Literary fiction readers are in for a treat. This week’s latest releases list is full of intriguing reads you won’t want to miss! The new releases list includes so many bestselling authors like Ann Colbert, Ocean Vuong, Shelby Van Pelt, and more. Enjoy your new literary fiction books. Happy reading!
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New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books | May 20
Set off on an adventure to new worlds this week! This selection of new science fiction and fantasy books will surely please! Science Fiction fans should be excited about the latest from bestselling authors William Stone, Jack Hunt, Boyd Craven III, and more. If Fantasy is what your library needs, you’ll be able to pick up the latest from Debbie Cassidy, J. M. Unrue, Joe Abercrombie, and more. Enjoy your new science fiction and fantasy books. Happy reading!
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New Young Adult Books to Read | May 20
Are you an avid reader of young adult books? This week, you are in luck! With all of these new novels, you’re bound to find a new favorite book to add to your reading list. This week includes new novels from bestselling authors Julie Soto, Megan Montero, Amber Davis, and more. Enjoy your new young adult books. Happy reading!
New Biography and Memoir Books to Read | May 20
Looking for some new biography and memoir books for your library? There are so many new releases this week that you’re bound to find a new favorite. You can pick up new books from Casey Johnston, Mark Whitaker, Noy Sengvixay, and more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
New Business and Finance Books to Read | May 20
Looking for some new business and finance books for your library? There are so many new releases this week that you’re bound to find a new favorite. You can pick up new books from John Cassidy, Jack Spirko, and Ari Tuckman. Enjoy your new business and finance books. Happy reading!
Chasing Dreams & Breaking Hearts: 6 Must-Read YA Books
Chasing Dreams & Breaking Hearts: 6 Must-Read YA Books
From first loves to epic adventures, these six YA books capture the thrill and turbulence of growing up. With relatable characters, heart-pounding drama, and life-changing moments, these stories are perfect for anyone ready to relive their youth—or explore it for the first time. Ready for your next YA obsession?
Fate of the Storm (Demon Storm Book 8)
by Valerie Storm
Release Date: May 13, 2025
For a moment, Kari and Ari have a moment of peace. There is a glimmer of light that threatens to wash away the darkness as they finally bind their fates together in a formal ceremony. Then Kari's moment of joy comes to a halt as the world shakes and Taris is ripped apart. The Lord of Demons, Velthas, has risen.
Lifebound (Royal Sins Book 1)
by D.N. Hoxa
Release Date: May 6, 2025
Not when I was five and told them about the boy with pointy ears who saved my life in the forest. Not during the thirteen miserable years of bullying and being labeled the town weirdo. Until a guy with golden eyes and a royal guard escort shows up at my door to drop a bombshell. That little boy? Yeah, he’s real.
Breaking Coven, Building Dreams (The Excommunicated Witch Savant Book 1)
by Isabel Campbell and Michael Anderle
Release Date: May 2, 2025
Jo Locket's extraordinary magical gifts make her a threat to the Coven's rigid order. When forced to swear a blood oath of obedience, she responds with defiance, earning instant excommunication and exile. With nothing but her raw savant powers of illusion and healing, Jo flees to Seattle seeking her renegade aunt, who once escaped the same fate. Her ambitious plan: transform her "Mt. Shasta Experience" train shows into a profitable enterprise to fund something revolutionary...
The Survivor Wants to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End Series Book 3)
by Adam Silvera
Release Date: May 6, 2025
Paz Dario stays up every night, waiting for the Death-Cast call that would mean he doesn’t have to keep faking his way through this lonely life. After a devastating day, Paz decides he’s done waiting around for Death-Cast. If they say he’s not dying, he’ll just have to prove them wrong. But right before Paz can die, a boy saves his life.
Summer Girls
by Jennifer Dugan
Release Date: May 13, 2025
Cass has a rule about dating summer girls—just say no. Every year, her idyllic beach town is flooded with summer girls, the obnoxious daughters of the rich, who stay in their families’ summer homes, sail their yachts, and generally make things unbearable for townies like Cass. Birdie is the ultimate summer girl. She’s the daughter of a wealthy real estate developer dad and a social media influencer mom, and this summer Birdie happens to be in big trouble for accidentally crashing her boyfriend’s very expensive car.
Audre & Bash Are Just Friends
by Tia Williams
Release Date: May 6, 2025
Scorching-hot summer. Scorching-hot chemistry. Two teens can’t forget they’re just friends in this sweet, funny, electrifying romance from New York Times bestselling author Tia Williams. Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Nicola Yoon.
In the Quiet Moments: 6 Literary Fiction Books That Resonate
In the Quiet Moments: 6 Literary Fiction Books That Resonate
Delve into stories that stir the soul and challenge your perceptions. These six literary fiction novels explore the human experience with intricate prose, deep themes, and unforgettable characters. If you're ready for a reading journey that leaves an impact, these books belong on your shelf.
In Defense of Earth
by Marlen Suyapa Bodden
Release Date: April 4, 2025
Axy, a super-android from an exoplanet, lied to humans by saying that it came to Earth to help them reverse climate change and provide limitless clean energy for the planet. But if Axy completes its true mission, its actions will kill all life on Earth.
Sleep
by Honor Jones
Release Date: May 13, 2025
From a dazzling new talent, the story of a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood when she brings her daughters back to the big house where she was raised.
The Names
by Florence Knapp
Release Date: May 6, 2025
In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to name the infant after him. But when the registrar asks what she'd like to call the child, Cora hesitates...
One Timer With A Wingman (Riverside U)
by R.C. Stephens
Release Date: May 7, 2025
Alone, broke, and pregnant was not how I envisioned my junior year of college. Neither was Aaron Murray, hockey wingman and campus heartbreaker. He’s the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen—and now he’s crashing my vacation. Even worse, he ends up sitting next to me on the plane. I can’t escape his cocky demeanor… or his gorgeous green eyes—at least for the next four hours.
The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans
Release Date: April 29, 2025
Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.
The Director
by Daniel Kehlmann
Release Date: May 6, 2025
G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous, can help him.
Unscripted & Unforgettable: 6 New Biographies & Memoirs
Unscripted & Unforgettable: 6 New Biographies & Memoirs That Hit Deep
These six memoirs cut through the noise with raw honesty and unforgettable storytelling. From quiet revelations to public reckonings, each life on this list proves that truth is more powerful than fiction. Craving something real? Start reading now.
Past the Oath: Darkness to Deliverance
by Lee R. Roberts
Release Date: April 28, 2025
Darkness surrounded me long before I knew its name. From a childhood marked by fear, confusion, and unseen battles, I grew up searching for meaning, power, and peace, but always in the wrong places. Culture, entertainment, and empty promises of belonging offered quick answers, but each step only led me deeper into spiritual deception. When I entered Freemasonry, I thought I had finally found the truth I was desperate for. Instead, I discovered another layer of the trap, hidden chains that bound my heart & soul even tighter.
Mark Twain
by Ron Chernow
Release Date: May 13, 2025
Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835, the man who would become America’s first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Twain went west to the Nevada Territory and accepted a job at a local newspaper, writing dispatches that attracted attention for their brashness and humor. It wasn’t long before the former steamboat pilot from Missouri was recognized across the country for his literary brilliance, writing under a pen name that he would immortalize.
The Pit: The True Crime Story of Six Women, One Monster, and the Nightmare Below
by Ryan Green
Release Date: May 11, 2025
He called it salvation. They called it hell. By day, Gary Heidnik was a man of God with money, charisma, and a growing congregation. But behind closed doors, he was building a torture chamber by hand and filling it with women. His victims were some of society’s most vulnerable. He lured them with promises of food, safety, and salvation. Instead, they were shackled in the basement, starved, raped, and beaten into silence. Heidnik controlled everything: their pain, their survival, their very breath.
Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
by Becky Aikman
Release Date: May 6, 2025
They were crop dusters and debutantes, college girls and performers in flying circuses-all of them trained as pilots. Because they were women, they were denied the opportunity to fly for their country when the United States entered the Second World War. But Great Britain, desperately fighting for survival, would let anyone-even Americans, even women-transport warplanes. Thus, twenty-five daring young aviators bolted for England in 1942, becoming the first American women to command military aircraft.
A Second Shot: The Pursuit of Justice in Maryland’s Oldest Cold Case Murder
by Michael F. Weisberg
Release Date: April 25, 2025
In 1971, Montgomery County Deputy Sheriff James Tappen Hall was gunned down outside a Maryland country club. The case went cold—no suspect, no answers, no closure. Fifty years later, cold case detectives reopened the investigation and identified a suspect whose shocking confession revealed a detail never released to the public: Hall was shot twice. A Second Shot by Dr. Michael Weisberg is a gripping true crime story of justice delayed but not denied—and a deeply personal tale of second chances for both a grieving family and the author himself.
Accidentally on Purpose
by Kristen Kish
Release Date: April 22, 2025
Kristen Kish never could have imagined people on the street knowing her name—not when she was a carefree softball-tossing kid, in high school working at a pretzel stand, and not even when she finally found her true calling as a chef. In those early days, becoming a chef meant tethering oneself to a restaurant and working in the back of a kitchen, not a television set. But working in the spotlight happened naturally, even if the attention was totally unanticipated. And like most things in Kristen’s life, the road was so much more winding and complicated than it may have appeared from the outside.
Love That Lingers: 6 Romance Reads to Savor Slowly
Love That Lingers: 6 Romance Reads to Savor Slowly
Get swept off your feet with six unforgettable romances that linger long after the last page. From second chances to slow burns, these stories are full of heart, heat, and happily-ever-afters. Ready to fall hard? Your next book boyfriend awaits.
Match Penalty (The Rookie Hawkeyes Series Book 1)
by Kenna King
Release Date: May 13, 2025
Second chances aren’t part of the game… until they are. Coach’s Daughter. Bad Boy Hockey Star. Second Chance. Jon Paul Dumont was the one rule I shouldn’t have broken—a cocky, reckless heartbreaker who left me shattered a year ago. Now, he’s back. Fresh off a scandal and career-ending injury, wearing my father’s team jersey and flashing that same dangerous smile.
Game, Set, Match (Vol. 1) (Champions of Sin Book 1)
by Elektra Roselyn
Release Date: May 6, 2025
A forbidden, age-gap romance between a fallen tennis star and a powerful billionaire determined to own her. He’s married. She’s drowning in debt. He offers a deal she can’t refuse. But when desire turns dangerous, will she survive the game… or be consumed by it?
THE WILD (The Story of John Wilson Book 1)
by Natalie Shpet
Release Date: May 12, 2025
John, a battle-hardened veteran known simply as "The Wild," returns to his homeland seeking solace, only to find himself thrust into a different kind of warfare: a desperate struggle against destitution. This conflict drives him to accept a dubious proposition—providing protection for the headstrong and infuriatingly independent sister of a local businessman...
Bad Things Come in Threes
by Didi Adeyemi
Release Date: April 30, 2025
After losing nearly everything, Adira is left with nothing but grief and the ghosts of what could have been. She trusts no one—until Nathan steps in. Steady and kind, he refuses to walk away, no matter how much she pushes. But love makes you vulnerable, and Adira can’t afford another loss. Yet, some people are worth the risk.
Heartless
by NaNaKo Sai Gwin
Release Date: February 23, 2025
Yuren despised the entire imperial family until he met Princess Sunela. She was definitely not the one he should fall in love with. Princess Sunela dreamed of a Prince Charming who would take her out of the Imperial Palace. Yuren was definitely not the one. Sunela and Yuren were forced out of the palace and abandoned by families and friends. They learned to be THE ONE for each other!
The Pucking Wrong Rookie (The Pucking Wrong Series Book 5)
by C.R. Jane
Release Date: May 13, 2025
I never wanted this life, but the choices I made led me here, caught in a world I can't escape. Then Logan York, the Dallas Knights' rookie sensation, spots me in the crowd. When I refuse to date him, he hires me and promises I’ll fall in love with him. Arrogant. Reckless. Completely impossible. I tell myself it’s just another job, that I can keep my heart out of it. But as the lines blur and the stakes get higher, I wonder if being his is the only choice I ever really had. Logan isn’t just any man, though.
Escape Reality: 7 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books That Go Beyond
Escape Reality: 7 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books That Go Beyond
Step beyond the ordinary with six mind-bending stories that defy space, time, and reality. From intergalactic wars to ancient magic, these sci-fi and fantasy picks are packed with action, heart, and world-shattering stakes. Ready to escape the expected? Start here.
Two Crowns, Three Blades (The Legends of Baelon Book 2)
by Robert A. Walker
Release Date: April 30, 2025
"... a rollicking adventure... highly recommend it!" --Readers Favorite. "... a captivating blend of epic adventure and imaginative storytelling.” --Literary Titan. "... a mesmerizing fantasy adventure." --The Chrysalis BREW Project. Winner of Literary Titan Book Award and Spotlyts Story Award.
The Witches Catalogue of Wanderlust Essentials (Natural Magic Book 2)
by Ciara Blume
Release Date: May 6, 2025
Zanfira once lived for danger, recovering arcane artifacts from the clutches of dark-hearted foes. When she's tapped to fill in as curator of a legendary archive, she must park her broom and settle into a desk job. For a wanderlusting witch that just won't fly! Enter Will, a half-fae "Porter" with the ability to port her through time and space.
Cut In Half (In All Jest World Book A)
by D.E. King
Release Date: May 13, 2025
A standalone prequel to the In All Jest Series, set 800 years before that begins. When Ligriv discovers a strange gem, he unleashes an ancient power that threatens to destroy the bond with his twin—and enslave the world. Amid twisted prophecies and awakening magic, he must make an impossible choice before an unmasked evil rises.
Brethren of the Sword: The Maiden Quest
by Roz King
Release Date: April 11, 2025
Sharpen your blade and ready your heart. Brethren of the Sword: The Maiden Quest hurls you into cinematic battles, sharp-witted banter, a chosen one prophecy, and thrilling sword and sorcery action, where loyalty is tested and cliffhangers strike when least expected. The quest begins with you...
The Matrix Opal (The Duchy Wars Book 1)
by Stella Atrium
Release Date: April 3, 2025
Award-winning storytelling returns in this gripping standalone sci-fi adventure, where a fierce new heroine, evolving familiar faces, and looming betrayal collide in a richly imagined world.
Hive (Madders of Time Book 1)
by D. L. Orton
Release Date: May 6, 2025
In a world torn apart by environmental collapse and invasive drones, Diego receives a cryptic message from the past. To unlock its meaning, he travels back in time, discovering that the past he once knew holds dark secrets. With enemies hiding in plain sight, Hive delivers a twist-filled sci-fi thriller as Diego and Isabel risk everything to unravel a conspiracy that stretches across timelines.
First Ascent (Ascending Carbon Series Book 1)
by Douglas Phillips
Release Date: May 6, 2025
A fog-shrouded platform appears overnight off the coast of Ecuador. An unlicensed oil rig? Or something else? Science journalist and popular TV host Sahalie Spark has her own ideas. The platform is no oil rig; it's the world's first space elevator, and she thinks she knows who built it. He’s even asking Sahalie to join him on a first ascent.
























































