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NEW BOOK PURCHASES BOOK SEPTEMBER 2026

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BIG LITTLE TRUTHS   Liane Moriarty –  Ten years after Big Little Lies, Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie all have new problems.  Then when a stranger begins asking supposedly innocent questions, this tightly connected group of women must finally face the full repercussions of the big little truths they have and haven’t shared with their kids. 

 

THE BOAT HOUSE  Fern Michaels –  Madison and Lincoln are settling in for a Jersey Shore summer.   Visitors love the area’s history—the tales of pirates, cryptic maps and treasure. And then a seemingly worthless map is stolen from their boat house.  The town may not survive unless they can quickly separate fiction from fact, and guilty from innocent…

 

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING  Lisa Scottoline  –   Julia Pritzker loves being a wife and mother in beautiful Tuscany. One night, Julia calls Courtney and reaches her just as she’s arriving at her grandmother’s farm.   A dreadful premonition overwhelms Julia just before Courtney discovers her murdered grandmother, and the killer is escaping out the back door.  Julia flies home the next morning, and Courtney entreats Julia to use her psychic intuition to help. But events take a deadly turn, and Julia becomes a target  - she ends up fighting for her life, with no one to save her … but herself.

 

CRY HAVOC  Jack Carr – 1968.  A spy ship is captured by communist forces off the coast of North Korea. The crew thought they had destroyed everything of intelligence value. They were wrong.  Tom Reece, a SEAL operator attached to the highly classified and shadowy MACV-SOG is about to be thrust into a bloody battle to discover the truth.

 

DECEPTIONS  Jeffery Deaver  –   A murder at a crime writers' conference. The method is entirely literary, the motive seems obvious.  A serial killer with a motive never before seen in the history of crime challenges  Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs to rethink everything they know about the nature of evil and the evidence its perpetrators leave behind.

 

DELUSIONAL  James Patterson & James O. Born –   In NYC, a series of deadly explosions. Across the river, a military base is burglarized for munitions. In Montana, violence and arson rock a small town outside of Bozeman. Are the incidents related?  Bennett, Trilling, and the ATF investigate. A group angry with the government keep turning up in unexpected places, insisting that they’re only trying to make the world a better place. To law enforcement, their claims seem delusional.  Will words or gunpowder light the next fuse?

 

GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER  Shari Lapena  –  Jill and Ted adore their New York brownstone. They have carefully, expensively, made every inch of it their own. So when Ted’s inheritance runs out and he makes a bad investment, they panic. How can they protect their home and lifestyle?  The answer is obvious. The death of one wealthy family member—from whom they stand to inherit millions—could solve all their problems. Together, they will get away with murder?

 

GOD’S COUNTRY  William Kent Krueger –  Cork O’Connor is troubled by ominous visions about his future.  He uncovers signs of violence while searching for his missing friend, Cordell Bishop. Soon, he is forced to negotiate with dangerous criminals  who are seeking their late father’s hidden stash.  Cork grapples with his darkest instincts as he helps others escape and eventually takes justice into his own hands. 

 

INTO THE BLUE  - Emma Brodie –  In the summer of 2000, AJ Graves is stuck working in a video rental store.  Then in walks Noah Drew, an actor, and her life changes forever. The two forge a deep bond, first as friends, then as acting partners—until one day, Noah disappears without a word.  Seven years later, she finds herself in a TV production with Noah, now a well-known Hollywood heartthrob.  AJ and Noah are forced to confront what happened years ago—and the devastating secret that may send their lives careening apart.

 

LAND  Maggie O’Farrell  1865.  Tomás and his son, Liam, are mapping the whole of Ireland. In a country recently ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. The work should be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course.  His life, and the lives of those of his family, will never be the same again. Ten-year-old Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás, and how is Liam going to finish the mapping and get them both home?

 

NOT WHAT IT SEEMS  Lisa Jackson  –  Reporter Nikki Gillette seizes on the story of a horder’s  mysterious death.  She  visits his sprawling property and gains little except the uneasy feeling of being watched. Within days, another body is found—a wealthy, thrice-married Savannah socialite dead in her lavish home. More victims follow, each one pierced through the throat. Beside each body, a stone engraved with a different number and symbol

 

PHOEBE BERMAN’S GONNA LOSE IT  Brooke Averick –   Phoebe Berman fears the one thing she wants the most: love. Thanks to an extremely unfortunate first kiss attempt, crippling intimacy anxiety has plagued her since she was a teen.
She has so much going for her: a dream job, a supportive group of best friends, and all the romance novels. But she drafts up the ultimate “Guide to Losing My Virginity” checklist with the hope of finally getting laid.

 

THE SECRETS WE HIDE  Karen Slaughter –  1601 Iris Drive looks like any other house, but rumors are rampant about the Vickery family, and what goes on there.  When gunshots ring out, Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer, discover a devastating crime scene. Allison has been murdered in her own kitchen, and her teenage daughter is bleeding upstairs, left for dead.  Secrets are buried everywhere in this small town.  And it’s up to Emmy Clifton to uncover the truth…

 

TOM CLANCY PRESSURE DEPTH  Jack Stewart – Jack Ryan Jr. is on Guam to work on a perfectly ordinary insurance matter.  However, a US Navy dive team working off the coast uncovers a threat to international security.  For years, rumors persisted that the Soviets were tracking American submarines on the sea floor. On a seemingly routine mission they discover that the defensive network they thought they were looking for is actually a weapon unlike anything they’ve ever seen.

 

THE TRUE MEANING OF LOVE  Danielle Steel –  February 24 is the day that the first bombs of the 2022 Russian attack land in Ukraine. Life for every person in the country is turned upside down in a moment.  Thru the stories of those who fled to Poland (Tatyanna, and Yulya) and those who stayed behind, (Vlad, Symon, Sasha, and Anton) Danielle Steel tells a gripping and deeply moving story of regular people surviving as a war rages around them.

 

YOU’LL BE SORRY  Lisa Gardner – Raquel and Theo Collins decided to repair their marriage, bought an old house in a remote town in New Hampshire to begin over.  But the house has a history.  One night both parents and their four children vanished, leaving behind a trail of bloody footprints, and a mystery that has endured for thirty years. For Amanda Grady, police chief, it’s good to see a fresh start for the derelict Dixon place. However, not everyone is happy.  When a skeleton is discovered on the property, Raquel and Theo face a daunting choice of what to believe, who to trust, and how to survive.

 

THE WESTENERS (NF)  Megan Kate Nelson –  The Westerners is an epic counter-history of the American West told in two interwoven stories. The first reveals the lives of women and men moving through the American West—Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and Canadian and Asian immigrants—in the 19th century. The second tracks the attempts of many Americans to erase these westerners from history, through the formation of a national mythology that lionized individualism and conquest and celebrated white settlers traveling west in search of prosperity.

 

WHEN YOU LOVED ME  Beatriz Williams – Per local history, a pirate buried his treasure at Windward, the decayed Cooper estate.  Lucy Cooper never believed it. When a widowed Lucy returns with her young daughter to grieve her estranged father, she discovers catastrophe: The property is mired in debt she can’t repay, and Ben Ressler is there.  Thirteen summers ago, the teenaged Lucy fell in love with Ben, a Dartmouth football star vacationing nearby.  Now he has returned. As Lucy learns how to heal from the past, events reveal that someone else is trying to claim the fabled plunder.

 

THE WINDSOR AFFAIR  Melanie Benjamin – The Windsor Affair recreates the cataclysmic events that nearly toppled the monarchy and incited the power struggle between Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Wallis Simpson. Told from the perspective of both women, the novel propels readers into the fabulous world of the debonair Prince of Wales, café society of the 1930s, and the glittering private lives of the Windsors. The Windsor Affair brings us all the gossip and intrigue between the two very different—yet perhaps more similar than they would admit—wives of royals.

 

LARGE PRINT

THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS   Pip Williams – Esme spends her childhood in Oxford, where her father and his team are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. She sits  beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men.  Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and the looming Great War, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men.

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NEW BOOK PURCHASES August 2026

BACK TRACK   Marc Cameron – 1977. D Wayne Cutter is a Texas deputy sheriff.  The theft of five million dollars in diamonds leaves two men dead, one outlaw killed by Cutter, and another, Ricky Lee Pink sentenced to life. The diamonds were never recovered. 2026. Cutter’s grandson, U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter gets word that Pinky has been released. Pinky vows to avenge the murder of his partner and find the stolen gems.  And he wants to make the last living Cutter pay.
 

CLIVE CUSSLER COLD FIRE  Graham Brown –  Over the Arctic Ocean a super-secret American plane is hijacked.  Russian ships are seen putting out to sea. Chinese vessels are north of Norway. The only American asset is a small NUMA research vessel. Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala soon find that all is not as it seems. The Chinese and Russians were waiting for the plane’s arrival.  And now all three groups are determined to keep the others from finding the missing plane.
 

COOL MACHINE  Colson Whitehead  –   1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline. Successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney gambles on one last heist.  1983. When Carney’s partner in crime, Pepper, takes on a bodyguard gig, he’s plunged into the art and club scene and he reacts with violence.  1986. Carney has a chance to rescue his cousin’s son.   But teaming up with Pepper again will risk the safety and security of his  family, 
 

COUNTRY ROAD MURDERS  James Patterson & Mike Lupica – After a shocking accident, Silas Tucker’s football career is suddenly over.  He returns to his hometown,  where his father was murdered.  He goes back to his family’s small, struggling farm. Then Silas is pulled into battle with the Southern Mafia who control drugs, trafficking and murder.  Silas follows one rule for survival: you don’t ride these country roads alone, or in the dead of night.
 

DEAD MEN DON’T PLAY FETCH  David Rosenfelt  –   Andy Carpenter’s dream to retire is once again thwarted when an old friend asks for a favor.  A homeless veteran is charged with first degree murder, and he needs Andy's help. And of course, Andy will also be called on to care for the accused’s dog, but that’s okay: What's one more dog?  Once again, Andy is enmeshed in a puzzling, twisty case. But in order to reunite a man and his dog, Andy will have to untangle it all.
 

HOW THE STORY GOES  Andrew Forrester –   Whit Longacre’s wife, Helen, died of cancer, and she left him with their eight-year-old daughter and the task of writing the final book in her mega-popular children’s fantasy series.   Without any direction, Whit is dodging calls from Helen’s publisher and agent as the deadline fast approaches.  Then Whit meets Merritt Pryor, who works at the local bookstore. They decide to tackle the book together. Then Whit uncovers a buried secret about Helen’s final wishes…
 

JOHN OF JOHN  Douglas Stuart  –  Out of money, John-Calum Macleod returns to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides.  He returns to the windswept croft with his father John, a sheep farmer and lay preacher in the local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian who helped Cal survive the sudden departure of his mother.  Cal privately wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, while John is dismayed by his son’s unwillingness to be saved. But Cal isn't the only one in the croft house who is keeping secrets. 
 

THIS KINGDOM WILL NOT KILL ME  Ilona Andrews –  When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, she  recognizes the city she knows from her favorite dark fantasy series. She's been waiting years for the final novel.  Maggie knows the plot, the setting, and the characters.  But while she cannot be killed, the characters she's coming to love—a former lady’s maid, a deadly assassin, various magical creatures, and a dangerously appealing soldier can die. Soon, she finds herself consumed by dueling princes, dukes, and villains, all while trying to save them from a cataclysmic war.
 

LAST BRANCH STANDING (NF) Sarah Isgur –  Most people get the Supreme Court all wrong.  The ultimate insider, Isgur takes readers on a deep dive inside the Supreme Court: how cases land at the Court’s doorstep, which justices attend clerk happy hours (and which ones even bother showing up to the office), why conservatives already have buyer’s remorse about Amy Coney Barrett.  Blending irreverent humor and incisive commentary, Isgur shows us what we need to do to preserve the rule of law in this little self-governing experiment we’ve been running for the last 250 years.
 

LIFE: A LOVE STORY  Elizabeth Berg –  As ninety-two-year-old Flo Greene nears the end of her life, she writes a letter to her friend Ruthie describing the items Flo is leaving Ruthie in her will. But as it goes on, telling surprising stories about those “little” things (What could possibly be the worth of a rubber band kept in a matchbox tied up in red ribbon?), a portrait of the life she has lived emerges.  The letter will transform Flo and those around her. Flo decides to try new things = a pedicure and a blue streak put in her hair. Flo finds the fulfillment that living a full life has given her.
 

THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY  Kiran Desai  –  A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity.  Sonia and Sunny are immediately captivated yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that served only to drive them apart.  Uncertain of their future, Sonia and Sunny embark on a search for happiness together as they confront the many alienations of our modern world.
 

MAD MABEL  Sally Hepworth –   Meet Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick: eighty-one years old, gloriously grumpy, fiercely independent. She minds her own business, until a neighbor turns up dead and the whispers start flying.  Because Elsie hasn’t always been Elsie. Once upon a headline, she was Mad Mabel Waller—Australia’s youngest convicted murderer. But was she really mad, or just misunderstood? Either way, she’s kept her secret buried for decades.  Enter public interest—the cops and the media are circling like seagulls at a picnic.  So Mabel takes matters into her own hands.
 

MEET ME IN PARIS  Kristin Harmel –  Julia Glover has brought her daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time.  Julia is dying, and they desperately try to make memories together.  Piper meets a cute French waiter, and Julia meets a man and struggles with how to tell him about her future.  Aging rock star Jackson Quick meets a woman who finally sees him for who he is.  Henry McGee is in Paris to re-connect with an old love.  Americans in Paris must find their way to their own versions of happily ever after.
 

MOTHER-DAUGHTER BOOK CLUB  James Patterson & Susan Patterson – The Mother-Daughter Book Club—four longtime friends and their five daughters—more often discuss the books in texts than in-person. And maybe it’s just as well, after what happened at their last get-together ...   They finally gather again, this time on the spectacular shores of Italy’s Lake Como. These friends, and sometime rivals, are close readers—of novels, memoirs, and of each other. But as the years and the distance cast shadows and doubt, confidences and sympathies turn into surprising revelations.  
 

OUR PERFECT STORM  Carley Fortune –  Frankie and George have been best friends since they were eight years old. Both passionate, impulsive, and headstrong—they’ve always clashed . . . and come back together. Now it’s the eve of Frankie’s wedding weekend.  For one glorious evening, surrounded by her loved ones, Frankie’s life is finally perfect. But it all comes crashing down when her fiancé dumps her the next morning.  Frankie is crushed and confused, but George wants her to go on her honeymoon. With him. For one week, to the lush rainforests and misty beaches of Tofino.
 

PURPLE STATE  Dana Perino – Dot Clark, a buttoned-up PR professional from NYC feels stuck. She’s sent to Cedar Falls,  a swing district in a swing state.  Dot quickly discovers that small-town Midwestern life is far outside her urban comfort zone.  Dot meets the Danny, a big-hearted guy who follows hockey, not headlines—and she finds herself falling fast.  But with the campaign heating up, how can Dot find time for Danny, and what’s the point when she’s going back to the city after the election? Can love really cross party lines? 
 

RANSOM  Daniel Silva –  Alice Winter  seemingly has the perfect life—a lavish home, a grand estate, millions of followers on social media. But when she disappears while on holiday with three old friends, her desperate husband turns to Gabriel Allon to find her.  He soon discovers that Alice Winter has a reckless side, and secrets. But her husband has a secret too, so dangerous that Gabriel must return to the life he left behind. An old enemy lurks there, waiting for him.  
 

A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD  John Connolly –  In Maine’s rural Kennebec River Valley, the body of a young runaway from a “troubled teens” school has been found in the water, seemingly drowned, while a teenage girl has gone missing, believed dead. Now it is up to one man, private investigator Charlie Parker, to find the connection, and bring two evils—one new and one ancient—to an end…
 

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