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The Children / Melissa Albert
The estranged adult children of a legendary author, written into their dead mother’s beloved fantasy series, must contend with the vine-like creep of legacy, memory, and magic. -
Road Trip / Mary Kay Andrews
Pack your bags for a summer journey shaped by family secrets, long-buried history, and charming men with Irish accents. -
The Unicorn Hunters / Katherine Arden
In a desperate gamble to save her throne, a young monarch conceals a secret marriage in the shadows of an enchanted forest—and unknowingly alters the fate of her world. -
A Pair of Aces / Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
Two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law—a prosecutor and a madam—team up to bring down notorious mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York. -
Contrapposto / Dave Eggers
A sweeping novel about friendship, love, and the lifelong pursuit of art. -
Villa Coco / Andrew Sean Greer
A young man takes an unspecified job with a charismatic elderly baronessa at her crumbling villa in the Tuscan hills. -
The Shampoo Effect / Jenny Jackson
An ambitious young woman insinuates herself into a tight-knit social set, shaking up friendships and marriages in a small seaside town. -
It Could Have Been Her / Lisa Jewell
A psychological thriller about a lost dog, a missing woman, and a house of long buried secrets. -
Sublimation / Isabel J. Kim
Doppelgängers, corporate intrigue, heartbreak, betrayal, and the harsh permanence of the border. -
Down with the Shipmans / Meg Mitchell Moore
It’s the week after Fourth of July, and the Shipman sisters are returning to their picturesque summer home on the New Hampshire coast for what they believe is a family reunion, the first without their late mother. However, their tranquil setting quickly becomes a stage for drama when their father drops the bombshell news that he plans to sell the cherished beach house. As old memories are stirred up, the sisters must decide how far they’re willing to go to preserve the Shipman bond. -
Heather / Caitlin Mullen
A small-town detective reopens an unsolved case, sending shock waves across generations of women. -
Land / Maggie O’Farrell
A soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. -
The Typing Lady / Ruth Ozeki
About the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget, and the stories that shape us long after the last page is turned. -
Whistler / Ann Patchett
A moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time. -
Marion / Leah Rowan
A twist on Hitchcock’s iconic classic Psycho—where the leading lady doesn’t die, but instead turns the knife on Norm, kicking off a crime spree that turns the silver screen victim into a heroine for our times. -
Daughters of the Sun and Moon / Lisa See
The story of three Chinese women whose unexpected friendship helps them survive and, despite the odds, thrive, in the turmoil of post–Civil War Los Angeles. -
Choke Point / Brad Thor
A new summer blockbuster starring Scot Harvath. -
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep / Paul Tremblay
Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable. -
When You Loved Me / Beatriz Williams
A young widow returns to her late father’s New England estate, only to be drawn into the hunt for the rumored pirate treasure that consumed his life. -
The Missed Connection / Tia Williams
An intensely romantic, deliciously sexy tale about a woman searching for her handsome seatmate on a European flight—and the unexpected places her hunt for love leads her.
SHC: 5/2026
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