Recently Received Riveting Reads: March 2016
Selective list of new fiction recently received
New Fiction
- The Advocate's Daughter byCall Number: F FranzeISBN: 9781250071651Publication Date: 2016-03-22Among Washington D.C. power players, everyone has secrets they desperately want to keep hidden, including Sean Serrat, a Supreme Court lawyer. Sean transformed his misspent youth into a model adulthood, and now has one of the most respected legal careers in the country. But just as he learns he's on the short list to be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, his daughter, Abby, a talented and dedicated law student, goes missing. Abby's lifeless body is soon found in the library of the Supreme Court, and her boyfriend, Malik Montgomery, a law clerk at the high court, is immediately arrested.
- All Things Cease to Appear byCall Number: F BrundageISBN: 9781101875599Publication Date: 2016-03-08Late one winter afternoon in upstate New York, George Clare comes home to find his wife killed and their three-year-old daughter alone--for how many hours?--in her room across the hall. He had recently, begrudgingly, taken a position at a nearby private college teaching art history, and moved his family into a tight-knit, impoverished town that has lately been discovered by wealthy outsiders in search of a rural idyll. George is of course the immediate suspect--the question of his guilt echoing in a story shot through with secrets both personal and professional.
- The Ancient Minstrel byCall Number: F HarrisonISBN: 9780802124562Publication Date: 2016-03-01In The Ancient Minstrel, Harrison delivers three novellas that highlight his phenomenal range as a writer, shot through with his trademark wit and keen insight into the human condition.
- At the Edge of the Orchard byCall Number: F ChevalierISBN: 9780525953005Publication Date: 2016-03-151838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed. James loves the apples, while Sadie prefers the applejack they make, an alcoholic refuge from brutal frontier life. 1853: Their youngest child Robert is wandering through Gold Rush California. In the redwood and giant sequoia groves he finds some solace, collecting seeds for a naturalist who sells plants from the new world to the gardeners of England. When Robert's past makes an unexpected appearance he must decide whether to strike out again or stake his own claim to a home at last.
- The Best Place on Earth byCall Number: Short Stories TsabariISBN: 9780812988932Publication Date: 2016-03-08Reminiscent of the early work of Jhumpa Lahiri, Ayelet Tsabari's award-winning debut collection of stories is global in scope yet intimate in feel, beautifully written, and emotionally powerful. From Israel to India to Canada, Tsabari's indelible characters grapple with love, violence, faith, the slipperiness of identity, and the challenges of balancing old traditions with modern times.
- Bottomland byCall Number: F HooverISBN: 9780802124715Publication Date: 2016-03-01At once intimate and sweeping, Bottomland follows the Hess family in the years after World War I, as they attempt to rid themselves of the Anti-German sentiment that left a stain on their name. But when the youngest two daughters vanish in the middle of the night, the family must piece together what happened while struggling to maintain their life on the unforgiving Iowa plains.
- Burning down the House byCall Number: F MendelsohnISBN: 9781101875452Publication Date: 2016-03-15A classic family tale colliding with the twenty-first century, Burning Down the House tells the story of two girls. Neva, from the mountains of Russia, was sold into the sex trade at the age of ten; Poppy is the adopted daughter of Steve, the patriarch of a successful New York real estate firm. One of these young women will unwittingly help bring down this grand household with the inexorability of Greek tragedy, and the other will summon everything she's learned and all her strength to try to save its members from themselves.
- Chicago byCall Number: F DoyleISBN: 9781250061997Publication Date: 2016-03-29On the last day of summer, some years ago, a young college graduate moves to Chicago and rents a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the vast and muscular lake. This is the story of the five seasons he lives there, during which he meets gangsters, gamblers, policemen, a brave and garrulous bus driver, a cricket player, a librettist, his first girlfriend, a shy apartment manager, and many other riveting souls, not to mention a wise and personable dog of indeterminate breed.
- Cold Barrel Zero byCall Number: F QuirkISBN: 9780316259217Publication Date: 2016-03-29John Hayes is a Special Operations legend who went rogue on a deep-cover mission and betrayed his own soldiers. Disgraced and on the run, he returns to the United States to get back to his wife and daughter and take revenge on his accusers with a series of devastating attacks. Only one man can stop him: Thomas Byrne. He once fought alongside Hayes as a combat medic, but he gave up the gun. Now a surgeon, he moves from town to town, trying to forget his past, until he is called upon by a high-ranking government official to help capture the man he once called a friend.
- The Considerate Killer byCall Number: F KaaberbolISBN: 9781616955281Publication Date: 2016-03-01On her way home from the shops, Nina Borg is attacked. Dazed and half-conscious, she hears her assailant ask for her forgiveness. Only later does she understand that this isn't for what he's just done, but for what he plans to do to. As a Red Cross nurse, Nina typically finds herself fighting for others' lives, not her own. For the first time, she's the primary target of a hit, and it slowly dawns on her that this case is connected to a surprising and dangerous friendship among three young men from Manila.
- The Cosmopolitans byCall Number: F SchulmanISBN: 9781558619043Publication Date: 2016-03-15A modern retelling of Balzac's classic Cousin Bette by one of America's most prolific and significant writers. Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their families, both found refuge in New York and in their domestic routine. Everything changes when Hortense, a wealthy young actress from Ohio, comes to the city to "make it."
- Dear Emma byCall Number: F HeaneyISBN: 9781455534609Publication Date: 2016-03-01Harriet, the author of her college newspaper's pseudonymous student advice column "Dear Emma," is great at telling others what to do, dispensing wisdom for the lovelorn and lonely on her Midwestern campus. Somehow, though, she can't take her own advice, especially after Keith, the guy she's dating, blows her off completely. When Harriet discovers that Keith has started seeing the beautiful and intimidating Remy, she wants to hate her. But she can't help warming to Remy, who soon writes to "Dear Emma" asking for romantic advice.
- Dear Thing byCall Number: F CohenISBN: 9781250081506Publication Date: 2016-03-29After years of watching her best friends Ben and Claire try for a baby, Romily has offered to give them the one thing that they want most. Romily expects it will be easy to be a surrogate. But Romily isn't prepared for the overwhelming feelings that have taken hold of her and which threaten to ruin her friendship with Ben and Claire-and even destroy their marriage. Now there are three friends, two mothers and only one baby, and an impossible decision to make..
- Domestic Secrets byCall Number: F NoonanISBN: 9781617733277Publication Date: 2016-02-23Rachel Whalen and Ariel Alexander have been friends for more than a decade. Despite their differences-they've helped each other navigate single motherhood. Yet lately, Rachel wonders about Ariel's increasingly erratic parenting and her clandestine love life. And Rachel can't reveal to anyone, even Ariel, how much she worries about her sullen, distant, younger son. When an unthinkable tragedy separates the two families, Rachel desperately tries to understand what went wrong.
- Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo byCall Number: F FishmanISBN: 9780062384362Publication Date: 2016-03-01Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, she is a Ukrainian exchange student and he the coddled son of Russian immigrant. Twenty years later, Maya Rubin is a medical worker in suburban New Jersey, and Alex his father's second in the family business. The great dislocation of their lives is their eight-year-old son Max; adopted from two teenagers in Montana. Max suddenly turns feral, consorting with wild animals, eating grass, and running away to sit face down in a river. Searching for answers, Maya convinces Alex to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max's birth parents, the first drive west of New Jersey of their American lives.
- A Few of the Girls byCall Number: F BinchyISBN: 9781101947418Publication Date: 2016-03-01A Few of the Girls is a glorious collection of the very best of her short story writing, stories that were written over the decades--some published in magazines, others for friends as gifts, many for charity benefits. The stories are all filled with the signature warmth and humor that have always been an essential part of Maeve's appeal.
- Forsaken byCall Number: F HowellISBN: 9781588383174Publication Date: 2016-02-01In April 1912 in Hampton, Virginia, white eighteen-year-old reporter Charles Mears covers his first murder case, a trial that roiled racial tensions. An uneducated African American girl, Virginia Christian, was tried for killing her white employer. "Virgie" died in the electric chair one day after her seventeenth birthday, the only female juvenile executed in Virginia history. Charlie tells the story of the trial and its aftermath.
- The Friends We Keep byCall Number: F MalleryISBN: 9780778319535Publication Date: 2016-02-23After five years as a stay-at-home mom, Gabby Schaefer can't wait to return to work. Oh, to use the bathroom in peace! No twins clamoring at the door, no husband barging in, no stepdaughter throwing a tantrum. But when her plans are derailed by some shocking news and her husband's crushing expectations, Gabby must fight for the right to have a life of her own.
- Full Fathom Five byCall Number: F SmithISBN: 9780062276476Publication Date: 2016-03-22Former operative Major Hector Cross must face off against a pair of lethal enemies and prevent an international catastrophe in this gripping contemporary adventure-thriller from the legendary worldwide bestselling author of Desert God and Golden Lion.
- Goodbye to the Dead byCall Number: F FreemanISBN: 9781623659110Publication Date: 2016-03-08Detective Jonathan Stride's first wife, Cindy, died of cancer eight years ago, but her ghost hangs over Stride's relationship with current lover, and fellow detective, Serena Dial. When Serena witnesses a brutal murder outside a Duluth bar, she stumbles onto a case with roots that go all the way back to the last year of Cindy Stride's life. At the time, Cindy and Stride were on opposite sides of a domestic murder investigation.
- Hidden Bodies byCall Number: F KepnesISBN: 9781476785622Publication Date: 2016-02-23In the compulsively readable follow-up to her widely acclaimed debut novel, You, Caroline Kepnes weaves a tale that marks the return of the divisive and charmingly sociopathic character of Joe Goldberg. Joe s no stranger to hiding bodies. In the past ten years, this thirty-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. Now he's heading west to Los Angeles, determined to put his past behind him.
- Hold Still byCall Number: F StrongISBN: 9781631491689Publication Date: 2016-03-21When Maya Taylor, an English professor with a tendency to hide in her books, sends her daughter to Florida to look after a friend's child, she does so with the best of intentions; it's a chance for Ellie, twenty and spiraling, to rebuild her life. But Ellie fears she'll only disappoint again, and in the sprawling hours of one humid afternoon, she makes a mistake that she can't take back.
- Hurt People byCall Number: F SmithISBN: 9780374535889Publication Date: 2016-03-01Summer of 1988. Leavenworth, Kansas: a town with four major prisons, gripped by the recent escape of a convict. Yet for two young brothers, all that matters is the pool in their apartment complex. They spend their blissful days practicing dives while their divorcée mother works her day shift at the golf course and their policeman father patrols the streets. But when a mysterious stranger appears poolside and creates a rift between the brothers, the younger one wonders just what these visits to the pool might ultimately cost.
- Immaculate Heart byCall Number: F DeAngelisISBN: 9781250046512Publication Date: 2016-03-22When visiting Ballymorris in Ireland for a funeral, an American reporter learns of a story that happened only months after his last visit many years before. A group of four teenagers claimed to have been visited by the Virgin Mary. Almost twenty years later, one of them denies it ever happened, another has left the small town, another has become a nun, and the fourth has been locked away in a psychiatric ward . At the time, news of the visitation brought much tourism to this dreary Irish town, but after the Pope refused to officially recognize it as a true Marian Apparition, what had been seen as a miracle began to feel like a curse.
- Innocents and Others byCall Number: F SpiottaISBN: 9781501122729Publication Date: 2016-03-08Dana Spiotta's new novel is about two women, best friends, who grow up in LA in the 80s and become filmmakers. Meadow and Carrie have everything in common, except their views on sex, power, movie-making, and morality. Their lives collide with Jelly, a loner whose most intimate experience is on the phone. Jelly is older, erotic, and mysterious. She cold calls powerful men and seduces them not through sex but through listening. She invites them to reveal themselves, and they do.
- Jane Steele byCall Number: F FayeISBN: 9780399169496Publication Date: 2016-03-22A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre "last confessions" of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her aunt has died and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess.
- The Little Red Chairs byCall Number: F O'BrienISBN: 9780316378239Publication Date: 2016-03-29Vlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish village where the locals fall under his spell. One woman, Fidelma McBride, becomes so enamored that she begs him for a child. When Vlad is arrested, and his identity as a war criminal is revealed. Fidelma, disgraced, flees to England and seeks work among the other displaced migrants. But it is not until she confronts him-her nemesis-at the tribunal in The Hague, that her physical and emotional journey reaches its breathtaking climax.
- The Moon in the Palace byCall Number: F RandelISBN: 9781492613565Publication Date: 2016-03-01A concubine at the palace learns quickly that there are many ways to capture the Emperor's attention.But young Me gives the Emperor a gift he can never forget. Mei's intelligence and curiosity, the same traits that make her an outcast among the other concubines, impress the Emperor. But just as she is in a position to seduce the most powerful man in China, divided loyalties split the palace in two, culminating in a perilous battle that Mei can only hope to survive.
- Mrs. Houdini byCall Number: F KellyISBN: 9781501110900Publication Date: 2016-03-01A captivating debut novel, meticulously researched and beautifully imagined, about the passionate marriage of Harry and Bess Houdini;a love story that defied death itself. Before escape artist Harry Houdini died, he vowed he would find a way to speak to his beloved wife Bess from beyond the grave using a coded message known only to the two of them. When a widowed Bess begins seeing this code in seemingly impossible places, it becomes clear that Harry has an urgent message to convey.
- The Nest byCall Number: F SweeneyISBN: 9780062414212Publication Date: 2016-03-22Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab
- No One Knows byCall Number: F EllisonISBN: 9781501118470Publication Date: 2016-03-22The day Aubrey Hamilton's husband is declared dead by the state of Tennessee should bring closure so she can move on with her life. But Aubrey doesn't want to move on; she wants Josh back. It's been five years since he disappeared, since their blissfully happy marriage screeched to a halt and Aubrey became the prime suspect in his disappearance.
- The Other Side of Silence byCall Number: F KerrISBN: 9780399177040Publication Date: 2016-03-29Bernie Gunther, our sardonic former Berlin homicide detective and unwilling SS officer, is now living on the French Riviera. It is 1956 and Bernie is the go-to guy at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat, As it happens, a local writer needs someone to fill the fourth seat in a regular game that is the usual evening diversion at the Villa Mauresque. Not just any writer. Perhaps the richest and most famous living writer in the world: W. Somerset Maugham. And it turns out it is not just a bridge partner that he needs; it's some professional advice.
- Overwatch byCall Number: F BetleyISBN: 9781476799216Publication Date: 2016-03-01When Logan West impulsively answers a dead man's ringing phone, he triggers a global race against the clock to track down an unknown organization searching for an Iraqi artifact that is central to a planned attack in the Middle East;one that will draw the United States into a major conflict with Iran. Logan, a former Marine officer, is quickly contracted as a consultant to assist the FBI as part of a special task force bent on stopping the shadowy operatives, whatever the cost.
- Peacekeeping byCall Number: F BerlinskiISBN: 9780374230449Publication Date: 2016-03-08When Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, he takes a job working for the UN, helping to train the Haitian police. He's sent to the remote town of Jeremie, where the dirt roads all slope down sooner or later to the postcard sea. Terry is swept up in the town's complex politics when he befriends an earnest, reforming American-educated judge. Soon he convinces the judge to oppose the corrupt but charismatic Senateur Maxim Bayard in an upcoming election. When Terry falls in love with the judge's wife, the electoral drama threatens to become a disaster
- A Remarkable Kindness byCall Number: F BletterISBN: 9780062382443Publication Date: 2015-08-112006 in a seaside village in Israel, where a war is brewing. Lauren, Emily, Aviva and Rachel, four memorable women from different backgrounds, are drawn to the village. The women forge a friendship that sustains them as they come to terms with love and loss, and the outbreak of war. Their intimate bond is strengthened by their participation in a traditional ritual that closes the circle of life. As their lives are slowly transformed, each finds unexpected strength and resilience.
- The Rope byCall Number: F MakiyaISBN: 9781101870471Publication Date: 2016-03-15A gritty and unflinching novel about Iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 American invasion, as seen through the eyes of a Shi'ite militiaman whose participation in the execution of Saddam Hussein changes his life in ways he could never have anticipated.
- Scar Tissue byCall Number: F StreckerISBN: 9781250042859Publication Date: 2016-03-01Siixteen-year-old Savannah Martino is strangled to death in an abandoned house. The police rule Savannah's murder a random attack of opportunity, which prompts the small New Jersey town to instigate a curfew and cancel football games. Isolated and afraid, Savannah' sister, Cady, continues to communicate with Savannah through dreams. Cady knows Savannah in ways no one else knew: The beautiful, ethereal twin everyone thought was an angel was actually on the road to self-destruction.
- Spill Simmer Falter Wither byCall Number: F BaumeISBN: 9780544716193Publication Date: 2016-03-08A debut novel already praised as "unbearably poignant and beautifully told" this captivating story follows -- over the course of four seasons -- a misfit man who adopts a misfit dog. It is springtime, and two outcasts -- a man ignored, even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes into his quiet, tightly shuttered life -- find each other, by accident or fate, and forge an unlikely connection. As their friendship grows, their small, seaside town suddenly takes note of them, falsely perceiving menace where there is only mishap; the unlikely duo must take to the road.
- Stork Mountain byCall Number: F PenkovISBN: 9780374222796Publication Date: 2016-03-15Stork Mountain tells the story of a young Bulgarian immigrant who, in an attempt to escape his mediocre life in America, returns to the country of his birth. Retracing the steps of his estranged grandfather, a man who suddenly and inexplicably cut all contact with the family three years prior, the boy finds himself on the border of Bulgaria and Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains. Here in the mountains, the boy reunites with his grandfather. and falls in love with an unobtainable Muslim girl.
- The Storm Sister byCall Number: F RileyISBN: 9781476759920Publication Date: 2016-03-22Gathered at their childhood home to mourn their father's death, Ally DAplièse and her five adoptive sisters receive tantalizing clues to their distinct heritages. Ally soon finds herself in Norway where she begins to make sense of her elusive past in the second part of an epic new series by #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley.
- The Summer Before the War byCall Number: F SimonsonISBN: 9780812993103Publication Date: 2016-03-22East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England's brief Edwardian summer. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye. Agatha's husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certain he will ensure that the recent saber rattling over the Balkans won't come to anything. And Agatha has more immediate concerns; she has just risked her carefully built reputation by pushing for the appointment of a woman to replace the Latin master. Beatrice simply wants to be left alone to pursue her teaching and writing. But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape and the colorful characters who populate Rye, the perfect summer is about to end.
- Thursday's Children byCall Number: F FrenchISBN: 9780143127215Publication Date: 2016-03-29Frieda Klein is uninterested in catching up on old times when her former classmate, Maddie Capel, shows up at her door--until she hears about Maddie's troubled daughter, Becky. The teenager claims she was raped in her own bed one night while her mother was downstairs. Her assailant left her with a warning: "Don't think of telling anyone, sweetheart. Nobody will believe you." And no one does--except Frieda. Becky's story awakens dark memories of an eerily similar incident in Frieda's own past that she's been avoiding for decades.
- The Travelers byCall Number: F PavoneISBN: 9780385348485Publication Date: 2016-03-08Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment and the worry that he's living the wrong life. Then one night, on assignment for the award-winning Travelers magazine in the wine region of Argentina, a beautiful woman makes him an offer he can't refuse. Soon Will's bad choices--and dark secrets--take him across Europe, from a chateau in Bordeaux to a midnight raid on a Paris mansion, from a dive bar in Dublin to a mega-yacht in the Mediterranean and an isolated cabin perched on the rugged cliffs of Iceland.
- Two If by Sea byCall Number: F MitchardISBN: 9781501115578Publication Date: 2016-03-15Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami in Brisbane, American expat Frank Mercy goes out to join a volunteer rescue unit and pulls a little boy from a submerged car, saving the child's life. Not quite knowing why, Frank sidesteps the law, when, instead of turning Ian over to the Red Cross, he takes the boy home to the Midwestern farm where he grew up. Not long into their journey, Frank begins to believe that Ian has an extraordinary, impossible telepathic gift.
- The Weeping Woman byCall Number: F ValdesISBN: 9781628725810Publication Date: 2016-03-01A writer resembling Zoé Valdés--a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter--is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of the art world's avant-garde. Dora became his lover, muse, and ultimately, his victim. She became The Weeping Woman captured in his famous portrait, the mistress he betrayed with other mistress-muses, and their affair ended with her commitment to an asylum at the hands of Picasso's friends.
- Work Like Any Other byCall Number: F ReevesISBN: 9781501112492Publication Date: 2016-03-01Roscoe T. Martin set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the twentieth century: electricity. It became his training, his life's work. But when his wife, Marie, inherits her father's failing farm, Roscoe has to give up his livelihood, with great cost to his sense of self, his marriage, and his family. He begins to use his skills as an electrician to siphon energy from the state, ushering in a period of bounty and happiness. Then a young man working for the state power company stumbles on Roscoe's illegal lines and is electrocuted, and everything changes: Roscoe is arrested; the farm once more starts to deteriorate; and Marie abandons her husband, leaving him to face his twenty-year sentence alone.
- Young Once byCall Number: F ModuanoISBN: 9781590179550Publication Date: 2016-03-08Odile and Louis are leading a happy, bucolic life with their two children in the French countryside near the Swiss mountains. Then the story shifts back to their early years: Louis, just freed from his military service and at loose ends, is taken up by a shady character who brings him to Paris to do some work for a friend who manages a garage; Odile, an aspiring singer, is at the mercy of the kindness and unkindness of strangers. In a Paris that is steeped in crime and full of secrets, they find each other and struggle together to create what, looking back, will have been their youth.
New Fiction
- All Stories Are Love Stories byCall Number: F PercerISBN: 9780062275950Publication Date: 2016-03-22On Valentine's Day, two major earthquakes strike San Francisco within the same hour, devastating the city and its primary entry points, sparking fires throughout, and leaving its residents without power, gas, or water.
- America's First Daughter byCall Number: F DrayISBN: 9780062347268Publication Date: 2016-03-01Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha '"Patsy" Jefferson Randolph, a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy. From her earliest days, Patsy Jefferson knows that though her father loves his family dearly, his devotion to his country runs deeper still. As Thomas Jefferson's oldest daughter, she becomes his constant companion in the wake of her mother's death, traveling with him when he becomes American minister to France.
- As Close to Us As Breathing byCall Number: F PolinerISBN: 9780316384148Publication Date: 2016-03-15In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach," has long been a summer destination for Jewish families. Here sisters Ada, Vivie, and Bec assemble at their beloved family cottage, with children in tow and weekend-only husbands who arrive each Friday in time for the Sabbath meal. During the weekdays, freedom reigns. But when a terrible accident occurs on the sisters' watch, a summer of hope and self-discovery transforms into a lifetime of atonement and loss.
- Bad Signs byCall Number: F ElloryISBN: 9781468311273Publication Date: 2016-03-15Orphaned by an act of senseless violence that took their mother from them, half-brothers Clarence Luckman and Elliott Danziger have been raised in state institutions, unaware of any world beyond its walls. But their lives take a sudden turn when they are seized as hostages by a convicted killer en route to death row. Earl Sheridan is a psychopath of the worst kind, and as he and his two hostages set off on a frenetic path through California down to Texas, Clarence and Elliot must come to terms with the ever-growing tide of violence in their wake.
- Behave byCall Number: F Romano-LaxISBN: 9781616956530Publication Date: 2016-03-01Rosalie Rayner and her husband John Watson conducted experiments on hundreds of babies to prove behaviourist principles of nurture over nature. With Behave, Andromeda Romano-Lax offers a fictional biography of Rosalie, a woman whose lab work is now widely repudiated but who in her time was at the cutting edge of parenting psychology. Both moving and horrifying, Behave is a thought-provoking and compelling novel about the meaning of motherhood.
- The Best Ever byCall Number: F EvanovichISBN: 9780062234858Publication Date: 2016-03-15Heartthrob star quarterback Tyson Palmer has it all: a million-dollar arm, a winning season and the promise of a Superbowl ring. But more importantly, football's biggest star is the ultimate comeback kid. After an addiction to painkillers nearly derailed his career, Tyson got sober and went from zero to hero in the eyes of the public. But one person remains unconvinced: Dani Carr, a sports commentator with high ratings and following of her own.
- The Charm Bracelet byCall Number: F ShipmanISBN: 9781250071323Publication Date: 2016-03-22On her birthday each year, Lolly's mother gave her a charm, along with the advice that there is nothing more important than keeping family memories alive, and so Lolly's charm bracelet would be a constant reminder of that love. Now seventy and starting to forget things, Lolly knows time is running out to reconnect with a daughter and granddaughter whose lives have become too busy for Lolly.. But when Arden, Lolly's daughter, receives an unexpected phone call about her mother, she and granddaughter Lauren rush home. Over the course of their visit, Lolly reveals the story behind each charm on her bracelet, and one by one the family stories help Lolly, Arden, and Lauren reconnect.
- Cheatgrass byCall Number: F PaulISBN: 9781628726015Publication Date: 2016-03-01Tommy Smith, the Iraq War vet and former Eastern Sierra packer, is home from war after re-upping for a tour in Afghanistan. When his old friend Dave Cathcart disappears from his ranch, Tommy answers the call to help find him. What he learns is that his love for Dave's daughter, his old flame Sarah Cathcart, has never died, but the country where he grew up is undergoing change.
- Clawback byCall Number: F JanceISBN: 9781501110726Publication Date: 2016-03-08When Ali's parents lose their life savings to a Ponzi scheme, her father goes to confront his long-time friend and financial advisor, only to stumble into the scene of a bloody double homicide. With her father suddenly a prime suspect, Ali and her husband work to clear her father's name, while at the same time seeking justice for her parents as well as the scheme's other suddenly impoverished victims, one of whom is a stone cold killer.
- Contrary Motion byCall Number: F MozinaISBN: 9780812998283Publication Date: 2016-03-08Matthew Grzbc is a talented musician who plays the concert harp. He is a divorced dad who lives in Chicago, has a sexy girlfriend, and has a major, potentially life-changing audition with an orchestra on the horizon. At least that's how he appears on paper. But take a closer look and a very different man starts to emerge: an obsessive, self-sabotaging Midwesterner, fumbling through his relationship with his curiously neurotic six-year-old daughter and headed for destruction in his romantic life by grasping at any remotely affectionate warm body, including that of his ex-wife.
- Crazy Blood byCall Number: F ParkerISBN: 9781250064097Publication Date: 2016-03-08The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the Mammoth Cup ski race-a qualifier for the Olympics. But when Wylie Welborn, Adam's illegitimate grandson, returns after a stint in Afghanistan, it reopens a dark moment in Carson family history: the murder of Wylie's father by his jealous and very pregnant wife, Cynthia.
- Darkness byCall Number: F RobardsISBN: 9781476766591Publication Date: 2016-03-29A pumping romantic suspense novel, the tale of a brilliant ornithologist trapped on the remote Attu Island in Alaska, fighting for her life, and that of a handsome stranger before they're swallowed up in darkness forever.
- Deep Blue byCall Number: F WhiteISBN: 9780399173516Publication Date: 2016-03-15Doc Ford has long lived a double life. This time, it may finally have caught up to him. On a moonless night on Sanibel Island, Florida, marine biologist Marion "Doc" Ford carefully watches a video of a hooded man executing three hostages. The man is an American working with ISIS, and in the next few days, it'll be Ford's job, as part of his shadowy second life, to make sure he never kills anybody else again.
- Do Not Find Me byCall Number: F NovakISBN: 9781579624279Publication Date: 2016-02-01As a young man, Gigi Paulo arrives in New York and is immediately drawn to a girl he sees in a bar. Before he can approach her, she is gone. He returns to the bar for weeks, hoping to see her again, dreams of her at night and searches the crowds for her face. Quiet and careful, he is not the type to become obsessed by a stranger. But obsessed he is. Two years later he meets her at a party. Her name is Corrine. She seems to like his cooking and the blues albums he collects, but she never stays with him for long. As he discovers the secrets and violence of her life, Gigi finds himself unable to rescue her and barely able to save himself.
- Far from True byCall Number: F BarclayISBN: 9780451472700Publication Date: 2016-03-08After the screen of a run-down drive-in movie theater collapses and kills four people, the daughter of one of the victims asks private investigator Cal Weaver to look into a recent break-in at her father's house. Cal discovers a hidden basement room where it's clear that salacious activities have taken place--as well as evidence of missing DVDs. But his investigation soon becomes more complicated when he realizes it may not be discs the thief was actually interested in....
- The Feathered Bone byCall Number: F CantrellISBN: 9780718037628Publication Date: 2016-01-26In the pre-Katrina glow of New Orleans, Amanda Salassi is anxious about chaperoning her daughter's sixth-grade field trip to the Big Easy during Halloween. And then her worst fears come true. Her daughter's best friend, Sarah, disappears amid the magic and revelry--gone, without a trace. Unable to cope with her guilt, Amanda's daughter sinks into depression. And Amanda's husband turns destructive as he watches his family succumb to grief. Amanda knows she has to save herself before it's too late.
- Forty Martyrs byCall Number: Short Stories DeaverISBN: 9781941681947Publication Date: 2016-03-29Forty Martyrs follows the intertwining lives of the people of Tuscola, Illinois, a small Midwestern college town that, over the course of the book, collectively experiences a spectacular fire, a terrible stabbing, and a questionable religious sighting
- Girl in the Dark byCall Number: F PauwISBN: 9780062424792Publication Date: 2016-02-16A single mother and lawyer, Iris has a colorful caseload, a young son with behavior issues, and a judgmental mother. She also has a brother, shocking news she uncovers by accident. Why did her mother lie to her for her entire life? Why did she hide the existence of Ray Boelens from her? Curious about this sibling she has never known, Iris begins to search for long-buried truths. What she discovers surprises and horrifies her.
- Gone Again byCall Number: F GrippandoISBN: 9780062368706Publication Date: 2016-03-01Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. Now, just days from her murderer's execution, Sashi's mother visits Jack Swyteck, doing pro bono work at the Freedom Institute, and delivers shocking news: Sashi called me. The police dismiss the call as a cruel hoax. The State Attorney refuses to consider the new evidence, insisting the case is closed. The governor has already signed the death warrant. An innocent man may be executed and time is running out unless his lawyers can locate Sashi.
- Half a Lifelong Romance byCall Number: F ChangISBN: 9780307387547Publication Date: 2016-03-08Shanghai, 1930s. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry her. But dark circumstances---force the two young lovers apart. As Manzhen and Shijun go on their separate paths, they lose track of one another, and their lives become filled with missed connections and tragic misunderstandings.
- Hard Cold Winter byCall Number: F HamiltonISBN: 9780062344588Publication Date: 2016-03-08Former Army Ranger and thief Van Shaw is thrust into danger as lethal and unpredictable as the war he left behind. When an old crony of Van Shaw's late grandfather calls in a favor, the recently-discharged Ranger embarks on a dangerous journey to the Olympic Mountains, in search of a missing girl tied to Van's own criminal past. What he finds instead is a brutal murder scene, including a victim from one of Seattle's most influential families. But the dead bodies are only the start of Van's troubles.
- Hard Red Spring byCall Number: F KerneyISBN: 9780525429012Publication Date: 2016-03-29An ambitious and unforgettable epic novel that spans a hundred years of Guatemala's tumultuous history as experienced by four American women who are linked by the mysterious disappearance of a little girl. In 1902, a young girl watches her family's life destroyed by corrupt officials and inscrutable natives. In 1954, the wife of the American ambassador becomes trapped in the intrigue of a cold war love affair. In 1983, an evangelical missionary discovers that the Good News may not be good news at all to the Mayan refugees she hopes to save. And in 1999, the mother of an adopted Mayan daughter embarks on a Roots Tour only to find that the history she seeks is not safely in the past.
- High Dive byCall Number: F LeeISBN: 9781101874592Publication Date: 2016-03-08In September 1984, a bomb was planted at the Grand Hotel in the seaside town of Brighton, England, set to explode in twenty-four days when the British prime minister and her entire cabinet would be staying there. High Dive not only takes us inside this audacious assassination attempt--a decisive act of violence on the world stage--but also imagines its way into a group of unforgettable characters.
- I Met Someone byCall Number: F WagnerISBN: 9780399159367Publication Date: 2016-03-01Bruce Wagner's I Met Someone is the story of Oscar award-winning actress Dusty Wilding, her wife Allegra, a long-lost daughter and the unspeakable secret hidden beneath the glamour of their lavish, carefully calibrated, celebrity life. After Allegra suffers a miscarriage, Dusty embarks on a search for the daughter she lost at age 16 and uncovers the answer to a question that has haunted her for decades.
- The Infidel Stain byCall Number: F CarterISBN: 9780399171680Publication Date: 2016-03-29London, 1841. Returned from their adventures in India, Jeremiah Blake and William Avery have both had their difficulties adapting to life in Victorian England. Moreover, time and distance have weakened the close bond between them, forged in the jungles of India. Then a shocking series of murders in the world of London's gutter press forces them back together.
- Just Fall byCall Number: F SadowskyISBN: 9780553394856Publication Date: 2016-03-22How can you find out that the person you love is a killer . . . and continue to love him anyway? Ellie Larrabee's life is perfect. She's thriving at work, living in a fabulous apartment, and engaged to the man of her dreams. To all appearances, Ellie and Rob Beauman are a golden couple--blessed with good looks, success, and romantic chemistry that's off the charts. But on what should be the most wonderful day of her life, moments after saying "I do," a shocking secret threatens to shatter Ellie's happily-ever-after.
- The Madwoman Upstairs byCall Number: F LowellISBN: 9781501124211Publication Date: 2016-03-01The only remaining descendant of the Brontë family embarks on a modern-day literary scavenger hunt to find the family's long-rumored secret estate. Since Samantha Whipple's father's untimely death, she is the presumed heir to a long-rumored trove of diaries, paintings, letters, and early novel drafts passed down from the Brontë family, a hidden fortune never revealed to anyone outside of the family. When Samantha enrolls at Oxford University, her father's distinctive copy of Jane Eyre, which should have perished in the fire that claimed his life, mysteriously appears on Samantha's bed. Annotated in her father's handwriting, the book is the first of many clues in an elaborate scavenger hunt derived from the world's greatest literature.
- Margaret the First byCall Number: F DuttonISBN: 9781936787357Publication Date: 2016-03-15Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a time when "being a writer was not an option open to women.
- Noonday byCall Number: F BarkerISBN: 9780385537728Publication Date: 2016-03-08London, the Blitz, Autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul Tarrant works as an air-raid warden. Once fellow students at the Slade School of Fine Art before the First World War destroyed the hopes of their generation, they now find themselves caught in another war, this time at home.
- No Ordinary Life byCall Number: F RedfearnISBN: 9781455533909Publication Date: 2016-02-02Faye Martin never expected her husband to abandon her and their three children . . . or that she'd have to struggle every day to make ends meet. So when her four-year-old daughter is discovered through a YouTube video and offered a starring role on a television series, it seems like her prayers have been answered. But when the reality of their new life settles in, Faye realizes that fame and fortune don't come without a price.
- The North Water byCall Number: F McGuireISBN: 9781627795944Publication Date: 2016-03-15A nineteenth-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original tale that grips like a thriller. Behold the man: stinking, drunk, and brutal. Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaler bound for the rich hunting waters of the arctic circle. Also aboard for the first time is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money, and no better option than to sail as the ship's medic on this violent, filthy, and ill-fated voyage. .
- Oil and Marble byCall Number: F StoreyISBN: 9781628726398Publication Date: 2016-03-01From 1501--1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo despises Michelangelo for his youth and lack of sophistication. Michelangelo both loathes and worships Leonardo's genius. Storey brings early 16th-century Florence alive, and has entered with extraordinary empathy into the minds and souls of two Renaissance masters. The book is an art history thriller.
- Only Ever You byCall Number: F DrakeISBN: 9781250068910Publication Date: 2016-03-22Jill Lassiter's three-year-old daughter disappears from a playground only to return after 40 frantic minutes, but her mother's relief is short-lived, there's a tiny puncture mark on Sophia's arm. When doctors can find no trace of drugs in her system, Jill accepts she'll never know what happened, but at least her child is safe. Except Sophia isn't. Someone is watching the Lassiter home in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb, infiltrating the family's personal and professional lives.
- The Passenger byCall Number: F LutzISBN: 9781451686630Publication Date: 2016-03-01Forty-eight hours after leaving her husband's body at the base of the stairs, Tanya Dubois cashes in her credit cards, dyes her hair brown, demands a new name from a shadowy voice over the phone, and flees town. It's not the first time. She meets Blue, a female bartender who recognizes the hunted look in a fugitive's eyes and offers her a place to stay. With dwindling choices, Tanya-now-Amelia accepts. An uneasy, and dangerous alliance is born.
- Regrets Only byCall Number: F PullenISBN: 9781250070944Publication Date: 2016-03-01At thirty-three, Suzanne Hamilton has no regrets. A successful event planner with a swanky condo in a hot Atlanta neighborhood, she's got a close group of friends and a list of men a mile long who would happily bend over backwards to win her heart. Plus, she's just landed the event that will take her career to the next level. Then a freak accident changes everything.
- Rush Oh! byCall Number: F BarrettISBN: 9780316261548Publication Date: 2016-03-221908: It's the year that proves to be life-changing for teenage Mary Davidson, tasked with providing support to her father's boisterous whaling crews while caring for five brothers and sisters in the wake of their mother's death. But when the handsome John Beck-a former Methodist preacher turned novice whaler with a mysterious past-arrives at the Davidson's door pleading to join her father's crews, suddenly Mary's world is upended.
- Shelter byCall Number: F YunISBN: 9781250075611Publication Date: 2016-03-15Kyung Cho is a young father burdened by a house he can't afford. For years, he and his wife, Gillian, have lived beyond their means. A few miles away, his parents, Jin and Mae, live in the town's most exclusive neighborhood, Growing up, they gave him every possible advantage, but Yung can hardly bear to see them now, much less ask for their help. Yet when an act of violence leaves Jin and Mae unable to live on their own, he's compelled to take them in
- The Singing Bone byCall Number: F HahnISBN: 9781942872566Publication Date: 2016-03-011979: 17-year-old Alice Pearson can't wait to graduate and escape her small town. When she and her friends meet the enigmatic Jack Wyck, they are enticed by his quasi-mystical philosophy and the promise of a constant party. Once in his thrall, their heady, freewheeling idyll takes an increasingly sinister turn and they face a night of horriffic murders. 20 years later, Alice has created a quiet life for herself. But Wyck has never forgiven Alice for testifying against him, and as he plots to regain his freedom, she is forced to confront the suppressed memories.
- Sisi byCall Number: F PatakiISBN: 9780812989052Publication Date: 2016-03-08Sisi tells the story of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, in an enthralling work of historical fiction that is also a gripping page-turner. Married to Emperor Franz Joseph, Elisabeth--fondly known as Sisi--captures the hearts of her people, but beneath that dazzling persona lives a far more complex figure. Feeling stifled by strict protocols and a turbulent marriage, Sisi grows restless. A free-spirited wanderer, she finds solace at her estate outside Budapest. There she rides her beloved horses and enjoys visits from the Hungarian statesman Count Andrássy, the man with whom she's unwittingly fallen in love.
- Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery byCall Number: F ColganISBN: 9780062371249Publication Date: 2016-03-22A thriving bakery. A lighthouse to call home. A handsome beekeeper. A pet puffin. These are the things that Polly Waterford can call her own. This is the beautiful life she leads on a tiny island off the southern coast of England. But clouds are gathering on the horizon. A stranger threatens to ruin Polly's business. Her beloved boyfriend seems to be leading a secret life. And the arrival of a newcomer for a fresh start forces Polly to reconsider the choices she's made.
- Terrible Virtue byCall Number: F FeldmanISBN: 9780062407559Publication Date: 2016-03-22The daughter of a hard-drinking, smooth-tongued free thinker and a mother worn down by thirteen children, Margaret Sanger vowed her life would be different. Trained as a nurse, she fought for social justice beside labor organizers, anarchists, socialists, and other progressives, eventually channeling her energy to one singular cause: legalizing contraception. It was a battle that would pit her against puritanical, patriarchal lawmakers, send her to prison again and again, force her to flee to England, and ultimately change the lives of women across the country and around the world.
- The Throwback Special byCall Number: F BachelderISBN: 9780393249460Publication Date: 2016-03-14Here is the absorbing story of twenty-two men who gather every fall to painstakingly reenact what ESPN called "the most shocking play in NFL history" and the Washington Redskins dubbed the "Throwback Special": the November 1985 play in which the Redskins' Joe Theismann had his leg horribly broken by Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants live on Monday Night Football.
- Twisted River byCall Number: F MacDonaldISBN: 9780143108436Publication Date: 2016-03-22Kate and Mannix O'Brien live by Curragower Falls in Limerick. Kate she spots a gorgeous Manhattan apartment on a home-exchange website. Hazel and Oscar Harvey and their two children live on Manhattan. Though they seem successful and happy, Hazel has mysterious bruises, and Oscar is hiding things about his dental practice. Hazel has always wanted her children to see her native Limerick, and the house swap offers a perfect chance to soothe two troubled marriages. But this will be anything but a perfect vacation.
- The Two-Family House byCall Number: F LoigmanISBN: 9781250076922Publication Date: 2016-03-08Brooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women. They are sisters by marriage with an impenetrable bond forged before and during that dramatic night; but as the years progress, small cracks start to appear and their once deep friendship begins to unravel. No one knows why, and no one can stop it. One misguided choice; one moment of tragedy.
- An Unrestored Woman byCall Number: F RaoISBN: 9781250073822Publication Date: 2016-03-15In her mesmerizing debut, Shobha Rao recounts the untold human costs of one of the largest migrations in history. 1947: the Indian subcontinent is partitioned into two separate countries, India and Pakistan. And with one decree, countless lives are changed forever. An Unrestored Woman explores the fault lines in this mass displacement of humanity.
- The Watcher in the Wall byCall Number: F LaukkanenISBN: 9780399174544Publication Date: 2016-03-15Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint BCA-FBI violent crime task force have handled shocking cases before, but this one is different. Stevens's daughter, Andrea, is distraught over a classmate's suicide, but what the two investigators find is even more disturbing - an online suicide club of unhappy teenagers, presided over by an anonymous presence who seems to be spurring them on.
- We Love You, Charlie Freeman byCall Number: F GreenidgeISBN: 9781616204679Publication Date: 2016-03-08The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie--have been invited to the Toneybee Institute in rural Massachusetts to participate in a research experiment. They will live in an apartment on campus with Charlie, a young chimp abandoned by his mother. The Freemans were selected for the experiment because they know sign language; they are supposed to teach it to Charlie and welcome him as a member of their family.
- Why We Came to the City byCall Number: F JansmaISBN: 9780525426608Publication Date: 2016-02-16December, 2008. A heavy snowstorm is blowing through Manhattan and the economy is on the brink of collapse, but none of that matters to a handful of guests at a posh holiday party. Five years after their college graduation, the fiercely devoted friends at the heart of this richly absorbing novel remain as inseparable as ever: Amid cheerful revelry and free-flowing champagne, the friends toast themselves and the new year ahead--a year that holds many surprises in store.
- The Year of the Runaways byCall Number: F SahotaISBN: 9781101946107Publication Date: 2016-03-29Three young men, and one woman, come together in a journey from India to England, where they hope to begin something new--to support their families; to build their futures; to show their worth; to escape the past. They have almost no idea what awaits them. The Year of the Runaways unfolds over the course of one shattering year in which the destinies of these four characters become irreversibly entwined, a year in which they are forced to rely on one another in ways they never could have foreseen.