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The fairy bargains of Prospect Hill
by Rowenna Miller
On Prospect Hill, you can get nearly anything you want from the Fae--if you know how to ask and if you can pay the price. There is no magic on Prospect Hill--or anywhere else, for that matter. But just on the other side of the veil is the world of the Fae, and all their magic. Generations ago, the first farmers on Prospect Hill learned to bargain small trades to make their lives a little easier--a bit of glass to find something lost, a cup of milk for better layers in the chicken coop. Much of that old wisdom has been lost as the riverboats gave way to the rail lines and the farmers took work at the copper works and the cotton mill. Alaine Fairborn's family, however, was always superstitious, and she still hums the rhymes to find her lost shoe and ensure dry weather on her sister Delphine's wedding day. But when Delphine confides her new husband is not the man she thought he was, Alaine will stop at nothing to help her sister escape his abuse. Small bargains buy them time, but the progress of locomotives and factories hasn't given way to equitable laws for women. A major bargain is needed, but the price for sweeping change may be more than they're willing to pay.
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The Marigold
by Andrew F. Sullivan
The Marigold melds ecofiction with body horror as it weaves disparate storylines around a crumbling condo tower, its foundation plagued by a grotesque infection, and illustrates the precarious role of community and the fragile designs that bind us together.
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Heart of the Nile
by Will Thomas
Baker and Llewelyn investigate after a volunteer at the British Museum is found floating in the Thames after discovering a heart-shaped ruby buried in the chest of a mummy in the latest addition to the series following Fierce Poison.
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Calling Ukraine
by Johannes Lichtman
Shortly after his thirtieth birthday in 2018, John Turner accepts a job offer from an old college friend to move to Ukraine to teach customer service agents there how to sound American, but with no knowledge of the language and struggling to understand the culture and customs, he finds himself in a romantic entanglement with disastrous consequences.
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The alarm of the black cat
by Dolores Hitchens
A strange encounter with a little girl named Claudia and a dead toad sparks elderly detective fiction fan Rachel Murdock's obsessive curiosity, and she winds up renting the house next door just to see how things play out. But soon after she and her cat Samantha move in, Rachel realizes they've landed right in the middle of a deadly love triangle that's created animosity among the three families who now surround her. When Rachel finds Claudia's great-grandmother dead in her basement, she reaches out to a friend in the LAPD to solve the crime. They soon learn the three households have been torn apart by one husband's infidelity and a complicated will that could lead to a fortune. In a house plagued by forbidden love, regret, and greed, Rachel will have to trust her intuition, as well as Samantha's instincts, to survive--and keep Claudia out of the hands of a killer whose work has just begun...
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The only survivors : a novel
by Megan Miranda
When a group of classmates reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a terrible accident, one of the survivors disappears, casting fear and suspicion on the remaining individuals - and on the original tragedy itself.
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The seaside library
by Brenda Novak
Returning to the touristy beach town where they grew up together, Ivy and Ariana, when a woman goes missing, find the circumstances similar to a crime from their childhood, placing them in a terrible situation since the person that may be responsible is the same one they lied for years ago.
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A problem princess
by Anna Harrington
Assigned to protect Princess Cordelia of Monrovia after she is attacked, General Clayton Elliott starts falling for this royal beauty who, unbeknownst to him, knows the secrets that could bring down a monarchy and is desperate to keep them hidden from the world.
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The Formation of Calcium
by M. S. Coe
Middle-aged Mary Ellen Washie has finally freed herself of her stultified past life in western New York state and moved to Florida. With the husband she's grown to hate firmly in her rearview mirror, and all ties to her family cut off, she changes her name, bleaches her hair, and befriends Natalie, a seemingly kind, martini-loving woman whom she promptly begins to manipulate. As her machinations propel her beyond the brink of who she used to be, Mary Ellen seeks to unburden herself--but not one to sit down with pen and paper, she narrates the events of her new life into a cassette tape recorder, giving each tape an innocuous name to keep the curious away. A riveting account of one woman's awful reinvention, M. S. Coe's new novel is disturbingly funny and completely unexpected. With elements of pulp noir and confessional literature, The Formation of Calcium depicts the bland misery of modern American life as one woman seeks her own ill-fated transformation.
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The time of your life
by Sandra Kitt
When Everett Nicholls dies, he leaves his millions to the two people he cared about most--the young law student he was mentoring, and his beloved stepson. Eden Marsh and Beck Dennison are instantly suspicious of each other. Suddenly, with all this money at their fingertips, family problems they've each been ignoring can no longer be swept under the rug. Beck and his mother have had a strained relationship since tragedy befell the family when he was a young teen, and Eden knows it's long past time to forge a new relationship with her demanding younger sister. As they begin to confide in each other--and to have fun together--their friendship is an anchor in a stormy new life...
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Yours truly
by Abby Jimenez
When Dr. Jacob Maddox, whom she is prepared to hate, sends her a letter, which leads to sharing lunch dates in her “sob closet,” Dr. Briana Ortiz tries not to fall hard for this sexy new doctor, especially when he gives her the best gift imaginable - a kidney for her brother.
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Things I wish I told my mother
by Sue Patterson
When Laurie, a nomadic artist, surprises her mother, an elegant perfectionist, with a dream vacation to Paris, which brings an unexpected sparkle to her eyes, mother and daughter unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes in the City of Light. 150,000 first printing.
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Last house before the mountain
by Monika Helfer
Struggling against starvation in the harsh alpine climate of western Austria, Maria tries to provide for her family during World War I and faces a desperate choice that will affect the lives of her family for generations.
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Her deadly game
by Robert Dugoni
After a failed romance with a coworker, a Seattle prosecutor must return home to her family's failing law firm to work for her father until she accepts a high profile case in which the prosecutor is her ex.
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Even when you lie : a novel
by Michelle Cruz
Reagan Reyes hunts other people's secrets. A former intelligence officer, she's currently the in-house investigator for pricey criminal defense attorney, Cade McCarrick... and she's his lover, despite the law firm's rules forbidding romantic relationships between partners and staff. But their love--including their agreement never to lie to each other--is the only authenticity they have in a world of subterfuge and betrayal. That agreement is pushed to its limits when a mysterious woman leaves an envelope for Cade and is soon discovered dead. While the envelope's contents aren't related to any of Cade's current cases, Reagan uncovers a connection to a recent murder outside a Deep Ellum nightclub--and an even more ominous link to the dead woman. The police don't seem to care about either death, but they hit too close to home for Reagan to ignore. As she digs deeper into Dallas's sordid underbelly, she's completely on her own except for Cade--and there's a killer bent on eliminating them both at any cost.
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A cowardly woman no more : a novel
by Ellen Cooney
After years of skilled work and dedication, Trisha Donahue is denied a well-earned promotion by her company's male executives, who give it instead to an underqualified man. Devastated, forty-four-year-old Trisha begins to reckon with the demands that exhaust her, the injustices that confront her, and the ways she has betrayed herself "just to fit in" with coworkers who resent and belittle her abilities. But at the Rose & Emerald - a unique rural restaurant Trisha has loved since childhood - her company's annual Banquet Day sets in motion a surprising adventure, revealing unexpected allies, hidden passageways, and an interstellar secret. Encouraged by a vivid cast of characters, from sympathetic coworkers to the mysterious employees of the fabled Rose & Emerald, Trisha makes a decision that will change her professional and personal life forever. From acclaimed author Ellen Cooney, A Cowardly Woman No More is a lively, luminous novel about a wife, mom, and career woman who brings herself first nervously, then more and more bravely, through a monumental transformation.
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Wings once cursed & bound
by Piper J. Drake
Peeraphan Rahttana lives her life in Seattle, unaware of the complicated magical world spinning just beyond the shadows and mist... until a violent clash outside her dance rehearsal has her literally whisked off her feet. Her darkly brooding rescuer, vampire Bennet Andrews, claims to represent a secret organization dedicated to locating objects of myth and magic, tucking them safely away where they can do no harm-but he's too late to save Peeraphan from a deadly curse. Yet Peeraphan isn't what she seems. Wings unbound, she's a Thai bird princess of legend...and while the curse won't kill her outright, it's only a matter of time. Determined, Bennett sweeps Peeraphan deeper into a supernatural world far beyond anything she ever imagined in a desperate bid to find a solution... and an explanation for the powers even she doesn't know how to define. Her world may have changed overnight, but Peeraphan knows one thing for certain: she can't go back to living as a human anymore. Not when she's felt what it's like to fly with Bennet by her side. She's determined to keep her wings and her freedom... and defy anyone who would try to take them from her again.
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The sky above the roof : a novel
by Nathacha Appanah-Mouriquand
One night, seventeen-year-old Wolf steals his mother's car and drives six hundred kilometers in search of his sister, who left home ten years ago. Unlicensed and on edge, he veers onto the wrong side of the road and causes an accident. He is arrested and incarcerated, forcing his mother and sister to reconnect and pick up the pieces in order to fight for his release.
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Blood debts
by Terry J. Benton-Walker
Cristina and Clement, 16-year-old twin heirs to a powerful, magical, dethroned family in New Orleans, must find a way to trust each other and their family's magic to solve a decades-old murder and stop another massacre from destroying the city. 200,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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A door in the dark
by Scott Reintgen
Snatched from the safety of Balmerick University's campus and set down in the middle of nowhere, Ren Monroe guides the remaining wizards through the punishing wilderness with limited magical resources, stumbling upon tangled secrets while being stalked by something in the dark woods. Simultaneous eBook.
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The lonely hearts book club
by Lucy Gilmore
Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely... but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't show up one morning, she's instantly concerned. And then another day passes, and another. Anxious, Sloane tracks the old man down only to discover him all but bedridden... and desperately struggling to hide how happy he is to see her. Wanting to bring more cheer into Arthur's gloomy life, Sloane creates an impromptu book club. Slowly, the lonely misfits of their sleepy town begin to find each other, and in their book club, find the joy of unlikely friendship. Because as it turns out, everyone has a special book in their heart--and a reason to get lost (and eventually found) within the pages.
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Above ground : poems
by Clint Smith
Clint Smith's vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world.
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Spin
by Rebecca Caprara
After the tragic death of her family, 16-year-old Arachne flees to the city of Colophon, where her skills as a weaver are put to the test, leading to a confrontation with the goddess Athena that results in an exposé of divine misdeeds and unexpected redemption. Simultaneous eBook.
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A spinster's guide to danger and dukes
by Manda Collins
Living undercover to escape a terrible mistake, Miss Poppy Delamare tries to recruit the Duke of Langham into a fake betrothal, in the third novel of the series. 50,000 first printing.
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The instructor
by T. R. Hendricks
A retired Marine Force Recon and SERE instructor barely scraping by as a wilderness survival trainer, Derek Harrington, taking on a job that seems too good to be true, finds himself embroiled with a fringe group led by a charismatic man who could be the leader of a domestic terrorist cell. 100,000 first printing.
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I could live here forever
by Hanna Halperin
A young woman becomes involved in an all-consuming relationship with a recovering heroin addict much to the consternation of her family and friends, in the new novel by the award-winning author of Something Wild.
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Fields of bounty
by Lauraine Snelling
Lilac Nielsen must learn to balance her new courtship with the young reverend and her pursuit of another dream--the publication of her artwork in a New York newspaper. But when a family crisis back in Ohio shakes the Nielsen sisters, can they continue the new life they've begun in Nebraska? And will Lilac be prepared for what God has in store for her future?
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The people who report more stress : stories
by Alejandro Varela
The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of connected stories examining issues of parenting, systemic and interpersonal racism, and class conflict in gentrified Brooklyn.
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Verity and the forbidden suitor : a novel
by J. J. McAvoy
While staying with her brother, the Duke of Everely, and his new wife, Verity Eagleman has a forbidden romance with Dr. Theodore Darrington, the estranged bastard son of the Marquess of Whitmear, and must decide if she is willing to risk everything to be with the man she loves - forever.
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The enigma of garlic : a 44 Scotland Street novel
by Alexander McCall Smith
As everyone prepares for Big Lou and Fat Bob's wedding, the peace and tranquility of 44 Scotland Street is disrupted by the arrival of domineering Irene, while Bruce, after being struck by lightning, prepares to leave his creature comforts for the monastic simplicity of Pluscarden Abbey, much to his house sitter's delight.
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An American in Scotland
by Lucy Connelly
Leaving Seattle for a small-town doctor position in Scotland, Dr. Emilia McRoy continually butts heads with the unhelpful local constable when she stumbles across a dead body, which goes missing before she can even begin the autopsy.
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Camp zero : a novel
by Michelle Min Sterling
In a near-future northern settlement, a handful of climate change survivors find their fates intertwined.
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The insatiable Volt sisters
by Rachel Eve Moulton
Ten years after being separated, sisters Henrietta and Beatrice Volt are brought together by the death of their father and must face the monsters lurking in their family history once and for all to escape the horrors of their past. 20,000 first printing.
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The scourge between stars
by Ness Brown
Acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jaclyn Albright, tasked with keeping the last of humanity alive, reaches her breaking point when a new threat emerges, picking off crew members in a gruesome, bloody fashion and must hunt down this intruder to make it back to their solar system alive. 60,000 first printing.
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Never forget you
by Fiona Lucas
After Lili and Ben agree to a meet again a year after their chance encounter, Lili never shows up, but five years later Ben meets a girl known as Alice who is wearing the same necklace that he gave Lili, but Alice has no memory of their meeting
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City walls
by Loren D. Estleman
Hired by a leading figure in the electric car industry to investigate the murder of his stepson, Amos Walker uncovers a twisted web of lies and deceit in the latest addition to the series following Monkey in the Middle.
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Blind spots
by Thomas Mullen
After The Blinding, which left everyone on earth without sight, technology was developed to help people see again, and homicide detective Mark Owens must investigate hackers who are trying to change what people see and don't see. 75,000 first printing.
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This bird has flown : a novel
by Susanna Hoffs
A novel about music, fate, redemption, and love, from a songwriter and the co-founder of The Bangles.
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A lakeside reunion
by C. Chilove
Ten years after her snobby parents squashed her romance with a boy lacking a fancy pedigree, Reese returns to Mount Dora, Florida, to discover how well her star-crossed boyfriend has done for himself.
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The fake : a novel
by Zoe Whittall
Suffering from prolonged grief after the death of her wife, Shelby meets cancer survivor Cammie in her support group who is unlike anyone she's ever known, but soon her intuition tells her something is off and she discovers she's fallen victim to a scammer.
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Downfall : a novel
by Mark Rubinstein
When Rick Shepherd, a physician, approaches his office on a busy Manhattan street, he finds police cars, an ambulance, and crime scene technicians. He soon learns a passerby was shot three times in the back, murdered at the front door to Rick's office. Later that evening while watching the local news, Rick and his fiancee, Jackie, see a photo of the victim-to their horror, the deceased looks identical to Rick. Two nights later, while making a house call in a Brooklyn apartment building, Rick's 64-year-old father is shot and killed in the exact same way. Detectives Art Nager and Liz Callaghan are assigned the case, and they launch an investigation. There are no clues leading to the perpetrator. Even more ominously, someone has been calling Rick and Jackie's apartment and hanging up. Whoever is targeting Rick must have murdered his father, and they now have Rick in their crosshairs. Nager and Callaghan seem to be making no progress with their investigation. Rick's quest for the truth draws him into a labyrinth of secrets, past tragedies, and the agonizing pain of lives shattered by a single event. Can he make it out before he meets the same fate as his father?
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Right girl, wrong side
by Ginny Baird
Busy flower shop manager Evita Machado can't wait to get to Nantucket. With a bad breakup behind her, relaxing at the shore with her folks and her brothers and their families sounds like the sure cure for heartache, and their vacation destination looks like an amazing place! But when they arrive at the quaint rose-covered cottage, another group has already put down stakes: the Hatfields. Ryan Hatfield was Evita's former crush from high school, but their business rival moms refused to let them date. Now history professor Ryan is here for a week with his parents, who won them this oceanfront rental in a society silent auction. Once it's clear there's been a double-booking due to a bidding mistake, Ryan's mom digs in her heels, meaning to stay. When Evita's mom won't back down either, both sides tepidly agree to share the luxury accommodations by dividing the cozy space. With the boisterous Machados livening things up and the strait-laced Hatfields tamping them down, can Evita and Ryan keep the peace between the warring factions while fostering a growing chemistry between the two of them?
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A novel proposal
by Denise Hunter
Desperate to salvage her career, a novelist is forced to stop writing westerns and must write a contemporary romance novel despite never having been in love, but a summer at a friend's summer rental changes everything.
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Tenkill
by Shannon Kirk
On the run from her own firm, Greta, absconding with information on suspected corruption and possible high crimes amongst the named partners, assembles a rag-tag legal team to pursue more evidence as people who have millions to lose and careers to ruin will kill to keep her from finding what she seeks.
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Flux : a novel
by Jinwoo Chong
Brandon experiences his reality unraveling when he begins losing chunks of time and finding himself in an apartment he doesn't recognize and starts to suspect his new employers have discovered time travel and are covering up violent crimes.
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Hollow beasts
by Alisa Valdes
Working in New Mexico as a game warden, Jodi Luna runs afoul of a white supremacist poacher in the first novel of a new series from the New York Times best-selling author of The Dirty Girls Social Club.
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The last Carolina girl : a novel
by Meagan Church
Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl... For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her lumberjack father and running through the wilds where the forest meets the shore, Leah's country life is as natural as the Loblolly pines that rise to greet the Southern sky. When an accident takes her father's life, Leah is wrenched from her small community and cast into a family of strangers with a terrible secret. Separated from her only home, Leah is kept apart from the family and forced to act as a helpmate for the well-to-do household. When a moment of violence and prejudice thrusts Leah into the center of the state's shameful darkness, she must fight for her own future against a world that doesn't always value the wild spirit of a Carolina girl. Set in 1935 against the very real backdrop of a recently formed state eugenics board, The Last Carolina Girl is a powerful and heart-wrenching story of fierce strength, forgotten history, autonomy, and the places and people we ultimately call home.
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Collateral damage : an Ali Reynolds mystery
by Judith A. Jance
After her husband is involved in a suspicious accident, Ali Reynolds must take his place at a ransomware conference in London and finds herself in a race against time as she uncovers mysterious vendettas that endanger the people she loves.
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The raven thief
by Gigi Pandian
Taking part in a mock seance to remove any trace of her cheating ex-husband, famous mystery author Corbin Colt, from her life, Tempest Raj is stunned when his dead body crashes the party, and when suspicion falls on her beloved grandfather, she must conjure up the real killer. 50,000 first printing.
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In Isabeau's eyes
by Lora Leigh
Surviving an attack 10 years prior that left her parents dead and her blind, Isabeau Boudreaux is convinced by her friends the Mackays of Somerset, Kentucky, that a series of accidents indicates someone still wants her dead.
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48 clues into the disappearance of my sister
by Joyce Carol Oates
Gigi's hatred for her beautiful sister is slowly revealed after Marguerite goes missing from her small town in upstate New York, leaving behind a silk Dior dress on the floor and prints from her Ferragamo boots exiting the house.
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Sunset empire
by Josh Weiss
December, 1959: The Korean War rages on. Protesting the bloody conflict, a Korean-American man by the name of William Yang suddenly blows himself up in the middle of a Los Angeles department store just before Christmas, which leads the U.S. government to reopen the internment camps used during World War II. President Joseph McCarthy's America has never been more on edge, paranoid, and above all, dangerous. Several weeks later, a woman hires Morris Baker, now working as a private investigator, to track down her missing husband - Henry Kissinger - who may have a shadowy connection to Yang's purported terrorist attack. The ensuing investigation for the missing State Department consultant working for Vice President Richard Nixon sends Baker on another thrilling adventure of deceit, intrigue, sex, murder, and conspiracy where the safety of the entire world may hang in the balance.
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The house is on fire
by Rachel Beanland
Told from the perspectives of four people whose actions changed the course of history, this masterful work of historical fiction takes readers back to 1811 Richmond, Virginia, where, on the night after Christmas, the city's only theater burned to the ground, tearing apart a community.
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The short end of the Sonnenallee
by Thomas Brussig
Thomas Brussig's classic German novel, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the wall.
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The Society of Shame
by Jane Roper
When a photo of her with a period stain on the back of her pants goes viral, making her the unwitting figurehead for a social media-centered women's rights movement, #YesWeBleed, politician's wife Kathleen Held finds her growing obsession with maintaining her popularity online threatening her relationship with her budding activist daughter.
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Panther Gap
by James A. McLaughlin
Brought back together by the prospect of an illegal and potentially dangerous inheritance from their grandfather, siblings Bowman and Summer must reconcile with each other and their past in order to defeat ruthless criminal forces trying to extort millions. 125,000 first printing.
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The lost wife
by Susanna Moore
Arriving in Minnesota Territory with no prospects, Sarah Brinton quickly marries and settling in her new life as a wife and mother, finds kinship among the Sioux women at a nearby reservation until she is caught in the middle of the Sioux Uprising of 1862 where she is lost to both worlds.
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Fateful words
by Paige Shelton
After leading a literary tour around Edinburgh, bookseller Delaney Nichols investigates after a local inn manager is killed and a tour group member disappears in the eight novel of the series following The Burning Pages. 30,000 first printing.
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The plus one : a novel
by Mazey Eddings
Striking a bargain with her childhood enemy to be each other's fake dates to a wedding from hell, Indira finds their fake displays of affection becoming all too real, leaving them both to realize this bad situation is made a little easier with the other around. 75,000 first printing.
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White cat, black dog : stories
by Kelly Link
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, 17th-century French lore and Scottish ballads, this clever collection of reinvented fairy tales expertly blends realism and the speculative as characters hunt for love, connection, revenge or their own sense of purpose. Illustrations.
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Play the fool : a mystery
by Lina Chern
Katie True, a cynical tarot card reader, finds the bottom falling out of her world when a reading reveals her close friend Marley has been murdered and, determined to find the truth, becomes caught in the crossfire of a threat she never saw coming.
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The ten percent thief
by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, the injustice it creates, and the revolution that will destroy it.
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Death washes ashore
by Patricia Skalka
Chasing leads, Sheriff Dave Cubiak suddenly finds himself amid a troupe of live-action role players living in an ersatz Camelot. In a setting where pretense is the norm, Cubiak must determine if suspects are who they say they are or if their made-up identities conceal a ruthless killer.
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Yours truly, the duke
by Amelia Grey
Forced to wed or lose a sizable inheritance, the Duke of Wyatthaven quickly marries Fredericka Hale to keep her late sister's three young children in her care and becomes tempted to give up his bachelor lifestyle and explore the attraction between them. 75,000 first printing.
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Going zero : a novel
by Anthony McCarten
From a four-time Academy Award-nominated screenwriter comes a thriller in which a woman must find a way to elude the most powerful forces of government and high tech.
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Double or nothing
by Kim Sherwood
The start of a brand-new trilogy following MI6's Double 0 agents with a license to kill.
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The fourth enemy
by Anne Perry
While trying to prove Malcolm Vayne, a beloved philanthropist, is guilty of fraud, prosecutor Daniel Pitt must rescue his wife, a forensic scientist who has been kidnapped by one of Vayne's crazed supporters, putting their lives and the case in danger.
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Sunsetter : a novel
by Curtis LeBlanc
After a pair of suspicious deaths on the opening night of the Sunsetter rodeo and midway, two teens, Dallan Dermott and Hannah Fields, must plunge headlong into their grief--and their anger--to uncover the criminal truth about the town of Perron.
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After the shadows
by Amanda Cabot
A young widow returns to her hometown in Texas Hill Country, never dreaming that the new schoolteacher holds the key both to the mystery surrounding her father's death--and to her heart.
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Murder under a red moon
by Harini Nagendra
Amateur sleuth Kaveri Murthy uncovers a new murder during the blood-moon eclipse.
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Hang the moon : a novel
by Jeannette Walls
After encouraging her younger step-brother to participate in daredevil activities leads to an accident, Sallie Kincaid is cast out of her family, in the new novel from the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Glass Castle.
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What happens in the ballroom : a designing debutantes novel
by Sabrina Jeffries
Eliza Pierce, enjoying independence and financial success as part of her party-planning enterprise, Elegant Occasions, is asked by her late husband's best friend, the Earl of Foxstead, to help another young widow of an officer become part of high society, which unexpectedly changes her own life.
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To swoon and to spar : a novel
by Martha Waters
The Regency Vows series that is "sure to delight Bridgerton fans" (USA TODAY) returns with this story about a viscount and his irascible new wife who hopes to chase her husband from their shared home so that she can finally get some peace and quiet--only to find that his company is not as onerous as she thought. Viscount Penvale has been working for years to buy back his ancestral home, Trethwick Abbey, from his estranged uncle. And so he's thrilled when his uncle announces that he is ready to sell but with one major caveat--Penvale must marry his uncle's ward, Jane Spencer. When the two meet in London, neither is terribly impressed. Penvale finds Jane headstrong and sharp-tongued. Jane finds him cold and aloof. Nevertheless, they agree to a marriage in name only and return to the estate. There, Jane enlists her housekeeper for a scheme: to stage a haunting so that Penvale will return to London, leaving her to do as she pleases at Trethwick Abbey. But Penvale is not as easily scared as his uncle and as their time together increases, Jane realizes that she might not mind her husband's company all that much. With her trademark "arch sense of humor and a marvelously witty voice" (Entertainment Weekly), Martha Waters crafts another delightful romp for all historical romance fans.
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My heart will find you
by Jude Deveraux
While caring for an elderly man during the pandemic, Etta Wilmont, every time she falls asleep, passes through the past and the present, discovering she has the power to make the lives of others better– and the chance to find a love to last a lifetime.
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76 hours : a novel of Tarawa
by Larry Alexander
Private Pete "Hardball" Talbot, one of the United States Marines tasked with taking the island of Tarawa during World War II, uses all of his training and street smarts to stay alive in the seventy-six hours of brutal combat.
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The handler
by M. P. Woodward
Forced to be her disgraced ex-husband's handler for extracting a CIA mole from Iran, CIA case officer Meredith Morris-Dale must reach deep within their shared connection as they struggle with CIA political hierarchy, Russian interference and the rogue spy's manipulation to maintain, recover or kill the asset.
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Those empty eyes
by Charlie Donlea
Ten years after being exonerated in the massacre of her family, legal investigator Alex Armstrong, still searching for answers, finds her crusade to help a man who's under suspicion in the disappearance of his journalist girlfriend resulting in unexpected connections to the murder of her own family.
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Green for danger
by Christianna Brand
In 1943, when postman Joseph Higgins arrives at Heron's Park with injuries from a bombing raid, only to die inexplicably on the operating table, and then a second, sudden death occurs, Inspector Cockrill must expose a killer among three doctors and four nurses, a close-knit group of suspects.
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Intrigue in Istanbul
by Erica Ruth Neubauer
While searching for her father in 1926 Istanbul, Jane and Mr. Redvers discover he was on a quest for a legendary relic from the Ottoman Empire in the fourth novel of the series following Danger on the Atlantic.
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A flicker of doubt
by Daryl Wood Gerber
Hired to create charming fairy gardens for a theater foundation event, Courtney Kelly locks horns with her bestie's ex, hours before he turns up dead in the fourth novel of the series following A Hint of Mischief.
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Moscow exile
by John Lawton
In 1969, Joe Wilderness, held captive by the KGB on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, finds all roads leading back to Berlin, and to the famous Bridge of Spies, after his old friends Frank and Eddie break him out of the toughest prison in the world.
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Said no one ever
by Stephanie Eding
Ellie Reed's self-esteem can't take any more of her family's constant criticism and attempts to control her life. But when she rents an Airbnb on a gorgeous farm in Montana, she encounters a whole new set of family drama and finds herself the caretaker of a barn full of farm animals, caught between two handsome men competing for control of the farm, and the sudden best friend of a spunky elderly widow whose outrageous ideas just might change her destiny...
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Lost in Paris
by Betty Webb
When her friend Ernest Hemingway's writings go missing, which leads to two murders, Alabama debutante Zoe Barlow, exiled to Paris for disgracing the family name, risks everything she holds dear to find out who among her adopted family is a killer.
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Bert and Mamie Take a Cruise
by John Keyse-Walker
All aboard the good ship SS Columbus for an African adventure to die for... February 1939. Mamie Mason isn't enthusiastic when Bert, her husband of thirty years, persuades her to join him on an African cruise. Bert might be pining for adventure, but Mamie's perfectly content with her comfortable life in Hills Corners, Ohio. But once the couple board the glamorous SS Columbus, Mamie has to admit - as much as it pains her - that Bert was right. Swimming in the pool, dancing under the stars, their own bedroom steward to serve their every whim... Mamie settles in and prepares to thoroughly enjoy all the sights that Africa has to offer, in the company of a motley collection of eccentric first-class passengers. Then Mamie witnesses something shocking - and her vacation takes a twist that neither she nor Bert could ever have predicted. Far from home, with a killer in their midst, the couple's only choice is to turn detective. But surrounded by Nazis, spies and passengers with secrets, how can they uncover the killer - enjoy their vacation of a lifetime - and make it back to Ohio alive?
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The build up
by Tati Richardson
Rumpled and ragged was not how architect Ari James envisioned kicking off her first day at a new firm. And few things can top the horror of her new--and extremely hot--colleague walking in on her at the worst moment ever. Learning that she'll be working with him on the project that's supposed to get her career back on top makes it harder than ever to focus on her big comeback.
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The prospector's only prospect
by Dani Collins
In 1859 Colorado, Marigold Davis arrives in Denver City under the guise of a mail-order bride and makes an arrangement with Virgil Gardner to stay and care for his three children, but a single woman in a mining camp draws unwanted attention. 75,000 first printing.
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The Home for Wayward Girls : a novel
by Marcia Bradley
While other adolescent girls are listening to grunge rock or swooning over boy bands, Loretta knows little of life beyond the Home for Wayward Girls, the secluded ranch where her parents run a program designed to "correct" teen girls' "bad behavior." Loretta witnesses firsthand how the adults use abusive discipline to crush these young women's spirits and break their wills. Since childhood she's been afraid of her father, and avoids him by spending time with the residents, secretly teaching them the survival skills they'll need in case they manage to escape. Until the day a horrifying act of violence forces her to make her own terrible choice.
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The trackers : a novel
by Charles Frazier
Commissioned to create a mural representing Dawes, Wyoming, for their new Post Office, Val Welch, a painter in Depression-era America, stays with a wealthy art lover, his wife and a mysterious elder cowboy where he turns up secrets that could spark formidable changes for all of them. 150,000 first printing.
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Some desperate glory
by Emily Tesh
One of the best warriors of her generation, Kyr, when Command relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, takes humanity's revenge into her own hands, escaping into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined. 125,000 first printing.
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The human origins of Beatrice Porter and other essential ghosts : a novel
by Soraya Palmer
Two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn, Zora and Sasha Porter, drifting apart as they bear witness to their father's violence and their mother's worsening illness must come together to answer to something more ancient and powerful than they know - and confront a long-buried family secret.
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Hotel of secrets : a novel
by Diana Biller
Trying to restore her family's hotel in Vienna during ball season, Maria Wallner unwittingly teams up with a secret service agent on an assignment after he has to twice save her life from seemingly-random attacks by masked assassins.
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Gigi, listening
by Chantel Guertin
A romance novel aficionado and bookstore owner signs up for a ten-day tour of the English countryside led by her favorite audiobook narrator and meets an eclectic group of characters in the new novel by the author of Instamom.
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Eat, drink and drop dead
by T. C. LoTempio
Food critic and blogger Tiffany Austin has the best job in the world: she gets to eat for a living. At least, she hopes she has a job. Her trial period at Southern Style magazine is up - and rumors are swirling that management are making a choice between Tiffany and a rival columnist: the ambitious Jenny Lee Plumm. Former chef Tiffany knows she has a battle on her hands... but she didn't realize it was to the death! When her rival's body is discovered after the two have a very public argument, Tiffany finds herself the prime suspect in a murder investigation. The lead detective might be very hot - but Tiffany's definitely not ready to go down for a crime she didn't commit. Ably assisted by Hilary, her best friend and partner in (non)crime, and bolstered by the unconditional love of her Siamese cat Lily and King Charles Cavalier puppy Cooper, Tiffany plunges into an investigation of her own. After all, she has a degree from the CIA - the Culinary Institute of America - and she's not afraid to use it. But can she find the real killer before she's served up to the cops on a silver platter?
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Her lost words : a novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
by Stephanie Thornton
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein, a tale of two literary legends--a mother and daughter--discovering each other...and finding themselves along the way, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton. 1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father's violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author of the landmark volume A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she dares to propose that women are equal to men. From conservative England to the blood-drenched streets of revolutionary France, Mary refuses to bow to society's conventions and instead supports herself with her pen until an illicit love affair challenges her every belief about romance and marriage. When she gives birth to a daughter and is stricken with childbed fever, Mary fears it will be her many critics who recount her life's extraordinary odyssey... 1815. The daughter of infamous political philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, passionate Mary Shelley learned to read by tracing the letters of her mother's tombstone. As a young woman, she desperately misses her mother's guidance, especially following her scandalous elopement with dashing poet Percy Shelley. Mary struggles to balance an ever-complicated marriage with motherhood while nursing twin hopes that she might write something of her own one day and also discover the truth of her mother's unconventional life. Mary's journey will unlock her mother's secrets, all while leading to her own destiny as the groundbreaking author of Frankenstein. A riveting and inspiring novel about a firebrand feminist, her visionary daughter, and the many ways their words transformed our world.
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A kiss in the moonlight
by Cathy Maxwell
After their gambler of a father disappears, Dara finds her crazy plan to marry off each sister working when they are declared the “Incomparables” of the Season, until she is challenged by a rising politician who is determined to teach her about ambition, men and love.
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The immeasurable depth of you
by Maria Ingrande Mora
After her mother interprets one of her blog posts as a suicide note, 15-year-old death-obsessed Brynn is banished to stay with her father who lives “off the grid” in the Florida mangroves, where she must confront her worst fears to save the girl with whom she has fallen in love. Simultaneous eBook.
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Ozark dogs
by Eli Cranor
After his son is convicted of capital murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in a junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords, notorious meth dealers and fanatical white supremacists, come to collect on Joanna as payment for a long-overdue blood debt. Headed by rancorous patriarch Bunn and smooth-talking, erudite Evail, the Ledfords have never forgotten what the Fitzjurls family did to them, and they will not be satisfied until they have taken an eye for an eye. As they seek revenge, and as Jeremiah desperately searches for his granddaughter, their narratives collide and intersect to provide a personal, gripping look into the reality of life in the Ozark Mountains. Eli Cranor, author of the critically acclaimed Don't Know Tough, drew from a murder in his Arkansas hometown to craft this atmospheric, immersive story about family and how far some will go to protect it, honor it - or in some cases - destroy it.
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Romantic comedy : a novel
by Curtis Sittenfeld
A sketch writer for a late-night comedy show, Sally Milz pokes fun at the phenomenon of talented but average men who've gotten romantically involved with beautiful women and how the reverse never happens until she meets a pop music sensation who flips the script on all her assumptions.
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Something spectacular
by Alexis J. Hall
Reluctantly agreeing to help her former flame, Arabella Tarleton, woo the famous and flamboyant opera singer Orfeo, Peggy Delancey unexpectedly finds common ground with this celebrated soprano - and an instant connection as they walk the line between friendship, flirtation and something more.
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Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys
by D. M. S. Fick
Lewis Sinclair, a stalwart and tender country musician, is about to take the stage with his band, the Gentlemen Cowboys, at the premier U.S. country music festival when his girl dumps him for the Cowboys' shifty manager. When that same manager ends up at FallFest's walk of fame with his handprints--and his head--in cement, Lew finds himself on the top ten most wanted list instead of the music charts. With the help of his loyal Cowboys and the close-knit festival staff, Lew must clear his name before the killer gets away--or strikes again.
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Ana Maria and the fox
by Liana De la Rosa
Seeking refuge in London from the French occupation of Mexico, a Mexican heiress enjoys her first taste of freedom away from her domineering father and the scorching looks she begins receiving from a member of Parliament, Gideon Fox.
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The all-American : a novel
by Joe Milan
Deported to South Korea after a misadventure with his adopted family, 17-year-old Bucky Yi, as one mishap leads to another, must rely on his physical strength, character and attitude to stubbornly rebuild himself from scratch to make it back home - wherever that might be.
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Dirty laundry : a novel
by Disha Bose
A clique of mothers in a small Irish village react to the murder of their queen bee, whose picture-perfect life made easy money on Instagram and whose death provided each of them something to gain.
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Windswept way : a Hope Harbor novel
by Irene Hannon
Arriving in Hope Harbor to renovate a supposedly haunted house, Ashley Scott enlists the help of her neighbor, wounded warrior Jonathan Gray, and together they restore life, laughter and love to a historic estate that has known too much sadness, as well as find healing, hope and happiness for themselves.
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Infinity gate
by M. R. Carey
The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds - except that they're really just the one world, Earth, in many different realities. And when an AI threat arises that could destroy everything the Pandominion has built, they'll eradicate it by whatever means necessary, no matter the cost to human life. Scientist Hadiz Tambuwal is looking for a solution to her own Earth's environmental collapse when she stumbles across the secret of inter-dimensional travel. It could save everyone on her dying planet, but now she's walked into the middle of a war on a scale she never dreamed of. And she needs to choose a side before it kills her.
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The soulmate
by Sally Hepworth
When her husband becomes a local hero, saving person after person from ending their lives until one night he doesn't, Pippa discovers he knew the victim and wonders if she jumped or was pushed - a question that cracks the foundations of the life they've built. 300,000 first printing.
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Homecoming : a novel
by Kate Morton
A laid-off London journalist returns home to Sydney where she discovers a link between her family and an infamous 1959 crime, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter. 250,000 first printing.
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Coronation year : a novel
by Jennifer Robson
Follows the owner and three very different residents of the Blue Lion Hotel as London prepares to celebrate the upcoming coronation of the Queen in 1953 in the new novel by the author of The Gown. 30,000 first printing.
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Natural beauty : a novel
by Ling Ling Huang
Giving up her future as a pianist to take care of her parents, the narrator starts working at a high-end beauty and wellness store in NYC, which affords her entry into a new world of privilege where she discovers, beneath the fancy creams and tinctures, lies a terrible truth threatening to consume her.
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The do-over : a novel
by Suzanne Park
Bestselling author Lily Lee is on a short deadline to deliver her new career guide How to Land the Perfect Job, and she's been interviewing at all the top companies around town. But when she's offered a coveted position at her dream company, the employer's background check reveals she never actually finished her college degree. Lily returns to her alma mater to relive her senior year of college, after walking across the stage at graduation a decade earlier. Just as she starts getting used to the idea of being a student again, things get even more weird and chaotic when she discovers her computer science TA is her old college boyfriend, Jake Cho. Told in present day with glimpses of the past, The Do-Over is a delightfully warm and hopeful story about second chances in life and love, and how the future might not be a straight line, but we still end up exactly where we're supposed to be.
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House of cotton
by Monica Brashears
A broke and effectively orphaned nineteen-year-old, Magnolia Brown, accepts an offer from a mysterious, slick stranger for a lucrative “modeling” job at his family's funeral home and becomes concerned as the job requests become increasingly weird. 250,000 first printing.
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You know her
by Meagan Jennett
Becoming friends with Sophie Braam, Officer Nora Martin, new to the unwelcoming Bellair Police Department, begins to suspect something's not quite right with the unnerving, enigmatic bartender and discovers she's the serial killer terrorizing their small town, but wonders if anyone will believe her. 75,000 first printing.
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Carmen and Grace : a novel
by Melissa Coss Aquino
Two cousins are lured into the underground drug trade at a young age, and soon one woman seeks power and the other seeks a way out. A first novel.
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Bad mother
by Mia Sheridan
When Sienna Walker is nearly fired from the NYPD, the last thing she expects is a second chance in the one place she vowed never to return to. But she can't afford to turn down the job offer, even if a painful familial past and a broken engagement hardly make Reno, Nevada, home sweet home. It's made even less sweet by Sienna's first case - a serial killer with a curious fixation on her. Along with his victims, the killer leaves perplexing clues and chilling journal entries addressed to Sienna detailing the murders he claims his mother committed. The case continues to get personal when her ex-fiance is called out by the killer as well. Whoever's behind the diabolical murders, Sienna can only be sure of one thing... it's someone close to home. As the twisted truth forces Sienna to face her complicated feelings, she learns that no matter how far you run from your past, it always catches up to you in the end.
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Second time around
by Melody Carlson
Determined not to let her former secret crush, real estate developer Grayson Matthews, buy her grandmother's run-down tourist shop, Mallory Farrell, transforming it into an eclectic home decor store called Romancing the Home, discovers she needs his help romancing her own home - and possibly her life.
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Pas De Don't
by Chloe Angyal
Heather Hays finally has everything she's worked for--she was promoted principal dancer and is engaged to her forever crush, ballet royalty Jack Andersen. But after Jack is caught cheating, Heather's near-perfect life comes crashing down. Determined to prove that she rose to the top on her own merits, she accepts a guest position from the only company that will hire her without Jack: the Australian National Ballet. There she meets Marcus Campbell, who has had the most hellish year imaginable. When he shredded his Achilles tendon onstage, he lost every chance of his dad seeing him perform before he passed away. Marcus has spent the months since in physical therapy, worrying he'll be too old to dance by the time he's fully recovered. Now he's supposed to play tour guide for the company's new arrival. But as they tour Sydney together, Heather and Marcus discover an immediate mutual attraction--one they absolutely cannot act on. ANB has a strict no-dating policy, and even a hint of romance could cost them both their jobs. Still, Heather has followed the rules her whole life... maybe it's time to break one.
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Speak for the dead
by Amy Tector
Called to the scene of an alleged suicide inside the Dominion Archives' nitrate film storage facility, Ottawa coroner Dr. Cate Spencer, when an attempt is made on her life, suspects this death might be a murder, plunging her into a world of military secrets, contentious Indigenous protests and a 70-year-old mystery.
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Stay this day and night with me
by Belen Gopegui
This is the story of Olga, a retired mathematician, and Mateo, a college student passionate about robotics, and their attempt to influence Google. They meet to ponder ideas such as free will, merit, and the possibility of synthetic humans, and together they craft an extremely unorthodox job application, a direct appeal to a seemingly all-powerful corporation. Tension grows as their relationship becomes strained due to ideological differences, and while Olga confronts a terminal illness, Mateo plans an attack on Google. Author Belen Gopegui has been compared to Cervantes, Nabokov and Borges. Here, she offers a literary equivalent of My Dinner with Andre, creating a hermetic, compelling world in which two characters engage in an extended conversation about the rights, roles, and obligations of humans whose choices are determined by algorithms and surveillance. As Olga and Mateo examine the possibility of what it might take to confront something as all-prevailing as Google, they ask the most basic and important of questions: What could we be, what could we build, right now, if we used our resources in different ways?
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Beach Town
by David Daniel
Shift whistles at the soap factory and the shipyard, along with the changing tides, mark the rhythms of life in the beach town. This is a world of fast food, double dates, and Saturday morning haircuts at the barber shop - a world as seemingly uncomplicated as a summer night's ride on a carousel. A lonely girl from "away" seeks connection with high school classmates who give no notice; a harried salesman confronts his deepest fear; a middle-aged woman reckons with unfulfilled dreams; and a man returns for a class reunion and finds himself face to face with something beyond his imagining. In Beach Town, David Daniel recreates the seaside town of North Weybridge, recalling in stories poignant and sometimes mysterious, the loves and losses, the magic and hard realities of clam diggers, sailors, barmaids and disillusioned lovers, characters revealed in moments of crisis or enlightenment.
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Brother & sister enter the forest : a novel
by Richard Mirabella
Willa grudgingly takes in her brother, Justin, who is spiraling out of control, unable to manage his sobriety and the ongoing effects of a brain injury suffered when he fled a terrifying act of violence committed by his first boyfriend.
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The shoemaker's magician
by Cynthia Pelayo
When her husband, a homicide detective, discovers an obscure movie poster pinned on a mutilated corpse, Paloma knows the only person who can help solve this mystery is Grand, America's most beloved horror host, but the closer she gets to him, the more the body count rises, threatening all she holds dear.
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The strange
by Nathan Ballingrud
When the Silence came, stopping all communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars, 14-year-old Annabelle Crisp, in 1931, New Galveston, Mars, sets off through the wastelands of the strange to exact revenge on the man responsible for destroying her family.
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Infamous : a novel
by Lex Croucher
Aspiring Regency-era writer Edith Miller accepts an invitation to visit the crumbling, gothic, countryside estate of a renowned poet but the hedonism and debauchery that ensues forces her to unpack her complicated feelings for her best friend, Rose.
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The girl who took what she wanted
by David Handler
In this new installment of the Edgar award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series, the ghostwriting sleuth investigates a trail of murder amidst Hollywood's rich and famous.
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The lies of the Ajungo
by Moses Ose Utomi
Three days before he turns 13, the age when your tongue is cut out to appease the terrifying Ajungo Empire and make sure it continues sending water, Tutu embarks on a quest for salvation of his mother, his city and himself.
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Wandering souls : a novel
by Cecile Pin
Seeking refuge in the UK after the last American troops leave Vietnam, Anh and her younger brothers, in a London plagued by social inequality and raging anti-immigrant sentiment, find their paths diverging as time passes, wondering if love alone can keep them together. 80,000 first printing.
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Community board
by Tara Conklin
A woman moves back into her parents' empty home after her husband leaves her and spends her days on the town's internet community board, in the new novel from the best-selling author of The Last Romantics. 75,000 first printing.
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Strangers in the night : a novel of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner
by Heather Webb
Transporting readers to the golden age of Hollywood, this captivating novel follows Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra as they ride a rollercoaster of success and failure, passion and anger, wondering if the next turn will be the end of their careers - and the end of all they've shared. 30,000 first printing.
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A house with good bones
by T. Kingfisher
Warned by her brother that their mother seems “off,” Sam visits and discovers a once-cozy home with sterile white walls, a her mom a jumpy, nervous wreck and a jar of teeth hidden in the rosebushes. 75,000 first printing.
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Jane & Edward : a modern reimagining of Jane Eyre
by Melodie Edwards
This powerful retelling of Jane Eyre, set in a modern-day law firm, is full of romance and hope as it follows the echoing heartbeats of the classic story. A former foster kid, Jane has led a quiet, solitary life as a waitress in the Toronto suburbs, working hard to get by. Tired of years of barely scraping a living, Jane takes night classes to become a legal assistant, and soon accepts a job offer at a distinguished law firm in Toronto. Everyone at the firm thinks she is destined for failure because her boss is the notoriously difficult Edward Rosen, majority stakeholder at Rosen, Haythe & Thornfield LLP. But Jane has known far worse trials and refuses to back down when economic freedom is so close at hand. Edward has never been able to keep an assistant - he's too loud, too messy, too ill-tempered. But there's something about the quietly competent, delightfully sharp-witted Jane that intrigues him. As their orbits overlap, their feelings begin to develop - first comes fondness, and then something more. But when Edward's secrets put Jane's independence in jeopardy, she must face long-ignored ghosts of her past and decide if opening her heart to true love is a risk worth taking.
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Ten planets : stories
by Yuri Herrera
Drawing on science fiction, noir and the philosophical parables of Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions and Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, this collection features fantastical stories in which monsters and aliens abound, but knowing who is the monster and who is the alien is a tricky proposition. 30,000 first printing.
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Biography of X : a novel
by Catherine Lacey
When a famous iconoclastic artist and shape-shifter dies suddenly, her widow, CM, begins writing her wife's biography and opens a vast Pandora's box of secrets and explores the history of the fascist theocracy where she lived. 75,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Ellie is cool now
by Victoria Fulton
A writer for a TV show about popular high school kids is offered a promotion if she attends her own high school reunion, where she had been voted “Most Likely to Make Everything Worse.” 30,000 first printing.
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Hiss & tell
by Rita Mae Brown
Harry, Susan and Fair investigate the suspicious deaths of three people found in Crozet with a deadly drug in their systems with the help of their feline sidekicks in the latest addition to the long-running series following Claws for Alarm. Illustrations.
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A death in Denmark
by Amulya Malladi
Everyone in Denmark knew that Yousef Ahmed, a refugee from Iraq, brutally murdered the right-wing politician Sanne Melgaard. So, when part-time blues musician, frustrated home renovator, and full-time private detective Gabriel Praest agrees to investigate the matter because his ex--the one who got away--asked him to, he knew it was a no-win case. But as Gabriel starts to ask questions, his face meets with the fists of Russian gangsters; the Danish prime minister asks him for a favor; and he starts to realize that something may be rotten in the state of Denmark.
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Earth's the right place for love : a novel
by Elizabeth Berg
Arthur becomes friends with the hottest girl in his class even though she has a crush on his older brother and must come to terms with grief and how to go on when a sudden tragedy changes his world.
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The new earth : a novel
by Jess Row
Demanding that her mother, father and brother emerge from their self-imposed isolations and gather once more for her wedding, Winter Wilcox and her fractured Jewish family must face the harms of the past and decide if they can ever reconcile in the face of humanity's uncertain future. 50,000 first printing.
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American mermaid : a novel
by Julia Langbein
A former English teacher whose feminist novel about a fierce mermaid is lured to Hollywood to assist in the tale's big-budget action film adaptation, but is alarmed when she believes her character has come to life to exact revenge.
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Lone women : a novel
by Victor LaValle
In 1915, Adelaide Henry, after her secret sin killed her parents, sets out for Montana, dragging an enormous steamer trunk that's locked at all times, to become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government's offer of free land where she hopes to bury her past.
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Beyond that, the sea
by Laura Spence-Ash
A young girl is sent from London to live in America during World War II and fits in so seamlessly with her new family that she is hesitant to return to post-war England when she is called home.
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When in Rome : a novel
by Liam Callanan
From a nationally best-selling, award-winning author comes 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.
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Enter ghost : a novel
by Isabella Hammad
A stage actress returns to Palestine to visit her older sister and becomes unwittingly involved with a local group who wants to put on a production of Hamlet in the West Bank using all Palestinian actors.
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Mimosa
by Archie Bongiovanni
Best friends and chosen family Chris, Elise, Jo, and Alex work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the rest of their lives threaten to fall apart. In an effort to avoid being the oldest gays at the party, the crew decides to put on a new queer event called Grind--specifically for homos in their dirty thirties.
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Cold-blooded liar
by Karen Rose
San Diego homicide detective Kit McKittrick picks up a cold case after a psychologist treating court-ordered clients begins receiving plausible new details of the crime, despite the patient being a pathological liar.
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The dead will rise
by Chris Nickson
Leeds. April, 1824. Wealthy engineer Joseph Clark employs thief-taker Simon Westow to find the men who stole the buried corpse of Catherine Jordan, his employee's daughter. Simon is stunned and horrified to realize there's a gang of body snatchers in Leeds. He needs to discover who bought Catherine's body and where it is now. As he hunts for answers, he learns that a number of corpses have vanished from graveyards in the town. Can Simon and his assistant Jane bring the brutal, violent Resurrection men who are selling the dead to medical schools to justice and give some peace to the bereft families?
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The mostly true story of Tanner & Louise
by Colleen Oakley
The USA Today best-selling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island presents a novel featuring a college dropout and an 84-year-old woman on the run from the law.
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Just one more : a novel of suspense
by Annette Lyon
When her best friend Jenn winds up dead while investigating her husband Rick's dark past, Becca, determined to get justice for Jenn, dives into her life, discovering a troubled marriage and two dead wives in Rick's past that lead her to believe Jenn was murdered.
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A Calder at heart
by Janet Dailey
After losing his whole family to Spanish Flu, a former US Army Major heads to Blue Moon where the Calders welcome him and offer him a piece of ranching property in the third novel of the series following Calder Grit.
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Brooklyn's last secret
by Leslie Stein
Welcome aboard the tour van of Major Threat--Brooklyn's finest rock band yet to catch a break--as they traverse the US of A on a last-ditch summer festival tour. On drums we've got "band dad" Ed, the stoic drummer who keeps bumping into tech bro coworkers that he can't quite relate to. On bass, there's Paul, a man of mostly mystery, who drinks hard and yet manages to glide through life, intelligible to no one except energy-drink-guzzling Marco, the baby of the band and newest replacement lead singer. And of course there's the gentle and serene Lilith, a weed lollipop-sucking, stuffed-animal-backpack-wearing guitarist healing from heartbreak. There's sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, sure, but there are also tender moments as the motley crew take turns behind the wheel, compiling lists of the hottest hunks and best guitar riffs to pass the miles. From tour fashion to breakdowns--mechanical and emotional--Leslie Stein holds no bars in this incredibly funny and heartfelt love letter meets parody of life on the road.
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The nursery
by Szilvia Molnar
Struggling with postpartum depression, a new mother, ill at ease with this state of perpetual giving, carrying, and feeding, strikes up a tentative friendship with her ailing upstairs neighbor, but they are both running out of time, and something is soon to crack.
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Things we hide from the light
by Lucy Score
Struggling after being shot, Chief of Police Nash Morgan, feeling like a broody shell of the man he once was, finds himself drawn to his new next-door neighbor, smart and sexy Lina, and determined to make this mysterious woman his, discovers that means facing the danger that nearly killed him.
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Her unexpected match
by Lacey Baker
Covering the human-interest story of an astrology-based matchmaker with a 100% success rate, cynical writer Allie Sparks, arriving in the quirky small town of Crescent Island, Maine, is sure she'll debunk the mythical woman until an unexpected encounter makes her a believer. 75,000 first printing.
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Ashes
by Alvaro Ortiz
Polly, Moho, and Piter haven't seen each other in years. Now they've piled into a car for a loooong journey to a mysterious cross marked on a map. All their old personality quirks and conflicts are resurrected with new wrinkles as this surreal reunion gets underway. Up ahead are car chases, alcohol, roadside motels, banjo-playing thugs, a ship graveyard, violence, sensual tension, and, of course, a monkey!
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Monstrilio
by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased 11-year-old son's lung, nurturing it until in gains sentience, and hides this carnivorous little Monstrilio in the walls of her family's decaying Mexico City estate, but his innate impulses threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life. 50,000 first printing.
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The protege : a novel
by Jody Gehrman
Dr. Hannah Bryers, anthropology professor and forensics expert at the prestigious Mad River University, takes pleasure in examining corpses, but small talk and living people fill her with dread. When she's not teaching, she analyzes the decomposing flesh of murder victims around the globe. Winter Jones is Hannah's most promising graduate student. She's smart, cunning, and dedicated, but she's got her own agenda for coming to Mad River: to bring Hannah Bryers down.
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The heiress at sea
by Christi Caldwell
Perpetually unattached Lady Cassia McQuoid has accepted her fate as a spinster. But how can she be expected to lead a life confined to drawing rooms and royal balls when there's a vast, exciting world to explore? Cassia can find but one solution: she masquerades as a thrill-seeking lad and stows away on a ship bound for open waters. Adventure awaits. So does notorious privateer Nathaniel Ellsby.
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Real love : a novel
by Rachel Lindsay
When her best friend falls in love on a reality dating show, producer Maya Johnson, who lives her life according to The Plan, wonders how truly happy she is and must decide to stay on her current path or try something new.
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The duke alone
by Christi Caldwell
Lady Myrtle McQuoid has always felt a little forgotten, and this season is no exception. When her boisterous family vacates their London townhouse for the country, Myrtle finds she's been left behind. But she just needs to stay warm, keep her belly full, and distract herself until her relatives realize their mistake and turn back to collect her. Surely that won't take long. Brooding widower Val Bancroft, the Duke of Aragon, has shut himself off from the world. He craves blessed solitude-a loyal dog, a silent house, and his own company are all he requires. Certainly not the nonstop chattering of the joyful, opinionated young woman next door. But with a potential threat lurking in the winter shadows, Myrtle may need to pluck up the nerve to approach the reclusive duke. And Val is not one to turn his back on a vulnerable lady.
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The only game in town : a novel
by Lacie Waldon
The Westing Game meets Sweet Home Alabama in The Only Game in Town, in which an eccentric millionaire's fortune could change one woman's life forever... if only she can win it!
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Whose names are unknown : a novel
by Sanora Babb
Based upon the author's firsthand experience while working with refugee farmers in the Farm Security Administration camps of California. Born in 1907 in an Otoe Indian community in the Oklahoma Territory, Babb joined the FSA camp in California in 1938 to help uprooted farmers. She submitted the manuscript for this book in 1939, but it was shelved because of John Steinbeck's 1939 best-selling novel, The Grapes of Wrath.
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Lucky in Lace
by Melissa Brayden
Juliette Jennings lives her life like a tightly laced corset--not that she'd ever wear one. As a business owner of a stationery store, structure is her favorite. But when her best friend and her ex fall head over heels for each other, everything unravels and leaves her exposed. Even worse, a scandalous lingerie shop has moved in next door, and its tantalizing window displays will drive away her conservative customers. If only the owner would turn off the charm, Juliette is sure she could stop imagining her in nothing but the shop's lacy best sellers. Peyton Lane loves a clean slate. In fact, she desperately needs one after a series of bad choices. She also likes sexy things, and uptight Juliette next door would be a fun bow to untie. But when Peyton's feelings enter new territory, she realizes the world might be scarier than she'd planned. Juliette has Peyton longing for forever on one hand and lacing up her running shoes with the other. What're a structured stationery store owner and a sexy lingerie peddler to do?
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The countess
by Sophie Jordan
Wealthy society maven Lady Gertrude knows how the world works. If her husband is less than faithful, it's an acceptable price to pay for her coveted position at the apex of London's most fashionable set. No exclusive soiree or lavish ball is complete without her and her group of decadent, well-connected friends. And this Season promises more excitement than usual: Tru is launching her daughter into Society, helping her navigate the cutthroat Marriage Mart, complete with fortune hunters, jealous debutantes, and malicious gossips. As skilled as Tru is at playing the high-stakes games of the ton, she never expects to meet her match--until Jasper Thorne begins to court her daughter.
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The great reclamation
by Rachel Heng
With the future of their fishing village in jeopardy after the Japanese army invades Singapore, Ah Boon, gifted with the unique ability to locate bountiful, movable islands that no one else can find, and Siok Mei, the spirited girl he has come to love, must decide who they want to be.
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Loyalty
by Lisa Scottoline
Set during the rise of the Mafia in 19th-century Sicily, this epic story of good vs evil follows four individuals - a desperate lemon grower; an idealistic lawyer with a secret life; a new mother; and a reclusive goatherd under constant threat of being discovered as a Jew - as their lives collide.
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Dust child : a novel
by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
The abandoned son of a Black American soldier and a Vietnamese woman during the war dreams of finding his family and a better life in the new novel, from the internationally best-selling author of The Mountains Sing. 60,000 first printing.
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The refusal camp : stories
by James R. Benn
The award-winning author of the Billy Boyle World War II mysteries presents an eclectic mix of new and previously published stories full of terror, action and humor that are rife with historical detail and riveting wartime storytelling.
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Love and other flight delays
by Denise Williams
Love takes flight in three connected novellas set at an airport, from the acclaimed author of 'The Fastest Way to Fall.' An airport pet groomer meets her frequent-flier crush and ends up in a fake-dating situation with a professional risk assessor who moonlights as a romance author. Two strangers share a romantic night together only to discover months later that they're professional rivals about to embark on an extended business trip together in this grumpy-meets-sunshine romance novella. Two best friends have one week to return a lost love letter found in a candy store at the airport--and work up the courage to confess the deep feelings between them--before one of them leaves the country.
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Solomon's crown : a novel
by Natasha Siegel
In 12th-century Europe, newly crowned King Philip of France and Richard, Duke of Aquitaine, the heir to England's royal seat, find themselves staring down an impending war and must choose between their desire for each other and their grand ambitions.
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Love & other scams : a novel
by Philip Ellis
You are cordially invited to a crime extravaganza: two con artists join forces to pull off a huge scam, posing as a couple at the poshest wedding in town.
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The love wager
by Lynn Painter
Two people make a wager on who can find love first, not realizing what they should be betting on is each other, in this new romantic comedy by Lynn Painter, author of Mr. Wrong Number. Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it's time to become a full-on adult. She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe, but when she logs onto the dating app that she has determined will find her new love, she sees none other than Jack, the guy whose room she snuck out of. After the joint agreement that they are absolutely not interested in each other, Jack and Hallie become partners in their respective searches for The One. They text each other about their dates, often scheduling them at the same restaurant so that if things don't go well, the two of them can get tacos afterward. Spoiler: they get a lot of tacos together. Discouraged by the lack of prospects, Jack and Hallie make a wager to see who can find true love first, but when they agree to be fake dates for a weekend wedding, all bets are off. As they pretend to be a couple, lines become blurred and they each struggle to remember why the other was a bad idea to begin with.
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Once we were home
by Jennifer Rosner
Based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II, a new novel follows four individuals as they, 20 years after the war, find their lives interconnecting in Israel, in unexpected ways, and must each ask where and to whom they truly belong. 100,000 first printing.
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Hello beautiful : a novel
by Ann Napolitano
Awarded a college basketball scholarship away from his childhood home silenced by tragedy, a young man befriends a spirited young woman who welcomes him into her loving, loud, chaotic household, in the new novel by the author of Dear Edward.
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Wolf trap : a thriller
by Connor Sullivan
A former Ground Branch paramilitary officer, Brian Rhome, thinking his time with this elite group of shadow operatives was over, instead finds himself in the midst of a deadly conspiracy that threatens the highest levels of American democracy.
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Countdown
by James Patterson
Agent Amy Cornwall must go dark after a botched field operation reveals sinister dealings between her bosses and an informant, in the second novel of the series following The Cornwalls are Gone by the world's best-selling author.
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The donut legion
by Joe R. Lansdale
When his ex-wife, Meg, who works at a local donut shop run by an evangelist cult who believes in an extraterrestrial Second Coming, goes missing, Charlie Garner, along with his brother and a reporter, uncovers strange and frightening details in his quest to rescue Meg. 25,000 first printing.
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Two wars and a wedding : a novel
by Lauren Willig
As the Spanish-American war begins, archaeologist Betsy Hayes joins the Red Cross in search of her former best friend and follows Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders straight to the heart of the fighting where dark memories of her last war resurface and her need to protect old and new friends intensifies. 75,000 first printing.
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Confidence : a novel
by Rafael Frumkin
A pair of best friends and occasional lovers who meet at a last-chance camp before juvenile detention embark on what they hope is a lucrative career in scam artistry with Nulife, a company that promises consumers a lifetime of bliss.
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Dinner party
by Sarah Gilmartin
Kate has taught herself to be careful, to be meticulous. To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, she plans a dinner party - from the fancy table settings to the perfect Baked Alaska waiting in the freezer. Yet by the end of the night, old tensions have flared, the guests have fled, and Kate is spinning out of control. Set between the 1990s and the present day, from a farmhouse in Carlow to Trinity College, Dublin, Dinner Party is a dark, sharply observed debut told with sharp, elegant humour that thrillingly unravels into family secrets and tragedy.
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A likely story : a novel
by Leigh McMullan Abramson
A woman aspiring to be a writer like her best-selling novelist father faces her upcoming 35th birthday on the verge of a breakdown when she uncovers shocking truths about her parents and her family.
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I will find you
by Harlan Coben
Receiving evidence that his son might still be alive, an innocent father convicted of murdering his own child breaks out of prison to uncover the truth, in the new novel by the best-selling author of The Stranger. 750,000 first printing.
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