New Fiction
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. 150,000 first printing.
The secret book of Flora Lea : a novel
by Patti Callahan Henry

When she receives a rare book linked to the disappearance of her sister, Flora, in 1939, Hazel, believing this is a sign Flora is still alive after all these years, embarks on a feverish quest, revisiting long-dormant relationships and bravely reopening wounds from the past to find the truth.
The house of Lincoln : a novel
by Nancy Horan

An outsider in her community for as long as she can remember, Ana, in 1860s Springfield, Illinois, finds employment as a Saturday girl and household help for Abraham and Mary Lincoln where she gets a front-row seat to historic societal changes that reshape Springfield and the entire country.
Such Kindness
by III Dubus, Andre

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The librarianist : a novel
by Patrick deWitt

While volunteering at a senior center, retired librarian Bob Comet, who has lived his life through and for literature, revisits his past—one of war, true love, purpose and pride—amidst a community of strange peers who gather around him.
You were always mine
by Christine Pride

When Cinnamon Haynes, a black woman, takes an abandoned white baby into her home, she struggles to keep her own past hidden while dealing with the shocking judgments from friends and strangers alike as she strives to do right by the child she grows more attached to with each passing day.
The whispers
by Ashley Audrain

When their picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her and then he falls from his bedside window in the middle of the night, three women grapple with what led to that terrible night as his life hangs in the balance.
Watch us shine : a novel
by Marisa De los Santos

Reeling from a terrifying act of violence, Cornela, called home to care for her badly injured mother, embarks on a mission to piece together the lost years of her mother's life—a journey during which she begins to heal, forgive herself and find her way back home. 75,000 first printing.
Be mine
by Richard Ford

Frank Bascombe details and confronts his own morality and that of his son, just diagnosed with ALS, on a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore in the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lay of the Land. 100,000 first printing.
The wind knows my name : a novel
by Isabel Allende

Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children—5-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and 7-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later to the U.S., where she's separated from her mother.
The late Americans
by Brandon Taylor

During a volatile year of self-discovery in the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, three friends, as each prepares for an uncertain future, head to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former lives—a moment of reckoning that leaves each of them irrevocably altered.
Good night, Irene
by Luis Alberto Urrea

After D-Day, two heroic Red Cross women, Irene Woodward and Dorothy Dunford join the Allied soldiers streaming into France where they are embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald, and where Irene learns to trust again through their friendship. 100,000 first printing.
Chain-Gang All-Stars
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The star of a popular, but controversial for-profit program in the private prison industry that basically turns prisoners into gladiators contemplates freedom, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Friday Black.
Did you hear about Kitty Karr? : a novel
by Crystal Smith Paul

After a silver screen icon dies and leaves her huge estate to three sisters, one of them discovers that the actress was really their grandmother, a black woman who had“passed” for white for over 60 years. 100,000 first printing.
Camp zero : a novel
by Michelle Min Sterling

In a near-future northern settlement, a handful of climate change survivors find their fates intertwined.
Symphony of secrets
by Brendan Slocumb

When he is asked to authenticate a newly discovered piece from famed 20th-century composer Frederick Delaney, Bern Hendricks uncovers clues that indicate Delaney may have had help composing his most successful work, which makes him a target of a powerful organization that will stop at nothing to keep its secret hidden.
Weyward : a novel
by Emilia Hart

Told over five centuries through three connected women, this riveting novel follows Kate, in 2019, as she seeks refuge in Weyward Cottage; Altha, in 1619, as she uses her powers to maintain her freedom; and Violet, in 1942, as she searches for the truth about her mother's death. 250,000 first printing.
Hello beautiful : a novel
by Ann Napolitano

Awarded a college basketball scholarship away from his childhood home silenced by tragedy, a young man befriends a spirited young woman who welcomes him into her loving, loud, chaotic household, in the new novel by the author of Dear Edward.
Blue skies : a novel
by T. Coraghessan Boyle

When a social media influencer buys a Burmese python from her local pet shop, she sets in motion a series of increasingly dire events that ensnares her entire family in the new novel by the author of World's End.
The guest : a novel
by Emma Cline

After a misstep at a dinner party makes her no longer welcome in Long Island, Alex, gifted with the ability to navigate the desires of others, sticks around, spending the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.
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