New Fiction

Half Life of a Stolen Sister

by Rachel Cantor

available in July, hardcover, Soho Press

If you’re like me, you’ve fallen in love with the Brontë siblings’ classic novels, and cannot get enough of their tragic, imaginative, and curious backstory. Rachel Cantor expertly weaves their personal accounts with reimaginings of their lives, highlighting their relationships with one another and all the ways their creativity brought about the stories we know and love today. –Chloe

Ripe

by Sarah Rose Etter

available in July, hardcover, Scribner

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley start-up, Cassie finds herself trapped in a corporate nightmare. Between the long hours, toxic bosses, and unethical projects, she also struggles to reconcile the glittering promise of a city where obscene wealth lives alongside abject poverty and suffering. When her CEO’s demands cross an illegal threshold and she ends up unexpectedly pregnant, Cassie must decide whether the tempting fruits of Silicon Valley are really worth it.

The Crow Valley Karaoke Championships

by Ali Bryan

available in July, hardcover, Henry Holt and Co.

A year after forest fires sweep through the town of Crow Valley and claim the life of Dale Jepson—karaoke legend, local prison guard, and “all-around good guy”—the community holds a karaoke competition. But when a convicted arsonist escapes from nearby Crow Valley Correctional, the residents learn there’s more on the line than a trip to the National Karaoke Championships. Marriages are at stake, jobs are jeopardized, sobrieties threatened, and second chances start to slip away as the community is forced, once again through misfortune, to rally together to save themselves and one another. The Crow Valley Karaoke Championships is a story about the fires we all fight in life—from the smoldering embers to the blazing infernos—and how, ultimately, there is dignity in the struggle to keep singing, to keep fighting, to keep going, to keep living no matter how high the flames get.

The Door-to-Door Bookstore

by Carsten Henn

available in July, hardcover, Hanover Square Press

The Door to Door Bookstore is a charming international bestseller. Bookseller Carl Christian Kollhoff delivers books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most important connection to the world. When Kollhoff unexpectedly loses his job, it takes the power of books and a nine-year-old girl to make them all find the courage to rebuild their bonds with each other.

The Imposters

by Tom Rachman available in June, hardcover, Little, Brown Dora Frenhofer, a once successful but now aging and embittered novelist, knows her mind is going. She is determined, however, to finish her final book, and reverse her fortunes, before time runs out. Alone in her London home during the pandemic, she creates, and is in turn created by, the fascinating real characters from her own life.

The Road to Dalton

by Shannon Bowring

available in June, hardcover, Europa Editions

Have you lived in a small town? If so, you know that if you want to be alone—move to a city. This is a story of the small town of Dalton, Maine and its inhabitants. It can be rough, everyone knows everyone, and is in each other’s business. A fun debut novel that makes you remember who is important in your life and why. –Kelly E.