By Danielle Jackson
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

When she finds herself in front of the camera for once, modeling her best friend’s new lingerie line, photographer—and proud plus-size Black woman—Cassie Harris is forced to work with her long-time competitor who wants their professional relationship to develop into something more personal.

By Dwyer Murph
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

A former attorney agrees to help a reclusive literary star find her missing bookseller husband and is drawn into spiraling mysteries and feeling out of his depth when the person who hired him turns out to be an imposter.

By Elif Shafak
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

Turkish teen Asya is coming of age under the wing of her tattoo-parlor owner mother and her three aunts, befriending a cousin from America, and discovering a secret that links her family to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres.

By Karen Joy Fowler
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

Describes the multiple scandals, family triumphs and disasters that took their toll on the 10 children of celebrated Shakespearean actor Junius Booth as the North and the South reached a boiling point and the Civil War broke out.

By Katy Hays
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

Assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden, curatorial associate Ann Stilwell becomes obsessed with the history of fortune-telling after discovering a hidden 15th-century deck of tarot cards that might hold the key to predicting the future, blurring the line between the modern and the arcane.

By Rebecca Stott
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

After their father, a legendary blacksmith accused of infusing his swords with dark magic, suddenly dies, his daughters are faced with enslavement and must escape to the Ghost City where they find an underworld of rebel women living in secret.

By Frances Hardinge
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

When Neverfell, who has no memory, arrives in Caverna, her facial expressions make her very dangerous to the people who live with blank faces or pay dearly to learn to simulate emotions.

By Isabel Cañas
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

In the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence and the execution of her father, Beatriz accepts Don Rodolfo Solórzano’s proposal of marriage and is whisked away to his remote country estate where she is faced with a malevolent presence linked to his first wife’s death.

By Sarah Gailey
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

Called back home by her mother, Vera must not only face the love she had for her serial-killer father, but also confront the secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder house, finding out just how deep the rot goes.

Series Nellie Bly #1
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

A fearless reporter Nellie Bly will stop at nothing to chase down stories that expose injustices against women—even if it comes at the risk of her own life and freedom—in this exciting novel inspired by the true story of one remarkable woman.

By Gill Paul
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

In this 1920s version of Sex and the City, Dorothy Parker and three other extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship as they help each other get over setbacks while jazz music flows through the air and bathtub gin fills their glasses.

By Louise Hare
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

In 1936 London, down-on-her-luck actress Lena Aldridge is offered the role of a lifetime in New York, and, sailing aboard the Queen Mary, is drawn into the fold of an obscenely wealthy family and their bizarre family dynamic where her greatest performance will be for her life.

By Wendy N. Wagner
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

The Secret Skin by Wendy N. Wagner is a sawmill gothic that begins with June Vogel's return to Storm Break, her family's estate. Things in the great house aren't what they used to be. Doors slam in the night. Faucets turn on, untouched. Something is always watching, whatever June does. And when her brother returns with his new bride, deceit and betrayal threaten to destroy everything she loves.

By Nghi Vo
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, Chinese American actress Luli Wei, desperate to become a star, bargains with blood and ancient magic to realize her dreams, but the steep price for success may turn her into something she despises.

By Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

A deeply spiritual African woman is captured and sold to a Puerto Rican plantation to breed future slaves and is almost destroyed by the dehumanization of her circumstances but embarks on a journey of healing and love.