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Nosy neighbors
by Freya Sampson
When their apartments in Shelley House face demolition, sworn enemies 25-year-old Kat and 77-year-old Dorothy put their differences aside to save their historic building, but when one of its residents is murdered, the duo seek justice to restore peace in their community.
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Your blood, my bones
by Kelly Andrew
"During the final walkthrough of her family's farmhouse that she's just inherited before she burns it to the ground, Wyatt discovers Peter, a childhood friend, strung up in chains and left for dead and learns he is cursed?—?and the only way to break free is to kill Wyatt. Simultaneous eBook."
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Bless your heart
by Lindy Ryan
The Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in their Southeast Texas town, discover generations of calm ending as the dead begin to rise again forcing them to once again fight the Strigoi, the original vampires. 75,000 first printing.
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Bunyan and Henry : or, The beautiful destiny
by Mark Cecil
Paul Bunyan, a down-on-his-luck lumberjack, embarks on a quest with fugitive John Henry to save his wife from a fatal disease caused by a toxic mineral, in this imagining of the lives of two American folk-hero legends.
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Mal goes to war
by Edward Ashton
When the puritanical Humanists cut off access to infospace, free A.I. Mal finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting, in this satirical take on war, artificial intelligence and what it really means to be human.
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The Sicilian inheritance : a novel
by Jo Piazza
Inheriting a plot of land in Sicily, along with a bombshell family secret—her great-grandmother Serafina didn't die of illness but was murdered—Sara Marsala races all over the picturesque Italian countryside to solve a mystery and learn the real story of Serafina, putting her in the crosshairs of a killer.
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The husbands : a novel
by Holly Gramazio
When she discovers the attic in her London flat is creating an infinite supply of husbands, waking up to a slightly altered life each day, Lauren confronts the question: if swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you've taken the right path?
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The murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen NeeIn 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
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The stone home : a novel
by Crystal Hana Kim
Inspired by real events, told through alternating timelines and two intimate perspectives, this hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story, capturing a shameful period of South Korean history, explores the legacy of violence and the psychology of power, while highlighting extraordinary acts of devotion and friendship that can arise in the darkness.
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What is love?
by Jen Comfort
When she and her rival, Teddy Ferguson, enter a high-stakes trivia tournament against all-time Answers! winners, including undefeated champion Hercules McKnight, they decide to combine their strengths to take down the competition, discovering just how scintillating learning can be. Original.
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The lady he lost
by Faye Delacour
When Lieutenant Eli Williams reappears after being lost at sea for two years, Miss Jane Bishop, as he tries to make amends for a past mistake, must decide if she can let go of the past to build a future with him or risk losing him for good. Original.
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A short walk through a wide world : a novel
by Douglas Westerbeke
Cursed with immortality at the age of 9, but with a requirement that she stays in perpetual motion, Aubry flees Paris and embarks on a century-spanning, globe-trotting odyssey, seeking a cure and discovering a world beyond the boundaries of time and space.
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She's not sorry
by Mary Kubica
Single mother and full-time nurse Meghan Michaels, when it is revealed her patient with a traumatic brain injury didn't jump from a bridge but was pushed, mistakenly lets herself get too close to the case, realizing she and her daughter could be the next victims.
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Sharpe's command : Richard Sharpe and the bridge at Almaraz, May 1812
by Bernard Cornwell
Sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside in the early 19th century, far behind enemy lines, the formidable Captain Sharpe and his group of men—with their cunning and courage to rely on—must stop two French armies from meeting on the Almaraz bridge.
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Feeding ghosts : a graphic memoir
by Tessa Hulls
A graphic memoir chronicles three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile and identity. Illustrations.
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A year of last things : poems
by Michael Ondaatje
The influential and internationally acclaimed author of seven novels, including the Booker Prize-winning The English Patient that became a major film that won Academy Awards, returns to poetry with a collection of prose that merges memory with the present.
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Victory Parade
by Leela Corman
One of a group of women working as welders in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Rose Arensberg has fallen in love with a disabled veteran while awaiting the return of her husband, Sam, a soldier in the American army serving in Europe. As we follow the bittersweet, heartbreaking stories of Rose and her fellow Rosie-the-Riveters, we're immersed in the day-to-day challenges of life on the home front as seen through the eyes of these resilient women, as well as through the eyes of Eleanor, Rose's impressionable young daughter, and Ruth, the German Jewish refugee Rose has taken into their home.
Ruth's desperate attempt to exorcise the nightmare of growing up in pre-war Nazi Germany takes her into the world of professional women wrestlers--with devastating consequences. And Sam's encounters with the horrors of a liberated concentration camp follow him home to Brooklyn in the form of terrifying flashbacks that will leave him scarred forever.
Victory Parade paints a deeply affecting portrait of how individuals and civilizations process mass trauma. Magnificently drawn by Leela Corman, it's an Expressionist journey through the battlefields of the human heart and the mass graves of genocide.
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The lady with the dark hair : a novel
by Erin Bartels
"Esther's family has always believed they were descended from a great, though scandalously underappreciated Impressionist-era artist. But when questions arise about her ancestor's greatest work--The Lady with the Dark Hair--her once-solid family history rests on shaky ground as a search for the truth begins"
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Nothing without me : a novel
by Helen Monks Takhar
When the body of her lead actress, who seemingly committed suicide, disappears, director April Eden, whose film is up for a major British award, wonders if this is an elaborate hoax or a publicity stunt gone wrong, especially when she starts receiving threatening messages. Original.
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Wicked problems
by Max Gladstone
As the battle for the world of the Craft heats up, a girl and a god join forces to turn back the coming end, willing to destroy anything standing between them and their goals, and the survival of billions of lives rests on the shoulders of one woman. Original.
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The audacity
by Ryan Chapman
When his wife Victoria goes missing 72 hours before her multibillion-dollar startup is exposed as a massive fraud, Guy flees to a private Caribbean island where he drinks and drugs his way into oblivion, while Victoria, going off the grid, plots her comeback, confident she'll prove everyone wrong—again.
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The house of broken bricks : a novel
by Fiona Williams
A Londoner transported from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English countryside, Tess, as she and her husband settle in, finds the dramatic arrival of their fraternal twins—one who presents as black and the other as white—stirring up complicated feelings and questions of belonging.
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Clear : a novel
by Carys Davies
An impoverished 1840s Scottish minister tasked with evicting a hermit from his island home ends up forming an unlikely connection with the man as the pair navigate language, loss and the legacy of forced displacement.
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The cemetery of untold stories : a novel
by Julia Alvarez
Inheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life, but they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves, revealing their true narratives to those who will listen.
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Table for two : fictions
by Amor Towles
The New York Times best-selling author shares six stories based in New York City, which consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood, told from seven different viewpoints, which stars the indomitable Evelyn Ross.
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Wild Love
by Elsie Silver
She's been driving him wild for years.
The good kind of wild. The bad kind of wild.
But mostly, the kind of wild that comes with wanting your best friend's little sister and knowing you can't have her.
Forbes may have labeled Ford Grant the World's Hottest Billionaire, but all he cares about is escaping the press and opening a recording studio in gorgeous small town Rose Hill. Something that comes to a screeching halt when he ends up face-to-face with a young girl who claims he's her biological father. Now, he spends his days balancing business with parenting a sullen twelve-year-old, all while trying desperately to keep his hands the hell off his best friend's sister, Rosie Belmont.
After living in the city, Rosie came blasting back into town like a storm. Beautiful, messy, and chaotic. And one wide-eyed, desperate plea for a job is all it takes for Ford to hire her. He vows to keep her at arm's length. Tries to stick to scowls and grumpy one-liners. But with her, verbal sparring is a type of foreplay--friction that soon turns to blistering heat.
Ford knows damn well he shouldn't cross this line. But shouldn't and can't are two very different things.
And the only thing he truly can't do is resist her.
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Village weavers : a novel
by Myriam J. A. Chancy
In 1940s Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi, two girls with an unbreakable bond, are torn apart by a deathbed revelation, and over the decades, they are parted and reunited, slowly learning the truth of their singular relationship, until they are brought together one last time to reckon with and—perhaps—forgive the past.
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Grey dog
by Elliott Gish
In 1901, Ada Byrd accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge where she sees a future in the small farming community, but when she witnesses strange and grisly phenomena, which both beckon and repel her, her grip on reality loosens and she wonders if the real horror is her. Original.
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Perris, California : a novel
by Rachel Stark
After surviving years of abuse, 27-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law's property, is at peace in this familial existence until she runs into Mel, the woman she used to love, who causes her to question the very foundations of the life she's built.
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Lost man's lane : a novel
by Scott Carson
A teenager explores the darkness hidden within his hometown in this spellbinding supernatural thriller from bestselling author Scott Carson.
For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true--particularly since the PI is investigating the most shocking crime to hit Bloomington, Indiana, in decades. A local woman has vanished, and the last time anyone saw her, she was in the backseat of a police car driven by a man impersonating an officer.
Marshall Miller's internship puts him at the center of the action, a position he relishes until a terrifying moment that turns public praise for his sharp observations and uncanny memory into accusations of lying and imperiling the case. His detective mentor withdraws, friends and family worry and whisper, and Marshall alone understands that the darkness visiting his town this summer goes far beyond a single crime. Now his task is to explain it--and himself.
Lost Man's Lane is a coming-of-age tale of terror that proves why its author has been hailed as "a master" by Stephen King and one who consistently offers "eerie, gripping storytelling" by Dean Koontz.
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Six truths and a lie
by Ream Shukairy
Told in their separate voices, six Muslim teens are falsely accused of an alleged attack on a Los Angeles beach and must trust or turn their backs on each other to prove their innocence
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The marriage sabbatical : a novel
by Lian Dolan
Taking a vacation from their marriage, Jason and Nicole, using the 500 Mile Rule: a policy of enjoying themselves however they wish—and with whomever they wish—when they're temporarily far apart, are confronted by temptations of all kinds, uncomfortable truths about themselves and a new perspective on their partnership.
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How to solve your own murder : a novel
by Kristen Perrin
After a fortune teller in 1965 predicts her murder, Frances spends her life searching for her best friend, who disappeared at a county fair, until she actually is murdered 60 years later, leaving her grand-niece, Annie, to solve both crimes.
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My Season of Scandal
by Julie Anne Long
When Lord Dominic Kirke meets Catherine Keating, a blue-eyed country girl with a cracking wit, he offers to help her find a husband during the London season, but soon realizes he wants her for himself, but loving her means setting her free for the life—and the man—she deserves. Original.
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The summer girl
by Jenny Blackhurst
"Claire's younger sister Holly has been working on the millionaire's playground of Martha's Vineyard for the summer-all barefoot beach parties and flirting with the local rich kids. But now Holly is missing, and none of the locals seem to care, includingthe police. They think a message Claire received is proof she's safe. But Claire knows that's impossible. What will she have to risk to find out the truth? Who are the locals protecting? And what does it have to do with another girl who went missing fiveyears ago?"
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Falling for Alaska
by Belle Calhoune
In Moose Falls, Alaska, a down-on-his-luck football player and a feisty restaurant owner go from enemies to loves, in this small-town romance. Original.
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The truth about the Devlins
by Lisa Scottoline
The charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, TJ Devlin finds his world turned upside down when his lawyer brother confesses he has just killed one of his clients and, seizing this chance to prove his worth, becomes entangled in a deadly web of deception and murder to save his brother.
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American daughters : a novel
by Piper Huguley
Brought together by their fathers' friendship, describes how the daughters of Booker T. Washington and Theodore Roosevelt became close friends and struggled together and supported each other through marriages, pregnancies, women's rights and progressive causes. Original. 100,000 first printing.
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Monsters we have made
by Lindsay Starck
When her 23-year-old daughter Faye, who, thirteen years ago, violently attacked someone to impress the Kingman, a monster she met online, goes missing, leaving her toddler behind, Sylvia is propelled back into the Kingman's world, drawing dangerously closer to both Faye and the truth about the monster that once inspired her. Original.
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Matterhorn
by Christopher Reich
When his son Will dies following in his footsteps, former CIA agent Mac Dekker, forced into hiding after being framed for treason, returns to the field to uncover the secrets Will was hiding and finds himself working to stop a terrorist plot that threatens thousands.
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The boyfriend subscription
by Steven Salvatore
"After losing his marriage and his beloved retail plant business, Teddy Hughes is ready to drown his sorrows-or would be, if he could afford another beer in his favorite dive bar. He has no choice but to uproot his dreams and leave New York for good. Andthen a gorgeous stranger walks in with cheekbones that could cut glass and a confidence that leaves Teddy panting. Like the leather harness he wears under his designer suit, Cole Vivien is a mass of contradictions. He's a successful entrepreneur whose app, VERSTL, allows consumers and sex workers to form real-if temporary-connections. But now Cole is in the unfamiliar position of needing something from someone else. A fake boyfriend can help Cole project a more traditional image for a potential investor.And Teddy-shy, smart and so much hotter than he knows-is perfect for the part. Maybe too perfect. Cole just has two conditions: no kissing and no falling in love. In exchange for one week together, Teddy will get enough money to get back on his feet, andno messy feelings will be in the mix. But some rules are made to be broken..."
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Cover story
by Rachel Lacey
"Natalie Keane is one of Hollywood's top leading ladies, but she's paid a steep price for her fame. After she was stalked eight years ago, the ensuing media frenzy almost broke her. So when a new threat arises, Natalie agrees to extra security, but she wants to keep it under wraps. The last thing she needs is another tabloid spectacle, especially during awards season. Taylor Vaughn has made a career as a bodyguard to the stars, but an injury has kept her sidelined for the past three months, jeopardizing her future in the job she loves. When an opportunity arises to work for Natalie Keane, Taylor jumps at the chance-even before knowing the details of the assignment. From the moment they meet, Natalie knows this could work: Taylor, the bodyguard, masquerading as her girlfriend. The perfect cover story. But as circumstances push the two women closer, the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur"
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The other side of disappearing / : A Touching Modern Love Story
by Kate Clayborn
Accompanying her sister on a search for their mother, who ran off with an accomplished con man years earlier, Jess, as they make their way across the country, unraveling the mystery of where the couple disappeared to and why, discovers a willingness to expand beyond the walls she's so carefully built. Original.
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Just for the summer : a novel
by Melody Carlson
A manager at a Seattle boutique hotel and a woman who runs her grandfather's fishing lodge in western Washington decide to swap jobs for the summer and discover that there is more to happiness than just changing the scenery. Original.
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Day One : a novel
by Abigail Dean
In the weeks following a tragic shooting in an idyllic Lake District town in England, two young people find themselves at the epicenter of a conspiracy theory in the new novel by the author of Girl A.
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Manila takes Manhattan
by Carla De Guzman
Two Filipino celebrities are caught between everything they want ... and everything they are. Original.
Fans of Jasmine Guillory and Helen Hoang will adore this irresistibly engaging story of two Filipino celebrities caught between everything they want...and everything they are.
How do you follow your heart when it's in two places?
Filipino musician and producer Mon Mendoza has been in New York for less than a day. Just long enough to feel like he doesn't belong despite landing a life-changing opportunity. All he can do is set a date night for just himself and some pancit canton. Which, as it turns out, is the only invitation his gorgeous Pinoy neighbor needs...
Actress Olivia Angeles can wear a character like a well-fitted dress. It's her real self she's having a hard time fitting into, craving a niche in Hollywood that doesn't compromise her identity in the name of success. And right now, all she wants is comfort in the form of tasty noodles and her outrageously hot new neighbor. One night. Just enough to lose herself in his touch and the feel of his lips...
Only their sexy little tryst isn't quite what they signed up for. Because for the next month, Mon and Olivia are working on the same movie. Together. Now they're discovering they have a lot more in common than Pinoyness and sizzling chemistry. But how do you find yourself and your person when you're caught between two different worlds?
From showing up to glowing up, these characters are on the path to leading their best lives and finding sizzling romance along the way.
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One dangerous night
by Cathy Maxwell
Fleeing to her family home in Ireland after a devastating betrayal, Elise Lanscarr, when her stagecoach crashes in a storm, is rescued by a rough-looking, albeit handsome stranger, and finds this night is just the beginning of an unexpected, often dangerous, adventure which puts their hearts at risk. Original.
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Old flames and new fortunes : a novel
by Sarah Hogle
Using the language of flowers to help the hopeful manifest their love lives, flora fortunist Romina Tempest, when her shop's potential financier shares news of his wedding, must fake-date her colleague to score an invite, which leads to an unexpected—and unwanted—reunion with the man who broke her heart. Original.
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The Temple of Persephone
by Isabella Kamal
Bridgerton meets Greek mythology in Isabella Kamal's delightful historical romance debut, The Temple of Persephone.
Persephone Honeyfield is witty, intelligent, and very aware that the only way to escape the monotony of the life she shares with her father and sister in the English countryside--and the wagging, ever-critical tongues of the people around her--is through marriage. She also knows the likelihood of it being a love match is nearly zero.
Aidon Barrington has carried on the legacy of his family's funeral furnishing business, losing himself in the process. A shell of his former charming self, he's traded his reputation as a rake for that of a recluse and regularly appears in the scandal sheets as London's mysterious Lord of the Dead.
When Persephone finds herself at Gallowsgate--the old Barrington estate--on a seemingly simple errand, an unexpected run-in with the Lord of the Dead himself leaves her on the brink of ruination. With no other way to silence the village rumor mill, or save her sister's reputation, Persephone agrees to marry Aidon, becoming the wife of a man she hardly knows.
Persephone finds herself increasingly fascinated by her new husband, whose kind, patient nature stands in stark contrast to the ever-swirling rumors about him. But when the gossip begins to sound more like reality than fiction, she attempts to uncover the truth behind the Lord of the Dead while discovering she may have already lost her most guarded possession: her heart.
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The clinic : a novel
by Cate Quinn
Checking into a remote rehab facility on the Pacific Northwest coast as a patient to investigate her famous sister's death, Meg, battling her own addictions, searches for the truth, which is much more difficult than she imagined, especially since there's no one who can help her.
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The missing witness
by Allison Brennan
Framed for the murder of an FBI agent after testifying against David Chen and his illegal businesses, Kara Quinn goes on the run, determined to clear her name without putting her partner, Matt Costa, in danger.
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The mystery writer : a novel
by Sulari Gentill
When he is accused of murdering his sister Theo's literary mentor and lover, Gus, after Theo disappears, leaving behind clues in the form of a story, soon discovers that in order to protect the carefully constructed deceit, Theo, and everyone who ever looked for her, must die. Simultaneous.
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Maternal instinct
by Becky Masterman
Moving in with her difficult mother-in-law, Althea Deming, Grace, despite everyone thinking Althea is a sweetheart, including her daughter Shyla, is unable to trust her and vow to protect her family from Althea's malign influence, or live to regret it.
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Dysfunction junction : a novel
by Robin W. Pearson
"When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to reckon with a lifetime of memories they've long tried to bury. Only in facing the past will they find their path forward"
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Nonfiction : a novel
by Julie Myerson
Exploring maternal love as an emotional foundation to both crave and fear, this unflinching novel follows a mother as she tries to understand her self-destructive daughter while revisiting her own uneasy, unresolved relationship with her mother. Original.
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Playing with (wild)fire : a novel by Laura Pritchett"When a wildfire bears down on a mountain community, residents are forced to gather for safety-resulting in a tangle of love and lust that pulls people from their isolation, friendships that form across political divides, and a new hope for rethinking the ways humans inhabit the burning planet. Playing with Wildfire is a literary landscape that is an experiment in form: an astrology report; a grant application-turned-love-story; a phone call from Mother Earth; an obituary for a wildfire; a burned mountain's conversation with a lone woman and an injured bear. Every story captures how fire affects the human psyche and life, and how destruction can lead to renewal"
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The glass woman
by Alice McIlroy
"Iris Henderson wakes up in a hospital bed alone, with no memory of why or how she got there. Moments later, she is introduced to her husband Marcus, a man she does not even recognize. And things only get stranger from there. Iris is told that she volunteered to be the first test-subject for a ground-breaking AI therapy, and that she is the pioneering scientist behind the experimental treatment. Whilst everyone warns her to leave it alone, a confused Iris continually scratches beneath the surface of her seemingly happy marriage and successful career, setting a catastrophic chain of events in motion. Secrets will be revealed that have the capacity to destroy her whole life, but Iris can't stop digging..."
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Seed on the wind
by Rex Stout
"The lawyer, the jeweler, the art critic, and the oil-company man...self-possessed, independent Lora Winter has had a child with each of them. But when one of these men drives up to her house with a fifth man in the car, Lora runs to hide...a masterful psychological jigsaw puzzle that is miles from a traditional crime novel, but whose desperate characters nevertheless resort to kidnapping, blackmail and possibly even murder"
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Ripley's game
by Patricia Highsmith
Scorned at an elegant gala, debonair art connoisseur, millionaire, and sociopath Tom Ripley comes up with an ingenious and subtle way to exact his revenge for the insult. Reprint.
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Cirque du slay : a Hayden & friends mystery
by Rob Osler
Junior High teacher and gay dating Blogger Hayden McCall and his best friend Hollister investigate after the star of an upcoming fundraiser is discovered dead in her hotel suite with their frenemy Sarah, who is charged with the crime.
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In want of a viscount
by Lorraine Heath
Arriving in England in a desperate search of investors to keep her family business afloat, American Leonora Garrison finds fate leading her to Viscount Wren and torn between desire and duty, risks everything to be in his arms. Original.
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The single dad project
by Naima Simone
When her hot one-night-stand turns out to be the man leading the restoration project she's been hired to photograph, and his sweet little girl has decided she's her new bestie, Flo Dennison, as things become complicated, must decide if one wild night can become so much more. Original.
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What happened to Nina? : a thriller
by Dervla McTiernan
Two families are pitted against each other—one seeking justice in the disappearance of their daughter, the other desperate to clear their son's name.
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The trail of lost hearts
by Tracey Garvis Graves
After her fianc� dies and she discovers that he was actually already married with children, Wren Waters escapes to the Pacific Northwest for a getaway and throws herself into the world of geocaching, a hobby for modern-day treasure hunters.
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A great country : a novel
by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
This latest novel from the New York Times best-selling author explores how the aftermath of the arrest of a young sibling in a close-knit Indian-American family exposes both their close ties and fractures. 150,000 first printing.
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Maya's laws of love
by Alina Khawaja
Maya Mirza's unlucky-in-love past seems to be turning around when she ends up in an arranged marriage to the on-paper perfect man; but as she heads to her wedding in Pakistan, she finally meets the man of her dreams, who isn't the man to whom she is arranged to be wed. Original.
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Sleeping giants
by Rene Denfeld
A novel by the author of The Child Finder explores sibling bonds, foster children, monsters masquerading as caretakers, terrifying secrets and the power of love to right even the most egregious wrongs.
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Off the air
by Christina Estes
When a controversial talk-show radio host dies under mysterious circumstances, journalist Jolene Garcia is on the case. A first novel.
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Deadly to the core
by Joyce Tremel
Suddenly widowed at 35, Kate Mulligan inherits her great uncle's Pennsylvania fruit orchard and moves just outside Gettysburg to open a cider house, but upon arrival finds the body of the orchard manager and begins an investigation.
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Murder wears a hidden face
by Rosemary Simpson
In 1891 New York, when new Chinese cultural attaché Lord Peng is murdered, Prudence and Geoffrey join former detective Warren Lowry in his investigation, which turns complicated when the rest of the Peng family flee into the dark heart of Chinatown to elude a killer bent on revenge for a long-ago injustice.
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Forgotten sisters : a novel
by Cynthia Pelayo
Two sisters with a true-crime podcast and a haunted past become suspicious when a devoted listener tries to start up a relationship with one of the pair, as mysterious drownings and disappearances increase near their Chicago home. Original.
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Fatal witness
by Patricia Bradley
"Although she witnessed the murder of her parents 25 years ago, Dani Bennett has no memory of the event. However, it's clear that the killer remembers her when she returns to Pearl Springs in search of answers. Local K-9 Deputy Mark Lassiter is determined to protect her but who will protect her heart?"
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The unquiet bones : a novel
by Loreth Anne White
When human remains are found, reopening a decades-old case, a group of friends, highly respected, affluent members of their communities, begins to fracture as homicide detective Jane Munro and forensic anthropologist Dr. Ella Queen get closer to the truth of what happened on an autumn night 47 years ago.
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The friendship study
by Ruby Barrett
"Jesse Logan doesn't want a fresh start. He wants his old life back-before an injury made his career as a firefighter impossible, before his grandfather's Alzheimer's got so bad he doesn't recognize Jesse anymore. When a friend tells him about a paid psychological study, Jesse sees it as a chance to get back to the man he was while making a little extra cash. All Lulu Banks is asking for is a fresh start. Back home after a devastating breakup, she's struggling to find her place. She's always been a lot-too loud, too eager, too obvious about her feelings. The friendship study seems like a great idea...until she's paired with Jesse Logan, who recently ghosted her after a blind date that led to a steamy make-out session. Now that old familiar tension is back. Despite the program's strict "no romance" rule, Jesse and Lulu are quick to find a work-around that allows them to explore their tenuous connection. And soon they're on their way to total self-improvement... As long as they don't get caught"
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Double take
by Lynette Eason
"Lainie Jackson survived her fiancâe's murder plot and her attacker is dead--isn't he? Now, with the help of former Army Ranger James Holton, it's time to find out if the past has come back to haunt her--or if the recent attempts on her life come from a new threat"
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Ripley under ground
by Patricia Highsmith
Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In these volumes, we find Ripley ensconced on a French estate with a wealthy wife, a world-class art collection, and a past to hide. In Ripley Under Ground (1970), an art forgery goes awry and Ripley is threatened with exposure; in The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld; and in Ripley Under Water (1991), Ripley is confronted by a snooping American couple obsessed with the disappearance of an art collector who visited Ripley years before. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior" (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette).
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Fast Charlie
by Victor Gischler
Charlie Swift, a loyal enforcer for a Central Florida crime boss, goes completely insane when his crew is murdered by a rival gangster, in the first novel of a new series from the author of Ink Mage. Original.
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The last word
by Gerri Lewis
When the very much alive Leocadia Arlington requests her own obituary by the end of the week, and then turns up dead, obituary writer Winter Snow falls under suspicion and, with the help of friends and family, must uncover the killer before the next obituary written is her own.
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Kilt trip
by Alexandra Kiley
In Scotland, one woman discovers more than the just the magic of the heartland's lochs and landscapes—but not before clashing with the proud Scotsman she's forced to work with. Original.
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The moorings of Mackerel Sky
by MZ
In Mackerel Sky, a small Maine lobstering town famous for its local myths and a close-knit community built through love and lore, readers will meet an unforgettable cast of characters who are still haunted by the legend of the Mermaid and the Captain who loved her.
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Flirty little secret
by Jessica Lepe
A shy, struggling school guidance counselor finds her footing as a wildly popular, and anonymous, social-media advice personality until one of her coworkers, whom she has a crush on, begins relying on her service. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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The last phone booth in Manhattan
by Beth Merlin
"Avery Lawrence thought she had it all-a charming fiancâe, a Broadway-themed star-studded engagement, and a picture-perfect life. But when her fraudster of a fiancâe's true identity is exposed and he's hauled away in handcuffs, Avery's world comes crashing down faster than the chandelier in Phantom of the Opera. Left stranded on Christmas Day outside the federal prison without her cell phone or wallet, Avery stumbles out of the cold and into the last phone booth in Manhattan. With nothing left to lose, Avery is directed by a mysterious voice on the line to the doorstep of the college boyfriend she thought she'd moved on from over six years ago. When a second encounter with the phone booth leads Avery to a life-changing audition for Marley Is Dead, a new musical based on Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Avery is blown away by the striking similarities between the show and her own life. Convinced the phone booth is somehow responsible for reuniting her with "the one that got away" and reigniting her acting career, maybe she will finally have the chance to rewrite her future. But as she grapples with the ghosts of her past and the uncertainty of her present, Avery must decide whether to follow her heart or pursue her dream"
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Finding Margaret Fuller : a novel
by Allison Pataki
Describes how Margaret Fuller became the beating heart of the Transcendentalists, becoming a role model to Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration to Nathaniel Hawthorne and a muse to Henry David Thoreau as he headed into the woods.
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The boy with the star tattoo : a novel
by Talia Carner
"1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the chãateau where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice and escapes to Spain, leaving her baby in the care of his nursemaid. By the time Claudette is able to return years later, her son has disappeared. Unbeknown to his anguished mother, the boy has been rescued by a Youth Aliyah agent searching for Jewish orphans. 1968: When Israeli naval officer Daniel Yardenrecruits Sharon Bloomenthal for a secret naval operation in Cherbourg, France, he can't imagine that he is the target of the agenda of the twenty-year-old grieving the recent loss of her fiancâe in a drowned submarine. Sharon suspects that Danny's past in Youth Aliyah may reflect that of her mysterious late mother and she sets out to track her boss's extraordinary journey as an orphan in a quaint French village all the way to Israel. As Danny focuses on the future of his people and on executing a daring,crucial operation under France's radar, he is unaware that the obsessed Sharon follows the breadcrumbs of clues across the country to find her answers. But she is wholly unprepared for the dilemma she must face upon solving the puzzle"
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Valley verified
by Kyla Zhao
Swapping high fashion for high tech, Zoe Zeng, leaving NYC behind, starts work with an app startup, but soon discovers in an industry claiming to change the world for the better, not everyone's intentions are pure. Original.
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The partner plot
by Kristina Forest
When successful celebrity stylist Violet Greene and her high school boyfriend Xavier Wright wake up married after hooking up in Vegas, they decide both their careers could benefit from the marriage, but instead get an unexpected second shot at happily ever after. Original.
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One last shot
by Susan May Warren
When music star Oaken Fox joins Alaska Air One Rescue for a reality show, EMT Boo Kingston, who isn't impressed by his fame, is tasked with training him and they must learn to work together when five women go missing from a resort during a bachelorette weekend gone wrong. Original.
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The princess of Las Vegas : a novel
by Chris Bohjalian
Living in the Buckingham Palace Casino, Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator with her own musical cabaret, finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession.
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All the world beside
by Garrard Conley
In 18th century Cana, Massachusetts, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield, a pillar of the local community, develops a passionate relationship with physician Arthur Lyman and their families must deal with secrets, lies and judgements at the start of the Great Awakening.
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The good, the bad, and the aunties
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
While in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her family, newlywed Meddy Chan, when a former beau of Second Aunt crashes the party, is unwittingly drawn into a decades-long war between Jakarta's most powerful business factions, along with her Aunties, and must come with a plan to save them all.
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The duchess
by Sophie Jordan
Chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying for position in the hierarchy of the ton. Original.
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Wolf at the table : a novel
by Adam Rapp
A Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-finalist playwright presents a harrowing multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst.
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I cheerfully refuse : a novel
by Leif Enger
In a climate-ravaged America, a grieving musician sails a sentient Lake Superior, seeking his lost love amidst rising corpses, crumbling empires, and an unexpected rebellion sparked by his own gentle spirit.
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Jaded
by Ela Lee
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what, exactly, happened—and how much she's willing to put up with to make her way to the top of the corporate ladder.
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Kill for me, kill for you
by Steve Cavanagh
Two ordinary women make a dangerous pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink.
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The Long Swim
by Terese Svoboda
A runaway circus lion haunts a small town where two lovers risk more than their respective marriages. A junket to Cuba and an ambassador's dalliance with a niece hide dark secrets and political revolution. "I've always had a knife," says the unstable stepson to his parents. Inventive, dark, and absurd, the stories in The Long Swim capture Terese Svoboda's clear-eyed, wry angle on the world: a place of violence and uncertainty but also wild beauty, adventure, and love both lasting and ephemeral. Her characters strive for escape--through romance, travel, or more self-destructive pursuits--and collide with the constraints of family and home, their longing for freedom and autonomy often at odds with the desire for safety and harmony.
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James : a novel
by Percival Everett
Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
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Hathor and the prince : a novel
by J. J. McAvoy
As the London season comes to a close, Hathor Du Bell, when the queen presents her nephew, a prince, during the weeklong society event at her family's estate, finds a flirtatious rivalry sparking a genuine romance as she fights to make a name of her own despite society's expectations of her. Original.
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The morningside : a novel
by Tâea Obreht
Settling at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City, Silvia, struggling with her new reality, becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse and is determined to unravel the truth about this woman's life, and her own haunted past.
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The Innocents
by Bridget Walsh
In the hotly anticipated follow-up to T he Tumbling Girl , Minnie and Albert take on a new crime-solving quest in the world of a Victorian music hall.
The Variety Palace Music Hall is in trouble, due in no small part to a gruesome spate of murders that unfolded around it a few months previously. Between writing, managing the music hall and trying to dissuade her boss from installing a water tank in the building, Minnie Ward has her hands full. Her complicated relationship with detective Albert Easterbrook doesn't even bear thinking about. But when a new string of murders tears through London, Minnie and Albert are thrown together once more. Strangely, the crimes seem to link back to a tragedy that took place fourteen years ago, leaving 183 children dead. And given that the incident touched so many people's lives, everyone is a suspect . . .
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Expiration dates : a novel
by Rebecca Serle
Every time she meets a new man, Daphne Bell receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together; usually she is right, but when she meets Jake, her whole system is thrown for a loop.
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Floating hotel
by Grace Curtis
Tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery that spans the stars.
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A love discovered
by Tracie Peterson
"Marybeth and Edward are compelled by their circumstances to marry as they trek west to the newly formed railroad town of Cheyenne. But life in Cheyenne is fraught with danger, and they find that they need each other more than ever. Despite the trials they face, will happiness await them in this arrangement of convenience?"
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Bad animals : a novel
by Sarah Braunstein
A Maine librarian is fired after a teen accuses her of spying on her romantic romps in the bathroom and reaches out to her favorite author to speak at their library and help her clear her name.
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On her own : a novel
by Lihie Lapid
In a novel set between the eve of Passover and Israel's Independence Day a tense story about two families looking for redemption, the transformative bonds between strangers and the unexpected places from which love can grow.
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The stars turned inside out : a novel
by Nova Jacobs
The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy and the high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our universe.
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Every single secret
by Christina Dodd
A woman lives alone in an isolated lighthouse on the coast of California ... until a man appears on her doorstep who knows every single secret she's kept since one fateful night.
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Choice : a novel
by Neel Mukherjee
A London publisher, Ayush, grapples with how to live and pushes himself and those around him, including his family and colleagues, into radical experiments that expose the tangled web of choice, consumption and the ethics of our interconnected world.
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The reappearance of Rachel Price
by Holly Jackson
"When her mother, who disappeared 16 years before, reappears while a true crime documentary about her case is being filmed, 18-year-old Bel, not buying her mom's unbelievable story about what happened to her, must uncover the real reason Rachel Price is back from the dead. Simultaneous eBook."
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