Debut sensation Tessa Calloway is on a whirlwind book tour for her instant bestseller, All This Could Be Yours. In a different city every night, Tessa receives standing ovations from adoring fans while her husband Henry and their two children cheer her on from their brand-new dream house.<\/em><\/p>\n But there’s a chilling problem with Tessa’s triumphant book tour\u2014she soon discovers she is being stalked by someone who’s obsessed not only with sabotaging her career, but also with destroying her perfect family back home.<\/em><\/p>\n Tessa fears the fallout from an impossible decision she once made\u2014what felt like a genuine deal with the devil\u2014appears to be coming due. And she\u2019s realizing that every high-stakes bargain comes with a high-stakes price. If Tessa can’t untangle who’s threatening to expose her darkest secrets, she’ll lose her career, her family\u2014and possibly her life.<\/em> – Minotaur Books<\/p>\n Milton Muleborn has envied Matthew Echota, a talented Cherokee artist, ever since they were locked up together in a dangerous juvenile detention center in the late 1980s. Until Matthew escaped, that is.<\/em><\/p>\n A novel within a novel, we read here Milton\u2019s dark, sometimes comic, and possibly unreliable account of the story of their childhood even as, years later, he remains jealous of Matthew\u2019s extraordinary abilities and unlikely success. Milton reveals secrets about their friendship, their families, and their nightmarish, surreal, experience of imprisonment. In revisiting the past, he explores the echoing traumas of incarceration and pride.\u00a0<\/em>– Ecco<\/p>\n June, 1975.<\/em><\/p>\n The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, Vincent, never shakes the whispers and accusations that he was the one who killed them. Decades later, the legend only grows as his career as a horror writer skyrockets.<\/em><\/p>\n Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of Vincent Taylor. Now on the brink of financial ruin, she’s offered a job to ghostwrite her father’s last book. What she doesn’t know, though, is that this project is another one of his lies. Because it’s not another horror novel he wants her to write.<\/em><\/p>\n After fifty years of silence, Vincent Taylor is finally ready to talk about what really happened that night in 1975.<\/em> – Sourcebooks<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n After a steady descent from literary stardom, Lane Warren is back. She\u2019s secured a new book deal based off the life of her sometime friend and, more often, rival Gala Margolis. Lane\u2019s only problem is that notorious free spirit Gala has been missing for months.<\/em><\/p>\n Ten years earlier, Gala was a charming socialite and Lane was a Hollywood outsider amidst the glittering 1960s L.A. party scene. Though they were never best friends, Lane found Gala sharp and compelling. Gala liked that Lane took her seriously. They were both writers. They were drawn to each other.<\/em><\/p>\n That was until Gala\u2019s star began to rise, and Lane grew envious. Then Lane did something that she wouldn\u2019t ever be able to take back\u2026changing the trajectories of both their lives.<\/em><\/p>\n Bold, dazzling, and crackling with tension, L.A. Women plunges readers into the legendary parties and unparalleled creativity of iconic Laurel Canyon, while exploring the impossible choices women face when ambition collides with intimacy. At what cost does great art emerge? And who pays the price?<\/em> – Berkley<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n London, 2024: American expat Margo Reynolds is renowned for her talent at sourcing rare antiques for her clients, but she\u2019s never had a request quite like this one. She\u2019s been hired to find a mysterious book published over a century ago. With a single copy left in existence, it has a storied past shrouded in secrecy\u2014and her client isn\u2019t the only person determined to procure it at any cost.<\/em><\/p>\n Havana, 1966: Librarian Pilar Castillo has devoted her life to books, and in the chaotic days following her husband\u2019s unjust imprisonment by Fidel Castro, reading is her only source of solace. So when a neighbor fleeing Cuba asks her to return a valuable book to its rightful owner, Pilar will risk everything to protect the literary work entrusted to her care. It\u2019s a dangerous mission that reveals to her the power of one book to change a life.<\/em><\/p>\n Boston, 1900: For Cuban school teacher and aspiring author Eva Fuentes, traveling from Havana to Harvard to study for the summer is the opportunity of a lifetime. It\u2019s a whirlwind adventure that leaves her little time to write, but a moonlit encounter with an enigmatic stranger changes everything. The story that pours out of her is one of forbidden love, secrets, and lies\u2026 and though Eva cannot yet see it, the book will be a danger and salvation for the lives it touches.<\/em> – Berkley<\/p>\n 2016: Thirty-four-year-old Mari Starwood is still grieving after her mother\u2019s death as she travels to the storied island of Martha\u2019s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. She\u2019s come all the way from California with nothing but a name on a piece of paper: Elizabeth Devereaux, the famous but reclusive Vineyard painter. When Mari makes it to Mrs. Devereaux\u2019s stunning waterfront farm under the guise of taking a painting class with her, Mrs. Devereaux begins to tell her the story of the Smith sisters, who once lived there. As the tale unfolds, Mari is shocked to learn that her relationship to this island runs deeper than she ever thought possible.<\/em><\/p>\n 1942: The Smith girls\u2014nineteen-year-old aspiring writer Cadence and sixteen-year-old war-obsessed Briar\u2014are faced with the impossible task of holding their failing family farm together during World War II as the U.S. Army arrives on Martha\u2019s Vineyard. When Briar spots German U-boats lurking off the island\u2019s shores, and Cadence falls into an unlikely romance with a sworn enemy, their quiet lives are officially upended. In an attempt at normalcy, Cadence and her best friend, Bess, start a book club, which grows both in members and influence as they connect with a fabulous New York publisher who could make all of Cadence\u2019s dreams come true. But all that is put at risk by a mysterious man who washes ashore\u2014and whispers of a spy in their midst. Who in their tight-knit island community can they trust? Could this little book club change the course of the war . . . before it\u2019s too late?<\/em> – Ballantine Books<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n Is it time to renew love or start a new chapter?<\/em><\/p>\n Ingrid Dahl, a cheerful twenty-nine-year-old librarian in the cozy mountain town of Ridgetop, North Carolina, has been happily dating her college boyfriend, Cory, for eleven years without ever discussing marriage. But when Ingrid\u2019s sister announces her engagement to a woman she\u2019s only been dating for two years, Ingrid and Cory feel pressured to consider their future. Neither has ever been with anybody else, so they make an unconventional decision. They’ll take a one-month break to date other people, then they’ll reunite and move toward marriage. Ingrid even has someone in mind: her charmingly grumpy coworker, Macon Nowakowski, on whom she\u2019s secretly crushed for years. But plans go awry, and when the month ends, Ingrid and Cory realize they\u2019re not ready to resume their relationship\u2014and Ingrid\u2019s harmless crush on Macon has turned into something much more complicated.<\/em><\/p>\n Overdue is a beautiful, slow-burn romance full of lust and longing about new beginnings and finding your way.<\/em> – Saturday Books<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n You are cordially invited to the Secret Book Society\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n London, 1895: Trapped by oppressive marriages and societal expectations, three women receive a mysterious invitation to an afternoon tea at the home of the reclusive Lady Duxbury. Beneath the genteel facade of the gathering lies a secret book club\u2014a sanctuary where they can discover freedom, sisterhood, and the courage to rewrite their stories.<\/em><\/p>\n Eleanor Clarke, a devoted mother suffocating under the tyranny of her husband. Rose Wharton, a transplanted American dollar princess struggling to fit the mold of an aristocratic wife. Lavinia Cavendish, an artistic young woman haunted by a dangerous family secret. All are drawn to the enigmatic Lady Duxbury, a thrice-widowed countess whose husbands\u2019 untimely deaths have sparked whispers of murder.<\/em><\/p>\n As the women form deep, heartwarming friendships, they uncover secrets about their marriages, their pasts, and the risks they face. Their courage is their only weapon in the oppressive world that has kept them silent, but when secrets are deadly, one misstep could cost them everything.<\/em> – Hanover Square Press<\/p>\n When two married professors tiptoe toward infidelity, their transgressions are brought to light in a graduate student\u2019s searing thesis project.<\/em><\/p>\n Simone is the star of Edwards University\u2019s creative writing department: renowned Woolf scholar, grief memoirist, and campus sex icon. Her less glamorous and ostensibly devoted husband, Ethan, is a forgotten novelist and lecturer in the same department. According to Simone and Ethan, and everyone on campus, their marriage is perfect. That is, until Ethan sleeps with the department administrative assistant, Abigail, and the couple\u2019s faith in their flawless relationship is rattled.<\/em><\/p>\n Simone, meanwhile, has secrets of her own. While Ethan\u2019s away for the summer, she grows inordinately close with her advisee, graduate student Roberta \u201cRobbie\u201d Green. In Robbie, Simone finds a new running partner, confidante, and disciple\u2014or so she believes. Behind Simone\u2019s back, Robbie fictionalizes her mentor\u2019s marriage in a breathtakingly invasive MFA thesis. Determined to tell her version of the story, Robbie paints a revealing portrait of Simone, Ethan, Abigail, and even herself, scratching at the very surface of what may\u2014or may not\u2014be the truth.<\/em> – Little, Brown and Company<\/p>\n 2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife\u2019s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, \u2018A Corona for Vivien\u2019. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been found, and which remains an enduring mystery.<\/em><\/p>\n 2119: Just over one hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. In the water-logged south of what used to be England, Thomas Metcalfe, a lonely scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of one poem, \u2018A Corona for Vivian\u2019. How wild and full of risk their lives were, thinks Thomas, as he pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem\u2019s discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well.<\/em><\/p>\n What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, a literary detective story which reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.<\/em> – Knopf<\/p>\n This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/all-this-could-be-yours1.jpg?resize=200%2C310&ssl=1\")
<\/a>All This Could Be Yours<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Hank Phillippi Ryan<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Devil is a Southpaw<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Brandon Hobson<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Ghostwriter<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Julie Clark<\/p>\n
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<\/a>L.A. Women<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by Ella Berman<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes <\/a><\/strong><\/em>by Chanel Cleeton<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Martha Hall Kelly<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Overdue<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Stephanie Perkins<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Secret Book Society<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Madeline Martin<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Seduction Theory<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Emily Adrian<\/p>\n
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<\/a>What We Can Know<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>by Ian McEwan<\/p>\n