January 2024
New Fiction Releases
 
General Fiction
Beautyland
by Marie-Helene Bertino

A woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth and was born with knowledge of a faraway planet is encouraged by a friend to share what she knows, in the new novel from the author of Parakeet.
Behind You is the Sea
by Susan Muaddi Darraj

A new novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore—from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich—shows lives which intersect across divides of class, generation and religion.
The Book of Fire
by Christy Lefteri

After a wildfire consumes their home in present-day Greece, Irini makes a split-second decision that will haunt her forever, while her husband Tasso, unable to paint due to the burns on his hands, finds hope for the future in his young daughter.
The Bright Spot
by Jill Shalvis

Running her farm-to-table café as well as a menagerie of rescued animals, Luna Wright, when the owner of Apple Ridge Farm passes away and his investment manager takes over control, she, with her home threatened, must dig deep to find true strength and the real meaning of love and family.
The Bullet Swallower
by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

A Mexican bandido sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making.
City of Laughter
by Temim Fruchter

Recovering from the breakup of her first queer relationship and grieving the death of her father. Shiva Margolin, a student of Jewish folklore, decides to visit Poland to walk in the footsteps of the family members who went before her.
Clover Hendry's Day Off
by Beth Morrey

A people-pleasing woman who never says no decides to take a day off and do and say whatever she likes, even if it sends her entire world off-kilter in a humorous and empowering perimenopause Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Cold Victory
by Karl Marlantes

Two women in 1947 Helsinki, one American and one Russian, have their loyalties and friendship put to the test when their husbands drunkenly challenge each other to a secret cross-country ski race at an embassy party pitting freedom against communism.
Come and Get It
by Kiley Reid

A senior resident assistant at the University of Arkansas accepts an easy yet unusual opportunity offered by a visiting professor and things get messy when her new side-hustle is jeopardized by strange new friends and illicit and vengeful dorm antics.
The Curse of Pietro Houdini
by Derek B. Miller

From the Dagger Award-winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies become heroes, allies become villains, and a child learns what it means to become an adult.
Dead in Long Beach, California
by Venita Blackburn

Discovering her brother has committed suicide, a successful yet lonely author with a hit dystopian novel begins responding to texts as her late brother on her phone and becomes more and more untethered from reality.
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
by Shubnum Khan

Moving into Akbar Manzil, a ruined mansion off the coast of South Africa, Sana stumbles upon the long-forgotten story of Meena, the original owner's second wife who died there tragically 100 years ago, awakening a grieving djinn, an invisible spirit who has haunted the mansion since Meena's mysterious death.
Diva
by Daisy Goodwin

Describes the scandalous love affaire between the legendary opera singer, Maria Callas, and the fabulously rich Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, whose relationship ended suddenly with the shocking news that he was to marry Jacqueline Kennedy.
Family Family
by Laurie Frankel

An actress who makes a film about adoption starts a media storm after admitting to a journalist that it's a bad movie and that she gave up a baby for adoption during her senior year. 100,000 first printing.
The Fetishist
by Katherine Min

Determined to get revenge on the man who seduced her mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death, Kyoko, a Japanese American punk-rock singer full of rage and grief, finds nothing going according to plan when she sets in motion a series of unexpected reckonings.
The Friendship Club
by Robyn Carr

After a series of terrible dates, Marni McGuire, the host of a popular TV cooking show, forms an unbreakable bond with her best friend Ellen as well as a young intern on the show and her pregnant daughter Bella as they navigate the challenges and celebrate the joys of life.
Goldenseal
by Maria Hummel

Two former best friends who haven't spoken to each other in 40 years meet up in downtown Los Angeles in 1990 to confront the hidden secrets and the devastating betrayal that tore them apart.
Good Material
by Dolly Alderton

After a bad breakup, Andy desperately tries solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship with Jen in order to win her back in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of Everything I Know About Love.
Gothikana
by Runyx

After receiving an admission letter from a mysterious university in an old secluded castle on top of a mountain, Corvina Clemm gets tangled up in a chilling, century-old mystery as well as with a part-time professor.
Harbor Lights
by James Lee Burke

A story collection features a never-before-published novella and other stories that move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival and revenge.
Hard by a Great Forest
by Leo Vardiashvili

A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008.
Held
by Anne Michaels

A novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate, by an internationally best-selling author of Fugitive Pieces.
Holiday Country
by Inci Atrek

Spending the summer in Turkey with her family, Ada begins to imagine a different future for her mother after a mysterious man from her past returns and must come to terms with her own attraction to him.
Interesting Facts About Space
by Emily R. Austin

When she unwittingly plunges into her first serious romantic entanglement, space-obsessed Enid starts to believe that someone is following her. By the best-selling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead.
Kinning
by Nisi Shawl

Traveling the world via aircanoe, siblings Tink and Bee-Lung spread spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus to build bonds between people, while Everfair's Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga are unwittingly manipulated by their mother who pits Europe's influenza-weakened political powers against each other.
Last Acts
by Alexander Sammartino

A novel about a gun-store-owning father and son forced to live together after a near-death experience examines the absurdities of contemporary capitalism and what it means to be a family in America today.
Library for the War-Wounded
by Monika Helfer

Inspired by the author's family history, this beautifully written story transports us to the aftermath of World War II where her father, Josef Helfer, after returning from the war an amputee, managed a convalescent home for the war-wounded and became obsessed with the home's unlikely and remarkable library.
Martyr!
by Kaveh Akbar

An alcoholic, addict and poet, Cyrus Shams, the orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, finds his obsession with martyrs leading him to examine the mysteries of his past and to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
by Olivia Ford

A contestant on a British baking show, Jenny, who, after 59 years of marriage, has decided to do something for herself, delights in her new-found independence, but finds the show unearthing memories buried decades ago—and a secret that could be a recipe for disaster.
Old Crimes
by Jill McCorkle

In this masterful collection of complex stories about crimes large and small, the New York Times best-selling author delves into the lives of characters who hold their secrets and misdeeds close and who, despite their yearnings for connection, can't seem to tell the whole truth.
Prima Facie
by Suzie Miller

A top criminal defense barrister known for her quick-witted cross-examinations and intelligence, Tessa Ensler, when she is raped by a coworker, is determined to have her day in court, forcing her to confront the stark reality that the law was not written for victims and that she's the one on trial.
Recipe For a Charmed Life
by Rachel Linden

When her culinary career in Paris ends in disaster, chef Georgia May Jackson flees to a small island near Seattle in hopes of reconnecting with her estranged mother and regain her spark in the kitchen but instead discovers a family legacy she never suspected.
River East, River West
by Aube Rey Lescure

Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, a new novel is a coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world.
The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan

A Malayan mother becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during World War II and faces shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family.
Sugar, Baby
by Celine Saintclare

Moving in with Emily, a model and sugar baby, dating rich older men for money, and the other sugar babies, mixed-race 21-year-old Agnes is drawn deeper and deeper into their world of high-paid sex work where she finds herself searching for fulfillment just as desperately as she was before.
True North
by Andrew J. Graff

A heartfelt novel of marriage and whitewater rafting follows one couple as they navigate the changing currents of family, community and the river itself.
Upside Down
by Danielle Steel

While her mother, Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law, a Hollywood icon at 62, deals with conflicting feels for a much-younger man, her daughter, Morgan, a successful plastic surgeon in NYC, falls for a much-older man, which brings them together as they each try to navigate an unconventional romance.
Valley Verified
by Kyla Zhao

Swapping high fashion for high tech, Zoe Zeng, leaving NYC behind, starts work with an app startup, but soon discovers in an industry claiming to change the world for the better, not everyone's intentions are pure.
The Waters
by Bonnie Jo Campbell

A master of rural noir returns with a novel about exceptional women and the soul of a small town.
The Wharton Plot
by Mariah Fredericks

In 1911 New York City, acclaimed novelist Edith Wharton, when fellow writer David Graham Phillips is murdered, becomes obsessed with solving the crime when his sister believes he was killed by someone determined to stop the publication of his next book, which reveals the secrets of powerful people.
Wild and Distant Seas
by Tara Karr Roberts

Follows four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures.
You Only Call When You're in Trouble
by Stephen McCauley

An architect ready to put himself first, Tom, trying to keep his needy family at bay, finds himself answering their demands when his sister and niece need his help, setting him on a journey that changes everyone's life and demonstrates the beauty or dysfunction of the ties that bind families together.
Mystery / Suspense
Anna O
by Matthew Blake

A young woman who commits a double murder while sleepwalking, and then never opens her eyes again.
The Ascent
by Adam Plantinga

When a security system malfunction in a maximum-security prison releases a horde of prisoners, ex-cop Kurt Argento must help a small band of staff and civilians, including the governor's daughter, make their way through six floors of the most dangerous convicts in Missouri to safety.
California Bear
by Duane Swierczynski

A serial killer who vanished 40 years prior emerges from hibernation and is being tracked by a retired LAPD officer, a teenager with a terminal disease and a genealogist trying to repair her marriage.
The Clinic
by Cate Quinn

Checking into a remote rehab facility on the Pacific Northwest coast as a patient to investigate her famous sister's death, Meg, battling her own addictions, searches for the truth, which is much more difficult than she imagined, especially since there's no one who can help her.
Dead Man's Hand
by Brad Taylor

Brad Taylor and Pike Logan face off against Putin's agents and a group of rogue Ukrainian partisans plotting to assassinate a Swedish deputy minister in the latest novel, in the series following The Devil's Ransom.
Death at a Scottish Wedding
by Lucy Connelly

Invited to a Scottish wedding at Morrigan's Castle, American doctor Emilia McRoy is forced to investigate after discovering a dead man in one of the turrets, in the second novel of the series following An American in Scotland.
Deep Freeze
by Michael C. Grumley

After surviving a bus accident, veteran Joh Reiff awakens in the hospital alive and suspicious that the doctors aren't telling him something, in the first novel of a new series by the author of the “Breakthrough” series.
Easter Basket Murder
by Leslie Meier

A collection of Easter-themed mysteries set in coastal Maine features sleuths from three best-selling cozy mystery series: Lucy Stone, Hayley Powell and Julia Snowden, who investigate a deadly art theft and a body that mysteriously vanishes after being discovered.
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
by Benjamin Stevenson

On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real in the new mystery from the author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone.
The Expectant Detectives
by Kat Ailes

Embracing country life as they prepare for the birth of their first child, Alice and her partner Joe instead find themselves suspects in a murder investigation when a dead body is discovered at the local prenatal class and teams up with other moms-to-be to clear her name.
First Lie Wins
by Ashley Elston

A woman with many faces and identities, Evie Porter, covertly moves from job to job for her unknown employer until her latest mark, Ryan Summer gets under her skin and makes her envision a different sort of life.
Fragile Designs
by Colleen Coble

After her police officer husband's mysterious murder, Carly Harris discovers what she believes to be a real Fabergé egg hidden in the walls of her family's house and recruits a homicide detective and neighbor to investigate.
Front Sight
by Stephen Hunter

Three generations of Swagger family members, Charles, Earl and Bob Lee, tell their stories in three interconnected novellas that describe hunting for a notorious gangster in Chicago, uncovering municipal corruption in Maryland, and returning from the Vietnam War.
The Fury
by Alex Michaelides

Spending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
Goodbye Girl
by James Grippando

A Miami criminal defense lawyer helps a Grammy-winning popstar who signed an onerous contract as a teen that leaves her ex-husband with all her royalties, in the eighteenth novel of the series following Twenty.
The Heiress
by Rachel Hawkins

After North Carolina's richest—and most notorious—heiress dies, her adopted son, Camden, rejects his inheritance until 10 years later, when his uncle's death pulls him and his wife back into the family fold at Ashby House where he realizes the bonds of family stretch far beyond the grave.
Hero
by Thomas Perry

A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels' latest hero could also make her its next victim.
Holmes, Marple & Poe : The Greatest Crime-Solving Team of the Twenty-First Century
by James Patterson

Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple and Auguste Poe open a private investigating company together and their daring methodology and news-making solved cases would make their last-namesakes proud and attract the attention of an NYPD detective.
Ilium
by Lea Carpenter

A young woman unwittingly finds herself plunged into the world of international espionage when she becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a covert special operation coordinated by the CIA and Mossad.
Invisible Woman
by Katia Lief

Transplanted to Brooklyn with her producer husband, former pioneering filmmaker Joni Ackerman, as scandal rocks the industry, bringing to light a dangerous secret, becomes obsessed with the novels of Patricia Highsmith and their duplicitous characters and their murderous impulses until the lines between reality and fantasy become blurred.
The Lost Van Gogh
by Jonathan Santlofer

Alternating between his perilous hunt for the Lost Van Gogh, and the glamorous life John Decker remade for himself after serving time for forgery, this intricately woven historical thriller follows Luke Perrone as he unearths several mysteries best left untouched as he gets closer to the truth.
Midnight
by Amy McCulloch

While on a dream cruise aboard a luxury liner to Antarctica, actuary Olivia Campbell is plunged into a desperate battle for survival against a killer determined to stop the ship from reaching its final destination, soon discovering she may have booked a one-way ticket to her own death.
Missing Persons
by James Patterson

When a desperate businessman asks him to find his daughter and grandchildren who have disappeared without a trace, Jack Morgan, the head of Private, finds this simple missing persons case turning into something much more deadly, forcing him to face the trauma of his past to save a family's future.
The Missing Witness
by Allison Brennan

Framed for the murder of an FBI agent after testifying against David Chen and his illegal businesses, Kara Quinn goes on the run, determined to clear her name without putting her partner, Matt Costa, in danger.
The Night Island
by Jayne Ann Krentz

When a mysterious informant disappears, Talia March, searching for a list of people like her and her friends, is forced to team up with Luke Rand, a hunted and haunted man chasing the same list, when they are both targeted by a killer.
The Night of the Storm
by Nishita Parekh

Hunkering down with her sister in her fancy house in Sugar Land, along with her brother-in-law's family, as Hurricane Harvey bears down on Houston, single mom Jia Shah and her 12-year-old son, Ishaan, finds tensions escalating along with the storm, resulting in murder.
No One Can Know
by Kate Alice Marshall

Returning to the house where her parents were murdered, mother-to-be Emma Palmer who has never told anyone what she saw the night her parents died, even when she became the prime suspect, is reunited with her estranged sisters who will do anything to keep the past buried.
Northwoods
by Amy Pease

The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder with ties to America's opioid epidemic.
Of Hoaxes and Homicide
by Anastasia Hastings

At the behest of a heartbroken mother, sensible Violet Manville, aka Miss Hermoine, is drawn into a world of the Hermetic Order of the Children of Aed cult but soon finds herself faced with more intrigue than she can manage when she discovers murder is a member.
One of the Good Guys
by Araminta Hall

Two young women vanish in a seaside town, and, at the cliff's edge, nobody is who they seem.
Only If You're Lucky
by Stacy Willingham

Moving into an off-campus house with magnetic and addictive Lucy Sharpe and two other girls, shy and quiet Margot finally comes out of the shell she's been in since her best friend Eliza died until one of the fraternity boys next door is murdered and Lucy goes missing.
Rabbit Hole
by Kate Brody

When her father takes his own life exactly 10 years after the disappearance of her older sister, Theodora“Teddy” Angstrom becomes obsessed with an amateur sleuth keen on helping her solve the case and begins to lose her moral compass as she struggles to reconcile new information with old memories.
Radiant Heat
by Sarah-Jane Collins

After surviving a wildfire that ripped through her hometown, Alison emerges from her home to find a dead woman in her driveway, which sends her on a search for answers across Australia's scorched bushlands where she learns fire isn't the only threat she's facing.
Random in Death
by J. D. Robb

When a 16-year-old girl is murdered during a show at a New York club, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, with the lab results showing a toxic mix of substances and infectious agents in the victim's body, must find a madman consumed by hatred who's just another face in the crowd.
The Sign of Four Spirits
by Vicki Delany

With a psychic fair in West London, Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, when murder makes an appearance during a séance, must figure out whether the killer is flesh and blood or something evil summoned from beyond the veil.
The Silence in Her Eyes
by Armando Lucas Correa

A young woman with a rare neurological condition is convinced her neighbor is going to be murdered.
Where You End
by Abbott Kahler

After awakening from a coma with no memory of who she is, Kat Bird, with her twin sister Jude helping her rebuild her memory block by block by block, making her into the person she was before, soon discovers everything is a lie.
Romance
Accidentally His
by Sabrina Jeffries

Rafe Wolfford courts Lady Verity as a ruse to discover whether she or anyone else in her party planning company is leaking information to the French, in the third novel of the series following What Happens in the Ballroom.
Always Remember
by Mary Balogh

The ton suspiciously gossips about the bastard son of the Earl of Stratton who embarks on a friendship with Lady Jennifer, left unable to walk by a childhood illness, in the third novel of the series following Remember Me.
The Breakup Tour
by Emily Wibberley

Asking her former college boyfriend, Max Harcourt, to go public as her songwriting muse, megastar Riley Wynn, when he joins her and her band on tour, starts to realize that, despite the sour notes in the past, their future could hold incredible things.
Canadian Boyfriend
by Jenny Holiday

A dance teacher who used a hockey player she met once as an imaginary boyfriend to cover her teenage social awkwardness runs into him again years later when he brings his daughter to her class.
Don't Want You Like a Best Friend
by Emma R. Alban

A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other—the lesbian Bridgerton/Parent Trap you never knew you needed!
The Fake Dating Game
by Timothy Janovsky

Holden James picked the worst time to have a meltdown. His chance to audition for his favorite game show, Madcap Market, should have been a moment of triumph—a glorious, loving homage to his adored mom, who died six years ago. Instead, he’s destroying the minibar in a grim Los Angeles hotel room…recently dumped, and sliding into misery. But at least the hotel service is sublime. It even comes with an unfairly fit and sexy concierge who arrives at the door with pizza, Monopoly and deliciously distracting forearms.
Heartsong
by T. J. Klune

After the death of his mother, Robbie Fontaine accepts an offer to join a Maine werewolf pack as the trusted second to Michelle Hughes, the most powerful Alpha, in the third novel of the series following Ravensong.
Hedging Your Bets
by Jayne Denker

Happily divorced Gillian prefers her garden to the dating scene but is intrigued by her new neighbor until they're pitted against each other in gardening contest, in the new novel from the author of the “Welcome to Marsden” series.
The Ladies Rewrite the Rules
by Suzanne Allain

Horrified to discover she's in the Bachelor's Directory, a list of rich, single women, Diana Boyle, a wealthy young widow, gathers the ladies in the directory together so they may thwart fortune hunters' efforts to trick them into marriage, rewriting the rules of Regency England. Original.
Last Call at the Local
by Sarah Grunder Ruiz

When a careless mistake in Ireland leaves her unable to perform, Rainie Hart, a free-spirited American singer-songwriter living with ADHD, starts working at a local pub where she helps her charming OCD employer, Jack Dunne, reinvent his business, discovering a love to last a lifetime along the way.
The Lily of Ludgate Hill
by Mimi Matthews

A confirmed spinster and equestrienne, Lady Anne Deveril, in exchange for a favor, agrees to attend a holiday house party with Felix Hartford during which their unrequited feelings are at last laid bare as she loosens the reins and lets him take control.
Love, Naturally
by Sophie Sullivan

Taking a solo trip to the Get Lost Lodge after a bad breakup, hotelier Presley Ayers, who isn't a fan of hiking, fishing or nature in general, finds herself drawn to her polar opposite, wilderness guide Beckett Keller who opens her eyes to new experiences—and love.
Midnight Ruin
by Katee Robert

Falling in love with Charon Ariti, Hades's right-hand man, Eurydice Dimitriou, determined to give him her innocence, takes her place next to him until her ex, Orpheus Makos, arrives in the underworld, determined to do anything to get her back.
Never Blow a Kiss
by Lindsay Lovise

Recruited by a secret network of governesses who spy on the ton, Emily Leverton, seeking redemption for her dark past, meets her match in an ex-soldier turned railroad magnate, but when their affair becomes intertwined with his hunt for a killer, her explosive secret could destroy them both.
One in a Million
by Janet Dailey

When Frank Culhane, the wealthy patriarch of one of Texas's most prestigious families, is murdered, Detective Sam Rafferty, a city outsider, is propelled into a tangle of simmering rivalries and forbidden attractions as Frank's second wife and his scorned first wife hold the future of his ranching dynasty in their hands.
Red String Theory
by Lauren Kung Jessen

Artist Rooney Gao, who believes in the Chinese legend that everyone is tied to their one true love by the red string of fate, meets Mr. Right in Jack Liu and must convince this reluctant skeptic to embrace his destiny.
Say You'll Be Mine
by Naina Kumar

Theater teacher and playwright Meghna Rama, when Seth, her best friend and secret crush, gets engaged to another, agrees to let her parents introduce her to a potential match, engineer Karthik Murthy, who offers her a fake engagement to help her through Seth's wedding until an undeniable chemistry emerges between them.
The Takeover
by Cara Tanamachi

Making a wish on her 30th birthday to find her soulmate, Nami instead gets her hate mate, her old high school nemesis, Jae Lee, who is planning a hostile takeover of her start-up, and as they go head-to-head, she finds their rivalry not just endangering her business but her heart.
The Worst Best Man
by Lucy Score

Taking her Maid of Honor duties very seriously, Franchesca refuses to let Aiden, the Best Man, aka the Worst Man, ruin her best friend's wedding no matter how sexy he is, while Aiden thinks this smart-mouthed girl from Brooklyn may just be his downfall.
Speculative
The Atlas Complex
by Olivie Blake

Vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment, six Alexandrians grapple with the ethics of their astronomical abilities while the outside world mobilizes to destroy them, forcing them to decide what they're willing to betray for limitless power and who will be destroyed along the way.
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
by Heather Fawcett

A professor and expert in faerie folklore sets out to map the realms of their world, still not ready to accept a marriage proposal from Wendell Bambleby, in the second novel of the series following Emily Wild's Encyclopaedia of Faeries.
Exordia
by Seth Dickinson

A disaffected office worker has an unearthly close encounter and joins a team of civilians, soldiers and scientists to investigate a mysterious other-worldly broadcast in the new novel from the author of the Baru Cormorant novels.
House of Flame and Shadow
by Sarah J. Maas

Stranded in a strange new world, Bryce Quinlan must rely on all her wits to get back to her family and friends in Midgard, in the third novel of the series following House of Sky and Breath.
The House of Last Resort
by Christopher Golden

Buying an abandoned house in the remote Italian town of Becchina, American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi are drawn into a nightmare when they discover the home was owned by the Church—and learn the truth about what the priests were doing in this house for all those long years.
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
by Seanan McGuire

When Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children's mean girl discovers her talent for finding absolutely anything, new student Antsy searches for a way back to the Shop Where Lost Things Go to be sure Vineta and Hudson are keeping their promise.
The Parliament
by Aimee Pokwatka

When tens of thousands of owls descend on her hometown library, rending and tearing at anyone foolish enough to step outside, Madigan Purdy, tasked with keeping her students safe, seeks inspiration from her favorite childhood book, The Silent Queen, to find a solution to their dilemma.
A Quantum Love Story
by Mike Chen

When strangers Mariana Pineda and Carter Cho get stuck together repeating the same four days, finally reaching Friday might mean having to give up the connection growing between them.
Sanctuary of the Shadow
by Aurora Ascher

Hidden within an unusual circus run by a centuries-old Enchanter, Harrow, keeping her true identity and magical ability a secret, finds her destiny in an elemental with no recollection of who he is, forcing her to reveal the secrets from her own dark past to save this dangerous creature.
To Challenge Heaven
by David Weber

The Earth, now a starfaring civilization, is desperate for allies in a universe teeming with hostile aliens and predators, and a group of determined individuals make a discovery that could bring down the Hegemony that dominates the galaxy once and for all.
The Tusks of Extinction
by Ray Nayler

When her digitized consciousness is downloaded into the mind of a mammoth, which have been resurrected, Dr. Damira Khismatullina, who was brutally murdered trying to defend the world's last elephants, must teach them how to be mammoths to avoid dooming them to a new extinction.
Womb City
by Tlotlo Tsamaase

When a drug-fueled evening causes her to commit a desperate crime, daring to hope she can keep one last secret, Nelah, as the ghost of her victim hunts down the people she loves, must unravel the political conspiracy they were on the verge of exposing—or risk losing everyone.
This Wretched Valley
by Jenny Kiefer

The first person to climb an untouched cliff face in the Kentucky wilderness, Dylan, a rising star in rock climbing, goes missing, and when three bodies are discovered in various states of decay, each mutilated, there is still no trace of her, dead or alive.
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