{"id":253009,"date":"2026-07-21T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/new-books-hitting-shelves-this-week-23\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:22:05","slug":"new-books-hitting-shelves-this-week-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/new-books-hitting-shelves-this-week-23\/","title":{"rendered":"New Books Hitting Shelves This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Destination Funeral<\/a><\/center>
When Babe\u2015the complicated, magnetic matriarch of their teenage summers\u2015dies, four estranged friends return to sleepy Mercy Island, a storm-swept stretch of coastal Georgia, summoned by the reading of her will.<\/p>\n

Didion arrives at the timeworn pink house to find the friends she never thought she\u2019d see again\u2015along with the tensions, attractions, and unfinished business that once bound them together and broke them apart.<\/p>\n

What should be a brief weekend of small talk quickly unravels when they wake up and discover…it\u2019s Saturday. Again. And again. And again.<\/p>\n

Trapped in a time loop with no end and no instructions, they\u2019re forced to confront the betrayals, breakups, and buried truths that shattered them all those years ago. Because maybe, just maybe, an endless weekend is exactly what they all need to save their own lives.<\/p>\n

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Song for Another Home<\/a><\/center>
When news hits in 1950 that the Americans have entered the war between North and South Korea, Oksoon and her family believe the conflict will soon end. But then China joins the war, and they decide to flee their home in Pyongyang despite the freezing temperatures and lack of food. Journeying from the barren, war-torn streets of the North in the winter to the seedy back alleys of the South Korean capital of Seoul in the summer, the family falls in with an unlikely group of miscreants.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, far to the south, Oksoon\u2019s cousin Junho seeks refuge at an orphanage for abandoned children. As the institution struggles to keep its doors open, Junho, with his elementary command of English, is tasked with drafting letters to American missionaries and benefactors to ask for money. When the enigmatic director brings her aristocratic niece to the orphanage, Junho finds himself caught between his impulse for survival and his growing affections for the young woman, even though his feelings put him at risk of being expelled from the only safe place he knows.<\/p>\n

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Mudlark<\/a><\/center>
Jenny Sweet’s marriage is ending\u2014and with it her band and maybe even her fragile relationship with her thirteen-year-old daughter, Neko. A reluctant wife and mother, Jenny plans a new journey of self-discovery after one more gig at Burning Man. But when Neko disappears amid the chaos of the festival, Jenny fears that everything that mattered to her has been lost. As she races against the dark, Jenny finds herself thrown into the past, and into the heart of a gathering storm.<\/p>\n

Now twenty-five, Neko is a mudlark: a trained recruit who braves the rival factions and feral survivalists in the ruins of a crumbling, flooded Manhattan for resources that grow scarcer by the day. When she stumbles upon the master of her mother\u2019s long-lost solo album and later hears that someone else is searching for it\u2014someone who could be her mother, missing for over a decade\u2014she embarks on a perilous adventure with a ragtag crew that will take her from treetop societies to decadent raves to the underground bunker where she will, finally, confront her mother’s fate\u2014and her own. <\/p>\n

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Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists’ Adventures into the Unknown<\/a><\/center>
Chronicling researchers’ struggles and hopes in the field and lab, Kwok documents it all: fending off relentless snowfall on a remote Greenland glacier, desperately searching for an elusive frog in the rainforests of Borneo, and scrambling to capture fleeting signals of a faraway moon outside our solar system. These are the untold stories of devoted young scientists and restless minds who are chasing nature’s riddles, without knowing what they’ll uncover.<\/p>\n

Through vivid reporting and moments of unexpected emotion, Kwok reveals the inner lives of researchers who care profoundly about understanding our world and saving what’s left of it. From enigmatic fossils and mind-bending physics to the puzzling behavior of wild animals, Lost in Curiosity is a journey through the questions that keep scientists up at night\u2015and the sometimes strange, always illuminating paths they take to answer them.<\/p>\n

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Yes, Chef<\/a><\/center>
After a public meltdown in the dining room of one of Manhattan\u2019s most elite restaurants, Chef Jack Hartman is back in his South Florida hometown. Angry, grieving, and saddled with the unwanted storefront his late mentor left him, his life is spinning out of control. And that\u2019s before Poppy Winfield\u2014the bubbly, infuriating daughter of his former boss\u2014shows up at his dock.<\/p>\n

Poppy needs to escape. From her family, her ex-boyfriend, and her reputation as someone who has never taken anything seriously. But more than that, she wants to prove herself\u2014and she has just the plan to do it. Unfortunately, that plan involves Jack Hartman, the most arrogant, intimidating man she\u2019s ever had the pleasure of throwing a shrimp at.<\/p>\n

Poppy proposes a deal: they work together to open a revamped version of his mentor\u2019s restaurant. Jack will handle the menu, and she\u2019ll use her social media influence to sell the hell out of its grand opening. If she and Jack can make it a success, it\u2019ll be a ticket for them both to return to New York.<\/p>\n

Jack is intrigued, but only on his terms: If Poppy\u2019s going to do this, she must learn the ropes of the business. From him.<\/p>\n

As sparks fly both in and out of the kitchen, Poppy and Jack are left wondering, could they be a perfect pairing? Or is this whole experiment a recipe for disaster?<\/p>\n

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If Books Could Kill<\/a><\/center>
When Roxie makes a tongue-in-cheek wish to live out the plot of her favorite author\u2019s next novel, she has romance in mind\u2014namely, the sweet, safe, swoon-worthy storylines Anna Matthews is known for. It should be a dream come true when her wish is granted and she finds herself swept into a first date with a handsome stranger who seems designed to take her breath away.<\/p>\n

Except for one little hiccup: That handsome stranger tries to take her breath away. Literally. With a knife. The thing is, Roxie may be the new Anna Matthews protagonist\u2014but this time, Anna is writing a crime thriller.<\/p>\n

Thrown into a perilous genre she\u2019s never read, Roxie is desperate for help. So when her escape takes her straight into the path of Grant Hoffman, an anxious English professor with a convenient love of crime novels, she decides that kidnapping a grown man is a small price to pay for her own survival. Together, Roxie and Grant navigate a madcap story in which the lines between fiction and reality blur. They\u2019ll find out if they have what it takes to make it to The End\u2014or maybe even Happily Ever After.<\/p>\n

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Henry Tudor Must Die<\/a><\/center>
Anne Boleyn is going to die, and neither her cleverness nor her witchery can save her. So when her late rival, Catalina de Arag\u00f3n, miraculously appears in her cell at the Tower of London on the eve of her execution, very much alive and offering a daring escape plan, no one is more surprised than Anne.<\/p>\n

Lina doesn\u2019t have Anne\u2019s magic\u2014but she has just as much hate for England\u2019s wretched king. Severed from her daughter and stripped of all her influence, Lina breathes only for the Hellebore Sisterhood, a clandestine and powerful society with a vested interest in keeping both queens alive . . . and using their particular skills to advance womankind.<\/p>\n

Anne and Lina\u2019s old rivalries pale in comparison to a common enemy. And they’re not alone. Anna von Kleve, Kat Howard, and even Catherine Parr all have their own bones to pick with the king. One by one, they capture their pawns, infiltrating the court and eliminating the men who plotted against them. Always inching closer to their true target . . .<\/p>\n

And they want his head.<\/p>\n

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The New People<\/a><\/center>
Months after the housing bubble bursts, newlywed Chicagoans Emma and Rachel move into a charming little house in a conservative Indiana college town, hoping for a fresh start after a painful miscarriage. As Rachel immerses herself in her new role as a tenure-track professor and bestselling novelist, adjunct Emma struggles in the shadow of her wife\u2019s success. Desperate to build something of her own, Emma secretly pursues IVF, even as Rachel insists they wait to have children. The house, initially a symbol of new beginnings, becomes a refuge for Emma from the town she\u2019s convinced is set against her\u2014until strange occurrences make her question whether she and her wife are truly alone.<\/p>\n

They aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Charlotte and Dirk, the former homeowners, are secretly living in the attic above Emma and Rachel\u2019s attached garage. Dispossessed by the recession and anxious about her husband\u2019s declining health, Charlotte listens to the interlopers below, and her resentment steadily grows. What starts as small acts of defiance\u2014missing food, flipped breakers in the fuse box, subtle scratches in the furniture\u2014soon becomes sabotage. But when her campaign to drive out the couple goes too far, Charlotte\u2019s and Emma\u2019s stories converge in an explosive climax that will reveal the lengths people will go to reclaim what they\u2019ve lost.<\/p>\n

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The Story Keeper<\/a><\/center>
In the aftermath of a tumultuous year, Fiona Winslow finds solace in the decaying grandeur of Wurimbirra, the rambling family estate she once called home. Intent on restoring it, she discovers the keys to more than just the dilapidated mansion\u2014beneath the crumbling plaster and dust are secrets that have been buried for a generation.<\/p>\n

When a curious book, The Midnight Estate, catches her attention in her late uncle\u2019s library, Fiona is plunged into a tale that mirrors her own\u2014a story of love, loss and betrayal. But as the lines between fiction and reality blur, Fiona must ask herself: Is the true mystery the one hidden within the walls of her ancestral home, or is it within the pages of a book that chose her as much as she chose it?
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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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