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5-STAR REVIEW: A HARLEM WEDDING by Tiffany L. Warren
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
From The Unexpected Diva author Tiffany L. Warren—a dishy and dramatic novel of the Harlem Renaissance and its most famous Black debutante, Yolande Du Bois, daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois, whose spectacular wedding to poet Countee Cullen...
5-STAR REVIEW: THE FOURSOME by Christina Baker Kline REVIEWER’S CHOICE! 🏆
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of an astonishing true two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina—Kline’s own distant relatives—who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.
When Chang and...
3.5-STAR REVIEW: A WRITING MARRIAGE By Lori Carlson-Hijuelos
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
A uniquely styled memoir that blends fiction and nonfiction to illuminate the love, faith, and artistry of two American writers.
In December 1998, novelist Oscar Hijuelos and writer/editor Lori Marie Carlson were married in the Riverside...
5-STAR REVIEW: SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE TO ME by Jean Trounstine
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Sounds Like Trouble to Me sheds light on what happens when a corrections officer kills her abusive husband and suddenly finds herself on the other side of the law. Not only is she shocked with...
3.5-STAR REVIEW: A VERY VEXING MURDER by Lucy Andrew
Harriet Smith Investigates: Book 1
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
A witty debut whodunit that reimagines Harriet Smith, the gullible sidekick of Jane Austen’s Emma , as a spitfire con woman, hired to break off an engagement and uncover a murderer in the...
5-STAR REVIEW: THE LAST LADY B by Eloisa James
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Lady B may have married Bluebeard; she may have fallen in love with a gorgeous, grumpy solicitor; she may have met a ghost and survived to tell the tale! New York Times and USA TODAY...
5-STAR REVIEW: REALITY BITES by Amy Mass
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
A wickedly funny debut romcom in which a young scientist reluctantly becomes a contestant on a reality TV dating show to save her lab—and realizes her secrets are threatened when romance unexpectedly finds her behind...
5-STAR REVIEW: STORM BREAKER by Nisha J. Tuli REVIEWER’S CHOICE! 🏆
Storm Breaker: Book 1
Publication Date: May 5, 2026
From the publisher who brought you Fourth Wing comes your next romantasy obsession...
For nineteen-year-old Poet Graves, New Manhattan has always promised safety—if she obeys. Raised within the ruling Houses and betrothed to a powerful...
4-STAR REVIEW: THE RANCHER’S UNLIKELY MATCH by Jill Kemerer
Tumbleweed, Texas: Book 4
Publication Date: April 28, 2026
Could her fresh start…
…be the answer to his prayers?
Widowed rancher Ben Wright doesn’t need more complications, especially not runaway goats from the pretty new farmer next door, Jessica Howard. With three kids,...
4-STAR REVIEW: LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT by Chaz Holesworth
Life and How to Live It: Book 1
Publication Date: March 1, 2025
Philadelphia in the 1980s was no place for the soft-hearted. For Chaz Holesworth, childhood meant dodging gangs, addiction, and silence after slammed doors. His father’s world ran on...
4-STAR REVIEW: THE BODY THAT FLOATS by Jayne Chard
A Julie and Frankie Mystery: Book 2
Publication Date: May 7, 2026
The mystery’s deep, the water’s cold, and the locals are packing more than just fishing gear...
TWO RETIRED SISTERS. ONE FLOATING DEAD BODY
Julia, a retired head teacher with a fondness...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE BRIGHTER THE LIGHT THE DARKER THE SHADOW by Verlin Darrow
Publication Date: February 18, 2026
Protagonist Kade Tobin, a teacher at a rural spiritual community, finds himself in extraordinary—and extraordinarily terrifying—circumstances on an otherwise peaceful April morning. Prompted by the uncustomary howl of his beloved canine companion, Zeus, Kade discovers...
4-STAR REVIEW: CHOPPINESS ON HIGH SEAS by Arvind Wadhera
Publication Date: April 17, 2024
Being born into poverty and hardship in 1930s London, Matthew’s life was one of relentless struggle. One inadvertent act in defence of his mother would haunt his conscience forever.
Matthew’s journey takes him from the poverty...
4.5-STAR REVIEW: DELAWARE BEHAVING BADLY by Dave Tabler
Publication Date: January 1, 2026
Delaware Behaving Badly is a gripping, true-crime-inflected history of the First State's darker moments-scandals, betrayals, and criminal exploits that once made headlines but have since faded from public memory. Drawing on newspaper accounts, court records, and...
5-STAR REVIEW: THE LADY AT THE LODGING HOUSE by Natalie Meg Evans
The Wartime Lodging House: Book 3
Publication Date: May 6, 2026
London, 1940. In a Mayfair townhouse behind a wide front door, three women must bond together to make it through the war – no matter their differences.
A world away from...
4-STAR REVIEW: CHASE THE LIGHT by Suzanne Woods Fisher
National Parks Summers: Book 2
Publication Date: May 5, 2026
She uncovered a piece of history—but can she make peace with her own?
When Acadia National Park ranger Scout Johnson discovers a weathered note near a remote lighthouse, she never imagines it...
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