Always With a Book

Title: Another Woman’s Daughter     Author: Fiona Sussman     Published: October 2015, Berkley   Format: Paperback, 304 pages      Set against the tumultuous background of apartheid South Africa, a powerful and moving debut about family, sacrifice, and discovering what it means to belong… Celia Mphephu knows her place in the world. A black servant working in the white suburbs of 1960s Johannesburg, she’s all too aware of her…

Title: Chance Harbor    Author: Holly Robinson     Published: October 2015, NAL   Format: Paperback, 448 pages    From the acclaimed author of Beach Plum Island and The Wishing Hill… “No one does it better than Holly Robinson.”—Susan Straight, National Book Award Finalist and Author of Between Heaven and Here Catherine and Zoe are sisters, but even their mother, Eve, admits her daughters are nothing alike. Catherine is calm…

Title: Night Blindness    Author: Susan Strecker      Published: September 2015, St. Martin’s Press (first published 2014)  Format: Paperback, 320 pages    One October night, when Jensen Reilly is sixteen, she and her high school sweetheart are involved in a horrible accident. Ever since then Jensen has been running from her past. But when Jensen’s beloved father is diagnosed with a brain tumor, she returns to her childhood home…

Title: The Secret Chord     Author: Geraldine Brooks        Published: October 2015, Viking   Format: Hardcover, 320 pages     A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of People of the Book and March. With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Now,…

Title: Laguna Nights    Author: Kaira Rouda     Series: Laguna Beach, #1      Published: July 2015, Real You Publishing Group    Format: Paperback, 250 pages   Madison Alcott left her Laguna Beach childhood in the past as soon as she could, never imagining she’d be forced to return. Caring for her ill mother and holding down a high-pressure position at the best resort in town, Madison’s life is…

Title: After You    Author: Jojo Moyes      Series: Me Before You, #2      Published: September 2015, Pamela Dorman Books Format: Hardcover, 368 pages     How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is…

Title: Dark Waters    Author: Chris Goff     Series: Raisa Jordan Thriller, #1      Published: September 2015, Crooked Lane Books   Format: Hardcover, 352 pages      Raisa “Rae” Jordan, an agent for the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service, isn’t in Israel for more than a day before her predecessor is gunned down in a Tel Aviv square by a sniper. Assigned to investigate the assassination of one of her…

Title: No Virgin Island    Author: C. Michele Dorsey     Series: A Sabrina Salter Mystery, #1      Published: August 2015, Crooked Lane Books   Format: Hardcover, 272 pages      Sabrina Salter traded a high-pressure job as a Boston meteorologist for life as an innkeeper on sun-soaked St. John. But storm clouds roll in when Sabrina finds Carter Johnson, her most attractive guest, tucked up in a hammock way…

Title: Red Line    Author: Brian Thiem      Series: A Matt Sinclair Mystery, #1       Published: August 2015, Crooked Lane Books   Format: Hardcover, 368 pages    When a teenager from a wealthy suburb outside of Oakland, CA is dumped at an inner city bus stop, homicide detective Matt Sinclair catches the case. It’s his first since being bumped to desk duty for a bust that went south…fast.…