Summer Staff Picks (Adult Fiction)

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey (Romance)

Piper Bellinger is a Hollywood “It Girl” who is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong.

Book: https://bit.ly/3ypiO5B
Ebook: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13687727

 

Twisted Games from the Twisted series by Ana Huang (Romance)

The second installment in the series, Twisted Games follows the story of Bridget, a princess of Eldora who falls in love with her bodyguard. The book tells the tale of a forbidden and concealed romance between a future queen and her highly protective bodyguard.

Book: https://bit.ly/3QTF8Ld

 

Hooked from the Never After Series by Emily McIntire (Dark Romance)

In this dark and fractured fairy tale reimagining of Peter Pan, Wendy is unsure if she’s falling for the man known as James or the monster known as Hook.

Book: https://bit.ly/3KfDeAG

 

Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren (Romance)

A witty and effervescent novel about what happens when two people with everything on the line are thrown together by science. Or is it fate?

Book: https://bit.ly/3HTWAe8

 

Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Science Fiction)

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth.

Book: https://bit.ly/3yzlHB6

 

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson (Fantasy)

Two people from incredibly different cultures must work together to save their worlds from certain disaster.

Book: https://bit.ly/3Kep2YU

Ebook: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/16735267

 

The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag (Speculative Fiction)

In 1997, a teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system.

Book: https://bit.ly/3yxtYp2

 

All’s Well by Mona Awad (Magical realism)

A theater professor with chronic, incurable pain after an accident that ended her career as a budding actress enters a surreal and eerie journey after meeting three strangers who promise to take away her pain if she can successfully put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well.

Book: https://bit.ly/3UY7ftI

 

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End by Kanehito Yamada (Fantasy Manga)

Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her?

 

Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy (Queer Mystery)

Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this unique and confident debut crime novel. When Saint Sebastian’s School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, this punk rocker turned nun isn’t satisfied to just wait around for officials to return her home and sanctuary to its former peace.

Book: https://bit.ly/44SFuHw

 

City on Fire by Don Winslow (Thriller)

A mid-1980s longshoreman who does occasional stints for the Irish crime syndicate becomes embroiled in a conflict between rival factions.

Book: https://bit.ly/3WPpLqZ

Ebook: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14093405

 

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (Thriller)

A work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life.

Book: https://bit.ly/3yzmxOg

Ebook: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14113058

 

When She Returned by Lucinda Berry (Thriller)

One woman’s reappearance throws her family into turmoil, exposing dark secrets and the hidden, often devastating truth of family relationships.

Book: https://bit.ly/3USFHGm

 

The Women by Kristin Hannah (Historical Fiction)

An intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics during a transformative era in America: the 1960s.

Book: https://bit.ly/44WMJ1f

 

A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci (Historical Fiction)

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants.

Book: https://bit.ly/4bww0Et

 

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (Historical Fiction)

A tale inspired by firsthand accounts about the notoriously corrupt Tennessee Children's Home Society follows the efforts of a Baltimore assistant D.A. to uncover her parents' fateful secrets in the wake of a political attack and a chance encounter with a stranger.

Book: https://bit.ly/3UVDVE9

 

Brother by Ania Ahlborn (Horror)

A teenager is determined to break from his family’s unconventional and deeply disturbing traditions deep in the heart of Appalachia.

Book: https://bit.ly/4awO2oT

 

Never Whistle at Night edited by Stephen Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. (Horror)

A collection of horror and dark short stories by Native American authors.

Book: https://bit.ly/3UXPlaI

 

The Fisherman by John Langan (Horror)

In upstate New York, two widowers find solace in each other’s company and shared passion for fishing, which leads them to a rumored infamous Creek with a dark and mysterious past.

Book: https://bit.ly/3WVL8a2