New Books On The Shelves-January 2025
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A Sneak Peek At A Few Books Releasing In January 2025
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MCCRAYS? – TRACEY LANGE
With this novel, I recommend keeping tissues at hand because the tears will flow. This is the story of Kyle, who returns to his hometown after a sudden and unexplained departure over two years earlier. He has no choice but to confront the secrets and heartbreak left in his wake as he begins to care for his father after a debilitating stroke. Initially his plan is to lay low, but he soon sees he might have a path to redemption. He and those he left behind must deal with their pain or risk being consumed by it. Full of love, hope and heartache.
More Like This…The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella, Shred Sisters by Besty Lerner, Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
THE IN-BETWEEN BOOKSTORE – EDWARD UNDERHILL
When Darby finds himself unemployed and in need of a fresh start, he moves back to the small Illinois town he left behind. But Oak Falls has changed almost as much as he has since he left. One thing is familiar: In Between Books, Darby’s refuge growing up and eventual high school job. When he walks into the bookstore now, Darby feels an eerie sense of déjà vu, everything is exactly the same. Even the newspapers are dated 2009. And behind the register is a teen who looks a lot like Darby did at sixteen. . . who just might give Darby the opportunity to change his own present for the better—if he can figure out how before his connection to the past vanishes forever. A poignant and enchanting novel about a magical bookstore that transports a trans through time to bring him face to face with his teenage self.
More Like This…Books Of Doors by Gareth Brown, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
DEATH OF THE AUTHOR – NNEDI OKORAFOR
Disabled, with no desire to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the middle of her sister’s lavish wedding, she’s unceremoniously fired from her university job and, to add insult to injury, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet, literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It’s a far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it Rusted Robots. A book within a book that blurs the line between writing and being written.
More Like This…Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, Tomorrow Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Also Releasing…
Clever Little Thing – Helena Echlin
Presumed Guilty – Scott Turow
A Sea Of Unspoken Things – Adrienne Young
