Books Coming Out in January
Books Coming Out in January
Books Coming Out on January 4:
The Tenderest of Strings by Steven Schwartz
In search of a new life, Reuben and Ardith Rosenfeld and their two children move from Chicago to the small town of Welton, Colorado, looking for all the hope that the burgeoning West has to offer—its abundance of jobs, space, sunshine, prosperity, and the promise of reinvention. Reuben, a former copyeditor at the Chicago Tribune, purchases the local town paper, the Welton Sentinel. Ardith stays home and copes with the task of fixing up an older house, which suffers such disrepair that on Halloween it's mistaken for part of a haunted house tour. Teenaged Harry continues his life as a troubled loner, skipping school and losing his tooth in a mysterious encounter. Meanwhile, Reuben, unaware that Ardith is having an affair, worries about his wife's growing unhappiness and distance from the family. One night, after a cookout at some friends' dairy farm, a fatal hit-and-run occurs that shocks the community, exposes a secret, and begins to rip apart the Rosenfeld family.
Treachery Times Two by Robert McCaw
On Hawaii Island, a volcanic earthquake disrupts an abandoned cemetery—unearthing the body of a woman mutilated by her killer to conceal her identity.
The search for her identity leads Hilo Hawaii’s Chief Detective Koa Kane to a mysterious defense contractor with a politically connected board of directors. Defying his chief of police, Koa pursues the killer, only to become entangled in an FBI espionage investigation of Deimos, a powerful secret military weapon. Is the FBI telling all it knows—or does it, too, have a duplicitous agenda?
At the same time, Koa—a cop who thirty years earlier killed his father’s nemesis and covered up the murder—faces exposure by the dead man’s grandson. Koa is forced to investigate his own homicide, and step by step, his cover-up unravels until another man is falsely accused.
Can Koa stand by and let an innocent man pay for his crime?
The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy
Benjamin Percy has won a Whiting Award, a Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and the iHeartRadio Award for Best Scripted Podcast. He also writes Wolverine and X-Force for Marvel Comics.
The Unfamiliar Garden is a standalone novel in Percy's series The Comet Cycle. It has crime fiction bones with poignant family drama and a heavy dose of the supernatural. A passing comet has caused irreversible change to the growth of fungi in the Pacific Northwest, spawning a dangerous, invasive species that threatens to control the lives of humans and animals alike.
The Ivory Key by Akshaya Raman
Vira, Ronak, Kaleb, and Riya may be siblings, but they've never been close or even liked each other that much. Torn apart by the different paths their lives have taken, only one thing can bring them back together: the search for the Ivory Key, a thing of legend that will lead the way to a new source of magic. Magic is Ashoka's biggest export and the only thing standing between them and war with the neighboring kingdoms—as long as their enemies don't find out that the magic mines are nearly depleted.
The siblings all have something to gain from finding the Ivory Key, and even more to lose if they don't. For Vira, the Ivory Key is the only way to live up to the legacy of her mother, the beloved former maharani. Ronak plans to get out of his impending political marriage by selling the Ivory Key to the highest bidder. Kaleb has been falsely accused of assassinating the former maharani, and this is the only way to clear his name. And Riya needs to prove her loyalty to the Ravens, the group of rebels that wants to take control away from the maharani and give it to the people. With each sibling harboring secrets and conflicting agendas, figuring out a way to work together may be the most difficult task of all. And in a quest this dangerous, working together is the only way to survive.
Love at First Spite by Anna E. Collins
Meet Dani, the star of Anna E. Collins’s delightful debut LOVE AT FIRST SPITE. Dani has decided to get revenge on her cheating ex-fiancé by building a rental house next door to him. This brilliant plan will 1. Ruin his precious view and 2. Prove that she is not someone to be messed with. But things get complicated when she’s forced to team up with the haughty (and handsome) architect at her firm to draw up the building plans, and sparks soon fly. The closer Dani gets to the ultimate revenge, the more she realizes that you can’t open your heart to someone new while dwelling in the past.
Books Coming Out on January 11:
A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf
Inspired by a true story, Tammye Huf's debut explores the epic love story of an Irish immigrant and a plantation slave who must navigate love, identity, and sacrifice in 19th-century America.
The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder
The centuries-old curse of Briar Rose had always been nothing but a story to bookish treasure hunter Fi, until she pricks her finger on a bone spindle and awakens his spirit. Now she and queer ax-wielding girl warrior Shane are stuck with him while they fight to break the curse on his kingdom. In a tale of dark magic and unreadable intentions, Fi’s biggest fear isn’t the darkness that surrounds them or the mysterious witch who’s after Shane’s heart (and heaven knows what else) -- it’s falling in love with Briar Rose. A lighthearted action-packed story filled with dark magic, ancient curses and evil exes, The Bone Spindle utilizes the familiar elements of Sleeping Beauty to create an intoxicating retelling that will steal your heart.
The Family You Make by Jill Shalvis
Beloved New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis begins a new series—Sunrise Cove—set near beautiful Lake Tahoe, with a heartwarming story of found family and love.
Books Coming Out on January 18:
State Change by Dr. Robin Berzin
In State Change: The New Science of Ending Anxiety, Beating Burnout, and Reaching A Higher Baseline of Energy and Flow, Parsley Health Founder and CEO, Dr. Robin Berzin, has revolutionized medicine by flipping the script on the mind-body connection and placing one groundbreaking philosophy at the heart of patient care: Peak mental health starts in the body.
Geographies of the Heart by Caitlin Hamilton Summie
Sarah Macmillan always puts family first, but she can’t quite stretch her arms wide enough to hold on to everyone as they all age: her career-minded, inattentive younger sister, Glennie; their grandparents, who are slowly fading; or a pregnancy Sarah desperately wanted. But it’s her tumultuous relationship with Glennie that makes Sarah feel the loneliest. She’d always believed that their relationship was foundational, even unbreakable. Though blessed with a happy marriage to Al, whose compassion and humor she admires, Sarah grows increasingly bitter about Glennie’s absences, until one decision forces them all to decide what family means—and who is family. Narrated by the chorus of their three voices, this elegantly told and deeply moving novel examines the pull of tradition, the power of legacies, and the fertile but fragile ground that is family, the first geography to shape our hearts.
Kirins: The Seer of Serone by James Priest
In the fourth installment of this action-packed fantasy series, a disgruntled kirin high magician interrupts the global invisibility spell and kirins everywhere are momentarily visible to humans. Exploiting this breach, a vicious Alaskan fishing boat captain, Jeremy Bailey, captures a kirin named Till and, under threat of torture, exploits Till’s magical abilities for Bailey’s benefit.
A kirin party fights back to deliver Bailey to The Seer of Serone, an esteemed kirin wizard who brings the infamous human to trial. Peering into Bailey’s mind, The Seer will show mercy only if Bailey is a truly changed man.
This lovingly crafted story in the classic fantasy tradition explores the power of empathy, friendship, and forgiveness to heal the rifts that divide.
Cheat Day by Liv Stratman
Kit and David started as college sweethearts, but now that they’re in their thirties, David is off on exciting work adventures and Kit just feels stuck. Her fear of failure keeps her coming back to Sweet Cheeks, her sister’s bakery she manages. In an effort to feel control, Kit cycles through fad diets, which David endures with her for support. But Kit is malnourished, and finally finds passion in an affair with Matt, the carpenter building shelves in the bakery kitchen. While she gives in to her body’s desires with Matt, she completely halts them with food to suppress her guilt, obsessing over her diet and splitting herself in two extremes that she can’t maintain forever.
Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton
Cadie Kessler is a forestry researcher on the verge of an important discovery that could prevent costly damage to the very wilderness that is her safe haven. But when she gets an urgent message from her long-estranged best friend, Daniela Garcia, they must face a dark secret that ended both their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer they shared over 25 years ago. Cadie must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the people and the forest she loves, as drought, foreclosures, and wildfire spark tensions between displaced migrant farm workers and locals.
Somebody's Home by Kaira Rouda
A quiet neighborhood. A lovely home. A promising new beginning. In a heartbeat everything can change in this propulsive novel of suspense by USA Today bestselling author Kaira Rouda.
Books Coming out on January 25:
Getting Clean with Stevie Green by Swan Huntley
The author of the “sparkling dark romance” (Redbook) We Could Be Beautiful brings her “wit and verve” (The New York Times Book Review) to this quirky, feel-good novel about one woman’s messy journey from self-delusion to self-acceptance.
At thirty-seven, Stevie Green has had it with binge drinking and sleeping with strange men. She’s confused about her sexuality and her purpose in life. When her mother asks her to return to her hometown of La Jolla to help her move into a new house, she’s desperate enough to say yes. The move goes so well that Stevie decides to start her own decluttering business. She stops drinking. She hires her formerly estranged sister, Bonnie, to be her business partner. She rekindles a romance with her high school sweetheart, Brad. Things are better than ever—except for the complicated past that Stevie can’t seem to outrun.
Who was responsible for the high school scandal that caused her life to take a nosedive twenty years earlier? Why is she so secretive about the circumstances of her father’s death? Why are her feelings for her ex-friend, Chris, so mystifying? If she’s done drinking, then why can’t she seem to declutter the mini wine bottles from her car?
A winsome, fast-paced read, Getting Clean With Stevie Green is about coming to terms with who you are, resolving the pain of your past, and accepting the truth of your life in all its messy glory.
