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 Sherilyn Decter, L. Paul Dorsey, Danielle Steel, 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 Ryan W. Aslesen, Jason Anspach, Rick Partlow, and more. If Fantasy is what your library needs, you’ll be able to pick up the latest from Eileen Mueller, Charley Case, Kristen Painter, 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 Zoraida Cordova, Aleksandra Ross, Rocky Callen, 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 Cindy Collins, Paula May, Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, Blake Gopnik, and more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
The month of April 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 April. Happy reading!
Release Date: April 21, 2020
The sixth book in the Memory Man series by New York Times Bestselling Author David Baldacci... Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamieson have been called to London, North Dakota. They instantly sense that the thriving fracking town is ripe for trouble. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted many newcomers hoping for a windfall, and the community is growing faster than houses can be built. The sudden boom has brought a slew of problems with it... including murder.
Release Date: April 7, 2020
A recent Oprah’s Book Club Pick… Don and Mimi Galvin were seemingly living the American dream. After World War II, Don’s work with the AirForce brought them to Colorado, where they had twelve children that perfectly spanned the baby boom. Their oldest was born in 1945 and the youngest in 1965. On the surface, they followed the script for a perfect family but behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden violence, and hidden abuse. Then in the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic.
Release Date: April 21, 2020
The new novel from the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings... Ana was raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee. She is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and daring spirit. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. Everything changes when she has an encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus.
Release Date: April 14, 2020
The third and final book in The Interdependency series by New York Times Bestselling Author John Scalzi… The collapse of the interstellar pathway known as The Flow has accelerated. Entire star systems and billions of people are being cut off from the rest of human civilization. This was all foretold through scientific prediction but many still try to rationalize these final days of one of the greatest empires humanity has ever known.
Release Date: March 24, 2020
The first book in the new Sugar Mountain Series by bestselling author Kirsten Fullmer… The cozy mountain town of Sugar Mountain harbors a secret society of women. The society itself is no secret but the true nature of the group is hush-hush. When a blood-smeared package shows up at the post office and a scheme threatens postmaster, Heidi Collinsworth’s historic home, the Sugar Mountain Ladies Historical Society takes matters into their own hands. Heidi is sure that Mayor Winslow is somehow involved but proof is scarce.
Release Date: April 1, 2020
After he witnesses a tragedy that evokes childhood nightmares, Larry Cooper begins to question his heritage. Maybe he is not who he thinks he is? All families have scars and some are less visible than others… Larry’s father has been haunted by an unspoken past. As his health begins to deteriorate, his mother’s only instinct is to protect her husband and their family’s reputation. What she knows would devastate the people she loves.
Release Date: March 10, 2020
I did not know her name, but I heard her laugh, tasted her lips, and felt her skin as I held her. She was my soulmate. Together we watched our children playing in the sand, the warm ocean lapping as the shore behind them. This was our beautiful forever… But then I woke up alone in a hospital room. There was no wife, no kids, and not a single soul waiting for me. That life never existed.
Release Date: April 1, 2020
If given a choice of go big or go home, nine times out of ten the townspeople of Arnold Falls will go home and forget about the whole thing. Tempests great and small (mostly small) are always brewing in this tiny town where half the residents are fighting to preserve its red-light district heyday, half are up to no good, and another half are sleeping it off… Yes, that math is correct. Spend some time in this oddball village, where larger than life characters deal with the smallest of problems. Somehow it all comes right in the end.
Take a look at this month’s selection of bestsellers now in paperback! April had a great selection of bestselling books to check out from thrilling mysteries to enthralling literary reads, and insightful biographies. Pick up these latest paperback books by bestselling authors Le Child, Michael Connelly, Lisa Scottoline, Elizabeth Gilbert, Jennifer Weiner, Pierce Brown, and many more!
We wanted to share with you some of our favorite audiobooks we’ve been listening to in April. Our playlist includes a little something for everyone from mystery, literary fiction, memoir, fantasy, and romance. Grab your headphones and happy listening!
Thirty years ago a feral boy named Wilde was found in the woods with no memory of his past. To this day he still doesn’t know where he comes from… and another child has gone missing. No one is taking the disappearance of Naomi Pine seriously, except for television criminal attorney, Hester Crimstein. When Hester asks Wilde to use his unique skills to help find her, he can’t ignore an outcast in trouble.
The third book in The Gift Series by New York Times Bestselling Author Lauren Blakely… The rules were pretty simple. It was just one weekend. We would play our roles and I would get the info I needed for a secret work project. Then everything would go back to normal. That is what I proposed to handsome, clever, commanding Jake. That is what he said yes to. But that’s not what happened.
The second book in the Tangled Fae series by USA Today Bestselling Author Sarah K. Wilson… All Allie Hunter thought she had to do was make an exchange to buy back her father’s life. She was very wrong. Usually when a mortal is wrong about something in the Faeworld is kills them, or mires them in bargains that will suck their life out. Allie is now caught in a cage and the Fae she once tormented is her captor. Can she strike the right bargain to save everything she loves?
When Madeleine Albright left office as America’s first secretary of state in 2001, reporters asked her how she wished to be remembered. She said she did not want to be remembered. “I am here and have much more I intend to do. As difficult as it might seem, I want every stage of my life to be more exciting than the last.” This memoir reveals this remarkable figure at her bluntest, funniest, most intimate, and most serious.
The world has changed around seventy-nine-year-old Millicent Carmichael. The librarian is quick to admit she found her role as housewife and mother less than satisfying but Missy led a good life driven by two children, an accomplished husband, and a Classics degree from Cambridge. But now they are all gone and she spends her days sipping sherry, avoiding people, and rattling in her oversized, under-decorated house.
She wasn’t meant to cross my path. She was never meant to know about the Currency of Secrets or the Oaths of Blood. Then like a thief in the night, she stole my soul. I am a member of the Elite and I live by simple tenets. I must be a gentleman above all. Private matters stay private and secrets are never revealed. Enemies and friends are of the same coin.
Does your reading list need some new biography and memoir books? Stop your search because we've made a list of some of our favorite new reads. You'll love the latest books by Cindy Collins, Paula May, Joanna Walden, Robert Kolker, Val Kilmer, and James Patterson. Enjoy your new books!
Release Date: April 11, 2020
Born Under The Gaslight is the new memoir from Cindy Collins that provides an honest, poignant, and heartbreaking firsthand account of what it is like to live with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and the trauma she endured as a child that led to her descent into the dark world of BPD. This book chronicles her childhood of abuse, her diagnosis in her twenties, and her ultimate road to recovery.
Release Date: April 14, 2020
First Degree Rage is the true story of "The Assassin," an obsession, and murder... This new book follows local Sheriff's Detective Paula May and her investigation of the murder of Viktor Gunnarsson. What follows is an intense, hair raising investigation that will shock you from the bitterly cold beginning to the unthinkable end. "There was no brown in his eyes at all. They were just two black buttons. I looked in his eyes. All I saw was solid black against the whites. It wasn’t natural. It was… creepy, unnerving, demonic." - Detective Paula May
Release Date: April 2, 2020
Living through 9/11 in New York, Joanna Walden experienced a moment of clarity, one that pushed her to search for something greater than her 9-5 existence. After leaving her high-flying career on Madison Avenue, she hiked the Camino de Santiago through Spain, which was the beginning of her search for both purpose and a greater truth. “I couldn’t put it down! Walden’s story is a no holds barred honest, and often hilarious exploration of one woman’s search for her true self. She’s a kiwi Cheryl Strayed.” Ann Glamuzina, Author of Rich Man Road.
Release Date: April 7, 2020
A recent Oprah's Book Club Pick... Don and Mimi Galvin were seemingly living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the AirForce brought them to Colorado, where they had twelve children that perfectly spanned the baby boom. Their oldest was born in 1945 and the youngest in 1965. On the surface, they followed the script for a perfect family but behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden violence, and hidden abuse. Then in the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic.
Release Date: April 21, 2020
In his new autobiography, Val Kilmer shares the stories behind his most beloved roles, reminisces about his career and love life, and reveals the truth behind his recent health struggles. Taken from the famous line Kilmer delivers as Holliday in Tombstone, I'm Your Huckleberry is a deeply moving reflection on mortality and the mysteries of life.
Release Date: April 13, 2020
The House of Kennedy is a revealing and fascinating look at America's most storied family told by one of America's most trusted storytellers, New York Times Bestselling Author James Patterson. Explore the story of a family that has occupied a place in the American imagination for decades.
Looking to add some fantastic new adventures to your reading list? You won't want to miss our recommendations for new Sci-Fi and Fantasy books! Check out the latest by bestselling authors Eileen Mueller, Ryan W. Aslesen, Jeffrey L. Kohanek, Jude Austin, Shannon Mayer, and John Scalzi. Happy reading!
Release Date: April 16, 2020
A collection of the first three books in the Riders of Fire series by bestselling author Eileen Mueller... Ezaara is swept into a world she never dreamed of when she imprints with a dragon queen. Her new world is full of dragons, treachery, intrigue, and danger. As the Queen's Rider, she must lead her people as Commander Zens and his army rampage across Dragon's Realm. She must stop them from killing and enslaving innocents. But who can she trust when political intrigue puts her life in danger?
Release Date: April 1, 2020
"War's Edge puts the military back into military science fiction, in what is destined to be considered a classic along the lines of Starship Troopers, Dune, and The Forever War." In the 35th Century, mankind has colonized the vast reaches of space. Yet war remains constant as galactic governments and interstellar corporations fight for control of resource-rich planets and lucrative trade routes. In a desperate attempt to escape his current life, Mark Rizer enlists in the United States Alliance defense forces. A decision that will take him across the galaxy.
Release Date: April 7, 2020
This collection includes the first three books in the Fate of Wizardoms series by Jeffrey L. Kohanek... The boxed set includes Eye of Obscurance, Balance of Magic, and Temple of Oracle. It is a rebirth of classic epic fantasy and perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings, The Witcher, and Wheel of Time.
Release Date: March 28, 2020
The second book in the Projects series by Jude Austin... After escaping imprisonment in the laboratory of GenTech, former college student Kalin Taylor, aka Kata, just wants to go back to his homeworld of Trandella with his friend Tau. He just wants to forget what happened. Too bad life had other plans. Everyone who meets him, including his own rulers, see him as a weapon to be turned on his enemies.
Release Date: April 23, 2020
The second book in The Forty Proof Series by USA Today Bestselling Author Shannon Mayer... Moving back to Savannah changed my life. I got a new job, new friends, and I was far from my ex-husband as possible. But I didn't count on the Shadow World intensifying its hold on my life. I wasn't surprised when a new job lands in my lap watching over a fairy ring.
Release Date: April 14, 2020
The third and final book in The Interdependency series by New York Times Bestselling Author John Scalzi... The collapse of the interstellar pathway known as The Flow has accelerated. Entire star systems and billions of people are being cut off from the rest of human civilization. This was all foretold through scientific prediction but many still try to rationalize these final days of one of the greatest empires humanity has ever known.
Have you been searching for your next favorite literary fiction novel? Don't miss our list of must-read literary fiction books from bestselling authors L. Paul Dorsey, Kasie Whitener, Sherilyn Decter, Sheena Howard, Sue Monk Kidd, and Paulette Jiles. Enjoy your new books!
After he witnesses a tragedy that evokes childhood nightmares, Larry Cooper begins to question his heritage. Maybe he is not who he thinks he is? All families have scars and some are less visible than others... Larry's father has been haunted by an unspoken past. As his health begins to deteriorate, his mother's only instinct is to protect her husband and their family's reputation. What she knows would devastate the people she loves.
Tony killed himself on Monday night. Three thousand miles away. Brian Listo is going home to Virginia. He has returned to eat crow and beg for forgiveness. He wants to explain himself to anyone who will listen. Except for the one person who can no longer hear him. Tony used to always cover for Brian. He would make his most heinous sins seem like minor infractions. But without Tony's defense, he must learn to apologize.
The first book in The Rum Runner's Chronicles by bestselling author Sherilyn Decter... Florida Coast, 1932. Edith Duffy might be grieving her gangster husband's death, but she is no damsel in distress. After leaving the bootlegging world of Philadelphia, she settles in a small town outside Miami. When she launches a run-running operation for a speakeasy, indignant locals try to destroy her.
"This book promises to haunt, anger, console, and ultimately inspire anyone who opens it." -Marc Lamont Hill... Nina Chandler knows there is no such thing as perfect love. Even so, love is the one thing that is missing from her almost perfect life. She has worked hard to turn her dreams into reality, but with her twenties almost over, it feels like she slept through the party and woke up to find everyone gone.
The new novel from the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings... Ana was raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee. She is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and daring spirit. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. Everything changes when she has an encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus.
The new release from the New York Times Bestselling Author of News of the World and Enemy Women... The long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Until now, Simon Boudin has evaded military duties thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and talent for bending the truth. But after a barroom brawl, he finds himself conscripted into the Confederate Army.
