Check out the top ten books published this month that librarians across the country love!
The changing needs of aging parents impact a family gathering during which Abby Whitshank relates how her husband and she fell in love during the summer of 1959 and shares decades of marriage impacted by children and long-held secrets. (Publisher Summary)
Taking a job at the studio where David O. Selznick is filming Gone with the Wind, Julie Crawford becomes an assistant to Carole Lombard, a rising actress from Julie's hometown who embarks on a scandalous affair with Clark Gable. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Dressmaker. (Publisher Summary)
A crime against a 15-year-old girl is examined through the eyes of one of her friends--a friend who admits to being a possible suspect in the crime. (Publisher Summary)
Sir Richard Kenworthy has married Iris Smythe-Smith for a secret reason—he wants to pretend that she is pregnant so his 17-year-old unmarried, pregnant sister does not become a pariah once the baby is born—but when he actually begins to have feelings for Iris, things get complicated. (Publisher Summary)
Fifteen-year-old girl soldier Thorn learns the ways of war in the king's army while falling in love for the first time. By the New York Times best-selling author of Half a King. (Publisher Summary)
In the wake of a wrenching school shooting, a stay-at-home father is forced to confront what he does and does not know about his missing teenaged son. By the co-author of Ready, Set, Play. (Publisher Summary)
Serving as an ambassador of his own world while carrying messages to parallel-universe Londons with respective magical abilities and conflicts, Kell hides his secret smuggling activities only to be set up with a forbidden object from a dark dimension. By the author of The Near Witch. (Publisher Summary)
Book editor Samantha Clair finds her nine-to-five life turned upside down when gossipy author Kit Lowell goes missing, which propels her into a criminal investigation where she discovers that someone will stop at nothing, not even murder, to see that Kit's scandalous new manuscript does not get published. (Publisher Summary)
A traumatized apprentice archer, disguised as a boy, and the young chatelaine of a strategically important fortress risk their lives to support the Empress Matilda's campaign for the throne of England. (Publisher Summary)
Discovering a peculiar stone from the Imperial gardens of Kyoto, Russell and Holmes recall a dangerous job they performed for the emperor before reconnecting with a Japanese tutor who is not who she seems. By the New York Times best-selling author of Garment of Shadows. (Publisher Summary)