—John Steinbeck

By Blair Palmer Yoxall

In 1885, Nikosis "Niko" Eriksen spends his days playing buffalo hunter, even though it's been many years since a member of his tribe has actually seen one of the once-ubiquitous animals. But when beloved Cousin goes missing, things start to fall apart. With law enforcement failing--indeed refusing--to investigate the disappearance, a female-fronted posse of citizens takes matters into their own hands. This debut novel is being hailed as a kind of anti-Western, edged with mystery elements and uncomfortable historical revelations.
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By Mary Robinette Kowal

If you loved the Nick and Nora movies like The Thin Man, you’ll enjoy this homage to that genre. Kowal writes about Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, who is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She's traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named as the prime suspect. To save him from the frame-up, Tesla will risk exposure and face demons from her past. Even though doing so might make her the next victim. Beyond the mystery, you might like the cocktail recipes that open every chapter and the antics of Tesla’s support dog, Gimlet (modeled after Asta of the Nick and Nora movies).
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P.S. If you'd like to read more about women in space, check out Kowal’s Lady Astronaut novels, including the most recent: The Martian Contingency 

By Amanda Rizkalla

This striking debut is told from the perspective of 12-year-old Sofia who lives in a car on streets and in parking lots of 21st century America with her desperate mom and her brother. Sofia's mother promises that she'll have her own bedroom to decorate soon. Soon, too, she'll be able to see her friends, go back to school, and eat the colorful, tempting cakes in the grocery store's display case. For now, tough, Sofia's days are a blur of freeways and strip malls across the West Coast as her mother searches for a safe place to park for the night. For now, her mother contemplates impossible choices, while Sofia catches glimpses of kindness and cruelty from strangers, and tries to carve out a space and an identity for herself while grappling with her family's disintegration. 
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By Emma Garman

Perfect for Agatha Christie fans, this debut and homage to the classic murder mystery is set in a boarding house in 1950s post-WWII. Is it the landlady, the teenage sleuth, the debutante, the writer, or the refugee with blood on their hands?
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By Juliett Faithfull

Why are their parents acting as if Mita never existed? This gripping debut novel of family secrets is about a teenage girl in 1970s Brazil who is torn away from her twin sister, and was inspired by the author’s own relationship with her twin sister. Set in a country where repression and silence are the fabric of everyday life, Liar's Dice captures the precarious intensity of coming of age in a volatile time and the cost of keeping family secrets. 
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By Heather Webb

1919, Washington D.C. Elisabeth Beaumont is left to run her family’s failing jewelry business. Desperate for work, she approaches the affluent crowd her brother Julien once courted to expand Beaumont Jewelers. Their ringleader is wealthy socialite Evalyn McLean, owner of the world's most infamous gemstone, rumored to curse all who travel within its orbit....
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By Elizabeth Strout

Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He goes about his days teaching American history to high schoolers, correcting their casual ignorance, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He spends his free time sailing the beautiful Massachusetts Bay, or with his adult son and his wife of more than three decades--and as Artie does these things, he plans the event that will forever change the world he inhabits. But when a startling accident awakens a new perspective in Artie, and he realizes that life has its own secret it's been keeping from him-- along with a lot more to say on the weighty matters of fate and freedom in his home and his country-- he charts another course full of grief, hilarity, and heart, to a place where the end marks the beginning. 
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By Kathryne Stockett
The author of The Help delivers her first novel in 17 years. In a Mississippi town gripped by the Great Depression, 11-year-old orphan Meg Lefleur collides with defiant Birdie Calhoun, unmarried and outspoken, who has come to Oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family she's left behind. 
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By Patricia Cornwell

In this achingly honest memoir, Cornwell excavates her own life, detailing her traumatic childhood being raised by neglectful parents, her father abandoning the young family on Christmas day, her mother being institutionalized twice, an abusive foster family, and developing a parental relationship with evangelist Billy Graham’s wife Ruth. Cornwell depicts a harrowing hospitalization and near-death car accident. She unflinchingly shares overcoming obstacles that later gave her the ambition to become an award-winning police reporter. From there it was research in a medical examiners office that would turn into a full-time job. Finally she became a forensic expert and worldwide publishing phenomenon.
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By Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah

Unlikely peacemakers Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli Maoz Inon take readers on their unforgettable weeklong journey across the holy land while exploring each other's personal and national histories in a land of competing narratives, amid the turbulent push and pull of near constant war, and the recent devastation that has rocked the world. Their mission--to explain the naivete in believing that more violence can bring security and prosperity to either people while in search of a true and lasting peace. Pairing unapologetic candor and inspirational prose, Sarah and Inon are sending a message to humanity that the people have the power to make change. Peace is achievable, not just between the river and the sea, but throughout the world.
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By Harrison Hill

On a cool fall night in 1999, twenty-six-year-old Sarah Green crept out of her house, retrieved a backpack from its hiding place, and ran for her life. She was escaping not just the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, a paramilitary religious cult operating out of the New Mexico desert, but also the punishments and cruelty of the cult's leader--her mother, Deborah. In The Oracle's Daughter, Harrison Hill traces the fascinating beginnings and violent end of ACMTC, from its early days as an outgrowth of the 1960s counterculture to its descent into conspiracy-fueled abuse. With a dramatic, deeply researched narrative tracing the strange twists and turns of the country's religious development, The Oracle's Daughter illuminates the porous boundary between the fringe and the mainstream--and shows how much more vulnerable we are to extremism than we might like to think.
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By Erin O’Brien

In her first cookbook, content creator Erin O'Brien draws inspiration from three generations of women who taught her to create her own modern spin, with a stress-free approach to boldly flavored food. In the last five years, Erin has built a thriving community of almost 1.4 million followers across platforms who turn to her for delicious, manageable, and creative meals and are eagerly awaiting this book. Dig In! is an essential companion for anyone hoping to elevate their home cooking and make every meal one to remember
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