New Adult Books December 2024

Updated December 1, 2024
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Custodians of wonder : ancient customs, profound traditions, and the last people keeping them alive
Stein, Eliot
Paper Book
A vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world's oldest and rarest cultural traditions. Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In...
A grim reaper's guide to catching a killer
Dara, Maxie
Paper Book
Kathy Valence is forty-two, mid-divorce, and pregnant with her ex's baby. She's also a modern-day grim reaper employed by S.C.Y.T.H.E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences), but frankly that's the easiest part of her life right now. Or at least it was, until her latest...
Havoc : a novel
Bollen, Christopher
Paper Book
In the vein of The Bad Seed comes a twisty, atmospheric psychological suspense about a meddlesome elderly guest at a decadent luxury hotel who believes she has left her problematic past behind, until she decides to interfere in the lives of a young mother and her eight-year-old son, and...
The muse of Maiden Lane
Matthews, Mimi
A 2024 BookBub Best Historical Romance! One of Parade's Best New Books of November 2024! One of Amazon's and Apple's Best Romance Books of November 2024! A silver-haired equestrienne and a charismatic artist turn a scandalous bargain into a vibrant portrait of love....
Rental House
Wang, Weike
"One of the most nuanced, astute critiques of America now I've read in years. And it's also frequently hilarious." --Los Angeles Times "A funny, perceptive look at what it means to defy societal expectations...timeless." --Washington Post
The Rest Is Memory
Tuck, Lily
Paper Book
First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy's motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn, and tattooed number 26947...
Sister snake : a novel
Lee Koe, Amanda
Paper Book
A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters--one in New York, one in Singapore--who are bound by an ancient secret Sisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. Emerald is a...
Sisters in Science : How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
Campbell, Olivia
Paper Book
The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring escape out of Nazi Germany In the 1930s, Germany was a hotbed of scientific thought. But after the Nazis took power, Jewish and female citizens were forced out of their academic positions...
The treasure hunters club : a mystery
Ryan, Tom
Paper Book
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone meets The Goonies in The Treasure Hunters Club--a rollicking murder mystery set in a seaside town filled with pirate lore, family secrets, unforgiveable grudges, secret societies, and of course, a treasure lost to time....
Vanishing treasures : a bestiary of extraordinary endangered creatures
Rundell, Katherine
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF FALL: WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE & MORE * From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Rundell comes a "rare and magical book" (Bill Bryson) reckoning with the vanishing wonders of our natural...

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