A Southern noir page-turning thriller set in the oppressive summer heat of rural North Carolina. Police officers Mitchum Cobb and Cyrus Hogue partner up to battle what the volatile south dishes out in the wake of 2020. A summer under the tutelage of an older and more measured man like Cobb is supposed to do Hogue some good. After investigating the death of a toddler left in a hot car, Cobb sees an honest accident. With an axe to grind no matter the situation, Hogue becomes obsessed with proving the forgetful mother guilty of murder. As the naive Hogue digs deeper, he unearths a seminal villain from Cobb's past, raising the stakes higher than the brutal Southern temperatures. Will the end of the summer see both men survive?

Temperatures

Literature & Fiction

Miller, Suzanne Crain

United States

Winding Road Stories

When Autumn Alderidge was a child, she wasn’t yelled at for stealing cookies, she was yelled at for getting caught stealing cookies. Rule number one is “Don’t get caught.” There are 24 rules in total— the family manifesto controlling her life. She knew them before she knew how to spell her own name.\nIn Rule 25: Don't Fall for the Target, 17-year-old Autumn gets her first solo mission. She never thought she would need to add another rule to her family manifesto. After meeting Kato, she's not so sure.\nBorn into the head of one of the world's four largest crime families that deal with everything from theft to assassination, Autumn’s future seemed predetermined. At age eight, she knew she was to marry a boy from the head of another large crime family, Dimitri Daxterov.\nBut the 24 rules that have run her life since birth have begun to feel confining instead of guiding. And when she meets Kato, the boy she’s supposed to target for her first solo mission, will the rule book save her life or give her a new one?

Rule 25: Don't Fall for the Target

Children's Books

Frederick, Charleigh

Mysteries & Detectives

To her children, her pushy mother, her preacher father and her four seemingly perfect brothers, YA author Ellis Sloan is surviving the sudden demise of her damaging marriage just fine. On the outside, she's her usual irreverent self, helping her teens adjust while working hard on her second novel. But privately, she's paralyzed by panic, the words are all gone, and she has been typing gibberish into a document she deletes every day.\nHer depressing monotony is interrupted when her one-time childhood nemesis and eventual first kiss re-enters her life by shouting profanity at a toppled piano outside her bedroom window. Now famous and beloved, Lincoln Hale’s mysterious return resurrects memories Ellis buried deep on the prom night he never came for her and unleashes a chain of events that leads her to discover what it’s going to take to finally get back to who she once was. With equal doses of humor and heart, she learns the secrets of the past, faces her traumatic fears, and tries to repair her brokenness before time runs out on her next book and her first shot at real happiness.

Nothing. Everything

Montanez, Virginia

Contemporary

A single mom's tiny t-baller wants to play baseball, but the local coaches relegate him to the broken-glass fields of B-team status. When she joins forces with her new upstairs tenant, the two former college athletes bond together to take on the town's youth sports politics and make the game more exciting on-and off-the field.

Heading for Home

Romance

McLaughlin, Greg

Sparrow in a Tin Can

Turner, C.K.

Seventeen-year-old bookish Andy has no friends. When her over-involved mother has the audacity to ship her off to summer leadership camp, she's thrust into an introvert's nightmare. Everyone is a Communicator with a capital C, icebreaker activities are scheduled into every waking moment, and horror of all horrors: there's no coffee. Even the girls who take her under their wing are the kind of self-assured people Andy could never dream of becoming.\nThen she meets Lucas—hot, attentive, and everything Andy reads about in her books. Though the girls in her cottage try to warn her about him, she's swept into the first romance of her life. But when she discovers her friends may be right, she'll have to find her inner confidence to save her summer and become the leader she was always meant to be.

Andy and the Extroverts

Teen & Young Adult

Foster, Jessica K.

Newly divorced gallery owner Willow Fitzpatrick has a second chance at love in an online fling with a famous Spanish artist-the great Domingo Rodriguez. When noisy construction interrupts her pined-for ping, Willow meets Austin Miles-the burly, blue-eyed ex-contractor remodeling his coffee shop next door. Willow's new neighbor grates on her nerves, until Austin's handsome handyman skills come to her rescue. Still, she refuses to fall for this gentle giant. She's saving herself for her Spanish artist, who has finally agreed to hold a show at her humble gallery. Domingo's flamboyant arrival coincides with the return of Austin's high school crush-and now Willow can't source the flutter in her chest. If she can't sort out her true feelings soon, it may be too late. A sweet, enemies-to-lovers, small-town romance, this endearing tale will keep you smiling and turning the pages until the very end.

The Muse Next Door

Spero, JD

Forbidden Gardens

Castleberry, Clare

The Broken Heart

Gallegos, N.J.

Genre Fiction

Instead of a proposal for her 30th birthday, Vera Martinez got dumped. To get her mind off her heartache, Vera's sister whisks her away on a girls' night out, starting with a Bloodhounds soccer game. When Vera can't take her eyes off the sexy pro midfielder, Joe dela Cruz, a well-known player who causes problems on and off the field-Vera knows exactly how she wants to forget about her ex.Thirty-three-year-old Joe is almost at the end of the line. He's only two years from aging out of professional soccer, and his Coach is sick of his shenanigans. When Joe is tempted to cross that line with Coach's only daughter, he's given a hefty ultimatum: get in a different relationship (aka stay away from his daughter) or be benched for the rest of his career.Vera comes on to Joe, hoping for the perfect rebound with a carefree playboy. Joe accepts her advances, believing she's the steady girl to fix his reputation and save his career. But as Vera and Joe unknowingly work against each other, they also face the pesky reality of their genuine and unwanted attraction to one another. Win or lose, love-like soccer-is a beautiful game.

The Beautiful Game

Lanang, Vanessa

Luis Jr

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