{"id":243947,"date":"2026-06-02T18:33:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/new-books-hitting-shelves-this-week-17\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:33:58","slug":"new-books-hitting-shelves-this-week-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/new-books-hitting-shelves-this-week-17\/","title":{"rendered":"New Books Hitting Shelves This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Unicorn Hunters<\/a><\/center>
Anne of Brittany was a child when France invaded and drove her royal father to his death. Now she is a young woman, sovereign duchess of an occupied realm, and France means to crown their conquest by marrying her to their king. Such an alliance would put her title, her lands, and her body forever in the hands of her enemies.<\/p>\n

But Anne refuses to be the last duchess of Brittany.<\/p>\n

Her only hope of resisting conquest is another alliance sealed with marriage, so Anne arranges a daring last gambit: a secret betrothal to Charles of France\u2019s greatest rival. But secrets are hard to keep in a world where rival courts spy on each other with diviners.<\/p>\n

The forest of Broc\u00e9liande was once the haunt of Merlin the Enchanter and the long-lost faerie queen. But magic is long gone from Broceliande, except for the occasional sight of a unicorn and one critical quirk: This ancient forest is completely hostile to divination.<\/p>\n

While pretending compliance with France, Anne plans a unicorn hunt in Broc\u00e9liande. A bit of pointless pageantry. A diversion so she can wed in secret.<\/p>\n

Or so she thinks.<\/p>\n

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Whistler<\/a><\/center>
When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn\u2019t seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.
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Land<\/a><\/center>
On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tom\u00e1s and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tom\u00e1s, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster.<\/p>\n

The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tom\u00e1s is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and the lives of those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tom\u00e1s, and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping and get them both home?<\/p>\n

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The Children<\/a><\/center>
Guinevere Sharpe has two childhoods.<\/p>\n

In one, she and her brother, Ennis, live in the wooded shadow of their family’s isolated Vermont farmhouse; in the other, the pages of their mother\u2019s world-famous Ninth City books, where their magical adventures have made them household names. In reality, Guinevere’s childhood isn’t the enchanted idyll her mother\u2019s readers imagine: she and Ennis are growing up near-feral, unwashed and underfed, escaping each day to the wild woods they\u2019ve made their playland. As Edith Sharpe\u2019s books explode into epic popularity, the threats of a rural childhood give way to the escalating perils of fame\u2014until the night it all goes up in flames, leaving Edith\u2019s series unfinished and her children the sole survivors.<\/p>\n

Now an adult coasting on her mother’s name, Guinevere is mid-promotion for a ghostwritten memoir when her estranged brother, an artist who has until now spurned his family’s legacy, announces an upcoming installation titled, simply, Mother. As rumors swirl around a death connected to his last show, unsettling recollections from Guinevere\u2019s childhood begin to surface. Her public facade starts to crack, forcing her to confront the questions she’s spent the last twenty years running fro<\/p>\n

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The Open Era<\/a><\/center>
Recently-turned-pro tennis player Austin Hardy has been out since high school and it\u2019s never been a big deal. That is, until he becomes the first openly gay man to compete in a Grand Slam tournament. Suddenly, being gay is a huge deal, with headlines to prove it.<\/p>\n

Unprepared for this new spotlight, Austin\u2019s anxiety disorder hits a breaking point, and he trips and falls at practice. Right next to the very attractive, very talented, and probably straight Diego Cruz, ranked second in the world.<\/p>\n

The two professional rivals start a friendship off the court. But between their flirty banter, mixed signals, and looming showdown, Austin is thrown further off his game by Diego.<\/p>\n

With the eyes of the world on Austin, the weight of history on his shoulders, and Diego across the net, he must decide whether love means nothing or if it means everything as he battles for the trophy during an electric two weeks at the US Open.<\/p>\n

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Father Material<\/a><\/center>
Luc and Oliver have been through it all: fake dating to save Luc’s career, I-guess-this-is-actually-for-real dating when all of that blew up spectacularly, (briefly) breaking up over irreconcilable differences, (definitively) getting back together over perfectly reconcilable everything else, (almost) getting married, (finally) moving in together, and ultimately celebrating years of perfect domestic bliss.<\/p>\n

But as all their very grown-up-now friends begin reaching new life milestones, advancing careers and having babies, Luc and Oliver decide it’s time to open their hearts and lives to something new: a tiny, squirming, adorable bundle of furry joy named Spud.<\/p>\n

And maybe now that hearts-and-lives are already open, there’s room for someone else. Something more. Something that may require them to find in themselves a little father material.<\/p>\n

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Marion<\/a><\/center>
Marion is in deep. She’s stolen money from the Manhattan ad agency where she works in a desperate bid to help her sister escape an abusive marriage, but the bus breaks down before she can make it to Saratoga Springs. It’s late at night, and the only place with vacancies is an old set of cabins on the outskirts of town. She pays for a room in cash, and ends up chatting with Norm, the young innkeeper who’s handsome, charming and a touch hung-up on his elderly mother. Back in her room, she steps into the shower, scrubbing off the late-summer heat, when the curtain is pulled back…<\/p>\n

Norm Billings is there with a knife. He raises his arm to strike, but before he does, Marion knees him in the balls, grabs the knife, and stabs the life out of him. Now, she’s covered in blood, and she’s a woman on the run\u2014not just a thief, but a killer, too. Where will she go? How will she save both herself and her sister? And what mysteries will she uncover as she does?<\/p>\n

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The Heirs<\/a><\/center>
Octavius the Maestro.
Fola the Brain.
Bilal the Olympian.
Perdita the Artist.
Romeo the Failure.<\/p>\n

These are the five heirs of the illustrious billionaire Leontes Button. Adopted and viciously trained with their father\u2019s infamous \u201cButton Method\u201d to prove his hypothesis for creating prodigies\u2014child geniuses\u2014the Button siblings have had no choice but to be brilliant according to their father’s impossibly high standards.<\/p>\n

Until he is murdered at his annual Prodigy Ball.<\/p>\n

Now, all who attended the ball are required to stay in the Button Manor while the police investigate. But the officers have their work cut out for them\u2014each of the Button siblings has something to hide, but The Heirs aren’t the only ones with secrets. After all, Leontes Button was especially good at making enemies.<\/p>\n

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Their Will Undone<\/a><\/center>
In Amaru, it is an honor to be chosen in the annual harvest and serve the gods’-favored emperor. Nina\u2019s brother has already been chosen, but when the emperor\u2019s men come a second time for her sister, Nina volunteers instead. She is taken to the acllahuasi, a gilded cage where women train to become servants or wives for the ruling class. It is there that a soldier comes to collect her, and Nina learns of her fate\u2014to become a wife…to the emperor.<\/p>\n

As the emperor’s trusted friend and soldier, Kasik is ordered to retrieve Nina and deliver her untouched. But the emperor\u2019s betrothed is not as he expected. The distrust between Nina and Kasik is thicker than the trees surrounding them, and Kasik\u2019s honor is put to the test when their path back to the capitol leads them into dangerous territory. Their lives and hearts are in peril as forbidden desires are unearthed, along with a stirring of dark magic in Nina that inexplicably ties her to the gods.<\/p>\n

What begins as a simple task becomes a tense journey that forces Nina and Kasik to confront where their true loyalties lie\u2014with the emperor and the fate of their people, or with the desires of their own hearts.<\/p>\n

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Sublimation<\/a><\/center>
When you immigrate, you leave a copy of yourself behind, an instance. One person enters their new country; the other stays trapped at home.<\/p>\n

Some instances keep in touch, call each other daily, keep their lives and minds in sync in the hopes of reintegrating and resuming a life as one person. Others, like Soyoung Rose Kang, leave home at ten years old and never speak to their other selves again. Rose, in America, never imagined going back to Korea until her grandfather died and her Korean instance called her home for the funeral.<\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t know that Soyoung plans to steal her body and her life.<\/p>\n

How far would you go to live the choice you didn\u2019t make?<\/p>\n

Sources: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>, 7<\/a>, 8<\/a>, 9<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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