*New & Notable Adult Fiction - April Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated April 10, 2025
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Gifted & Talented
Blake, Olivie
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities, and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential.<...
Small Ceremonies : A Novel
Edwards, Kyle.
Paper Book
A poignant and heart-wrenching coming-of-age story that follows the friendships, hopes, fears, and struggles of a group of Native high school students from Winnipeg, Manitoba's North End, illuminating what it's like to grow up in the heart of an Indigenous city Word on the street...
She's a Lamb!
Hambrock, Meredith
Paper Book
Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to be a star. Not an actor who occasionally books yogurt commercials and certainly not a lowly usher at one of Vancouver's smallest regional theaters. No, she is bound for greatness, and that's why the part of Maria in the theater's upcoming production of The Sound of...
The Pretender
Harkin, Jo.
Paper Book
Set in the tumultuous period of the Tudors' ascent, The Pretender brings to life the little-known story of Lambert Simnel. From humble beginnings as a peasant boy, Lambert's life takes an astonishing turn when, at just ten years old, he becomes a claimant to the English throne as one of...
The sirens : a novel
Hart, Emilia
Paper Book
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * #1 LibraryReads Pick * Indie Next Pick A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward...
Great big beautiful life
Henry, Emily
Paper Book
Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping novel from Emily Henry. Named a Most Anticipated book by The New York Times ∙ Rolling Stone ∙...
Big Chief : A Novel
Hickey, Jon.
Paper Book
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by The Washington Post, Debutiful, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and LitHub Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch for Spring 2025 There, There meets The Night...
Say you'll remember me
Jimenez, Abby
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just for the Summer comes a playful yet deeply emotional romance where one date is all it takes for two people to know they're perfect for each other . . . until one of them moves 2,000 miles away the next day. ...
Six Days in Bombay
Joshi, Alka
Paper Book
"A sparkling travelogue and a poignant journey of self-discovery all in one. . . . Alka Joshi is simply the best!" --Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Rose Code From the New York Times bestselling author of The Henna...
Murder at gulls nest
Kidd, Jess
Paper Book
Indie Next April 2025 Pick From Jess Kidd, the bestselling author of Things in Jars who "is so good it isn't fair" (Erika Swyler, nationally bestselling author), the first in a cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small...
Audition
Kitamura, Katie M.
Paper Book
"A tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller."--NPR "Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams."--The Boston Globe One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a...
The Eights
Miller, Joanna
Paper Book
They knew they were changing history. They didn't know they would change each other. Following the unlikely friendship of four women in the first female class at Oxford, their unshakeable bond in the face of male contempt, and their coming of age in a world...
Atavists : Stories
Millet, Lydia
Paper Book
A Harper's Bazaar "Best Book Coming Out This Spring" Pick One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of short fiction from "the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves" (Chicago...
Vanishing world : a novel
Murata, Sayaka
Paper Book
From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination ...
One Way Witch.
Okorafor, Nnedi. 
Paper Book
Set in the universe Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi Okorafor first introduced in the World Fantasy Award-winning Who Fears Death, One Way Witch is the second in the She Who Knows trilogy The world has forgotten Onyesonwu. As a teen, Najeeba...
The maid's secret : a maid's novel
Prose, Nita
Paper Book
A daring art heist on the eve of Molly's wedding reveals long-buried secrets in this intriguing and heartwarming novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest. "A big-hearted examination of wealth and social class."--...
Terrestrial History
Reed, Joe Mungo
Paper Book
Hannah is a fusion scientist working alone at a remote cottage off the coast of Scotland when she sees a figure making his way from the sea. It is a visitor from the future, a young man from a human settlement on Mars, traveling backwards through time to try to make a crucial intervention in the...
Don't Sleep With the Dead
Vo, Nghi
Paper Book
From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes Don't Sleep with the Dead, a standalone companion novella to The Chosen and the Beautiful, her acclaimed reimagining of The Great Gatsby. "A vibrant and queer reinvention of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic. . . ....

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