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The Poet’s Game
by Paul Vidich
Alex Matthews thought he had left it all behind: his CIA career, the viper’s den of bureaucracy at headquarters, the deceits of the cat-and-mouse game of double agents, and the sudden trips to Russia, which poisoned his marriage and made him an absentee husband and father, with tragic results. But then the Director came asking for a favor. Something that only Alex could do. (2025; Fiction)

The News from Dublin
by Colm Toibin
Here’s a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never before published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America–about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. (2026; Fiction)

Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey
In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing and impeccably researched true stories of wrongful convictions. (2024; Nonfiction)

Penitence
by Kristen Koval
Penitence is a sweeping debut novel that follows the lives of two estranged families in rural Colorado after an unimaginable tragedy forces them back together. (2025; Fiction)

Anatomy of an Alibi
by Ashley Elston
Camille needs an alibi. Aubrey agrees to give her one. A tense, feverish thriller about two women’s lives that are forever intertwined when a murder threatens to expose them both. (2026; Fiction)

The Calamity Club
by Kathryn Stockett
The author of The Help returns with a bold, big-hearted novel about a group of unbreakable women, fighting for what’s rightfully theirs–and the power of friendship to change everything. (2026; Fiction)

London Falling
by Patrick Radden Keefe
From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing, a powerfully compelling account of a family devastated by the apparent suicide of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover he had created a separate identity which drew him into the dangerous international criminal underworld underlying London’s glittering surface. (2026; Nonfiction)

The Doorman
by Chris Pavone
Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers, and New York’s cultural elite. As Chicky changes into his uniform for tonight’s shift, he finds himself breaking a cardinal rule of the job: tonight, he’ll be carrying a gun, bought only hours earlier, before he had any idea what’s about to happen at the Bohemia. Tonight in the city, enemies will clash, loyalties will be tested, secrets will be revealed–and lives will be lost. (2025; Fiction)

Queen Esther
by John Irving
Irving’s 16^th novel returns to the setting of The Cider House Rules. The story begins in the early 1900s at an orphanage in Maine, where Dr. Larch takes in three-year-old Esther Nacht, a Viennese-born Jew orphaned after her father dies at sea and her mother is murdered by anti-Semites. Considered unadoptable because of her heritage, Esther eventually finds refuge with the Winslows, a fiercely secular and philanthropic New England family. The story follows Esther’s lifelong journey of gratitude and survival. (2025; Fiction)

That Last Carolina Summer
by Karen White
As a child, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creek near her Charleston home. Plagued throughout her life by mysterious dreams and always living in the shadow of her beautiful sister, Addie, Phoebe eventually moves to the West Coast, as far from her family as possible. This is an unforgettable story about the unbreakable bonds of family and the gift of second chances. (2025; Fiction)

The Golden Boy
by Patricia Finn
After an involuntary retirement from his high-flying Hollywood career, Stafford Hopkins has retreated to a luxury estate on Maui, along with his wife Agnes, both grimly resigned to life in a paradise where neither feels fully at home. Stafford is ready to retreat into himself, too, when a letter arrives with shocking news. Stafford has been named guardian of four children he didn’t know existed. Slyly funny and deeply moving, this is a captivating debut about love, mercy, and second chances. (2026; Fiction)

The Keeper
by Tana French
On a cold night in the remote Irish village of Arknakelty, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she’s dead in the river. In a close-knit small town, a death like this isn’t simple. It comes wrapped in generations and it splits the town in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now, and he owes them loyalty, but his fiancée Lena wants nothing to do with Arknakelty’s tangles. As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. (2026; Fiction)