Spring 2023 Book List | A list of fiction titles to be published for June recommended by your EPLS librarians. Download the printable list here.
Summer 2023 Book List | A list of fiction titles to be published for the summer of 2023 recommended by your EPLS librarians. Download the printable list here.
June 2023
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Fatal Fudge Swirl (Book 3 in the Ice Cream Shop Series) |
| Allen, Meri |
| Riley Rhodes returns in Meri Allen's Fatal Fudge Swirl, the third delicious cozy set in a New England ice cream shop. |
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The Wind Knows My Name |
| Allende, Isabel |
| A weaving of past and present, tracing th eripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. |
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Money Devils 2 (Book 9 in the Cartel Series) |
| Ashley & JaQuavis |
| the LaCroix sister are bound by money and blood in the world of The Cartel where nothing is more important than family. |
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The Whispers |
| Audrain, Ashley |
| Four families lives are changed when the unthinkable happens and a child's life hangs in the balance. |
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Unfortunately Yours (Book 2 in the Secretly Yours Series) |
| Bailey, Tessa |
| The hilarious follow-up to Secretly Yours, in which a down-on-her-luck Napa heiress suggests a mutually beneficial marriage-of-convenience to a man she can't stand... only to discover there's a fine line between love and hate. |
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The Spare Room |
| Bartz, Andrea |
| Crashing with a friend and her husband is more intimate-and dangerous-than anyone could imagine. |
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The First Ladies |
| Benedict, Marie, and Victoria Christopher Murray |
| A novel about the extraordinary partnership between Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune, a forbidden friendship that changed the world. |
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The Girls of Summer |
| Bishop, Katie |
| Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she's now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her. Now she looks back realistically at her time working for an enigmatic and wealthy controlling man. |
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The Wedding Gift |
| Brown Carolyn |
| A bride with cold feet might just make the mistake of a lifetime, unless there's a wise woman around to set her straight. |
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The Archive Undying (Book 1 in the Downworld Sequence Series) |
| Candon, Emma Mieko |
| when the robotic god of Khoun Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests, its city, and all its wondrous works. But in its final death throes, the god brought one thing back to life: its favorine child, Sunai. Now Sunai must save the world. |
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Death in Fine Condition |
| Cartmel, Andrew (A book in the Paper back Sleuth Series) |
| A cast of lovable rogues face fiendish puzzles and murderous villians in this love letter to Agatha Christie murder mysteries and classic whodunit. |
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Misfortune Cookie (Book 9 in the Noodle Shop Series) |
| Chien, Vivien |
| Lana Lee reeturns for another delectable cozy set in a chinese restaurant in Cleveland, OH. |
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Lay Your Body Down |
| Clarke, Amy Suiter |
| A young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical pastor has poisoned everyone's minds - and may be covering up a murder |
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All the Sinners Bleed |
| Cosby, S. A. |
| A novel about the first Black sheriff in a small Southern town, and his hunt for a killer. |
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The Rebound Surprise |
| Cremant, Laurel |
| And baby makes 3 in this adorable and loveable new romantic comedy. |
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Lady MacDeath (Book 32 in the Bed-and-Breakfast Series) |
| Daheim, Mary |
| Unexprected visitors bring old baggage and big trouble to Hillside Manor, threatening the livelihood and life of innkeeper and amateur sleuth Judith McMonigle Flynn. |
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The Spectacular |
| Davis, Fiona |
| When a bomb explodes in Radio City Music Hall in 1956, 19 year old Rockette Marion finds herself pulled into the investigation. |
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Watch Us Shine |
| De los Santos, Marissa |
| Alternating between two timelines, Cornelia's story in the present, and that of the young Eleanor Campbell in the 1960's, Watch Us Shine explores the complicated bonds between sisters, the impossible demands of motherhood, and the power of human love to save us again and again. |
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Death Knells and Wedding Bells (Book 10 in the Lighthouse Library Series) |
| Gates, Eva |
| Librarian Lucy's wedding is nearly perfect, aside from a missing guest and the strangled body she finds. Now, she vows to find the killer. |
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Robert B Parker's Bad Influence (Book 11 in the Sunny Randall Series) |
| PI Sunny Randall takes on another thrilling case. |
| She's an outsider desperate to belong, but the cost of entry might be her darkest secret. |
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Crow Mary |
| Grissom, Kathleen |
| A weeping saga inspired by the by the true story of Crow Mary, an indigenous woman torn between two worlds in 19th-century North America. |
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The Paris Daughter |
| Harmel, Kristin |
| A gripping historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation. |
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Demons of Good and Evil (Book 17 in the Hollows Series) |
| Harrison, Kim |
| Rachel Morgan will learn that the price of loyalty is blood. |
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Love Theoretically |
| Hazelwood, Ali |
| Rival Physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake-dating shenanigans. |
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Night Will Find You |
| Heaberlin, Julia |
| When she was a child Vivvy saved a boy's life. He is now a Texas police officer and believes Vivvy is psychic. He convinces her to help him solve a case, but now the killer may be focused on Vivvy. |
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The Five Star Weekend |
| Hilderbrand, Elin |
| After the unexpected death of her husband Hollis shaw hears of a "Five Star" weekend where a woman invited her best friend from each stage of her life - but her weekend is not the Hallmark movie she expected. |
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Southern Man (Book 7 in the Penn Cage Series) |
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Iles, Greg
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| A man - and a town - rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but unbowed in the fight to save those they love. |
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Hiss Me Deadly (Book 15 in the Cat in the Stacks Series) |
| James, Miranda |
| Charlie and Diesel must catch a killer before he strikes another deadly note. |
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Neighborhood Watch |
| Jester, David |
| Abi Ansel has never had much luck in love, or anything for that matter, and when her blind date ends up being her new next door neighbor and she believes he might be behind the gruesome murders gripping her small town she doesn't know where to turn. |
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The Survivor (Book 30 in the Eve Duncan Series) |
| Johansen, Iris |
| Eve Duncan teams up with Riley Smith (A Face to Die For) to go deep in the jungles of Laos to save a rare animal species. |
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The Single Rule |
| Mallery, Susan |
| Three women search for joy. |
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Same Time Next Summer |
| Monaghan, Annabel |
| The story of an engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she hasn't seen in fourteen years, but who she spent every summer with from age five to seventeen when he broke her heart, calling into question everything she thought she knew about their love story, and herself. |
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The Evergreen Heir (Book 4 in the Five Crowns of Okrith Series) |
| Mulford, AK |
| A court of revelry. Abookish heir. An impending marriage. And a dark new power rising in the world. |
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Cross Down (Book 31 in the Alex Cross Series) |
| Patterson, James and Brendan Dubois |
| Alex Cross is gravely injured. Only his partner and friend John Sampson can keep him safe... and get him justice. |
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The Heavy Lift (Book 8 in the Peter Ash Series) |
| Petrie, Nick |
| War veteran Peter Ash must follow his friend Lewis into a criminal underworld when secrets from the past threaten everything they hold dear. |
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Tides of Fire (Book 17 in the Sigma Force Series) |
| Rollins, James |
| An international research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of out planet. |
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With Every Memory |
| Rosche, Janine |
| One year after her family was in a tragic car accident that killed her teenage son, Lori Mendenhall returns home with a traumatic brain injury that has stolen the last eight years of memories from her. |
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The Only One Left |
| Sager, Riley |
| A Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. |
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We Could Be So Good |
| Sebastian, Cat |
| Colleen Hoover meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century romdram about a scrappy reporter and a newspaper mogul's son. |
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Lady Tan's Circle of Women |
| See, Lisa |
| A captivating story of women helping other women. It is also a triumphant reimagining of the life of a woman who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today. |
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Palazzo |
| Steel, Danielle |
| A stirring novel about the legacies families inherit, create, and carry on. |
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Middlemen (Book 5 in the MacNeice Series) |
| Thornley, Scott |
| Police track a bloody trail to a grisly crime scene in the woods, uncovering a series of murders that appears to be the work of professional hitmen. |
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Death Comes to Marlow (Book 2 in the Marlow Murder Club Series) |
| Thorogood, Robert |
| Judith, Suzie and Becks return in the brilliant second crime novel. |
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Your Lion Eyes (Book 2 in the Alphaville Series) |
| Warren, Christine |
| Molly Buchanan is a lioness on the prowl. Unfortunately, since she's been prowling through the same town for her entire life, she's down to some pretty slim picking in the dating department. Then the new Deputy comes to town and his bear might want to devour her. |
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The Beach at Summerly |
| Williams, Beatriz |
| June 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves in the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. |
