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You've Been Volunteered: A Class Mom Novel

Laurie Gelman · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Laurie Gelman's "irreverent and hilarious" (The New York Post) hit Class Mom, brash, lovable Jen Dixon is back with a new class and her work cut out for herIf you've ever been a room parent or school volunteer, Jen Dixon is your hero....
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The Marriage Clock: A Novel

Zara Raheem · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Named one of Pop Sugar's Best Books to Put in your Beachbag this summer. A Booktrib "Romance to get you in the swing for Wedding Season" of 2019A Book Riot "Five New Diverse Romantic Comedies"Bustle's "21 new summer novels to spice up your summer reading"To...
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A Stranger on the Beach

Michele Campbell · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of It's Always the Husband comes a novel about a love triangle that begins on a fateful night... There is a stranger outside Caroline's house. Her spectacular new beach house, built for hosting expensive parties and vacationing with the family she thought she'd...
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota: A Novel

J. Ryan Stradal · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer, from the bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great MidwestEdith Magnusson's rhubarb pies are famous in the Twin Cities--they were named the third-best in the state of Minnesota and St. Anthony-Waterside...
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The Final Days of Magic

J. D. Horn · 47North
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover

The war between witches reaches its terrifying climax in the final book in Wall Street Journal bestselling author J.D. Horn's spellbinding trilogy.Once caged in an illusory realm by blood relatives, Alice Marin has been freed into a world where the last remnants of magic are quickly passing...
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The Vows We Break

· Dafina
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

The divorce was just the beginning. . . Kimera Davis had a plan to jump start her life and land on easy street. But a disastrous marriage has her making amends and picking up the pieces. It's a struggle to balance her new responsibilities and her ex, who keeps pressuring her for another...
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Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe

Heather Webber · Forge Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm.Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee,...
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Home for Erring and Outcast Girls: A Novel

Julie Kibler · Crown
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for "fallen girls," and inspired by historical events. In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption...
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True Believer: A Thriller

Jack Carr · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

In acclaimed author Jack Carr's follow-up to The Terminal List, former Navy SEAL James Reece's skill, cunning, and heroism put the US government back in his debt and set him on another path of revenge. When a string of horrific terrorist attacks plagues the Western world during the holiday...
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Gravity Is the Thing: A Novel

Jaclyn Moriarty · Harper
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The adult debut from bestselling, award-winning young adult author Jaclyn Moriarty - a frequently hilarious, brilliantly observed novel - that follows a single mother's heartfelt search for greater truths about the universe, her family and herself."I loved this book. . . .Funny, heartbreaking...
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Redesigning Happiness

Nita Brooks · Dafina
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Witty, sharply-observed, and warmly wise, Nita Brooks' debut novel tells the heartfelt story of a suddenly successful single mother who finds her perfectly-designed, fame-bound life upended by a surprise from the past . . . It wasn't easy for Yvonne Cable to get over a heartbreaking...
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The Escape Room

Megan Goldin · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Megan Goldin's THE ESCAPE ROOM is a hair-raising novel of deception and revenge that will blow readers away. "Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive."In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers....
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The Helpline: A Novel

Katherine Collette · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An eccentric woman who is great with numbers - but not so great with people - realizes it's up to her to pull a community together in this charming, big-hearted debut perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and The Rosie Project. Germaine Johnson doesn't need friends. She has her work...
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Let's Fake a Deal

Sherry Harris · Kensington
Pages: 288
Format: Mass Market Paperback

SHE'S GOT THE GOODS . . . As a former military spouse, Sarah Winston's learned a little about organizing, packing, and moving. Her latest project sounds promising: a couple of tech-industry hipsters, newly arrived in her Massachusetts town, who need to downsize. Unfortunately, when Sarah...
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The Russian: A Thriller

Ben Coes · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

As the brutal Russian mafia becomes the most powerful and deadly criminal enterprise in the country, the U.S. has a new hero, Rob Tacoma, in New York Times bestseller Ben Coes's new series.After the break-up of the Soviet Union, some of the most hardened and capable criminals came to the United...
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The Philosopher's War

Tom Miller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The second book in the thrilling series that began with The Philosopher's Flight finds Robert Canderelli Weekes as a rookie Rescue and Evacuation flier on the front lines of World War I in France. He came to save lives, but has no idea how far he'll have to go to win the war.Thanks to a stunning...
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The Substitution Order: A novel

Martin Clark · Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From Martin Clark--praised by Entertainment Weekly as "our best legal-thriller writer"--comes a wickedly clever, tenderhearted, and intricately plotted novel about a hard-luck lawyer's refusal to concede defeat, even as fate, the court system, and a gang of untouchable con artists...
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The Rage of Dragons

Evan Winter · Orbit
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival.The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around...
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Beijing Payback: A Novel

Daniel Nieh · Ecco
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father's murderVictor Li is devastated by his father's murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father's things. In it, his father...
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A Daughter's Truth

Laura Bradford · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Emma Lapp tries to be the perfect daughter, to earn the loving embrace of her family and her Amish community in Pennsylvania. Yet she can't quite win her mother's smile - or her forgiveness for a transgression Emma can't quite place . . . Emma knows she's a reminder of her mother's greatest...
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The Chelsea Girls: A Novel

Fiona Davis · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From Fiona Davis, the nationally bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Address, the bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in a dazzling new novel about the twenty-year friendship...
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Reasons to Be Cheerful

Nina Stibbe · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The new novel from the beloved, critically acclaimed author of Love, Nina, Man at the Helm,and Paradise Lodge. 18 year old Lizzie Vogel, determined to make a grown-up life for herself, lands a job in a local dentist's office after answering a classified ad for a "mature lady with...
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Never Have I Ever: A Novel

Joshilyn Jackson · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Wonderful - suspense and surprises, real characters, and a scary, ominous backbeat. This feels like the book Jackson was born to write." - Lee Child, New York Times bestselling authorNamed a Best Book by USA Today * People * Wall Street Journal * Time * Entertainment Weekly...
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I Do Love You Still

Mary B. Morrison · Dafina
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison comes the scintillating, no-holds-barred novel of a dazzling potential power couple who regretfully take their scandalous love-hurt reunion to an all-time low . . . Between their rising careers and insatiable passion for each other,...
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The Unbreakables: A Novel

Lisa Barr · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A delicious, sharp novel about a woman who jets off to France after her perfect marriage collapses, putting the broken pieces of herself back together while rediscovering her own joie de vivre - a lust for life, art, and steamy sex. "Artful, feminist, and emotionally gripping. The Unbreakables...
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