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March 2023
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aboulela, Leila | River Spirit | An embattled young woman comes of age during the Mahdist War in 19th century Sudan. |
| Aira, Cesar | Fulgentius | Novel about an aging Roman general on what may be his last campaign into the provinces. |
| Alpert Florin, Daisy | My Last Innocent Year | Fiction |
| Andrews, V. C. | Little Paula | Mystery - Eden #2 |
| Angel-Ajani, Asale | A Country You Can Leave | A debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert. |
| Archer, C. J. | The Medici Manuscript | Historical Mystery - The Glass Library #2 |
| Armstrong, Kelley | Murder At Haven's Rock | First volume in a spinoff series that sees Casey Duncan and Eric Dalton starting a new town deep in the Yukon. |
| Atwood, Margaret | Old Babes In The Wood | Short Stories |
| Baker, Raymond | Entanglement | Urban Fiction |
| Baptiste, Robert | The Streets Never Let Go 3 | Urban Fiction |
| Barnhill, Kelly | The Crane Husband | Taking care of her small Midwestern family while her mother, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries, a 15-year-old girl must protect them all from an invasive creature whose demands could destroy everything - unless she changes the story. |
| Bartz, Julia | The Writing Retreat | While attending a month-long writing retreat, Alex, determined to win a seemingly impossible contest, ignores the strange happenings around her until the disappearance of a fellow writer leads her on a desperate search for the truth. |
| Beagin, Jen | Big Swiss | A novel about a sex therapist's transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. |
| Bilow, Rochelle | Ruby Spencer's Whisky Year | When a thirtysomething American food writer moves to a Scottish village for one year to fulfill her dream of writing a cookbook, she finds more than inspiration--she meets a handsome Scotsman she can't resist. |
| Black, Cara | Night Flight To Paris | Thriller - Kate Rees WWII #2 |
| Bledsoe, Lucy Jane | Tell The Rest | Two estranged childhood friends find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart. |
| Bond, Gwenda | Mr. & Mrs. Witch | A couple discovers at the altar the surprising secret identities they've kept from each other. |
| Brown, Adrienne Maree | Maroons | Fantasy - Black Dawn #2 |
| Brown, Carolyn | The Devine Doughnut Shop | Fiction |
| Brown, Diane Marie | Black Candle Women | A family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family curse, and one very complicated year of heartache, miscommunication, and learning to let go. |
| Brunstetter, Wanda E. | Letters Of Trust | Where is hope when Eleanor Lapp's life starts to fall apart as extreme grief drives her husband to drink to numb his pain? |
| Campbell, Theresa A. | Marked At Birth | Christian Fiction |
| Carlson, Melody | Second Time Around | Christian Romance |
| Carr, Lakiesha | An Autobiography Of Skin | Interconnected generations of Southern black women demonstrate how their experiences are carried inside the body when a new mother experiences a devastating postpartum depression and a daughter returns home to fight the ghosts of her past. |
| Casati, Costanza | Clytemnestra | For fans of Madeline Miller, a debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious villainess of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen. |
| Catton, Eleanor | Birnam Wood | The founder of a guerilla gardening group that plants crops on roadsides, parks, and neglected yards fights an enigmatic billionaire over a parcel of land. |
| Chakraborty, Shannon | The Adventures Of Amina Al-Sirafi | First in a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas: pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, and one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory--and write her own legend. |
| Chang, Janie | The Porcelain Moon | A novel set in WWI France about two young women--one Chinese, one French--whose lives intersect with unexpected, potentially dangerous consequences. |
| Charles, KJ | The Secret Lives Of Country Gentlemen | Gothic scandal meets Bridgerton intrigue in this swashbuckling Regency romance. |
| Childs, Laura | Lemon Curd Killer | Cozy Mystery - Tea Shop #25 |
| Chokshi, Roshani | The Last Tale Of The Flower Bride | A gothic-infused story about a marriage that is unraveled by dark secrets, a friendship cursed to end in tragedy, and the danger of believing in fairy tales. |
| Chukwu, J. K. | The Unfortunates | A queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhausted by the racism at her elite college, sets out to find truth about The Unfortunates--the unlucky subset of Black undergrads who have been mysteriously dying. |
| Church, Clay | All Good A Week Ago: In My Lifetime Series | An ex-undercover cop turned P.I., Vegas Wolfchild, picks up two cases that seem to be a walk in the park, "easy money." But both quickly turn life threatening. |
| Church, Meagan | The Last Carolina Girl | A novel for fans of Where the Crawdad's Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own. |
| Clark, C. L. | The Faithless | Fantasy - Magic of the Lost #2 |
| Clifford, Stephanie | The Farewell Tour | A novel that tells the story of one unforgettable woman's rise in country and western music. |
| Coben, Harlan | I Will Find You | Mystery |
| Colgan, Jenny | Lessons At The School By The Sea | Fiction - School by the Sea #3 |
| Conde, Maryse | The Gospel According To The New World | Fiction |
| Connealy, Mary | Forged In Love | Christian Historical |
| Cullen, Lynn | The Woman With The Cure | A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic. |
| Dailey, Janet | A Calder At Heart | Romance - Calder Brand #3 |
| Dalton, Julie Carrick | The Last Beekeeper | Fiction |
| Daria, Alexis | Take The Lead | When a star dancer and a reluctant celebrity are teamed up on a reality dancing competition, their mutual dislike soon turns into a secret romance that could threaten everything they've worked for. |
| Dazai, Osamu | The Flowers Of Buffoonery | For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai's hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human. |
| Deibel, Jennifer | The Maid Of Ballymacool | The only home Brianna Kelly has ever known is Ballymacool Boarding School, but when the son of local gentry arrives at the school to deal with his unruly niece, an unexpected discovery uncovers the truth about her past--and the key to her future. |
| Diesel, Von | Real G's Move In Silence | Urban Fiction |
| Dimaline, Cherie | Venco | After finding a tarnished silver spoon humming with otherworldly energy, Métis millennial Lucky St. James, familiar with the magic of her Indigenous ancestors, and her cantankerous grandmother Stella are welcomed into the fold of VenCo - a network of witches working to return women to their rightful power. |
| Dodd, Christina | Forget What You Know | Thriller |
| Doller, Trish | Off The Map | A road trip romance through the Irish countryside where two new friends wonder at something more. |
| Douaihy, Margot | Scorched Grace | Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this debut crime novel. |
| Elliot, Amanda | Best Served Hot | Two restaurant critics learn their opposing tastes might make for a five-star relationship. |
| Ellison, J. T. | It's One Of Us | Everybody lies. Even the ones you think you know best of all . . . |
| Engberg, Katrine | The Sanctuary | Mystery - Korner and Werner #4 |
| Estep, Jennifer | Conquer The Kingdom | Fantasy - Gargoyle Queen #3 |
| Farmer, Bernard | Death Of A Bookseller | A British Library Crime Classic originally published in 1956. |
| Fedor, Emma | At Sea | What happens when the man you love most in the world--who may be lying about everything--unexpectedly disappears and takes your small child with him? |
| Ferguson, Sarah Duchess of York | A Most Intriguing Lady | A historical saga about a Duke's daughter--the perfect Victorian lady--who secretly moonlights as an amateur sleuth for high society's inner circle. |
| Fields, Anthony | If You Cross Me Once | Urban Fiction |
| Fields, Anthony | If You Cross Me Once 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Finlay, Alex | What Have We Done | A stay-at-home mom with a past. A has-been rock star with a habit. A reality TV producer with a debt. Three disparate lives. One deadly secret. |
| Forest, Kristina | The Neighbor Favor | A shy bookworm enlists her charming neighbor to help her score a date, not knowing he's the obscure author she's been corresponding with. |
| Foster, Lori | The Dangerous One | Being alone is what he wanted... All he needed was her. |
| Frumkin, Rafael | Confidence | Thriller |
| George, Emily | A Half-Baked Murder | After a scathing food review and a messy breakup, a formally trained pastry chef returns home to California to launch a cannabis bakery with her quirky Aunt Dawn. |
| Gilmartin, Sarah | Dinner Party | Fiction |
| Gladstone, Max | Dead Country | Fantasy - Craft Wars #1 |
| Goldsworthy, Vesna | Iron Curtain: A Love Story | Historical Fiction |
| Grace, Hannah | Icebreaker | Sparks fly when a competitive figure skater and hockey team captain are forced to share a rink. |
| Gray, Erick S. | Queens 2: The Kingdom | Urban Fiction |
| Greaney, Mark | Burner | Thriller - Gray Man #12 |
| Guns, Priya | Your Driver Is Waiting | A ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity, and financial security...until she decides she's done waiting. |
| Hambly, Barbara | One Extra Corpse | Historical Mystery - Silver Screen #2 |
| Hart, Emilia | Weyward | A debut that explores witchcraft and female intuitive powers, told over five centuries through three connected women, for fans of Kate Morton, Diane Setterfield, and Sarah Perry. |
| Hawkins, S. | Pillow Princess | Urban Fiction |
| Hawley, Sarah | A Witch's Guide To Fake Dating A Demon | Mariel Spark knows not to trust a demon, especially one that wants her soul, but what's a witch to do when he won't leave her side--and she kind of doesn't want him to? |
| Head, Cheryl A. | Time's Undoing | A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist's search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago--inspired by the author's own family history. |
| Hedlund, Jody | Last Chance Cowboy | Christian Romance |
| Holland, Jacqueline | The God Of Endings | This debut spans history, weaving a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman. |
| Holmes, Rupert | Murder Your Employer : The Mcmasters Guide To Homicide | The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts is a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of murder where earnest students study how best to "delete" their most deserving victim. |
| Hurwitz, Gregg | The Last Orphan | Thriller - Orphan X #8 |
| Jackson, Jenny | Pineapple Street | Fiction |
| Jama-Everett, Ayize | Heroes Of An Unknown World | Science Fiction - Liminal People #4 |
| Jance, J. A. | Collateral Damage | Mystery - Ali Reynolds #17 |
| Jaswal, Balli Kaur | Now You See Us | The story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own. |
| Jimenez, Claire | What Happened To Ruthy Ramirez | A Puerto Rican family in Staten Island discovers their long-missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home. |
| Johnson, Joshua Phillip | The Endless Song | Fantasy - Tales of the Forever Sea #2 |
| Kelly, Anita | Something Wild & Wonderful | A sparkling grumpy-meets-sunshine romance featuring two men's sweeping journey across the Western wilderness. |
| Kelly, Julia | The Lost English Girl | Historical Fiction |
| Kennedy, Elle | Rogue | Romance - Prep #2 |
| Kent, Kathleen | Black Wolf | A story about a female CIA agent whose extraordinary facial recognition powers lead her into the dangerous heart of the Soviet Union--and the path of a killer who shouldn't exist. |
| King, Owen | The Curator | A Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurers are the most wonderful criminals you can imagine. |
| Klapecki, S. J. | Station Six | Science Fiction - Black Dawn #3 |
| Koller Croft, Rachel | Stone Cold Fox | A debut novel about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families. |
| Labuskes, Brianna | The Librarian Of Burned Books | Historical Fiction |
| Lam, Thien-Kim | Full Exposure | Can a Big Easy fling become the real thing? |
| Landay, William | All That Is Mine I Carry With Me | A mother vanished. A father presumed guilty. There is no proof. There are no witnesses. For the children, there is only doubt. |
| Landsem, Stephanie | Code Name Edelweiss | Adolf Hitler is still a distant rumble on the horizon, but a Jewish spymaster and his courageous spies uncover a storm of Nazi terror in their own backyard. |
| Lanza, R. P. | Observer | A neurosurgeon gets involved with a scientific research team's mind-bending project. |
| Lavalle, Victor | Lone Women | A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and a bracing new vision of the American West. |
| Lindsay, Rachel | Real Love | Reality-TV love may look tempting, but real love could change everything in the debut novel from the Bachelorette star and author of Miss Me with That. |
| Lorac, E. C. R. | Post After Post-Mortem | Classic British Mystery originally published in 1936. |
| Lostetter, Marina | The Cage Of Dark Hours | Fantasy - Five Penalties #2 |
| Lowell, Joanna | Artfully Yours | Sparks fly between a lordly art critic and a lady forger in this Victorian historical romance. |
| Lumsden, Katie | The Secrets Of Hartwood Hall | Historical Mystery |
| Major, Cesca | Maybe Next Time | One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming and emotionally poignant novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate. |
| Makkai, Rebecca | I Have Some Questions For You | When film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is invited back to the New Hampshire boarding school she attended as a teenager, she finds herself drawn to investigate the murder of a classmate in 1995. |
| Mallery, Susan | The Sister Effect | Fiction |
| Matthews, Owen | White Fox | A thriller about two competing KGB operatives on a race across Russia and against time to uncover the devastating truth behind the assassination of JFK. |
| Mattia, Aurora | The Fifth Wound | Fiction |
| Maxwell, Jessa | The Golden Spoon | A locked-room mystery where someone turns up dead on the set of TV's hottest baking competition--for fans of Nita Prose, Richard Osman, and Anthony Horowitz. |
| May, Stephen | Sell Us The Rope | Historical Fiction |
| McCauley, Jennifer Maritza | When Trying To Return Home : Stories | A short story collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond-and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms. |
| McDaniel, Tiffany | On The Savage Side | Six women--mothers, daughters, sisters--gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims. |
| McFarlane, Fiona | The Sun Walks Down | Historical Fiction |
| McGuire, Seanan | Backpacking Through Bedlam | Urban Fantasy - InCryptid #12 |
| Meesha | Baby, I'm Wintertime Cold 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Mills Newman, Alison | Francisco | First published in 1974, actor-turned-minister Newman's only novel is a lush narrative of a young Black woman's love affair with a filmmaker. |
| Mizushima, Margaret | Standing Dead | Mystery - Timber Creek K-9 #8 |
| Moeng, Gothataone | Call And Response : Stories | Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate relationships, tradition and caretaking in a rapidly changing world. |
| Molotti | Loyalty Is Everything | Cordale and Willis are best friends who came up together from the mud on their way to hood stardom. What starts as a nickel and dime hustle grows into a big-time drug operation, and then jealousy and grudges threaten to destroy everything they've built. |
| Moore, Celeste | Terms & Conditions Of Creepin With A Rich Boss | Urban Fiction |
| Moorman, Jennifer | The Baker's Man | In the Southern town of Mystic Water, magic is always in the wind--and in the ovens. |
| Moustakis, Melinda 1982- | Homestead | A debut novel, set in Alaska, about the turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders. |
| Ndala, Blaise | In The Belly Of The Congo | A gripping multigenerational novel that explores the history and human cost of colonialism in the Congo. |
| Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai | Dust Child | A richly poetic and suspenseful saga about two Vietnamese sisters, an American veteran, and an Amerasian man whose lives intersect in surprising ways, set during and after the war in Việt Nam. |
| Nickson, Chris | The Dead Will Rise | Historical Mystery - Simon Westow #5 |
| Nnuro, DK | What Napoleon Could Not Do | Envious of his sister, who achieved, as their father put it, "what Napoleon could not do," by graduating law school in the U.S. and marrying a wealthy black businessman from Texas, Jacob, fighting for a visa to join his wife in Virginia, must learn from his dashed hopes to fulfill his own dreams. |
| North, Alex | The Angel Maker | Thriller |
| Okri, Ben | The Last Gift Of The Master Artists | Fiction |
| Older, Malka | The Mimicking Of Known Successes | A cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter. |
| Pardo, Paz | The Shamshine Blind | This debut imagines a world where emotions have been weaponized, and a small-town law enforcement agent uncovers a conspiracy to take down what's left of American democracy. |
| Parry, H. G. | The Magician's Daughter | Fantasy |
| Patel, Sajni | Isha, Unscripted | Unwilling to yield to familial expectations, an aspiring screenwriter attempts to pursue her dreams during an unforgettable night of chaos. |
| Patterson, James | Countdown | Thriller |
| Penner, Sarah | The London Séance Society | From the author of the sensational bestseller The Lost Apothecary comes a spellbinding tale about two daring women who hunt for truth and justice in the perilous art of conjuring the dead. |
| Peterson, Tracie | Remember Me | From the Yukon to Seattle, the hope of a new beginning waits just around the corner. |
| Raybourn, Deanna | A Sinister Revenge | Historical Mystery - Veronica Speedwell #8 |
| Read, Sara | Johanna Porter Is Not Sorry | Fiction |
| Riddle, A. G. | Quantum Radio | At CERN, a scientist has just made an incredible discovery - a breakthrough that may answer the deepest questions about human existence. But what he's found is far more dangerous than he ever imagined. |
| Rio, King | The Brick Man 5 | Urban Fiction |
| Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 6 | Urban Fiction |
| Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 7 | Urban Fiction |
| Robinson, Corey | Love In The Trenches | Urban Fiction |
| Robinson, Corey | Protege Of A Legend 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Robotham, Michael | Lying Beside You | Thriller - Cyrus Haven #3 |
| Roemer, Astrid | On A Woman's Madness | A classic of queer literature originally published in 1982. |
| Rose, Karen | Cold-Blooded Liar | Mystery - San Diego Case Files #1 |
| Roth, Veronica | Arch-Conspirator | A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Antigone. |
| Ruff, Matt | The Destroyer Of Worlds | Horror - Lovecraft Country #2 |
| Samano Cordova, Gerardo | Monstrilio | Horror |
| Santopolo, Jill | Stars In An Italian Sky | A sweeping story of two star-crossed lovers in post-World War II Italy, and a blossoming relationship generations later that will reveal a long-buried family secret. |
| Saynomore | Soul Of A Hustler, Heart Of A Killer 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Schuyler, George S. | Black Empire | A pioneering work of Afrofuturism and antiracist fiction by the author of Black No More, about a Black scientist who masterminds a worldwide conspiracy to take back the African continent from imperial powers. |
| Score, Lucy | Things We Hide From The Light | Romance - Knockemout #2 |
| Scott, Kylie | End Of Story | Romance |
| Scott, Sophfronia | Wild, Beautiful, And Free | The story of one young woman's bold journey to reclaim her birthright and carve out her own place in a world that tells her she doesn't belong. |
| Scottoline, Lisa | Loyalty | An emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily. |
| Shannon, Samantha | A Day Of Fallen Night | The standalone prequel to the bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree. |
| Sharma, Nisha | The Karma Map | A youth group's temple road trip through India is a liberating escape for former mean girl Tara Bajaj and aspiring photojournalist Silas D'Souza-Gupta to explore their past and their feelings for each other. |
| Shea, Susan C. | Murder Visits A French Village | When Ariel Shepherd inherits a rundown French château and with finances tight, she swaps her Manhattan lifestyle for a peaceful French village. But life becomes more complicated when a historian is found dead in the moat! |
| Shipman, James D. | Beyond The Wire | Historical Fiction |
| Sloan, Elissa R. | Hayley Aldridge Is Still Here | A forgotten child star and former Hollywood "It" Girl fights back against the conservatorship that has controlled her life for the past decade. |
| Snyder, Lucy A. | Sister, Maiden, Monster | A visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet's disastrous transformation and told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare. |
| Spalding, Amy | For Her Consideration | When an aspiring L.A. scriptwriter falls head-over-heels for a bossy and beautiful movie star after a devastating break-up, the two take a risk on love and cast themselves as the leading ladies of their own star-struck romance. |
| Stage, Zoje | Mothered | A claustrophobic psychological thriller about one woman's nightmarish spiral while quarantined with her mother. |
| Stoker, Susan | Finding Ashlyn | Romance - Seal Team Hawaii #6 |
| Sutanto, Jesse Q. | Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice For Murderers | A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way. |
| Swan, Richard | The Tyranny Of Faith | Fantasy - Empire of the Wolf #2 |
| Swanson, Peter | The Kind Worth Saving | When a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, little does he know that the twisted trail will lead back to the woman who hired him. |
| Tay, Self Made | Born In The Grave 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Todd, Charles | The Cliff's Edge | Historical Mystery - Bess Crawford #13 |
| Topp, Blacc | Tainted | Urban Fiction |
| Tukes, Romell | Bodymore Kingpins | Urban Fiction |
| Tukes, Romell | Bronx Savages | Urban Fiction |
| Tukes, Romell | Sosa Gang | Urban Fiction |
| Turano, Jen | Match In The Making | Christian Historical |
| Variyar, Rajasree | The Daughters Of Madurai | Both a heartrending family story and a page-turning mystery about the secrets we must keep to protect those we love. |
| Walls, Eoghan | The Gospel Of Orla | The coming-of-age story of a young girl, Orla, and the man she meets who has an astonishing and unique ability. |
| Walls, Jeannette | Hang The Moon | Historical Fiction |
| Walters, Monica and LaJill Hunt | Full Figured 18 | Urban Fiction |
| Whitten, Hannah | The Foxglove King | A young woman's secret power to raise the dead plunges her into the dangerous and glamorous world of the Sainted King's royal court. |
| Williams, Janelle M. | Gone Like Yesterday | Zahra, a young black woman who can hear the voices of her ancestors singing to her through moths, teams up with Sammie, an outspoken Trini-American teenager who can also hear them, as the pair search for Zahra's missing brother. |
| Williams, Jibril | Money Mafia 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Winnette, Colin | Users | Dystopian Fiction |
| Winter, Lee | Chaos Agent | Romance - Villains #2 |
| Winter, Lee | The Fixer | Romance - Villains #1 |
| Woolridge, Addie | Anatomy Of A Meet Cute | Romance |
| Yolen, Jane | The Scarlet Circus | Short Stories |
January 2023
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Abbas, Fatin | Ghost Season | A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. |
| Adebayo, Ayobami | A Spell Of Good Things | A story of modern Nigeria and two people caught in the riptides of wealth, power, poverty, and corruption. |
| Adjapon, Bisi | Daughter In Exile | Fiction |
| Alsterdal, Tove | You Will Never Be Found | Mystery - High Coast #2 |
| Amidon, Stephen | Locust Lane | Can anyone be trusted in this small town? |
| Arend, Nicole | Vamps: Fresh Blood | At an elite vampire academy, a half vampire, half human struggles to hone his bloodthirsty side. |
| Asher, April | Not Your Ex's Hexes | Romance - Supernatural Singles #2 |
| Asher, Lauren | Final Offer | Romance - Dreamland Billionaires #3 |
| Bailey, Tessa | Secretly Yours | Romance |
| Ballard, Falon | Just My Type | To win the job of her dreams, a relationship-prone journalist needs to learn how to stay single. |
| Beaton, M. C. | Death Of A Traitor | Mystery - Hamish Macbeth #35 |
| Bennett, Michael | Better The Blood | A debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand's indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Māori screenwriter and director. |
| Berne, Suzanne | The Blue Window | A therapist whose attempts to unlock the most difficult cases of her life reveal that the bigger the secret you're concealing, the more it conceals you. |
| Berry, Steve | The Last Kingdom | Thriller - Cotton Malone #17 |
| Black, Anna | Who Do I Run To Now? | Urban Fiction |
| Blue, Elly | Bicycles & Broomsticks: Fantastical Feminist Stories About Witches On Bikes | Science Fiction |
| Box, C. J. | Storm Watch | Mystery - Joe Pickett #23 |
| Brannigan, Ellie | Murder At An Irish Castle | Brannigan debuts a new mystery series coupling the beauties of Ireland with murder. |
| Brennan, Allison | Don't Open The Door | Mystery - Regan Merritt #2 |
| Butler, Lyn Liao | Someone Else's Life | A new life in paradise should have healed her wounds. But for a woman struggling to hold on to her family and her sanity, one stormy night could change everything. |
| Cai, Delia | Central Places | A young woman's past and present collide when she brings her white fiancé home to meet her Chinese immigrant parents. |
| Carroll, Jonathan | Mr. Breakfast | Fiction |
| Cauley, Kashana | The Survivalists | A single Black lawyer puts her career and personal moral code at risk when she moves in with her coffee entrepreneur boyfriend and his doomsday-prepping roommates. |
| Chase, Kristen M. | A Thousand Miles To Graceland | The journey of a thousand miles begins with sequins and a beehive wig in this debut novel about mothers, daughters, and the surprising power of Elvis. |
| Chen, Mike | Vampire Weekend | Being a vampire is far from glamorous...but it can be pretty punk rock. |
| Clayborn, Kate | Georgie, All Along | Romance |
| Coates, Darcy | The Twisted Dead | Horror - Gravekeeper #3 |
| Coble, Colleen | Dark Of Night | Romantic Suspense - Annie Pederson #2 |
| Colt, Peter | The Ambassador | Mystery - Andy Roark #4 |
| Comfort, Jen | Midnight Duet | A romance about two musicians who collide on the stage of a Nevada opera house. |
| Compton, Johnny | The Spite House | A debut horror tale that puts a modern spin on the haunted house story. |
| Cosimano, Elle | Finlay Donovan Jumps The Gun | Mystery - Finlay Donovan #3 |
| Cotterill, Colin | The Motion Picture Teller | Mystery |
| Craig, Charmaine | My Nemesis | Fiction |
| Crane, Marisa | I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself | Science Fiction |
| Crewe, Tom | The New Life | Two marriages, two forbidden love affairs, and the passionate search for social and sexual freedom in late 19th-century London. |
| Crombie, Deborah | A Killing Of Innocents | Mystery - Kincaid/James #19 |
| Crownover, Jay | Rule | Opposites in every way . . . except the one that matters. |
| Darwent, Heather | The Things We Do To Our Friends | Thriller |
| De Cadenet, Gia | Not The Plan | An ambitious chief of staff risks her career and her heart when she falls hard for her new colleague. |
| De Céspedes, Alba | Forbidden Notebook | A classic first published in Italy in 1952. |
| Delany, Vicki | The Game Is A Footnote | Cozy Mystery - Sherlock Holmes Bookshop #8 |
| DiLouie, Craig | Episode Thirteen | Horror |
| Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee | Independence | Set during the partition of British India in 1947, the sweeping story of three sisters caught up in events beyond their control, their unbreakable bond, and their incredible struggle against powerful odds. |
| Divya, S. B. | Meru | One woman and her pilot are about to change the future of the species in an epic space opera about aspiration, compassion, and redemption. |
| Dong, Maria | Liar, Dreamer, Thief | Thriller |
| Douglas, Claire | The Girls Who Disappeared | A journalist's life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that happened twenty years earlier. |
| Echevarre, Sarah | What We Remember | Fiction |
| Elliott, Kate | The Keeper's Six | Fantasy |
| Elsbai, Hadeer | The Daughters Of Izdihar | A debut set in a mix of modern Egypt and a timeless fantasy world. |
| Enriquez, Mariana | Our Share Of Night | A woman's mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. |
| Everett, Elizabeth | A Love By Design | Historical Romance - Secret Scientists of London #3 |
| Fawcett, Heather | Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia Of Faeries | A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love. |
| Fellowes, Jessica | The Mitford Secret | Historical Mystery - Mitford Murders #6 |
| Fenkl, Heinz Insu | Skull Water | An intergenerational coming-of-age novel set in South Korea--about friendship, belonging, and displacement. |
| Fuller, Kathleen | The Courtship Plan | Romance - Amish of Marigold #1 |
| Gītāñjali Śrī | Tomb Of Sand | An epic set in contemporary northern India, about a family and the inimitable octogenarian matriarch at its heart. |
| Godoy, Ariana | Through You | Romance - Hidalgo Brothers #2 |
| Golden, Christopher | All Hallows | Horror |
| Gray, Shelley Shepard | Sycamore Circle | Romance - Rumors in Ross County #2 |
| Gray, Shelley Shepard | Her Heart's Desire | Romance - Season in Pinecraft #1 |
| Hall, Alexis J. | Glitterland | Romance - Spires #1 |
| Hallett, Janice | The Twyford Code | The mysterious connection between a teacher's disappearance and an unsolved code in a children's book is explored in this mystery. |
| Harding, Paul | This Other Eden | Historical Fiction |
| Hardt, Helen | Blush | What he wants from you will make you blush. |
| Harper, Jordan | Everybody Knows | A publicist, who makes sure that everybody doesn't know about the shady dealings of the lawyers and private security firms for which she works, tries to discover the secret her boss took to his death. |
| Harris, Anstey | When I First Held You | Silence tore them apart. Can the truth bring them back together? |
| Hastings, Anastasia | Of Manners And Murder | First in a new historical mystery series. |
| Haynes, David | Right By My Side | 30th anniversary edition of a classic novel. |
| Haynes, Natalie | Stone Blind | The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. |
| Heisey, Monica | Really Good, Actually | One woman's messy search for joy and meaning in the wake of an unexpected breakup. |
| Hemon, Aleksandar | The World And All That It Holds | Historical Fiction |
| Hernandez, Treasure, and LaJill Hunt | Around The Way Girls 12 | Urban Fiction |
| Herrera, Jennifer | The Hunter | How can we uncover the truth when we are lying to ourselves? |
| Hoover, Colleen, and Tarryn Fisher | Never Never | Romantic Suspense |
| Hosein, Kevin Jared | Hungry Ghosts | The story of two families colliding in 1940s Trinidad--and a chilling mystery that shows how interconnected their lives truly are. |
| Hunter, Stephen | The Bullet Garden | Thriller - Earl Swagger #4 |
| Jenoff, Pam | Code Name Sapphire | A woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz. |
| Jessen, Lauren Kung | Lunar Love | A debut enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy. |
| Johansen, Iris, and Roy Johansen | More Than Meets The Eye | Mystery - Kendra Michaels #10 |
| Johns, Jessica | Bad Cree | A young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community, and the land they call home. |
| Johnson, Sadeqa | The House Of Eve | A story set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal. |
| Jones, Stephen Graham | Don't Fear The Reaper | Horror - Indian Lake #2 |
| Jones, Valona | Snuffed Out | Twin sisters Tabby and Sage co-own a candle shop, but will it all go up in flames? |
| Joyce, Rachel | Maureen | Fiction - Harold Fry #3 |
| Kellerman, Jonathan | Unnatural History | Mystery - Alex Delaware #38 |
| Kelly, Jennifer Savran | Endpapers | A queer book conservator finds a mysterious old love letter, setting off a search for the author who wrote it and for a meaningful life beyond the binary in early-2000s New York City. |
| Kois, Dan | Vintage Contemporaries | Pulled back into her past when a posthumous work needs a publisher, reconnecting her with an old friend, successful book editor and new mom Emily is forced to reckon with her decisions, her failures, and what kind of creative life she wants to lead. |
| Laestadius, Ann-Helén | Stolen | Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesbø in this Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her family's reindeer herd and culture. |
| Lea, Amy | Exes And O's | A romance novel-obsessed social media influencer revisits her exes on her hunt for true love. |
| Lester, Natasha | The Three Lives Of Alix St. Pierre | Historical Fiction |
| Lewis, Susannah B. | Della And Darby Of Sisters | In this small Mississippi town, everyone has long memories and loud opinions. |
| Lichtarowicz, Paula | The Snow Hare | A woman dreams of becoming a doctor until World War II leads her instead into an astonishing love--and a fateful choice. |
| Long, H. M. | Barrow Of Winter | Fantasy - Hall of Smoke #3 |
| Ma, Kathryn | The Chinese Groove | A story about a blithely optimistic immigrant with big dreams, dire prospects, and a fractured extended family in need of his help--even if they don't know it yet. |
| Maberry, Jonathan | Son Of The Poison Rose | Fantasy - Kagen the Damned #2 |
| Malliet, G. M. | Invitation To A Killer | Mystery - Augusta Hawke #2 |
| Markert, James | The Nightmare Man | A chilling horror novel that illustrates the fine line between humanity and monstrosity. |
| Markley, Stephen | The Deluge | A sprawling epic of climate apocalypse. |
| Maroo, Chetna | Western Lane | A debut novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself. |
| Marshall, Heather | Looking For Jane | In this debut novel inspired by true stories, three women's lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose. |
| Marshall, Kate Alice | What Lies In The Woods | Thriller |
| Maxwell, Alyssa | A Fashionable Fatality | Historical Mystery - Lady and Lady's Maid #8 |
| May, Peter | A Winter Grave | Thriller |
| McGuire, Seanan | Lost In The Moment And Found | Fantasy - Wayward Children #8 |
| Meier, Leslie, Lee Hollis, and Barbara Ross | Irish Coffee Murder | Cozy Mystery novellas |
| Minnicks, Jamila | Moonrise Over New Jessup | Historical Fiction |
| Moore, Scotto | Wild Massive | Science Fiction |
| Mosley, Walter | Every Man A King | Mystery - King Oliver #2 |
| Moyes, Jojo | Someone Else's Shoes | Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes? |
| Mukherjee, Oindrila | The Dream Builders | After living in the US for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world. |
| Mulford, A. K. | The High Mountain Court | Fantasy - Five Crowns of Okrith #1 |
| Mulford, A. K. | The Witches' Blade | Fantasy - Five Crowns of Okrith #2 |
| Newitz, Annalee | The Terraformers | Science Fiction |
| Nkrumah, Nyaneba | Wade In The Water | A debut novel that explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s. |
| O'Connor, Joseph | My Father's House | Historical Fiction |
| Olson, Kayla | The Reunion | When two former teen stars reconnect at the 20th reunion for their hit TV show, they discover their ... feelings for each other are real--and mutual!--and not just what was scripted out for them all those years ago. |
| Page, Sally | The Keeper Of Stories | Fiction |
| Patterson, James | 3 Days To Live | Thriller |
| Poeppel, Amy | The Sweet Spot | Fiction |
| Pylväinen, Hanna | The End Of Drum-Time | Historical Fiction |
| Quartey, Kwei | Last Seen In Lapaz | Mystery - Emma Djan #3 |
| Raybon, Patricia | Double The Lies | Historical Mystery - Annalee Spain #2 |
| Riedel, Josh | Please Report Your Bug Here | A dating app employee who discovers a glitch that transports him to other worlds. |
| Riker, Martin | The Guest Lecture | A newly jobless academic rehearses a speech on John Maynard Keynes for a surprising audience. |
| Robb, J. D. | Encore In Death | Mystery - In Death #56 |
| Robert, Katee | Radiant Sin | Romance - Dark Olympus #4 |
| Rollins, James | The Cradle Of Ice | Fantasy - Moonfall #2 |
| Rumfitt, Alison | Tell Me I'm Worthless | A dark, unflinching haunted house story that confronts both supernatural and real-world horrors through the lens of the modern-day trans experience. |
| Rushdie, Salman | Victory City | Historical Fiction |
| Ryan, Anastasia | You Should Smile More | When Vanessa Blair is fired because of her "resting bitch face," her friends help her get revenge... |
| Saab, Gabriella | Daughters Of Victory | Decades after defying her aristocratic family to join the Russian revolution, Svetlana Petrova opens her home to her eighteen-year-old granddaughter, Mila, who falls under the spell of the resistance when their remote village is overrun by Nazi invaders. |
| Salesses, Matthew | The Sense Of Wonder | When Won Lee, the first Asian American in the NBA, stuns the world in a seven-game winning streak, the global media audience dubs it "The Wonder"--much to Won's chagrin. |
| Sandgren, Lydia | Collected Works | A family saga following unsuccessful book publisher Martin Berg, who must confront life's banality in the aftermath of his wife's disappearance. |
| Schwartz, Selby Wynn | After Sappho | Historical Fiction |
| Scott, Kieran | Regrets Only | A single mom goes undercover to investigate a host of disturbing secrets held by the leaders of a local suburban parent-school association, including embezzlement, bribery, adultery, and murder. |
| Seeck, Max | The Last Grudge | Mystery - Ghosts of the Past #3 |
| Shah, Mansi | The Direction Of The Wind | A heartfelt story that spans continents and generations, about a young woman who searches for answers about a mother she barely remembers. |
| Shalvis, Jill | The Backup Plan | Romance - Sunrise Cove #3 |
| Shane, Lizzie | Sweeter Than Chocolate | Romance |
| Shearer, Eleanor | River Sing Me Home | The story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery. |
| Shepperson, Laura | Phaedra | Phaedra has been cast to the side all her life: daughter of an adulteress, sister of a monster, and now unwilling bride to the much-older, power-hungry Theseus. |
| Sinclair, Shaun | Beats And Blow | His empire is worth a billion thanks to the drug-fueled wealth of his infamous Dirty South crew. But with unanticipated enemies gathering for a final devastating hit, will there be anyone left to rule? |
| Smith, Tom Rob | Cold People | A mysterious force captures Earth and gives humanity thirty days to move to Antarctica, where they will be allowed to exist and survive in the planet's most extreme environment. |
| Steel, Danielle | Worthy Opponents | Fiction |
| Stetz-Waters, Karelia | Behind The Scenes | Romance |
| Stokes-Chapman, Susan | Pandora | A historical novel set in Georgian London where the discovery of a mysterious ancient Greek vase sets in motion conspiracies, revelations, and romance. |
| Suarez, Daniel | Critical Mass | A group of pioneering astropreneurs must overcome never-before-attempted engineering challenges to rescue colleagues stranded at a distant asteroid. |
| Sullivan, Sophie | A Guide To Being Just Friends | Romance |
| Sundin, Sarah | The Sound Of Light | Christian Historical |
| Tanamachi, Cara | The Second You're Single | Romance |
| Tchaikovsky, Adrian | Children Of Memory | Science Fiction - Children of Time #3 |
| Thomas, Kai | In The Upper Country | The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act--intertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad. |
| Torday, Daniel | The 12th Commandment | Fiction |
| Tudor, C. J. | The Drift | Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption. |
| Verble, Margaret | Stealing | A novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s. |
| Voskuni, Taleen | Sorry, Bro | An Armenian-American woman rediscovers her roots and embraces who she really is in this heartfelt queer rom-com. |
| Wachtel, Shirley Russak | A Castle In Brooklyn | Historical Fiction |
| Waidner, Isabel | Sterling Karat Gold | Fiction |
| Walters, Monica | Stuck On You | Urban Fiction |
| Weber, Carl | The Family Business 6 | Urban Fiction |
| Winslow, De'shawn Charles | Decent People | A sweeping novel of a Black community reeling from a triple homicide, and the secrets the killings reveal. |
| Yamashita, Iris | City Under One Roof | A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone winters in the same high-rise building. |
| Young, Louisa | Twelve Months And A Day | Romance |
| Yu, An | Ghost Music | A former concert pianist searches for the truth about a vanished musician. |
| Zhao, Kyla | The Fraud Squad | A working-class woman who infiltrates Singapore's high society to fulfill her dreams risks losing everything in the process--including herself. |
| Zigman, Laura | Small World | Two offbeat and newly divorced sisters move in together as adults--and finally reckon with their childhood. |
December 2022
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Adams, Sean | The Thing in the Snow | A psychological thriller set at an all-but-abandoned research institute in an unspecified chilly north. |
| Aiken, G. A. | The Heretic Royal | Fantasy Romance - Scarred Earth Saga #3 |
| Andrews, V. C. | Eden's Children | Mystery - Eden #1 |
| B, Knowledge | Tha Khronicles | Urban Fiction |
| Bardugo, Leigh | Hell Bent | Fantasy - Alex Stern #2 |
| Beers, Georgia | Camp Lost and Found | Romance |
| Bell, Marcella | The Rodeo Queen | The rules of being a rodeo queen: no creases, no boyfriends, no mistakes. |
| Benedict, Marie | The Mitford Affair | Historical Fiction |
| Berenson, Laurien | Killer Cupid | Cozy Mystery - Melanie Travis #29 |
| Berg, Sibylle | Grime | This novel in translation addresses the question currently being debated around the world: where will climate change, artificial intelligence, the rise of right-wing populism, and the inexorable expansion of surveillance lead? |
| Bhagat, Vinaya | The Girl in the Mist | It lurks in the shadows. It lives in your worst nightmares. It feeds on your deepest fears. And it's coming to get you. |
| Biswas, Damyanti | The Blue Bar | On the dark streets of Mumbai, the paths of a missing dancer, a serial killer, and an inspector with a haunted past converge. |
| Blake, Dena | A Spark in the Air | Romance |
| Blaque, Erica | Among Wolves | Thriller |
| Blauner, Peter | Picture in the Sand | An intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world. |
| Breslin, Kate | In Love's Time | Christian Historical |
| Brown, Amber | Someone Had to Do It | A fashion intern overhears a shocking secret about her employer, with disastrous consequences for all. |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Penric's Labors | Fantasy - Penric & Desdemona |
| Bunn, T. Davis | Forbidden | Fantasy |
| Buonaguro, Gina | The Virgins of Venice | Historical Fiction |
| Butler, Octavia E. | Bloodchild and Other Stories | Science Fiction |
| Cameron, W. Bruce | Love, Clancy: Diary Of a Good Dog | Fiction |
| Carew, Leo | The Cuckoo | Fantasy - Under the Northern Sky #3 |
| Carlsson, Christoffer | Blaze Me a Sun | A Swedish police officer obsessed with a serial killer that became active in 1986, on the same night the prime minister was assassinated, fails to solve the case, until a novelist returns to Halland and begins interviewing him decades later. |
| Church, Daniel | Hollows | Folk horror meets ancient gods in a remote snowbound Peak District town where several murders take place. |
| Clark, Tracy | Hide | A mystery featuring hard-boiled Chicago detective Harriet Foster, who's on the hunt for a serial killer with a deadly affinity for redheads. |
| Clipston, Amy | Something Old, Something New | Sometimes treasure can be found where you least expect it. |
| Collins, Flora | A Small Affair | A young woman's life is torn apart when her wealthy ex-lover is found dead -- along with his wife. |
| Coltrane, Kit | All the Way Happy | Their differences made them enemies. One summer tied them together forever. |
| Cooper, Sharon C. | In It to Win It | Two entrepreneurs compete for a property but secure the biggest win of all--each other--in this second chance romantic comedy. |
| Correa, Armando Lucas | The Night Travelers | Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall. |
| Crouch, Blake | Abandon | Thriller |
| Crutcher, Paige | The Lost Witch | Paranormal Romance |
| Dailey, Janet | Blue Moon Haven | Romance - New Americana #7 |
| Datlow, Ellen | The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume Fourteen | Horror Anthology |
| de Leon, Aya | That Dangerous Energy | Marrying a billionaire will fulfill this struggling artist's dreams--and enable her to make a difference. But exposing the truth will put all her convictions on one dangerous line . . . |
| Dykes, Amanda | All the Lost Places | Discovered floating in a basket along the canals of Venice, Sebastien Trovato wrestles with questions of his origins. |
| Eason, Lynette | Critical Threat | Christian Suspense - Extreme Measures #3 |
| Fletcher, Jessica | Death On The Emerald Isle | Cozy Mystery - Murder, She Wrote #56 |
| Force, Marie | State Of Shock | Romantic Suspense - First Family #4 |
| Fowler, Christopher | Peculiar London | Thinking of a jaunt to England? Let Arthur Bryant and John May, London's oldest police detectives, show you the oddities behind the city's façades in this tongue-in-cheek travel guide. |
| Gable, Michelle | The Lipstick Bureau | Historical Fiction |
| Ganeshananthan, V. V. | Brotherless Night | A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor. |
| Garza, Amber | A Mother Would Know | A mother questions everything she knows about her son when a local woman is found dead. |
| George, Jessica | Maame | A debut about a young British Ghanaian woman as she navigates her twenties and finds her place in the world, for readers of Queenie and The Other Black Girl. |
| Glenn, Roy | Cold Blooded | Urban Fiction - Mike Black #39 |
| Goodman, Allegra | Sam | Fiction |
| Greene, Charlotte | Picture-Perfect Christmas | Two former rivals compete to capture the essence of their small mountain town at Christmas, all the while fighting old and new feelings. |
| Halston, Sidney | The Valentine's Hate | An enemy to lovers/fake engagement rom-com themed around Valentine's Day. |
| Hardt, Helen | Flare | Romance - Steel Brothers Saga #23 |
| Hardt, Helen | Scorch | Romance - Steel Brothers Saga #24 |
| Harper, Jane | Exiles | Mystery - Aaron Falk #3 |
| Harper, Lana | Back In A Spell | Paranormal Romance - Witches of Thistle Grove #3 |
| Hatcher, Robin Lee | All She Ever Dreamed | Christian Romance - Boulder Creek #2 |
| Hatcher, Robin Lee | Even Forever | Christian Romance - Boulder Creek #1 |
| Hawkins, Rachel | The Villa | While on a girls trip to Italy with her best friend, Chess, Emily discovers their high-end villa was once the scene of a brutal murder, and, digging into the past, finds the truth seeping into the present as dangerous betrayals emerge. |
| Hazelwood, Ali | Loathe To Love You | Romance |
| Hedlund, Jody | Stay With Me | Historical Romance - Waters of Time #3 |
| Hendrix, Grady | How to Sell a Haunted House | Forced to return to the small Southern town where she grew up to sell her late parents' house, Louise discovers that her and her brother's old grudges pale in comparison to the terror that still lurks within its walls. |
| Higashino, Keigo | A Death In Tokyo | Mystery - Kyochichro Kaga #3 |
| Hoover, Colleen | Heart Bones | Two young adults from completely different backgrounds embark on a tentative romance, unaware of what the future holds. |
| Ichijo, Misaki | Even if This Love Disappears Tonight | Fantasy Romance |
| Itō, Hiromi | The Thorn Puller | In this first novel to appear in English by an award-winning Japanese author, the narrator, who cares for her husband and daughters in California and her aging parents in Japan, creates a powerful and entertaining narrative as she shuttles back and forth between two different cultures. |
| Jennings, Regina | Engaging Deception | Christian Historical - Joplin Chronicles #3 |
| Johnstone, Carole | The Blackhouse | Thriller |
| Joseph, Lauren John | At Certain Points We Touch | From a new voice in fiction comes a novel of queer friendship, first love, and unbridled youth. |
| Kapoor, Deepti | Age Of Vice | This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. |
| Kendall, Beverley | Token | Founding Token, a boutique PR agency that helps "diversity-challenged" companies and celebrities, Kennedy Mitchell, with business booming, discovers that some messes are not so easily fixed when she is drawn into a PR scandal of her own. |
| Kennedy, Elle | Misfit | New Adult Romance |
| Konen, Leah | You Should Have Told Me | A new mother chases the secrets her partner left behind after his sudden disappearance. |
| Koontz, Dean | The House at the End of the World | Suspense |
| Kubica, Mary | Just The Nicest Couple | When her husband Jack vanishes without a trace, Nina Hayes will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, which, unbeknownst to her, is inextricably linked to their close friends, who may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. |
| Lackey, Mercedes | Into The West | Fantasy - Founding of Valdemar #2 |
| Lau, Jamie Marina | Gunk Baby | A black comedy workplace thriller set in a sprawling indoor shopping mall about a cabal of low-wage workers who plot violent acts of "resistance" against their managers. |
| Lehane, Cornelius | Murder by Definition | Mystery - 42nd Street Library #4 |
| Lipman, Elinor | Ms. Demeanor | Fiction |
| Littles, T. C. | Starving for Love | A spoiled rich girl falls for one of the most notorious thugs in Detroit. Will she give up everything, including the successful future her parents had planned for her? |
| Mactague, Lise | Winter's Moons | Urban Fantasy |
| Malhotra, Aanchal | The Book of Everlasting Things | When their beloved city is ravaged by Partition, Hindu perfumer Samir Vij and Muslim calligrapher Firdaus Khan, now on opposite sides, their love forbidden, make a series of fateful decisions that will change the course of their lives forever. |
| Manenzhe, Rešoketšwe | Scatterlings | Tells the story of a multiracial family when the Immorality Act is passed in South Africa, revealing one family's scattered souls in the wake of history. |
| Marsh, Beezy | Queen of Thieves | A historical adventure about a ring of bold and resourceful women thieves in post-World War II London. |
| Masters, Priscilla | Undue Influence | Mystery - Florence Shaw #1 |
| McGill, Jerry | The Color of Family | Paralyzed for life after a car accident, Devon Payne, over the course of a decade, visits his seven siblings now scattered across the globe, confronting the guilt and heartbreaking betrayals that followed in the wake of the tragedy and discovering to power of forgiveness to live free in the present. |
| Miller, Carol | Death Rides a Pony | Cozy Mystery - Fortune Telling #2 |
| Murphy, Kitty | Death in Heels | When Fi went to support her best friend's drag debut, she didn't imagine a killer would be going to watch it too. And they're waiting for their grand finale... |
| Noyes, E. J. | Schuss | They're best friends who're secretly in love with each other, but what if admitting that ruins the best friendship either of them have had? |
| O'Shea, TJ | To be With You | Romance |
| Parks, Adele | One Last Secret | Everyone has secrets, don't they? |
| Parlato, Terri | All the Dark Places | A savage murder rocks a quiet Massachusetts suburb, revealing the dark secrets at the center of a group of friends and setting two women - one with a traumatic past, the other a Boston police detective - on a hunt for truth. |
| Parrott, Thomas | Compromised | Science Fiction - Tom Clancy's The Division |
| Patterson, James | The House Of Wolves | Thriller |
| Payne, Melissa | A Light in the Forest | An emotional and suspenseful novel about the weight of secrets and the healing power of friends and family. |
| Pellegrino, Amanda | The Social Climber | When you ' re on top, you can get away with anything... |
| Perry, Thomas | Murder Book | An ex-cop takes on a widespread criminal organization targeting midwestern towns. |
| Peyton, Tracey Rose | Night Wherever We Go | A debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners. |
| Preston, Douglas | The Cabinet Of Dr. Leng | Thriller - Agent Pendergast #21 |
| Radclyffe | Only This Summer | Romance |
| Reyes, Ana | The House in the Pines | Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend's sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers. |
| Rinehart, Mary Roberts | The Album | Classic Mystery |
| Rosenfield, Kat | You Must Remember This | A Knives Out-style whodunnit featuring a long-ago love affair, icy death, and a rich family gone bad. |
| Rouda, Kaira Sturdivant | The Widow | Thriller |
| Ryan, Renee | The Secret Society Of Salzburg | Inspired by true events, a story of two very different women united to bring light to the darkest days of World War II. |
| Sagara, Michelle | Cast In Eternity | Fantasy - Chronicles of Elantra #18 |
| Shroff, Parini | The Bandit Queens | A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful--until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands. |
| Skyy | Dumb | Determined to win the one she thinks is for her, Paige finds herself making one foolish decision after another. |
| Spotswood, Stephen | Secrets Typed In Blood | Historical Mystery - Pentecost And Parker #3 |
| St Clair, Scarlett | Queen Of Myth And Monsters | Paranormal Romance - Adrian X Isolde #2 |
| Stevenson, Benjamin | Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone | A fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery. |
| Stoker, Susan | Deserving Henley | Romance - Refuge #2 |
| Taylor, Brad | The Devil's Ransom | Thriller - Pike Logan #17 |
| Tracy, P. J. | The Devil You Know | Mystery - Detective Margaret Nolan #3 |
| Tuomala, A. M. | The Map And The Territory | Fantasy |
| Van Stry, John | Summer's End | Sometimes a dark past can haunt you. Other times, it just may be the only thing keeping you alive. |
| Vernon, Leah | The Union | A dystopian novel that explores the power of friendship in a future society built on violence and division. |
| Wegert, Tessa | The Kind To Kill | Mystery - Shana Merchant #4 |
| Westerson, Jeri | Courting Dragons | Introducing Will Somers, the king's jester but nobody's fool in this mystery set in Tudor England, the first in a new series. |
| Wilde, Darcie | The Secret Of The Lost Pearls | Cozy Mystery - Rosalind Thorne #6 |
| Willingham, Stacy | All The Dangerous Things | A mother desperately hopes to mobilize the true-crime community's armchair detectives to find her son, Mason, who was abducted from his bedroom a year earlier. |
| Shenanigans: All-New Tales Of Valdemar | Fantasy Anthology |
November 2022
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott, Cordy | Dead Men Don't Decorate | Art, murder, and a secret dating back centuries collide in this cozy mystery series debut. |
| Afshar, Tessa | The Hidden Prince | Christian Historical |
| Andersson, Liv | Little Red House | Thriller |
| Armentrout, Jennifer L. | A Light in the Flame | Paranormal Romance - Flesh and Fire #2 |
| Armstrong, Kelley | Christmas at Thorne Manor | Fantasy Romance |
| Baldree, Travis | Legends & Lattes | After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword. The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success -- not to mention the fact that no one has the faintest idea what coffee actually is. |
| Banks, Russell | The Magic Kingdom | Historical Fiction |
| Baron, Melissa | Twice in a Lifetime | Romance |
| Basham, Pepper | Authentically, Izzy | Christian Romance |
| Beaton, M. C. | Devil's Delight | Cozy Mystery - Agatha Raisin #33 |
| Belle, Kimberly | The Personal Assistant | Thriller |
| Berkeley, Anthony | Murder in the Basement | Classic Mystery |
| Blake, Olivie | Alone With You in the Ether | Fantasy Romance |
| Bolden, Martell Troublesome | Rich Savage 3 | Urban Fiction |
| Bowen, Rhys | Peril in Paris | Historical Mystery - Royal Spyness #16 |
| Brayden, Melissa | The Forever Factor | Romance |
| Brooks-Dalton, Lily | The Light Pirate | Fiction |
| brown, adrienne maree | Fables and Spells | Speculative Stories and Poetry |
| Brown, Carolyn | The Sandcastle Hurricane | Romance |
| Brown, Wesley | Blue in Green | Historical Fiction |
| Bruce, Camilla | All The Blood We Share | A sinister novel based on the real Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers in the old West bound by butchery and obscured by the shadows of American history. |
| Buckhanon, Kalisha | Running to Fall | Tragedy Powell tries to feel she has it all- until her and her husband's perfect life online becomes a whirlwind of spilled secrets about Tragedy's drinking, a missing woman and their all-white town. |
| Calderón, Gabe | Màgòdiz | Science Fiction |
| Cameron, Marc | Tom Clancy Red Winter | Thriller - Jack Ryan #22 |
| Carter, Shmel | Taking Down a Boss | Urban Fiction |
| Caruso, Melissa | The Ivory Tomb | Fantasy - Rooks and Ruin #3 |
| Castro, V. | Out Of Aztlan | Horror Short Stories |
| Christie, William | The Double Agent | A Russian/German double agent loyal only to himself again becomes a double agent in a desperate bid to protect himself, this time for the English. |
| Chronister, Kay | Desert Creatures | In a world grown desiccated and treacherous, one young woman will find salvation or become just another rot-lonely skull in the sand. |
| Chung, Bora | Cursed Bunny: Stories | Surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) bite. |
| Claire, Ann | Dead and Gondola | In this series debut, a mysterious bookshop visitor dies under murderous circumstances, compelling the Christie sisters and their cat, Agatha, to call on all they've learned about solving mysteries from their favorite novelist. |
| Clark, Aaron Philip | Blue Like Me | Mystery - Trevor Finnegan #2 |
| Cook, Robin | Night Shift | Thriller - Stapleton/Montgomery #13 |
| Córdova, Zoraida | Star Wars: Convergence | Science Fiction - The High Republic |
| Cosby, S. A. | My Darkest Prayer | Mystery |
| Crittendon, Denise | Where it Rains in Color | Lileala has just been named the Rare Indigo - beauty among beauties - and is about to embrace her stardom, until something threatens to change her whole lifestyle and turn the planet of Swazembi upside down. |
| Cross, Tracy | Rootwork | Set in a small Louisiana parish, deep in the segregated South, Rootwork follows school-age sisters, Betty, Ann, and Pee Wee during one life-changing summer. |
| Cumming, Charles | Judas 62 | Thriller - Box 88 #2 |
| Czerneda, Julie | To Each This World | Science Fiction |
| Dade, Olivia | Ship Wrecked | Romance - Spoiler Alert #3 |
| Davis, Ambria | I Need a Bad Boy in My Life | Urban Fiction |
| DeLuca, Jen | Well Traveled | Romance - Well Met #4 |
| DeuxMoi | Anon Pls. | A debut novel about a stylist assistant whose drunken decision to turn her Instagram into a celeb gossip account turns her life completely upside down. |
| Dev, Sonali | The Vibrant Years | Three generations of the Desai women navigate bad dates, reemerging exes and secrets that refuse to remain hidden as they embark on a daring shared journey of self-discovery to live their most authentic lives. |
| Dewberry, John Gary | Hang All the Mistletoe | Holiday |
| Du Brul, Jack B. | Clive Cussler The Sea Wolves | Adventure - Isaac Bell #13 |
| Dumas, Luke | A History of Fear | A University of Edinburgh student taking on a ghostwriting job for a mysterious stranger begins to suspect he is working for the devil himself. |
| Edwards, Emily J. | Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man | Life as a secretary in New York gets tougher when Viviana Valentine's boss goes M.I.A in this debut historical mystery. |
| Eisler, Barry | Amok | When the government offers a twenty-six-year-old former Marine a five-figure payday, there's only one question: Who does he have to kill? |
| Elliott, Lauren | Steeped in Secrets | The first installment in a new series featuring amateur detective Shay Myers, intuitive gemologist and owner of a New Age tea and crystals shop. |
| Evans, Erin M. | Empire of Exiles | Magic, mystery, and revolution collide in this fantasy epic where an unlikely team of mages, scribes, and archivists must band together to unearth a conspiracy that might topple their empire. |
| Everlee, Jess | The Gentleman's Book of Vices | Is their real-life love story doomed to be a tragedy, or can they rewrite the ending? |
| Fader, Molly | The Sunshine Girls | Two friends. A lifetime of secrets. One sparkling story. |
| Ferrada, Maria Jose | How to Turn into a Bird | Fiction |
| Fields, Kerika | With Your Bad Self | Historical Fiction |
| Flower, Amanda | Frozen Detective | Mystery - Piper and Porter #2 |
| Flynn, Avery | Witcha Gonna Do? | Paranormal Romance |
| Francis, Felix | Hands Down | Mystery - Dick Francis #11 |
| Fre$h | Betrayal of a Thug 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Fredericks, Mariah | The Lindbergh Nanny | America's most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime. |
| Friedman, Elyse | The Opportunist | When her wealthy 76-year-old father announces he is marrying his 28-year-old nurse, hardworking single mother Alana Shropshire, ordered by her brothers to make the gold digger go away, is faced with a formidable foe who refuses to go down without a fight. |
| Gallen, Michelle | Factory Girls | Historical Fiction |
| Gilbert, Victoria | Death in the Margins | Cozy Mystery - Blue Ridge Library #7 |
| Graham, Heather, and John Land | Blood Moon | Science Fiction - Rising #2 |
| Gray, Shelley Shepard | Christmas at the Amish Market | Holiday |
| Green, Amy Lynn | The Blackout Book Club | Historical Fiction |
| Gregory, Philippa | Dawnlands | Historical Fiction - Fairmile #3 |
| Griffiths, Elly | Bleeding Heart Yard | Mystery - Harbinder Kaur #3 |
| Grippando, James | Code 6 | At what price do we open our lives to Big Data? |
| Harris, Charlaine | The Serpent in Heaven | Historical Fantasy - Gunnie Rose #4 |
| Hatcher, Robin Lee | Like the Wind | Christian Fiction |
| Haven, Josh | Fake Money, Blue Smoke | A skilled counterfeiter hires a crew of career criminals to steal an artwork from a speeding train. |
| Heath, Virginia | Never Rescue a Rogue | Historical Romance - Merriwell Sisters #2 |
| Henderson, Alice | A Ghost of Caribou | Mystery - Alex Carter #3 |
| Henderson, Craig | Welcome To The Game | Nearly bankrupt and losing control of the cocktail of drugs and alcohol that gets him through the day, widower and ex-rally driver Spencer Burnham gets more than he bargains for when he agrees to be the getaway driver for a lethal gangster who wants to pull off one last heist. |
| Henry, Christina | Into The Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga | Fantasy Short Stories |
| Herbert, Brian, and Kevin J. Anderson | The Heir of Caladan | Science Fiction - Dune Caladan #3 |
| Herring Blake, Ashley | Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail | An interior designer who is never without the perfect plan learns to renovate her love life without one. |
| Holloway, Warren | Murder and Deception | Urban Fiction |
| Howrey, Meg | They're Going to Love You | Fiction |
| Hunt, Taran | The Immortality Thief | Science Fiction |
| Hyde, Catherine Ryan | So Long, Chester Wheeler | Fiction |
| Jackson, Kosoko | A Dash of Salt and Pepper | Sometimes two cooks in the kitchen are better than one in this romantic comedy. |
| Jackson, Lisa, and Nancy Bush | Wicked Dreams | Thriller - Wicked #5 |
| Jefferies, Dinah | The Hidden Palace | Historical Fiction - Daughters of War #2 |
| Joella, Ethan | A Quiet Life | Three people's lives intersect in unforeseen ways. |
| Johnson, Damian L. | Break the Chain: Part 1: Hustle Game Too Hard | Urban Fiction |
| Jones, Darynda | A Hard Day for a Hangover | Mystery - Sunshine Vicram #3 |
| Kane, Darby | The Last Invitation | They meet the second Tuesday of every month and vote...and then someone dies. |
| Kapelke-Dale, Rachel | The Ingenue | When the family estate is bequeathed to a man she shares a complicated history with, former piano prodigy Saskia Kreis is forced to reexamine her own past. |
| Karp, Marshall | NYPD Red 7: The Murder Sorority | Thriller - NYPD Red #7 |
| Khaw, Cassandra | Breakable Things | Horror Short Stories |
| Kingsbury, Karen | A Thousand Tomorrows | Christian Fiction |
| Kirsanow, Peter | W. E. B. Griffin The Devil's Weapons | Thriller - Men at War #8 |
| Klassen, Julie | The Sisters of Sea View | Some guests have come for a holiday, others for hidden reasons of their own . . . |
| Krasznahorkai, László | A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East | Fiction |
| Krentz, Jayne Ann | Sleep No More | First in a new romantic suspense trilogy about a night that changed three women forever--but that none of them can remember. |
| Landvik, Lorna | Last Circle of Love | Fiction |
| Laurent, Caroline | An Impossible Return | Historical Fiction |
| Lemberg, R. B. | Geometries of Belonging | Speculative Stories and Poetry |
| Lemberg, R. B. | The Unbalancing | New love blossoms between an impatient starkeeper and a reclusive poet as they try together to save their island home. |
| Levine, Laura | Death By Smoothie | Cozy Mystery - Jaine Austen #19 |
| Lewis, Linden A. | The Last Hero | Science Fiction - First Sister #3 |
| Liese, Chloe | Two Wrongs Make a Right | Opposites become allies to fool their matchmaking friends in this reimagining of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. |
| Lindsay, Jeff | Three-Edged Sword | Thriller - Riley Wolfe #3 |
| Lipsyte, Sam | No One Left to Come Looking for You | Fiction |
| London, Stefanie | Pets of Park Avenue | Romance - Paws in the City #2 |
| Louis, Lia | The Key to My Heart | Romance |
| Lovesey, Peter | Showstopper | Mystery - Peter Diamond #21 |
| Mackintosh, Clare | The Last Party | At midnight, one of them is dead. By morning, all of them are suspects. |
| Malpas, Jodi Ellen | This Woman | Romance - This Man #5 |
| Margolin, Phillip | Murder at Black Oaks | Mystery - Robin Lockwood #6 |
| Martin, Alexa | Better Than Fiction | A romantic comedy about a bookseller discovering how to be the main character in her story. |
| Martin, Kat | One Last Chance | Mystery - Blood Ties #3 |
| McCarthy, Cormac | Stella Maris | Fiction - Passenger #2 |
| Meadows, Rae | Winterland | A young girl is tapped to be a part of the Soviet Union's gymnastics system. |
| Mestanna | The Devil's Bedroom | Urban Fiction |
| Mikhail, Dunya | The Bird Tattoo | A powerful and sweeping novel set over two tumultuous decades in Iraq. |
| Miller, Madeline | Galatea: A Short Story | Boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. |
| Miller, Vanessa | What We Found in Hallelujah | Christian Fiction |
| Mitchell, Jamel | For the Love of Blood 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Moorcock, Michael | The Citadel of Forgotten Myths | Fantasy - Elric Saga #1 |
| Morimi, Tomihiko | The Tatami Galaxy | An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog's Day-esque campus chronicle. |
| Morrison, Ewan | How to Survive Everything | Kidnapped by their doomsday-prepper father to keep them safe from a supposedly new pandemic, Haley and Ben are confined to his compound with no outside contact and no idea if the threat is even real. |
| Morrissey, Hannah | The Widowmaker | Thriller - Black Harbor #1 |
| Muñoz, Manuel | The Consequences | Short Stories |
| Murray, Amita | Arya Winters and the Cupcakes Of Doom | Cozy Mystery - Arya Winters #2 |
| Newman, Catherine | We All Want Impossible Things | Fiction |
| Nossett, Lauren | The Resemblance | On a chilly November morning, a fraternity brother steps off a busy crosswalk and is struck dead by an oncoming car. More than a dozen witnesses all agree on two things: the driver looked identical to the victim, and he was smiling. |
| Palmer, Diana | Wyoming Homecoming | Romance - Wyoming Men #11 |
| Palmer, Rod | The Things We Bring to the Table | Fiction |
| Parikh, Amita | The Circus Train | A World War II debut about a magnificent travelling circus, a star-crossed romance, and one girl's coming-of-age during the darkest of times. |
| Payne, Nikki | Pride and Protest | A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threatening to destroy her neighborhood in this retelling of Pride and Prejudice. |
| Pederson, David S. | Murder at Union Station | Mystery - Mason Adler #2 |
| Perrin, Kayla | We'll Never Tell | A night of revenge turns deadly. |
| Perrin, Kayla | What's Done in Darkness | Jealousy is a strong motive. People kill for love every day... |
| Perry, Anne | A Christmas Deliverance | Historical Mystery - Christmas #20 |
| Phillips, Gary | Witnesses for the Dead | Short Stories |
| Pitzorno, Bianca | The Seamstress of Sardinia | In 1900 Sardinia, an intelligent and ambitious young woman with an impossible dream is drawn into a world far different than her own. |
| Pokwatka, Aimee | Self-Portrait With Nothing | After discovering her birth mother is Ula Frost, a reclusive artist who claims her portraits summon their subjects' doppelgängers from parallel universes, Pepper Rafferty wonders if there is a universe, in which she is better able to accept love, and in which Ula decided she was worth keeping. |
| Polk, C. L. | Even Though I Knew the End | An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell. When she turns it down, her client sweetens the pot by offering up the one payment she can't resist: the chance to have a future... |
| Priest, Cherie | Flight Risk | Paranormal Mystery - Booking Agents #2 |
| Prusa, Carolyn | None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive | Fiction |
| Ray, Playa | Crime Boss | Urban Fiction |
| Rehman, Bushra | Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion | While attending a prestigious high school in Manhattan, Razia Mirza, from a tight-knit Muslim-American community, falls in love with Angela, a fellow student, and must choose between her family and her own future when their relationship is discovered. |
| Reid, Maryann | The Professional Wife | A beautiful woman is hired to be "professional wife" to celebrities. But what happens when she falls in love with the wrong one? |
| Rickloff, Alix | The Girls in Navy Blue | Historical Fiction |
| Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 5 | Urban Fiction |
| Roanhorse, Rebecca | Tread of Angels | In the 1883 mining town of Goetia ruled by the Virtues, a card sharp with a need for justice takes on the role of devil's advocate to defend her sister, accused of murdering a Virtue. |
| Roberts, Bethan | My Policeman | Historical Fiction |
| Robin, Emery | The Stars Undying | Science Fiction Romance |
| Ross, Rebecca | A Fire Endless | Fantasy - Elements of Cadence #2 |
| Rowell, Donna M. | Never Name the Dead | In this debut, old grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land of her ancestors. |
| Ryan, Kennedy | Before I Let Go | After a devastating tragedy, a married couple discover that love isn't enough to save their marriage, but it eventually might be enough to bring them back together for a second time around. |
| Salazar, Noelle | Angels of the Resistance | Historical Fiction |
| Samuel, Amber | The Many Dates of indigo | Hair done. Nails too. Make-up flawless. Indigo Clark is an accomplished, independent woman. Now she wants a partner to share her fabulous life. |
| Sanderson, Brandon | The Lost Metal | Fantasy - Mistborn #7 |
| Saundra | Long Live the Queen | A good girl-turned Cali drug Queenpin goes nationwide, where the success is explosive, the new conspiracies brutal--and the betrayals could finally take her down for the count... |
| Sebastian, Cat | Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots | Historical Romance - Cabots #3 |
| Shelton, Paige | Winter's End | Mystery - Alaska Wild #4 |
| Shinkai, Makoto, and Naruki Nagakawa | She and Her Cat: Stories | A collection of four interrelated, stream-of-consciousness short stories follows women and their cat companions as they explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication. |
| Shipman, Viola | A Wish For Winter | Holiday Romance |
| Simpson, Rosemary | Death at the Falls | Historical Mystery - Gilded Age #7 |
| Simsion, Graeme, and Anne Buist | Two Steps Onward | Fiction - Two Steps #2 |
| Smiley, Jane | A Dangerous Business | In 1850s Gold Rush California, two young prostitutes--best friends Eliza and Jean--follow a trail of missing girls. |
| Soop, Alex | Midnight Storm Moonless Sky: Indigenous Horror Stories | Short Stories |
| Spencer, Minerva | The Boxing Baroness | Agreeing to help the Duke of Staunton rescue his brother, Marianne Simpson, a boxer in her uncle's circus, braces for the fight of her life - and of her heart. |
| St. James, Dorothy | A Book Club to Die For | Cozy Mystery - Beloved Bookroom #3 |
| Steel, Danielle | Without a Trace | Fiction |
| Sten, Viveca | Hidden in Snow | The splendor of the Swedish mountains becomes the backdrop for a bone-chilling crime. |
| Strong, Lynn Steger | Flight | Three siblings gather with their spouses and children for a fraught Christmas. |
| Szeker, Brandi Elise | The Puppeteer and the Poisoned Pawn | Horror |
| Tan, Sue Lynn | Heart of the Sun Warrior | Fantasy - Celestial Kingdom #2 |
| Tavares, Nathan | A Fractured Infinity | A thrilling race across the multiverse to save the infinite Earths - and the love of your life - from total destruction. |
| Tchaikovsky, Adrian | Dogs of War | A bio-engineered dog fights for its life and its right to life. |
| Thompson, Victoria | City of Fortune | Historical Mystery - Counterfeit Lady #6 |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. | The Fall of Númenor: And Other Tales From the Second Age of Middle-Earth | Fantasy |
| Tudor, C. J. | A Sliver of Darkness | Suspense Stories |
| Turonek, E. Raye | Unrequited Love | Urban Fiction - Rural Route 8 #2 |
| Unger, Lisa | Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six | Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling locked-room thriller. |
| Usami, Rin | Idol, Burning | Fiction |
| Wang, Michael X. | Lost in the Long March | An epic historical novel, set against the tense backdrop of the Long March and Mao's rise to power, that tells a powerful and moving story of two ordinary people. |
| Wendig, Chuck | Wayward | Science Fiction - Wanderers #2 |
| Williams, Preslaysa | A Sweet Lowcountry Proposal | Romance |
| Wilson, Kevin | Now is Not the Time to Panic | Two teenage misfits collide one fateful summer, and the art they make changes their lives forever. |
| Zeldis, Kitty | The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights | Historical Fiction |
| Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction | Short Stories |
October 2022
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Abdullah, Kia | Next Of Kin | When Leila Syed accidentally leaves her toddler nephew in her car, leading to tragedy, the tense, subsequent trial tears her family apart, but as the case progresses, it becomes clear there is more to the incident than meets the eye. |
| Adams, Lyssa Kay | A Very Merry Bromance | Romance - Bromance Book Club #5 |
| Adrianne | Life At The Club | Urban Fiction |
| Alexander, Claire | Meredith, Alone | Meredith, after spending three years inside her house, figures out how to rejoin the world one step at a time. |
| Amadou Amal, Djaïli | The Impatient | Fiction |
| Anderson, Gerald C., Sr. | Fatal Misperceptions: Red Flags Rise Everywhere, But Will She Notice? | Urban Fiction |
| Andrews, Donna | Dashing Through The Snowbirds | Cozy Mystery - Meg Langslow #32 |
| Anie, Sussie | To Fill A Yellow House | Fiction |
| Asghar, Fatimah | When We Were Sisters | After the death of their parents, three Muslim American sisters are left to raise one another. |
| Bailey, Tessa | Too Beautiful To Break | Romance - Romancing the Clarksons #4 |
| Bailey, Tessa | Too Hard To Forget | Romance - Romancing the Clarksons #3 |
| Bailey, Tessa | Too Wild To Tame | Romance - Romancing the Clarksons #2 |
| Bailey, Tessa | Too Hot To Handle | Romance - Romancing the Clarksons #1 |
| Banville, John | The Singularities | Released from prison, a man with a borrowed name arrives at the estate of his youth where he must vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family while dealing with a wealthy and beautiful woman from his past. |
| Benedict, Alexandra | The Christmas Murder Game | Twelve clues. Twelve keys. Twelve days of Christmas. But how many will die before Twelfth Night? |
| Blake, Olivie | The Atlas Paradox | Fantasy - Atlas #2 |
| Block, Lawrence | The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown | Mystery - Bernie Rhodenbarr #13 |
| Bouchet, Amanda | A Curse Of Queens | Fantasy Romance - Kingmaker Chronicles #4 |
| Boum, Hemley | Days Come And Go | Chronicling the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon, Days Come and Go is the remarkable story of three generations of women both within and beyond its borders. |
| Braverman, Blair | Small Game | A survival reality show gone wrong leaves a group of strangers stranded in the northern wilds. |
| Brecher, Christin | Photo Finished | A Manhattan photographer finds murder at a high-society ball in t his mystery series debut. |
| Brown, Tracy | Hold You Down | Historical Fiction |
| Bruce, Camilla | The Witch In The Well | Thriller |
| Bublitz, Jacqueline | Before You Knew My Name | Two women--one alive, one dead--are brought together in the dark underbelly of New York City to solve a tragic murder. |
| Bunn, T. Davis | The Christmas Hummingbird | Holiday |
| Burnet, Graeme Macrae | Case Study | Blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination. |
| Butcher, James J. | Dead Man's Hand | A young man must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor in this debut. |
| Chakraborty, S. A. | The River Of Silver | Fantasy Short Stories - Daevabad #4 |
| Chambers, Christopher | Standalone | Mystery - Dickie Cornish #2 |
| Chen, Kevin | Ghost Town | Fleeing the oppression of his village in Berlin to find acceptance as a gay man, Chen Tien-Hong, the only son of a traditional Taiwanese family, returns home after 10 years and a prison sentence to find his family gone. |
| Church, Wendy | Murder On The Spanish Seas | Mystery |
| Ciesielski, J'Nell | The Brilliance Of Stars | Amid the chaos of the Great War, two elite assassins learn precisely how dangerous it is to have something--or someone--worth losing. |
| Coburn, Jennifer | Cradles Of The Reich | At Heim Hochland, a Nazi sanctioned maternity home in Bavaria, three women's fates are irrevocably intertwined. |
| Cochrun, Alison | Kiss Her Once For Me | A romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord...only to fall for his sister. |
| Cohen, Leonard | A Ballet Of Lepers | Fiction |
| Cole, Briana | Behind Her Lives | A story of secrets, sibling rivalry, and a woman searching for a missing sister who may not want to be found. |
| Constantinou, Marissa | Women Of The Harlem Renaissance | Collection |
| Cousens, Sophie | Before I Do | What would you do if the one that got away turned up the night before your wedding? |
| Crais, Robert | Racing The Light | Mystery - Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #19 |
| Davidson, Andy | The Hollow Kind | An epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by an ancient evil. |
| Deaver, Jeffery | Hunting Time | Mystery - Colter Shaw #4 |
| Delaney, Edward J. | The Acrobat | "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant," mused the world's most famous leading man. Even I want to be Cary Grant." |
| Denton, Lauren K. | A Place To Land | A hidden past isn't past at all. |
| Deveraux, Jude | Thief Of Fate | Paranormal Romance - Providence Falls #3 |
| Dillon, Alena | Eyes Turned Skyward | An empty nester and primary caretaker for her elderly, ailing mother inadvertently discovers that her mom was a Women Airforce Service Pilot who is now filled with regrets as she confronts the end of her life. |
| Dunn, Katherine | Toad | The reflections of a deeply scarred and reclusive woman. |
| Ernaux, Annie | Do What They Say Or Else | The story of a fifteen-year-old girl named Anne who lives with her working-class parents in a small town in Normandy, France. |
| Evans, Richard Paul | A Christmas Memory | Holiday |
| Everett, Percival | Dr. No | A sly, madcap novel about supervillains. |
| Feehan, Christine | Dark Whisper | Paranormal Romance - Carpathian #36 |
| Fisher, Suzanne Woods | Anything But Plain | Christian Fiction |
| Frank, Alli, and Asha Youmans | Never Meant To Meet You | While dealing with a new class of kindergarteners, her son's puberty, and her annoying ex-husband, Marjette navigates a ritual of loss with the help of her neighbor, and together they find the strength to remake their lives. |
| French, Nicci | The Favor | A young woman agrees to do a favor for her first love, but when things go horribly wrong, one small task turns into a murder investigation that completely upends her life, ensnaring her in a deadly web of secrets and lies. |
| Friday, T. | Carl Weber's Kingpins: The Ultimate Hustle | This pastor's daughter has some choices to make. Does she return to the flock, or fully enter the world of these kingpins? |
| Gervais, Simon | Robert Ludlum's The Blackbriar Genesis | The assassination of a Treadstone agent leads two Blackbriar operatives down a rabbit hole of deceit and betrayal in this new series from the world of Jason Bourne. |
| Geum-yi, Lee | The Picture Bride | In 1918, Willow, a young Korean picture bride, arrives in Hawaii to start a new life but her dreams are soon shattered by a husband who doesn't want her and by the escalation of the Korean independence movements, which threaten to divide her family and friends. |
| Gibson, S. T. | A Dowry Of Blood | The tale of Dracula's first bride, Constanta. |
| Gilman, Laura Anne | Uncanny Times | Monster hunting siblings set out to solve a series of murders. |
| Givhan, Jennifer | River Woman, River Demon | When Eva's husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her murky past and embrace her magick to find out what really happened that night on the river. |
| Gomez, Anna | Where The Sun Rises: Volume 2 | Romance - From Kona With Love #2 |
| Gomez, Anna | Moments Like This: From Kona With Love | Romance |
| Graham, Heather | Voice Of Fear | Paranormal Romance - Krewe of Hunters #38 |
| Gray, Shelley Shepard | Happily Ever Amish | In this first in a new series, welcome to Apple Creek, Ohio--a small, vibrant Amish community where everyone seems to know everyone else. |
| Greer, Helena | Season Of Love | When she inherits half of her great-aunt's Jewish-run Christmas tree farm, Miriam Blum must save the business from going under with the help of the farm's grumpy manager, Noelle. |
| Griffis, Gigi | The Empress | Historical Fiction |
| Hairston, Andrea | Will Do Magic For Small Change | A tale of alien science and earthbound magic and the secrets families keep from each other. |
| Halfon, Eduardo | Canción | Fiction |
| Hall, Alexis | Paris Daillencourt Is About To Crumble | Romance - Winner Bakes it All #2 |
| Hannah, Sophie | The Couple At The Table | Mystery - Culver Valley Crime #11 |
| Hannon, Irene | Body Of Evidence | Christian Suspense - Triple Threat #3 |
| Hawker, Olivia | The Fire And The Ore | Three spirited wives in nineteenth-century Utah. One husband. |
| Hays, Katy | The Cloisters | A circle of researchers uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. |
| Hedlund, Jody | Falling For The Cowgirl | Christian Historical - Colorado Cowboys #4 |
| Herrera, Adriana | On The Hustle | Romance - Dating in Dallas #2 |
| Herron, Mick | Standing By The Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas | Mystery - Slough House |
| Hogle, Sarah | Just Like Magic | The holidays were never her thing, until she accidentally conjures the Holiday Spirit...before her very eyes. |
| Holiday, Jenny | So This Is Christmas | Holiday Romance |
| Hood, Christopher M. | The Revivalists | A debut novel about a couple's harrowing journey across a ravaged America to save their daughter. |
| Hornby, Gill | Godmersham Park | A novel inspired by the true story of Anne Sharp, a governess who became very close with Jane Austen and her family. |
| Horowitz, Anthony | The Twist Of A Knife | Mystery - Hawthorne and Horowitz #4 |
| Howey, Hugh | Across The Sand | Science Fiction - Sand Chronicles #2 |
| Ifedigbo, Sylva Nze | Believers And Hustlers | Mystery |
| Irving, Dionne | The Islands: Stories | The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women--immigrants or the descendants of immigrants--who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism. |
| Isaka, Kōtarō | Three Assassins | Set in Tokyo's criminal underworld, this thriller pits an ordinary man against a group of talented and very unusual assassins. |
| J-Blunt | Torn Between A Gangster And A Gentleman | Urban Fiction |
| Jemisin, N. K. | The World We Make | Fantasy - Great Cities #2 |
| Johnson, Toni Ann | Light Skin Gone To Waste | Short Stories |
| Karunatilaka, Shehan | The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida | Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, this novel is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war. |
| Keegan, Claire | Foster | An Irish child taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm finds the love and affection she never knew before and begins to thrive. |
| Keese | Hood Consigliere 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Kennedy, Louise | Trespasses | Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a debut novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and unsanctioned love. |
| Khan, Ausma Zehanat | Blackwater Falls: A Thriller | The first in a new mystery series featuring Detective Inaya Rahman. |
| Khan, Vaseem | The Perfect Crime | Mystery Short Stories |
| King, Stephen, Stuart O'Nan, and Richard Chizmar | A Face In The Crowd And The Longest December | Horror |
| Kowal, Mary Robinette | The Spare Man | Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and heiress, finds her honeymoon interrupted by murder, and with her husband accused of the crime, she, armed with witty banter, martinis, and her small service dog, must solve this mystery and stop the real killer from striking again. |
| La Salle, Eriq | Laws Of Depravity | Thriller |
| Larocca, Eric | They Were Here Before Us | Horror |
| Lau, Jackie | The Stand-Up Groomsman | A bridesmaid and groomsman put their differences aside to get their best friends down the aisle in this opposites-attract romantic comedy. |
| Lawhon, Ariel, Kristina McMorris, and Susan Meissner | When We Had Wings | Historical Fiction |
| Lico Albanese, Laurie | Hester | Who is the real Hester Prynne? An origin story for The Scarlet Letter. |
| Lorac, E. C. R. | These Names Make Clues | An invitation to a treasure hunt open to thriller writers and lesser mortals confronts Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Macdonald with two baffling deaths. |
| Lux, Claudia | Sign Here | A debut novel about a guy who works in Hell (literally) and is on the cusp of a big promotion if only he can get one more member of the wealthy Harrison family to sell their soul. |
| Ly, David | Queer Little Nightmares | Horror Anthology |
| Maguire, Gregory | The Oracle Of Maracoor | Fantasy - Another Day #2 |
| Manning, Kate | Gilded Mountain | Set in early 1900s Colorado, the tale of a young woman who bravely faces the consequences of speaking out against injustice. |
| Marske, Freya | A Restless Truth | Historical Fantasy - Last Binding #2 |
| Mathews, Francine | Death On A Winter Stroll | Mystery - Merry Folger #7 |
| Matthews, Mimi | The Belle Of Belgrave Square | Historical Romance - Belles of London #2 |
| Maxwell, Everina | Ocean's Echo | Science Fiction |
| McCracken, Elizabeth | The Hero Of This Book | Fiction |
| McDermid, Val | 1989 | Mystery - Allie Burns #2 |
| McGee, Stephenia H. | The Secrets Of Emberwild | Christian Historical |
| McKinlay, Jenn | The Plot And The Pendulum | Cozy Mystery - Library Lover's #13 |
| Meesha | Baby, I'm Wintertime Cold | Urban Fiction |
| Michelle, Niko | Dear Diary | Urban Fiction |
| Miller, Sarah | Marmee | A retelling of Louisa May Alcott's beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret "Marmee" March. |
| Millet, Lydia | Dinosaurs | Fiction |
| Moalem, Sharon | Wrath | In a future much nearer than you think, where scientific experimentation is exploited for commercial profit, unwisely under-supervised cutting-edge technology creates a menace that threatens the very fabric of human existence. |
| Moore, Alan | Illuminations | Speculative Short Stories |
| Morris, Wanda M. | Anywhere You Run | After the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country...But can they escape the secrets they left behind? |
| Mujica, Barbara Louise | Miss Del Río | A historical novel that traces the life of a trailblazing woman whose legacy in Hollywood and in Mexico still shines bright today. |
| Nam-Joo, Cho | Saha | A chilling dystopian fable for fans of Netflix's Squid Game. |
| Nwabineli, Onyi | Someday, Maybe | After her husband commits suicide, a young woman finds the strength to move on with the help of her tight-knit Nigerian family and happy memories of the man she'll never forget. |
| Oliveras, Priscilla | Kiss Me, Catalina | Romance |
| O'Malley, Daniel | Blitz | Fantasy - Rook Files #3 |
| Oyamada, Hiroko | Weasels In The Attic | A novel that explores fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary Japan. |
| Oyebanji, Adam | A Quiet Teacher | A teacher trying to hide in the shadows finds himself embroiled in a murder investigation. |
| Pariat, Janice | Everything The Light Touches | Historical Fiction |
| Paris, B. A. | The Prisoner | A woman marries in to a family with deadly intentions. |
| Patterson, James, and Brian Sitts | The Perfect Assassin | Prof. Brandt Savage, grandson of the legendary action hero, is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. |
| Penny, Louise | A World Of Curiosities | Mystery - Chief Inspector Gamache #18 |
| Power-Greene, Ousmane K. | The Confessions Of Matthew Strong | Thriller |
| Quick, Matthew | We Are The Light | A novel about a widower who takes in a grieving teenager and inspires a magical revival in their small town. |
| Rai, Alisha | Partners In Crime | While settling her aunt's affairs with the help of a man she rejected, Mira finds herself in a mad dash through Las Vegas, following clues to untangle the mess her family left behind, which puts both their lives in danger. |
| Rankin, Ian | A Heart Full Of Headstones | Mystery - Inspector Rebus #24 |
| Rendon, Marcie R. | Sinister Graves | Mystery - Cash Blackbear #3 |
| Reyes, Raquel V. | Calypso, Corpses, And Cooking | Cozy Mystery - Caribbean Kitchen #2 |
| Robert, Katee | The Demon's Bargain | Paranormal Romance |
| Robert, Katee | The Kraken's Sacrifice | Paranormal Romance - Deal with a Demon #2 |
| Robert, Katee | The Dragon's Bride | Paranormal Romance - Deal with a Demon #1 |
| Roberts, Nora | The Choice | Paranormal Romance - Dragon Heart Legacy #3 |
| Robinson, Shauna | The Banned Bookshop Of Maggie Banks | I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books. If only, I, Maggie Banks, believed in following the rules. |
| Rosen, Lev AC | Lavender House | Knives Out with a queer historical twist. |
| Rosenfelt, David | Santa's Little Yelpers | Cozy Mystery - Andy Carpenter #26 |
| Roth, Veronica | Poster Girl | The story of a woman's desperate search for a missing girl after the collapse of an oppressive dystopian regime...and the dark secrets about her family and community she uncovers along the way. |
| Santos, Yaffa S. | A Touch Of Moonlight | A young woman must navigate her family's expectations, the demands of her job, a new love, and a secret about her magical identity. |
| Saunders, George | Liberation Day: Stories | Short Stories |
| Schweblin, Samanta | Seven Empty Houses | Short Stories |
| Scodellaro, Giada | Some Of Them Will Carry Me | Short Stories |
| Scotch, Allison Winn | The Rewind | Two exes wake up together with wedding bands on their fingers--and no idea how they got there. They have just one New Year's Eve at the end of 1999 to figure it out. |
| Scott, Omar | Loyal To A Fault | Loyalty is a word that gets thrown around a lot, but is rarely put to the test. For Dez, a promising DEA agent that managed to work his way off the streets of Brooklyn, it just got real. |
| Shapiro, Dani | Signal Fires | On a summer night in 1985, three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything changes. |
| Shawl, Nisi | Our Fruiting Bodies: Short Fiction | Short Stories |
| Shepherd, Megan | Malice House | Horror |
| Slayton, David R. | Deadbeat Druid | Fantasy - Adam Binder #3 |
| Smith, Wilbur A. | Titans Of War | Historical Fiction - Ancient Egyptian #8 |
| Soto, Adam | Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep | Ghost Stories |
| Spector, Elijah Kinch | Kalyna The Soothsayer | A woman born without the Gift of future sight that has been her family's legacy for generations must pretend to tell fortunes for a prince who holds her family hostage--and navigate the potential collapse of the kingdom. |
| Stabenow, Dana | Theft Of An Idol | Historical Mystery - Eye of Isis #3 |
| Steadman, Catherine | The Family Game | THE RULES: 1. Listen carefully. 2. Do your research. 3. Trust no one. 4. Run for your life. |
| Steel, Danielle | The Whittiers | Fiction |
| Stoker, Susan | Finding Carly | Romance - SEAL Team Hawaii #5 |
| Stone, Emily | One Last Gift | When a young woman finds herself lost and at a crossroads, one last gift from her brother just might give her another chance at life and at love. |
| Takamura, Kaoru | Lady Joker v. 2 | Thriller |
| Thomas, Sheree R. | Black Panther: Panther's Rage | Superhero |
| Tran, E. M. | Daughters Of The New Year | In present day New Orleans, three sisters begin to encounter glimpses of long-buried secrets from their ancestors. |
| Tsujimura, Mizuki | Lonely Castle In The Mirror | Seven students find unusual common ground in this warm, puzzle-like Japanese bestseller laced with gentle fantasy and compassionate insight. |
| Turton, Tanya | Jade Is A Twisted Green | A coming-of-age story about queer Black identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life's pleasures after loss. |
| Vo, Nghi | Into The Riverlands | Fantasy - Singing Hills Cycle #3 |
| Wagenstein, Angel | Isaac's Torah | Historical Fiction |
| Ward, Catriona | Little Eve | Horror |
| Warren, Susan May | Sundown | Christian Romance - Sky King Ranch #3 |
| Wells, Christine | One Woman's War | The story of WWII British Naval Intelligence officer Victoire Bennett, the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character Miss Moneypenny. |
| Wilsner, Meryl | Mistakes Were Made | A rom-com about a college senior who accidentally hooks up with her best friend's mom. |
| Wiseman, Beth | The Story Of Love | Romance - Amish Bookstore #2 |
| Wurth, Erika T. | White Horse | An Indigenous woman must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother's spirit. |
| Yakovleva, Yulia | Punishment Of A Hunter: A Leningrad Confidential | The debut of a noir detective series set in Stalinist Russia. |
September 2022
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Adams, Erin E. | Jackal | A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white rust belt town. But she's not the first--and she may not be the last. |
| Adams, Sarah | When In Rome | Opposites attract for a stranded pop star and small-town baker in this slice of romance adapted from Roman Holiday |
| Adler-Olsen, Jussi | The Shadow Murders | Mystery - Department Q #9 |
| Aguirre, Ann | Extra Witchy | Romance - Fix-It Witches #3 |
| Alexander, Tasha | Secrets Of The Nile | Historical Mystery - Lady Emily #16 |
| Angoe, Yasmin | They Come At Knight | Thriller - Nena Knight #2 |
| Archer, C. J. | The Librarian Of Crooked Lane | A librarian with a mysterious past, a war hero with a secret, and the heist of a magic painting. |
| Archer, Jeffrey | Next In Line | Mystery - William Warwick #5 |
| Armas, Elena | The American Roommate Experiment | In this follow up to The Spanish Love Deception, Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín are forced to share a New York apartment. |
| Atkinson, Kate | Shrines Of Gaiety | A tale of seduction and betrayal set in Jazz Age London. |
| Baldacci, David | Long Shadows | Mystery - Memory Man/Amos Decker #7 |
| Balson, Ronald H. | An Affair Of Spies | Historical Fiction |
| Bannen, Megan | The Undertaking Of Hart And Mercy | Fantasy Romance |
| Baxter, Stephen | Galaxias | What would happen to the world if the sun went out? |
| Beers, Georgia | Cherry On Top | Romance |
| Beharrie, Therese | A Ghost In Shining Armor | A woman with a supernatural talent is haunted by one persistent spirit--and a seductive, impossible love . . . |
| Benn, James R. | From The Shadows | Historical Mystery - Billy Boyle #17 |
| Brooks, Terry | Daughter Of Darkness | Fantasy - Child of Light #2 |
| Burgis, Stephanie | Scales And Sensibility | A frothy Regency rom-com full of pet dragons and magical misadventures. |
| Cardinal, Ann Dávila | The Storyteller's Death | A Puerto Rican teenager who finds herself gifted (or cursed?) with a strange ability. |
| Carty-Williams, Candice | People Person | An aspiring lifestyle influencer saddled with a terrible and wayward boyfriend, 30-year-old Dimple Pennington has never felt so alone in her life until a dramatic event brings her half siblings crashing back into her life, forcing them all to reconnect with the absent father they never really knew. |
| Castle, Jayne | Sweetwater And The Witch | Paranormal Romance - Harmony #15 |
| Child, Lee, and Andrew Child | No Plan B | Thriller - Jack Reacher #27 |
| Christie, Agatha | Marple : Twelve New Stories | Mystery Stories |
| Chupeco, Rin | Silver Under Nightfall | Fantasy |
| CJ, Piper | The Night And Its Moon | Fantasy Romance |
| Clark, Marcia | The Fall Girl | Thriller |
| Coates, Darcy | Gallows Hill | Horror |
| Collette, Abby | Soul Of A Killer | Cozy Mystery - Books & Biscuits #2 |
| Connelly, Michael | Desert Star | Mystery - Renee Ballard #5 |
| Connolly, John | The Furies | Mystery - Charlie Parker #20 |
| Cornwell, Patricia | Livid | Mystery - Kay Scarpetta #26 |
| Cruz, Angie | How Not To Drown In A Glass Of Water | Forced back into the job market after losing her factory gig during the Great Recession, 50-something Cara Romero narrates the story of her life to her career counselor and confronts her darkest secrets and regrets. |
| De'kari | Straight Beast Mode 2 | Urban Fiction |
| DeMille, Nelson | The Maze | Thriller - John Corey #8 |
| Duke, Gloria | When Life Gives You Vampires | Single (plus size) vampire, desperately in search of a life. |
| Eddings, Mazey | Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake | A two-night-stand doesn't go exactly as expected. |
| Ennes, Hiron | Leech | In an isolated chateau housing the Interprovincial Medical Institute, a parasite invades, spreading madness in this already dark pit of secrets, lies, violence and fear. |
| Enoch, Suzanne | Something In The Heir | Smart, capable heiress Emmeline Pershing will do anything to keep her beloved home; and all it takes is an arranged marriage and a teeny white lie to fulfill her family's silly inheritance rules. |
| Escoffery, Jonathan | If I Survive You | A collection of humorous and harrowing linked stories following a Jamaican-American family as they seek stability upon moving to Miami. |
| Eskens, Allen | Forsaken Country | Mystery |
| Estep, Jennifer | Only Bad Options | Science Fiction Romance |
| Evanovich, Janet | Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine | Mystery - Stephanie Plum #29 |
| Evans, Davinia | Notorious Sorcerer | In a city filled with dangerous yet heavily regulated alchemical magic, a man from the slums discovers he may be its only hope to survive certain destruction. |
| Finger, Bobby | The Old Place | A debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town. |
| Flower, Amanda | Because I Could Not Stop For Death | Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series. |
| Freeman, Elijah R. | Murda Was The Case 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Friedland, Elyssa | The Most Likely Club | At their milestone high school reunion, a group of friends make a pact to finally achieve their high school superlatives one way or another. |
| Gagnon, Jilly | All Dressed Up | A remote hotel. A murder mystery. A missing woman. Everyone has a role to play, but what's real and what's part of the game? |
| Gallon, Michael | The Murder Queens 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Ghost | King Of The Trenches 3 | Urban Fiction |
| Gray, Erick S. | Carl Weber's Kingpins : Queens | It's 1999, and Sincere has finished his tour in the United States Army. He's come back home just in time to find his little brother, Maurice, taking his place in the streets. |
| Gray, Shelley Shepard, et. al | An Amish Christmas Star | Holiday |
| Green, Chris | Classic City | Urban Fiction |
| Greer, Andrew Sean | Less Is Lost | Fiction - Arthur Less #2 |
| Grisham, John | The Boys From Biloxi | Thriller |
| Guillory, Jasmine | Drunk On Love | Romance |
| Harper, Elodie | The House With The Golden Door | Historical Fiction - Wolf Den #2 |
| Harris, Robert | Act Of Oblivion | A historical novel that imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail. |
| Harrison, Rachel | Such Sharp Teeth | A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside. |
| Henderson, Alexis | House Of Hunger | A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this Gothic novel. |
| Hilderbrand, Elin | Endless Summer : Stories | Short Stories |
| Hogarth, Ainslie | Motherthing | A domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. |
| Hoover, Colleen | Verity | Romantic Suspense - re-release featuring an exclusive new chapter. |
| Hoover, Colleen | It Starts With Us | Romance - It Ends with Us #2 |
| Hoover, Colleen | Maybe Now | Romance - Maybe Someday #3 |
| House, Silas | Lark Ascending | A timely, powerful story of survival set in the not-too-distant future. |
| Howe, Jenny L. | The Make-Up Test | Two college exes find themselves battling against each other--and their unresolved feelings--for a spot in a prestigious literature Ph.D. program. |
| Howell, Dorothy | Seams Like Murder | A brand new cozy mystery series featuring Abbey Chandler and her fellow sewing circle members in the quaint, touristy town of Hideaway Cove. |
| Hunter, Denise | Harvest Moon | Romance - Riverbend Romance #3 |
| Huynh, Carolyn | The Fortunes Of Jaded Women | Part of a family of women cursed never to find love and happiness, Mai Nguyen seeks guidance from her trusted psychic, whose unexpected prophecy brings together her entire estranged family--for better or for worse. |
| Igharo, Jane | Where We End & Begin | Romance |
| Irving, John | The Last Chairlift | Fiction |
| Jamnia, Naseem | The Bruising Of Qilwa | Historical Fantasy |
| Janovsky, Timothy | You're A Mean One, Matthew Prince | Romance - Boy Meets Boy #2 |
| Jaye, Lola | The Attic Child | Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret. |
| Johnson, Cary Alan | Desire Lines | A Black teenager growing up gay in Brooklyn is captivated by a vision of life on the other side in Manhattan. |
| Johnson, Craig | Hell And Back | Mystery - Longmire #18 |
| Jones, Gayl | The Birdcatcher | On the white-washed island of Ibiza, the narrator describes in great detail her peculiar relationship with her closet friend, a gifted sculptor who is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her. |
| Kennedy, Elle | Bad Girl Reputation | Romance - Avalon Bay #2 |
| Kidd, Jess | The Night Ship | Based on a real-life event, a historical novel that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island. |
| Killjoy, Margaret | We Won't Be Here Tomorrow: And Other Stories | Speculative Short Stories |
| King, Ella | Bad Fruit | Thriller |
| King, Laurie R. | Back To The Garden | A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life--with potentially fatal consequences--in this standalone novel from the author of the Mary Russell series. |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Demon Copperhead | The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. |
| Kirkpatrick, Jane | Beneath The Bending Skies | A young woman torn between duty and her own happiness defies her father to become the wife of a man with few prospects. |
| Knox, Maggie | All I Want For Christmas | A holiday rom-com about two oil-and-water reality-star country singers who must fake a relationship in order to win the opportunity of a lifetime. |
| Kolluri, Talia Lakshmi | What We Fed To The Manticore | Short Stories |
| Lafferty, Mur | Station Eternity | Amateur detective Mallory Viridian's talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an alien space station, but her problems still follow her. |
| LaQuette | Vanessa Jared's Got A Man | When a sexy sheriff shows up on her doorstop, wanting her to keep his sister from marrying her no-good ex, 40-something divorcee Vanessa Jared is not down for this at all until she discovers he's stolen something from her and the game is on. |
| LaRocca, Eric | Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, And Other Misfortunes | Horror Stories |
| Lasky, Kathryn | Light On Bone | Step aside Miss Marple, Eugenia Potter, and Kinsey Millhone - Georgia O'Keeffe is the new sleuth in town. |
| Lavalle, Victor | The Ballad Of Black Tom | Horror |
| Lee, Sarah | An Ocean Apart | Inspired by real life stories of the Windrush Generation and her mother's own experiences as a nurse in the 1950s, Sarah Lee's debut novel is a must for fans of Call the Midwife. |
| Li, Yiyun | The Book Of Goose | When her friend Fabienne passes away, Agnès is free to tell her story of a long-ago childhood in a war-ravaged, backwater town along the French countryside where Fabienne hatched a plan that changed everything, sending Agnès on an epic journey through fame, fortune and terrible loss. |
| Lien, Tracey | All That's Left Unsaid | A young Vietnamese-Australian woman returns home to her family in the wake of her brother's murder and becomes determined to discover what happened. |
| Ma, Ling | Bliss Montage | Short Stories |
| MacNeal, Susan Elia | Mother Daughter Traitor Spy | A mother and daughter find the courage to go undercover after stumbling upon a Nazi cell in Los Angeles during the early days of World War II. |
| Macomber, Debbie | The Christmas Spirit | Holiday |
| Mah, Ann | Jacqueline In Paris | A portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris. |
| Malerman, Josh | Daphne | A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre. |
| Mallery, Susan | Home Sweet Christmas | Romance - Wishing Tree #2 |
| Manansala, Mia P. | Blackmail And Bibingka | Cozy Mystery - Tita Rosie's Kitchen #3 |
| Marais, Bianca | The Witches Of Moonshyne Manor | A coven of modern-day witches. A magical heist-gone-wrong. A looming threat. |
| Martin, Celestine | Witchful Thinking | When she accidentally hexes herself and is suddenly unable to say no, Lucy Caraway agrees to help her high school crush unjinx his new house and discovers that love is the trickiest spell of all. |
| Matthews, Olivia | Murder Out Of Character | Mystery - Peach Coast Library #2 |
| Mayor, Archer | Fall Guy | Mystery - Joe Gunter #33 |
| Mayr, Suzette | The Sleeping Car Porter | When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair. |
| McAvoy, J. J. | Aphrodite And The Duke | Back in London for her sister's society debut, Aphrodite Du Bell is intent on avoiding Evander Eagleman, the man who jilted her and broke her heart by marring someone else years ago, but who is now an unattached widower. |
| McCarthy, Cormac | The Passenger | The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God. |
| McEwan, Ian | Lessons | The story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. |
| Mesa, Desideria | Bindle Punk Bruja | Hiding her supernatural and Latina identity in pursuit of owning an illegal jazz club, Rose negotiates with dangerous criminals as she climbs up Kansas City's bootlegging ladder, but when she finds herself surrounded by greed and bigotry, she must use her earth magic to save her friends and family. |
| Mills, Kyle | Oath Of Loyalty | Thriller - Mitch Rapp #21 |
| Montgomery, Selena | Rules Of Engagement | Romantic Suspense |
| Muir, Tamsyn | Nona The Ninth | Science Fiction - Locked Tomb #3 |
| Murphy, Julie | A Merry Little Meet Cute | A steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star she falls in love with. |
| Nayler, Ray | The Mountain In The Sea | Following a mysterious murder on an island off the coast of Vietnam, a research team convenes to study an octopus community that seems to be developing its own language and culture. |
| Nethercott, GennaRose | Thistlefoot | A debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance. |
| North, Claire | Ithaca | This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. |
| Novik, Naomi | The Golden Enclaves | Fantasy - Scholomance #3 |
| Nunn, Kayte | The Only Child | Mystery |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | Babysitter | Thriller |
| O'Connor, Carlene, et. al | Christmas Scarf Murder | Mystery Stories |
| Ogunyemi, Omolola Ijeoma | Jollof Rice And Other Revolutions: A Novel In Interlocking Stories | Fiction |
| Parks, Carrie Stuart | Fallout | Christian Suspense |
| Patterson, James | Triple Cross | Thriller - Alex Cross #30 |
| Patterson, James | The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days Of Christmas | Holiday |
| Perry, Anne | A Truth To Lie For | Historical Mystery - Elena Standish #4 |
| Peterson, Tracie | Under The Starry Skies | Inspirational - Love on the Santa Fe #3 |
| Picoult, Jodi, and Jennifer Finney Boylan | Mad Honey | Fiction |
| Quinn, Joanna | The Whalebone Theatre | A debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre in the gargantuan cavity of a beached whale into undercover operations during World War II. |
| Reid, Iain | We Spread | Thriller |
| Reynolds, Anthony | Ruination | Fantasy - League of Legends |
| Rio, King | The Brick Man 4 | Urban Fiction |
| Robards, Karen | The Girl From Guernica | Historical Fiction |
| Robinson, Corey | Protege Of A Legend | Urban Fiction |
| Ryan, Annelise | A Death In Door County | A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first installment of a new mystery series. |
| Sampson, Freya | The Lost Ticket | Strangers on a London bus unite to help an elderly man find his missed love connection. |
| Sanderson, Brandon | Mistborn : Secret History | Fantasy - Mistborn |
| Sawyer, Kim Vogel | Still My Forever | Can a frustrated composer find new inspiration with the woman who once made his heart sing? |
| Saynomore | Gorillaz In The Trenches | In Amityville, New York, there are no rules to abide by in the cold ruthless streets where only the most heartless men survive. |
| Serpell, Namwali | The Furrows | Haunted by the accidental death of her little brother Wayne years ago, Cassandra Williams begins seeing her brother everywhere and meets a man both mysterious and familiar who is also searching for someone and for his own place in the world - his name is Wayne. |
| Shamsie, Kamila | Best Of Friends | Two best friends who grew up in Karachi must confront their differences thirty years later when two troubling figures from their past resurface. |
| Shiloh, Toni | To Win A Prince | Christian Romance |
| Smith, Sarah | The Boy With The Bookstore | When a baker meets the bookshop owner of her dreams, and he turns into her nemesis, they'll both have to read between the lines to avoid a career-ending recipe for disaster. |
| Snelling, Lauraine | The Florence Legacy | Christian Fiction |
| Socha, Kelsey | An Archive Of Brightness | A flock of crows build an archive of brightness by observing and collecting moments of tenderness in a series of queer human relationships. |
| Steel, Danielle | The High Notes | Fiction |
| Sterling, Erin | The Kiss Curse | The follow-up to The Ex Hex features fan favorite Gwyn and the spine-tinglingly handsome Wells Penhallow as they battle a new band of witches and their own magical chemistry. |
| Strout, Elizabeth | Lucy By The Sea | Fiction - Amgash #4 |
| Styles, T. | An Ugly Girl's Diary | On the opening night of his restaurant, bad boy Tye Gates finds a diary moments after being unfaithful to his fiance. |
| Thorne, Sally | Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match | When assisting in her brother Victor's experiment to bring a reassembled man back to life, Angelika Frankenstein gets an idea. But can love be built in a laboratory? |
| Toston, Jerz | Bound By Dna | Urban Fiction |
| Trai'quan | A Gangsta's Paradise | Urban Fiction |
| Tukes, Romell | Jack Boys Vs Dope Boys 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Tukes, Romell | Jack Boys Vs Dope Boys 3 | Urban Fiction |
| Turow, Scott | Suspect | Mystery - Kindle County #12 |
| Urquhart, Alaina | The Butcher And The Wren | From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads. |
| Walsh, Jane | The Inconvenient Heiress | Historical Romance |
| Warrell, Laura | Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm | When he discovers free-spirited drummer Maggie, the woman who is secretly closest to his heart, is pregnant by him, 40-year-old trumpet player and old-school ladies' man who refuses to be tied down, Circus Palmer flees, setting off a chain of interlocking revelations from the various women in his life. |
| Williams, Darrius | Things Come Together | Urban Fiction |
| Williams, Darrius | Things Come Together 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Williams, Denise | Do You Take This Man | After butting heads, an event planner and a wedding officiant begin an enemies with benefits arrangement as wedding bells chime around them. |
| Wong, Ryan Lee | Which Side Are You On | Fiction |
| Woods, Rita | The Last Dreamwalker | The story of two women, separated by nearly two centuries yet inextricably linked by the Gullah-Geechee Islands off the coast of South Carolina--and their connection to a mysterious and extraordinary gift passed from generation to generation. |
| Woods, Stuart | Distant Thunder | Mystery - Stone Barrington #63 |
| Yagi, Emi | Diary Of A Void | A woman in Tokyo avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she's pregnant. |
| Yang, Neon | The Genesis Of Misery | As those in power seek to use them to win a terrible war, Misery Nomaki, who possesses a dangerous magic that only "saints" are said to have, is thought to be the new Messiah and decides to embrace their destiny as they grow close to a rebellious royal. |
| Young, Adrienne | Spells For Forgetting | Fiction |
| Zusy, Jeannie | The Frederick Sisters Are Living The Dream | Fiction |
August 2022
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott, Jeff | Traitor's Dance | Thriller - Sam Capra #6 |
| Abreu, Andrea | Dogs of Summer | Fiction |
| Acampora, Lauren | The Hundred Waters | Fiction |
| Ackerman, Sara | The Codebreaker's Secret | A brilliant female codebreaker. An "unbreakable" naval code. A pilot on a top-secret mission that could change the course of WWII. |
| Ah'million | It's Just Me and You | Urban Fiction |
| Alderson, Ben | King of Immortal Tithe | What if Hades fell in love with Persephone's brother instead? |
| Allen, Sarah Addison | Other Birds | Fiction |
| Andrews, Ilona | Ruby Fever | Urban Fantasy - Hidden Legacy #6 |
| Armstead, Krystal | Romeo and Juliet of The Projects | Can two people with a painful past build a better future? Does love really conquer all? |
| Armstrong, Addison | The War Librarian | The Paris Library meets The Flight Girls in this historical novel inspired by the first female volunteer librarians during World War I and the first women accepted into the U.S. Naval Academy. |
| Aryanna | A Dope Boy's Queen: The Game Ain't Fair | Urban Fiction |
| Aryanna | A Dope Boy's Queen 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Backman, Fredrik | The Winners | Fiction - Beartown #3 |
| Baptiste, Robert | Caught Up in the Life: Down For Her Man | Urban Fiction |
| Baptiste, Robert | Caught Up in the Life 2: Shantell's Secret | Urban Fiction |
| Baptiste, Robert | Caught Up in the Life 3 | Urban Fiction |
| Barnes, Julian | Elizabeth Finch | Fiction |
| Beck, Hazel | Small Town, Big Magic | There's no such thing as witches...right? |
| Bentley, Cade | Where Wild Peaches Grow | Estranged sisters wrestle with the choices they've made and confront circumstances beyond their control. |
| Berenson, Laurien | Peg and Rose Solve A Murder | Murder, She Wrote meets The Odd Couple in this series debut featuring cantankerous Peg and soft-spoken Rose--who'll put aside their differences to stop a killer... if they don't throttle each other first! |
| Bissonnette, Zac | A Killing in Costumes | Stardom fades fast when you're on the line for murder in this debut cozy mystery. |
| Box, C. J. | Treasure State | Mystery - Cassie Dewell #6 |
| Briggs, Patricia | Soul Taken | Urban Fantasy - Mercy Thompson #13 |
| Burns, Valerie | Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder | This cozy mystery series debut introduces a social media expert who's #StartingOver in small town Michigan after inheriting her great-aunt's bakery...and a 200-pound English Mastiff named Baby. |
| Burton, Jessie | The House of Fortune | Historical fiction from the author of The Miniaturist. |
| Byler, Linda | All In Good Time | Inspirational - Long Road Home #3 |
| Ca$h | Restraining Order: Some Men Can't Take No for an Answer | Urban Fiction |
| Ca$h | Restraining Order 2: A Tragic Love | Urban Fiction |
| Cannon, Joanna | A Tidy Ending | Linda lives a quiet suburban life, but things aren't always what they seem... |
| Carey, C. J. | Widowland | Fatherland meets The Handmaid's Tale in this what-might-have-been tale. |
| Charyn, Jerome | Big Red | Reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. |
| Childs, Laura | A Dark and Stormy Tea | Cozy Mystery - Tea Shop #24 |
| Chu, Wesley | The Art of Prophecy | When the prophecy anoints the wrong hero, Jian decides to save the kingdom anyway with the help of a ragtag group of allies, including a grandmaster of magical martial arts, a straight-laced warrior, and a chaotic assassin. |
| Cleeves, Ann | The Rising Tide | Mystery - Vera Stanhope #10 |
| Clipston, Amy | Building A Future | Inspirational - Amish Legacy #2 |
| Coffee | Restraining Order: Some Men Can't Take No For An Answer | Urban Fiction |
| Colgan, Jenny | Rules At The School By The Sea | Fiction - Little School by the Sea #2 |
| Coll, Susan | Bookish People | Fiction |
| Davis, Christine N. | Trap Queen | Fed up with feeling powerless, Lihanny takes the drug world by storm when she meets Malaki. But what happens when the love for the game trumps everything else? |
| Degollado, Rubén | The Family Izquierdo | A debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love, and a curse. |
| Donoghue, Emma | Haven | Three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. |
| Du Bois, W. E. B. | Darkwater | Du Bois' foundational investigation of social justice and civil rights by means of essay, poetry, prayer, and short science fiction. |
| Eason, Lynette | Crossfire | Christian Suspense - Extreme Measures #2 |
| Edwards, Shaunna J. and Alyson Richman | The Thread Collectors | Historical Fiction |
| Feeney, Alice | Daisy Darker | A family reunion on a tiny tidal island leads to murder. |
| Fielding, Joy | The Housekeeper | A woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents--only to watch as she takes over their lives. |
| Flowers, Ashley | All Good People Here | A journalist uncovers her hometown's dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor--and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later. |
| Fofana, Sidik | Stories From The Tenants Downstairs | A debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it. |
| Franqui, Leah | After The Hurricane | A daughter returns to Puerto Rico to search for her troubled father, who has gone missing after Hurricane Maria. |
| Freeman, Brian | I Remember You | Thriller |
| Fuller, Kathleen | Sold On Love | Christian Romance - Maple Falls #3 |
| Galbraith, Robert | The Ink Black Heart | Thriller - Cormoran Strike #6 |
| Gamarra, Katalina | Ben and Beatriz | There's nothing like falling for your worst enemy. |
| Garza, Kimberly | The Last Karankawas | A debut about a tight-knit community of Mexican and Filipino families on the Texas coast. |
| Giddings, Megan | The Women Could Fly | A dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored. |
| Goldin, Megan | Stay Awake | Thriller |
| Gunty, Tess | The Rabbit Hutch | A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest. |
| Gurnah, Abdulrazak | Afterlives | A sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. |
| Hannaham, James | Didn't Nobody Give A Shit What Happened To Carlotta | A trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men's prison. |
| Hazelwood, Ali | Love On The Brain | Romance |
| Howard, Amalie | Always Be My Duchess | Pretty Woman meets the Bridgertons in this historical take on 90s romcoms. |
| Howard, Catherine Ryan | Run Time | Thriller |
| Huff, Tanya | Into The Broken Lands | Fantasy |
| Janson, Julie | Benevolence | A reimagining of the first contact between Indigenous people and white British settlers and the far-reaching consequences for one Aboriginal girl coming of age in an unsteady and dangerous world. |
| Jayatissa, Amanda | You're Invited | What could be worse than your ex-boyfriend marrying your childhood best friend? Getting accused of her murder... |
| Jenkins Reid, Taylor | Carrie Soto Is Back | An epic adventure about a female athlete perhaps past her prime, brought back to the tennis court for one last grand slam. |
| Jenkins, Beverly | To Catch A Raven | Historical Romance - Women Who Dare #3 |
| Jenkins, Jerry B. | Dead Sea Conspiracy | Christian Suspense - Dead Sea Chronicles #2 |
| Jewell, Lisa | The Family Remains | Mystery - The Family Upstairs #2 |
| Jimenez, Simon | The Spear Cuts Through Water | Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family. |
| Johansen, Iris | Captive | Mystery - Eve Duncan #29 |
| Johnson, Liz | The Last Way Home | Christian Romance |
| Johnson, Tyrell | The Lost Kings | A woman is forced to confront the darkest moment in her childhood in order to move on from her past and open her heart to love. |
| Jones, Sandie | The Blame Game | Games can be dangerous. But blame can be deadly. |
| Kae, Courtney | In The Event of Love | Returning home after her event-planning career implodes, Morgan Ross decides to help her one-time-best-friend crush, Rachel Reed, save her struggling tree farm from corporate greed by planning her best fundraiser yet, bringing about unexpected romance. |
| Kellerman, Faye | The Hunt | Mystery - Decker and Lazarus #27 |
| King, Joy Deja | Sugar Babies...A Titillating Tale | Urban Fiction |
| King, Stephen | Fairy Tale | A seventeen-year-old boy inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war. |
| Kirwan, Noué | Long Past Summer | It's hard to move on from a broken heart -- and harder to move on from a broken friendship. |
| Kiste, Gwendolyn | Reluctant Immortals | Horror |
| Krueger, William Kent | Fox Creek | Mystery - Cork O'Connor #19 |
| Ku, Pyŏng-mo | The Old Woman With The Knife | The story of a sixty-five-year old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the twilight of her career. |
| Kuang, R. F. | Babel : Or The Necessity of Violence | Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. |
| Kumarasamy, Akil | Meet Us By The Roaring Sea | A genre-bending exploration of memory, war, technology, friendship, love, consciousness, and the challenges of caring for others. |
| Laflare, Reese | The Cocaine Diaries 2: Gucci's Story | Urban Fiction |
| Laflare, Reese | The Cocaine Diaries 3: Gucci's Story | Urban Fiction |
| Lagercrantz, David | Dark Music | A murder investigation in which two unlikely allies race to uncover a shadowy international conspiracy. |
| Langer, Adam | Cyclorama | Ten teenagers are brought together by a high school production of The Diary of Anne Frank that will influence the rest of their lives. |
| Levin, Adam | Mount Chicago | Fiction |
| Lewis, Beverly | The Orchard | Inspirational |
| Li, Winnie M. | Complicit | After a long-buried, harrowing incident, a woman whose promising film career was derailed has an opportunity for revenge. |
| Lim, Roselle | Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club | A novel about the power of loneliness and the strength of love that overcomes it. |
| Lister, Sheryl | A Table For Two | One woman must learn to love again with the help of her supper club friends and the man next door. |
| Lucia, Natalia Macias | Girls of Salt and Sea | Fantasy |
| Lupica, Mike | Robert B. Parker's Fallout | Mystery - Jesse Stone #21 |
| Maden, Mike | Clive Cussler's Hellburner | Thriller - Oregon Files #16 |
| Mandanna, Sangu | The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches | An uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family--and a new love--changes the course of her life. |
| Manibo, Victor | The Sleepless | A mysterious pandemic causes a quarter of the world to permanently lose the ability to sleep. |
| Mann, Michael | Heat 2 | A return to the universe and characters of the crime film Heat. |
| Maxwell, Alyssa | Murder At Beacon Rock | Historical Mystery - Gilded Newport #10 |
| McAllister, Gillian | Wrong Place Wrong Time | Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? |
| McCall Smith, Alexander | A Song of Comfortable Chairs | Mystery - No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #23 |
| McFarlane, Mhairi | Mad About You | Romance |
| McGuire, Seanan | Be The Serpent | Fantasy - October Daye #16 |
| McMorris, Kristina | The Ways We Hide | The tale of an illusionist whose recruitment by British intelligence sets her on a perilous, heartrending path during World War II. |
| Medoff, Jillian | When We Were Bright and Beautiful | Fiction |
| Meltzer, Jean | Mr. Perfect On Paper | A third-generation Jewish matchmaker unwittingly finds her own search for love thrust into the spotlight. |
| Mestre-Reed, Ernesto | Sacrificio | Historical Fiction |
| Michaels, Fern | Tick Tock | Holiday |
| Michaels, Fern | Falling Stars | Romantic Suspense - Sisterhood #34 |
| Mo, Johanna | The Shadow Lily | It's a race against time as an island searches for a murderer and a missing child. |
| Modesitt, L. E. Jr. | Councilor | Fantasy - Grand Illusion #2 |
| Moore, Taylor | Firestorm | Thriller - Garrett Kohl #2 |
| Newson, Rasheed | My Government Means To Kill Me | A coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young, gay, Black man in 1980s New York City. |
| Ng, Celeste | Our Missing Hearts | From the author of Little Fires Everywhere, anovel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. |
| Nguyen, Phong | Bronze Drum | A novel of ancient Vietnam based on the true story of two warrior sisters who raised an army of women to overthrow the Han Chinese and rule as kings over a united people. |
| O'Farrell, Maggie | The Marriage Portrait | A fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court. |
| Osman, Richard | The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery | Mystery - Thursday Murder Club #3 |
| Patterson, James, and Brendan DuBois | Blowback | Thriller |
| Patterson, James, and Richard DiLallo | The Ninth Month | Thriller |
| Peñaranda, Chloe C | A Clash of Three Courts | In a war of hearts, fates will be sealed. But in a battle of thrones, no bond may be truly unbreakable. |
| Penelope, L. | The Monsters We Defy | A woman able to communicate with spirits must assemble a ragtag crew to pull off a daring heist to save her community in this historical fantasy that weaves ogether African American folk magic, history, and romance. |
| Player, Delmont | The Birth of A Gangster 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Pollard, Clare | Delphi | A British classics professor intersperses her lockdown diary with a taxonomy of ancient systems of prophecy. |
| Quinn, Spencer | Bark To The Future | Mystery - Chet and Bernie #13 |
| Raybourn, Deanna | Killers of A Certain Age | Four female assassins on the brink of retirement are brought back into the game by a surprising assassination attempt--on them. |
| Revis, Beth | The Princess and The Scoundrel | Spending their honeymoon on a luxury vessel journeying to the most wondrous worlds in the galaxy, Han Solo and Princess Leia soon discover that the war is not over as the remnants of the Empire still cling to power, bringing the fight to them. |
| Reynolds, Alastair | Eversion | A dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and space, where Doctor Silas Coade is tasked with keeping his crew safe as they adventure across the galaxy in search of a mysterious artifact. |
| Riley, Vanessa | Murder In Westminster | When she stumbles upon the body of her neighbor's wife, Lady Abigail Worthing teams up with the widower and dives into the treacherous waters of London's high society to find the truth. |
| Ro, Hazel | I Didn't Think You Existed 2: A Fool In Love | Urban Fiction |
| Robb, J. D. | Desperation In Death | Mystery - In Death #55 |
| Robert, Katee | Court of The Vampire Queen | Three powerfully alluring vampire men and one queen to rule them all. |
| Robson, Kelly | High Times In The Low Parliament | A lighthearted romp through an 18th-century London featuring flirtatious scribes, irritable fairies, and the dangers of Parliament. |
| Roby, Kimberla Lawson | Sister Friends Forever | Follows four lifelong friends as each faces a crisis in family, love, and forgiveness. |
| Rocha, Kit | Dance With The Devil | Romance - Mercenary Librarians #3 |
| Rose, Karen | Quarter To Midnight | A series opener set in New Orleans and featuring a tough team of high-end private investigators who are after justice--no matter what they have to do to get it. |
| Rowland, Alexandra | A Taste of Gold and Iron | Fantasy |
| Ruiz, Sarah Grunder | Luck and Last Resorts | Romance |
| Salvatore, R. A. | Glacier's Edge | Fantasy - Way of the Drow #2 |
| Sandford, John | Righteous Prey | Mystery - Prey #32 |
| Scrivenor, Hayley | Dirt Creek | In this small-town debut mystery, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together. |
| Seckel, Emma | The Wild Hunt | The islanders have only three rules: don't stick your nose where it's not wanted, don't mention the war, and never let your guard down during October. |
| Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson | On The Rooftop | A mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives, set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco. |
| Simpson, W. A. | Tinderbox | Isbet returns home to find the witch who raised her murdered and her prized possession, the Tinderbox, stolen. |
| Singh, Nalini | Storm Echo | Paranormal Romance - Psy-Changeling Trinity #6 |
| Slaughter, Karin | Girl, Forgotten | Thriller |
| Sparks, Nicholas | Dreamland | Fiction |
| Stoker, Susan | Deserving Alaska | The Refuge is a place to heal. Where those who have experienced traumatic events can go to heal. It's run by seven former military men who've seen more than their fair share of the ugliness in the world. |
| Sun, Kung Li | Begin The World Over | Alternative History |
| Suri, Tasha | The Oleander Sword | Fantasy - The Burning Kingdoms #2 |
| Tang, Belinda Huijuan | A Map For The Missing | Historical Fiction |
| Taylor, Jodi | A Catalogue of Catastrophe | Science Fiction - Chronicles of St. Mary's #13 |
| Thankam Mathews, Sarah | All This Could be Different | Fiction |
| Thompson, Alicia | Love in the Time of Serial Killers | Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating-and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst. |
| Tukes, Romell | Jack Boyz N Da Bronx 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Tukes, Romell | A Dopeboy's Dream 3 | Urban Fiction |
| Tukes, Romell | Jack Boys Vs Dope Boys | Urban Fiction |
| Umubyeyi Mairesse, Beata | All Your Children, Scattered | Fiction |
| Valdes, Valerie | Fault Tolerance | Science Fiction - Chilling Effect #3 |
| Virdi, R. R. | The First Binding | My name is Ari. And this is the story of how I let loose the first evil. Thus begins the tale of a storyteller and a singer on the run and hoping to find obscurity in a tavern bar. |
| Watkins, LaToya | Perish | A family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed. |
| Weber, Carl | Black Hamptons | When a piece of land comes up for sale in this exclusive community, it sparks a war between the Brittons and the Johnsons. |
| Weis, Margaret | Dragons of Deceit | Fantasy - Dragonlance Destinies #1 |
| West, Catherine Adel | The Two Lives of Sara | A young mother finds refuge and friendship at a boardinghouse in 1960s Memphis, Tennessee, where family encompasses more than just blood and hidden truths can bury you or set you free. |
| Whelan, Julia | Thank You For Listening | A former actress turned successful audiobook narrator, who has lost sight of her dreams after a tragic accident, agrees to narrate one last romance novel. |
| Wiggins, Marianne | Properties of Thirst | Historical Fiction |
| Winstead, Ashley | The Last Housewife | Thriller |
| Wiseman, Ellen Marie | The Lost Girls of Willowbrook | Historical Fiction |
| Woodsmall, Cindy | Yesterday's Gone | Christian Fiction |
| Giving The Devil His Due | Horror |
July 2022
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Afia, Nekesa | Harlem Sunset | Historical Mystery - Harlem Renaissance #2 |
| Alers, Rochelle | Along the Shore | Romance - Book Club #2 |
| Alexander, Kianna | Can't Resist Her | Two very determined women--in love, at odds, and risking a lot on a second chance. |
| Andrews, Donna | Round Up the Usual Peacocks | Cozy Mystery - Meg Langslow #31 |
| Armfield, Julia | Our Wives Under the Sea | Fiction |
| Arthur, A. C. | Happy is on Hiatus | Fiction |
| Austin, Lynn N. | Long Way Home | Christian Historical |
| Avery, Joy | Sweeter than Honey | Romance - Honey Hill #2 |
| Babalola, Bolu | Honey and Spice | A young woman who has no interest in love unexpectedly finds herself caught up in a fake relationship with the man she warned her girls about. |
| Baker, Camille | The Moment We Met | A meddling app says she's about to meet her match, but which of the four possibilities is the one--and more importantly, is she ready for love? |
| Baldacci, David | The 6:20 Man | Mystery |
| Balogh, Mary | Remember Love | Historical Romance - Ravenswood #1 |
| Barrett, Ruby | The Romance Recipe | Romance |
| Bazawule, Blitz | The Scent of Burnt Flowers | Fleeing persecution in 1960s America, a Black couple seeks asylum in Ghana, but fresh dangers and old secrets threaten their newfound freedom. |
| Beauman, Ned | Venomous Lumpsucker | A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism. |
| Bennett, Robert Jackson | Locklands | Urban Fantasy - Founders #3 |
| Bhat, Shashi | The Most Precious Substance on Earth | Fiction |
| Billingham, Mark | The Murder Book | Mystery - Tom Thorne #18 |
| Blair, Melissa | A Broken Blade | Keera is a killer. As the king's Blade and his most gifted assassin, she is called upon to hunt down a mysterious figure called the Shadow who is moving against the Crown. |
| Blumberg, Chandra | Stirring Up Love | Two rivals whose passion for food and their communities brings them together in ways they never expected. |
| Bowen, Rhys | Where the Sky Begins | Historical Fiction |
| Brayden, Melissa | The Last Lavender Sister | Romance |
| Brenner, Jamie | Gilt | A famous family jewelry dynasty and the hidden past that could topple it all. |
| Bromley, Kate | Here for the Drama | Working as an assistant for a celebrated, feminist playwright, an aspiring author is invited to London to help stage a play and finds herself falling for her boss's nephew. |
| Brook, Kate | Not Exactly What I Had in Mind | Fiction |
| Brown, Eleanor | Any Other Family | Three very different adoptive mothers who face the impossible question: What makes a family? |
| Brown, Sandra | Overkill | Thriller |
| Brown-Newton, Dorothy | Reign and Jahiem: Luvin' on his New York Swag | Urban Fiction |
| Brunstetter, Wanda E. | The Apple Creek Announcement | Inspirational - Creektown Discoveries #3 |
| Bulle, Estelle-Sarah | Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails | The tales of one family and their larger-than-many-lives sister, Antoine, weaves together the vibrant, epic story of Guadeloupe and its diaspora. |
| Burton, Jeffrey B. | The Lost | Mystery - Mace Reid K-9 #3 |
| Cambron, Kristy | The Italian Ballerina | At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save innocent lives. |
| Carlisle, Kate | The Paper Caper | Cozy Mystery - Bibliophile #16 |
| Cast, P. C. | Into the Mist | Practical Magic meets Station Eleven in this gripping take on female power and the inevitable, destructive path of violent patriarchies. |
| Castillo, Linda | The Hidden One | Mystery - Kate Burkholder #14 |
| Center, Katherine | The Bodyguard | Hired as superstar actor Jack Stapleton's bodyguard, Hannah Brooks must pose as his girlfriend while visiting his family's ranch in Texas. |
| Chambers, Becky | A Prayer for the Crown-Shy | Science Fiction - Monk and Robot #2 |
| Chang, K-Ming | Gods of Want | Short Stories |
| Chiaverini, Jennifer | Switchboard Soldiers | Historical Fiction |
| Child, Lincoln | Chrysalis | Thriller |
| Christopher, Adam | Shadow of the Sith | Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian return in this essential novel set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. |
| Clark, Julie | The Lies I Tell | Thriller |
| Coble, Colleen | Edge of Dusk | A brand-new series set in the Upper Peninsula that incorporates beloved characters from Coble's Rock Harbor series. |
| Coleman, Ashley M. | Good Morning, Love | Follows Carlisa Henton as her life comes undone after a chance meeting with a rising pop star. |
| Colgan, Jenny | An Island Wedding | Romance - Mure #5 |
| Cooper, Helen | The Other Guest | After a shocking death at a luxurious Italian resort, two very different women must question everything-and everyone-they love in order to untangle truth from lies. |
| Coulter, Catherine | Reckoning | Mystery - FBI Thriller #26 |
| Crawford, Isis | A Catered Doggie Wedding | Cozy Mystery - Mystery with Recipes #17 |
| Crewe, Paddy | My name is Yip | Western |
| Crouch, Blake | Upgrade | When his DNA is rewritten with a genetic-engineering breakthrough beyond anything the world has seen, Logan Ramsey finds his transformation threatening everything around him as he is forced to take sides in a fight to save humankind. |
| Dailey, Janet | Somebody like Santa | Romance |
| Dark, Alice Elliott | Fellowship Point | Fiction |
| Davis, Ambria | Can't Be That Other Woman | This blazing tale of a dangerous love triangle will leave you wondering: Can two women share one man? |
| Davis, Brandie | Brooklyn | Urban Fiction - Carl Weber's Kingpins |
| Davis, Davey | X | Fiction |
| Davis, Lindsey | Desperate Undertaking | Historical Mystery - Flavia Albia #10 |
| Dean, Sunyi | The Book Eaters | Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. |
| Deb, Sopan | Keya Das's Second Act | A box in the attic leads one Bengali American family down a path toward understanding the importance of family, even when splintered. |
| Delany, Martin R. | Blake; Or the Huts of America | Historical Fiction |
| Delany, Vicki | Murder Spills the Tea | Cozy Mystery - Tea by the Sea #3 |
| Dodd, Christina | Point Last Seen | Thriller |
| Doiron, Paul | Hatchet Island | Mystery - Mike Bowditch #13 |
| Douglas, Claire | The Couple at Number 9 | A couple who inherit what seems to be their dream home, until they make a horrifying discovery. |
| Edwards, Rachel | Lucky | Fiction |
| El-Arifi, Saara | The Final Strife | In the first book of a fantasy trilogy with its roots in the mythology of Africa and Arabia, three women band together against a cruel empire that divides people by blood. |
| Ellis, David | Look Closer | Thriller |
| Emerson, Ramona | Shutter | A forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force who sees the ghosts of crime victims is caught in the crosshairs of one of Albuquerque's most dangerous cartels when a furious ghost sets her on a path of vengeance. |
| Emrys, Ruthanna | A Half-Built Garden | Science Fiction |
| Erlick, Nikki | The Measure | When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy. |
| Estleman, Loren D. | Monkey in the Middle | Mystery - Amos Walker #30 |
| Fairbrother, Alison | The Catch | A young woman searches for the truth about her father and the secrets of her family. |
| Feehan, Christine | Red on the River | Paranormal Romance - Sunrise Lake #2 |
| Feist, Raymond E. | Master of Furies | Fantasy - Firemane #3 |
| Fischer, Nan | Some of It Was Real | A psychic on the verge of stardom who isn't sure she believes in herself and a cynical journalist with one last chance at redemption are brought together by secrets from the past that also threaten to tear them apart. |
| Ford, Jamie | The Many Daughters of Afong Moy | A powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations. |
| Francis, Felix | Iced | Mystery - Dick Francis #10 |
| Freeman, Brian | Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Sacrifice | Thriller - Jason Bourne #17 |
| Gailey, Sarah | Just Like Home | Called back home by her mother, Vera must not only face the love she had for her serial-killer father, but also confront the secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder house. |
| Garwood, Julie | Grace Under Fire | Romantic Suspense - Buchanan/FBI #14 |
| Gerritsen, Tess | Listen to Me | Mystery - Rizzoli & Isles #13 |
| Gervais, June | Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair | An artistic teen growing up in a conventional Long Island town in 1985 convinces her older brother to give her a job in his tattoo parlor where she learns to embrace her quirkiness in her art and her life. |
| Goldberg, Lee | Movieland | Mystery - Eve Ronin #4 |
| Gomillion, Agnes | The Seed of Cain | Science Fiction - Record Keeper #2 |
| Goodman, Carol | The Disinvited Guest | A group of friends are isolated on a remote island with a history of foul play. |
| Graham, Heather | Aura of Night | Paranormal Romance - Krewe of Hunters #37 |
| Greaney, Mark | Armored | After losing part of his left leg, a former Close Protection Agent takes a job as a mall cop in Virginia to support his family, but runs into an old friend who has a much more intriguing job offer. |
| Griffiths, Elly | The Locked Room | Mystery - Dr. Ruth Galloway #14 |
| Habib, Conner | Hawk Mountain | An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder. |
| Haddad, Joumana | The Book of Queens | A book of history, heritage, loyalty, religion, feminism, families, and the Armenian genocide. |
| Hadero, Meron. | A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times | Short Stories |
| Hall, Alexis J. | Husband Material | Romance - London Calling #2 |
| Hall, Rachel Howzell | We lie here | |
| Hamid, Mohsin | The Last White Man | As people across the land awaken in new incarnations, Anders, whose skin turns dark, confides only in Oona, an old friend turned new lover, deciding to use this as chance at a kind of rebirth. |
| Hardt, Helen | Smolder | Romance - Steel Brothers #22 |
| Hare, Louise | Miss Aldridge Regrets | In 1936 London, down-on-her-luck actress Lena Aldridge is offered the role of a lifetime in New York, and, sailing aboard the Queen Mary, is drawn into the fold of an obscenely wealthy family and their bizarre family dynamic where her greatest performance will be for her life. |
| Hariri-Kia, Iman | A Hundred Other Girls | How far would you go to keep the job a hundred other girls are ready to take? |
| Herbert, Brian | Sands of Dune | Science Fiction Short Stories |
| Hillier, Jennifer | Things We Do in the Dark | Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future. |
| Ho, Lauren | Lucie Yi is not a romantic | An ambitious career woman signs up for a co-parenting website only to find a match she never expected. |
| Hockman, Angie | Dream On | A law student wakes up from a car accident with memories of a boyfriend she's never met, only to run into him in a flower shop a year later. |
| Hokeah, Oscar | Calling for a Blanket Dance | A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man finding strength in his familial identity. |
| Iglesias, Gabino | The Devil Takes You Home | A genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence. |
| Irwin, Sophie | A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting | Historical Romance |
| Itäranta, Emmi | The Moonday Letters | Science Fiction |
| Jackson, Brenda | The House on Blueberry Lane | Romance - Catalina Cove #6 |
| Jackson, Danielle | The Accidental Pinup | Rival photographers are forced to collaborate on a body-positive lingerie campaign, but they might have to readjust their focus when sparks fly. |
| Jackson, K. M. | Knot Again | Romance - Real Men Knit #2 |
| Jackson, Lisa | The Girl Who Survived | Romantic Suspense |
| Jackson-Brown, Angela | The Light Always Breaks | Historical Fiction |
| James, Holly | Nothing But the Truth | Fiction |
| Jamieson, Trent | The Stone Road | Fantasy |
| Jean, Emiko | Mika in Real Life | Mika is at her lowest point when she receives a phone call from Penny--the daughter she placed for adoption sixteen years ago. |
| Jennings, Alex | The Ballad of Perilous Graves | Music is magic in this vibrant and imaginative debut novel set in a fantastical version of New Orleans where a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song. |
| Jin, Meng | Self-Portrait with Ghost | Short Stories |
| Johnson, Mat | Invisible Things | Science Fiction |
| Kaplan, Isabel | NSFW | A novel about a young woman trying to succeed in Hollywood without selling her soul. |
| Khalid, Zain | Brother Alive | A debut novel about family, sexuality, and capitalist systems of control, following three adopted brothers who live above a mosque in Staten Island with their imam father. |
| Kingfisher, T. | What Moves the Dead | A gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic The Fall of the House of Usher. |
| Knecht, Rosalie | Vera Kelly: Lost and Found | Mystery - Vera Kelly #3 |
| Kochai, Jamil Jan | The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories | Short Stories |
| Koontz, Dean R. | The Big Dark Sky | Thriller |
| Krow, Leyna | Fire Season | The story of three scheming opportunists--a banker, a conman, and a woman with an extraordinary gift--whose lives collide in the wake of a devastating fire in the American West. |
| La Rosa, Erin | For Butter or Worse | Chef Nina Lyon finds her dreams of stardom dashed after clashing with her cooking challenge show co-host so badly it causes her to quit on live tv, forcing her nemesis to beg for her return. |
| Lee, Jayci | Booked on a Feeling | Romance |
| Liu, Ken | Speaking Bones | Fantasy - Dandelion Dynasty #4 |
| Livesay, Tracey | American Royalty | A prince who wants to live out of the spotlight falls for a daring American rapper who turns his life, and the palace, upside down. |
| Lopez, Angelina M. | After Hours on Milagro Street | Opposites attract in this rivals-to-lovers romance. |
| Macomber, Debbie | The Best Is Yet to Come | Romance |
| Malliet, G. M. | Augsta Hawke | Crime writer Augusta Hawke puts her sleuthing skills to the test to solve the mystery of her disappearing neighbors in the first entry in a new series. |
| Manfredi, Francesca | The Empire of Dirt | Three generations of women must face their secrets and regrets when an old family curse awakens. |
| Mantel, Hilary | Learning to Talk | Short Stories |
| March, Nev | Peril at the Exposition | Historical Mystery - Captain Jim and Lady Diana #2 |
| Marra, Anthony | Mercury Pictures presents | A brilliant woman must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles. |
| Martin, Charles | The Record Keeper | Fiction |
| Martin, Jessica | For the Love of the Bard | Romance |
| Martin, Madeline | The Librarian Spy | A novel inspired by the true history of America's library spies of World War II. |
| Matheson, Nadine | The Binding Room | Mystery - Inspector Anjelica Henley #2 |
| McCall Smith, Alexander | The Sweet Remnants of Summer | Mystery -Isabel Dalhousie #14 |
| McClellan, Brian | In the Shadow of Lightning | An epic fantasy where magic is a finite resource--and it's running out. |
| McDonald, Ed | Daughter of Redwinter | Fantasy |
| McKinney-Whetstone, Diane | Our Gen | Residents of an active-living retirement community revert to lives of youthful indulgence, even as time-bomb secrets of their pasts tick toward explosion. |
| Mead, Tom | Death and the Conjuror | Stumped by a confounding murder, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage magician-turned-part-time sleuth Joseph Spector in this series opener. |
| Meadows, Foz | A Strange and Stubborn Endurance | Historical Fantasy |
| Méndez, Yamile Saied | Twice a Quinceañera | An accomplished young woman decides to throw herself a quinceañera (times two) for her 30th birthday after calling off her wedding. |
| Menon, Lily | The Sizzle Paradox | Romance |
| Migo, Black | Queen of the Zoo 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Mihalik, Jessie | Eclipse the Moon | Science Fiction Romance - Starlight's Shadow #2 |
| Mina, Denise | Confidence | Mystery - Anna and Fin #2 |
| Miranda, Megan | The Last to Vanish | A thriller that opens with the disappearance of a journalist who is investigating a string of vanishings in the resort town of Cutter's Pass. |
| Monroe, Katrina | They Drown Our Daughters | Horror |
| Montimore, Margarita | Acts of Violet | Fiction |
| Moreno-Garcia, Silvia | The Daughter of Doctor Moreau | When the arrival of Eduardo Lizalde sets in motion a dangerous chain of events, Carlota Moreau finds her carefully constructed world falling down around her as passion is ignited in the sweltering heat of the jungle where a motley group of monstrosities await. |
| Morrow, Rebecca | Corinne | Fiction |
| Murata, Sayaka | Life Ceremony | Short Stories |
| Na'Cole | Tori and Jace: Trapped in His Love | Urban Fiction |
| Nicieza, Fabian | The Self-Made Widow | Two unlikely sleuths investigate a murder that reveals the dark underbelly of suburban marriage. |
| Nieh, Daniel | Take No Names | A young man on the run from a furtive past, in search of a quick payday in Mexico City, finds himself in the crosshairs of a dangerous international scheme. |
| Obaro, Tomi | Dele weds Destiny | The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty years. |
| Obuobi, Shirlene | On rotation | With her life crashes down around her, a med student who's spent her life being the Perfect Immigrant Daughter questions everything - her career, her friendships and her taste in men - until she meets someone who changes everything. |
| Okparanta, Chinelo | Harry Sylvester Bird | Fiction |
| Onda, Riku | Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight | Part psychological thriller, part murder mystery. |
| Patterson, James | Shattered | Thriller - Michael Bennett #14 |
| Pearse, Sarah | The Retreat | Detective Elin Warner uncovers the truth behind the suspicious deaths on a stunning island getaway. |
| Peltier, N. G. | Don't Go Baking My Heart | Romance - Island Bites #2 |
| Peterson, Tracie | Beyond the Desert Sands | Christian Historical - Love on the Santa Fe #2 |
| Poston, Ashley | The Dead Romantics | Romance |
| Pulley, Natasha | The Half Life of Valery K | An epic Cold War novel set in a mysterious town in Soviet Russia. |
| Ragnar Jónasson | Outside | Mystery |
| Reichs, Kathy | Cold, Cold Bones | Mystery - Temperance Brennan #21 |
| Reid, Ava | Juniper & Thorn | A young witch seeks to discover her identity and escape the domination of her abusive wizard father. |
| Reilly, Matthew | The One Impossible Labyrinth | Thriller - Jack West Jr. #7 |
| Reynolds, Allie | The swell | Point Break meets And Then There Were None in a pulse-pounding beach read that explores the dangerous ties between a group of elite surfers who are determined to find the perfect waves at any cost...even murder. |
| Riley, Vanessa | Sister Mother Warrior | A novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women. |
| Rimmer, Kelly | The German Wife | Historical Fiction |
| Rochon, Farrah | The Hookup Plan | Romance - Boyfriend Project #3 |
| Roffey, Monique | The Mermaid of Black Conch | Fiction |
| Rosenberg, Lisa Williamson | Embers on the Wind | The past and the present converge in this tale of women connected by motherhood, slavery's legacy, and histories that span centuries. |
| Rosenfelt, David | Holy Chow | Cozy Mystery - Andy Carpenter #25 |
| Roy, Lucinda | Flying the Coop | Science Fiction - Dreambird Chronicles #2 |
| Schaitkin, Alexis | Elsewhere | A community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. |
| Schubach, Alanna | The Nobodies | Fiction |
| Scott, Anika | The Soviet Sisters | A historical novel filled with secrets, lies, and betrayals, following two spy sisters during the Cold War. |
| Shipman, Viola | The Edge of Summer | Fiction |
| Silva, Daniel | Portrait of an Unknown Woman | Thriller - Gabriel Allon #22 |
| Sims, Jonathan | Thirteen Storeys | The only way out is up. |
| Sivak, Zoe | Mademoiselle Revolution | The story of a biracial heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. |
| Slaughter, Jodie | Bet on It | Romance |
| Slmn | Godless | Mystery - Bloodlines #2 |
| Smith, Wilbur A. | Storm Tide | A historical epic set against the backdrop of the American revolution. |
| Soomro, Taymour | Other Names for Love | A debut novel about a boy's life-changing summer in rural Pakistan. |
| Steel, Danielle | The Challenge | Fiction |
| Stevens, Nell | Briefly, a Delicious Life | A lively, daring ghost story about a teenage ghost who falls in love with a writer who doesn't know she exists. |
| Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah | Big Girl | A young, plus-size girl in 1990s Harlem tries to meet the lofty expectations of her painfully proper mother, sharp-tongued grandmother and her mostly white Upper East Side prep school while finding solace in the music of Biggie Smalls and Aaliyah. |
| Swinson, Kiki | Playing Their Games | Mystery - Yoshi Lomax #2 |
| Talty, Morgan | Night of the Living Rez | Twelve striking, luminescent stories that breathe life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future. |
| Taylor, Sarah Stewart | The Drowning Sea | Mystery - Maggie d'Arcy #3 |
| Thompson, Jean | The Poet's House | A young woman gets swept up in the rivalries and love affairs of a dramatic group of writers. |
| Thor, Brad | Rising Tiger | Thriller - Scot Harvath #21 |
| Tieu, Julie | Circling Back to You | Romance |
| Todd, Anna | The Falling | Romance |
| Tremblay, Paul | The Pallbearers Club | A volunteer pallbearer for poorly attended funerals in the 80s, a 17-year-old loner meets a cool girl who has an obsessive knowledge of strange, terrifying things. He tries to make sense of it years later, but she keeps making cuts to his manuscript. |
| Turonek, E. Raye | Rural Route 8 | Urban Fiction |
| Turtledove, Harry | Three Miles Down | Science Fiction |
| Vaughan, Sarah | Reputation | A politician whose less-than-perfect personal life is thrust into the spotlight when a body is discovered in her home. |
| Walters, Minette | The Swift and the Harrier | Historical Fiction |
| Ware, Ruth. | The It Girl | A woman searches for answers a decade after her friend's murder. |
| Weaver, Ashley | The Key to Deceit | Mystery - Electra McDonnell #2 |
| Wenzel, Olivia | 1,000 Coils of Fear | Fiction |
| Wesley, Jamie | Fake It Till You Bake It | A reality star and a cupcake-baking football player pretend to be a couple in order to save his bakery. |
| White, Alex | August Kitko and the Mechas from Space | When an army of giant robot AIs threatens to devastate Earth, a virtuoso pianist becomes humanity's last hope. |
| White, Kate | The Second Husband | A woman's seemingly perfect second marriage is rocked by a discovery about the death of her first husband. |
| Wiggs, Susan | Sugar and Salt | Fiction |
| Williams, Racquel | Riding Shotgun | Urban Fiction |
| Williams, Shanora | The Wife Before | A new bride's fairytale marriage becomes a prison of secrets. |
| Williams, Tad | Into the Narrowdark | Fantasy - Last King of Osten Ard #3.1 |
| Wisdom, Alison | The Burning Season | Fiction |
| Wise, A. C. | Hooked | A reimagining about what happened to Captain Hook after Neverland. |
| Wojtas, Olga | Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Vampire Menace | Mystery - The Prefect's Adventures #2 |
| Wong, Cecily | Kaleidoscope | Fiction |
| Woods, Stuart | Black Dog | Mystery - Stone Barrington #62 |
| Wynne, Phoebe | The Ruins | Fiction |
| Yuknavitch, Lidia | Thrust | As rising waters--and an encroaching police state--endanger her life and family, a girl with the gifts of a carrier travels through water and time to rescue vulnerable figures from the margins of history. |
| Zari | Absolute Power | War may be bad for business, but sometimes, it's necessary to move your business into the future. |
| Zevin, Gabrielle | Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow | Two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. |
| Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology | Horror | |
| Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror | Horror |
June 2022
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Aaron, Rachel | The Last Stand of Mary Good Crow | Better than gold, magical crystals kick off the Great Sioux War of 1876. Mary Good Crow can hear the voice in the rocks, but guiding miners with it leads her to secrets everyone will kill for. |
| Abreu, Caio Fernando | Moldy Strawberries | In eighteen exhilarating stories, Caio Fernando Abreu navigates a Brazil transformed by the AIDS epidemic and stifling military dictatorship of the 80s. |
| Addison, Katherine | The Grief of Stones | Fantasy - Cemeteries of Amalo #2 |
| Alford, Mary | Among the Innocent | Ten years ago, Leah Miller's entire Amish family was murdered. Now, after a string of new homicides with the same MO, it appears the killer has returned with one target in mind: Leah. Can she and the new chief of police stop the killer before it's too late? |
| Anderson, Toni | Cold Silence | Romantic Suspense |
| Bailey, Tessa | My Killer Vacation | Romance |
| Barrett, Lorna | Clause of Death | Cozy Mystery - Booktown #16 |
| Barton, Fiona | Local Gone Missing | Detective Elise King investigates a man's disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and weekenders are at odds. |
| Basu, Samit | The City Inside | Science Fiction |
| Bayard, Louis | Jackie & Me | A historical novel depicting Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings. |
| Belfer, Lauren | Ashton Hall | A frustrated academic still reeling from her husband's betrayal moves into Ashton Hall with her young son and tries to come up with answers after they discover the remains of a woman walled into a forgotten part of the manor. |
| Bervoets, Hanna | We Had to Remove This Post | A group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors--reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation--who convince themselves they're in control . . . until the violence strikes closer to home. |
| Binnie, Imogen | Nevada | Fiction |
| Bondurant, Matt | Oleander City | Historical Fiction |
| Brady, Ali | The Beach Trap | Two best friends torn apart by a life-altering secret. One summer to set the record straight. |
| Brooks, Geraldine | Horse | A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history. |
| Carlson, Mindy | Her Dying Day | A mystery writer's sudden disappearance leads a budding filmmaker down a dark road to treachery, murder, and long-buried sins. |
| Christopher, Andie J. | Thank You, Next | Alex Turner is never The One--but always the last one an ex dates before finding love--and now she's determined to find out why. |
| Clark, Georgia | Island Time | This is one island you won't want to be rescued from. |
| Clarke, Diana | The Hop | Fiction |
| Coates, Darcy | From Below | No light. No air. No escape. Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits... |
| Cole, Audrey J. | The Final Hunt | Thriller |
| Cross, Ty | N2 Deep | Teka is a correctional officer, who gets entangled with two inmates who where friends. |
| Dawson, Juno | Her Majesty's Royal Coven | A Discovery of Witches meets The Craft in this epic fantasy about a group of childhood friends who are also witches. |
| Deane, Maya | Wrath Goddess Sing | Historical Fantasy |
| Dermansky, Marcy | Hurricane Girl | Fiction |
| Dimitri, Francesco | Never the Wind | Fantasy |
| Dorn, Anna | Exalted | Fiction |
| Drew, Alan | The Recruit | Thriller |
| Edwards, Martin | Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries | Classic Mystery |
| Escobar, Mario | The Teacher of Warsaw | Historical Fiction |
| Evans, Mary Anna | The Physicists' Daughter | A 20-year-old factory assembly line worker discovers the carbon parts she assemble have nothing to do with boats, but are intended for a secret government initiative-The Manhattan Project-and that her factory may be a target for sabotage. |
| Finney, Katoya | Toy Chest | Urban Fiction |
| Fordham, Rachel | Where the Road Bends | Christian Historical |
| Freeman, Ru | Sleeping Alone | Short Stories |
| Goldberg, Leonard S. | The Blue Diamond | Historical Mystery - Daughter of Sherlock #6 |
| Hahn, Taylor | The Lifestyle | This debut recasts Jane Austen's meddlesome heroine Emma as a 30-something New York lawyer, and her plan for solving everyone's relationship issues is a foray into the swinger scene. |
| Hallinan, Timothy | Rock of Ages | Mystery - Junior Bender #8 |
| Harlan, Kathryn | Fruiting Bodies | Short Stories |
| Harrison, Kim | Trouble with the Cursed | Urban Fantasy - Hollows #16 |
| Harrow, Alix E. | A Mirror Mended | Fantasy - Fractured Fables #2 |
| Hartstone, Joey | The Local | A freewheeling, small-town attorney takes on a national murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge in Texas. |
| Herzog, Werner | The Twilight World | Historical Fiction |
| Hilderbrand, Elin | The Hotel Nantucket | Fiction |
| Holleran, Andrew | The Kingdom of Sand | A man who moved to Florida to look after his aging parents--during the height of the AIDS epidemic--and has found himself unable to leave after their deaths. |
| Holmes, Linda | Flying Solo | A woman returns to her small Maine hometown, uncovering family secrets that take her on a journey of self-discovery and new love. |
| Hutchings, Ren | Under Fortunate Stars | Science Fiction |
| Hutson, Ashley | One's Company | Fiction |
| Johansen, Iris | A Face to Die For | Mystery - Eve Duncan #28 |
| Kandic Torres, Christine | The Girls in Queens | Reunited when their beloved Mets are on a historic run for the playoffs, two Latinx women, Kelly and Brisma, must decide if the fierce loyalty of their past is enough to sustain the future when their friend, Brian is accused of sexual assault. |
| Lane, S. R. | Eight Weeks in Paris | A lost novel of Bell Epoque Paris comes to the silver screen with an A-list cast. But will on-set drama doom the filming of this gay love story before it starts? |
| Lapierre, Alexandra | Belle Greene | Based on the true story of Belle da Costa Greene, a woman who defied all odds to carve out a destiny of her own choosing. |
| Laskey, Celia | So Happy for You | A wedding weekend spirals out of control in this bold, electrifying, hilarious novel about the complexities of female friendship. |
| Libby, Gillian | Four Ways to Wear a Dress | Romance |
| Lovering, Carola | Can't Look Away | Thriller |
| Maberry, Jonathan | Kagen the Damned | Fantasy |
| McKeegan, Colleen | The Wild One | A deadly childhood secret that binds three young women threatens to destroy their lives. |
| Mehl, Nancy | Free Fall | Christian Suspense - Quantico Files #3 |
| Miller, Sam J. | Boys, Beasts & Men | A teen who can control the ambient digital cloud falls for a con man, and a survivor of an alien invasion worries he brought something infectious back from the Arctic. |
| Moehling, Joshua | And There He Kept Her | When misguided teenagers Jesse Crawford and Jenny Wheeler are forced to rob Emmett Brown to escape impossible circumstances, what starts as a home invasion quickly turns into a nightmare for the teens. |
| Mollen, Jenny | City of Likes | Fiction |
| Moore, Meg Mitchell | Vacationland | Fiction |
| Moshfegh, Ottessa | Lapvona | In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test. |
| Moss, Tara | The Ghosts of Paris | Mystery - Billie Walker #2 |
| Nunez, Elizabeth | Now Lila Knows | Caribbean professor Lila Bonnard arrives in Vermont for a short-term teaching position and is forced to confront the terrible legacy of American (in)justice. |
| O'Donnell, Paraic | The Maker of Swans | In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. |
| Ohman, Jules | Body Grammar | A coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling. |
| Oke, Janette | Unfailing Love | Inspirational - When Hope Calls #3 |
| Parker, Amy | Virgins in Their Beds | A feminist retelling of One Thousand and One Nights. |
| Patel, Namrata | The Candid life of Meena Dave | A woman embarks on an unexpected journey into her past in a novel about identity, family secrets, and rediscovering the need to belong. |
| Patterson, James | Escape | Mystery - Black Book Thriller #3 |
| Pook, Lizzie | Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter | An adventure story set against the backdrop of the dangerous pearl diving industry in 19th-century Western Australia. |
| Rukeyser, Rebecca | The Seaplane on Final Approach | A young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead. |
| Sager, Riley | The House Across the Lake | A recently fired Broadway star flees to a remote Vermont lake house, only to find out that the area has a history of missing women. |
| Santos Donaldson, David | Greenland | Fiction |
| Schorr, Meredith | As Seen on TV | A rom-com about a city girl who goes in search of small-town happiness, only to discover life--and love--are nothing like the TV movies. |
| Seifert, Mary | Maverick, Movies & Murders | Cozy Mystery |
| Shalvis, Jill | The Friendship Pact | Romance - Sunrise Cove #2 |
| Steel, Danielle | Suspects | Thriller |
| Stronach, Sascha | The Dawnhounds | Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Māori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it. |
| Swirsky, Rachel | January Fifteenth | Science Fiction |
| Taddeo, Lisa | Ghost Lover | Short Stories |
| Taylor, Jodi | Another Time, Another Place | Science Fiction - Chronicles of St. Mary's #12 |
| Vatner, Jonathan | The Bridesmaids Union | Fiction |
| Wang, Jack | We Two Alone | Short Stories |
| Webb, Brandon, and John David Mann | Cold Fear | Thriller - Finn #2 |
| Whishaw, Iona | Framed in Fire | Historical Mystery - Lane Winslow #9 |
| White, Adam | The Midcoast | Fiction |
| Wilder, Ava | How to Fake it in Hollywood | A talented Hollywood starlet and a reclusive A-lister enter into a fake relationship...and discover that their feelings might be more than a PR stunt. |
| Witemeyer, Karen | In Honor's Defense | Inspirational - Hanger's Horsemen #3 |
| Wolfe, Toya | Last Summer on State Street | A coming-of-age debut about friendship, community, and resilience, set in the housing projects of Chicago during one life-changing summer. |
| Woods, Caroline | The Lunar Housewife | An up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine. |
| Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous | Horror |
May 2022
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Abdullah, Chelsea | The Stardust Thief | Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, The Stardust Thief weaves the gripping tale of a legendary smuggler, a cowardly prince, and a dangerous quest across the desert to find a legendary, magical lamp. |
| Adelmann, Maria | How to Be Eaten | Debut novel that reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. |
| Albert, Susan Wittig | The Darling Dahlias and the Red Hot Poker | Mystery - Darling Dahlias #10 |
| Alharthi, Jokha | Bitter Orange Tree | Fiction |
| Armentrout, Jennifer L. | The War of Two Queens | Paranormal Romance - Blood and Ash #4 |
| Armstrong, Kelley | A Rip Through Time | While visiting her dying grandmother in Edinburgh, a homicide detective out on a jog is beaten unconscious and wakes up in the body of a housemaid, left for dead in the exact same spot in 1869. |
| Bamford, Emma | Deep Water | Responding to a rescue call in the Indian Ocean, a captain discovers a mortally injured man and his traumatized wife, who describes how their exotic trip to a tiny, remote island forced her to become a murderer. |
| Banker, Ashok K. | The Blind King's Wrath | Fantasy - Burnt Empire Saga #3 |
| Barclay, Linwood | Take Your Breath Away | Thriller |
| Barnhill, Kelly Regan | When Women Were Dragons | After the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when thousands of women, including her beloved Aunt Marla, transformed into dragons, left a trail fiery destruction and took to the skies, young Alex Green must face the consequences of this event as she learns to accept people as they really are. |
| Batsha, Nishant | Mother Ocean Father Nation | On a fictional island in the Pacific blending aspects of Fiji, Uganda, and Trinidad, two siblings take different paths when violence against the Indian community explodes in 1985. |
| Batuman, Elif | Either/Or | During her sophomore year at Harvard, Selin's quest for self-knowledge leads to certain conclusions about the universal importance of parties, alcohol, and sex, in the follow-up to The Idiot. |
| Bays, Carter | The Mutual Friend | Romance |
| Bentley, Don | Tom Clancy: Zero Hour | Thriller - Jack Ryan, Jr. #9 |
| Berry, Steve | The Omega Factor | Thriller |
| Bessette, Alicia | Smile Beach Murder | This all-new mystery series stars Callie Padget, a former reporter-turned-bookshop clerk in the Outer Banks, who is drawn into a mystery involving a deadly fall at a lighthouse that could be linked to her past. |
| Blake, Audrey | The Surgeon's Daughter | In the 19th century, Nora Beady is chosen to work with the only female professor in her medical school to develop the caesarian section, drawing the wrath of her male peers and professors as she risks everything to help revolutionize this life-saving surgery. |
| Bliss, Jackson | Amnesia of June Bugs | Fiction |
| Brown, Dale | Countdown to Midnight | Thriller - Nick Flynn #2 |
| Brown, Graham | Clive Cussler's Dark Vector | Thriller - NUMA Files #19 |
| Brown, Rita Mae | Thrill of the Hunt | Cozy Mystery - Jane Arnold #14 |
| Bryce, Denny S. | In the Face of the Sun | To escape an abusive marriage, Frankie Saunders flees across the country to Los Angeles with her reckless, profane Aunt Daisy, who will do whatever it takes to settle old scores and resolve the past. |
| Burke, James Lee | Every Cloak Rolled in Blood | Mystery - Holland Family #4 |
| Butcher, Jim, et. al | Heroic Hearts | Fantasy Short Stories |
| Byrne, James | The Gatekeeper | Thriller |
| Cain, Matt | The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle | Forced into retirement, former postman Albert Entwistle, with no friends, family or hobbies, forms a brave plan to start truly living, seek the happiness he's always denied himself and find the courage to look for the man he loved and lost years ago but has never forgotten. |
| Caña, Natalie | A Proposal They Can't Refuse | Kamilah, a Puerto Rican chef and Liam, an Irish American whiskey distiller, are blackmailed by their grandfathers into getting married or risk losing the building that houses both their businesses. |
| Carr, Jack | In the Blood | Thriller - James Reece #5 |
| Chaon, Dan | Sleepwalk | A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a bighearted mercenary. |
| Chavez, Lorenzo | The Light of a Cuban Son | The moving story of a boy determined to stay true to who he is and find happiness against all odds. |
| Chen, Kirstin | Counterfeit | The story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise--an incisive and glittering blend of fashion, crime, and friendship. |
| Chen, Mike | Brotherhood | Science Fiction - Star Wars |
| Cleeton, Chanel | Our Last Days in Barcelona | When Isabel Perez travels to Barcelona to save her sister Beatriz, she discovers a shocking family secret. |
| Clipston, Amy | The View from Coral Cove | When a jilted romance novelist returns to the small beach town she once loved, she discovers not only inspiration but also a romance to call her own. |
| Cobb, May K. | My Summer Darlings | Three lifelong friends plus a dangerous, sexy new stranger in town add up to a scorching summer of manipulation, obsession, and murder. |
| Cowie, Amber | Last One Alive | A team of researchers exploring the myth of a witch find their numbers mysteriously dwindling. |
| Crosley, Sloane | Cult Classic | Fiction |
| Cross-Smith, Leesa | Half-Blown Rose | A woman remakes her life after her husband's betrayal, leading to a year of travel, art, and passion. |
| Dayle, Dennard | Everything Abridged | Short Stories |
| Dent, Lizzy | The Setup | One woman's impulsive fib jump starts a summer of reinvention and learning about love, life, and what it means to accept yourself. |
| Dev, Sonali | The Emma Project | Romance - Rajes #4 |
| Edwards, K. D. | The Hourglass Throne | Urban Fantasy - Tarot Sequence #3 |
| El-Wardany, Salma | These Impossible Things | A debut novel of three best friends navigating love, sex, faith, and the one night that changes it all. |
| Espach, Alison | Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance | Fiction |
| Estep, Jennifer | Tear Down the Throne | Fantasy - Gargoyle Queen #2 |
| Evans, Robert | After the Revolution | Science Fiction |
| Fajardo-Anstine, Kali | Woman of light | In 1930s Denver, Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, begins having visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory where she must save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion. |
| Feltman, Amy | All the Things We Don't Talk About | Raised by their neurodivergent father, a nonbinary teenager grapples with the sudden reappearance of his dazzling and destructive mother, Zoe, who abandoned them and fled to Europe on their first birthday. |
| Fishman, Lillian | Acts of Service | Fiction |
| Flores, Fernando A. | Valleyesque | Short Stories |
| Foley, Aaron | Boys Come First | Three Black, gay, Millennial men search for love and professional success in Detroit while navigating real friendships, Grindr hookups and family drama in the debut novel. |
| Fortune, Carley | Every Summer After | Fiction |
| Foster, Lori | The Honeymoon Cottage | Romance |
| Fowler, Therese Anne | It All Comes Down to This | Three sisters come together to sell the family's summer cottage in Maine, which becomes complicated by an enigmatic ex-con with his own hidden past. |
| Gates, Eva | Death by Beach Read | Cozy Mystery - Lighthouse Library #9 |
| Gear, Kathleen O'Neal | The Ice Ghost | Science Fiction - Rewilding Reports #2 |
| Gentill, Sulari | The Woman in the Library | Four strangers in a library strike up a friendship. One of them is a murderer. As they each share their stories, which one has something to hide? |
| Giffin, Emily | Meant to Be | A restless golden boy and a girl with a troubled past navigate a love story that may be doomed before it even begins. |
| Gilbert, Victoria | A Fatal Booking | Cozy Mystery - Book Lover's B&B #3 |
| Graham, Heather | Sound of Darkness | Paranormal Romance - Krewe of Hunters #36 |
| Greenwood, Kerry | The Lady With the Gun Asks the Questions | Short Stories - Phryne Fisher |
| Guillory, Jasmine | By the Book | Romance - Meant to Be #2 |
| Gutierrez, Katie | More Than You'll Ever Know | Told through alternating timelines, this mystery and family drama follows struggling crime writer Cassie Brown as she becomes obsessed with a 1985 murder case involving a woman whose double life led to murder. |
| Hall, Alexis J. | A Lady for a Duke | Presumed dead, Viola Carroll takes the opportunity to live freely despite losing her wealth, title, and closest companion, unaware of the shattering impact her loss has had on him. |
| Han, Joseph | Nuclear Family | Fiction |
| Hansen, Joseph | Gravedigger | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #6 |
| Hardt, Helen | Garnet | Romantic Suspense - Gems of Wolfe Island #3 |
| Harper, Lana | From Bad to Cursed | Paranormal Romance - Witches of Thistle Grove #2 |
| Hatcher, Robin Lee | I'll Be Seeing You | Christian Fiction |
| Heartfield, Kate | The Embroidered Book | Historical Fiction |
| Heltzel, Anne | Just Like Mother | The last time Maeve saw her cousin, Andrea, was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in; then, years later, Andrea suddenly reappears. |
| Hemley, Robin | Oblivion | Fiction |
| Henry, M. B. | All the Lights Above Us | Historical Fiction |
| Hernandez, Treasure | Daughter of a Queen Pin | When tragedy strikes, Krystal is faced with decisions that could alter the fate of her entire generation for years to come. |
| Herrera, Adriana | A Caribbean Heiress in Paris | Three best friends at the 1889 World's Fair have goals: going to the most scandalous places in Paris, kissing disreputable men and absolutely not falling in love. |
| Herron, Mick | Bad Actors | Thriller - Slough House #8 |
| Higgins, Kristan | Out of the Clear Blue Sky | Fiction |
| Holm, Chris F. | Child Zero | Science Fiction |
| Horowitz, Anthony | With a Mind to Kill | Thriller - James Bond #41 |
| Hua, Vanessa | Forbidden City | A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a heroine of the Cultural Revolution. |
| Hughes, A. J. | A Life: Worth Living | Romance |
| Huguley, Piper | By Her Own Design | The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of the most famous wedding dresses in US history. |
| Hunt, Angela | Apostle's Sister | Christian Historical |
| Ishola-Ayodeji, Abi | Patience is a Subtle Thief | Embarking on a desperate search to find her mother, who was banished from their compound in Nigeria years ago, Patience unexpectedly reconnects with her cousin who draws into a world of crime. |
| Jenner, Natalie | Bloomsbury Girls | Historical Fiction |
| Jensen, Danielle L. | The Inadequate Heir | Fantasy Romance |
| Karp, Marshall | Snowstorm in August | Mystery |
| Kawakami, Mieko | All the Lovers in the Night | Fiction |
| Kay, Guy Gavriel | All the Seas of the World | Historical Fantasy |
| Keese | Hood Consigliere | Two street-wise hustlers have been successfully robbing big time drug dealers throughout the city for years, but their luck could be running out. |
| Khavari, Kate | A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons | Attempting to blaze a new trail for women at the University College London in 1923, research assistant Saffron Everleigh becomes involved in solving the murder of a professor's wife who appeared to have been poisoned at a school dinner party. First in a new series. |
| Kingpen | Concrete Killa 3 | Urban Fiction |
| Koepp, David | Aurora | When a solar storm knocks out the power across the globe, Aubrey Wheeler, in Aurora, Illinois, becomes the fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood, while across the country, her brother, a Silicon Valley CEO, hunkers down in his gilded desert bunker, leading to a long-overdue reckoning between siblings. |
| Korelitz, Jean Hanff | The Latecomer | When her triplets, who have no strong familial bond and cannot wait to go their separate ways, leave for college, their mother Johanna decides to have a fourth child and wonders what role the "latecomer" will play in her already fractured family. |
| Kotomi, Li | Solo Dance | Fiction |
| Ladd, Sarah E. | The Letter From Briarton Park | In Regency England, one letter will alter a young woman's fate when it summons her to Briarton Park---an ancient place that holds the secrets of her past and the keys to her future. |
| Lama, Tsering Yangzom | We measure the earth with our bodies | The story of a Tibetan family's journey through exile. |
| Laskar, Devi S. | Circa | Follows a young Indian American woman who, in the wake of tragedy, must navigate her family's expectations as she grapples with a complicated love and loss. |
| Lauren, Christina | Something Wilder | Romance |
| Lea, Amy | Set on You | A gym nemesis pushes a fitness influencer to the max in this steamy debut romantic comedy. |
| Leary, Ann | The Foundling | The story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test when they meet years later at a controversial institution--one as an employee; the other, an inmate. |
| Lee, Don | The Partition | Short Stories |
| Lee, Marie Myung-Ok | Evening Hero | Fiction |
| Little, Jacqueline | The Narrative of The Life of Theresa | Christian Fiction |
| London, Stefanie | The Dachshund Wears Prada | How do you start over when the biggest mistake of your life has more than one million views? |
| Lustbader, Eric | Omega Rules | Thriller - Evan Ryder #3 |
| MacMillan, Lindsay | The Heart of the Deal | Fiction |
| Magee, Audrey | The Colony | In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west coast in search of their own answers, despite what it may cost the islanders. |
| Mallery, Susan | The Boardwalk Bookshop | Fiction |
| Manawatu, Becky | Auē | Fiction |
| March, Joseph Moncure | The Set-Up | Written in 1928, The Set-Up is a long narrative poem about the boxing underworld - a hard-boiled tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. |
| Martin, Kat | The Last Mile | Mystery - Blood Ties, The Logans #2 |
| McCoy, Sarah | Mustique Island | A sun-splashed romp with a rich divorcee and her two wayward daughters in 1970s Mustique, the world's most exclusive private island. |
| McKenzie, Moses | An Olive Grove in Ends | A young man is faced with a fraught decision: escape a dangerous past alone, or brave his old life and keep the woman he loves. |
| McKevett, G. A. | Murder most Grave | Cozy Mystery - Granny Reid #4 |
| McKinty, Adrian | The Island | A family that just wanted a nice vacation finds themselves running for their lives. |
| McNeil, Peter | Postal Reboot | Urban Fiction |
| McNeil, Peter | Postal ll Redemption | Urban Fiction |
| McPhail, Diane C. | The Seamstress of New Orleans | Historical Fiction |
| McTiernan, Dervla | The Murder Rule | Mystery |
| Melchor, Fernanda | Paradais | Fiction |
| Michalski, Liz | Darling Girl | In this modern-day reimagining of the classic, to save her daughter's life one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan--who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to be . . . |
| Michelle, Niko | Jilted | Avery Booker is beautiful, successful, and ready to pledge forever to Lloyd, starting with the elaborate wedding ceremony she's wanted for so long. Avery's happy; Lloyd's happy, but the pregnant woman who objects is not. |
| Miro, J. M. | Ordinary Monsters | At an institute where children with gifts have been gathered, they discover the truth about their abilities and that the worst monsters sometimes come bearing the sweetest gifts. |
| Momplaisir, Francesca | The Garden of Broken Things | A novel about one family wading through the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010. |
| Monaghan, Annabel | Nora goes off script | A heartwarming and hilarious novel about a divorced romance channel screenwriter whose script about her marriage's collapse just might help her reclaim her life and find love. |
| Moore, Christopher | Razzmatazz | Fantasy - Sammy and the Cheese #2 |
| Mottley, Leila | Nightcrawling | When a drunken altercation with a stranger turns into a job she desperately needs, Kiara starts nightcrawling until her name surfaces in an investigation exposing her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland Police Department. |
| Murphy, Nora | The Favor | Thriller |
| Natera, Cleyvis | Neruda on the Park | An upwardly mobile young Manhattan lawyer and her parents react to the gentrification of their Dominican neighborhood. |
| Nawaz, Zarqa | Jameela Green ruins everything | A disillusioned American Muslim woman becomes embroiled in a plot to infiltrate an international terrorist organization, and in the process, reconnects with her loved ones and her faith. |
| Noyes, E. J. | If I Don't Ask | Romance |
| O'Connell, Ryan | Just by Looking at Him | A gay TV writer with cerebral palsy fights addiction and searches for acceptance in an overwhelmingly ableist world. |
| Odle, E. V. | The Clockwork Man | Science Fiction |
| Offutt, Chris | Shifty's Boys | Mystery - Mick Hardin #2 |
| Oliveras, Priscilla | West Side Love Story | A heart-stirring romance of star-crossed love, feuding familias, and the bonds of sisterhood. |
| Orenstein, Hannah | Meant to be Mine | Fiction |
| Palmer, Daniel | My Wife is Missing | Thriller |
| Patel, Naheed Phiroze | Mirror Made of Rain | Fiction |
| Patrick, Phaedra | The Messy Lives of Book People | The house cleaner of a famous author must carry out her employer's shocking last wish. |
| Pavone, Chris | Two Nights in Lisbon | Mystery |
| Payne, Marcus | The Set Up: Part I | Denarius Payne must choose between his family, his values, and his love for the streets. |
| Peguero, Robin | With Prejudice | No one knows what happened that night. Seven strangers must decide. |
| Perrotta, Tom | Tracy Flick Can't Win | A new satirical novel about ambition, coming-of-age in adulthood, and never really leaving high school politics behind--featuring Perotta's most iconic character of all time. |
| Polito, Frank Anthony | Renovated to Death | Just as they are about to start filming the renovation of twin brothers Terry and Tom Cash's local Tudor, real-life domestic partners and stars of a new reality TV show Peter and JP discover Tom Cash dead and must chip away at the clues to catch a killer. |
| Pooley, Clare | Iona Iverson's rules for commuting | Romance |
| Quirk, Matthew | Red Warning | Thriller |
| Rari, Paper Boi | Ran Off on da Plug | Urban Fiction |
| Ray, Cate | Good Husbands | Three wives, one letter, and an explosive secret that will change everything. |
| Rekulak, Jason | Hidden Pictures | A supernatural thriller about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. |
| Riley, Lucinda | The Murders at Fleat House | Mystery |
| Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 4 | Urban Fiction |
| Robert, Katee | Wicked Beauty | Romance - Dark Olympus #3 |
| Robert, Katee | Desperate Measures: A Dark Fairy Tale Romance | Romance - Wicked Villains #1 |
| Robert, Katee | Learn My Lesson: A Dark Fairy Tale Romance | Romance - Wicked Villains #2 |
| Robert, Katee | A Worthy Opponent: A Dark Fairy Tale Romance | Romance - Wicked Villains #3 |
| Robert, Katee | The Beast: A Dark Fairy Tale Romance | Romance - Wicked Villains #4 |
| Robert, Katee | The Sea Witch: A Dark Fairy Tale Romance | Romance - Wicked Villains #5 |
| Robert, Katee | Queen Takes Rose: A Dark Fairy Tale Romance | Romance - Wicked Villains #6 |
| Rovin, Jeff | Call of Duty | Thriller - Tom Clancy's Op-center #21 |
| Rowe, Christopher | These Prisoning Hills | A post-apocalyptic Appalachian weird fiction novella. |
| Runde, Katie | The Shore | A mother and her two daughters grapple with heartbreak, young love, and the weight of family secrets. |
| Ryan, Eimear | Holding Her Breath | Fiction |
| Ryan, Jennifer | The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle | Three plucky women lift the spirits of home-front brides in wartime Britain, where clothes rationing leaves little opportunity for pomp or celebration. |
| Schellman, Katharine | Last Call at The Nightingale | First in a captivating Jazz age mystery series. |
| Sebastian, Cat | The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes | Fleeing to the countryside after shooting her evil, murderous husband, the Duchess of Clare turns to a charismatic blackmailer, highwayman and con-artist for help. |
| Sereno, Annie | Blame it on the Brontës | She's going to write her own happy ending. |
| Shapiro, Barbara A. | Metropolis | The interlocking stories of six characters whose only connection is their units at a storage facility, where a tragic accident will either tear them apart or help them salvage their own precarious lives. |
| Shipstead, Maggie | You have a friend in 10A | Short Stories |
| Sinclair, Roslyn | Truth and Measure | What happens when the world's fiercest fashion editor learns she's pregnant-and her distracting assistant is the only one she can turn to? |
| Smith, Ali | Companion Piece | Fiction |
| Snelling, Lauraine | A Time to Bloom | Christian Historical |
| Songsiridej, Alyssa | Little Rabbit | Fiction |
| St Clair, Scarlett | A Game of Retribution | Fantasy Romance - Hades Saga #2 |
| Sterling, Siena | Tell Us No Secrets | Thriller |
| Stibbe, Nina | One Day I Shall Astonish the World | A frank, tender, and poignantly funny story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime. |
| Stoker, Susan | Finding Monica | Romance - Seal Team Hawaii #4 |
| Swan, Erin | Walk the Vanished Earth | In the tradition of Station Eleven, Severance and The Dog Stars, a beautifully written and emotionally stirring dystopian novel about how our dreams of the future may shift as our environment changes rapidly, even as the earth continues to spin. |
| Taylor, Phoebe Atwood | The Cape Cod Mystery | Mystery |
| Toltz, Steve | Here Goes Nothing | Fiction |
| Townsend, Jacinda | Mother Country | Fiction |
| Untamed | Never Again, No More 6: Karma's Payback | Urban Fiction |
| Vercher, John | After the Lights Go Out | A harrowing and spellbinding story about family, the complications of mixed-race relationships, misplaced loyalties, and the price athletes pay to entertain. |
| Villada, Camila | Bad Girls | Fiction |
| Vowel, Chelsea | Buffalo Is the New Buffalo | Powerful stories of "Métis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, and colonization. |
| Walker, Sarai | The Cherry Robbers | A feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up. |
| Walter, Heather | Misrule | Fantasy - Malice #2 |
| Warren, Susan May | Sunburst | Christian Romance - Sky King Ranch #2 |
| Waxman, Abbi | Adult Assembly Required | A young woman arrives in Los Angeles determined to start over and discovers she doesn't need to leave everything behind after all. |
| Weir, Alison | The Last White Rose | Historical Fiction - Tudor Rose #1 |
| White, Kiersten | Hide | Fourteen contestants embark on a seven-day competition and the chance to win $50,000 if they can successfully play hide and seek in an abandoned amusement park without being found and eliminated. |
| Whitten, Hannah | For the Throne | Fantasy - Wilderwood #2 |
| Williams, Beatriz, et. al | The Lost Summers of Newport | A novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the present day. |
| Yolen, Jane, et. al | The Reinvented Heart : Tales of Futuristic Relationships | Romance Short Stories |
| Yoon, David | City of Orange | A man wakes up alone and injured in an apocalyptic landscape and must learn how to survive with only vague memories of how he got there. |
| Zak, Erin | The hummingbird sanctuary | Romance |
April 2022
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Aaronovitch, Ben | Amongst Our Weapons | Fantasy - Rivers of London #9 |
| Adams, Ellery | The Vanishing Type | Cozy Mystery - Secret, Book, and Scone #5 |
| Adams, Sarah | The Cheat Sheet | Is it ever too late to leave the friend zone? The heartwarming friends to lovers romance that became a sensation on TikTok. |
| Al-Nakib, Mai | An Unlasting Home | A multigenerational saga spanning Lebanon, Iraq, India, the United States, and Kuwait that brings to life the triumphs and failures of three generations of Arab women. |
| Alexander, Tj | Chef's Kiss | A high-strung pastry chef's professional goals are interrupted by an unexpected career transition and the introduction of her wildly attractive nonbinary kitchen manager. |
| Ali, Monica | Love Marriage | A captivating social comedy and a profoundly moving, revelatory story of two cultures, two families, and two people trying to understand one another. |
| Allen, Samantha Jayne | Pay Dirt Road | Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town debut mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress. |
| Andrews, Mary Kay | The Homewreckers | Fiction |
| Atherton, Nancy | Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage | Cozy Mystery - Aunt Dimity #25 |
| Barnhill, Kelly | When Women Were Dragons | In 1950s America, thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons. |
| Bellinger, Demisty D. | New to Liberty | Depicting the strength and resolve of three unforgettable women growing up in a society that refuses to evolve, this novel, told in three parts - in 1933, 1947, and 1966 - offers a snapshot of mid-century America during which these women's actions have consequences for generations to come. |
| Benson, Jendella | Hope and Glory | Leaving her glamorous life in LA, Glory Akindele returns to London to mourn her father's death and discovers that her previously close family has fallen apart and decides to stay and try to reunite them. |
| Bestor-Siegal, Amanda | The Caretakers | A debut told from the points of view of six women and centered around a group of au pairs in a wealthy Parisian suburb, one of whom is arrested after a sudden and suspicious tragedy strikes her host family. |
| Birch, Tony | The White Girl | Australia's leading indigenous storyteller makes his American debut with this immersive and deeply resonant novel, set in the 1960s, that explores the lengths we'll go to save the people we love. |
| Birchall, Katy | The Wedding Season | Romance |
| Bird, Sarah | Last Dance on the Starlight Pier | Historical Fiction |
| Bird-Wilson, Lisa | Probably Ruby | An Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable debut novel about family, race, and history. |
| Black, Anna | Who Do I Run To | A love triangle with a married man spirals out of control. |
| Black, Holly | Book of Night | Best-selling YA author Black makes her adult debut with this urban fantasy where the shadows have not only eyes but teeth as well--and feeding them is the way to magical power. |
| Black, Juneau | Mirror Lake | Cozy Mystery - Shady Hollow #3 |
| Blaque | Dirty DNA | Urban Fiction |
| Blaque | Dirty DNA 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Blaque | Dirty DNA 3 | Urban Fiction |
| Bohjalian, Chris | The Lioness | A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage. |
| Bowery, Liz | Love, Hate & Clickbait | When a misleading photo of them goes viral, political consultant Thom Morgan and data analyst Clay Parker--sworn enemies working with a presidential candidate--are forced to fake a relationship to save the campaign. |
| Brennan, Allison | The Wrong Victim | Mystery - Quinn & Costa #3 |
| Brock, Kimberly | The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare | Historical Fiction |
| Brown, Janelle | I'll be You | Two identical twin sisters and former child actors have grown apart--until one disappears. |
| Brown, Taylor | Wingwalkers | A former WWI ace pilot and his wingwalker wife barnstorm across Depression-era America, performing acts of aerial daring. |
| Bunn, Davis | Emerald Tide | Christian Fiction - Miramar Bay #6 |
| Cameron, Marc | Cold Snap | Thriller - Arliss Cutter #4 |
| Carcaterra, Lorenzo | Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride | When a crime on a beautiful Italian island stumps the police, locals turn to the nosy, elderly widow Nonna Maria. |
| Cañas, Isabel | The Hacienda | Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches... |
| Chadburn, Melissa | A Tiny Upward Shove | A fictionalized account of real life Canadian serial killer Willie Pickton and his final victim. |
| Chavez, Heather | Blood Will Tell | A twisty novel about the bond between two sisters--and the crimes one covers up to protect the other. |
| Chen, Lisa | Activities of Daily Living | A debut novel on the interconnection between work and life, loneliness and kinship, and the projects that occupy our time. |
| Chu, Lily | The Stand-In | A famous actress wants Gracie to be her stand-in, but she must be escorted by the most attractive and infuriating man she's ever met. |
| Clare, Jessica | Go Hex Yourself | Romance |
| Close, Jennifer | Marrying the Ketchups | A comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the private jokes, ancient grudges, broken hearts, and deep, abiding love that feeds them all. |
| Cooney, C. S. E. | Saint Death's Daughter | Fantasy |
| Cotugno, Katie | Birds of California | Romance |
| Crowley, John | Flint and Mirror | From the author of Little, Big comes an exquisite fantasy. |
| Dailey, Janet | Hope Creek | Romance - New Americana #6 |
| Dalglish, David | The Bladed Faith | A usurped prince prepares to take up the mantel of a deadly assassin and reclaim his kingdom, his people, and his slain gods. |
| Dallas, Sandra | Little Souls | Historical Fiction |
| Davidson, Paul | The Small Stuff | What if the reason we find the love of our life isn't due to fate, chance, or plain dumb luck-but because of the decisions everyone around us ends up making? |
| Davis, Elizabeth | I Love You, I Hate You | Romance |
| Day, Elizabeth | Magpie | A taut, psychological suspense novel about a perfect couple and their seemingly perfect roommate. |
| Devlin, Malcolm | And Then I Woke Up | In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. |
| Diaz, Hernan | Trust | Historical Fiction |
| Dillsworth, Lianne | Theatre of Marvels | Set in Victorian London, an irresistible story of an ambitious young Black actress, an orphan from the slums who has finally achieved a dubious stardom as "The Great Amazonia, a savage African queen"--but everything she has fought for depends on hiding the secret of her own identity. |
| Dumond, Susie | Queerly Beloved | A people-pleasing bridesmaid-for-hire falls for the crushable new lesbian in town. Will she finally find her happily ever after--and her own voice? |
| Elliott, K. | Street Fame | Urban Fiction |
| Emezi, Akwaeke | You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty | Learning how to feel joy while healing from loss, Feyi Adekola starts dating the perfect guy, but discovers she has feelings for someone else who is off limits and must decide just how far she is willing to go for a second chance at love. |
| Fisher, Suzanne Woods | The Sweet Life | Christian Fiction |
| Fisher, Tarryn | An Honest Lie | Thriller |
| Ford, John M. | Aspects | Fantasy |
| Fre$h | Betrayal of a Thug | Orphaned Yayo goes from rags to riches, but his ascension is rife with turmoil and tragedy. |
| Fuller, Kathleen | Love in Plain Sight | Christian Romance - Amish Mail-Order Bride #3 |
| Gabhart, Ann H. | When the Meadow Blooms | Christian Historical |
| Gallon, Michael | The Murder Queens | Urban Fiction |
| Gibson, Rachel | Drop Dead Gorgeous | Fiction |
| Glass, Julia | Vigil Harbor | When two unexpected visitors arrive in an insular coastal village, they threaten the equilibrium of a community already confronting climate instability, political violence, and domestic upheavals. |
| Gray, Claudia | The Murder of Mr. Wickham | A summer house party turns into a thrilling whodunit when Jane Austen's Mr. Wickham--one of literature's most notorious villains--meets a sudden and suspicious end. |
| Griffith, Nicola | Spear | Forging her own bright path, a young woman, armed with a stolen hunting spear and mended armor, embarks on a journey to the court of Artos, king of Caer Leon. |
| Grisham, John | Sparring Partners | Short Stories |
| Gwynne, John | The Hunger of the Gods | Fantasy - Bloodsworn #2 |
| Hadlock, Jody | The Lives of Diamond Bessie | Historical Mystery |
| Harper, Rachel M. | The Other Mother | While attending Brown, Jenry, a musical prodigy, sets out to learn about his late father until his estranged grandfather makes an admission that leads Jenry down a new path - one that ends a web of secrecy that binds this family together even as it keeps them apart. |
| Hart, Michelle | We Do What We Do in the Dark | A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. |
| Hartnett, Annie | Unlikely Animals | A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances. |
| Hedlund, Jody | To Tame a Cowboy | Christian Romance - Colorado Cowboys #3 |
| Henry, Emily | Book Lovers | One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... |
| Hightower, Laurel | Below | How far would you go to help a stranger? |
| Hillerman, Anne | The Sacred Bridge | Mystery - Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito #7 |
| Hossain, Saad Z. | Kundo Wakes Up | Science Fiction |
| Hubbard, Colleen | Housebreaking | Following a long-standing feud and looking to settle the score, a woman decides to dismantle her home--alone and by hand--and move it across a frozen pond during a harsh New England winter. |
| Hunter, Denise | Mulberry Hollow | Christian Romance - Riverbend #2 |
| Janovsky, Timothy | Never Been Kissed | Romance |
| Jimenez, Abby | Part of Your world | Romance |
| Kann, Claire | The Romantic Agenda | Joy is in love with Malcolm. But Malcolm really likes Summer. Summer is in love with love. And Fox is Summer's ex-boyfriend. |
| Katsu, Alma | The Fervor | The author of literary horror novels The Hunger and The Deep turns her psychological and supernatural eye on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II. |
| Kenyon, Sherrilyn | Shadow Fallen | Paranormal Romance - Dream-Hunter #5 |
| Kingfisher, T. | Nettle & Bone | This isn't the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince. It's the one where she kills him. |
| Kingsbury, Karen | The Baxters: A Prequel | Christian Romance |
| Knight, Eliza | The Mayfair Bookshop | A dual-narrative story about Nancy Mitford--one of 1930s London's hottest socialites, authors, and a member of the scandalous Mitford Sisters--and a modern American desperate for change. |
| Kohda, Claire | Woman, Eating | A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger in this debut novel. |
| Koomson, Dorothy | I Know What You've Done | Do you have any idea what the people you know are capable of? |
| Kurkov, Andreĭ | Grey Bees | With a warm yet political humor, Ukraine's most famous novelist presents a balanced and illuminating portrait of modern conflict. |
| Lacour, Nina | Yerba Buena | The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two women on a star-crossed journey toward each other. |
| Lanier, Martina M. | A Resilient Love | Urban Fiction |
| Larkin, Michelle | Secret Agent | Romance |
| Lazar, Zachary | The Apartment on Calle Uruguay | Fiction |
| Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma | A Woman of Endurance | This groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history--the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade--witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear more slaves. |
| Lowkee | Finessed: play chess or get check'd | A story of love, loss, loyalty and the strength it requires to survive the streets. |
| Marcelo, Tif | Know You by Heart | Romance |
| Martinez, Guillermo | The Oxford Brotherhood | Mystery |
| McBrayer, Lauren | Like a House on Fire | A debut novel about a woman at a turning point in her life, and what happens when she discovers the spark that makes her feel whole again. |
| McCulloch, Amy | Breathless | Thriller |
| McGuire, Seanan | Seasonal Fears | Fantasy - Alchemical Journeys #2 |
| McMahon, Jennifer | The Children on the Hill | Thriller |
| McMillan, Rachel | The Mozart Code | Christian Historical |
| Meyer, Deon | The Dark Flood | Mystery - Benny Griessel #7 |
| Michaels, Fern | Secrets | Thriller |
| Miller, Kirsten | The Change | Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick in this story about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers, putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town. |
| Miller, Linda Lael | Country Born | Romance - Painted Pony Creek #3 |
| Moore, Niyah | My Hustler, My Enemy : Rise of a Street Queen | Crime kingpins learn the hard way to "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer..." |
| Moore, Yolanda | The Streets Will Talk | Urban Fiction |
| Naga, Noor | If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English | An Egyptian American woman visiting her parents' homeland begins a dark romance with an unemployed photographer who is addicted to cocaine and living in a rooftop shack in Cairo. |
| Nagendra, Harini | The Bangalore Detectives Club | The first in a charming, joyful crime series set in 1920s Bangalore, featuring amateur detective Kaveri and her husband Ramu. |
| Newman, Leigh | Nobody Gets Out Alive | Short Stories |
| Oduor, Okwiri | Things They Lost | This debut novel tells the story of a lonely girl living in a small African town and her struggle to free herself from her mercurial, charming mother. |
| Paretsky, Sara | Overboard | Mystery - V.I. Warshawski #22 |
| Patel, Vaishnavi | Kaikeyi | This debut reimagines the life of the infamous queen from the Indian epic the Ramayana, an extraordinary woman determined to leave her mark in a world where gods and men dictate the shape of things to come. |
| Pen, Kween | Mona Liza | Urban Fiction |
| Penelope, L. | Savage City | Paranormal Romance |
| Perkins-Valdez, Dolen | Take My Hand | A novel about a young Black nurse's shocking discovery and burning quest for justice in post-segregation Alabama. |
| Phillips, Gary | One-Shot Harry | 1963 Los Angeles provides a powerful backdrop in this historical crime novel about an African American forensic photographer seeking justice for a friend--perfect for fans of Walter Mosley, James Ellroy, and George Pelecanos. |
| Pinborough, Sarah | Insomnia | Emma Averill worries that her crippling insomnia is a sign that she's slowly going insane--like the mother she's worked so hard to leave in her past. |
| Player, Delmont | The Birth of a Gangster | Urban Fiction |
| Pratt, Tim | Prison of Sleep | Science Fiction - Journals of Zaxony Delatree #2 |
| Quick, Amanda | When She Dreams | Romantic Suspense - Burning Cove, CA #6 |
| Richardson, Kim Michele | The Book Woman's Daughter | Fiction - Book Woman of Troublesome Creek #2 |
| Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess 3 | Urban Fiction |
| Roberts, Nora | Nightwork | Romantic Suspense |
| Rodale, Maya | The Mad Girls of New York | A novel based on the fearless reporter Nellie Bly, who would stop at nothing to expose injustices against women in 19th century New York. |
| Rollins, James | Kingdom of Bones | Thriller - Sigma Force #16 |
| Rose, Jeneva | One of Us Is Dead | Opulence. Sex. Betrayal ... Sometimes friendship can be deadly. |
| Rothchild, Sascha | Blood Sugar | Introducing the most likable murderess you will ever meet. |
| Rubio, Marytza K. | Maria, Maria: & Other Stories | Short Stories |
| Saint, Jennifer | Elektra | A reimagining of the story of one of Greek mythology's most infamous heroines. |
| Saynomore | Mob Ties 6 | Urban Fiction |
| Scherm, Rebecca | A House Between Earth and the Moon | Fiction |
| Scott, Maryn | Standom | Romance |
| Sequaia | Loving a Girl Like You | Fame and love combined can be either the greatest combination or the worst. For these star-crossed lovers, which will it be? |
| Shin, Kyung-Sook | Violets | Follows a neglected young woman's search for human connection in contemporary Seoul. |
| Simon, Christine | The Patron Saint of Second Chances | The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the cost in this debut novel. |
| Sinha, Madi | At Least You Have Your Health | Behind the chic veneer of a wellness clinic lies a dangerous secret. |
| Slmn | Race | A gripping thriller about a reporter risking his life to expose corrupt policing and destroy the system from within before it destroys him. |
| Stanford, Claire | Happy for You | A novel about a young woman who takes a job at a tech company looking to break into the "happiness market"--even as her own happiness feels more unknowable than ever. |
| Starford, Rebecca | An Unlikely Spy | Historical Fiction |
| Story, Rosalyn M. | Sing Her Name | The intertwined stories of two singers whose lives connect across time. |
| Straub, Emma | This Time Tomorrow | Fiction |
| Sussman, Elissa | Funny You Should Ask | Fiction |
| Tchaikovsky, Adrian | Eyes of the Void | Science Fiction - The Final Architecture #2 |
| Thayer, Nancy | Summer Love | Fiction |
| Thayne, RaeAnne | Summer at the Cape | Romance - Cape Sanctuary #4 |
| Thompson, Victoria | Murder on Madison Square | Historical Mystery - Gaslight #25 |
| Thorogood, Robert | The Marlow Murder Club | To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero... |
| Tukes, Romell | Coke Girlz | Urban Fiction |
| Van Pelt, Shelby | Remarkably Bright Creatures | For fans of A Man Called Ove, a ... debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium--and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago. |
| Vara, Vauhini | The Immortal King Rao | A debut novel rewrites the history of big tech into a mythic immigrant story of dystopian proportions. |
| Vo, Nghi | Siren Queen | Immortality is just a casting call away... |
| Waters, John | Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance | Fiction |
| Weiner, Jennifer | The Summer Place | Fiction |
| Wiley, Soon | When We Fell Apart | A young Korean American man's search for answers about his girlfriend's mysterious death becomes a soul-searching journey into his own bi-cultural identity. |
| Williams, Racquel | Lovin' a Virginia Bad Girl | Nyesha, Kymani, and Yohan get caught up in a messy, page-turning love triangle. |
| Wilson, Carter | The New Neighbor | Thriller |
| Winn, Karen | Our Little World | Fiction |
| Winslow, Don | City on Fire | The first novel in an epic crime saga. |
| Winter, Dawn | Sedating Elaine | Fiction |
| Wiseman, Beth | The Bookseller's Promise | Christian Fiction - Amish Bookstore #1 |
| Wright, Jaime Jo | The Souls of Lost Lake | Wren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a youth camp. But when a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess, who still roams the woods. |
March 2022
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Abu-Jaber, Diana | Fencing with the King | Amani discovers a poem on an airmail paper that slipped out of one of her father's books and becomes determined to learn more about its author, her grandmother, who arrived in Jordan during World War I. |
| Aguirre, Ann | Boss Witch | Romance - Fix-It Witches #2 |
| Ahmad, Aamina | The Return of Faraz Ali | Sent back to his birthplace, Lahore's notorious red-light district, to hush up the murder of a girl, a man finds himself in an unexpected reckoning with his past. |
| Akers, W. M. | Westside Lights | Historical Mystery - Westside #3 |
| Alexander, Ellie | Lost Coast Literary | A young editor inherits her grandmother's estate only to learn that her editing pen has the power not only to change stories but also to change lives. |
| Ali, Kasim | Good Intentions | A debut novel about a young man who has hidden a romance from his parents, unable to choose between familial obligation and the future he truly wants. |
| Allingham, Merryn | Murder at Primrose Cottage | Cozy Mystery - Flora Steele #3 |
| Alpsten, Ellen | The Tsarina's Daughter | Historical - Tsarina #2 |
| Andrews, Brian | Dark Angel | Thriller - Shepherds #2 |
| Andrews, V. C. | Becoming My Sister | Two sisters face love, rivalry, and a shocking disappearance amidst the luxury of Palm Springs. |
| Bahr, Dane | The Houseboat | This psychological thriller set in small town Iowa in the 1960s pits a detective struggling with his own demons against a mysterious outcast who may or may not be a serial killer. |
| Baldree, Travis. | Legends & Lattes | A hot cup of fantasy slice-of-life with a dollop of romantic froth. |
| Banwo, Ayanna Lloyd | When We Were Birds | A mythic love story set in Trinidad, this radiant debut introduces two unforgettable outsiders brought together by their connection with the dead. |
| Barasch, Caitlin | A Novel Obsession | An aspiring novelist finds herself stalking--and writing about--her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend. |
| Barenbaum, Rachel | Atomic Anna | Three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their past. |
| Bennett, Claire-Louise | Checkout 19 | Fiction |
| Bennett, S. J. | All the Queen's Men | Cozy Mystery - Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #2 |
| Bhanoo, Sindya | Seeking Fortune Elsewhere | Short Stories |
| Bishop, Anne | Crowbones | Urban Fantasy - World of the Others #3 |
| Black, Cara | Murder at the Porte de Versailles | Mystery - Aimée Leduc #20 |
| Blanco Calderón, Rodrigo | The Night | Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. |
| Blædel, Sara. | A Harmless Lie | Mystery - Louise Rick/Camilla Lind #10 |
| Bond, Gwenda | The Date from Hell | Paranormal Romance - Match Made in Hell #2 |
| Bova, Ben | Sam Gunn Jr. | Science Fiction - Sam Gunn #3 |
| Brayden, Melissa | Exclusive | Skylar Ruiz lands the TV reporting job of a lifetime, but is she willing to sacrifice it all for the love of her longtime crush, anchorwoman Carolyn McNamara? |
| Broaddus, Maurice | Sweep of Stars | When the old powers seek to destroy the Muungano empire and all that they've built, three people leader Amachi Adisa, warrior Fela Buhari and captain Stacia Chikeke prepare for battle while searching for the answers that could save them all. |
| Bulawayo, NoViolet | Glory | Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup of the longtime president of Zimbabwe, the book describes a fictional nation of animals on the path to true liberation after the sudden fall of Old Horse. |
| Burchell, Kristin | Court of Venom | Fantasy |
| Burton, Tara Isabella | The World Cannot Give | Arriving at St. Dunstan's Academy in Maine, shy, sensitive Laura Stearns falls under the spell of charismatic, neurotic overachiever Virginia, who gives her purpose until the new school chaplain challenges Virginia, forcing Laura to decide how far she will let her devotion to Virginia go. |
| Byler, Linda | A Beacon of Light | Inspirational Romance - Long Road Home #2 |
| Carr, Robyn | A Family Affair | Romance |
| Chou, Elaine Hsieh | Disorientation | While finishing her PhD dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou, graduate student Ingrid Yang discovers a curious note in the archives and upends her entire life trying to unravel the note's message, ultimately making an explosive discovery. |
| Clark, Andrea Yaryura | On a Night of a Thousand Stars | A young couple confronts the start of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later. |
| Cole, Lee | Groundskeeping | Fiction |
| Colgan, Jenny | Welcome to the School by the Sea | The first book of a new series, set at a charming English boarding school on the sea. |
| Comfort, Jen | The Astronaut and the Star | A romantic comedy featuring an astronaut tasked with training a Hollywood actor for a space flick. |
| Cooper, Sharon C. | Business Not as Usual | Romance |
| Corey, James S. A. | Memory's Legion | Science Fiction Short Stories |
| Cranor, Eli | Don't Know Tough | Fiction |
| Crosby, Ellen | Bitter Roots | Cozy Mystery - Wine Country #12 |
| Croucher, Lex | Reputation | When she meets a wealthy member of the in-crowd, bookish and sheltered Georgina is introduced to the upper levels of Regency aristocracy where she begins to wonder if she'll ever fit in - or if the price of entry into this glittering world is higher than she's willing to pay. |
| Davenport, N. E. | The Blood Trials | Blending fantasy and science fiction, this debut kicks off a duology of loyalty and rebellion, in which a young Black woman must survive deadly trials in a racist and misogynistic society to become an elite warrior. |
| DeYoung, Andrew | The Temps | They're underemployed. Underpaid. And trying to survive the end of the world while trapped inside an office complex. Who knew temp work could be this dangerous? |
| Deeds, Marion | Comeuppance Served Cold | A hard-boiled historical fantasy of criminality and magic, couched in the glamour of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. |
| Dolan, Lian | Lost and Found in Paris | When her husband announces he's fathered twins with another woman, Joan books a last-minute trip to Paris as an art courier where she, after the priceless drawings are stolen, is led on a treasure hunt all over the city hoping to recover the lost art, and her own sense of adventure. |
| Doller, Trish | The Suite Spot | Romance |
| Downes, Anna | The Shadow House | Thriller |
| Eason, Lynette | Driving Force | Christian Suspense - Elite Guardians #1 |
| Elliot, Amanda | Sadie on a Plate | Landing a coveted spot on her favorite TV show, chef Sadie, a rising star in the trendy Seattle restaurant scene, arrives in NYC and has a spontaneous one-night fling, or she thought was a one night, until she arrives on set and gets the surprise of her life. |
| Ellis, Shelly | Truth, Lies, and Mr. Grey | Fiction - Three Mrs. Greys #2 |
| Folk, Kate | Out There: Stories | Short Stories |
| Fu, Melissa | Peach Blossom Spring | Historical Fiction |
| Gainza, María | Portrait of an Unknown Lady | The story of an auction house employee on the trail of an enigmatic master forger. |
| Galgut, Damon | The Promise | Fiction |
| Garmus, Bonnie | Lessons in Chemistry | In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo. |
| Garrett, Kellye | Like a Sister | When death of her half-sister Desiree, a disgraced reality TV star, is ruled an overdose, Lena Scott knows that can't be the case and becomes determined to find justice for Desiree, even if means unraveling her family's darkest secrets - or ending up dead herself. |
| Gelernter, J. H. | Captain Grey's Gambit | Historical Fiction - Captain Grey #2 |
| Gillham, David R. | Shadows of Berlin | Historical Fiction |
| Ginder, Grant | Let's Not Do That Again | Fiction |
| Gladstone, Max | Last Exit | After being able to travel between alternate realities, wizard Zelda Quiang gathers her friends from the past to help defend the world against her ex-lover, Sal. |
| Glenn, Roy | Manipulation | Urban Fiction |
| Gorcheva-Newberry, Kristina | The Orchard | Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union--but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. |
| Graham, Heather | Crimson Summer | Romantic Suspense |
| Grande, Reyna | A Ballad of Love and Glory | A sweeping historical saga following a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight, first for their survival and then for love, amidst the atrocity of the Mexican-American War |
| Graves, Sarah | Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake | Cozy Mystery - Death By Chocolate #5 |
| Green, Jane | Sister Stardust | Inspired by a true story, this book reimagines the glamorous and tragic life of fashion icon and socialite Talitha Getty through the eyes of Claire, a young woman in search of adventure who is drawn into Talitha's orbit, forever changing her life. |
| Gurnah, Abdulrazak | Admiring Silence | Fiction |
| Gurnah, Abdulrazak | Memory of Departure | Fiction |
| Gurnah, Abdulrazak | Pilgrims Way | An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England. |
| Hannon, Irene | Sea Glass Cottage | Inspirational - Hope Harbor #8 |
| Hansen, Joseph | Skinflick | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #5 |
| Harkin, Jo | Tell Me An Ending | Never Let Me Go meets Black Mirror in this speculative debut about a tech company that deletes unwanted memories. |
| Harper, Elodie | The Wolf Den | A slave and prostitute in Pompeii's notorious Wolf Den brothel, Amara, once the beloved daughter of a doctor in Greece, is buoyed by the sisterhood she forges with the other women and dream of a new beginning - if she can pay the high price for her freedom. |
| Harris, C. S. | When Blood Lies | Historical Mystery - Sebastian St. Cyr #17 |
| Harvey, Kristy Woodson | The Wedding Veil | Follows four extraordinary women across generations, bound by a beautiful wedding veil and a connection to the Vanderbilt legacy that changes their lives - and history as they know it. |
| Heath, Lorraine | Girls of Flight City | Historical Fiction |
| Hepworth, Sally | The Younger Wife | Thriller |
| Heron, Farah | Kamila Knows Best | Too busy with her friends' love lives, hardly giving thought to her own, Kamila Hussain refuses to let herself get distracted by her growing feelings for a longtime friend of the family until her secret nemesis sets her sights on him. |
| Hetherington, Victoria | Autonomy | In a near future ravaged by illness, one woman and her AI companion enter a dangerous bubble of the superrich. |
| Hill, Edwin | The Secrets We Share | Thriller |
| Hill, Susan | A Change of Circumstance | Mystery - Simon Serrallier #11 |
| Holland, Sam | The Echo Man | Thriller |
| Holmberg, Charlie N. | Star Father | Fantasy - Star Mother #2 |
| Holton, India | The League of Gentlewomen Witches | Paranormal Romance - Dangerous Damsels #2 |
| Hood, Joshua | Robert Ludlum's the Treadstone Transgression | Thriller - Treadstone #3 |
| Hubbard, Ladee | The Last Suspicious Holdout | Short Stories |
| Hubscher, Libby | If You Ask Me | When an advice columnist's picture-perfect life implodes, she opts to go rogue. |
| Huchu, T. L. | Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments | Urban Fantasy - Edinburgh Nights #2 |
| Hyde, Allegra | Eleutheria | After meeting a renowned Harvard professor who betrays her, a naïve, young idealist finds a guide to fighting climate change and is inspired to move to Eleutheria in the Bahamas to join the author and his ecowarriors. |
| India | Rich Wives Association | The life of a celebrity wife is supposed to be all glitz and glamour. However, when the lights dim and the paparazzi fade, living life in the fab lane comes with a price. |
| Johnson, Chantal V. | Post-Traumatic | A dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients makes a bold move during a family reunion that leaves her alone in new and terrifying ways, causing her to unravel. |
| Jones, Solomon | C.R.E.A.M. about the Streets | Urban Fiction - C.R.E.A.M. #1 |
| Jones, Solomon | Payback: The Return of C.R.E.A.M. | Urban Fiction - C.R.E.A.M. #2 |
| K'wan | Promise Broken | After losing her mother and the abandonment of her father, Promise has two goals: graduate from high school and be loved. Her pursuit of these goals will lead to life-altering events. |
| Kava, Alex | Fallen Creed | Mystery - Ryder Creed K9 #7 |
| Kazbek, Katya | Little Foxes Took Up Matches | A powerful story of sexual awakening and acceptance voiced by a protagonist coming of age in post-Soviet Russia. |
| Keneally, Thomas | The Dickens Boy | The son of England's most famous author, Edward Dickens, is sent to Australia to make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye - where he works hard to prove to his parents and himself that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness. |
| Kenyon, Sherrilyn | Eve of Destruction | Paranormal Romance - League: Eve of Destruction #1 |
| Keyes, Marian | Again, Rachel | Fiction |
| Kravetz, Lee Daniel | The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. | Bridging fact and fiction to imagine the life of a revered writer, this masterful literary novel follows a seasoned curator as she, vetting the 55-year-old handwritten journals of Sylvia Plath, discovers she is connected to Plath's legacy in an unexpected way. |
| Lansdale, Joe R. | Born for Trouble : The Further Adventures of Hap and Leonard | Mystery |
| Lastufka, Alan | Face the Night | Rookie police sketch artist Adriana just drew the wrong face. A face with no name, with no voice, but with one hell of a secret... |
| Lewis, Amy O. | Half-Told Truths | Mystery - Colorado Skies #2 |
| Li, Grace D. | Portrait of a Thief | Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in this heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums. |
| Lin, Hudson | Going Public | Romance - Jade Harbour Capital #2 |
| Loizou, Polis | A Good Year | Horror |
| Luna, Louisa | Hideout | Mystery - Alice Vega #3 |
| Lupica, Mike | Robert B. Parker's Revenge Tour | Mystery - Sunny Randall #10 |
| Macmillan, Gilly | The Long Weekend | A group of women travel to the most remote place in England for a weekend escape, only to discover a startling note that one of their husbands will be killed before they return home. |
| Margolin, Phillip | The Darkest Place | Mystery - Robin Lockwood #5 |
| Marie, Tina | My Heart Beats for You | Sometimes, even true love isn't enough to prevent bad choices. |
| May, Francesca | Wild and Wicked Things | In the aftermath of World War I, a naive woman is swept into a glittering world filled with dark magic, romance, and murder. |
| Maz, William | The Bucharest Dossier | Thriller |
| McCoy, Taj | Savvy Sheldon Feels Good As Hell | While renovating her house and her life, Savvy Sheldon finds things going not as planned and soon realizes that she should have started her renovation the other way around, beginning with how she sees and loves herself before she can love someone else. |
| Medel, Elena | The Wonders | During the Women's March in 2018 Madrid, Alicia, unaware that the mother who left her years ago is in the crowd, searches for a man who, for a few hours, will make her forget her husband and the life he expects them to live. |
| Miller, Carol | The Fool Dies Last | The Bailey sisters may be the only ones able to interpret the meaning behind a bizarre series of murders in the first entry in the Fortune Telling Mysteries series. |
| Miller, Vanessa | Something Good | When three women find their lives inextricably linked after one terrible mistake, they must work together to make the most of their futures and the challenges before them. |
| Monroe, Mary | Empty Vows | Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man. |
| Montgomery, Jess | The Echoes | Historical Mystery - Kinship #4 |
| Monáe, Janelle | The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer | In a totalitarian world where thoughts - as a means of self-conception - are controlled or erased by a select few, and your life is dictated by those who feel they have the right to decide your fate, Jane 57821 remembers and breaks free. |
| Morrey, Beth | Delphine Jones Takes a Chance | Fiction |
| Mueller, Sara A. | The Bone Orchard | A dying emperor charges his favorite concubine with solving his own murder, and preventing the culprit, which undoubtedly is one of his three terrible sons, from taking control of an empire. |
| Murphy, Jennifer | Scarlet in Blue | Follows Blue and her artist mother Scarlet as they finally settle down in a small Michigan beachfront town where Blue thrives as her mother prepares to escape the shadow of her traumatic past, no matter what the cost. |
| Neuvel, Sylvain | Until the Last of Me | Science Fiction - : Take Them to the Stars #2 |
| Novak, Brenda | Summer on the Island | Romance |
| Nović, Sara | True Biz | Taking readers into a residential school for the deaf, this coming-of-age novel follows three people - a rebellious transfer student, the school's golden boy and the headmistress - as they each deal with personal and political crises and find their lives inextricable from one another - and changed forever. |
| O'Leary, Beth | The No-Show | Three women who seemingly have nothing in common find that they're involved with the same man. |
| O'Nan, Stewart | Ocean State | A story of working-class life in Rhode Island and the terrible things love makes us do, told through the alternating perspectives of four women at the heart of the murder of a high school student. |
| O'Shea, T.J. | Beyond the Blue | Romance |
| Osman, Diriye | The Butterfly Jungle | Short Stories |
| Osunde, Eloghosa | Vagabonds! | In Nigeria, the lives of a group of vagabonds - the poor, the queer, the drivers and dancers, the abused, displaced and vulnerable - intertwine in bustling markets and underground clubs, churches and hotel rooms where they are seized and challenged by spirits who command the city's dark energy. |
| Oyebanji, Adam | Braking Day | An engineer-in-training on a generation ship that escaped an inhospitable Earth sees a young woman floating out in space without a helmet and must decide whether to ignore it and secure his family's place among the elite or uncover the truth. |
| Painter, Lynn | Mr. Wrong Number | A steamy message from a random wrong number turns into an anonymous relationship. |
| Pandian, Gigi | Under Lock & Skeleton Key | Tempest Raj, while visiting her dad's latest renovation project, discovers the body of her former stage double and wonders if she was the original target. |
| Patterson, James, and Maxine Paetro | 22 Seconds | Mystery |
| Patterson, James, and J.D. Barker | Death of the Black Widow | Thriller |
| Pederson, David S. | Murder on Monte Vista | Historical Mystery |
| Pellegrino, Amanda | Smile and Look Pretty | What happens when four assistants risk everything to say enough is enough? |
| Perry, Anne | Three Debts Paid | Historical Mystery - Daniel Pitt #5 |
| Powell, Gareth | Stars and Bones | When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her. |
| Power, Rory | In a Garden Burning Gold | Twins Rhea and Lexos have spent an eternity working with their father to keep control over the seasons, tides, stars and people but might face each other on the battlefield as an independence movement grows, putting the siblings at odds. |
| Reedus, Norman | The Ravaged | Fiction |
| Reich, Christopher | Once a Thief | Thriller - Simon Riske #4 |
| Rigetti, Susan | Cover Story | An ambitious young woman gets trapped in a charismatic con artist's scam. |
| Riley, Vanessa | A Duke, the Spy, an Artist, and a Lie | Historical Romance - Rogues and Remarkable Women #3 |
| Roanhorse, Rebecca | Fevered Star | Fantasy - Between Earth and Sky #2 |
| Roe, Lisa | Welcome to the Neighborhood | Ginny Miller's remarriage is a great opportunity to move with her quirky eleven year-old daughter to an upscale New Jersey suburb, but reality in the Real Housewives of NJ town isn't everything she hoped it would be. |
| Ronan, Kelsey | Chevy in the Hole | The love story of an interracial couple, recovering addict August "Gus" Molloy and urban farmer Monae Livingston, as told through two generations of their families living in and around Detroit. |
| Rosenfelt, David | Citizen K-9 | Cozy Mystery - K Team #3 |
| Runcie, James | The Great Passion | Told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew's Passion, this meditation on grief and music follows 13-year-old Stefan Silbermann who is taken under the tutelage of Bach and drawn into Bach's family life, escaping the cruelty of his classmates. |
| Scalzi, John | The Kaiju Preservation Society | When an old acquaintance desperately needs her help, Jamie Gray is transported to an alternate dimension where she must save large creatures called Kaiju from others who have found their way to the world - and who threaten humankind back on Earth with their carelessness. |
| Scurati, Antonio | M: Son of the Century | An epic historical novel that chronicles the birth and rise of fascism in Italy through the eyes of its founder, Benito Mussolini. |
| Searles, John | Her Last Affair | In this tense and atmospheric thriller of love found and lost again, three individuals find their lives intertwined as they reconnect with their past, to deadly effect. |
| Segura, Alex | Secret identity | In 1975, when the comic book industry is struggling, Carmen Valdes, an assistant at Triumph Comics, finds things taking a strange turn when she helps create a new female character - a project that leads to murder and plunges her into a dangerous world of secrets and resentments. |
| Shade, Anne | Her Heart's Desire | Romance |
| Sharma, Nisha | Dating Dr. Dil | Romance |
| Shelton, Paige | The Burning Pages | Cozy Mystery - Scottish Bookshop #7 |
| Shepherd, Peng | The Cartographers | When her estranged father is found dead with a seemingly worthless map hidden in his desk, cartographer Nell Young soon discovers the map is extremely valuable - and that a mysterious collector will stop at nothing to destroy it and anyone who gets in the way. |
| Shocklee, Michelle | Count the Nights by Stars | Christian Historical |
| Sim, Tara | The City of Dusk | Fantasy |
| Singh, Sonya | Sari, Not Sari | The beautiful young CEO of Breakup, a highly successful company helping people manage their relationship breakups, Manny Dogra has an identity crisis and makes a deal with an irritating client who agrees to give her a crash course in being "Indian." |
| Sorell, Gina | The Wise Women | A popular advice columnist for 40 years, Wendy Wise decides to meddle in her own troubled daughters' lives even though they are holding on some resentments from childhood, while her daughters discover that Wendy has been hiding more than a few problems of her own. |
| Sosa, Mia | The Wedding Crasher | Crashing the wedding of complete strangers who don't belong together, Solange agrees to be the former groom's pretend girlfriend to make up for her interference, and as they fake date for the benefit of his colleagues, they form an undeniable connection. |
| Spencer, Kate | In a New York Minute | Romance |
| Spindler, Erica | The Detective's Daughter | A woman risks everything to solve the cold case that destroyed her father-but will it destroy her as well? |
| Steel, Danielle | Beautiful | Fiction |
| Sten, Camilla | The Resting Place | Eleanor inherits a house tucked away in the Swedish woods from her cruel grandmother and seeks the truth about her grandmother's murder. |
| Straight, Susan. | Mecca | Fiction |
| Stringfellow, Tara M. | Memphis | Told over the course of 70 years, this debut novel traces three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter, who, channeling her rage into art, discovers with the power of her paint brush, she can change her family's legacy. |
| Stuart, Douglas | Young Mungo | In Glasgow, Mungo and James, who should be enemies due to their religious beliefs, fall in love, dreaming of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him to protect them both from the danger their relationship brings. |
| Sutanto, Jesse Q. | Four Aunties and a Wedding | Romance - Aunties #2 |
| Swanson, Peter | Nine Lives | Mystery |
| Tawada, Yōko | Scattered All Over the Earth | A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by a winner of the National Book Award. |
| Tector, Amy | The Honeybee Emeralds | Alice Ahmadi, a shy intern at a struggling Parisian magazine, finds herself drawn into decades-old secrets when she discovers a priceless necklace previously owned by some of history's most iconic and glamorous women. |
| Trigiani, Adriana | The Good Left Undone | Historical Fiction |
| Varela, Alejandro | The Town of Babylon | Returning to his hometown to care for his ailing father, Andres, a gay Latinx professor, decides to attend his 20-year high school reunion where he encounters the long-lost characters of his youth and must confront these relationships to better understand his own life. |
| Wallace, David Foster | Something to Do with Paying Attention | Fiction |
| Ward, Amanda Eyre | The Lifeguards | Three mothers who have raised their kids together find the perfect world they have so painstakingly created shattered by the unthinkable when a secret their three boys - all lifeguards - have been keeping is revealed. |
| Ward, J. R. | Lover Arisen | Paranormal Romance - Black Dagger Brotherhood #20 |
| Warner, Sondi | Lead Me Astray | Paranormal Romance |
| Waters, Martha | To Marry and to Meddle | Historical Romance - Regency Vows #3 |
| Wegert, Tessa | Dead Wind | Mystery - Shana Merchant #3 |
| White, Karen | The Shop on Royal Street | Mystery |
| Wilkes, Ally | All the White Spaces | Something deadly and mysterious stalks the members of an isolated polar expedition. |
| Williams, Sheila | Things Past Telling | Recalling the last 100-plus years of her triumphant and tumultuous life, the narrator shares how her midwifery skills allowed her to sometimes transcend the racial and class barriers of her enslavement and how she never lost her sense of self. |
| Winning, Josh | The Shadow Glass | A thrilling race against the clock to save the world from fantasy creatures from a cult 80s film. |
| Winstead, Ashley | Fool Me Once | Romance |
| Wong, Khan | The Circus Infinite | A circus takes down a crime boss on the galaxy's infamous pleasure moon. |
| Zarou, Paul Aziz | Arab Boy Delivered | Michael Haddad, the teenage son of Palestinian immigrants, comes of age during the tumultuous sixties in his family's neighborhood grocery store in New York City. |
| Zhang, Jenny Tinghui | Four Treasures of the Sky | A Chinese girl struggles to find her place in the 1880s American West after being kidnapped and smuggled, working at a calligraphy school and a San Francisco brothel as anti-Chinese sentiment sweeps across the country. |
February 2022
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Abraham, Daniel | Age of Ash | First volume of a monumental epic fantasy trilogy that unfolds within the walls of a single great city, over the course of one tumultuous year, where every story matters, and the fate of the city is woven from them all. |
| Albert, Annabeth | Sink or Swim | Romance - Shore Leave #2 |
| Alexander, Kianna | Carolina Built | The novelized life of real estate magnate Josephine N. Leary in a previously untold story of passion, perseverance, and building a legacy after emancipation in North Carolina. |
| Andrews, Ilona | Fated Blades | Two members of the genetically-enhanced ruling families of planet Rada, in a constant fight for power and dominance for eons, must put aside their ill will and work together secretly to prevent evil forces from using universe-altering technology. |
| Armas, Elena | The Spanish Love Deception | A romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date a colleague and bring him to her sister's wedding. |
| Armstrong, Kelley | The Deepest of Secrets | Mystery - Casey Duncan #7 |
| Asher, April | Not the Witch You Wed | Paranormal Romance |
| Ashley, T. | Capturing Celeste | Urban Fiction |
| Ashton, Edward | Mickey7 | The Martian meets Dark Matter in this science fiction thriller, in which Mickey7, an expendable, refuses to let his replacement clone Mickey8 take his place. |
| Au, Jessica | Cold Enough for Snow | Fiction |
| Bailey, Tessa | Hook, Line, and Sinker | Romance - Bellinger Sisters #2 |
| Baldacci, David | Dream Town | Thriller - Aloysius Archer #3 |
| Barr, Lisa | Woman on Fire | A gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece. |
| Barron, Stephanie | Jane and the Year Without a Summer | Historical Mystery - Jane Austen #14 |
| Barry, Quan | When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East | In a windswept Mongolia, estranged twin brothers make a journey of duty, conflict, and renewed understanding. |
| Beaton, M. C. | Death of a Green-Eyed Monster | Cozy Mystery - Hamish Macbeth #34 |
| Belloc Lowndes, Marie | The Chianti Flask | Classic Mystery |
| Billingsley, ReShonda Tate | Miss Pearly's Girls | Four estranged sisters must return to rural Arkansas when their mother is diagnosed with a terminal illness. |
| Bird, Kristen | The Night She Went Missing | Each mother is sure she knows who is responsible, but they all have their own secrets to keep and reputations to protect. And the lies they tell themselves and each other may just have the potential to be lethal in this riveting debut. |
| Birdsong, Destiny O. | Nobody's Magic | Three novellas about African American women grappling with their families' and communities' attitudes toward their albinism. |
| Black, Juneau | Cold Clay | Cozy Mystery - Shady Hollow #2 |
| Blackburn, Lynn H. | Malicious Intent | Christian Suspense - Defend and Protect #2 |
| Blake, Olivie | The Atlas Six | Chosen to compete for five spots within The Alexandrian Society, the protectors and benefactors of the world's greatest source of knowledge, six powerful young magicians must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to win one of the coveted spots. |
| Bowen, Rhys | Wild Irish Rose | Historical Mystery - Molly Murphy #18 |
| Box, C. J. | Shadows Reel | Mystery - Joe Pickett #22 |
| Brown, Vanessa | The Darker Side of Me | Fiction |
| Brunstetter, Wanda E. | The Sugarcreek Surprise | Inspirational - Creekside Discoveries #2 |
| Candlish, Louise | The Heights | Thriller |
| Cannon, Julie | My Secret Valentine | Romance |
| Carlson, Melody | Looking for Leroy | Christian Romance |
| Chase-Riboud, Barbara | The Great Mrs. Elias | The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s. |
| Clark, Ashley | Where the Last Rose Blooms | Christian Fiction |
| Clipston, Amy | Foundation of Love | In the first installment of a new series, an Amish widower with three grown sons discovers that another chance at love may be waiting for him. |
| Coben, Harlan | The Match | Mystery - Wilde #2 |
| Connealy, Mary | The Element of Love | Christian Historical |
| Coulter, Catherine | The Grayson Sherbrooke Otherworldly Adventures | Historical Mystery - Books 1-5 |
| Cramer, Sofie | Text for You | Fiction |
| Crimp, Imogen | A Very Nice Girl | An ambitious young opera singer is caught between devotion to her craft and an all-consuming affair with an older man. |
| Dailey, Janet | Calder Grit | Romance - Calder Brand #2 |
| Dams, Jeanne M. | Murder in the Park | Introducing spirited female sleuth Elizabeth Fairchild in the first of the new Oak Park Village mystery series, set in 1920s Illinois. |
| Darnielle, John | Devil House | Mystery |
| Deibel, Jennifer | Lady of Galway Manor | Christian Historical |
| Deveraux, Jude | A Relative Murder | Mystery - Medlar #4 |
| Dick, Kay | They | A dark, dystopian portrait of artists struggling to resist violent suppression. |
| Dixon, Ariel Delgado | Don't Say We Didn't Warn You | Two sisters unite to survive a traumatic upbringing--from absentee parents to a wilderness camp for troubled teens. |
| Domingo, Anni | Breaking the Maafa Chain | The story of two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century as their paths diverge in the middle passage--one to the court of Queen Victoria, the other to an American plantation. |
| Donnelly, Lara Elena | Base Notes | A New York City perfumer accepts an intricate and dangerous commission from a super wealthy client and manipulates struggling artists into being his accomplices until plans start to unravel and a tenacious private investigator is on his heels. |
| Doyle, Roddy | Life Without Children | Short Stories |
| Drakeford, Scott | Rise of the Mages | Emrael Ire must embrace his abilities as a warrior and his place as last of the ancient Mage Kings to save his brother with the help of an undercover mage. |
| Dugoni, Robert | The Silent Sisters | Thriller - Charles Jenkins #3 |
| Eddings, Mazey | A Brush with Love | While anxiously awaiting placement into a top oral surgery residency program, Harper doesn't have time to be more than "just friends" with an adorable first year dental student who threatens to undo her carefully ordered life. |
| Egan, Jennifer | The Candy House | A "sibling novel" to A Visit from the Goon Squad--an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world where memories and identities are no longer private. |
| Engberg, Katrine | The Harbor | Mystery - Korner and Werner #3 |
| Evanovich, Janet | The Recovery Agent | The launch of a new series that blends wild adventure, hugely appealing characters, and pitch-perfect humor. |
| Everett, Elizabeth | A Perfect Equation | Historical Romance - Secret Scientists of London #2 |
| Falade, David Wright | Black Cloud Rising | Sergeant Richard Etheridge, the son of a slave and her master, must prove that his troops in the African Brigade are skilled and trustworthy as they raid the areas occupied by the Confederate Partisan Rangers in the fall of 1863. |
| Fawcett, Jennifer | Beneath the Stairs | A woman returns to her hometown after her childhood friend attempts suicide at a local haunted house--the same place where a traumatic incident shattered their lives twenty years ago. |
| Fay, Kim | Love & Saffron | This witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best medicine. |
| Feehan, Christine | Phantom Game | Paranormal Romance - GhostWalker #18 |
| Felker-Martin, Gretchen | Manhunt | Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. |
| Fellman, Isaac | Dead Collections | A whirlwind romance between a vampire archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body. |
| Ferencik, Erica | Girl in Ice | Thriller |
| Finlay, Alex | The Night Shift | Thriller |
| Fluke, Joanne | Caramel Pecan Roll Murder | Cozy Mystery - Hannah Swenson #28 |
| Fowler, Karen Joy | Booth | Describes the multiple scandals, family triumphs and disasters that took their toll on the 10 children of celebrated Shakespearean actor Junius Booth as the North and the South reached a boiling point and the Civil War broke out. |
| Frost, Caroline | Shadows of Pecan Hollow | Fourteen years after being abducted and forced into a life of crime, Kit must reckon with her past when her kidnapper shows up on her doorstep, drawing her back into his orbit. |
| Gould, Leslie | Threads of Hope | Christian Fiction |
| Gran, Sara | The Book of the Most Precious Substance | A mysterious book that promises unlimited power and unrivaled sexual pleasure. A down-on-her-luck book dealer hoping for the sale of a lifetime. And a twist so shocking, no one will come out unscathed. |
| Gray, Shelley Shepard | Edgewater Road | Mystery - Rumors in Ross County #1 |
| Greaney, Mark | Sierra Six | Thriller - Gray Man #11 |
| Hamilton, Hugo | The Pages | Historical Fiction |
| Hansen, Joseph | The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #4 |
| Hardt, Helen | Blaze | Romance - Steel Brothers Saga #21 |
| Harrison, Cora | Spring of Hope | Historical Mystery - Gaslight #4 |
| Harrison, Suzette D. | The Dust Bowl Orphans | Historical Fiction |
| Hart, Rob | The Paradox Hotel | Science Fiction |
| Hendricks, Greer | The Golden Couple | A maverick therapist who lost her license due to controversial methods, Avery agrees to help golden couple Marissa and Mathew Bishop overcome Marisa's cheating, setting all three of them on a collision course. |
| Henwood Hoen, Tory | The ARC | Fiction |
| Herring Blake, Ashley | Delilah Green Doesn't Care | Pressured into photographing her estranged step-sister's wedding, Delilah Green reluctantly returns home to Bright Falls where she finds herself falling for one of the stuck-up bridesmaids after the pair are forced together during party preparations. |
| Heti, Sheila | Pure Colour | Fiction |
| Hill, Whitney | Secrets and Truths | Paranormal Romance - Otherside Heat #1 |
| Jackson, Kosoko | I'm So (Not) Over You | Pretending to still be his ex's current boyfriend in front of his parents, Kian reluctantly winds up being Hudson's plus-one at a splashy Georgia wedding and the pair find themselves in need of hashing out their true feelings. |
| Jenkins, James D. | The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories | Short Stories |
| Jio, Sarah | With Love from London | When a woman inherits her estranged mother's bookstore in London's Primrose Hill, she finds herself thrust into the pages of a new story--hers. |
| Johansen, Roy | Killer View | Mystery - Kendra Michaels #9 |
| Jorge, Lídia | The Wind Whistling in the Cranes | Fiction |
| Kanon, Joseph | The Berlin Exchange | Historical Thriller |
| Kate, Lauren | By Any Other Name | Romance |
| Kauffman, Rebecca | Chorus | Each of the seven Shaw siblings describe their own versions of the two events that altered their lives, first the untimely death of their mother and second a shocking teen pregnancy in a story of familial loss, recovery and hope. |
| Kelly, Simone | #1544 | A suspenseful and mystical twist-filled thriller about a father and daughter with supernatural abilities. |
| Kistler, Bonnie | The Cage | Two professional women--colleagues at an international fashion conglomerate--enter an elevator together . . . but only one is alive when they reach the ground floor. |
| Kuhns, John D. | They Call Me Ishmael | Historical Fiction |
| Larkwood, A. K. | The Thousand Eyes | Fantasy - The Serpent Gates #2 |
| Lashay, Taveyah | Requiem: Origins | Urban Fiction |
| Lashay, Taveyah | Requiem: Exposed | Urban Fiction |
| Ledwidge, Michael | Beach Wedding | When Terry Rourke is invited to a small town in the Hamptons for his brother's wedding, he can't help but take another look at a decades-old murder trial there that rocked the very foundations of his family. |
| Lee, Stan | The Devil's Quintet: The Armageddon Code | Science Fiction |
| Leon, Donna | Give Unto Others | Mystery - Guido Brunetti #31 |
| Liardet, Frances | Think of Me | Historical Fiction |
| Lloyd, Ellery | The Club | A smart and sinister murder mystery set in the secretive world of exclusive celebrity clubs. |
| Lund, Emme | The Boy With a Bird in his Chest | Fleeing to Washington to hide in plain sight with his family, Owen Tanner, who has a bird in his chest, feels joy and acceptance, despite living in a constant state of fear, in a community that embraces him for who he is. |
| Macallister, Greer | Scorpica | Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. |
| MacNeal, Elizabeth | Circus of Wonders | Historical Fiction |
| Mallery, Susan | The Summer Getaway | Romance |
| Mandel, Emily St. John | Sea of Tranquility | A novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. |
| Manguso, Sarah | Very Cold People | Growing up in the frozen, snow-padded town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, Ruthie, dealing with shame handed down from her immigrant ancestors and her indomitable mother, and violence endured by her high school friends, wonders if she'll ever get out of this town alive. |
| Mayquist, Kit | Tripping Arcadia | Working for one of Boston's most elite families, Lena discovers they are responsible for the ruin of her own family and embarks on a poison-filled quest for revenge that leads her into a hedonistic world where she must decide how much she is willing to risk for payback. |
| McGuire, Seanan | Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor's Guide to the Underworld | Urban Fantasy - InCryptid #11 |
| McHugh, Mandy | Chloe Cates is Missing | The disappearance of a young internet celebrity ignites a firestorm of speculation on social media, and to find her a detective will have to extinguish the blaze. |
| McKenzie, Pepi | Street Life: Redemption | Urban Fiction |
| Mellors, Coco | Cleopatra and Frankenstein | Fiction |
| Meltzer, Brad | The Lightning Rod | Thriller - Zig and Nola #2 |
| Miasha | Secret Society: All We Have Is Us | Urban Fiction - 15th Anniversary Edition |
| Michaels, Fern | Fear Thy Neighbor | Romantic Suspense |
| Mihalik, Jessie | Hunt the Stars | To earn enough money to keep her bounty hunting crew together, Octavia Zarola accepts a job from her sworn enemy, a ruthless former general who ignites her anger and desire, and uncovers a peace-threatening political plot. |
| Montgomery, Brielle | The Appraisal 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Moorcock, Michael | Elric of Melnibone | Fantasy - Elric Saga #1 |
| Morris, Amelia | Wildcat | Fiction |
| Moss, Sarah | The Fell | Thriller |
| Moustadraf, Malika | Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories | Short Stories |
| Murugan, Perumal | Pyre | After meeting in a small southern Indian town where he works, Saroja and Kumaresan quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan's family village, where they hope to build a happy life together. But they are harboring a terrible secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in grave danger |
| Myers, Adele | The Tobacco Wives | Historical Fiction |
| Nickson, Chris | The Blood Covenant | Historical Mystery - Simon Westlow #4 |
| Ojeda, Mónica | Jawbone | Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? |
| Osho, Andi | Asking for a friend | Three best friends decide it's time to ditch the dating apps and play the love game by their own rules. They're going to ask people out in real life...but only for each other. What could possibly go wrong? |
| Pataki, Allison | The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post | Historical Fiction |
| Pek, Jane | The Verifiers | While working for Veracity, a referral-only online-dating detective agency, Claudia breaks protocol to investigate when a client disappears and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit. |
| Peterson, Tracie | Along the Rio Grande | Christian Historical - Love on the Santa Fe #1 |
| Phillips, C. N. | The Bronx | Urban Fiction - Carl Weber's Five Families of New York #3 |
| Pierlot, Ciel | Bluebird | A lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space. |
| Piñeiro, Caridad | The Family She Never Met | A multigenerational story that explores the resilience of three Cuban American women and the price they've all paid for their family. |
| Pitoniak, Anna | Our American Friend | A mysterious first lady. The intrepid journalist writing her biography. And the secret that could destroy them both. |
| Qiu, Xiaolong | The Shadow of the Empire | The legendary Judge Dee Renjie investigates a high-profile murder case in this mystery set in seventh-century China. |
| Quinn, Kate | The Diamond Eye | Historical Fiction |
| Radley, Amanda | Reading Her | Romance |
| Ravn, Olga | The Employees | Science Fiction |
| Raybourn, Deanna | An Impossible Impostor | Historical Mystery - Veronica Speedwell #7 |
| Reekles, Beth | Lockdown on London Lane | Romance |
| Reimonenq, Alden | The Upside-Down Tree | Historical Fiction |
| Rio, King | The Cocaine Princess | Alexus Costilla was raised by her father, a ruthless Mexican drug cartel boss, and her mother, a strong-spirited black woman with an MBA from Harvard. So, it's no surprise that when Alexus forgoes academia for the dope game, she quickly becomes one of the best to ever do it. |
| Rivers, Francine | The Lady's Mine | Christian Historical |
| Robuck, Erika | Sisters of Night and Fog | A novel based on the extraordinary true stories of an American socialite and a British secret agent whose acts of courage collide in the darkest hours of World War II. |
| Ross, Rebecca | A River Enchanted | Fantasy - Elements of Cadence #1 |
| Sagara, Michelle | Sword and Shadow | Fantasy - Wolves of Elantra #2 |
| Sanderson, Brandon | Dawnshard | Fantasy - Stormlight Archive #3.5 |
| Sandford, John | The Investigator | Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from Sandford. |
| Scott, Kieran | Wish You Were Gone | Thriller |
| Scottoline, Lisa | What Happened to the Bennetts | Thriller |
| Serle, Rebecca | One Italian Summer | Fiction |
| Silver, Josie | One Night on the Island | When a double-booking at a remote one-room cabin accidentally throws two solace seekers together, it feels like a cruel twist of fate. But what if it's fate of a different kind? |
| Smith, Jennifer E. | The Unsinkable Greta James | Fiction |
| St James, Simone | The Book of Cold Cases | A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings. |
| Staub, Wendy Corsi | The Other Family | Thriller |
| Sundin, Sarah | Until Leaves Fall in Paris | Christian Historical |
| Swan, Richard | The Justice of Kings | Sir Konrad Vonvalt, the most feared if the Emperor's Justice, and his protege, Helena Sedanka, investigate the murder of a provincial aristocrat and unearth a conspiracy that stretches to the very top of Imperial society. |
| Turnbull, Bryn | The Last Grand Duchess | This sweeping novel takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Nikolaevna Romanov, the first daughter of the last Tsar. |
| Tyler, Anne | French Braid | Fiction |
| Vidich, Paul | The Matchmaker | Thriller |
| Walsh, Rosie | The Love of My Life | When Emma suffers a serious illness, her husband, an obituary writer, unravels her dark past, and she must somehow prove to him that she really is the woman he married, but first, she must tell him about the other love of her life. |
| Ward, Catriona | Sundial | Rob is forced to make one last trip out to Sundial, her parent's property in the wild Mojave desert where dark secrets are buried, when a frightening accident in her home reveals a disturbing discovery in her oldest daughter's bedroom. |
| Washington, Rodney H. | Born in a Manger | Urban Fiction |
| Wayne, Steven | She Was My Best Man | Urban Fiction |
| Wesley, Valerie Wilson | A Fatal Glow | Cozy Mystery - Odessa Jones #2 |
| Wibberley, Emily | The Roughest Draft | Romance |
| Wiedlin, Ieshia | There You Are | Romance |
| Winspear, Jacqueline | A Sunlit Weapon | Historical Mystery - Maisie Dobbs #17 |
| Woods, Stuart | A Safe House | Mystery - Stone Barrington #61 |
| Wrobel, Stephanie | This Might Hurt | A dark, thrilling novel about two sisters--one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies. |
| Youers, Rio | No Second Chances | Thriller |
| Zambra, Alejandro | Chilean poet | A young Chilean man who inherited his love of poetry from his stepfather helps an American journalist both literally and figuratively lost in Santiago. |
January 2022
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Albertson, Alana Quintana | Ramón and Julieta | Julieta is a gifted chef in an authentic but failing Mexican restaurant. Ram¢n is the heir apparent to his family's highly successful chain of Mexican restaurants. A chance meeting on Day of the Dead challenges Julieta to decide what community and familial loyalties truly mean. |
| Allen, Jayne | Black Girls Must Be Magic | Fiction - Black Girls Must Die Exhausted #2 |
| Allende, Isabel | Violeta | Tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. |
| Anderson, Kevin J. | Gods and Dragons | Fantasy - Wake the Dragon #3 |
| Ashley, Kristen | The Girl in the Mist | Romantic Suspense - Misted Pines #1 |
| Asim, Jabari | Yonder | The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century. |
| Assadi, Hannah Lillith | The Stars are Not Yet Bells | Fifty years after Elle Ranier came to Lyra island with her husband to find the source of mysterious lights, she looks back on her life on the island and at a secret she herself has guarded for decades. |
| Avery, Joy | Something So Sweet | In Honey Hill, North Carolina, mayor Lunden Pierce finds her historical town threatened by the arrival of her childhood sweetheart who plans to sell the inn he?s inherited, along with the honeybees living in its yard, and will do anything in her power to change his mind. |
| Ballard, Falon | Lease on Love | Beach Read meets The Flatshare in this debut rom-com about a down-on-her-luck young woman who turns an innocent mix-up between a dating app and a roommate app into a new chance at love. |
| Barnes, S. A. | Dead Silence | Titanic meets The Shining in this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended. |
| Bass, Elizabeth | A Letter to Three Witches | Romance |
| Bell, Darcey | All I Want | A young couple with a baby on the way moves to an old Victorian house in rural, upstate New York. Strange happenings contribute to their disintegrating marriage-and to their terrifying descent into the darker side of human nature. |
| Bellefleur, Alexandria | Count Your Lucky Stars | Romance - Written in the Stars #3 |
| Berenson, Laurien | Show me the Bunny | Cozy Mystery - Melanie Travis #28 |
| Black, Daniel | Don't Cry for Me | On his deathbed, a dying Black man writes a letter to his estranged, gay son and shares with him the truth that lives in his heart and tries to create a place where the pair can find peace. |
| Black, Juneau | Shady Hollow | The first book in the Shady Hollow mystery series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony--until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case. |
| Blackburn, Lizzie Damilola | Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? | A 30-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a high-paying job and good friends must find a date for her cousin?s wedding with the help of a spreadsheet and her best friend. |
| Blake, Sarah | Clean Air | Climate Fiction |
| Bleiweiss, Rick | Pignon Scorbion & the Barbershop Detectives | In this mystery debut, a quirky detective and ensemble cast of characters is set against the backdrop of small-town England in the 1910s. |
| Braffet, Kelly | The Broken Tower | Fantasy - Barrier Lands #2 |
| Branum, Renee | Defenestrate | Fiction |
| Brazier, Eliza Jane | Good Rich People | For fans of Parasite and Ready or Not--a destitute woman pretends to be someone else and moves into the lower floor of a Los Angeles duplex, and inadvertently becomes a target in the twisted game of the wealthy family upstairs. |
| Buccola, Allison | Catch Her When She Falls | Thriller |
| Cassidy, Luke | Iron Annie | Fiction |
| Castro, V. | Mestiza Blood | Horror Short Stories |
| Chamberlain, Diane | The Last House on the Street | Fiction |
| Chang, Lan Samantha | The Family Chao | When Big Leo, the owner of Fine Chao restaurant is found dead, his three sons are reunited and fall under suspicion, and must reckon with the legacy of their father?s outsized appetites and own future survival. |
| Chen, Mike | Light Years from Home | When their brother who has been missing for fifteen years suddenly returns, changed, Evie and Kass Shao must cast aside their differences to hide him from the FBI and an entire alien army who are in fast pursuit. |
| Clarke, Cassandra Rose | The Beholden | Fantasy |
| Cosimano, Elle | Finlay Donovan Knocks 'em Dead | Mystery - Finlay Donovan #2 |
| Coyle, Cleo | Honey Roasted | Cozy Mystery - Coffeehouse #19 |
| Cumming, Charles | Box 88 | At the funeral of his best friend, a member of a top-secret transatlantic black ops team falls into a trap and is helpless while his pregnant wife is abducted and held as collateral for information he is sworn to protect. |
| Cutts, Jenny | The Never Ending Fall | Mystery - Falling Awake #3 |
| Daley, Sarah | Obsidian | Shade Nox is the only witch in a land of wizards ? a fiend, a rogue, a wanted criminal. |
| Dawson, Delilah S. | The Violence | When a mysterious illness sweeps the nation, resulting in sudden, explosive bouts of animalistic rage, Chelsea, who has been abused by her husband for years, uses the opportunity to liberate herself from him once and for all. |
| De Cadenet, Gia | Getting His Game Back | Romance |
| DeMeester, Kristi | Such a Pretty Smile | Horror |
| Dee, Sandra | Never, Now, or Later | Three attractive, modern, and educated African American girlfriends living in the inner-city of Detroit confront the tumultuous challenges of life as they find themselves heading down differing paths. |
| Delany, Vicki | A Three Book Problem | Cozy Mystery - Sherlock Holmes Bookshop #7 |
| Elizabeth, Carolyn | The Raven and the Banshee | A passionate tale of vengeance, forgiveness, second-chance love and redemption in a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas. |
| Elliott, Kate | Servant Mage | A lowly fire mage finds herself entangled in an empire-spanning conspiracy on her way to discovering her true power. |
| Everhart, Donna | The Saints of Swallow Hill | Where the Crawdads Sing meets The Four Winds in a unique setting?the turpentine camps and pine forests of the American South during the Great Depression. |
| Faulkner, Katherine | Greenwich Park | Helen innocently befriends Rachel at a prenatal class despite the woman?s unbecoming behavior and has no idea her new friend has ulterior motives and is on a vindictive mission to ruin the lives of her extended family. |
| Fellowes, Jessica | The Mitford Vanishing | Historical Mystery - Mitford Murders #5 |
| Foley, Lucy | The Paris Apartment | A locked room mystery set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide. |
| Fox, Hester | A Lullaby for Witches | Gothic Fiction |
| Frederick, Jen | Seoulmates | Romance |
| Freeman, Brian | The Ursulina | Mystery - Shelby Lake #2 |
| Freeman, Sara | Tides | The story of a lost woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town. |
| Fu, Kim | Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century | Short Stories |
| Gala, Marcial | Call me Cassandra | A young boy in 1970s Cuba searches for his identity as he moves from childhood to adolescence firmly believing he was born in the wrong body and that he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra. |
| Gigl, Robyn | Survivor's Guilt | Mystery - Erin McCabe #2 |
| Golden, Christopher | Road of Bones | An American producer eager to score a big hit travels to Siberia to shoot a reality series along the desolate Kolyma Highway and gets more thrills than he bargained for. |
| Gramont, Nina De | The Christie Affair | Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desperate enough to destroy another woman's marriage? How deeply can a person crave revenge? |
| Green, Jocelyn | Drawn by the Current | Christian Historical |
| Greene, Charlotte | The Wedding Setup | Romance |
| Gudenkauf, Heather | The Overnight Guest | A woman receives an unexpected visitor during a deadly snowstorm. |
| Guterson, David | The Final Case | From the author of Snow Falling on Cedars, a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. |
| Hadley, Tessa | Free Love | Historical Fiction |
| Haigh, Jennifer | Mercy Street | As anti-abortion protests intensify, a counselor at the Mercy Street clinic is in a constant state of fear and turns to an affable pot dealer through whom she meets a random assortment of customers, one of whom may unwittingly bring about the destruction of the clinic. |
| Hairston, Andrea | Redwood and Wildfire | Historical Fantasy |
| Hall, Alexis | Something Fabulous | A delightfully witty historical romance featuring a reserved duke who's betrothed to one twin and hopelessly enamoured of the other. |
| Hallett, Janice | The Appeal | For fans of Ruth Ware and Lisa Jewell, this mystery follows a community rallying around a sick child--but when escalating lies lead to a dead body, everyone is a suspect. |
| Hamilton, Karen | The Ex-Husband | A woman fleeing her past as a con artist finds herself trapped aboard a cruise ship with someone who not only knows about that past, but will stop at nothing to get revenge. |
| Hansen, Essa | Azura Ghost | Science Fiction - The Graven #2 |
| Hansen, Joseph | Death Claims | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #2 |
| Hansen, Joseph | Fadeout | Published fifty years ago, the first Dave Brandstetter novel shattered stereotypes and redefined the Private Eye novel as we know it. |
| Hansen, Joseph | Troublemaker | Mystery - Dave Brandstetter #3 |
| Hardt, Helen | Flame | Romance - Steel Brothers Saga #20 |
| Harris, Kai | What the Fireflies Knew | A coming-of-age novel told by almost-eleven-year-old Kenyatta Bernice (KB), as she and her sister try to make sense of their new life with their estranged grandfather in the wake of their father's death and their mother's disappearance. |
| Hawks, Arlem | Beyond the Lavender Fields | In Marseille, on the eve of the French Revolution, a royalist and a revolutionary clash and struggle to navigate their relationship in a society that forces people to choose sides. |
| Hedlund, Jody | Never Leave Me | Christian Romance |
| Henkel, Calla | Other People's Clothes | Two American ex-pats obsessed with the Amanda Knox trial find themselves at the nexus of murder and celebrity in glittering late-aughts Berlin. |
| Higgins, Chencia C. | D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding | To elevate her brand, a closeted social media influencer goes on a reality TV show where she must convince her family and friends she's getting married to the love of her life in six weeks. |
| Hoover, Colleen | Reminders of Him | A troubled young mother yearns for a shot at redemption in this heartbreaking yet hopeful story. |
| Huf, Tammye | A More Perfect Union | Historical Fiction |
| Hunt, La Jill et. al | Full Figured 16 | Urban Fiction |
| Hurwitz, Gregg | Dark Horse | Thriller - Orphan X #7 |
| Ide, Joe | The Goodbye Coast | In this colorful reinvention of a classic, Philip Marlowe finds himself tangled in two missing persons cases. |
| James, Chantal | None But the Righteous | Fiction |
| James, Marlon | Moon Witch, Spider King | Fantasy - Dark Star #2 |
| Jance, J. A. | Nothing to Lose | Mystery - J.P. Beaumont #25 |
| Janowitz, Brenda | The Liz Taylor Ring | Three siblings. A priceless family ring. One legendary love story. |
| Jen, Gish | Thank you, Mr. Nixon | Short Stories |
| Jonas, Julia May | Vladimir | A beloved English professor faces a slew of accusations against her professor husband by former students--a situation that becomes more complicated when she develops an obsession of her own. |
| Jurczyk, Eva | The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections | A librarian's quiet life is turned upside down when a priceless manuscript goes missing. Soon she has to ask: what holds more secrets in the library--the ancient books shelved in the stacks, or the people who preserve them? |
| Kelk, Lindsey | On a Night Like This | Romance |
| Kellerman, Jonathan | City of the Dead | Mystery - Alex Delaware #37 |
| Kelly, Anita | Love & Other Disasters | The first openly nonbinary contestant on America's favorite cooking show falls for their clumsy competitor in this romantic comedy debut. |
| Kennedy, Elle | Good Girl Complex | Romance |
| King, Stephen, and Richard Chizmar | Gwendy's Final Task | Horror - Gwendy's Button Box #3 |
| Kukafka, Danya | Notes on an Execution | A work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life. |
| Kuzniar, M. A. | Midnight in Everwood | Historical Fantasy |
| Lackey, Mercedes | The Silver Bullets of Annie Oakley | Fantasy - Elemental Masters #16 |
| Lake, Rae B. | Dare to Ride | Marcus Heavy is the founder of the Heavy Sinners Motorcycle Club. They specialize in the drug game, prostitution, blackmail, and murder. You cross any member of the club, and that's the end of your life. |
| Layne, Lauren | Made in Manhattan | A reverse My Fair Lady tale about a pampered Manhattan socialite who must teach an unpolished drifter from the Louisiana Bayou how to fit in with New York City's upper crust. |
| Lutz, Lisa | The Accomplice | Thriller |
| Maas, Sarah J. | House of Sky and Breath | Fantasy - Crescent City #2 |
| Maddox, Jaime | Paris Rules | Romance |
| Manansala, Mia P. | Homicide and Halo-Halo | Mystery - Tita Rosie's Kitchen #2 |
| Mandanipour, Shahriar | Seasons of Purgatory | Short Stories |
| Maren, Mesha | Perpetual West | As Alex and Elana try to make their home among the academics and young leftists in El Paso and Juárez, they are pulled from each other by an affair with a lucha libre fighter, their struggles to define themselves, and the loud cry of home. |
| Matthews, Mimi | The Siren of Sussex | Historical Romance |
| May, Nikki | Wahala | A debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group. |
| Meier, Leslie | Easter Bonnet Murder | Cozy Mystery - Lucy Stone #28 |
| Mitchard, Jacquelyn | The Good Son | The gripping, emotionally charged novel of a mother who must help her son after he is convicted of a devastating crime. |
| Montgomery, Selena | Never Tell | Criminal psychologist Dr. Erin Abbott wants nothing more than to live a quiet life. That means no danger, no intrigue-and absolutely no romance. But when Erin suspects a serial killer is roaming New Orleans, her investigation throws her straight into the arms of the only man who can help her. |
| Moore, Scotto | Battle of the Linguist Mages | In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire. |
| Morrison, Toni | Recitatif: A Story | A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner. |
| Morrow, Bethany C. | Cherish Farrah | Thriller |
| Nagamatsu, Sequoia | How High We Go in the Dark | For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague. |
| Nakamura, Fuminori | My Annihilation | What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? |
| Newman, Jay Hartley | Undermoney | An electrifying debut thriller about a group of American operatives who secretly take over the world's largest dark money fund. |
| Nijkamp, Marieke | Kith & Kin | Fantasy: Critical Role Vox Machina |
| O'Connell, J. P. | Hotel Portofino | A historical drama about a British family who opens an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the Roaring Twenties. |
| Olde Heuvelt, Thomas | Echo | Horror |
| Onyebuchi, Tochi | Goliath | In this ambitious novel, dense with perspectives and social commentary, Onyebuchi dreams up disparate lives in a crumbling future America--with gentrifiers returning to Earth from space colonies and laborers trying to make a precarious living--while leaving room for moments of beauty and humor. |
| Osler, Rob | Devil's Chew Toy | For fans of Carl Hiaasen and Armistead Maupin, this light mystery follows an unlucky in love--and life--teacher who unwittingly ends up the prime suspect in a disappearance. |
| Otsuka, Julie | The Swimmers | A novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack appears at the bottom of their local pool. |
| Parker, T. Jefferson | A Thousand Steps | Thriller |
| Parks, Adele | Woman Last Seen | Thriller |
| Patterson, James, and Dolly Parton | Run, Rose, Run | A thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. |
| Patterson, James, and Howard Roughan | Steal | Mystery - Instinct #3 |
| Percy, Benjamin | The Unfamiliar Garden | Science Fiction - The Comet Cycle #2 |
| Peterson, Tracie | Ever Constant | Christian Historical - Treasures of Nome #3 |
| Petrie, Nicholas | The Runaway | Mystery - Peter Ash #7 |
| Preston, Douglas | Diablo Mesa | Mystery - Nora Kelly #3 |
| Rice, Anne, and Christopher Rice | The Reign of Osiris | Horror - Ramses the Damned #3 |
| Robb, J. D. | Abandoned in Death | Mystery - In Death #54 |
| Robert, Katee | Electric Idol | Romance - Dark Olympus #2 |
| Robinson, Shauna | Must Love Books | A heartfelt debut following a young woman who discovers she'll have to ditch the dream job and write her own story to find her happy ending. |
| Rutkoski, Marie | Real Easy | Thriller |
| Sanchez, David | All Day is a Long Time | For fans of Denis Johnson and Ocean Vuong: A debut novel about coming of age on Florida's drug-riddled Gulf Coast and the enigmatic connection between memory and self. |
| Sanchez, Rafael | Been Had Paper | Urban Fiction - Rise of the Fam #1 |
| Schaffhausen, Joanna | Last Seen Alive | Mystery - Ellery Hathaway #5 |
| Shalvis, Jill | The Family You Make | Shalvis begins a new series--Sunrise Cove--set near beautiful Lake Tahoe, with a heartwarming story of found family and love. |
| Shiloh, Toni | In Search of a Prince | Brielle Adebayo's simple life as a teacher unravels when she discovers she is a princess in the African kingdom of Oloro Ilé and must immediately assume her royal position. |
| Slmn | Gods & Gangsters 3 | Urban Fiction - Illuminati #3 |
| Slocumb, Brendan | The Violin Conspiracy | A riveting page-turner about a Black classical musician's desperate quest to recover his lost violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world. |
| Solomon, Rachel Lynn | Weather Girl | A TV meteorologist and a sports reporter scheme to reunite their divorced bosses with unforecasted results. |
| Speakman, Shawn | The Tempered Steel of Antiquity Grey | Science Fiction |
| Stabenow, Dana | Disappearance of a Scribe | Historical Mystery - Eye of Isis #2 |
| Steel, Danielle | High Stakes | Fiction |
| Sullivan, Sophie | How to Love Your Neighbor | Enemies-to-lovers meets HGTV in this frothy, effervescent romantic comedy. |
| Tan, Sue Lynn | Daughter of the Moon Goddess | A young woman's quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm and sets her on a dangerous path--where choices come with deadly consequences, and she risks losing more than her heart. |
| Taylor, Brad | End of Days | Thriller - Pike Logan #16 |
| Thomas, Morgan | Manywhere | Short Stories |
| Todd, Charles | A Game of Fear | Historical Mystery - Inspector Ian Rutledge #24 |
| Tokarczuk, Olga | The Books of Jacob | Follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. |
| Tracy, P. J. | Desolation Canyon | Mystery - Detective Margaret Nolan #2 |
| Vample, J. B. | Right as Reign | Romance |
| Walters, Ron | Deep Dive | Science Fiction |
| Wang, Weike | Joan is Okay | A novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can't be anyone but herself. |
| Webb, Heather | The Next Ship Home: A Novel of Ellis Island | Historical Fiction |
| Weber, Marcus | Philly Girl 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Wilkerson, Charmaine | Black Cake | In this debut novel, two estranged siblings deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. |
| Willberg, T. A. | Marion Lane and the Deadly Rose | Historical Mystery - Marion Lane #2 |
| Williams, Brittani | The Streets Keep Pulling Me Back | Go on a roller coaster ride with Tank, a man who battled a tortured past to become a "made man," determined to win no matter what he must do, or who he must hurt in the process. |
| Willingham, Stacy | A Flicker in the Dark | Twenty years after Chloe Davis' father was convicted of killing half a dozen young women, someone seems to be celebrating the anniversary by extending the list. |
| Young, Erin | The Fields | Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body--a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. |
December 2021
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Alers, Rochelle et. al | Rosie's Curl and Weave: Four Novellas | Romance |
| Andreades, Daphne Palasi | Brown Girls | Four friends, all young women of color, reconcile their immigrant backgrounds that require them to be obedient, dutiful daughters, with the freedoms of American culture while growing up in a vibrant community in Queens, New York. |
| Apostol, Gina | Bibliolepsy | A literature fan in 1980s Philippines who tracks down authors and pursues romantic connections with them believes that her country can be saved by love, sex and books as civil unrest grows against the kleptocratic, brutal rule of Ferdinand Marcos. |
| Armstrong, Kelley | High Jinx | Urban Fantasy - Cursed Luck#2 |
| Atkins, Ace | Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby | Mystery - Spenser #49 |
| Bartels, Erin | The Girl who Could Breathe Under Water | Christian Fiction |
| Beharrie, Therese | And They Lived Happily Ever After | Successful romance author Gaia Anders has a secret: anything she dreams at night is magically written into her bestselling novels. |
| Belle, Kimberly | My Darling Husband | Thriller |
| Benedict, Marie | Her Hidden Genius | The story of Rosalind Franklin, who, despite an environment of harassment and bullying in the late 1940s and 1950s, worked in a stringent, scientific manner and became one of the first scientists to map the structure of DNA. |
| Benson, J. C. | Am I My Brother's Keeper? | Mystery |
| Bernal, Rafael | His Name Was Death | Climate Fiction |
| Blake, Dena | Love by Proxy | Tess has a secret crush on her best friend, Sophie, so the last thing she wants is to help Sophie fall in love with someone else, but how can she stand in the way of her happiness? |
| Blumberg, Chandra | Digging Up Love | Romance |
| Brennan, Allison | The Sorority Murder | Thriller |
| Brightwell, Emily | Mrs. Jeffries and the Midwinter Murders | Historical Mystery - Mrs. Jeffries #40 |
| Brightwell, Emily | Mrs. Jeffries Demands Justice | Historical Mystery - Mrs. Jeffries #39 |
| Brown, Adesina | Where the Rain Cannot Reach | Fantasy |
| Burke, Alafair | Find Me | A Manhattan defense lawyer searches for her missing best friend, a person who never recovered from amnesia after an accident, with the help of a homicide detective who thinks the disappearance might be related to a cold case. |
| Burrows, Grace et. al | Duke the Halls | Historical Romance Anthology |
| Cantor, Jillian | Beautiful Little Fools | After the events of The Great Gatsby, West Egg police officers discover a diamond hair pin near the millionaires pool putting three women under suspicion for the murder of Jay Gatsby and mechanic George Wilson. |
| Chan, Jessamine | The School for Good Mothers | After one moment of poor judgment involving her daughter Harriet, Frida Liu falls victim to a host of government officials who will determine if she is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mothers devotion. |
| Christie, Agatha | A Deadly Affair: Unexpected Love Stories | Mystery Short Stories |
| Cleland, Jane K. | Jane Austen's Lost Letters | Cozy Mystery - Josie Prescott Antiques #14 |
| Coble, Colleen | A Stranger's Game | Christian Suspense |
| Cogman, Genevieve | The Untold Story | Fantasy - Invisible Library #8 |
| Collette, Abby | A Killer Sundae | Cozy Mystery - Ice Cream Parlor #3 |
| Collins, Anna E. | Love at First Spite | Romance |
| Collins, Kimmy | Ride or Die: Khadijah & Bundy | Catch a glimpse into the life of Khadijah Caldwell, a young lady who is suffering from the recent loss of both her parents and trying to learn how to become a woman in a world full of pain. |
| Collins, Manda | An Heiress's Guide to Deception and Desire | Historical Romance - Ladies Most Scandalous #2 |
| Cranor, Jeffrey | You Feel it Just Below the Ribs | A fictional autobiography in an alternate 20th Century that chronicles one woman's unusual life, including the price she pays to survive and the cost her choices hold for the society she is trying to save. |
| Cruz, Elle | How to Survive a Modern-Day Fairy tale | A quirky, people-pleasing bookworm who is internet-famous for decorating cookies falls for the CEO of a huge tech company hailed as the next Mark Zuckerberg and the pair try to navigate their personal and professional differences together. |
| Davis, Fiona | The Magnolia Palace | When mod English model Veronica Weber, while at the Frick museum, chances upon a series of hidden messages, she is led on a hunt that could not only solve her financial woes but could finally reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family. |
| De León, Aya | Queen of Urban Prophecy | When she is chosen to headline her record labels first-ever all-female national tour, Deza, a young female rap superstar, goes up against brutal industry misogyny and corporate big money to claim respect for herselfand for everyone and everything she believes in. |
| De'kari | Straight Beast Mode | Urban Fiction |
| Dolla, Smoove | Money Game | Urban Fiction |
| Dolla, Smoove | Money Game 2 | Urban Fiction |
| Dovalpage, Teresa | Death Under the Perseids | Mystery - Havana #4 |
| Eason, Lynette | Life Flight | Helicopter pilot Penny Carlton is used to stress, but an emergency landing in a raging storm with a critical patient on board would test the limits of the best of pilots. When news of a serial killer reaches her, it's clear the stress has just begun. |
| Ellis, Jayce | If You Love Something | After a successful restauranteur learns that his grandmother has terminal cancer and that shes willing half of her state to his ex-husband, he contests the will and discovers embers that could potentially reignite and reunite them. |
| Eriksson, Kjell | The Deathwatch Beetle | Mystery - Ann Lindell #9 |
| Estleman, Loren D. | Cutthroat Dogs | Mystery - Amost Walker #29 |
| Evison, Jonathan | Small World | In this epic historical novel set in multiple time periods, present-day travelers on a train and their ancestors more than a century before are brought together by the history they share against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush and the development of the Continental Railroad. |
| Fletcher, Jessica | Debonair in Death | Cozy Mystery - Murder, She Wrote #54 |
| Foster, Lori | Watching Over You | Romantic Suspense - McKenzies of Ridge Trail #3 |
| Fuller, Kathleen | Much Ado About a Latte | Christian Romance - Maple Falls #2 |
| Gardner, Lisa | One Step Too Far | Mystery - Frankie Elkin #2 |
| Gaylin, Alison | The Collective | Camille Gardner is a grievingand angrymother who, five years after her daughters death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible. |
| George, Elizabeth | Something to Hide | Mystery - Inspector Lynley #21 |
| Glass, Seressia | The Love Con | Joining the reality show competition Cosplay of No Way, gamer Kenya Davenport, required to have a significant other, and asks her best friend to roleplay as a couple in love, but when real feelings get involved, it could cost her the best friend shes ever had. |
| Gonzalez, Xochitl | Olga Dies Dreaming | In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Olga, the tony wedding planner for Manhattans power brokers, must confront the effects of long-held family secrets when she falls in love with Matteo, while other family members must weather their own storms. |
| Grant, Mira | Square3 | Horror |
| Greengrass, Jessie | The High House | Climate Fiction |
| Hall, Sarah | Burntcoat | Isolated in her large studio while a virus spreads through England, a celebrated sculptor and her new lover discover themselves forever transformed by the fears and dangers of the outside world. |
| Harris, Joanne | A Narrow Door | Thriller - Malbry #4 |
| Harrison, M. John | The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again | Science Fiction |
| Hawkins, Rachel | Reckless Girls | When they arrive at Meroe Island, a remote island paradise in the South Pacific despite a mysterious history of shipwrecks, cannibalism and murder, six people find their dream vacation turning into a nightmare when history starts repeating itself. |
| Hawley, Noah | Anthem | Thriller |
| Henderson, Alice | A Blizzard of Polar Bears of Suspense | Mystery - Alex Carter #2 |
| Hernandez, Treasure | Carl Weber's Kingpins: Snitch | Urban Fiction |
| Hill, Gerri | The Great Charade | Romance |
| Ho, Jean Chen | Fiona and Jane | A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades. |
| Holmberg, Charlie N. | Star Mother | Fantasy |
| Huff Tha Great | The Life of a Savage: Welcome to the District of Columbia | Urban Fiction |
| Hughes, Lorena | The Spanish Daughter | After inheriting a cocoa plantation in Ecuador and her husband is murdered, Puri assumes his identity to search for the truth of her father's legacy and learn the identity of the enemy who stands in the way of her birthright. |
| Hunter, Stephen | Targeted | Thriller - Bob Lee Swagger #12 |
| Imrie, Celia | Orphans of the Storm | An epic novel set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic. |
| Jaeger, Meredith | The Pilot's Daughter | Historical Mystery |
| Jenesequa | Real Love From A Real One | She's a go-getter who walks to the beat of her own drum, ready to ride for her sisters whenever and wherever, and taken by a man who would rather she play housewife than CEO. He's an undisputed king in his city, a man that commands the attention of any room he walks into, and unconcerned with matters of the heart. |
| Jennings, Regina | Courting Misfortune | Christian Historical - Joplin Chronicles #1 |
| Jennings, Regina | Proposing Mischief | Christial Historical - Joplin Chronicles #2 |
| Kane, Darby | The Replacement Wife | Thriller |
| Kelly, Julia | The Last Dance of the Debutante | Historical Fiction |
| Keyse-Walker, John | Palms, Paradise, Poison | Mystery - Teddy Creque #3 |
| Koontz, Dean R. | Quicksilver | Thriller |
| Krentz, Jayne Ann | Lightning in a Mirror | Romantic Suspense - Fogg Lake #3 |
| Lacey, Rachel | Read Between the Lines | When she discovers that romance author Brie, the woman she's fallen in love with online, is responsible for terminating her bookstore's lease, Rosie Taft closes her heart to love until Brie writes her way to a happy ending. |
| Laflare, Reese | The Cocaine Diaries: Gucci's Story | Urban Fiction |
| Lippman, Laura | Seasonal Work | Short Stories |
| Malliet, G. M. | Death in Cornwall | Cozy Mystery - St. Just #4 |
| Malpas, Jodi Ellen | The Enigma | Romance |
| Martin, Kimmery | Doctors and Friends | Fiction |
| Maxwell, Alyssa | A Deadly Endowment | Historical Mystery - Lady and Lady's Maid #7 |
| McGuire, Seanan | Where the Drowned Girls Go | Fantasy - Wayward Children #7 |
| Mohamed, Nadifa | The Fortune Men | Based on a true event, an intimate and harrowing novel about the last man in Cardiff to be sentenced to death is a Booker Prize finalist. |
| Monarch, Cynful | Hell Hath No Fury: Be Careful With Me | Urban Fiction |
| Moreau, Lisa | The Christmas Proposal | Stranded together in a Christmas village on a snowy mountain, Grace and Bridget face their past and question their dreams for the future. |
| Navarro Aquino, Xavier | Velorio | Haunted by the death of her sister, Camila joins the supposed utopia of Memoria, a cult led by an idealistic, yet troubled man who turns increasingly violent, forcing her and other members gather together to find a way to reclaim their home. |
| Neill, Chloe | A Swift and Savage Tide | Fantasy - Captain Kit Brightling #2 |
| Nicole, Latoya | Coming to the Hood | Urban Fiction |
| Palmer, Ada | Perhaps the Stars | Science Fiction - Terra Ignota #4 |
| Patterson, James | The Horsewoman | Fiction |
| Prins, Mark | The Latinist | When her ex-boyfriend sabotages her career, determined to prove he has her best interests at heart, Oxford-educated Tessa Templeton scrambles to undo the damage, and in the process, makes a discovery about an obscure second-century Latin poet that could launch her career, finally freeing her from his influence. |
| Prose, Nita | The Maid | When she discovers the dead body of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black in his suite, hotel maid Molly Gray finds her orderly life upended as she becomes the prime suspect in the case and is caught in a web of deception that she has no idea how to unravel. |
| Quick, Thadine N. | Diamond$ N' the Rough | Urban Fiction Short Stories |
| Radley, Amanda | Humbug | Romance |
| Rambo, Cat | You Sexy Thing | To keep the dream of their restaurant The Last Chance alive, Niko Larson, former Admiral in the grand army of the Hive Mind, and her crew must survive the machinations of a sadistic pirate king. |
| Robotham, Michael | When You are Mine | Thriller |
| Rollins, James | The Starless Crown | Four strangersa gifted student, a broken soldier, a drunken prince and an imprisoned thief, hunted by enemies old and new, must learn to trust each other in order to survive an evolving world and uncover the ancient secrets that hold the key to their salvation. |
| Rosenfeldt, Hans | Cry Wolf | A dead wolf. A drug deal gone wrong. A lethal female assassin. The first book in a new mystery series by the creator of the TV series The Bridge. |
| Sanghani, Radhika | 30 Things I Love About Myself | After her engagement is called off and her career veers off track, Nina Mistry embarks on a journey of self-love after finding an inspirational book while locked in a holding cell in her pajamas on her 30th birthday. |
| Soto, Adam | This Weightless World | Science Fiction |
| Stapley, Marissa | Lucky | Lucky Armstrong is a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. She's ready to start a brand-new life, with a new identity when things go sideways. |
| Starr, Khloe | Damaged: The Diary of a Lost Soul | In this debut novel, two women, one out for vengeance and one out to outrun her past, collide for a gritty, raw, and unforgettable urban thriller. |
| Steel, Danielle | Invisible | Fiction |
| Sykes, Dorian | A New Generation | Urban Fiction - Good Life #3 |
| Thomas, Sarah Loudin | The Finder of Forgotten Things | Christian Historical |
| Thompson, Tade | Making Wolf | Mystery |
| Truss, Lynne | Psycho by the Sea | Cozy Mystery - Constable Twitten #4 |
| Umrigar, Thrity N. | Honor | The story of two Indian women, one a victim of a brutal crime and the other an Americanized journalist returning to India to cover the story, and the courage they inspire in each other. |
| Untamed | What Goes Around | Urban Fiction - Never Again, No More #4 |
| Untamed | Game Over | Urban Fiction - Never Again, No More #5 |
| Walters, Monica | What's It Gonna Be? | Urban Fiction |
| Warren, Susan May | Sunrise | Christian Romance - Sky King Ranch #1 |
| Washington, C. J. | The Intangible | After a devastating loss, Amanda Jackson develops pseudocyesis, believing shes still pregnant, and becomes involved with a neuroscientist who, as he spirals deeper in her illness, must confront the fraught intersection of science, death and human emotion. |
| Williams, Jibril | Loyal to the Soil | Three sisters must find a way to bring their incarcerated husbands home, against all odds. |
| Williams, Tad | Brothers of the Wind | Fantasy - Last King of Osten Ard |
| Winawer, Melodie | Anticipation | Historical Fiction |
| Yanagihara, Hanya | To Paradise | Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us humanfear, love, shame, need and loneliness. |
| Yardley, Cathy | Love, Comment, Subscribe | A fun, feisty romance about high school frenemies turned unlikely collaborators. |
| Yvonne, Tam | An Unexpected Love For Christmas | Romance |
| Zahn, Timothy | Lesser Evil | Science Fiction - Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy #3 |
| Zgheib, Yara | No Land to Light On | A young Syrian couple awaiting the birth of their son, Hadi and Sama dream of their life together until Hadis father dies suddenly in Jordan, and Hadi, after attending the funeral, is detained for questioning and becomes trapped in a timeless, nightmarish limbo. |
| Zucca, Silvia | An Astrological Guide for Broken Hearts | Frustrated at the path her life has taken, Alice decides to take control of her personal life using astrology as her guide in this quirky, steamy, and hilarious romantic comedy. |
November 2021
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Adams, Michelle | Hidden Treasures: A Novel of First Love, Second Chances, and the Hidden Stories of the Heart | Romance |
| Adjapon, Bisi | The Teller of Secrets | In this debut novel, Esi, a feisty Nigerian-Ghanaian girl growing up amid political upheaval in postcolonial Ghana, begins to question the hypocrisy of the patriarchal society that surrounds her, and the restrictions and unrealistic expectations placed on women. |
| Almada, Selva | Brickmakers | A piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinity. |
| Anders, Charlie Jane | Even Greater Mistakes | Science Fiction Short Stories |
| Andrews, Brian | W. E. B. Griffin Rogue Asset | Thriller - Presidential Agent #9 |
| Andrews, V. C. | Out of the Rain | Fiction - Umbrella #2 |
| Arthur, A. C. | The After Party | Three women form an unbreakable bond in a sexy, suspenseful, and adventurous novel about empowerment and sisterhood through thick and thin. |
| Baart, Nicole | Everything We Didn't Say | Thriller |
| Balogh, Mary | Someone Perfect | Historical Romance - Westcott #10 |
| Bell, Ted | Sea Hawke | Thriller - Alex Hawke #12 |
| Blanchard, Alice | The Witching Tree | Mystery - Natalie Lockhart #3 |
| Bourelle, Andrew | 48 Hours to Kill | Thriller |
| Brackston, Paula | City of Time and Magic | Historical Fantasy - Found Things #4 |
| Bradley, David | The Chaneysville Incident | Updated with a new foreword by the author in celebration of its 40th anniversary, the classic novel about a mans obsessive quest to uncover the circumstances of his fathers death and his towns murky history. |
| Brayden, Melissa | Marry Me | Allison Hale attempts to plan the wedding of the century to a man who could save her family's business, if only she wasn't falling for her wedding planner, Megan Kinkaid. |
| Breslin, Kate | As Dawn Breaks | Christian Historical |
| Burdette, Lucy | Unsafe Haven | Thriller |
| Cameron, Stella | The Playing Fields | Historical Mystery - Alex Duggins #7 |
| Carrick, M. A. | The Liar's Knot | Fantasy - Rook & Rose #2 |
| Caruso, Melissa | The Quicksilver Court | Fantasy - Rooks and Ruin #2 |
| Chow, Jennifer J. | Mimi Lee Cracks the Code | Mystery - Sassy Cat #3 |
| Clayton, Meg Waite | The Postmistress of Paris | As German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, an American heiress joins the resistance and becomes known as the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in hiding and uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and deliver them to safety. |
| Clipston, Amy | An Amish Quilting Bee: Three Stories | Christian Fiction |
| Cole, Briana | Couples Wanted | A page-turning look behind-the-scenes of love and marriage in this sexy, suspenseful story of two couples and an intimate adventure gone very wrong... |
| Collins, Flora | Nanny Dearest | Thriller |
| Cornick, Nicola | The Last Daughter of York | Historical Fiction |
| Cornwell, Bernard | Sharpe's Assassin: Richard Sharpe and the Occupation of Paris, 1815 | Historical Fiction - Sharpe #22 |
| Corsi Staub, Wendy | Prose and Cons | Mystery - Lily Dale #4 |
| Cousens, Sophie | Just Haven't Met You Yet | Romance |
| Daas, Fatima | The Last One | Fiction |
| Desai, Sara | The Singles Table | Romance - Marriage Game #3 |
| Diaz, Eloisa | Repentance | Mystery |
| Diaz, Millie | Feet of Clay: Gus C. Garcia, Tragic Hero of the Civil Rights Movement | Fiction |
| Duffy, Kimberly | Every Word Unsaid | Christian Historical |
| dyer, kc | An Accidental Odyssey | Romance - Exlibris Adventure #2 |
| Eggers, Dave | The Every | Science Fiction - The Circle #2 |
| Ernshaw, Shea | A History of Wild Places | An expert at locating missing people is asked to find the vanished, well-known author of dark, macabre children's books and is led to Pastoral, a reclusive community found in the 1970s that many believed to only be a legend. |
| Fawver, Kurt | We are Happy, We are Doomed | Horror Short Stories |
| Fay, Shannon | Innate Magic | This debut novel in the enchanting Marrowbone Spells series features Paul Gallagher, a lower-class magician who aspires to high society through spells, wits, and irresistible charm. |
| Faye, Lyndsay | Observations by Gaslight: Stories from the World of Sherlock Holmes | Short Stories |
| Feehan, Christine | Dark Tarot | Paranormal Romance - Carpathian #35 |
| Feldman, Suzanne | Sisters of the Great War | Historical Fiction |
| Flanagan, Ted | Every Hidden Thing | The shady, corrupt mayor of Worcester, John O'Toole, is bent on silencing a night shift paramedic, Thomas Archer, with bribes, beatings and personal attacks after he uncovers a secret that could upend his political aspirations. |
| Fowler, Christopher | Bryant & May: London Bridge Is Falling Down | Mystery - Bryant & May #20 |
| Gamboa, Santiago | The Night Will Be Long | Thriller |
| Garcia Gonzalez, Francisco | When a Robot Decides to Die and Other Stories | Science Fiction Short Stories |
| Gilbert, Victoria | Renewed for Murder | Cozy Mystery - Blue Ridge Library #6 |
| Gillam, Constance | The Hookup Dilemma | After a chance encounter with Elliott, the heir to an architecture empire, Rashida finds a building for her new restaurant until two people from their past get wind of the situation and want a piece of the buildingand of their new relationship. |
| Glover, Nicole | The Undertakers | Historical Fantasy - Murder & Magic #2 |
| Goddard, Elizabeth | Deadly Target | Inspirational - Rocky Mountain Courage #2 |
| Gonzalez, Christopher | I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat | Short Stories |
| Gonzalez, Nita | Lawless Intent : Murder in the Badlands | Urban Fiction |
| Gould, Howard Michael | Pay or Play | Mystery - Charlie Waldo #3 |
| Graves, Tracey Garvis | Heard It in a Love Song | Newly divorced and lonely, Layla Hilding cautiously gets to know a newly-separated dad whose daughter attends the elementary school where she teaches music. |
| Griffiths, Elly | The Midnight Hour | Historical Mystery - Brighton #6 |
| Hackwith, A. J. | The God of Lost Words | Fantasy - Hell's Library #3 |
| Hall, Codi | Nick and Noel's Christmas Playlist | Romance |
| Harding, Lisa | Bright Burning Things | Haunted by her failed career and lingering childhood trauma, a former stage performer turns to alcohol but is saved from the brink of the abyss by her son whose love redirects her towards rehabilitation and redemption. |
| Heath, Virginia | Never Fall for Your Fiancée | The first in a new historical rom-com series, a handsome earl hires a fake fiancée to keep his matchmaking mother at bay, but hilarity ensues when love threatens to complicate everything. |
| Higashino, Keigo | Silent Parade | Mystery - Detective Galileo #4 |
| Holland, Lucy | Sistersong | In the ancient kingdom of Dumnonia, there is old magic to be found in the whisper of the wind, the roots of the trees, and the curl of the grass. |
| Hooper, Kay | Curse of Salem | Mystery - Bishop/Special Crimes Unit #20 |
| Hossain, Saad Z. | Cyber Mage | In post-apocalyptic Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2089, after residents have discovered how to survive with biological nanotech, Cyber Mage, the teenager moonlighting as a hacker, crosses paths with mercenary Djibrel and together they seek out the fate of the Djinn, a magical super race of genies |
| Jackson, Patricia A. | Forging a Nightmare | FBI agent Michael Childs is tasked with tracking down a serial killer with an obsession for victims born with twelve fingers and toes. But he discovers something much more startling about himself... |
| Jago, Lucy | A Net for Small Fishes | Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago's A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court. |
| Jansson, Susanne | Winter Water | Thriller |
| Jefferies, Dinah | Daughters of War | Three sisters living in an old stone cottage in the French countryside during World War II answer the call when the Allies come .knocking |
| Joella, Ethan | A Little Hope | A deeply moving, life-affirming novel about residents in a small Connecticut town facing everyday fears and desiresa lost love, a stalled career, a diagnosisthat pulls at the heartstrings and provides hope, for readers of Olive Kitteridge. |
| Jordan, Evelyn | Return to Sweetheart Lake | When the man who left her behind returns home years later to make amends and win her back, single mother and bakery owner Romey Michaels finds the secrets and painful memories of her past come rushing back. |
| Justice, Robert | They Can't Take Your Name | This gripping crime novel pits three characters in a race against time to thwart a gross miscarriage of justiceand a crooked detective who wreaks havoc with deadly consequences. |
| Kapelke-Dale, Rachel | The Ballerinas | Returning to the Palais Garnier Opera House to choreograph the ballet that will kickstart her careerand finally make things right with her former friends, ballerina Delphine quickly discovers that things have changedand some secrets cant stay buried forever. |
| Keegan, Claire | Small Things Like These | In a small Irish town in 1985, coal merchant and family man, Bill Furlong, while delivering an order to the local convent, makes a discovery that forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. |
| Kent, Kathleen | The Pledge | Mystery - Detective Betty #3 |
| Kestrel, James | Five Decembers | As the Japanese fleet heads undetected towards Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Honolulu police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to a homicide case that will take him across the pacific and change his life forever. |
| Killjoy, Margaret | A Country of Ghosts | Science Fiction - Black Dawn #2 |
| Kim, Juhea | Beasts of a Little Land | After her desperate family sells her to a courtesan school, Jade befriends JungHo, an orphan boy begging on the streets of Seoul, and must decide to pursue her dreams or risk everything in the fight for independence. |
| King, Lily | Five Tuesdays in Winter | Short Stories |
| King, Vanessa | A Certain Appeal | A sparkling contemporary retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in the tantalizing world of New York City burlesque, perfect for fans of The Kiss Quotient and The Roommate. |
| Klassen, Julie | Shadows of Swanford Abbey | Christian Historical |
| Knox, Joseph | True Crime Story | Thriller |
| Krupitsky, Naomi | The Family | A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself. |
| Kuhn, Cynthia | How to Book a Murder | Perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Kate Carlisle, in this series debut, small-town bookseller and literary event planner Emma Starrs is out to close the book on a killer intent on crashing the party. |
| Lackey, Mercedes | Boundaries | Fantasy Short Stories |
| Lackey, Mercedes | Reboots : Undead Can Dance | Urban Fantasy |
| Le Tellier, Herve | The Anomaly | A novel that blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. |
| Lee, Fonda | Jade legacy | Fantasy - Green Bone Saga #3 |
| Lipinska, Blanka | This Day | Romance - 365 Days #2 |
| Lowell, Verity | Meet Me in Madrid | Romance |
| Lozada-Oliva, Melissa | Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse | A macabre novel in verse of loss, longing, and identity crises following a poet who resurrects pop star Selena from the dead. |
| Lush, Tara | Cold Brew Corpse | Cozy Mystery - Coffee Shop #2 |
| MacLeod, Alison | Tenderness | For readers of A Gentleman in Moscow and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about sensuality, censorship, and the novel that set off the sexual revolution. |
| Mcgill, Jerry | Bed Stuy | From the author of Dear Marcus comes a breathtaking novel about a fated love affair that crosses the divides of race and class. |
| McKinlay, Jenn | Killer Research | Mystery - Library Lover's #12 |
| Mehl, Nancy | Dead Fall | Inspirational - Quantico Files #2 |
| Mitchell, Stephen | The First Christmas | Holiday |
| Montgomery, Selena | Deception | Bestselling author and political leader Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name Selena Montgomery, delivers a gripping story of a woman forced to play the hand life dealt and the FBI agent who calls her bluff. |
| Montgomery, Selena | Reckless | Bestselling author and political leader Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name Selena Montgomery, tells an unforgettable story of a high-powered Atlanta lawyer who is forced to confront her painful past and prove her innocence to the man she loves. |
| Moore, Niyah | A Thug's Heartbeat: Rocko's Street Justice | Urban Fiction |
| Morrissey, Hannah | Hello, Transcriber | A captivating mystery suspense debut featuring a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case. |
| Mukherjee, Abir | The Shadows of Men | Historical Mystery - Sam Wyndham #5 |
| Natsukawa, Sosuke | The Cat Who Saved Books | When a talking cat named Tiger demands that he help save books with him, high school student Rintaro Natsuki and Tiger embark on an amazing journey, liberating books from their neglectful owners and meeting a colorful cast of characters along the way. |
| Neswald, Amy | I Know You Love Me, Too | Told from multiple perspectives, the novel-in-stories follows half-sisters Ingrid and Kate as they investigate the mysteries left by their deceased father and the riddles posed by their own lives. |
| Noyes, E. J. | Go Around | Sometimes, as Federal Air Marshal Avery Weston discovers, a second chance with your ex-girlfriend flies right into your lap. |
| Oshetsky, Claire | Chouette | After her owl-baby daughter is born small and broken-winged, a mother vows to raise the child to be her authentic self but discovers that her husband is on an obsessive and dangerous quest to find a cure. |
| Ousley, Marlin | Trap or Die | Urban Fiction |
| Park, Sang Young | Love in the Big City | A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest selling recent debuts in Korea, the book tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul. |
| Patel, Neel | Tell Me How to Be | While packing up the family home, widow Renu embarks on an emotional affair with the man she almost married while her son slips back into old habits, forcing both of them to choose between the lives they left behind and the ones theyve since created. |
| Patterson, James | The Paris Detective | Thriller Short Stories |
| Pegau, Cathy | The Demon Equilibrium | When a demonic Horde threatens to unleash Hell on Earth, two women must summon every bit of their shared power to save the world. |
| Perry, Sylvie | The Hawthorne School | Thriller |
| Phyness, Queen | Pretty Thugz | Who said girls couldn't run a drug empire? |
| Poyer, David | Arctic Sea | Thriller - Dan Lenson #21 |
| Raman, R. V. | A Dire Isle | Mystery - Harith Athreya #2 |
| Ramisetti, Kirthana | Dava Shastri's Last Day | After receiving a brain cancer diagnosis at 70, one of the worlds richest women tells her children that she wants to announce her death early so that she can read her obituaries, which ultimately reveal devastating secrets. |
| Randel, Weina Dai | The Last Rose of Shanghai | In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and the freedom of music... |
| Reinard, Cara | Into the Sound | During a superstorm, Holly Boswell receives a panicked call from her sister, Vivian. But when Holly arrives at a Long Island marina, there's only her sister's abandoned car. |
| Richardson, Perry | King of Memphis | Urban Fiction |
| Ripper, Kris | The Life Revamp | Romance - Love Study #3 |
| Rosenfield, Kat | No One Will Miss Her | A girl from a hardscrabble small town meets a gorgeous Instagram influencer from the big city, with a murderous twist that will shock even the most savvy reader. |
| Rozan, S. J. | Family Business | Mystery - Lydia Chin/Bill Smith #14 |
| Ruiz Zafon, Carlos | The City of Mist | Short Stories |
| Sagara, Michelle | The Queen of the Dead | Urban Fantasy |
| Saunders, Kate | The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden | Historical Mystery - Laetitia Rodd #3 |
| Schober, Carmen | After She Falls | Christian Romance |
| Shafak, Elif | The Island of Missing Trees | A novel about belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal. |
| Shaw, M. B. | Murder at the Castle | Mystery - Iris Grey #2 |
| Shelton, Paige | Dark Night | Mystery - Alaska Wild #3 |
| Shteyngart, Gary | Our Country Friends | When a group of old friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic, they end up spending six months in isolation during which old betrayals emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. |
| Simpson, Rosemary | The Dead Cry Justice | Historical Mystery - Gilded Age #6 |
| Smith, Alexander McCall | The Joy and Light Bus Company | Mystery - No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #22 |
| Spotswood, Stephen | Murder Under Her Skin | Historical Mystery - Pentecost and Parker #2 |
| St Clair, Scarlett | King of Battle and Blood | In order to end a years-long war between vampires and mortals, Isolde must wed vampire king Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev. But surviving the vampire court doesn't prove to be nearly as difficult as resisting the intense attraction between her and Adrian. |
| Stephenson, Neal | Termination Shock | In a near-future world plagued by superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, heat waves, and deadly pandemics, one man has a big idea for reversing global warming despite the possible consequences for the planet and all of humanity. |
| Stewart, Andrea | The Bone Shard Emperor | Fantasy - Drowning Empire #2 |
| Strohmeyer, Sarah | Do I Know You? | A woman who can identify strangers by the slightest facial details believes she has found the person responsible for her sisters disappearance and presumed death, and attempts to disrupt her upcoming celebrity wedding to publicly expose her. |
| Suarez, Karla | Havana Year Zero | Sex, lies, and scientific history collide in 1993 Havana. |
| Swinson, Kiki | Playing With Fire | To make her dreams of becoming a great lawyer come true, Yoshi, brilliant, calculating and reckless, infiltrates the privileged circle of the schools wealthiest students until she gets too close to a secret she isnt willing to keep, which could cost her more than her life. |
| Tchaikovsky, Adrian | Elder Race | A junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. |
| Thomas, Sherry | Miss Moriarty, I Presume? | Mystery - Lady Sherlock #6 |
| Thompson, Lara | One Night, New York | Set over the course of a single evening, this literary thriller is at once a detective story, a romance, and a coming-of-age tale. |
| Thompson, Victoria | City of Shadows | Historical Mystery - Counterfeit Lady #5 |
| Ullrich, M. | Holiday Wishes & Mistletoe Kisses | Romance |
| VanDiver, Abby L. | Midnight Hour: A Chilling Anthology of Crime Fiction from 20 Authors of Color | Mystery Short Stories |
| Vargas Llosa, Mario | Harsh Times | Describes the international conspiracies and conflicting interests during the Cold War that led the CIA to assist in perpetrating a coup in Guatemala in 1954, in a new novel from the award-winning author. |
| Vitale, Ida | Byobu | Fiction |
| Weiss, Elizabeth | The Sisters Sweet | Historical Fiction |
| White, Gordon B. | Rookfield | Horror |
| Wideman, John Edgar | Look for Me and I'll Be Gone | Short Stories |
| Winman, Sarah | Still Life | In 1944 Tuscany, as Allied troops advance, a young English soldier has a chance encounter with a middle-aged art historian with whom he finds a kindred spirit and who sets him off on a course of events that will shape his life for the next four decades. |
| Witkowski, Michal | Eleven-Inch | What does it take to succeed as a queer teenage Eastern European sex worker in the 1990s? Eleven inches and a ruthless attitude. |
| Woods, Stuart | Criminal Mischief | Mystery - Stone Barrington #60 |
| Wu, Kyle Lucia | Win Me Something | A perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belongingof a young woman determined to be seen. |
| Yun, Jung | O Beautiful | A forty-something former model trying to reinvent herself, Elinor Hanson is offered a chance to write for a prestigious magazine that forces her to come to terms with the ghosts of her past and the tortured realities of a deeply divided America. |
| Zachary, Hugh | Gwen, in Green | Horror |
| Ziada, Hammour | The Drowning | Fiction |
October 2021
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Abbs, Annabel | Miss Eliza's English Kitchen | Historical Fiction |
| Aguirre, Ann | Witch Please | A fully modern witch who keeps her heart protected, Danica Waterhouse meets her match in Titus Winnaker, whos been cursed to be alone, and wonders if she can find love with an old-fashioned mundane who refuses to settle for anything less than forever. |
| Akpan, Uwem | New York, My Village | Fiction |
| Albert, Annabeth | Sailor Proof | Romance |
| Andrews, Donna | The Twelve Jays of Christmas | Cozy Mystery - Meg Langslow #30 |
| Angoe, Yasmin | Her Name Is Knight | Features an elite assassin heroine on a mission to topple a human trafficking ring and avenge her family. |
| Anipare, Sifton Tracey | Yume | Fantasy |
| Atta, Sefi | The Bad Immigrant | Fiction |
| Bailey-Smith, Yvonne | The Day I Fell Off My Island | Coming-of-age debut novel by the mother of Zadie Smith about a young Jamaican girl faced with the trauma of immigration, estrangement from her family, and the emotional upheaval of moving to London in the 1960s. |
| Bajaber, Khadija Abdalla | The House of Rust | After surviving a fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father, Aisha finds things at home growing only stranger as she, pushed towards a match with a sweet local boy, must fight for her independence by vanquishing the imprisoned snake-demon ruler of Mombasa. |
| Baker, A. Deborah | Along the Saltwise Sea | Fantasy - Up-and-Under #2 |
| Baker, Lacey | Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing | Holiday Romance |
| Baldacci, David | Mercy | Mystery - Atlee Pine #4 |
| Banville, John | April in Spain | Mystery - Quirke #8 |
| Bates, Lorisa | Boxing Rings and Cages | Urban Fiction - Adventures of a Diva Secret Agent #2 |
| Beard, Janet | The Ballad of Laurel Springs | While searching for a subject for her fifth-grade history project, 10-year-old Grace discovers that her familys tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of women are affected by violence immortalized in folksongs. |
| Beaton, M. C. | Down the Hatch | Cozy Mystery - Agatha Raisin #32 |
| Benford, Gregory | Shadows of Eternity | Science Fiction |
| Black, Laura Gail | Murder by the Bookend | Cozy Mystery - Antique Bookshop #2 |
| Bond, Gwenda | Not Your Average Hot Guy | When a Satanic cult takes a prop spell book from her familys escape room, claiming its the real deal, and summon the handsome son of the Devil himself, Callie finds herself drawn to this infuriating demon as all hells about to break loose. |
| Boyle, T. C. | Talk to Me | Fiction |
| Boyle, William | Shoot the Moonlight Out | Mystery |
| Bradford, Barbara Taylor | A Man of Honor | Romance - Emma Harte prequel |
| Brissett, Jennifer Marie | Destroyer of Light | Interlocking stories featuring a young woman with inhuman powers, genetically modified twin brothers and the abduction of a young girl converge across the three habitable areas of planet Eleusis after alien conquerors resettle the remains of humanity. |
| Brooks, Terry | Child of Light | In this series debut, Auris Afton Grieg stages a desperate escape from the prison she's been in since age fifteen and meets up with an unusual stranger who claims to be a member of a magical race and insists that she is too. |
| Brown, Rita Mae | Claws for Alarm | Cozy Mystery - Mrs. Murphy #30 |
| Brown, Tracy | Single Black Female | A taut, edgy, deftly spun novel about four friends grappling with the dramatic twists and turns of life, love and what it means to make it in America. |
| Butler, Robert Olen | Late City | Historical Fiction |
| Callahan, Patti | Once Upon a Wardrobe | When her younger brother, who doesnt have long to live, asks her to find out where Narnia came from, brilliant Oxford scholar Megs Devonshire sets out to find the truth. |
| Cambridge, Colleen | Murder at Mallowan Hall | The housekeeper for archaeologist Max Mallowan, and his famous wife, Agatha Christie, former Army nurse Phyllida Bright is faced with murder and mayhem during a weekend party and assembles the household staff to find the killer among the Mallowans guests. |
| Cameron, Marc | Tom Clancy Chain of Command | Thriller - Jack Ryan #21 |
| Candon, Emma Mieko | Star Wars Visions: Ronin | Science Fiction |
| Card, Orson Scott | The Last Shadow | Science Fiction - Ender Wiggin Saga |
| Carson, Scott | Where They Wait | Out-of-work war correspondent Nick Bishop takes a job writing a profile for a new mindfulness app called Clarity, which becomes more disturbing by the minute, especially when he discovers that no one with Clarity has any interest in his articleonly in him. |
| Chambers, Clare | Small Pleasures | Fiction |
| Chancy, Myriam J. A. | What Storm, What Thunder | In this unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit, the author artfully weaves together the lives of people left to deal with the aftermath of an earthquake that has shaken the capital of Haiti. |
| Chandler, Latoya | Insatiable Love 2: When Broken Hearts Collide | Urban Fiction |
| Chokshi, Roshani | Once More Upon a Time | Embark on a perilous journey with Imelda and Ambrose as they brave magical landscapes and enchanted creatures on their quest to reclaim their heart's desire...But first they must remember what that is... |
| Coates, Darcy | The Haunting of Leigh Harker | Horror |
| Connolly, John | The Nameless Ones | Mystery - Charlie Parker #19 |
| Corey, James S. A. | Leviathan Falls | Science Fiction - Expanse #9 |
| Cornwell, Patricia | Autopsy | Mystery - Scarpetta #25 |
| Cussler, Dirk | Clive Cussler's the Devil's Sea | Thriller - Dirk Pitt #26 |
| Cutts, Jenny | The Long Lost Sunset | Cozy Mystery - Falling Awake #2 |
| Dade, Olivia | All the Feels | After his involvement in a bar fight, a fading TV star winds up under the care of a former ER therapist who finds herself falling hard for him. |
| Dalcher, Christina | Femlandia | After her husband leaves and the country sinks into total economic collapse, Miranda Reynolds and her daughter begrudgingly seek safety within the confines of Femlandia, a women-only colony founded by her mother decades ago, only to discover a horrifying secret. |
| DeLuca, Jen | Well Matched | Romance - Well Met #3 |
| Deaver, Jeffery | The Midnight Lock | Mystery - Lincoln Rhyme #15 |
| Deón, Natashia | The Perishing | During Prohibition, Lou, the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Timesand possibly immortal, must recover the memory of her past and make sense of the jumble of lifetimes calling to her, just as new forces rise to threaten the existence of those around her. |
| Due, Tananarive | The Between | Horror |
| Eisler, Barry | The Chaos Kind | Thriller - John Rain #11 |
| Elizabeth Hopkins, Pauline | Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self | When Reuel Briggs, a medical student at Harvard, witnesses the performance of the beautiful singer Dianthe Lusk at a concert, he's infatuated by her talent and beauty. That next morning, Reuel is called to treat the victims of a train accident. Among them is Dianthe, seemingly dead, but he revives her using a form of mesmerism. First published 1902. |
| Ellicott, Jessica | Murder in an English Glade | Historical Mystery - Beryl and Edwina #5 |
| Ellis, Lindsay | Truth of the Divine | Science Fiction - Noumena #2 |
| Evans, Richard Paul | The Christmas Promise | Christian Fiction |
| Fisher, Suzanne Woods | A Season on the Wind | Inspirational |
| Follett, Ken | Never | Thriller |
| French, Nicci | The Unheard | Mystery |
| Frost, Jacqueline | Slashing Through the Snow | Cozy Mystery - Christmas Tree Farm #3 |
| Gabaldon, Diana | Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone | Historical Fantasy - Outlander #9 |
| Galloway, Gregory | Just Thieves | Mystery |
| Goldberg, Lee | Gated Prey | Mystery - Even Ronin #3 |
| Granados, Marlowe | Happy Hour | Fiction |
| Grant, Kimi Cunningham | These Silent Woods | A father and daughter living in isolation in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past. |
| Gray, Shelley Shepard | A Christmas Courtship | Inspirational - Berlin Bookmobile #3 |
| Hadfield, Chris | The Apollo Murders | In 1973, the crew of NASAs Apollo 18 collide with Russian astronauts on the lunar surface far beyond the reach of law or rescue. |
| Hall, Tamron | As the Wicked Watch | After moving from Texas to Chicago, a crime reporter becomes frustrated with the lack of coverage of a series of murders of black women. |
| Hancock, Anne Mette | The Corpse Flower | Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is drawn into a nightmare when she begins receiving letter from a woman police believe is a killer, forcing her to revisit the darkest parts of her own past to confront someone she swore shed never see again. |
| Hannon, Irene | Labyrinth of Lies | Inspirational - Triple Threat #2 |
| Harper, Lana | Payback's a Witch | Returning home to the magical town of Thistle Grove after a self-imposed exile, witch Emmy Harlow runs into badass Talia Avramov, who just broke up with Emmys crush Gareth and wants revenge, and Emmy finds herself drawn to Talia instead of Gareth when she agrees to help. |
| Harrison, Rachel | Cackle | After being dumped and needing a new start, Annie accepts a job teaching in a picturesque town in Upstate New York, where she befriends the enchanting Sophie, who seems to frighten the townsfolk and just might be a witch. |
| Hausmann, Romy | Sleepless | When the wife of her boss kills her lover and begs Nadja for her help, Nadja, an ex-convict, cannot seem to refuse, and finds herself a pawn in a bizarre game in which she is the perfect victim and the perfect murderer. |
| Heller, L. Alison | The Neighbor's Secret | Mystery |
| Hickman, Trice | Blindsided | Three friends who share everything, including a birthday face the biggest challenges of their lives when they confront heartache and hard truths in their romantic entanglements in the follow-up to The Other Side. |
| Hite, Ann | Angelina's Resolve | Christian Historical |
| Holloway, Warren | Finding Her Love | Urban Fiction |
| Horowitz, Anthony | A Line to Kill | Mystery - Hawthorne and Horowitz #3 |
| Huang-Iris, Joy | The Balance Tips | Fiction |
| Hunt, La Jill | Perfectly Fine Christmas | Holiday |
| Hunter, Denise | Riverbend Gap | Moving to a small North Carolina town to be near her new boyfriend, Katelyn Loveland, after a chance encounter, finds herself falling in love with local sheriffs deputy Cooper Robinsonher boyfriends brotherand stands to lose everything. |
| Isaac, Brian Thomas | All the Quiet Places | The coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, an Indigenous (Syilx) boy, told through the young narrator's wide-eyed observations of the world around him. |
| Iturbe, Antonio | The Prince of the Skies | Historical Fiction |
| Jackson, Brenda | One Christmas Wish | Holiday |
| Jackson, K. M. | How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days | A hilarious road-trip rom-com perfect for fans of Meet Cute and When Harry Met Sally. |
| Joel, Alexandra | The Royal Correspondent | In the 1960s, an ambitious young Australian journalist must carve her own path among the scandal and intrigue of the Swinging Sixties in London where she encounters the last man she ever wanted to see who brings her dark past rushing back. |
| Johnson, Harold R. | The Bjorkan Sagas | Fantasy |
| Kawaguchi, Toshikazu | Tales from the Café | In this sequel to Before the Coffee Gets Cold, four new customers get the chance to travel back in time to face up to their past in order to move on with their lives. |
| Kearsley, Susanna | The Vanished Days | Historical Romance - Slains #3 |
| Khaw, Cassandra | Nothing But Blackened Teeth | A gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists. |
| Kim, Un-Su | The Cabinet | A harried office worker finds his job looking after cabinet 13, which houses files on symptomershumans who strange abilities and experiences may mark the emergence of a new speciesa huge headache, in this funny and fantastical novel. |
| Kingsbury, Karen | Forgiving Paris | Inspirational |
| Kingsbury, Kate | In Hot Water: A Misty Bay Tea Room Mystery | In this cozy mystery series debut, the proprietress of a British-style tea shop must draw on her love for mystery novels to sleuth a murder. |
| Knox, Maggie | The Holiday Swap | When they switch places, chef Charlie Goodwin, a cooking show judge, and Cass, a bakery owner, they discover that temporarily trading lives proves more complicated than they imagined especially when new romances are added into the mix. |
| Kuhn, Sarah | Hollywood Heroine | Urban Fantasy - Heroine Complex #5 |
| Kwak, Gene | Go Home, Ricky! | A satirical novel about masculinity and tenderness, fatherhood and motherhood, set in the world of semi-professional wrestling. |
| Kwon, Yeo-Sun | Lemon | A woman haunted by her sister's unsolved murder transforms herself in order to cope with the pain of absence and unknowing. |
| Lalli, Sonya | A Holly Jolly Diwali | Holiday Romance |
| Lamar, K. | Soulless: Dead Bodies Don't Bleed | Urban Fiction |
| Lau, Jackie | Donut Fall in Love | Back in Toronto after a promotional tour for a bombing film, actor Ryan Kwok grieves the loss of his mother and bonds with a donut baker who agrees to teach him how to bake for an upcoming tv show. |
| Lescroart, John | The Missing Piece | Mystery - Dismas Hardy #19 |
| Liu, Ken | The Veiled Throne | Fantasy - Dandelion Dynasty #3 |
| Lloyd, Robert J. | The Bloodless Boy | When they are asked to investigate the discovery of a young boy drained of his blood, Robert Hooke, the Curator of Experiments at the just-formed Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge and his assistant, walk into a political hornets nest as they try to find the truth. |
| Lovesey, Peter | Diamond and the Eye | Mystery - Peter Diamond #20 |
| Maguire, Gregory | The Brides of Maracoor | The first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years, featuring Elphaba's granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain. |
| Mahmoud, Doma | Cairo Circles | Fiction |
| Malerman, Josh | Pearl | Horror |
| Marske, Freya | A Marvellous Light | Robin Blyth is accidentally named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society and is forced to contend with the beauty and danger operating beneath normal reality while uncovering what happened to his predecessor. |
| Martin, Kat | The Last Goodnight | Romantic Suspense - Blood Ties #1 |
| McCloskey, David | Damascus Station | A CIA case officer falls into a forbidden relationship with a Syrian Palace official he is supposed to recruit and creates unspeakable danger when they go to Damascus to find a man responsible for the disappearance of an American spy. |
| Modesitt, L. E. | Isolate | A security specialist and isolate who is immune to the projections of empaths investigates when his employer falls under suspicion in the mysterious death of a respected political leader, resulting in a deadly struggle for control of the government. |
| Mondragon, Sharon | The Unlikely Yarn of the Dragon Lady | Christian Fiction |
| Montgomery, Selena | Secrets and Lies | Romantic Suspense |
| Morabito, Fabio | Home Reading Service | Sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly after an unfortunate incident, Eduardo finds a life-changing poem by a famous Mexican poet and discovers meaning in a corrupt, unequal society. |
| Morelli, Laura | The Stolen Lady | Historical Fiction |
| Moreno, Gus | This Thing Between Us | A widower battles his grief, rage, and the mysterious evil inhabiting his home smart speaker. |
| Morgan, Sarah | The Christmas Escape | Holiday Romance |
| Morris, Wanda M. | All Her Little Secrets | The lone black female corporate attorney in midtown Manhattan discovers her white boss, and lover, dead with a gunshot wound to his head, and must deal with office suspicions and gossip when she is promoted as his successor. |
| Muffaz, A. M. | Finches | A family's story about their ghosts in an abandoned house in a Malaysian village. |
| Nealon, Louise | Snowflake | Fiction |
| Newland, Courttia | Cosmogramma | A dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternate future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures, and the uncanny. |
| Nwoka, Okezie | God of Mercy | An Igbo village where people adhere to ancient traditions must reckon with both outside tensions from neighboring, colonized villages as well as internal changes when a war sparks between their old gods and a girl who can fly. |
| Okorafor, Nnedi | Noor | When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed. |
| Onuzo, Chibundu | Sankofa | When Anna, wondering who she really is, discovers that the African father she never knew is still alive, she embarks on a journey to a small nation in West Africa where she searches for her familys hidden roots. |
| Parry, Ambrose | A Corruption of Blood | Historical Mystery - Raven and Fisher #3 |
| Patterson, James | Fear No Evil | Thriller - Alex Cross #29 |
| Paul, Gill | The Collector's Daughter | In 1922, after Lady Evelyn Herbert and her father discover the burial place of Tutankhamun, a series of tragic events leaves her world a darker, sadder place, and 50 years later, she is forced to relive what really happened in the tomb when an Egyptian academic starts asking questions. |
| Perry, Anne | A Christmas Legacy | Historical Mystery - Christmas #19 |
| Perry, Thomas | The Left-Handed Twin | Mystery - Jane Whitefield #9 |
| Picoult, Jodi | Wish You Were Here | Fiction |
| Priest, Cherie | Grave Reservations | Urban Fantasy |
| Quinn, Spencer | It's a Wonderful Woof | Mystery - Chet and Bernie #12 |
| Rader-Day, Lori | Death at Greenway | After a mistake at a London hospital leads to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, Bridey Kelly moves to Greenway House, the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie and investigates when a body washes ashore. |
| Radley, Amanda | Protecting the Lady | If Eve Webb had known shed be protecting royalty, shed never have taken the job as bodyguard, but as the threat to Lady Katherines life draws closer, shell do whatever it takes to save her, and may just lose her heart in the process. |
| Ray, Francis, and Donna Hill | You Make It Feel Like Christmas | Holiday Romance |
| Reyes, Raquel | Mango, Mambo, and Murder | Moving from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, food anthropologist Miriam gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show, which sets the stage for murderone that could be the recipe for her own death. |
| Roberts, Nora | The Becoming | Paranormal Romance - Dragon Heart Legacy #2 |
| Rocklyn, Zin E. | Flowers for the Sea | Iraxi, pregnant with a child that might not be fully human, fights for survival while being ostracized and despised for refusing a prince while trapped on an ark with survivors from a flooded kingdom. |
| Rose, Dahlia | Mistletoe in Juneau | A city girl spending Christmas in Alaska is drawn to the local sheriff. |
| Rosenfelt, David | Best in Snow | Cozy Mystery - Andy Carpenter #24 |
| Saab, Gabriella | The Last Checkmate | Historical Fiction |
| Sapkowski, Andrzej | Warriors of God | Fantasy - Hussite #2 |
| Sawyer, Kim Vogel | Freedom's Song | Inspirational |
| Schulman, Alex | The Survivors | A suspenseful, haunting novel about three brothers and their reckoning with the events of one disputed, disastrous summer. |
| Sebastian, Cat | Peter Cabot Gets Lost | Historical Romance - Cabots #2 |
| Sebastian, Cat | Tommy Cabot Was Here | Historical Romance - Cabots #1 |
| Sharma, Annika | Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words | Determined not to fall in love with anyone who might disappoint her parents, Kiran Mathur finds her plans going awry when she meets her new neighbor, psychologist Nash Hawthorne. |
| Shipman, Viola | The Secret of Snow | Fiction |
| Shopsin, Tamara | Laserwriter II | Claire, a 19-year-old printer repair technician at a legendary 1990s New York City Mac repair shop, navigates her bohemian co-workers and an array of odd clientele. |
| Sindu, S. J. | Blue-Skinned Gods | Born with blue skin, an Indian boy believed to be the 10th human incarnation of Vishnu, blesses pilgrims but ultimately questions his divinity. |
| Slayton, David R. | Trailer Park Trickster | Urban Fantasy - Adam Binder #2 |
| Solomon, Asali | The Days of Afrekete | As Liselle Belmont prepares for a dinner party, she questions her marriage and her choices, while across town, Selena finds her memories of Liselle shifting her path in life. |
| Sphinx, Aziza | The Burning Queen | Fantasy |
| Steel, Danielle | Flying Angels | Historical Romance |
| Stoker, Susan | Finding Kenna | Romantic Suspense - SEAL Team Hawaii #3 |
| Stone, Emily | Always, in December | Romance |
| Storm, Melissa | Manic Monday, Inc. | Romance - Sunday Potluck Club #3 |
| Taite, Carsen | Trial by Fire | When prosecutor Lennox Roy and public defender Wren Bishop become fierce adversaries in a headline-grabbing arson case, their attraction ignites a passion that leads them both to question their assumptions about the law, the truth, and each other. |
| Takeda, Michael | Moth | Horror |
| Thompson, Tade | Far from the Light of Heaven | A tense and thrilling locked room mystery set in the chilling emptiness of space. |
| Thornton, Stephanie | A Most Clever Girl | A thrilling novel of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the true story of Elizabeth Bentley, a Cold War double agent spying for the Russians and the United States. |
| Tieu, Julie | The Donut Trap | Stuck in a rut working at her parents donut shop, Jasmine Tran finds help in the form of an old college crush, but when their relationship doesnt work out, she must scheme a solution to get herself out of the donut trap once and for all. |
| Vale, Lillie | The Shaadi Set-Up | Romance |
| Verble, Margaret | When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky | After disaster strikes during one of her shows, Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries with the help of an eclectic cast of characters. |
| Walker, Ran | A Burst of Gray: A Novel in 100-Word Stories | Science Fiction |
| Watkins, Claire Vaye | I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness | Leaving for a speaking engagement, a writer and new mother leaves behind her domestic duties and descends into the depths of her past in the Mojave desert, meeting ghosts at every turn and pondering her way forward. |
| Wheelton, Nancy | Veterinary Surgeon | Romantic Suspense |
| White, Karen | The Attic on Queen Street | Mystery - Tradd Street #7 |
| Williams, Beatriz | The Wicked Widow | Historical Romance - Wicked City #3 |
| Williams, Denise | The Fastest Way to Fall | Romance |
| Wise, A. C. | The Ghost Sequences | Horror Short Stories |
| Wiseman, Beth | A Season of Change | Inspirational - Amish Inn #3 |
| Woolridge, Addie | The Bounce Back | Romance |
| Yanique, Tiphanie | Monster in the Middle | Follows a Black American musician and a Catholic science teacher from the Caribbean whose newfound romance is influenced by family lore and love stories that preceded their own pairing. |
September 2021
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Abercrombie, Joe | The Wisdom of Crowds | Fantasy - Age of Madness #3 |
| Aimes, Penny | For the Love of April French | Romance |
| Ákínmádé Åkerström, Lolá | In Every Mirror She's Black | Three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential White man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the most open society run by the most private people. |
| Alameddine, Rabih | Wrong End of the Telescope | Fiction |
| Albom, Mitch | The Stranger in the Lifeboat | Fiction |
| Alexander, Ellie | The Cure for What Ales You | Cozy Mystery - Sloan Krause #5 |
| Allen, Jayne | Black Girls Must Die Exhausted | Fiction |
| Allen-Agostini, Lisa | The Bread the Devil Knead | A domestic noir of sex and survival set in Trinidad's capital. |
| Alsterdal, Tove | We Know You Remember | A missing girl, a hidden body, a decades-long cover-up, and old sins cast in new light: the classic procedural meets Scandinavian atmosphere in this rich, character-driven mystery, awarded Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year. |
| Anderson, Lily | The Throwback List | Fiction |
| Andrews, Brian | Dark Intercept | Thriller - Shepherds #1 |
| Andrews, Mary Kay | The Santa Suit | Holiday |
| Anna J | The Double Cross 2: Shots Fired | A trio of inseparable best friends, Selah, Vice and Skye, have their loyalty to each other tested after one of the three suddenly comes in to a large sum of money and another learns a very hard lesson. |
| Aoki, Ryka | Light from Uncommon Stars | To reclaim her damned soul, a gifted, but cursed violinist must take on seven students and try to entice each to trade their soul for fame while a starship captain races to stop the end of existence. |
| Appiah-Kubi, Eden | The Bennet Women | Three close friends living at Bennet house, the only all-women's dorm at Longbourn University, seek the possibilities of love while plotting their futures until their lives become entwined in an unexpected way, in a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice. |
| Archer, Jeffrey | Over My Dead Body | Historical Mystery - William Warwick #4 |
| Austin, Lynn | The Wish Book Christmas | Inspirational |
| Balson, Ronald H. | Defending Britta Stein | Historical - Liam Taggars and Catherine Lockhart #6 |
| Benn, James R. | Road of Bones | Historical Mystery - Billy Boyle World War II #16 |
| Blackburn, Venita | How to Wrestle a Girl | Short Stories |
| Blacke, Olivia | No Memes of Escape | Cozy Mystery - Brooklyn Murder #2 |
| Block, Lawrence | The Night and the Music | Mystery - Matthew Scudder #18 |
| Bowen, Rhys | God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen | Historical Mystery - Royal Spyness #15 |
| Brewer, Nic | Suture | Fiction |
| Brom | Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery | A recently widowed outcast, Abitha turns to Slewfoot, an ancient spirit who has awakened in a dark wood, for help, and together they ignite a battle between pagan and Puritan, leaving ashes and bloodshed in their wake. |
| Brown, Adrienne Maree | Grievers | A tale of what happens when we can no longer ignore what has been lost in this world. |
| Brown, Natasha | Assembly | A woman confronts the most important question of her life. |
| Byrne, Monica | The Actual Star | Through the epic saga of three reincarnated souls, this book takes readers on a journey over thousands of years and six continents where it demonstrates the entanglements of tradition and progress, sister and stranger, love and hate. |
| Cabot, Meg | No Words | Romance - Little Bridge Island #3 |
| Camilleri, Andrea | Riccardino | Mystery - Inspector Montalbano #28 |
| Cash, Wiley | When Ghosts Come Home | When a plane crash lands at the nearby airfield on the coast of North Carolina, Sheriff Winston Barnes begins a murder investigation that will change the course of his life and the fate of the community he has sworn to protect. |
| Chakrabarti, Jai | A Play for the End of the World | A Warsaw Ghetto survivor in 1970s New York leaves a blossoming romance to travel to India and collect the ashes of his oldest friend who died there in a small Eastern village under mysterious circumstances. |
| Chenault, Kayla | These Bones | Historical Fiction |
| Child, Lee | Better Off Dead | Thriller: Jack Reacher #26 |
| Childs, Laura | Twisted Tea Christmas | Cozy Mystery - Tea Shop #23 |
| Chun, Ye | Hao | Short Stories |
| Cisneros, Sandra | Martita, I Remember You/Martita, Te Recuerdo | When she unearths a letter in a closet, Corina finds the memories of her days spent in Paris rushing back as she remembers her intense friendships with two women with whom she fell out of touch and out of mind. |
| Clark, Aaron Philip | Under Color of Law | The murder of a police recruit pins a Black LAPD detective in a deadly web where race, corruption, violence, and cover-ups intersect. |
| Clipston, Amy | The Heart of Splendid Lake | Christian Romance |
| Cochrun, Alison | The Charm Offensive | Successful producer on the long-running reality dating show Ever After, Dev Deshpande falls for contestant Charlie Winshaw, who has better chemistry with him than any of his female co-stars. |
| Connelly, Michael | The Dark Hours | Mystery - Renee Ballard #4 |
| Crutcher, Paige | The Orphan Witch | A deeper magic, a stronger curse, and a family lost and found. |
| Dang, Catherine | Nice Girls | Returning home after being kicked out of college, Mary becomes obsessed with the disappearance of a rising social media starand her former best friendand, as hatred consumes her, discovers a link to another missing person opens up old wounds. |
| Daria, Alexis | A Lot Like Adiós | A seductive second-chance romance about a commitment-phobic Latina and her childhood best friend who has finally returned home. |
| De Beauvoir, Simone | Inseparable | A previously unpublished novel describes the intense friendship of Sylvie and Andrée, who meet at a Parisian day school and explore life together in post-World War I France. |
| Dervis, Suat | In the Shadow of the Yali | Fiction |
| Deveraux, Jude | An Impossible Promise | Romance - Providence Falls #2 |
| Dewes, J. S. | The Exiled Fleet | Science Fiction - Divide #2 |
| Diamond, De'nesha/ Cole, Briana | Justified | Urban Fiction |
| Dugoni, Robert | The World Played Chess | As his own son gets ready to leave for college, Vincent Bianco recalls his final summer before college in 1979, during which he received an education of a lifetime while working alongside two Vietnam vets as a laborer on a construction site. |
| Dunmore, Evie | Portrait of a Scotsman | Historical Romance - League of Extraordinary Women #3 |
| Eldridge, Tori | The Ninja Betrayed | Mystery - Lily Wong #3 |
| Erdrich, Louise | The Sentence | A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the stores most annoying customer. |
| Eros | Whipped | A naïve couple find themselves in the middle of a sexual revolution they never dreamed possible, but the aftermath leads toward a climax that threatens not only their marriage but the lives of their children as well. |
| Evanovich, Janet | Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight | Mystery - Stephanie Plum #28 |
| Evanson, Tawhida Tanya | Book of Wings | Fiction |
| Ferris, Joshua | A Calling for Charlie Barnes | With help from his storyteller son, Charlie Barnes, a lifelong schemer and eternal romantic who would like out of his present circumstances, is granted a second act and, at last, through an act of selflessness and love, becomes the man his son always knew he could be. |
| Franzen, Jonathan | Crossroads | Fiction |
| French, Jonathan | The Free Bastards | Fantasy - Lot Lands #3 |
| Fuller, Kathleen | Matched and Married | Inspirational - Amish Mail-Order Bride #2 |
| Gereaux, Tara | Saltus | Fiction |
| Grisham, John | The Judge's List | Mystery - Lacy Stoltz #2 |
| Hamilton, Casey | Menafter10 | Told in a series of interconnecting stories of strangers and friends using a popular hookup app, MENAFTER10 is a rich and raw depiction of how hard it is being Black, gay, and online. |
| Harrow, Alix E. | A Spindle Splintered | A new version of a classic story, splicing the threads of the Sleeping Beauty stories. |
| Harry, Kahilah | Souls | Fantasy |
| Hazelwood, Ali | The Love Hypothesis | To convince her best friend that she is on her way to a happily ever after, third-year Ph.D. candidate Olive Smith, who doesnt believe in long-lasting romance, forms a fake relationship with Stanfords reigning lab tyrant and soon finds their experiment putting her own heart under the microscope. |
| Herbert, Brian | Dune: The Lady of Caladan | Science Fiction - Dune: Caladan #2 |
| Hernandez, Treasure | Raleigh-Durham | Urban Fiction - Carl Weber's Kingpins |
| Hoffman, Alice | The Book of Magic | Fiction - Practical Magic #4 |
| Howzell Hall, Rachel | These Toxic Things | Thriller |
| Hunting, Helena | When Sparks Fly | Romance |
| Igharo, Jane | The Sweetest Remedy | Romance |
| Itami, Emily | Fault Lines | A bored, frustrated Japanese housewife begins living two lives when she meets a successful restaurateur and rediscovers the freedom and the electric pulse of her beloved Tokyo and realizes that she has to make a choice. |
| Jakubowski, Maxim | Daggers Drawn | Mystery anthology |
| Jayatissa, Amanda | My Sweet Girl | When the man who knows her darkest secret is murdered, Paloma is afraid that this is all somehow tangled up in the desperate actions she took to escape Sri Lanka so many years ago and wonders if her secret died with himor if she is in greater danger. |
| Johnson, Craig | Daughter of the Morning Star | Mystery - Walt Longmire #17 |
| Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole | My Monticello | Short Stories |
| Jones, Gayl | Palmares | In a world impacted by greed, conquest and colonial desire, Almeyda, a Black slave girl who, after a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares is destroyed, embarks on a life-altering journey across Brazil to find her husband, lost in battle. |
| Kasulke, Calvin | Several People are Typing | When his consciousness is uploaded into his companys internal Slack channels, boosting his productivity, Gerald, who works for a PR firm, as his reality becomes more absurd, enlists the help of a co-worker to help him escapeand to find out what happened to his body. |
| Kelley, J. S. | Gutter Mage | When his infant son is kidnapped by a mage guild in a kingdom where everything runs on magic, Lord Edmund seeks assistance from Rosalind Featherstone, known as the Gutter Mage, who is feared by even the most magically adept. |
| Khaw, Cassandra | The All-Consuming World | Getting back together for one last mission saving a missing and much-changed comrade and solve the mystery of their last disastrous mission a diverse team of broken, diminished former criminals must battle their own traumas to survive a universe sapient ageships who want them dead. |
| Kinsella, Sophie | The Party Crasher | Fiction |
| Kirkpatrick, Jane | The Healing of Natalie Curtis | Christian Historical |
| Klune, T. J. | Under the Whispering Door | After he dies, a curious and powerful being gives Wallace one week to cross over to the land of the dead, and Wallace, who finally starts to learn about all the things he missed in life, sets about living a lifetime in seven days. |
| Knausgaard, Karl Ove | The Morning Star | A novel about what we dont understand and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless. |
| Kristoff, Jay | Empire of the Vampire | Fantasy |
| Kuhn, M. J. | Among Thieves | Forced to team up with a crew of assorted miscreants, smugglers and thieves, Ryia Cautella, the deadliest blade in Carrowwick, flees the Guildmaster who rules over the five kingdoms of Thamorr and fights for her freedom. |
| Lattari, Katie | Dark Things I Adore | Forty years after a deadly incident resulted from the secrets and dark ambitions of a group of outcasts at an arts camp in Maine, an art professor is threatened by his star protégé who somehow found out what happened. |
| Le Carre, John | Silverview | Giving up his high-powered career to run a bookshop in a small English seaside town, Julian Lawndsley finds his life upended by Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, who is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. |
| Lewis, Amy | A Mountain of Evidence | A woman on the run from one complicated criminal situation is drawn into a murder case. |
| Lewis, Linden A. | The Second Rebel | Science Fiction - First Sister #2 |
| Lish, Atticus | The War for Gloria | Fiction |
| Lobe, Max | A Long Way from Douala | A coming-of-age tale follows two friends on a raucous journey across Cameroon as they grapple with grief, sexuality, and dreams of Europe. |
| Lucas, Robyn | Paper Doll Lina | One rip is all it takes to expose the devastating truth behind a seemingly perfect life. |
| Macomber, Debbie | Dear Santa | Romance |
| Malfi, Ronald Damien | Come With Me | Horror |
| Mallery, Susan | The Christmas Wedding Guest | Romance - Wishing Tree #1 |
| Mandelo, Lee | Summer Sons | When his best friend dies of an apparent suicide, Andrew uncovers lies and secrets left behind by the person he trusted most, discovering a family history soaked in blood and death. |
| Marcott, Lindsay | Mrs. Rochester's Ghost | Thriller |
| Marillier, Juliet | A Song of Flight | Fantasy - Warrior Bards #3 |
| Martin, Alexa | Mom Jeans and Other Mistakes | With her life a total disaster, Instagram star Jude, broke due to her latest bad decision, and her best friend, Lauren, a single mother, decide to move in together, and soon realize that their new townhouse can only hold so much baggage. |
| Mas, Victoria | The Mad Women's Ball | Under the cover of the Madwomens Ballwhen the great and good come to gawk at the patients of the Salpetriere Asylum in Paris19-year-old Eugenie, who can see spirits, is determined to escape and seek those who will believe in her. |
| Mattson, James Han | Reprieve | In 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities, booby-traps, and ghoulishly costumed actors. If the group can endure these horrors without shouting the safe word, "reprieve," they'll win a substantial cash prize--a startling feat accomplished only by one other group in the house's long history. |
| Mayor, Archer | Marked Man | Mystery - Joe Gunther #32 |
| McCreary, Marcy | The Disappearance of Trudy Solomon | Mystery |
| McDermid, Val | 1979 | Journalist Allie Burns teams up with another aspiring investigative journalist, Danny Sullivan, for a series of stories in 1979 Glasgow about international tax fraud and a domestic terrorist group that create enemies and get one of them killed. |
| McGuire, Seanan | When Sorrows Come | Urban Fantasy - October Daye #15 |
| Meltzer, Jean | The Matzah Ball | Hiding her career as the best-selling author of Christmas romance novels from her family, chronically ill Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a nice Jewish girl, needing inspiration for her Hanukkah romance, must attend a high-end Jewish music celebration but her summer camp arch enemy stands in her way. |
| Michaels, Fern | Santa Cruise | Romance |
| Mina, Denise | Rizzio | A new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history-the bloody assassination of David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, in the queen's chambers in Holyrood Palace. |
| Monroe, Mary | Once in a Lifetime | When she accidentally receives another womans passport during the holiday season, Judith Guthrie, whose brother is on the waiting list for a life-giving transplant, decides to deliver it in person and finds her small gesture resulting in a series of big choices and big miracles. |
| Moreno-Garcia, Silvia | Certain Dark Things | A pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore. |
| Moretti, Kate | The Spires | Thriller |
| Morris, Heather | Three Sisters | After surviving years of imprisonment in Auschwitz, three Slovakian sisters travel to Israel where the battle for freedom takes on new forms as they face the ghosts of their past and secrets they have kept from each other to find true peace and happiness. |
| Nesbø, Jo | The Jealousy Man and Other Stories | Mystery |
| Nix, Susannah | My Cone and Only | Romance |
| Novak, Brenda | Keep Me Warm at Christmas | Romance - Silver Springs #9 |
| Novik, Naomi | The Last Graduate | Fantasy - Scholomance #2 |
| Osman, Richard | The Man Who Died Twice | Mystery - Thursday Murder Club #2 |
| Ozeki, Ruth | The Book of Form and Emptiness | When he begins hearing voices one year after his fathers death, 13-year-old Benny Oh, seeking refuge in the library, meets a colorful cast of characters, including his very own Book, a talking thing, who narrates Bennys life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. |
| Papillon, Buki | An Ordinary Wonder | An extraordinary literary debut about a Nigerian boy's secret intersex identity and his desire to live as a girl. |
| Parnell, Sean | Left for Dead | Thriller - Eric Steele #4 |
| Patel, Sajni | First Love, Take Two | A doctor doing her residency, Preeti Patel, discovers too late that her new roommate is her ex-boyfriend, Daniel, who is still super-hot and an amazing cook but was driven away by her traditional and strict family. |
| Patterson, James | 2 Sisters Detective Agency | Thriller |
| Pearce, Cate | Traitors of the Black Crown | Fantasy |
| Penny, Louise/Clinton, Hillary Rodham | State of Terror | A passionate young foreign service officer, a dedicated journalist, and a smart, determined, but as yet untested new secretary of state must team up to defeat an intricate, carefully constructed conspiracy planned to take advantage of four years of an American government out of touch with international affairs. |
| Perry, Anne | A Darker Reality | Mystery - Elena Standish #3 |
| Peterson, Tracie | Waiting on Love | Inspirational - Ladies of the Lake #3 |
| Pomare, J. P. | The Last Guests | A wife finds herself racing for answers when the decision to rent out her family vacation home takes a deadly turn. |
| Powers, Richard | Bewilderment | A widowed astrobiologist and single father to a troubled son contemplates an experimental neurofeedback treatment that trains the boy on the recorded patterns of his mothers brain. |
| Pride, Christine | We Are Not Like Them | The lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one White, is severely tested when one womans husband, a police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager, while the other woman, a reporter, covers this career-making story. |
| Qiu, Xiaolong | Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder | Mystery - Inspector Chen #12 |
| Raybon, Patricia | All That Is Secret | Historical Mystery |
| Rector, Cat | The Goddess of Nothing At All | A dark fantasy LGBTQA+ Norse Myth Retelling from the eyes of Sigyn, Loki's wife. |
| Rocha, Kit | The Devil You Know | Romanc e - Mercenary Librarians #2 |
| Russell, Craig | Hyde | The chief detective of Edinburgh in Victorian Scotland is shocked and appalled when he finds himself at the scene of a grisly murder, with no idea how he got there in this reimagining of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. |
| Ryan, Hank Phillippi | Her Perfect Life | Lily Atwood, a beloved television reporter with fame, fortune, Emmy awards, and a young daughter is spooked when the anonymous source who feeds her tips begins suddenly giving her inside information about her own life. |
| Seeck, Max | The Ice Coven | Mystery - Detective Jessica Niemi #2 |
| Shade, Anne | Love and Lotus Blossoms | On her path to self-acceptance and true passion, Janesse will risk everythingand possibly everyoneshe loves. |
| Simone, Sierra | Saint | Romance |
| Smith, Frederick/ Cruz, Chaz Lamar | Busy Ain't the Half of It | Romance |
| Smith, Ian K. | Wolf Point | Mystery - Ashe Cayne #2 |
| Smith, Wilbur | New Kingdom | Historical - Ancient Egyptian #7 |
| Soyinka, Wole | Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth | Duyole Pitan-Payne realizes that someone is trying to stop him from assuming a prestigious job in the United Nations after discovering that a wily entrepreneur is stealing body parts from a Nigerian hospital for use in rituals. |
| St Clair, Scarlett | A Touch of Darkness | Romance |
| St James, Dorothy | A Perfect Bind | Cozy Mystery - Beloved Bookroom #2 |
| Starling, Caitlin | The Death of Jane Lawrence | Jane Shoringfield hopes to marry, but she soon finds out that her husband-to-be has a dark secret in this gothic fantasy horror. |
| Steel, Danielle | The Butler | Fiction |
| Sterling, Erin | The Ex Hex | Vivienne Jones must find a way to break her Ex Hex on Rhys Penhallow, while ignoring their off-the-charts chemistry, when the town falls under the attack of murderous wind-up toys, a pissed-off ghost and a talking cat with some interesting things to say. |
| Strout, Elizabeth | Oh William! | The iconic heroine of My Name is Lucy Barton recounts her complicated, compassionate relationship with William, her first husbandand longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidantand the lives they eventually built with other people. |
| Swamy, Shruti | The Archer | A coming-of-age novel set in the Bombay of the 1960s and 1970s. |
| Toews, Miriam | Fight Night | A novel about three generations of women. |
| Torre, A. R. | The Good Lie | Psychologist Dr. Gwen Moore, who has treated Californias most depraved predators, teams up with defense attorneyand desperate fatherRobert Kavin to create a psych profile of the Bloody Heart serial killer and his victims to clear Roberts clients name. |
| Towles, Amor | The Lincoln Highway | In June of 1954, 18-year-old Emmett Watson, released after serving 15 months for involuntary manslaughter, discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the wardens car and have hatched a different plan for Emmetts future. |
| Tursten, Helene | An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed | Mystery |
| Unger, Lisa | Last Girl Ghosted | Thriller |
| Vásquez, Juan Gabriel | Songs for the Flames | Short Stories |
| Ward, Catriona | The Last House on Needless Street | When a neighbor moves in next door, a family of threea teenage girl who isnt allowed outside, a man with memory loss and a house cat who reads the bibleare terrified that the unspeakable secret that binds them together will be exposed. |
| Waugh, Daisy | In the Crypt with a Candlestick | A comedic mystery full of sharp drama, sly wit, and a smidgeon of murder in the vein P. G. Wodehouse, Julian Fellowes, and Agatha Christie. |
| Whittall, Zoe | The Spectacular | Fiction |
| Williams, Christe | Ratchet Tales of a Housewife | Rhia becomes bored in her marriage and everyday life. In her attempt to find herself, she finds more than she bargained for. |
| Williams, Joy | Harrow | Science Fiction |
| Williams, Tia | The Perfect Find | Will a forty-year-old woman with everything on the line risk it all for a secret romance with the one person who could destroy her comeback for good? |
| Woods, Stuart | Foul Play | Mystery - Stone Barrington #59 |
August 2021
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Abe, Shana | The Second Mrs. Astor | After losing her husband on the RMS Titanic, Madeleine Astor, who is constantly surrounded by scandal, finds her status elevated to that of a virtuous, tragic heroine and must decide whether to accept the role assigned to her or carve out her own extraordinary path. |
| Adlakha, Sarah | She Wouldn't Change a Thing | Sliding Doors meets Life After Life in this story about a wife and mother who is given the chance to start over at the risk of losing everything she loves. |
| Airgood, Ellen | Tin Camp Road | Fiction |
| Albert, Annabeth | Out of Character | Romance - True Colors #2 |
| Albert, Susan Wittig | Hemlock | Cozy Mystery - China Bayles #28 |
| Alexander, Jennet | I Kissed a Girl | Lilah Silver is an up-and-coming actress who longs to break out from the B-rate horror flicks she's known for. When she gets the chance to star in her first leadrole, she'll need some major help from makeup artist and special effects guru Noa Birnbaum to shine brighter than all the rest. |
| Allain, Suzanne | Miss Lattimore's Letter | Historical Romance |
| Ashley, Jennifer | Death at the Crystal Palace | Historical Mystery - Below Stairs #5 |
| Aswānī, ʻAlāʼ | The Republic of False Truths | In 2011 Cairo, as tensions are rising in the city, the lives of several individuals collide a new generation who finds a voice and love across class divides as the revolution gains strength. |
| Bailey, Anna | Where the Truth Lies | When her best friend Abigail goes missing after a party in the woods, Emma sets out to discover the truth and is trapped in a web of secrets, betrayal, and murder in a town from where there is no escape. |
| Bannister, Jo | China Roses | Mystery - Hazel Best & Gabriel Ash #8 |
| Barker, Pat | The Women of Troy | Held captive by the victorious Greeks, one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles slave, forges alliances when she can with Priams aged wife, the defiant Hecuba and the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge. |
| Barnett, Shawna | Windfall | Fantasy |
| Bartz, Andrea | We Were Never Here | Thriller |
| Billingham, Mark | Rabbit Hole | A long-term patient in an acute psychiatric ward, Alice Armitage, a former police officer, launches her own investigation when two of her fellow patients are murdered and finds her life unraveling further when she realizes she can trust no onenot even herself. |
| Blakemore, A. K. | The Manningtree Witches | When a newcomer who identifies himself as the Witchfinder General arrives in a small English town in 1643, Rebecca West must quell the rumors of covens, pacts, and bodily wants to save the women of Manningtree from themselves. |
| Burke, James Lee | Another Kind of Eden | Mystery - Holland Family #4 |
| Buxton, Kira Jane | Feral Creatures | Science Fiction - Hollow Kingdom #2 |
| Camden, Elizabeth | Carved in Stone | Christian Historical |
| Chin, YZ | Edge Case | A Malaysian immigrant working at a tech start-up in New York City to secure a green card tries to determine what went wrong as she searches for her husband who mysteriously packed up and left. |
| Chizmar, Richard | Chasing the Boogeyman | Thriller |
| Cho, Zen | Spirits Abroad: Stories | Fantasy Short Stories |
| Ciesielski, J'nell | The Ice Swan | Amid the violent last days of the glittering Russian court, a Russian princess on the run finds her heart where she least expects it. |
| Clark, Wahida | The Virus Brought Me My First Love | Romance |
| Cleeves, Ann | The Heron's Cry | Mystery - Two Rivers #2 |
| Cleveland, Karen | You Can Run | To get her son back, CIA analyst Jill Bailey must do something she thought shed never do with the help of a hard-hitting journalist, forcing them both to confront their loyalties to family and country. |
| Coes, Ben | The Island | Thriller - Dewey Andreas #9 |
| Connolly, Sheila | The Secret Staircase | Mystery - Victorian Village #3 |
| Cook, Robin | Viral | Thriller |
| Córdova, Zoraida | The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina | Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, and Sarah Addison Allen, a novel about a family searching for the truth hidden in their past and the power they've inherited. |
| Corthron, Kia | Moon and the Mars | Set in the impoverished Five Points district of New York City in the years 1857-1863, this novel is told through the eyes of Theo, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandparents, as the nation divides and marches to war. |
| Coulter, Catherine | Vortex | Thriller - FBI #25 |
| Crouch, Katie | Embassy Wife | Amanda Evans discovers that her husbands real motive in accepting a Fulbright to study in Namibia is to find a woman he left behind 20 years earlier. |
| De Robertis, Carolina | The President and the Frog | The former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. |
| Demchuk, David | Red X | Horror |
| Doerr, Anthony | Cloud Cuckoo Land | Follows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space, from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover resourcefulness and hope amidst peril in the new novel by the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of All the Light We Cannot See. |
| Dykes, Amanda | Yours Is the Night | Christian Historical |
| Eason, Lynette | Hostile Intent | Inspirational - Danger Never Sleeps #4 |
| Edwards, Louis | Ramadan Ramsey | When Ramadan Ramsey, the son of a ninth generation New Orleans African American and a Syrian refugee, turns 17, he sets off to find the father he has never known. |
| Elliott, Lexie | How to Kill Your Best Friend | Thriller |
| Escandón, María Amparo | L.A. Weather | Follows the Los Angeles-based Alvardo family as they take critical looks at their internal and external relationships while struggling with a fierce local drought, impending evacuations, secrets, deception, betrayal and making some tough decisions. |
| Eskens, Allen | The Stolen Hours | Mystery |
| Faye, Lyndsay | The King of Infinite Space | After his Broadway theater baron father dies mysteriously, Ben Dane, his best friend Horatio and his artist ex-fiancé Lia, on one explosive night, are drawn into otherworldly events where the only outcome is death. |
| Feeney, Alice | Rock Paper Scissors | Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget. Think you know the person you married? Think again. |
| Feito, Virginia | Mrs. March | When someone suggests that the protagonist in her husband's latest book is based on her, Mrs. March questions everything she believes about her husband as she embarks on a harrowing journey that builds to near psychosis - one that may uncover a killer and the long-buried secrets of her past. |
| Ferguson, Sarah | Her Heart for a Compass | Expected to make an advantageous marriage, Lady Margaret Montagu Scott rebels shortly before her betrothal is announced and flees to Ireland, befriending a group of similarly-minded, independent women. |
| Flynn, Vince / Kyle Mills | Enemy at the Gates | Thriller - Mitch Rapp #20 |
| Gable, Michelle | The Bookseller's Secret | Aristocrat, author, bookseller, WWII spy: a thrilling novel about real-life literary icon Nancy Mitford. |
| Gaynor, Hazel | Three Words for Goodbye | Historical Fiction |
| Gideon, Melanie | Did I Say You Could Go | Fiction |
| Graham, Heather | The Unknown | Paranormal Romance - Krewe of Hunters #35 |
| Gray, John | Chasing Manhattan | Christian Fiction |
| Gregory, Daryl | Revelator | Returning to the backwoods of Tennessee for her grandmothers funeral, and to check on Sunny, a mysterious 10-year-old girl her grandmother adopted, professional bootlegger Stella soon discovers that Sunny is a direct link to her buried past and her familys destructive faith. |
| Groff, Lauren | Matrix | Cast out of the royal court, 17-year-old Marie de France, born the last in a long line of women warriors, is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey where she vows to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. |
| Halle, Karina | The Royals Next Door | When elementary school teacher Piper Evans, who leads a quiet, reclusive life, finds herself in the middle of a royal scandal that rocks her tight-knit community, she must decide what she is willing to give up to have her own happily ever after. |
| Hambly, Barbara | Scandal in Babylon | Mystery - Silver Screen Historical Mystery #1 |
| Hamilton, Laurell K. | A Terrible Fall of Angels | The author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series introduces readers to Detective Zaniel Havelock, who investigates a world where Angels and Demons walk among humans and sometimes interfere with them. |
| Hamya, Jo | Three Rooms | Forced to return home jobless and alone, a young woman, searching an apartment of her own, struggles to live a meaningful life on her terms, unsure if shell ever be able to afford to do so. |
| Harrison, Nicola | The Show Girl | In 1927, Olive McCormick, a star in the Ziegfeld Follies, accepts a marriage proposal that forces her to decide if she is willing to reveal a devastating secret and sacrifice the life she loves for the man she loves. |
| Hawkins, Paula | A Slow Fire Burning | Three women unknown to each other are each questioned in connection with the gruesome murder of a young man found on a London houseboat. |
| Hearne, Kevin | Paper & Blood | Fantasy - Ink & Sigil #2 |
| Heller, Peter | The Guide | Thriller |
| Hill, Gerri | Red Tide at Heron Bay | Romance |
| Hoang, Helen | The Heart Principle | Romance - Kiss Quotient #3 |
| Howard, Catherine Ryan | 56 Days | Thriller |
| Indridason, Arnaldur | The Darkness Knows | When the frozen body of a businessman who disappeared 30 years earlier is found in the icy depths of the Langjökull glacier, former detective Konrad is called out of retirement to reopen this case that has weighed on his mind for decades. |
| Jeng, Sarah Zachrich | The Other Me | When she accidentally opens a door to an alternate reality where she never pursued her dreams, free-spirited artist Kelly, now married to a man she barely knows, tries to put the pieces together, shifting reality even more, which could cost her everything. |
| Jewell, Lisa | The Night She Disappeared | Thriller |
| Johansen, Iris | High Stakes | Mystery |
| Johnson, Liz | Beyond the Tides | Christian Romance |
| Jones, Stephen Graham | My Heart Is a Chainsaw | In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town, Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for. |
| K'Wan | The Reluctant King | Urban Fiction |
| Kallmaker, Karin | Simply the Best | Romance |
| Kellerman, Jonathan | The Burning | Mystery - Clay Edison #4 |
| Kleeman, Alexandra | Something New Under the Sun | While in Hollywood overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, novelist Patrick Hamlin discovers that a company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water is responsible for the recent droughts and wildfires and teams up with a starlet to investigate the citys darker side. |
| Kluger, Jeffrey | Holdout | Walli Beckworth refuses to leave her post at the international space station after an accident forces her colleagues to evacuate in the hopes of using her position to save her niece working as a healthcare provider in the Amazon jungle. |
| Krueger, William Kent | Lightning Strike | Mystery - Cork O'Connor #18 |
| Kurian, Vera | Never Saw Me Coming | While taking part in an unusual clinical study that brings together some of the most dangerous minds, Chloe Sevre, a Freshman honor studentand diagnosed psychopath with an IQ of 135goes from hunter to prey when one of the participants is murdered. |
| Lawrence, Jen | Guardian | Fantasy |
| Lefteri, Christy | Songbirds | A poacher who traps songbirds in Cyprus and sells them on the black market, Yiannis dreams of finding a new way of life with his love, Nisha, but when Nisha disappears, he works with her employer to unravel the truth, taking him to the darker side of a migrants life. |
| Lester, Natasha | The Riviera House | When she mysteriously inherits a home on the Riviera, Remy Lang, while working on her vintage fashion business, finds a catalog of the artworks stolen during World War II and makes a shocking discovery that leads her on an extraordinary journey to the past. |
| Lewis, Beverly | The Beginning | Christian Fiction |
| Lu, S. Qiouyi | In the Watchful City | Science Fiction |
| Luchette, Claire | Agatha of Little Neon | Fiction |
| Lupica, Mike | Robert B. Parker's Stone's Throw | Mystery - Jesse Stone #20 |
| McCreight, Kimberly | Friends Like These | Thriller |
| McKinlay, Jenn | Wait for It | Romance |
| Meier, Leslie | Halloween Party Murder | Mystery |
| Michaels, Fern | 19 Yellow Moon Road | Romantic Suspense - Sisterhood #33 |
| Mizushima, Margaret | Striking Range | Mystery - Timber Creek K-9 #7 |
| Montgomery, Selena | Hidden Sins | Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name, tells a chilling tale of lost love, dark family secrets, and hard-won redemption. |
| Moore, Taylor | Down Range | In this action-packed debut thriller for fans of C. J. Box and Jack Carr, DEA agent Garrett Kohl fights to protect his home on the Texas High Plains when a vicious criminal enterprise comes after his family. |
| Moriarty, Liane | Apples Never Fall | Thriller |
| Moyes, Jojo | Night Music | After her husband dies, leaving her with a mountain of debt, classical violinist Isabel Delancey and her children are forced to move to a now- dilapidated manor she inherited in the English countryside. |
| Mullen, Thomas | Midnight Atlanta | Historical Mystery - Darktown #3 |
| Muller, Marcia | Ice and Stone | Mystery - Sharon McCone #35 |
| Neville, Stuart | The House of Ashes | Mystery |
| Ngamije, Remy | The Eternal Audience of One | Follows the coming-of-age journey of Séraphin as he flees Rwanda during the Civil War and makes sense of his reality as his life intersects with a cast of unforgettable characters, in this provocative tale of family, migration, friendship, war, identity, and race. |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | Breathe | Fiction |
| Okonkwo, Joe | Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck: Stories | Short Stories |
| Park, Suzanne | So We Meet Again | When her cooking channel becomes an actual media company with the help of the Daniel Choi, an M&A lawyer and successful video game streamer, Jess Kim falls in love with the man who happens to work for the company she just recently quit in a spectacular fashion. |
| Parker, Lucy | Battle Royal | After being kicked off by judge Dominic De Vere on a baking-competition show, an otherwise successful London baker, Sylvie Fairchild, returns to Operation Cake as a judge, setting off an intense rivalry and maybe a bit of romance. |
| Patterson, James | The Jailhouse Lawyer | Thriller |
| Patterson, Ryan D., Sr. | Whose Fault? | Christian Fiction |
| Pearce, A. J. | Yours Cheerfully | Historical Fiction - Emmeline Lake #2 |
| Penelope, L. | Requiem of Silence | Fantasy - Earthsinger #4 |
| Penny, Louise | The Madness of Crowds | Mystery - Chief Inspector Gamache #17 |
| Preston, Douglas, and Lincoln Child | Bloodless | Thriller - Agent Pendergast #20 |
| Reece, Willa | Wildwood Whispers | Fulfilling a final promise to her best friend Sarah, Mel Smith travels to a small Appalachian mountain town where she finds connection to the land and traditions but also to somethingor someonethat may have had something to do with Sarahs untimely death. |
| Ritter, Josh | The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All | A novel about the last days of the lumberjacks is told by of one of the greatest lumberjacks of all who recounts tales rife with murder, mayhem, avalanches and bootlegging in the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho. |
| Robb, J. D. | Forgotten in Death | Mystery - Eve Dallas #53 |
| Rochon, Farrah | The Dating Playbook | Romance - Boyfriend Project #2 |
| Rooney, Sally | Beautiful World, Where Are You | Fiction |
| Rose, Karen | Say Goodbye | Mystery - Sacramento #3 |
| Ruffin, Maurice Carlos | The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories | Short Stories |
| Sagara, Michelle | Cast in Conflict | Fantasy - Chronicles of Elantra #16 |
| Salvatore, R. A. | Starlight Enclave | Fantasy - Way of the Drow #1 |
| Sampson, Freya | The Last Chance Library | When her library is threatened with closure, June Hones, to save the place and the books that mean so much to her, must make some changes to her solitary life by opening her heart to the world around her and fighting for what she believes in. |
| Saundra | A Hustler's Queen: Reloaded | A good girl turned L.A. drug kingpin's lady discovers lethal skills, mega success--and deadly secrets--she never banked on... |
| Schaffert, Timothy | The Perfume Thief | In 1941 Paris, 80-something Clementine, a reformed con artist who bottles her favorite extracts for the ladies of cabarets, is recruited to steal the recipe book of a now-missing famous Parisian perfumer that has fallen into the hands of a Francophile Nazi bureaucrat. |
| Schaffhausen, Joanna | Gone for Good | Chicago Detective Annalisa Vega investigates when a new tally is added to the body count of the Lovelorn Killer, a notorious, local serial killer who has evaded the police and been dormant for 20 years. First in a new series. |
| Singh, Nalini | Last Guard | Paranormal Romance - Psy-Changeling Trinity #5 |
| Slimani, Leila | In the Country of Others | After marrying a handsome Moroccan soldier during World War II, a young Frenchwoman is torn as tensions mount between the locals and the French colonists. |
| Snicket, Lemony | Poison for Breakfast | Lemony Snicket investigates his own possible murder after receiving a note under his door stating that his breakfast was poisoned. |
| Sparks, Nicholas | The Wish | Fiction |
| Stage, Zoje | Getaway | Two sisters and a best friend go on a hiking getaway, but tensions from their shared past flare up as someone appears to be stalking them. |
| Steel, Danielle | Complications | Fiction |
| Stewart, Amy | Miss Kopp Investigates | Historical Mystery - Kopp Sisters #7 |
| Stoker, Susan | Finding Lexie | Romantic Suspense - SEAL Team Hawaii #2 |
| Sullivan, Michael J. | Nolyn | Fantasy - The Rise and Fall #1 |
| Talick, Carrie | Beware the Mermaids | Fiction |
| Thomas, Trisha R. | What Passes as Love | A young woman pays a devastating price for freedom in this heartrending and breathtaking novel of the nineteenth-century South. |
| Toibin, Colm | The Magician | A portrait of writer Thomas Mann, a man profoundly flawed and unforgettable, his magnificent and complex wife Katia, and the times in which they livedthe first world war, the rise of Hitler, World War II, the Cold War, and exile. |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. | The Nature of Middle-earth | The first ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's final writings on Middle-earth. |
| Turnbull, Cadwell | No Gods, No Monsters | One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it. |
| Weber, Carl | The Education of Nevada Duncan | The heir to a crime family finds himself targeted by an enemy and he'll need more than his family by blood to save him. |
| Weber, Marcus | Philly Girl | Urban Fiction |
| Westgate, Meredith | The Shimmering State | After their minds and memories are warped by a new drug call Memoroxin, an emerging photographer and an aspiring actress must figure out, with the help of an ambitious yet conflicted doctor, how they got there and why they are inexplicably drawn to each other. |
| Whitehead, Colson | Harlem Shuffle | A furniture salesman in 1960s Harlem becomes a fence for shady cops, local gangsters, and low-life pornographers after his cousin involves him in a failed heist. |
| Wood, Daisy | The Clockmaker's Wife | Historical Fiction |
| Woods, Stuart | Class Act | Mystery - Stone Barrington #58 |
| Wright, Sheryl | Illusion Lake | A secret consortium, a bent banker, and a desperate lawyer are all that stand between Elliott Snowmaker and the inheritance of her great-uncles failing aircraft restoration business. |
| Yong, Jin | A Heart Divided | Fantasy - Legends of the Condor Heroes #4 |
| Zhang, Cynthia | After the Dragons | In an overheated Beijing, researcher Elijah Ahmed and activist Xiang Kaifei must confront hard truths if there is any hope for themselves or the dragons they love. |
July 2021
| Author | Title | Librarians' Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott, Megan | The Turnout | When a suspicious accident occurs at their family-run ballet studio just at the onset of the annual performance of The Nutcracker, sisters Dara and Marie Durant find their delicate balance threatened by an interloper. |
| Ackerman, Sara | Radar G |