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November 2023 New Fiction Releases |
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Above the Salt
by Katherine Vaz
A sweeping love story follows two Portuguese refugees who flee religious violence and reignite their budding romance in Civil-War America.
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Again and Again
by Jonathan Evison
A curmudgeonly old man tries to connect with his nursing home assistant and convince him that he has lived hundreds of past lives searching for the love of his life, but begins to wonder if it all really happened.
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Alice Sadie Celine
by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
A woman has an affair with her daughter's best friend, which tests the limits of love and ambition.
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The Ball at Versailles
by Danielle Steel
In 1959 Paris, when they receive invitations to attend an exclusive dusk to dawn ball at the Palace of Versailles where they'll be presented to international society and royalty, four young women find their lives forever changed during this one transcendent night.
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Baumgartner
by Paul Auster
Still struggling nine years after his wife's death in a swimming accident, a soon-to-be-retired philosophy professor becomes lost in the memories of their relationship in the new novel by the best-selling author of Sunset Park.
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Before We Say Goodbye
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Follows a new group of customers in a magical time-traveling Tokyo café.
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The Corsican Shadow
by Dirk Cussler
Ultimate man of action Dirk Pitt prepares to face down another challenge in the Mediterranean involving the coordination of French, Greek and Italian authorities, in the latest addition to the long-running Dirk Pitt series.
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Day
by Michael Cunningham
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious—and learning to go on. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours.
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The Future
by Naomi Alderman
While a few billionaires lead the world to certain doom, Martha Einkorn, working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything, and Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, when their paths unexpectedly cross, work together to prevent the cataclysmic end of civilization.
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The General and Julia
by Jon Clinch
Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a president while writing his memoirs and reckoning with his complicated legacy.
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The Good Part
by Sophie Cousens
When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes up to a handsome husband, a high-powered job and two perfect children, and as she embraces the new relationships and the perks of maturity, she must ask herself some difficult questions.
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Good Taste
by Caroline Scott
Full of wit, life, and--against all odds--delicious food, Good Taste is a story of discovery and one woman's desire to make her own way as a modern woman.
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The Happy Couple
by Naoise Dolan
An intimate, funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apart.
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Her Secret Hope
by Shelley Shepard Gray
An Amish woman harboring secrets and looking to start over in Pinecraft meets a hardworking farmer who lives only a few miles away from her hometown, in the third novel of the series following Her Only Wish Original.
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Hot Springs Drive
by Lindsay Hunter
Jealous of her long-time best friend Theresa, who seems to have an easier life with a perfect child, Jackie is eventually driven to extremes by her envy, in the new novel by the author of Eat Only When You're Hungry.
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Iwo, 26 Charlie
by P. T. Deutermann
Young gunnery officer Lee Bishop, during the battle at Iwo Jima, is pulled from his station aboard the USS Nevada to serve on-shore, as where he witnesses a literal hell as 26,000 Americans are killed and an entire platoon of Marines are held captive in the blistering, sulfurous tunnels of Surabachi itself.
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The Little Liar
by Mitch Albom
A trustworthy boy who has never told a lie, 11-year-old Nico Krispis, duped by a German officer into leading his family and fellow Jewish residents to their doom, becomes a pathological liar, in a story that explores honesty, devotion and revenge—and the power of love to ultimately redeem us.
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The New Naturals
by Gabriel Bump
After losing their child, a husband and wife construct a separate society, where everyone can feel loved and wanted, but when others hear about the place and want in, it doesn't take long for problems to develop, for conflicts to surface, and for the children to crave life beyond this place.
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The Porcelain Maker
by Sarah Freethy
Two lovers are caught at the crossroads of history, and a daughter searches for the truth.
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Same Bed Different Dreams
by Ed Park
Imagining a world where the Korean Provisional Government (KPG) still exists today, working toward a unified Korea, this alternate history follows Soon Sheen, who works at an international tech company, as they come into possession of a strange manuscript detailing the KPG's grand project that twists reality like a kaleidoscope.
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So Late in the Day
by Claire Keegan
Collects three of the Booker Prize Finalist's exquisite stories, newly revised and expanded, that each explore the dynamics that corrupt what could be between women and men: a lack of generosity, the weight of expectation and the looming threat of violence.
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Someone Always Nearby
by Susan Wittig Albert
An evocative historical novel that explores the dimensions of friendship and the debts we incur to those who make our lives easier focuses on painter Georgia O'Keeffe and the woman who managed a house of hers in New Mexico.
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A True Account
by Katherine Howe
From a #1 New York Times best-selling author comes a first-hand account of one young woman's unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time.
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A Very Inconvenient Scandal
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Returning home with the exciting news that she is marrying the love of her life and is pregnant, Frankie struggles to adjust when she learns her father is also getting married to her pregnant best friend.
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The Vulnerables
by Sigrid Nunez
This story about modern life and connection with others, including an adrift member of Gen Z and a feisty parrot named Eureka, reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of kindness can offer healing and hope.
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We Must Not Think of Ourselves
by Lauren Grodstein
In 1940, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, Adam Paskow joins a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls, which leads to unexpected love, but when he discovers a possible escape from the Ghetto, he is faced with an unbearable choice.
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The Wishing Bridge
by Viola Shipman
In a novel set in Frankenmuth, Michigan—the Christmas-iest town in America—a Scrooge-like protagonist learns the true value of her family, friends and hometown when her misguided plan to convince her parents to sell their business to a huge soulless conglomerate backfires.
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The Beautiful and the Wild
by Peggy Townsend
Held prisoner by the father of her child, a man she once loved, Liv Russo, to protect her young son, escapes into the harsh Alaskan wilderness where, to survive, she must reckon with her past and the choices that brought her to this unforgiving landscape.
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Betrayal
by Phillip Margolin
A former MMA fighter-turned-lawyer must defend the opponent who ended her career a decade ago when she is accused of a quadruple murder, in the seventh novel of the series following Murder at Black Oaks.
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Blood Betrayal
by Ausma Zehanat Khan
With the Denver Police force spread thin between two racially charged cases, protests on both sides of the cases begin and Lieutenant Wagas Seif and Inaya have their work cut out for them.
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Bulletproof Barista
by Cleo Coyle
Clare Cosi and her baristas at Village Blend agree to allow a true-crime television show to film in their coffee shop, resulting in an actual murder, in the 20th novel of the series following Honey Roasted.
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A Christmas Vanishing
by Anne Perry
Mariah Ellison investigates after accepting an invitation to spend Christmas with a friend and her husband but arrives and discovers her friend has disappeared without a trace and her invitation has been rudely rescinded.
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Command and Control
by Marc Cameron
When a ruthless criminal organization orchestrates a full-blown coup d'état to seize the Panama Canal during President Jack Ryan's visit with the Panamanian president, the Vice President coordinates a military response but there is one deadly obstacle he didn't account for.
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Deus X
by Stephen Mack Jones
A Detroit ex-cop puts his life on the line to protect a friend from modern-day Templars sworn to protect the name of the Catholic Church at all costs.
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The Edge
by David Baldacci
Sent to a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA operative who was in possession of countless state secrets, ex-Army ranger Travis Devine, with no one to trust, must unravel a long history of secrets while evading those who want him dead.
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The Fiction Writer
by Jillian Cantor
A fiction writer is hired by a handsome billionaire to write about a stunning family secret—that Daphne du Maurier plagiarized Rebecca from his grandmother—leading her to question the boundaries of creative freedom.
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The Girl in the Vault
by Michael Ledwidge
A new thriller involving Swiss watch timing, nerves of steel, and $10 million in cold, hard Wall Street cash.
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The Helsinki Affair
by Anna Pitoniak
It's the case of Amanda Cole's lifetime, but solving it will require her to betray another spy—who just so happens to be her father.
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I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
by Amanda Flower
Focused on meeting Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is in Amherst to speak, Emily Dickinson investigates after she discovers his secretary dead in their garden, in the second novel of the series following Because I Could Not Stop for Death.
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Kennedy 35
by Charles Cumming
Veteran agent Lachlan Kite reckons with the fallout from a mission in Senegal carried out early in his career.
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The Manor House
by Gilly Macmillan
When her husband Tom is found dead, Nicole, whose life has been forever changed after a massive lottery win, finds her dream world turning into a nightmare, realizing that big money can bring big problems and big threats, making her wonder if Tom's death was really a tragic accident—and if she's next.
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Murder Checks Out
by Victoria Gilbert
It's not all snowflakes and sugarplums when murder crashes Taylorsford's first Winterfest.
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Murder in Williamstown
by Kerry Greenwood
The Honorable Miss Phryne Fisher, troubled by recent events, is enlisted to help find the teenaged sister-in-law of her longtime lover Lin Chung—a disappearance she believes may be linked to a recent murder.
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Murder Wears a Hidden Face
by Rosemary Simpson
In 1891 New York, when new Chinese cultural attaché Lord Peng is murdered, Prudence and Geoffrey join former detective Warren Lowry in his investigation, which turns complicated when the rest of the Peng family flee into the dark heart of Chinatown to elude a killer bent on revenge for a long-ago injustice.
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The Mystery Guest
by Nita Prose
The esteemed Head Maid of the 5-star Regency Grand Hotel, Molly Gray, when a world-renowned mystery author drops dead, matches wits with her old foe, Detective Stark, to solve this case, which not only threatens the hotel's pristine reputation but may be linked to her own past.
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Past Lying
by Val McDermid
DCI Karen Pirie investigates in a new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against the disquiet and investigative challenges of a global pandemic.
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The Proof of the Pudding
by Rhys Bowen
While attending the party of Sir Mortimer Mordred, famous author of Gothic horror novels, who has borrowed her new chef to cater the festivities, Lady Georgiana Rannoch, when a guest dies of poisoning, must find the culprit to save her new chef and her own reputation—all before her bundle of joy arrives.
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Resurrection Walk
by Michael Connelly
With the help of his half-brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, defense attorney Mickey Haller sets out to prove the innocence of a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy, putting Mickey in the crosshairs of a killer who doesn't want the case reopened—or the truth coming to light.
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Robert B. Parker's Broken Trust
by Mike Lupica
When the beautiful wife of a brilliant scientist, whose groundbreaking work with lithium has made him a billionaire, asks him to look into her husband's past due to his recent paranoia and violent behavior, Spenser makes a discovery that causes him to question his own views on morality.
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Shot With Crimson
by Nicola Upson
Violence finds its way to old Hollywood, and Josephine Tey and DCI Archie Penrose must solve a mystery before anyone else gets hurt.
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The Spy Coast
by Tess Gerritsen
When a body turns up in her driveway, former spy Maggie Bird, forced into retirement after a mission went tragically wrong, turns to her “Martini Club” of former spies to help her uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why.
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Sweet Thing
by David Swinson
Homicide Detective Alex Blum must answer a terrible question: "How far would you go to love the wrong woman?"
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There Should've Been Eight
by Nalini Singh
Gathering at their late friend Bea's family estate in New Zealand's Southern Alps for a reunion, a group of friends are plagued by long-buried grief, bitterness and rage, revealing that Bea's shocking death wasn't what it was claimed to be—and that the truth will finally be unleashed no matter the cost.
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Unnatural Death
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Examining the remains of two campers wanted by authorities in a Northern Virginia wilderness, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta considers this one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career as she tries to discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.
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Vamp
by Loren D. Estleman
Determined to save both The Comet, an extinct drive-in movie theater, and the last remaining print of the 1917 film Cleopatra, renowned film detective Valentino navigates Hollywood's shady underbelly once more on a dangerous adventure that threatens not only his career—but his life.
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Viviana Valentine and the Ticking Clock
by Emily J. Edwards
When Viviana Valentine and Tommy Fortuna head to Times Square for New Year's Eve, they don't expect their resolution to involve catching a killer.
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The Watchmaker's Hand
by Jeffery Deaver
While racing against time to stop a political group targeting construction sites, Rhyme and Sachs discover the Watchmaker has come to town to kill Rhyme and must unravel a handful of plots as tightly wound as a timepiece before death and destruction rain down from above.
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The Burnout
by Sophie Kinsella
Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, “urgent” (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn’t seen her friends in months. Sasha has hit a wall. Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga, and find peace, she heads to the seaside resort she loved as a child. But it’s the off season, the hotel is in a dilapidated shambles, and she has to share the beach with the only other occupant: a grumpy guy named Finn, who seems as stressed as Sasha.
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Do Your Worst
by Rosie Danan
Hired to break a curse on an infamous Scottish castle, Riley Rhodes meets a disgraced archaeologist, Clark Edgeware, who tries to get her fired for being in the way, sparking more than anger between them.
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Fancy Meeting You Here
by Julie Tieu
Every single one of Elise Ngo’s close girlfriends—Rebecca, Jesse, and Beth—is getting married within the same few months, and every single one of them has asked her to be both bridesmaid and florist. The stakes are high at Rebecca’s high-profile wedding, where the guests are mostly political connections of Rebecca’s parents. Desperate for the event to go off without a hitch, Elise enlists the help of an outside caterer who turns out to be Ben Yu, Rebecca’s elusive younger brother.
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For Never & Always
by Helena Greer
Two bitter exes are thrown back together when they discover they are the surprise co-owners of an inherited destination inn and wonder if they have both grown enough to give it a second chance.
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Hunt on Dark Waters
by Katee Robert
After stealing from her vampire ex and falling through a portal to another realm, witch Evelyn is rescued by telekinetic sailors in the first novel of a new series by the New York Times best-selling author of Neon Gods.
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Inheritance
by Nora Roberts
A woman uncovers a family curse after an uncle leaves her a haunted Victorian house, in the first novel of a new trilogy by the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Concannon Sisters trilogy. One million first printing.
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It Had to Be a Duke
by Vivienne Lorret
Verity Hartley always tells the truth. Well, mostly. However, when her snooty neighbor returns to their small hamlet to brag about having a grand Season, a plethora of ballgowns, and so many suitors that she cannot possibly decide which one to marry, Verity tells a lie. She claims to be betrothed. To a duke. Who happens to be her family’s sworn enemy. But what are the odds that he would ever learn of this one, little, harmless falsehood?
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Just Once
by Karen Kingsbury
Torn between two brothers—Sam and Hank, one at war and one at home, Irvel Ellis, when Hank enlists to save his brother, wonders if love can find a way, even from the ashes of the greatest heartbreak.
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Knowing You
by Tracie Peterson
Working as a Camera Girl at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition where she's captivated by the Japanese exhibits, which hold the key to her mother's heritage, budding artist May Parker becomes entangled in a dangerous heist involving samurai armor, putting her newfound relationship with a police detective on the line.
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Never Met a Duke Like You
by Amalie Howard
When an accident of fate traps friends-turned-enemies Lady Vesper Lyndhurst and the Duke of Greydon together, they can no longer ignore the attraction between them despite being total opposites and leading very different lives.
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Never Wager With a Wallflower
by Virginia Heath
Miss Venus Merriwell has been waiting for her prince to come since the tender age of fourteen. While Venus and Galahad lock horns over practically everything, and while her malevolent orphans at the orphanage she works at do their darndest to sabotage his lifelong dream, can either of them take the ultimate gamble-and learn to love thy neighbor?
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The Talk of Coyote Canyon
by Brenda Novak
With her piercings, tattoos and spiky blond hair, Ellen Truesdale doesn't quite fit in with the other folks in Coyote Canyon—and that's just fine with her; she's only here to put her father out of business, as payback for abandoning her when she was young.
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Bookshops & Bonedust
by Travis Baldree
Viv's mercenary career isn't going as planned. Wounded during a hunt, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk. Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn't possibly imagine.
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Chaos Terminal
by Mur Lafferty
Preferring to not be an amateur detective, Mallory Viridian flees to an alien space station but must get involved when someone on a shuttle from earth is murdered, in the second novel of the series following Station Eternity.
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A Curse of Krakens
by Kevin Hearne
The final book in the epic fantasy trilogy that began with A Plague of Giants, about a war that broke a continent-and opened the door to a new world.
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Iron Flame
by Rebecca Yarros
After surviving her first year at Basgiath War College, dragon rider Violet Sorrengail discovers that the real danger is just beginning, in the second novel of the series following Fourth Wing.
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Like Thunder
by Nnedi Okorafor
Reuniting with his best friend, a shadow speaker girl named Ejii Ubaid, to complete the epic and mystical quest they started years ago, rainmaker Dikéogu Obidimkpa, more powerful than ever, soon discovers that nothing will ever be the same again.
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The Lost Cause
by Cory Doctorow
For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods and superstorms, has become a skill for which tens of millions of people are trained every year. The effort is global.
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The Narrow Road Between Desires
by Patrick Rothfuss
In this touching stand-alone story, the Kingkiller Chronicle's most charming fae, Bast, who cares nothing for the laws of man, finds himself forced to choose between betraying his master and helping a hated enemy.
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The Olympian Affair
by Jim Butcher
Standing alone against the overwhelming might of Spire Aurora's Armada and its new secret weapon, Lord Albion uses the trading summit at Spire Olympia to secure alliances that will shape the outcomes of the war with the help of a privateer and the crew of the AMS Predator.
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A Power Unbound
by Freya Marske
The final entry in the author's award-winning Last Binding trilogy, a queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light.
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Sister of Starlit Seas
by Terry Brooks
When her pirate captain, the man she believes she loves, is captured by those in charge of the slave trade he has been fighting, Char embarks on a high-seas adventure to rescue him, uncovering secrets she never suspected about herself that teach her to look before she leaps.
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Slay
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Dreading introducing her fiancé, the newly crowned vampire king of America, to her ultra-religious human relatives, necromancer Anita Blake, as she tries to keep the peace between the family she left behind and the family she's chosen, must battle against the dark forces putting her happily-ever-after at risk.
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Spirit of the Wood
by Kristen Britain
When his mentor, Lieutenant-Rider Laren Mapstone, is severely wounded in an attack on the North Road by a gang of bandits, Tavin Bankside, a Green Rider trainee, must save her life and master his empathic gift before it destroys them both.
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System Collapse
by Martha Wells
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits.
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