{"id":260930,"date":"2026-09-01T19:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/new-books-hitting-shelves-this-week-29\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T19:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:35:38","slug":"new-books-hitting-shelves-this-week-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/new-books-hitting-shelves-this-week-29\/","title":{"rendered":"New Books Hitting Shelves This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A Time of Witches<\/a><\/center>
Lilith Legare\u2019s life is unraveling. Since her mother\u2019s death, strange things have been happening – plants turn toward her touch, animals linger in her path, and the birthmark on her arm has started tingling. Worse still is her recurring nightmare of being burned alive at the stake.<\/p>\n

Her search for answers brings her from Savannah to England, to the decaying Brackenmere Manor where the past blurs with the present. There, Lilith discovers a legacy she never asked for and along with it, the threat of peril. History must be rewritten, or she too will die.<\/p>\n

In 1645 Suffolk, Sybil Brantham stands accused as a witch. An educated, wealthy widow, she is branded a threat by men who fear her independence. As arrests begin and suspicion abounds, Sybil must protect her younger sister, even as betrayal takes root within her household.<\/p>\n

Across centuries, Lilith and Sybil are bound by blood and by danger. To save themselves, and each other, they must confront the silence that has stolen women\u2019s power for generations\u2014and dare to claim their voices before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n

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The Knave and the Moon<\/a><\/center>
Aisling Cathedral is in ruins. Rodrick Myndacious, Bartholomew, and Maude Bauer are rumored to be dead\u2015and the king has taken Sybil Delling as his bride. To show off their union and solidify his power over Traum, Benji proposes a series of tournaments throughout the hamlets. Captive and drugged, Sybil remains determined to vanquish him as she once did the Omens, even if she destroys the kingdom\u2019s faith\u2015and herself\u2015in the process.<\/p>\n

But then a mysterious knave rises to the top of the tournament lists, a man with no name and no memory who may just be Sybil\u2019s ticket to undoing Benji\u2019s power. For in a land where stories repeat themselves, where a king can prove as cruel as a god, the only way to truly destroy the Stonewater Kingdom\u2019s faith is to save it.<\/p>\n

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Under Story<\/a><\/center>
At the edge of the world, biologist Laurel Salter is hiding from everything she\u2019s ever known. For ten hours a day, six days per week, she works as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station, an isolated research base in Antarctica. She tells no one that before she arrived, she was a renowned young scientist with a promising career and a family.<\/p>\n

But even in this remote outpost, Laurel can\u2019t escape her past. When a strange light appears across the ice\u2014and draws a group of physicists to McMurdo\u2014her former husband, Eli, won’t be far behind. Laurel is captivated by the Arc: its surreal glow; the way it seems almost alive. And though Eli is reluctant to test her wildest theory, Laurel is convinced that the Arc leads down a rabbit hole and into a world they can barely imagine. Can she persuade him to risk everything to fix the burden that hangs between them\u2014to turn back the clock and live their story a second time?<\/p>\n

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Scion<\/a><\/center>
My job, when you think about it, isn\u2019t so different from a lot of people\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The more old-fashioned crowd do still get hung up on the “killing people” part of it, I guess, but that\u2019s a them problem: it\u2019s been perfectly legal to take out lifers for ages. Besides, once ultrawealthy morons realised they had a way to live forever\u2014limited resources be damned\u2014there was only ever going to be one genuinely practical deterrent.<\/p>\n

So, sure, I have to deal with a ton of boring planning. Inconvenient hours. Some pretty awkward face-to-face interactions. And like most of us, I\u2019m really only clocking in to try to crawl out from beneath my debts. But someone\u2019s got to do it.<\/p>\n

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Kiss Slay Replay<\/a><\/center>
It\u2019s the picture-perfect wedding weekend: The venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in the air\u2014and Willa Sullivan is having a bad time. She\u2019s excited to celebrate her best friends\u2019 finally having the big wedding they\u2019ve always wanted, but this is the first time she\u2019s seen her ex-fianc\u00e9 in months, and he brought a date. Everything feels off, like she stumbled into an alternate universe. But things start to look up when Willa meets Danny, the groom\u2019s charming and single childhood best friend. When they sneak off together, their rendezvous is interrupted by a masked killer terrorizing the reception. Willa and Danny fight to save the ones they love and survive the night, but the killer is unrelenting. A final girl Willa is not.<\/p>\n

Or is she? She wakes up and it\u2019s the morning of the wedding. She just had the most intense nightmare of her life. Only as the day unfolds, there are some uncanny coincidences that make her question whether it was really a dream, d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, or something more sinister. After a horrifying turn of events, Willa comes to understand that she\u2019s stuck in a loop of carnage and terror that she must learn how to escape or else suffer a fate worse than death\u2014being an eternal wedding guest.<\/p>\n

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Hawk & Sparrow<\/a><\/center>
Nineteen-year-old Vesper Evans has always resented Basalton\u2019s high society, and the sorcery that provides them with a luxurious life unimaginable to most. Orphaned as a child and rescued by the editor of The Basalton Globe, Vesper is now an ambitious reporter determined to keep her newspaper afloat.<\/p>\n

While covering a lavish society gala, Vesper happens upon a shocking scene: the murdered body of an inventor whose new machine promised to bring the benefits of sorcery to everyone. Several of the powerful magical elite may want the man dead, but the prime suspect is wealthy industrialist Maximilian Kite.<\/p>\n

Max soon makes Vesper a tempting offer: Find the culprit and restore his reputation in exchange for a substantial fee. Despite her distaste for Max\u2019s world, Vesper agrees\u2014the money would save the Globe, and the story would be the scoop of a lifetime. There\u2019s only one catch: In order for her to infiltrate society, the two must pose as a courting couple.<\/p>\n

Their investigation takes them from the highest echelons of privilege to the seediest backstreets of Basalton. As they unearth the city\u2019s secrets and scandals, Vesper finds herself in grave danger\u2014while falling for one of the most infuriating, arrogant, handsome men she has ever met . . .<\/p>\n

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The Birthing Tree<\/a><\/center>
Born under the shadow of a birthing tree sacred to generations of Mi\u2019kmaq women, Aliet Paul grows up outside a small Nova Scotia town with her fierce, loving grandmother Kiju. Her mother died bringing Aliet into the world under that very tree; her father remains a mystery no one will name. Aliet\u2019s childhood is shaped by seasonal apple pickers, the medicinal wisdom of the old ways, and the quiet, steadfast presence of John, a boy who becomes her anchor.<\/p>\n

But the world beyond their community is changing. Traditional midwifery is condemned, prejudice deepens, and when the wrong person witnesses a birth, the consequences are disastrous. As Aliet comes of age, she navigates love, loss, and a personal tragedy that veers her from the path her grandmother wanted for her. She becomes a nurse trained in modern medicine, yet she carries Kiju\u2019s teachings close, tucked beside memories of the tree that once welcomed new life.<\/p>\n

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Paper Ghosts<\/a><\/center>
For decades, the women of Wester House have unsettled and fascinated their small, timeless North Carolina town. Their home is full of whispers, old griefs, and uncanny knowing. But when Willamena Wester reaches out to the granddaughter she once pushed away, long-buried truths begin to stir.<\/p>\n

1976: Restless young Willamena falls for a stranded musician who brings freedom and the promise of another life to her carefully controlled world. Their brief, incandescent love story promises to escape the pull of the Wester legacy until Willamena makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever.<\/p>\n

Present day: Returning home is the last thing Bailey Wester wants. Yet as she reconnects with Willamena, the grandmother she feared, Bailey begins to understand the love, heartbreak, and impossible choices that shaped the women in her family and realizes the past may not have been trying to haunt them after all. A luminous novel filled with Sarah Addison Allen\u2019s stunning prose and signature blend of romance, Southern charm, and wonder, Paper Ghosts reminds us that in order to have the future we really want, sometimes we need to live with the past, and not let go of it.<\/p>\n

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Mother Daughter Sister Stranger<\/a><\/center>
The sole survivors of the fiery plane crash that killed their parents, Eliza Ramsey and her sister Bea share an unbreakable bond. But now, on the eleventh anniversary of the tragedy, Bea fails to retrieve her pre-teen daughter from a sleepover at Eliza\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Eliza knows her sister would never leave her precious Piper behind, and fears the worst. But did Bea plan her own disappearance?<\/p>\n

The Ramseys\u2019 lives have already crashed and burned once. Now, Eliza discovers she’s the only one who can protect her niece from the horrifying legacy of her family\u2019s sinister history. Together, the two must prevent their lives from going up in flames once again.<\/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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