Need some new mystery and thriller book recommendations for your fall reading list? We’ve got you covered with this list of some amazing new releases. Check out the latest from authors Dale Mayer, William Bernhardt, Diane Capri, Janet Evanovich, Karen White, Jenn McKinlay, and Wanda M. Morris. We hope you enjoy your new books!
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New Romance Books to Read | November 2
Looking to fall in love with some new romance reads? You’ll adore these exciting new novels! This week you can get your hands on books by bestselling authors Winter Renshaw, Kimberly Readnour, Keary Taylor, and more. Enjoy your new romance books and happy reading!
New Books to Read in Literary Fiction | November 2
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 Douglas Vigliotti, M.L. Blackbird, Sara Foster, and many more. Enjoy your new literary fiction books. Happy reading!
New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books | November 2nd
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 Jefferson Nunn, K. Patrick Donoghue, Ada Palmer, and more. If Fantasy is what your library needs, you’ll be able to pick up the latest from JK Noble, Natasha Bowen, Greta Kelly, and more. Enjoy your new science fiction and fantasy books. Happy reading!
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New Young Adult Books to Read | November 2
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 Marissa Meyer, Roseanne A. Brown, Julie Murphy, and many more. Enjoy your new young adult books. Happy reading!
New Biography and Memoir Books to Read | November 2
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 Drew Barrymore, Tom Clavin, Jon Moxley, and many more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
Must-Read Mysteries | October 2021
Must-Read Mysteries | October 2021
Looking for a new mystery to get lost in? Dive into these exciting, whirlwind mysteries from Maggie March, Amy McNulty, Rita Mae, Brown, and more. Happy reading!
Dead and Deader
by Maggie March
Release Date: October 6, 2021
Lucy is a human lie detector. Her rescue dog Paco is a ghost whisperer. Together, they solve crime in this laugh-out-loud cozy mystery series! test
Don't Judge a Book by Its Hover
by Amy McNulty
Release Date: September 28, 2021
Witchy Expo Services: we host your convention, expo, or trade show—with a dash of magic! Nimue’s grand plans clash with her co-manager’s persnickety demands, but their arguments cease to matter when a celebrated author drops dead in the convention center lobby. It’s a race to catch the killer before they strike again!
Claws for Alarm
by Rita Mae Brown
Release Date: October 12, 2021
Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen gets a little help from her veterinarian husband to solve the murder of a young equine vet whose death may be linked to his new clinic in Claws for Alarm, a tantalizing mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown.
Happy Howl-o-ween Horror
by Addison Moore & Bellamy Bloom
Release Date: October 7, 2021
My name is Bizzy Baker, and I can read minds—not every mind, not every time but most of the time and believe me when I say it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. A laugh-out-loud cozy mystery by New York Times Bestseller Addison Moore and her partner in cozy crime, USA TODAY Bestseller Bellamy Bloom.
The Haunting of the Aberdeen Estates
by Mason Dean
Release Date: October 4, 2021
Harold and Chloe Reynolds have always dreamed of starting a family. After a tumultuous period of failure, the couple is thrilled when a pregnancy finally takes hold. But their dream of a child of their own is cut short when fatal complications arise during Chloe’s pregnancy. Heartbroken at the loss of their stillborn child, Chloe spirals into depression. Desperate to spare his wife pain, Harold learns one of his contractors is searching for a nanny to help raise his two young children. The new role allows Chloe to pull herself out of her despair, but the reprieve is short-lived when she learns what happened to the children’s previous nanny.
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
by Helene Tursten
Release Date: October 5, 2021
Don’t let her age fool you. Maud may be nearly ninety, but if you cross her, this elderly lady is more sinister than sweet. In these six interlocking stories, memories of unfortunate incidents from Maud’s past keep bubbling to the surface. Meanwhile, certain Problems in the present require immediate attention. Luckily, Maud is no stranger to taking matters into her own hands . . . even if it means she has to get a little blood on them in the process.
Must-Read Spooky Season Books for October 2021
Must-Read Spooky Season Books for October 2021
Grab your Halloween candy and curl up by the jack-o-lantern with a great new spooky season book!
The Madwomen's Ball
by Victoria Mas
Release Date: September 7th, 2021
The Salpetriere Asylum: Paris, 1885. Dr. Charcot holds all of Paris in thrall with his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad and cast out from society. But the truth is much more complicated—these women are often simply inconvenient, unwanted wives, those who have lost something precious, wayward daughters, or girls born from adulterous relationships. For Parisian society, the highlight of the year is the Lenten ball—the Madwomen’s Ball—when the great and good come to gawk at the patients of the Salpetriere dressed up in their finery for one night only. For the women themselves, it is a rare moment of hope.
State of Terror
by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
Release Date: October 12th, 2021
State of Terror is a unique and utterly compelling international thriller cowritten by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the 67th secretary of state, and Louise Penny, a multiple award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling novelist.
Better Off Dead
by Lee Child
Release Date: October 26th, 2021
Jack Reacher is back in a brand-new page-turning thriller from acclaimed #1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.
Digging graves had not been part of my plans when I woke up that morning. Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel. Dead? No, nothing is what it seems.
Along Came a Spider
by Blake Banner
Release Date: October 25th, 2021
It should have been an open and shut case. At forty-something, Bob Walklet was about to make a fortune with his IT company. But he’d made the mistake of falling in love with his assistant, twenty-something Sorka Williams. They were crazy about each other, and Bob had told his wife, Sheila - a thirty-something, ex-cop insurance consultant
Bound By Deception
by Brenda K. Davies
Release Date: October 29th, 2021
When he’s sent to Arizona to recruit more help for the Alliance, Logan doesn’t expect to find himself in the middle of a murder scene… or to become the number one suspect.
A Billion Reasons
by Jessa York
Release Date: October 9th, 2021
When my oldest rival makes a power play that endangers the love of my life—I know he must be stopped at all costs. First I need to put back the pieces of everything he broke. Including me. After that? He’s fair game. But my sworn enemy isn’t the only thing that shows up to test my resolve. That arrives in the form of a curvy, blonde temptress on my doorstep. She’s got enough curves to stop any man dead in his tracks.
Dead Reckoning
by Gwyn McNamee
Release Date: October 24th, 2021
A reckoning is coming. Who will survive it? They call me Reaper. Killing is what I do best. Get in. Get out. Leave nothing but bodies behind. So, it should be a simple favor for an old friend. Kill the man responsible for an innocent woman being dragged into a human trafficking ring.
The Book of Magic
by Alice Hoffman
Release Date: October 12th, 2021
Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger—the curse is already at work.
As the Wicked Watch
by Tamron Hall
Release Date: October 26th, 2021
The first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award-winning TV Host and Journalist Tamron Hall, As The Wicked Watch follows a reporter as she unravels the disturbing mystery around the deaths of two young Black women, the work of a serial killer terrorizing Chicago.
A Shadow in the Ember
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Release Date: October 19th, 2021
Born shrouded in the veil of the Primals, a Maiden as the Fates promised, Seraphena Mierel’s future has never been hers. Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort. However, Sera’s real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania—she’s not the well protected Maiden but an assassin with one mission—one target. Make the Primal of Death fall in love, become his weakness, and then…end him. If she fails, she dooms her kingdom to a slow demise at the hands of the Rot.
The Cornish Princess
by Tanya Anne Crosby
Release Date: October 26th, 2021
Said to be a changeling child left to the King and Queen of Cornwall, Gwendolyn is “blessed” at her cradle by three Fae gifts: a prophecy for her future, a gift of “Reflection,” and a golden mane—quite literally, every lock of her hair will turn to gold, only provided it is cut by her one true love.
Rook
by Adam Kovic
Release Date: October 28th, 2021
The year is 2090. Earth is a dystopian nightmare filled with lonely people seeking connection in virtual worlds while corporate conglomerates profit from war and secretly run every country's government. So, nothing's changed.
Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
by Cassandra Peterson
Release Date: September 21st, 2021
The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells, told by the bombshell herself.
The Shattering
by Kevin Boyle
Release Date: October 26th, 2021
On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights and antiwar movements. Assassinations, social violence, and the blowback of a “silent majority” shredded the American fabric.
What Really Happened in Wuhan
by Sharri Markson
Release Date: October 1st, 2021
Part-thriller, part-expose, What Really Happened in Wuhan is a ground-breaking investigation from leading journalist Sharri Markson into the origins of Covid-19, the cover-ups, the conspiracies and the classified research. It features never-before-seen primary documents exposing China's concealment of the virus, fresh interviews with whistleblower doctors in Wuhan and crucial eyewitness accounts that dismantle what we thought we knew about when the outbreak hit.
ReDawn: Skyward Flight
by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson
Release Date: October 26th, 2021
From #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the second of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Read Alanik's story between Starsight and Cytonic
Within These Wicked Walls
by Lauren Blackwood
Release Date: October 19th, 2021
Andromeda is a debtera—an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her mentor hadn’t thrown her out before she could earn her license. Now her only hope of steady work is to find a Patron—a rich, well-connected individual who will vouch for her abilities.
New Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read | October 2021
New Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read | October 2021
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 Kevin Partner, C.M. Carney, RG Long, Alix E. Harrow, Emmie Mears, and Marjorie B. Kellogg. Happy reading!
Extinction Pulse (Nightfall Book 1)
by Kevin Partner
Release Date: October 19, 2021
Detective Elijah Wade is on the trail of a serial killer when the skies above Los Angeles erupted into the most spectacular light show humanity has ever seen. Can astronomer Hannah Redman survive long enough to discover what’s caused the catastrophe and whether it will happen again? Each of these unique viewpoints has a part to play as the series unfolds...
Blighted (The Quintessence: Crucible Book 2)
by C.M. Carney
Release Date: September 25, 2021
Aryc Tal Venn was supposed to be the savior of the universe. But a fateful decision left him blighted, unable to cultivate the primal Aether into the life-empowering energy of the Quintessence. With nothing but hope, Aryc undertakes a desperate quest to reverse his blighting...
Blade of the Faithful (Origins of Gilia Book 1)
by RG Long
Release Date: October 26, 2021
Kyne is left for dead on an island reeling with pirate attacks and a mysterious sickness. Though his wounds may heal, his fate is unsure. Accompanied by a wild but confident healer, the pair set off to recover the one thing that may rid the land of plague. Will Kyne seek out his own good and leave the island behind, or will he aid those in desperate need?
A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables)
by Alix E. Harrow
Release Date: October 5, 2021
USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined.
Look to the Sun
by Emmie Mears
Release Date: October 28, 2021
Rose Abernethy and Beo Mataya are two strangers drawn together by one thing alone: Red Sunrise, a book no-one else seems to have read. A book only two types of people ever ask about— collectors...and the NPV. A book both Rose and Beo feel was written just for them. As winter falls in Sanmarian's cobbled streets and the fifteen years of calm seethe into violent protests in the city square, Red Sunrise's secrets pull Rose and Beo into the twisted mysteries of Sanmarian's past and into the centre of a forgotten tragedy that inked itself into the city's very blood.
Glimmer
by Marjorie B. Kellogg
Release Date: October 19, 2021
This new cli-fi epic chronicles a future NYC wracked by climate change and follows the individuals who must make the most of what remains to survive. Sheltering among them, a young girl named Glimmer struggles to regain a past lost to trauma. As her memory returns, she finds she must choose who and how to be, and who and what to believe in, even if it means giving up a love she has only recently found herself able to embrace.
Biography Books To Read | October 2021
Biography Books To Read | October 2021
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 Richard P. Allison, Dave Grohl, Bret Baier, and many more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
Healers or Dealers?
by Richard P. Allison
Release Date: October 26, 2021
Readers get a front-row seat to the jaw-dropping true accounts written by the retired investigator who experienced them and attempted to hold these doctors accountable. His stories show a direct correlation between doctors’ questionable conduct with illegal administrating, dispensing, and prescribing of opioids and the craze that plagues our nation today. Couple this with the addictions that unwaveringly rival those we see in the worst of America’s inner cities...
The Storyteller
by Dave Grohl
Release Date: October 5, 2021
Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child.
To Rescue the Republic
by Bret Baier & Catherine Whitney
Release Date: October 12, 2021
Deep with contemporary resonance and brimming with fresh detail that takes readers from the battlefields of the Civil War to the corridors of power where men decided the fate of the nation in back rooms, To Rescue the Republic reveals Grant, for all his complexity, to be among the first rank of American heroes.
E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes
by James Patterson & Matt Eversmann
Release Date: October 11, 2021
Around the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. You have never heard their true stories. Not like this. From big-city and small-town hospitals. From behind the scenes. From the heart. This book will make you laugh, make you cry, make you understand. When we’re at our worst, E.R. nurses are at their best.
Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
by Laurence Leamer
Release Date: October 12, 2021
New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers—the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his "swans."
Unprotected: A Memoir
by Billy Porter
Release Date: October 19, 2021
From the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, a powerful and revealing autobiography about race, sexuality, art, and healing...Billy Porter’s Unprotected is the life story of a singular artist and survivor in his own words. It is the story of a boy whose talent and courage opened doors for him, but only a crack. It is the story of a teenager discovering himself, learning his voice and his craft amidst deep trauma. And it is the story of a young man whose unbreakable determination led him through countless hard times to where he is now; a proud icon who refuses to back down or hide. Porter is a multitalented, multifaceted treasure at the top of his game, and Unprotected is a resonant, inspirational story of trauma and healing, shot through with his singular voice.





















































































