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The Twyford Code by Janice HallettForty years ago, Steven "Smithy" Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Now out of prison, Smithy decides to investigate the mystery. But it soon becomes clear that Twyford wasn't just a writer of forgotten children's stories. The mysterious connection between a teacher's disappearance and an unsolved code in a children's book is explored in this new novel from a “modern Agatha Christie.”
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Monstrilio
by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family's decaying estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the child he once was, but his innate impulses threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life.
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Twenty-One Truths about Love by Matthew DicksDaniel Mayrock's life is at a crossroads. He knows the following to be true: 1. He loves his wife Jill more than anything. 2. He only regrets quitting his job and opening a bookshop a little. 3. Jill is ready to have a baby. 4. The bookshop isn't doing well. Financial crisis is imminent. Dan hasn't told Jill about their financial trouble. Then Jill gets pregnant. This heartfelt story is about the lengths one man will go to and the risks he will take to save his family. When read in full, his lists paint a picture of a man struggling to be a man, a man who has reached a point where he's willing to do anything for the love of his life.
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The God of the Woods
by Liz Moore
When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from summer camp in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Barbara isn't just any camper, she's the daughter of the wealthy family who owns the camp, as well as the nearby estate, and most of the land in sight. And this isn't the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the community working in its shadow, Moore's multi-threaded drama brings readers into the hearts of characters whose lives are forever changed by this eventful summer.
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A Marvellous Light
by Freya Marske
Robin Blyth is struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents' excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what's been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he's always known. Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating deadly curse, and the alarming visions of the future that come with it. Robin's predecessor disappeared, and the mystery of what happened to him reveals unsettling truths.
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The Secret Place
by Tana French
Stephen Moran, who works in the cold-case unit, is biding his time until he can make the Murder Squad. When 16-year-old Holly Mackey, a colleague’s daughter, shows up with a clue to an old crime, Moran sees his chance. A student at St. Kilda’s boarding school, Holly remembers the previous year’s murder of Chris Harper, a popular teen from the neighboring boys’ school. Holly brings Moran a photo of Chris with the words “I know who killed him” pasted across his chest. French stealthily spins a web of teenage secrets with a very adult crime at the center.
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Heart the Lover
by Lily King
In the fall of her senior year of college, the narrator meets two star students from her 17th-century lit class, Sam and Yash. Best friends living off campus, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter, and raucous card games, but she soon finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever. Decades later, a surprise visit and unexpected news forces her to confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self.
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I Kissed Shara Wheeler
by Casey McQuiston
When her rival, prom queen Shara Wheeler, kisses her and disappears, leaving behind cryptic notes, Chloe Green hunts for answers and discovers there is more to this small town than she thought, and maybe more to Shara, as well. A teen romantic comedy about chasing down what you want, only to find what you need...
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Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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All Fours
by Miranda July
A 45-year-old artist attempts to drive from L.A. to New York. She makes it a few towns from home before pausing at a motel, where she decides to renovate room 321 in the fashion of a Parisian hotel room. For check-ins with her husband and child, she keeps up the farce, pretending she's every place she planned to be on the three-week round trip. The problem is Davey, an aspiring dancer who works at the local Hertz and admires the artist's work, and with whom she falls in love. She goes home, lugging some complicated new feelings, and this is just the start!
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Custodians of Wonder
by Eliot Stein
A vivid look at ten key people who are maintaining some of the world's oldest and rarest cultural traditions. From a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe, to learning how to make the world's rarest pasta, to seeking out Cuba's last official cigar factory "readers" more than a century after they spearheaded the fight for Cuban independence, Stein uncovers an almost lost world. These are just some of the last people on Earth still in touch with quickly vanishing rites. Let Eliot Stein introduce you to all of them.
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Whiskey Tender
by Deborah Taffa
Whiskey Tender is a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and the frictions between being raised to strive towards the American dream while also coming into an understanding of how the narratives of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo heritages have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of America.
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
by Maia Kobabe
Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity.
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Cue the Sun!
by Emily Nussbaum
A rollicking, deeply reported story about how the early reality TV business metastasized into an industry that now dominates entertainment in the United States. Starting in 1948, Nussbaum pulls back the curtain on the cultural meat grinder that created a generation-defining form of entertainment, examining shows from The Real World to Survivor to The Apprentice. Through extensive interviews, Nussbaum follows the reality TV industry from its inception to its 90s heyday and 00s aftermath.
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Trillion Dollar Coach
by Eric Schmidt
A feature of management lessons from legendary coach and business executive Bill Campbell, whose mentoring successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value. Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of prominent companies such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries and mentoring dozens of other important leaders. He left behind a legacy of growing companies, successful people, respect, friendship, and love after his death in 2016.
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