From New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy comes a novel inspired by a true story: In 1969, rising Hollywood star Lori Lovely shocks the world by abandoning fame to become a Benedictine nun. Decades later, her niece Lu sets out to uncover the truth behind Lori’s dramatic choice for a college thesis. When Lori—now the revered Mother Abbess—finally agrees to tell her story, long-buried secrets emerge, revealing a past filled with ambition, scandal, and forbidden love. As the media catches wind of Lu’s project, the revelations threaten to change everything.

THE CORRESPONDENT (Crown; April 29, 2025), paints the portrait of a life through a brilliant epistolary format. Evans takes readers on a moving journey into the life of Sybil Van Antwerp, a retired law clerk whose world is centered around the letters she exchanges with friends, family, and a few famous figures—Joan Didion and Ann Patchett among them—as she tries to make sense of the world around her.

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The Charmed Library by USA TODAY bestselling author Jennifer Moorman is a whimsical, heartfelt tale that celebrates the magic of libraries, books, and the readers who love them.
In Blue Sky Valley, North Carolina, the local library holds a fantastical secret—fictional characters can step off the page. Assistant librarian Stella Parker, grieving and uncertain about her future, discovers the library's magic when her childhood crush, Jack Mathis—a fictional WWII hero—comes to life.
As Stella navigates the chaos of magic unleashed, mysterious words begin to haunt her, and she learns that every story has an ending. With only fourteen days before Jack must return to his book, Stella must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice for love—and for the stories that shape us.

Oregon, 1888.
In the depths of Portland’s Shanghai Tunnels, Celia wakes drugged and disguised in an underground cell—shanghaied and bound for forced labor. Half-Chinese and passing as white in a time of deep prejudice, she must rely on her wits to escape. As memories surface—a corrupt mayor, a massacre, a child in danger—Celia races to return home before buried secrets destroy everything she holds dear. The Girls of Good Fortune is a gripping story of identity, resilience, and the power of uncovering the truth.
 

From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a moving story of survival, healing, and redemption. After a prison bus crash leaves her the sole survivor, Leigh—haunted by the loss of her entire family—finds refuge on a flower farm in rural Alabama. As she bonds with the farm's tight-knit community and its owner, Jackson, Leigh begins to confront her past and rediscover hope. But the ghosts she fled aren’t gone, and facing them may be her greatest test of survival yet.

Allegra Goodman’s novels include Isola (a Reese’s Book Club selection), Sam (a Read With Jenna Book Club selection), The Chalk Artist (winner of the Massachusetts Book Award), Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, Paradise Park, and Kaaterskill Falls (a National Book Award finalist). Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She has written two collections of stories, The Family Markowitz and Total Immersion and a novel for younger readers, The Other Side of the Island. Raised in Honolulu, Goodman studied English and philosophy at Harvard and received a PhD in English literature from Stanford. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Mass.