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Fiction A to Z February 2026 |
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Adrift
by Will Dean
Peggy and Drew, both aspiring writers, move to an isolated canal boat with their fourteen-year-old son. Peggy is the glue that holds their family together, even as their son is bullied relentlessly for his physique and his family's lack of money. But when Drew becomes frustrated by his wife's sudden writing success, he moves their boat further and further from civilization. With their increasing isolation, personal challenges become harder to ignore, even as they desperately try to break toxic generational patterns. But when Drew's gaslighting becomes too much for Peggy to take, it sets off a catastrophic series of events. With Will Dean's signature well-drawn characters and excellent prose (Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author), Adrift is gripping exploration of the ties that bind when everything spirals out of control.
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Bad Asians
by Lillian Li
During the 2008 recession, a group of childhood friends who are stuck newly graduated and unemployed in their hypercompetitive Chinese American community have to deal with social fallout and failed damaged control when their friend's amateur documentary about them goes viral on YouTube.
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Belgrave Road
by Manish Chauhan
Mira's days are filled with duty and light on freedom. In a new country, living with a husband she barely knows - and who she fears she'll never love - Mira is desperate to discover all that her new life in England might offer. And then there's Tahliil - the quiet, beautiful man she sees at work each day. He's the first person in this new world who listens to Mira's hopes for who she yearns to become. But they couldn't lead more different lives: the duties that bind them, the homes they are trying to build threaten to subsume them. As Mira and Tahliil navigate the deep and turbulent waters of their new worlds, can they find a way to be together, and will finding each other set them free?
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A Better Life
by Lionel Shriver
In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant-who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be.
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Brawler: Stories
by Lauren Groff
Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region-from New England to Florida to California-these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans' dark and light angels-- Provided by publisher.
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Cleopatra
by Saara El-Arifi
Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic.
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Cold Zero
by Brad Thor
A heart-pounding thriller of survival, espionage, and global brinkmanship, where the frozen Arctic becomes the deadliest battlefield on Earth. A vanished plane. An earth-shattering secret. A countdown to World War III. Hemisphere Airlines Flight 777--the most advanced jetliner ever built--disappears without a trace over the North Pole. Crippled by sabotage, it crash-lands on the ice, stranding the surviving passengers in a wasteland of frigid cold and chaos. The real storm, however, is still coming.
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Crown of War and Shadow
by J. R. Ward
The Fulcrum is failing, and demons are slipping into the mortal world. No one is safe. Especially not Sorrel. An orphan and an outcast within the walls of her small village because of her mystical abilities. She wants to survive…and find somewhere she can call her true home. But Fate has other plans.
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Dirty Metal
by Allison Lamothe
New York City, 1992—Parker Snow, a relentless tabloid reporter with a tarnished record and a pill habit, is assigned to cover Russian mobsters flooding Brighton Beach. But when a murdered woman’s case is ignored by cops, Parker chases two dangerous stories: a mafia turf war and a string of linked homicides. Battling addiction and arrogant rivals, she’s determined to uncover the truth—and redeem herself—before her demons win.
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Dollface
by Lindy Ryan
Horror author Jill has just moved to suburban New Jersey, hoping to fit in with the new PTA moms and maybe not weird everyone out with her Final Girl coffee mug. You know. Make some real friends. But then a plastic face-masked serial killer begins slashing their way through town, one overly made-up mom at a time. The police are incredulous. The moms are indignant. And Jill is slowly wrapped into a killer's murderous spree, until she might just be the last woman standing
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The End of Romance
by Lily Meyer
A big-hearted, wise, unceasingly buoyant novel about a woman who, after escaping a bruising marriage, theorizes that happiness is possible solely with the eradication of all romance--only to find a love that could change her life forever.
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The Final Problem
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
In this locked-room mystery set in 1960, a washed-up actor puts his on-camera detective skills to the test when a suspicious death shatters the quiet peace for a group of strangers staying at an isolated Greek island resort.
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The Girls Before
by Kate Alice Marshall
There is a girl in a basement. The door has stopped opening. The light is gone. Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep her company. Audrey is a search and rescue expert who never stopped looking for her ex-best friend, Janie, who disappeared when they were teenagers. Audrey knows now that for every girl saved, there's always another one lost. When she stumbles upon evidence in the forest that a teenage runaway might have actually been kidnapped from land belonging to the town's most prominent family, she will have to dig through decades of secrets.
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The Heir of Whitestone
by Catherine Coulter
A brilliant young innovator with a mysterious past and a boldly sharp-witted Lady uncover deadly secrets.
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In Her Defense
by Philippa Malicka
The nation is riveted by the trial: beloved TV star Anna Finbow accuses her daughter’s therapist, Jean Guest, of brainwashing Mary for profit. Jean claims Mary’s trauma stems from her upbringing and time at a prestigious art school in Rome. As the case unfolds, Augusta “Gus” Bird—Anna’s former employee—emerges as the key to unraveling lies. What really happened in Rome, and if Mary’s memories can’t be trusted, how will they uncover the truth?
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The Jills
by Karen Parkman
Virginia is a Jill--a professional Buffalo Bills cheerleader--living the life she's always dreamed of. She spends her weekdays practicing, her weekends cheering, and her nights hopping between events and bars and clubs with her band of teammates, especially her best friend, Jeanine, whose friendship has given Virginia confidence in spades and allowed her to put aside her troubled past with her sister, Laura. But one Sunday, Jeanine fails to show up for a game, and all her calls and texts go unanswered. Aided by a worried network of Jills, ex-boyfriends, and seedy fixtures of Buffalo's criminal underground, Virginia embarks on an investigation into Jeanine's disappearance.
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Keeper of Lost Children
by Sadeqa Johnson
Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American Officer, is living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s. After discovering a local orphanage filled with the abandoned mixed-race children of German women and Black American GI’s, Ethel feels compelled to help find these children homes. Philadelphia born Ozzie Phillips volunteers for the recently desegregated army in 1948, eager to make his mark in the world. While serving in Manheim, Germany, he meets a local woman, Jelka, and the two embark on a relationship that will impact their lives forever. In 1965 Maryland, Sophia Clark is given an opportunity to attend a prestigious all white boarding school and escape her heartless parents. While at the school, she discovers a secret that upends her world and sends her on a quest to unravel her own identity.
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Kin
by Tayari Jones
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a whole new world. Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, culminating in a battle for her life.
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Laws of Love and Logic
by Debra Curtis
A woman finds herself torn between her first love and her devoted husband in this extraordinary debut novel that asks the question: Can one heart hold two great loves?
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Mists Over the Channel Islands
by Sarah Sundin
The German invasion of the British Channel Islands shatters Dr. Ivy Picot's peaceful world, and she risks her life treating escapees from labor camps. Dutch engineer Gerrit van der Zee crosses paths with Ivy while building enemy fortifications. As their missions grow increasingly dangerous, they must decide if love can survive the cost of defiance?
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More Than Enough
by Anna Quindlen
High school English teacher Polly Goodman can talk about everything and anything with the women in her book club, which is why they've become her closest friends and, along with the support of her veterinarian husband, the bedrock of her life. Her private school students, her fraught relationship with mother, her struggles with IVF-Polly's book club friends have heard it all. But when they give Polly an ancestry test kit as a joke, the results match her with a stranger. Despite it seeming clear that this match is a mistake, Polly cannot help combing through her own family history for answers. Then, when it seems that the book club circle of four will become three, Polly learns how friendships can change your life in the most profound ways-- Provided by publisher.
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One of Us
by Elizabeth Day
When Fliss, the eccentric grown daughter of the powerful Fitzmaurice clan, is found dead on beach in Bali, what seems like a tragic accident stirs more suspicion than closure for those who’ve traded favors with—and within—her family for decades. There is Ben, Fliss’s brother, eager to minimize his sister’s passing, since it’s suddenly clear he’s next in line to be Prime Minister. And Martin—Ben’s erstwhile best friend—who is just happy that Fliss’s memorial gives him the chance to re-enter the Fitzmaurice orbit, seeking revenge and acceptance. He can’t help but notice that Ben’s wife, Serena, seems to have discovered in middle age that her privileged existence is more like a gilded cage. Or that Ben and Serena’s daughter Cosima, has become an environmental activist fighting against everything her parents seem to stand for—a pivot her late aunt would’ve applauded. Where does Richard Take, Ben's disgraced colleague, determined to make his big comeback, fit in? And circling them all is Andrew Jarvis and his money—has he been their loyal hero or the one who has thrown his weight around just to keep them all in check? Delivering incisive commentary on the hypocrisies of the elite, this juicy ensemble drama about old friends and dazzling wealth perfectly captures the uneasy balance between personal ambition and collective responsibility.
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Operation Bounce House
by Matt Dinniman
A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it.
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The Pohaku
by Jasmin Iolani Hakes
A dazzling saga that moves from Hawaii to California and back, about the generations of women tasked with protecting the history and place that made them.
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Read Between the Lies
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
A soon-to-be-published debut novelist learns that she hasn't escaped her childhood nemesis, whose first book is also scheduled for publishing year 2020.
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The Reservation
by Rebecca Kauffman
On the morning of the most important booking in the long history of the celebrated restaurant, Aunt Orsa's erupts into chaos with the discovery that twenty-two rib eye steaks have been stolen. Tonight Orsa is set to host a large party honoring a very special guest - a bestselling author of national renown. And what's up with the recent spate of online reviews, from insulting to frankly terrible? Is Orsa, who wants only to be loved, being sabotaged on several fronts? Could the culprit be the baker, the chef, one of the servers, or even the undergrad working as hostess? The Reservation is a dynamic and captivating story that shows us what it takes to get a beautiful meal to the table.
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Saoirse
by Charleen Hurtubise
In the wilds of Donegal, Ireland, 1999, Saoirse is an artist living an idyllic life. Her handsome partner, Daithi, and two beautiful daughters are regular subjects for her work and are the continual source of her hope and inspiration. But Saoirse is not entirely who she says she is. And when her Dublin exhibition wins a prestigious award, the unanticipated recognition that comes with it threatens to expose all she has had to do in order to escape her old life, bringing a decade's worth of buried memories to the surface. Now that Saoirse's cherished world is put in peril, facing her painful childhood might prove to be her only salvation.
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So Old, So Young
by Grant Ginder
For six friends since college, the only constant has been change—new jobs, new cities, new spouses, new kids. Through it all, they believed their friendship would endure. But time tests even the strongest bonds. From East Village parties and disastrous weddings to fortieth birthdays and backyard barbecues, this novel explores Millennial growing pains and celebrates how love can falter, shift, and grow into something bigger than imagined.
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Treaty
by Davis Bunn
Changing her destiny could alter life as they know it . . . Kirra Barret lives with her clan in a mining community in the Fifth Ward of Florian, a city in a human-occupied zone on planet Treaty. She is determined to have a brighter future--and her unique connection to the planet's flying alien beasts could be the key to improving her fortunes. In Florian's upmarket Second Ward, Eva Fourier is offered the chance to become a secret government agent and go after criminals accumulating wealth and power on Treaty by dubious means. From different ends of Florian's social spectrum, battle lines are drawn as Kirra and Eva's lives intertwine in unexpected and high-stakes ways--ways that threaten the long-standing agreement between humans and aliens on Treaty for ever...
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Trust No One
by James Rollins
A group of university students, falsely accused of murder, are thrust into a treacherous hunt across Europe, all to unlock the secrets buried within a centuries-old book that could change humankind forever.
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Two Can Play
by Ali Hazelwood
Viola Bowen has the chance of a lifetime: to design a video game based on her all-time favorite book series. The only problem? Her co-lead is Jesse F-ing Andrews, aka her archnemesis. Jesse has made it abundantly clear over the years that he wants nothing to do with her—and Viola has no idea why. When their bosses insist a wintery retreat is the perfect team-building exercise, Viola can’t think of anything worse. Being freezing cold in a remote mountain lodge knowing Jesse is right next door? No, thank you. But as the snow piles on, Viola discovers there’s more to Jesse than she knew, and heat builds in more ways than one.
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We Were Never Friends
by Kaira Rouda
When former sorority sisters gather for an engagement party, their reluctant reunion moves from awkward to uncomfortable to lethal as each reveals the part she played in a tragedy during Spring Break 25 years ago.
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Where the Wildflowers Grow
by Terah Shelton Harris
While searching for a place to hide, Leigh stumbles upon an unexpected sanctuary: a flower farm in rural Alabama tucked away from the world. What Leigh doesn't expect is the found family there who have built something from the wreckage of their own lives. Especially Jackson, the farm's owner, who sees through Leigh's defenses, offers her small moments of tenderness, encourages her to face her own tragedies. Slowly, Leigh finds peace with the hard pace and soft nature of the farm, taking comfort in the life blooming around her. Maybe she's not beyond redemption, not too broken for something good. And maybe, just maybe, Leigh starts to heal.
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Antihero
by Gregg Hurwitz
Evan Smoak takes on his most complex mission yet-one where he has to not only protect but also avenge, and find a way to balance vengeance with mercy. Once a black ops assassin for the government known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak broke with the program and went deep underground, using his operational rules and skills to help the truly desperate with nowhere else to turn. When Luke Devine, one of the most powerful men in the world has a psychological crisis, Evan flies to the East Coast to meet Luke. While there, he learns of a young woman who was kidnapped off the New York City subway, clearly in danger and in need of aid.
Book 11 in the Orphan X series.
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Booking for Trouble
by Jenn McKinlay
Just off the shores of the coastal Connecticut town of Briar Creek are two small islands, which library director Lindsey Norris visits with her new book-boat, inspired by the bookmobiles she's seen traveling across the country. Nothing, not even the infamous feud between the families who own the Split Islands, can stop Lindsey from getting books into the hands of readers. But when Lindsey and her boat captain husband, Mike Sullivan, discover a body on the rocky outcropping of one of the islands, Lindsey's new library venture quickly becomes a murder investigation.
Book 16 in the Library Lover's mysteries.
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Cross and Sampson
by James Patterson
Detectives Alex Cross and John Sampson are better together--until they're called to separate locations to investigate a pair of serious crimes. In Washington, DC... Metro PD detective John Sampson stands in a crater in the middle of a DC street, calling in the bomb squad. "Dispatch, this is Sampson. Contact the FBI and the ATF. We've got a suspected terrorist attack here." In Chapel Hill, NC... Alex Cross searches the apartment of a missing psychology grad student--his own son Damon.
Book 34 in the Alex Cross series.
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Death of a Groom
by M. C. Beaton
It is February and the Scottish Highlands village of Lochdubh is dealing with heavy snow and freezing temperatures. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth can handle the weather, but with a surprise influx of high-society visitors for a Valentine’s Day wedding at Tommel Castle Hotel, he has bigger problems. The guest list includes not one, but two women from his own romantic past! And Hamish isn’t the only one disrupted by the arrival of the wedding party. Tensions between guests and villagers escalate until, shortly after the lavish wedding ceremony, a body is found in the hotel dining room.
Book 38 of the Hamish Macbeth series.
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The Devil's Bible
by Steve Berry
Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is called to Sweden when the younger sister of King Wilhelm I is kidnapped. The ransom demand? Hand over an 800-year-old book, the Codex Gigas—the largest illuminated medieval manuscript in the world.
Book 20 in the Cotton Malone series.
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Easter Egg Murder
by Leslie Meier
Light pink, robin’s egg blue, daffodil yellow, mint green—Easter eggs hiding sweet treats come in every pastel color. But in a few small towns this year, cracking them could be more fatal than fun….
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First Sign of Danger
by Kelley Armstrong
Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are entering a new chapter of life as parents to their six-month-old baby. Their family is hidden away in the sanctuary town of Haven's Rock where they can live safe and private lives. But when they encounter hikers too close to the borders of Haven's Rock, they realize they're in danger of being exposed. When they find one of the hikers dead the next day, they realize that their paranoia was justified, but they're no closer to finding out who these people were and what they were doing in the vicinity of Haven's Rock.
Book 4 in the Haven's Rock series.
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The Hard Line
by Mark Greaney
In the Gray Man’s world, family is defined by blood—shared and shed. Court Gentry’s current team, Ghost Town, handles covert ops for the CIA. After a safe house is blown in Tunis and an ambush in Nicaragua, U.S. intel officials are being assassinated. With the feds compromised, Court must stop the hit squads—while being hunted by Whetstone, a legendary assassin with a personal vendetta that starts with Court’s estranged father.
Book 15 in the Gray Man series.
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Jigsaw: An Alex Delaware Novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
A young woman is found dead, DNA pointing to an ex-boyfriend—until the case twists into a mind-bending whodunit. Homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis calls in psychologist Alex Delaware to help. Then an elderly woman is discovered murdered, her body hidden in a hoarder’s home filled with trash—and cash. As Milo and Alex dig deeper, shocking links emerge between the victims, revealing a deadly, labyrinthine puzzle.
Book 41 in the Alex Delaware series.
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Murder at an Irish Session
by Carlene O'Connor
Siobhán loves seeing her brother Ciaran play trad music, so she proposes a music and matchmaking festival in Kilbane. Renowned matchmaker Liam Noone brings his Lucky Book to pair musicians, but when the lights go out, Liam is found dead—impaled with an arrow made from a bass bow. Was it the fiddle player, the piper, or another musician? Garda Siobhán and Macdara must solve this deadly crime of passion before the killer strikes again.
Book 12 in the Irish Village Mystery series.
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Robert B. Parker's Big Shot
by Christopher Farnsworth
After a roadside clash with arrogant billionaire Ramsey Devlin, Jesse Stone makes an enemy. Devlin uses his wealth and influence to provoke Jesse, even enlisting Paradise’s mayor and Jesse’s own deputy. But when Devlin vanishes and bloodstains are found in his seaside mansion, Jesse becomes the prime suspect. Suspended from duty, he must solve the case and clear his name—before he ends up behind bars.
Book 23 in the Jesse Stone series.
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