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July 2025
General Fiction
The Accidental Favorite
by Fran Littlewood

A moving family dramedy investigates the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite?
Beach House Rules
by Kristy Woodson Harvey

A mother-daughter duo learn to lean on their community of women—and each other—after their world is turned upside down.
The Bewitching
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multi-generational gothic horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.
The Bright Years
by Sarah Damoff

One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. A Texas family is met with losses and surprises of inheritance, but they’re unable to shake the pull back toward each other in this family saga.  
The Cardinal: A Novel of Love and Power
by Alison Weir

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey rises from humble origins to become Henry VIII's closest advisor, but his loyalty and efforts to maintain peace unravel when the king's desire to divorce Katherine of Aragon for Anne Boleyn pits Wolsey against powerful enemies and personal tragedy.
A Court of Frost and Starlight
by Sarah J. Maas

As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, she finds that those dearest to her have more wounds than she anticipated--scars that will have far-reaching impact on the future of their Court.
The Girl I Was
by Jeneva Rose

Alexis Spencer will use any inspirational quote to rationalize her failures and shortcomings. However, when Alexis loses her job and her relationship on the same day, there’s no quote strong enough to get her through that. Feeling sorry for herself, Alexis finds a bottle of vodka from her college days and goes on a bender, blacking out in the process. Only this time, she doesn’t wake up at home, or in the right city. In fact, she isn’t even in the right year ...
These Summer Storms
by Sarah MacLean

From New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms is a razor-sharp, wildly sexy novel about a wealthy New England family's long-overdue reckoning . . . and the one week that threatens to tear them apart.
Typewriter Beach
by Meg Waite Clayton

Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, Typewriter Beach is an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock's new star.
Vera, or Faith
by Gary Shteyngart

The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. Both biting and deeply moving, Vera, or Faith is a boldly imagined story of family and country told through the clear and tender eyes of a child. 
The View from Lake Como
by Adriana Trigiani

After a painful divorce and family upheaval in working-class Lake Como, New Jersey, draftswoman Jess Capodimonte Baratta flees to Carrara, Italy, where artistic ambition, and new relationships reshape her understanding of love, loyalty, and personal fulfillment.
The Wayward Girls
by Susan Wiggs

From New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs, a wrenching but life-affirming novel based on a true story of survival, friendship, and redemption when six girls come together in a Catholic reform school in 1960s Buffalo, NY. 
Romance
Beautiful Nights
by Nina George

Respected Parisian behavioral biologist Claire has become increasingly desperate to feel that she is still alive and not just functioning. Julie is waiting for something that will set her on fire inside—the rush of life, colors, courage and passion. A summer in Brittany brings the two different women together. Under the blazing sun, in the endless silence of the sea and in the raging storm of a night thunderstorm, they rediscover joy of life, femininity and passion - and will never be the same again. 
Jane and Dan at the End of the World
by Colleen Oakley

While celebrating their anniversary at La Fin du Monde, unhappy couple Jane and Dan find themselves taken hostage by bumbling climate activists whose actions are eerily similar to those in Jane's failed novel, so only they know what will happen and how to stop it.
Sounds Like Love
by Ashley Poston

Haunted by emptiness despite her status as a coveted songwriter, Joni Lark returns to her North Carolina hometown where her family's closing music venue sparks a mysterious telepathic connection with a guarded musician determined to complete a haunting melody.
The Summer that Changed Everything
by Brenda Novak

A disgraced prodigal daughter returns to a seemingly charming beach town to delve into its deadly past.
Sunny Side Up
by Katie Sturino

Sunny Greene is thirty-five, recently divorced, and about to have a meltdown in the Bergdorf Goodman swimsuit department dressing room; but isn't rock bottom the perfect place to start a climb? 
Amish Romance
B is for Bonnet
by Shelley Shepard Gray

Siblings Jonny, Martin, Kelsey, and Beth long for the stable sense of family they felt when visiting their New Order grandparents, Josiah and Sylvia Schrock, in Holmes County, Ohio. And the Schrocks couldn't be more surprised when the grandkids want to try living with them—and joining their faith . . . 
Western Romance
The Paradise Petition
by Carolyn Brown

In nineteenth-century Texas, two tough-minded women dare to challenge the status quo in a warm, witty, and adventurous historical romance. 
Mystery & Detective
Austen at Sea
by Natalie Jenner

Two pairs of siblings, devotees of Jane Austen, find their lives transformed by a visit to England and Sir Francis Austen, her brother and keeper of her memories and surviving artifacts.
Doggone Bones
by Carolyn Haines

When a local pet activist's dog is stolen, Sarah Booth and the Delaney Detective Agency race against time to find the thieves who are shady breeders involved in illegal dogfighting in the latest addition to series following Blue Christmas Bones.
The Frozen People: A Mystery
by Elly Griffiths

Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old, they're frozen. Nobody knows that her team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence. The latest assignment sees Ali venture back farther than they have dared before: to 1850s London to clear the name of Cain Templeton. Ali arrives in the Victorian era to another dead woman at her feet and far too many unanswered questions. She soon finds herself trapped, unable to make her way back to her beloved son, Finn, who is battling his own accusations in the present day. Could the two cases be connected? In a race through and against time, Ali must find out before it’s too late.
King of Ashes
by S. A. Cosby

After returning to Jefferson Run, Virginia, and family business Carruthers Crematorium—with brother Dante in debt to criminals and sister Neveah exhausted from holding everything together—Roman discovers that his father's crash was no accident and Dante has placed them all in real danger.
Midnight and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Novel
by Ian Rankin

In another tense, gripping game of cat and mouse, Edinburgh's Detective John Rebus may end up behind bars before he gets his criminal there.
Murder in an Irish Garden
by Carlene O'Connor

in Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, garda Siobhán and husband Macdara must solve a murder connected to the designer of Kibane's Top Garden Contest winner—a landscaper hired by Siobhán's chef brother Eoin—before there's another victim.
The Red Queen
by Martha Grimes

One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen pub. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate. And to complicate things further, Jury has just happened upon a photo in a newspaper of a man in the United States, who is a dead ringer for Treadnor. Meanwhile, Wiggins, Jury’s partner at New Scotland Yard, becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: His sister, missing for years and presumed dead, has just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in search of his sister, the two investigations begin to converge.
Silent as the Grave
by Rhys Bowen

Molly Murphy Sullivan, juggling motherhood in 1900s New York, investigates deadly sabotage on a film set after her adopted daughter, Bridie, lands a starring role, uncovering tensions between rival studios amidst the fledgling movie industry's dangerous experiments.
Thus with a Kiss I Die
by Christina Dodd

Rosie Montague, a 20-year-old free spirit in Verona, finds her life upended when she's tasked by the ghost of Prince Escalus the Elder to solve his murder, all while navigating a love triangle, revolution, and a looming threat that may turn her into a tragic heroine.
Under the Stars
by Beatriz Williams

When a daughter and her famous mother return to Winthrop Island to confront their complicated past, they discover a secret trove of paintings that connect them to a mysterious woman who vanished on a luxury steamship two centuries earlier.
The Winds from Further West
by Alexander McCall Smith

A dazzling and uplifting novel of new beginnings and endless possibilities, in which a slew of personal and professional disasters cause a young researcher to upend his seemingly stable life in Edinburgh and move to a remote island off the Scottish coast.
Thriller & Suspense
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by Victoria Schwab

From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue comes a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.
Don't Let Him In
by Lisa Jewell

When charming Nick Radcliffe enters Nina's life, her daughter Ash grows suspicious, uncovering unsettling secrets that connect them to Martha, a florist with a husband who keeps disappearing, leading all three women toward a chilling truth they never expected.
Edge of Honor: A Thriller
by Brad Thor

After six months abroad, elite spy Scot Harvath returns to a shifting political landscape in America, where a powerful secret cabal threatens to destabilize the nation
Everyone Is Lying to You : A Thriller
by Jo Piazza

From the bestselling author of The Sicilian Inheritance and the creator of the Under the Influence podcast comes an explosive thriller about two estranged friends, a grisly murder, a sudden disappearance, and the truly shocking revelation that everyone is lying to you about something . . . 
The Hamptons Lawyer
by James Patterson

The Hamptons on Long Island is known for its beautiful beaches, its luxury lifestyle. When Jane Smith takes on a famous celebrity client, she’s armed and ready. Yet she’s chased down, shot at, and risks contempt of court. That’s when mounting a legal defense turns into self-defense. 
Knowing every day in court could be her last, she’s a survivor. 
Hidden in Smoke
by Lee Goldberg

Homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone team up with arson investigators after a series of crippling fires devastate Los Angeles in the third novel of the series following Ashes Never Lie.
An Inside Job
by Daniel Silva

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue.
A Killing Cold
by Kate Alice Marshall

When Theodora Scott visits her fiancé's secluded family estate, she uncovers eerie ties to her forgotten childhood, unraveling a deadly secret the powerful Daltons will stop at nothing to protect, even if it puts her life at risk.
Knave of Diamonds: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
by Laurie R. King

Mary Russell's long-lost Uncle Jake reappears and is somehow connected to the infamous theft of the Irish Crown Jewels, pulling her into a mystery and pitting her against Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft and her own loyalties.
Not Quite Dead Yet 
by Holly Jackson

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - now a hit Netflix series - returns with her first novel for adults: a twisty thriller about a young woman trying to solve her own murder.
Our Last Resort
by Clémence Michallon

Fifteen years ago, Frida and her brother escaped a cult. Now her brother is the prime suspect in a murder investigation—and it isn’t the first time.
She Didn't See It Coming
by Shari Lapena

When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: can the detectives find her before it's too late?
If Something Happens to Me 
by Alex Finlay

Trying to pick up the pieces after his girlfriend's kidnapping, Ryan Richardson goes to law school but must pivot back to the case when her car is found submerged in a lake with a cryptic note.
The Unraveling of Julia
by Lisa Scottoline

From a #1 international bestselling author, a gothic, suspenseful tale in which a young widow inherits a Tuscan estate from a mysterious benefactor and finds herself thrust into the crosshairs of a dangerous conspiracy.
The Woman in Suite 11
by Ruth Ware

Journalist Lo Blacklock travels to a luxury Swiss hotel hoping to revive her career, but when a mysterious woman draws her into a dangerous chase across Europe, she must weigh ambition against survival in a world of wealth and shifting alliances.
Writers and Liars 
by Carol Goodman

"In the latest thrilling suspense novel from Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author Carol Goodman a group of mystery authors gathers on a secluded Greek island for a writers retreat, only to discover that their enigmatic host has been murdered and everyone present is a suspect"
Non-Fiction
Clint: The Man and the Movies
by Shawn Levy

From the acclaimed film critic and New York Times bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, a revelatory portrait of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and versatile actor-director in movie history and an imposing icon of American culture for six decades.
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
by Caroline Fraser

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence.
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