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by Hannah Orenstein - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Every summer, Vivian Levy and Lucy Webster spend a month with their father at his lake house --- separately. Raised in New York City, Vivian is an ambitious sommelier with a secret that could derail her future. Lucy grew up in a tiny Maine town, where she now teaches high school English while watching her marriage unravel. They’ve never met. When Vivian arrives at the lake to spread his ashes and sell his cabin, she's shocked to find Lucy there, awaiting his return. In an ideal world, they’d help each other through their grief. Instead, forced to spend the summer together, they fight through a storm of suspicion and hostility to untangle the messy truth about their parents’ pasts. While Lucy is desperate to hold onto the house, Vivian is scrambling after a betrayal. After 30 years apart, is it too late for them to be a family?

by Anna Snoekstra - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Since the weekend of the party --- the one 22-year-old Liv can’t remember --- she’s been locked out of her bedroom by a padlock. Her parents are behaving oddly and her best friend won’t respond to her texts. Maybe she really was out of control that night? Meanwhile Liv’s father, Janus, is not sure he can do what is necessary to keep this secret hidden. Kay gave up everything when she had Liv and Casper. So now she’ll do whatever she has to do to take care of them. And the neighbors --- well, she’ll just have to be more careful. Casper, the youngest, was away that weekend, but he knows something isn’t right. His parents don’t look each other in the eye anymore. His father’s hands tremble for no reason. And where does Liv keep disappearing to in the middle of the night? Casper decides to find out what no one will tell him about that weekend. What lies behind the padlocked door?

by Rochelle Dowden-Lord - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Four wine experts, each at a crucial point in their lives, arrive at a French vineyard estate for an unforgettable experience --- but not the kind they expected. Avery gave up her hard-won but exploitative sommelier job to come, while wine prodigy Cosmo is trying to disguise that his life is in freefall. Millionaire Sonny owns a tacky wine brand and can't help aggravating Cosmo, while caustic magazine writer Maëlys hovers with her pen poised. It seems at first that these four have little in common except for their love of wine. But, as the quartet awaits the penultimate night of the trip, when they will taste the only bottle of one of the rarest wines in the world, it becomes clear that each of them grapples with a private crisis. Each projects their ultimate hopes and fears onto the contents of this bottle, a bottle rendered divine by age and scarcity.

by Cristina Jiménez - Memoir, Nonfiction

Cristina Jiménez’s family fights to stay afloat as Ecuador falls into a political and economic crisis. When she is 13, her parents courageously decide to seek a better life in the U.S., landing in a one-bedroom apartment in Queens, New York. With deep candor and humor, Cristina opens the door to what it’s like to grow up undocumented and the reality that being a “good” immigrant doesn’t shield you from systematic racism, danger or even the confusion of falling in love. Through personal stories and historical truth telling, Cristina invites us to acknowledge the America that never was and to imagine the America that could be when everyday people build power and fight for change. And she reminds us that home is more than a physical place on the map, offering each of us a roadmap for finding the home within even when the world around us seems to be crumbling.

by Nora Roberts - Fiction, Romance, Romantic Suspense, Suspense, Thriller

Officer Sloan Cooper and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store --- and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot from a jittery thief was about to change her world. After being shocked back to life on the operating table, she has a long recovery ahead, so she moves back to her parents’ peaceful house in Heron’s Rest. She may be down, but she’s not out. So when a woman vanishes, Sloan searches online for similar cases. Men and women, old and young --- the missing seem to have nothing in common. And the abductions keep happening. It will take every ounce of endurance to get to the dark heart of this bizarre case --- and she's willing to risk her life again if that's what it takes to stop the horror.

by Tash Aw - Fiction

When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they’ve inherited, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Jay’s father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the son of the farm’s manager, different from him in every way except for one. Out in the fields, and on the streets into town, the charge between the boys intensifies. Inside the house, the other family members begin to confront their own secrets and regrets.

by C. J. Cooke - Fiction, Gothic, Horror, Supernatural Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore --- old stories of ghosts, of witches, of a child who is not quite a child. Now the woods are creeping closer, and something has been unleashed. Pearl Gorham arrives in 1965, one of a string of young women sent to Lichen Hall to give birth. And she soon suspects the proprietors are hiding something. Then she meets the mysterious mother and young boy who live on the grounds --- and together they begin to unpack the secrets of this place. As the truth comes to the surface and the darkness moves in, Pearl must rethink everything she knew --- and risk what she holds most dear.

by James Patterson and Candice Fox - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Rhonda and Barbara “Baby” Bird are half-sisters --- and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. They agree on nothing. Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach to solving crimes, while teenage Baby relies on her street smarts. But when they take a controversial case of a loner whose popular wife has gone missing, they’re accused of being PIs who can’t tell a client from a killer. The Bird sisters share a late father, but not much else…except their willingness to fight. Fight the system. Fight for the underdog. Fight for the truth. If they can stop fighting each other long enough to work together.

by Kim Hays - Fiction, Mystery

Swiss homicide detective Giuliana Linder of the Bern Police and her investigating partner, Renzo Donatelli, are facing cases that may not be what they appear. Renzo is on the scene near the Bern cathedral when a young man repairing a medieval window is injured by falling from a scaffold --- a fall deliberately caused by a teenage boy. Finding evidence that the boy’s attack on the glassworker is linked to his mother’s suicide 15 years earlier, Renzo decides to reexamine the woman’s death, hoping his work on the case will help get him promoted to homicide detective. He learns that the apparent suicide still haunts the injured glassworker, although he was a child of 10 when the boy’s mother died. Now that Renzo has left his wife, Giuliana knows she has to choose what she wants from their future together. Frustrated by her own case, she can’t help getting involved in Renzo’s investigation.

by Rachel Ekstrom Courage - Fiction, Mystery

Rose’s cousin is eloping to Miami, and Rose is playing host. If she can't balance the groom’s family’s snobbery against the traditional St. Olaf wedding week guidelines, her hometown may never accept her cousin again! Dorothy quickly realizes she needs a date with whom she can exchange wedding-related wisecracks. Turning to a newfangled VHS dating service, she believes she’s found the ideal conversationalist. Unfortunately, what looks good on TV can actually be a total jerk in real life. It seems she’ll just have to enjoy the company of Sophia, Blanche, and whomever Blanche has targeted for a hookup. But then Dorothy’s date is found dead --- face-planted in an otherwise scrumptious-looking cheesecake. The four besties must ID the real killer, get the should-be-happy couple down the aisle, and make sure nobody from St. Olaf gets lost in the wilds of Miami.