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The Lido

Libby Page · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A tender, joyous debut novel about a cub reporter and her eighty-six-year-old subject - and the unlikely and life-changing friendship that develops between them.Kate is a twenty-six-year-old riddled with anxiety and panic attacks who works for a local paper in Brixton, London, covering...
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The Book in Room 316

ReShonda Tate Billingsley · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

#1 national bestselling and award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley delivers another moving, evocative, and timely novel about how a small seed of hope can change the course of one's life.Savannah Graham thought she had the perfect marriage ... until grief drove her husband into...
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Dear Mrs. Bird: A Novel

A J Pearce · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"A marvelous treat. Charming and delightful." - Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina An irresistible debut set in London during World War II about an adventurous young woman who becomes a secret advice columnist - a warm, funny, and enormously moving story for fans of The Guernsey...
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A Steep Price

ROBERT DUGONI · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni's thrilling series continues as Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite is plunged into a case of family secrets and murder ... Called in to consult after a young woman disappears, Tracy Crosswhite has the uneasy feeling that this is no ordinary...
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This Could Change Everything

Jill Mansell · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

International bestseller Jill Mansell crafts the perfect summertime tale, filled with love, friendship, and the power of redemption. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll never want the story to end. All it takes is one email to end her relationship, get her kicked out of her apartment,...
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The Secrets Between Us: A Novel

THRITY UMRIGAR · Harper
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar's beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel - a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge a new path for herself...
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The Lost for Words Bookshop: A Novel

Stephanie Butland · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

The Lost for Words Bookshop is a compelling, irresistible, and heart-rending audiobook from author Stephanie ButlandLoveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things...
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The Robots of Gotham

Todd McAulty · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 688
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling adventure in a world one step away from total subjugation by machines After long years of war, the United States has sued for peace, yielding to a brutal coalition of nations ruled by fascist machines. One quarter of the country is under foreign occupation. Manhattan has been...
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Till Death Do Us Tart: A Bakeshop Mystery

ELLIE ALEXANDER · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Torte -- the small-town bakeshop no one can resist -- is hosting a midsummer night's wedding . . . where merry-making and murder are served up in equal measure.Jules Capshaw has too much on her plate -- and she's feeling the pinch: the whole town of Ashland,Oregon, is in on the surprise...
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The Lost Vintage: A Novel

Ann Mah · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Sweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turning novel about a woman who returns to her family's ancestral vineyard in Burgundy and unexpectedly uncovers a lost diary, an unknown relative, and a secret her family has been keeping since World War II.To become one of only a few hundred...
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Providence: A Novel

Caroline Kepnes · Lenny
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive novel that is part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller - from the acclaimed author of You whose work Stephen King describes as "hypnotic and totally original" Best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe share a bond so intense...
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All These Beautiful Strangers: A Novel

ELIZABETH KLEHFOTH · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A young woman haunted by a family tragedy is caught up in a dangerous web of lies and deception involving a secret society in this highly charged, addictive psychological thriller that combines the dishy gamesmanship of Gossip Girl with the murky atmosphere of The Secret History.One summer...
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Three Days Missing

Kimberly Belle · Park Row
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Those closest to us are often the most dangerous ... It's every parent's worst nightmare: the call that comes in the middle of the night.When Kat Jenkins awakens to the police on her doorstep, her greatest fear is realized. Her nine-year-old son, Ethan, is missing - vanished from the cabin...
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The Summer List: A Novel

Amy Mason Doan · Graydon House Books
Pages: 376
Format: Print book

Laura and Casey were once inseparable, until a shocking betrayal sent Laura running into a new life, leaving Casey and a first love in her wake. But the past is impossible to escape, and now, after seventeen years away, Laura is pulled home and into a reunion with Casey she can't resist.
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The Paris Wedding: A Novel

CHARLOTTE NASH · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

In Australian bestselling author Charlotte Nash's U.S. debut, a young woman attends her ex-boyfriend's Paris wedding and discovers more than she ever dreamed in the ultimate city of love.Imagine you are invited to Paris, the City of Love, to witness the wedding of your first love to a woman...
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Bound for Gold

WILLIAM MARTIN · Forge
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Rare-book dealer Peter Fallon returns in a thrilling historical novel about the California Gold Rush, by New York Times bestselling author William MartinBound for Gold continues New York Times bestselling author William Martin's epic of American history with the further adventures of Boston...
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Mad Boy

NICK ARVIN · Europa Editions
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Mad Boy is a rollicking, picaresque novel about family and perseverance set during America's "forgotten war" of 1812.Young Henry Phipps is on a quest to realize his dying mother's last wish: to be buried at sea, surrounded by her family. Not an easy task considering Henry's ne'er-do-well...
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Mira's Last Dance

Lois McMaster Bujold · Subterranean
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

With Mira's Last Dance, multiple-award-winner and bestselling author Lois McMaster Bujold returns to her World of the Five Gods, the setting of her acclaimed novels The Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls, and The Hallowed Hunt. Continuing the tale begun in the novellas Penric's Demon, Penric...
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Murder at the Mansion: A Victorian Village Mystery

Sheila Connolly · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The first in a brand-new series from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly!Katherine Hamilton's goal in high school was to escape from her dead-end hometown of Asheford, Maryland. Fifteen years later she's got a degree in hospitality management and a great job at a high-end...
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GATHERING OF SECRETS

LINDA CASTILLO · Minotaur Books
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover

A deadly fire exposes the dark side of Amish life in A Gathering of Secrets, a harrowing new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series (July 2017) by Linda Castillo.When a historic barn burns to the ground in the middle of the night, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called...
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Spinning Silver

NAOMI NOVIK · Del Rey
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, called "a very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic" by The New York Times Book Review.Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father...
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