Hold on to the edge of your seat as we hunt for clues and solve the case with these exciting new mystery and thriller books for the week! There are so many bestselling authors with new novels for you to dive into this week including Liz Mistry, J.D. Robb, Jonathan Kellerman, and many more. Enjoy your new mystery, thriller, and suspense novels. Happy reading!
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 Tracey Jerald, Cassandra Austen, Mia Sosa, K. Bromberg, and more. Enjoy your new romance books and happy reading!
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 Clare Pooley, Lidia Yuknavitch, Jess Kidd, 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 John Reizer, Alastair Reynolds, Sarah Gailey, and more. If Fantasy is what your library needs, you’ll be able to pick up the latest from Pedro Urvi, D. D. Shay, Ramy Vance, Michael J. Sullivan, 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 Laura Sebastian, Libba Bray, Liz Braswell, 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 David A. Levy, Jessica Simpson, Ross Mathews, Sam Wasson, and more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
Have you made your way through your romance reading list and looking for a new favorite book to get lost in? We've rounded up some of the best new romance novels from bestselling author Kelly Jamieson, Betty Shreffler, Sophie Barnes, Emma Hart, Winter Renshaw, Rachel Van Dyken, and Kathy Ireland. Get your hands on them now!
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Arden Lennox's charmed life may be in pieces, but she refuses to move back in with her parents. She is no longer the prom-queen married to the football star. She is broke but it's time she stood on her own two feet. She finds a cheap (free) under-construction unit in a quaint Chicago brownstone. And it comes with a surprise... Tyler Ramirez, her brother's high school best friend is now a smoking hot firefighter and spending his spare time hammering, drilling, and screwing in her unit.
Release Date: January 21, 2020
The third book in A Kings MC Romance series from Betty Shreffler... I told myself that I didn't want her and I didn't need her. But that was all a lie. I craved her. But I know she is off-limits, especially right now when my enemies want to put a bullet in my back. They think they can use her to get to me but that will be their downfall. I am the president of the Kings MC and I will do whatever it takes to protect the ones I love.
Release Date: January 28, 2020
The fifth book in the bestselling Diamonds In The Rough historical romance series by Sophie Barnes... Carlton Guthrie is known as the scoundrel of St. Giles. When he sees a runaway brode in the London slums, he offers to help. But it wasn't out of the kindness of his heart, but because she is the daughter of the Earl of Hedgewick. He can use Regina to get revenge on her father. It was the perfect plan... until he starts to fall for her innocent beauty.
Release Date: January 28, 2020
My hot as hell college booty call has moved in next door along with his adorable daughter. The only time we ever got along was under the sheets. It seems nothing has changed because it only takes two minutes of him on my front porch for us to start fighting. That little fact doesn't seem to bother my eighty-year-old grandmother and roommate, who is determined to see me get married. And she has her eyes set on me and Mason Black.
Release Date: January 20, 2020
It was a misty Thursday night at a bar called Ophelia's when I saw him for the first time. After a trying day, I was there to drown my sorrows and he was there to escape the storm. We had a brief and incredibly cruel exchange, then the handsome stranger bolted. At two cocktails deep, I decided to follow him, determined to give him a piece of my mind. I ended my chase when I realized where he was going. They say not to judge someone unless you know their story but I could have never anticipated this.
Release Date: January 28, 2020
The new romance from bestselling authors Kathy Ireland and Rachel Van Dyken... Fashion Jungle follows the story of four women Brittany, Zoe, Everlee, and Danica. They are on four very different paths in one incredibly cutthroat world. In the world of the Fashion Jungle, it's eat or be eaten... but if you make it out alive, you might just have a story to tell.
Isabel Allende is a New York Times Bestselling Author of literary fiction novels. Some of her most popular recent releases include A Long Petal of the Sea, In the Midst of Winter, The House of Spirits, and The Japanese Lover. If you're looking for some new literary fiction books for your library, we think you will adore these new books to read if you like Isabel Allende!
Release Date: January 19, 2020
The fourth book in the bestselling Serve Series by Cece Whittaker... Angels in the Rough is a cozy chronicle of comic mishaps and the lighter side of post-war romance. In a small New Jersey town in 1944, Annie is set to have the life she always dreamed of. But when Sly exits and Joanie's fiancé doesn't communicate with her, the girls are immersed in a continuing mystery,
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Delaney Adams isn't hiding from her past because she doesn't have a past. Well, at least as far as anyone currently in her life knows. Her life is exactly how she wants it to be. She has a great job, a supportive group of friends, and no romantic life. Then she meets artist James McDaniels and has to fight her attraction to him, her distrust of men, and the fear of rejection if he finds out who she really is.
Release Date: February 1, 2020
From the bestselling author of The Road Beyond Ruin... England 1922. Rudy's brother Edgar went missing in war-torn France four years ago. He is still in mourning and struggles with so many unanswered questions. Rudy and his mother find it hard to move on. When the enigmatic Mariette arrives at the family's manor everything changes. She claims to be Edgar's widow and mother of his child.
Release Date: January 20, 2020
Berlin 1944. Felix Thalberg has the weight of the world on his shoulders. Under Nazi rule, his city is changing. At home things re no better. His father hasn't left the house since he was forced to wear a yellow star and his mother is getting thinner by the day. Then Felix's life changed forever when he meets a mysterious young woman in a dance hall.
Release Date: January 28, 2020
San Francisco 1953. Celina Savoia is heartbroken after the mysterious death of her husband. As a second-generation chocolatière, she makes a promise to their son to take him to Italy's Amalfi coast to introduce him to his father's family. Just as she embarks on her magical new life, she starts to suspect that her husband had a dark secret.
Release Date: January 27,2020
There is a room in Shelley's house where she shuts away a never used baby blanket. In a box, under a bed, behind a door she never opens. She leaves it there so she won't forget. Every day she acts like everything is normal. She goes to work and follows her routine to pretend like the bad stuff never happened. But one day everything changes.
What can you tell us about your new release, Razor?
It is a dark comedy with a pinch of fantasy about a man calling himself Razor who is riddled with guilt after the death of his wife. When an attempted suicide is foiled, he realises he lacks the courage to try again and comes up with a brilliant plan—he hopes to end his life by heroically rescuing vulnerable people in danger. To his annoyance, a pair of mysterious strangers befriend him and keep getting in the way and as life stumbles on, he comes to realise there was more to his wife’s death than was apparent. He can’t find out what it was unless he stays alive, and someone wants him out of the way.
Although it changed course during the writing, Razor began as a sort of anti-Jack Reacher character, a world-weary hero lacking special skills, knowledge and courage.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
I’ve always enjoyed stories and took to reading them from the moment I could make the written word make sense. When I was a child, my favourite part of the day at school was the time when we were given free rein to write our own and the impulse has always been there. Probably every book I’ve ever read has inspired me, but reading Tolkien as an adolescent had a massive impact. Having to work and getting into scuba diving took up too much of my time and I wrote little for too many years until I noticed the local college was running creative writing classes. I signed up, enjoyed it, learned a lot and decided writing was what I wanted to do.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
I’ve read so many great books that singling out a top 5 seems mean to the rest of them! In addition, some authors such as Terry Pratchett, Tom Sharpe and Dickens wrote so many that it’s difficult to pick a favourite. However, here’s this week’s top five best books: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham, The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
I’d love to talk to Neil Gaiman, who seems to have an unlimited imagination. I’d ask him about graphic novels because he appears to be a master of the form and I don’t really understand their appeal. What am I missing, Neil?
What's your favorite thing about writing?
The part where the characters dictate that the plot must move in a totally unexpected direction. For me, that’s when an abstract set of ideas starts to become a story. I also enjoy it when a draft has been re-written and edited to the point where it suddenly feels like a novel.
What is a typical day like for you?
Too many years working in an office got to me and I tend to work between 9 in the morning and 6 in the evening, though most days I also take some exercise and have a walk to ensure I am not too sedentary. At weekends, I tend not to write much, and find a break can allow new ideas to flower.
What scene in Razor was your favorite to write?
The one where Razor encounters a mentally unstable homeless man sheltering beneath a bridge. The poor man is terrified by a black-clad demon that Razor just can’t see, but Razor uses the opportunity to find a clue to a bloody murder.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
Not really, but I’ve always liked this one from Terry Pratchett: ‘They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.’
Wilkie Martin is the author of the new book Razor.
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What can you tell us about your new release, Angels in the Rough?
In Angels in the Rough, Joan, Annie, Helen, and Bernice are trying to move on with their lives as their true loves return from service in World War II. But the men are still fighting for those same things at home that they fought for abroad, in different ways. Their distraction from the women and preoccupation with life’s basics creates great frustration for Annie and Joan, who are so longing for romance. Their disappointment reaches a wild combination of distress and hilarity when an urgent need for their help changes everything. Very much on the lighter side, this fourth book in the Serve Series is about people’s connections and how comedic everyday life can be. But also it celebrates the importance of being true to oneself through the daily struggle of making the grade.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
It’s hard to know exactly what led me to writing, but it was probably the hours of listening to Mom’s funny character voices as she read us stories like Henry Huggins, Ellen Tibbets, Tom Sawyer, and Grimm’s Faery Tales. Dad had the same funny voice for each character which amused us all to no end. He liked to read unusual stories such as Slovenly Peter, the Cat Who Walked Alone, and Treasure Books, which for some reason he always referred as “Treasure Boxes.” Those experiences were kind of the lift-off point of wanting to create something good myself.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
The World of Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich
The House at Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne
The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis
Hank the Cowdog Series, John R. Erickson
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
I would probably ask the ghost of P.G. Wodehouse how he found so many unsavory situations in which to put poor Bertie Wooster, and if he had any help coming up with all of the miraculous solutions his Jeeves routinely brought about.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
Writing fiction is my gateway to making life how I want it to be. It gets me to that kind of humorous Eutopia where my characters’ focus is on following instinct, finding the right answer, listening to love, and listening to God, and give us a lot to laugh about in the process.
What is a typical day like for you?
One of these days, I’m thinking I’ll have a typical day! Generally I have a coffee, play with the dogs then go into my office or somewhere in the car to work. I love to work in public place for the multitude of ideas one gets from being “a fly on the wall.” At least once a week I meet a friend for lunch and laughter in one of our luscious diners in New Jersey.
What scene in Angels in the Rough was your favorite to write?
I don’t even have to stop and think about this answer! I was working with two of the characters, Joan and Annie, who are both a little frustrated with their romantic situations. I was remembering the way one of my sisters used to slam around the kitchen when she was mad, and we’d kid her that she was acting like our grandmother, who used to wash dishes and stack them into the dish drainer so hard that you could hear the clanking all the way through the house. Of course that kind of kidding only made my sister angrier. And that’s what happened to poor Joan as she tried to make herself a calming cup of tea. The stove wasn’t working, and in her anger she showered herself in cold water from the kettle, and then miss-stepped and actually fell down onto the kitchen floor. When Annie comes in right after that, she can’t see Joan on the floor because she’s on the far side of the table, and Annie also slips in the water, pulling both the table and the tablecloth down on top of her. Just as she lands, and discovers that she’s got company, their friend Bernice walks in and discovers them. I don’t know if that ever happened later in my sister’s life, but Joan gave me a great way to revisit those days and create a comical scene which still makes me laugh!
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
I think my philosophy which I try live by, not always successful there, is “Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven,” which is a quotation from the Bible, by the Gospel writer, Matthew. Basically, to me it means put only your best foot forward, and take the time to make the right decisions, however hard that may be.
Cece Whittaker is the author of the new book Angels in the Rough.
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