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Last updated Jan 15, 2025

Upcoming Releases

2025

January 2025 - Fiction

We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
Sweet Fury by Sash Bischoff
The Note by Alafair Burke
Chain Reaction by James Byrne
The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis
The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison
The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
Grave Danger by James Grippando
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Shattering Dawn by Jayne Anne Krentz
The Crash by Freida McFadden
Holmes Is Missing by James Patterson
The Texas Murders by James Patterson
Pro Bono by Thomas Perry
To Save the Man by John Sayles
Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow
Johnny Careless by Kevin Wade
The Mailman by Andrew Welsh-Huggins

January 2025 - Non-Fiction

The Survivor by Josef Lewkowicz
The JFK Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer
Dare I Say It by Naomi Watts
Three Wild Dogs by Markus Zusak

February 2025 - Fiction

The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens
Midnight Black by Mark Greaney
We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes
Back After This by Linda Holmes
Nemesis by Gregg Hurwitz
The Bones Beneath My Skin by T.J. Klune
Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
Close Your Eyes and Count to 10 by Lisa Unger

Past Featured Releases

December 2024 - Fiction

Tom Clancy: Defense Protocol by Brian Andrews
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
The Secret of Three Fates by Jess Armstrong
The Voyage Home by Pat Barker
Stuart Woods’ Golden Hour by Brett Battles
Bellevue by Robin Cook
Echo by Tracy Clark
Eddie Winston is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin
Booked for Murder by P.J. Nelson
Perfect Storm by Paige Shelton
The Memory Library by Kate Storey

December 2024 - Non-Fiction

Sisters in Science by Olivia Campbell
Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus by John Haywood

November 2024 -Ficton

To Die For by David Baldacci
Clive Cussler: Desolation Code by Graham Brown
Is She Really Going Out with Him? by Sophie Cousens
Now or Never by Janet Evanovich
Eleanore of Avignon by Elizabeth DeLozier
I’ll Be Home for Mischief by Jacqueline Frost
The Lake of Lost Girls by Katherine Greene
Before We Forget by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Robert B. Parker’s Hot Property by Mike Lupica
Insignificant Case by Phillip Margolin
House of Cross by James Patterson
Raised by Wolves by James Patterson
Mirror by Nora Roberts
The Lies We Leave Behind by Noelle Salazar
Trial By Fire by Danielle Steele
The Author’s Guide to Murder by Beatriz Williams

November 2024 - Non-Fiction

From Under the Truck by Josh Brolin
Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher
Ghosts of Panama by Mark Harmon
Dead Air by William Hazelgrove
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Damn Glad to Meet You by Tim Matheson
Welcome to Pawnee by Jim O’Heir

October 2024- Fiction

Killing Time by M.C. Beaton
My Three Dogs by W. Bruce Cameron
In Too Deep by Lee Child
The Waiting by Michael Connelly
Exposure by Ramona Emerson
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
The Man in Black by Elly Griffiths
The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins
Betrayal at Blackthorn Park by Julia Kelly
What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella
The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Women’s Hotel by Daniel Lavery
Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
One Big Happy Family by Susan Mallery
The Seventh Floor by David McCloskey
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? by Anna Montague
The Great When by Alan Moore
The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden
You Have Gone Too Far by Carlene O’Connor
Murder Island by James Patterson
The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny
The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose
The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
The President’s Lawyer by Lawrence Robbins
Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London
Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret by Benjamin Stevenson
Triangle by Danielle Steele
The Puzzle Box by Danielle Trussoni

October 2024- Non-Fiction

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Framed by John Grisham
It Gets Better.. by Nicole Maines
What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci
Brothers by Alex Van Halen

September 2024- Fiction

An Eye for an Eye by Jeffery Archer
A Kid from Marlboro Road by Edward Burns
Safe Enough by Lee Child
The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave
Robert B. Parker’s Buzz Kill by Alison Gaylin
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
The Examiner by Janice Hallett
Precipice by Robert Harris
So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison
Den of Iniquity by J.A, Jance
In the Garden of Monsters by Crystal King
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
The Night Guest by Hildur Knutsdottir
The Forest of Lost Souls by Dean Koontz
Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier by Mike Madden
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
Lies He Told Me by James Patterson & David Ellis
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime by Leonie Swann
Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks
The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner
The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel

September 2024- Non-Fiction

Something Lost, Something Gained by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
Lovely One by Ketanji Brown Jackson
Farewell Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
The Barn by Wright Thompson

August 2024- Fiction

Eye of the Beholder by Emma Bamford
The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves
Fatal Intrusion by Jeffery Deaver
Red River Road by Anna Downes
Till Do Us Part by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
The Lost Coast by Jonathan Kellerman
Spirit Crossing by William Kent Krueger
No Safe Place by Michael Ledwidge
I Need You to Read This by Jessa Maxwell
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville
House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen
By Any Other Name by Jodi Piccoult
Angel of Vengeance by Douglas Preston
Fire and Bones by Kathy Reichs
All the Way Gone by Joanna Schaffhausen
This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter
You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Sutanto
Agony Hill by Sarah Stewart Taylor

July 2024- Fiction

The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham
It Had to Be You by Eliza Jane Brazier
A Novel Summer by Jamie Brenner
Flashpoint by Catherine Coulter
The Wedding People by Allson Espach
House of Shades by Lianne Dillsworth
Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Shadow by Brian Freeman
The Summer Pact by Emily Giffin
The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia by Juliet Grames
The Moonlight Market by Joanne Harris
The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella
Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight
W. E.B. Griffin Zero Option by Peter Kirsanow
What Have You Done? by Shari Lapena
Liars by Sarah Manguso
Murder at the White Palace by Allison Montclair
The Days I Loved You Most by Amy Neff
Hard to Kill by James Patterson and Mike Lupica
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
The Wilds by Sarah Pearse
Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
All This and More by Peng Shepherd
Charlotte Illes Is Not a Teacher by Katie Siegel
Humor Me by Cat Shook
A Death in Cornwall by Daniel Silva
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
Shadow of Doubt by Brad Thor
Ladykiller by Katherine Wood

July 2024- Non-Fiction

Fall of Civilizations by Paul Cooper
The Unvanquished by Patrick K. O’Donnell
The Tree Collectors by Amy Stewart
What If We Get It Right? by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Tiger, Tiger by James Patterson

June 2024- Fiction

Stuart Woods’ Smolder by Brett Battles
Clete by James Lee Burke
Red Sky Mourning by Jack Carr
Swift River by Essie Chambers
The Glass Maker by Tracy Chevalier
The Unwedding by Ally Condie
The Next Miss Parrish by Liv Constantine
Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell
Four Squares by Bobby Finger
The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
Sentinel by Mark Greaney
Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand
That Night in the Library by Eva Jurczyk
Flashpoint by Iris Johansen
Same as It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo
Tell Me Who You Are by Louisa Luna
For the Love of Summer by Susan Mallery
Proof by Fern Michaels
Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
The Year of What If by Phaedra Patrick
How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley
Bear by Julia Phillips
Middle of the Night by Riley Sager
The Summer Escape by Jill Shalvis
Resurrection by Danielle Steele
Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate
The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear
One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon

June 2024- Non-Fiction

The Explorers by Amanda Bellows
The Friday Night Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne
When the Sea Came Alive by Garrett M. Graff
1974 by Francine Prose
The Great River by Boyce Upholt

May 2024- Fiction

Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews
I Will Ruin You by Linwood Barclay
The Devil’s Fortress by Dale Brown
People in Glass Houses by Jayne Castle
Think Twice by Harlan Coben
The Instruments of Darkness by John Connolly
If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay
This Summer Will Be Different by Carly Fortune
Camino Ghosts by John Grisham
Look on the Bright Side by Kristan Higgins
Southern Man by Greg Iles
Phantom Orbit by David Ignatius
Every Time We Say Goodbye by Natalie Jenner
Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
The Wealth of Shadows of Graham Moore
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
The Last to Pie by Misha Popp
Mind Games by Nora Roberts
Very Bad Company by Emma Rosenblum
When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes
Long Island by Colm Toibin
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware

May 2024 - Non-Fiction

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
The Infernal Machine by Steven Johnson
What a Fool Believes by Michael McDonald
You Never Know by Tom Selleck
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos

April 2024- Fiction

A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci
The Fellowship of Puzzle Makers by Samuel Burr
The Museum of Lost Quilts by Jennifer Chiaverini
One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole
Sharpe’s Command by Bernard Cornwell
A Killing on the Hill by Robert Dugoni
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
It Had to Be You by Mary Higgins Clark
The Reaper Follows by Heather Graham
Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica
A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh
The Murder Inn by James Patterson & Candice Fox
Pay Dirt by Sara Paretsky
Extinction by Douglas Preston
Nosy Neighbors by Freya Sampson
Toxic Prey by John Sandford
Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles
Only the Brave by Danielle Steele
Table for Two by Amor Towles
A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke
City in Ruins by Don Winslow

April 2024- Non-Fiction

All You Need is Love by Peter Brown
All That Happiness Is by Adam Gopnik
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson
Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson

March 2024 - Fiction

The Princess of Las Vegas by Chris Bohjalien
Lost Man’s Lane by Scott Carson
Murder in the Tea Leaves by Laura Childs
Studies at the School of the Sea by Jenny Colgan
Extinction of Irena Ray by Jennifer Croft
Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano
Sleeping Giants by Rene Denfield
Every Single Secret by Christina Dodd
Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? by Nicci French
The Hunter by Tara French
Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner
The Inheritance by Joanna Goodman
Everyone is Watching by Heather Gudenkauf
The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill
Watch Where They Hide by Tamron Hall
The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez
The Wild Side by Fern Michaels
Death and Fromage by Ian Moore
The Morningside by Tea Obrecht
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Finding Margaret Fuller by Alison Pataki
The #1 Lawyer by James Patterson
After Annie by Anna Quindlen
The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan
Murder Road by Simone St. James
Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle
The Truth About the Devlins by Lisa Scottoline
Never Too Late by Danielle Steele
The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger
Women of Good Fortune by Sophie Wan

March 2024- Nonfiction

The Blues Brothers by Daniel de Vise
Ghost Dogs by Andre Dubus III
One Way Back by Christine Blasey Ford
Life: My Life Through History by Pope Francis
The Manicurist’s Daughter by Susan Lieu
The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding on and Letting Go
The House of Meanings by RuPaul

February 2024 - Fiction

- Good Material by Dolly Alderton
- Chasing Endless Summers by V. C. Andrews
- Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood, et al.
- Three-Inch Teeth by C.J. Box
- The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
- End of Story by A.J. Finn
- The Chaos Agent by Mark Greaney
- The Women by Kristin Hannah
- Lone Wolf by Gregg Hurwitz
- The Ghost Orchid by Jonathan Kellerman
- The Bad Weather Friend by Dean Koontz
- The Summer Book Club by Susan Mallery
- Crosshairs by James Patterson
- Last Night by Luanne Rice
- The Framed Women of Ardemore House by Brandy Schillace

January, 2024 - Fiction

Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin
Harbor Lights by James Lee Burke
The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
Family Family by Laurie Frankel
The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
Who to Believe by Edwin Hill
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
Holmes, Miss Marple and Poe Investigations by James Patterson
Private: Missing Persons by James Patterson
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
Random In Death by J.D. Robb
Upside Down by Danielle Steel
Everyone on This Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
California Bear by Duane Swierczynski

January, 2024 - Non-Fiction

Fluke by Brian Klaas
Divine Might by Natalie Haynes
How to ADHD by Jessica McCabe
Mayo Clinic on Healthy Aging

December, 2023 - Fiction

The Curse of Penryth Hall by Jess Armstrong
Dissolved by Sara Blaedel
The Wonder of It All by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Death by Demo by Callie Carpenter
Welcome Home, Stranger by Kate Christensen
Manner of Death by Robin Cook
Meet the Bendettos by Katie Cotungo
The Other Mothers by Katherine Faulkner
The Fearless One by Lori Foster
Five Bad Deeds by Caz Frear
The Final Curtain by Keigo Higashino
A Different Kind of Gone by Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Engagement Party by Darby Kane
The End of the World Is a Cul De Sac by Louise Kennedy
The Wide World by Pierre Lemaitre
The Wildest Sun by Asha Lemme
The Fourth Rule by Jeff Lindsay
The Vacation by John Marrs
Irish Milkshake Murder by Carlene O’Connor, Peggy Ehrhart, & Liz Ireland
Two Dead Wives by Adele Parks
Rebecca, Not Becky by Christine Platt
Flores and Miss Paula by Melissa Rivero
Lost Hours by Paige Shelton
Here in the Dark by Alexis Soloski
City of Betrayal by Victoria Thompson
Where the Dead Wait by Ally Wilkes

December 2023 - Non-Fiction

The Poetry Book by DK
What Really Happens in Vegas by James Patterson

November, 2023 - Fiction

The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
The Future by Naomi Alderman
The Edge by David Baldacci
Tom Clancy Command & Control by Marc Cameron
The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor
The General and Julia by Jon Clinch
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord by Celeste Connally
Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly
Unnatural Death by Patricia Cornwell
The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook
Clive Cussler The Corsican Shadow by Dirk Cussler
Kennedy 35 by Charles Cumming
The Watchmaker’s Hand by Jeffery Deaver
Iwo, 26 Charlie by P.T. Deutermann
The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow
The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan
Viviana Valentine and the Ticking Clock by Emily J. Edwards
Again and Again by Jonathan Evison
The Porcelain Maker by Sarah Freethy
The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen
We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein
The Favorites by Rosemary Hennigan
A True Account by Katherine Howe
The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Blood Betrayal by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Just Once by Karen Kingsbury
The Girl in the Vault by Michael Ledwidge
Robert B. Parker’s Broken Trust by Mike Lupica
Betrayal by Philip Margolin
The Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack
Absolution by Alice McDermott
A Very Inconvenient Scandal by Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird by Louisa Morgan
The Professor by Lauren Nossett
The Talk of Coyote Canyon by Brenda Novak
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
Cross Out by James Patterson
The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak
Extinction by Douglas Preston
The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose
Inheritance by Nora Roberts
The Constant Soldier by William Ryan
The Ball at Versailles by Danielle Steel
Sweet Thing by David Swinson
Above the Salt by Katherine Vaz

November, 2023 - Non-Fiction

Ghosts of Honolulu by Mark Harmon
Material World by Ed Conway
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, and Higher Education by Stephanie Land
Breaking Twitter by Ben Mezrich
My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

October, 2023 - Fiction

The Light of Seven Days by River Adams
Losing Spring by V.C. Andrews
Glory Be by Danielle Arceneaux
Shoot the Moon by Isa Arsen
Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey
Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake
What Wild Women Do by Karma Brown
The Intern by Michele Campbell
Edith Holler by Edward Carey
The Twelve Books of Christmas by Kate Carlisle
The Secret by Lee Child
Straw Dogs of the Universe by Ye Chun
Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
Christmas and Other Horrors edited by Ellen Datlow
Silent City by Sarah Davis-Goff
Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson
Murder Uncorked by Maddie Day
Blood Lines by Nelson DeMille
The Paleontologist by Luke Dumas
Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich
The Children’s Bach by Helen Garner
The Socialite’s Guide to Death and Dating by S .K. Golden
The Exchange by John Grisham
The Defector by Chris Hadfield
A Haunting On the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night by Sophie Hannah
The Dimensions of a Cave by Greg Jackson
Distant Sons by Tim Johnston
A Traitor in Whitehall by Julia Kelly
What We Kept to Ourselves by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella
The House of Love and Death by Andrew Klavan
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok
The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem
Moscow X by David McCloskey
Murder on Mistletoe Lane by Clara McKenna
Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee
Sisters Under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
When I’m Dead by Hannah Morrissey
Murder by Degrees by Ritu Mukerji
Home at Night by Paula Munier
A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
Vengeance Is Mine by Marie Ndiaye
The Night House by Jo Nesbo
Julia by Sandra Newman
America Fantastica by Tim O’Brien
Some of Us are Looking by Carlene O’Connor
Freedom’s Ghost by Eliot Pattison
Out There Screaming
edited by Jordan Peele
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Up on the Woof Top by Spencer Quinn
The Death of Us by Lori Rader-Day
Murder In Drury Lane by Vanessa Riley
The Bell In the Fog by Lev A.C. Rosen
Twas the Bite Before Christmas by David Rosenfelt
The Roaring Days of Zora Lily by Noelle Salazar
Judgement Prey by John Sanford
Call Me Hunter by Jim Shockey
A Winter in New York by Josie Silver
You Always Come Back by Emily Smith
Testament by Wilbur Smith
Second Act by Danielle Steel
Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin Starling
The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell
The Refugee Ocean by Pauls Toutonghi
Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
The Twelve Dogs of Christmas by Susan Wiggs
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
Jewel Box: Stories by E. Lily Yu

October, 2023 - Non-Fiction

American Visions by Edward L. Ayers
To Rescue the Constitution by Bret Baier
Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard
How to Know a Person by David Brooks
The Longest Minute by Matthew Davenport
Differ We Must by Steve Inskeep
Ours Was the Shining Future by David Leonhardt
Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book by Susan Love, MD
The Sisterhood by Liza Mundy
Opposable Thumbs by Matt Singer
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Being Henry by Henry Winkler