Recently Received Riveting Reads: April 2016
Selective list of new fiction recently received
New Fiction
- 'Til Death Do Us Part byCall Number: F QuickISBN: 9780399174469Publication Date: 2016-04-19Calista Langley operates an exclusive "introduction" agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen. But now, a dangerously obsessed individual has begun sending her trinkets and gifts suitable only for those in deepest mourning. Desperate for help, Calista turns to Trent Hastings, an author of crime novels. But as Trent and Calista comb through files in hopes of identifying her tormentor, it becomes clear that the danger may be coming from Calista's own past--and that only her death will satisfy the stalker...
- The 14th Colony byCall Number: F BerryISBN: 9781250056245Publication Date: 2016-04-05What happens if both the president and vice-president-elect die before taking the oath of office? The answer is far from certain, in fact, what follows would be nothing short of total political chaos. A flaw in the Constitution, and an even more flawed presidential succession act, have opened the door to disaster. In a race against the clock that starts in the frozen extremes of Russia and ultimately ends at the White House itself. Steve Berry's trademark mix of history and speculation is all here in this provocative new thriller.
- The Adventurist byCall Number: F HippsISBN: 9781250062239Publication Date: 2016-04-26In the anonymous office park of a modern software company, engineer Henry Hurt is a man in the middle: of life, of career, and of self-assessment. Mired in his corporate responsibilities, Henry's office existence is torpedoed by losing his mother. Overcome by "the pall," Henry seeks escape in a quest for love and purpose occasioned by a crisis in his company's fortunes. Dodging a rival, he finds love with a colleague in his department, endangers his bond with his family, and finally confronts the single urgent question of his life.
- Billy and Me byCall Number: F FletcherISBN: 9781250077127Publication Date: 2016-04-05Sophie May is content with her life in her small English village, working in the local coffee shop and living with her mom. But when famous actor Billy comes to town to play Mr. Darcy in a new film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Sophie's quiet life is quickly turned on its head. Billy is adored by women around the world, but he only wants Sophie on his arm. But being with Billy comes at a price, and Sophie is thrown in the spotlight after years of shying away from attention.
- The Blackbirds byCall Number: F DickeyISBN: 9781101984109Publication Date: 2016-04-19They call themselves the Blackbirds. Kwanzaa Browne, Indigo Abdulrahaman, Destiny Jones, and Ericka Stockwell are four best friends who are closer than sisters, and will go to the ends of the earth for one another. Yet even their deep bond can't heal all wounds from their individual pasts, as the collegiate and post-collegiate women struggle with their own demons, drama, and desires. As the women try to overcome-- or give into-- their impulses, they find not only themselves tested, but the one thing they always considered unbreakable: their friendship.
- Bucky F&%@ing Dent byCall Number: F DuchovnyISBN: 9780374110420Publication Date: 2016-04-05Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled days of the Carter administration at Yankee Stadium, waxing poetic while slinging peanuts to pay the rent. When Ted hears the news that his estranged father, Marty, is dying of lung cancer, he immediately moves back into his childhood home, where a whirlwind of revelations ensues.
- Close Your Eyes byCall Number: F RobothamISBN: 9780316267946Publication Date: 2016-04-12When a former student bungles a murder investigation, clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin steps in to face a ruthless killer. A mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered in a remote coastal home, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other posed like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her prince. Joe O'Loughlin is drawn into the investigation when a former student, trading on Joe's reputation, jeopardizes the police inquiry by leaking details to the media and stirring up public anger.
- The Decent Proposal byCall Number: F DonovanISBN: 9780062391629Publication Date: 2016-04-05A struggling Hollywood producer, Richard Baumbach is twenty-nine, and broke, but he still believes good things will come his way. At thirty-three, Elizabeth Santiago is on track to make partner at her law firm. She's grown used to avoiding anything that might derail her quiet, orderly life Richard and Elizabeth's paths collide when they receive a proposal from a mysterious, anonymous benefactor. They'll split a million dollars if they agree to spend at least two hours together, just talking;every week for a year.
- The Dig byCall Number: F PrestonISBN: 9781590517802Publication Date: 2016-04-19In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure.
- The Dinner Party byCall Number: F JanowitzISBN: 9781250007872Publication Date: 2016-04-12This Passover Seder is not just any Passover Seder. This night is different from all other nights. This will be the night the Golds of Greenwich meet the Rothschilds of New York City. The Rothschilds are the stuff of legends.. And now, Sylvia Gold's daughter is dating one of them. When Sylvia finds out that her youngest of three is going to bring her new boyfriend to the Seder, she's giddy. When she finds out that his parents are coming, too, she darn near faints.
- The Drowning Girls byCall Number: F DeBoardISBN: 9780778318378Publication Date: 2016-04-26Liz McGinnis never imagined herself living in a luxurious gated community like The Palms. Ever since she and her family moved in, she's felt like an outsider amongst the Stepford-like wives and their obnoxiously spoiled children. Still, she's determined to make it work--if not for herself, then for her husband, Phil, who landed them this lavish home in the first place, and for her daughter, Danielle, who's about to enter high school. Yet underneath the glossy veneer of The Palms, life is far from idyllic. In a place where reputation is everything, Liz soon discovers that even the friendliest residents can't be trusted.
- Even in Paradise byCall Number: F NunezISBN: 9781617754395Publication Date: 2016-04-05This revisiting of the classic story of King Lear becomes a subtle, organic exploration of politics, class, race, and privilege. Woven throughout, are regional problems such as access to Barbados's beaches and poverty in Jamaica's Tivoli Gardens.
- The Exiled byCall Number: F CharlesISBN: 9780316340649Publication Date: 2016-04-19Back in the 1980s, Wes Raney was an ambitious New York City Narcotics Detective with a growing drug habit of his own. While working undercover on a high-risk case, he made decisions that ultimately cost him not only his career, but also his family. Now in his early forties, Rane is, the sole homicide investigator covering a two-hundred-mile stretch of desert in New Mexico. His solitude is his salvation-but it ends when a brutal drug deal gone wrong results in a triple murder. The crime reawakens Raney's haunted and violent past.
- Exposure byCall Number: F DunmoreISBN: 9780802124937Publication Date: 2016-04-05It's London, 1960. The Cold War is at its height. Two colleagues, Giles Holloway and Simon Callington, face a terrible dilemma over a missing top-secret file. At the end of a suburban garden, Simon's wife, Lily, buries a briefcase containing the file deep in the earth. She believes that in doing so she is protecting her family. What she will learn is that no one is immune from betrayal or the devastating consequences of exposure.
- Fever at Dawn byCall Number: F GardosISBN: 9780544769793Publication Date: 2016-04-12July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been brought to Sweden to convalesce. His doctor has just given him a death sentence -- his lungs are filled with fluid and in six months he will be gone. But Miklos has other plans. He didn't survive the war only to drown from within, and so he wages war on his own fate. He acquires the names of the 117 Hungarian women also recovering in Sweden, and he writes a letter to each of them in his beautiful cursive hand. One of these women, he is sure, will become his wife.
- Flawless byCall Number: F GrahamISBN: 9780778318811Publication Date: 2016-03-29There's a pub in New York City that's been in the Finnegan family for generations. Now Kieran and her three brothers own it. Kieran Finnegan is also, as it happens, a criminal psychologist--a fitting reaction, perhaps, to her less-than-lawful teenage past. Meanwhile, New York's Diamond District has been hit by a rash of thefts. No one's been killed--until now. FBI agent Craig Frasier is brought in to investigate; he and Kieran meet at a jewelry store in the middle of a heist.
- An Honorable Man byCall Number: F VidichISBN: 9781501110382Publication Date: 2016-04-12Washington D.C., 1953. The Cold War is heating up: McCarthyism, is raging in the nation's capital, and Joseph Stalin's death has left a dangerous power vacuum in the Soviet Union. The CIA, meanwhile, is reeling from a double agent within their midst. Someone is selling secrets to the Soviets, compromising missions around the globe.
- Houseguest byCall Number: F BrooksISBN: 9781619026056Publication Date: 2016-04-12It is the summer of 1941 and Abe Auer, a Russian immigrant has become disenchanted with his life. So when his friend Max Hoffman, a local rabbi asks Abe to take in a European refugee, he agrees, unaware that the woman coming to live with him is a volatile and alluring actress named Ana Beidler. Ana regales the Auer family with tales of her lost stardom and charms and mystifies Abe with her glamour and unabashed sexuality, forcing him to confront his own desire as well as the ghost of his dead brother. As news filters out of Europe, American Jews struggle to make sense of the atrocities.
- Island in the Sea: a Majorca Love Story byCall Number: F HughesISBN: 9781250091505Publication Date: 2016-04-12Juliet Lyman is a senior executive at Yesterday Records. Music is her passion and she's very good at her job. That's why her famously philanthropic boss Gideon sends her to Majorca, Spain to work with a very tortured, but talented client, Lionel Harding. He's 42 and six months overdue on the his latest paid assignment. Juliet is not leaving Majorca without either new lyrics or a very large check.
- It Takes One byCall Number: F KesslerISBN: 9780316302500Publication Date: 2016-04-26Audrey Harte is returning home after seven years. Less than 24 hours later, her best friend is murdered. Audrey is both the prime suspect and the only person who can solve the case. . . It Takes One is the first in a brand new thriller series where a criminal psychologist uses her own dark past to help law enforcement catch dangerous killers.
- The Last Painting of Sara de Vos byCall Number: F SmithISBN: 9780374106683Publication Date: 2016-04-05In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke's in Holland, the first woman to be so recognized. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain--a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her. Because now, half a century later, she's curating an exhibit of female Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive.
- Lazaretto byCall Number: F McKinney-WhetstoneISBN: 9780062126962Publication Date: 2016-04-12Isolated on an island where two rivers meet, the Lazaretto quarantine hospital is the first stop for immigrants who wish to begin new lives in Philadelphia. The Lazaretto's black live-in staff forge a strong social community. In this masterful work of historical fiction, Diane McKinney-Whetstone seamlessly transports us to Philadelphia in the aftermath of the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination, beautifully evoking powerful stories of love, friendship and humanity amid the vibrant black community that flourished amid the troubled times.
- Maestra byCall Number: F HiltonISBN: 9780399184260Publication Date: 2016-04-19By day, Judith Rashleigh is an assistant at a prestigious London art house. By night, she's a hostess at one of the capital's notorious champagne bars, although her work there pales against her activities on nights off. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game. She's learned to be a good girl. But when Judith is fired for uncovering a dark secret at the heart of the art world--and her honest efforts at a better life are destroyed--she turns to a long-neglected friend.
- The Midnight Watch byCall Number: F DyerISBN: 9781250080936Publication Date: 2016-04-05As the Titanic sank into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg on the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the SS Californian sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the Titanic fired. He alerted the captain, Stanley Lord, who was sleeping , but Lord did not come to the bridge. . The next morning, more than 1,500 people were dead. When they learned of the extent of the tragedy, Lord and Stone did everything they could to hide their role in the disaster.
- Miller's Valley byCall Number: F QuindlenISBN: 9780812996081Publication Date: 2016-04-05In a small town on the verge of big change, a young woman unearths deep secrets about her family and unexpected truths about herself. Filled with insights that are the hallmark of Anna Quindlen's bestsellers, Miller's Valley is an emotionally powerful story about a family you will never forget.
- My Mrs. Brown byCall Number: F NorwichISBN: 9781442386075Publication Date: 2016-04-12Emilia Brown is a woman of a certain age. She has spent a frugal, useful, and wholly restrained life in Ashville, a small town in Rhode Island. and media, She is a genteel woman who has known her share of personal sorrows and quietly carried on, who makes a modest living cleaning and running errands at the local beauty parlor.. When the grand dame of Ashville passes away, Mrs. Brown is called upon to inventory her estate and comes across a dress that changes everything.
- Noble Chase byCall Number: F RudolphISBN: 9781101884379Publication Date: 2016-04-19Beth Swahn, a young lawyer, makes a rookie mistake: She believes her client. While basking in the glory of winning a hundred-million-dollar judgment for a U.S. division of C. K. Leung's Chinese conglomerate, Beth realizes that because of her naïveté, Leonard Sloane, president of the division, has absconded to the Caribbean with his banker girlfriend and seventy million dollars of the judgment money. Shortly thereafter, they are both presumed dead. Stunned, furious, and determined to retrieve Leung's money and save her firm from bankruptcy, Beth investigates her way through a maze of money laundering and white-collar corruption.
- The One You Really Want byCall Number: F MansellISBN: 9781492604471Publication Date: 2016-04-05When Nancy discovers the expensive jewelry her husband's been buying isn't for her, she decamps from the Scottish countryside to her best friend Carmen's posh Chelsea town house to sort things out. Nancy finds herself in a surprising new world, where rock stars are nicer than you thought, social workers are not necessarily to be trusted, and the filthy rich are folks with problems just like you.
- Rare Objects byCall Number: F TessaroISBN: 9780062357540Publication Date: 2016-04-12Maeve Fanning is a first generation Irish immigrant, born and raised among the poor Italian families of Boston's North End by her widowed mother. Clever, capable, and headstrong , she's determined to better herself despite the overwhelming hardships of the Great Depression. However, Maeve also has a dangerous fondness for strange men and bootleg gin and a rebellious appetite that soon finds her spiraling downward. When the strain proves too much, Maeve becomes an unwilling patient in a psychiatric hospital, where she strikes up a friendship with an enigmatic young woman, who, like Maeve, is unable or unwilling to control her un-lady-like desire for freedom.
- Sunday's on the Phone to Monday byCall Number: F ReillyISBN: 9781501116872Publication Date: 2016-04-05Claudio and Mathilde Simone, once romantic bohemians hopelessly enamored with each other, find themselves nestled in domesticity in New York, running a struggling vinyl record store and parenting three daughters as best they can: With prose that is as keen and illuminating as it is whimsical and luminous, debut novelist Christine Reilly tells the unusual love story of this family.
- Sunset City byCall Number: F GinsburgISBN: 9780062429704Publication Date: 2016-04-12Before the drugs, Danielle Reeves was Charlotte Ford's most loyal and vibrant friend. The two friends were inseparable, reveling in Houston's shadowy corners. But then Danielle's addiction got the best of her and she went to prison for four years. When she gets out, she and Charlotte reconnect. Charlotte hopes this is a new start for their friendship. But then, a detective shows up at Charlotte's apartment. Danielle has been murdered, bludgeoned to death.
- Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings byCall Number: F O'ConnorISBN: 9780525429968Publication Date: 2016-04-05A debut novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story the conflict between the American ideal of equality and the realities of slavery and racism played out in the most tragic of terms. . O'Connor's protagonists are rendered via scrupulously researched scenes of their lives in Paris and at Monticello that alternate with a harrowing memoir written by Hemings after Jefferson's death, as well as with dreamlike sequences in which Jefferson watches a movie about his life.
- Titans byCall Number: F MeachamISBN: 9781455533831Publication Date: 2016-04-12Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth. In the midst of this transformative time in Southern history, two unforgettable characters emerge and find their fates irrevocably intertwined: Samantha Gordon, the privileged heiress to the sprawling Las Tres Lomas cattle ranch,and Nathan Holloway, a sweet-natured farm boy from north Texas.
- What We Find byCall Number: F CarrISBN: 9780778318859Publication Date: 2016-04-05Between the urban bustle of Denver and the high-stress environment of a career in neurosurgery, Maggie Sullivan has hit a wall. When an emergency high-risk procedure results in the death of a teenager, Maggie finds herself in the middle of a lawsuit--and experiencing levels of anxiety she's never faced before. She knows she needs to slow down before she burns out completely, and the best place she can think to do that is Sullivan's Crossing.
New Fiction
- 300 Days of Sun byCall Number: F LawrensonISBN: 9780062390165Publication Date: 2016-04-12Traveling to Faro, Portugal, journalist Joanna Millard hopes to escape an unsatisfying relationship and a stalled career. Faro is an enchanting town, and the seaside views are enhanced by the company of Nathan Emberlin, a charismatic younger man. But behind the crumbling facades of Moorish buildings, Joanna soon realizes, Faro has a seedy underbelly, its economy compromised by corruption and wartime spoils. And Nathan has an ulterior motive for seeking her company.
- Alice and Oliver byCall Number: F BockISBN: 9781400068388Publication Date: 2016-04-05New York, 1993. Alice Culvert is a caring wife, a doting new mother, a loyal friend, and a soulful artist. In their loft in Manhattan, Alice and her husband, Oliver, are raising their infant daughter, Doe. Their life together feels so vital and full of promise, which makes Alice's sudden cancer diagnosis especially staggering. Bracing themselves for the unthinkable, they must confront the new realities of their marriage, their strengths as partners and flaws as people, how to nourish love against all odds, and what it means to truly care for another person.
- The Bed Moved byCall Number: Short Stories SchiffISBN: 9781101875414Publication Date: 2016-04-12The audacious, savagely funny debut of a writer of razor-sharp wit and surprising tenderness: a collection of stories that gives us a fresh take on adolescence, death, sex; on being Jewish-ish; and on finding one's way as a young woman in the world.
- Before the Wind byCall Number: F LynchISBN: 9780307958983Publication Date: 2016-04-19Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his life surrounded by sailboats. For Josh and his two siblings, their backyard was the Puget Sound and sailing their DNA. But both his sister and brother fled many years ago: Ruby to Africa and elsewhere to do good works on land, and Bernard to god-knows-where at sea, a fugitive and pirate. Suddenly thirty-one, Josh--who repairs boats of all kinds in a marina south of Seattle--is pained and confused by whatever the hell went wrong with his volatile family.
- Before We Visit the Goddess byCall Number: F DivakaruniISBN: 9781476792002Publication Date: 2016-04-19he daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single, unforgiveable misstep. Years later, Sabitri's own daughter, Bela, haunted by her mother's choices, flees abroad with her political refugee lover but the America she finds is vastly different from the country she'd imagined.
- Chasing the North Star byCall Number: F MorganISBN: 9781565126275Publication Date: 2016-04-05In his latest historical novel, bestselling author Robert Morgan brings to full and vivid life the story of Jonah Williams, who, in 1850, on his eighteenth birthday, flees the South Carolina plantation on which he was born a slave. He takes with him only a few stolen coins, a knife, and the clothes on his back--no shoes, no map, no clear idea of where to head, except north, following a star that he prays will be his guide.
- City of Secrets byCall Number: F O'NanISBN: 9780670785964Publication Date: 2016-04-26In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees by the tens of thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it were hunted as illegals by the British mandatory authorities there and relied on the underground to shelter them; taking fake names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for the independence of Israel. City of Secrets follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved.
- Daredevils byCall Number: F VestalISBN: 9781101979891Publication Date: 2016-04-12At the heart of this exciting debut novel, set in Arizona and Idaho in the mid-1970s, is fifteen-year-old Loretta, who slips out of her bedroom every evening to meet her so-called gentile boyfriend. Her strict Mormon parents catch her returning one night, and promptly marry her off to Dean Harder, a devout yet materialistic fundamentalist who already has a wife and a brood of kids. The Harders relocate to his native Idaho, where Dean's teenage nephew Jason falls hard for Loretta.
- The Dark Lady's Mask byCall Number: F SharrattISBN: 9780544300767Publication Date: 2016-04-19London, 1593. Aemilia Bassano Lanier is beautiful and accomplished, but her societal conformity ends there. She frequently cross-dresses to escape her loveless marriage and to gain freedoms only men enjoy, but a chance encounter with a, little-known poet named Shakespeare changes everything. Aemilia grabs at the chance to pursue her long-held dream of writing and the two outsiders strike up a literary bargain. They leave plague-ridden London for Italy, where they begin secretly writing comedies together and where Will falls in love with the beautiful country -- and with Aemilia, his Dark Lady.
- Eligible byCall Number: F SittenfeldISBN: 9781400068326Publication Date: 2016-04-19From the "wickedly entertaining" Curtis Sittenfeld comes a modern retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. A bold literary experiment, Eligible is a brilliant, playful, and delicious saga for the twenty-first century. This version of the Bennet family--and Mr. Darcy--is one that you have and haven't met before: Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible both honors and updates Austen's beloved tale.
- The Empress of Bright Moon byCall Number: F RandelISBN: 9781492613596Publication Date: 2016-04-05, Mei continues her journey to the throne in The Empress of Bright Moon, the second book in Weina Dai Randel's acclaimed duology. Only by fighting back against those who wish her harm will Mei be able to realize her destiny as the most powerful woman in China.
- The Excellent Lombards byCall Number: F HamiltonISBN: 9781455564224Publication Date: 2016-04-19"Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Frankie desires nothing more than life to continue undisturbed. But she cannot help being haunted by the historical fact that some family members end up staying on the farm and others must leave. Change is inevitable, and threats of urbanization, disinheritance, and college applications shake the foundation of Frankie's roots.
- Face Time byCall Number: F RyanISBN: 9780765384775Publication Date: 2016-04-12Veteran TV reporter Charlotte McNally fights for justice, journalism. The good news: she's got explosive evidence that could free an innocent woman from prison. Dorinda Keller confessed to killing her husband, but the evidence doesn't add up. Why would an innocent person confess to cold-blooded murder? The bad news: her investigation makes Charlotte -- and someone she loves -- the real killer's next target.
- The Father byCall Number: F SvenssonISBN: 9781681445403Publication Date: 2016-04-05How does a child become a criminal? How does a father lose a son? The Father is inspired by the extraordinary true story of three brothers who committed ten audacious bank robberies in Sweden over the course of just two years. None had committed a crime before. All were under twenty-four years old. When their incredible spree had come to an end amid the glare of the international media, all of them would be changed forever as individuals and as a family.
- The History of Great Things byCall Number: F CraneISBN: 9780062412676Publication Date: 2016-04-05The History of Great Things tells the entwined stories of Lois, a daughter of the Depression Midwest who came to New York to transform herself into an opera star, and her daughter, Elizabeth, an aspiring writer who came of age in the 1970s and 80s in the forbidding shadow of her often-absent, always larger-than-life mother.
- Hystopia byCall Number: F MeansISBN: 9780865479135Publication Date: 2016-04-19At the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F. Kennedy has created a vast federal agency, the Psych Corps, dedicated to maintaining the nation's mental hygiene by any means necessary. Soldiers returning from Vietnam have their battlefield traumas "enfolded"--wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy--while veterans too damaged to be enfolded roam at will in Michigan, evading the Psych Corps and reenacting atrocities on civilians.
- Iris and Ruby byCall Number: F ThomasISBN: 9781468302639Publication Date: 2016-04-05The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black's old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn't seen for years.An unlikely bond develops between them, as Ruby helps Iris to record her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War II, and of her one true love--the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneux--whom she lost to the ravages of conflict
- Keep Me Posted byCall Number: F BeazleyISBN: 9781101989869Publication Date: 2016-04-05Sisters Cassie and Sid Sunday have not done a bang-up job of keeping in touch. It doesn't help that Sid spurns all social media while Cassie is addicted to Facebook. So when Sid issues a challenge to reconnect the old-fashioned way--through real, handwritten letters--Cassie figures, why not? The letters become a kind of mutual confessional that have real and soul-satisfying effects.. But first, one of Cassie's infamous lapses in judgment comes back to bite her, and all of the letters wind up the one place you'd never, ever want to see them: the Internet...
- Kill and Be Killed byCall Number: F BegleyISBN: 9780385540711Publication Date: 2016-04-05"The man who brutally murdered Uncle Harry is dead. In an effort to recover from the confrontation and collect himself, Jack takes refuge on Torcello, a small island in the Venetian lagoon, to return to his writing career. Even more urgently, he wants to win back Kerry, the beautiful lawyer who rejected him after the bloody episode with Harry's assassin. But events beyond Jack's control intervene.
- Ladivine byCall Number: F NDiayeISBN: 9780385351881Publication Date: 2016-04-26On the first Tuesday of every month, Clarisse Rivière leaves her husband and daughter and secretly takes the train to Bordeaux to visit her mother, Ladivine. Just as Clarisse's husband and daughter know nothing of Ladivine, Clarisse herself has hidden nearly every aspect of her adult life from this woman, whom she dreads and despises. Long ago abandoned by Clarisse's father, Ladivine works as a housecleaner and has no one but her daughter. After more than twenty-five years of this deception, the middle-class existence Clarisse has built from scratch can no longer survive inside the walls she's put up to protect it.
- The Letter Writer byCall Number: F FespermanISBN: 9781101875063Publication Date: 2016-04-19The first thing Woodrow Cain sees when he steps off the train in New York City on February 9, 1942, is smoke from an ocean liner in flames in the harbor. It's the Normandie, and word on the street is that it was burned by German saboteurs. Woodrow left behind in a small North Carolina town a wife who'd left him, a daughter in the care of his sister, and a career as a police officer marred by questions surrounding his partner's murder. When he gets a job with the NYPD, he wants to believe it's the beginning of a new life, though he suspects that the past is as tenacious as "a parasite in the bloodstream."
- Lilac Girls byCall Number: F KellyISBN: 9781101883075Publication Date: 2016-04-05Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939. Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, is a courier for the underground resistance movement. For the young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women.
- Meternity byCall Number: F FoyeISBN: 9780778319306Publication Date: 2016-04-26Liz Buckley runs on cupcakes, caffeine and cocktails. But at thirty-one, she's plateaued at Paddy Cakes, a glossy baby magazine. Liz has spent years working a gazillion hours a week picking up the slack for coworkers with kids, and she's tired of it. So one day when her stress-related nausea is mistaken for morning sickness by her bosses--boom! Liz is promoted to the mommy track. She decides to run with it and plans to use her paid time off to figure out her life: work, love and otherwise.
- Midnight in Berlin byCall Number: F MacManusISBN: 9781250079404Publication Date: 2016-04-19Berlin in the spring of 1939. Hitler is preparing for war. Colonel Noel Macrae, a British diplomat, plans the ultimate sacrifice to stop him. The West's appeasement policies have failed. There is only one alternative: assassination. The Gestapo, aware of Macrae's hostility, seeks to compromise him in their infamous brothel. There Macrae meets and falls in love with Sara, a Jewish woman blackmailed into becoming a Nazi courtesan. He defies his government and plans direct action to avert what he knows will be a global war.
- Modern Girls byCall Number: F BrownISBN: 9780451477125Publication Date: 2016-04-05A dazzling debut novel set in New York City's Jewish immigrant community in 1935. Dottie Krasinsky is the epitome of the modern girl. A bookkeeper in Midtown Manhattan, Dottie steals kisses from her steady beau, meets her girlfriends for drinks, and eyes the latest fashions. Yet at heart, she is a dutiful daughter, living with her Yiddish-speaking parents on the Lower East Side. So when, after a single careless night, she finds herself in a family way by a charismatic but unsuitable man, she is desperate: unwed, unsure, and running out of options.
- Mothering Sunday byCall Number: F SwiftISBN: 9781101947524Publication Date: 2016-04-19Twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild has worked as a maid at an English country house since she was sixteen. For almost all of those years she has been the clandestine lover to Paul Sheringham, young heir of a neighboring house. The two now meet on an unseasonably warm March day--Mothering Sunday--a day that will change Jane's life forever. As the narrative moves back and forth from 1924 to the end of the century, what we know and understand about Jane--about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, remembers--expands with every vividly captured moment.
- Poisonous byCall Number: F BrennanISBN: 9781250066848Publication Date: 2016-04-12Teen-aged Internet bully Ivy Lake fell off a cliff and few people cared ... except her mentally-challenged eighteen-year-old step-brother, Tommy. He's distraught and doesn't understand why his blended family is falling apart. After a year, the police still have no answers: Tommy thinks that if someone can figure out what happened to his step-sister, everything will go back to normal, so he writes to investigative reporter Maxine Revere. This isn't the type of case Max normally takes on, but the heartbreak and simple honesty in Tommy's letter pulls her in.
- Quiet Neighbors byCall Number: F McPhersonISBN: 9780738747620Publication Date: 2016-04-08It's the oldest bookshop in a town full of bookshops; rambling and disordered, full of treasures. Jude found one of the treasures when she visited last summer. Now,, when she has to run away, Lowell's chaotic bookshop in that backwater of a town is the safe place she runs to. Jude needs a bolt-hole; Lowell needs an assistant, and when an affordable rental is thrown in too, life begins to look up. The gravedigger's cottage isn't perfect for a woman alone, but at least she has quiet neighbors.
- Somewhere Out There byCall Number: F HatvanyISBN: 9781476704432Publication Date: 2016-03-01What happens when two sisters who were torn apart when their young mother abandoned them, and grew up in tragically different circumstances reunite thirty-five years later to find her? Natalie Clark knew never to ask her sensitive adoptive mother questions about her past. She doesn't even know her birth mother's name. Brooke Walker doesn't have a family. So when she discovers she's pregnant, Brooke feels lost until a surprise encounter gives her hope for the future.
- The Stopped Heart byCall Number: F MyersonISBN: 9780062409324Publication Date: 2016-03-29Mary Coles and her husband, Graham, have just moved to a cottage on the edge of a small village. The house hasn't been lived in for years, but they are drawn to its original features and surprisingly large garden. Its idyllic, remote, picturesque: exactly what they need to put the horror of the past behind them. One hundred and fifty years earlier, a huge oak tree was felled in front of the cottage during a storm. Beneath it lies a young man with a shock of red hair, presumed dead surely no one could survive such an accident. But the red-haired man is alive, and after a brief convalescence is taken in by the family living in the cottage and put to work in the fields.
- Three-Martini Lunch byCall Number: F RindellISBN: 9780399165481Publication Date: 2016-04-05In 1958, Greenwich Village buzzes with beatniks, jazz clubs, and new ideas--the ideal spot for three ambitious young people to meet. Cliff Nelson, the son of a successful book editor, is convinced he's the next Kerouac, Eden Katz dreams of being an editor but is shocked when she encounters roadblocks to that ambition. And Miles Tillman, a talented black writer from Harlem, seeks to learn the truth about his father's past, finding love in the process. Though different from one another, all three share a common goal: to succeed in the competitive and uncompromising world of book publishing.
- Tuesday Nights in 1980 byCall Number: F PrentissISBN: 9781501121043Publication Date: 2016-04-05Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Tuesday Nights in 1980 boldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and nature of art is being all but upended, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. In risk-taking prose that is as powerful as it is playful, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty, community, creation, and love in an ever-changing urban landscape.
- War Hawk byCall Number: F RollinsISBN: 9780062135278Publication Date: 2016-04-19Tucker Wayne's past and his present collide when a former army colleague comes to him for help. She's on the run from brutal assassins hunting her and her son. To keep them safe, Tucker must discover who killed a brilliant young idealist, a crime that leads back to the most powerful figures in the U.S. government. Tucker and Kane must discover the truth behind a mystery that leads back to World War II, to a true event that is even now changing the world . . . and will redefine what it means to be human.
- The Year We Turned Forty byCall Number: F FentonISBN: 9781476763446Publication Date: 2016-04-26If you could repeat one year of your life, what would you do differently? This heartwarming and hilarious novel features three best friends who get the chance to return to the year they turned forty, the year that altered all of their lives, in ways big and small; and also get the opportunity to change their future.