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Hanna Who Fell From the Sky
by Christopher Meades
A week before she is to become a polygamist's fifth wife, Hanna meets Daniel, an enigmatic stranger from outside the secluded community of Clearhaven, who challenges her to question her fate and to follow her own will—and a long-held secret shared by her mother just may make that possible.
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The Stolen Marriage
by Diane Chamberlain
Impulsively ending her engagement to another man to marry a mysterious stranger from a small North Carolina community in 1944, Tess rapidly discovers that she is trapped in a loveless relationship and is treated with suspicion by secretive neighbors before discovering her talents as a nurse during a devastating polio outbreak.
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Manhattan Beach : a Novel
by Jennifer Egan
Years after she is placed in the hands of a stranger vital to her family's survival, Anna takes a job at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during the war while meeting with the man who helped them and learning important truths about her father's disappearance. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad.
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Sourdough : a Novel
by Robin Sloan
Enduring a virtually solitary existence working for an ambitious software company, an exhausted coder is bequeathed a sourdough recipe from sibling bakers who are forced to close their shop, a gift that leads to a new vocation, a legal dispute and a venture into a secret market that fuses food with technology. By the author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.
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Something Like Happy
by Eva Woods
Thirty-five-year-old Annie Hebden is stuck in a rut until her bubbly new friend, Polly Leonard, challenges her to try a new way to be happy each day for 100 days.
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New Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Green Space : a Novel
by William Shatner
FBI Director Samuel Lord and his team try to determine the identity of a mole who is sabotaging a top-secret NASA project on space station The Empyrean, in the second novel of the series following Zero-G.
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The Monster Files
by Larry Correia
Monster Hunter International opens its archives for the very first time, in a collection of 17 all-new tales that reveals the secret history of the world’s most elite fighting force and features contributions from such best-selling authors as Jim Butcher, Sarah A. Hoyt, John Ringo, Jessica Day George and Jonathan Maberry.
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The Man in the Tree
by Sage Walker
When the decimation of Earth compels the world's nations to pool their last resources to build a seed ship to carry colonists on a multigenerational journey to a distant planet, a suspicious death prompts a determined effort to prevent a saboteur from threatening the mission.
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Sleeping Beauties
by Stephen King
A father-son collaboration envisions a near-future where the women succumb to a sleeping disease, the men revert to their increasingly primal natures and one woman, mysteriously immune, struggles to survive in an Appalachian prison town where she is treated alternately as a demon and a lab specimen.
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Autonomous
by Annalee Newitz
A science-fiction debut by the founder of the website io9 features a rakish pharmaceutical pirate who travels the world in a sub to bring cheap medicine to the poor and a jaded military agent and robot who fall in love while attempting to stop the spread of a dangerous addictive drug.
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The Child Finder : a Novel
by Rene Denfeld
Hired by a family that has become desperate to find the young daughter who went missing three years earlier, a talented private investigator embarks on a search in a mysterious forest in the Pacific Northwest, where she is forced to confront painful realities from her own past as a lost child.
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The visitors : a novel
by Catherine Burns
Living with her domineering brother in a crumbling mansion on the edge of a northern seaside resort, Marion, a timid spinster in her 50s, struggles to ignore the evidence of her brother's deviant activities until his heart attack forces her to uncover his secrets and confront the truth of her own dark nature. A first novel.
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The Witches' Tree : an Agatha Raisin Mystery
by M. C Beaton
Investigating the murder of an elderly woman whose body was found hanging from a tree, Agatha Raisin takes the case but begins to fear for her reputation and her life when two more murders occur.
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The Dark Lake
by Sarah Bailey
When a popular former high school classmate is found murdered, a lead homicide investigator in a rural town uncovers puzzling mysteries in the victim's life, from her abrupt departure from a dream teaching job to her run-down existence in spite of wealthy family ties.
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Turkey Trot Murder : a Lucy Stone Mystery
by Leslie Meier
An uneventful Thanksgiving season is shattered by the overdose-related death of a wealthy investor's beautiful daughter, a tragedy that Lucy Stone links to the possible schemes of the victim's pregnant stepmother.
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