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Hidden Gems: Fiction Books You Might Have Missed July 2022 |
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Jackie & me
by Louis Bayard
In 1951, debutante Jacqueline Bouvier, after catching the eye of young politician Jack Kennedy, is groomed to be the perfect political wife by Jacks best friend and fixer, Lem Billings, leading up to a complicated marriage. By the author of Courting Mr. Lincoln and The Pale Blue Eye.
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Counterfeit : a novel
by Kirstin Chen
Ava Wong, a strait-laced Chinese American lawyer and her former college roommate from Mainland China, who dropped out under mysterious circumstances, join forces in an ingenious counterfeit operation selling replica luxury handbags.
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The lies I tell
by Julie Clark
Determined to expose con artist Meg Williams, the woman who upended her life 10 years earlier, for who she really is, Kat Roberts begins to question her long-held assumptions as the two women grow close, leading her to wonder who Megs real target is.
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Cult classic
by Sloane Crosley
As her wedding day approaches, Lola is surprised and suspicious when she begins running into all of her exes in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake.
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Woman of light : a novel
by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
In 1930s Denver, Luz Little Light Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, begins having visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory where she must save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion.
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Two storm wood : a novel
by Philip Gray
After World War I, Amy Vanneck travels to the desolate battlefields of northern France to recover her fiance’s body, but her search is upended when she discovers the scene of a gruesome mass murder and begins to have suspicions that her fiancé might not really be dead.
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A Caribbean heiress in Paris
by Adriana Herrera
Three best friends at the 1889 Worlds Fair have goals: going to the most scandalous places in Paris, kissing disreputable men and absolutely not falling in love in the first novel of a new series.
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Flying solo : a novel
by Linda Holmes
Returning to her Maine hometown to handle her grandmothers estate, Laurie investigates a love letter and a mysterious wooden duck she found at the bottom of a cedar chest and is swept up in a journey of self-discovery and antiques.
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Under fortunate stars
by Ren Hutchings
"Fleeing the final days of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven's freighter the Jonah breaks down in a strange rift in deep space, with little chance of rescue--until they encounter the research vessel Gallion, which claims to be from 152 years in the future. The Gallion's chief engineer Uma Ozakka has always been fascinated with the past...When the Gallion rescues a run-down junk freighter, Ozakka is shocked to recognize the Five's legendary ship--and the Five's famed leader, Eldric Leesongronski, among the crew".
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Aurora : a novel
by David Koepp
When a solar storm knocks out the power across the globe, Aubrey Wheeler, in Aurora, Illinois, becomes the fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood, while across the country, her brother, a Silicon Valley CEO, hunkers own in his gilded desert bunker, leading to a long-overdue reckoning between siblings.
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Yerba Buena
by Nina LaCour
When much sought-after bartender Sara Foster meets Emilie Dubois at the Yerba Buena restaurant, their connection is instant, but the damage they both carry, and the choices they made, keep pulling them apart.
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Can't look away
by Carola Lovering
Lonely and feeling out of place in their wealthy suburb, Molly, plagued by fertility issues, believes shes finally found a friend in newcomer Sabrina, but soon discovers that this womans secrets are linked to her own, forcing her to confront an obsessive love from her past.
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Iona Iverson's rules for commuting
by Clare Pooley
An eclectic group of train commuters traveling from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station discover that talking to strangers can help them learn more about themselves in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Authenticity Project.
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Last Call at the Nightingale : A Mystery
by Katharine Schellman
In 1824 New York, Vivian, whose days are filled drudgery, escapes to the Nightingale, a secret dance club, until a dead body and police raid traps her between the citys wealthy and New Yorks underground where lives of the poor are considered disposable, including Vivians own.
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