September always feels like a new beginning. Two of our recommended titles are part of a series but we also highlight two authors who are taking a departure from their usual genres to try something new. Make sure to place holds on the books featured here as they are sure to be popular!
Karen Robards. The Girl from Guernica
During WWII, Sibi, living in Germany with her father, a scientist working on jet propulsion engines for the Nazi party, joins the underground resistance movement with him, and they become deeply embedded in a web of secrets, lies, and deceit that threatens to destroy their already fragile family.
Deanna Raybourn. Killers of a Certain Age
Sent on an all-expense paid vacation to mark their retirement, four assassins discover they've been marked for death, forcing them to turn against their own organization and teach them what it really means to be a woman and a killer of a certain age.
Maggie O’Farrell. The Marriage Portrait
In Florence during the 1550s, captivating young duchess Lucrezia de Medici, having barely left girlhood behind, marries the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, and now, in an unfamiliar court where she has one duty to provide an heir fights for her very survival.
Nicholas Sparks. Dreamland
When Colby Mills sees his dreams of a music career derailed by tragedy, he becomes the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, where he finds a new love interest, Morgan Lee, an aspiring musician who hopes to someday move to Nashville and become a star.
Frederik Backman. The Winners
As simmering tensions between the towns of Beartown and Hed turn into acts of intimidation and then violence, a 14-year-old boy, increasingly alienated from this hockey-obsessed community, puts in motion a plan to avenge his beloved sisters death that will leave Beartown with an unimaginable loss.
Alexander McCall Smith. A Song of Comfortable Chairs
In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi encounters a pair of quandaries that will require all of her and Mma Ramotswe's cleverness and generosity to resolve. They must help an old friend with a troubled son while Grace’s husband, Phuti develops a new marketing campaign to beat a rival furniture company’s ads. With kindness, generosity, and good sense, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency assures us that in the end, all these matters will be set right.
Check out the full list here: September New Books