiers | While working for Veracity, a referral-only online-dating detective agency, Claudia breaks protocol to investigate when a client disappears and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit. |
Peterson, Tracie | Along the Rio Grande | Christian Historical - Love on the Santa Fe #1 |
Phillips, C. N. | The Bronx | Urban Fiction - Carl Weber's Five Families of New York #3 |
Pierlot, Ciel | Bluebird | A lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space. |
Piñeiro, Caridad | The Family She Never Met | A multigenerational story that explores the resilience of three Cuban American women and the price they've all paid for their family. |
Pitoniak, Anna | Our American Friend | A mysterious first lady. The intrepid journalist writing her biography. And the secret that could destroy them both. |
Qiu, Xiaolong | The Shadow of the Empire | The legendary Judge Dee Renjie investigates a high-profile murder case in this mystery set in seventh-century China. |
Quinn, Kate | The Diamond Eye | Historical Fiction |
Radley, Amanda | Reading Her | Romance |
Ravn, Olga | The Employees | Science Fiction |
Raybourn, Deanna | An Impossible Impostor | Historical Mystery - Veronica Speedwell #7 |
Reekles, Beth | Lockdown on London Lane | Romance |
Reimonenq, Alden | The Upside-Down Tree | Historical Fiction |
Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess | Alexus Costilla was raised by her father, a ruthless Mexican drug cartel boss, and her mother, a strong-spirited black woman with an MBA from Harvard. So, it's no surprise that when Alexus forgoes academia for the dope game, she quickly becomes one of the best to ever do it. |
Rivers, Francine | The Lady's Mine | Christian Historical |
Robuck, Erika | Sisters of Night and Fog | A novel based on the extraordinary true stories of an American socialite and a British secret agent whose acts of courage collide in the darkest hours of World War II. |
Ross, Rebecca | A River Enchanted | Fantasy - Elements of Cadence #1 |
Sagara, Michelle | Sword and Shadow | Fantasy - Wolves of Elantra #2 |
Sanderson, Brandon | Dawnshard | Fantasy - Stormlight Archive #3.5 |
Sandford, John | The Investigator | Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from Sandford. |
Scott, Kieran | Wish You Were Gone | Thriller |
Scottoline, Lisa | What Happened to the Bennetts | Thriller |
Serle, Rebecca | One Italian Summer | Fiction |
Silver, Josie | One Night on the Island | When a double-booking at a remote one-room cabin accidentally throws two solace seekers together, it feels like a cruel twist of fate. But what if it's fate of a different kind? |
Smith, Jennifer E. | The Unsinkable Greta James | Fiction |
St James, Simone | The Book of Cold Cases | A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings. |
Staub, Wendy Corsi | The Other Family | Thriller |
Sundin, Sarah | Until Leaves Fall in Paris | Christian Historical |
Swan, Richard | The Justice of Kings | Sir Konrad Vonvalt, the most feared if the Emperor's Justice, and his protege, Helena Sedanka, investigate the murder of a provincial aristocrat and unearth a conspiracy that stretches to the very top of Imperial society. |
Turnbull, Bryn | The Last Grand Duchess | This sweeping novel takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Nikolaevna Romanov, the first daughter of the last Tsar. |
Tyler, Anne | French Braid | Fiction |
Vidich, Paul | The Matchmaker | Thriller |
Walsh, Rosie | The Love of My Life | When Emma suffers a serious illness, her husband, an obituary writer, unravels her dark past, and she must somehow prove to him that she really is the woman he married, but first, she must tell him about the other love of her life. |
Ward, Catriona | Sundial | Rob is forced to make one last trip out to Sundial, her parent's property in the wild Mojave desert where dark secrets are buried, when a frightening accident in her home reveals a disturbing discovery in her oldest daughter's bedroom. |
Washington, Rodney H. | Born in a Manger | Urban Fiction |
Wayne, Steven | She Was My Best Man | Urban Fiction |
Wesley, Valerie Wilson | A Fatal Glow | Cozy Mystery - Odessa Jones #2 |
Wibberley, Emily | The Roughest Draft | Romance |
Wiedlin, Ieshia | There You Are | Romance |
Winspear, Jacqueline | A Sunlit Weapon | Historical Mystery - Maisie Dobbs #17 |
Woods, Stuart | A Safe House | Mystery - Stone Barrington #61 |
Wrobel, Stephanie | This Might Hurt | A dark, thrilling novel about two sisters--one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies. |
Youers, Rio | No Second Chances | Thriller |
Zambra, Alejandro | Chilean poet | A young Chilean man who inherited his love of poetry from his stepfather helps an American journalist both literally and figuratively lost in Santiago. |
January 2022
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Albertson, Alana Quintana | Ramón and Julieta | Julieta is a gifted chef in an authentic but failing Mexican restaurant. Ram¢n is the heir apparent to his family's highly successful chain of Mexican restaurants. A chance meeting on Day of the Dead challenges Julieta to decide what community and familial loyalties truly mean. |
Allen, Jayne | Black Girls Must Be Magic | Fiction - Black Girls Must Die Exhausted #2 |
Allende, Isabel | Violeta | Tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. |
Anderson, Kevin J. | Gods and Dragons | Fantasy - Wake the Dragon #3 |
Ashley, Kristen | The Girl in the Mist | Romantic Suspense - Misted Pines #1 |
Asim, Jabari | Yonder | The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century. |
Assadi, Hannah Lillith | The Stars are Not Yet Bells | Fifty years after Elle Ranier came to Lyra island with her husband to find the source of mysterious lights, she looks back on her life on the island and at a secret she herself has guarded for decades. |
Avery, Joy | Something So Sweet | In Honey Hill, North Carolina, mayor Lunden Pierce finds her historical town threatened by the arrival of her childhood sweetheart who plans to sell the inn he?s inherited, along with the honeybees living in its yard, and will do anything in her power to change his mind. |
Ballard, Falon | Lease on Love | Beach Read meets The Flatshare in this debut rom-com about a down-on-her-luck young woman who turns an innocent mix-up between a dating app and a roommate app into a new chance at love. |
Barnes, S. A. | Dead Silence | Titanic meets The Shining in this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended. |
Bass, Elizabeth | A Letter to Three Witches | Romance |
Bell, Darcey | All I Want | A young couple with a baby on the way moves to an old Victorian house in rural, upstate New York. Strange happenings contribute to their disintegrating marriage-and to their terrifying descent into the darker side of human nature. |
Bellefleur, Alexandria | Count Your Lucky Stars | Romance - Written in the Stars #3 |
Berenson, Laurien | Show me the Bunny | Cozy Mystery - Melanie Travis #28 |
Black, Daniel | Don't Cry for Me | On his deathbed, a dying Black man writes a letter to his estranged, gay son and shares with him the truth that lives in his heart and tries to create a place where the pair can find peace. |
Black, Juneau | Shady Hollow | The first book in the Shady Hollow mystery series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony--until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case. |
Blackburn, Lizzie Damilola | Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? | A 30-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a high-paying job and good friends must find a date for her cousin?s wedding with the help of a spreadsheet and her best friend. |
Blake, Sarah | Clean Air | Climate Fiction |
Bleiweiss, Rick | Pignon Scorbion & the Barbershop Detectives | In this mystery debut, a quirky detective and ensemble cast of characters is set against the backdrop of small-town England in the 1910s. |
Braffet, Kelly | The Broken Tower | Fantasy - Barrier Lands #2 |
Branum, Renee | Defenestrate | Fiction |
Brazier, Eliza Jane | Good Rich People | For fans of Parasite and Ready or Not--a destitute woman pretends to be someone else and moves into the lower floor of a Los Angeles duplex, and inadvertently becomes a target in the twisted game of the wealthy family upstairs. |
Buccola, Allison | Catch Her When She Falls | Thriller |
Cassidy, Luke | Iron Annie | Fiction |
Castro, V. | Mestiza Blood | Horror Short Stories |
Chamberlain, Diane | The Last House on the Street | Fiction |
Chang, Lan Samantha | The Family Chao | When Big Leo, the owner of Fine Chao restaurant is found dead, his three sons are reunited and fall under suspicion, and must reckon with the legacy of their father?s outsized appetites and own future survival. |
Chen, Mike | Light Years from Home | When their brother who has been missing for fifteen years suddenly returns, changed, Evie and Kass Shao must cast aside their differences to hide him from the FBI and an entire alien army who are in fast pursuit. |
Clarke, Cassandra Rose | The Beholden | Fantasy |
Cosimano, Elle | Finlay Donovan Knocks 'em Dead | Mystery - Finlay Donovan #2 |
Coyle, Cleo | Honey Roasted | Cozy Mystery - Coffeehouse #19 |
Cumming, Charles | Box 88 | At the funeral of his best friend, a member of a top-secret transatlantic black ops team falls into a trap and is helpless while his pregnant wife is abducted and held as collateral for information he is sworn to protect. |
Cutts, Jenny | The Never Ending Fall | Mystery - Falling Awake #3 |
Daley, Sarah | Obsidian | Shade Nox is the only witch in a land of wizards ? a fiend, a rogue, a wanted criminal. |
Dawson, Delilah S. | The Violence | When a mysterious illness sweeps the nation, resulting in sudden, explosive bouts of animalistic rage, Chelsea, who has been abused by her husband for years, uses the opportunity to liberate herself from him once and for all. |
De Cadenet, Gia | Getting His Game Back | Romance |
DeMeester, Kristi | Such a Pretty Smile | Horror |
Dee, Sandra | Never, Now, or Later | Three attractive, modern, and educated African American girlfriends living in the inner-city of Detroit confront the tumultuous challenges of life as they find themselves heading down differing paths. |
Delany, Vicki | A Three Book Problem | Cozy Mystery - Sherlock Holmes Bookshop #7 |
Elizabeth, Carolyn | The Raven and the Banshee | A passionate tale of vengeance, forgiveness, second-chance love and redemption in a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas. |
Elliott, Kate | Servant Mage | A lowly fire mage finds herself entangled in an empire-spanning conspiracy on her way to discovering her true power. |
Everhart, Donna | The Saints of Swallow Hill | Where the Crawdads Sing meets The Four Winds in a unique setting?the turpentine camps and pine forests of the American South during the Great Depression. |
Faulkner, Katherine | Greenwich Park | Helen innocently befriends Rachel at a prenatal class despite the woman?s unbecoming behavior and has no idea her new friend has ulterior motives and is on a vindictive mission to ruin the lives of her extended family. |
Fellowes, Jessica | The Mitford Vanishing | Historical Mystery - Mitford Murders #5 |
Foley, Lucy | The Paris Apartment | A locked room mystery set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide. |
Fox, Hester | A Lullaby for Witches | Gothic Fiction |
Frederick, Jen | Seoulmates | Romance |
Freeman, Brian | The Ursulina | Mystery - Shelby Lake #2 |
Freeman, Sara | Tides | The story of a lost woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town. |
Fu, Kim | Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century | Short Stories |
Gala, Marcial | Call me Cassandra | A young boy in 1970s Cuba searches for his identity as he moves from childhood to adolescence firmly believing he was born in the wrong body and that he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra. |
Gigl, Robyn | Survivor's Guilt | Mystery - Erin McCabe #2 |
Golden, Christopher | Road of Bones | An American producer eager to score a big hit travels to Siberia to shoot a reality series along the desolate Kolyma Highway and gets more thrills than he bargained for. |
Gramont, Nina De | The Christie Affair | Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desperate enough to destroy another woman's marriage? How deeply can a person crave revenge? |
Green, Jocelyn | Drawn by the Current | Christian Historical |
Greene, Charlotte | The Wedding Setup | Romance |
Gudenkauf, Heather | The Overnight Guest | A woman receives an unexpected visitor during a deadly snowstorm. |
Guterson, David | The Final Case | From the author of Snow Falling on Cedars, a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. |
Hadley, Tessa | Free Love | Historical Fiction |
Haigh, Jennifer | Mercy Street | As anti-abortion protests intensify, a counselor at the Mercy Street clinic is in a constant state of fear and turns to an affable pot dealer through whom she meets a random assortment of customers, one of whom may unwittingly bring about the destruction of the clinic. |
Hairston, Andrea | Redwood and Wildfire | Historical Fantasy |
Hall, Alexis | Something Fabulous | A delightfully witty historical romance featuring a reserved duke who's betrothed to one twin and hopelessly enamoured of the other. |
Hallett, Janice | The Appeal | For fans of Ruth Ware and Lisa Jewell, this mystery follows a community rallying around a sick child--but when escalating lies lead to a dead body, everyone is a suspect. |
Hamilton, Karen | The Ex-Husband | A woman fleeing her past as a con artist finds herself trapped aboard a cruise ship with someone who not only knows about that past, but will stop at nothing to get revenge. |
Hansen, Essa | Azura Ghost | Science Fiction - The Graven #2 |
Hansen, Joseph | Death Claims | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #2 |
Hansen, Joseph | Fadeout | Published fifty years ago, the first Dave Brandstetter novel shattered stereotypes and redefined the Private Eye novel as we know it. |
Hansen, Joseph | Troublemaker | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #3 |
Hardt, Helen | Flame | Romance - Steel Brothers Saga #20 |
Harris, Kai | What the Fireflies Knew | A coming-of-age novel told by almost-eleven-year-old Kenyatta Bernice (KB), as she and her sister try to make sense of their new life with their estranged grandfather in the wake of their father's death and their mother's disappearance. |
Hawks, Arlem | Beyond the Lavender Fields | In Marseille, on the eve of the French Revolution, a royalist and a revolutionary clash and struggle to navigate their relationship in a society that forces people to choose sides. |
Hedlund, Jody | Never Leave Me | Christian Romance |
Henkel, Calla | Other People's Clothes | Two American ex-pats obsessed with the Amanda Knox trial find themselves at the nexus of murder and celebrity in glittering late-aughts Berlin. |
Higgins, Chencia C. | D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding | To elevate her brand, a closeted social media influencer goes on a reality TV show where she must convince her family and friends she's getting married to the love of her life in six weeks. |
Hoover, Colleen | Reminders of Him | A troubled young mother yearns for a shot at redemption in this heartbreaking yet hopeful story. |
Huf, Tammye | A More Perfect Union | Historical Fiction |
Hunt, La Jill et. al | Full Figured 16 | Urban Fiction |
Hurwitz, Gregg | Dark Horse | Thriller - Orphan X #7 |
Ide, Joe | The Goodbye Coast | In this colorful reinvention of a classic, Philip Marlowe finds himself tangled in two missing persons cases. |
James, Chantal | None But the Righteous | Fiction |
James, Marlon | Moon Witch, Spider King | Fantasy - Dark Star #2 |
Jance, J. A. | Nothing to Lose | Mystery - J.P. Beaumont #25 |
Janowitz, Brenda | The Liz Taylor Ring | Three siblings. A priceless family ring. One legendary love story. |
Jen, Gish | Thank you, Mr. Nixon | Short Stories |
Jonas, Julia May | Vladimir | A beloved English professor faces a slew of accusations against her professor husband by former students--a situation that becomes more complicated when she develops an obsession of her own. |
Jurczyk, Eva | The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections | A librarian's quiet life is turned upside down when a priceless manuscript goes missing. Soon she has to ask: what holds more secrets in the library--the ancient books shelved in the stacks, or the people who preserve them? |
Kelk, Lindsey | On a Night Like This | Romance |
Kellerman, Jonathan | City of the Dead | Mystery - Alex Delaware #37 |
Kelly, Anita | Love & Other Disasters | The first openly nonbinary contestant on America's favorite cooking show falls for their clumsy competitor in this romantic comedy debut. |
Kennedy, Elle | Good Girl Complex | Romance |
King, Stephen, and Richard Chizmar | Gwendy's Final Task | Horror - Gwendy's Button Box #3 |
Kukafka, Danya | Notes on an Execution | A work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life. |
Kuzniar, M. A. | Midnight in Everwood | Historical Fantasy |
Lackey, Mercedes | The Silver Bullets of Annie Oakley | Fantasy - Elemental Masters #16 |
Lake, Rae B. | Dare to Ride | Marcus Heavy is the founder of the Heavy Sinners Motorcycle Club. They specialize in the drug game, prostitution, blackmail, and murder. You cross any member of the club, and that's the end of your life. |
Layne, Lauren | Made in Manhattan | A reverse My Fair Lady tale about a pampered Manhattan socialite who must teach an unpolished drifter from the Louisiana Bayou how to fit in with New York City's upper crust. |
Lutz, Lisa | The Accomplice | Thriller |
Maas, Sarah J. | House of Sky and Breath | Fantasy - Crescent City #2 |
Maddox, Jaime | Paris Rules | Romance |
Manansala, Mia P. | Homicide and Halo-Halo | Mystery - Tita Rosie's Kitchen #2 |
Mandanipour, Shahriar | Seasons of Purgatory | Short Stories |
Maren, Mesha | Perpetual West | As Alex and Elana try to make their home among the academics and young leftists in El Paso and Juárez, they are pulled from each other by an affair with a lucha libre fighter, their struggles to define themselves, and the loud cry of home. |
Matthews, Mimi | The Siren of Sussex | Historical Romance |
May, Nikki | Wahala | A debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group. |
Meier, Leslie | Easter Bonnet Murder | Cozy Mystery - Lucy Stone #28 |
Mitchard, Jacquelyn | The Good Son | The gripping, emotionally charged novel of a mother who must help her son after he is convicted of a devastating crime. |
Montgomery, Selena | Never Tell | Criminal psychologist Dr. Erin Abbott wants nothing more than to live a quiet life. That means no danger, no intrigue-and absolutely no romance. But when Erin suspects a serial killer is roaming New Orleans, her investigation throws her straight into the arms of the only man who can help her. |
Moore, Scotto | Battle of the Linguist Mages | In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire. |
Morrison, Toni | Recitatif: A Story | A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner. |
Morrow, Bethany C. | Cherish Farrah | Thriller |
Nagamatsu, Sequoia | How High We Go in the Dark | For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague. |
Nakamura, Fuminori | My Annihilation | What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? |
Newman, Jay Hartley | Undermoney | An electrifying debut thriller about a group of American operatives who secretly take over the world's largest dark money fund. |
Nijkamp, Marieke | Kith & Kin | Fantasy: Critical Role Vox Machina |
O'Connell, J. P. | Hotel Portofino | A historical drama about a British family who opens an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the Roaring Twenties. |
Olde Heuvelt, Thomas | Echo | Horror |
Onyebuchi, Tochi | Goliath | In this ambitious novel, dense with perspectives and social commentary, Onyebuchi dreams up disparate lives in a crumbling future America--with gentrifiers returning to Earth from space colonies and laborers trying to make a precarious living--while leaving room for moments of beauty and humor. |
Osler, Rob | Devil's Chew Toy | For fans of Carl Hiaasen and Armistead Maupin, this light mystery follows an unlucky in love--and life--teacher who unwittingly ends up the prime suspect in a disappearance. |
Otsuka, Julie | The Swimmers | A novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack appears at the bottom of their local pool. |
Parker, T. Jefferson | A Thousand Steps | Thriller |
Parks, Adele | Woman Last Seen | Thriller |
Patterson, James, and Dolly Parton | Run, Rose, Run | A thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. |
Patterson, James, and Howard Roughan | Steal | Mystery - Instinct #3 |
Percy, Benjamin | The Unfamiliar Garden | Science Fiction - The Comet Cycle #2 |
Peterson, Tracie | Ever Constant | Christian Historical - Treasures of Nome #3 |
Petrie, Nicholas | The Runaway | Mystery - Peter Ash #7 |
Preston, Douglas | Diablo Mesa | Mystery - Nora Kelly #3 |
Rice, Anne, and Christopher Rice | The Reign of Osiris | Horror - Ramses the Damned #3 |
Robb, J. D. | Abandoned in Death | Mystery - In Death #54 |
Robert, Katee | Electric Idol | Romance - Dark Olympus #2 |
Robinson, Shauna | Must Love Books | A heartfelt debut following a young woman who discovers she'll have to ditch the dream job and write her own story to find her happy ending. |
Rutkoski, Marie | Real Easy | Thriller |
Sanchez, David | All Day is a Long Time | For fans of Denis Johnson and Ocean Vuong: A debut novel about coming of age on Florida's drug-riddled Gulf Coast and the enigmatic connection between memory and self. |
Sanchez, Rafael | Been Had Paper | Urban Fiction - Rise of the Fam #1 |
Schaffhausen, Joanna | Last Seen Alive | Mystery - Ellery Hathaway #5 |
Shalvis, Jill | The Family You Make | Shalvis begins a new series--Sunrise Cove--set near beautiful Lake Tahoe, with a heartwarming story of found family and love. |
Shiloh, Toni | In Search of a Prince | Brielle Adebayo's simple life as a teacher unravels when she discovers she is a princess in the African kingdom of Oloro Ilé and must immediately assume her royal position. |
Slmn | Gods & Gangsters 3 | Urban Fiction - Illuminati #3 |
Slocumb, Brendan | The Violin Conspiracy | A riveting page-turner about a Black classical musician's desperate quest to recover his lost violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world. |
Solomon, Rachel Lynn | Weather Girl | A TV meteorologist and a sports reporter scheme to reunite their divorced bosses with unforecasted results. |
Speakman, Shawn | The Tempered Steel of Antiquity Grey | Science Fiction |
Stabenow, Dana | Disappearance of a Scribe | Historical Mystery - Eye of Isis #2 |
Steel, Danielle | High Stakes | Fiction |
Sullivan, Sophie | How to Love Your Neighbor | Enemies-to-lovers meets HGTV in this frothy, effervescent romantic comedy. |
Tan, Sue Lynn | Daughter of the Moon Goddess | A young woman's quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm and sets her on a dangerous path--where choices come with deadly consequences, and she risks losing more than her heart. |
Taylor, Brad | End of Days | Thriller - Pike Logan #16 |
Thomas, Morgan | Manywhere | Short Stories |
Todd, Charles | A Game of Fear | Historical Mystery - Inspector Ian Rutledge #24 |
Tokarczuk, Olga | The Books of Jacob | Follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. |
Tracy, P. J. | Desolation Canyon | Mystery - Detective Margaret Nolan #2 |
Vample, J. B. | Right as Reign | Romance |
Walters, Ron | Deep Dive | Science Fiction |
Wang, Weike | Joan is Okay | A novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can't be anyone but herself. |
Webb, Heather | The Next Ship Home: A Novel of Ellis Island | Historical Fiction |
Weber, Marcus | Philly Girl 2 | Urban Fiction |
Wilkerson, Charmaine | Black Cake | In this debut novel, two estranged siblings deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. |
Willberg, T. A. | Marion Lane and the Deadly Rose | Historical Mystery - Marion Lane #2 |
Williams, Brittani | The Streets Keep Pulling Me Back | Go on a roller coaster ride with Tank, a man who battled a tortured past to become a "made man," determined to win no matter what he must do, or who he must hurt in the process. |
Willingham, Stacy | A Flicker in the Dark | Twenty years after Chloe Davis' father was convicted of killing half a dozen young women, someone seems to be celebrating the anniversary by extending the list. |
Young, Erin | The Fields | Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body--a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. |