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New Adult Fiction Titles recently added to our collection 06/23/2026 |
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Names Have Been Changed
by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
**One of Debutiful's Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2026**Catch Me If You Can meets Counterfeit in this thrilling debut novel about Ophir, who starts a confessional podcast about her years on the run around the globe, in an unforgettable story about the costs of freedom and the inescapable pull of home. Ophir's tale begins in Singapore, where a petty crime spins out of control, estranging her from home and family. Resorting to false identities and forged passports , she crisscrosses the globe from a Paris-themed hostess bar in Tokyo, to restaurant in London, to a snowbound mountain town in Colorado and beyond.
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Thrilling Tales of Modern Men: Stories
by Danny McBride
An addictive, unpredictable, darkly hilarious collection of stories from Danny McBride--the beloved creator and star of The Righteous Gemstones and Eastbound & Down.The stories in Thrilling Tales of Modern Men are like nothing else. And yet they have one thing in common--each probes the fragile masculinity that has become an inescapable part of modern American culture. In this audacious and unforgettable debut collection, McBride redefines the tale of the modern man.
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The Whyte Python World Tour
by Travis Kennedy
Rikki Thunder, twenty-two-year-old drummer for the scorching new '80s metal band Whyte Python, is about to have it all: absurd wealth, global fame, and a dream girlfriend. But an unwitting role as an international spy? That was definitely not part of the plan. A rock-n-roll thrill ride... Heavy Metal icon Rikki Thunder's satirical memoir is sweeter than Cherry Pie and better than a prescription from Dr. Feelgood You need to read it.-
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It's All River
by Carla Madeira
BRAZIL'S #1 BEST-SELLING LITERARY SENSATION The seductive and shocking story of a twisted love triangle, It's All River flows through the rapids of humanity.
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The Museum of Lost Dreams
by Christine Nolfi
Returning to her fractured past, a woman is determined to end a cycle of heartbreaks in a moving novel about family, sacrifice, and redemption. When Bess Rollins's parents die in a tragic accident, she is forced to abandon her dream job overseas. After three years away, she returns to her family's estate in the Finger Lakes, a veritable monument to her brilliant late grandmother, and a reminder of the wreckage Bess left behind.
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Birds of Prey
by Harlan Coben
The world's greatest thriller writers prove they're up to a unique challenge in this action-packed collection. It all started with a simple, yet sneakily difficult challenge from global best-selling author Harlan Coben: Pick a bird of prey, then use it as the inspiration for a brand-new story. The response from some of the best writers on the planet: Game on The result: Eleven stories that are twisty, scary, surprising, and bursting with imagination.
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It Could Have Been Her
by Lisa Jewell
Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate when a small white terrier appears, alone and with no sign of the teenaged girl he'd been staying with nearby. When the teenager is reported missing, Jane offers to return the dog to his registered owner, hours away in London. Arriving at a run-down house called Thornwood in the deepest backwaters of Hampstead, she is immediately on alert--because Jane has a dark history with this house.
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Nine Lives
by Catherine Steadman
When she begins to peer into the lives of her glamorous neighbors, one woman discovers a terrifying secret. These are your neighbors. One is a killer. Reeling from a very recent divorce, Frankie has moved into a glamorous London neighborhood. This is a new chapter in her life. She's decided to put down roots with Blue, the beautiful Persian cat she left her marriage with. But little doubts about her perfect new life start to grow.
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Wait and See
by Iris Johansen
Investigator Kendra Michaels--formerly blind and now with uniquely insightful observational skills in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes. When Kendra Michaels receives a cryptic message from her sometimes-paramour Adam Lynch, she concludes that he must be in extreme danger--the kind where he can't trust his FBI and Justice department colleagues to rescue him. 77
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Whisper Creek: A Thriller
by Allison Brennan
After the sudden death of her husband, Ellen McKenna is doing everything she can to keep her Texas farm afloat. She and her family hope to expand their operation, but times are tough and making ends meet is more expensive than she imagined, much less trying to grow. Many of their neighbors in Cooke County have thrown in the towel and agreed to sell their farms to a local businessman, but despite similar pressure, Ellen refuses to let her dreams die.
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The Girl on the Beach: A Thriller
by Carol Snow
A missing child tears a family apart in this psychological thriller that builds to a final, jaw-dropping twist. On the surface, Sonia and Graham Starr were a glamorous couple: She, the sleek entrepreneur; he, the boyishly handsome painter with an irrepressible zest for life. They had everything money can buy and the one thing it can't--a precious, precocious four-year-old named Roxie. But when Roxie disappears into the Pacific Ocean on a perfect August afternoon, their world crumbles around them.
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Fear the Reaper: A McKenzie Novel
by David Housewright
After taking down a man wielding an AR-15 a small town winery, Rushmore McKenzie has to find out who, if anyone, was the shooter's target before he, or someone else, tries again. Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie, after becoming an unexpected millionaire, now is an unlicensed private investigator, doing the occasional investigative favor.
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The Grapevine: A Lost Highway Thriller
by Craig Robertson
How far would you go to find your missing child? Lou Gomersall's going as far as it takes. And there's no turning back. When her nineteen-year-old daughter Abby disappears, Lou embarks on a reckless road trip in the family RV, scouring the highways and back roads of California. Through desert and mountains, into the woods, and to the ocean's edge. A year later, the police don't believe Lou's theory that four other missing young women have been taken by the same elusive predator.
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Where the Blame Lies
by Mia Sheridan
Abducted. Terrorized. Imprisoned. At nineteen years old, college student Josie Stratton was kidnapped by a madman and held shackled for ten months in an abandoned warehouse before she finally escaped her hellish prison. Eight years later, when the body of a young woman is found chained in the basement of a vacant house, Cincinnati Police Detective Zach Copeland is instantly reminded of the crime committed against Josie Stratton.
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When You Loved Me
by Beatriz Williams
A young widow returns to her late father's New England estate, only to be drawn into the hunt for the rumored pirate treasure that consumed his life. Local history insists that a legendary pirate buried his treasure somewhere beneath Windward, the decayed Cooper estate on Winthrop Island, but Lucy Cooper never trusted the fable that broke her family apart. When a widowed Lucy returns with her daughter to grieve her estranged father, she discovers catastrophe: The property is mired in debt and Ben Ressler has unexpectedly turned up on her doorstep.
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Weddings
by Danielle Steel
When a wedding dress designer's daughter becomes engaged, it raises issues of love, safety, and second chances for all the women in her family. Dominque Dupont is one of the world's most sought-after designers of wedding dresses, and is as unfailingly chic as her gowns. Her international list of clients includes royals and presidents' daughters. As for her own adult daughters, Felicity and Violet, they have unconventional views on marriage, due in part to their family history.
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Reasons to Be Loved by You
by Hannah Brown
Perfectionist and former pageant girl Nikki Bennet is looking forward to relaxing at her family's lake house in Georgia for the Fourth of July. Even though it's been two years since she was on the reality dating show Loved By, she still hasn't recovered from finding out on national TV that her fiance , Aaron, had been dating another woman all along. But when she arrives home, her little brother makes a surprise announcement: he's engaged to his girlfriend, Cara--the other woman Aaron had been seeing behind Nikki's back.
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The Very Definition of Love
by Sophia Benoit
Bridgerton meets Emily Henry in this fresh take on regency romance about a wallflower writing a dictionary of bawdy slang who arranges her own marriage to the ultimate instructor: the town rake. Harriet Bancroft doesn't mind that she's on her fifth season with no marriage prospects, it gives her more time to write her dictionary of modern slang. Words are her passion. Enter the ultimate teacher . .
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Scandal of the Summer
by Alexandra Vasti
Eccentric heiress Lady Ruby Ballimore has had enough of the Marriage Mart. After offending yet another Very Important Marquess--and imperiling her father's diplomatic career--Ruby flees London for the holiday house of a glamorous princess. Armed with a forged invitation and accompanied by her like-minded friends, Ruby arrives at the Cornwall estate expecting a summer of blissful freedom. Instead, she discovers a derelict mansion and the most suspiciously charming man she's ever met.
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Sunny Side Up
by Katie Sturino
An instant USA Today bestseller - As seen on CBS Mornings, The Today Show, and New York Times Style comes a sexy, laugh-out-loud romcom that is the most fun you'll have this summer You'll fall in love with Sunny -- a modern-day Bridget Jones without the toxic self-loathing. The Summer's Best Beach Reads Escape into a world of designer clothes and trendy NYC restaurants, where career dreams come true at the drop of a hat, preferably by the pool in a flattering swimsuit.
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Night Witch: A Spicy Magical Dark Academia Forbidden Romantasy
by Jaymin Eve
Be careful what you witch for. Welcome to year two at Weatherstone College...Last year, after coming face to face with darkness and lethal monsters, Logan Kingston, my sworn enemy and sometimes ally, brought my first year to an explosive ending. There's a bond between us that I can't explain, but I just know he's hiding something.
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Don't Upstage the Body
by Naomi Stephens
Hippolyta Halfpenny and her family of professional mourners find themselves trapped at a reclusive lord's funeral after the undertaker is murdered. As suspicions rise, Hippolyta must conceal her family's true identities, unravel secrets behind the murder, and unmask the truth before the final curtain falls.
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The Eyes of River: An Appalachian Novel
by Cindy K. Sproles
In the shadowed hollers of the early-twentieth-century Appalachian Mountains, Lizzy Haney is on the run. She's been falsely accused of murder and is desperate to reunite with her brother, River, whose unforgettable green eyes haunt her. The secret in her past is a stinging wound, but it motivates her toward her goal: freedom. But nine-year-old River, sent through the US Post Office to his late mother's friend in Knoxville, never arrived. Lizzy's dream of finding him and starting a new life away from their alcoholic and abusive father is ripped away.
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Shortbread in the Highlands
by Robin Jones Gunn
When cousins Nora and Allie travel to Scotland to claim their gran's inheritance, a cottage by a loch seems the perfect setting until they're derailed by delays and village eccentrics. After exploring castles and hiking heather-covered hills, they uncover family secrets that present a life-changing future.
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Yours Forever: A Christian Friends to Lovers workplace Romance
by Rose Fresquez
Meet the most dashing executives of Stone Financial Corporate office in San Francisco in the inspirational 'Office Heartthrobs' series. These men are brilliant, and successful, but beneath their polished exteriors lie deep emotional scars. Set against the high stakes of the financial industry, each man finds himself unexpectedly disarmed by the most powerful force: love.
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A Love Once Lost
by Jennie Goutet
Amy Bridwell joins her family on a Grand Tour of the Continent--the trip her former sweetheart James proposed they take as newlyweds. In the resort town of Spa, she unexpectedly encounters him, now engaged to another. As old feelings resurface, Amy must face the choice she made six years ago and the possibility that her heart has never truly moved on.
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The Sixth Nik
by Daniel Kraus
Perfectly aligned for readers of Ian M. Banks's The Culture series and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, The Sixth Nik is a galaxy spanning adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall and Angel Down. Deep into space, far past the triworld outposts, beyond range of the lethal trollbot internet, soars The Sickness: a ship woven from biomatter and capable of reacting to every need of its human crew.
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Tillinghast
by Clare Cavenagh
A dark and utterly original literary horror debut, following a priest whose bloodthirsty life has extended far longer than any mere human's--and is upended when a stranger comes to town Stutley Tillinghast lives a solitary life, ostensibly as the minister of a remote rural parish in Rhode Island. For many decades now, what little human contact he's allowed himself has been brief, frenzied and bloody, and has always ended in a shallow grave in his cellar. There's a name for what he is..
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Green City Wars
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Philip Marlowe meets Redwall in this superior adult noir tale, where all the characters are animals, fighting for survival in the city underneath the humans. In the solar cities of the future, the humans relax in the sun and the animals work in the shadows. Genetically engineered Little Helpers, serving humanity--unseen, unheard. Meet Skotch. Raccoon, PI--yours for a few buttons as long as the job isn't too illegal, whatever that means.
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The Tinder Box
by M. R. Carey
Prepare to be entranced by this utterly unique and completely spellbinding dark fairy tale from the million-copy bestselling M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts. In a kingdom forgotten by history, a legend unfolds ... Wounded in his county's endless wars, former soldier Mag Tresti finds work in the home of a reclusive widow, Jannae Mirchella. But Jannae is more than she seems. A witch of great skill and might, she hides her powers and her deep-laid plans behind a mask of harmless respectability.
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Nemesis Mine: A Romance of Nemeses to Lovers
by Amy Archer
It's a dastardly plan that can't go wrong... until love crashes the act. Nobody is more surprised than Cyrus to learn that he's no longer considered the greatest villain in the land of Athaca. Sure, he's lying about the fact that his magical power is making flowers grow. And maybe lately he's spent more time embroidering pillowcases than tormenting the locals. But that doesn't mean he's ready to be yesterday's evil news.
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A Treason of Magic
by Melissa Marr
In a world where magic, desire, and duty collide, it is beauty who is fated to kill the beast in a lush historical fantasy of secrets and star-crossed love.Two young women. Heirs to altogether different hereditary burdens. Yet bound by a monstrous threat to their village.Gabrielle is the first woman in Alveus to carry the mantle of Hunter, which comes with an obligation to kill the faery beasts murdering travelers in Brimmond Wood.
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