2023 is on the way, along with lots of great new books! Here's a preview of what we have coming to the Weston Public Library.

The Villa
By Hawkins, Rachel
2023-01 - St. Martin's Press
9781250280015

As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend.

Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel …More

The Bandit Queens
By Shroff, Parini
2023-01 - Ballantine Books
9780593498958

A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful--until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands--in this razor-sharp debut.

"Shroff captures the complexity of female friendship with acuity, wit, and a certain kind of magic …More

River Sing Me Home
By Shearer, Eleanor
2023-01 - Berkley Books
9780593548042

Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery is a remarkable debut.

Her search begins with an ending.…

The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As …More

Age of Vice
By Kapoor, Deepti
2023-01 - Riverhead Books
9780593328798

This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything,

and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of …More

Blaze Me a Sun: A Novel about a Crime
By Carlsson, Christoffer
Translator Willson-Broyles, Rachel
2023-01 - Hogarth Press
9780593449356

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A serial killer in a small Swedish town commits his first murder the same night the prime minister is assassinated in this haunting, cinematic novel about the legacy of violence and a community's collective guilt by one of Scandinavia's most celebrated young crime writers. In February 1986, the Halland police receive a call from a man who claims to have …More

Picture in the Sand
By Blauner, Peter
2023-01 - Minotaur Books
9781250851017

"On rare occasions I read a book that reminds me of why I fell in love with storytelling in the first place. This is such a book."-Stephen King

Peter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his …More

Code 6
By Grippando, James
2023-01 - Harper
9780063223783

Harper Lee Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author James Grippando returns with a bold new thriller that asks at what price do we open our lives to Big Data.

Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, …More

Just the Nicest Couple: A Novel
By Kubica, Mary
2023-01 - Park Row
9780778333111

“Mary Kubica's Just the Nicest Couple is a masterfully written thriller about deception where we least expect it and the danger of a lie tumbling out of control. Taut and incredibly suspenseful, every moment is perfectly crafted to keep us wanting more. An engrossing, spine-tingling read!-Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push A …More

All the Dangerous Things
By Willingham, Stacy
2023-01 - Minotaur Books
9781250803856

Following up her instant New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past.

One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little …More

In the Upper Country
By Thomas, Kai
2023-01 - Viking
9780593489505

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act--intertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad. In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town populated by refugees fleeing slavery at the height of the Underground Railroad, young Lensinda …More

City Under One Roof
By Yamashita, Iris
2023-01 - Berkley Books
9780593336670

A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter. When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A detective from Anchorage, she has her own …More

Small World
By Zigman, Laura
2023-01 - Ecco Press
9780063088283

From bestselling author Laura Zigman comes a heartfelt novel about two offbeat and newly divorced sisters who move in together as adults-and finally reckon with their childhood

A year after her divorce, Joyce is settling into being single again. She likes her job archiving family photos and videos, and she's developed a secret comforting hobby: trolling the neighborhood social …More

The Night Travelers
By Correa, Armando Lucas
2023-01 - Atria Books
9781501187988

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of the “timely must-read” (People) The German Girl.

Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race …More

Rough Sleepers
By Kidder, Tracy
2023-01 - Random House
9781984801432

The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston's homeless community-by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains

“I couldn't put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to do better.”-Abraham Verghese, …More

Moonrise Over New Jessup
By Minnicks, Jamila
2023-01 - Algonquin Books
9781643752464

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama. It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where …More

The Cabinet of Dr. Leng
By Preston, Douglas
Author Child, Lincoln
2023-01 - Grand Central Publishing
9781538736777

The tremendous new thriller in Preston & Child's #1 bestselling series features FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene in their most extraordinary circumstances yet.

AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY

Astoundingly, Constance has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s, leaping at the chance, although it means leaving the present …More

The Mitford Affair
By Benedict, Marie
2023-01 - Sourcebooks Landmark
9781728229362

From New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict comes an explosive novel of history's most notorious sisters, one of whom will have to choose: her country or her family?

Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters -- each more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than the next -- dominate the English political, literary, and social scenes. Though they've …More

The World in Watercolors
By Nkrumah, Nyaneba
2023-01 - Amistad Press
9780063226616

Resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker's classic Meridian and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, a gripping debut novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class that explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.

Set in 1982, in rural, …More

And Finally: The Matter of Living and Dying
By Marsh, Henry
2023-01 - St. Martin's Press
9781250286086

From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and neuroscience.

As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who …More

The Devil's Ransom
By Taylor, Brad
2023-01 - William Morrow & Company
9780063221987

In the latest explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor, Pike Logan races to stop an insidious attack orchestrated by a man who knows America's most treasured secrets.

Conducting a routine cover development trip to Tajikistan, Pike and Jennifer learn that Afghanistan has fallen, and there's a man on …More

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By Woo, Ilyon
2023-01 - Simon & Schuster
9781501191053

The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave.

In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American …More

The Faraway World: Stories
By Engel, Patricia
2023-01 - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
9781982159528

From Patricia Engel, whose novel Infinite Country was a New York Times bestseller and a Reese's Book Club pick, comes an exquisite collection of ten haunting, award-winning short stories set across the Americas and linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise.

Two Colombian expats meet as strangers on the rainy streets of New York City, both …More

The End of Drum-Time
By Pylväinen, Hanna
2023-01 - Henry Holt & Company
9781250822901

An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder and a minister's daughter in the nineteenth century Arctic Circle

In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native Sámi reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected …More

This Other Eden
By Harding, Paul
2023-01 - W. W. Norton & Company
9781324036296

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast.

In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the …More

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By Pennock, Caroline Dodds
2023-01 - Knopf Publishing Group
9781524749262

A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by focusing on the experiences of Native Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe, beginning in the fifteenth century, and influenced European civilization We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the Old World encountered the …More

Exiles
By Harper, Jane
2023-01 - Flatiron Books
9781250235350

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR JANE HARPER COMES EXILES, A CAPTIVATING MYSTERY ABOUT A MISSING MOTHER

“Once again Harper proves that she is peerless in creating an avalanche of suspense with intimate, character-driven set pieces...Harper's legions of fans will exult in reading Exiles.” -David Baldacci, #1 New York Times …More

Night Wherever We Go
By Peyton, Tracey Rose
2023-01 - Ecco Press
9780063249875

Night Wherever We Go has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. …More