Books Coming Out in November
Books Coming Out in November
Books Coming Out November 1 - 2:
The Passing Storm by Christine Nolfi
The Passing Storm follows Rae Langdon, who is facing unimaginable grief after the loss of both her mother and daughter in separate incidents. While working on her family farm with her ailing father in northeastern Ohio, which has also seen better days, Rae agrees to take in Quinn Galecki, a misunderstood teenager dealing with his own pain. Over time, they form an unexpected bond and realize they are more connected than they know. With forgiveness, love, and the spring thaw, there might be hope for a new season―a second chance Rae believed was gone forever.
A Day Like This by Kelley McNeill
What if everything you’ve ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true…just disappeared?
Annie Beyers has everything―a beautiful house, a loving husband, and an adorable daughter. It’s a day like any other when she takes Hannah to the pediatrician…until she wakes hours later from a car accident. When she asks for her daughter, confused doctors tell Annie that Hannah never existed. In fact, nothing after waking from the crash is the same as Annie remembers. Five happy years of her life apparently never happened.
Annie’s marriage is coming to an end. Now a successful artist living in Manhattan, she’s no longer home in their beloved upstate farmhouse. Her long-estranged sister is more like a best friend, and her recently deceased dog is alive and well. With each passing day, Annie’s remembered past and unfamiliar present begin to blur. Haunted by visions of Hannah, and with knowledge of things she can’t explain, Annie wonders…is everyone lying to her?
The search for answers leads Annie down an illuminating path far from home, to reconcile the memories with reality and to discover the truth about the life she’s living.
The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura
From Shion Miura, the award-winning author of The Great Passage, comes a rapturous novel where the contemporary and the traditional meet amid the splendor of Japan’s mountain way of life.
Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.”
At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.
Yuki learns to fell trees and plant saplings. He begins to embrace local festivals, he’s mesmerized by legends of the mountain, and he might be falling in love. In learning to respect the forest on Mt. Kamusari for its majestic qualities and its inexplicable secrets, Yuki starts to appreciate Kamusari’s harmony with nature and its ancient traditions.
In this warm and lively coming-of-age story, Miura transports us from the trappings of city life to the trials, mysteries, and delights of a mythical mountain forest.
Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas
This fall, USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas delivers the highly anticipated sixth installment in her Lady Sherlock mystery series. In MISS MORIARTY, I PRESUME?, a most unexpected client turns up on Charlotte’s doorstep: Moriarty himself. Charlotte is not normally in the practice of assisting her enemies. But when Moriarty appears at Baker Street concerned that tragedy has befallen his daughter, Charlotte takes the case. Moriarty needs Charlotte to find his missing daughter, and to uncover the truth behind her recent whereabouts. Charlotte and Mrs. Watson travel together to a community of occult practitioners, where Moriarty’s daughter was last seen. Despite their best efforts to carve out the truth and to locate the missing woman, they seem to be surrounded by lies. The deeper Charlotte digs into the case, the more she wonders: why would Moriarty enlist her help? Could this investigation be a trap?
Fifty First Dates After Fifty by Carolyn Lee Arnold
After Carolyn, a free-spirited, 50-something longing for a life partner, breaks up with her non-committal Buddhist boyfriend, she challenges herself to go on 50 first dates during her search for a monogamous life partner. Set in the Bay Area world of personal growth workshops and spiritual ceremonies, this revealing memoir traces the adventurous path of Arnold’s universal quest for love. The goal of 50 dates with 50 different partners pulls her forward through the highs and lows of dating — magical and ecstatic, pining and painful — while her heart soars, falls and keeps on going. Buoyed by her dating project, she avoids settling for the wrong guy and ultimately discovers the type of man she wants.
One Pound, Twelve Ounces by Melissa Harris
Melissa’s dream of being a mother again shatters when a fertility doctor tells her she may never have another child. Persevering, she endures nine surgeries, fertility treatments, and a miscarriage. At last, when what she’s decided will be her last attempt results in her finally becoming pregnant, she’s told that this baby is also at risk. While trying to get to the golden standard 24-week gestation mark, Melissa is determined: She will give this baby every chance to live, no matter what it takes.
The Attic on Queen Street by Karen White
This November, the beloved Tradd Street Series by fan-favorite author Karen White comes to a thrilling end with THE ATTIC ON QUEEN STREET (Berkley Hardcover; November 2, 2021). White’s series, starring psychic medium Melanie Trenholm; a host of friendly and malevolent ghosts; and set in Charleston, SC, has been a joy to read since it began. And now, return to Tradd Street one last time in this much-awaited finale.
Everything We Didn't Say by Nicole Baart
From the author of Little Broken Things, a “race-to-the-finish family drama” (People) following a mother who must confront the dark summer that changed her life forever in order to reclaim the daughter she left behind.
The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself by Yrsa Daley-Ward
From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our truest selves, the ones we've always been meant to become
Yrsa Daley-Ward's words have resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers--through her books of poetry and memoir, bone and The Terrible; through her writing for Beyoncé on Black Is King; and through her always illuminating Instagram posts.
Now, in The How, Yrsa encourages readers to begin, as she puts it, the great work of meeting ourselves. This isn't the self we've built up in response to our surroundings, or the self we manufacture to please the people around us, but instead, our most intimate self, the one we visit in dreams, the one that calls to us from a glimmering future.
With a mix of short lyrical musings and her signature stunning poetry, Yrsa gently takes readers by the hand, encouraging them to join her as she explores how we can remove our filters, and see and feel more of who we really are behind the preconceived notions of propriety and manners we've accumulated with age. With a beautiful design and intriguing meditations, The How can be used to start conversations, to prompt writing, to delve deeper--whether you're solo, or with friends, on your feet or writing from the solace of home.
The Pilot's Daughter by Meredith Jaeger
n the final months of WWII, San Francisco newspaper secretary Ellie Morgan should be planning her wedding. Instead, she’s flexing her under-utilized reporting skills to track down her missing father, a pilot who disappeared during a mission over the Adriatic Sea. When she finds a stack of love letters from a woman who is not her mother in her father’s recovered possessions, she vows to uncover the truth about her father—and the mysterious woman he fell in love with. Ellie turns to her aunt, Iris, for help, arriving on her doorstep clutching a stack of letters from a woman whose name Iris hasn't heard in decades. Iris is terrified, knowing that these letters could bring to light secrets she’s kept hidden for half a lifetime—her past as a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl in 1920s New York City. Iris’s secrets could reveal much more than the origin of her brother-in-law's alleged affair, but it will take both women embarking on a cross-country mission to find the truth—a journey that just might shatter everything they thought they knew about the past, their family, and themselves.
Books Coming Out on November 9:
Final Spin by Jocko Willink
The debut novel from Jocko Willink, Navy SEAL and co-author of the #1 bestseller Extreme Ownership. Final Spin is a modern parable and testament to the virtuous sacrifices people make for those they care about. Two brothers stuck in separate but equal dead-end worlds. Johnny has watched out for his brother Arty for as long as he can remember. Along with his best friend, Goat, Johnny knows there’s not much future for any of them in their town. Johnny’s girlfriend, Jessica, is the type of soul that life has driven hard. But chance presents Johnny and Goat with an extraordinary opportunity--the chance of a lifetime. A chance not just for them, but also to take care of Arty and Jessica. First, though, they have to survive being on the run thanks to their golden “opportunity.”
Sissie Klein is Completely Normal by Kris Clink
Sissie Klein can barely remember the night that tore her from life as she knew it, but before the shocked teenager adjusts to her new roles as wife and mother, Meg arrives. Sissie rises to the occasion, determined to give her daughter every opportunity she forfeited, but some fates can’t be avoided.
By Any Other Name by Simon Morley
The rose is bursting with meaning. Over the centuries it has come to represent love and sensuality, deceit, death and the mystical unknown. Today the rose enjoys unrivalled popularity across the globe, ever present at life’s seminal moments. This is the story of a hardy, thorny flower and how, by beauty and charm, it came to seduce the world.
Books Coming Out on November 16:
An Heiress's Guide to Deception and Desire by Manda Collins
Former lovers become reluctant allies in this delightfully witty historical rom-com from the bestselling author of A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem—for fans of Evie Dunmore, Enola Holmes, and Netflix's Bridgerton!
Guild Boss by Jayne Castle
Welcome to Illusion Town on the colony world of Harmony--like Las Vegas on Earth, but way more weird.
The Wedding Party by Liu Xinwu, translated by Jeremy Tiang
Set at a pivotal point after the turmoil of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, THE WEDDING PARTY weaves together a rich tapestry of characters, intertwined lives, and stories within stories, in this day-in-the-life tale of a Beijing wedding.
On a December morning in 1982, the courtyard of a Beijing siheyuan―a lively quadrangle of homes―begins to stir. Auntie Xue’s son Jiyue is getting married today, and she is determined to make the day a triumph. Despite Jiyue’s woeful ignorance in matters of the heart―and the body. Despite a chef in training tasked with the onerous responsibility of preparing the banquet. With a cross-generational multitude of guests, from anxious family members to a fretful bridal party―not to mention exasperating friends, interfering neighbors, and wedding crashers―what will the day ahead bring?
THE WEDDING PARTY is a touching, hilarious portrait of life in this singular city, all packed into a Beijing courtyard on a single day that manages to be both perfectly normal and utterly extraordinary at the same time.
Infectious: Pathogens and How We Fight Them by Dr John S. Tregoning
Nature wants you dead. Not just you, but your children and everyone you have ever met and everyone they have ever met; in fact, everyone. It wants you to cough and sneeze and poop yourself into an early grave. It wants your blood vessels to burst and pustules to explode all over your body. And – until recently – it was really good at doing this…Covid-19 may be only the first of many modern pandemics. The subject of infection and how to fight it grows more urgent every day. How do pathogens cause disease? And what tools can we give our bodies to do battle?
We Hear Voices by Evie Green
Best described as Dark Matter meets The Shining, Evie Green's WE HEAR VOICES tells the story of a young boy and his sinister imaginary friend who encourages him to carry out some very dark deeds. Rachel has always put family first—her three children are the center of her world. So when a mysterious and deadly flu takes its toll on children around the world, she is immensely grateful that none of her three suffered a terrible fate—especially her son, Billy, who was infected. But there’s something off about Billy upon his recovery. He won’t stop talking about his new friend, Delfy. At first, Rachel shrugs it off—all children have imaginary friends at one point or another, don’t they? But soon, Billy isn’t behaving like the sweet little boy Rachel knows him to be. He becomes increasingly violent—and he tells his mother that Delfy is to blame. Soon, Rachel can’t help but wonder if her little boy is dealing with something much more malicious than an ordinary imaginary pal…. As Delfy’s influence becomes perilous, Rachel must choose between protecting Billy, and protecting the rest of her family —even if the consequences tear them apart.
Books Coming out on November 23 - 24:
Unknown Assailant: A Dr. Pepper Hunt Mystery by J.L. Doucette
Dr. Pepper Hunt and Detective Beau Antelope team up again to investigate a tragic murder/suicide in a prominent ranch family in the small town of Farson, Wyoming. As they explore events leading up to the night of the disturbing crime they are drawn into the dark heart of a troubled family touched by a legacy of trauma.
Just River by Sara B. Fraser
Wattsville was a booming manufacturing town on the Otis River. But now, the mills are closed. The windows boarded up. The same people frequent the same bars every day without fail. The once prosperous place is now riddled with substance abuse, poverty, violence and hush-hush secrets. Only the river bears witness to all their secrets — and only the river can divulge the truth. Told with beauty and tenderness against the landscape of forgotten everyday America, JUST RIVER connects the complexity and danger we all contain.
Books Coming Out on November 30L
Couples Wanted by Briana Cole
When newlyweds Bridget and Roman meet married swingers Corinne and Patrick, they’re instantly drawn to their carefree glamour and warm promise of friendship. And after swapping spouses for one passionate, exhilarating night, Bridget and Roman feel fulfilled and closer together than ever...until Corinne and Patrick start turning possessive, wanting more of them than Bridget and Roman can ever give. Soon, the young couple is plunged into a nightmare of suspicion, lies, and secrets in which they can’t trust each other—or what they think they know about themselves.
A Thing of Beauty by Peter Fiennes
What do the Greek myths mean to us today? Peter Fiennes travels to the sites of some of the most famous Greek myths, on the trail of hope, beauty and a new way of seeing what we have done to our world. Fiennes walks through landscapes – stunning and spoiled – on the trail of dancing activists and Arcadian shepherds, finds the ‘most beautiful beach in Greece’, consults the Oracle, and loses himself in the cities, remote villages and ruins of this storied land.
