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Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
From an acclaimed sci-fi author comes a cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own restaurant.
Dawn of Fate and Fire by Mariely Lares
A Zorro reimagining, and the second book in a duology, weaves Mesoamerican mythology and 16th-century
Mexican history into a swashbuckling historical fantasy filled with magic, intrigue, treachery and romance.
The Dragon Wakes with Thunder by K. X. Song
After winning a war and facing imprisonment for defying tradition, Hai Meilin — guided by the sea dragon
Qinglong — must navigate palace politics, rising rebellions, and conflicting loyalties as rival factions across the Three Kingdoms seek her power for their own ends.
The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's the Stand by Christopher Golden and Brian Kenne, eds
Set during and after the events of The Stand, this authorized anthology gathers original stories from acclaimed writers who expand on the novel’s apocalyptic world, exploring survival, morality, and human resilience amid civilization’s collapse and the uncertain rebuilding that follows.
Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
A dark reimagining of “Snow White” steeped in poison, intrigue and treason of the most magical kind.
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
Alice has sacrificed everything to work with Professor Grimes at Cambridge, the world’sgreatest magician, but when he dies in a magical accident and is sent to Hell, she andrival Peter follow him, using only tales of
Orpheus and Dante to guide them.
Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
A young witch teaches her mother how to do magic — with very unexpected results — in a novel about
family, identity and the power of love.
The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar
As political pressure mounts in the faltering kingdom of Esquaveta, Princess Tullia falls for a scribe, forcing disgraced court magician Anatole to choose between salvaging his reputation and protecting the one person who still believes in him.
The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown
A trio of seemingly everyday people are members of a secret society tasked with finding and protecting hidden magical objects — ordinary items with extraordinary properties.
Sub-Majer's Challenge by L. E. Modesitt
The Cover Girl: Some Starts Fall Before They Rise by Amy Rossi
A model comes to terms
with the manipulation she
suffered early in her career
from those she trusted the
most.
A Dog in Georgia by Lauren Grodstein
A missing dog in
Georgia sets Amy Webb on an
adventure away from her tumultuous
marriage and lackluster
personal life and
towards a journey of self-discovery
and joy.
Dogs by C. Mallon
Cruising Carbon’s lonely backroads one night, the quiet Hal witnesses both beauty and horror in his troubled hometown, where a catastrophic chain of events threatens his fragile bond with his compassionate friend Cody John and shatters their world.
Dominion by Addie E. Citchens
In a taut
Southern family drama, the
sins of a favorite son rock a
small Mississippi town.
Family Spirit by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Flashout by Alexis Soloski
A thrillseeking
young woman joins a
radical theater troupe in a
suspenseful novel of art, seduction
and the deadly limits
of liberation.
The Island of Last Things by Emma Sloley
plores the lives of two
zookeepers at the last zoo in
the world.
Loved One by Aisha Muharrar
Julia’s first-love-turned-close-friend, Gabe, dies unexpectedly at twenty-nine, and after beginning an intercontinental quest to recover his possessions, she collides with Elizabeth, the last woman he loved, who insists on withholding Gabe’s beloved guitar — both women, it turns out, have something to hide.
A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi
Kinga, a woman
experiencing life through
seven distinct daily personas
with varying traits and professions,
faces internal chaos and
external threat when one of
her selves discovers a captive
in their shared apartment, forcing a reckoning
with a potential saboteur.
Starting from Here by Paula Saunders
In 1970s
South Dakota, aspiring dancer
René leaves home to pursue
elite training across the
Southwest, navigating adolescence,
artistic ambition, and a
series of fraught encounters
while longing for love, acceptance, and a place
to belong.
The Sunflower Boys by Sam Wachman
A young
boy wrestling with his sexuality
as war breaks out in modern
Ukraine.
This Kind of Trouble by Tochi Eze
In newly independent
1960s Lagos, Margaret
and Benjamin — drawn
together by love and shared
heritage — must confront
mental illness, cultural dissonance,
and a buried past that
resurfaces decades later through their grandson’s
struggles, forcing a reunion shaped by
memory and legacy.
This Vicious Hunger by Francesca May
What Hunger by Catherine Dang
In the summer
before high school, Ronny
Nguyen drifts through
boredom and sibling anxiety
until tragedy fractures her
Vietnamese American family,
awakening in her a strange,
primal hunger that blurs the line between grief,
identity, and a dark new power she cannot fully
control.
The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
After her
husband is murdered, Hannah
Cole fights to save her struggling
confectionary shop on
Piccadilly, contends with suspicion
from magistrate Henry
Fielding, and finds an unlikely
ally in William Devereux, whose introduction of
iced cream sparks both opportunity and peril in
eighteenth-century London.
The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso
In 1938,
11-year-old Lisavet Levy
becomes trapped in a mysterious
library of memory called
the time space, where her
path intertwines with
American timekeeper Ernest
Duquesne, whose 1965 death compels his niece
Amelia to uncover buried truths amid shifting
histories and shadowy CIA intrigue.
Dear Miss Lake by A. J. Pearce
During
wartime, advice columnist
Emmy Lake and the Woman’s
Friend staff relocate to the
countryside, where Emmy
balances rural life, a looming
wedding and the possibility of war correspondence,
in the fourth novel of the series following
Mrs. Porter Calling.
Fonseca by Jessica Francis Kane
In 1952, pregnant
Penelope Fitzgerald journeys
to a remote Mexican town
with her young son to pursue
an inheritance, only to find
rival claimants, a chaotic
household full of artists and
opportunists and a handsome stranger who
could change everything.
The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis
Neighbors in a small village
in 18th-century England are
convinced five sisters are
turning into dogs.
L. A. Women by Ella Berman
In 1960s L.A., writer and
Hollywood outsider Lane
becomes envious when socialite
and fellow writer Gala
gains fame; 10 years later she
betrays Gala by writing a successful
book based on her
life — her only problem is Gala’s now been
missing for months.
The Last Assignment by Erika Robuck
The Lost Baker of Vienna by Sharon Kurtzman
Zoe Rosenzweig investigates
her family’s Holocaust
history, uncovering the 1946
story of her ancestor Chana, a
young Viennese baker torn
between survival, family duty,
and love in a fragile postwar world still
shadowed by trauma.
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure by Rhys Bowen
In Surrey, England, 1938,
blindsided by her husband’s
divorce appeal, Ellie impulsively
heads to the South of
France with housekeeper
Mavis and elderly friend Dora
until their Bentley breaks down in Saint Benet,
where Ellie is drawn to fisherman Nico — but war
looms.
This Here Is Love by Princess Joy L. Perry
In 17th-century
Virginia, enslaved girl
Bless, freeborn Black child
David, and indentured servant
Jack Dane each grapple with
survival, identity, and belonging
as their lives converge on
contested land, forcing them to redefine
freedom, family and love in a brutal new world.
World Pacific by Peter Mann
Departure 37 by Scott Carson
After pilots across America
refuse to fly following mysterious
calls from their mothers,
some long dead, a teenager
in Maine becomes entangled
in a decades-old secret tied to
a 1962 naval experiment, a
deadly discovery and rising global tensions.
The Faceless Thing We Adore by Hester Steel
After
Aoife escapes to the isolated
shores of the farmstead
commune, things become less
and less idyllic, as a disappearing
cave looms above an
ocean no one dares step foot
in, mysterious crying fills the night hours and a
rot is spreading across the island.
House of Monstrous Women by Daphne Fama
In 1986
Philippines, Josephine accepts
an invitation to a childhood
friend’s eerie, labyrinthine
house to play a game that
promises her heart’s desire,
only to find herself trapped in
a deadly contest where winning may cost her
blood.
Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
One woman must go up
against horrifying odds to save
the world. By the USA Today
bestselling author of Camp
Damascus.
The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas
In 1765, as
plague ravages Zacatecas,
Alba seeks refuge in her
fiancé’s remote mining estate
but soon spirals into convulsions
and darkness, forcing
her into a dangerous alliance
with his cousin Elías as demonic forces, buried
secrets, and forbidden desire close in.
Tantrum by Rachel Eve Moulton
After giving birth to
Lucia, a ravenous, unsettling
baby with a devilish glint,
Thea struggles with growing
dread, resurfacing childhood
trauma, and the terrifying possibility
that her daughter’s
monstrous hunger could consume the world
around her.
The Unseen by Ania Ahlborn
After a devastating loss,
Isla Hansen takes in a mysterious
orphan on her remote
Colorado property, but as
unsettling phenomena disrupt
the household, her family
begins to suspect the child’s
presence may be tied to a reality-warping force
beyond their comprehension.
The Frequency of Living Things by Nick Fuller Googins
When middle sister Ara
lands in jail, her responsible
twin Josie, fading rockstar
sister Emma, and estranged
mother Bertie must each
confront past wounds and
shifting roles as they navigate addiction,
ambition, and the fragile bonds holding their
fractured family together.
Indian Country by Shobha Rao
Independent Janavi and
engineer Sagar are forced into
an arranged marriage in India
and must relocate to Montana
for Sagar’s work, but when
Sagar’s unfriendly colleagues
suspect him after his coworker
drowns, is he paying the price for the white
man’s arrogance?
Moderation by Elaine Castillo
When Girlie Delmundo’s
parent company purchases
Fairground — the preeminent
VR content provider — she
becomes an elite VR moderator,
which solves her family’s
money and mobility problems,
despite the isolation that VR requires; but when
she meets Playground’s cofounder William
Cheung, she finds herself falling in love.
People Like Us by Jason Mott
A novel rooted in reality
follows two Black writers trying
to find peace in a world riven
with gun violence, one on a
global book tour after a big
prize win, the other set to give
a speech at a school after a
shooting.
Seduction Theory by Emily Adrian
Sunbirth by An Yu
As the
sun ominously diminishes over
the desolate village of Five
Poems Lake, a young pharmacist
and her sister Dong Ji
search for answers in their
father’s past and the arrival of
mysterious Beacons, hoping
to survive a surreal, encroaching darkness that
threatens to consume their world.
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us by Yiming Ma
In the future, China
is the sole global superpower
and citizens can record and
transfer memories between
minds.
The Unbroken Coast by Nalini Jones
In 1978 Bombay,
retired professor Francis
Almeida crosses paths with a
sick infant in a nearby fishing
village, unknowingly beginning
a bond that will resurface
years later amid shifting urban
landscapes, generational change, and the quiet
unraveling of place and purpose.
The Dead Come to Stay by Brandy Schillace
When
neurodivergent American Jo
Jones relocates to her family’s
North Yorkshire estate, she’s
pulled into a murder investigation
with gruff detective
James MacAdams, uncovering
ties to missing teens, illicit artifact trading, and
buried family secrets harbored by the region’s
polished elite.
Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill
Within a COVID quarantine
train, more than one killer
lurks. By the USA Today bestselling
author of The Woman
in the Library.
For Duck's Sake by Donna Andrews
When a
skeleton is uncovered in her
brother’s yard, Meg helps investigate
the decades-old
mystery while preparing for
Caerphilly’s first Mutt March in
the latest addition to the long-running series
following Between a Flock and Hard Place.
Gone in the Night by Joanna Schaffhausen
Detective Annalisa Vega’s
estranged, incarcerated
brother tasks her with tracking
down the real killer behind the
murder that his fellow inmate,
Joe Green, was imprisoned for.
Halloween Night Murder by Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, and Liz Ireland
In this trio of
Halloween-themed novellas, a
reporter in Maine investigates
a teen’s mysterious death, a
group of friends shelters in a
spooky farmhouse during a
storm, and Mrs. Claus untangles magical
mischief in Christmastown when Halloween
chaos strikes.
Hatchet Girls by Joe R. Lansdale
Hap and Leonard find
themselves in a vicious and
ridiculous situation — just as
the best friends may finally be
calling it quits.
Hunter's Heart Ridge by Sarah Stewart Taylor
Detective
Frank Warren and his formerly
CIA-connected neighbor Alice
Bellows return to investigate
the death of a federal judge.
Just Another Dead Author by Katarina Bivald
A bookish
mystery transports readers to
a writers’ retreat in France,
where a famous writer is
murdered, and the 20
wannabe authors at the retreat
all have a motive.
The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo Nichols
Mrs. B, the landlady of
The Marigold Cottages is a
stubborn idealist who only
rents to people she cares
about: Sophie, an anxious
young playwright with a dark
past; Hamilton, an agoraphobe who likes to
overshare; Ocean, a queer sculptor raising two
kids alone; and more.
Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library by Amanda Chapman
Tory, conservator
at Manhattan’s Mystery Guild
Library, discovers a woman in
the Christie Room who says
she’s Agatha Christie, there to
solve a future murder — so
when Tory’s cousin Nic gets involved in her talent
agent’s suspicious death, she turns to Mrs.
Christie for help.
Murder at Arleigh by Alyssa Maxwell
In April 1903, Emma and
Derrick Andrews attend cousin
Reggie’s wedding to heiress
Cathleen at the home of practical
joker Harry Lehr and wife
Bessie; when Bessie admits Harry is cruel in
private and may be plotting to murder her,
Emma agrees to investigate.
Murder by the Book by Amie Schaumberg
Detective Ian Carter is
shaken by a student’s dead
body posed like Hamlet’s
Ophelia, and when a chance
meeting with literature professor
Emma Reilly ends with her
accidentally solving the killer’s clue, she turns to
the books she loves for the key to unraveling the
crime.
The Story That Wouldn't Die by Christina Estes
Jolene Garcia refuses to
stop investigating, but
someone is determined to kill
the story — and maybe her.
Tomlinson's Wake by Randy Wayne White
The Witch's Orchard by Archer Sullivan
Former Air Force Special
Investigator Annie Gore is
getting by as a private
investigator and her latest
case takes her to an
Appalachian holler not unlike
the one where she grew up.
The Battle of the Bookshops by Poppy Alexander
A young woman is determined
to save her great-aunt’s
beloved bookshop from extinction
by the shiny new competition
— which also happens
to be run by the handsome
son of her family’s rivals.
The Blonde Who Came in from the Cold by Ally Carter
One year after vanishing
from her former lover and
fellow spy, a woman wakes up
handcuffed to him in a dark
unknown location, forcing the
estranged agents to survive a deadly conspiracy
together — despite a decade of secrets, betrayal,
and unresolved tension between them.
Knife in the Back by Karen Rose
After being framed for
stealing cocaine from
evidence and serving five
years in prison, Officer Naomi
Cranston is threatened again
by the crooks who framed her;
former cop Burke Broussard reluctantly agrees to
protect her and her son and prove her innocence.
Songs for Other People's Weddings by David Levithan and Jens Lekman
Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings
Eva Kitt is forced to
confront her ex Rylie Cooper
on a live episode of her show,
where Rylie makes her a deal:
allow him to take her on a
series of dates to make up for
his toxic behavior, then
debrief them all on his channel.
You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs by Ebony Ladelle
Set
across the campuses of
Historically Black Colleges and
Universities, this collection
follows students and alumni
navigating identity, legacy, and unexpected
romance — from forbidden crushes and musical
ambitions to activist causes and aviation
dreams — capturing the transformative power of
Black love and community.
The Cruel Dawn by Rachel Howzell Hall
The Ever King by L. J. Andrews
When Erik, the vengeful
ruler of the Ever Kingdom,
escapes his watery prison, he
kidnaps the innocent daughter
of his enemy as part of a
ruthless plan to reclaim his
throne — only to find himself torn between
revenge and the unexpected pull of love.
The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk by Carissa Broadbent
Imprisoned by vengeful
gods after sacrificing everything,
Mische and Asar reunite
for a final quest through collapsing realms and
divine conflict, seeking the god of death’s power
and a second chance at love, redemption, and
immortality.
Fallen Gods by Rachel Van Dyken
In a remote Norwegian town, Liv seeks answers but instead uncovers an ancient, perilous tale entwining myth, secrets and a dangerous romance, in the new novel by the author of The Chemistry of Us.
House of the Beast by Michelle Wong
Three Shattered Souls by Mai Corland
Warrior Princess Assassin by Brigid Kemmerer
Three characters —
princess caught between duty
and desire, the fearsome
warrior king she’s promised to
and the assassin tasked with
hunting them down — are torn
between chasing, betraying and craving each
other.
Something to Look Forward to: Fictions by Fannie Flagg
This collection of thirty
humorous and heartfelt stories
follows everyday Americans —
from a Kansas great-grandmother
to small-town café
regulars — navigating love,
loss, and change with wit and resilience, all
observed by a curious outsider trying to understand
the quirks of the human spirit.
Where Are You Really from: Stories by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Blending the surreal, disturbing,
and darkly comic, this
collection of six stories and a
novella explores identity, obsession,
and self-deception
through provocative tales of
murder plots, artistic entanglements, and
uncanny encounters.
13 Months Haunted by Jimmy Juliano
Quiet library clerk
Piper Lowery befriends a
peculiar new eighth grader
and her overprotective
mother, soon discovering unsettling
rumors that hint at a
dark and dangerous secret
blossoming within the young girl.
Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R. Weaver
In a climate-ravaged
landscape where AI and
humans vie for political power,
a journalist must unravel a
murderous plot that will either
upend the world or save it.
The Break-In by Katherine Faulkner
After killing an
intruder in self-defense while
hosting a playdate at her
London home, Alice becomes
obsessed with uncovering his
identity, unraveling unsettling
clues that suggest her seemingly
perfect life may be built on hidden
betrayals.
The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine
When Thea
Woods is chosen to work with
Maria Capello on her sure-tobe-
infamous memoir, she finds
that there might be something
sinister lurking behind the
Capello family.
Emma on Fire by James Patterson and Emily Raymond
What Emma Caroline Blake
has planned at New
Hampshire’s Ridgemont
Academy is to change the
world will shock all involved.
Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham
Returning to coastal
South Carolina for the
summer, journalist Claire
Campbell takes a job at a
vineyard near where her sister
vanished decades earlier —
and when she uncovers a disturbing
old diary, she begins to suspect the past
holds deadly secrets, from the best-selling
author of A Flicker in the Dark.
The Glass Man by Anders De La Motte
Detective Leonore Asker
investigates a mutilated body
found on her estranged
father’s farm while writer
Martin Hill uncovers eerie
legends at a remote estate,
their paths converging as a mysterious figure
known as the Glass Man emerges from the
shadows.
High Season by Katie Bishop
After the death of a
troubled young socialite, the
victim’s twin brother is determined
to hold the family
together, at any cost.
Jenny Cooper Has a Secret by Joy Fielding
While visiting
a friend at memory care facility
Legacy Place, Linda meets
Jenny, a 92-year-old dementia
patient who admits that she
kills people; Linda dismisses
her “secret” as the confusion
of Jenny’s ailing mind until a fellow patient
dies.
Kiss Her Goodbye by Lisa Gardner
Frankie is called to Tucson,
Arizona, to find a missing
Afghan refugee, whose friend
suspects she is in grave
danger — before it is too
late.
Last Seen by J. T. Ellison
From a New York Times
bestselling author, comes a
twisted psychological thriller
about the bonds of family and
the disconnect between
memory and the truth.
Leverage by Amran Gowani
When Al, star of hedge
fund Prism Capital, loses $300
million, the politically connected
founder demands he
recover the money in three
months or take the fall for
insider trading — to survive, Al
must outfox one of the world’s most powerful
men.
Lime Juice Money by Jo Morey
A woman is trapped in an
increasingly volatile relationship
5,000 miles from home in
a Central American jungle. A
first novel.
The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen
When Amanda visits
her institutionalized twin
Georgia — accused of murdering
their younger sister — she’s
drawn into a chilling spiral of
doubt, buried family tensions,
and psychological manipulation
that forces her to question the truth, her
past, and her own sanity.
Mississippi Blue 42 by Eli Cranor
A rookie FBI agent finds
herself caught in the tangled
web of a college football
empire — and the bloody
greed that fuels it.
My Father's House by Ulf Kvensler
The Once and Future Me by Melissa Pace
A woman
teetering between identities
embarks on a journey to
uncover her true self, challenging
the notions of sanity
and time as she fights to
correct the course of the world
and navigate the mystery of her very existence.
A first novel.
Sheepdogs by Elliot Ackerman
After being cast aside by
their countries, former CIA
operative Skwerl and Afghan
pilot Cheese join a covert
network to repossess a jet in
Africa, launching them into a
chaotic mission spanning
Kampala, Marseille Kyiv, and beyond, with unexpected
allies and escalating personal
entanglements.
Smuggler's Cove by Fern Michaels
Stillwater by Tanya Scott
After years of hiding
from his violent past as a
crime boss’s protégé, college
student Luke Harris — formerly
known as Jack Quinlan — is
forced to reclaim old instincts
when his former life resurfaces,
threatening the love, identity, and future
he’s struggled to build.
The Surrogate Mother by Freida McFadden
Abby’s
dream of having a child is endangered
when she discovers
that her personal assistant,
and the surrogate mother
carrying her child, as an unspeakable
secret.
Too Old for This by Samantha Downing
Retired and
hidden under a new identity,
Lottie Jones faces exposure
when a persistent journalist
starts digging into her murderous
past, forcing her to
confront old crimes and attempt one more cover-up before age — and
curiosity — catch up with her.
We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter
When two
girls vanish on fireworks night
in North Falls, Officer Emmy
Clifton races to uncover their
secrets and redeem her past
failure, only to find the town —
and those closest to her — harbor darker truths
than she ever imagined.
While the Getting Is Good by Matt Riordan
Amid the
gangland wars of Prohibition,
one fisherman’s long-shot play
to secure his family’s future
brings disaster to everyone he
loves.
Wounds by Sara Blaedel and Mads Peder Nordbo
As mutilated bodies
surface across Denmark, detectives
Liam Stark and Dea
Torp race to identify a serial
killer whose victims bear
weeks of inflicted wounds —
fearing that two missing teenage girls may be
next if they can’t stop the carnage in time.
The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas
Black Cherokee by Antonio Michael Downing
As her
hometown faces environmental
and cultural collapse,
Ophelia Blue Rivers embarks
on a powerful journey to understand
her Cherokee
Freedmen heritage and what
it means to truly belong when identity comes at
a cost.
For Richer for Poorer by Danielle Steel
As fashion
designer and single mother
Eugenia Ward faces business
setbacks, her daughter’s questionable,
lavish wedding and a
looming hurricane, she finds
unexpected support and a
chance for a new beginning with a real estate
developer.
Full Bloom by Francesca Serritella
After receiving a
mysterious perfume that transforms
her into the center of
attention, Iris Sunnegren navigates
newfound power, buried
trauma and the dark secrets of
New York’s elite, in the new
novel from the bestselling author of Ghosts of
Harvard.
The Grand Paloma Resort by Cleyvis Natera
As ambitious
resort manager Laura
nears a career-defining promotion,
her troubled sister
Elena becomes entangled in a
harrowing scandal involving
missing children, forcing both
women to confront the brutal realities of privilege,
exploitation, and sacrifice within a luxury
Dominican resort.
I Know How This Ends by Holly Smale
Margot
Wayward is in manically
gleeful self-destruct mode.
Following the implosion of a
10-year relationship, she’s
willfully derailing her
successful career, joyfully
taking down men on dating apps and living in
total chaos, until she meets the actual man she
had pictured in a vision.
The Incredible Kindness of Paper by Evelyn Skye
Decades after a mysterious
childhood bond is severed,
Chloe and Oliver navigate
adult loneliness and lingering
trauma in New York City, until
a trail of yellow origami roses
rekindles memories, hope, and the possibility of
reconnection.
Isabella's Not Dead by Beth Morrey
Fifty-three, jobless,
and with grown children,
Gwen travels across England
and Europe to discover why
friend Isabella disappeared
fifteen years ago, which tests
her marriage and puts her on
a collision course with reluctant acquaintances,
an eccentric mother-in-law, and a rabbit hole full
of clues.
Joy Moody Is Out of Time by Kerryn Mayne
On her twin
daughters’ twenty-first
birthday, Joy Moody — proprietor
of Bonbeach’s premier
laundromat — is found dead,
yet that is not the strangest
thing happening behind the
bright pink facade of Joyful Suds.
My Other Heart by Emma Nanami Strenner
Seventeen
years after Mimi Truang’s
toddler daughter disappears
in 1998 in Philadelphia, best
friends Kit and Sabrina make
plans in Chestnut Hill,
Pennsylvania, before starting
college — but when Mimi, Kit and Sabrina come
face to face, they will confront the people they
truly are.
Ruth by Kate Riley
Raised in a rigid Christian
communist society where uniformity
is sacred and questions
are discouraged, Ruth
navigates childhood,
marriage, and motherhood
while quietly wrestling with
forbidden curiosity, struggling to reconcile her
inner doubts with the life she’s told will bring her
fulfillment.
The Violet Hour by Victoria Benton Frank
After
breakup and personal tragedy,
Violet Adams questions her
identity while navigating life
among her vibrant family on
Sullivan’s Island, aided by her
influencer best friend Aly Knox as they seek reinvention,
healing, and purpose in South Carolina’s
Lowcountry.
Women, Seated by Zhang Yueran
As a wealthy Chinese family
faces a sudden political
downfall, longtime nanny Yu
Ling — quietly observant and
deeply entangled in their
private lives — must navigate
shifting power dynamics and decide how far
she’ll go to secure her future.