Each month we will be featuring several new release adult books that are coming out. Be sure to check out these July new releases and request your copy today!
- Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
Women’s Fiction | July 9
For fans of: The Lost for Words Bookshop by Abbi Waxman
“Meet Nina Hill: A young woman supremely confident in her own…shell. The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book. When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by!” - The Dead Girl in 2a by Carter Wilson
Thrillers/Psychological | July 2
For fans of: My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing, I know Who You Are by Alice Feeney, White Bodies by Jane Robins
“This flight will take them somewhere they never expected to go. Jack Buchanan knows the woman sitting next to him on his business flight to Denver–he just can’t figure out how he knows her. Clara Stowe isn’t in Jake’s line of work and didn’t go to college with him. They have nearly nothing in common apart from a deep and shared certainty that they’ve met before. As their airplane conversation deepens, both struggle to figure out what circumstances could have possibly brought them together. Then, in a revelation that sends Jake reeling, Clara admits she’s traveling to the Colorado mountains to kill herself, and she disappears into the crowded airport immediately after landing.” - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Historical Fiction | July 16
For fans of: Geraldine Brooks, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nina Revoyr
“As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is “as good as anyone.” Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future.” - Almost Midnight by Paul Doiron
Mystery & Detective Fiction | July 2
For fans of: C.J. Box, John Hart, Nevada Barr
“While on vacation, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch receives a strange summons from Billy Cronk, one of his oldest friends and a man he had to reluctantly put behind bars for murder. Billy wants him to investigate a new female prison guard with a mysterious past, and Mike feels honor-bound to help his friend. But when the guard becomes the victim in a brutal attack at the prison, he realizes there may be a darker cover-up at play–and that Billy and his family might be at risk.” - Dragonfly by Leila Meacham
Thrillers/Espionage | July 9
For fans of: The Paris architect by Charles Belfoure, Transcription by Kate Atkinson
“At the height of World War II, a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the government, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds-a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer-all answer the call of duty, but each for a secret reason of her or his own.” - Gird Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham
Thrillers/Suspense | July 23
For fans of: Jonathan Kellerman, Nicci French, Alafair Burke
“A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and filthy, she won’t tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is twelve, maybe fifteen. She doesn’t appear in any missing persons file, and her DNA can’t be matched to an identity. Six years later, still unidentified, she is living in a secure children’s home with a new name, Evie Cormac.” - I Do Love You Still by Mary B. Morrison
Fiction/African American/Women | July 30
For fans of: Eric Jerome Dickey, Carl Weber, Lynn E. Harris
“Between their skyrocketing careers and insatiable passion for each other, Xena Trinity and Memphis Brown seem to be the perfect potential power couple. Sure, they break up constantly-their love and sexual chemistry is unbalanced, yet undeniable. Since their ultimate goal is to marry and start a family after Memphis fulfills his dreams, they believe they can one day have it all. Until Xena gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance to take her fashion brand global-just as track star Memphis is this close to an Olympic slot.” - Someone We Know by Shari Lapena
Thrillers/Psychological | July 30
For fans of: Paula Hawkins, Gillian Flynn, A.J. Finn
“Maybe you don’t know your neighbors as well as you thought you did . . . ‘This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much. . . My son broke into your home recently while you were out.’ In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses–and into the owners’ computers as well–learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too.”