This month's picks feature family sagas from the South Dakota to the Arctic and murder...
The Outer Country
Davin Malasarn
Siripon's estranged sister, Manda, moves to the United States from Thailand to help with her baby, and becomes a second mother to him, but secrets both old and new threaten their family.
For fans of Bestiary and Love Can’t Feed You
The Young Will Remember
Eve J. Chung
A Chinese-American journalist stranded in the North during the Korean War fears she will never get home, Korean woman searching for her daughter rescues her, forming a bond that will connect them for life. A compelling story of survival during wartime.
For fans of The Mountains Sing and Stone Angels
Treat Them as Buffalo
Blair Palmer Yoxall
An anti-western told from the perspective of a ten-year-old whose cousin as well as a number of other young boys go missing, resulting in Niko's family joining a posse to free them.
For fans of Salt Bones and A Council of Dolls
The Kindness of Strangers
Emma Garman
This mystery starts with a young man dying on the floor with his housemates looking on. Who killed him? Why won't they help him? Why did their landlady let him in to begin with?
For fans of Murder at Gulls Nest and My Fair Frauds
The Pillagers' Guide to Arctic Pianos
Kendra Langford Shaw
Tied together by abandoned pianos, homesteaders past and present deal with life and climate change in the Arctic.
For fans of Venomous Lumpsucker and To the Bright Edge of the World
Men Like Ours
Bindu Bansinath
In this darkly funny debut, Matthew is found dead in his car, and a group of gossipy women are pulled into the investigation.
For fans of The Bandit Queens and Good People
Babylon, South Dakota
Tom Lin
A young Chinese couple homesteading in the Midwest is surprised when the military buys a part of their land and strange things start happening.
For fans of Same Bed, Different Dreams and Inland
