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May
Summer love : a novel
by Nancy Thayer

Reuniting 26 years after an amazing summer in Nantucket,
four friends realize life hasn't worked out the way they had
all hoped. As they confront the past, their children, exploring
the island together, experience love and heartbreak, and forge
lifelong bonds just as their parents had done years ago.
The good left undone : a novel
by Adriana Trigiani

This richly woven tapestry of three generations of women faced
with impossible choices follows Matelda, the family's matriarch,
as she, facing the end of her life, must decide what is worth fighting
for and when to let go.
Remarkably bright creatures : a novel
by Shelby Van Pelt

A widow forges an unlikely friendship with a curmudgeonly
giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium.
When a mysterious grifter comes to town, the three of them
unlock the truths about her son's disappearance 30 years ago.
The Immortal King Rao
by Vauhini Vara

Athena King is attempting to reckon with her father's legacy, while climate change is raging. She out to convince the
Shareholders that saving the planet requires a radical act
of communion by using her access to his memories, among
other questionable gifts.
The Summer Place
by Jennifer Weiner

From "the undisputed boss of the beach read" (The New York Times), The Summer Place is a testament to family in all its
messy glory; a story about what we sacrifice and how we forgive. Enthralling, witty, big-hearted, and sharply observed, this is
Jennifer Weiner's love letter to the Outer Cape and the power
of home, the way our lives are enriched by the people we call
family, and the endless ways love can surprise us.
April
Lover arisen
by J. R. Ward

The next suspenseful and sensual addition to the #1 New York
Times
best-selling series The Black Dagger Brotherhood.
When We Fell Apart
by Soon Wiley

In Seoul, South Korea, Min, devastated by the suicide of
his girlfriend, throws himself into finding out why she wanted
to die. The more he learns about her, the more he realizes
he never really knew her at all.
City on Fire
by Don Winslow

A mid-1980s longshoreman who does occasional stints for the
Irish crime syndicate becomes embroiled in a conflict between
rival factions in the first book of a new series from the
New York Times best-selling author of The Force.
Four treasures of the sky
by Jenny Zhang

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.
March
Scattered all over the earth
by Yōko Tawada

Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from
the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi."
Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself. With its
intrepid band of companions, Scattered All Over the Earth may
bring to mind Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or a surreal
Wind in the Willows, but really is another sui generis Yoko
Tawada masterwork.
The love of my life
by Rosie Walsh

Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby:
she’d do anything for them, but almost everything she’s told them
about herself is a lie.
Beat the devils
by Josh Weiss

Holocaust survivor and LAPD detective Morris Baker investigates a gruesome double-homicide in 1958 during the height of the Red
Scare and stumbles upon a conspiracy that could destroy all of
Los Angeles.
The Circus Infinite
by Khan Wong

A mixed-species fugitive, Jes tries to blend in on a pleasure moon,
but instead catches the attention of a crime boss who owns the
resort-casino where he lands a circus job and is forced to bend to
the mobster’s will until he decides to take the big boss down.
A safe house
by Stuart Woods

A former New York City cop turned rainmaker for an exclusive
Manhattan law firm pursues justice while handling a sensitive
case for the U.S. government in the latest addition to the
long-running series following Criminal Mischief.
February
Spontaneous human combustion
by Richard Thomas

The fourth collection by Richard Thomas is a curated list of his best
work from the last five years. It is a mix of immersive speculative
fiction-fantasy, science fiction, and horror-that addresses
transgressive themes while still leaving room for hope. Several
of these stories have been long-listed for The Best Horror of the
Year anthology. 
The books of Jacob : ...
by Olga Tokarczuk

Long awaited new book by the author of Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. Set in the mid-18th century, this sweeping novel follows a mysterious, Messianic religious leader as he, traversing the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, reinvents himself again and again and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike.
The Last Grand Duchess
by Bryn Turnbull

As war approaches, Grand Duchess Olga Romanov trades her gown
for a nursing habit, but when troubling rumors about her parents
trickle in from the Front and the controversy over Rasputin grows
into a fiery protest, a call for revolution threatens to end 300 years
of Romanov rule.
The matchmaker : a spy in Berlin
by Paul Vidich

In a Cold War spy story set in 1989 Berlin, an American woman
married to an East German must confront the truth behind his mysterious disappearance when she discovers he was a spy
reporting back to an East German counterintelligence officer
known as the Matchmaker.
Black cake : a novel
by Charmaine Wilkerson

Two estranged siblings try to reclaim the closeness they once shared while trying to piece together their late mother’s life story and fulfill
her last request of sharing a traditional Caribbean black cake
“when the time is right.”
This might hurt
by Stephanie Wrobel

When she receives an email from Wisewood, an off-the-grid
facility where her sister is learning to become her Maximized Self, threatening to expose her darkest secret, Natalie heads North to
come clean and soon discovers that Wisewood won’t let either of
them go without a fight.
January
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
by Sue Lynn Tan

Forced to flee her home on the moon after her magic flares up,
Xingyin embarks on a perilous quest to save her mother, in a new fantasy novel inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess.
End of days : a Pike Logan novel
by Brad Taylor

Two Mossad terrorist hunters visit Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill to request assistance in tracking down who was behind an attack that
killed government officials, in the latest novel of the series following American Traitor.
Honor : a novel
by Thrity N. Umrigar

An Indian American journalist returns home to cover the story of a
Hindi woman attacked by her own family for marrying a Muslim and deals with a society that places more weight on tradition than one’s heart.
Joan is okay : a novel
by Weike Wang

An ICU physician at a busy NYC hospital, 30-something Joan, a workaholic with little interest in having friends, let alone lovers, is required to take mandatory leave until the day she must return
to the city to face a crisis larger than anything she’s encountered
before.
The roughest draft
by Emily Wibberley

Forced to reunite as they face crossroads in their personal and professional lives, authors Katrina and Nathan must work through
the reasons they’ve hated each other for the past three years while writing a romantic novel that pushes them closer together in the
Florida heat.
A flicker in the dark
by Stacy Willingham

Twenty years after her father was arrested as a serial killer,
Louisiana psychologist Chloe Davis becomes alarmed when local
teenage girls once again go missing and she begins seeing
parallels that may or may not be there.
To Paradise : A Novel
by Hanya Yanagihara

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
human—fear, love, shame, need and loneliness.
December
The Sisters Sweet : a novel
by Elizabeth Weiss

After her sister exposes the family’s fraud and runs away to
Hollywood, Harriet, who has only ever known life onstage posing
as a conjoined twin in a vaudeville act, begins to form her first relationships outside her family, which forces her to make a difficult decision.
Criminal mischief
by Stuart Woods

In this newest novel from the #1 New York Times best-selling
author, a former New York City cop turned rainmaker for a
white-shoe Manhattan law firm tackles his latest case in the
world of upper-crust intrigue and government intelligence.
No land to light on : a novel
by Yara Zgheib

A young Syrian couple awaiting the birth of their son, Hadi and
Sama dream of their life together until Hadi’s father dies suddenly
in Jordan, and Hadi, after attending the funeral, is detained for questioning and becomes trapped in a timeless, nightmarish limbo.
November
Harsh times : a novel
by Mario Vargas Llosa

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 Nobel Prize in Literature Award-winning author.
Oldladyvoice
by Elisa Victoria

Amid the oppressive heat, and in the aftermath of the exuberance
of Seville’s Expo ’92, Marina spends a chaotic summer with her grandmother while her mother receives hospital treatment for a
grave but unnamed illness. There are no rules―swearing, talking
about lovers, eating treats and staying up late are all allowed, and
it is a summer with endless possibilities.
I love you but I've chosen darkness
by Claire Vaye Watkins

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.
The wicked widow
by Beatriz Williams

While digging up dirt on a Presidential candidate at the behest of
her 90-something society queen aunt, pregnant Ella Dommerich,
with the help of her mysterious connection to a certain redheaded flapper, stands between a ruthless family and the prize it’s sought
for generations.
Still life
by Sarah Winman

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.
Win me something
by Kyle Lucia Wu

For years, Willa does her best to stifle her feelings of loneliness,
drifting through high school and then college as she tries to quiet
the unease inside her. But when she begins working for the Adriens,
a wealthy white family in Tribeca-as a nanny for their daughter, Bijou, Willa is confronted with all of the things she never had.
October
Fight night
by Miriam Toews

Given a writing assignment after being expelled, Swiv discovers
that her mother and grandmother have been fighting their whole
lives for joy and independence, in a new novel from the best-selling author of Women Talking.
The Lincoln highway
by Amor Towles

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
warden’s car and have hatched a different plan for Emmett’s future.
No gods, no monsters : a novel
by Cadwell Turnbull

When creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows,
setting off a chain of seemingly unrelated events, people start disappearing, suicides and hate crimes increase and protests erupt globally—until the world finds out what has frightened the monsters
out of the dark.
Last Girl Ghosted
by Lisa Unger

Believing she had found true love on a dating app, a young
woman is shocked when her lover intentionally disappears and she discovers many other girls who also thought they were in love
with the same man.
September
The magician : a novel
by Colm Tóibín

An intimate, astonishingly complex portrait of writer Thomas Mann,
a man profoundly flawed and unforgettable, his magnificent and
complex wife Katia, and the times in which they lived—the first
world war, the rise of Hitler, World War II, the Cold War, and exile.
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