For Your Consideration: March 2025 LibraryReads Titles

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WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE by John Scalzi | 9780765389091 | 3/25/25
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“A ridiculous concept imbued with gravity, charm, humor, plausible cynicism, and pathos—and perhaps the merest touch of spite.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

TEA YOU AT THE ALTAR by Rebecca Thorne | 9781250333254 | 3/4/25
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“Notable for the ease of her banter-filled dialogue, the speed yet gentle ease of her plots, and the convivial and warm atmosphere she layers into her stories, Thorne does a wonderful job here widening the cast and deepening the stakes… These charming novels model an emotionally resonant, deeply fun, and intelligent relationship.”—Library Journal

THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by Amal El-Mohtar | 9781250341082 | 3/4/25
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“El-Mohtar’s ethereal prose paints a clear picture of the unbreakable bond between her worthy heroines. Readers will be captivated.”—Publishers Weekly

MURDER BY MEMORY by Olivia Waite | 9781250342249 | 3/18/25
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On an interstellar generation ship, Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn’t hers—just as someone else is found murdered. As one of the ship’s detectives, Dorothy usually delights in unraveling the schemes on board the Fairweather, but when she finds that someone is not only killing bodies but purposefully deleting minds from the Library, she realizes something even more sinister is afoot. Whatever it is, Dorothy intends to solve this case. Because someone has done the impossible and found a way to make murder on the Fairweather a very permanent state indeed. A mastermind may be at work—and if so, they’ve had three hundred years to perfect their schemes…

THE LIBRARY GAME by Gigi Pandian | 9781250880239 | 3/18/25
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Tempest Raj couldn’t be happier that the family business, Secret Staircase Construction, is getting recognition. Known for enchanting architectural features like sliding bookshelves and secret passageways, the company is taking on a dream project: transforming a home into a public library that celebrates fictional detectives. Gray House Library’s new owner is eager to host a murder mystery dinner and literary themed escape room. But when a rehearsal ends with an actor murdered and the body vanishes, Tempest and the rest of the crew must figure out who is making classic mystery plots come to life.

THE BANE WITCH by Ava Morgyn | 9781250835451 | 3/18/25
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Piers has always had an affinity for poisonous things—plants and men. From the pokeweed berries she consumed at age five that led to the accidental death of a stranger, to the husband whose dark proclivities have become… concerning, poison has been at the heart of her story. But when she fakes her own death to escape her volatile marriage and goes to stay with her estranged aunt, she realizes her predilection is a birthright. She comes from a long line of Bane Witches—women who ingest deadly plants and use their magic to rid the world of evil men. Piers sets out to earn her place in her family’s gritty but distinguished legacy, but soon she catches the attention of someone else, a serial killer operating in the area. And that only means one thing—it’s time to feed.

YOU DESERVE TO KNOW by Aggie Blum Thompson | 9781250892034 | 3/11/25
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Neighbors Gwen, Aimee, and Lisa confide their deepest secrets, navigate the challenges of motherhood together, and provide a support system that seems unbreakable. But when Gwen’s husband is found murdered after one of their weekly dinners, the peaceful quiet shatters. The seemingly idyllic world of the friends becomes a web of deception, betrayal, and revenge. As the police investigate, the veneer of friendship begins to crack, revealing hidden tensions, clandestine affairs, and long-buried jealousies among the three women. With suspicions mounting and the neighborhood gripped by fear, they must confront the chilling truth about their husbands, and the sinister undercurrents in their own friendship.

CHAOS by Constance Fay | 9781250330437 | 3/11/25
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Desperate to prove herself to her crew of space mercenaries, engineer Caro Ogunyemi takes on a solo mission to infiltrate the top secret human experimentation laboratory run in a secret prison by the deadly Pierce family that rules her corner of the galaxy. Caro realizes she messed up right about the time Carmichael Pierce injects a bomb into her neck to control her. As she works her way into the lab, Caro meets Leviathan, a soldier turned mindless killing machine by a chip in his head… until Caro touches him. The same alien infection that is ruining her life also breaks the control chip turning Leviathan into Pierce’s puppet. In enemy territory, the two must figure out how to escape and recover Leviathan’s agency before Caro’s alien infection heals and he is lost forever.

PROPAGANDA GIRLS: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS by Lisa Rogak | 9781250275592 | 3/4/25
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Betty MacDonald, Zuzka Lauwers, Jane Smith-Hutton, and Marlene Dietrich were four women who, together, contributed to one of the most covert and successful military campaigns in WWII. As members of the OSS, their task was to create a secret brand of propaganda produced with the aim to break the morale of Axis soldiers. Working in the European theater, across enemy lines in occupied China, and in Washington, D.C., they forged letters and military orders, wrote and produced newspapers, scripted radio broadcasts, and developed rumors for undercover spies and double agents to spread to the enemy. And outside of a small group of spies, no one knew they existed. Until now. In PROPAGANDA GIRLS, Lisa Rogak brings to life their incredible true story.

WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy | 9781250827951 | 3/4/25
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Dominic Salt and his children are caretakers of Shearwater, an island near Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, it was once full of researchers. But with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants, packing up the seeds before they are transported to safer ground. During a bad storm, a woman washes up on shore. As the Salts nurse the woman, Rowan, back to life, their suspicion gives way to affection—but Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth, and Dominic is keeping his own dark secrets. As the storms gather force, can they trust each other enough to protect one another—and the precious seeds in their care? And can they finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together?

THE HAUNTING OF ROOM 904 by Erika T. Wurth | 9781250908599 | 3/18/25
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Olivia Becente was never supposed to have the gift. The ability to commune with the dead was the specialty of her sister, Naiche. But when Naiche dies unexpectedly and under strange circumstances, Olivia can’t stop seeing and hearing from spirits. A few years later, she’s the most in-demand paranormal investigator in Denver. That’s when she hears from a landmark Denver hotel, where every few years, a girl is found dead in room 904, no matter what room she checked into. As she tries to understand these deaths, the past and the present collide as the investigation forces her to confront a mysterious and possibly dangerous cult, a vindictive journalist, betrayal by her friends, and shocking revelations about her sister’s life.

MY BIG FAT FAKE MARRIAGE by Charlotte Stein | 9781250867971 | 3/11/25
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Connie has always distrusted nice guys. When she meets Beck—editor extraordinaire and lover of bow ties—he’s so sweet and cheery that she struggles to believe he’s real. But Beck tells her a secret: He’s been single all his life. In a moment of panic, he’s told everyone at his publishing house that he’s married. And when Connie defends him, she ends up becoming his fake wife. When they head off on a writing retreat, surrounded by people convinced this must be a ruse, they can’t help but agree. Until they share their first kiss, their first touch, their first time in one bed… and Connie starts to wonder if this might be real after all.

GO LUCK YOURSELF by Sara Raasch | 9781250333216 | 3/11/25
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Someone has been stealing Christmas’s joy. When Kris volunteers to investigate St. Patrick’s Day, desperate to be distracted from his own troubles, what could go wrong? Everything, it seems. Because Prince Lochlann Patrick, Crown Prince of St. Patrick’s Day, happens to be the student that Kris has been in a war with for the past few months at Cambridge. They try to play nice for the tabloids, but their tension bleeds into every interaction. Loch is infuriating, stubborn, loud, obstinate… and hot. Kris might be in trouble, especially when it turns out that the mystery behind Christmas’s stolen magic isn’t as simple as an outright theft. But why would a Holiday that Christmas has never had contact with want to steal joy? Can a spare prince hope to unravel all this, or will Kris lose something way more valuable than his Holiday’s resources—like his heart?