Check Me Out - June 2026

HOMEBOUND

By Portia Elan

It’s 1983, Becks is nineteen and hiding from the fact that her beloved uncle is dead. He left her a halffinished game to complete--one last collaboration to find her way out of loneliness. Little does she know what Becks is making will echo far into the future and shape the lives of a scientist, a sentient automaton, and a flinty sea captain in ways she cannot imagine.

THE CASE OF THE MURDERED MUCKRAKER

By Rob Osler

Twenty-one-year-old junior detective Harriet Morrow is determined to prove she’s more than a lucky hire as the Prescott Agency’s first woman operative. But her latest challenge--a murder case steeped in scandal-- could become a deadly setback.

MISSING SAM

By Thrity Umrigar

A tense and twisty story of a woman who goes missing on a morning run and her wife’s determination to both find her and clear her own name. A provocative examination of suburban mores, “Missing Sam” captures the terror manifested in today’s political climate, and the real dangers, both physical and psychological, of being brown and queer in America.

THE RED WINTER

By Cameron Sullivan

Debut author Cameron Sullivan tears the heart out of history with this darkly entertaining retelling of the hunt for the Beast of Gévaudan. Lifting the veil on the hidden world behind our own, it reimagines the story of Europe, from Imperial Rome to Saint Jehanne d’Arc, the madness of Gilles de Rais and the first flickers of the French Revolution.

JOHN OF JOHN

By Douglas Stuart

John-Calum Macleod is a penniless Edinburgh art school graduate when his overbearing, violent father calls him home to their Isle of Harris croft one August in the ‘90s to help with the sheep and tweed weaving. As lambing season turns to shearing season, the threads holding together the community together become increasingly frayed, and nothing will remain as it was before.

IS THIS A CRY FOR HELP?

By Emily Austin

It’s Darcy’s first day back at the local public library following a two-month mental health leave, and she is met by unrest in her community and protests surrounding intellectual freedom, resulting in a call for book bans and a second look at the branch’s upcoming DEI programs.

WHIDBEY

By T. Kira Madden

A portrait of three women connected through one man in the aftermath of his murder. “Whidbey” explores the long reach of violence and our flawed systems of incarceration and rehabilitation, and asks the crucial questions about the pursuit of justice and who has real power over a story: the one who lives it, or the one who tells it?

STAR SHIPPED

By Cat Sebastian

Simon and Charlie, actors on a long-running sci-fi show, can’t stand each other and everybody in the industry knows it. With his contract ending, Simon agrees to rehabilitate his image by staging a very public friendship with Charlie. As the two men let their guards down, they find their fake-friendship turning into something very real.

TAKE ME WITH YOU

By Steven Rowley

Jesse’s husband has disappeared in a beam of light from the sky. Now what? In “Take Me With You,” Steven Rowley brings his resonant wit and emotional insight into an epic love story--an exploration of the forces that draw two people into the same orbit and the gravity that threatens to pull them apart.

GET OVER IT, APRIL EVANS

By Ashley Herring Blake

A summer job teaching art at a lake-town resort brings together two women with an unlikely connection: the same ex. As April and Daphne untangle their complicated feelings towards each other, their attraction grows, and they find they might have more in common than just the same ex.