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Sponsored by Amazon Publishing

Returning from an extended leave, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself reassigned to the Seattle PD’s cold case unit. As the mother of an infant daughter, Tracy is immediately drawn to her first file: the abduction of a five-year-old girl. Then, Tracy is brought into an active investigation of a young woman who disappeared while jogging. Now, to find two missing persons, Tracy will have to follow more than the clues. She must also follow her instincts—to whatever dark and dangerous places they may lead. The thrilling Tracy Crosswhite series continues with In Her Tracks by Robert Dugoni.

Sponsored by Running Press Teens, publisher of Not Our Summer by Casie Bazay

Five trips, two cousins, one family feud.

It’s bad enough that estranged cousins Becka and KJ have to see each other at their grandfather’s funeral. What’s worse, he’s left them a bucket list of places they have to visit—together. But somehow, amid riding mules into the Grand Canyon and encountering a bear and a hot tour guide at Yellowstone, the trip turns into something else: a summer that will change their lives forever.

Sponsored by Under the Magnolias by T. I. Lowe

Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980

Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies, leaving her to care for her six siblings and try to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness.

As Austin finds herself relying upon some of Magnolia’s most colorful citizens to ease the Fosters’ hardships, her father makes a choice that will crack the family’s secrets wide-open. T. I. Lowe’s gritty yet tender tale reminds us that a great story can break your heart . . . then heal it in the best possible way.

Sponsored by HarperCollins Children's

Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year. Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did.

When the two former friends begin working together to attempt to unravel the mysteries of time travel to save their siblings, they learn that the magic of their friendship may actually be the key to saving themselves.

Don’t miss this powerful novel about friendship, loss, and healing.

Sponsored by The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He

Cee awoke on an abandoned island three years ago. With no idea of how she was marooned, she only has a rickety house, an old android, and a single memory: she has a sister, and Cee needs to find her.
STEM prodigy Kasey wants escape from the science and home she once trusted. The Metropolis—Earth’s last unpolluted place—is populated by people willing to do anything for refuge. Now, she’ll have to decide if she’s ready to use science to help humanity, even though it failed the people who mattered most.

Sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter’s fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. New York Times bestseller Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia is a powerful novel from an incredible new talent.

Sponsored by Sourcebooks

When Keira wakes in a strange forest, she can remember only two things: she can see ghosts, and strange, mask-wearing men are hunting her. She seeks shelter at a church, and the kind pastor offers to let her stay in the groundskeeper’s cottage for a few days. But the cottage is situated behind the graveyard, and its spirits are only too eager to make themselves known. Keira’s shocked to discover her lost memories may be woven through the town’s bizarre hauntings, and soon, she’s thrown full-tilt into a race to unravel the decades-old mystery…before it’s too late.

Sponsored by Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan

When Karina Ahmed’s parents go abroad to Bangladesh for four weeks, she expects some peace and quiet. Instead, she gets roped into a fake-dating scheme with her school’s resident bad boy, Ace Clyde. Tutoring him was already crossing a line, but pretending to date him? Out of the question. But Ace does everything right—he brings her coffee in the mornings, impresses her friends without trying, and even promises to buy her a dozen books a week. Though Karina agrees, she can’t help but start counting down the days until her parents come back and things return to normal.

Sponsored by Algonquin Books.

Lil and Frank married young, after bonding over how they both lost a parent when they were children. Now that they are retired, Lil is determined to leave a history for their own kids. She sifts through letters and diary entries, uncovering old stories—and revealing more secrets than Frank wants their children to know. Empathetic and profound, this novel from master storyteller Jill McCorkle deconstructs and reconstructs what it means to be a father or a mother, and to be a child trying to know your parents, trying to make sense of the hieroglyphics of history and memory.

Sponsored by FSG / MCD

Vern—seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the religious compound where she was raised—flees for the shelter of the woods to raise her twins far from outside influence.

But even in the woods, Vern is still forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, as her body wracked by inexplicable changes.

To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it.