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New Fiction BooksApril 2026 |
Our Librarians have selected 10 of the newest fiction books in the collection. |
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The Cormorant Hunt by Michael Idov In a Europe unsettled by open conflict and covert maneuvers, a disgraced CIA officer pulled from uneasy exile agrees to infiltrate a violent extremist network, working alongside a sharp, secretive colleague as they move from the Caucasus to Western capitals, navigating shifting loyalties, personal vulnerabilities and a ruthless adversary whose plans threaten to tilt the balance of power well beyond the spy world they know.
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A Sociopath's Guide to a Successful Marriage by Mk Oliver Juggling a partner’s career hopes, school admissions and a carefully curated London home life, a restless mother’s old appetite for rule‑breaking resurfaces when she fatally confronts an intruder in her living room, forcing her to improvise alibis, manipulate those closest to her and manage an unnerving police presence while trying to keep both her past misdeeds and her domestic image from unraveling.
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The Reservation by Rebecca Kauffman On the eve of a crucial celebratory dinner for a famous visiting writer, a revered Midwestern college‑town restaurant is thrown into disorder by the disappearance of twenty‑two rib‑eye steaks and a string of bruising online reviews, prompting its anxious owner to scrutinize everyone from the meticulous baker and temperamental chef to the harried servers and novice student hostess as she wonders who might be undermining her life’s work.
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The First Witch of Boston by Andrea Catalano In 1646, as a long‑married couple leaves England to start afresh in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the husband’s caution and the wife’s outspoken work as a healer collide with a rigid Puritan settlement where grief, fear and rumor easily harden into accusation, placing her livelihood, reputation and marriage in jeopardy as neighbors begin to see witchcraft where she has always seen care.
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The Shape of Dreams by April Reynolds In mid‑1980s East Harlem, the discovery of a twelve‑year‑old boy’s body draws together a headstrong neighborhood “troublemaker”, the boy’s determined mother and her outspoken friend, as they navigate police indifference, the spread of crack, church‑led campaigns and the everyday pressures of work and parenting, testing how far friendship, community grief and stubborn hope can push a neglected city toward justice.
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The Universe Box by Michael Swanwick In a set of speculative tales where technology brushes against myth, a time‑racing thief faces trolls at the dawn of the world, a hunted scientist grapples with human‑AI fusion, an aging veteran reconnects with a lethal virtual weapon and a hapless trickster attempts the universe’s most audacious heist, each story probing, with dry wit and unease, how people adapt when reality itself keeps shifting.
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White River Crossing by Ian McGuire In 1766, when a shabby trader appears at a Hudson’s Bay outpost with a nugget of gold and a tale of richer deposits far to the north, the factor mounts a covert expedition guided by indigenous families into the sub‑Arctic, where greed, harsh winter and a brutal act of violence within the party push a reserved seaman toward a grim reckoning that will expose the cost of the venture and define who he chooses to be.
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A Good Animal by Sara Maurer In rural northern Michigan near Sault Ste. Marie, a young man determined to restore his family’s sheep farm falls in love with a newcomer who wants nothing more than to leave, and when their mismatched hopes lead them to a sudden, risky decision, the consequences echo through their lives and community, testing loyalties, shaping futures and revealing the pull of both home and escape.
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Trust No One: A Thriller by James Rollins When a British professor of witchcraft and folklore studies is killed and his postgraduate students fall under suspicion, an American classmate who has been entrusted with his encrypted eighteenth‑century occult diary reluctantly joins forces with a royal‑adjacent colleague, and their uneasy partnership turns into a flight across Europe as they race both police and a secretive cabal to decode a promised key to immortality and the hidden history it conceals.
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When I Kill You by B. A. Paris Haunted by the sense that someone is tracking her every move, a woman who has rebuilt her life under a new name begins receiving unwanted calls and gifts, forcing her to revisit the long-ago murder of a schoolmate and the reckless accusations she once made, even as questions about her partner’s honesty and the possibility of exposure blur the line between real danger and the paranoia her past has taught her to expect.
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