Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal, 340 pages

 Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she’s been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in her family for decades, and while Mariel’s grandmother embraced the business, seeing it as a saving grace, Florence never took to it. When Mariel inherited the restaurant, skipping Florence, it created a rift between mother and daughter that never quite healed.

Ned is also an heir—to a chain of home-style diners—and while he doesn't have a head for business, he knows his family's chain could provide a better future than his wife's fading restaurant. In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, Ned and Mariel lose almost everything they hold dear, and the hard-won victories of each family hang in the balance. With their dreams dashed, can one fractured family find a way to rebuild despite their losses, and will the Lakeside Supper Club be their salvation?

In this colorful, vanishing world of relish trays and brandy Old Fashioneds, J. Ryan Stradal has once again given us a story full of his signature honest, lovable yet fallible Midwestern characters as they grapple with love, loss, and marriage; what we hold onto and what we leave behind; and what our legacy will be when we are gone.

The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren, 340 pages

 Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways.

Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch.

Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents—his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife.

But in the presence of his family, Liam’s fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie.

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer, 340 pages

 ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, levelheaded assistant for unspecified office duties, supporting staff for random mayhem, terror, and other Dark Things In General. Discretion a must. Excellent benefits.

With ailing family to support, Evie Sage's employment status isn't just important, it's vital. So when a mishap with Rennedawn’s most infamous Villain results in a job offer—naturally, she says yes. No job is perfect, of course, but even less so when you develop a teeny crush on your terrifying, temperamental, and undeniably hot boss. Don’t find evil so attractive, Evie.

But just when she’s getting used to severed heads suspended from the ceiling and the odd squish of an errant eyeball beneath her heel, Evie suspects this dungeon has a huge rat…and not just the literal kind. Because something rotten is growing in the kingdom of Rennedawn, and someone wants to take the Villain—and his entire nefarious empire—out.

Now Evie must not only resist drooling over her boss but also figure out exactly who is sabotaging his work…and ensure he makes them pay.

After all, a good job is hard to find.

Not the Witch You Wed by April Asher, 340 pages

 Magic-less witch Violet Maxwell wants nothing to do with alpha wolf shifter Lincoln Thorne—the man who broke her fragile, teenage heart. But when the two of them are forced by arcane Supernatural Laws to find mates, Violet and Lincoln agree to fake-date their way to a fake-mating in order to conjure themselves some time.

The joke’s on them. When old feelings make a reappearance—along with Violet’s magic—they both realize there’s nothing fake about their feelings. But there are old secrets and looming threats that could snatch away their happily ever after, again. One thing’s for sure: magic doesn’t make dating and love any easier.

In Not the Witch You Wed, April Asher brings all the hilarity and sweet, sexy moments you love in a romantic-comedy—plus a fun dose of magic—to this spell-binding new series about being sexy, single, and supernatural in New York City.

Chocolate Wars by Deborah Cadbury, 340 pages

When Richard Tapper Cadbury sent his son to London to study cocoa in the early nineteenth century, he could not have imagined what lay in store; within a generation, his grandson Richard and George had created a chocolate company to rival the world's confectionery powerhouses.
The Cadbury brothers were staunch Quakers, as determined to improve the lives of their employees as they were produce a popular product that would seal their success. Their company soon became the largest of its kind-but in the new millennium, Cadburys too would face a threat to its very survival, culminating in a multi-billion pound showdown.
Featuring a dazzling cast of characters, Chocolate Wars tells the tale of a unique family and a beloved product, in a history unlike any other.

Site Unseen by Dana Cameron, 340 pages

Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding finds things that have been lost for hundreds of years-and she's very, very good at it. A soon-to-be-tenured professor, she has recently unearthed evidence of a seventeenth-century coastal Maine settlement that predates Jamestown, one of the most significant archaeological finds in years. But the dead body that accompanies it has embroiled Emma and her students in a different kind of exploration. With her reputation suddenly in jeopardy-due to the ruthless machinations of a disgruntled rival-and a second suspicious death, heartbreakingly close to home, Emma must unearth a killer among the relics. But that means digging deep to get to dark secrets buried in the heart of the archaeological community-which, in turn, could bury Emma Fielding.

Why Kings Confess by C. S. Harris, 340 pages

Another fantastic mystery featuring Sebastian St. Cyr.

Ghostly Echoes by William Ritter, 340 pages

A fantastic read, I'll be sad when the last book in this series comes out.

Supervillains Anonymous by Lexie Dunne, 340 pages

I came across the first book as a e-book special, thought I would give it a try and was completely hooked. My husband even picked it up and now both of us are eagerly awaiting the third book.
Gail has gone from being Hostage Girl to professional pawn and she's tired of it. She's determined to get to the bottom of the superpower conspiracy, if she lives long enough. This is a fantastic read!

Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan, 340 pages

Jim Gaffigan is one of my favorite comedians, I find myself quoting him at inappropriate times. I'd loved his first book, "Dad is Fat", so I was sure this would be just as funny. This was even better. Jim feels the same way I do about food and eating, and looks at our obsession with food with his usual, slightly twisted, viewpoint. Well worth picking up!

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth, 340 pages

 I love any type of nonfiction historical, especially if it has an English bent to it. So I had to pick this book up which is a look at midwives/nurses in 1950s England. It was really interesting looking at how much the field had changed, but still had changes coming, and how the immigrants lives had stayed the same for years. I knew there was a PBS series based off this, but I'm definitely going to check into it now.