New Fiction
 
September, 2025
 

The diary of lies
by Philip Miller

In a destabilized post-COVID Britain, journalist Shona Sandison chases a dangerous lead, her old colleague Hector uncovers a covert government project, and a grieving ex-MI6 chief contemplates revenge ... while a vast, dark conspiracy threatens them all.
Snowbound Amish Christmas
by Jo Ann Brown

Will helping him at Christmas have her wishing for more? After being left at the altar, Kirsten Petersheim needs a fresh start. This means making a success of her new cleaning business and definitely not falling in love.
The Blended Quilt
by Wanda E. Brunstetter

Will pursuing Sadie’s dreams mean leaving a romance behind? Sadie Kuhns has a lot happening in her life. She is creating a unique quilt by blending a traditional Amish pattern with a Hawaiian pattern as a tribute to her time spent in the islands, and she is working on a self-published book.
Marguerite by the lake : a novel
by Mary Dixie Carter

A tense novel about the death of a wealthy garden designer, her lonely widower and the scrappy young gardener who smoothly steps into her life.
The Mysterious Amish Bachelor
by Vannetta Chapman

He has a secret. She’s set on discovering it. After paying the price for a crime he committed ten years ago, Noah Beiler wants a fresh start — which means hiding where he’s been for the last decade from his Amish community. But Sarah Yoder is determined to uncover his past.
Tom Clancy terminal velocity
by M. P. Woodward

After a series of brutal murders linked to a revived terror group, ex-commando Bartosz Jankowski leads a kill mission in the Himalayas, while Jack Ryan Jr. races to prevent catastrophe amid international power struggles and deadly pursuit in the mountainous borderlands.
Wrath of the dragons : a novel
by Olivia Rose Darling

As war ignites across Ravaryn, dragon heir Elowen Atarah and Demon Commander Cayden Veles must navigate a fragile alliance and their complicated feelings for one another while fighting to claim their thrones and protect a realm on the brink of collapse.
Hot desk : a novel
by Laura Dickerman

Two rival editors share a desk, and a growing pile of snarky Post-its, while vying for a legendary author's estate, but as their battle intensifies, long-buried secrets from a 1980s publishing friendship threaten to reshape everything they thought they knew.
Deadly storms
by Christine Feehan

Haunted by a painful past, café owner Shabina tries to keep her distance from the man she once hurt, but when danger closes in, she must rely on him for protection and decide what she's ready to risk to survive.
Capture the moment
by Suzanne Woods Fisher

Kate arrives in Grand Teton National Park on a mission to capture a one-in-a-million photo of the world's most famous bear. She's ready for adventure-isn't she? When a handsome park ranger offers to lend a hand, Kate is grateful, attracted-and conflicted. There's the small matter of the unresolved relationship she left back home.
Something to look forward to
by Fannie Flagg

This collection of thirty humorous and heartfelt stories follows everyday Americans—from a Kansas great-grandmother to small-town café regulars—navigating love, loss, and change with wit and resilience, all observed by a curious outsider trying to understand the quirks of the human spirit.
The knight and the moth
by Rachel Gillig

Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams. Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.
Apostle's Cove : a novel
by William Kent Krueger

Just before Halloween, former sheriff Cork O'Connor reopens a decades-old murder case at his son's urging as whispers of the Windigo grow louder and bodies begin to fall in the latest addition to the long-running series following Spirit Crossing.
Arcana Academy
by Elise Kova

To escape prison, Clara, a rogue tarot magician, agrees to pose as the fiancée of Arcana Academy's powerful headmaster, but as they plot to steal a legendary card, forbidden magic and unexpected feelings threaten both her freedom and her heart.
A Gardin wedding
by Rosey Lee

Martha Gardin is a mess, and no one knows this better than the women in her family. Good-hearted but often misguided by distrust and insecurity, Martha is known for stirring up drama. That's why Ruth, Naomi, and Mary are pleasantly surprised when Marthamellows out after she begins dating one of the most eligible bachelors in town. Handsome, well-connected Oji Greenwald is everything Martha hoped to find in a man, and it's only a matter of time before he pops the question. Rarely caught off guard, Martha is accustomed to getting her way. But when it appears she's finally about to have the life she's always wanted, a crisis in Oji's family brings out Martha's tendency to try to save the day her way, and the divide deepens between her and Oji's already indifferent mother, Eve. Confronted with these unforeseen challenges to her plans, Martha finds herself on a journey that forces her to fully acknowledge her previous mistakes and reconcile her past. But will it be enough to deliver her the future--and the love--her heart desires?
The language of the birds : a novel
by K. A. Merson

A brilliant but solitary teenager must unlock ciphers, unearth buried clues, and reckon with the outside world as she pursues an ancient secret in this brainteasing, puzzle-filled mystery that will leave readers wondering where the truth ends and fiction begins.
The filling station : a novel
by Vanessa Miller

From the author of The American Queen comes another important story about love, resilience, faith, and grit.
Murder in Tinseltown : A Hollywood Era Choose-Your-Own-Story Mystery
by Max Nightingale

In Los Angeles, 1958, when leading lady Blanche Aikerman is found murdered in her Royal Premiere hotel room on the eve of the biggest awards show of the year, the reader is thrust into the position of an LAPD homicide detective on the scene and charged with hunting down the culprit.
Billion-dollar ransom : a thriller
by James Patterson

When five members of a billionaire's family are kidnapped in a perfectly timed attack, FBI Special Agent Nicky Gordon faces off against a ruthless mastermind, racing to outsmart a plan that's as precise as it is dangerous.
To the moon and back : a novel
by Eliana Ramage

After fleeing domestic violence for the Cherokee Nation, Steph Harper dedicates her life to escaping Oklahoma and reaching NASA, but her relentless pursuit of independence strains her ties with her sister Kayla, her girlfriend Della and her mother Hannah.
Mercy : a novel
by Joan Silber

In the East Village of 1970s New York, Ivan rushes best friend Eddie to the ER when their experiment with heroin goes wrong; believing his friend is about to die, he chooses to leave him there, and this act of abandonment haunts Ivan's entire life.
The girl with ice in her veins
by Karin Smirnoff

As unrest simmers in the snowbound town of Gasskas, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are drawn into a web of violence and buried histories involving a murdered journalist, a missing hacker, and Lisbeth's vanished niece, forcing them to confront dangers both personal and political.
Sunny side up : a novel
by Katie Sturino

After a painful divorce, thirty-five-year-old PR maven Sunny Greene embraces self-love and body confidence, navigating new romances, career opportunities, and unexpected run-ins with her ex while defining beauty, success, and happiness on her own unapologetic terms.
Vianne : a novel
by Joanne Harris

After scattering her mother's ashes, Vianne follows a mystical wind to Marseille, where she begins a new life as a pregnant waitress discovering the magic of cooking with chocolate—only to find that her secret past may upend the fragile future she's building.
Land so wide : a novel
by Erin A. Craig

Trapped in the prosperous but cursed settlement of Mistaken, mapmaker Greer Mackenzie defies the Warding Stones to rescue her beloved from monstrous creatures, uncovering dark secrets about her town and her own origins.
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