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Playworld: A Novel
by Adam Ross
Knopf, 01/07/2025
 
"In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and ...more
Literary Fiction
The Heart of Winter: A Novel
by Jonathan Evison
Dutton, 01/07/2025
 
Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together—at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into ...more
Literary Fiction
The Naming of the Birds
by Paraic O'Donnell
Tin House Books, 01/07/2025
 
Something is troubling Inspector Henry Cutter. Sergeant Gideon Bliss is accustomed to his ill-tempered outbursts, but lately the inspector has grown ...more
Historical Fiction
You'll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist
by Kari Ferrell
St. Martin's Press, 01/07/2025
 
Before Anna Delvey, before the Tinder Swindler, there was Kari Ferrell. Adopted at a young age by a Mormon family in Utah, Kari struggled with ...more
Biography/Memoir
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
by Kyle Paoletta
Pantheon Books, 01/14/2025
 
Albuquerque. Phoenix. Tucson. El Paso. Las Vegas. Iconic American cities surrounded by desert and rust. Teeming metropolises that seem to exist ...more
Science, Health and the Environment
Beautiful Ugly: A Novel
by Alice Feeney
Flatiron Books, 01/14/2025
 
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.

Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby...more
Thrillers
Going Home: A Novel
by Tom Lamont
Knopf, 01/14/2025
 
Téo Erskine, now in his thirties, has moved on from childish things: He has a good job, a slick apartment in London, and when he heads back to ...more
Literary Fiction
The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey: A Novel
by Astrid Dahl
Simon & Schuster, 01/14/2025
 
Meet the Garden State Goddesses, the cast of Huzzah's third most popular show:

"I may play for both teams, but when it comes to being real, I ...more
Mysteries
The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
by Pagan Kennedy
Vintage, 01/14/2025
 
In 1972, Martha "Marty" Goddard volunteered at a crisis hotline, counseling girls who had been molested by their fathers, their teachers, their uncles...more
True Crime
The White Peril: A Family Memoir
by Omo Moses
Beacon Press, 01/21/2025
 
In The White Peril, Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather's sermons and the writings of his ...more
Biography/Memoir
Beast of the North Woods: A Monster Hunter Mystery
by Annelise Ryan
Berkley Books, 01/28/2025
 
An ice fisherman is savagely mauled to death in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and an eyewitness claims the man was attacked by a hodag. There's just one ...more
Mysteries
Carving Shadows into Gold (Forging Silver into Stars)
by Brigid Kemmerer
Bloomsbury YA, 01/28/2025
 
The King's Courier Tycho has made a treacherous bargain. Now beholden to the magical scraver who saved King Gray's life, one false move could end ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
I Think They Love You: A Novel
by Julian Winters
St. Martin's Griffin, 01/28/2025
 
When Denzel "Denz" Carter's workaholic father and CEO of 24 Carter Gold unexpectedly announces his retirement, the competition is on for who will ...more
Romance
The Scorpion Queen: Limited Sprayed Edge Edition
by Mina Fears
Flatiron Books, 01/28/2025
 
Deep within the imperial palace at Timbuktu, Amie has suffered a devastating loss. Once the daughter of a prosperous salt merchant Amie's life was ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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