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What We Were Promised

LUCY TAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Book

Named one of "60 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018"by Goodreads.  
Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises.

 
 
Shelved Under Murder: A Blue Ridge Library Mystery

VICTORIA GILBERT. · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Autumn leaves aren't the only things falling in the historic Virginia village of Taylorsford -- so are some cherished memories, and a few bodies.

October in Taylorsford, Virginia means it's leaf peeping season, with bright colorful foliage and a delightful fresh crew of tourists...
 
 
Scandal Above Stairs

Jennifer Ashley · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Death Below Stairs

A mystery of stolen antiquities has Kat Holloway setting aside her apron once again for the intrigues of the upper echelons of Victorian London

Priceless artwork has gone missing from the home of a wealthy...
 
 
Me, Myself and Them

Dan Mooney · Park Row
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A heartbreaking, funny and fresh debut about human connection and the power of friendship

Struggling to cope with a tragic loss, Denis Murphy has, for the past seven years, learned to live differently. His friends are used to his strict routines, like ironing his socks and lighting...
 
 
Every Time You Go Away

BETH HARBISON · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Beth Harbison's most emotional novel ever, a fractured family must come together at a beach house haunted by the past.

Willa has never fully recovered from the sudden death of her husband, Ben. She became an absent mother to her young...

 
 
The Freeze-Frame Revolution

PETER WATT · Tachyon Publications
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

"This -- THIS -- is the cutting edge of science fiction." -- Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon

She believed in the mission with all her heart. But that was sixty million years ago.

How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million?...
 
 
Baby Teeth: A Novel

ZOJE STAGE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Sweetness can be deceptive.

In the tradition of THE DINNER and WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a "bad seed" debut about a mom desperate to find help for her mute young daughter, whose disturbing behavior grows increasingly dangerous.

"Unnerving and unputdownable,...

 
 
Her Fear: The Amish of Hart County

SHELLEY SHEPARD GRAY · Avon Inspire
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

In New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray's latest novel of suspense in her Amish of Hart County series, an EMT falls for a woman with ties to an Amish community where people are dying similar, suspicious deaths.

Sadie Detweiler never imagined she'd move to Kentucky,...

 
 
The Late Bloomers' Club: A Novel

LOUISE MILLER · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A delightful novel about two headstrong sisters, a small town's efforts to do right by the community, and the power of a lost dog to conjure up true love

Nora, the owner of the Miss Guthrie Diner, is perfectly happy serving up apple cider donuts, coffee, and eggs-any-way-you-like-em...
 
 
Back to Life: Love After Heartbreak

SHANTAE. · Urban Renaissance
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Join this closeknit group as they block bitter exes, confront fake friends, and tackle fear of the unknown, all while experiencing true love on a whole new level.

Talented author Dakota Bibbs has deemed herself unlucky in love. She only dreams of experiencing a connection with a man similar...
 
 
Safe Houses: A novel

Dan Fesperman · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA's operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life; years later she's gruesomely murdered along with her husband, and her daughter...
 
 
How to Keep a Secret

Sarah Morgan · HQN
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

When three generations of women are brought together by crisis, they learn over the course of one hot summer the power of family to support, nourish and surprise

Lauren has the perfect life ... if she ignores the fact it's a fragile house of cards, and that her daughter Mack has just...
 
 
The Banker's Wife

Cristina Alger · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Immersive, satisfying, tense--and timely: This is probably happening for real right now."--Lee Child

On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a storm. Soon after, it simply drops off the radar, and its wreckage is later...
 
 
Kill the Farm Boy: The Tales of Pell

KEVIN HEARNE · Del Rey
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In an irreverent new series in the tradition of Terry Pratchett novels and The Princess Bride, the New York Times bestselling authors of the Iron Druid Chronicles and Star Wars: Phasma reinvent fantasy, fairy tales, and floridly overwritten feast scenes.

Once...
 
 
Give Me Your Hand

MEGAN ABBOTT · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover



From "one of the greatest crime writers of our time" (Mary Kubica) comes a mesmerizing psychological thriller about how a secret can bind two friends together forever...or rip them apart.

Kit Owens thought that she would never see Diane Fleming...
 
 
Whistle in the Dark: A Novel

Emma Healey · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Book

Emma Healey follows the success of her #1 internationally bestselling debut novel Elizabeth Is Missing, winner of the Costa First Novel Award, with this beautiful, thought-provoking, and psychologically complex tale that affirms her status as one of the most inventive and original literary...

 
 
RESCUED

DAVID ROSENFELT · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The next novel in David Rosenfelt's witty, heartfelt mystery series featuring lawyer Andy Carpenter and his faithful golden retriever, Tara. Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter is reluctant to take on any more cases. He'd much rather spend his time working for his dog rescue organization, the Tara...
 
 
The Spook in the Stacks: A Lighthouse Library Mystery

EVA GATES · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Book

Halloween in North Carolina's Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body.

Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North...

 
 
A Noise Downstairs: A Novel

LINWOOD BARCLAY · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of No Time for Goodbye returns with a haunting psychological thriller that blends the twists and turns of Gillian Flynn with the driving suspense of Harlan Coben, in which a man is troubled by odd sounds for which there is no rational explanation.

College...

 
 
The Amazing Adventures of Aaron Broom: A Novel

A E Hotchner · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A heartwarming amateur detective story set in Depression-era St. Louis from beloved author A. E. Hotchner.

Street-savvy, almost-thirteen-year-old Aaron Broom is guarding his father's car when he witnesses a robbery gone wrong in a jewlery store across the street. To Aaron's shock,...
 
 
The Garden Party: A Novel

Grace Dane Mazur · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A rehearsal dinner brings together two disparate families in this sparkling, witty novel

The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals - academics, activists, and artists. The Barlows are Wall Street Journal-reading lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, golf and tennis....
 
 
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman

THEODORA GOSS · Saga Press
Pages: 720
Format: eBook

In the sequel to the critically acclaimed The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, Mary Jekyll and the rest of the daughters of literature's mad scientists embark on a madcap adventure across Europe to rescue another monstrous girl and stop the Alchemical Society's nefarious...
 
 
The Lost Queen of Crocker County: A Novel

Elizabeth Leiknes · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

For fans of books like THE READERS OF BROKEN WHEEL RECOMMEND, a feel-good story of going home again to get things right.

Crocker County crowns a new Corn Queen every year, but Jane Willow's the one you would remember. She can't forget Iowa, either. Even though she fled to LA to become...

 
 
The Girl From Blind River

GALE MASSEY · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

A gritty tale of how far we'll go to protect the ones we love for fans of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone from Gale Massey, a talented new name in crime fiction.

Everyone says the Elders family are nothing but cheats, thieves, and convicts -- a fact nineteen-year old Jamie...