Are you searching for some new books to read in literary fiction? This week’s new releases list is full of intriguing new reads you won’t want to miss! The new releases list includes so many bestselling authors like Claire Fullerton, Danielle Steel, C.W. Gortner, and many more. Enjoy your new literary fiction books. Happy reading!
Are you ready to journey to new worlds and embark on exciting adventures? This week’s selection of new science fiction and fantasy books will surely please! Fantasy fans should be excited about the latest from bestselling authors Dom Cutrupi, Helen Harper, D.G. Swank, and more. If Science Fiction is what your library needs, you’ll be able to pick up the latest from David Sakmyster, Adam Christopher, and more. Enjoy your new science fiction and fantasy books. Happy reading!
Can’t get enough young adult fiction? This week you are in luck! With all of these new novels, you’re bound to find a new favorite read for your library. This week includes new novels from bestselling authors PC Cast, Kierston White, Nadine Brandes, Carrie Fountain, and many more. Enjoy your new young adult books. Happy reading!
On the lookout for some new biography and memoir books to add to your library? There are so many new releases this week that you’re bound to find a new favorite. You can pick up new novels from Glynnis MacNicol, Brian Abrams, Saul Austerlitz, and more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
Catherine Ryan Hyde is the New York Times Bestselling Author of popular literary fiction novels including Say Goodbye for Now, Allie and Bea, and The Wake Up. If you need a new enthralling read, check out these books to read if you like Catherine Ryan Hyde!
Release Date: June 29, 2018
The heart has a home when it has an ally... Mille Crossan knows this simple truth because her brother Finley grew up beside her. Eighteen months her senior, Finley becomes Millie's guide when their mother leaves their father and moves the children from Minnesota to Memphis. This is a new world to Millie and Finley. It is vastly different to anything they've ever known. Here they are outsiders and only have each other.
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Mackenzie Cooper took her eyes off the road for just a moment. The resulting crash robbed her not only of her daughter, but ultimately her marriage, family, and friends. She now lives in Vermont under the name Maggie Reid. She's thankful for her new friends, though she can't risk telling them too much.
Release Date: June 19, 2018
The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah is a new novel about a woman returning to her family's ancestral vineyard in Burgundy. There she uncovers a lost diary, an unknown relative, and a family secret that has been kept since World War II.
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Willa Drake can count the defining moments of her life on one hand. In 1967, she had to cope with her mother's disappearance. In 1977, she was a widow trying to piece her life together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother but does not know if that will ever happen.
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Laura and Casey floated on their backs in the lake, dreaming about the future. They often teamed up for wild scavenger hunts in their small California lakeside town. Then one night, a shocking betrayal sent Laura running through the pines and into a new life. Leaving Casey and a first love in her wake.
Release Date: June 19, 2018
In 1985, Yale Tishman is about to pull off an amazing coup for her art gallery by bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. As his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and the virus circles closer to Yale himself.
Mary Burton is the New York Times Bestselling Author of thriller and suspense novels. Some of her popular recent releases include Her Last Word, Dying Scream, and The Seventh Victim. If you're looking for a new read that will have you on the edge of your seat, check out these new release books to read if you like Mary Burton!
Release Date: June 30,2018
On one day in Cocoa Beach, Florida, ten girls go missing. Ten little girls from the same elementary school. Ten abductions that have held the entire town captive... then the letters start to arrive. Letters with lines from the nursery rhyme Ten Little Indians, directing the parents to their daughters. But will they make it in time?
Release Date: June 26, 2018
When a young woman disappears, Tracy Crosswhite has a feeling that this is no ordinary missing-persons case. Tracy's suspicions are confirmed when the body turns up in an abandoned well. Estranged from her family, the victim had balked at an arranged marriage and had planned to attend graduate school. But her dreams were cut short.
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to investigate when a historic barn burns down in the middle of the night. It seemed like an accident, but when the body of eighteen-year-old Daniel Gingerich is found burned alive inside, Kate suspects murder. Who would want a hardworking young Amish man dead?
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Meredith Price is the luckiest woman alive. She has a charming and successful husband, two lovely stepchildren, and is living in affluence in a mountain resort town. Then she disappears.
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Disgraced ex-cop Angie Pallorino is determined to make a new start as a private investigator. But first, she takes a getaway with her lover to try and rekindle their struggling relationship. The peace doesn't last long when they find skeletal remains in a nearby mossy grave.
Release Date: June 26, 2018
In death, Did Storm is finally getting the publicity that always eluded her. Twenty years ago, the ex-beauty queen worked in Vegas as a celebrity impersonator and was too busy to spare time for her daughter. Shortly before she lept to her death, her profile was rising, thanks to a tell-all book. It looks like a straightforward suicide to detective Dani Settler, but the broken body on the sidewalk is dressed in Didi's clothes and wig... but isn't Didi.
What can you tell us about your new release, Box of Frogs?
Box of Frogs is the first in a brand new trilogy set in Manchester, England. The main character is a young woman who wakes up on a golf course in the middle of the night, with a decapitated corpse next to her. She can't remember who she is or who she got there but it's long before she realizes that not only is she almost universally despised but she also possesses some strange magical powers. There's a flicker of romance, spadefuls of humor and lots of exciting adventure!
What or who inspired you to become an author?
I've always been a huge reader - I love books which offer pure escapism so fantasy has always been my main love, even though I read eclectically. When I read so much that I ran out of urban fantasy books to read, the only alternative was to write my own!
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
In no particular order ... The Many Coloured Land by Julian May, The Long Walk by Richard Bachman aka Stephen King, Daughter of the Empire by Janny Wurts and Raymond E Feist, French Relations by Fiona Walker, Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
Margaret Mitchell. What REALLY happened to Scarlett O'Hara after Gone With The Wind ended?
What's your favorite thing about writing?
That I get to make stuff up for a living!
What is a typical day like for you?
A vatful of coffee, a long doggy walk in the woods or on the beach, four hours or so of writing followed by answering emails/marketing/business, then wine and trashy television. Although I've actually recently started fostering children so it also depends on who's in the house.
What scene in Box of Frogs was your favorite to write?
Madrona, the main character, decides that her magical powers mean she's a superhero. She visits a charity shop and ends up buying a leotard, a cape and a mask. Unfortunately, the end result is more like a crazed woman than a stupendous heroine. Especially when it starts to rain...
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
Tomorrow is another day. If it didn't work out today or life isn't going as I expected, it's okay because nothing ever stays the same. I'm an optimist at heart.
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What can you tell us about your new release, Mourning Dove?
Mourning Dove is a coming-of-age, Southern family saga set in the genteel side of 1970's Memphis. Millie and Finley Crossan are eighteen months apart, and are moved by their Southern belle mother from the bucolic lake area of Minnesota to the Deep South, so they grow up in the culture as outsiders, with keen eyes to Southern nuance. It is the story of the bond of siblings who share a history but come to disparate ends in a manicured world where all that glitters is not gold.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
I believe it was the inexplicable need to keep a journal from a young age that spawned my aptitude for the written word. Eventually, if one keeps a journal, writing becomes a second nature means of self-expression, and one fine-tunes it along the way. Keeping a journal developed my knack for telling a story, as did reading.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey, One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash, and Peachtree Road by Anne Rivers Siddons.
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
Sadly, he's no longer on this earth, but I would love to interview Pat Conroy, who spent 40 years of his career turning his own personal narrative into the some of the best fiction ever written.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
The creative, insular zone I get into when writing a story, and the never ending search for the perfect word!
What is a typical day like for you?
When in the process of writing a novel, it is an all day, every day affair. I go to my desk first thing in the morning and keep at it all day, with breaks involving addressing whatever is pressing-- typically it's my two German shepherds who need attention!
What scene in Mourning Dove was your favorite to write?
There's a family scene that takes place at the family dinner table during Thanksgiving. All kinds of chaos ensues, for it is a miss-matched group in a step-family. The Colonel is new to Millie and Finley, as he has recently married their mother. Elderly, Southern characters, two family maids and two young children are involved and nobody can relate to anybody.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
Always do your best!
Claire Fullerton is the author of the new book Mourning Dove.
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What can you tell us about your new release, Rocked?
Rocked is a reverse harem novel centered around the #1 rock band, Cycle of Sin, and their tour manager, Bristol Mateo. The band vows their love to her after she finds herself falling in love with each of the five band members during their tour across the world. It’s an unconventional relationship, and you’ll have to read it to see how it all plays out.
What or who inspired you to become an author?
When I was a kid, I would make up stories in my head to help me go to sleep at night. As I grew older, I would catch myself daydreaming a lot more, but I never wrote them down. I liked keeping the stories for myself at that stage in my life.
In 2009, my husband deployed to Iraq for almost a year. My neighbor, and best friend, told me I should try to write a book while he was gone to help the time pass. At first, I laughed it off, but after I put the kids to bed that first night, I opened up a Word document, and started writing.
In four months, I’d written a book with all of my friends as characters and set it aside. I never thought I’d ever try to publish that book, and I stuck to my job as a mom and an Air Force wife. I found that I loved writing, and eventually opened another document…and another…and another. For the next five years, during his long deployments, I would write.
In 2013, he retired from the military, and I was able to pursue my dream of publishing. I released my first book in June of that year. I’ve been writing ever since.
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
1. A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
2. The Vision – Dean Koonz
3. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
4. Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
5. Dark Lover – JR Ward
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
I would love to ask JR Ward about her world in the Black Dagger Brotherhood novels. I really want to get inside her head and ask what gave her the idea.
What's your favorite thing about writing?
I love escaping into my thoughts and creating a story. It’s a total rush of adrenaline when you are in “the zone” with writing, and I seek that out every day.
What is a typical day like for you?
I start my day with coffee and social media. I enjoy interacting with fans online, and I use that as my morning routine. First and foremost, I’m a mom, and I take many breaks during the day to run errands for the family. Writing happens mid-morning to lunchtime and after dinner, but most of my writing is done late at night after the house has gone silent.
What scene in Rocked was your favorite to write?
There’s a scene on a hotel balcony…that’s all I’m going to give away.
Do you have a motto, quote or philosophy you live by?
Actually, yes, I do. I have wanderlust something fierce, and I love to travel. Sitting still bores me, and I want to see and experience so many things before my time here is through. When people ask me how I tolerate constantly being on the go, I tell them, “You only get one shot at this life. Don’t be on your deathbed and have regrets.”
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What can you tell us about your new release, Born Wild?
It’s a tale of tragedy, loss, and second chances. Wolfrik, the pack’s last living pureblooded wolf shifter, has been through hell. It appears he’ll never overcome his past and be capable of giving or receiving love. Then there’s Kallie, another damaged soul, who has to deal with the unwanted advances of one of the pack’s elders. She, too, is convinced that her physical wounds mean there’s no hope of ever claiming a mate of her own. Meanwhile, a runaway from the human world is about to shake things up in the hollow.
BAM. You're a superhero. What's your superpower?
Luck—the kind Zazie Beetz’s character Domino has in “Deadpool 2.” But I’d want to transfer it to other people. Anyone deserving, and in need, could contact me and say, “Hey, Nikki, I’m down on my luck.” And I’d reply, “No, prob, let me fix that for you!”
What's on your top 5 list for the best books you've ever read?
Five all-time favorites include: 1) A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas; 2) Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling; 3) Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin; 4) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin; and 5) Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
Say you're the host of a literary talk show. Who would be your first guest? What would you want to ask?
Sarah J. Maas. “How do you do it? Seriously, what do you eat, read, and do as part of your daily routine to be such a brilliant storyteller?”
What's your favorite thing about writing?
Getting the opportunity to make new friends, visit new places, fall in love, (be sarcastic), and save the day over and over again.
What's on your writing desk?
It’s barebones: Computer, Echo Dot, Kleenex (ultra soft), desk lamp, Passion Planner, unicorn pen, coaster, and a mug of tea.
What scene in Born Wild was your favorite to write?
I’m not going to lie, I love the sexy scenes! Writing that first heated exchange between the hero and heroine is particularly fun. In Born Wild, Wolfrik leaps on top of Kallie as she’s attempting to flee the hollow on four legs at night. She bites him. They shift. There’s nakedness. Sarcasm. And heat. It’s the beginning of their attraction, friendship, and the love to come. I love reading and writing those gateway moments.
If you’d like to read their scene, it’s included in the first three chapters preview available to download free here: http://nikkijefford.com/born-wild-preview/
Nikki Jefford is the author of the new book Born Wild.
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