Title:The People We Hate at the Wedding Author:Grant Ginder Published:June 2017, Flatiron Books Format:Hardcover, 336 pages   Relationships are awful. They’ll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life. Paul and Alice’s half-sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at “it” restaurants and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins. They couldn’t…

Title:Proof Author:C.E. Tobisman Series:Caroline Auden, #2 Published:June 2017, Thomas & Mercer Format:Paperback, 348 pages   In this gripping sequel to C.E. Tobisman’s legal thriller Doubt, techie turned attorney Caroline Auden struggles to move on with her life after her last case nearly destroyed her career. Still haunted by the betrayal that forced her to leave a prestigious law firm, Caroline Auden struggles to keep her fledgling practice afloat—and her paranoia…

Title:Last Seen Author:J.L. Doucette Series:Dr. Pepper Hunt, #1 Published:May 2017, She Writes Press Format: Paperback, 330 pages   Psychologist and police consultant Dr. Pepper Hunt, struggling to deal with the murder of her husband, leaves the private practice they shared and relocates to Wyoming. There, in the stark landscape of the high desert, there is nothing to remind her of everything she lost and left behind. Then her new patient,…

Title:The Half-Life of Remorse Author:Grant Jarrett Published:May 2017, SparkPress Format:Paperback, 256 pages When two vagrants meet on the streets of Muncie, Indiana, they are both unaware that their paths crossed years before. Chic, crude and uneducated, is convinced that Sam is nothing more than a harmless lunatic, and Sam, emotionally scarred and psychologically traumatized by events long past, regards Chic as just another denizen of the street. But Chic has…

Title:The Rules of Half Author:Jenna Patrick Published:June 2017, SparkPress Format:Paperback, 376 pages If Will Fletcher’s severe bipolar disorder isn’t proof he shouldn’t be a parent, his infant daughter’s grave is. Once a happily married, successful veterinarian, he now lives with his sister and thrives as the small-town crazy of Half Moon Hollow. But when a fifteen-year-old orphan claims she’s his daughter, Will is forced back into the role he fears…

Title:The Shark Club Author:Ann Kidd Taylor Published:June 2017, Viking Format:Hardcover, 288 pages A warm and wonderfully vivid novel about taking second chances—in life and in the sea One summer day on the beach in Florida, two extraordinary things happen to Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then, she is bitten by a blacktip shark. Eighteen years later, Maeve has thrown herself into her…

Title:The Leavers Author:Lisa Ko Published:May 2017, Algonquin Books Format:Hardcover, 352 pages One morning, Deming Guo’s mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from…