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Your Next Summer 2022 Book Club Reads!

Your Next Summer 2022 Book Club Reads!

Looking for your next great thought-provoking read? Then these books are sure to get you and your friends, family, and book club talking… Check out these new must-read literary fiction releases!


Public Opinion

by Nathan Pettijohn

Release Date: July 19, 2022

Herb is a fixer, a social media manipulator, an anonymous barracuda in a sea of wealthy marks. Blackmail, character assassination, fraud—it’s all in a day’s work. When a quick scam introduces Herb to a cold-blooded director on a quest to film the Marquis de Sade’s Justine, Herb enters a world of porn stars and celebrity sociopaths, massage parlors and murder.

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The Secrets We Carry

by Deanna Lynn Sletten

Release Date: July 19, 2022

In 1917, Sofiya flees for her life from Russia, only to be trapped again in America. In 2022, Addie finds Sofiya’s letters in an old cigar box and is determined to learn about the young woman. Addie soon realizes that both she and Sofiya share a terrible past. Addie hopes by restoring the old house in Portland where Sofiya once lived, she can heal the past for Sofiya and herself.

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Any Other Family

by Eleanor Brown

Release Date: July 12, 2022

The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new novel about three very different adoptive mothers who face the impossible question: What makes a family?

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Fellowship Point

by Alice Elliott Dark

Release Date: July 5, 2022

The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century.

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The Displacements

by Bruce Holsinger

Release Date: July 5, 2022

To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative career for Brantley, and the means for Daphne to pursue her art full-time. Their deluxe new Miami life has just clicked into place when Luna—the world’s first category 6 hurricane—upends everything they have taken for granted. The Displacements thrillingly explores what happens when privilege is lost and resilience is tested in a swiftly changing world.

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What Remains of Love

by Suzanne Trauth

Release Date: July 19, 2022

At the reading of her beloved father’s will, Kate, a divorced French professor, learns of his affaire de coeur during World War II with a French artist named Emilie, to whom he has left a substantial bequest. Kate, stunned to discover the existence of this woman who captivated her father, is determined to unravel the mystery of his past and unearth the truth.

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