Royal Messes, Quick Reads & Greater Later + Love

It's Complicated

American Royalty by Tracey Livesay

contemporary romance

Avon, June 2022

Cinder-Nanny by Sariah Wilson

contemporary romance

Montlake, June 2022

All the Queen's Men (Her Majesty the Queen investigates #2) by S. J. Bennett

contemporary mystery

William Morrow, March 2021

Dukes Do It Better (Misfits of Mayfair #3) by Bethany Bennett

historical romance

Forever, May 2022

Family Feuds

Lucy Yi Is Not a Romantic by Lauren Ho

contemporary romantic women's fiction

G.P. Putnam's Sons, June 2022

A Daring Pursuit (Ruthless Rivals #2) by Kate Bateman

historical romance

St. Martin's Paperbacks, May 2022

From Bad to Cursed (Witches of Thistle Grove #2) by Lana Harper

contemporary supernatural romance

Berkley, May 2022

STEMinists in Love - contemporary romance novellas by Ali Hazelwood

Under One Roof

Berkley, May 2022

Stuck With You

Berkley, June 2022

BelowZero

Berkley, July 2022

The Love Hypothesis novel by Ali Hazelwood

contemporary romance

Penguin, September 2021

Faking It

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

contemporary romance

St. Martin's Press, July 19, 2022

Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley

contemporary romance

Griffin, June 2022

By Any Other Name by Lauren Kate

contemporary romance

G.P. Putnam's Sons, March 2022

The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams

contemporary romance

Dell, August 2021

Danger in Paradise

My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey, author & publisher

contemporary mystery romance

June, 2022

Grown Folks Only

The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty by Ellen Warner

non-fiction

Brandeis University Press, January 2022

Goodbye Again (Wyndham Beach #2) by Mariah Stewart

contemporary women's fiction with romance

Montlake, February 2022

Out the Clear Blue Sky by Kristan Higgins

contemporary women's fiction with romantic elements

Berkley, June 2022

Comforting Canines

Dog Friendly by Victoria Schade

contemporary romance

Berkley, June 2022

Lost, Found & Forever by Victoria Schade

contemporary romance

Berkley, March 2021

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New Arrivals Giving BRBF Vibes + BAC Issues

Even as my friends and I enjoyed a fantastic community event yesterday in and around the Bowie Branch of the Prince George's County Memorial Library System, there was envy in my heart for all of the attendees and participants at the Black Romance Book Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. Reports of issues of crowding just made me happy for the event organizers' success while they posted apologies and corrective strategies for crowd control during the last day. In the meantime, the new arrivals shelves at the closest library in the neighboring county offered a variety of books by BRBF authors. "Where the Melanated Are Celebrated" indeed. [9 books, from left to right: Positive Obsession, Communion, Big Girl Blitz (atop a bookstack), The Started Ex, Fire Sword & Sea, Leave Your Mess at Home, Archangel's Eternity, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, First Sign of Danger] Currently reading Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Mo...

Legacies of Octavia Butler & June BAC Issues

It's so exciting to read about a trailblazer who was ethical, thoughtful, generous, and funny in addition to being diligent and multifaceted. [Positive Obsession atop a bookstack of 7 books - The Last Lady B spine showing, then 6 books showing page edges; Communion propped to the left of the bookstack] Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris non-fiction biography Amistad, 2025 Opening with a quote from Parable of the Sower, this biographer uses every word in the O.E.B. chronology, author's note, introduction, six chapters, epilogue, and acknowledgements to engage readers in an intimate personal study of this extraordinary, talented, driven woman who was vulnerable and complicated in her brilliant humanity. The author's access to the O.E.B. archives adds layers of emotional depth that enrich the context of the details of the author's personal life and creative and professional development. from the Author's Note:...

When What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Funny

Need to laugh out loud? To feel inspired? To feel seen? To feel encouraged to pursue your heart's most ambitious desires despite overwhelming odds against succeeding? Read Zarna Garg's memoir, which offers an intimate, compelling coming of age, immigrant's journey, family saga, and keen observations about humans and life as experienced by a hilarious, intrepid individual. [front cover of "Zarna Garg, This American Woman: A One-In-A-Billion Memoir" showing the Statue of Liberty holding the author in her arms with the New York City skyline in the lower half of the background] This American Woman: A One-In-A-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg non-fiction memoir Ballantine Books, April 2025 Universal themes of family love and family conflict, support and abandonment, grieving as a years' long process with lulls, parenting and being parented (or not), finding your people in friendship, romance, community presented and dissected with the author's sharp wit ...

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