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August 2023 New Fiction Releases |
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All-Night Pharmacy
by Ruth Madievsky
Two sisters with a very toxic relationship go to a bar patronized by energy healers and share an unidentified bag of pills resulting in a hazy evening of risky interactions with strangers that ends in violence and a missing person.
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The Bee Sting
by Paul Murray
From the author of Skippy Dies, an comes a thought-provoking novel about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart.
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Bellies
by Nicola Dinan
Two queer men who hit it off during their university's drag night begin a relationship and eventually plan a life together face a momentous challenge when one of them announces an intention to transition.
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The Bookbinder
by Pip Williams
As World War I draws the young men of Britain away to fight, Peggy, who works in the bindery at Oxford's university press, sees the possibility of another future when refugees arrive from Belgium, but as war and illness reshape her world, her love for a Belgian soldier threatens to hold her back.
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The Breakaway
by Jennifer Weiner
While leading a group bike trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, 34-year-old Abby Stern, newly engaged, encounters Sebastian, the one-night stand she never thought she'd see again, and, determined to keep him at arm's length over the next two weeks, finds her certainties about herself and the nature of love challenged.
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California Golden
by Melanie Benjamin
Two teens in 1960s California grapple with the unconventional path of their mother, who defies societal expectations as a talented female surfer, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Children's Blizzard.
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Canary Girls
by Jennifer Chiaverini
During World War I, April Tipton, a 19-year-old former maid takes a job at Thornshire Arsenal filling shells, where she befriends the wife of a star footballer and the decides to join the ladies' football club.
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The Connellys Of County Down
by Tracey Lange
After serving 18 months on a drug charge, 30-year-old Tara Connelly returns home to live with her siblings, and as she works to build a new career and hold her family together, especially when secrets threaten to tear them apart forever, she finds love in a most unlikely place.
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Cursed at Dawn
by Heather Graham
FBI agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter investigate after Stephan Dante, the self-proclaimed “king of the vampires” escapes from prison, leaving a blood trail in his wake, in the third novel of the trilogy following Secrets in the Dark.
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The English Experience
by Julie Schumacher
Chaperoning Payne University's annual “Experience: Abroad,” beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger strives to navigate safe passage for 11 undergrads, including a claustrophobe, a pair of unreconciled lovers and a young woman who has never been away from her cat before, through a sea of personal, institutional and international troubles.
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Family Lore
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Follows the lives of several generations of women in the Marte family after gathering to honor Flor, who can predict the day someone will die, decides to throw herself a huge party as a living wake.
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Gone Tonight
by Sarah Pekkanen
A mother senses danger closing in when her daughter, ready to spread her wings and move away from home, begins asking questions about her past, in the new novel by the author of The Golden Couple.
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The Great Transition
by Nick Fuller Googins
A hopeful climate crisis novel exploring the possibilities of our near future and humanity's capacity for change, about one family trying to protect each other and the place we all call home.
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Happiness
by Danielle Steel
A successful author of thrillers receives a mysterious letter about an inheritance of a manor and a title from a recently deceased uncle outside London and her plans to sell the place quickly fade as she contemplates a different life.
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Happiness Falls
by Angie Kim
Mia isn't initially concerned when her family fails to return from a walk, until her mute brother Eugene, who suffers from a rare genetic condition, returns bloody and alone and is unable to describe what happened to their father.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.
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Holler, Child
by LaToya Watkins
Set in the same black community as her debut novel, Perish, a collection of short stories highlight the character's lives in Texas exploring themes including race, power, inequality, guilt, betrayal and forgiveness. A first novel.
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House Of Odysseus
by Claire North
A reimagining of Greek myth gives voice to the women who stood defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men.
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The Hundred Loves Of Juliet
by Evelyn Skye
Swearing off of love, newly divorced writer Helene moves to a small town in Alaska where she meets fisherman Sebastien Montague, who is her invented hero made flesh, and sets out to find the truth about his existence, in this modern-day reimagining of Romeo and Juliet that spans lives, years and continents.
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The Invisible Hour
by Alice Hoffman
Abandoning the rules of the Community, an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden and books are considered evil, Mia Jacob, after secretly reading The Scarlet Letter, discovers the power of the written word, which leads her on a journey of love, heartbreak and self-discovery.
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The Keeper Of Hidden Books
by Madeline Martin
As bombs rain down on Warsaw and Hitler's forces surround the city, childhood friends Marta and Janina join the war effort using one of the only weapons that still feel safe to them: literature, fighting to preserve their culture and community and finding hope in each other in order to survive.
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Las Madres
by Esmeralda Santiago
Returning to Puerto Rico to help her mother learn more about her early life, Marysol, along with her mother's friends “las Madres” and their daughter Graciela, finds the trip disrupted by two hurricanes and a secret that blows their lives wide open, in a novel of women's sexuality, shame, disability and love.
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The Last Ranger
by Peter Heller
While investigating the background of a local poacher, Officer Ren Hopper, an enforcement ranger at Yellowstone National Park, discovers a frightening conspiracy, in this masterful portrait of the American West where greed, love, family and community play out amidst the stunning beauty of the natural world.
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Learned By Heart
by Emma Donoghue
Based on a true story and a five-million-word secret journal, this extraordinary work of fiction follows an orphaned heiress, banished from India to England, and a brilliant, troublesome tomboy who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in 1805 York where they fall secretly, deeply and dangerous in love.
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Lion & Lamb
by James Patterson
Rival PIs, Veena Lion and Cooper Lamb work the same intense headline-making case involving an Eagles starting quarterback and his even more famous wife, a Grammy-winning singer, and together, knowing every secret in Philadelphia, prove how two wrongs can make a right.
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The Lookback Window
by Kyle Dillon Hertz
A victim of sex trafficking, Dylan, when a new law is passed, allowing him to sue his abusers, is forced to look back on what happened to him, exploring a drug and sex-fueled world of bathhouses, clubs and strangers' apartments, emerging with a new purpose—extracting justice on his own terms.
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Mrs. Porter Calling
by A. J. Pearce
In London during World War II, Emmy Lake, now in charge of“Yours Cheerfully”—a huge popular advice column in Woman's Friend magazine, finds her world turned upside down by the magazine's new publisher, a glamorous socialite who announces she's cutting the column, forcing Emmy and her friends to take action.
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My Name Is Iris
by Brando Skyhorse
Brando Skyhorse, winner of the PEN Hemingway Award, returns with his highly anticipated second novel, a literary dystopian tale set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens.
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None Of This Is True
by Lisa Jewell
Popular podcaster Alix Summer becomes the subject of her own podcast after a woman named Josie Fair comes into her life and then disappears, leaving behind a terrible and terrifying legacy that puts her life and her family's lives in mortal danger.
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The One That Got Away
by Charlotte Rixon
A novel spanning two decades is about first love, first heartbreak and the ones we never forget.
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Out Of The Dawn
by P. C. Cast
In the sequel to the #1 New York Times best-selling author's Into the Mist, a group of women fight for a just future in the wake of global destruction.
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The Paris Assignment
by Rhys Bowen
After the death of her son, Madeleine accepts a request from the ministry to aid in the war effort and, returning to France, confronts the devastation of World War II as she fights to take down the Nazis, find her husband and ultimately survive against inconceivable odds.
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The Peach Seed
by Anita Gail Jones
Explores the origins of a south Georgia family's tradition and how its modern-day sons and daughters struggle with the legacies of America's Civil Rights Movement and the far-reaching impacts of the 1800s slave trade from Senegal to Charleston, S.C.
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The Romantic
by William Boyd
A 19th-century everyman, Cashel Greville Ross seeks his fortune around the world, traveling as a solider, farmer, felon, writer and father, experiencing all the vicissitudes of existence, including a once-in-a-lifetime love, and realizing his greatest accomplishment is discovering who he truly is.
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The Secret Recipe Of Ella Dove
by Karen Hawkins
Three lives converge as a wildly talented baker returns to Dove Pond to face her past in this entry in the charming series that proves that sometimes miracles really do happen.
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Shark Heart
by Emily Habeck
When her husband Lewis, a few weeks after their wedding, receives a rare diagnosis—his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark—Wren, struggling with his fate, finds his developing carnivorous nature activating long-repressed memories which forces her to make an impossible choice.
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Sun House
by David James Duncan
An epic comedy about love, spirit and the quest for transcendence in an anything-but-transcendent America, from the author of the best-sellers The River Why and The Brothers K.
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Swim Home To The Vanished
by Brendan Shay Basham
A grief-stricken young man, Damien lands in a fishing village where he falls under the spell of Ana Maria, rumored to have had something to do with her daughter's death, and forms a strange kinship with one of her surviving daughters, who is driven by a fierce need for revenge.
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Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance with, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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Three Fires
by Denise Mina
Reimaging the “Bonfire of the Vanities” through a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, this modern take on a fascinating historical story follows Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican friar who, railing against the vice and avarice of the ruling Medici family, was instrumental in their removal from power.
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Under The Influence
by Noelle Crooks
The Devil Wears Prada meets The Assistants in this compulsively readable workplace novel following a young woman who takes a job working for an enigmatic influencer and who quickly discovers that having it all and being it all comes with a price.
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Under The Tamarind Tree
by Nigar Alam
Agreeing to look after a friend's teenaged granddaughter, Rozeena, haunted by a fateful night long ago, forms an unconventional friendship with this girl struggling with her own demons that could ruin everything Rozeena has worked so hard to protect.
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Western Alliances
by Wilton Barnhardt
A darkly funny family saga by the New York Times best-selling author of Lookaway, Lookaway and Emma Who Saved My Life.
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Where There Was Fire
by John Manuel Arias
A Costa Rican family wrestles with a deadly secret. A first novel. Includes a family tree.
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The Year Of Second Chances
by Lara Avery
When she discovers her late husband enrolled her in a dating service, which he set up to go into effect a year after his death, Robin Lindstrom puts herself out there and finds herself meeting new people, trying new things and getting a second chance at love—and loving life.
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After That Night
by Karin Slaughter
After surviving a brutal attack that changed her life forever, an ER doctor battles to save a young woman who was similarly attacked, linking the crimes, in the 11th novel of the series following
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Birder, She Wrote
by Donna Andrews
Meg's hopes for a relaxing summer are dashed when her father recruits her to help with beekeeping and the mayor calls in a favor, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Dashing Through the Snowbirds.
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The Bone Hacker
by Kathy Reichs
Called in to help investigate the murders of young male tourists on the islands of Turks and Caicos, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan makes a discovery that could have global significance, making herself a target.
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Bridge
by Lauren Beukes
Estranged from her mother for believing in the existence of a mythical object that enables inter-dimensional travel, Bridget discovers that very object among her mother's belongings, in the new novel by the author of The Shining Girls.
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The Continental Affair
by Christine Mangan
A literary caper with European glamour and an expansive wanderlust.
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Dark Corners
by Megan Goldin
A true crime podcaster investigates after a beautiful, popular, young influencer with a huge following goes missing right after visiting a man in jail for breaking and entering, but who is suspected to be a serial killer.
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Deadlock
by James Byrne
Dez travels to Portland to help his friend Riziah Swann uncover the truth after her business journalist sister was attacked and seriously injured and her apartment was ransacked, in the second novel of the series following The Gatekeeper.
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Dead Mountain
by Douglas Preston
A renowned archaeologist and an FBI agent investigate when a group of backpackers become so terrified they slashed their way out of their tent and into a blizzard, in the fourth novel of the series following Diablo Mesa.
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Delicate Condition
by Danielle Valentine
When her doctor tells her she had a miscarriage, Anna wonders if it is even true, and whether something more sinister is at play.
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The Discreet Charm Of The Big Bad Wolf
by Alexander McCall Smith
In the midst of downsizing at the Department of Sensitive Crimes, Ulf Varg investigates the mysterious disappearance of a man's cabin, wondering how one tracks down a stolen house, while enrolling his dog, Martin, in a promising veterinary treatment for deafness.
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The Girl In The Eagle's Talons
by Karin Smirnoff
Named guardian to her niece, whose mother has disappeared, Lisbeth Salander, while keeping the remarkably gifted teenager safe, comes to Mikael Blomkvist's aid when rumors about the man his daughter is about to marry lead to violence, plunging them both into a world of conspiracy and betrayal in the ice-bound wilderness.
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Good Bad Girl
by Alice Feeney
When a baby is stollen from a stroller and someone at a nursing home is murdered, four women who distrust each other must investigate together, in the new novel by the best-selling author of Daisy Darker.
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Harlem After Midnight
by Louise Hare
Leaving London for New York to follow a dream of finding her extended family, Lena Aldridge meets handsome musician Will Goodman who offers her a place to stay, in the second novel of the series following Miss Aldridge Regrets.
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The Hike
by Lucy Clarke
When she and her three best friends go hiking in the stunning mountains of Norway, Liz, as they venture deeper into the wilderness, discovers this remote place hides secrets darker than they could've ever imagined and, if they aren't careful, not all of them will make it out alive.
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Honey Drop Dead
by Laura Childs
Tea shop owner Theodosia investigates after a phony beekeeper shows up at a community event and sprays toxic smoke at park goers, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Lemon Curd Killer.
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I'm Not Done With You Yet
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
A struggling, unhappy writer is shocked to discover her best friend, who disappeared without a trace, is at the top of the New York Times best-seller list and decides to pay her a surprise visit at an upcoming book convention.
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Just Another Missing Person
by Gillian McAllister
While investigating the disappearance of 22-year-old Oliva, Julia, the detective heading up the case, discovers, to save her own family, she must not find out what happened to Oliva and must frame somebody else for her murder.
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Looking Glass Sound
by Catriona Ward
Returning to the small New England town of his youth where a killer had once stalked its streets, writer Wilder Harlow, while penning his memoir, fears his grip on the truth of the tragedy fading and that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does.
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North Of Nowhere
by Allison Brennan
After their plane crashes in the Montana wilderness, siblings Kristen and Ryan McIntyre, on the run from their murderous father, the head of a Los Angeles crime family, soon discover there's something even more dangerous in the woods—something that could determine if they live or die.
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Out Of Nowhere
by Sandra Brown
Brought together by a mass shooting at a Texas county fair, children's book author and single mother Elle Portman and high-rolling corporate consultant Calder Hudson, both fueled by revenge, search for a killer while wondering if the attraction growing between them is too painful and complicated to sustain.
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The Second Murderer
by Denise Mina
When wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery, young, naïve and set to inherit an enormous fortune, goes missing, PI Philip Marlowe and Anne Riordan, head of her own all-female detective agency, search for this woman who doesn't want to be found, encountering a dead body along the way.
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Small Town Sins
by Ken Jaworowski
Captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives.
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The Sunset Years Of Agnes Sharp
by Leonie Swann
When Agnes and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a house share for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside, investigate the murder of their neighbor while covering up another, they step out of their comfort zone to tangle with inept criminals, the local authorities and their own dark secrets.
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Tides Of Fire
by James Rollins
When the Titan Project, an international research station off the coast of Australia, is attacked, setting in motion a large-scale geological disaster, Sigma Force races against time to stop the world from burning, uncovering something that will shake the very foundations of humanity.
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The Trade Off
by Sandie Jones
The Globe's rookie reporter, Jess, when the paper destroys the life of a celebrity, is determined to show the world what the tabloid is capable of by uncovering the truth, but she must watch her back because someone is prepared to kill to bury it.
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The Art Of Scandal
by Regina Black
After discovering her husband is having an affair, Rachel Abbott agrees to keep playing the ideal Black trophy wife until after his reelection campaign but finds it hard to keep her side of the bargain when she falls in love with an artist whose secrets blow everything wide open.
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Big Little Spells
by Hazel Beck
Returning to her coven ten years after being stripped of her magic and banished, Rebekah faces a death sentence as a danger to witchkind in the second novel of the series following Small Town, Big Magic.
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The Blonde Identity
by Ally Carter
Waking up in Paris with no memory of who she is, a young woman discovers she's the identical twin of a rogue spy and, to stay alive, must team up with a very grouchy, very sexy, very secret agent to unravel a deadly conspiracy and clear her sister's name.
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The Burning
by Anna Todd
When the trust they've placed in each other is traumatically broken, Karina and Kael, a soldier scarred by his time in Afghanistan, try to find a way back to each other, but soon Karina must decide whether loving someone she doesn't want to live without is worth risking everything.
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Codename Charming
by Lucy Parker
Two employees of a bumbling royal reluctantly agree to fake a relationship after a clumsy moment leads to a questionable tabloid photo and swirling rumors in the new novel by the author of Battle Royale.
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Curves For Days
by Laura Moher
A plus-size woman has a disastrous meeting with the gruff contractor working on her home, but the more time they spend together, the more they appreciate one another and their friendship blooms into a beautiful, small-town romance.
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In Charm's Way
by Lana Harper
After casting a forbidden blood spell to harness healing powers, witch Delilah Harlow becomes a becomes a beacon for evil, drawing supernatural creatures into Thistle Grove, until she joins forces with Catriona Quinn, a half-human monster hunter, to uncover the truth—and the risky attraction between them.
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Kiss The Girl
by Zoraida Cordova
A modern tale of unexpectedly falling in love and finding your voice.
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Knockout
by Sarah MacLean
One of the Hell's Belles—a group of vigilantes operating outside the notice of most of London, Lady Imogen Loveless, who has a penchant for experiments and explosives, meets her match in a brilliant detective who, caught up in her chaotic world, tempts her like no other.
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The Love Plot
by Samantha Young
A professional costume character actor, Star Shine Meadows, a free-spirited, happy-go-lucky woman, is hired by veterinarian Rafe Whitman to pose as his girlfriend at family gatherings and soon finds her desire for“no strings” tested against his staunch stability as the tension between them heats to a breaking point.
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My Roommate Is A Vampire
by Jenna Levine
Moving into a too-good-to-be-true apartment, artist Cassie Greenberg, wondering what the catch is, discovers her gorgeous new roommate is a vampire—and he has a proposition for her.
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New Adult
by Timothy Janovsky
After missing his sister's wedding, standing up his crush and disappointing his entire family, comedian Nolan Baker, after making a wish, wakes up seven years later a huge success only to find it lonely at the top without friends and family and works back to the life he so carelessly threw away.
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Ravensong
by TJ Klune
In this second book in the beloved series, Gordo Livingstone, living a solitary life in a tiny Oregon mountain town, vows never again to involve himself in the affairs of wolves after being betrayed by his pack until fate intervenes.
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Talulah's Back In Town
by Brenda Novak
Returning home to Coyote to sell her late aunt's home, Talulah Barclay, in this place where no one has forgiven her for leaving her fiancé at the altar, discovers she still has close friends who rally around her when someone sets out to make sure she's not welcome in town.
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Tastes Like Shakkar
by Nisha Sharma
When someone tries to sabotage the biggest wedding of the year, Bobbie Kaur, with aspirations of taking over her family's event planning business, must call a truce with egotistical chef Bunty Padda to catch the culprit while exploring their growing attraction.
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With Love, From Cold World
by Alicia Thompson
A bookkeeper for Cold World, a tourist destination in Florida that's always a winter wonderland, Lauren Fox, when the owner needs revenue-generating ideas, competes against her coworker Asa Williamson to come up with the best one, but discovers working together with her polar opposite could save the day.
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Cassiel's Servant
by Jacqueline Carey
Retells the events of Kushiel's Dart from the point of view of Cassiline warrior-priest Joscelin, sworn to celibacy but bound by the gods to Phèdre nó Delaunay, who is pledged to pleasure, in the fourth novel of the series.
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Fever House
by Keith Rosson
While collecting overdue drug money in a rundown Portland, Oregon apartment complex, Hutch Holtz discovers a severed hand in the client's refrigerator and quickly realizes the body part induces uncontrollable madness and violence and sets catastrophic forces into motion.
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He Who Drowned The World
by Shelley Parker-chan
Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after her victory that tore southern China from its Mongol masters. Now she burns with a new desire: to seize the throne and crown herself emperor; but there are other contenders for the throne, and all the contenders are determined to do whatever it takes to win.
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Masters Of Death
by Olivie Blake
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Atlas Six comes a story about vampires, ghosts, and death itself.
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Medusa's Sisters
by Lauren J. A. Bear
Monsters, but not, monstrous, Gorgons Stheno and Euryale, sisters of Medusa and horrifying hags, damned and doomed, finally tell the story of how they were changed by each other as they struggled against the inherent conflict between sisterhood and individuality, myth and truth, vengeance and peace.
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Prophet
by Helen Macdonald
An adventure fusing noir, sci-fi and a slow burn queer romance is set in a universe just one perilous step from our own.
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Thornhedge
by T. Kingfisher
The tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways.
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Vampires Of El Norte
by Isabel Caänas
When the US attacks Mexico in 1846, Nena, a healer striving to prove her worth, and Néstor, a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros, find their reunion overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh.
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Whalefall
by Daniel Kraus
Diving in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach to find the remains of his deceased father, Jay Gardiner, in a terrifying turn of events, is swallowed by a sperm whale and has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out—one hour to defeat his demons and escape.
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