Check Me Out - April 2026

A FAR-FLUNG LIFE

By M.L. Stedman

When we do something that can’t be undone or mended, how do we go on living? How do we find our North Star when there is no right answer? These are the questions at the center of M. L. Stedman’s

unforgettable and magisterial new novel. This is a sweeping and epic story of a family, a tragedy, and the aftermath that reverberates for decades.

THE SECRET LIVES OF MURDERERS’ WIVES

By Elizabeth Arnott

Beverley, Elsie, and Margot are not your average housewives. They are all wives of convicted killers. During the sun- drenched summer of 1966, they form an unlikely friendship. When a string of local

killings hits the news, the three women- -underestimated, overlooked, shrewd-- decide to get to work. After all, who better to catch a killer than those who have shared their lives and homes with one?

UPWARD BOUND

By Woody Brown

Upward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending their days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles’s disabled community is, for many of its clients and staff, a place of last resort. Framing intertwined narratives--and connecting them in surprising, shattering ways--is the riveting and sometimes ironic testimony of Walter, a recent community college graduate who, after a family tragedy, must return to the company of his disabled peers.

STRANGE BUILDINGS

By Uketsu

After receiving multiple tips from his devoted readership, a writer fascinated by the occult put together eleven case files, each featuring its very own strange building. Each building tells its own chilling story. And each is part of a grander puzzle. Look closely and you’ll see that everything is connected. Millions of readers have become addicted to solving Uketsu’s dark mysteries. “Strange Buildings” is the strangest and darkest of them all.

LIFE: A LOVE STORY

By Elizabeth Berg

As ninety-two-year-old Florence “Flo” Greene nears the end of her life, she writes a letter to Ruthie, the woman who grew up next door to her, describing the items Flo is leaving Ruthie in her will. But as it goes on, telling surprising stories about those “little” things Flo will leave behind (What could possibly be the worth of a rubber band kept in a matchbox tied up in red ribbon?), an unforgettable portrait of the life she has lived emerges.

LADY TREMAINE

By Rachel Hochhauser

“Bridgerton” meets “Circe” in this stellar debut. Exhilarating to its core, Lady Tremaine reimagines the myth of the evil stepmother at the heart of the world’s most famous fairy tale. It is a battle cry for a mother’s love for her daughters, and a celebration of women everywhere who make their own fortunes.

IN HER OWN LEAGUE

By Liz Tomforde

As the first female team owner in Major League Baseball, Reese Remington has spent her entire life preparing for this role. But the public only sees a woman in a man’s world--not the person who’s earned their place on the field. Under constant scrutiny and pressure to prove herself, Reese can’t afford distractions. Especially one that comes in the form of the team’s tempting field manager who questions her every decision.

KIN

By Tayari Jones

Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters, have been best friends and neighbors since early childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. A novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, “Kin” is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in con temporary fiction.