And just like that, we’re on to the second month of 2018! However, despite the year already flying by, we will be treated to some great new releases! From the highly anticipated YA release The Belles, to Carter Wilson’s new thriller Mister Tender’s Girl, and a new book featuring Hamilton and Peggy. Or if you’re after a new fantasy novel, try Paris Adrift or Robert Dinsdale’s The Toymakers.
Read on to discover some our picks for February 2018 and tell us in the comments below what you are excited to get your hands on this month!
Feel Free by Zadie Smith | Goodreads
Gathering in one place for the first time previously unpublished work, as well as already classic essays offers a survey of important recent events in culture and politics, as well as Smith’s own life.
By A Charm and A Curse by Jaime Questell | Goodreads
Le Grand’s Carnival Fantastic isn’t like other traveling circuses. It’s bound by a charm, held together by a centuries-old curse, that protects its members from ever-growing older or getting hurt. Emmaline King is drawn to the circus like a moth to a flame…and unwittingly recruited into its folds by a mysterious teen boy whose kiss is as cold as ice.
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah | Goodreads
Alaska, 1974. A story of a family in crisis struggling to survive at the edge of the world, it is also a story of young and enduring love .Cora Allbright and her husband Ernt, a recently returned Vietnam veteran scarred by the war, uproot their thirteen-year-old daughter Leni to start a new life in Alaska. Utterly unprepared for the weather and the isolation, but welcomed by the close-knit community, they fight to build a home in this harsh, beautiful wilderness.
The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton | Goodreads
Camellia Beauregard is a Belle and they control Beauty, a commodity coveted above all else. Camellia wants to be the favourite—the Belle chosen by the Queen of Orléans to tend to the royal family. But once she arrives, it becomes clear that being the favourite is not everything she always dreamed it would be.
Surprise Me by Sophie Kinsella | Goodreads
After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage. However, a trip to the doctor projects they will live another 68 years together and panic sets in. They never expected “until death do us part” to mean seven decades. They quickly concoct a plan to keep their relationship fresh and exciting, but in their pursuit to execute Project Surprise Me, mishaps arise and secrets are uncovered.
The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale | Goodreads
It is 1917, and London has spent years in the shadow of the First World War. In the heart of Mayfair, though, there is a place of hope. A place where children’s dreams can come true, where the impossible becomes possible – that place is Papa Jack’s Toy Emporium. Now his sons, Kaspar and Emil, are just old enough to join the family trade. Into this family comes a young Cathy Wray – homeless and vulnerable. The Emporium takes her in, makes her one of its own. But Cathy is about to discover that while all toy shops are places of wonder, only one is truly magical…
Sunburn by Laura Lippman | Goodreads
They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he’s also passing through. However, they both stay and abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the other—dangerous, even lethal, secrets. Then someone dies.
Mister Tender’s Girl by Carter Wilson | Goodreads
At fourteen, Alice Hill was viciously attacked by two of her classmates who claim she was a sacrifice for a man called Mister Tender, but that could never be true: Mister Tender doesn’t exist. His sinister character is pop-culture fiction, created by Alice’s own father in a series of popular graphic novels. A decade later, someone is watching and Mister Tender will come with a smile that seduces, and a dark whisper in her ear…
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones | Goodreads
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.
Paris Adrift by E.J. Swift | Goodreads
Determined to escape her old life, misfit and student geologist Hallie packs up her life in England and heads to Paris. She winds up as a bartender at the notorious Millie’s, located next to the Moulin Rouge. But Millie’s is not all that it seems when Hallie discovers a time portal located in the keg room. Over the next nine months, irate customers will be the least of her concerns, as she navigates time-faring through the city’s turbulent past and future, falling in love, and coming to terms with her own precarious sense of self.
Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship by L.M. Elliott | Goodreads
The colonies are in the throes of the Revolutionary War and caught in the midst of spies, traitors, Loyalists and Patriots, is the charming, quick-witted Peggy Schuyler—youngest of the famed Schuyler sisters and daughter of General Philip Schuyler. Her eldest sister Angelica, the “thief of hearts,” is known for her passion and intelligence, while kind, sweet Eliza has a beauty so great, it only outshone by her enormous heart. Though often in the shadows of her beloved sisters, Peggy is talented in her own right—fluent in French, artistically talented, and brave beyond compare.
The Rending and The Nest by Kaethe Schwehn | Goodreads
When ninety-five percent of the world’s population disappears for no apparent reason, Mira does what she can to create some semblance of a life by forming a haphazard community named Zion. Then Mira’s friend is pregnant, the first in this strange world, but she gives birth to an inanimate object. Soon the other women of Zion do too and a confident outsider named Michael appears, proselytizing about the world outside Zion. Luring Lana away, Mira has to decide what she will do to save her friend.
