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Bookworm : A Novel
by Robin Yeatman
Saddled with an unhappy marriage and a dead-end job, Victoria meets a man in a café reading the same best-seller and uses every book she's ever read to find a way for them to be together.
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The Celebrants : A Novel
by Steven Rowley
Reuniting in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living “funerals,” celebrations to remind themselves life is worth living—and living well— five friends find their pact upended when one of them reveals a shocking secret.
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Old Enough : A Novel
by Haley Jakobson
When her best friend from childhood gets engaged, college sophomore Savannah Henry is pulled back into a history she had just barely begun to heal from while falling in love with Wes, a sweet, nonbinary classmate.
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In The Time of Our History
by Susanne Pari
Reluctantly returning home to observe “The One Year” after her sister's death, Mitra, banished by her controlling father due to her rebellious nature, confronts hard truths from her and her sister's past that forges an unexpected path forward with her mother, who has always been caught in the middle.
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Still Born
by Guadalupe Nettel
Close friends Alina and Laura, independent and career-driven women in their mid-30s, must reckon with the complexity of their emotions, their needs and the needs of the people depending on them when Alina's daughter survives childbirth—after a diagnosis predicted the opposite—and Laura becomes attached to her neighbor's son.
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Summer Stage : A Novel
by Meg Mitchell Moore
Working together to ensure their summer production at a storied Block Island theater is a success, former aspiring playwright Amy Trevino, her daughter Sam and her brother, a well-loved Hollywood actor, must grapple with their desires for fame and fortune and discover what they really want out of life.
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Famous in a Small Town
by Viola Shipman
After her relationship goes down in flames on a playground, assistant elementary school teacher Becky decides to recover in Michigan and inadvertently enters and wins an annual cherry-pit-spitting contest, running afoul of a local woman and long-time title-holder.
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Positively, Penelope : A Novel
by Pepper Basham
"Told mostly through letters, texts, and email, this contemporary romance will charm its way into hearts as Penelope rescues a theater and discovers her true self in the process"
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The Life She Wanted : A Novel
by Anita Abriel
In 1920s New York, aspiring dress designer Pandora Carmichael, after scandal and tragedy upend her life, flees Hyde Park with a heart-wrenching secret that forces her to rethink everything she's ever wanted and leads her on a challenging journey of self-discovery, adventure, true love and ambition.
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Love, Clancy : Diary of a Good Dog
by W. Bruce Cameron
Told from the viewpoint of Clancy, a very good dog who keeps a diary, this deeply moving story follows an unforgettable cast of characters as they jointly and separately navigate the challenges of life, of love and of other pets, including Clancy's worst enemy.
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Maureen
by Rachel Joyce
Ten years after her husband's iconic walk across England, Maureen Fry, after receiving an unexpected message from the North, embarks on her own journey during which she struggles to form bonds with the people she meets as she searches for a way to reconnect with the world she left behind.
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Learning to Talk : Stories
by Hilary Mantel
A collection of loosely autobiographical stories, beginning in the 1950s, revisits the transformative moments of a haunted childhood during which she must come to terms with the loss of a father and the puzzle of a fading Irish heritage.
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The Heights
by Louise Candlish
"The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building among warehouses in London. Its roof terrace is so discreet, you wouldn't know it existed if you weren't standing at the window of the flat directly opposite. But you are. And that's when you see a man up there--a man you'd recognize anywhere. He may be older now, but it's definitely him. But that can't be because he's been dead for over two years. You know this for a fact. Because you're the one who killed him"
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The Trackers : A Novel
by Charles Frazier
Commissioned to create a mural representing Dawes, Wyoming, for their new Post Office, Val Welch, a painter in Depression-era America, stays with a wealthy art lover, his wife and a mysterious elder cowboy where he turns up secrets that could spark formidable changes for all of them.
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The God of Endings
by Jakki Holland
A lonely artist heading an elite fine arts school for children in 1984, Collette LeSange, an immortal beauty who has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache, finds her life upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled home and her own mysteriously growing hunger.
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Ways the World Could End : A Novel
by Kim Hooper
"Ways the World Could End is a story of grief, friendship, and love--the love between parents and children, between spouses, between teenagers, between strangers. It is a story that asks us to consider what we can and cannot forgive, and reminds us that often the hardest thing to forgive is ourselves"
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They're Going to Love You : A Novel
by Meg Howrey
Nineteen years after a passionate love affair created a rift between her family, Carlisle must face the events of that fateful summer, in this mesmerizing tale of betrayal, art and ambition set in the world of professional ballet, NYC during the AIDS crisis and present day Los Angeles.
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Dreaming of Flight : A Novel
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Raised on a farm by his older sister and never having known his parents, an eleven-year-old boy tends his late grandmother's chickens, sells their fresh eggs and befriends a new customer who has a dark secret.
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So Long, Chester Wheeler : A Novel
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler, Lewis Madigan—young, gay and out of work—agrees to take Chester, who hits him with a dying wish, on a 2,000-mile road trip during which they form a bond neither of them expected.
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The Making of Her : A Novel
by Bernadette Jiwa
In 1996 Dublin, when Joan Egan receives a letter from Emma, the daughter whom she gave up for adoption, asking for a life-or-death favor, she, grappling with guilt, must confront her crumbling marriage and simmering tensions with her other daughter to keep her family together before it is too late.
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Don't Fear the Reaper
by Stephen Graham Jones
Returning to rural Proofrock after being released from prison, Jade Daniels runs afoul of a convicted serial killer, who escapes from a prison transfer in a blizzard, in the second novel of the series following My Heart is a Chainsaw.
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The Lipstick Bureau : A Novel
by Michelle Gable
In 1994 Rome, newlywed Niki Novotná, recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch, assembles a scrappy team of artists, forgers and others, using this work to escape the devastating truths about the family she left behind in Czechoslovakia and a future with her controlling American husband.
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The Blackout Book Club : A Novel
by Amy Lynn Green
"An impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to WWII puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian and book club organizer in small-town Maine. The women of her book club band together as the war comes dangerously close but their friendships are tested by secrets, and they must decide whether depending on each other is worth the cost"-- Provided by publisher
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The Complicities : A Novel
by Stacey D'Erasmo
An award-winning author tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman trying to rebuild her life after her husband's arrest, and what she knew—or pretended not to know— about where their family's money came from.
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