The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland–a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic–and a political one. The victims …
The Nature of Small Birds by Susie Finkbeiner
In 1975, three thousand children were airlifted out of Saigon to be adopted into Western homes. When Mindy, one of those children, announces her plans to return to Vietnam to find her birth mother, her loving adoptive family is suddenly thrown back to the events surrounding her unconventional arrival into their lives. Though her father …
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her …
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu 1983. Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party is here once again, and every attendee has wild expectations for the night. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, surfer, and supermodel; Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer and the other an established photographer; and Kit, the youngest, just starting to pave her way. …
Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart
Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. A bad romance, or maybe three. Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains. A girl who refuses …
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
1791: A secret female apothecary in the Back Alley of London has one goal: to liberate women from the harmful men who’ve wronged them. Nella, the knowledge apothecary owner fatefully meets Eliza, her latest patron. Present-day London: Caroline ventures to London on what is supposed to be her tenth wedding anniversary, but the trip is …
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
A novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. Isaiah was Samuel’s and Samuel was Isaiah’s. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the …
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Back in the magical cafe, four more people are eager to take the journey back in time. Alongside the new characters, we are re-introduced to some familiar characters who work in the cafe. We’re told the ways in which the stories intertwine and some background on how everyone got here. This stunningly simple story allows …
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
Jane is a dog-walker in the community of Thornfield Estates in Birmingham, Alabama. This community is filled to the brim with rich people, with more possessions than they can keep track of. It’s a relatively boring life until Jane meets Eddie Rochester — a recently widowed mysterious resident of the gated estate. Eddie’s wife, Bea …
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
It is 1714 in France. A young woman named Adeline (Addie) LaRue is stuck living a life meant for women of this time. Eager to escape this reality, she makes a plea to the night god. But instead of a blessing, Adeline finds herself cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Traveling through time …