New Book Releases – November 2024 Edition

A Very Bad Thing by J. T. Ellison

Thriller, Contemporary

Expected Release: 1 November 2024 by Thomas & Mercer

From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a taut thriller about one author at the pinnacle of her career, whose past threatens to destroy everything she has—and everyone she knows.  A great writer knows when to deliver a juicy plot twist. But for one author, the biggest twist of all is her own murder.

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A Tribute of Fire by Sariah Wilson

Fantasy, Romance

Expected Release: 1 November 2024 by Montlake

The fate of a cursed nation depends on a princess who must outwit a mortal enemy and outlast the trials of a death-defying ritual in a thrilling adventure by USA Today bestselling author Sariah Wilson.

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Learn more about the The Eye of the Goddess series here.

When We Were Widows: A Novel by Annette Chavez Macias

Contemporary

Expected Release: 1 November 2024 by Montlake

In this heartfelt story about finding love in loss, three widows are forced under the same roof, where they’ll need to overcome grief, anger, and old secrets to put their family back together.  Since her husband’s death six months ago, Yesica Diaz-Taylor seems to be taking her grief in stride. Then an angry outburst at work shatters the illusion. Her mandated support group counseling doesn’t help much. Yesica has always kept her feelings close, so even when an unlikely friendship blossoms with the group’s facilitator, she still has reasons for holding back. She’s just not ready to share.

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An Age of Winters by Gemma Liviero

Historical Fantasy

Expected Release: 1 November 2024 by Lake Union Publishing

In the seventeenth century, witchfinders rule and paranoia thrives in a chilling novel about unrequited love, persecution, and betrayal by the bestselling author of The Road Beyond Ruin and Broken Angels.

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The Lies We Leave Behind by Noelle Salazar

Historical Fiction, WWII

Expected Release: 5 November 2024 by MIRA

For readers of Kate Quinn and Beatriz Williams, this sweeping story follows a fearless nurse who must leave love behind when duty calls her back to the front.

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Eleanore of Avignon by Elizabeth DeLozier

Historical Fiction, Medieval

Expected Release: 5 November 2024 by Dutton

Eleanore of Avignon is the story of a woman who is unwilling to bend to the limitations her society places upon her when she becomes the unlikely apprentice to the pope’s physician at the most challenging and dangerous moment in medieval European history.

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Historical Fantasy, YA, Romance

Expected Release: 5 November 2024 by Wednesday Books

The stunning conclusion to the story that started in What the River Knows. A lush immersive historical fantasy set in 1885 Egypt filled with adventure, and a rivals-to-lovers romance like no other!

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Learn more about the Secrets of the Nile series here.

The Lake of Lost Girls by Katherine Greene

Thriller

Expected Release: 5 November 2024 by Crooked Lane Books

Using suspenseful podcast clips to weave a twisty tale of a missing student and her sister who is desperate for answers, The Lake of Lost Girls is perfect for fans of I Have Some Questions for You.  In the present, one sister seeks to untangle a complicated web of lies. In the past, the other descends ever deeper into a darkness that will lead to her ultimate fate.  This propulsive and chilling suspense is a sharp examination of sisterhood and the culture of true crime.

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The End and the Beginning: A Novel by K. J. Holdom

Historical Ficiton

Expected Release: 5 November 2024 by Simon & Schuster

A stunning tour de force of a novel based on the true story of a fourteen-year-old boy’s harrowing experience fleeing a Hitler youth camp with his best friend in the last days of the Second World War—perfect for readers of All the Light We Cannot See and The German Girl.

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Before We Forget Kindness by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Fantasy, Time Travel

Expected Release: 5 November 2024 by Hanover Square Press

In the fifth book in the sensational, cozy Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests. They must follow the café’s strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold. Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before we forget kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future.

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Learn more about the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series here.

The Magnificent Ruins by Nayantara Roy

Contemporary Fiction

Expected Release: 12 November 2024 by Algonquin Books

Vikram Seth and Thrity Umrigar meet Rebecca in this sweeping multi-generational debut novel by accomplished television executive Nayantara Roy, about a young Indian American book editor from Brooklyn who returns to Kolkata when she learns that she has inherited her family’s enormous ancestral home, and the secrets that lie within it.

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All’s Fair in Love and Treachery by Celeste Connally

Historical Fiction, Romance, Cozy Mystery

Expected Release: 12 November 2024 by Minotaur Books

Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in this dazzling next installment in a captivating Regency-era mystery series with a feminist spin. 21 June, 1815. London may be cheering the news of Napoleon’s surrender at Waterloo, but Lady Petra Forsyth has little to celebrate after discovering that the death of her viscount fiancé three years earlier was no accident. Instead, it was murder, and the man responsible is her handsome, half-Scottish secret paramour Duncan Shawcross—yet the scoundrel has disappeared, leaving only a confusing riddle about long-forgotten memories in his wake.  So what’s a lady to do when she can’t hunt down her traitorous lover?

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Learn more about the Lady Petra Inquires series here.

The Lotus Empire by Tasha Suri

Fantasy

Expected Release: 12 November 2024 by Orbit

The Lotus Empire brings Tasha Suri’s acclaimed Burning Kingdoms trilogy to a heart–stopping close. As an ancient magic returns to Ahiranya and threatens its very foundations, Empress Malini and priestess Priya will stop at nothing to save their kingdoms—even if it means they must destroy each other.

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Learn more about the The Burning Kingdoms series here.

The Sunflower House by Adriana Allegri

Historical Fiction, WWII

Expected Release: 12 November 2024 by St. Martin’s Press

Family secrets come to light as a young woman fights to save herself, and others, in a Nazi-run baby factory—a real-life Handmaid’s Tale—during World War II. The Sunflower House is a meticulously-researched debut historical novel that uncovers the notorious Lebensborn Program of Nazi Germany. A tale of one woman’s determination to resist and survive, The Sunflower House is also a love story. When Allina meets Karl, a high-ranking SS officer with secrets of his own, the two must decide how much they are willing to share with each other—and how much they can stand to risk as they join forces to save as many children as they can.

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The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Translator)

Fantasy

Expected Release: 19 November 2024 by Knopf

From the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times.  We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. One day, she disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life. Thus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world—a mysterious, perhaps imaginary, walled town where unicorns roam, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind, and where shadows become untethered from their selves.

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The Maui Effect by Sara Ackerman

Contemporary, Romance

Expected Release: 19 November 2024 by MIRA

Iwa Young’s life is high in the Maui rainforest. As a field biologist, she’s happiest in company with trees and birds and waterfalls. When a developer arrives with plans for a so-called “eco resort” in the middle of a forest full of endangered species, ‘Iwa puts all her energy into the fight to protect it. But a chance encounter threatens to distract her. His name is Dane Parsons, and he’s a big-wave surfer from California. ‘Iwa has a few unbreakable rules, and at the top of her list: never date a surfer.

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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer ,  John Burgoyne  (illustrator)

Non-Fiction

Expected Release: 19 November 2024 by Scribner

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. As indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most?

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The Mirror by Nora Roberts

Paranormal Romance, Mystery

Expected Release: 19 November 2024 by St. Martin’s Press

Nora Roberts continues the hauntingly spectacular Lost Bride Trilogy with book two, The Mirror.  When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it, sensing it holds dark family secrets.

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Learn more about the The Lost Bride Trilogy series here.

The Songbird & the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent

Fantasy, Romance

Expected Release: 19 November 2024 by Bramble Romance

New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Carissa Broadbent returns with a brand new novel in the Crowns of Nyaxia series, Songbird and the Heart of Stone, where A Court of Thorns and Roses meets Dante’s Inferno, in an epic fantasy romance of love and treachery between mortals and gods.  Mische lost everything when she was forcibly Turned into a vampire—her home, her humanity, and most devastating of all, the love of the sun god to whom she had devoted her life. Now, sentenced to death for murdering the vampire prince who turned her, redemption feels impossible.  But when Mische is saved by Asar, the bastard prince of the House of Shadow with a past as brutal as his scars, she’s forced into a mission worse than execution: a journey to the underworld to resurrect the god of death himself.

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Learn more about the Crowns of Nyaxia series here.

The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso

Fantasy

Expected Release: 19 November 2024 by Orbit

A whip-smart adventure fantasy packed with rival guilds, reality-bending magic, and sapphic pining, The Last Hour Between Worlds is the brilliant launch of a new series from David Gemmell Award-nominated author, Melissa Caruso.  Kembral Thorne is spending a few hours away from her newborn, and she’s determined to enjoy herself at this party no matter what. But when the guests start dropping dead, Kem has no choice but to get to work. She is a Hound, after all, and she can’t help picking up the scent of trouble.   She’s not the only one. Her professional and personal nemesis, notorious burglar Rika Nonesuch, is on the prowl. 

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Learn more about the The Echo Archives series here.

Reaper by Alex B. Harper

Fantasy, YA

Expected Release: 26 November 2024 by ABH Publishing

In the final volume of the Ashes of Magic trilogy, When she rises, she will bring them to their knees.  Two worlds balance on the brink of war. The nainthe defending their home and their people. The raizour fighting for the survival of their dying race. Both sides battling for the power of determining who gets to live.  As the two worlds collide, each in a desperate bid to save their own, alliances will be tested, loyalties will be broken, and sacrifices will be made by all.

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