Adult General Fiction

These general fiction books are new to our shelves in the last 30 days (most recent on top).

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Heartwood : a novel / Amity Gaige.
"In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poe…
This book will bury me : a novel / Ashley Winstead.
"After the unexpected death of her father, college student Jane Sharp longs for a distraction from her grief. She becomes obsessed with true crime, befriending armchair detectives who teach her how to hunt killers from afar. In this morbid internet underg…
Saltwater : a novel / Katy Hays.
"In 1992, Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are involved, Sarah’s death is ruled an accident. And every year, the family returns to prov…
Lucky night : a novel / Eliza Kennedy.
"After six years of a stolen hour here, another there, tonight is going to be different for Nick Holloway and Jenny Parrish. They’ve booked a room in a new luxury hotel in Manhattan, where they’ll spend the entire night together for the first time. Expect…
Twist : a novel / Colum McCann.
"Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses—travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes.…
The first wish of Mr. Murray McBride / Joe Siple.
"The day before Murray McBride moves Jenny, his beloved wife of eighty years, into a memory care center, she convinces him to search for a case her grandfather buried long ago, said to contain "a treasure worth more than gold." With the help of some new f…
The love we found / Jill Santopolo.
"It’s been nearly ten years since Gabe’s been gone when Lucy finds a tiny piece of paper in a box of his old photos. An address in Rome. Why did Gabe keep it, and what was he doing in Italy? Lucy buys a last-minute plane ticket. Impulsive, but Gabe always…
Elphie : a wicked childhood / Gregory Maguire
"Young Elphie is shaped and molded by the behaviors of her promiscuous mother, Melena, and her pious father, Frex. She suffers ordinary childhood jealousies when her sister, saintly Nessarose, and brother, junior felon Shell, arrive. She first encounters …
Retreat : a novel / Krysten Ritter ; with Lindsay Jamieson.
"Liz Dawson weaves through a crowd with the ease of a tropical breeze, moving seamlessly through elite circles, sparking instant connections and making every new acquaintance feel like an intimate friend. She’s clever, smooth, and confident—qualities that…
Yesterday will make you cry / Chester Himes.
"Jimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery. Terror and chaos reign in the prison, where corrupt, racist guards mete out capricious punishments like time in 'the hole,' where inmates’ sense of reality slips away in total darkness. When a f…
The expert of subtle revisions : a novel / Kirsten Menger-Anderson.
"In Half Moon Bay, California, 2016, a young woman waits for her father’s sailboat to arrive at port. They have agreed to meet on this day and time. Yet he never shows. He has told her this event might come. And if it did, she was ready. Go to the library…
On the clock / Claire Baglin ; translated by Jordan Stump.
"On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming-of-age story into a compact tale told in two alternating strands. The first follows the 20-year-old narrator’s summer job at a fast food franchise and the other sh…
The steppenwolf / Hermann Hesse ; translated by Kurt Beals.
"The quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller—better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious Hermine and becomes captivated by her intoxicating power. Through their nightti…
The amendments / Niamh Mulvey.
"Nell and her partner Adrienne are about to have a baby. For Adrienne, parenthood is the start of a new life. For Nell, it’s the reason the two of them are sitting in a therapist’s office. Because she can’t go into this without facing the painful truth: t…
Early thirties : a novel / Josh Duboff.
"Sometimes friendship can be its own love story. Victor and Zoey are getting old. Well, old-er. And it's beginning to be a real problem. Best friends since college they have been through thick and thin, poor and poorer, drunk and drunker throughout their …
I would die for you:  a novel / Sandie Jones.
"From the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club Pick The Other Woman and The Guilt Trip comes an electrifying new novel. Now: Nicole Forbes lives a quiet life in a small seaside Californian town with her husband and daughter. She is n…
The third generation / Chester Himes.
"Lillian Taylor has three sons, a comfortable house, and a well-liked husband who teaches at a local college. But her contempt for her family’s dark complexion infects this bright world until it begins to come undone. As one troubling incident leads to an…
Perfection / by Vincenzo Latronico ; translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes.
"Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital 'creatives' exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants an…
Walk softly on this heart of mine : a novel / Callie Collins.
"It’s 1975 in Austin, and the Rush Creek Saloon, five miles west of town, is a bar without a crowd. But when a strange new house band takes the stage, the hippies roll in and the good ole boys find their way back. Told in a trio of voices—a guitarist chas…
The strawberry patch pancake house / Laurie Gilmore.
"As a world-renowned chef, single dad Archer never planned on moving to a small town, let alone running a pancake restaurant. But Dream Harbor needs a new chef, and Archer needs a community to help raise his daughter, Olive. Iris has never managed to hold…
Stag dance : a novel & stories / Torrey Peters.
"In Stag Dance, the titular novel, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging outfit plan a dance that some of them will volunteer to attend as women. When the broadest, strongest, plainest of the axmen announces his intention to…
Claire, darling : a novel / Callie Kazumi.
"Claire is excited to drop off a surprise workday lunch for her fiancé, Noah. It’s their anniversary, after all. But when the receptionist tells her that no one with Noah’s name works there, Claire thinks there must be a mistake. Noah isn’t picking up he…
The antidote / Karen Russell.
"The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The A…
Madame Sosostris and the festival for the brokenhearted / Ben Okri.
"On the 20th anniversary of the day her first husband left her, Viv decides to host an unconventional party for those burned by love. She successfully ropes in her reluctant second husband, Alan, and their friends Beatrice and Stephen, and when she meets …
Shahnameh : the epic of the Persian kings / Ferdowsi ; translated by Ahmad Sadri ; edited by Melissa Hibbard and Hamid Rahmanian.
"Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi (940–1020 CE), one of Iran’s greatest poets, versified the ancient legends of the Persian Book of Kings (Shahnameh) in verse over one thousand years ago. It is the longest poem written by a single poet. A combination of myth and his…
You killed me first / John Marrs.
"It’s 5 November, and a woman awakens to a nightmare. Bound and gagged, she lies trapped in the heart of a towering bonfire. As the smoke thickens, panic sets in--she’s moments away from being engulfed in flames. How did it come to this? Rewind eleven mo…
Hunchback : a novel / Saou Ichikawa ; translated by Polly Barton.
"Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka spends her days in her room in a care home outside Tokyo, relying on an electric wheelchair to get around and a ventilator to breathe. But if Shaka's physical life is limited, her quick, mischievous mind has …
Hot air : a novel / Marcy Dermansky.
"Joannie hadn’t been on a date in seven years when Johnny invites Joannie and her daughter to dinner. His house is beautiful, his son is sweet, and their first kiss is, well, it’s not the best, but Joannie could convince herself it was nice enough. But wh…
The women on platform two / Laura Anthony.
"In 1970s Dublin, all forms of contraception are strictly forbidden, but an intrepid group of women will risk everything to change that in this...novel inspired by a remarkable and little-known true story. Dublin, 1969: Maura has just married Dr. Christy …
Chloe : a novel of secrets and lies / Connie Briscoe.
"Angel is a private chef for the Harrison’s, one of the most powerful Black families on Martha’s Vineyard. Impossibly supercilious Jillian Harrison often spends the entire summer on the island, while her husband Irvin and their twenty-nine-year-old daught…
Every precious and fragile thing : a novel / Barbara Davis.
"For social worker Mallory Ward, working with at-risk youth is a calling. But when one of her clients is tragically killed, she finds herself at a crossroads. Despite long-held resentments toward her distant mother, Mallory retreats to her childhood home …
The witch who trades with death / C. M. Alongi.
"A young witch forced to play concubine for her empirical captor, finally breaks free to find a life of her own, but even those with the power to call Death cannot outrun their past… All witches must serve the cruel and immortal Emperor Yamueto. But afte…
The Warbler : a novel / Sarah Beth Durst.
"Ten months. That’s the longest Elisa has stayed anyplace, constantly propelled by her fear that if she puts down roots, a family curse will turn her into a tree. But she’s grown tired of flitting from town to town and in and out of relationships. When s…
Theft / Abdulrazak Gurnah.
"In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a master storyteller captures young people in Tanzania in a time of dizzying global change. At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Kari…
The annotated Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; edited by James L.W. West III, introduction by Amor Towles.
"Boats against the current, we are borne back ceaselessly to The Great Gatsby. Now, in this deluxe annotated anniversary edition, James L. W. West provides running commentary on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, glossing contexts, language, literary al…
The place of shells / Mai Ishizawa ; translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton.
"In the summer of 2020, as Europe is beginning to open back up after the first phase of the pandemic, a young Japanese woman based in the German city of Göttingen is working on a PhD about the iconography of medieval saints. She waits at the train station…
Something like fate : a novel / Amy Lea.
"For generations, the fortune-telling women in Lo Zhao-Jensen’s family have foreseen The One―the great loves of their lives―before ever meeting them. Except for Lo, who has zero psychic abilities. Just memories of old rom-coms and a lot of poor judgment w…
The white book / Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.
"Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Han Kang’s The White Book is a meditation on color, as well as an attempt to make sense of her older sister’s death, who died in her mother’s arms just a few hours after she was born. In captivating, stark…
The return / Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews.
"Composed of thirteen indelible stories, Roberto Bolaño’s The Return is preoccupied with ghosts: troubled souls haunting society’s margins, lovers lost to the ages, young men who no longer recognize themselves in the mirror, fresh corpses afforded no peac…
If I go missing / Leslie Wolfe
"If you’re reading this, I’ve gone missing. I close the binder I’ve been writing in, and walk into the living room. As I stare out of the window at your house next door, I think about all the things I stand to lose if someone comes for me. My handsome, l…
The anatomy of magic / J.C. Cervantes.
"Lilian Estrada seemingly has it all: an ob-gyn star on the rise, a master at balancing work with whirlwind romances and part of a family of fiercely loyal and exceptional women, all bound together by an extraordinary secret. The Estrada women each posses…
Skinny legs and all / Tom Robbins.
"An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations. . . . It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it’s the axis around which Skinny Legs and All spins, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies,…
Our beautiful boys : a novel / Sameer Pandya.
"Vikram Shastri has always been a good kid. Hes got a 4.6 GPA, listens to his parents, barely hits the parties, and is on track for a fancy college. But when he gets the chance to play on his high school football team, his world suddenly starts to shift. …
The Californians : a novel / Brian Castleberry.
"It's 2024, and Tobey Harlan-college dropout, temporary waiter, recently dumped-steals from the wall of his father's house three paintings by the venerated and controversial artist Di Stiegl. Tobey's just lost everything he owns to a Northern California w…
Everybody says it's everything : a novel / Xhenet Aliu.
"Raised in Connecticut, adopted twins Drita and Petrit (aka Pete) had no connection to their Albanian heritage. Their lives were all about Barbie dolls, the mall, and roller skating at the local rink. Although they were inseparable during their childhood,…
Tartufo : novel / Kira Jane Buxton.
"After nearly losing the election to a geriatric donkey, newly installed Mayor Delizia Miccuci can’t help but feel like the sun has finally set on the rural Italian village of Lazzarini Boscarino. Tourists only stop by to ask for directions, Nonna Amara’s…
Ultramarine / Mariette Navarro ; translated from the French by Eve Hill-Agnus.
"A female captain in a male-dominated field, the unnamed narrator of Ultramarine has secured her success through strict adherence to protocol; she now manages a crew of twenty men and helms her own vessel. Uncharacteristically, one day, she allows her cre…
The talent : a novel / Daniel D'Addario
"Five leading ladies, five nominations, only one best actress winner, and a very long awards season: cue the drama! Adria, a dignified and highly regarded grand dame of the movie industry, is intent on cementing her legacy as one of the greatest thespians…
Red dog farm : a novel / Nathaniel Ian Miller.
"Growing up on his family’s cattle farm in western Iceland, young Orri has gained an appreciation for the beauty found in everyday things: the cavorting of a newborn calf, the return of birdsong after a long winter, the steadfast love of a good (or tolera…
Life hacks for a little alien / Alice Franklin.
"Before she thinks of herself as Little Alien, our protagonist is a lonely girl who doesn't understand the world the way other children seem to. So when a late-night TV special introduces her to the mysterious Voynich Manuscript--an ancient tome written i…
O sinners! : a novel / Nicole Cuffy.
"Faruq Zaidi, a young journalist processing the recent death of his father, a devout Muslim, takes the opportunity to embed himself in a cult known only as 'the nameless,' because its members refused to label themselves. Based in the California redwoods a…
Counter-attacks at thirty : a novel / Won Pyung Sohn ; translated by Sean Lin Halbert.
"Jihye is an ordinary woman who has never been extraordinary. In her administrative job at the Academy, she silently tolerates office politics and the absurdities of Korean bureaucracy. Forever only one misplaced email away from career catastrophe, she ef…
That beautiful Atlantic waltz / Malachy Tallack.
"1957. Sonny is working on a whaling ship in the South Atlantic, reckoning with the most vicious storms he has ever seen. It’s a brutal way to make a living. When he finally returns to his Shetland home to build a life with his wife and young son, the leg…
Stop me if you've heard this one : a novel / Kristen Arnett.
"Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she's a professional clown who creates raucous, zany fun at gigs all over Orlando. Between her clowning and her shifts at an aquarium store for extra ca…
Animal instinct : a novel / Amy Shearn.
"It’s spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside. But her newly awakened sexual desire and lust for a new life refuse to be contained. Leaning on her best friend Lulu to show her the ropes, Rache…
The final wish of Mr. Murray McBride / Joe Siple.
"Jason Cashman has reached the goal he spent the last twenty years seeking: raising a million dollars for charity. But instead of feeling content, he now feels empty. What comes next? When he meets Alexandra Lopez—a determined ten-year-old girl facing dep…
Obligations to the wounded : stories / Mubanga Kalimamukwento.
"Obligations to the Wounded explores the expectations and burdens of womanhood in Zambia and for Zambian women living abroad. The collection converses with global social problems through the depiction of games, social media feuds, letters, and folklore to…
The three musketeers / Alexandre Dumas ; translated by Will Hobson.
"All for one, and one for all! The young D'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are 'the inseparables' - ready to sacrifice everything in a duel or game of dice in order to defend their honour or that of the King and Queen of Fr…
I leave it up to you : a novel / Jinwoo Chong.
"A coma can change a man, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes. His advertising job is history, his Manhattan apartment is gone, and the love of his life has left him behind. He’s been asleep for two years; with no one to turn to,…
Goddess complex : a novel / Sanjena Sathian.
"Sanjana Satyanandais trying to recover her life. It’s been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune in India, after a disagreement about whether to have children. Now, Sanjana is struggling to resurrect h…
The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain ; with an introduction and notes by R. Kent Rasmussen.
"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorou…
Bear County, Michigan : stories / John Counts
"Following desperate characters in desperate circumstances in the rural Midwest. In these colorful, darkly comic stories, veteran journalist and crime reporter John Counts takes readers to an often-ignored part of the country: a fictional Great Lakes coas…
Los muertos : Day of the Dead fiction / edited by Adela Pineda Franco.
"Los Muertos is a wide-ranging anthology of stories inspired by or relating to el Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead tradition celebrated in Mexico and parts of the United States. Two dozen stories by Mexican and Mexican American writers explore the …
The mysterious disappearance of the Marquise of Loria / José Donoso ; translated rom the Spanish by Megan McDowell ; with an introduction by Gabriela Wiener.
"All of a sudden, Blanca Arias has it all. The daughter of a middling Nicaraguan diplomat posted to Madrid, she marries, at the age of 19, the equally young and passionate Marquess of Loria, her darling Paquito, heir to one of the largest fortunes (and mo…
Back after this : a novel / Linda Holmes.
"Cecily Foster loves to make podcasts. She fiercely protects her colleagues, dearly adores her friends, and never misses dinner with her sister. But after a disastrous relationship with a colleague who stole her heart and her ideas, she’s put romantic lov…
Dream state : a novel / Eric Puchner.
"Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-laws’ lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a young doctor with a brilliant life ahead of him. Charlie has asked Garrett, his best friend from college, to officia…
Tilda is visible : a novel / Jane Tara.
"Tilda Finch is a successful businesswoman, a mother to two wonderful adult daughters, and besides an unexpected divorce, she’s living a relatively happy life. Until she wakes up one morning and her finger seems to have disappeared. She thinks back to the…
The snowbirds : a novel / Christina Clancy.
"Kim and Grant are at a turning point. A couple for thirty years, their 'separate but together' partnership is running up against the realities of late middle age: Grant’s mother has died, the college where he taught philosophy was shuttered, and their tw…
A girl within a girl within a girl : a novel / Nanda Reddy.
"On an ordinary day in an upscale Atlanta suburb, Maya is making breakfast for her two sons, when her husband drops a red-and-blue striped envelope on the counter and asks a devastating question: Who is Sunny? Maya is sent reeling back to her childhood i…
We're all lying / Marie Still.
How far would you go to keep what's yours? Someone is hunting Cass. Cass lives an enviable life: a successful career, two great kids, and a handsome husband. Then an email from her husband's mistress, Emma, brings the façade of perfection crumbling around…
Just want you here / Meredith Turits.
"The only love Ari has known is Morgan. Engaged and planning a life with him in New York, Ari is shocked when Morgan sits her down one rainy afternoon and tells her their decade-long relationship is over. They’ve been over for a long time now, he says―and…
Meet me at Rainbow Corner / Celie Imrie ; with historical research by Fidelis Morgan.
"London, 1944. The air raid sirens are blaring, the bombers are hovering. England has been at war with Germany for four years, and there's no sign of peace coming. Dot Gallagher, newly arrived from Liverpool to offer her services as a nurse, hurries from …
Creep : a love story / Emma Van Straaten
"Alice and Tom are made for each other. Deeply connected, they share a flat in London, go to galleries together, enjoy the same books and wine. They even share a toothbrush. It’s all picture perfect. Except Alice and Tom have never met. Alice has been cle…
Whispers from the ashes / Patricia Hester.
"It's 1955, in the dying coalfields of Pennsylvania, when young Molly Branigan discovers a diary that will lead her on an innocent journey into her family's past. She will soon learn that, like the underground mine fire threatening her mountainside home, …
King Solomon's mines / H. Rider Haggard ; introduction by Alexandra Fuller ; illustrations by Walter Paget ; notes by James Danly.
This novel "concerns the efforts of a group of Englishmen to find the legendary diamond mines of King Solomon. The explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to take Sir Henry Curtis and a friend on an expedition deep into the interior of Africa to find Curtis’s br…
The Tokyo suite / Giovana Madalosso ; translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato.
"It’s a seemingly ordinary morning when Maju, a nanny, boards a bus with Cora, the young girl she’s been caring for, and disappears. The abduction, an act as impulsive as it is extreme, sets off a series of events that will force each character to confron…
Upon a spring breeze / Kelly Irvin.
"Bess Weaver, twenty and expecting her first child, is in the kitchen making stew for her beloved mann, Caleb, one minute, and the next she’s burying him after a tragic accident. Facing life as a young widow, Bess finds comfort only in tending the garden …
The younger woman / Cate Ray.
"Gabby and Fred have just begun to adapt to their new life as empty nesters when Gabby makes a stunning realization: she can’t stand her husband. One night at a bar, Gabby meets an enigmatic younger woman named Ellis, and in a haze of drunkenness, she co…
Deep cuts : a novel / Holly Brickley.
"It’s a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates is on the jukebox, and Percy—who has no talent for music, just lots of opinions about it—can’t stop herself from overanalyzi…
The blanket cats / Kiyoshi Shigematsu ; translated by Jesse Kirkwood.
"A peculiar pet shop in Tokyo has been known to offer customers the unique opportunity to take home one of seven special cats, whose "magic" is never promised, but always received. But there are rules: these cats must be returned after three days. They mu…
Dream count : a novel / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
"Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until—betrayed a…
The magnificent ruins / a novel by Nayantara Roy.
"It is the summer of 2015, and Lila De is on the verge of a breakthrough in her career at a prestigious New York publishing house. But when she gets a call from her mother in India, informing her that she’s inherited her family’s sprawling estate, she mus…
The unworthy : a novel / Agustina Bazterrica ; translated by Sarah Moses.
"From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find--discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the En…
Kate & Frida : a novel of friendship, food, and books / Kim Fay.
"A buoyant, mouth-watering oasis of a novel, Kate & Frida is a love letter to bookshops and booksellers, to the way stories shape how we perceive ourselves, to the passion we bring to life in our twenties, and to the last precious years before the interne…
Jane and Dan at the end of the world / Colleen Oakley.
"Date night goes off the rails in this hilariously insightful take on midlife and marriage when one unhappy couple find themselves at the heart of a crime in progress, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise. Jane…
All the other mothers hate me : a novel / Sarah Harman.
"Luckiest Girl Alive meets A Simple Favor in this voice driven, stylish, and darkly comedic debut thriller about a pop star turned bad mom who will do anything to save her son after he becomes the prime suspect in his classmate's disappearance, from the w…
Stone angels : a novel / Helena Rho.
"Angelina Lee feels like she doesn't belong. Newly divorced, and completely unmoored by the sudden and tragic death of her mother, she hopes studying Korean will reconnect her to her roots, but nothing about Seoul feels familiar. Further complicating matt…
The autobiography of my mother / Jamaica Kincaid.
"Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. Kincaid takes us from Xuela’s childhood in a home where she can hear t…
The immortal woman : a novel / Su Chang.
"Lemei, once a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai and a journalist at a state newspaper, was involved in a brutal act of violence during the Tiananmen Square protests and lost all hope for her country. Her daughter, Lin, is a student at an America…
The boyhood of Cain / Michael Amherst.
"In a small village in England, in the shadow of an ancient abbey nestled between rivers, a young boy is growing up. Daniel is highly intelligent but little understood by his family, and so a secret passion burns inside him--for love, for certainty, and f…
The good samaritan : a novel / Toni Halleen.
"Sociology professor Matthew Larkin is barely holding on. After the death of his toddler son, his wife divorced him, his teenage daughter abandoned him, and he lost a job he loved. Landing a rare tenure track position at a small college in southern Minnes…
Guatemalan rhapsody : stories / Jared Lemus.
"A vibrant debut story collection-poignant, unflinching, and immersive-masterfully moving between sharp wit and profound tenderness, Guatemalan Rhapsody offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of an ever-changing country, the people who claim it as home, and thos…
Theory & practice : a novel / Michelle de Kretser.
"It's 1986, and 'beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. The narrator of Theory & Practice, a young woman originally from Sri Lanka, arrives in Melbourne for graduate school to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In the bohemian neighborhood of St. K…
Southern by design : a novel / Grace Helena Walz.
"Magnolia 'Mack' Bishop is staring down the barrel at single motherhood--thanks to an unsolicited personal picture her husband texted another woman that quickly went viral among every mom group in town. But she's determined to not let it distract her from…
Black Hamptons 2 : gentrification / Carl Weber with La Jill Hunt.
"Things are heating up in the Black Hamptons, an affluent community of African Americans nestled along the shore of Long Island, New York. The setting may be idyllic, but behind closed doors, the drama between family members and neighbors is intense. Mose…
Casualties of truth : a novel / Lauren Francis-Sharma.
"Prudence Wright seems to have it all: a loving husband, Davis; a spacious home in Washington, D.C.; and the former glories of a successful career at McKinsey, which now enables her to dedicate her days to her autistic son, Roland. When she and Davis head…
All our tomorrows / Amy Debellis.
"Janet, Anna, and Gemma lead separate lives, each ground down by the weight of the world they were born into, lost against the dazzling pixelated backdrop of the city. Too young to remember life before the iPhone 4, they think the real world was destroyed…
Living in your light : a novel / Abdellah Taïa ; translated by Emma Ramadan.
"Three moments in the life of Malika, a Moroccan countrywoman. From 1954 to 1999. From French colonization to the death of King Hassan II....Malika’s first husband was sent by the French to fight in Indochina. In the 1960s, in Rabat, she does everything …
Feast while you can / Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta.
"Angelina Sicco was born and raised in Cadenze, an ugly little mountain town that’s dead most of the year. Determined to be content with her lot in life, she walks her mongrel dog, attends her brother’s heavy metal concerts, holds court in the local dive …
Seems perfect : a novel / Rebecca Hanover.
"Emily Hawthorne lives in the well-heeled Noe Valley of San Francisco…but just barely. With less work than she would like at the yoga studio, a pile of debt, and a fraught past, she can no longer afford her tiny condo. When she meets the charming Penelope…
Woodworking / Emily St. James.
"Erica Skyberg is thirty-five years old, recently divorced-and trans. Not that she’s told anyone yet. Mitchell, South Dakota, isn’t exactly bursting with other trans women. Instead, she keeps to herself, teaching by day and directing community theater by …
Ring / Michelle Lerner.
"In the backdrop of a snow-covered sanctuary designed to aid the dying, Lee, a middle-aged non-binary individual from the Midwest, grapples with the unbearable weight of losing their young daughter. Abandoning their previous life and even the comfort of a…
I might be in trouble / Daniel Aleman.
"A few years ago, David Alvarez had it all: a six-figure book deal, a loving boyfriend, and an exciting writing career. His debut novel was a resounding success, which made the publication of his second book, a total flop, all the more devastating. Now, D…
Snowy day and other stories / Lee Chang-dong ; translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl and Yoosup Chang.
"[O]riginally published in Korea in the 1980s and now translated into English for the first time, investigate themes of injustice, betrayal, and terror—on both an intimate and national scale. Lee writes deeply and hauntingly about conflicts between family…
We are made of stars : a novel / Rochelle B. Weinstein.
"At the Vis Ta Vie inn, Reneé and Jean-Paul De La Rue face the daunting decision to close their beloved home for good. They’re not the only ones going through a season of change, though. Their guests include three couples in crisis: Hollywood celebs Leo …
Riddle of spirit and bone / Carolyn Korsmeyer.
"In contemporary Buffalo, Dan’s world is upended when he unearths a young woman’s skeleton while replacing the gas mains in a city neighborhood. Using the meager clues available, he and his archaeologist friends embark on a quest to piece together the mys…
Number thirty-two / Casse Steward.
"Number Thirty-Two was once a family home. Anna was once a mother and a wife. Now, fifty years later, she is in arrears and alone. With little choice but to sell up, she is forced to confront the memories of the people who once inhabited the empty rooms. …
Stick houses : stories / Matthew L.M. Fletcher.
"As researchers tried to prompt his mother to say that her ancestors lived in wigwams or teepees, Matthew L. M. Fletcher’s mother insisted her ancestors lived in stick houses. From the opening lines of Fletcher’s story collection, he sets the scene to dis…
The river / by Laura Vinogradova ; translated by Kaija Straumanis.
"Rute is no stranger to loss. As a child she and her older sister, Dina, were subject to their mother’s romantic whims, moving from house to house, boyfriend to boyfriend. Then, when the sisters were in their late twenties, Dina disappeared. In the decade…
Not quite by the book : a novel / Julie Hatcher.
"Emma Rini is in a rut so deep she could shelve books there. While her sister awaits her first baby, and her parents kick off retirement with vow renewals and travel, Emma stays put among the stacks of the family bookshop. In fact, she can’t remember the …
The frog in the throat / Markus Werner ; translated from the German and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann.
"In a small town in Switzerland, Franz—ex-clergyman, ex-husband, current counselor of locals at loose ends— is being haunted by his recently deceased father, Klement. In life, Franz was caught cheating on his wife and defrocked, after which Klement never …
The breaks : a novel / Ellen Barker.
"Waking up in the emergency room with a broken arm is not one of the ways Marianne imagined her first date with Carl, if it is a date, ending up. Nor was driving up to the entrance of a women’s prison a few weeks later anywhere on her radar. But here she …
Bingo, bango, boingo / Alan Michael Parker.
"Bingo Bango Boingo [is] a collection of flash fiction and stories told through Bingo cards. Flip the page. Choose your game. Is it 'Community Garden Bingo'? 'High School Reunion Bingo'? 'Don’t Hate Your Daddy Bingo'? Or are you finally ready for 'Change …