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New Debut Novels July 2022 |
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For the love of April French
by Penny Aimes
"A long-standing regular at kink club Frankie's, April's kind of seen it all. As a trans woman, she's used to being the scenic rest stop for others on their way to a happily-ever-after...Then Dennis Martin walks into Frankie's, fresh from Seattle and looking a little lost. April just meant to be friendly, but one flirtatious drink turns into one hot night...But when their relationship moves from complicated to impossible, April will have to decide how much she's willing to want"
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Deep water
by Emma Bamford
Responding to a rescue call in the Indian Ocean, a Captain discovers a mortally injured man and his traumatized wife who describes how their exotic trip to a tiny, remote island forced her to become a murderer.
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Mother ocean father nation : a novel
by Nishant Batsha
"A riveting, tender debut novel, following a brother and sister whose paths diverge--one forced to leave, one left behind--in the wake of a nationalist coup in the South Pacific"
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The scent of burnt flowers : a novel
by Blitz Bazawule
In 1965 Alabama, a newly engaged Black couple, after one fateful night turns them into fugitives, seek asylum in Ghana where they encounter a Highlife musician, which starts a journey of lust, magic and danger that ends in chaos as they each must confront their secrets and each other.
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The gatekeeper
by James Byrne
After foiling an attack at the hotel where hes staying, Dez, a retired mercenary, musician and gatekeeper, is back in action and drawn into a dangerous conspiracy involving media manipulation, militias, an armed coup and an attempt to fracture the very country in which we live.
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A proposal they can't refuse
by Natalie Caña
Kamilah, a Puerto Rican chef and Liam, an Irish American whiskey distiller are blackmailed by their grandfathers, best friends since boyhood, into getting married or risk losing the building that houses both their businesses.
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Rainbow rainbow : stories
by Lydia Conklin
Capturing both the dark and lovable sides of the human experience, a collection of humurous and heartrending stories follows queer, trans and gender-nonconforming characters as they seek love and connection.
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These impossible things
by Salma El-Wardany
Each navigating love, sex and the one night that changes it all, three Muslim best friends, Malak, Kees and Jenna, as their lives begin to take different paths, must find a way back to each other as they reconcile faith, family and tradition.
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More than you'll ever know : a novel
by Katie Gutierrez
Told through alternating timelines, this gripping mystery and wrenching family drama follows struggling crime writer Cassie Brown as she becomes obsessed with a 1985 murder case involving a woman whose double life led to murder and vows to tell the real story.
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A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times
by Meron Hadero
A collection of short stories from the award-winning Ethiopian American author explore themes of race, gender, class, friendship and betrayal and include the tale of a man losing his home in Addis Ababa and of intergenerational refugees living in Iowa.
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Nuclear family : a novel
by Joseph Han
Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, the members of a Korean family living in Hawai'i, when their son tries and fails to cross the Korean demilitarized zone, find themselves under suspicion, while their daughter gets constantly high as she witnesses her family's undoing.
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Ordinary monsters
by J. M. Miro
At an institute where children with giftsthe Talentshave been gatheredand where the world of the dead and the world of the living threaten to collide, they discover the truth about their abilities and that the worst monsters sometimes come bearing the sweetest gifts.
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The favor
by Nora Murphy
Even though they've never met, Leah and McKenna lead parallel lives, trapped in marriages where their perfect husbands are not what they seem, and Leah, deciding to keep an eye out for McKenna, intervenes one night, irrevocably changing both of their lives.
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On rotation : a novel
by Shirlene Obuobi
With her life crashes down around her, Ghanaian-American med student Angie Appiah, who's spent her life being the Perfect Immigrant Daughter, questions everything: her career, her friendships and her taste in men, until she meets someone who changes everything.
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Just by looking at him : a novel
by Ryan O'Connell
Unable to stop cheating on his boyfriend with various sex workers, and grappling with an intensifying alcohol addiction, a successful TV writer with cerebral palsy, Eliot, searches for redemption, but soon learns that facing his demons is easier said than done.
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Moonlight and the pearler's daughter
by Lizzie Pook
To solve the mystery of her missing father, a pearl-diving boat captain, Eliza, in 1896 Australia, must decide the price she is willing to pay to find the truth as she is submerged in a seedy underbelly of a town rife with corruption, prejudice and blackmail.
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The Bartender's Cure
by Wesley Straton
Seduced by her new job as a bartender at Joes Apothecary, a beloved neighborhood bar in Brooklyn, Samantha Fisher, deferring law school for a year, must decide between the life she thought she wanted and the possibility of a different kind of future.
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Last summer on State Street : a novel
by Toya Wolfe
In the summer of 1999, Felicia Fe Fe Stevens, when she welcomes the mysterious Tonya into her group of friends, finds her life upended as the neighborhood falls down around them, forever changing the community, their families and their ability to trust each other.
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