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New Fiction BooksMay 2026 |
Our Librarians have selected 10 of the newest fiction books in the collection. |
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Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson In postwar Germany, a Black officer’s wife determined to find homes for mixed-race orphans, a young Philadelphian soldier whose relationship with a German woman follows him home, and a Maryland teenager confronting a shattering family secret in 1965 gradually uncover how their lives are bound together by war, race and belonging.
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The Hard Line by Mark Greaney When a series of safe houses are blown and senior counterintelligence officials are gunned down at home, Court Gentry and his off-the-books Ghost Town team race to dismantle the hit squads, even as a legendary retired assassin with a personal grudge closes in on Court and the estranged father he once left behind.
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Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett In 1920s Montréal, a precise, no‑nonsense manager of a crowded cat rescue reluctantly strikes a deal with a reclusive magician landlord whose dubious reputation and illegal magic shop threaten as much chaos as help - until a visiting sorcerer endangers them both and forces an uneasy, possibly romantic alliance.
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Humboldt Cut by Allison Mick When a depressed Oakland psychiatric nurse returns to her Northern California logging town for her godmother’s funeral, she confronts a family legacy of environmental violence and buried crimes, awakening uncanny forestborn entities whose hunger for retribution threatens what remains of her relatives - and her grip on reality.
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The Bookstore Diaries: A Novel of Secrets, Drama and Second Chance Love by Susan Mallery Inheriting a rambling Victorian bookshop she can manage but not control, a meticulous bookstore owner juggles an ex’s dubious engagement, a sister eager to leave town and her own inconvenient attraction to a contractor - until an accident exposes the town’s anonymous diary confessions and forces her to loosen her grip on everyone’s carefully curated lives.
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It Girl by Allison Pataki At the turn of the twentieth century, a former shopgirl turned artists’ model and Broadway favorite rises as an early celebrity “It Girl”, navigating ambitious suitors, sudden fame and shifting public morals, until a sensational murder trial forces her to confront how much of her story she is willing - and able - to control.
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Under Water by Tara Menon After a childhood spent diving coral reefs in Thailand alongside her best friend in a close-knit scientific community, a woman now living in New York and grieving multiple losses finds memories of that intense bond resurfacing as a new disaster looms, forcing her to relearn how to move through a fragile world.
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Son of Nobody by Yann Martel A Canadian classicist who leaves his strained family for a year at Oxford uncovers fragmented verses from an unknown Trojan War epic told by a common soldier, and as he translates and annotates the poem for his young daughter, his commentary blurs ancient battles with his own regrets and choices.
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How Simi Got Her Groom Back by Sonali Dev Two sisters who fled a violent past in Mumbai reunite in small-town Kentucky when the elder arrives in danger of deportation, prompting the younger to arrange a hasty sham marriage with her own secret boyfriend and forcing both women to confront old wounds, tangled loyalties and what they are willing to risk for each other’s future.
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Hard Times by Jeff Boyd In a South Side Chicago high school celebrated for football but strained in every other way, an idealistic English teacher torn between his wife’s push for a safer life uptown and his bond with three vulnerable students is forced - after a shocking act of violence - to navigate police pressure, community loyalty and what it really means to stand by his people.
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