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Mycroft and Sherlock

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR · Titan Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London. Mycroft Holmes--now twenty-six and a force to be reckoned with at the War Office--has no interest in the killings; however,...
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The Whispered Word

ELLERY ADAMS · Kensington
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams' intriguing new Secret, Book, and Scone Society novel, Nora Pennington and her fiction loving friends in small-town Miracle Springs, North Carolina, encounter a young woman desperately in need of a new beginning . . . Nora Pennington,...
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The Darling Dahlias and the Poinsettia Puzzle

SUSAN WITTIG ALBERT · Persevero Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

It's Christmas, 1934, and the citizens of Darling, Alabama, are unwrapping a big package of Christmas puzzles. Mildred Kilgore and Earlynne Biddle are planning to open a bakery on the square - if they can come up with the right recipes. Charlie Dickens faces two of the biggest puzzles...
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Lark! The Herald Angels Sing: A Meg Langslow Mystery

DONNA ANDREWS · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Book

Away in a manger, asleep on the hay, Meg Langslow finds a little gift.

For four previous Christmases, New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews has delighted readers with holiday mysteries, full of Christmas cheer and starring her quirky...

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Heads You Win

JEFFREY ARCHER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks,...
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Long Road to Mercy

DAVID BALDACCI · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Book

#1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci introduces a remarkable new character: Atlee Pine, an FBI special agent assigned to the remote wilds of the western United States. Ever since her twin sister was abducted by a notorious serial killer at age five, Atlee has spent...

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The Fallen Architect: A Novel

Charles Belfoure · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestseller of The Paris Architect

Someone has to take the blame.

When the Britannia Theatre's balcony collapses, killing over a dozen people, the fingers point at the architect. He should have known better, should have made it safer, should have done...

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Night of Miracles: A Novel

Elizabeth Berg · Random House
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A delightful novel about surprising friendships, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change a life, from the bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv

Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly...
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Catching Christmas

TERRI BLACKSTOCK · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The first Christmas story from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Terri Blackstock.

"The feel-good Christmas book of the year. Blackstock's tale of love and redemption wrapped in a holiday bow will leave you smiling. Don't miss Catching Christmas." - New York...

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Master of His Fate

Barbara Taylor Bradford · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Book

From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the first book in a stunning new historical saga.

Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer is everything a self-made man should be: handsome,...

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My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel

Oyinkan Braithwaite · Doubleday
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"My Sister, the Serial Killer is a gem, in the most accurate sense: small, hard, sharp, and polished to perfection."
--Edgar Cantero, New York Times bestselling author of Meddling Kids

Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade...
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Tom Clancy Oath of Office

MARC CAMERON · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The fall of the Iranian government presents unexpected danger to President Jack Ryan in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Tom Clancy series.

President Jack Ryan preaches caution when the prospects for a Persian Spring excite the rest of the world. His is the lone...
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Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

Stephen L. Carter · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 384
Format: Book

The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life

She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could...

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You Don't Own Me

Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Book

"Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fifth enthralling mystery in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; You Don't Own Me finds television producer Laurie Moran stopping at nothing to solve the murder...

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Full Disclosure

Stormy Daniels · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

She was already well-known in some circles before March 6, 2018, but that's probably the first time you heard the name Stormy Daniels. That's the day she filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement negotiated before the election but never signed.

How...

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Rise of the Mystics

Ted Dekker · Revell
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter many years ago. Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams. They are all wrong.

Rachelle Matthews, who grew up in the small town of Eden, Utah,...
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Gone So Long: A Novel

ANDRE III DUBUS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Andre Dubus III's first novel in a decade is a masterpiece of thrilling tension and heartrending empathy.

For as long as she can remember, Susan Dunn has been trying to escape. But peace and happiness have always eluded her -- now an adjunct professor, she is tortured by the novel...

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Virgil Wander

LEIF ENGER · Grove Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart

Midwestern movie...
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Look Alive Twenty-Five: A Stephanie Plum Novel

JANET EVANOVICH · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Book

Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the twenty-fifth entry in Janet Evanovich's #1 New York Times bestselling series.

There's nothing like a good deli and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World famous for its pastrami,...

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Paris Echo: A Novel

Sebastian Faulks · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A story of resistance, complicity, and an unlikely, transformative friendship, set in Paris, from internationally bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks.

American historian Hannah intends to immerse herself in World War II research in Paris, wary of paying much attention to the city...

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The Splendor Before the Dark: A Novel of the Emperor Nero

Margaret George · Berkley
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

Ascending to the throne was only the beginning... Now Margaret George, the author of The Confessions of Young Nero, weaves a web of politics and passion, as ancient Rome's most infamous emperor cements his place in history.

With the beautiful and cunning Poppaea at his side,...
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Undercover Connection & Double Entendre: An Anthology

Heather Graham · Harlequin
Pages: 496
Format: Book

New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Heather Graham brings her unique brand of suspense to Harlequin Intrigue with two heart-pounding stories in one book!

Undercover Connection

Much to their mutual annoyance, FBI agent Jacob Wolff and Miami detective...

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Brief Answers to the Big Questions

STEPHEN HAWKING · Bantam
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant and page-turning posthumous work.

Why are we here? Will we survive? Will technology save us? How can we thrive?

Stephen...
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Forever and a Day: A Novel

ANTHONY HOROWITZ · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.

 

Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very...

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The Kinship of Secrets

Eugenia Kim · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart.

In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young...
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The Feral Detective: A Novel

JONATHAN LETHEM · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn

"One of America's greatest storytellers." - Washington Post

 

Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's...

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Robert B. Parker's Blood Feud

MIKE LUPICA · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Robert B. Parker's iconic and irresistible PI Sunny Randall is back, and the stakes are higher than ever as she races to protect her ex-husband--and his Mafia family--from the vengeful plan of a mysterious rival.

Sunny Randall is "on" again with Richie, the ex-husband she never...
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Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones

BALLANTINE. · Bantam
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO's Game of Thrones.

With all the fire and fury fans have come to expect from internationally bestselling author George R. R. Martin,...
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The Colors of All the Cattle: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Book

Precious Ramotswe dips her toe into the world of politics in the newest addition to the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the City Council, Mma Ramotswe is at first unsure....

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Marilla of Green Gables: A Novel

SARAH MCCOY · William Morrow
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility...

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Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You

Lin-Manuel Miranda · Random House
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

From the creator and star of Hamilton, with beautiful illustrations by Jonny Sun, comes a book of affirmations to inspire readers at the beginning and end of each day.

Good morning. Do NOT get stuck in the comments section of life today. Make, do, create the things. Let others...
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Nine Perfect Strangers

LIANE MORIARTY · Flatiron Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies

Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? In Liane Moriarty's latest page-turner, nine perfect strangers are about to find out...

Nine people gather at a remote health...

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Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel

JOYCE CAROL OATES · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates

"Time travel" - and its hazards - are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly...

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Becoming

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE. · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first...
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The Library Book

SUSAN ORLEAN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Susan Orlean, hailed as a "national treasure" by The Washington Post and the acclaimed bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling...
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Wyoming Legend

Diana Palmer · HQN
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Look for Wyoming Legend, the exciting new novel from Diana Palmer, available from HQN books Oct 30, 2018. Pre-order your copy today!
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Target: Alex Cross

JAMES PATTERSON · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover


TARGET: HEAD OF STATE

A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life to the public good.

TARGET:...
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Kingdom of the Blind

LOUISE PENNY · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Book

The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that...

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A Christmas Revelation: A Novel

ANNE PERRY · Ballantine Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

In this intriguing, uplifting holiday mystery from bestselling author Anne Perry, an orphan boy investigates a woman's kidnapping--and discovers there's more at stake than a disappearance.

When Worm, a young orphan boy who works at the local clinic, sees Eloise being kidnapped by two men in the days...
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Melmoth: A Novel

SARAH PERRY · Custom House
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history's darkest waters - and now, in Sarah Perry's breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction.

It...

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A Map of Days

ANONYMOUS. · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The #1 bestselling series returns with a thrilling new story arc set in America!

Vintage photographs reveal the never-before-seen world of peculiar America with a stunning addition - full-color images.

Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar...
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Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

Pete Souza · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 240
Format: Book

The new book by Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait
Shade is a portrait in contrasts, telling the tale of two presidencies through a series of powerful visual juxtapositions--with Pete Souza's unforgettable...

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Beauchamp Hall: A Novel

DANIELLE STEEL · Delacorte Press
Pages: 288
Format: Book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel tells the uplifting story of an ordinary woman embracing an extraordinary adventure, and the daring choice that transforms her world.

Winona Farmington once dreamed of graduating from...

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Muse of Nightmares

LAINI TAYLOR · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated, thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer, from National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.
Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years...
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Tony's Wife: A Novel

ADRIANA TRIGIANI · HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

Set in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s and World War II, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class kids who marry and become a successful singing act, until time, temptation, and the responsibilities...

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My Love Story: A Memoir

TINA TURNER · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Tina Turner - the long-reigning queen of rock & roll and living legend - sets the record straight about her illustrious career and complicated personal life in this eye-opening and compelling memoir.

From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner...
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The Christmas Star: A Novel

DONNA VANLIERE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Hope series comes another heartwarming, inspirational story for the holidays.

Thirty-four-year-old Gabe Rodriquez works in the maintenance dept of the Grandon Elementary School, where he often talks with...

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Influence

CARL WEBER · Urban Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

When he graduates with his law degree, handsome and charismatic Langston Hudson is ready to hit the ground running as a lawyer with his family's firm, but a routine traffic stop during a night out with his friends quickly derails his plans and turns his world upside down. Langston and his friends...
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Bridge of Clay

RANDOM HOUSE. · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable and sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be lifechanging."

The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring...
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Sea of Greed

CLIVE CUSSLER · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 416
Format: Book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of adventure, a brand new mission for Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew--based on a remarkable historical incident. January 1968Two submarines--one French, one Israeli--vanish in the Mediterranean within days of each other. Extensive search-and-rescue...

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The Noel Stranger

RICHARD PAUL EVANS · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Book

From “The King of Christmas,” Richard Paul Evans, the next exciting holiday-themed novel in his New York Timesbestselling The Noel Collection.

Maggie Walther feels like her world is imploding. Publicly humiliated after her husband,...

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Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Family secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher in this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, "a superb craftsman of suspense" (Entertainment Weekly) .

The next Reacher novel takes today's favorite hero on his most personal...
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