July 18, 2018
Fiction for Every Book Club!
Surprise! Just when you thought we were done for July, we're back with four new and exciting fiction titles for your book club. Read on below to find out more about our newest additions, which range from psychological thriller to thoughtful literary fiction and beyond.
Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage, Yejide is still not pregnany. She assumes she still has time--until her family arrives on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin's second wife. Furious, shocked, and livid with jealousy, Yejide knows the only way to save her marriage is to get pregnant, which, finally, she does, but at a cost far greater than she could have dared to imagine.

That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam
Like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself both deeply in love with her newborn son and deeply overwhelmed. She reaches out to Priscilla Johnson, the only person at the hospital who offers any real help, and begs her to come home with her as her son’s nanny. The two very different women form an unusual and tenuous bond; but when Priscilla dies unexpectedly in childbirth, Rebecca steps forward to adopt the baby, a decision that will change the course of her life and her perceptions of the world.

The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll
Five hyper-successful women--Brett, the tattooed fan favorite; Kelly, her older sister dismissed as a hanger-on; Stephanie, the first black cast member and the oldest; Lauren, the start-up world's darling; and Jen, the head of a cultishly popular vegan food line. When they agree to appear on a reality series set in New York City called Goal Diggers, the producers expect plenty of drama... but not that the season will end in murder.

Mrs. by Caitlin Macy
In the well-heeled milieu of New York’s Upper East Side, coolly elegant Philippa Lye is the woman no one can stop talking about. Despite a shadowy past, Philippa has somehow married the scion of the last family-held investment bank in the city. And although her wealth and connections put her in the center of this world, she refuses to conform to its gossip-fueled culture. Then, into her precariously balanced life, come two women: Gwen Hogan, a childhood acquaintance who uncovers an explosive secret about Philippa’s single days, and Minnie Curtis, a newcomer whose vast fortune and frank revelations about a penurious upbringing in Spanish Harlem put everyone on alert.

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