Best new release books to check out this month

The best, new release book recommendations for each Bookfinity Reader Type.

The new year brings a wave of fresh stories and inspiring reads, making January the perfect time to update your bookshelf. From captivating fiction across all genres to insightful nonfiction, this month's releases offer something for all Reader Types. Whether you're diving into thrilling novels, exploring far-off destinations through travel books, or setting goals with self-help and fitness titles, these top picks promise to kick off your year with plenty of page-turning excitement.

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Beach Reader

Temple of Swoon

by Jo Segura

A LibraryReads Pick!

Her mission: find the Lost City of the Moon in the Amazon rainforest.

His mission: protect the holy temple and his heart.

While her mentor may be the world's most badass archaeologist, the only thing bad about Dr. Miriam Jacobs are her corny jokes. But when Miri is charged with leading an unmapped expedition through the Amazon for the fabled Lost City of the Moon, she finally has her chance to prove to her colleagues that she's capable.

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Bookworm

The Heart of Winter

by Jonathon Evison

The extraordinary new novel by Jonathan Evison, about a married couple in their golden years, from when they met across big ups, deep downs, and survive-it-all, opposites-attract love

Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together--at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into a seventy-year marriage and a life on a farm on Bainbridge Island with their hens and beloved Labrador, Megs.

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Dragon Slayer

Water Moon

by Samantha Sotto Yambao

A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical quest when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop, in this dreamlike fantasy novel.

On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant. And only the chosen ones--those who are lost--will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets.

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Galactic Guru

Cold Storage

by Michael C. Grumley

An expansive new standalone dystopian thriller exploring humanity's thirst for immortality at all costs.

Technology never works well the first time. Or even the second. Army veteran John Reiff is living proof.
John is revived in the back of a dilapidated ambulance, on the run from a shadowy organization that is desperate to take him back. He is the first one, their archetype, and they need to know what happened after his escape. What is happening to his body and his mind. And they need to know now.

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Game Day Hero

Eat Better, Sleep Better

by Dr. Marie-Pierre St-Onge & Kat Craddock

What you eat directly impacts how you sleep. Science-based and easy to understand, Eat Better, Sleep Better includes 75 recipes that incorporate sleep-supporting ingredients that work with the body's rhythms and hormones to unlock quality rest--and the health benefits that come with it.

More than half of all Americans have difficulty falling or staying asleep. Drawing on the science that has made her the go-to expert on the connection between food and sleep, Dr. Marie-Pierre St-Onge pairs her comprehensive strategies for getting a good night's sleep.

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The Hobbyist

How to Share an Egg

by Bonny Reichert

When you're raised by someone who once survived on potato peels and coffee grounds, you develop a pretty healthy respect for food.

Bonny Reichert avoided everything to do with the Holocaust until she found herself, in midlife, suddenly typing those words into an article she was writing. The journalist had grown up hearing stories about her father's near-starvation and ultimate survival in Auschwitz-Birkenau, but she never imagined she would be able to face this epic legacy head-on.

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Leading Lady

What Happened to the McCrays?

by Tracey Lange

From New York Times bestselling author Tracey Lange, a poignant story about the resilience of family, the importance of community, and the magic of middle school hockey

When Kyle McCray gets word his father has suffered a debilitating stroke, he returns to his hometown of Potsdam, New York, where he doesn't expect a warm welcome. Kyle left suddenly two and a half years ago, abandoning people who depended on him: his father, his employees, his friends--not to mention Casey, his wife of sixteen years and a beloved teacher in town.

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Lifelong Learner

Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old

by Brooke Shields

From generational icon Brooke Shields comes an intimate and empowering exploration of aging that flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow older

Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinized, her every decision judged. Today Brooke faces a different kind of scrutiny: that of being a "woman of a certain age."

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Maverick

Mood Machine

by Liz Kelly

An unsparing investigation into Spotify's origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping music for listeners and artists alike.

Drawing on over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today's highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed.

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Modern Romantic

Where The Creek Bends

by Linda Lael Miller

#1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller comes a beautifully rendered timeslip novel about the family we create for ourselves...

Madison Bettencourt has tried to assemble all the pieces of a perfect life, but nothing fits quite the way it should. She's moved back home to Montana to care for her grandmother, who is slipping further and further away. And she's called off her wedding, and worries her dreams of a family are fading with it.

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Serial Reader

The Business Trip

by Jessie Garcia

Stephanie and Jasmine have nothing and everything in common. The two women don't know each other but are on the same plane. Stephanie is on a business trip and Jasmine is fleeing an abusive relationship. After a few days, they text their friends the same exact messages about the same man--the messages becoming stranger and more erratic.

And then the two women vanish. The texts go silent, the red flags go up, and the panic sets in.

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Spiritual Seeker

With This Ring

by Amy Clipston

Dakota thought she had left her dreams of happily-ever-after behind, along with the pain of a broken engagement to her high school sweetheart, Hudson. Now, as the proud owner of Fairytale Bridal Shop in the picturesque town of Flowering Grove, she's built a life and a business on helping brides find their perfect dress for their own fairytale weddings. But running a small business is not for the faint of heart, and when her ex-fiancé unexpectedly returns to town with a mission--to put a stop to his sister's wedding--Dakota's problems go from bad to worse.

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Stunt Double

Presumed Guilty

by Scott Turow

New "unputdownable" courtroom drama from the #1 New York Times bestselling author

"No one does it better."―David Baldacci, #1 NYT Bestselling Author

Rusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon-to-be wife, Bea, with whom he shares both a restful home on an idyllic lake in the rural Midwest and a plaintive hope that this marriage will be his best, and his last. But the peace that's taken Rusty so long to find evaporates when Bea's young adult son, Aaron, living under their supervision while on probation for drug possession, disappears.

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Time Traveler

The Queen of Fives

by Alex Hay

Nothing is quite as it seems in Victorian high society in this clever novel as a mysterious heiress sets her sights on London's most illustrious family

I. The Mark II. The Intrusion. III. The Ballyhoo. IV. The Knot. V. All In.

1898. Quinn le Blanc, London's most talented con woman, has five days to pull off her most ambitious plot yet: trap a highly eligible duke into marriage and lift a fortune from the richest family in England.

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Trendsetter

Beautiful Ugly

by Alice Feeney

The million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists Alice Feeney returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage. . .
. . . and revenge.

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.

Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.

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Woke Up Like This

The Three Lives of Cate Kay

by Kate Fagan

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets First Lie Wins in this electric, voice-driven debut novel.

Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series, she's one of the most successful authors of her generation. The thing is, Cate Kay doesn't really exist. She's never attended author events or granted any interviews. Her real identity had been a closely guarded secret, until now.

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World Traveler

The JFK Conspiracy

by Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch

From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracycomes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before his inauguration.

Kennedy is often ranked among Americans' most well-liked presidents. Yet what most Americans don't know is that JFK's historic presidency almost ended before it began--at the hands of a disgruntled sociopathic loner armed with dynamite.

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Young At Heart

Lies on the Serpent's Tongue

by Kate Pearsall

Everybody lies. And in knowing their lies, I become the keeper of their secrets.

As Caball Hollow slowly recovers from a tumultuous summer, the James family must also come to terms with their own newly revealed secrets.

18-year-old Rowan James has spent her whole life harboring unpleasant truths--that's what happens when you can smell lies on the teller's breath--and building walls around herself to block them out.

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Self-Starter

Money for Couples

by Ramit Sethi

From the bestselling author of I Will Teach You to Be Rich, go from financial frustration to joy with the the aid of this book about navigating money while in a relationship.

Personal finance juggernaut Ramit Sethi's program addresses the most common money issues in relationships without using boring budgets or restricting plans. Discover your "Rich Life" by learning to:

-Stop fighting over money.
-Get both partners to participate in finances.
-Reconcile with one partner being the Saver and the other the Spender.
-Take control of your debt.

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