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 Gina Lynn Murray, Mel Brooks, Hannah Brown, and many more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
The month of November was a great time for readers with a host of exciting releases from bestselling authors. There were so many page-turning novels that captivated us from cover to cover this month. If you want to catch up on the books everyone was talking about, here are our choices for the buzziest books of November. Happy reading!
Release Date: November 4, 2021
One week with one little girl—an angel, according to my staffing agency. Acting as the short-term nanny for a single dad should have been an easy way to make some extra cash. Until I show up for my first day and face off with a demon disguised as a seven-year-old girl wearing a red tutu and matching glitter slippers. Oh, and her father? My temporary boss? Maddox Holiday. The same Maddox Holiday I crushed on in high school. The same Maddox Holiday who didn’t even know I existed. And the same Maddox Holiday who hasn’t set foot in Montana for years because he’s been too busy running his billionaire empire.
Release Date: November 16, 2021
When the enemy strikes on the eve of her wedding, Wren has no choice but to fight. Captured, she's dragged before the elvish king and given two choices. Death or marriage. She submits, biding her time as she plots and spies, determined to strike at the heart of the elvish royalty and take back her family's throne once more. But the more time she spends with her dangerous and achingly handsome husband, she finds herself wavering. Only the strong survive the hash moors of the Dragon Isles, and she can't afford to question her loyalties, leaving only one final choice. Strike hard and fast. Never waver. It's his heart or hers.
Release Date: November 22, 2021
A retired detective. A thirty-year-old cold case. A kidnapper with nothing to lose. When a middle-aged man returns to a small town claiming to be a teenager abducted by a cult thirty years prior, a former detective steps out of retirement to uncover the truth. But picking at old wounds tends to make them bleed.
Release Date: December 1, 2021
From award-winning author Rachel Lacey comes a playful romance about a Manhattan bookstore owner and a reclusive author who love to hate—and hate to love—each other. “Lacey rounds out the romance with a lively cast of friends and family, and a wintry backdrop. A quick story perfect for a cozy night in.” —Publishers Weekly
Release Date: November 18, 2021
When Julie Green’s ailing grandmother asks her to arrange one last party at the old Inn she used to run, Julie can’t say no even though the last thing she wants is to leave the city for middle-of-nowhere Vermont. Even worse, Cozy Holly Inn is in disrepair, there’s a persnickety cat hiding in the basement and the family of grinches who own the competing inn down the street seem determined to ruin her chances of success.
Release Date: November 10, 2021
Between 2017 and 2021 the US military admitted to having undeniable evidence that UFOs (now UAVs or UAPs) are here, and defy the laws of physics. When Jason Ramsey, a popular science-fiction writer, becomes obsessed with the subject, he undertakes a relentless quest to uncover what is really going on. After recruiting Tessa Barrett, an extraordinarily talented mercenary, Jason devises a risky, desperate plan to get to the bottom of it all. But the truth is far more shocking, convoluted, and dangerous than anyone could have guessed, and he has no idea who he can trust.
What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write The Immortal?
Starting as a dream I couldn't stop thinking about, I decided to write a paragraph to get the story out of my head. That paragraph kept going and turned into 46,000 words in six weeks.
If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of The Immortal, what would they be?
Ivar enjoys The Beatles. I recommend listening to "In My Life" when reading Home Is Where the Heart Is.
What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?
Urban fantasy, and I enjoy a good giggle now and again.
What books are on your TBR pile right now?
Dark Family Secrets by Hoyt Hallford on Kindle Vella.
What scene in your book was your favorite to write?
The ending was very satisfying. I also very much enjoyed writing the fight scene on The Bryony.
Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)
Drinking a glass of water before I start. I feel like my brain does better when it's not a limp wilted plant. And I imagine Neil Gaiman's voice in my head saying, "There are no rules."
Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?
Daily disciplines add up. I'm almost 40 and I finally understand the story about the tortoise and the hare. Talent won't get you to the finish line, discipline will.
If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?
You are the hero in your story. You have arrived.
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In the mood for a new biography or memeoir? Check out these instant bestsellers by Meg Nocero, Fiona Costello, Mel Brooks, Rachel Gotto, Helen Naylor, and Nechama Birnbaum. Enjoy your new non-fiction picks!
Release Date: September 7, 2021
Butterfly Awakens depicts the story of the extraordinary transformation of a forty-something Italian American attorney as she moves through unimaginable grief and sadness watching her beloved mother lose her battle to breast cancer. This tumultuous life experience shifts her world, causing her to question her life choices and opening her up to her soul’s calling.
Release Date: October 3, 2021
In 2015, Fiona had worked for over a decade as a caseworker with young offenders, until one case triggered her childhood trauma. From that point on Fiona’s life changed. Day to day life became a constant struggle of trying to survive her past traumas. Her nights became sleepless as she was consistently jolted awake by night terrors. Her greatest challenge was accepting that she had a mental illness.
Release Date: November 30, 2021
All About Me! charts Mel Brooks’s meteoric rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to the recipient of the National Medal of Arts. Whether serving in the United States Army in World War II, or during his burgeoning career as a teenage comedian in the Catskills, Mel was always mining his experiences for material, always looking for the perfect joke. Filled with tales of struggle, achievement, and camaraderie (and dozens of photographs), readers will gain a more personal and deeper understanding of the incredible body of work behind one of the most accomplished and beloved entertainers in history.
Release Date: December 1, 2021
When her six-year-old daughter found her collapsed on the kitchen floor, Rachel had no idea how much her life was about to change. A brain scan revealed a dark shadowy mass, a huge abnormal growth of tissue that, whilst benign, was still growing and would surely kill her. It was too big to operate on. It needed to be ‘managed’, and Rachel had, at best, two years to live. Refusing to accept the bleak prognosis, Rachel was determined to stay alive.
Release Date: November 25, 2021
"There was a time when I loved my mother. It’s shocking to imply that I stopped loving her because mothers always love their children and always do their best for them. Mothers are supposed to be good. But my mother wasn’t good." Ten years ago, Helen Naylor discovered her mother, Elinor, had been faking debilitating illnesses for thirty years. After Elinor’s self-induced death, Helen found her diaries, which Elinor wrote daily for over fifty years. The diaries reveal not only the inner workings of Elinor’s twisted mind and self-delusion, but also shocking revelations about Helen’s childhood.
Release Date: November 28, 2021
Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz.
What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write The Not-So-Chosen One?
It was originally inspired by a dream, and it's a spoof of the hero's journey. In the dream, there was a fantasy world that had evolved with magic, and had become dependent on magical factories. The Dark Lord escapes, and he's gotten wiser. The first thing he does is pick out all the would-be Chosen Ones who would defeat him, and he destroys them. Gordy Simpleton decides to become the "pretend" Chosen One and trick the Dark Lord.
If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of The Not-So-Chosen One, what would they be?
Thunderstrike by AC/DC
What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?
I love fantasy! And yes—I love to write it also.
What books are on your TBR pile right now?
Mark of the Thief by Jennifer Nielsen, Enamored by Jody Hedlund, Fated Blades by Ilona Andrews
What scene in your book was your favorite to write?
I loved writing about the lazy dragons living in zoos. In the world I created, the dragons have all been tamed and live peacefully, so it was fun to write a dragon character who craves cheeseburgers.
Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)
No, I have five kids, and I've learned to write whenever and wherever I can—even if it happens to be in the hospital waiting room!
Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?
"Comparison is the thief of joy." —Theodore Roosevelt. I find this especially applicable for writers, or artists of any kind, as comparison can be a pitfall and lessen the joys of our accomplishments.
If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?
Even ordinary people can become great.
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What's the story behind the story? What inspired you to write King of Hearts?
It's the second edition in the Rake Forge University Series, so writing these characters in book one is what really inspired me. I had laid quite a few breadcrumbs that I didn't even expect to pick up on then develop into something entirely different by book two.
If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of King of Hearts, what would they be?
Save My Love by Lonr. and Amber Mark
What's your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?
Fantasy with a heavy romantic subplot
What books are on your TBR pile right now?
We're Made of Moments by Molly Mclain, The Book Boyfriend by Carina Rose, Room Hate by Penelope Bloom, Zodiac Academy, and several more.
What scene in your book was your favorite to write?
Chapter Sixteen. Easily my favorite—it's the largest climax in the story, and most jaw-dropping. I had so much fun writing it, that even now after it's finished, I'll go back and reread it.
Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)
No, I have four kids which makes it difficult to really find the time to write. If I get the time, I just get it done no matter what's around me, or where I'm at. I do usually need music of some kind, but that always depends on my mood.
Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?
Be kind to everyone, especially people just starting out in this industry. It costs nothing and usually gives you a massive return.
If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?
My name....haha, I mean that's a weird thing to say but I'm serious. I would hope that my name stood out to readers and made them want to one-click me in the future.
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Have you been searching for some exciting new sci-fi and fantasy reads? You’ll be able to explore fantastic new worlds with these amazing new releases from bestselling authors Tamara Grantham, E. G. Creel, Nancy Golden, Honey Phillips and Bex McLynn, JF Brink, and Eva Chase. Happy reading!
Release Date: November 9, 2021
In the kingdom of Alderfell, Gordy Simpleton is a normal thirteen-year-old kid. But what Gordy really wants is to be a hero. With the help of his cousin and a mysterious girl named Luria, Gordy struggles to become the best pretend Chosen One the world has ever seen. If only he could convince the Wraith king and not doom the world in the process.
Release Date: October 28, 2021
Emma just turned forty and has finally decided to begin living her best life. She books a vacation at a resort on a French Polynesian island only to find herself on the dinner menu of an immortal Viking. If she keeps her wits, and with a little luck, maybe she'll make it off the island alive.
Release Date: November 30, 2021
Nuclear scientist Tom, his brave, spunky 12-year-old daughter Stephanie, and kick-a** NASA mission commander Theresa join forces during a First Contact. Tom finds himself risking his career, custody of his daughter, and possibly his life, to save his new alien friend while attempting to prevent the annihilation of Earth. Stealing a spaceship is not out of the question...
Release Date: November 21, 2021
Can a lonely alien warrior find the family he’s always wanted? When tragedy shatters Claire’s world, she abandons her corporate job and retreats to a remote mountain town. Just when she finally begins to rebuild her life, she is abducted by alien slavers. Since leaving his dying planet of Ciresia, Arcosta has led a lonely, nomadic life. Even though he has no hope of a family, he still dreams of a place to call his own. But with a mad scientist and an angry slaver on his tail, will his sacrifice be enough? And is his new dream - a home with Claire and the children - even further out of reach?
Release Date: November 30, 2021
About the Series: Jump into a story that merges LitRPG elements with eastern cultivation. Class systems, skill systems, endless choices for progression, it has everything fans of the genre love. Explore a vast universe full of mystery, adventure, danger and even aliens; where even a random passer-by might hold the power of a god. Follow Zac as he struggles to stake out a unique path to power as a mortal in a world full of cultivators.
Release Date: November 17, 2021
The Stalking Dead is the first in a darkly humorous new paranormal romance series by bestselling author Eva Chase. If you love sarcastic heroines with unexpected powers, obsessive supernatural men who'll do anything to defend their woman, and plenty of mystery and mayhem, dive right in!
Looking to add to your literary fiction list this November? Check out these new novels by indie bestselling authors Gary E. Smith, Benjamin Laskin, Jodi Picoult, Weina Dai Randel, Claire Keegan, and Kimi Cunningham Grant. Enjoy your new literary fiction book recommendations!
Release Date: November 4, 2021
This is a book of short stories of everyday human emotional experiences. Stories of profound loss. Stories of great friendships. Stories of growing old with a dog, of going to war, and of course, stories of deep romantic love. I hope the stories encourage the reader to do some introspection on what it means to be human. I believe the poems, like all art, will mean more to some than to others.
Release Date: November 6, 2021
Facing financial ruin and the breakup of their team, the three hapless and lovelorn gardeners of JC’s Lawncare bet everything on one last yard. A new client in a ritzy neighborhood has offered the crew of misfits the chance to score dozens of new customers. Their fortune, however, depends upon succeeding where the efforts of every previous lawncare service had failed.
Release Date: November 30, 2021
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes “a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu Rising). In the Galápagos Islands, where Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was formed, Diana finds herself examining her relationships, her choices, and herself—and wondering if when she goes home, she too will have evolved into someone completely different.
Release Date: December 1, 2021
In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and the freedom of music… As the war escalates, Aiyi and Ernest find themselves torn apart, and their choices between love and survival grow more desperate. In the face of overwhelming odds, a chain of events is set in motion that will change both their lives forever. From the electrifying jazz clubs to the impoverished streets of a city under siege, The Last Rose of Shanghai is a timeless, sweeping story of love and redemption.
Release Date: November 30, 2021
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.
Release Date: November 16, 2021
A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in Kimi Cunningham Grant’s These Silent Woods, a mesmerizing novel of suspense. Vividly atmospheric and masterfully tense, These Silent Woods is a poignant story of survival, sacrifice, and how far a father will go when faced with losing it all.
In the mood for a new romance read this week? Check out our favorite new romance paranormal and romantic suspense books from bestselling authors Ashley Munoz, Mary E. Twomey, Riley Edwards, Ruby Dixon, Scarlett St. Clair, and Sarah Echavarre. Enjoy your new romances!
Release Date: November 5, 2021
Failing out of college wasn’t on my dream board. Neither was getting knocked up. Just the same, here I am, ready to start another year at Rake Forge University. And it looks like I’m not the only one who’s returned. Juan Hernandez, my sister’s best friend, saunters through campus, his whisky eyes searing everyone to ash.
Release Date: September 2, 2021
When Colette returns to her hometown after a decade away, she knows her life will never be the same. With the war between the two families finally cooling, Colette returns to Mayfield determined to improve relations in the divided city. Opening up a business that serves both humans and vampires isn’t going to win her any friends, but she didn’t expect enemies to pop up so quickly.
Release Date: November 30, 2021
Former Navy SEAL sniper Matthew Kessler thought his life was charmed. He was wrong. He thought his father had amassed the family’s wealth through hard work. He was wrong again. He thought the battlefield had taught him everything he needed to know about strength and courage. He was absolutely wrong. In the blink of an eye, everything he thought he knew about his family became a lie.
Release Date: November 30, 2021
When I find a gorgeous stranger in an alley, covered in blood, you'd think the logical thing would be to go to the authorities. Not me. I take him home. I've got my reasons, though. See, Kassam is cursed with hedonism. He's a god from another world, accidentally stuck in ours. Now, I just need to figure out a way to protect my heart from Kassam himself.
Release Date: November 30, 2021
Their union is his revenge. Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day to be her death day. To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, and kill him. But her assassination attempt is thwarted, and Adrian threatens that if Isolde tries to kill him again, he will raise her as the undead.
Release Date: December 1, 2021
What if you woke up one day and the loved one you’d lost was suddenly, inexplicably alive again? Chloe Howard’s devotion to her job has come at a cost: spending time with the most important person in her life—her mother. Vowing to change, she plans a trip home. Sadly, hours before she arrives, her mother passes away, leaving Chloe without a goodbye and riddled with grief and regret. But maybe…maybe it’s not too late.
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 Kathleen Bailey, John Righten, Patricia Cornwell, Jeffery Deaver, Elle Gray, and David Archer and Blake Banner. Enjoy your new mystery, thriller, and suspense books!
Release Date: November 30, 2021
Castle meets Clue in this fun, fast-paced, fresh take on the cozy mystery. Olivia’s syndicated advice column is about solving problems … not murders. But when she returns to her hometown of Apple Station in Virginia to visit her dad, she has five days to expose a killer or fall prey as the next victim.
Release Date: November 26, 2021
1992. Burnt out after leading aid convoys to Romania and Bosnia during the war, a young Irish teacher, Lenka Brett, accepts a call for help and departs for South America on her most challenging aid mission yet. Despite a weak heart, Lenka is resilient and resourceful – she needs to be, as her priceless cargo of medical supplies becomes the target of black marketeers.
Release Date: November 30, 2021
In this relaunch of the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts those responsible for two wildly divergent and chilling murders.
Release Date: November 30, 2021
The "master of ticking-bomb suspense" (People) Jeffery Deaver delivers the latest thriller featuring his beloved protagonists Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs as they search for a criminal whose fascination with breaking locks terrorizes New York City.
Release Date: November 25, 2021
FBI agent Olivia Knight has seen her fair share of shocking and gruesome cases. So much so that she trained herself to expect the unexpected. But when she is called onto a case in a sleepy small-town of Beacon Hill. A case involving a brutal stabbing with the words… “Death is inescapable. I am your penance.”, written in blood. Olivia finds herself sleepless and unable to shake off the chilling words of a bloodthirsty killer. After a second victim is found. The case takes another bizarre turn.
Release Date: November 15, 2021
Why was Dr. Robert Magnusson murdered? More to the point, why was he murdered five hundred miles from anywhere, in the frozen wilderness of Greenland? And then there is the question of what he was doing seventy miles north of the UCLA base camp, where he should have been - and what were the instruments he had secretly set up and housed in the shack out there?
