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Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
When Fitz was six years old, his grandfather dropped him off at his uncle's door and never looked back. Since his father just happened to be the king's eldest son and heir to the throne known for his honor, nobody was quite sure what to do with Fitz. He becomes an outcast who is blamed for his father's abdication, but he has an ability that the country needs.
3 days ago


We Would Never by Tova Mirvis
Hailey and Jonah's divorce continues to get more contentious the longer it drags on, until Hailey is ready to give in on Jonah's demands. But when Jonah is murdered in his own home, ending their divorce before an agreement is reached, suspicion turns to Hailey. Find out who killed Jonah in this book, based on a true story.
6 days ago


The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
In 1906, a terrible earthquake hits San Francisco. Both the earthquake and the following aftershocks caused immense damage, destroyed water lines, and fires swept through the city. At that moment, four women find themselves thrown together in a situation that could easily end in tragedy. A down on her luck soprano, a skilled embroideress desperate to escape an unwanted arranged marriage, a free-spirited author who has been missing for months, and a headstrong botanist must ba
Oct 9


The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
Students from a fiction mystery club take a trip to an island on which a terrible triple murder/suicide occurred the year before. Alone on the island, they begin to die one by one under questionable circumstances. Is there a connection to the last tragedy? Or is one of the students the murderer?
Oct 6


Tower of Dawn by Sarah J Maas
Leave Aelin behind as Chaol and Nesryn travel to the Southern Continent in order to make new friends (and maybe some enemies too) and heal some wounds - inside and out.
Oct 2


When in Rome by Sarah Adams
Amelia just needs to get away. She has been working non stop ever since becoming Rae Rose, international popstar. And she has a full agenda of appearances and interviews before she starts her next tour but she just cannot keep going like this! So she does what Audrey Hepburn once did in Roman Holiday. But Rome, Italy is too far, so Amelia heads to Rome, Kentucky.
Sep 29


Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V E Schwab
All Maria wanted was freedom. Freedom from her family and their expectations, freedom from her husband, freedom to do what she wanted. When she meets a widowed woman who promises her just that, Maria is quick to take the opportunity. But while Maria is given freedom in this exchange, the widow and so many others are brought death.
Sep 25


Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams
Annie's love life is a disaster. Her last date ended when she heard the guy arranging to have an "emergency" call come into his phone. What she needs is someone to teach her how to flirt - or at least to have a conversation without devolving into a stammering mess! And she knows just the guy to be her coach.
Sep 22


The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
A small, upstate New York community is shaken when a Bear Van Laar goes missing from his family's home and he is never found. Years later, the community comes back together again, this time to find Bear's sister Barbara, who has gone missing from the sleepaway camp on the family's property. Are the two disappearances related? Can they find Barbara before it's too late?
Sep 18


Thank You For Listening by Julia Whalen
Sewanee Chester is a very popular audiobook narrator, but she does not do romance novels anymore. And she does not co-narrate books. At least, not until the author that gave Sewanee her start leaves specific instructions about how she would like her most recent novel read - and her production team makes Sewanee an offer she cannot refuse.
Sep 15


The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope
Clara Johnson has a special skill and is unable to refuse someone who asks her for help, no matter the person or the request. Then someone comes to her, asking for help with their son who no longer speaks or reacts but desperately tries to leave the house. Clara notices that this young man is not the only person acting strangely right now and decides to investigate.
Sep 11


From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L Armentrout
Poppy has a lot weighing her down as she goes about her life as THE Maiden, not allowed to interact with the world around her and punished for the smallest of infractions. But the allure of a regular life beckons to her and Poppy wonders what it would be like to be able to choose what she wanted to do... who she wanted to be.
Sep 8


Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
Newlyweds Sam and Annie move back to Sam's hometown to be close to his ailing mother and Sam opens his open private psychiatric practice. But when Sam speaks to his patients in his office, and there just happens to be a vent that allows their sessions to be overheard, and there is nothing else to do in the small town - you'd listen, wouldn't you?
Sep 4


Geekerella by Ashley Poston
Danielle's stepmother and stepsisters are the absolute worst, it's all she can do to wait until high school is over so she can escape them. But when forced to repair an attic leak, she finds a box of her parents’ things including their infamous cosplay outfits for Starfield. On a whim, she decides to tailor the outfits with the help of her fairy godfriend/coworker and attend ExcelsiCon on the wings of a pumpkin food truck.
Sep 1


The Measure by Nikki Erlick
As people across the world wake one morning, they find a box waiting for them. Inside the box is a string. Every single person twenty-two years old or older receives a string - which tells them how long there life will be.
Aug 28


Fable by Adrienne Young
Fable was left by her father on an island full of questionable (at best) characters. If she can survive long enough to get herself off the island and find him, he will give her what she's owed. That was four years ago and it's time for Fable to find her father and remind him that while he never forgets the wrongs done to him, neither does his daughter.
Aug 25


The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul
RuPaul's memoir documenting the time from when he was a child living in California with his family, hid teenage years spent in Atlanta, and finally traveling to New York to make it big - recounting all the good times, bad times, and hijinks in between.
Aug 21


Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
August never wanted to go back to the island of Saiorse after he and his mother snuck away, not after everything happened and they were driven out. But after his mother died, her will requested that she be buried on the island, so August travels back to the one place he never wanted to go back to and the one person that he never wanted to leave.
Aug 18


Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
When Zelu gets fired from her teaching job and has her most recent book rejected by yet another publisher, she's feeling lower than ever. That night, she finally lets loose with nothing left to lose and writes a novel that will take the world by storm.
Aug 14


Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Adina was born to human parents, but she is anything but human. Sent here by her people to study humans, she is to report on them via an ancient fax machine until she receives the order by her superiors to return to her people.
Aug 11
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