new this month:

In 1972 workers find a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were secrets kept in the neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened, James McBride’s novel shows us that even in dark times it is “love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us.”

Three daughters ask their mom to tell the story of Peter Duke, an actor with whom she “shared both a stage and a romance” at a theater company called Tom Lake. The story forces the daughters to examine their relationship with their mother. The novel is a meditation on youthful love, married love and the lives parents have led before their children were born.

Set in New York in the 1920s, this true-crime novel is based on a notorious murder and a conspiracy to bury the truth. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead, and a fortune of jewels is missing. The newspapers and detectives chase the story as an assortment of characters guard secrets.

A multi-generational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation. In the 1930s a contender for the Olympics would have had to run under the Japanese flag. Nearly a century later, his granddaughter, living in Japan, is training to run a marathon. She summons Korean shamans to connect with her grandfather. Ghosts appear, and the granddaughter must uncover their stories to free their souls.