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February 2025
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | Dream Count | Fiction |
Alongi, C. M. | The Witch Who Trades With Death | Fantasy |
Amherst, Michael | The Boyhood Of Cain | Fiction - Coming of Age |
Aoyama, Nanae | A Perfect Day To Be Alone | Fiction - Coming of Age |
Arceneaux, Danielle | Glory Daze | Cozy Mystery - Glory Broussard #2 |
Armstrong, Kelley | Cold As Hell | Mystery - Haven's Rock #3 |
Arnett, Kristen | Stop Me If You've Heard This One | Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she's a professional clown who creates raucous, zany fun at gigs all over Orlando. |
Ashton, Edward | The Fourth Consort | Science Fiction |
Baker, Angelica | When We Grow Up | Fiction |
Bastone, Cara | Promise Me Sunshine | How do you find yourself after you lose the one you loved the most? |
Bazterrica, Agustina | The Unworthy | A woman is cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos. |
Beaton, M. C. | Death Of A Smuggler | Cozy Mystery - Hamish Macbeth #37 |
Black, Lisa | Not Who We Expected | Mystery - Locard Institute #4 |
Bohjalian, Chris | The Jackal's Mistress | The wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she's willing to risk for the life of a stranger. |
Borison, B. K. | First-Time Caller | A hopeless romantic meets a jaded radio host. |
Bregman, Jenn | The Last Hamilton | The more they know, the more danger they're in. |
Brown, Natasha | Universality | Fiction |
Brown, Sandra | Blood Moon | Romantic Suspense |
Bruen, Ken | Galway's Edge | Mystery - Jack Taylor #18 |
Brunstetter, Wanda E. | The Peacemaker | Christian Fiction - Mifflin County Mystery #2 |
Burgis, Stephanie | Wooing The Witch Queen | Queen Saskia is the wicked sorceress everyone fears. When a mysterious dark wizard arrives at her castle, she hires him as her new librarian on the spot. Little does Saskia know that the "wizard" she's falling for is actually an Imperial archduke in disguise, with no magical training whatsoever. |
Burns, V. M. | The Next Deadly Chapter | Cozy Mystery - Mystery Bookshop #10 |
Byler, Linda | A Place To Call Home | Christian Fiction - Stepping Stones #2 |
Callion, Dino | Sex Money And Motive | Urban Fiction |
Carlson, Melody | Welcome To The Honey B&B | Christian Romance |
Cate, Sara | Gravity | Three months on a private island. Two men. One million dollars. All she has to do is tame Nash Wilde. |
Childs, Laura | High Tea And Misdemeanors | Cozy Mystery - Tea Shop #29 |
Chong, Jinwoo | I Leave It Up To You | What if you could return to the point of a fateful choice, wiser than before, and find the courage to forge a new path? |
Clare, Cassandra | The Ragpicker King | Fantasy - Chronicles of Castellane #2 |
Clark, C. L. | Ambessa : Chosen Of The Wolf | Fantasy - League of Legends: Arcane |
Coben, Harlan | Nobody's Fool | Mystery |
Coble, Colleen | Ambush | Romantic Suspense - Sanctuary #1 |
Cosimano, Elle | Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave | Mystery - Finlay Donovan #5 |
Cowles, Catherine | Broken Harbor | Romance - Sparrow Falls #3 |
Cross, Juliette | A Rebel Without Claws | Paranormal Romance - Southern Charm #1 |
Crutcher, Paige | A Circle Of Uncommon Witches | A witch generationally cursed to never find true love sets out to break the spell cast on her family, and must team up with the last person who wants to help her - the witch who set the curse in the first place. |
D'Addario, Daniel | The Talent | As Hollywood prepares for its most glamorous evening, five actresses compete to see who will claim the top prize. |
Dams, Jeanne M. | Murder Of A Recluse | Historical Mystery - Oak Park Village #3 |
De Céspedes, Alba | There's No Turning Back | Fiction - Coming of Age |
Dev, Sonali | There's Something About Mira | The story of a woman determined to reunite a lost ring with its owner and ends up finding herself along the way. |
Dorfman, Ariel | Allegro | Historical Mystery |
Dunn, Kat | Hungerstone | A retelling of Carmilla, the novella that inspired Dracula. |
El-Arifi, Saara | Cursebound | Fantasy - Faebound #2 |
El-Mohtar, Amal | The River Has Roots | Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death. |
Epstein, Linda | The Other March Sisters | A retelling of Little Women from the perspectves of Meg, Beth, and Amy. |
Eskens, Allen | The Quiet Librarian | Hana Babic is a quiet, middle-aged librarian in Minnesota who wants nothing more than to be left alone. But when a detective arrives with the news that her best friend has been murdered, Hana knows that something evil has come for her, a dark remnant of the past she and her friend had shared. |
Estleman, Loren D. | Smoke On The Water | Mystery - Amos Walker #32 |
Fancher, Charles B. | Red Clay | Historical Fiction |
Flores, Fernando A. | Brother Brontë | Two women adventure to save their dystopian border town-and books themselves. |
Francis-Sharma, Lauren | Casualties Of Truth | Thriller |
Franklin, Alice | Life Hacks For A Little Alien | "Climb up here, Little Alien. Sit next to me. I will tell you about life on this planet. I will tell you how it goes." |
French, Nicci | The Last Days Of Kira Mullan | Thriller |
Gadegbeku, Zoe | Blue Futures, Break Open | Blue Basin Island is the final resting spot of formerly enslaved Africans whose souls have flown from Earth--not to heaven or purgatory but toward freedom and a new life. |
Gerritsen, Tess | The Summer Guests | Thriller - Martini Club #2 |
Gordon, Jeremy | See Friendship | Fiction |
Gordon, Marianne | The Antlered King | Fantasy Romance - Raven's Trade #2 |
Gurnah, Abdulrazak | Theft | At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. |
Hall, Clare Leslie | Broken Country | Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. |
Henry, Emily | Great Big Beautiful Life | Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve. |
Heredia, Alejandro | Loca | This debut novel looks into the lives of two friends, Sal and Charo, who are from the Dominican Republic but find themselves in New York in the late 1990s. |
Holmes, Linda | Back After This | A podcast producer agrees to host a new series about modern dating--but will the show jeopardize her chance at finding real love? |
Hunter, Georgia | One Good Thing | Historical Fiction |
Jance, J. A. | Overkill | Mystery - Ali Reynolds #18 |
Jimenez, Abby | Say You'll Remember Me | Romance |
Johnson, Nancy | People Of Means | Two women. Two pivotal moments. One dream for justice and equality. |
Kamlani, Beena | The English Problem | A young Indian man is tapped to help his country's fight for freedom--but his heart engages him in a different war. |
Karp, Marshall | Don't Tell Me How To Die | Thriller |
Kearsley, Susanna | The King's Messenger | Historical Fiction |
Keeland, Vi | Bossman | Romance |
Kelly, Julia | The Dressmakers Of London | Estranged sisters inherit their late mother's dress shop in World War II London. |
Kennedy, Elle | The Charlie Method | Romance - Campus Diaries #3 |
Kent, Rina | God Of Fury | Romance - Legacy of Gods #5 |
Khurana, Vijay | The Passenger Seat | Fiction |
Kiley, Alexandra | Scot And Bothered | Romance |
King, Luxury | The Level Up 2 | Urban Fiction |
Kingsley, Claire | Obsession Falls | Romantic Suspense - Haven Brothers #1 |
Labuskes, Brianna | The Boxcar Librarian | Inspired by the fascinating true history of Missoula's Boxcar Library. |
Lalami, Laila | The Dream Hotel | Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. |
Lam, Laura | Emberclaw | Fantasy - Dragon Scales #2 |
Lemming, Kimberly | I Got Abducted By Aliens And Now I'm Trapped In A Rom-Com | Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she's attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she's saved. On the not-so-bright side, it's because they're abducted by aliens. |
Lemus, Jared | Guatemalan Rhapsody | Short Stories |
Lipman, Elinor | Every Tom, Dick & Harry | Fiction |
Lo-Life | Countdown Of A Killa 2: Sick With Greed | Urban Fiction |
Lo-Life | Countdown Of A Killa | In the game of life, where death is your only opponent. With nothing left to lose, it's win or go home. When the ref's call sudden death. You know without a shadow of doubt, your clock's ticking! |
Lubrin, Canisia | Code Noir : Fictions | Fiction |
M. Y. A. | Burden Of Love | Urban Fiction |
Maggi, Nicole | A Murder In Zion | Mystery - National Park #1 |
Mahloudji, Sanam | The Persians | Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're nobodies. |
Mallery, Susan | Beach Vibes | Fiction |
Marshall, Heather | The Secret History Of Audrey James | Historical Fiction |
Mason, Luna | Distance | Dark Romance - Beneath the Mask #1 |
Maxwell, Alyssa | Two Weddings And A Murder | Historical Mystery - Lady and Lady's Maid #9 |
Maznavi, Nura | Yours, Eventually | A young doctor gets an unexpected second chance with the first love she never got over when he becomes one of the most eligible bachelors in town. |
McAllister, Gillian | Famous Last Words | A new mother's world upended when her husband commits a terrifying crime. How well does she truly know the man she loves? And what danger does she face if her entire life has been built on a lie? |
McCaulay, Diana | A House For Miss Pauline | When the stones of her house begin to rattle and shift and call out mysterious messages to her in the middle of the night, Pauline Sinclair, age ninety-nine, knows she will not make it to her one-hundredth birthday. |
McConaghy, Charlotte | Wild Dark Shore | A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. |
McFadden, Freida | Ward D | Thriller |
McLoughlin, Anna Sophia | A Girl Like Us | Thriller |
Mercedes, Sylvia | Heart Of The Shadow King | Paranormal Romance - Bride of the Shadow King #3 |
Mickelbury, Penny | Payback | Historical Fiction |
Miller, C. L. | The Antique Hunter's Death On The Red Sea | Mystery - Antique Hunter #2 |
Miller, Nathaniel Ian | Red Dog Farm | A young man tries to find purpose on a struggling Icelandic cattle farm. |
Mills, K. C. | You Could Do Damage | Nari and Kincaid must decide if they can trust each other with their deepest secrets . . . or if the very passion that binds them will ultimately be their downfall. |
Mirvis, Tova | We Would Never | Fiction |
Mohanty, Gourav | Dance Of Shadows | Historical Fantasy - Raag of Rta #2 |
Mooring, Meredith | Redsight | An imaginative new space opera for fans of Gideon the Ninth. |
Nayak, Michael | Symbiote | Contagion meets The Walking Dead in a sci-fi thriller where a biological threat ravages scientists and military personnel at the South Pole. |
O'Brien, Meredith | Louie On The Rocks | Fiction |
O'Donnell, R. P. | No Comfort For The Dead | After witnessing a murder, a small-town librarian is forced to act when the local police arrest the wrong man. |
O'Donnell, Roisín | Nesting | On a bright spring afternoon, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. |
Okri, Ben (ed.) | African Stories | Short Stories |
O'Neill, Molly | Greenteeth | Beneath the still surface of a lake lurks a monster with needle sharp teeth. |
Page, Sally | The Secrets Of Flowers | Historical Fiction |
Patterson, James | 25 Alive | Mystery - Women's Murder Club #25 |
Patterson, James | 2 Sisters Murder Investigations | Mystery - 2 Sisters Detective Agency #2 |
Patterson, James, and J.D. Barker | The Writer | Thriller |
Pearce, Daisy | Something In The Walls | Thriller |
Peters, Amanda | Waiting For The Long Night Moon : Stories | In this collection of short fiction, Peters describes the Indigenous experience from contact with the first European settlers, to the forced removal of Indigenous children, to the present-day fight for the right to clean water. |
Peterson, Tracie | A Constant Love | After a vicious winter in Cheyenne, Wyoming, claims the lives of their loved ones, Charlotte Aldrich and Micah Hamilton are trying to bring their ranches--and their hearts--back to life. |
Pliego, Ande | You Are Fatally Invited | An exclusive thriller writer's retreat hosted on a private island turns lethal when one of the authors is found murdered |
Prescod, Danielle | The Rules Of Fortune | A daughter's investigation into her family history threatens to destroy their legacy. |
Probst, Jennifer | To Sicily With Love | Fiction - Meet Me in Italy #4 |
Puchner, Eric | Dream State | Fiction - Oprah's Book Club |
Pueyo, H. | But Not Too Bold | Gothic Dark Fantasy |
Quinn, Frances | The Lost Passenger | Historical Fiction |
Randall, Breanne | Spells, Strings, And Forgotten Things | A young witch cursed with sacrificing memories to cast spells must decide how much she's willing to lose to save her town. |
Raybourn, Deanna | Kills Well With Others | Thriller - Killers of a Certain Age #2 |
Rebelein, Sam | The Poorly Made And Other Things | Horror Short Stories |
Reddy, Nanda | A Girl Within A Girl Within A Girl | A girl takes on a series of identities to survive, shrouding herself in layers of secrets, until years later when she is forced to reckon with her past. |
Reid, Rachel | The Shots You Take | Sports Romance |
Rendon, Marcie R. | Broken Fields | Mystery - Cash Blackbear #4 |
Rho, Helena | Stone Angels | A forty-year-old woman journeys to her cultural homeland and uncovers a harrowing secret that makes her rethink everything she thought she knew about her mother. |
Richardson, Tati | Losing Sight | What if a mysterious pair of glasses helped you to see life--and love--clearly? |
Ring, Seth | Advent | The first in an epic new series of alien contact, fast-paced military action, and thrilling adventure. |
Rivera Garza, Cristina | Death Takes Me | A city is always a cemetery. |
Robert, Katee | Wicked Pursuit & Divine Intervention | Romance |
Rose, Karen | Dead Man's List | Romantic Suspense - San Diego Case Files #3 |
Rosen, Ali | Unlikely Story | Romance |
Ruff, Shawn Stewart | Days Running | Historical Fiction - Coming of Age |
Russell, Karen | The Antidote | Historical Fiction |
Sandford, John | Lethal Prey | Mystery - Prey #35 |
Sarsfield, Margie | Beta Vulgaris | A young woman's seasonal job working a sugar beet harvest takes a surreal turn. |
Saynomore | The Daughter Of A Cartel Boss | Urban Fiction |
Score, Lucy | Story Of My Life | Romance - Story Lake #1 |
Shannon, Samantha | The Dark Mirror | Fantasy - Bone Season #5 |
Shigematsu, Kiyoshi | The Blanket Cats | Seven struggling customers are given the unique opportunity to take home a "blanket cat" . . . but only for three days, the time it'll take to change their lives. |
Silver, Elsie | Wild Side | Romance - Rose Hill #3 |
Sittenfeld, Curtis | Show Don't Tell | Short Stories |
Smith, Emily J | Nothing Serious | Fiction |
Sohn, Won-Pyung | Counterattacks At Thirty | A group of young workers rebel against the status quo. |
Spalding, Amy | On Her Terms | Romance - Out in Hollywood #3 |
St John, Yahrah | Break Point | Falling in love cost Teagan her heart and a pro tennis career. But when her rival returns, they've got one last chance for a rematch...if they can keep the game on the court! |
St. James, Emily | Woodworking | An debut that follows a trans high school teacher from a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other trans woman she knows: one of her students. |
Steel, Danielle | Far From Home | Historical Fiction |
Straube, Lindsay | Kiss Of The Basilisk | Paranormal Romance - Split or Swallow #1 |
Sunder, Shubha | Optional Practical Training | Fiction |
Susberry, Embassie | The Game Changer | A historical novel Inspired by the true story of Althea Gibson, the first Black athlete to win a Grand Slam title in 1956. |
Tchaikovsky, Adrian | Days Of Shattered Faith | Fantasy - Tyrant Philosophers #3 |
Thorne, Rebecca | Tea You At The Altar | Fantasy Romance - Tomes & Tea #3 |
Tieu, Julie | The Girl Most Likely To | Romance |
Walker, Karen Thompson | The Strange Case Of Jane O. | A woman born with perfect memory suddenly develops a series of eerie psychological symptoms--blackouts, hallucinations, premonitions, an inexplicable sense of dread. |
Wang, Jack | The Riveter | Historical Fiction |
Weaver, Brynne | Scythe & Sparrow | Dark Romance - Ruinous Love #3 |
Weber, Carl | Black Hamptons 2 : Gentrification | Urban Fiction |
Williams, Preslaysa | A Wedding In The Lowcountry | Romance |
Williams, Synithia | Frenemies With Benefits | Romance - Peachtree Cove #3 |
Williamson, S. F. | A Language Of Dragons | In an alternate London in 1923, one girl accidentally breaks the tenuous truce between dragons and humans. |
Willig, Lauren | The Girl From Greenwich Street | Based on the true story of a famous trial, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the shocking murder of a young woman who everyone--and no one--seemed to know. |
Wood, Charlotte | Stone Yard Devotional | Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. |
Woods, Kell | Upon A Starlit Tide | Saint-Malo, Brittany, 1758. |
Younis, Nussaibah | Fundamentally | An academic flees from heartbreak and lands in Iraq with a one-of-a-kind job offer--only to be forced to do the work of confronting herself. |
Zuzovsky, Eli | Mazeltov | Fiction - Coming of Age |
January 2025
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Aber, Aria | Good Girl | A girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can't get out. |
Abrams, Maria | Death In The Downline | First in a new mystery series. |
Adams, Sarah | Beg, Borrow, Or Steal | Romance - When in Rome #3 |
Adams, Tranay | Money Hungry Demons 3 | Urban Fiction |
Airey, Catherine | Confessions | For fans of The Goldfinch and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a debut that follows three generations of women from New York to rural Ireland and back again. |
Aryanna | Killa Crew | Is their love built to last or destined to crash? |
Ascher, Aurora | My Funny Demon Valentine | Paranormal Romance - Hell Bent #1 |
Ashley, Kyiris | A Holiday Heist | Fiction |
B, Ira | Killaz On Standby | Urban Fiction |
Baker, Assa Raymond | Fo'Eva Rollin' | Urban Fiction |
Baker, Assa Raymond | Fo'Eva Rollin' 2 | Urban Fiction |
Bankole, Olufunke Grace | The Edge Of Water | A Nigerian woman moves to New Orleans and faces the terror of Hurricane Katrina. |
Barath, Upasna | Comedic Timing | Romance |
Benedict, Marie | The Queens Of Crime | London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. |
Bennett, Sophia | A Death In Diamonds | Historical Mystery - Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #4 |
Berlinski, Mischa | Mona Acts Out | A celebrated Shakespearean actress spends Thanksgiving rather differently than expected. |
Berry, Steve | The Medici Return | Thriller - Cotton Malone #19 |
Black, Daniel | Isaac's Song | Historical Fiction |
Blair, Melissa | An Honored Vow | Fantasy Romance - Halfling Saga #4 |
Bonam-Young, Hannah | Out Of The Woods | A married couple joins a week-long wilderness expedition to help them reconnect. |
Box, C. J. | Battle Mountain | Mystery - Joe Pickett #25 |
Boyle, William | Saint Of The Narrows Street | Crime |
Brunstetter, Wanda E. | The Rise And Fall Of Miss Fannie's Biscuits | Cozy Mystery |
Burke, Ava | Haunting And Homicide | In New Orleans, a first-time sleuth gets a bit of ghostly help in solving a murder. |
Byrne, James | Chain Reaction | Thriller - Dez Limerick #3 |
Caffall, Eiren | All The Water In The World | A young girl documents her escape from a flooded and now uninhabitable New York City. |
Callaghan, Jo | Leave No Trace | Mystery - Kat and Lock #2 |
Campbell, Annabel | The Outcast Mage | In the glass city of Amoria, magic is everything. And Naila, student at the city's legendary academy, is running out of time to prove she can control hers. |
Carlton, H. D. | Shallow River | Romantic Suspense |
Carrington, André M. | The Black Fantastic | Speculative Short Stories |
Casati, Costanza | Babylonia | Historical Fiction |
Cast, Kristin | The Empress | A tarot-inspired romantic fantasy, first in a series. |
Cast, P. C. | Boudicca | Fantasy Romance |
Chapman, Clay McLeod | Wake Up And Open Your Eyes | The story of a family on the run from a demonic possession epidemic that spreads through media. |
Cleeves, Ann | A Bird In The Hand: The First George & Molly Palmer-Jones Novel | In England's birdwatching paradise, a new breed has been sighted--a murderer . . . |
Clipston, Amy | With This Ring | Christian Romance |
Codega, Linda H. | Motheater | After her best friend dies in a coal mine, Benethea 'Bennie' Mattox sacrifices her job, her relationship, and her reputation to uncover what's killing miners on Kire Mountain. |
Collins, Megan | Cross My Heart | A woman with a heart transplant develops a dangerous infatuation with her donor's husband--who may have had something to do with his late wife's death. |
Connolly, Rebecca | The Crime Brûlée Bake Off | Mystery - Claire Walker #1 |
Corinne, Peyton | Unloved | Romance - Undone #2 |
Cowles, Catherine | All The Missing Pieces | Romantic Suspense |
Dahl, Astrid | The Really Dead Wives Of New Jersey | On this season of Garden State Goddesses: Getting canceled means getting killed. |
Dalglish, David | Level: Unknown | The magical world of Yensere holds the key to saving humanity from a horrific apocalypse. Too bad Nick can only get there in his dreams. |
Delany, Vicki | The Incident Of The Book In The Nighttime | Cozy Mystery - Sherlock Holmes Bookshop #10 |
Desai, Anita | Rosarita | Sometimes, other people can see the secrets hidden right before your eyes. |
Dixon, Ruby | Barbarian's Heart | Science Fiction Romance - Ice Planet Barbarians #9 |
Dorabji, Tara | Call Her Freedom | The human costs of factionalism and occupation haunt a family through several generations in this debut. |
Dove, Laurie L. | Mask Of The Deer Woman | To find a missing young woman, the new tribal marshal must also find herself. |
Dugoni, Robert | Hold Strong | Historical Fiction |
Eason, Lynette | Serial Burn | Romantic Suspense - Lake City Heroes #3 |
Eckstine, Erin Crosby | Junie | A young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister's ghost, navigating truths about love, friendship, and power as the Civil War looms. |
Evison, Jonathan | The Heart Of Winter | Fiction |
Fagan, Kate | The Three Lives Of Cate Kay | When a young woman writes a trilogy of bestselling books under a pen name, everyone wants to know her identity, but she has reasons for keeping herself hidden. |
Fargo, Layne | The Favorites | Star-crossed figure skaters whiz through decades of melodrama on and off the ice. |
Fawcett, Heather | Emily Wilde's Compendium Of Lost Tales | Fantasy - Emily Wilde #3 |
Feito, Virginia | Victorian Psycho | A twisted, bloodthirsty governess celebrates Christmas with her new employers. |
Femi, Caleb | The Wickedest | Fiction |
Finder, Joseph | The Oligarch's Daughter | Marrying a Russian billionaire's daughter proves to be a very bad move for New York hedge fund manager Paul Brightman. |
Forest, Kristina | The Love Lyric | Romance - Greene Sisters #3 |
Freeman, Elijah R. | Hittin' Licks For The Holidays: Atlanta | Urban Fiction |
Frizzell, C.F. | Finding Harmony | The last thing rock star Harper Cushing needs right now is this attraction to her grandmother's helper, Frankie, even if she is sneaky-good on the guitar. |
Garcia, Jessie | The Business Trip | Thriller |
Garner, Katie | The Family Inside | It takes a special family to turn a home into a nightmare. |
Gaylin, Alison | We Are Watching | Sometimes the world is out to get you. |
Geissinger, J. T. | Carnal Urges | Romantic Suspense - Queens & Monsters #2 |
Geissinger, J. T. | Ruthless Creatures | Romantic Suspense - Queens & Monsters #1 |
George, Nicholas | A Lethal Walk In Lakeland | Cozy Mystery - Walk Through England #2 |
Gilbert, Victoria | Schooled In Murder | A mystery writer must solve a real murder case before an innocent girl is condemned in this series debut. |
Girma, Baalu | Oromay | Banned by the Ethiopian government just days after its publication in 1983, Girma's controversial political thriller finds new life in this English translation. |
Goodman, Allegra | Isola | Based on a true story, this novel recounts the harrowing tale of Marguerite de la Roche, a French noblewoman in the mid-16th century. |
Grant, Gail Milissa | The Sable Cloak | A powerful Black family fights to protect their empire. |
Gray, Shelley Shepard | B Is For Bonnet | Christian Fiction - Amish ABCs #2 |
Greaney, Mark | Midnight Black | Thriller - Gray Man #14 |
Harris, Elizabeth | How To Sleep At Night | Fiction |
Haslett, Adam | Mothers And Sons | A mother and son, estranged for years, must grapple with the shared secret that drove their lives apart. |
Hay, Alex | The Queen Of Fives | 1898. Quinn le Blanc, London's most talented con woman, has five days to pull off her most ambitious plot yet: trap a highly eligible duke into marriage and lift a fortune from the richest family in England. |
Hechtman, Betty | Death Among The Stitches | Meet Annie Hart: newly inherited yarn and tea shop owner and reluctant amateur sleuth. |
Herrera, Adriana | A Tropical Rebel Gets The Duke | Historical Romance - Las Leonas #3 |
Holiday, Jenny | Into The Woods | Romance |
Howard, Amalie | The Starlight Heir | A bladesmith with the power of the stars in her blood and a prince with a dangerous secret fight to save their kingdom. |
Hunt, La Jill | Catching Feelings | For some people, the act of finding their soul mate, falling in love, and living happily ever after is inevitable. |
Hurwitz, Gregg | Nemesis | Thriller - Orphan X #10 |
Hutson, M. C. | French Pressed Love | Romance |
Iromuanya, Julie | A Season Of Light | Fiction |
Ives, Shannon | Those Fatal Flowers | Greco-Roman mythology and the mystery of the vanished Roanoke colony collide. |
Ivey, Eowyn | Black Woods, Blue Sky | Can love save us from ourselves? |
Jeffs, Lotte | This Love | Fiction |
Jenoff, Pam | Last Twilight In Paris | A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman's quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this novel of love and survival. |
Jessen, Lauren Kung | Yin Yang Love Song | Chrysanthemum Hua Williams, a professional heartbreak healer with a love life that's literally cursed, and Vin Chao, a handsome musical prodigy with a rocky dating history, devise a fake-dating plan that will help both of them. |
Jones, Helen Glynn | The Last Raven | Paranormal Romance - The Ravens #1 |
Jordan, Amy | The Dark Hours | Thriller |
Kauffman, Rebecca | I'll Come To You | Historical Fiction |
Kemp, Cathryn | A Poisoner's Tale | The legendary figure of notorious seventeenth-century Italian poisoner Giulia Tofana, thought to be the first female serial killer in history, is brought to life. |
Kenitz, Daniel | The Perfect Home | Thriller |
Kent, Rina | God Of Ruin | Romantic Suspense - Legacy of Gods #4 |
Khabra, Bal | Spiral | Romance - Off the Ice #2 |
Kim, Ewhan | The Black Orb | A shiny, black sphere appears in Seoul, and it's stalking and devouring people one by one. |
King, Rufus | Murder By The Clock | Classic Mystery |
Kingfisher, T. | Swordheart | Halla has unexpectedly inherited the estate of a wealthy uncle. Unfortunately, she is also saddled with money-hungry relatives full of devious plans for how to wrest the inheritance away from her |
Knight, Emma | The Life Cycle Of The Common Octopus | Fiction |
Konen, Leah | The Last Room On The Left | Thriller |
Kopacz, Anita | The Wind On Her Tongue | Historical Fantasy - Daughter of Three Waters #2 |
Koval, Kristin | Penitence | Fiction |
Kumar, Naina | Flirting With Disaster | Romance |
Kuroki, Poppy | Gate To Kagoshima | A young Scottish woman is magically transported to the last Samurai era, where she encounters ghosts from the past, her own Japanese ancestry, and a love that transcends time. |
Laestadius, Ann-Helen | Punished | From the author of Stolen comes a harrowing story--inspired by true events--of five Indigenous children forced to attend a government-run boarding school in 1950s Sweden. |
Lamont, Tom | Going Home | What happens when three men--all of whom are completely ill-suited for fatherhood--take charge of a toddler following an unexpected loss. |
Lange, Tracey | What Happened To The McCrays? | Fiction |
Larocca, Eric | At Dark, I Become Loathsome | Horror |
Larsen, Melissa | The Lost House | A young woman with a haunting past who returns to her ancestral home in Iceland to investigate a gruesome murder in her family. |
Larsen, Ward | Dark Vector | In the wilds of Siberia, a top-secret Russian fighter goes missing on a test flight. |
Lee, Karmen | The Relationship Mechanic | Romance - Peach Blossom #2 |
Lee, Laura Piper | Zoe Brennan, First Crush | A struggling vineyard owner gets a second taste of her first crush. |
Liese, Chloe | Once Smitten, Twice Shy | Romance - Wilmot Sisters #3 |
Littell, Robert | Bronshtein In The Bronx | A reimagining of the 10 weeks Leon Trotsky spent in the Bronx. |
Lostetter, Marina | The Teeth Of Dawn | Fantasy - Five Penalties #3 |
MacKay, Asia | A Serial Killer's Guide To Marriage | Thriller |
Marie, Tarris | Empress Creed | When two outlaw lovers from opposite sides of the war face off, their second chance at happily ever after will come at a cost only one crime king and queen pin are willing to pay. |
Marshall, Kate Alice | A Killing Cold | A woman invited to her wealthy fiancé's family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secret--and that she's been there before. |
McKay, Claude | Home To Harlem | Classics |
McMahon, John | Head Cases | An FBI unit hunts for a serial killer who's targeting other serial killers in this series launch. |
Meade, Amy Patricia | Death Upon A Star | Introducing Hollywood script supervisor Evelyn Galloway, who's drawn into a murder investigation after landing her dream job on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca. |
Meadows, Jillian | Give Me Butterflies | Romance |
Mercedes, Sylvia | Vow Of The Shadow King | Fantasy Romance - Bride of the Shadow King #2 |
Moehling, Joshua | A Long Time Gone | Mystery - Ben Packard #3 |
Montgomery, Selena | Power Of Persuasion | |
Moon, Shara | Let Us March On | Devoted wife, White House maid, reluctant activist... |
Moorman, Jennifer | The Vanishing Of Josephine Reynolds | Fiction |
Moyes, Jojo | We All Live Here | Fiction |
Murray, Victoria Christopher | Harlem Rhapsody | A portrait of Harlem Renaissance figure Jessie Redmon Faust. |
Nai | Wrapped Up In A Hitta's Love For Christmas: An Urban Christmas Romance | Urban Fiction |
Nesbø, Jo | Blood Ties | Mystery - Kingdom #2 |
Newell, Brittany | Soft Core | A stripper's madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her over the edge. |
Nieva, Michel | Dengue Boy | A dystopian cyberpunk coming-of-age novel about a mutant mosquito-kid set in 2272 Argentina when all the ice caps have melted and mega-conglomerates rule the world with their virofinance. |
North, Liza | The Weekend Guests | Thriller |
Norton, Graham | Frankie | Historical Fiction |
O'Connor, Joseph | The Ghosts Of Rome | Historical Thriller - Rome Escape Line #2 |
O'Donnell, Paraic | The Naming Of The Birds | Historical Mystery - Inspector Henry Cutter and Sergeant Gideon Bliss #2 |
Ogundiran, Tobi | At The Fount Of Creation | Fantasy - Guardians of the Gods #2 |
Okorafor, Nnedi | Death Of The Author | A disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative. |
Olson, Kayla | The Lodge | Romance |
O'Neill, Heather | The Capital Of Dreams | Dystopian Fiction |
Patel, Shameez | Playing Flirty | The game is on for two nerds who love to outplay each other . . . even when their hearts are on the line. |
Patterson, James | Paranoia | Mystery - Michael Bennett #17 |
Peñaranda, Chloe C. | The Night Is Defying | Paranormal Romance - Nytefall #2 |
Perry, Thomas | Pro Bono | A lawyer who takes on a pro bono case earns his payment many times over in this thriller. |
Phillips, C. N. | The Three Queens | Urban Fiction |
Phillips, Caryl | Another Man In The Street | Fiction |
Purman, Victoria | The Radio Hour | Historical Fiction |
Rakha, Youssef | The Dissenters | Historical Fiction |
Rao, Kritika H. | The Legend Of Meneka | Inspired by one of the most famous romances in Hindu mythology, this is the story of a celestial dancer tasked with seducing a human sage. |
Reyes, Sonora | The Broposal | Two best bros fake an engagement-but will their friendship survive? |
Rollins, James | A Dragon Of Black Glass | Fantasy - Moonfall #3 |
Rosen, Renée | Let's Call Her Barbie | A dramatized version of the creation of the Barbie doll. |
Ross, Adam | Playworld | Historical Fiction |
Ryan, Annelise | Beast Of The North Woods | Mystery - Monster Hunter #3 |
Sakhlecha, Trisha | The Inheritance | A billionaire is primed to announce the succession plan for his company to his family at a lavish reunion, but at least one person won't make it through the week alive. |
Saundra | The Treacherous Wife | Arizona's most decorated detective finds a spectacular second chance at love--but when he starts digging into the most lethal case of his career, his future takes a shocking turn. |
Schlink, Bernhard | The Granddaughter | Historical Fiction |
Segura, Jo | Temple Of Swoon | Adventure Romance |
Shalvis, Jill | Better Than Friends | Romance - Sunrise Cove #7 |
Shamieh, Betty | Too Soon | A literary debut that explores exile, ambition, and hope across three generations of Palestinian American women. |
Shiloh, Toni | Nature Of Love | Romance |
Sligar, Sara | Vantage Point | A Gothic suspense novel about the dramatic downfall of one of America's most affluent (and cursed) families. |
Smith, Ali | Gliff | Fiction |
Soffer, Jessica | This Is A Love Story | A love letter to New York City, to Central Park, to art, and to love, told through the lens of a fifty-year romance and from various points of view. |
Sotto, Samantha | Water Moon | A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, then embarks on a magical quest when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop. |
Spotswood, Stephen | Dead In The Frame | Historical Mystery - Pentecost and Parker #5 |
Stabenow, Dana | Abduction Of A Slave | Historical Mystery - Eye of Isis #4 |
Stars, Holly | Murder In The Dressing Room | When the London drag scene loses a queen, her drag daughter works to make sure she can rest in power by solving her murder. |
Su, Maggie | Blob : A Love Story | A young woman tries to shape a sentient blob into her perfect boyfriend. |
Swan, Richard | Grave Empire | Blood once turned the wheels of empire. Now it is money. |
Swyler, Erika | We Lived On The Horizon | Dystopian Fiction |
Tai, Tara | Single Player | Two video game creators go head-to-head in an enemies-to-lovers workplace romance debut. |
Takahashi, Yuta | The Curious Kitten At The Chibineko Kitchen | Your table awaits at the Chibineko Kitchen, where a soul-nourishing meal in the company of the resident kitten will transport you back in time to reunite with departed loved one. |
Tan, Sue Lynn | Immortal | Fantasy - Celestial Kingdom #4 |
Tizzard, Gemma | Grace Of The Empire State | After the death of their father, it's up to Grace O'Connell and her twin brother Patrick to support their family as the Great Depression takes its toll on New York City. |
Tyler, Anne | Three Days In June | Fiction |
Underhill, Edward | The In-Between Bookstore | A magical bookstore that transports a trans man through time and brings him face-to-face with his teenage self, offering him the chance of a lifetime to examine his life and identity to find a new beginning. |
Unger, Lisa | Close Your Eyes And Count To 10 | When the real game begins, who will make it to the count of 10? |
Upadhyay, Samrat | Darkmotherland | An epic tale of love and political violence set in earthquake-ravaged Darkmotherland, a dystopian reimagining of Nepal. |
Vasti, Alexandra | Earl Crush | Historical Romance - Belvoir's Library #2 |
Viel, Neena | Listen To Your Sister | Anxiety metamorphoses into terror for a young Black woman fiercely protecting her own. |
Walsh, Jane | Seducing The Widow | Former rival debutantes have a second chance at love after fifteen years apart when a spinster persuades her ex-lover to help save her family business. |
Walsh, Jenni L. | Ace, Marvel, Spy | Historical Fiction |
Warren, Tiffany L. | The Unexpected Diva | Before the Civil War, Black opera singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield reigned supreme on Northern stages--even performing at Buckingham Palace. |
Webb, A. S. | Daughter Of Chaos | In ancient Greece, mortals suffer under the tyranny of the gods--forced to sacrifice the food they depend on, their worldly possessions and even each other at the whims of the Twelve. But an ancient prophecy speaks of hope, of one who will set humankind free. |
West, A. J. | The Betrayal Of Thomas True | The only sin is betrayal... |
Westerson, Jeri | Rebellious Grace | Historical Mystery - King's Fool #3 |
Wilde, Ellie K. | Only In Your Dreams | If he can prove he loved her then, and he loves her still, this time might be different. |
Williamson, Jenny | Enemy Of My Dreams | In the last days of the Roman Empire, a desperate princess and a brutal Gothic warlord forge a dangerous alliance. |
Wilson, Carter | Tell Me What You Did | Thriller |
Winters, Demi | Kingdom Of Claw | Fantasy Romance - The Ashen #2 |
Winters, Julian | I Think They Love You | When two exes fake a new relationship, it turns into a second chance for both of them. |
Wolfgang-Smith, Olivia | Mutual Interest | A high-drama romp through wealthy New York society in the early decades of the 1900s. |
Woolrich, Cornell | The Black Curtain | Classic Mystery |
Wright Faladé, David | The New Internationals | Historical Fiction |
Yamamoto, Makana | Hammajang Luck | Ocean's 8 with a space opera twist. |
Yang, Jane | The Lotus Shoes | A tale of two women from opposite sides of society, and their journey of sisterhood, betrayal, love, and triumph. |
Yardley, Ellen | Eleanor And The Cold War | A 1950s Cold War historical mystery debut featuring the former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's indispensable assistant as an equally resourceful sleuth. |
Yu, Yŏng-gwang | The Rainfall Market | If you could swap your life for a better one, which would you choose? |
December 2024
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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A, Raquel | Midnight Memoirs Of A Harlot | Urban Fiction |
Adler-Olsen, Jussi | Locked In | Mystery - Department Q #10 |
Alderson, Ben | A Kingdom Of Lies | Fantasy Romance - Realm of Fey #2 |
Alderson, Ben | A Deception Of Courts | Fantasy Romance - Realm of Fey #3 |
Alderson, Ben | Heir To Thorn And Flame | For years, Max had to serve and obey the vicious magical nobles. Now he is one of them. |
Aleman, Daniel | I Might Be In Trouble | A struggling writer wakes up to find his date from the night before dead--and must decide how far he's willing to go to spin the misadventure into his next big book. |
Alers, Rochelle | Home And Away | This historical novel draws on the turbulent history of the Negro Baseball Leagues, as the great-granddaughter of a former player sets out to tell her family's story--and redefine her own. |
Allain, Suzanne | The Wrong Lady Meets Lord Right | When a young woman trades places with her noble cousin, their innocent ruse leads to true love. |
Allen, Samantha | Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet | Romance |
Armentrout, Jennifer L. | Scorched | Romance - Frigid #2 |
Armfield, Julia | Private Rites | A reimagining of King Lear. |
Armstrong, Jess | The Secret Of The Three Fates | Historical Mystery - Ruby Vaughn #2 |
Arthur, A. C. | A Lifetime In 30 Days | Savannah Carlson has one month before she hits the big four-oh. |
Ashley, Kyiris | His Summer Side Piece | Urban Fiction |
Atta, Sefi | Good-For-Nothing Girl | Fiction |
Balle, Solvej | On the Calculation of Volume | Science Fiction |
Balogh, Mary | Remember When | Historical Romance - Ravenswood #4 |
Various | Los Muertos: Day Of The Dead Fiction | Short Stories |
Bishop, Natasha | Only For The Week | Romance |
Black, Anna | Love Delayed | Fiction |
Bollen, Christopher | Havoc | Thriller |
Brennan, Allison | See How They Hide | Mystery - Quinn & Costa #6 |
Burke, Alafair | The Note | A vacation in the Hamptons goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history. |
Burnham, Sophie | Sargassa | In a world where Rome never fell, an unlikely group of protagonists are ready to burn down the empire. |
Burton, Jaci | Designs On You | Romance |
Cantor, Jillian | The Greatest Lie Of All | A glamorous romance novelist and an aspiring starlet share an unexpected secret. |
Caruso, Melissa | The Last Hour Between Worlds | Fantasy - Echo Archives #1 |
Cate, Sara | Keep Me | Their marriage of convenience is anything but... |
Chen, Karissa | Homeseeking | An epic tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart. |
Chenault-Kilgore, Monica | The Jewel Of The Blues | Set in the sparkling 1920s jazz era, this novel pulls back the curtain on all the romance, danger and drama in the bustling backstage life of a young performer. |
Clark, Tracy | Echo | Mystery - Detective Harriet Foster #3 |
Connelly, Lucy | Death At A Scottish Christmas | Cozy Mystery - Scottish Isle #3 |
Connolly, Lauren | PS: I Hate You | Romance |
Corland, Mai | Four Ruined Realms | Fantasy - Broken Blades #2 |
Cowles, Catherine | Delicate Escape | Romance - Sparrow Falls #2 |
Crais, Robert | The Big Empty | Mystery - Elvis Cole & Joe Pike #20 |
Cronin, Marianne | Eddie Winston Is Looking For Love | Eddie Winston is 90 years old. He has lived and he has loved, but he has never been kissed. |
Dahlia, Nora | Pick-Up | Romance |
Dailey, Janet | Lie For A Million | Romance - Rivalries #2 |
Davis, Fiona | The Stolen Queen | Historical Mystery |
Day, Maddie | Deadly Crush | Cozy Mystery - Cece Barton #2 |
Day, Zuri | Stuck In The Country With You | Good fences make good neighbors--except when a scorching shared past makes things complicated. |
Deveraux, Jude | Order Of Swans | A woman is swept into a world where she has the power to alter fairy tales, and change a kingdom's destiny. |
Dietrich, Cale | The Rules Of Royalty | Two princes from neighboring countries fall into a whirlwind royal romance. |
Drysdale, Pip | The Close-Up | Thriller |
Dunlap, A. Rae | The Resurrectionist | A gothic debut set in 19th century Scotland - when real-life serial killers Burke and Hare terrorized the streets of Edinburgh - as a young medical student is lured into the illicit underworld of body snatching. |
Ellsworth, Loretta | The French Winemaker's Daughter | Historical Fiction |
Evans, Davinia | Shadow Baron | Fantasy - The Burnished City #2 |
Evans, Davinia | Rebel Blade | Fantasy - The Burnished City #3 |
Farnsworth, Christopher | Robert B. Parker's Buried Secrets | Mystery - Jessie Stone #22 |
Feeney, Alice | Beautiful Ugly | Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. |
Ferguson, Lana | Under Loch And Key | A woman discovers that not all monsters are her enemy--the opposite, in fact--in this paranormal romance. |
Freeman, Brian | Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Vendetta | Thriller - Jason Bourne #20 |
Gandhi, Shaylin | When We Had Forever | A novel about losing and finding love, for fans of Colleen Hoover and Lucy Score. |
Genova, Lisa | More Or Less Maddy | A young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally "normal" life for a career in stand-up comedy. |
Glenn, Roy | This Time, Baby | Urban Fiction |
Goines, Donald | Inner City Hoodlum | Urban Fiction |
Grippando, James | Grave Danger | Thriller - Jack Swyteck #19 |
Hall, Alexis | Something Extraordinary | Historical Romance - Something Fabulous #3 |
Hall, Rachel Howzell | The Last One | Fantasy Romance |
Harper, Jordan | The Last King Of California | Thriller |
Hart, Callie | Quicksilver | Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate. |
Hazelwood, Ali | Deep End | A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance. |
Hendrix, Grady | Witchcraft For Wayward Girls | There's power in a book. |
Henry, Veronica G. | The Canopy Keepers | What happens when nature will no longer stand by and accept its destruction? |
Henry, Veronica G. | A Breathless Sky | Fantasy - Scorched Earth #2 |
Higashino, Keigo | Invisible Helix | Mystery - Detective Galileo #5 |
Holt, Katie | Not In My Book | Romance |
Howe, Jenny L. | How To Get A Life In Ten Dates | A young woman who's fed up with dating challenges her family and friends to set her up on ten dates, but gets more than she bargained for when her best friend adds himself to the roster. |
Hurston, Zora Neale | The Life Of Herod The Great | A never before published novel from Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great as a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of valor and vision. |
Isaka, Kōtarō | Hotel Lucky Seven | Thriller - Assassins #4 |
J, Anna | My Woman His Wife: 20 Year Anniversary Edition | Urban Fiction |
Jackson-Brown, Angela | Untethered | Sometimes family is found in the most unlikely of places. |
James, Amy | A Five-Letter Word For Love | A couple fall in love over Wordle. |
JC | Fall Of The Order | A cursed immortal battles his demons and the nefarious beings of the living dead once his whereabouts are discovered, igniting a war against all of mankind. |
Johnson, Debbie | Statistically Speaking | Fiction |
Josaphat, Fabienne | The Kingdom Of No Tomorrow | Historical Fiction |
Kane, Darby | What The Wife Knew | A wife wonders who tried to kill her husband twice before finally succeeding--because that was supposed to be her job. |
Kang, Han | We Do Not Part | An exploration of Korea's historical traumas through the story of a writer who discovers how her friend's family was impacted by the 1948-1949 Jeju Massacre. |
Karrington, Blake | Pretty Hustlaz | Meet the ladies of Pretty Hustlaz, Inc., a high-class escort service that caters to the most elite and powerful men of Charlotte, North Carolina. |
Kellerman, Jonathan | Open Season | Mystery - Alex Delaware #40 |
Kelsi | Wives Of The Country Boyz Cartel | Urban Fiction |
Kent, Rina | God Of Wrath | Romance - Legacy of Gods #3 |
Kim, Juhea | City Of Night Birds | A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice--to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever. |
King, Joy Deja | Stackin' Paper Part 8: No Way Out | Urban Fiction |
Kistler, Bonnie | Shell Games | Thriller |
Klassen, Julie | The Seaside Homecoming | Christian Historical - On Devonshire Shores #3 |
Klune, TJ | The Bones Beneath My Skin | There's nothing more human than a broken heart. |
Knox, Joseph | Imposter Syndrome | Thriller |
Korn, Gabrielle | The Shutouts | Dystopian Fiction |
Kornberg, Julia | Berlin Atomized | Fiction - Coming of Age |
Krentz, Jayne Ann | Shattering Dawn | Romantic Suspense - Lost Night Files #3 |
Ku, Pyŏng-mo | Apartment Women | Fiction |
Landers, Melissa | The Half King | A king by day. Shadow by night... |
Laurie, Victoria | A Trinket For The Taking | Introducing Dovey Van Dalen, once the belle of 1840s Copenhagen, now charged with recovering magic property from mortals--whatever it takes. First in a new magical mystery series. |
Lee Koe, Amanda | Sister Snake | Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. Emerald is a nihilistic sugar baby in New York, living from whim to whim and using her charms to make ends meet. But they share a secret: once, they were snakes, basking under a full moon in Tang dynasty China. |
Liao, Darcy | Make Room For Love | Romance |
Lock, Nicholas | Confessions Of A Dopeboy | Urban Fiction |
Lo-Life | Guns Down, Bottoms Up 2 | Urban Fiction |
Lo-Life | Guns Down, Bottoms Up | Urban Fiction |
Lovesey, Peter | Against The Grain | Mystery - Peter Diamond |
MacIntosh, Kate | The Champagne Letters | Reims, France, 1805. Barbe-Nicole Clicquot has just lost her beloved husband but is determined to pursue their dream of creating the premier champagne house in France, now named for her new identity as a widow: Veuve Clicquot. |
Mas, Jasmine | Blood Of Hercules | Fantasy - Villains of Lore #1 |
Massey, E. L. | Free From Falling | Romance |
McDonald, Ed | Witch Queen Of Redwinter | Fantasy - Redwinter Chronicles #3 |
McFadden, Freida | The Crash | The nightmare she's running from is nothing compared to where she's headed. |
McGuire, Seanan | Adrift In Currents Clean And Clear | Fantasy - Wayward Children #10 |
McKenna, Clara | Murder At Glenloch Hill | Historical Mystery - Stella and Lyndy #6 |
McKnight, Ashley G. | Daddy Made Me Do It | Urban Fiction |
McKnight, Ashley G. | Daddy Made Me Do It Part 2 | Urban Fiction |
Methos, Victor | The Silent Watcher | Thriller - Vegas Shadows #1 |
Miller, Linda Lael | Where The Creek Bends | Fiction |
Morita, Jennifer K. | Ghosts Of Waikīkī | An out-of-work journalist and the homicide detective who broke her heart must cipher out a murder before the clock runs out. |
Mosley, Walter | Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right | Mystery - King Oliver #3 |
Mulford, A. K. | A Sky Of Emerald Stars | Fantasy Romance - Golden Court #2 |
Murrin, Orlando | Knife Skills For Beginners | The Maid meets Knives Out with a dash of Top Chef in the debut locked room culinary mystery set in a London cooking school. |
Nelson, P. J. | Booked For Murder | In this cozy mystery debut, Madeline Brimley returns to the bookstore she inherited, discovering that small towns hold deadly secrets. |
Ngamije, Rémy | Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space | Short Stories |
Nix, Susannah | The Boyfriend Hypothesis | Romance - Chemistry Lessons #3 |
Olivas, M. M. | Sundown in San Ojuela | When the death of her aunt brings Liz Remolina back to San Ojuela, the prospect fills her with dread. |
Osler, Rob | The Case Of The Missing Maid | Historical Mystery - Harriet Morrow Investigates @1 |
Patterson, James | The Texas Murders | Thriller - Texas Ranger #3 |
Patterson, James | Holmes Is Missing | Mystery - Holmes, Marple, & Poe #2 |
Pike, Signe | The Shadowed Land | Fantasy - Lost Queen #3 |
Price, BJ | The Boy Across Town | Fiction - Coming of Age |
Pynn, Aubree | Everything is Love | Urban Fiction |
Rafiq, Zahid | The World With Its Mouth Open | Short Stories |
Rath, Emily | North Is the Night | In the Finnish wilderness, more than wolves roam the dark forests. |
Rea, Kerry | The Jewel Of the Isle | Two very indoor people rough it on a remote island after getting swept up in an archaeologist's hunt for a famed jewel. |
Redd, Kenya | This Thing Of Ours: Mesmerized By A Mafia Menace | Urban Fiction |
Renee, Robbi | Somebody's Husband | Urban Fiction |
Revis, Beth | How To Steal A Galaxy | Science Fiction Romance - Chaotic Orbits #2 |
Rico, Lauren E. | After the Ocean | How do you find your way back when you've left yourself behind? |
Rinehart, Mary Roberts | The Door | Classic Mystery |
Robb, J. D. | Bonded In Death | Mystery - In Death #60 |
Robinson, Ava | Definitely Better Now | Fiction - Coming of Age |
Rose, Jeneva | The Perfect Marriage | Thriller |
Rosenberg, Lisa Williamson | Mirror Me | A psychiatric patient's desperate search for answers reveals peculiar memories and unexpected connections. |
Sainz Borgo, Karina | No Place To Bury The Dead | A novel of loss and resilience that illuminates the often-overlooked human dimension of the migrant crisis, re-imagining the border as a dreamlike purgatory bridging life and death. |
Schaeffer, Renée | Ageless | Is eternal youth a blessing or a curse? |
Sears, Michael | Love The Stranger | Mystery - Queens #2 |
Segura, Alex 1980- | Alter Ego | Mystery - Secret Identity #2 |
Shade, Anne | The Blessed | Layla and Suri are brought together by fate to defeat the darkness threatening to tear their world apart. What they don't expect to discover is a love that might set them free. |
Sheridan, Mia | The Broken Places | Romantic Suspense |
Short, Sharon Gwyn | Trouble Island | Historical Mystery |
Silver, Elsie | A False Start | Romance - Gold Rush Ranch #4 |
Simone, Gail | Red Sonja: Consumed | Fantasy |
Simone, Naima | Church Girl | She's a preacher's daughter, a runaway bride and now the (not quite) qualified nanny for a sexy tattoo artist with a beautiful daughter--and a dirty mouth. What's a bad boy to do with a woman like her? Everything. |
Simpson, Rosemary | Murder Wears A Hidden Face | Historical Mystery - Gilded Age #8 |
Simpson, Rosemary | Death Takes The Lead | Historical Mystery - Gilded Age #9 |
Skye, Aries | Love On The Rebound | Romance |
Slayton, David R. | Rogue Community College | Fantasy - Liberty House #1 |
Steel, Danielle | Never Say Never | Fiction |
Stewart, Kate | One Last Rainy Day | Romantic Suspense - Ravenhood Legacy #1 |
Storey, Kate | The Memory Library | Fiction |
Swinson, Kiki | Amber Alert | A suburban mom's high-end criminal past comes back to haunt her, endangering her children and propelling her into a high-stakes game she remembers all too well. |
Tuck, Lily | The Rest Is Memory | Historical Fiction |
Tuli, Nisha J. | Tale Of The Heart Queen | Fantasy Romance - Artefacts of Ouranos #4 |
Turow, Scott | Presumed Guilty | Thriller - Presumed Innocent #3 |
Wells, Martha | Wheel Of The Infinite | Fantasy |
Wesley, Jamie | A Legend In The Baking | Romance - Sugar Blitz #2 |
West, Lilian | Pretty Dead Things | A bride-to-be's discovery of long-lost wedding rings at an estate sale reveals the key to a decades-old cold case in a small-town mystery. |
White, Alex | Ardent Violet And The Infinite Eye | Science Fiction - Starmetal Symphony #2 |
Wildenstein, Olivia | House Of Pounding Hearts | Fantasy Romance - Kingdom of Crows #2 |
Wilkerson, Charmaine | Good Dirt | The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom. |
Williams, Racquel | Chosen By a Jamaican Bad Boy | Urban Fiction |
Williams, Shanora | Beautiful Broken Love | A grieving widow is caught off guard by her attraction to an NBA star. |
Yang, Shuangzi | Taiwan Travelogue | Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for literature in translation. |
Yarros, Rebecca | Onyx Storm | Fantasy Romance - Empyrean #3 |
Young, Adrienne | A Sea Of Unspoken Things | Fiction |
November 2024
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Ackerman, Sara | The Maui Effect | Romance |
Adams, Ellery | The Little Lost Library | Cozy Mystery - Secret, Book, & Scone #7 |
Adams, Sarah | The Temporary Roomie | Romance |
Afshar, Tessa | The Queen's Cook | Christian Historical - Queen Esther's Court #1 |
Alderson, Ben | A Betrayal Of Storms | With the political intrigue and high heat of A Court of Thorns and Roses this is for readers who enjoy stories full of magic, romance, and adventure. |
Allegri, Adriana | The Sunflower House | Family secrets come to light as a young woman fights to save herself, and others, in a Nazi-run baby factory. |
Allen, Navessa | Lights Out | The couple who slays together, stays together. |
Andrews, Brian | Tom Clancy Defense Protocol | Thriller - Jack Ryan #25 |
Armentrout, Jennifer L. | Frigid | Romance |
Asher, E. B. | This Will Be Fun | Ten years ago, they saved the realm--and it ruined their lives. Now, four former heroes must reunite, and hopefully live to tell the tale. |
Barnes, Steven | Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss | Science Fiction - Star Wars |
Battle-Felton, Yvonne | Curdle Creek | For fans of "The Lottery" and The Hunger Games, a novel set in a small town with a sinister tradition. |
Battles, Brett | Stuart Woods' Golden Hour | Mystery - Teddy Fay #7 |
Benoit, Deborah J. | The Gardener's Plot | A woman helps set up a community garden in the Berkshires, only to find a body in one of the plots on opening day. |
Blake, Dena | Three Blissful Days | Romance |
Bond, Charlotte | The Bloodless Princes | Fantasy - Fireborne Blade #2 |
Bowen, Rhys | We Three Queens | Historical Mystery - Royal Spyness #18 |
Broadbent, Carissa | The Songbird & The Heart Of Stone | Fantasy Romance - Crowns of Nyaxia #3 |
Broaddus, Maurice | Breath Of Oblivion | Science Fiction - Astra Black #2 |
Brown, Graham | Clive Cussler Desolation Code | NUMA Files #21 |
Bublitz, Jacqueline | Leave The Girls Behind | Thriller |
Burke, Sue | Usurpation | Science Fiction - Semiosis #3 |
Burr, Shelley | Murder Town | Mystery |
Caña, Natalie | Sleeping With The Frenemy | Romance - Vega Family Love Stories #3 |
Carlisle, Kate | The Knife Before Christmas | Cozy Mystery - Fixer-Upper #11 |
Carr, John Dickson | He Who Whispers | Classic Mystery |
Cassidy, Holly | The Christmas Countdown | Holiday Romance |
Cassidy, Nat | Rest Stop | Horror |
Castille, Sarah | The Sound Of Us | Broken hearts and hidden pasts collide in a symphony of passion and redemption. |
Chalice, Lucy | The Hot Henry Effect | Romance |
Chambers, Clare | Shy Creatures | An art teacher at a psychiatric hospital in 1960s England finds her life turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious patient who has spent decades living in complete isolation with his elderly aunts in a decrepit Victorian house. |
Chambers, Diana R. | The Secret War Of Julia Child | Before she mastered the art of French cooking in midlife, Julia Child found herself working in the secrets trade in Asia during World War II. |
Cheng, Melanie | The Burrow | A family navigates grief, hope, and healing through a bond with a new pet rabbit. |
Chizmar, Richard | Memorials | A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia. |
Cho, Nam-Ju | Miss Kim Knows: And Other Stories | Short Stories |
Clark, Eliza | She's Always Hungry | Short Stories |
Clarke, H. A. | Metal From Heaven | Fantasy |
Clarke, Susanna | The Wood At Midwinter | Historical Fantasy |
Clements, Mikaella | Feast While You Can | Horror |
Coble, Colleen | I Think I Was Murdered | Christian Suspense |
Cochrane, Kate | Wake Up, Nat & Darcy | Ex-lovers. Ex-rivals. New cohosts. |
Cole, Penn | Spark Of The Everflame | Fantasy Romance - Kindred's Curse #1 |
Connally, Celeste | All's Fair In Love And Treachery | Historical Mystery - Lady Petra Inquires #2 |
Connealy, Mary | Into The Sunset | Christian Historical - Western Light #3 |
Cook, Emma | You Can't Hurt Me | Meet Eva, who can't feel pain, and Anna, who can't escape it. |
Cook, Robin | Bellevue | Medical Thriller |
Coombs, Amelia Diane | Drop Dead Sisters | Three sisters reunite on a family vacation and rekindle their relationship the only way they know how--by covering each other's tracks in a real-life murder mystery not even they can figure out. |
Cooper, Jilly | Rivals | Now an original streaming series. |
Cousens, Sophie | Is She Really Going Out With Him? | A disillusioned divorcée agrees to let her children play matchmaker. |
Cowles, Catherine | Fragile Sanctuary | Romantic Suspense |
Crouch, Blake | Run | Apocalyptic Thriller |
Cutter, Nick | The Queen | Horror |
de la Pava, Sergio | Every Arc Bends Its Radian | A private investigator flees New York City for Colombia after a personal tragedy and finds himself entangled in a young woman's strange disappearance--which may be connected to one of the world's most ruthless criminal organizations. |
DeLozier, Elizabeth | Eleanore Of Avignon | The story of a healer who risks her life, her freedom, and everything she holds dear to protect her beloved city from the encroaching Black Death. |
Denny, Emma | All The Painted Stars | Historical Romance - Barden #2 |
Deroy, Jesse | Safecracker | Thriller - Grantchester Duke Ducaine #1 |
Dewes, J. S. | The Relentless Legion | Science Fiction - Divide #3 |
DeWitt, Tarah | The Co-Op | Romance |
Dimova, Genoveva | Monstrous Nights | Fantasy - Witch's Compendium of Monsters #2 |
Dinniman, Matt | The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook | Fantasy - Dungeon Crawler Carl #3 |
Doocy, Maiga | Sorcery And Small Magics | An impulsive sorcerer and his curmudgeonly rival venture deep into a magical forest in search of a counterspell that can break the curse between them--only to discover that magic might not be the only thing pulling them together. |
Dugoni, Robert | Beyond Reasonable Doubt | Mystery - Keera Duggan #2 |
Eden, Lucy | Love In Bloom | A hardworking city woman unexpectedly inherits her grandparents' farm that comes equipped with a handsome horticulturist. |
Ellison, J. T. | A Very Bad Thing | Thriller |
Estep, Jennifer | Only Cold Depths | Science Fiction Romance - Galactic Bonds #4 |
Evanovich, Janet | Now Or Never: Thirty-One On The Run | Mystery - Stephanie Plum #31 |
Evans, Eliza | The Christmas Cookie Wars | Give a man a cookie . . . and he's yours. |
Evans, Richard Paul | Christmas In Bethel | Holiday |
Faison, Deanna | Playmaker | Romance |
Fleming, Lauren Marie | Because Fat Girl | Fame always comes with a cost...and to get her Hollywood ending, Diana's going to have to go completely off-script. |
Friend, Catherine | Ghost Of The Heart | Romantic Suspense |
Frost, Jacqueline | I'll Be Home For Mischief | Cozy Mystery - Christmas Tree Farm #5 |
Fu, Mike | Masquerade | How we can find ourselves among ghosts of all kinds, and who we can trust when nothing--and no one--is as it seems? |
Garcia, R. S. A. | The Nightward | Caribbean mythology meets The Witcher, this story introduces a world where women warrior-magicians rule, and a child princess and her bodyguard must flee an attempted coup and evade the wave of darkness sent to kill her. |
Gaynor, Hazel | Christmas With The Queen | Historical Fiction |
Gilmore, Clare | Perfect Fit | Romance |
Gilmore, Laurie | The Christmas Tree Farm | Romance - Dream Harbor #3 |
Glover, Nicole | The Improvisers | Historical Fantasy - Murder and Magic #3 |
Gonzalez, Clarissa Trinidad | Celestina's House | The secrets of the house are the secrets of the heart. |
Goodwin, Tracy | Imperfectly Perfect | Jilted socialite teams up with bad boy billionaire: Game on! |
Grant, Linda | The Story Of The Forest | It's 1913 when Mina, the young and carefree daughter of a Jewish merchant, roams into a forest on the edge of the Baltic Sea looking for mushrooms. Instead, she encounters a gang of unruly, charismatic Bolsheviks--an adventure that will become the stuff of familial lore for generations to come. |
Graves, Sydney | The Arizona Triangle | Mystery - Jo Bailen #1 |
Greene, Katherine | The Lake Of Lost Girls | Mystery |
Grey, Emma | Pictures Of You | What would you do if you could start over? Imagine having a second chance with the one you never forgot. |
Guanzon, Thea | A Monsoon Rising | Fantasy Romance - Hurricane Wars #2 |
Hackwith, A. J. | Toto | The true hero of The Wizard of Oz takes center stage. |
Hall, Alexis J. | Pansies | Romance - Spires #4 |
Hallahan, Katie | The Twice-Sold Soul | There's only one thing more terrifying to McKenna Ellerbeck than being chased by bloodthirsty demons: her high school reunion. |
Hammer, Jill | The Moonstone Covenant | Fantasy |
Harkaway, Nick | Karla's Choice: A John Le Carré Novel | Thriller |
Harrison, Kim | Demon's Bluff | Urban Fantasy - Hollows #18 |
Hobbs, Elizabeth | Misery Hates Company | Historical Mystery |
Hopkinson, Nalo | Jamaica Ginger And Other Concoctions | Fantasy Short Stories |
Huang, Ana | The Striker | She's the only woman he wants...and the only one he can't have. |
Huchu, T. L. | The Legacy Of Arniston House | Fantasy - Edinburgh Nights #4 |
Idov, Michael | The Collaborators | A spy thriller featuring a brilliant young intelligence officer and a troubled heiress who stumble into a global conspiracy that pits present-day Russia against the CIA. |
Imai Messina, Laura | The Heartbeat Library | On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. |
Jacka, Benedict | An Instruction In Shadow | Fantasy - Inheritance of Magic #2 |
Johnson, Craig | Tooth And Claw | Mystery - Longmire |
Johnson, Keith Lee | Little Black Girl Lost: 20 Year Anniversary Edition | Urban Fiction |
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu | Before We Forget Kindness | Fiction - Before the Coffee Gets Cold #5 |
Keely | Heart Of A Thug: Omar And Keisha's Tale | Urban Fiction |
Kelley, William Melvin | Dis//Integration: 2 Novelas & 3 Stories & A Little Play | Fiction |
Kelly, Lee | The Starlets | Real life is turning out to be stranger than a script for the silver screen. |
Kelly, Vanessa | Murder In Highbury | First in a new series, Jane Austen's Emma Knightley entertains a different role in Highbury--going from clever matchmaker to Regency England's shrewdest sleuth. |
Kenna, Alex | Burn This Night | Mystery |
Kent, Rina | God Of Pain | Romance - Legacy of Gods #2 |
Kent, Rina | God Of Malice | Romance - Legacy of Gods #1 |
Kim, Sŏng-Il | Blood Of The Old Kings | There is no escaping the Empire. Even in death, you will serve. |
Kim, Suji | Under The Oak Tree: Volume 1 | Most fairytales end with a wedding and a happily-ever-after--but this is no fairytale. |
Koja, Kathe | Catherine The Ghost | Gothic Fiction |
Kovacic, Katherine | Kill Yours, Kill Mine | Grieving women sign up for Strangers on a Train-style revenge. |
Lakshminarayan, Lavanya | Interstellar Megachef | Stepping off a long-haul star freighter from Earth, Saras Kaveri has one bag of clothes, her little flying robot Kili... and an invitation to compete in the galaxy's most watched, most prestigious cooking show. |
Lampley, Alexis | Pride And Prejudice In Space | Science Fiction |
Lavery, Daniel M. | Women's Hotel | A debut novel about the residents of a women's hotel in 1960s New York City. |
Leong, Julie | The Teller Of Small Fortunes | A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family. |
Leung, Muriel | How To Fall In Love In A Time Of Unnameable Disaster | Dystopian Fiction |
Lowachee, Karin | The Mountain Crown | Méka must capture a king dragon, or die trying. |
Lynch, Christina | Pony Confidential | In this one-of-a-kind mystery with heart and humor, a hilariously grumpy pony must save the only human he's ever loved after discovering she stands accused of a murder he knows she didn't commit. |
Maniscalco, Kerri | Throne Of Secrets | Fantasy Romance - Prince of Sin #2 |
Margolin, Phillip | An Insignificant Case | Legal Thriller |
Marino, Andy | The Swarm | Horror |
Matthews, Mimi | The Muse Of Maiden Lane | Historical Romance - Bellese of London #4 |
May, Nikki | This Motherless Land | A reimagining of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park split between England and Nigeria. Two extraordinary cousins are set on vastly different paths as they come to terms with their shared family history. |
McIntire, Emily | Hexed | Romance - Never After #6 |
Mercedes, Sylvia | Bride Of The Shadow King | An outcast princess makes a political marriage with a reluctant king to save both their kingdoms. |
Meredith, Cathleen | Fat Girls Dance | The hilarious, irreverent, and poignant fictionalized story of how three fat girls accidentally started the "Year of Dance." |
Mesa, Desideria | Bindle Punk Jefe | Historical Fantasy - Bindle Punk #2 |
Minot, Susan | Don't Be A Stranger | Fiction |
Modesitt, L. E. | Overcaptain | Fantasy - Saga of Recluce #24 |
Montague, Anna | How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? | Fiction |
Mukasonga, Scholastique | Sister Deborah | Fiction |
Murakami, Haruki | The City And Its Uncertain Walls | Fiction |
Newlands, Tom | Only Here, Only Now | Fiction |
Okosun, Ehigbor | Exiled By Iron | Fantasy - Tainted Blood #2 |
Onoh, Nuzo | Where The Dead Brides Gather | A child in 1977 Nigeria ventures beyond the veil of death. |
Oyebanji, Adam | Two Times Murder | Mystery - Quiet Teacher #2 |
Parry, H. G. | The Scholar And The Last Faerie Door | All they needed to break the world was a door, and someone to open it. |
Pearson, Mary E. | The Courting Of Bristol Keats | Fantasy Romance |
Pek, Jane | The Rivals | Mystery - The Verifiers #2 |
Perry, Meghan | Water Finds A Way | Fiction |
Peterson, Tracie | A Truth Revealed | Christian Historical - Heart of Cheyenne #3 |
Pham, Jacquie | Those Opulent Days | A historical murder mystery centered around the glamor, violence, wealth, and opium of 1920's French-colonial Vietnam. |
Piper, Hailey | All The Hearts You Eat | Ivory's life changes irrevocably when she discovers the body of Cabrina Brite on the sands of Cape Morning, along with a mysterious poem. |
Price, Richard | Lazarus Man | Fiction |
Pyun, Hye-Young | To The Kennels: And Other Stories | Short Stories |
Qiu, Xiaolong | The Conspiracies Of The Empire | Historical Mystery - Judge Dee Investigation #2 |
Reich, Tova | Camp Jeff | An old New York Catskills hotel is converted into a Reeducation center for star #MeToo offenders. |
Reyes, Raquel V. | Dominoes, Danzón, And Death | Mystery - Caribbean Kitchen #4 |
Rieger, Susan | Like Mother, Like Mother | Fiction |
Riley, Lia | Puck & Prejudice | It is a truth universally acknowledged that a modern single man in possession of a hockey jersey may be exactly what a Regency woman needs to avoid the shackles of marriage... |
Robert, Katee | The Demon's Queen | Paranormal Romance - Deal with a Demon #5 |
Robins, Eden | Remember You Will Die | A search. A puzzle. Sixty protagonists--all of whom are dead. |
Robinson, Rebecca | The Serpent And The Wolf | Fantasy Romance |
Roux, Madeleine | Much Ado About Margaret | Historical Romance |
Roy, Nayantara | The Magnificent Ruins | A young Indian American book editor inherits her estranged family's ancestral home-and their long-buried secrets. |
Runyan, Aimie K., et. al | The Liberty Scarf | Historical Anthology |
Ryeo-Ryeong, Kim | The Trunk | Meet Noh Inji: almost thirty years old, with five wedding rings and counting, she's never once been in love. |
Sage, Lyla | Lost And Lassoed | Romance - Rebel Blue Ranch #3 |
Sanderson, Brandon | Wind And Truth | Fantasy - Stormlight Archive #5 |
Shine, A. M. | Stay In The Light | Horror - Watchers #2 |
Shinjo, Ko | Tokyo Swindlers | Thriller |
Silver, Elsie | The Front Runner | Romance - Gold Rush Ranch #3 |
Smith, Tiana | Mr. Nice Spy | Romance - My Spy #2 |
Smith, Wilbur A. | Fire On The Horizon | Historical - Courtney #24 and Ballantyne #7 |
St Clair, Scarlett | Apples Dipped In Gold | Fantasy Romance - Fairy Tale Retelling #2 |
Stephenson, Neal | Polostan | Historical Thriller - Bomb Light #1 |
Stevenson, Benjamin | Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret | Mystery - Ernest Cunningham #3 |
Strawser, Jessica | Catch You Later | One impulsive decision changes the lives of two best friends forever. |
Sullivan, Emily | Duchess Material | When her student goes missing, an independent bluestocking must seek the help of the arrogant duke who spurned her. |
Suri, Tasha | The Lotus Empire | Fantasy - Burning Kingdoms #3 |
Sutton, Lilli | Running Out Of Air | Thriller |
Synclaire, Kay | House Of Frank | A warm and hopeful story of a lonely witch consumed by grief who discovers a whimsical cast of characters in a magical arboretum--and the healing power of found family. |
Tierney, Marie | Deadly Animals | Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. |
Topp, Blacc | Tainted 3: The Finale | Urban Fiction |
Van Uden, Marissa | The Off-Season: An Anthology Of Coastal New Weird | Speculative Short Stories |
VanderMeer, Jeff | Absolution | Science Fiction - Southern Reach #4 |
Vasquez Gilliland, Raquel | Lightning In Her Hands | Gifted-or cursed-with the power to influence the weather, one woman must embrace her wild heart. |
Viswanathan, Padma | The Charterhouse Of Padma | Two women, living in America's heartland, unearth shocking secrets about the men they love and question the lives they chose. |
Wang, M. L. | Blood Over Bright Haven | The first woman ever admitted to a prestigious order of mages unravels a secret conspiracy that could change the practice of magic forever. |
Wang, Weike | Rental House | A marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations. |
Waters, Martha | Christmas Is All Around | Holiday Romance |
Wellington, David | Revenant-X | Science Fiction - Red Space #2 |
Wells, Emma C. | This Girl's A Killer | Cordelia Black loves exactly three things: her chosen family, her hairdresser (worth every penny plus tip), and killing bad men. |
Wilkens, Colby | If I Stopped Haunting You | An enemies to lovers romance where two feuding writers end up on a writers retreat together at a haunted castle in Scotland. |
Williams, Beatriz | The Author's Guide To Murder | Mystery |
Williams, Niall | Time Of The Child | Fiction |
Williams, Tad | The Navigator's Children | Fantasy - Last King of Osten Ard #4 |
Winters, Demi | The Road Of Bones | A woman fleeing a ruthless assassin accidentally joins forces with a group of mercenaries and must use all her cunning to escape with her life--and heart--intact. |
Yarros, Rebecca | Variation | Romance |
Zabalbeascoa, Julian | What We Tried To Bury Grows Here | A tale of survival, longing, and empathy, set during the Spanish Civil War. |
Death Comes at Christmas | Mystery Anthology |
October 2024
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Ajram, Sofia | Coup De Grâce | Horror |
Akella, Shastri | The Sea Elephants | Fiction - Coming of Age |
Akoto, Elom K. | Blindspot In America | Fiction |
Alexander, Tasha | Death By Misadventure | Historical Mystery - Lady Emily #18 |
Allen, Jayne | The Most Wonderful Time | Holiday |
Allison, Zoe | The Wedding Engagement | Romance |
Andrews, Donna | Rockin' Around the Chickadee | Mystery - Meg Langslow #36 |
Appelbaum, Lauren | Rachel Weiss's Group Chat | Romance |
Archer, Jeffrey | An Eye For An Eye | Mystery - William Warwick #7 |
Armentrout, Jennifer L. | Stone Cold Touch | Fantasy Romance - Dark Elements #2 |
Armstrong, Kelley | I'll Be Waiting | Horror |
Attenberg, Jami | A Reason To See You Again | Fiction |
August, Riley | The Last Gifts Of The Universe | A dying universe. A search for answers. An adventure at the end of a trillion lifetimes. |
B, Ira | Land Of Da Hooliganz 3: Against All Odds | Urban Fiction |
Bailey, Tessa | Window Shopping | Holiday Romance |
Baldacci, David | To Die For | Mystery - Travis Devine #3 |
Balson, Ronald H. | A Place To Hide | Historical Fiction |
Banville, John | The Drowned | Historical Mystery - Strafford and Quirke #4 |
Barnes, Djuna | I Am Alien To Life: Selected Stories | Classic Short Stories |
Baxter, Charles | Blood Test | A divorced Midwestern dad takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that he has a predisposition to murder. |
Bayard, Louis | The Wildes | In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his family have retreated to the idyllic Norfolk countryside for a holiday. |
Bayliss, Jenny | Kiss Me At Christmas | Holiday Romance |
Beaton, M. C. | Killing Time | Mystery - Agatha Raisin #35 |
Bedi, Aman J. | Kavithri | Outcast. Underdog. Survivor. |
Bediako, Esinam | Blood On The Brain | A young Ghanian American woman fights through a complicated quarter-life crisis. |
Beguelin, Chad | Showmance | A down-on-his-luck Broadway playwright is marooned in rural Illinois. |
Benedict, Alexandra | The Christmas Jigsaw Murders | Holiday Mystery |
Blake, Ashley Herring | Make The Season Bright | Two exes find themselves stuck at the same house for Christmas. |
Blue, Maame | The Rest Of You | A woman tries to uncover a foundational family secret from the childhood she does not remember. |
Boone, Georgia K. | I'll Be Gone For Christmas | A holiday house-swap rom-com debut in which finding yourself and finding love come hand in hand. |
Borgh, Kate van der | And He Shall Appear | Thriller |
Britton, Fiona | Violet Kelly And The Jade Owl | A centuries-old curse, a house of secrets and a young woman determined to find out the truth. For fans of Phryne Fisher. |
Broadbent, Carissa | Six Scorched Roses | Fantasy Romance - Crowns of Nyaxia #1.5 |
Brom | Evil In Me | Horror |
Bunn, Davis | The Christmas Cottage | Christian Fiction - Miramar Bay #9 |
Cardinal, Ann Dávila | We Need No Wings | To be free, we must learn to fly. |
Carter, Ally | The Most Wonderful Crime Of The Year | Holiday |
Chamberlain, Sarah | The Slowest Burn | Sometimes the perfect recipe just needs a little extra heat. |
Cherryh, C. J. and Jane S. Fancher | Alliance Unbound | Science Fiction - Hinder Stars #2 |
Child, Lee | In Too Deep | Thriller - Jack Reacher #29 |
Chouinard, Michelle M. | The Serial Killer Guide To San Francisco | Mystery |
Chronister, Kay | The Bog Wife | Five siblings in West Virginia unearth long-buried secrets when the supernatural bargain entwining their fate with their ancestral land is suddenly ruptured. |
Clark, Georgia | Most Wonderful | Holiday Romance |
Clarke, Ashlee | Bag Divas | These divas are determined to be success stories-failure is not an option! |
Coile, Mason | William | A haunted house story in which the haunting is by AI. |
Compton, Johnny | Devils Kill Devils | When all hell breaks loose, you need a devil on your side. |
Connelly, Michael | The Waiting | Mystery - Ballard and Bosch #6 |
Corporon, Yvette Manessis | Daughter Of Ruins | Historical Fiction |
Costa, Mariana | Shoestring Theory | Fantasy Romance |
Dahl, Julia | I Dreamed Of Falling | Thriller |
Dara, Maxie | A Grim Reaper's Guide To Catching A Killer | Murder is not her department. |
Dinniman, Matt | Carl's Doomsday Scenario | Fantasy - Dungeon Crawler Carl #2 |
Dixon, Ruby | Bull Moon Rising | In a world of magical artifacts and fantastical beings, a woman determined to save her family joins forces with an unlikely partner--a minotaur--in this steamy romantasy. |
Drake, Piper J. 1976- | Fangs So Bright & Deadly | Fantasy Romance - Mythwoven #2 |
El-Fassi, Nadia | Best Hex Ever | A kitchen witch with a penchant for baking and a (literally) cursed love life meets someone who's worth breaking a hex for. |
Elkin, Lauren | Scaffolding | Fiction - Multiple timelines |
Elliot, Amanda | Love You A Latke | Holiday Romance |
Emerson, Ramona | Exposure | Mystery - Rita Todacheene #2 |
Enriquez, Mariana | A Sunny Place For Shady People | Short Stories |
Falk-Allen, Francine | A Wolff In The Family | What mysterious scandals led a father to abandon the youngest of his children--and for the elder siblings to keep their shame secret for eighty years? |
Faubion, Rebekah | The Lovers | A second chance at love is in the cards for two women working a stylish California wedding. |
Fisher, Suzanne Woods | A Healing Touch | Christian Romance |
GauZ' | Comrade Papa | Mourning the recent deaths of his parents, a young white man in nineteenth-century France joins a colonial expedition attempting to establish trading routes on the Ivory Coast and finds himself caught between factions who disagree on everything--except their shared loathing of the British. |
Gilbert, Victoria | A Killer Clue | Cozy Mystery - Hunter and Clewe #2 |
Gladman, Renee | My Lesbian Novel | Fiction |
Goldberg, Lee | Ashes Never Lie | Mystery - Sharpe & Walker #2 |
Golden, Kate | A Reign Of Rose | Paranormal Romance - Sacred Stones #3 |
Graham, Heather | Legacy Of Blood | Romantic Suspense - Blackbird Files #3 |
Gray, Erick S. | Carl Weber's Kingpins: Queens 3 | Urban Fiction |
Greathead, Kate | The Book Of George | Fiction - Satire |
Greaves, Alyson | Welcome To Dorley Hall | What if the only way to fix toxic masculinity were to erase it entirely? |
Greyling, Asha | The Vampire Of Kings Street | Miss Radhika Dhingra, a newly minted lawyer in 19th century New York, never expected that her first client would be a vampire accused of murder. |
Griffiths, Elly | The Man In Black And Other Stories | Mystery Short Stories |
Grischow, Becca | I'll Get Back To You | Romance |
Haddon, Mark | Dogs And Monsters | Short Stories |
Hahn, Erin | Catch And Keep | Romance |
Hardy, Mina | Bitter Is The Heart | Haunted by childhood abuse, a woman is forced to care for her cruel elderly mother. |
Hariri-Kia, Iman | The Most Famous Girl In The World | Stars--they're just like us! Except much, much worse. |
Harrison, Margot | The Midnight Club | Science Fiction - Time Travel |
Hawk, Anne | The Pages Of The Sea | On a Caribbean island in the mid-1960s, a young girl copes with the heavy cost of migration. |
Hawkins, Paula | The Blue Hour | Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. |
Henderson, Alexis | An Academy For Liars | A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come from outside the classroom. |
Herrera, Yuri | Season Of The Swamp | Historical Fiction |
Hijuelos, Oscar | Mr. Ives' Christmas | A businessman struggles to restore his faith after his son is killed. |
Hill, Gerri | Jones | Romantic Suspense |
Hollinghurst, Alan | Our Evenings | Historical Fiction |
Holloway, Warren | The Crown Is Mine | Urban Fiction |
Holloway, Warren | The Crown Is Mine 2 | Urban Fiction |
Holloway, Warren | The Crown Is Mine 3 | Urban Fiction |
Howard, Amalie | The Worst Duke In London | Historical Romance - Taming of the Dukes #3 |
Hunter, Angel M. | Sister Girls: 20 Year Anniversary Edition | Urban Fiction |
J, Jahquel | Second Chance Christmas | Old flames are reunited with the burden of their past and a love that still lingers. |
James, Meka | Love And Sportsball | An uptight athletic trainer has one taboo night with a hot basketball player, but are they ready to play for what they really want? |
James, Tate | Anarchy | Romantic Suspense - Hades #2 |
James, Tate | Club 22 | Romantic Suspense - Hades #3 |
James, Tate | Timber | Romantic Suspense - Hades #4 |
Janovsky, Timothy | The Merriest Misters | Holiday Romance |
Jaramillo, Luis | The Witches Of El Paso | A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child. |
Johnsen, Kjersti Herland | Christmas At Glitter Peak Lodge | A cozy mystery set at a quaint family inn in the snowy mountains of Norway--structured as an advent calendar. |
Johnson, Jenica | It's Always That One Project Chick | Urban Fiction |
Johnson, T. C. | Still Can't Let Go: Mikayla's Story | Fiction |
Kashiwai, Hisashi | The Restaurant Of Lost Recipes | Cozy Mystery - Kamogawa Food Detectives #2 |
Kelley, Pamela M. | The Christmas Inn | Holiday |
Kelly, Julia | Betrayal At Blackthorn Park | Historical Mystery - Evelyne Redfern #2 |
Kennedy, Raven | Goldfinch | Fantasy Romance - Plated Prisoner #6 |
Khaw, Cassandra | Bells Hells--What Doesn't Break | Fantasy - Critical Role |
Khufu | Tender: Emotions Of A Kold Killa | The streets are about to find out that what's tender can quickly turn deadly. |
Killjoy, Margaret | The Sapling Cage | Epic Fantasy - Empty Throne #1 |
King, Crystal | In The Garden Of Monsters | A woman with no past. A man who seems to know her. And a monstrous garden that could be the border between their worlds... |
King, Luxury | The Level Up | Urban Fiction |
Klavan, Andrew | A Woman Underground | Mystery - Cameron Winter #4 |
Koontz, Dean R. | The Forest Of Lost Souls | Mystery |
Kurian, Afabwaje | Before The Mango Ripens | Set against the backdrop of 1970s Nigeria teetering between post-colonial dependency and self-rule. |
K'Wan | Black Godfather: The Black Death | Reuniting with members from his old army ranger unit, Grimm trades his war one war for another, turning his fury from enemies foreign to those domestic. |
Kwan, Katrina | The Last Dragon Of The East | Inspired by Chinese myths of ancient dragon gods and threads of fate, a fantasy debut is a propulsive adventure for fans of Sue Lynn Tan and Hannah Whitten. |
Lange, Nora | Us Fools | Fiction |
Leede, CJ | American Rapture | Science Fiction - Post-Apocalyptic |
Lerner, Betsy | Shred Sisters | Fiction - Coming of Age |
Levine, Jenna | My Vampire Plus-One | Paranormal Romance |
Liang, Ann | A Song To Drown Rivers | Her beauty hides a deadly purpose. |
Lim, Dominic | Karaoke Queen | A Filipino American man dusts off his internet-famous drag queen persona to help save his ex's karaoke bar. |
Loigman, Lynda Cohen | The Love Elixir Of Augusta Stern | Historical Fiction |
Lo-Life | Sex, Murder And God | Urban Fiction |
Lowell, Joanna | A Shore Thing | A queer Victorian love story featuring a boldly brash trans hero, the beguiling botanist who captures his heart, and a buoyant bicycle race by the British seaside. |
Lupica, Mike | Robert B. Parker's Hot Property | Mystery - Spenser #51 |
Macomber, Debbie | A Christmas Duet | Holiday Romance |
Malfi, Ronald | The Narrows | Horror |
Mallery, Susan | One Big Happy Family | Holiday Romance |
Manansala, Mia P. | Guilt And Ginataan | Mystery - Tita Rosie's Kitchen #5 |
Markert, James | Sleep Tight | The sole survivor of a serial killer might hold the key to stopping a new spree of murders. |
Marske, Freya | Swordcrossed | High heat. Low stakes. Sharp steel. |
Martian, Hannah | Long Time Gone | A family goes to drastic lengths to protect their version of the truth in this dual-timeline debut mystery. |
Martin, Celestine | Deja Brew | Paranormal Romance - Elemental Love #3 |
McCall Smith, Alexander | The Great Hippopotamus Hotel | Mystery - No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #25 |
McDermid, Val | Queen Macbeth | Historical Fiction |
McKay, Julia | The Holiday Honeymoon Switch | Romance |
McKinlay, Jenn | A Merry Little Murder Plot | Cozy Mystery - Library Lover's Mystery #15 |
Meadows, Jillian | Wreck My Plans | Holiday Romance |
Meesha | Embracing The Love Of A Boss | Urban Fiction |
Michaels, Fern | Santa's Secret | Romance - Santa's Crew #3 |
Michelle, T. | You Have Reached The Voice Mailbox Of… | Reagan thought she'd learned her lesson about falling for the wrong man, but fate had other plans. |
Mills, K. C. | Christmas In Spite Of You | A neat freak Scrooge and a Christmas-loving ball of chaos must coexist for a week. |
Miro, J. M. | Bringer Of Dust | Fantasy - Talents #2 |
Miura, Shion | Run With The Wind | Fiction - Sports |
Mizushima, Margaret | Gathering Mist | Mystery - Timber Creek K-9 #9 |
Moning, Karen Marie | The House At Watch Hill | A young woman moves to Divinity, Louisiana, to inherit a large fortune and a Gothic mansion full of mysteries and ominous secrets. |
Murphy, Julie, and Sierra Simone | A Jingle Bell Mingle | Romance - Christmas Notch #3 |
Murray, James S. | You Better Watch Out | Thriller |
Myers, Tamar | The Mermaid Mystery | In a small seaside town, something fishy's going on . . . |
Nai | Yours For The Taking | Amiko and Ming are twin sisters struggling to keep their heads above water. |
Nguyen, Nora | Adam & Evie's Matchmaking Tour | To inherit her aunt's San Francisco row house, she must go on a pre-arranged matchmaking tour in Vietnam |
Noble, Shelley | The Colony Club | Historical Fiction |
Novik, Naomi | Buried Deep: And Other Stories | Fantasy Short Stories |
Nugent, Richard Bruce | Gentleman Jigger | A novel of the Harlem Renaissance, reissued. |
Palumbo, Suzan | Countess | A queer Caribbean Count of Monte Cristo in which a betrayed captain is set on a journey of revenge against the interplanetary empire that has subjugated her people for generations. |
Pargin, Jason | I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom | Science Fiction |
Patel, Esha | Offtrack | Formula One meets The Hating Game in this rivals-to-lovers romance between a legacy driver and F1's first woman driver. |
Patterson, James | The House Of Cross | Thriller - Alex Cross #30 |
Patterson, James, and Emily Raymond | Raised By Wolves | Thriller |
Peñaranda, Chloe C. | The Stars Are Dying | The brightest star needs the darkest night. |
Pullen, Nicholas | The Black Hunger | Horror |
Pyae Moe Thet War | I Did Something Bad | A journalist and a movie star find themselves teaming up to cover up a murder...and falling for each other in the process. |
Quinn, Meghan | How My Neighbor Stole Christmas | Holiday Romance |
Raasch, Sara | The Nightmare Before Kissmas | The golden-hearted Prince of Christmas falls for the totally off-limits Prince of Halloween. |
Rae, Honour | All The Skills: A Deck-Building Litrpg | For a boy coming of age and discovering a magical self-reliance and new powers for every occasion, the future is in the cards. |
Rankin, Ian | Midnight And Blue | Mystery - Inspector Rebus #25 |
Rekulak, Jason | The Last One At The Wedding | Thriller |
Reynders, Cindy Keen | Huckleberry Homicide | Mystery |
Richman, Alyson | The Time Keepers | Historical Fiction |
Riley, Vanessa | Murder In Berkeley Square | Historical Mystery - Lady Worthing #3 |
Rio, M. L. | Graveyard Shift | Every night, in the college's ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the college paper, always in search of a story. |
Rivera, Lilliam | Tiny Threads | A young woman gets her dream job working for a famous designer--and discovers the dark side of high-stakes fashion. |
Robbins, Rachel | The Sound Of A Thousand Stars | Historical Fiction |
Roberts, Amber | Haunt Your Heart Out | Paranormal Romance |
Roberts, Nora | The Mirror | Paranormal Romance - Lost Bride #2 |
Robson, Cecy | Bloodguard | One hundred years. Tens of thousands of gladiators. And today, only one will rise... |
Rose, Ann | The Seemingly Impossible Love Life Of Amanda Dean | It's her wedding day and it'll be the happiest day of her life...won't it? |
Rosen, Lev AC | Rough Pages | Historical Mystery - Evander Mills #3 |
Rosenfelt, David | The More The Terrier | Mystery - Andy Carpenter #30 |
Runya Katz, Rachel | Whenever You're Ready | After reconnecting on a road trip, two friends must decide if love is the ultimate risk worth taking. |
Ryan, Tom | The Treasure Hunters Club | A murder mystery set in a seaside town filled with pirate lore, family secrets, unforgiveable grudges, secret societies, and a treasure lost to time. |
Sandeen, Del | This Cursed House | A young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: they're under a curse, and they think she can break it. |
Santana, Dg | Standing On Her Business 2 | Urban Fiction |
Sawyer, Sarah | The Undercurrent | Thriller |
Shane, Charity | A Novel Christmas | A prominent romance author has a slump in her love life and book sales, but a chance encounter with a hot firefighter helps her reignite her muse. |
Shawl, Nisi | The Day And Night Books Of Mardou Fox | A long forgotten Beat poet brought back to life in fantastical fashion. |
Sherri, Johnni | Heartbreak U: Summer Vacation | Fiction |
Sims, Tnesha | A Thug's First Lady: Make The Dope Boys Go Crazy | Urban Fiction |
Sims, Tnesha | A Thug's First Lady 2: Make The Dope Boys Go Crazy | Urban Fiction |
Sivinski, Stacy | The Crescent Moon Tearoom | Three clairvoyant sisters face an unexpected twist of Fate at the bottom of their own delicate porcelain cups. |
Smith, Kaylie | Phantasma | Welcome to Phantasma. There are only two rules to the game: Stay alive. And don't fall in love. |
Solomon, Rivers | Model Home | The Maxwell siblings return to their childhood home in the Dallas suburbs after the shocking news of their parents' death to find the house, and the family itself, haunted by strange, inexplicable terrors. |
Sotolongo, Pascha | The Only Sound Is The Wind | Short Stories |
Stalls, B. | Get It In Slugs | Urban Fiction |
Stayman-London, Kate | Fang Fiction | She's out for adventure. He's out for blood. |
Steel, Danielle | Trial By Fire | Romance |
Stein, Charlotte | How To Help A Hungry Werewolf | Romance - Sanctuary for Supernatural Creatures #1 |
Tchaikovsky, Adrian | Alien Clay | A political prisoner must unlock the secrets of a strange and dangerous planet. |
Thayne, RaeAnne | The December Market | Romance - Shelter Springs #2 |
Thorne, Rebecca | A Pirate's Life For Tea | Fantasy Romance - Tomes & Tea #2 |
Tokarczuk, Olga | The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story | Set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, this novel probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas. |
Trabucco Zerán, Alia | Clean | Fiction |
Trussoni, Danielle | The Puzzle Box | Mystery - Mike Brink #2 |
Urquhart, Alaina | The Butcher Game | Mystery - Dr. Wren #2 |
Vinci, Ray | Betrayal Of A G | Growing up in Carson Homes, one of the most ruthless hoods on the eastside of San Antonio, Peanut has seen it all. |
Vo, Nghi | The City In Glass | A demon. An angel. A city. |
Vromen, Galina | Hill Of Secrets | In a desert outpost, nuclear scientists and their families face the toll of the secrets they keep from the world and from each other. |
Waggoner, C. M. | The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society | A librarian with a knack for solving murders soon realizes there is something supernatural afoot in her little town. |
Walters, Jacquie | Dearest | A new mom in need of help opens her door to her long-estranged mother--only to invite something much darker inside. |
Wetsel, Laura | Burnt Ends | Private Investigator Tori Swenson suspects her uncle of killing her father and stealing his barbeque drive-in empire, but her hunt for the truth and for revenge takes a sinister turn when her uncle is murdered. |
White, J. | Hub City Menace | When Mecia, a loving and caring, single mother of four falls ill and is unable to provide for her family as she always has, she turns to her eldest son, Jax, to help carry the load that life has dropped down on her shoulders. |
Wise, P. | A Thug Made For Me | Indigo Taylor-Anderson thought she had it all - until her husband's betrayal shattered her world. |
Wrobel, Stephanie | The Hitchcock Hotel | A Hitchcock fanatic with an agenda invites old friends for a weekend stay at his secluded themed hotel. |
Yu, Youyou | Invisible Kitties | A young couple's daily life is disrupted by their newly adopted cat, who soon initiates them into the wondrous world of felines. |
Yvonne, S. | Never Leave: The Story Of Knowledge Toussaint | You have to 'know' the 'ledge', so you don't fall off of it. Knowledge is power. |
Yvonne, S. | Never Leave 2 | Urban Fiction |
Yvonne, S. | Never Leave 3 | Urban Fiction |
September 2024
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Akumiah, H. B. | Bad Witches | Three young women discover the unbelievable: they're witches, and their newfound magic may be the key to saving the world. |
Alam, Rumaan | Entitlement | Brooke wants. She isn't in need, but there are things she wants. |
Alban, Emma R. | You're The Problem, It's You | Historical Romance - Mischief & Matchmaking #2 |
Andrews, Donna | Between A Flock And A Hard Place | Cozy Mystery - Meg Langslow #35 |
Ashe, Lucy | The Sleeping Beauties | Late spring 1945, London: The war in Europe is over. But for Briar Woods, a dancer at Sadler's Wells Ballet, the past resurfaces and she must come face to face with the truth. |
Asher, Lauren | Collided | Romance - Dirty Air #2 |
Ashing-Giwa, Kemi | This World Is Not Yours | There's more than one way to be eaten alive. |
Atkinson, Kate | Death At The Sign Of The Rook | Mystery - Jackson Brodie #6 |
Balibrera, Gina María | The Volcano Daughters | A debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide--which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco's Cannery Row. |
Barton, Fiona | Talking To Strangers | Mystery - Elise King #2 |
Bell, Alice | Displeasure Island | Mystery - Grave Expectations #2 |
Bentley, Don | Vince Flynn Capture Or Kill | Thriller - Mitch Rapp #23 |
Bickers, Tessa | The Book Swap | Romance |
Bieker, Chelsea | Madwoman | Clove has gone to extremes to keep her past a secret. |
Bivald, Katarina | The Murders In Great Diddling | Author Berit Gardner has writer's block. On impulse, she buys a cottage in the village of Great Diddling in Cornwall, suspecting there are stories and characters there. |
Bradley, Alan | What Time The Sexton's Spade Doth Rust | Historical Mystery - Flavia de Luce #11 |
Brennan, Sarah Rees | Long Live Evil | When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain that lets her enter the world of her favorite fantasy series. |
Brown, Amber and Danielle | Zetas Till We Die | Sisters…for life. |
Brown, Lauren Ling | Society Of Lies | How far would you go to belong? |
Burke, Andie | Fall For Him | Apartment-neighbors Dylan and Derek find themselves temporarily sharing a tiny apartment after Dylan falls through Derek's roof. |
Burke, Katherine Packert | Still Life | Everything in Edith's life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead. |
Burns, Edward | A Kid From Marlboro Road | Fiction - Coming of Age |
Campbell, Cebo | Sky Full Of Elephants | In a world without white people, what does it mean to be Black? |
Child, Lee | Safe Enough | Crime Short Stories |
Ciesielski, J'Nell | The Winged Tiara | Historical Fiction |
Cleeves, Ann | The Dark Wives | Mystery - Vera Stanhope #11 |
Constable, Harriet | The Instrumentalist | Anna Maria della Pietà was destined to drown in one of Venice's canals. Instead, she became the greatest violinist of the 18th century. |
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels | Identity Unknown | Mystery - Kay Scarpetta #28 |
Croft, Rachel Koller | We Love The Nightlife | Locked in a toxic female friendship, two vampires careen toward catastrophe. |
Daré, Abi | And So I Roar | When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother and her aunt, the repercussions will send her on a quest to uncover a secret her mother has been hiding for nearly two decades. |
Dave, Laura | The Night We Lost Him | When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was. |
Deaver, Jeffery, and Isabella Maldonado | Fatal Intrusion | As a wave of murders grips Southern California, an unlikely pair must untangle the mysterious patterns of an elusive killer. First in a new series. |
Desai, Sara | 'Til Heist Do Us Part | Romantic Suspense - Simi Chopra #2 |
Despentes, Virginie | Dear Dickhead | Fiction |
Dinniman, Matt | Dungeon Crawler Carl | Welcome, Crawler. Welcome to the Dungeon. Survival is optional. Keeping the viewers entertained is not. |
Downes, Anna | Red River Road | Thriller |
Eason, Lynette | Target Acquired | Christian Suspense - Lake City Heroes #2 |
El-Arifi, Saara | The Ending Fire | Fantasy - Ending Fire #3 |
Emezie, Chinenye | Born In A House Of Glass | Fiction |
Enright, K. M. | Mistress Of Lies | A villainous, bloodthirsty heroine finds herself plunged into the dangerous world of power, politics and murder in the court of the vampire king. |
Erdrich, Louise | The Mighty Red | In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding. |
Fordham, Rachel | Beyond Ivy Walls | Christian Historical |
Francis, Felix | Syndicate | Mystery - Dick Francis #13 |
Gaylin, Alison | Robert B. Parker's Buzz Kill | Mystery - Sunny Randall #12 |
Gilmore, Laurie | The Cinnamon Bun Book Store | Romance - Dream Harbor #2 |
Glenn, Roy | When It's Over | Urban Fiction - Mike Black #41 |
Goines, Donald | Daddy Cool | 50th anniversary edition. |
Gong, Chloe | Vilest Things | Fantasy Romance - Flesh & False Gods #2 |
Gould, Leslie | By Evening's Light | Christian Fiction - Amish Memories #3 |
Grace, Hannah | Daydream | Romance - The Maple Hills #3 |
Greenwell, Garth | Small Rain | Fiction |
Greer, Helena | Hers For The Weekend | Romance - Carrigan's Christmasland #3 |
Guasch, Pol | Napalm In The Heart | In a deserted village, an unnamed young man waits for an opportunity to escape. |
Haig, Matt | The Life Impossible | When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. |
Hall, Alexis J. | Confounding Oaths | Fantasy Romance - Mortal Follies #2 |
Hallett, Janice | The Examiner | Thriller |
Hamya, Jo | The Hypocrite | Fiction |
Hannah, Darci | A Fatal Feast At Bramsford Manor | First in a new series set at a haunted English manor and featuring chef Bunny MacBride, whose big break on her first reality TV show may be cut short by an unscripted murder. |
Harper, Lana | Rise And Divine | Paranormal Romance - Witches of Thistle Grove #5 |
Harrison, Rachel | So Thirsty | A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes. |
Hawley, Sarah | A Werewolf's Guide To Seducing A Vampire | Paranormal Romance - Glimmer Falls #3 |
Hildur Knútsdóttir | The Night Guest | A woman with constant fatigue wonders what is happening when she's asleep? Why is she waking up with increasingly disturbing injuries? And why won't anyone believe her? |
Hoag, Tami | Bad Liar | Mystery - Broussard and Fourcade #3 |
Hopkinson, Nalo | Blackheart Man | The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within. |
Hopson, Carole | A Pair Of Wings | Novel inspired by the true life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who learned to fly at the dawn of aviation and found freedom in the air. |
Hough, Julianne | Everything We Never Knew | Fiction |
Hunt, La Jill | No More Drama: 20th Anniversary Edition | Urban Fiction |
Hunter, Denise | Before We Were Us | Christian Romance |
Jackson, Brenda | The Cottage On Pelican Bay | Romance - Catalina Cove #7 |
Jackson, Curtis | The Accomplice | As the first Black female Texas Ranger, Nia Adams knows the dangers of the job and the politics, but she's never encountered a criminal like Desmond Bell. |
James, Tate | 7th Circle | Romance - Hades #1 |
Jance, Judith A. | Den Of Iniquity | Mystery - J.P. Beaumont #23 |
Jansma, Kristopher | Our Narrow Hiding Places | An elderly woman recounts her Dutch family's survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations. |
Johansen, Iris | On The Hunt | Kira Drake has come to Paris with her highly trained Golden Retriever, Mack, to investigate the horrific bombing of a museum in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. First in a new series. |
Johnston, Anna | The Borrowed Life Of Frederick Fife | A case of mistaken identity allows a lonely old man one last chance to be part of a family. |
Jones, Gayl | Unicorn Woman | Fiction |
Kawakami, Hiromi | Under The Eye Of The Big Bird | Speculative Fiction |
Khorram, Adib | I'll Have What He's Having | A romance about mistaken identities, a no-strings fling, and the way one night--and one person--can change your life forever. |
Kinsella, Sophie | What Does It Feel Like? | Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. |
Klune, T.J. | Somewhere Beyond The Sea | Fantasy - Cerulean Chronicles #2 |
Korelitz, Jean Hanff | The Sequel | Thriller - Book #2 |
Krueger, William Kent | Spirit Crossing | Mystery - Cork O'Connor #20 |
Kushner, Rachel | Creation Lake | A thirty-four-year-old American woman--a secret agent--is sent to do dirty work in France. |
K'Wan | Passion For The Heist | A crime would bring them together, grief would bind them and love would make them famous. |
Ladd, Sarah E. | The Cloverton Charade | A long-held family feud reignites when two rival antiquities brokers arrive at the same house party in Regency England. |
Lagercrantz, David | Fatal Gambit | Mystery - Rekke #2 |
Lalli, S. C. | The Plus One | Mystery |
Leow, Amy | The Scarlet Throne | Fantasy - False Goddess #1 |
Locke, Attica | Guide Me Home | Mystery - Highway 59 #3 |
Lord, Emma | The Break-Up Pact | Romance |
Maclean, S. A. | The Phoenix Keeper | Fantasy Romance |
Maden, Mike | Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier | Thriller - Oregon Files #18 |
Madison, Shawntelle | The Fallen Fruit | A woman travels through time to end a family curse that has plagued her ancestors for generations. |
Maehrer, Hannah Nicole | Apprentice To The Villain | Fantasy Romance - Assistant and the Villain #2 |
Marlowe, Mallory | Love And Other Conspiracies | The hardest thing for a paranormal conspiracy theorist and a web series producer to believe in is finding love. |
Martin, Madeline | The Booklover's Library | Historical Fiction |
Maxwell, Jessa | I Need You To Read This | An advice columnist searches for answers about her predecessor's murder. |
McFadden, Freida | The Boyfriend | She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim. |
McGill-Vargas, Michelle | American Ghoul | You can't kill someone who's already dead. |
McKeegan, Colleen | Rip Tide | Thriller |
Mellors, Coco | Blue Sisters | Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death. |
Meltzer, Jean | Magical Meet Cute | Is he the real deal...or did she truly summon a golem? |
Michaels, Fern | Backwater Justice | Romantic Suspense - Sisterhood #36 |
Miller, Kristyn J. | Given Our History | Romance |
Mochizuki, Mai | The Full Moon Coffee Shop | In a coffee shop run by talking cats, customers have the opportunity to discover where their lives veered off course. |
Moriarty, Liane | Here One Moment | Life is full of twists and turns you never see coming. But what if you did? |
Nao, Vi Khi | The Italy Letters | Fiction - Epistolary |
Nasrallah, Dimitri | Hotline | A love letter to the 1980s and one woman's struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration. |
Naudé, S. J. | Fathers And Fugitives | Fiction |
Newman, Nathan | How to Leave the House | Fiction - Humorous |
Newman, T. J. | Worst Case Scenario | Thriller |
Nix, Susannah | Dating and Other Theories | Romance - Chemistry Lessons #2 |
Ogawa, Yōko | Mina's Matchbox | Fiction - Coming of Age |
Okorafor, Nnedi | She Who Knows | When there is a call, there is often a response. Najeeba knows. |
Osman, Richard | We Solve Murders | A brand new mystery. An iconic new detective duo. And a thrilling new murder to solve. |
Owen, Abigail | The Games Gods Play | Fantasy Romance |
Palit, Aurora | Sunshine And Spice | When two complete opposites agree to fake date in order to solve their cultural dilemmas, they find the only force more powerful than an immigrant mother's matchmaking schemes might just be true love. |
Patterson, James | Lies He Told Me | Thriller |
Patterson, James | Murder Island | Thriller |
Pedersen, Kailee | Sacrificial Animals | Horror |
Penny, Louise | The Grey Wolf | Mystery - Chief Inspector Gamache #19 |
Peynado, Brenda | Time's Agent | What would you do, given another universe, a do-over? |
Pinsker, Sarah | Haunt Sweet Home | On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality. |
Powers, Richard | Playground | Fiction |
Prose, Nita | The Mistletoe Mystery | Mystery - Molly the Maid #2.5 |
Puyana, Alejandro | Freedom Is A Feast | The story of a family shaped by Venezuela's tumultuous history during the Cold War and early 21st century. |
Quartey, Kwei | The Whitewashed Tombs | Mystery - Emma Djan #4 |
Ragnar Jónasson | Death At The Sanatorium | Mystery |
Rao, Ruthvika | The Fertile Earth | Historical Fiction |
Rege, Devika | Quarterlife | A groundbreaking portrait of a nation on the cusp of a new age. |
Reid, Ava | Lady Macbeth | A reimagining of Shakespeare's most famous villainess. |
Rendon, Marcie R. | Where They Last Saw Her | An Ojibwe community organizer investigates the disappearances of two Indigenous women. |
Rivera, K Arsenault | Oath Of Fire | Fantasy Romance |
Robb, J. D. | Passions In Death | Mystery - Eve Dallas #59 |
Robert, Katee | Dark Restraint | Fantasy Romance - Dark Olympus #7 |
Roffey, Monique | Passiontide | When a female musician is found murdered on a small tropical island, after a string of similar deaths, outraged local women take matters into their own hands. |
Rollins, James | Arkangel | Thriller - Sigma Force #18 |
Rooney, Sally | Intermezzo | Fiction |
Rosson, Keith | The Devil By Name | Horror - Fever House #2 |
Rumble, Taylor-Dior | The Situationship | More than friends. Less than official. Definitely complicated. |
Runyan, Aimie K. | Mademoiselle Eiffel | Historical Fiction |
Sagara, Michelle | Cast In Atonement | Fantasy - Chronicles of Elantra #19 |
Score, Lucy | No More Secrets | Romance - Blue Moon #1 |
Score, Lucy | Fall Into Temptation | Romance - Blue Moon #2 |
Senna, Danzy | Colored Television | Jane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. |
Shafak, Elif | There Are Rivers In The Sky | Three characters separated by geography and time are united by a single raindrop. |
Shah, Mansi | A Good Indian Girl | Life's more fun when you ditch the recipe. |
Sharma, Nisha | Marriage & Masti | Romance - If Shakespeare Were an Auntie #3 |
Shen, L. J. | Truly Madly Deeply | This old flame just might set them on fire. |
Shore, Shelly Jay | Rules For Ghosting | To save his family's failing funeral home--and his own chance at a queer love story--a reluctant clairvoyant must embrace the gift he long ignored. |
Silver, Elsie | Wild Eyes | Romance - Rose Hill #2 |
Simone, Naima | Played | Romance |
Soria, Destiny | The Cottage Around The Corner | Fantasy Romance |
Souljah Sister | Love After Midnight | Urban Fiction - Winter Santiaga #3 |
St John, Yahrah | Going Toe To Toe | Romance - Six Gems #5 |
Stage, Zoje | Dear Hanna | Hanna is no stranger to dark thoughts: as a young child, she tried to murder her own mother. |
Steel, Danielle | Triangle | Fiction |
Stewart, Andrea | The Gods Below | Two sisters clash on opposite sides of a war against the gods. |
Stokes-Chapman, Susan | The Shadow Key | On an isolated estate in late-eighteenth-century rural Wales, a young English doctor uncovers dangerous secrets that may threaten his own life. |
Strout, Elizabeth | Tell Me Everything | Fiction |
Sutanto, Jesse Q. | You Will Never Be Me | When cracks start forming in an influencer's curated life, she finds out that jealousy is just as viral as a video. |
Swann, Leonie | Agnes Sharp And The Trip Of A Lifetime | Mystery - Agnes Sharp #2 |
Syou, Ishida | We'll Prescribe You a Cat | A cat a day keeps the doctor away... |
Tirado, Vincent | We Came To Welcome You | A married couple moves into a gated "community" that slowly creeps into a pervasive dread. |
Tracy, P. J. | City Of Secrets | Mystery - Detective Margaret Nolan #4 |
Virdi, R. R. | The Doors Of Midnight | Fantasy - Tales of Tremaine #2 |
Walter, Heather | The Crimson Crown | Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the greatest villain of them all? Snow White's dark queen tells her side of the story. |
Weber, Carl, and C.N. Phillips | New Orleans | Urban Fiction - Family Business #7 |
White, Frances | Voyage Of The Damned | A murder mystery on a ship full of magical passengers. |
White, Kiersten | Lucy Undying | A vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on her own search for self-discovery and true love. |
Woods, Harper L. | The Cursed | Fantasy Romance - Coven of Bones #2 |
Woodward, M. P. | Tom Clancy Shadow State | Thriller - Jack Ryan, Jr. #12 |
Yasauni | Autumn: A Twist Of Fate | Urban Fiction |
August 2024
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Adams, Sarah | The Enemy | Romance - It Happened in Charleston #2 |
Adams, Sarah | The Match | Romance - It Happened in Charleston #1 |
Adams, Tranay | Money Hungry Demons 2 | Urban Fiction |
Afia, Nekesa | A Lethal Lady | Historical Mystery - Harlem Renaissance #3 |
Alameda, Courtney | War Of The Scaleborn | Fantasy - World of Warcraft |
Alderson, Kaia | In A League Of Her Own | An ambitious Harlem woman's husband upends her social climbing when he buys a Negro Leagues baseball team and appoints her as the team's business manager. |
Alison, Jane | Villa E | Two brilliant architects clash over the fate of a luxurious villa. |
Anderson, Leslie | The Unmothers | A journalist sent to a small town begins to unravel a dark secret that the women of the town have been keeping for generations. |
Anderson, M. T. | Nicked | Historical Fantasy |
Armentrout, Jennifer L. | Born Of Blood And Ash | Paranormal Romance - Flesh and Fire #4 |
Armstrong, Kelley | Finding Mr. Write | A romantic comedy about a woman writing under a male pseudonym and the man she hires to play the role in public. |
Asher, Lauren | Love Unwritten | Romance - Lakefront Billionaires #2 |
Asher, Lauren | Throttled | Romance - Dirty Air #1 |
Askaripour, Mateo | This Great Hemisphere | A young woman--invisible by birth and relegated to second-class citizenship--sets off on a mission to find her older brother, whom she had presumed dead but who is now the primary suspect in a high-profile political murder. |
Atkins, Ace | Don't Let The Devil Ride | A Memphis woman hires a PI to find her missing husband, only to discover that he is involved in a dangerous web of international intrigue--and she and her children are now at risk. |
Awoke, Uchenna | The Liquid Eye Of A Moon | Fiction - Coming of Age |
B, Ira | Land Of Da Hooliganz 2 | Urban Fiction |
Bacigalupi, Paolo | Navola | A sweeping historical fantasy about the young scion from a ruling-class family who faces rebellion as he ascends to power. |
Ballingrud, Nathan | The Strange | Alternative History |
Baltasar, Eva | Mammoth | Fiction |
Bamford, Emma | Eye Of The Beholder | When Maddy Wight is hired to ghostwrite the memoir of world-renowned cosmetic surgeon Dr. Angela Reynolds, she thinks it might just be her chance to get her career back on track. |
Bannen, Megan | The Undermining Of Twyla And Frank | Fantasy Romance - Hart and Mercy #2 |
Banta, Isabel | Honey | A coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in the late-90s and early-2000s era of pop music superstardom. |
Belardes, Nicholas | The Deading | Stephen King's Under the Dome meets The Last of Us in this harrowing dystopian novel about the downward spiral of a seaside town that becomes infected by a mysterious ocean-borne contagion. |
Bellezza, Audrey | Elizabeth Of East Hampton | Romance - For the Love of Austen #2 |
Benavent, Elísabet | A Perfect Story | Romance |
Berenson, Laurien | Peg And Rose Play The Ponies | Cozy Mystery - Peg and Rose #3 |
Berry, Flynn | Trust Her | Thriller |
Billingham, Mark | The Wrong Hands | Mystery - Detective Miller #2 |
Black, Juneau | Summers End | Cozy Mystery - Shady Hollow #5 |
Black, Juneau | Twilight Falls | Cozy Mystery - Shady Hollow #4 |
Blumberg, Chandra | Second Tide's The Charm | When two marine biologists with a complicated history are thrown together on a shark study broadcast over social media, it's anything but smooth sailing. |
Bockoven, Mike | Fantasticland | Mystery |
Bodard, Aliette de | Navigational Entanglements | Science Fiction Romance |
Bowen, Rhys | The Rose Arbor | London: 1968. Liz Houghton is languishing as an obituary writer at a London newspaper when a young girl's disappearance captivates the city. |
Brackston, Paula | The Haunting Of Hecate Cavendish | Historical Fantasy |
Brenner, Jamie | A Novel Summer | Romance |
Brew-Hammond, Nana Ekua | My Parents' Marriage | Fiction - Generational |
Brickman, Sophie | Plays Well With Others | Fiction |
Briggs, Patricia | Winter Lost | Urban Fantasy - Mercy Thompson #14 |
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy | Long Island Compromise | Fiction - Satire |
Brunstetter, Wanda E. | The Protector | Amish Romance |
Bryant, Elise | It's Elementary | A mystery about what happens when parents get a little too involved in their kids' schools. |
Bryce, Denny S. | The Trial Of Mrs. Rhinelander | Historical Fiction |
Buba, Gabriella | Saints Of Storm And Sorrow | In this Filipino-inspired fantasy debut, a bisexual nun hiding a goddess-given gift is unwillingly transformed into a lightning rod for her people's struggle against colonization. |
Buehlman, Christopher | The Daughters' War | Fantasy - Blacktongue Thief #2 |
Burns, Valerie | A Cup Of Flour, A Pinch Of Death | Cozy Mystery - Baker Street #3 |
Butler, Halle | Banal Nightmare | Fiction - Satire |
Byron, Ellen | A Very Woodsy Murder | First in a new mystery series featuring a sitcom writer who has left of the familiar comforts in Studio City and moved to the quaint village of Foundgold to run a motel. |
Callaghan, Jo | In The Blink Of An Eye | Mystery - Kat and Lock #1 |
Carey, M. R. | Echo Of Worlds | Science Fiction - Pandominion #2 |
Carr, Jack | Red Sky Mourning | Thriller - Terminal List #7 |
Carver, Caro | Bad Tourists | Thriller |
Cate, Sara | Highest Bidder | Romance - Salacious Players' Club #5 |
Cate, Sara | Madame | Romance - Salacious Players' Club #6 |
Cavar | Failure To Comply | How far would you go to have real freedom? |
Chandrasekera, Vajra | Rakesfall | Science Fiction - Time Travel |
Chavez, Heather | What We'll Burn Last | Two entangled families in a California neighborhood must race to find answers about a missing teen as a wildfire crackles to life nearby. |
Cherryh, C. J. | Defiance | Science Fiction - Foreigner #22 |
Chevalier, Tracy | The Glassmaker | Historical Fiction |
Childs, Laura | Peach Tea Smash | Cozy Mystery - Tea Shop #28 |
Cho, Zen | Friend Zone Experiment | From the outside, Renee Goh's life looks perfect. |
Choe, Jeannie | Best I Never Had | Romance |
Clark, P. Djèlí | The Dead Cat Tail Assassins | The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly dead. |
Clipston, Amy | Finding You | Romance |
Cobb, May | The Hollywood Assistant | Offered a dream job in Hollywood with a famous director and his actress wife, an insecure woman becomes their personal assistant where their secrets and lies place her in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. |
Coble, Colleen | What We Hide | Christian Suspense |
Colgan, Jenny | Close Knit | Fiction |
Condie, Ally | The Unwedding | Mystery |
Connealy, Mary | Toward The Dawn | Christian Historical - Western Light #2 |
Corey, James S. A. | The Mercy Of God | First in a new science fiction series by the authors of the Expanse series. |
Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla | Catalina | Catalina is trying to work out her own life as she leaves her undocumented family behind to enter Harvard. |
Coryell, Tasha | Love Letters To A Serial Killer | An aimless young woman starts writing to an accused serial killer while he awaits trial and then, once he's acquitted, decides to move in with him and take the investigation into her own hands. |
Cusk, Rachel | Parade | Fiction |
Dailey, Janet | Calder Country | Romance - Calder Brand #4 |
Dawson, Juno | Queen B | Urban Fantasy - HMRC #0.5 |
Day, Jamie | One Big Happy Family | Thriller |
De la Cruz, Melissa | The Five Stages Of Courting Dalisay Ramos | Romance |
Delany, Vicki | Trouble Is Brewing | Cozy Mystery - Tea by the Sea #5 |
Devore, Laurie | The Villain Edit | A cynical romance novelist goes on a reality show to revive her career, only to discover that while she may have just met the love of her life, the producers have turned her into the show's villain. |
DiLouie, Craig | How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive | A famous 80s slasher director set out to shoot the most terrifying horror movie ever made using an occult camera that might be (and probably is) demonic. |
Dimova, Genoveva | Foul Days | Fantasy - Witch's Compendium of Monsters #1 |
Divine, L. | An Epitaph For Jezebel | An Atlanta reporter investigates the gruesome ritualistic murder of a dancer at the female-owned strip club where she herself worked years before. |
Dixon, Phyllis R. | A Taste For More | Fiction - Generational |
Dixon, Ruby | Bound To The Shadow Prince | Fantasy Romance |
Dodd, Christina | A Daughter Of Fair Verona | The eldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet rejects the betrothal planned by her parents and tries to find the groom-to-be a more suitable bride. |
Doiron, Paul | Pitch Dark | Mystery - Mike Bowditch #15 |
Dolby, Thomas | Prevailing Wind | Historical Fiction |
Douglas, Penelope | Five Brothers | Romance |
Duncan, Emmeline | Chaos At The Lazy Bones Bookshop | First in a new mystery series set in a year-round Halloween-themed town. |
Durst, Sarah Beth | The Spellshop | A librarian and her sentient houseplant flee a revolution and find hope and community in this cozy romantic fantasy. |
Ellis, David | The Best Lies | Thriller |
Erlingsson, Jenny | Her Part To Play | Romance |
Espach, Alison | The Wedding People | Fiction |
Estleman, Loren D. | Iron Star | Western |
Fawkes, Jen | Daughters Of Chaos | An epic novel about Civil War-era Nashville's "public women," an age-old secret society, and the earth-shaking power of the female. |
Ferguson, Lana | The Game Changer | Romance |
Fields, Anthony | If You Cross Me Once 5 | Urban Fiction |
Finger, Bobby | Four Squares | Fiction |
Frazier, Soma Mei Sheng | Off The Books | Recent Dartmouth dropout Mei, in search of a new direction in life, drives a limo to make ends meet. |
Freeman, Brian | Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Shadow | Thriller - Jason Bourne #19 |
Gallon, Michael | The Murder Queens 6 : A Few Minutes 2 Late | Urban Fiction |
Gamez, Gabriella | The Next Best Fling | Romance - Librarians in Love #1 |
Garcia Elizondo, Mateo | Last Date In El Zapotal | A junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts. |
Gardiner, Meg | Shadowheart | Mystery - The Unsub #4 |
Geissinger, J. T. | Pen Pal | Romantic Suspense |
Goddard, Victoria | At The Feet Of The Sun | Fantasy - Lays of the Hearth-Fire #2 |
Gordon, Marianne | The Gilded Crown | Fantasy romance about a young woman with the extraordinary power of necromancy, and the ill-fated princess whose life she is determined to save, no matter the cost. |
Graham, Heather | Market For Murder | Mystery - Blackbird Files #2 |
Grames, Juliet | The Lost Boy Of Santa Chionia | A young American woman turns amateur detective in a small village in Southern Italy. |
Grant, Kimi Cunningham | The Nature Of Disappearing | A wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her life years ago when the friend who introduced them goes missing. |
Gray, Claudia | Perihelion | Science Fiction - The X-Files |
Gray, Claudia | The Perils Of Lady Catherine De Bourgh | Historical Mystery - Mr Darcy & Miss Tilney #3 |
Gray, Erick S. | Solomon Dark | Historical Thriller |
Gray, Shelley Shepard | A Is For Amish | Four siblings take a genuine leap of faith when they move to their grandparents’ farm in rural Ohio and decide to become Amish. |
Greaney, Mark | Sentinel | Thriller - Joshua Duffy #2 |
Green, Chris | Atlantastan 2: Death To Us All | Urban Fiction |
Green, Chris | Atlantastan: Chaos City | Rude Boy aka Khalifa Bah is a notorious figure throughout the streets of Atlanta; the New Chaos City of the US. His power stretches with force and his street savvy allows his hand to be pressed against anything that forms a dollar. |
Greene, Spencer | Never A Bridesmaid | Romance |
Greenwood, Kirsty | The Love Of My Afterlife | A recently deceased woman meets "the one" in the afterlife waiting room, scoring a second chance at life (and love!) if she can find him on earth before ten days are up... |
Grosse, Kayla | Rope Me In | Romance - The Cowboys of Night Hawk #2 |
Grossman, Lev | The Bright Sword | Historical Fantasy |
Halston, Sidney | Love Lessons | Abbott Elementary meets Ali Hazelwood in this spicy rivals-to-lovers rom-com starring two kindergarten teachers whose one night stand leads to an unexpected nine-month lesson in love. |
Hamill, Shaun | The Dissonance | Fantasy |
Hankin, Laura | One-Star Romance | Romance |
Harris, Joanne | The Moonlight Market | Fantasy Romance |
Hart, Livy | The Great Dating Fake Off | One over-the-top Italian wedding. Two fake couples. And a million hilariously disastrous possibilities... |
Harvey, Kristy Woodson | A Happier Life | A young woman discovers the love and family she has always longed for when she spends a life-changing summer at her grandparents' old house in North Carolina. |
Hatcher, Robin Lee | To Marry An English Lord | Romance - The British are Coming #2 |
Hauck, Rachel | Meet Me At The Starlight | Romance |
Hedlund, Jody | Saved By The Matchmaker | Christian Historical - Shanahan Match #2 |
Heller, Peter | Burn | Two men--friends since boyhood--who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country racked by bewildering violence. |
Heron, Farah | Just Playing House | A rising movie star reunites with his high school prom date, now a personal stylist. |
Hill, Gerri | The Apple Diary | Romance |
Hogan, Jay | The Art Of Husbandry | Romance - MacKenzie Country Story #1 |
Holton, India | The Ornithologist's Field Guide To Love | Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-com reminiscent of Indiana Jones but with manners, tea, and helicopter parasols. |
Hughes, Siân | Pearl | Fiction |
Hur, Anton | Toward Eternity | What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? |
Iglesias, Gabino | House Of Bone And Rain | A group of young men seek vengeance after one of their mothers is murdered in a Puerto Rican slum. |
Irvin, Kelly | Matters Of The Heart | Amish Fiction - Amish Calling #2 |
Jackson, L. R. | Tainted Liberties | Romantic Suspense |
Jakobson, Haley | Old Enough | Fiction - Coming of Age |
James, Holly | Name Your Price | Romance |
James, Kelsey | Secrets Of Rose Briar Hall | A wealthy young newlywed in early 20th century New York is isolated within her opulent, yet ominously empty mansion by the charismatic and controlling new husband plotting to undermine her sanity. |
James, Lilian T. | Meet Me Halfway | Romantic Suspense |
Janovsky, Timothy | You Had Me At Happy Hour | Romance |
Joella, Ethan | The Same Bright Stars | Fiction |
Johnson, Sarai | Grown Women | Fiction - Generational |
Jones, Stephen Graham | I Was A Teenage Slasher | Horror |
Joyce, Jessica | The Ex Vows | Romance |
Justice, Robert | A Dream In The Dark | Mystery - Wrongful Conviction #2 |
Kang, Minsoo | The Melancholy Of Untold History | Fiction |
Karrington, Blake | Carl Weber's Kingpins: Charlotte 2 | Urban Fiction |
Kay, Laura | Making It | An isolated young woman's artistic celebration of her pet chinchilla suddenly launches her into the professional art world, reality TV fame, and first love. |
Kellerman, Jonathan and Jesse | The Lost Coast | Mystery - Clay Edison |
Kelsi | A Hood Chick & A Crime Boss | Urban Fiction |
Kennedy, Raven | Glow | Fantasy Romance - Plated Prisoner #4 |
Kennedy, Raven | Gold | Fantasy Romance - Plated Prisoner #5 |
Kenney, Rebecca | Beautiful Villain | Daisy is a recent college grad looking to get her feet back under her after a nasty breakup with her uber-controlling ex. When her cousin Nick convinces her to come to a lavish party being thrown by some mysterious new money showoff, she never expects to find the boy she loved and lost years ago...or to discover that Gatsby made his millions selling immortality to the highest bidder. |
Keppler, Kristin | One Last Summer | Romance |
Kim, Monika | The Eyes Are The Best Part | Horror |
Kingfisher, T. | A Sorceress Comes To Call | Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. |
Kirsanow, Peter | Zero Option | Thriller - W.E.B. Griffin Men at War #9 |
Kirwan, Noué | Frequent Fliers | Her life is up in the air--literally... |
Kliewer, Marcus | We Used To Live Here | Get Out meets Parasite. |
Klune, TJ | Brothersong | Paranormal Romance - Green Creek #4 |
Kọláwọlé, Samuel Oluwatosin | The Road To The Salt Sea | Thriller |
Kuku, Damilare | Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow | A twenty-year-old Nigerian woman decides to make over her life after her father's death by getting plastic surgery and moving to Lagos. |
Kurkov, Andreĭ | Jimi Hendrix Live In Lviv | Fiction |
La Rosa, Erin | The Backtrack | Romance - Time Travel |
Lansdale, Joe R. | Sugar On The Bones | Mystery - Hap and Leonard #13 |
Laroux, Harley | Soul Of A Witch | Fantasy Romance - Souls #3 |
Lauren, Christina | Tangled Up In You | Romance - Meant to Be #4 |
Lee, Geneva | Filthy Rich Fae | In the shadows of New Orleans, the Gage family rules both the humans and Unseelie Court. But as secrets as dangerous as their Fae magic jeopardize their reign, a new threat emerges: love. |
Lee, Jayci | Nine Tailed | Sunny Cho aspires to be the dullest, least interesting person in any given room, which can be challenging for a nine-tailed fox spirit. |
Lee, Jayci | That Prince Is Mine | Romance |
Lee, Miye | The Dallergut Dream Department Store | What if there was a store that sold dreams? Which would you buy? And who might you become when you wake up? |
Lee, Robinne | The Idea Of You | A thirty-nine-year-old art gallery owner falls in love with a much younger boy band member. |
Lemberg, R. B. | Yoke Of Stars | Fantasy - Birdverse |
Levine, Laura | Murder Buys A One-Way Ticket | Cozy Mystery - Jaine Austen #20 |
Lima, Ananda | Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil | Speculative Short Stories |
Lin, Rosalie M. | Daughter Of Calamity | Historical Fantasy |
Lindo-Rice, Michelle | The Bookshop Sisterhood | After years of hard work, four best friends--Celeste, Yasmeen, Toni, and Leslie--are finally on the verge of opening the bookstore of their dreams. |
Lock, Nicholas | Confessions Of A Jackboy 3 | Urban Fiction |
Lord, Karen | Unraveling | The search for a notorious serial killer takes a therapist on a nightmarish quest to an alternate world to find the sinister secret behind his crimes. |
Low, P. H. | These Deathless Shores | A reimagined version of Captain Hook's origin. |
Macallister, Greer | The Thirteenth Husband | Tearing through millions of dollars, four continents, and a hearty collection of husbands, real-life heiress Aimee Crocker blazed an unbelievable trail of public notoriety, private pain, and the kind of strong independent woman the 1880s had never seen. |
MacLeod, Miranda | Accidental Honeymoon | Romance |
MacLeod, Miranda | Hearts In Motion | Romance |
Malerman, Josh | Incidents Around The House | Horror |
Manguso, Sarah | Liars | Fiction |
Marr, Elle | Your Dark Secrets | An LA PR exec and her private investigator ex uncover a dangerous conspiracy led by Hollywood's most powerful people, whose deadly sights are now set on them. |
Marrs, John | The Family Experiment | Some families are virtually perfect… |
Matheson, Nadine | The Kill List | Mystery - Anjelica Henley #3 |
Mathieu, Jennifer | The Faculty Lounge | Fiction - Humorous |
Maynard, Joyce | How The Light Gets In | Fiction - Generational |
McAlpine, Gordon | After Oz | After a tornado destroys the Gale family farm, eleven-year-old Dorothy goes missing. |
McCreight, Kimberly | Like Mother, Like Daughter | When Cleo, a student at NYU, arrives late for dinner at her childhood home in Brooklyn, she finds food burning in the oven and no sign of her mother Kat. |
McKenna, Oisín | Evenings And Weekends | Fiction |
McMyne, Mary | A Rose By Any Other Name | The lush, magical story behind Shakespeare's sonnets, as told by one of his most famous subjects--the incendiary and mysterious Dark Lady. |
McQuiston, Casey | The Pairing | Two bisexual exes accidentally book the same European food and wine tour and challenge each other to a hookup competition to prove they're over each other--except they're definitely not. |
Mejia, Tehlor Kay | Cash Delgado Is Living The Dream | Romance |
Menchaca, Elijah | They Met In A Tavern | The band is getting back together-and they really wish they weren't. |
Menchaca, Elijah | They Split The Party | Fantasy - Glintchasers #2 |
Mengestu, Dinaw | Someone Like Us | The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home. |
Michaels, Fern | Proof | Mystery - Lost and Found #4 |
Miller, Kirsten | Lula Dean's Little Library Of Banned Books | Fiction |
Mills, K. C. | Innocent Intent | When a wife becomes the prime suspect in her husband's murder, this criminal psychologist must forget everything she thought she knew in order to clear her name. |
Miravete, Gabriela Damián | They Will Dream In The Garden | Horror |
Mohamed, Premee | We Speak Through The Mountain | Science Fiction - Dystopian |
Molotti | City Of Smoke 3 | Urban Fiction |
Moran, Michelle | Maria | A novel based on the life of Maria von Trapp. |
Murali, Ram | Death In The Air | A locked-room mystery set in the Indian Himalayas. |
Mwanza, Iris | The Lions' Den | A missing boy. A corrupt system. A case that could change everything. |
Neff, Amy | The Days I Loved You Most | Fiction |
Newman, Catherine | Sandwich | Fiction |
Noonan, Rosalind | Puzzle Me A Murder | First in a new cozy mystery series featuring a small town librarian. |
Obey, Tatiana | Sistah Samurai | Fantasy |
Obuobi, Shirlene | Between Friends And Lovers | An influencer, an actor, and a writer navigate the messy ins and outs of friendship and romance in a world where social media demands perfection--or at least the appearance of it. |
Ogundiran, Tobi | In The Shadow Of The Fall | A cosmic war reignites and the fate of the orisha lie in the hands of an untried acolyte. |
O'Hagan, Andrew | Caledonian Road | Fiction - Satire |
Ōtani, Akira | The Night Of Baba Yaga | A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she's been forced to protect. |
Palmer, Ellie | Four Weekends And A Funeral | A woman attends her ex-boyfriend's funeral only to discover that his family thinks they're still together. |
Parker, T. Jefferson | Desperation Reef | Thriller |
Patrick, Phaedra | The Year Of What If | Fiction |
Payne, Fumiya | The Butterfly Mafia 4 | Urban Fiction |
Pechaček, Jared | The West Passage | Dark Fantasy |
Pekkanen, Sarah | House Of Glass | Thriller |
Perry, Joshua | Seraphim | From a former New Orleans public defender comes a gritty and thrilling interrogation of crime, violence, and the limits of justice in the chaotic times after Hurricane Katrina... |
Peterson, Tracie | A Choice Considered | Christian Historical - Heart of Cheyenne #2 |
Phillips, Helen | Hum | In a city addled by climate change and populated by intelligent robots called 'hums,' May loses her job to artificial intelligence. |
Phillips, Julia | Bear | Trapped on a remote Washington island with their dreams out of reach, two sisters clash when a mysterious bear arrives swimming in the channel, forcing them to confront their conflicting desires for escape and connection. |
Picoult, Jodi | By Any Other Name | In the 16th century, Emilia Bassano pays William Shakespeare for the use of his name to bring her plays to the stage. In the present, playwright Melina Green, Emilia's descendant, wrestles with giving up credit for her play to see it performed. |
Pitts, Delia | Trouble In Queenstown | Introduces private investigator Vandy Myrick, who returns to her childhood home. |
Porter, Regina | The Rich People Have Gone Away | A diverse group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman. |
Poston, Ashley | A Novel Love Story | A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction...literally. |
Prcic, Ismet | Unspeakable Home | Fiction |
Preston, Douglas J., and Lincoln Child | Angel Of Vengeance | Thriller - Agent Pendergast #22 |
Quinn, Spencer | A Farewell To Arfs | Mystery - Chet & Bernie #15 |
Rae, Queen | Clutching My Pearls For A Millionaire | For Reminisce Covington, becoming the girlfriend of a millionaire overnight was supposed to open doors, not complicate her life. |
Rae, Queen | Clutching My Pearls For A Millionaire 2 | Urban Fiction |
Rao, Kritika H. | The Unrelenting Earth | Fantasy - Rages #2 |
Ray, Playa | Crime Boss 4 | Urban Fiction |
Reeves, Keanu, and China Miéville | The Book Of Elsewhere | Speculative Fiction |
Reichs, Kathy | Fire And Bones | Mystery - Temperance Brennan #23 |
Reid, Charish | Jewel Me Twice | Two career thieves reunite for one last job and must put their messy romantic past behind them to pull off the jewel heist of the century. |
Revis, Beth | Full Speed To A Crash Landing | Science Fiction Romance - Chaotic Orbits #1 |
Reyes, Ruben Jr | There Is A Rio Grande In Heaven | Short Stories |
Rickloff, Alix | The Last Light Over Oslo | Historical Fiction |
Ritchie, Krista | Dishonestly Yours | Starting fresh is the only way Phoebe can escape a life of crime, but her best friend's older brother complicates honest dreams. |
Robards, Karen | Some Murders In Berlin | Historical Fiction |
Robotham, Mandy | The Hidden Storyteller | Historical Fiction |
Robotham, Michael | Storm Child | Mystery - Cyrus Haven #4 |
Roorbach, Bill | Beep | Fiction |
Rosenfelt, David | Dog Day Afternoon | Cozy Mystery - Andy Carpenter #29 |
Ruggle, Katie | The Scenic Route | Felicity Pax loves her job. She craves excitement, and being a bounty hunter gives her that in spades. |
Rummel, Erika | What They Said About Luisa | A tale of the life of Luisa Abrego of Seville, an emancipated woman who forges a new future for herself in colonial Mexico and gets caught in the Spanish Inquisition. |
Russ, Joanna | On Strike Against God | Classics |
Ryan, Kennedy | Be Mine Forever | Romance - Bennett #3 |
Ryan, Kennedy | Loving You Always | Romance - Bennett #2 |
Ryan, Kennedy | Until I'm Yours | Romance - Bennett #4 |
Ryan, Kennedy | When You Are Mine | Romance - Bennett #1 |
Sagas, L. M. | Gravity Lost | Science Fiction - Ambit's Run #2 |
Salgado Reyes, Anamely | My Mother Cursed My Name | Three generations of fiercely strong and stubborn Mexican American women face grief head-on as they attempt to shed generational trauma and discover the true meaning of home. |
Samuels-Young, Pamela | Sounds Like A Plan | One missing person. Two rival detectives. Infinite chemistry. |
Sanchez, Santiago Jose | Hombrecito | Fiction - Coming of Age |
Sands, Stella | Wordhunter | A woman uses her uncanny ability to analyze words and speech patterns to help solve crimes. |
Santana, Dg | Standing On Her Business | Urban Fiction |
Score, Lucy | The Body In The Backyard | Mystery - Riley Thorn #4 |
Scott, Kieran | People Will Talk | Three women are implicated in a murder after a wedding goes horribly wrong. |
Sellet, Amanda | Hate To Fake It To You | Romance |
Seltzer, Sarah | The Singer Sisters | Two generations of a folk-rock dynasty collide over art, love, longing, and family secrets. |
Sennaar, Mai | They Dream In Gold | Fiction |
Shaffer, Meg | The Lost Story | Fiction |
Sheridan, Mia | Unwanted | Romance - Men and Monsters #1 |
Shi, Hansen | The Expat | A Chinese American tech worker gets entangled in corporate espionage. |
Shine, A. M. | The Watchers | Horror |
Shook, Cat | Humor Me | Fiction |
Silver, Elsie | A Photo Finish | Romance - Gold Rush Ranch #2 |
Singh, Nalini | Primal Mirror | Paranormal Romance - Psy-Changeling Trinity #8 |
Slaughter, Karin | This Is Why We Lied | Mystery - Will Trent #12 |
Smith, Ian K. | Eagle Rock | Mystery - Ashe Cayne #4 |
Smith, Wilbur A. | Warrior King | Historical Adventure - Courtney #23 |
Soltani, Simone | Cross The Line | Romance |
Soto, Julie | Not Another Love Song | Two string players fight their attraction for each other as they compete for center stage. |
Sparks, Nicholas | Counting Miracles | Fiction |
Srivatsa, Prashanth | The Spice Gate | Relics of a mysterious god, the Spice Gates connect the eight far-flung kingdoms, each separated by a distinct spice and only accessible by those born with a special mark. |
Steadman, Catherine | Look In The Mirror | When Nina's father dies, she is left something in his will: a gleaming dream vacation home in a balmy tropical paradise. She'll find out the hard way that what you inherit from those you love can end up costing your life. |
Steel, Danielle | Joy | Fiction |
Steel, Danielle | Triangle | Fiction |
Stephens, Leslie | You're Safe Here | Thriller |
Stoker, Susan | The Lumberjack | Romance - Game of Chance #4 |
Stronach, Sascha | The Sunforge | Fantasy - Endsong #2 |
Tang, Kat | Five-Star Stranger | A gig worker known only as Stranger is the top-rated man for hire on the Rental Stranger app in Tang's debut. He also has a long-term job, as father to a young girl. What happens when fake and temporary relationships cross lines? |
Tauhid, Prince A. | Bloodline Of A Savage 3 | Urban Fiction |
Tauhid, Prince A. | These Vicious Streets 3 | Urban Fiction |
Tay, Self Made | Crime Pays | In a world full of hustlers, from scammers and dopeboys to stick-up kids and cold-hearted murderers, everyone is out to get a bag. |
Tay, Self Made | Crime Pays 2 | Urban Fiction |
Taylor, Barbara J. | Rain Breaks No Bones | Historical Fiction |
Tchaikovsky, Adrian | Saturation Point | Thriller - Climate |
Thanki, Asha | A Thousand Times Before | Fiction - Generational |
Thayne, RaeAnne | 15 Summers Later | Fiction |
Thomas, Joseph Earl | God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer | A novel about Black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intimate connections through the eyes of a struggling ex-Army grad student. |
Thomas, Sherry | A Ruse Of Shadows | Historical Mystery - Lady Sherlock #8 |
Thompson, Alicia | The Art Of Catching Feelings | Romance |
Thor, Brad | Shadow Of Doubt | Thriller - Scot Harvath #23 |
Tingle, Chuck | Bury Your Gays | Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell. |
Todd, Anna | The Infinite Light Of Dust | Romance - Brightest Stars #3 |
Trías, Fernanda | Pink Slime | Horror |
Tripp, Dawn Clifton | Jackie | A novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. |
Van den Berg, Laura | State Of Paradise | Fiction |
Vassell, Charlotte | The In Crowd | Mystery - Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp #2 |
Vasti, Alexandra | Ne'er Duke Well | Lady Selina is determined to find the Duke of Stanhope the perfect wife-the only problem is she's starting to think that might be her. |
Vaughan, M. C. | Romancing Miss Stone | His perfectly planned life is about to go wild. |
Vee, Julia | Blood Jade | Urban Fantasy - Phoenix Hoard #2 |
Vercher, John | Devil Is Fine | A struggling biracial writer reckons with his painful family history. |
Walsh, Courtney | The Summer Of Yes | Romance |
Wardell, M. A. | Mistletoe & Mishigas | Romance - Teachers in Love #2 |
Warren, Susan May | One Last Promise | Christian Suspense - Alaska Air One Rescue #3 |
Weatherspoon, Rebekah | Harbor | Romance - Beards & Bondage #3 |
Weatherspoon, Rebekah | Haven | Romance - Beards & Bondage #1 |
Weatherspoon, Rebekah | Rafe: A Buff Male Nanny | Romance - Loose Ends #1 |
Weatherspoon, Rebekah | Sanctuary | Romance - Beards & Bondage #2 |
Weatherspoon, Rebekah | Xeni: A Marriage Of Inconvenience | Romance - Loose Ends #2 |
Webber, Heather S. | A Certain Kind Of Starlight | Fiction |
Weis, Margaret, and Tracy Hickman | Dragons Of Eternity | Fantasy - Dragonlance Destinies #3 |
Westerson, Jeri | The Mummy Of Mayfair | Historical Mystery - Irregular Detective #2 |
Whitcher, Ursula | North Continent Ribbon | Science Fiction |
Wildenstein, Olivia | House Of Beating Wings | Fantasy Romance |
Williams, Beatriz | Husbands & Lovers | Historical Fiction |
Williams, Shanora | The Bitter Truth | An upstanding political candidate. A determined stalker. A shattering lost weekend. Amid the clashes and intrigue of the campaign trail, to what lengths will the elegant, all-too-devoted wife of a seemingly incorruptible politician go in the name of love, loyalty, and ego? |
Wilson, Emily H. | Gilgamesh | Historical Fantasy - Sumerians #2 |
Winning, Josh | Heads Will Roll | Horror |
Woods, Harper L. | The Coven | Raised to be my father's weapon against the Coven that took away his sister and his birthright, I would do anything to protect my younger brother from suffering the same fate. |
Yagisawa, Satoshi | More Days At The Morisaki Bookshop | Fiction - Morisaki Bookshop #2 |
Yardley, Cathy | Do Me A Favor | A widowed cookbook writer and a divorced handyman find that it's never too late for a fresh start. |
Yona | Lovin' A Rich Goon With Motion 2 | Urban Fiction |
Yoshida, Atsuhiro | Goodnight, Tokyo | Offers readers a unique and intimate take on Tokyo as seen through the eyes of a large cast of colorful characters. |
Zanetti, Rebecca | One Cursed Rose | Fantasy Romance - Grimm Bargains #1 |
Zari | Dog Team | Urban Fiction |
Beyond the Bounds of Infinity | Horror Short Stories | |
Golden Age Whodunits | Classic Mystery Stories |
July 2024
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Ailes, Kat | Dead Tired | Mystery - Expectant Detectives #2 |
Alexander, T. J. | Triple Sec | Romance |
Allen, Danielle | Curvy Girl Summer | "There's got to be an easier way than dating. I want the shortcut. I just want to find my person and start our lives together." |
Andras, Joseph | Faraway The Southern Sky | A biographical historical fiction retelling of Ho Chi Minh's immigration and radical life in underground Paris in the 1920s. |
B, Ira | Land Of Da Hooliganz | Urban Fiction |
Barnet, Frankie | Mood Swings | In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again--whatever that means. |
Basham, Pepper | Loyally, Luke | Christian Romance |
Belcourt, Billy-Ray | Coexistence | Short Stories |
Bennett, Michael | Return To Blood | Thriller - Hana Westerman #2 |
Bernini, Franco | The Throne | October 1502. As Cesare Borgia sets out to invade the Florentine Republic, Niccoòl Machiavelli is sent to spy on him and to glean details of his nefarious plan. |
Boldizar, Alexander | The Man Who Saw Seconds | Preble Jefferson can see five seconds into the future. |
Bonam-Young, Hannah | Out On A Limb | A hot one-night stand--and an unexpected pregnancy--lead a young woman to someone she can depend on. |
Bond, Charlotte | The Fireborne Blade | Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honor. It's that, or end up like countless knights before her, as a puddle of gore and molten armor. |
Brennan, Allison | You'll Never Find Me | Nothing brings family together like crime. |
Brooks, Sarah | The Cautious Traveller's Guide To The Wastelands | It is said there is a price that every passenger must pay. A price beyond the cost of a ticket. |
Burges, Audrey | A House Like An Accordion | A woman searches for her missing father in order to reconcile the many strange and fantastical secrets of her past before she loses herself completely. |
Cain, Matt | Becoming Ted | Fiction |
Callahan, Michael | The Lost Letters From Martha's Vineyard | Historical Fiction |
Castillo, Linda | The Burning | Mystery - Kate Burkholder #16 |
Chang, K-Ming | Cecilia | Seven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor's office, reencounters Cecilia, a woman who has obsessed her since their school days. |
Chevalier, Tracy | The Glassmaker | Follows a family of glassmakers from the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day. |
Chilton, L. M. | Swiped | A young woman must unmask a serial killer that everyone thinks is her, all before her best friend's wedding. |
Coles, Donyae | Midnight Rooms | Gothic Fiction |
Coll, Susan | Real Life And Other Fictions | Cassie Klein has always used stories to help her fly, but now her plot points aren't lining up. |
Constantine, Liv | The Next Mrs. Parrish | Mystery - Last Mrs. Parrish #2 |
Cook, Lauren | Sex Goblin | Fiction |
Corrello, Betty | Summertime Punchline | Romance |
Coulter, Catherine | Flashpoint | Mystery - FBI #27 |
Cowie, Amber | The Off Season | Thriller |
Daniels, Tony | The Plug's Ruthless Daughter | Urban Fiction |
Dawson, Ella | But How Are You, Really | A burned-out bisexual confronts old demons, her estranged chosen family, and the ex she maybe shouldn't have walked away from when she attends her five-year college reunion. |
DeWitt, Tarah | Savor It | Romance |
Doyle, Katelyn | Just Some Stupid Love Story | A debut about a rom-com screenwriter who doesn't believe in love and a divorce attorney who does, forced together at their high school reunion fifteen years after their breakup. |
Drummond, Clara | Role Play | Fiction |
Dugan, Jennifer | The Ride Of Her Life | Romance |
Dumond, Susie | Looking For A Sign | A newly single queer woman moves to New Orleans and sets off on a mission to find her most compatible match by going on a date with someone of each astrological sign. |
Dusapin, Elisa Shua | Vladivostok Circus | Fiction |
Easton, Connie | Love's Covenant: The Cambridge Crew | Urban Fiction |
Eisenberg, Emma Copley | Housemates | What does it feel like, standing in the moments that will mark your life? |
Ellis, Lindsay | Apostles Of Mercy | Science Fiction - Noumena #3 |
Emezi, Akwaeke | Little Rot | One weekend. The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city. A party that goes awry. A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed. |
Erpenbeck, Jenny | Kairos | Fiction |
Escobar, Mario | The Forgotten Names | In August 1942, French parents were faced with a horrible choice: watch their children die, or abandon them forever. |
Espinoza, Alex | The Sons Of El Rey | Ernesto Vega has lived many lives, from pig farmer to construction worker to famed luchador El Rey Coyote, yet he has always worn a mask. |
Everhart, Elle | Hot Summer | Sparks fly when a young woman finds herself cast on a Love Island-inspired reality show and has to choose between her heart and her strategy. |
Everlee, Jess | A Bluestocking's Guide To Decadence | Historical Romance - Lucky Lovers of London #3 |
Fay, Constance | Fiasco | Science Fiction Romance - Uncharted Hearts #2 |
Felker-Martin, Gretchen | Cuckoo | A group of teens who must stay true to themselves while in a conversion camp from hell. |
Fletcher, Elliot | Whisky Business | Romance |
Foley, Lucy | The Midnight Feast | Thriller |
Force, Marie | State Of Suspense | Romantic Suspense - First Family #7 |
Foster, Lori | The Love Shack | Romance |
Fraimow, Rebecca | Lady Eve's Last Con | Science Fiction Romance |
Friedland, Elyssa | Jackpot Summer | After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy lives will transform into sleek, storybook perfection-but they couldn't be more wrong. |
Gallon, Michael | The Murder Queens 6 | Urban Fiction |
Gates, Eva | The Stranger In The Library | Cozy Mystery - Lighthouse Library #11 |
Ghosh, Puloma | Mouth | Speculative Short Stories |
Gibson, S. T. | Evocation | Fantasy - Summoner's Circle #1 |
Giffin, Emily | The Summer Pact | In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends makes a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade later and embark upon a life-changing adventure together. |
Gill, Libby | Malibu Summer | Romance |
Gilmartin, Sarah | Service | When Hannah learns that famed chef Daniel Costello is facing accusations of sexual assault, she's thrown back to the summer she spent waitressing at his high-end Dublin restaurant. |
Goddard, Elizabeth | Hidden In The Night | Christian Suspense - Missing in Alaska #3 |
Goldis, Jaclyn | The Main Character | Thriller |
Graham, Heather | Market For Murder | Mystery - Blackbird Files #2 |
Grattan, Thomas | In Tongues | Fiction |
Gratton, Tessa | Temptation Of The Force | Science Fiction - Star Wars: The High Republic |
Gray, Shelley Shepard | Unforgiven | Christian Fiction |
Hardt, Helen | My Heart Still Beats | Romance |
Harkness, Deborah | The Black Bird Oracle | Fantasy - All Souls #5 |
Heath, Virginia | All's Fair In Love And War | Historical Romance - Miss Prentice's Protegees #1 |
Hegde, Swati | Match Me If You Can | A young magazine writer in Mumbai must prove her matchmaking skills--and contend with growing feelings for her close family friend--in this debut romance. |
Henry, Christina | The House That Horror Built | A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifying secrets. |
Hunt, Angela Elwell | The Sisters Of Corinth | Christian Historical |
Huntley, Swan | I Want You More | A ghostwriting gig in the Hamptons becomes far more than a job. |
Iandoli, Kathy | King Of New York : A New Mafia Tale | Thriller |
Ibeh, Chukwuebuka | Blessings | Fiction |
Jackson, Lisa | Our Little Secret | Thriller |
Jackson, Vallean | Born For The Hustle | Urban Fiction |
Jackson, Vallean | Born For The Hustle 2 | Urban Fiction |
Jenner, Natalie | Every Time We Say Goodbye | Historical Fiction |
Jewell, Lisa | Breaking The Dark: A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel | Fiction |
Johansen, Iris | Flashback | Mystery - Kendra Michaels #11 |
Johnson, Craig | First Frost | Mystery - Longmire #20 |
Jones, J. Nicole | The Witches Of Bellinas | Gothic Fiction |
Jones, T.N. | Entangled In Toxicity: The Multi-Millionaire's Daughter | Urban Fiction |
Kalla, Daniel | High Society | Thriller |
Kamali, Marjan | The Lion Women Of Tehran | In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. |
Karger, Sidney | The Bump | Two men expecting a baby via surrogate go on the road trip of a lifetime. |
Kellman, Eve | How To Kill A Guy In Ten Ways | Are you on a date that doesn't feel right? Can't shake that creepy guy at the bar? Worried you're being followed home? Message M. |
Kelsi | A Hood Chick & A Crime Boss 2 | Urban Fiction |
Kennedy, Elle | The Dixon Rule | Romance - Campus Diaries #2 |
Khakpour, Porochista | Tehrangeles | Iranian-American multimillionaires Ali and Homa Milani have it all--a McMansion in the hills of Los Angeles, a microwaveable snack empire, and four spirited daughters. |
Kingfisher, T. | A Sorceress Comes To Call | A dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's "The Goose Girl." |
Kunzru, Hari | Blue Ruin | Fiction |
K'wan | False Idols | Urban Fiction - Reluctant King #2 |
Kwon, R. O. | Exhibit | At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. |
Lapena, Shari | What Have You Done? | Thriller |
Lee, Hana 1996- | Road To Ruin | A debut fantasy that takes a royal messenger on a high-speed chase across a climate-ravaged wasteland, featuring motorcycles, monsters, and magic. |
Lee, Karmen | The 7-10 Split | For teacher Ava Williams, some subjects are not up for debate. Like history--specifically, the one she has with Grace Jones, bowling pro and local celeb. |
Leon, Donna | A Refiner's Fire | Mystery - Commissario Guido Brunetti #33 |
Levy, Honor | My First Book | Short Stories |
Lin, Rosalie M. | Daughter Of Calamity | Genres collide in this dark and atmospheric reimagining of 1930s Shanghai for fans of Nghi Vo and S. A. Chakraborty. |
Lombardo, Claire | Same As It Ever Was | Fiction |
Lord, Karen | Unraveling | The search for a notorious serial killer takes a therapist on a nightmarish quest to an alternate world to find the sinister secret behind his crimes. |
Lorenz, Megaera C. | The Shabti | When a reformed fake medium accepts a dinner invitation from a charming Egyptologist, he doesn't expect to find himself grappling with an ancient ghost. |
Lowkis, Carmella | Spitting Gold | In 19th century Paris, two estranged sisters-formerly celebrated (and fraudulent) spirit mediums-come back together for one last con. |
Lyons, Jenn | The Sky On Fire | Fantasy |
Maberry, Jonathan | Necrotek | Science Fiction |
MacNeal, Susan Elia | The Last Hope | Historical Mystery - Maggie Hope #11 |
Mallery, Susan | For The Love Of Summer | Fiction |
Mao, Sally Wen | Ninetails: Nine Tales | Short Stories |
Maren, Mesha | Shae | Fiction |
Mazarura, Rufaro Faith | Let The Games Begin | Romance |
McFadden, Freida | The Perfect Son | Thriller |
McGuire, Seanan | Tidal Creatures | Fantasy - Alchemical Journeys #3 |
McKinlay, Jenn | Love At First Book | Romance |
McKnight, Rhonda | Bitter And Sweet | A dual timeline tale of family, grief, secrets, and the sweet redemption that lies within the bonds of sisterhood. |
Meesha | A Thug's Street Princess 2 | Urban Fiction |
Meesha | A Thug's Street Princess 3 | Urban Fiction |
Messud, Claire | This Strange Eventful History | Historical Fiction |
Meyer, Gabrielle | For A Lifetime | Christian Historical - Timeless #3 |
Miller, Kirsten | Lula Dean's Little Library Of Banned Books | Fiction |
Monaghan, Annabel | Summer Romance | Romance |
Moniz, Tomas | All Friends Are Necessary | Chino Flores, a queer Latino in his late thirties, was a beloved middle school biology teacher with an adoring wife and a child on the way until a devastating loss dramatically changed his life. |
Moore, Graham | The Wealth Of Shadows | Historical Fiction |
Moore, Liz | The God Of The Woods | When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn't just any camper: she's the daughter of the wealthy family who owns the camp--as well as the opulent nearby estate, and most of the land in sight. |
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia | The Seventh Veil Of Salome | A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine--but the real drama is behind the scenes. |
Morris, Wanda M. | What You Leave Behind | After the mysterious disappearance of a local landowner and the death of his sister just months before, a lawyer uncovers a conspiracy that dates back to Reconstruction and persists in half the United States today. |
Muenter, Olivia | Such A Bad Influence | Infamous social media influencer Evie Davis has spent her whole life online, since her mother shared a viral video of her at age five. When she suddenly disappears in the middle of a live stream, her older sister, Hazel, becomes determined to find Evie and the truth behind her disappearance. |
Mulford, A. K. | The Amethyst Kingdom | Fantasy - Five Crowns of Okrith #5 |
Murray, Amita | Unladylike Rules Of Attraction | Historical Romance - Marleigh Sisters #2 |
Nathan, Patrick | The Future Was Color | Historical Fiction |
Nava, Danica | The Truth According To Ember | A Chickasaw woman who can't catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much more. |
Newman, Catherine | Sandwich | The story of a family summer vacation full of secrets, lunch, and learning to let go. |
North, Claire | The Last Song Of Penelope | Fiction - Songs of Penelope #3 |
Noyes, E. J. | Loyalty | Romantic Suspense - Halcyon Division #3 |
Nwabineli, Onyi | Allow Me To Introduce Myself | Her life. Her rules. Finally. |
Obioma, Chigozie | The Road To The Country | Historical Fiction |
Okungbowa, Suyi Davies | Lost Ark Dreaming | Science Fiction |
Palmer, Suzanne | Ghostdrift | Science Fiction - Finder Chronicles #4 |
Parsons, Kimberly King | We Were The Universe | Fiction |
Patel, Vaishnavi | Goddess Of The River | A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son. |
Patterson, James, and JD Barker | Confessions Of The Dead | Thriller |
Patterson, James | Hard To Kill : A Jane Smith Thriller | Thriller - Jane Smith #2 |
Pearse, Sarah | The Wilds | Mystery - Detective Elin Warner #3 |
Pearson, Joanna | Bright And Tender Dark | Mystery |
Pegau, Cathy | Blood Remains | Paranormal Romance |
Penelope, L. | Daughter Of The Merciful Deep | Historical Fantasy |
Perez, Nadi Reed | The Afterlife Of Mal Caldera | Mal Caldera--former rockstar, retired wild-child and excommunicated black sheep of her Catholic family--is dead. Not that she cares. |
Perrin, Valérie | Forgotten On Sunday | Fiction |
Peterson, Tracie | With Each Tomorrow | Christian Historical - Jewels of Kalispell #2 |
Plunket, Robert | Love Junkie | Fiction |
Pooley, Clare | How To Age Disgracefully | Cozy Mystery |
Quinn, Kate | The Briar Club | Historical Fiction |
Rae, Queen | Clutching My Pearls For A Millionaire 3: An African American Romance: The Finale | Urban Fiction |
Ramírez, Tita | Tell It To Me Singing | A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of several shocking secrets to her daughter before undergoing heart surgery. |
Raybon, Patricia | Truth Be Told | Historical Mystery - Annalee Spain #3 |
Rio, King | The Real Baddies Of Chi-Raq | Urban Fiction |
Ro, Hazel | Now Or Never | Two women are simply trying to make their way to the altar, sooner rather than later. So, will the best woman win the prize in the end? Or can their friendship outweigh their man troubles so that both end up finding love? |
Robert, Katee | Blood On The Tide | Paranormal Romance - Crimson Sails #2 |
Robinson, Corey | Corner Boy Chronicles | Jamir has always envisioned himself a boss. With start-up money from the church collection plate, he is destined to rise and be just that. However, a fallout with his connect could hinder all he has worked for. |
Robinson, Shauna | The Townsend Family Recipe For Disaster | One woman's journey to reconnect with her estranged Black family in the south, just as it's on the brink of falling apart. |
Rowell, Rainbow | Slow Dance | Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together . . . everybody but Shiloh and Cary. |
Rowland, Alexandra | Running Close To The Wind | A fantasy romance for fans of Our Flag Means Death. |
Sager, Riley | Middle Of The Night | Thriller |
Samuels-Young, Pamela | Sounds Like A Plan | One Missing Person. Two Rival Detectives. Infinite Chemistry. |
Sangoyomi, O. O. | Masquerade | A debut speculative novel set in a reimagined West Africa and based loosely on the myth of Persephone. |
Sarr, Mohamed Mbougar | The Silence Of The Choir | Seventy-two men arrive in the middle of the Sicilian countryside. They are "immigrants," "refugees" or "migrants." But in Altino, they're called the ragazzi, the "guys" that the Santa Marta Association have taken responsibility for. In this small Sicilian town, their arrival changes life for everybody. |
Sasaki, Emma | It's A Privilege Just To Be Here | A debut take-down of racial inequality at prep schools, perfect for fans of Such a Fun Age and Little Fires Everywhere. |
Sathue, E. K. | Youthjuice | Horror |
Schellman, Katharine | The Last Note Of Warning | Historical Mystery - Nightingale #3 |
Shepherd, Peng | All This And More | Marsh is convinced she's missed her chance at everything--romance, professional fulfillment, and adventure--and is desperate for a do-over. She can't believe her luck when she's selected to be the star of the global sensation All This and More, a show that uses quantum technology to allow contestants the chance to revise their pasts and change their present lives. |
Shields, Sydney J. | The Honey Witch | Fantasy Romance |
Silva, Daniel | A Death In Cornwall | Mystery - Gabriel Allon #24 |
Silver, Elsie | Off To The Races | Romance - Gold Rush Ranch #1 |
Skenandore, Amanda | The Medicine Woman Of Galveston | Historical Fiction |
Smith, Frederick | One And Done | One night of passion and possibly one more chance at love... |
Smith, Gabriel | Brat | Gothic Fiction |
Song, K. X. | The Night Ends With Fire | A fantasy adventure inspired by the legend of Mulan that follows a young woman determined to choose her own destiny--even if that means going against everyone she loves. |
Sosa Villada, Camila | I'm A Fool To Want You : Stories | Short Stories |
Sullivan, J. Courtney | The Cliffs | A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine. |
Takagi, Akimitsu | The Noh Mask Murder | Classic Mystery |
Tchaikovsky, Adrian | City Of Last Chances | Fantasy - Tyrant Philosophers #1 |
Thalassa, Laura | Bespelled | Fantasy Romance - Bewitched #2 |
Thornton, Mark R. | Nothing Is Wrong | Fiction |
Thorpe, Rufi | Margo's Got Money Troubles | Fiction |
Topping, Zac | Rogue Sequence | Science Fiction - Ander Rade #1 |
Ward, Amanda Eyre | Lovers And Liars | Fiction |
Wardell, M. a. | Napkins & Other Distractions | On paper, they're a disaster. In the sheets, they're a perfect match. |
Warren, Susan May | One Last Chance | Christian Suspense - Alaska Air One #2 |
Weaver, Ashley | Locked In Pursuit | Historical Mystery - Electra McDonnell #4 |
Weaver, Brynne | Leather & Lark | Romance - Ruinous Love #2 |
Weir, Alison | The Passionate Tudor | Historical Fiction |
Weston, Kate | You May Now Kill The Bride | The bride-to-be drops dead at her bachelorette weekend, with all of her bridesmaids as suspects for her murder. |
Wexler, Django | How To Become The Dark Lord And Die Trying | A young woman, tired of defending humanity from the Dark Lord, decides to become the Dark Lord herself. |
Wexler, Django | Spelljammer: Memory's Wake | Fantasy |
Whitaker, Chris | All The Colors Of The Dark | Thriller |
Williams, Synithia | Waiting For Friday Night | In the wake of losing both of her parents, Halle Parker was certain of one thing: she wanted a family of her own. And she wasn't going to let a little thing like being single stand in her way. |
Wouden, Yael van der | The Safekeep | It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. |
Yamada, Futaro | The Meiji Guillotine Murders | Classic Mystery |
Yee-Wa, Lau | Tongueless | Follows two rival teachers at a secondary school in Hong Kong who are instructed to switch from teaching in Cantonese to Mandarin--or lose their jobs. |
Young, Kate | Experienced | Bette is in love for the first time in her life. Finally, everything makes sense. Until it doesn't. |
A Cage Went In Search Of A Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories | Short Stories |
April-June 2024
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Abi-Nakhoul, Nour | Supplication | Horror |
Adams, Sara Nisha | The Twilight Garden | Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden. |
Addison, Esme | An Intrigue Of Witches | First in the Secret Society mystery series, featuring a historian poised on the brink of discovering her true past . . . and her hidden witchy powers. |
Adler, Sarah | Happy Medium | Romance |
Aguda, 'Pemi | Ghostroots | Short Stories |
Albert, Susan Wittig | Forget Me Never | Mystery |
Allen, Samantha Jayne | Next Of Kin | Mystery - Annie McIntyre #3 |
Anderson, Michelle Collins | The Flower Sisters | Historical Fiction |
Andrews, Brian | Tom Clancy: Act Of Defiance | Thriller - Jack Ryan #24 |
Andrews, Mary Kay | Summers At The Saint | Fiction |
Ariel, Myah | When I Think Of You | Romance |
Armstrong, Kelley | Disturbing The Dead | Historical Mystery - Rip Through Time #3 |
Aryanna | Imma Die Bout Mine 3 : Apex Predators Only | Urban Fiction |
Aryanna | Imma Die Bout Mine 4 : Heart Of A Cannibal | Urban Fiction |
Aryanna | Imma Die Bout Mine 5 : For All Mine I'll Lay Yours | Urban Fiction |
Ashton, Edward | Mal Goes To War | As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. |
Aubray, Camille | The Girl From The Grand Hotel | Historical Fiction |
Azzam, Fadi | Huddud's House | How far is love willing to travel in search of its own lost voice? |
B., Teruka | The Audacity To Say You Love Me | How you gonna claim love when your actions are colder than the other side of the pillow? |
Barclay, Linwood | I Will Ruin You | Thriller |
Barnes, S. A. | Ghost Station | A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet. |
Barr, Lisa | The Goddess Of Warsaw | Historical Fiction |
Battles, Brett | Stuart Woods' Smolder | Mystery - Stone Barrington #65 |
Beagle, Peter S. | I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons | Fantasy |
Beers, Georgia | Aubrey Mcfadden Is Never Getting Married | Aubrey is never getting married, but she does have five weddings to attend, and she'll be avoiding the woman who ruined her happily ever after at every single one. |
Bellefleur, Alexandria | Truly, Madly, Deeply | Sparks fly when a lovelorn romance novelist and a divorce lawyer who has sworn off relationships agree to cohost a podcast series offering dating advice to viewers. |
Berry, I. S. | The Peacock And The Sparrow | Shane Collins, a world-weary CIA spy, is ready to come in from the cold. |
Berry, Steve | Red Star Falling | Historical Mystery - Luke Daniels #2 |
Billigoat | American D-Boy II: The Return Of D-Boy | Urban Fiction |
Bowen, Sarina | The Five Year Lie | Thriller |
Bradley, Kaliane | The Ministry Of Time | A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all. |
Broadbent, Carissa | The Ashes & The Star-Cursed King | Fantasy Romance - Crowns of Nyaxia #2 |
Brown, Dale | The Devil's Fortress | Thriller - Nick Flynn #4 |
Brown, Hannah | Mistakes We Never Made | Romance |
Brown, Kimberly | Courage To Love Again | Months after meeting a kind gentleman on the most embarrassing night of her life, a newly divorced woman gains the courage to reclaim her life and explore newfound love with the perfect stranger. |
Brown, Rita Mae | Feline Fatale | Mystery - Mrs. Murphy #32 |
Bunn, T. Davis | Midnight Harbor | Christian Fiction - Miramar Bay #8 |
Burke, James Lee | Clete | Mystery - Dave Robicheaux #24 |
Burr, Samuel | The Fellowship Of Puzzlemakers | Fiction |
Cambridge, Colleen | A Murder Most French | Historical Mystery - An American in Paris #2 |
Cambron, Kristy | The British Booksellers Of The Forgotten Blitz | Historical Fiction |
Cameron, Briony | The Ballad Of Jacquotte Delahaye | A historical debut inspired by the women pirates who sailed the Caribbean in the 17th century. |
Cano Repetto, Valentina | Sanctuary | Horror |
Carrasco, Katrina Marie | Rough Trade | Historical Fiction - Best Bad Things #2 |
Castle, Jayne | People In Glass Houses | Paranormal Romance - Harmony #6 |
Castro, V. | Immortal Pleasures | An ancient Aztec vampire roams the modern world in search of vengeance and love. |
Cathrall, Sylvie | A Letter To The Luminous Deep | A fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming penpal romance, for fans of Emily Wilde's Encylopaedia of Faeries and The House in the Cerulean Sea. |
Center, Katherine | The Rom-Commers | She's rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? |
Chambers, Essie | Swift River | It's the summer of 1987 in Swift River, and Diamond Newberry is learning how to drive. |
Champine, Justine | Knife River | Thriller |
Chang, Abraham | 888 Love And The Divine Burden Of Numbers | Love is a numbers game... |
Chang, Molly X. | To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods | Ruying, born with the power over death, must weigh if her family's life is worth betraying her country to strike .a deal with an enemy prince |
Charles, KJ | Death In The Spires | 1905. A decade after the grisly murder of Oxford student Toby Feynsham, the case remains hauntingly unsolved. |
Chen, Wendy | Their Divine Fires | A debut novel about the love affairs of three generations of Chinese women across one hundred years of revolutions both political and personal. |
Chiaverini, Jennifer | The Museum Of Lost Quilts | Fiction - Elm Creek Quilts #23 |
Cho, Elaine U. | Ocean's Godori | Becky Chambers meets Firefly in this big-hearted Korean space opera debut about a disgraced space pilot struggling to find her place while fighting to protect the people she loves. |
Chu, Lily | The Takedown | A diversity consultant turns sleuth to expose a corrupt CEO. |
Chung, Eve J. | Daughters Of Shandong | In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. |
Claire, Ann | A Cyclist's Guide To Crime & Croissants | First in a new cozy mystery series starring American expat-turned-bike tour company owner in Southern France. |
Clark, Eddy | American Gunner | Urban Fiction |
Clark, Eddy | American Gunner 2 : Civil Liberties | Urban Fiction |
Clawson, Megan | Love At First Knight | Romance |
Coben, Harlan | Think Twice | Mystery - Myron Bolitar #12 |
Comey, James | Westport | Thriller |
Connolly, John | The Instruments Of Darkness | Mystery - Charlie Parker #21 |
Corland, Mai | Five Broken Blades | The king of Yusan must die. |
Cotman, Elwin | Weird Black Girls | Speculative Short Stories |
Crichton, Michael, and James Patterson | Eruption | Thriller |
Cunningham, A. H. | Out Of Office | What happens when you step out of the office, take a chance on yourself--and discover your deepest desires? |
Dailey, Janet | Evergreen Christmas | Romance - Frosted Firs Ranch #1 |
Davino | Dying For A Duet : Loving The Mogul's Daughter | Urban Fiction |
De la Rosa, Liana | Isabel And The Rogue | Historical Romance - Luna Sisters #2 |
Deese, Nicole | The Roads We Follow | Christian Romance - Fog Harbor #2 |
Dream, King | Blood And Games 2 : Game Recognize Game | Urban Fiction |
Du Brul, Jack B. | Clive Cussler: The Heist | Thriller - Isaac Bell #14 |
Dubb, Sarah T. | Birding With Benefits | A divorcee embarks on her "year of yes" and crosses paths with a shy but sensitive birdwatcher who changes her life. |
Dugoni, Robert | A Killing On The Hill | The Great Depression. High-level corruption. And a murder that's about to become Seattle's hottest mystery. |
Easton, Etta | The Kiss Countdown | A struggling event planner and a sinfully hot astronaut must decide if their fake relationship is worth a shot at happily-ever-after. |
Eddings, Mazey | Late Bloomer | Romance |
Elmendorf, Dana | In The Hour Of Crows | In a small town in Appalachia, people paint their doorways blue to keep spirits away. Black ferns grow where death will follow. And Weatherly Opal Wilder is a Death Talker. |
Fassler, Joe | The Sky Was Ours | What if flight was freedom? |
Fforde, Jasper | Red Side Story | Fantasy - Shades of Grey #2 |
Fields, Anthony | If You Cross Me Once. Let The Truth Be Told 4 | Urban Fiction |
Fields, Anthony | If You Cross Me Once. 3 Too Many Secrets | Urban Fiction |
Finlay, Alex | If Something Happens To Me | Thriller |
Fisher, Suzanne Woods | Love On A Whim | Christian Fiction - Cape Cod Creamery #3 |
Foley, Lucy | The Midnight Feast | Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin... |
Ford, Daniel M. | Necrobane | Fantasy - Warden #2 |
Fortune, Carley | This Summer Will Be Different | This summer they'll keep their promise. This summer they won't give into temptation. This summer will be different. |
Foster, Brooke Lea | All The Summers In Between | Two estranged friends whose unexpected reconnection in the Hamptons forces them to finally confront the terrible event that drove them apart. |
Fuentes, Marcela | Malas | A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a curse that reverberates across generations. |
Gabhart, Ann H. | The Song Of Sourwood Mountain | Christian Historical |
Garrett, Kellye | Missing White Woman | A woman thinks she's waking up to a romantic vacation--only to find a body in her rental home and her boyfriend gone. |
Garvin, Eileen | Crow Talk | Fiction |
Gilmore, Lucy | The Library Of Borrowed Hearts | Two young lovers. Sixty long years. One bookish mystery worth solving. |
Gladstone, Max | Wicked Problems | Fantasy - Craft Wars #2 |
Glass, Seraphina Nova | The Vacancy In Room 10 | Thriller |
Goins, Tasha | Upstate Hustle | A young woman, eager for a way to escape the powerlessness she felt as a child, discovers that her new life presents its own set of challenges. |
Golden, Kate | A Promise Of Peridot | Paranormal Romance - Sacred Stones #2 |
Goldenberg, Salinee | The Last Phi Hunter | Fantasy Romance |
Grabowski, Alina | Women And Children First | A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in a small Massachusetts town. |
Graham, Heather | Death Behind Every Door | In the shadows of a Scottish castle, something deadly is lurking in every corner... |
Graham, R. L. | Death On The Lusitania | Historical Mystery |
Graves, Sarah | Death By Chocolate Raspberry Scone | Cozy Mystery - Death By Chocolate #7 |
Greenwald, Carlyn | Director's Cut | After taking a guest teaching gig, Oscar-winning Valeria Sullivan finds herself trapped in a battle of wits with her sexy co-professor, but can she keep her cool when things heat up in and out of the classroom? |
Griffiths, Elly | The Last Word | Mystery - Harbinder Kaur #4 |
Grisham, John | Camino Ghosts | Mystery - Camino Island #3 |
Grunwald, Lisa | The Evolution Of Annabel Craig | A young Southern woman sets out on a journey of self-discovery as the infamous 1925 Scopes Trial tests her faith and her marriage. |
Hairston, Andrea | Archangels Of Funk : Episodes From The Continuing Drama Of Cinnamon Jones: Scientist, Artiste, And Hoodoo Conjurer | Run from your past. Hide from your future. Protect your present. |
Hakoda, Kerri | Cold To The Touch | Mystery |
Hall, Rachel Howzell | What Fire Brings | A writer's search for her missing friend becomes a real-life thriller. |
Hallberg, Garth Risk | The Second Coming | Fiction |
Hamilton, Emily | The Stars Too Fondly | So, here's the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn't mean to steal this spaceship. |
Hao, Jingfang | Jumpnauts | Three unlikely allies attempt a desperate mission of first contact with a mysterious alien race before more militaristic minds can take matters into their own hands. |
Harris, C. S. | What Cannot Be Said | Historical Mystery - Sebastian St. Cyr #19 |
Harris, Terah Shelton | Long After We Are Gone | The story of four siblings--each fighting their own personal battle--who return home in the wake of their father's death in order to save their family's home from being sold out from under them. |
Hart, Rob | Assassins Anonymous | Mark was the most dangerous killer-for-hire in the world. But after learning the hard way that his life's work made him more monster than man, he left all of that behind, and joined a twelve-step group for reformed killers. |
Hazelwood, Ali | Not In Love | Romance |
Hepworth, Sally | Darling Girls | Thriller |
Higgins, Chencia C. | A Little Kissing Between Friends | Two women worry that their newfound romance will ruin their yearslong friendship. |
Higgins, Kristan | Look On The Bright Side | Romance |
Hilderbrand, Elin | Swan Song | Fiction |
Hillerman, Anne | Lost Birds | Mystery - Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito #9 |
Hoffman, KT | The Prospects | The tale of two minor-league baseball rivals who realize they play much better together. |
Holiday, Jenny | Earls Trip | A bromantic comedy featuring three Regency-era Earls on their annual trip - ride-or-die buddies offering one another unconditional support in everything from Lady problems to family woes. |
Holtz, Melissa | An Enchanting Case Of Spirits | Paranormal Romance |
Hood, Ann | The Stolen Child | Historical Fiction |
Horowitz, Anthony | Close To Death | Mystery - Hawthorne and Horowitz #5 |
Hostin, Sunny | Summer On Highland Beach | Fiction - Summer Beach #3 |
Huang, Ana | King Of Sloth | Romance - Kings of Sin #4 |
Hughes, Caoilinn | The Alternatives | Fiction |
Huston, Charlie | Catchpenny | Fiction |
Iles, Greg | Southern Man | Thriller - Penn Cage #7 |
J., Jahquel | A Staten Island Love Story | Urban Fiction |
J., Jahquel | A Staten Island Love Story 2 | Urban Fiction |
January, Ava | The Mayfair Dagger | Historical Mystery |
Jean, Emiko | The Return Of Ellie Black | When Ellie Black, who disappeared two years earlier, is found alive in the woods of Washington State, Detective Chelsey Calhoun, whose own sister went missing when they were teenagers, realizes something is not right with Ellie and it's up to her to find the answers before another girl is taken. |
Jenner, Natalie | Every Time We Say Goodbye | Historical Fiction |
Johnson, Crystal J. | Unleashing Chaos | Fantasy Romance |
July, Miranda | All Fours | A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey. |
Jurczyk, Eva | That Night In The Library | One night locked in the library. What could go wrong? |
Kann, Claire | Looking For Love In All The Haunted Places | Romance |
Karrington, Kaylha | Call Center Freak | Take a ride with the stripper formerly known as Treasure as she transforms into a corporate woman, working what's supposed to be a nine-to-five job--which turns out to be everything but "regular." |
Kelley, Pamela M. | The Seaside Sisters | Fiction |
Kennedy, Raven | Glint | Fantasy Romance - The Plated Prisoner #2 |
Kennedy, Raven | Gleam | Fantasy Romance - The Plated Prisoner #3 |
Kerin, Liz | First Light | Horror - Night's Edge #2 |
Khavari, Kate | A Botanist's Guide To Society And Secrets | Historical Mystery - Saffron Everleigh #3 |
Khong, Rachel | Real Americans | What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures? |
Kim, Sophie | The God And The Gumiho | The most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up with a trickster god-turned-detective to track down a wrathful demon before it can destroy the mortal world. |
King, Stephen | You Like It Darker | Speculative Short Stories |
King-Miller, Lindsay | The Z Word | During a Pride celebration, Wendy notices the beginning of an infection that seems to be turning people into zombies. |
Kitasei, Yume | The Stardust Grail | Save one world. Doom her own. |
Kitt, Sandra | Finders Keepers | Romance - Millionaire's Club #3 |
Kuang, Yulin | How To End A Love Story | Two screenwriters deal with their past relationship as they work together on a new TV series. |
Kwan, Kevin | Lies And Weddings | A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding. |
Landau, Alexis | The Mother Of All Things | Fiction |
Langan, Sarah | A Better World | You'll be safe here. |
Laroux, Harley | Her Soul For Revenge | To get revenge, she'll need a demon. To get his help, she'll promise him anything. |
Lau, Jackie | Love, Lies, And Cherry Pie | A romance about a young woman's desperate attempts to fend off her meddling mother...only to find that maybe mother does know best. |
Lauren, Christina | The Paradise Problem | Romance |
Lawrence, Mark | The Book That Broke The World | Fantasy - Library Trilogy #2 |
Lazaridis, Henriette | Last Days In Plaka | Fiction |
Linde, K. A. | The Wren In The Holly Library | Can you love the dark when you know what it hides? |
Lloyd, Ellery | The Final Act Of Juliette Willoughby | Some women won't be painted out of history. |
Lock, Nicholas | Confessions Of A Hitman | Urban Fiction |
Logan, James | The Silverblood Promise | Fantasy |
Lorac, E. C. R. | Death Of An Author | Classic Mystery |
Lü, Wenyan | The Funeral Cryer | Fiction |
Luna, Louisa | Tell Me Who You Are | Thriller |
Mack, Catherine | Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies | Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. |
Mackintosh, Clare | A Game Of Lies | Mystery - DC Morgan #2 |
Ma-Kellams, Christine | The Band | A psychologist with a savior complex offers shelter to a recently cancelled K-pop idol. |
Malfi, Ronald Damien | Small Town Horror | Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon them. |
Malian, Treasure | The Wife Of A Brooklyn Billionaire | In Brooklyn, where dreams clash with reality, Unique Westbrooks and Aspen Vanderbilt's love story defies the odds. |
Malone, Michael J. | The Murmurs | A young woman starts experiencing terrifying premonitions of people dying. |
Manibo, Victor | Escape Velocity | A decades-old murder looms over the glamorous clientele of a high-end space hotel ... while an unforeseen threat percolates in the service corridors. |
Marshall, Jessie Ren | Women! In! Peril! | Short Stories |
Marshall, Maureen | The Paris Affair | A young engineer working for Gustave Eiffel is caught in a web of deceit that could destroy both him and the famous tower. |
Marvel, Mae | Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous | Romance |
Matharu, Taran | Dragon Rider | Fantasy - Soulbound Saga #1 |
McCoy, Taj | The Good Ones Are Taken | When Maggie's best friend admits he's in love with her, she'll have to decide whether it's worth giving up something good for something that could be amazing. |
McDaniel, R. J. | All Things Seen And Unseen | Gothic Fiction |
McFadden, Freida | The Housemaid Is Watching | Mystery - Housemaid #3 |
McPhillips, Fiona | When We Were Silent | An outsider threatens to expose the secrets at an elite private school. |
Medina Mora, Nicolás | América Del Norte | Fiction |
Medina, Nick | Indian Burial Ground | As suspicious deaths mount on a reservation in Louisiana, Noemi begins to uncover secrets about what is menacing the tribal lands. |
Meesha | A Thug's Street Princess. 2 | Urban Fiction |
Meesha | A Thug's Street Princess 3 | Urban Fiction |
Meier, Leslie | Patchwork Quilt Murder | Cozy Mystery - Lucy Stone #30 |
Mendez, Adrian "Ox" | High Risks | They laugh . . . They joke . . . But these boys don't play. |
Mills, Samantha | The Wings Upon Her Back | A disgraced soldier fights to make sense of her world and the gods who abandoned it. |
Min, Juli | Shanghailanders | Follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time--beginning in 2040 and moving through the present and the recent past. |
Miranda, Megan | Daughter Of Mine | Her father was the town detective. Her mother its most notorious criminal. Now the secrets of Mirror Lake are coming to the surface...and changing everything. |
Mogollon, Melissa | Oye | A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. |
Monae, Karma | Torn Between the Plug & A Savage | Urban Fiction |
Monaghan, Annabel | Summer Romance | Fiction |
Monaye, B. | My Heart Chose Sin: A Rich Romance | Urban Fiction |
Monaye, B. | My Heart Chose Sin 2 | Urban Fiction |
Monroe, Mary | God Don't Like Ugly | Fiction |
Mosley, Walter | Farewell, Amethystine | Mystery - Easy Rawlins #16 |
Mukherjee, Abir | Hunted | Two parents facing catastrophe must find their lost children before the unthinkable can happen. |
Muller, Marcia | Circle In The Water | Mystery - Sharon McCone #36 |
Murase, Takeshi | The God Of Nishi-Yuigahama Station | Months after a fatal train derailment, rumors spread of a ghost who can send others back in time to the day of the terrible accident, offering a chance for people to go back and see those dear to them. |
Murphy, Monica | Savor And Intoxicated | Romance - The Billionaire Bachelors Club |
Nagendra, Harini | A Nest Of Vipers | Mystery - Kaveri and Ramu #3 |
Napolitano, Ann | Within Arm's Reach | Fiction |
Natt och Dag, Niklas | 1795 : The Order Of The Furies | Historical Mystery - Jean Mickel Cardell #3 |
Neilson, Riss M. | A Love Like The Sun | Lifelong best friends spend a fateful summer discovering what might happen if they were to be something more. |
Nguyen, K. T. | You Know What You Did | Is someone out to get Annie? Or is she her own worst enemy? |
Nicholls, David | You Are Here | Fiction |
Nicole, Latoya | Grand St. Luxe | Urban Fiction |
Nix, Susannah | The Love Code | Romance |
Nodarse, Alejandro | Blood In The Cut | Iggy Guerra is out of prison, but his homecoming is anything but smooth. |
North, Emet | In Universes | Fiction |
O'Connor, Elizabeth | Whale Fall | Fiction |
Okonkwo, Uche | A Kind Of Madness | Short Stories |
Oliveira, Anthony | Dayspring | Fiction |
Pak, Sŏ-ryŏn | A Magical Girl Retires | Stopped from jumping off a bridge by her guardian angel, a millennial woman learns she is a magical girl like the ones in manga and must wield her credit card as her magic wand to defeat monsters. |
Paris, B. A. | The Guest | |
Park, Suzanne | One Last Word | What would you say to your meddling parents, your ex-best friend, your toxic boss, or your high school crush if you didn't have to face the consequences? |
Patterson, James | The 24th Hour | Mystery - Women's Murder Club #24 |
Paulsen, Annabel, and Lydia Wang | Here For The Wrong Reasons | Two dating show contestants vying for the affection of the leading man fall head over heels--for each other. |
Payne, Fumiya | The Butterfly Mafia: 3 When It Rains It Pours | Urban Fiction |
Pearson, Yona | Lovin' A Rich Goon With Motion | Urban Fiction |
Pelecanos, George P. | Buster: A Dog | The story of one dog's life, as told by the animal himself. |
Phillips, Gary | Violent Spring | Mystery - Ivan Monk #1 |
Piazza, Jo | The Sicilian Inheritance | Historical Mystery |
Playa Ray | Crime Boss 3 : Road To Revenge | Urban Fiction |
Politano, Joanna Davidson | The Elusive Truth Of Lily Temple | Christian Historical |
Portero, Alana | Bad Habit | Fiction |
Reese, Theresa | Woke Up In A Mansion With A Rich Savage 2 | Urban Fiction |
Reese, Theresa | Woke Up In A Mansion With A Rich Savage | Urban Fiction |
Reichl, Ruth | The Paris Novel | Fiction |
Renee, L. | Gangsta, I Do | Urban Fiction |
Richards, Diane | Ella | A debut work of biographical fiction that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald. |
Richemond, B. | Unexpectedly Taken : A Millionaire Romance | Urban Fiction |
Ricks, Thomas | Everyone Knows But You | Mystery |
Riley, Vanessa | A Gamble At Sunset | When a duke discovers the woman he loves was tricked into marrying another, the master chess player makes the now-widowed Viscountess the wager of his life in a last-ditch effort to win her affection: he will find husbands for her two sisters--or depart forever. |
Rio, King | Steppers 3 : The Richest Opp | Urban Fiction |
Roanhorse, Rebecca | Mirrored Heavens | Fantasy - Between Earth and Sky #3 |
Roberts, Nora | Mind Games | Fiction |
Roberts, Sheila | The Best Life Book Club | Fiction - Moonlight Harbor #8 |
Robinson, Ishi | Sweetness In The Skin | A Jamaican girl is determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional family and into the opportunity of a lifetime. |
Robuck, Erika | The Last Twelve Miles | Two real, brilliant women on opposite sides of the law, in a deadly game of cat and mouse... |
Rochon, Farrah | Pardon My Frenchie | Romance |
Roemer, Astrid | Off-White | It's 1966 in Suriname, on the Caribbean coast of South America, and the long shadow of colonialism still hangs over the country. |
Romano-Lax, Andromeda | The Deepest Lake | In this thriller set at a luxury memoir-writing workshop on the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, a grieving mother goes undercover to investigate her daughter's mysterious death. |
Rose, Jeneva | Home Is Where The Bodies Are | Thriller |
Rosenblum, Emma | Very Bad Company | Thriller |
Rowley, Steven | The Guncle Abroad | Fiction - Guncle #2 |
Rozakis, Caitlin | Dreadful | Humorous Fantasy |
Sahota, Sunjeev | The Spoiled Heart | Fiction |
Salvatore, R. A. | Pinquickle's Folly | Fantasy - Demonwars: The Buccaneers #1 |
Samatar, Sofia | The Practice, The Horizon, And The Chain | Science Fiction |
Sawyer, Kim Vogel | The Songbird Of Hope Hill | Christian Historical |
Score, Lucy | The Corpse In The Closet | Mystery - Riley Thorn #2 |
Score, Lucy | The Blast From The Past | Mystery - Riley Thorn #3 |
Sebastian, Cat | You Should Be So Lucky | Historical Romance |
Shaara, Jeff | The Shadow Of War | Historical Fiction |
Shade, Anne | Leather, Lace, And Locs | Three friends, each on their own path in life, with one obstacle...finding room in their busy lives for a love that will give them their happily ever afters. |
Shalvis, Jill | The Summer Escape | Fiction - Sunrise Cove #6 |
Shattuck, Jessica | Last House: Or, The Age Of Oil | Historical Fiction |
Shelton, Paige | The Poison Pen | Mystery - Scottish Bookshop #9 |
Shenjé, Kuchenga | The Library Thief | The library is under lock and key. But its secrets can't be contained. |
Shiloh, Toni | A Run At Love | Christian Romance |
Silver, Elsie | Wild Love | She's been driving him wild for years. |
Simmons, Julia Press | Begonia Brown: A Philadelphia Story | Urban Fiction |
Simonson, Helen | The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle And Flying Club | Historical Fiction |
Skeslien Charles, Janet | Miss Morgan's Book Brigade | Historical Fiction |
Sloan, Robin | Moonbound: The Last Book Of The Anth | Science Fiction |
Smith, Willow | Black Shield Maiden | An epic about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings. |
Sneed, Mark T. | Found Money | Urban Fiction |
Solvinic, Nicola | The Hunter's Daughter | Mystery |
Spencer, Kate | One Last Summer | Fiction |
Steel, Danielle | Resurrection | Fiction |
Stetz-Waters, Karelia | Second Night Stand | Romance |
Stratton, L. S. | Do What Godmother Says | A dual-timeline psychological thriller about a sinister white patron of Harlem Renaissance artists known as "Godmother" and a contemporary young Black woman who has inherited what may be a cursed painting. |
Styles, Toy | From Men To Monsters | Urban Fiction - Wales & Louisville Saga |
Sue, Natalie | I Hope This Finds You Well | Fiction |
Sullivan, Mark T. | All The Glimmering Stars | Historical Fiction |
Swanson, Peter | A Talent For Murder | A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer. |
Swinson, Kiki | Where There's Smoke | Mystery - Alayna Curry #2 |
Tacarra | Knight | Urban Fiction |
Tacarra | Knasim | Urban Fiction |
Tacarra | Kyandri | Urban Fiction |
Talty, Morgan | Fire Exit | From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation. |
Tang, Jiaming | Cinema Love | A tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. |
Tchaikovsky, Adrian | Service Model | To fix the world they must first break it, further. |
Thayer, Nancy | The Summer We Started Over | Fiction |
Thomas, Jodi | The Wild Lavender Bookshop | Romance - Someday Valley #2 |
Thomas, Trisha R. | The Secret Keeper Of Main Street | The story of Bailey Dowery, a Black dressmaker in 1950s Oklahoma whose gift of 'second sight' pulls her into a dangerous small-town scandal involving a society wedding, a murder, and shocking family secrets. |
Thompson, Victoria | Murder In Rose Hill | Historical Mystery - Gaslight #27 |
Thorne, Rebecca | Can't Spell Treason Without Tea: A Cozy Fantasy Steeped With Love | All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. |
Thorogood, Robert | The Queen Of Poisons | Mystery - Marlow Murder Club #3 |
Tietjen, Katie | Death In The Details | A debut mystery set in post-WWII Vermont, featuring a sleuth inspired by the mother of forensic science, Frances Glessner Lee. |
Tóibín, Colm | Long Island | Historical Fiction - Eilis Lacey #2 |
Toon, Paige | Seven Summers | Romance |
Towles, Amor | Table For Two : Fictions | Short Stories |
Travis, Alex | The Only Black Girl In The Room | An ambitious reporter stuck doing diversity checks for her white colleagues gets her big break. |
Tremblay, Paul | Horror Movie | A chilling twist on the "cursed film" genre. |
Tuli, Nisha J. | Fate Of The Sun King | Fantasy Romance - Artefacts of Ouranos #3 |
Turton, Stuart | The Last Murder At The End Of The World | Mystery |
Tyree, Omar | Control | Six talented but dangerously toxic personalities in the entertainment hotbed of Atlanta push their psychologist to her own vulnerable limits--and maybe beyond. |
Usher, Emily | Wild Ground | Fiction |
Van Booy, Simon | Sipsworth | Sometimes a second chance comes in the most unexpected way.... |
Veen, Johanna van | My Darling Dreadful Thing | If the dead can wake and walk among us, how can we know what is truly real? |
Vo, Nghi | The Brides Of High Hill | Fantasy - Singing Hills Cycle #5 |
Voskuni, Taleen | Lavash At First Sight | Romance |
Ware, Ruth | One Perfect Couple | Thriller |
Warnick, Fiona | The Skunks | Fiction |
Watson, Renée | Skin & Bones | Fiction |
Waxman, Abbi | Christa Comes Out Of Her Shell | Fiction |
Weaver, Brynne | Leather & Lark | Romance - Ruinous Love #2 |
Wen, Lai | Tiananmen Square | Historical Fiction |
Westlake, Jaclyn | Dear Dotty | Rosie Benson does not have it all together. |
White, Kate | The Last Time She Saw Him | Thriller |
White, Randy Wayne | One Deadly Eye | Mystery - Doc Ford #27 |
Whitten, Hannah | The Hemlock Queen | Fantasy - Nightshade Crown #2 |
Williams, Racquel | Luvin' Him Wasn't Enough | Urban Fiction |
Willse, Craig | Providence | An introverted English professor's quiet life gets turned upside down when he falls for a dangerous, enigmatic sophomore. |
Wilson, C. L. | King Of Sword And Sky | Fantasy Romance - Tairen Soul #3 |
Wingate, Lisa | Shelterwood | Historical fiction about the women pioneers who fought to protect children caught in the storm of land barons hungry for power and oil wealth. |
Winspear, Jacqueline | The Comfort Of Ghosts | Historical Mystery - Maisie Dobbs #18 |
Wiswell, John | Someone You Can Build A Nest In | A creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance--from the perspective of the monster. |
Wolf, Sara | Heavenbreaker | Bravery isn't what you do. It's what you endure. |
Wood, Aubrey | Bang Bang Bodhisattva | This punk ain't feelin' lucky. |
Wood, Monica | How To Read A Book | Fiction |
Wroblewski, David | Familiaris | Historical Fiction |
Yarros, Rebecca | The Reality Of Everything | Romance - Flight & Glory #5 |
Yoon, Nicola | One Of Our Kind | Thriller |
Yuzuki, Asako | Butter | A female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case. |
Someplace Generous | Romance Short Stories |
March 2024
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Ackerman, Elliot | 2054 | Thriller - Admiral James Stavridis #2 |
Acton, Helly | Begin Again | Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? |
Adams, Jenny | A Deadly Endeavor | In this historical mystery debut, a serial killer is on the loose in Jazz Age Philadelphia. |
Adams, Parker | The Lock Box | When an army-vet-turned-safecracker is forcibly recruited to be part of a dangerous heist, she'll need all her skills to get out alive. |
Adams, Sarah | The Rule Book | Romance |
Alexander, Neely Tubati | In A Not So Perfect World | An ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a strategy for (almost) everything discovers what happens when her best-laid plans go off course. |
Alvarez, Julia | The Cemetery Of Untold Stories | When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. |
Anastacia-Renee | Here In The (Middle) Of Nowhere | A bold collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturist science fiction. |
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. |
Baldacci, David | A Calamity Of Souls | Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants. |
Bardugo, Leigh | The Familiar | Lowly kitchen servant Luzia uses a bit of magic to get through her days, but when her ability to produce small miracles is discovered, it launches her into a dangerous world. |
Barrett, Colin | Wild Houses | Fiction |
Barrios Vélez, María Alejandra | The Waves Take You Home | When the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. |
Beaird, Rowan | The Divorcées | In this debut novel set at a 1950s Reno divorce ranch, two women dare to imagine a different future. |
Bird, Kristen | Watch It Burn | Three women work to uncover the scorching lies and scandal behind a self-help movement, igniting a powder keg of secrets that could blow their town apart. |
Blake, Audrey | The Woman With No Name | On a warm night in September, Yvonne Rudellat's house is bombed. |
Boryga, Andrew | Victim | A hustler from the Bronx sees through the veneer of diversity initiatives and decides to cash in on the odd currency of identity. |
Bowen, Rhys | In Sunshine Or In Shadow | Historical Mystery - Molly Murphy #20 |
Brandy, Meagan | Say You Swear | Romance - Boys of Avix #1 |
Bratton, Allen | Henry Henry | Fiction |
Braunstein, Sarah | Bad Animals | Fiction |
Brooks, Elizabeth | The Woman In The Sable Coat | Historical Fiction |
Bullwinkel, Rita | Headshot | Fiction |
Cabiya, Pedro | Reinbou | In the Time of the Butterflies meets Woman of Light in this work of historical fiction about U.S. intervention and corruption in the Dominican Republic. |
Callaway, Joy | What The Mountains Remember | At a wondrous resort, secrets can easily be hidden in plain sight when the eye is trained on beauty. |
Campos, Simone | Nothing Can Hurt You Now | Thriller |
Carlson, Melody | Just For The Summer | If you lived in a different place and had a different job, couldn't you have a different life? |
Carson, Scott | Lost Man's Lane | Thriller |
Casale, Alexia | The Best Way To Bury Your Husband | A dark comedy about four women coming together to heal the damage their husbands have done--and hide their bodies once they've killed them. |
Cavanagh, Steve | Kill For Me, Kill For You | After being pushed to the brink, two ordinary women who make a dangerous pact to take revenge for each other. |
Chancy, Myriam J. A. | Village Weavers | The story of two families, forever joined by country, long-held secrets, and two girls with a bond that refuses to be broken. |
Chapman, Ryan | The Audacity | A bracing satire about the implosion of a Theranos-like company, a collapsing marriage, and a billionaires' "philanthropy summit." |
Cherry, Brittainy C. | The Air He Breathes | Romance - Elements #1 |
Chung, Gina | Green Frog | Short Stories |
Chupeco, Rin | Court Of Wanderers | Fantasy - Reaper #2 |
Clark, Mary Higgins | It Had To Be You | Mystery - Under Suspicion #8 |
Clayborn, Kate | The Other Side Of Disappearing | Romance |
Cleeton, Chanel | The House On Biscayne Bay | As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and present collide. |
Cochrun, Alison | Here We Go Again | A queer rom-com following once childhood best friends forced together to drive their former teacher across the country. |
Cole, Alyssa | One Of Us Knows | A thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer--and the ghosts of her past. |
Colgan, Jenny | Studies At The School By The Sea | Fiction - School by the Sea #4 |
Conley, Garrard | All The World Beside | Historical Fiction |
Corinne, Peyton | Unsteady | Romance |
Cornwell, Bernard | Sharpe's Command | Historical Fiction - Sharpe #23 |
Cunningham, Vinson | Great Expectations | A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man's life. |
Curtis, Grace | Floating Hotel | Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. |
Davies, Carys | Clear | A minister is dispatched to a remote island off of Scotland to "clear" the last remaining inhabitant, who has no intention of leaving. |
De Guzman, Carla | Manila Takes Manhattan | How do you follow your heart when it's in two places? |
Dean, Abigail | Day One | Thriller |
Denfeld, Rene | Sleeping Giants | Thriller |
Deveraux, Jude | An Unfinished Murder | Mystery - Medlar #5 |
Diaka, Ama Asantewa | Someone Birthed Them Broken | Short Stories |
Dolidon, Annabelle | Continuum: French Science Fiction Short Stories | Speculative Anthology |
Donati, Sara | The Sweet Blue Distance | A young midwife travels west to the New Mexico Territory to care for women in need and faces dangers more harrowing than the ones she's fleeing. |
Douaihy, Margot | Blessed Water | Mystery - Sister Holiday #2 |
Douglas, Penelope | Kill Switch | Romance - Devil's Night #3 |
Douglas, Penelope | Tryst Six Venom | Romance |
Dray, Stephanie | Becoming Madam Secretary | Historical Fiction |
Dudley, Christina Hwang | Pride & Preston Lin | In this modern-day retelling of Pride and Prejudice, the quick-witted and contrarian Lissie Cheng must navigate societal pressures and her growing attraction to the rich and enigmatic Preston Lin. |
Elsbai, Hadeer | The Weavers Of Alamaxa | Fantasy - Almaxa #2 |
Enger, Leif | I Cheerfully Refuse | Fiction |
Estes, Christina | Off The Air | A debut mystery featuring TV reporter Jolene Garcia. |
Everett, Percival | James | A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. |
Ferguson, Melissa | How To Plot A Payback | She's been muddling his plans for years---now he's the writer for the beloved character she plays on television, and it's time for payback. |
Fisher, Tarryn | Good Half Gone | Thriller |
Fletcher, Susan | The Night In Question | Florrie Butterfield--eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition--believes there can't be any more surprises in life. |
Flower, Amanda | To Slip The Bonds Of Earth | New historical mystery series featuring Katharine Wright, lesser-known sister of the Wright Brothers. |
Fox, Hester | The Book Of Thorns | Historical Fantasy |
French, Nicci | Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? | Mystery |
García Márquez, Gabriel | Until August | The rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude--a moving tale of female desire and abandon. |
Garvis Graves, Tracey | The Trail Of Lost Hearts | Romance |
George, Nicholas | A Deadly Walk In Devon | For fans of M.C. Beaton, Martha Grimes, and Alexander McCall Smith, the first in a new mystery series set in the English countryside, as a retired San Diego police detective embarks upon group walking tours in England's most scenic counties. |
Gómez-Jurado, Juan | Black Wolf | Mystery - Antonia Scott #2 |
Goodhand, James | The Day Tripper | The right guy, the right place, the wrong time. |
Gowda, Shilpi Somaya | A Great Country | Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. |
Graham, Heather | The Reaper Follows | Romantic Suspense - Larson & Forrest FBI #4 |
Gramazio, Holly | The Husbands | A woman comes home one day to find her attic is magic and producing an endless supply of interchangeable husbands. |
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. |
Gray, Erick S. | Butter Soft | Urban Fiction |
Greer, Sierra | Annie Bot | Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. |
Gudenkauf, Heather | Everyone Is Watching | Thriller |
Hall, Tamron | Watch Where They Hide | Mystery - Jordan Manning #2 |
Hanna, Rania | The Jinn Daughter | Fantasy |
Hannon, Irene | Sandcastle Inn | Christian Fiction - Hope Harbor #10 |
Hansbury, Griffin | Some Strange Music Draws Me In | Fiction |
Harwood-Jones, Markus | Really Cute People | Romance |
Hazell, Lottie | Piglet | Fiction |
Henry, Emily | Funny Story | Daphne is jilted almost at the altar in a town she moved to just for her now ex-fiancé; he abandoned her for Petra, who left Miles brokenhearted in her wake. Knowing no one else, Daphne moves in with Miles, just to have a roof over her head. |
Hogle, Sarah | Old Flames And New Fortunes | Paranormal Romance - Moonville #1 |
Holland, Lucy | Song of the Huntress | Historical Fiction |
Huang, Justinian | The Emperor And The Endless Palace | "What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition, when your soul remembers someone from a previous life?" |
Huguley, Piper | American Daughters | A historical novel about the remarkable friendship of Portia Washington and Alice Roosevelt, the daughters of educator Booker T. Washington and President Teddy Roosevelt. |
Hunter, Denise | Love, Unscripted | Christian Fiction |
India | Dishonorable | A young woman's plans for revenge and survival mode mentality force her to make desperate decisions that might flip friends into foes and leave her at the mercy of her enemies. |
Jacobs, Nova | The Stars Turned Inside Out | The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy, and the high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our universe. |
James, Tate | Fake | Romance - Madison Kate #3 |
James, Tate | Hate | Romance - Madison Kate #1 |
James, Tate | Kate | Romance - Madison Kate #4 |
James, Tate | Liar | Romance - Madison Kate #2 |
Jatoria, C. | Alexa, Play I Need A Rich Thug Husband 2 | Urban Fiction |
Jimenez, Abby | Just For The Summer | Romance |
Johnson, Micaiah | Those Beyond The Wall | Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths. |
Jones, Stephen Graham | The Angel Of Indian Lake | Horror - Indian Lake #3 |
Kaner, Hannah | Sunbringer | Fantasy - Fallen Gods #2 |
Karst, Leslie | Molten Death | Cozy Mystery - Orchid Isle #1 |
Kennedy, Raven | Gild | The fae abandoned this world to us. And the ones with power rule. |
Khawaja, Alina | Maya's Laws Of Love | A bride-to-be convinced she's cursed in romance finds her luck changing--at exactly the wrong time. |
Kiley, Alexandra | Kilt Trip | Romance |
Kim, A. H. | Relative Strangers | A timely spin on Sense and Sensibility. |
Kim, Crystal Hana | The Stone Home | A dual-timeline coming-of-age story that begins in the 1980s with a young girl and her mother in a South Korean reformatory center. |
Kingsley, Claire | Falling For My Enemy | Romance - Dirty Martini Running Club #2 |
Ko, Lisa | Memory Piece | What is the value of a meaningful life? |
Kristoff, Jay | Empire of the Damned | Fantasy - Empire of the Vampire #2 |
Kubica, Mary | She's Not Sorry | Thriller |
Kuku, Damilare | Nearly All The Men In Lagos Are Mad | Short Stories |
K'wan | Promise Kept | Urban Fiction - Promises #2 |
Labuskes, Brianna | The Lost Book of Bonn | Historical Fiction |
Lapid, Lihie | On Her Own | Fiction |
LaRocca, Eric | This Skin Was Once Mine And Other Disturbances | Horror Short Stories |
Lattimore, Ashton | All We Were Promised | A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia. |
Leckie, Ann | Lake Of Souls | Speculative Short Fiction |
Lee, Ela | Jaded | Jade thought she was everything she ever wanted to be. But now she feels like nothing at all. |
Leigh, Lora | Play Dirty | Romance - Tempting Seals: Triton #1 |
Leigh, Sydney | Peril In Pink | Everything is coming up rosé for innkeeper Jess Byrne until a murder on opening weekend gives her B&B's killer vibe a whole new meaning. |
Lennon, Ferdia | Glorious Exploits | An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. |
Lepe, Jessica | Flirty Little Secret | You've Got Mail meets Abbott Elementary in this romantic comedy where a meet disaster between a shy guidance counselor and the hot new history teacher leads an unexpected connection. |
Lillie, Vanessa, et. al | Young Rich Widows | Thriller |
Liu, Cixin | A View From The Stars | Science Fiction Collection |
Lloyd, Toby | Fervor | Fiction |
Mandelo, Lee | The Woods All Black | Equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all set in 1920s Appalachia. |
McAvoy, J. J. | Hathor And The Prince | Historical Romance - DuBells #3 |
McFadden, Freida | One By One | Thriller |
McIntosh, Phoebe | Dominoes | Fiction |
McNeal, Laura | The Swan's Nest | A historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great nineteenth-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. = |
Medlock, Noah | A Botanical Daughter | A captivating tale of two Victorian gentlemen hiding their relationship away in a botanical garden who embark on a Frankenstein-style experiment with unexpected consequences. |
Michaels, Fern | The Wild Side | Mystery |
Mockett, Marie Mutsuki | The Tree Doctor | Fiction |
Monks Takhar, Helen | Nothing Without Me | Thriller |
Monroe, Mary | Double Lives | Historical Fiction - Lexington, Alabama #4 |
Morris, Joel H. | All Our Yesterdays | A novel of Lady Macbeth. |
Mukherjee, Neel | Choice | Fiction |
Nee, John Shen Yen and S. J. Rozan | The Murder Of Mr. Ma | Historical Msytery |
Neubauer, Erica Ruth | Secrets Of A Scottish Isle | Historical Mystery - Jane Wunderly #5 |
Novak, Brenda | Tourist Season | A summer by the ocean promises new beginnings -- until old secrets resurface. |
Olson, Karen E. | An Inconvenient Wife | This crime novel--inspired by the Tudor era--takes the reader into the world of Kate Parker, who has just married billionaire Hank Tudor when a headless body is discovered near their summer home . . . |
Onomé, Louisa | Pride And Joy | Fiction |
O'Riley, Jeneane | How Does It Feel? | Fantasy Romance - Infatuated Fae #1 |
Painter, Lynn | Happily Never After | Romance |
Pandian, Gigi | A Midnight Puzzle | Mystery - Secret Staircase #3 |
Paretsky, Sara | Pay Dirt | Mystery - V.I. Warshawski #23 |
Pataki, Allison | Finding Margaret Fuller | An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller: America's first feminist and the pioneering journalist who inspired a generation of writers and activists. |
Patterson, James | The Murder Inn | Thriller |
Peguero, Robin | One In The Chamber | On Capitol Hill, they work you to death. |
Pelayo, Cynthia | Forgotten Sisters | A city's haunted history and fairy-tale horrors converge for two women. |
Perrin, Kristen | How To Solve Your Own Murder | A mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate. Now it's up to her great-niece to catch the killer. |
Phillips, Gary | Ash Dark As Night | Historical Msytery - Harry Ingram #2 |
Preston, Douglas J. | Extinction | Thriller |
Pulley, Natasha | The Mars House | A marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee. |
Pynn, Aubreé | One Final Shot | When their love is put to the ultimate test and their foundation is cracked, can they repair the damages to their covenant, or will their life together be over as quickly as it began? |
Rapp, Adam | Wolf At The Table | A multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst. |
Rath, Emily | Pucking Wild | Romance - Jacksonville Rays #2 |
Raybourn, Deanna | A Grave Robbery | Historical Romance - Veronica Speedwell #9 |
Reich, Christopher | Matterhorn | Thriller - Mac Dekker #1 |
Rose, Karen | Cheater | Romantic Suspense - San Diego Case Files #2 |
Rueckert, Rachel | If The Tide Turns | Historical Fiction |
Ryan, Jennifer | The Underground Library | When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to save the community's beloved library. |
Sagas, L.M. | Cascade Failure | Science Fiction - Ambit's Run #1 |
Sage, Lyla | Swift And Saddled | Romance - Rebel Blue Ranch #2 |
Salvatore, Steven | The Boyfriend Subscription | What happens when a simple deal gets...complicated? |
Sampson, Freya | Nosy Neighbors | Nothing brings neighbors together like someone else's secrets... At Shelley House, the walls have ears, and they're attached to a ragtag duo of busybodies ready to pry, snoop, and generally annoy their neighbors into solving a crime. |
Sandford, John | Toxic Prey | Mystery - Prey #34 |
Schaffert, Timothy | The Titanic Survivors Book Club | Historical Fiction |
Score, Lucy | The Dead Guy Next Door | Mystery - Riley Thorn #1 |
Selene, Lyra | A Feather So Black | Fantasy Romance - Fair Folk #1 |
Serle, Rebecca | Expiration Dates | Being single is like playing the lottery. There's always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all. |
Shames, Terry | Perilous Waters | Mystery - Jessie Madison #1 |
Sherri, Johnni | Heartbreak U: Freshman Year | Four diverse young women, each at a crossroads in their lives, meet at a very popular HBCU. |
Sikes, Adam | The Underhanded | Europe's last line of defense against neofascism--a history professor? |
Smiley, Jane | Lucky | Mystery |
Starck, Lindsay | Monsters We Have Made | Mystery |
Stark, Rachel | Perris, California | Fiction |
Steel, Danielle | Only The Brave | Historical Fiction |
Susberry, Embassie | Code Name Butterfly | Inspired by the incredible true story of Josephine Baker's role in the French Resistance. |
Sutanto, Jesse Q. | The Good, The Bad, And The Aunties | Romance - Aunties #3 |
Swinarski, Claire | The Funeral Ladies Of Ellerie County | Fiction |
Tanner, Alexandra | Worry | Fiction |
Taylor, Phoebe Atwood | The Mystery Of The Cape Cod Players | Classic Mystery - Asey Mayo #3 |
Thorne, Jennifer | Diavola | Horror |
Thrash, Maggie | Rainbow Black | Thriller |
Topp, Blacc | Tainted Too | Urban Fiction - Tainted #2 |
Towles, Amor | Table For Two | Short Stories |
Villarreal-Moura, Ursula | Like Happiness | Fiction |
Wallace, Joanna | You'd Look Better As A Ghost | A comic thriller following the trials and tribulations of Claire, a part-time serial killer who is keen to keep her favorite hobby a secret--despite the efforts of a determined blackmailer. |
Westerbeke, Douglas | A Short Walk Through A Wide World | Historical Fantasy |
Wilson, C. L. | Lady Of Light And Shadows | Fantasy Romance - Tairen Soul #2 |
Winslow, Don | City In Ruins | Thriller - Danny Ryan #3 |
Xaviere, Musih Tedji | These Letters End In Tears | Fiction |
Yablon, Hillary | Sylvia's Second Act | When sixty-three-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in bed with the floozy of their Boca retirement community, she's shocked and furious . . . at first. By the time her head stops spinning, Sylvia realizes that actually, this isn't what she wants anymore anyway. |
Della's House Of Style | Romance Anthology | |
The Inhumans And Other Stories: A Selection Of Bengali Science Fiction | Speculative Anthology | |
Through The Night Like A Snake: Latin American Horror Stories | Horror Anthology |
February 2024
Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
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Adams, Tranay | Money Hungry Demons | Urban Fiction |
Akhtar, Amina | Almost Surely Dead | Thriller |
Arden, Katherine | The Warm Hands Of Ghosts | During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise. |
Armentrout, Jennifer L. | Visions Of Flesh And Blood | Paranormal Romance - Blood of Ash/Flesh and Fire |
Armstrong, Kelley | The Boy Who Cried Bear | Mystery - Haven's Rock #2 |
Asher, April | Not Your Crush's Cauldron | Paranormal Romance - Supernatural Singles #3 |
Ashley, Jennifer | Speculations In Sin | Historical Mystery - Below Stairs #7 |
Bailey, Tessa | Fangirl Down | Romance - Big Shots #1 |
Baker, Ellen | The Hidden Life Of Cecily Larson | Historical Fiction |
Bakis, Kirsten | King Nyx | Mystery |
Ballard, Falon | Right On Cue | Romance |
Banks, Russell | American Spirits | Fiction |
Baragwanath, Tom | Paper Cage | Mystery |
Barker-White, Eleanor | My Name Was Eden | One twin vanished. The other twin remained. Until now... |
Beaton, M. C. | Death Of A Spy | Mystery - Hamish Macbeth #36 |
Bell, Angela | A Lady's Guide To Marvels And Misadventure | Christian Historical |
Black, Cara | Murder At La Villette | Mystery - Aimée Leduc #21 |
Black, Lisa | The Deepest Kill | Mystery - Locard Institute #3 |
Bohjalian, Chris | The Princess Of Las Vegas | A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of money and murder. |
Bond, Gwenda | The Frame-Up | A magically gifted con artist must gather her estranged mother's old crew for a once-in-a-lifetime heist. |
Bo-Reum, Hwang | Welcome To The Hyunam-Dong Bookshop | A slice-of-life novel for readers of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of AJ Fikry. |
Brade, Scarlett G. | The Hive | Should he live or die? You decide. |
Brayden, Melissa | You Had Me At Merlot | Romance |
Brown, Gareth | The Book Of Doors | Cassie Andrews, a mild-mannered bookseller in New York City, inherits the mysterious eponymous volume from a deceased customer. |
Brown, Tracy | Brooklyn | The question isn't who murdered her; the question is who wouldn't? |
Bruen, Ken | Galway Confidential | Mystery - Jack Taylor #17 |
Brunstetter, Wanda E. | Letters Of Wisdom | Christian Fiction - Friendship Letters #3 |
Bryce, Denny S., and Eliza Knight | Can't We Be Friends | Uncovers the boundary-breaking, genuine friendship between Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz, and iconic movie star Marilyn Monroe. |
Bull, Jessica | The Hapless Milliner | Historical Mystery - Miss Austen Investigates #1 |
C., Jatoria | Alexa, Play I Need A Rich Thug Husband | Urban Fiction |
Camden, Elizabeth | While The City Sleeps | Christian Historical |
Carlsson, Christoffer | Under The Storm | Mystery |
Carr, Flora | The Tower | A reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots's darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom. |
Carr, Lakiesha | An Autobiography Of Skin | Follows three women whose various traumas haunt them literally and metaphorically, as it explores what it means to be a Black woman in America today. |
Chan, Eliza | Fathomfolk | Fantasy |
Cheeks, Maura | Acts Of Forgiveness | How much of their lineage is one family willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program? |
Childs, Laura | Murder In The Tea Leaves | Cozy Mystery - Tea Shop #27 |
Church, Meagan | The Girls We Sent Away | Historical Fiction |
Church, Wendy | Knife Skills | Mystery - Shadows of Chicago #1 |
Churchill, Amanda | The Turtle House | Fiction |
Clifton, Ash | Twice The Trouble | A private investigator follows a trail of blood and bodies to find his latest target-or die trying-in this riveting thriller for fans of Jeffery Deaver and Mick Herron. |
Coelho, Paulo | Maktub | An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. |
Connealy, Mary | Chasing The Horizon | Christian Historical - A Western Light #1 |
Cosimano, Elle | Finlay Donovan Rolls The Dice | Mystery - Finlay Donovan #4 |
Crawford, Isis | A Catered Quilting Bee | Cozy Mystery - Mystery with Recipes #18 |
Croft, Jennifer | The Extinction Of Irena Rey | Eight translators search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. |
Croucher, Lex | Trouble | Historical Romance |
Crucet, Jennine Capó | Say Hello To My Little Friend | Scarface meets Moby Dick in this darkly comic novel about a young man's attempt to capitalize on his mother's murky legacy. |
Dade, Olivia | At First Spite | A woman buys the town's famous Spite House, only to realize the infuriating man she can't stand lives right next door. |
Deibel, Jennifer | The Irish Matchmaker | Christian Historical |
Dodd, Christina | Every Single Secret | Romantic Suspense |
Elliott, Jessi | The Devil's Waltz | What happens when a young woman from a family of demon hunters falls in love with the prince of hell? |
Estep, Jennifer. | Only Hard Problems | Science Fiction Romance - Galactic Bonds #3 |
Evans, Jaq | What Grows In The Dark | A phony spiritualist returns to her hometown to assist in an investigation that eerily mirrors her sister's death, forcing her to confront the secrets she's been running from. |
Ferguson, Ian | I Only Read Murder | A once-famous TV sleuth. An amateur theater production. An onstage murder. A town full of suspects… |
Flame | A Gangsta's Karma 4 | Urban Fiction |
Forest, Kristina | The Partner Plot | Two former high school sweethearts get a second chance in this marriage of convenience romance. |
Frick, Kit | The Split | Thriller |
Gallagher, Matt | Daybreak | A disillusioned American veteran volunteers for the war in Ukraine to reconnect with a woman from his past. |
Gallon, Michael | The Murder Queens 5 | Urban Fiction |
Gardner, Lisa | Still See You Everywhere | Mystery - Frankie Elkin #3 |
Gentill, Sulari | The Mystery Writer | There's nothing easier to dismiss than a conspiracy theory--until it turns out to be true. |
Gibson, S. T. | An Education In Malice | A dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers. |
Gonzalez, Xochitl | Anita De Monte Laughs Last | A first-generation Ivy League student uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death. |
Gracia, Anna | The Break-Up Vacation | Romance |
Gray, Madeleine | Green Dot | An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing. |
Greenwood, T. | The Still Point | When the opportunity for a full scholarship to the Ballet de Paris Academie arrives, three mothers reveal the sacrifices they've made for their children, for friendship, and for art. |
Ham, Yeji Y. | The Invisible Hotel | I know this place. The room is too dim to see clearly. It smells like the bones. |
Hameroff, Lindsay | Till There Was You | Romance |
Harrison, Kim | Three Kinds Of Lucky | Luck is its own kind of magic, in this first book in an electrifying new contemporary fantasy series. |
Hartong, Mary Liza | Love And Hot Chicken | Fiction |
Henríquez, Cristina | The Great Divide | A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there. |
Holohan, Kevin | So You Wanna Run A Country? | Science Fiction |
Hosein, Kevin Jared | Hungry Ghosts | Two families collide in 1940s Trinidad, and a chilling mystery shows how interconnected their lives truly are. |
Howard, Scott Alexander | The Other Valley | Science Fiction |
Huber, Anna Lee | Sisters Of Fortune | Based on the true story of the Fortune sisters, three young women each at a crossroads when they boarded the RMS Titanic in the spring of 1912. |
Humphreys, Helen | Followed By The Lark | Biographical Fiction |
Jayatissa, Amanda | Island Witch | Set in 19th century Sri Lanka and inspired by local folklore, the daughter of a traditional demon-priest tries to solve the mysterious attacks that have been terrorizing her coastal village. |
J-Blunt | Church In These Streets | Urban Fiction |
Jensen, Danielle L. | A Fate Inked In Blood | A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king while fighting her growing desire for his fiery son. |
Johnson, Jane | The Black Crescent | A historical novel set in post-war Casablanca about a young man marked by djinns who must decide where his loyalties lie as the fight for Moroccan independence erupts. |
Kapur, Parul | Inside The Mirror | Visionary twin sisters aspire to become artists in 1950s India, confronting a society hostile to women claiming their place in the world. |
Kashiwai, Hisashi | The Kamogawa Food Detectives | What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? |
Kaswell, Crystal | The Neighbor Wager | Romance |
Kelly, Anita | How You Get The Girl | Romance - Nashville Love #3 |
Kennedy, Elle | Girl Abroad | Romance |
King, Laurie R. | The Lantern's Dance | Historical Mystery - Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #18 |
Kiste, Gwendolyn | The Haunting Of Velkwood | Three childhood friends miraculously survive the night everyone in their suburban hometown turned into ghosts. |
Kumar, Amitava | My Beloved Life | Historical Fiction |
Kurian, Vera | A Step Past Darkness | Six classmates. One terrifying night. A murder twenty years in the making… |
Kurkov, Andreĭ | The Silver Bone | This debut mystery introduces rookie detective Samson Kolechko in Kyiv as he is tackling his first case, set against real life details of the tumultuous early twentieth century. |
Landau, A. J. | Leave No Trace | The Statue of Liberty is the target of a terrorist attack, the first in a possible series of attacks, in this new series featuring Special Agent Michael Walker of the National Park Service. |
Lares, Mariely | Sun Of Blood And Ruin | This reimagining of Zorro--featuring a heroic warrior sorceress--weaves Mesoamerican mythology and Mexican history two decades after the Spanish conquest. |
Laroux, Harley | Her Soul To Take | The demon didn't just want my body. He wanted my soul. |
Larsen, Samantha | Once Upon A Murder | Cozy Mystery - Lady Librarian #2 |
Lawrence, Vanessa | Ellipses | A young woman caught in a toxic mentorship with an older, powerful executive grapples with career, belonging, and the complexity of modern relationships in the digital age. |
Le Guin, Ursula K. | Five Novels | Science Fiction |
Lea, Amy | The Catch | Romance - Influencer #3 |
Lebbon, Tim | Among The Living | Horror |
Lee, Laura Piper | Hannah Tate, Beyond Repair | Romance |
Lefferts, Daniel | Ways And Means | Thriller |
Lemming, Kimberly | That Time I Got Drunk And Saved A Human | Fantasy Romance - Mead Mishaps #3 |
Lewis, Gerri | The Last Word | An obituary writer finds one of her neighbors dead before her time in this debut cozy mystery for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Eva Gates. |
Lim, Roselle | Night For Day | Two American ex-lovers working in London are unexpectedly caught up in a war between immortal gods. |
Link, Kelly | The Book Of Love | Three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle. |
Love, B. | The Loyal Wife | Perfect wife... Perfect life... until you can't remember either. |
Love, Ryan | Arthur And Teddy Are Coming Out | Fiction |
Lovering, Carola | Bye, Baby | Fiction |
Lyon, Rachel | Fruit Of The Dead | Fiction |
Mahmood, Imran | Finding Sophie | Two parents, desperate to find their missing daughter, stand accused of murder. How far will they go to find the truth? |
Malye, Julia | Pelican Girls | Debut captures the journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry settlers in North America's Louisiana Territory. |
Marley, Tay | Meant For Me | Romance |
Marr, Melissa | Remedial Magic | Fantasy Romance |
Marsh, Violet | Lady Charlotte Always Gets Her Man | A woman escapes an arranged marriage to a dastardly viscount and falls for his brother instead in this romantic historical mystery. |
Maupin, Armistead | Mona Of The Manor | Fiction - Tales of the City #10 |
May, Elizabeth | To Cage A God | Fantasy |
McDonough, Patrice | Murder By Lamplight | As a deadly cholera pandemic burns its way through Victorian London in the winter of 1866, a trailblazing female physician and a skeptical Scotland Yard detective reluctantly team up to stop a sadistic killer. |
McFadden, Freida | The Inmate | The guiltiest people aren't always the ones behind bars... |
McGuire, Seanan | Aftermarket Afterlife | Urban Fantasy - InCryptid #13 |
McKinlay, Jenn | Fatal First Edition | Cozy Mystery - Library Lover's #14 |
McTiernan, Dervla | What Happened To Nina? | Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. |
Mendoza, Clyo | Fury | Dystopian Fiction |
Mitchell, Jamel | For The Love Of Blood 4 | Urban Fiction |
MZ | The Moorings Of Mackerel Sky | In this close-knit town famous for its infamous mermaids, community is built through love and lore--willful elements that the townsfolk will have to harness if Mackerel Sky is to endure for another three hundred years. |
Nickson, Chris | The Scream Of Sins | Historical Mystery - Simon Westow #6 |
Novak, Brenda | The Messy Life Of Jane Tanner | Romance - Coyote Canyon #3 |
Obreht, Téa | The Morningside | There's the world you can see. And then there's the one you can't. Welcome to the Morningside. |
Odden, Karen | Down A Dark River | Historical Mystery - Inspector Michael Corravan #1 |
O'Farrell, Maggie | The Distance Between Us | Fiction |
Okri, Ben | The Age Of Magic | A group of world-weary travelers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious Swiss mountain village. |
Older, Malka | The Imposition Of Unnecessary Obstacles | Science Fiction Mystery - Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti #2 |
Olivas, Daniel A. | Chicano Frankenstein | An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a near-future world that both needs and resents him. |
Oliveira, Robin | A Wild And Heavenly Place | Historical Fiction |
Oliver, Diane | Neighbors And Other Stories | Short Stories |
Osler, Rob | Cirque Du Slay | In this mystery for fans of Steven Rowley and Elle Cosimano, the circus becomes the stage for a high-profile murder investigation. |
Oyeyemi, Helen | Parasol Against The Axe | A novel about competitive friendship, the elastic boundaries of storytelling, and the meddling influence of a city called Prague. |
Patterson, James 1947- | The #1 Lawyer | Thriller |
Payne, Nikki | Sex, Lies And Sensibility | Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated inn but must learn to work with the locals in this spicy novel inspired by Sense and Sensibility. |
Peikoff, Kira | Baby X | In a world where any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder. |
Peterson, Tracie | A Love Discovered | The heart finds its way when one least expects it--even in the most unforgiving frontiers. |
Phillips, C. N. | Manhattan | Urban Fiction - Carl Weber's Five Families of New York #5 |
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth | Simply The Best | Romance - Chicago Stars #10 |
Porter, Sarah | Projections | Love may last a lifetime, but in this dark historical fantasy, the bitterness of rejection endures for centuries. |
Rashad, Rae Giana | The Blueprint | In the vein of Octavia E. Butler and Margaret Atwood, a harrowing novel set in an alternate United States--a world of injustice and bondage in which a young Black woman becomes the concubine of a powerful white government official and must face the dangerous consequences. |
Reay, Katherine | The Berlin Letters | A CIA code breaker risks everything to free her father from an East German prison. |
Reid-Benta, Zalika | River Mumma | A young Black woman who navigates her quarter-life-crisis while embarking on a mythical quest through the streets of Toronto. |
Reilly, Grace | First Down | Romance - Beyond the Play #1 |
Rice, Waubgeshig | Moon Of The Turning Leaves | Science Fiction - Moon #2 |
Richards, Jeffrey L. | We Are Only Ghosts | Historical Fiction |
Rio, King | Super Gremlin 4 | Urban Fiction |
Ritchie, Krista and Becca | Some Kind Of Perfect | Romance - Calloway Sisters #4.5 |
Robinson, Roxana | Leaving | What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? |
Roper, Richard | This Disaster Loves You | Twenty years of love. Seven years of absence. One journey to find out what happened. |
Ruffin, Maurice Carlos | The American Daughters | A novel of hope and triumph that reminds us what is possible when a community bands together to fight for their freedom. |
Ruggle, Katie | Fish Out Of Water | Climb Every Mountain Man! |
Ruiz-Grossman, Sarah | A Fire So Wild | When a wildfire creeps toward Berkeley, California, it ignites tensions as characters from all walks of life confront the injustices lying beneath the city's surface. |
Runyan, Aimie K. | The Memory Of Lavender And Sage | Fiction |
Ryan, Kennedy | This Could Be Us | Romance - Skyland #2 |
Saintcrow, Lilith | A Flame In The North | The first book in a Norse-inspired epic trilogy about ancient myth and magical destiny. |
Santorella, Tony | Bored Gay Werewolf | A directionless college-dropout deals with sexuality, minimum-wage jobs, lunar cycles, toxic masculinity and the everyday perils of life as a modern werewolf. |
Saynomore | The Black Diamond Cartel 3 | Urban Fiction |
Sbrana, Analeigh | Lore Of The Wilds | A library with a deadly enchantment. A Fae lord who wants in. A human woman willing to risk it all for a taste of power. |
Schillace, Brandy | The Framed Women Of Ardemore House | An abandoned English manor. A peculiar missing portrait. A cozy, deviously clever murder mystery, perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz. |
Scottoline, Lisa | The Truth About The Devlins | Thriller |
Siegel, Natasha | The Phoenix Bride | Historical Romance |
Slatter, Angela | The Briar Book Of The Dead | Fantasy |
Smith, Jill Eileen | The Ark And The Dove: The Story Of Noah's Wife | Christian Historical |
Smith, Tiana | The Spy And I | After a case of mistaken identity, one woman must work with her sister's sexy spy partner to save the world. |
Spalding, Amy | At Her Service | Romance - Out in Hollywood #2 |
Spence, Ken-Ken | The Lane 2 | Urban Fiction |
St Clair, Scarlett | A Touch Of Chaos | Fantasy Romance - Hades X Persephone #7 |
St. James, Simone | Murder Road | Thriller |
St. John, Yahrah | Frenemy Fix-Up | Free-spirited yoga guru Shay Davis has only ninety days to get her workaholic former classmate Colin Anderson from work all day to namaste. |
Stimpson, Michelle | Sisters With A Side Of Greens | Fiction |
Stoker, Susan | The Hero | Romance - Game of Chance #3 |
Stovall, Mariah | I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both | Fiction |
Styles, T. | An Ugly Girl's Diary 3 | Urban Fiction |
Talabi, Wole | Convergence Problems | Speculative Short Stories |
Tauhid, Prince A. | Bloodline Of A Savage 2 | Urban Fiction |
Tauhid, Prince A. | Relentless Goon | Urban Fiction |
Tavares, Nathan | Welcome To Forever | A sweeping, psychedelic romance of two men caught in a looping world of artificial realities, edited memories, secretive cabals and conspiracies to push humanity to the next step in its evolution. |
Tchaikovsky, Adrian | House Of Open Wounds | Fantasy - Tyrant Philosophers #2 |
Tintera, Amy | Listen For The Lie | What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn't matter? |
Tomlinson, Sarah | The Last Days Of The Midnight Ramblers | Three Rock & Roll icons. Two explosive tell-all memoirs. One ghostwriter caught in the middle. |
Toshiko Simpson, Leanne | Never Been Better | A bipolar woman travels to Turks and Caicos to break up the wedding of her best friends. |
Unger, Lisa | The New Couple In 5B | Thriller |
Utomi, Moses Ose | The Truth Of The Aleke | Fantasy - Forever Desert #2 |
Waidner, Isabel | Corey Fah Does Social Mobility | Fiction |
Wallace, Sarah | Breeze Spells And Bridegrooms | Historical Fantasy |
Walters, Monica | You Make Me Feel | A socialite and a cautious introvert try to make a love connection, but their differences might be more than they can overcome. |
Wan, Sophie | Women Of Good Fortune | A reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own motives and fed up with the way society treats women, forge a plan to steal all the gift money on the big day. |
Warren, Susan May | One Last Shot | Find. Save. Protect. Meet the heroes of the last frontier. |
Weatherspoon, Rebekah | Meegan: A Holidate For Hire | Romance - Loose Ends #3 |
White, Loreth Anne | The Unquiet Bones | Mystery |
Williams, Phillip B. | Ours | An enigmatic woman named Saint annihilates plantations all over Arkansas in the 1830s and brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town magically concealed from outsiders named Ours. |
Williams, Sheila | No Better Time | A historical novel about the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only Black WACs to serve overseas during World War II |
Wjuanae | Lover's Island | Love and loss aren't unfamiliar territory to Nyimah Deveraux. |
Yamashita, Iris | Village In The Dark | Mystery - Cara Kennedy #2 |
Young, Ileandra | Blood Rage | Paranormal Romance - Spear Mission Files #3 |
Yu, Jessica Zhan Mei | But The Girl | Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl boards her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath. |
Yuszczuk, Marina | Thirst | Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. |
Zahn, Timothy | The Icarus Job | Science Fiction - Icarus Saga #3 |
Zambra, Alejandro | My Documents | Short Stories |
Penny Bloods: Gothic Tales of Dangerous Women | Speculative Short Stories |
January 2024
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 |
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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
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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. |
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