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The Mesmerist. By Caroline Woods. Sept. 2024. 336p. Doubleday, $28 (9780385550161); e-book (9780385550178). In Minneapolis in 1894, a young woman stumbled into the Bethany Home for Unwed Mothers. Like many [...]

* The Haters. By Robyn Harding. July 2024. 352p. Grand Central, $29 (9781538766101); e-book (9781538766125). Camryn Lane is proudest of her seventeen-year-old daughter Liza, but her recent debut novel, Burnt [...]

The Confidence Games. By Tess Amy. July 2024. 288p. Berkley, paper, $19 (9780593642504); e-book (9780593642511). After losing her fiance, her job, and her home, Emma called on her childhood friend [...]

You'd Look Better as a Ghost. By Joanna Wallace. Mar. 2024. 336p. Penguin, paper, $18 (9780143136170). Claire's life could be used in a debate between proponents of the nature versus [...]

* A Northern Light in Provence. By Elizabeth Birkelund. May 2024. 352p. Ballantine, $29 (9780593722213); e-book (9780593722220). Ilse Erlund loves so much about her homeland, but she is also curious [...]

Every Wish Way. By Shannon Bright. Sept. 2023. 336p. Crooked Lane/Alcove, paper, $19.99 (9781639104598); e-book (9781639104604). Iza is a successful architect in a respected St. Louis firm, but what she [...]

* Pride and Preston Lin. By Christina Hwang Dudley. Mar. 2024. 288p. Third State, $26.95 (9798890130112); e-book (9798890130051). Lissie Cheng and her older sister, Jenny, were ready to be self-sufficient [...]

Finding Sophie. By Imran Mahmood. Mar. 2024. 352p. Bantam, $28 (9780593723586); e-book, $13.99 (9780593723593). Harry and Zara King are struggling with the disappearance of their 17-year-old daughter, Sophie, who went [...]

A Deadly Endeavor. By Jenny Adams. Mar. 2024. 352p. Crooked Lane, $29.99 (9781639106950); e-book, $17.99 (9781639106967). After three years away, Edie Shippen returns to her family's Chestnut Hill estate in [...]

Sex, Lies, and Sensibility. By Nikki Payne. Feb. 2024. 432p. Berkley, paper, $18 (9780593440964); e-book (9780593440971). Nora and her sister, Yanne, are at their dad's funeral when they learn they [...]

The Hapless Milliner: Miss Austen Investigates. By Jessica Bull. Feb. 2024. 368p. Sterling/Union Square, paper, $18.99 (9781454951803). In December 1795 in Hampshire, England, Jane Austen is attending a dance that [...]

Last Night. By Luanne Rice. Feb. 2024. 334p. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $28.99 (9781542030199); e-book (9781542030212). Hadley Cooke arrived at the fancy Ocean House in Providence, Rhode Island, excited to spend [...]

* Cassandra in Reverse. By Holly Smale. May 2023. 368p. MIRA, $30 (9780778334538); e-book (9780369736536) Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is 31, stuck in a PR job she hates, and struggling in [...]

* Welcome Home, Caroline Kline. By Courtney Preiss. Apr. 2024. 368p. Putnam, paper, $18 (9780593715413). Caroline Kline gave up her job and apartment to move from New York City to [...]

The Prospectors. By Ariel Djanikian. Oct. 2023.384P. Morrow, $32 (9780063289734); e-book (9780063289758). Alice Bush is excited to welcome her sister Ethel and brother-in-law Clarence Berry home from Yukon, Canada, to [...]

A Season for Love. By Ally Sinclair. Sept. 2023.368p. Printers Row/Canelo, paper, $12.99 (9781667205908). Emma Love is ready to take on the family business of matchmaking, and she's agreed to [...]

The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann. By Virginia Pye. Oct. 2023. 312p. Regal, paper, $19.95 (9781646033973). Living in a nice house in a well-respected neighborhood in Boston during the Gilded [...]

Good Fortune. By C. K. Chau. July 2023.416p. HarperVia, $29.99 (9780063293762). Vincent and Jade Chen and their five daughters, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia, live in a small apartment [...]

* The Carnivale of Curiosities. By Amiee Gibbs. July 2023.448p. Grand Central, $29 (9781538723937); e-book (9781538723951). In October 1887, the formidable illusionist Aurelius Ashe and his immensely popular Carnivale of [...]

The Queen of the Valley. By Lorena Hughes. Aug. 2023.352p. Kensington, paper, $16.95 (9781496736284). Maria Purificacion, or Puri, hasn't received cacao beans from Martin Sabater for months. Not only is [...]

Half-Life of a Stolen Sister. By Rachel Cantor. July 2023.384p. Soho, $26 (9781641294645); e-book (9781641294652). Maria Brontes young children were desolate after she passed away, followed all too soon by [...]

Talking at Night. By Claire Daverley. June 2023. 400p. Pamela Dorman, $28 (9780593653487). Will White and Rosie Winters seem like quintessential opposites given Will's troubled past and Rosie's seemingly picture-perfect [...]

Late Bloomers. By Deepa Varadarajan. May 2023.368p. Random, paper, $18 (9780593498026); e-book (9780593498033). After 36 years of marriage and two grown children, Lata Raman put herself first and found a [...]

Lundberg, Sofia & others. The Friday Night Club: A Novel of Artist Hilma af Klint and Her Creative Circle. Berkley. May 2023. 336p. ISBN 9780593200490. pap. $17. F Veteran authors [...]

Just as You Are. By Camille Kellogg. Apr. 2023.320p. Dial, paper, $17 (9780593594704); e-book (9780593594711). Liz and her three roommates, Jane, Lydia, and Katie, all work at Nether Fields, a [...]

The One. By Julia Argy. Apr. 2023.304P. Putnam, $27 (9780593542781); e-book (9780593542798). Emily doesn't have a life plan or any kind of plan, really, so when she's approached by a [...]

* Ghost Girl, Banana. By Wiz Wharton. Apr. 2023.400p. HarperVia, $27.99 (9780063239746); e-book (9780063239777). Sook-Yin was 22 years old in 1966 when she was sent to England from Kowloon, Hong [...]

Thomas, Julia Bryan. The Radcliffe Ladies' Reading Club. Sourcebooks Landmark. Jun. 2023. 384p. ISBN 9781728248578. pap. $16.99. F In 1955, Tess, Caroline, Merritt, and Evie, four young women from very [...]

It's that time of year, when the world falls in love with the best gift of all, a thoughtfully selected book. Offered below is a small sampling of seasonal works [...]

Beyond That, the Sea. By Laura Spence-Ash. Mar. 2023. 368p. Macmillan/Celadon, $28 (9781250854377); e-book, $14.99 (9781250854384). At the end of summer in 1940, Millie and Reg made the tough choice [...]

Wedding of the Season. By Lauren Edmondson. Feb. 2023. 384P. Graydon, paper, $17.99 (9781525899997); e-book (9780369720542). In Newport, Rhode Island, the prominent Coventry family built the Cottage, a beautiful beaux [...]

This year's sampling of holiday-themed books is sure to put a jingle in your step. From reads traditional and sweet to those with slightly darker tones, these picks are perfect [...]

Binder, Matthew. The Absolved. Black Spot. Dec. 2018. 290p. ISBN 9781732400726. $14.99; ebk. ISBN 9781732400733. SFBinder (High in the Streets) crafts a sardonic and bleak future, in which artificial intelligence [...]

In October 2016., Swoon Reads celebrated their third birthday by growing bigger and stronger. Now they are publishing books from all genres. Created by Jean Feiwel, Swoon Reads is a [...]

The Spanish Daughter. By Lorena Hughes. Jan. 2022.304p. Kensington, paper, $15.95 (9781496736246); e-book, $13.56 (9781496736260). In April 1920, Marla Purificacion de Lafont y Toledo, nicknamed Puri, and her husband, Cristobal [...]

Mr. Breakfast. By Jonathan Carroll. Jan. 2023.272p. Melville, $27.99 (9781612199924). Graham Patterson wanted to be a famous comedian but didn't have the edge that would make him a star. Ignoring [...]

Love, Clancy: Diary of a Good Dog. By W. Bruce Cameron. Jan. 2023.336p. Forge, $27.99 (9781250163547); e-book, $14.99 (9781250163554). Moving to Kansas City with his dog, Clancy, JayB is hoping [...]

* Godmersham Park. By Gill Hornby. Nov. 2022. 432p. Pegasus, $25.95 (9781639362585); e-book, $16.99 (9781639362592). Hornby (Miss Austen, 2020) continues her fictional dramatization of the Austen family. In 1804, unmarried [...]

* The Making of Her. By Bernadette Jiwa. Aug. 2022.352P. Dutton, $26 (9780593186138); e-book, $13.99 (9780593186145). Raised in a Dublin housing estate by an alcoholic father with the one sister [...]

* Other Birds. By Sarah Addison Allen. Aug. 2022.304P. St. Martin's, $27.99 (9781250019868); e-book, $12.99 (9781250019882). Zoey is spending the summer before college on Mallow Island in the studio apartment [...]

The Year of Our Love. By Caterina Bonvicini. Tr. by Antony Shugaar. June 2021.400p. Other, paper, $17.99 (9781635420623). Born in Bologna in the 1970s, Olivia and Valerio grow up in [...]

* Bloomsbury Girls. By Natalie Jenner. May 2022. 368p. St. Martin's, $27.99 (9781250276698). As 1950 begins, Evie Stone has graduated with honors from Cambridge, but she needs her Jane Austen [...]

* The Many Faces of Art Forgery: From the Dark Side to Shades of Gray. By William Casement. Feb. 2022. 304p. illus. Rowman & Littlefield, $36 (9781538158005). 702.8. Casement, a [...]

Everything old is new again when it comes to fresh retellings of classic literature. Taking famous story lines and characters and adding new, unexpected elements such as a different setting [...]

Out Front the Following Sea. By Leah Angstman. Jan. 2022. 334p. Regal, paper, $19.95 (9781646031948). In 1689 New England, 16-year-old orphan Ruth Miner has been branded as a witch by [...]

The Swap. By Robyn Harding. June 2020. 336p. Simon & Schuster/Scout, paper, $16.99 (9781982141769); e-book (9781982141783). Escaping the harsh spotlight of public opinion, Freya and her husband, Max, a retired [...]

A Happy Catastrophe. By Maddie Dawson. May 2020. 420p. Amazon/Lake Union, paper, $14.95 (9781542006460): e-book, $4.99 (9781542006477). Marnie and Patrick were the last couple brought together by Blix, magical matchmaker [...]

* Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women. Ed. by Lizzie Skurnick. Mar. 2020.320p. Seal, $28 [...]

*Qulnn, Spencer. It's a Wonderful Woof. Forge. (A Chet & Bernie Mystery, Bk. 12). Oct. 2021. 272p. ISBN 9781250770325. $26.99. M Bernie Little, of the Little Detective Agency, and his [...]