Check Me Out - August 2026

MAN OF MY DREAMS

By Olivia Worley

A romance author is shocked when one of her characters-in-progress seemingly comes to life … but is he too good to be true? This dramatic and twisty thriller is perfect for fans of Ashley Winstead and Kate Alice Marshall, where the truth really is stranger than fiction.

THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE

By Julie Orringer

Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he promised to deliver. But when he falls into a complicated relationship with the letter’s recipient, he becomes privy to a secret that will alter the course of his and his family’s history.

FREE FALLING

By Jill Shalvis

College rivals become workplace frenemies-turned-lovers in this warm, sexy contemporary romance from New York Times bestseller Jill Shalvis. First, they were rivals… Now they’re stuck with each other, restoring a beautiful historic building.

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

By Shirley Jackson

First published in 1959, this book has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers, and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

THE DUTCH HOUSE

By Ann Patchett

From Ann Patchett, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “Commonwealth,” comes a powerful, richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. This is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love, and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves, and of who we really are.

THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH

By Ken Follett

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England. This is Ken Follett’s historical masterpiece, following a devout monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known.

LOVING FRANK

By Nancy Horan

From the author of “The House of Lincoln,” an enthralling novel that brings the buried truths of the ill-starred relationship of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright to light. Elegantly written and remarkably rich in detail, “Loving Frank” is a fitting tribute to a courageous woman, a national icon, and their timeless love story.

MID-CENTURY MODERN

By Judith Miller

From the ‘soft modernism’ of Scandinavian furniture to the sleek, clean lines of the lighting created by the Castiglioni brothers in Italy, Judith Miller’s “Mid-century Modern” takes an in-depth look at the artifacts and designers that shaped one of the most exciting periods of design history.

THE PARIS ARCHITECT

By Charles Belfoure

In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money, and maybe get him killed. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won’t find it.

GREAT HOUSES OF FLORIDA

By Beth Dunlop

“Great Houses of Florida” presents the greatest and most intriguing houses in the state, including John and Mabel Ringling’s fabulous Venetian Palazzo Ca d’Zan, James Deering’s spectacular Italianate Villa Vizcaya in Miami, and the Audubon and Hemingway houses in Key West.