Category: Contemporary Fiction
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MAD HONEY by JODI PICOULT and JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN
Nothing is what it seems. No one is who they seem. Everyone has a past and everyone has secrets. So what happens when the past and the present collide? Chaos. Teenagers are cruel. We know that. Intolerant of anyone who is not the norm. This is a story of a lot of people who look…
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TAKE MY HUSBAND by ELLEN MEISTER
A dark comedy! Only one thing stands in the way of Laurel Applebaum’s happiness…Doug Applebaum. Ever found yourself fantasizing about single life? No husband to cook for, clean for, and basically, you feel like you’ve adopted a man-child? Yes, yes I have. And this dark comedy is just that. Laurel has had enough of Doug.…
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Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout brings us more of Lucy! From Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown–and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart. As the world grinds to…
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THE BODYGUARD by KATHERINE CENTER
Hannah Brooks doesn’t look like a bodyguard. But looks are deceiving. She can take down a grown man any day of the week. Right now she’s hoping to land the coveted London job. Her kind of boyfriend, Robby, is also in the competition. Imagine her surprise when her next assignment is guarding Jack Stapleton, a…
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Bet on It by Jodie Slaughter
Aja Owens is a woman I can relate to. Having panic attacks in the frozen food section of the Piggly Wiggly. Trying to pretend everything is fine if she can just breathe through it and not see anyone she knows. Unfortunately, the attractive man behind her needs his ice cream. Later when she goes to…
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NERUDA ON THE PARK by CLEYVIS NATERA
An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification A beautiful debut novel. Eusebia and her husband, Vladimir, along with their daughter, Luz, have lived in Nothar Park which is a predominately Dominican part of New York for twenty years.…
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Starry-Eyed Love by Helena Hunting
Spark House #2 It’s great to be back at Spark House again. London Spark has finally broken up with her boyfriend. And now fun London has come out to play with her sisters, Avery and Harley. Celebrating out on the town. When a handsome stranger walks up to the table with eyes only for London,…
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the home-wreckers by mary kay andrews
Your next beach read is here courtesy of Mary Kay Andrews. Hattie Kavanaugh has been a widow for seven years. Her husband died young and tragically. It’s left Hattie with some emotional baggage and guilt. Hattie has gone to work with her father-in-law, Tug, and her best friend Cass, flipping houses. And she is good…
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Smile and Look Pretty by AMANDA PELLEGRINO*BLOG TOUR* @amandapeliss @harpercollins@parkrowbooks @netgalley
Four best friends, all with jobs as assistants to bosses who really are horrid. While they meet to gripe about them it just doesn’t seem enough. Cate decides to write a blog where they can anonymously tell stories about these bosses and they all jump in. With help from Lauren, Olivia, and Max, these women…
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the santa suit by mary kay andrews
From May Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author of Hello, Summer, comes a novella celebrating the magic of Christmas and second chances in The Santa Suit. Ivy Perkins is moving on from Atlanta, her ex and her half of the business. Looking for a fresh start away from everything. She has pretty specific wants. A white farmhouse…
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