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 Thomas Scott, William J. Cook, Chibundu Onuzo, and many more. Enjoy your new literary fiction books. Happy reading!
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 David James Warren, David Guymer, Bob Blanton, and more. If Fantasy is what your library needs, you’ll be able to pick up the latest from Theophilus Monroe, Andrew Rylands, Michael Alan Peck, Sarah Noffke, and more. Enjoy your new science fiction and fantasy books. Happy reading!
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 Brandy Colbert, Mara Rutherford, Hayley Krischer, and many more. Enjoy your new young adult books. Happy reading!
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 Nadija Mujagic, Stanley Tucci, David Sedaris, and many more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Retaliation? Really the story behind The Sol Saga (Revolution and Retaliation) stems from a story I was told while on a film set back in 2010. A friend and colleague served in the US military for a time, and he shared some stories with us occasionally. One of those stories really stuck out to me. It was one of selfishness and greed, which left my colleague and several others just twisting in the wind behind enemy lines. I wanted to write a story about the mixing of politics, corporate greed, and war. The Sol Saga was originally a television series pilot, but I put so much research and backstory into it, that I thought it would make a cool book series too. If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of Retaliation, what would they be? What an awesome question! I wrote the book to Lindsey Sterling's albums on repeat. Almost exclusively listened to her for both books. So, I'd have to say one of her tracks almost assuredly influenced the characters in some way or other. Brennan was a lot of Artemis and Helena was Between Twilight and Spalding and Colt were Beyond the Veil and McAaron was Heist. If you had to write a blurb for the last book you read, what would it say? Fun fact, I'm terrible at blurb writing. Like, really super bad. I wouldn't want to diminish my fellow authors by absolutely massacring their stories. However, the last book I read was Fringe Runner by Rachel Aukes, and it is incredible. The characters are deep and complex, flawed and exciting! The plot twists and turns like an eel in your hands, once you think you know exactly what's going on, it writhes out of your grasp. It was very engaging! I hadn't binged a book series that hard since The Lightbringer Series by Brent Weeks! What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write? I'm all about Science-Fiction and Fantasy. I read those two genres almost exclusively. I haven't yet published any fantasy, but I am working on something that I'm pretty excited about. Hopefully, I'll be able to add that to my list of genres here soon. There's just something fascinating about taking contemporary issues and thrusting them into a fantastic world and experimenting with it. Do you have any quirky writing habits? Where did you write Retaliation? My whole life is a quirky habit haha. I exclusively write to music, I almost can't think without it. I type really really fast, and just kind of zone out. I also have very little memory of what I write, so when I go back and review my work for the day - it's almost like reading it for the first time. I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing lol! Other than that, I'm a morning writer. If I haven't started writing by noon, it's almost not worth it. A typical day for me is around 15k words. Then, I have to get up and do something else. The other thing is, I normally have some kind of video game up on my screen while I write. I normally ignore it, or at least I am not actively playing it. Just having it on screen allows me to trick myself into saying "Hey, I played video games all day! It was a great day!" Even though I likely never did anything at all in the game. What's the best advice you've ever received? The best advice I've ever received? To never give up on the things you love. Storytelling is a passion for me. I cannot go a day without working on the craft - trust me, I've tried. So, being able to turn that into a career has been incredible. My Dad told me once, "You can wake up every morning and hate what you do, and spend all day wishing and waiting to do something else. This path yields more enjoyment for half your day. Or, you can love your work, and wake up every morning excited for what the day brings. This path means you'll work your entire life, without rest from the stresses that brings, but you'll look forward to it." I think that was sound advice. Both have their pros and cons. It's important to figure out which works best for you.
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Don't miss out on these exciting new mystery, thriller, and suspense books that are perfect to add to your reading list this fall! Check out these new books by bestselling authors Roslyn Reid, Marilyn Wright Dayton, Christian Blaha, Tessa Kelly, SE Reynolds, and Ann Cleeves. Enjoy your new mystery, thriller, and suspense books!
Release Date: September 21, 2021
A new suspenseful novel by Roslyn Reid...When a car crash kills his Dr. Spencer Py's bride and leaves him bound to a wheelchair. One fateful night he stumbles upon plans for the Spiricom on the internet, Thomas Edison's devise for communicating with the dead. Determined to be united with his beloved, he embarks on a journey to build the device, and unwittingly draws Detective James Early into the scariest case of his life.
Release Date: July 27, 2021
Book 1 in the Hightower Mystery Series by Marilyn Wright Dayton... Weezie Hightower and Guy Davis, retired detective, head across the country to Arizona, and solve a murder mystery that has seven suspects. And it only takes them seven days to solve it. This is an edge-of-your-seat read, with engrossing characters!
Release Date: September 14, 2021
A new paranormal suspense by Christian Blaha...Sara must contend with the nightmarish visions she experiences every evening when she falls asleep on her office’s antique black sofa. These haunting apparitions seem increasingly, alarmingly real. And soon enough, they start slipping into her waking hours. Can Sara use the clues she receives in her dreams to solve these horrific, modern-day murders?
Release Date: June 4, 2021
A new book in the A Sandie James Cozy Mystery Series by Tessa Kelly...Sandie’s cop brother is suspected of killing not one but three young women. Now she's forced to show just how far she’ll go to prove his innocence. As she uncovers new clues, Sandie realizes someone close to Will may be framing him. Desperate to find the real killer, she enlists the help of her boyfriend and her trusty dog Marlowe. Unfortunately, time is not on their side.
Release Date: July 23, 2021
A new suspenseful novel by SE Reynolds...A small-town mayor’s perfect first lady confesses a disturbing secret on the eve of her death. Everything he thought he knew about her was a lie. Now, the mayor is desperate to find her replacement, a perfect voter-friendly angel. His search leads him into a toxic love triangle with two very different women. He chooses one, but is she the right choice, or is his judgment clouded by lies and an alluring ghost from his past?
Release Date: September 7, 2021
New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves returns with the extraordinary follow-up to The Long Call...Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder--Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases. Then another body is found killed in a similar way. Matthew soon finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home.
In the mood for a new romance read this week? Check out our favorite new romance paranormal and romantic suspense books from bestselling authors LP Dover, Jessika Klide, Siobhan Davis, Stephanie Hudson, Natasha Knight, and Delta James. Enjoy your new romances!
Release Date: September 28, 2021
Book 6 in the A Royal Shifters series by New York Times and USA Today best-selling author L.P. Dover...More than anything Zayne wants to charge in and protect the woman his heart aches for. But he has a secret, and it could cost him everything. Amelie is his fated mate. If his enemies were to discover this, they would know hurting her would be the key to destroying him. However, staying away from her is something he can't do.
Release Date: September 23, 2021
A new modern-day fairytale retelling mafia romance series by Amazon Bestselling Author Jessika Klide...He's a man on a mission to marry. He needs a wife so he steals my life. I only pray he doesn't steal my heart along the way. Prepare to have your heart stolen in this twisted, tangled retelling of the long-haired beauty.
Release Date: September 30, 2021
A new stand-alone dark mafia romance from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Siobhan Davis...Natalia Mazzone has grown up knowing she is promised to a made man. As the only daughter of one of New York’s most powerful mafia dons, she knows she can’t refuse. It’s her duty, and she would never dishonor her beloved father. But the man she’s promised to is a monster.
Release Date: September 30, 2021
From Bestselling Paranormal Romance author Stephanie Hudson comes Book 2 of The HellBeast King...It started the moment I woke up in the hospital, I naively believed I would find myself alone. I was wrong. Because the HellBeast King wasn’t done with me. Far from it in fact, as he told me he had made a vow. A vow to keep me safe. But as my fate started to unravel, revealing more and more pieces of him at the core, I couldn’t help but question: was his vow to keep me safe, or was it simply a HellBeast’s fight…to keep me?
Release Date: September 30, 2021
USA Today Bestselling Author Natasha Knight, brings us a new suspenseful romance...Five years. That’s how long it took me to find her. Five years after my world shattered, leaving me a scarred and broken man. By then, the girl I knew was gone. In her place stood a woman. One who looked like an angel. An impossible, beautiful angel. I killed for her. Soaked my hands in the blood of those who hurt her and rescued her from hell. But hell has a way of following you. Becoming a part of you. Maybe the only part you recognize. I had every intention of bringing her home. Setting her free. I swear I did. But the men who stole her all those years ago weren’t done with her yet. They’d stop at nothing to get her back. And I’d kill any man who tried to take her from me. She calls me her avenging angel. But I know the truth. I’m no angel. Because even as I tell myself I’m protecting her I know one thing for sure. I am a monster, too. No better than them. Because just like them, I’ll never let her go.
Release Date: September 30, 2021
Book 5 in the Ghost Cat Canyon series by USA Today Bestselling Author Delta James...I will have to use all my intelligence training to solve the murder of my father and clear my brother’s name. My brother hired Kennedy Greyson, lawyer extraordinaire and my bonded spirit, to defend the family. We have a past neither wants to admit to, much less try to fix. I move in a shadowy world that frightens and repulses her. But she knows the core of the man she’s fallen in love with is honorable and worthy. As a human, she is unaware of the existence of shifters. She must work her way through the mire of small-town jurisprudence and her own feelings to solve not only the whodunit of Cyrus’s murder but the secrets that lie at the heart of Looking Glass Falls deceptions.
Looking for a new literary fiction or historical fiction book to pick up this week? Check out these new novels by Suanne Laqueur, Jayne Allen, Colleen van Niekerk, Jeffrey Lewis, Leslie Hooton, and Michael Bailey. Enjoy your new novels!
Release Date: September 28, 2021
A new historical literary fiction novel by award-winning author, Suanne Laqueur...Suanne Laqueur's eighth novel takes readers on a journey through World War II, and the events that shape an American family’s weakest moments and finest hours. A Small Hotel illuminates the experience of ordinary people thrown into extraordinary circumstances, and their once-in-a-generation camaraderie, courage, and resiliency.
Release Date: September 28, 2021
The first novel in a captivating three-book series by Jayne Allen...Black Girls Must Die Exhausted is about modern womanhood, in which a young Black woman must rely on courage, laughter, and love—and the support of her two longtime friends—to overcome an unexpected setback that threatens the most precious thing she’s ever wanted.
Release Date: September 20, 2021
A novel written by Jeffrey Lewis as a sharp parable of American society, addressing love, purpose, discrimination, and poverty...Written as a parable of contemporary American society, Land of Cockaigne is by turns furious, funny, subversive, tragic, and horrifying. Faced with the question of what to do amid disastrous times, Walter Rath offers a clue: Love is an action, not a feeling. Once you go down this path of faith, there is much to be done.
Release Date: October 1, 2021
From a bold new voice in literary fiction comes a compelling story of three mothers whose lives intersect during a generation-defining period in South Africa’s history...An evocative debut novel set during a defining period in history, A Conspiracy of Mothers tells a gripping story of love and betrayal from multiple perspectives while deftly balancing the painful legacy of apartheid with the trials of motherhood.
Release Date: September 28, 2021
From the mind of Michael Bailey, author of Palindrome Hannah, Phoenix Rose, and various short fiction and poetry collections, Psychotropic Dragon brings all his work together...Part short novel, part novella, part novelette, with a few short stories and fables in between, Psychotropic Dragon is a mind-bending composite narrative about Julie Stipes and her experience with the street drug Drakein-5. The psychotropic eye drops blur reality, sending her through a horrific journey of self-discovery and recovery. Each act in this ensemble is further brought to life with illustrations by Daniele Serra, Glenn Chadbourne, L.A. Spooner, and Ty Scheuerman. An addictive, scary, and mind-bending experience.
Release Date: September 28, 2021
Leslie Hooton, the author of Before Anyone Else, brings her signature wit and Southern charm to the page again in this triumphant coming-of-age story...Bit believes she can escape her grandmother’s controlling grip once and for all by moving somewhere where she is the only Nina Enloe listed: New York. Yet her world is turned upside down when an unexpected loss forces her to leave her new life in the city and return to Erob, where she must face everything—and everyone—she left behind. In the process, Bit discovers her true identity, learns the hard lessons of acceptance and forgiveness, finds herself falling in love in unexpected places, and finds comfort in the secrets of rainy days.
Our picks for this week's fantasy and sci-fi books are perfect for action and suspense readers! Check out these adventurous new books by bestselling authors James Fox, Michael Alan Peck, John Hindmarsh, R.L. King, Sean Platt, David W. Wright, and Michael Robertson. Enjoy your new fantasy and sci-fi must-read books!
Release Date: September 21, 2021
Book 2 of The Sol Saga by Bestselling Author James Fox...After learning too late that he was supposed to take the fall for a political assassination and massacre, disgraced ex-general Keith Brennan finds himself given a slim chance at redemption. Retaliation is the next book in The Sol Saga trilogy, a dark and gritty sci-fi drama with relentless action and subterfuge that will leave you breathless and hungry for more!
Release Date: September 30, 2021
Book 2 of The Commons Series by, Michael Alan Peck, an author that Publishers Weekly describes as, "an author to watch..."The Margins shouldn’t be—but is, thanks to Paul Reid. He won. But he played into the hands of an evil that anticipated his heroic act. Now the universe is collapsing, and those who created the danger must neutralize it. It won’t be easy. It might not be possible. But this is where the difficult and the impossible abound. This is The Commons.
Release Date: September 30, 2021
Violent Graduation is the first book in a brand new series by Amazon Bestselling Author John Hindmarsh...It’s easy to ignore dangerous issues while you’re studying at the Royal Space Navy’s academy, until a sniper attempts to assassinate you. The scar across the side of Jack’s head is the visible price. The risk to his friends at the academy is the hidden price. His challenge is how to balance the risks. The final stage of his training is a shakedown cruise on an old minesweeper, barely able to achieve FTL entry and exit. Midway through their cruise, the minesweeper collides with an ancient alien wreck, ripping the sides off the starship. Jack’s team of bots help seal the combined wreck to prevent air loss. Ghost, a nanolife form from the alien wreck, provides assistance. Jack and his girlfriend, Sofia, are the only survivors, and air, food, and supplies are critical. The countdown of days to survive is ticking. No wonder the Royal Family are angry. And there’s still a price on Jack’s head.
Release Date: September 12, 2021
The 27th installment of the Alastair Stone Chronicles by Amazon bestselling author R.L. King...sometimes the biggest events begin with the smallest incidents. This time, it’s another of Jason’s strange cases: a missing man a tracking spell can’t trace. It isn’t long before the man turns up. Except he’s…different. And he’s not the only one. A new magical affliction is creeping through the world, permanently altering people’s auras and changing their astral forms. As Alastair Stone and his friends struggle to understand it and trace its source, he soon finds he’s got another, far more personal, issue to deal with. A powerful foe is back with a proposal for Stone—and this time, he doesn’t seem willing to take no for an answer. The world of the Stone Chronicles is about to change irrevocably. You don’t want to miss this one.
Release Date: September 14, 2021
The second book in Sean Platt and David W. Wright's tense new post-apocalyptic serialized thriller...The Ruins are growing, threatening the Slums with total devastation — if Slum Lord can’t find a way to stop the alien magic, he won’t have to worry about the impending revolution because there will be no one alive to revolt. While Slum Lord fights for the right to protect his city, Elijah Freeman is captured and thrown into General McTaggart’s mountain prison. Elijah must stop McTaggart from raising an Alt army, but how can he do it from this cell? Luckily for both of them, Boricio continues to battle the Darkness inside him as he travels into the heart of enemy territory, seeking an artifact that could help them destroy the Ancients: the Seed. Boricio finds more than he expected — but will it be enough to prevent a mass extinction?
Release Date: September 19, 2021
Divided is the 11th book in the thrilling post-apocalyptic Beyond These Walls saga by Amazon Bestselling Author Michael Robertson...They risked everything crossing the wall in search of a better life. Given a choice now, every one of them would go back. But they don’t have a choice. They’re a group divided. They crossed as a team, if they decide to go home again, it will be as a team. The only chance they have of reuniting their group is to venture deeper into this hostile new world. A world that might be the undoing of them all. But it's also a world that could provide answers to questions they’ve asked their entire lives. What’s south of the wall? Why has the diseased population never died out? What started the plague in the first place? To earn the right to ask their questions, first they must learn the rules for this new environment. Fail and they’ll die.
What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Mind Over Magic? I’ve always loved house hunting and exploring quirky old houses. Even as a kid, I got super excited whenever the family moved and we had to find a new place. I wanted to explore every house with my parents and find all the nooks and crannies (if only secret doors and hidden passageways had been more common). I also loved the idea of inheriting an old house… Sadly, that’s never happened to me. But that doesn’t mean I can’t let it happen to my characters and live vicariously through them. For Morgen Keller, inheriting her grandmother’s old farmhouse is how the story starts. To Morgen’s surprise, it’s full of witch paraphernalia. It turns out Grandma was a witch and had a werewolf for a roommate. What can I say? These things happen. If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of Mind Over Magic, what would they be? My werewolf is a dour, grouchy grump who’s lost his family and a lot of pack mates, so I’ll give him the nicely depressing Cold Missouri Waters by Cry Cry Cry. Morgen falls for songs with animals in them (in the divorce, she let her husband have the house so that she could keep her best dog bud Lucky), so she’ll go for a song about dog romance. Blake Shelton’s Ol’ Red. (There might be people and something about a prison break in that song too, but she mostly remembers the dog romance.) If you had to write a blurb for the last book you read, what would it say? Uhm, the last book I read was Dividends Don’t Lie by Geraldine Weiss. It’s on investing, and I don’t think I can write a blurb that makes that subject sound super exciting. Or even vaguely exciting. It is by a super successful female investor, so that’s pretty cool. She originally tried to get a job as a stockbroker or analyst but was turned away because obviously women couldn’t be successful in that field. She eventually started an investing newsletter, signed the letters as G. Weiss, and became well known because her subscribers followed her advice and did well in the markets. It was fifteen years before she appeared in a television interview, and her subscribers learned she was a woman. Surprise! (It was easier to keep secrets like that in the 60s and 70s.) What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write? I like a lot of sub-genres of fantasy and science fiction. Sci-fi romance may be my favorite to read, especially the space opera kind of stuff like Star Wars and Firefly. I’ve written some sci-fi romance under a pen name, but they’re a little naughtier than my LB stuff, haha. Do you have any quirky writing habits? Where did you write Mind Over Magic? My Herman Miller Aeron chair is one of the more expensive pieces of furniture in my house, and I invested in it because it’s good for ergonomics. But… I tend to slump off to the side and sit in it with my leg draped over the armrest. So, uh, ergonomics fail. I also write from bed, often with a dog draped over my lap (occasionally my laptop). Another ergonomics fail. But hey, that’s where most of Mind Over Magic happened. What's the best advice you've ever received? As all good career advice does, mine comes from a song: “Yo, I don't rap so millions of people will like me; - Just Being Me by NF
I rap 'cause there's millions of people just like me.” 
Lindsay Buroker is the author of the new book Mind Over Magic (A Witch in Wolf Wood Book 1) Connect with Lindsay Buroker
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