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The Widow

Fiona Barton · New American Library
Pages: 324
Format: Print book

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, an electrifying thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife.When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband...
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The Half-Drowned King: A Novel

Linnea Hartsuyker · Harper
Pages: 431
Format: Hardcover

"Linnea Hartsuyker brings myth and legend roaring to life in this superbly good page-turning saga of Viking-era Norway. The book's fiercest magic shines in the characters of Ragnvald and Svanhild, as unforgettable a brother and sister duo as I can remember. Linnea Hartsuyker is an exciting,...
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Assault and Beret

Jenn McKinlay · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Allons-y to Paris for more hats and homicide from the New York Times bestselling author of Copy Cap Murder!London milliner Vivian Tremont and her American cousin and partner, Scarlett Parker, tip their caps to their beloved shop on Portobello Road in Notting Hill and set off for Paris,...
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Death Descends on Saturn Villa: The Gower Street Detective: Book 3

M. R. C. Kasasian · Pegasus Crime
Pages: 486
Format: Print book

The new mystery novel in the evocative Victorian crime series starring the charming March Middleton and the most curmudgeonly private detective in London, Sidney Grice. Gower Street, London: 1883. March Middleton is the niece of London's greatest (and most curmudgeonly)...
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Stars Over Clear Lake: A Novel

LORETTA ELLSWORTH · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Mesmerizing and romantic, Stars Over Clear Lake transports readers to the Surf Ballroom, where musical acts became legends in the 1940s and which holds the key to one woman's deepest secret.Lorraine Kindred's most cherished memories are of the Surf Ballroom, the place where youth lost themselves...
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Agatha H. and the Airship City

Phil Foglio · Night Shade Books; First Edition edition
Format: Book

The Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare. It has been eighteen years since the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Today, Europe is ruled by the Sparks, dynasties of mad scientists ruling over — and terrorizing...
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 5: Like I'm the Only Squirrel in the World

Marvel Comics. · Marvel
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Everyone gets a week-long break from class, and Squirrel Girl is taking Nancy to visit her parents up in Canada! WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG, RIGHT? Turns out, nothing! It's a great trip and nothing of note happens and our story is actually EXTREMELY DULL. Sorry everyone. No, just kidding!...
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The Sweetheart: A Novel

Angelina Mirabella · Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Kindle Edition

In a "powerful tale of a person's capacity for reinvention" (Kirkus Reviews) , a teenage girl from Philadelphia leaves her old life behind to become The Sweetheart, one of America's most infamous female wrestlers.It's 1953 and seventeen-year-old Leonie Putzkammer feels destined...
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The Amish Cooking Class - The Seekers: Book 1 of Amish Cooking Class

Wanda E Brunstetter · Shiloh Run Press
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback

Will Heidi's cooking lessons turn into life lessons for five unlikely students? Heidi Troyer cooks up the idea of teaching classes in the art of Amish cuisine in her Holmes County, Ohio, home. But is it a recipe for drama when five very different men and women answer the advertisement?...
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Bone Deep

Randy Wayne White · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 362
Format: Hardcover

The stunning new thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author. When a Crow Indian acquaintance of Tomlinson's asks him to help recover a relic stolen from his tribe, Doc Ford is happy to tag along - but neither Doc nor Tomlinson realize what they've let themselves in for....
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Lucky Alan: And Other Stories

Jonathan Lethem · Doubleday; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The incomparable Jonathan Lethem returns with nine stories that demonstrate his mastery of the short form.Jonathan Lethem's third collection of stories uncovers a father's nervous breakdown at SeaWorld in "Pending Vegan"; a foundling child rescued from the woods during...
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Sunshine on Scotland Street

Alexander McCall Smith · Anchor
Pages: 297
Format: Paperback

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 8The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy - just ask his mother. From social media...
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It's Always the Husband

Michele Martinez · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, despite being as different as three women can be. Kate was beautiful, wild, wealthy, and damaged. Aubrey, on financial aid, came from a broken home, and wanted more than anything to distance herself from...
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That Crazy Perfect Someday

Michael Mazza · Turtle Point Press
Pages: 318
Format: Paperback

The year is 2024. Climate change has altered the world's wave patterns. Drones crisscross the sky, cars drive themselves, and surfing is a new Olympic sport. Mafuri Long, UCSD marine biology grad, champion surfer, and only female to dominate a record eighty-foot wave, still has something...
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The Weight of This World

David Joy · Putnam
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as "a savagely moving novel that will likely become an important addition to the great body of Southern literature" (The Huffington Post) , returns to the mountains of North Carolina with...
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