Recently Received Riveting Reads: May 2016
Selective list of new fiction recently received
New Fiction
- The After Party byCall Number: F DiSclafaniISBN: 9781594633164Publication Date: 2016-05-17Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man who sees her seems to want her; every woman just wants to be her. But this is a highly ordered world of garden clubs and debutante balls. The money may flow as freely as the oil, but the freedom and power all belong to the men. What happens when a woman of indecorous appetites and desires like Joan wants more?
- Amateurs byCall Number: F HicksISBN: 9781566894326Publication Date: 2016-05-03Archer is a novelist and sex-toy heir. His best friend, John, is as earnest as Archer is feckless. John's girlfriend, Sara, envies Archer'ss writing career. And Sara's roommate, Lucas, wishes he'd never lost his girlfriend to the man. Money, friendship, and resentment unspool in the conversations we have as we're coming of age and coming to grips.
- Anatomy of a Soldier byCall Number: F ParkerISBN: 9781101946633Publication Date: 2016-05-17Let's imagine a man called Captain Tom Barnes, aka BA5799, who's leading British troops in the war zone. And two boys growing up together there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. And then there's the man who trains one of them to fight against the other's father and all these infidel invaders. Then imagine the family and friends on all sides of this conflict where virtually everyone is caught up in the middle of something unthinkable.
- And after the Fire byCall Number: F BelferISBN: 9780062428516Publication Date: 2016-05-03In the ruins of Germany in 1945, American soldier Henry Sachs takes a souvenir, an old music manuscript, from a seemingly deserted mansion and mistakenly kills the girl who tries to stop him. In America in 2010, Henry's niece, Susanna Kessler, struggles to rebuild her life after she experiences a devastating act of violence on the streets of New York City. When Henry dies soon after, she uncovers the long-hidden music manuscript. She becomes determined to discover what it is and to return it to its rightful owner, a journey that will challenge her preconceptions about herself and her family.
- The Atomic Weight of Love byCall Number: F ChurchISBN: 9781616204846Publication Date: 2016-05-03In her sweeping debut novel, Elizabeth J. Church takes us from the World War II years in Chicago to the vast sun-parched canyons of New Mexico in the 1970s as we follow the journey of a driven, spirited young woman, Meridian Wallace, whose scientific ambitions are subverted by the expectations of her era.
- Before the Fall byCall Number: F HawleyISBN: 9781455561780Publication Date: 2016-05-31On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs-the painter-and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. Was it merely by dumb chance that so many influential people perished? Or was something far more sinister at work?
- Blood Flag byCall Number: F MartiniISBN: 9780062328960Publication Date: 2016-05-17Paul Madriani and Harry Hinds have a new client: Emma Brauer, a woman accused in the mercy killing of her aged father, Robert Brauer. Insisting she's innocent, Emma tells Paul about a package sent to her father shortly before he entered the hospital. Bequeathed to him by a member of his unit from World War II, the box contains a key and a slip of paper. Emma fears that this package is connected to her father's death. When Paul's young assistant Sofia is murdered, Madriani is blindsided by the realization that Emma's fears are well-grounded.
- The Blue Bath byCall Number: F Waters-SayerISBN: 9781250088215Publication Date: 2016-05-03Kat Lind, an American expatriate living in London with her entrepreneur husband and their young son, attends an opening at a prestigious Mayfair art gallery and is astonished to find her own face on the walls. The portraits are evidence of a long-ago love affair with the artist, Daniel Blake. Unbeknownst to her, he has continued to paint her ever since. Kat is seduced by her reflection on canvas and when Daniel appears in London, she finds herself drawn back into the sins and solace of a past that suddenly no longer seems so far away.
- Britt-Marie Was Here byCall Number: F BackmanISBN: 9781501142536Publication Date: 2016-05-03Britt-Marie can't stand mess. She begins her day at 6 a.m., because only lunatics wake up later than that..Sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. When Britt-Marie walks out on her cheating husband and has to fend for herself in the miserable backwater town of Borgof she is more than a little unprepared. Employed as the caretaker of a soon-to-be demolished recreation center, the fastidious Britt-Marie has to cope with muddy floors, unruly children, and a (literal) rat for a roommate.
- A Country Road, a Tree byCall Number: F BakerISBN: 9781101947180Publication Date: 2016-05-17Paris, 1939. A young, unknown writer--Samuel Beckett--recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. Soon he will put them both in mortal danger by joining the Resistance . . . Through it all we are witness to the workings of a uniquely brilliant mind struggling to create a language that will express this shattered world. Here is a remarkable story of survival and determination, and a portrait of the extremes of human experience alchemized into one man's timeless art.
- The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper byCall Number: F PatrickISBN: 9780778319337Publication Date: 2016-05-03Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, sorting through her possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before. What follows is a surprising odyssey that takes Arthur from London to Paris and as far as India in an epic quest to find out the truth about his wife's secret life.
- A Daughter's Dream byCall Number: F GrayISBN: 9780062337818Publication Date: 2016-05-24In Shelley Shepard Gray's second book in her Charmed Amish Life series, a young teacher and farmer discover they have much in common, especially when it comes to healing old wounds from the past;and finding love in one another.
- Don't You Cry byCall Number: F KubicaISBN: 9780778319054Publication Date: 2016-05-17In Chicago, a young woman named Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her friend Quinn Collins to wonder where and who Esther is. Meanwhile, in a small Michigan town a mysterious woman appears in the coffee shop where eighteen-year-old Alex Gallo works as a dishwasher. He is immediately drawn to her, but what starts as an innocent crush quickly spirals into something far more dark and sinister than he ever expected.
- The Ecliptic byCall Number: F WoodISBN: 9781594206863Publication Date: 2016-05-03Situated on a Turkish island, Portmantle might be the strangest, most exclusive artists' colony around. Its brilliant residents linger for years, all expenses paid and living under assumed names. Relieved of the burdens of time and ego, they are free to create their next masterpieces. Elspeth Conroy (aka "Knell") is a Scottish painter who has been at Portmantle for a decade. The hermetic world at Portmantle shatters when 17-year-old Fullerton arrives at the gates, his provenance and talents unknown.
- Edenland byCall Number: F KingISBN: 9781503934948Publication Date: 2016-05-24Born a slave, Bledsoe had never left Our Joy plantation, and a daring escape offers his only chance for liberty. On the run he encounters Alice, an Irish indentured servant, committing what appears to be an act of murder as she burns down a shack in the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina. Faced with the threat of capture, Bledsoe and Alice become reluctant allies. An epic tale unfolds as their quest for freedom pulls them from swamp to city, from North Carolina to Virginia.
- Everybody's Fool byCall Number: F RussoISBN: 9780307270641Publication Date: 2016-05-03Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobody's Fool. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left, Everybody's Fool is filled with humor, heart, hard times and people you can't help but love, possibly because their various faults make them so stridently human.
- Fall of Man in Wilmslow byCall Number: F LagercrantzISBN: 9781101946695Publication Date: 2016-05-03June 8, 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing is found dead in his home in Wilmslow. It is widely assumed that he has committed suicide, unable to cope with the humiliation of a criminal conviction for gross indecency. But a young detective constable, Leonard Corell, who once dreamed of a career in higher mathematics, suspects greater forces are involved.
- The Fallout byCall Number: F CohenISBN: 9780778317562Publication Date: 2016-05-31Dan and Sasha are Josh and Hannah's closest friends, and lately they all seem to spend more time with each other than they do apart. But cozy weekends together quickly dissolve into a bitter game of tug-of-war when Dan utters three treacherous little words: I'm leaving her. Dan fully expects Josh to defend his choices--and that includes welcoming the sexy young model he's suddenly dating. Meanwhile, Dan's soon-to-be-ex-wife Sasha is devastated by his betrayal, and she leans heavily on Hannah for support. Though Josh and Hannah try desperately to avoid the fallout of their friends' battle, they're quickly engulfed by the poisonous fog of attack lawyers, ugly accusations and untimely revelations.
- Father's Day byCall Number: F Van BooyISBN: 9780062408945Publication Date: 2016-04-26When devastating news shatters the life of six-year-old Harvey, she finds herself in the care of a veteran social worker, Wanda, and alone in the world save for one relative she has never met, a disabled felon, haunted by a violent past he can't escape. Moving between past and present Father's Day weaves together the story of Harvey's childhood on Long Island and her life as a young woman in Paris.
- A Fine Imitation byCall Number: F BrockISBN: 9781101905111Publication Date: 2016-05-03Vera Bellington has a penthouse at The Angelus--the most coveted address on Park Avenue. Her days are an unbroken loop of empty socializing, while her nights are spent waiting alone in her apartment for a husband who seldom comes home. Then Emil Hallan arrives at The Angelus to paint a mural above its glittering subterranean pool. The handsome French artist moves into the building, shrouds his work in secrecy, and piques Vera's curiosity. Is he the man he claims to be?
- A Game for All the Family byCall Number: F HannahISBN: 9780062388292Publication Date: 2016-05-24You thought you knew who you were. A stranger knows better. You've left the city, and the career that nearly destroyed you for a fresh start on the coast. But trouble begins when your daughter withdraws, after her new best friend, George, is unfairly expelled from school. You beg the principal to reconsider, only to be told that George hasn't been expelled. Because there is, and was, no George. Who is lying? Who is real? Who is in danger? Who is in control?
- Heat and Light byCall Number: F HaighISBN: 9780061763298Publication Date: 2016-05-03Acclaimed author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill?
- A Hero of France byCall Number: F FurstISBN: 9780812996494Publication Date: 2016-05-311941. The City of Light is dark and silent at night. But in Paris and in the farmhouses, barns, and churches of the French countryside, small groups of ordinary men and women are determined to take down the occupying forces of Adolf Hitler. Mathieu, a leader of the French Resistance, leads one such cell, helping downed British airmen escape back to England. As the German military police heighten surveillance, Mathieu and his team face a new threat, dispatched by the Reich to destroy them all.
- The Honeymoon byCall Number: F SmithISBN: 9781590517789Publication Date: 2016-05-03Dinitia Smith's spellbinding novel recounts George Eliot's honeymoon in Venice in June 1880 following her marriage to a handsome young man twenty years her junior. When she agreed to marry John Walter Cross, Eliot was recovering from the death of George Henry Lewes, her beloved companion of twenty-six years. Eliot was bereft: left at the age of sixty to contemplate profound questions about her physical decline, her fading appeal, and the prospect of loneliness.
- The House of Dreams byCall Number: F BrownISBN: 9781250084538Publication Date: 2016-05-10In 2000, Gabriel Lambert is a celebrated painter who hides a dark secret. Sophie Cass, a journalist with a family connection to Lambert, is determined to find the truth about his past and the little known story of the real Casablanca. In 1940, an international group of rescue workers, intellectuals, and artists gather in Villa Air Bel just outside Marseilles. American journalist Varian Fry and his team at the American Relief Center are working to help them escape France, but "the greatest man-trap in history" is closing in on them.
- Imagine Me Gone byCall Number: F HaslettISBN: 9780316261357Publication Date: 2016-05-03When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith.
- The Island House byCall Number: F ThayerISBN: 9781101967041Publication Date: 2016-05-31Courtney Hendricks will never forget the magical summers she spent on Nantucket with her college roommate, Robin Vickerey, and Robin's charismatic, turbulent, larger-than-life family, in their gorgeous island house. Now a college English professor in Kansas City, Courtney is determined to experience one more summer in this sun-swept paradise. Her reason for going is personal: Courtney needs to know whether Robin's brother James shares the feelings she's secretly had for him.
- June byCall Number: F Beverly-WhittemoreISBN: 9780553447682Publication Date: 2016-05-31Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Danvers is holed up in her family's crumbling mansion in rural St. Jude, Ohio, mourning the loss of the woman who raised her--her grandmother, June. But a knock on the door forces her out of isolation. Cassie has been named the sole heir to legendary matinee idol Jack Montgomery's vast fortune. How did Jack Montgomery know her name? Could he have crossed paths with her grandmother all those years ago? What other shocking secrets could June's once-stately mansion hold?
- Keep You Close byCall Number: F WhitehouseISBN: 9781632863201Publication Date: 2016-05-03How far would you go to protect the people you love? The day Marianne Glass falls to her death, Rowan Winter hasn't spoken to her in ten years. Yet Rowan knows it couldn't have been an accident, as everyone insists. Marianne, once her closest friend, had paralyzing vertigo: she would never have gone so close to the roof's edge.
- The Last Good Girl byCall Number: F LeottaISBN: 9781476761114Publication Date: 2016-05-03Emily Shapiro has gone missing. A freshman at a Michigan university, Emily was last seen leaving a bar near Beta Psi, a secretive fraternity. The main suspect is Dylan Highsmith, the son of one of the most powerful politicians in the state. At first, the only clue is pieced-together surveillance footage of Emily leaving the bar that night...and Dylan running down the street after her. When prosecutor Anna Curtis discovers a video diary Emily kept during her first few months at college, it exposes the history Emily had with Dylan.
- Left in the Wind byCall Number: F GrayISBN: 9781681771267Publication Date: 2016-05-03In 1587, the 118 men, women, and children of the "Lost Colony" were abandoned by their governor on what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina, and never heard from again. In this fictional journal, Emme Merrimoth;one of the actual colonists of Roanoke recounts the harrowing journey that brought the colonists to the New World. Once on Roanoke, the colonist restore the village abandoned by former English settlers and realize, when faced with hostile natives, that they have been misled by White.
- Marlene byCall Number: F GortnerISBN: 9780062406064Publication Date: 2016-05-24A lush, dramatic biographical novel of one of the most glamorous and alluring legends of Hollywood's golden age, Marlene Dietrich from the gender-bending cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the lush film studios of Hollywood, a sweeping story of passion, glamour, ambition, art, and war from the author of Mademoiselle Chanel.
- Mercy byCall Number: F PalmerISBN: 9781250030849Publication Date: 2016-05-17Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die until a motorcycle accident leaves her fiancé, Sam Talbot, a quadriplegic. Sam begs to end his life, but Julie sees hope in a life together. Julie has Sam coming around to her point of view when he suddenly dies from an unexpected heart attack. An autopsy reveals that Sam died of an unusual heart defect, In fact, it appears that Sam had been literally scared to death. As Julie investigates similar cases, she discovers a frightening pattern, and finds herself the target of disturbing threats.
- The Noise of Time byCall Number: F BarnesISBN: 9781101947241Publication Date: 2016-05-10In 1936, Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, executed on the spot), Shostakovich reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, various women and wives, his children--and all who are still alive themselves hang in the balance of his fate.
- Opportunity Knocks byCall Number: F SweeneyISBN: 9780316261609Publication Date: 2016-04-05Alex Cleary, a makeup artist sudenly finds her distinct talents are valued by none other than lifestyle-empire mogul Hillary P. renowned for her hair-trigger temper. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join the daytime television scene that Alex is determined not to screw up. Then a frank word in the wrong ear puts Alex's job on the line. Alex anticipates Hillary's rage, but she can't believe that this multimillionaire is holding her newest staffer to a nondisclosure agreement that demands reparation of 5 million dollars.
- Over the Plain Houses byCall Number: F FranksISBN: 9781938235214Publication Date: 2016-05-01It's 1939, and the federal government has sent Virginia Furman,a USDA agent, into the North Carolina mountains to instruct families how to modernize their homes and farms. There she meets farm wife Irene Lambey, who is immediately drawn to the lady agent's self-possession. Already, cracks are emerging in Irenie's fragile marriage to Brodis, an ex-logger turned fundamentalist preacher: she has taken to night ramblings through the woods to escape her husband's bed, storing strange keepsakes in a mountain crevice.
- The Painter of Souls byCall Number: F KazanISBN: 9781681771236Publication Date: 2016-05-03Beauty can be a gift--or a wicked temptation.So it is for Filippo Lippi, growing up in Renaissance Florence. He has a talent--not only can he see the beauty in everything, he can capture it, paint it. To survive, Pippo Lippi, orphan, street urchin, budding rogue, must first become Fra Filippo Lippi: Carmelite friar, man of God. His life will take him down two paths at once. He will become a gambler, a forger, a seducer of nuns; and at the same time he will be the greatest painter of his time, the teacher of Botticelli and the confidante of the Medicis.So who is he really--lover, believer, father, teacher, artist? Is anything true except the paintings?
- The Progeny byCall Number: F LeeISBN: 9781476798691Publication Date: 2016-05-24New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee brings a modern twist to an ancient mystery surrounding the most notorious female serial killer of all time. Emily Porter is the descendant of a serial killer. Now, she's become the hunted. She's on a quest that will take her to the secret underground of Europe and the inner circles of three ancient orders, one determined to kill her, one devoted to keeping her alive, and one she must ultimately save.
- The Pursuit of Pearls byCall Number: F ThynneISBN: 9780553393866Publication Date: 2016-05-03In the spring of 1939, the drums of war beat throughout Europe, but nowhere more ferociously than in Berlin. The film studio where Clara Vine works is churning out movies, but each day that she stays in Germany is more dangerous than the last. Spying on the private life of the Third Reich, passing secrets to contacts in British intelligence, falling into a passionate affair--any of these risky moves could get Clara shot. So she is wholly shaken when someone close to her is murdered instead.
- Relativity byCall Number: F HayesISBN: 9781501105074Publication Date: 2016-05-03Twelve-year-old Ethan Forsythe, an exceptionally talented boy obsessed with physics and astronomy, has been raised alone by his mother in Sydney, Australia. Claire, a former professional ballerina, has been a wonderful parent to Ethan, but he's becoming increasingly curious about his father's absence in his life. When Ethan falls ill, tied to a tragic event that occurred during his infancy, her tightly-held world is split open.
- The Seed Collectors byCall Number: F ThomasISBN: 9781593766467Publication Date: 2016-05-10A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers.
- Shadow War byCall Number: F McFateISBN: 9780062403704Publication Date: 2016-05-10In Shadow War, an elite American mercenary on a secret mission to save a businessman's family in Eastern Europe must navigate perilous setbacks and deadly enemies that threaten to tip the balance of power between Russia and the United States.
- The Sport of Kings byCall Number: F MorganISBN: 9780374281083Publication Date: 2016-05-03Hellsmouth, an indomitable Thoroughbred with the blood of Triple Crown winners in her veins, runs for the glory of the Forge family, one of Kentucky's oldest and most powerful dynasties. Henry Forge has partnered with his daughter, Henrietta, in an endeavor of raw obsession: to breed the next superhorse, the next Secretariat. But when Allmon Shaughnessy, an ambitious young black man, comes to work on their farm, the violence of the Forges' history and the exigencies of appetite are brought starkly into view.
- Sweetbitter byCall Number: F DanlerISBN: 9781101875940Publication Date: 2016-05-24Tess, the twenty-two-year-old narrator of Sweetbitter comes to New York in the stifling summer of 2006. Alone, knowing no one, living in a rented room in Williamsburg, she manages to land a job as a "backwaiter" at a celebrated downtown Manhattan restaurant. She starts to navigate the chaotic, enchanting, punishing, and privileged life she has chosen, as well as the remorseless and luminous city around her. As her appetites awaken--for food and wine, but also for knowledge, experience, and belonging--we see her helplessly drawn into a darkly alluring love triangle.
- This Too Shall Pass byCall Number: F BusquetsISBN: 9781101903704Publication Date: 2016-05-24Blanca is forty years old and motherless. Shaken by the unexpected death of the most important person in her life, she suddenly realizes that she has no idea what her future will look like. Blanca turns to her dearest friends, her closest family, and a change of scenery. Leaving Barcelona behind, she returns to Cadaqués, on the coast. Surrounded by those she loves most, she spends the summer finding ways to reconnect and understand what it means to truly, happily live on her own terms, just as her mother would have wanted.
- Troublemaker byCall Number: F HowardISBN: 9780062418975Publication Date: 2016-05-10For Morgan Yancy, an operative and team leader in a paramilitary group, nothing comes before his job. But when he's ambushed and almost killed, his supervisor is determined to find out who's after the members of his elite squad and why.
- The Weekenders byCall Number: F AndrewsISBN: 9781250065940Publication Date: 2016-05-17Riley Griggs has a season of good times with friends and family ahead of her on Belle Isle when things take an unexpected turn. While waiting for her husband to arrive on the ferry one Friday afternoon, Riley is confronted by a process server who thrusts papers into her hand. And her husband is nowhere to be found. So she turns to her island friends for help and support, but it turns out that each of them has their own secrets, and the clock is ticking as the mystery deepens...in a murderous way
- Zero K byCall Number: F DeLilloISBN: 9781501135392Publication Date: 2016-05-03Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say an uncertain farewell to her as she surrenders her body. We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner?
New Fiction
- All Summer Long byCall Number: F FrankISBN: 9780062390752Publication Date: 2016-05-31New York couple, prominent interior designer Olivia Ritchie and her husband Nicholas Seymour, an English professor and true southern gentleman, are seemingly polar opposites, yet magnetically drawn together and in love for more than fourteen years. As they prepare to relocate to Charleston, S.C., Olivia has reservations about the promise she made to retire in the Lowcountry, where Nick wants to return home and lead a more peaceful life. This is a story of how plans evolve and lives change in unexpected ways, how even those who have everything are still looking for something more
- Amp'd byCall Number: F PisaniISBN: 9781250085207Publication Date: 2016-05-10Aaron is not a man on a hero's journey. In the question of fight or flight, he'll choose flight every time. So when a car accident leaves him suddenly asymmetrical, his left arm amputated, he's forced to return to his boyhood home to recuperate, Aaron is confronted with an aging father (a former Olympic biathlete turned hoarder), a mother whose chosen to live in a yurt with a fireman twelve years her junior, and a well-meaning sister whose insufferable husband proves love isn't just blind, but also painfully stupid.
- Anchor in the Storm byCall Number: F SundinISBN: 9780800723439Publication Date: 2016-05-03For plucky Lillian Avery, America's entry into World War II means a chance to prove herself as a pharmacist in Boston.. But Ensign Archer Vandenberg's attentions only annoy. Arch's destroyer hunts German U-boats in vain as the submarines sink dozens of merchant ships along the East Coast. Arch notices his men also struggle with their nerves--and with drowsiness. Could there be a link to the large prescriptions for sedatives Lillian has filled?
- Assassin's Silence byCall Number: F LarsenISBN: 9780765385772Publication Date: 2016-05-03When it comes to disappearing, David Slaton has few equals. Everyone believes he is dead. So when an assault team strikes, Slaton is taken by surprise. He kills one man and manages to escape. Half a world away, an obscure air cargo company purchases a derelict airliner. Teams of mechanics work to make the craft airworthy. On the first flight, the jet plunges toward the ocean. The CIA assesses the two spectacles: a practiced killer leaving a trail of bodies across Europe, and a large airplane disappearing without a trace.
- The Assistants byCall Number: F PerriISBN: 9780399172540Publication Date: 2016-05-03Tina Fontana is the thirty-year-old executive assistant to Robert Barlow, the all-powerful CEO of Titan Corp., a multinational conglomerate. She's excellent at her job and beloved by her boss--but after six years, she's bored and broke. When a technical error with Robert's travel-and-expenses report presents Tina with the opportunity to pay off the balance of her student loan,she struggles with the decision: She's always played by the rules. But it's such a relatively small amount of money for the Titan Corporation--and for her it would be a life-changer . . .
- Beijing Red byCall Number: F RyanISBN: 9781629535944Publication Date: 2016-05-10When ex-Navy SEAL Nick Foley travels to China to find purpose and escape the demons of his past, he instead stumbles into a conspiracy his Special Forces training never prepared him for. A mysterious and deadly outbreak ravages a remote area of western China, and Nick finds himself the lead suspect in a bio-terrorism investigation being conducted by China's elite Snow Leopard counter-terrorism unit.
- Beyond the Ice Limit byCall Number: F PrestonISBN: 9781455525867Publication Date: 2016-05-17Five years ago, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the coast of South America. The mission ended when their ship foundered in a storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor. The tragedy revealed something truly terrifying: the meteorite they tried to retrieve was not, in fact, simply a rock. Instead, it was a complex organism from the deep reaches of space. Now, that organism has implanted itself in the sea bed two miles below the surface-and it is growing. If it is not destroyed, the planet will be doomed.
- The Bricks That Built the Houses byCall Number: F TempestISBN: 9781620409015Publication Date: 2016-05-03Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving London with a suitcase full of stolen money, in a mess of tangled loyalties and impulses. But can they truly leave the city that's in their bones? Kate Tempest's novel reaches back through time-through tensely quiet dining rooms and crassly loud clubs-to the first time Becky and Harry meet. It sprawls through their lives and those they touch-of their families and friends and faces on the street-revealing intimacies and the moments that make them.
- The Children byCall Number: F LearyISBN: 9781250045379Publication Date: 2016-05-24Charlotte Maynard rarely leaves her mother's home, the sprawling Connecticut lake house that belonged to her late stepfather, Whit Whitman. While Charlotte and her sister, Sally, grew up at Lakeside, their stepbrothers, Spin and Perry, were welcomed as weekend guests. Now grown, Spin, the youngest brings his fiancé Laurel Atwood home for the summer, she breathes new life into this often comically rarefied world. But as the wedding draws near, and flaws surface in the family's polite veneer, an array of simmering resentments and unfortunate truths is exposed.
- City of the Lost byCall Number: F ArmstrongISBN: 9781250092144Publication Date: 2016-05-03Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows that someday this crime will catch up to her. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When Diana's husband finds her, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after, Casey knows it's time for the two of them to disappear again. Diana has heard of a town made for people like her, a town that takes in people on the run who want to shed their old lives.
- Dear Fang, with Love byCall Number: F ThorpeISBN: 9781101875773Publication Date: 2016-05-24Seventeen-year-old Vera--ravishing, troubled, wildly intelligent- travels to Europe with her estranged father, hoping that an immersion in history might help them forget his past mistakes and her uncertain future. Lucas is a weekend dad, newly involved in his daughter Vera's life. But after Vera suffers a terrifying psychotic break at a high school party, Lucas takes her to Lithuania, his grandmother's homeland, for the summer.
- The Defense byCall Number: F CavanaghISBN: 9781250082251Publication Date: 2016-05-03Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turns out the two aren't that different. Former con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn gave up the law a year ago after a disastrous case, and he vowed never to step foot in a courtroom again. But now he doesn't have a choice. The head of the Russian mob in New York City, on trial for murder, has kidnapped Eddie's ten-year-old daughter: Eddie has to take this case whether he likes it or not.
- The Duration byCall Number: F FrommISBN: 9781440594649Publication Date: 2016-05-01It's been 100 years since tragedy struck the rolling woods around Fleur-de-Lys, one of dozens of Gilded Age estates dotting the western Massachusetts town of Gable. In Gable, they both begrudge and venerate their past, and even now that health spas and corporate yoga retreats have replaced the mansions of a bygone era, the ghosts of yesteryear linger. Boston attorney Pete Johansson finds himself reuniting in Gable with his troubled childhood pal Chickie, who has returned to the wintry town of their youth determined to solve past mysteries and right the wrongs he can't seem to shake.
- Eleven Hours byCall Number: F ErensISBN: 9781941040294Publication Date: 2016-05-03Lore arrives at the hospital alone. Her birth plan is explicit: she wants no fetal monitor, no IV, no epidural. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity ward, herself on the verge of showing is patient with the young woman. She knows what it's like to worry that something might go wrong, and she understands the distress when it does. Eleven Hours is the story of two soon-to-be mothers who, in the midst of a difficult labor, are forced to reckon with their pasts and re-create their futures.
- Enchanted Islands byCall Number: F AmendISBN: 9780385539067Publication Date: 2016-05-24Enchanted Islands is the dazzling story of an independent American woman whose path takes her far from her native Minnesota when she and her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, are sent to the Galápagos Islands at the brink of World War II. Frances works as a secretary for the Office of Naval Intelligence. There she is introduced to Ainslie Conway, an intelligence operator ten years her junior. When it's arranged for Frances and Ainslie to marry and carry out a mission on the Galápagos Islands, the couple's identities--already hidden from each other--are further buried under their new cover stories. No longer a lonely spinster, Frances is about to begin the most fascinating years of her life.
- Everyone Brave Is Forgiven byCall Number: F CleaveISBN: 9781501124372Publication Date: 2016-05-03London, 1939. The day war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up. Tom Shaw decides to ignore the war until he learns his roommate Alistair Heath has enlisted. Young and brave, Mary is certain she'd be a marvelous spy. When she is made a teacher, she finds herself defying prejudice to protect the children her country would rather forget. Tom, meanwhile, finds that he will do anything for Mary. And when Mary and Alistair meet, it is love, as well as war.
- Fatal Thunder byCall Number: F BondISBN: 9780765378644Publication Date: 2016-05-03India and Pakistan are stalemated in a war that India launched to "remove the threat of terrorism, once and for all." But India's early successes have stalled, and with the coming spring, the tide may turn against them. A small but powerful group of Indian senior military officers and civilian security officials, without the knowledge of the rest of the Indian government, have decided to strike at China, Pakistan's backer and India's recent enemy in the Littoral Alliance War.
- The Fifth Avenue Artists Society byCall Number: F CallawayISBN: 9780062391612Publication Date: 2016-05-31The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin, the boldest of four artistic sisters in a family living in genteel poverty, knows what she wants most: to become a celebrated novelist despite her gender, and to marry Charlie, the boy next door and her first love. When Charlie proposes instead to a woman from a wealthy family, Ginny is devastated; shutting out her family, she holes up and turns their story into fiction, obsessively rewriting a better ending.
- Forbidden Love in St. Petersburg byCall Number: F Ben-DavidISBN: 9781468310214Publication Date: 2016-05-17Yogev Ben-Ari has been sent to St. Petersburg by the Mossad, ostensibly to network and set up business connections. His life is solitary, ordered, and lonely--until he meets Anna. Neither is quite what they seem to be, but while her identity may be mysterious, there is no doubt about the love they feel for each other.The affair, impassioned as it is, is not part of the Mossad plan. The agency must hatch a dark scheme to drive the lovers apart. So what began as a quiet, solitary mission becomes a perilous exercise in survival, and Ben-Ari has no time to discover the truth about Anna's identity before his employers act.
- The Girl from Summer Hill byCall Number: F DeverauxISBN: 9781101883266Publication Date: 2016-05-03Sparks fly as fiery Casey Reddick and brooding Hollywood actor Tate Landers clash in the Virginia heat. A chef who puts her career first, Casey doesn't see what every girl in town is swooning over. She made up her mind the moment she met Tate--he's gorgeous, but stuck-up, nothing like his ex-brother-in-law, Devlin who's playing the Wickham to Tate's Darcy in local production of Pride & Prejudice. Casey makes the perfect Elizabeth Bennett--how could she be star-struck when she's heard Devlin's damning stories about Tate?
- The Good Life byCall Number: F ThurmISBN: 9781579624286Publication Date: 2016-04-01Stacy and Roger seem to have it all: a wonderful marriage, a luxury Upper East Side apartment and two young children . But what appears to be "the good life" to their family and friends is not what it seems in this fast-paced, suspenseful novel that shows the sinister effects of a destructive marriage and the pursuit of the privileged life.
- Happy Family byCall Number: F BaroneISBN: 9780316342605Publication Date: 2016-05-24Trenton, New Jersey, 1962: A pregnant girl staggers into a health clinic, gives birth, and flees. An unlikely couple, their lives unspooling from a recent tragedy, hastily adopts her. Forty years later, Cheri Matzner is all grown up and falling apart, she's a former cop-turned-disgruntled academic, a frustrated wife trying to get pregnant, an iconoclastic daughter bearing war-wounds from her mother and father. Thrust into an odyssey of acceptance, Cheri discovers that sometimes it takes half a lifetime to come of age.
- Happy People Read and Drink Coffee byCall Number: F Martin-LugandISBN: 9781602862845Publication Date: 2016-05-10Diane is a wife, a mother, and the owner of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee, a cozy literary cafe in Paris. But when she suddenly loses her beloved husband and daughter in a tragic car accident, the world as she knows it instantly vanishes. Trapped and haunted by her memories, Diane retreats from friends and family, unable and unwilling to move forward. But one year later, Diane shocks her loved ones and makes the surprising decision to move to a small town on the Irish coast, determined to heal and rebuild her life.
- Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All byCall Number: F JonassonISBN: 9780062458179Publication Date: 2016-04-26In a former brothel turned low-rent hotel, the lives of three strangers; a former female priest, recently fired from her church; the ruined grandson of an ex-millionaire working as a receptionist; and Killer-Anders, a murderer newly released from prison, accidently collide with darkly hilarious results. Seeing a lucrative opportunity in Killer-Anders, the unlikely trio form an unusual new business. The Priest and The Receptionist will handle strategy and public relations, and coordinate Killer-Anders missions.
- I Let You Go byCall Number: F MackintoshISBN: 9781101987490Publication Date: 2016-05-03On a rainy afternoon, a mother's life is shattered as her son slips from her grip and runs into the street . . . Jenna Gray moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child. At the same time, the novel tracks the pair of Bristol police investigators trying to get to the bottom of this hit-and-run.
- In the Clearing byCall Number: F DugoniISBN: 9781503953574Publication Date: 2016-05-17Detective Tracy Crosswhite has a skill, and a soft spot, for tackling unsolved crimes. Having lost her own sister to murder at a young age, Tracy has dedicated her career to bringing justice and closure to the families and friends of victims of crime. So when Jenny, a former police academy classmate and protégé, asks Tracy to help solve a cold case that involves the suspicious suicide of a Native American high school girl forty years earlier, Tracy agrees.
- Just Life byCall Number: F AbramsonISBN: 9781455591046Publication Date: 2016-05-10Veterinarian Samantha Lewis and her team are dedicated to providing a sanctuary for unwanted, abused, and abandoned dogs in New York City. Sam is already at her breaking point when she learns of an unidentified, dangerous virus spreading through their neighborhood. The medical community can only determine that animals are the carriers. Amid growing panic and a demand for immediate answers, suspicion abruptly falls on dogs as the source.
- LaRose byCall Number: F ErdrichISBN: 9780062277022Publication Date: 2016-05-10North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots, but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's five-year-old son, LaRose. The two families have always been close, and Landreaux's wife, Emmaline, is half sister to Dusty's mother, Nola. Horrified at what he's done, the recovered alcoholic turns to an Ojibwe tribe tradition ;the sweat lodge for guidance, and finds a way forward.
- The Loney byCall Number: F HurleyISBN: 9780544746527Publication Date: 2016-05-10When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying events that occurred forty years earlier when he visited the place as a boy. At that time, his devoutly Catholic mother was determined to find healing for his disabled older brother. And so the family, along with members of their parish, embarked on an Easter pilgrimage to an ancient shrine. But not all of the locals were pleased to see visitors in the area.
- Love and Friendship byCall Number: F StillmanISBN: 9780316294126Publication Date: 2016-05-03Impossibly beautiful, disarmingly witty, and completely self-absorbed: Meet Lady Susan Vernon, both the heart and the thorn of Love & Friendship. Recently widowed, with a daughter who's coming of age as quickly as their funds are dwindling, Lady Susan makes it her mission to find them wealthy husbands--and fast. But when her attempts to secure their futures result only in the wrath of a prominent conquest's wife and the title of "most accomplished coquette in England," Lady Susan must rethink her strategy.
- The Miracle on Monhegan Island byCall Number: F KellyISBN: 9781631491795Publication Date: 2016-05-10Maine's rugged, picturesque Monhegan Island is home to weathered lobster fishermen and curious tourists, a genial if sleepy group. But when Spark Monahan, a rakish prodigal son returns unannounced to the dilapidated family home, his arrival launches a summer the likes of which this quiet town has never seen.
- Modern Lovers byCall Number: F StraubISBN: 9781594634673Publication Date: 2016-05-31Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, all while trying to hold on to the identities of their youth. But nothing ages them like having to suddenly pass the torch (of sexuality, independence, and the ineffable alchemy of cool) to their own offspring. But the summer that their children reach maturity, the fabric of the adult lives suddenly begins to unravel, and the secrets and revelations that are finally let loose.
- Not Working byCall Number: F OwensISBN: 9780812988819Publication Date: 2016-05-03Claire Flannery has just quit her office job, hoping to take some time to discover her real passion. The problem is, she's not exactly sure how to go about finding it. Without the distractions of a regular routine, Claire confronts the best and worst parts of herself: the generous, attentive part and the part that she feels will never measure up . What emerges is a candid, moving portrait of a clear-eyed heroine trying to forge her own way.
- The One That Got Away byCall Number: F HimesISBN: 9780316305730Publication Date: 2016-05-31Meet Abbey Lahey . . . Overworked mom. Underappreciated publicist. Frazzled wife of an out-of-work landscaper. A woman desperately in need of a vacation from life--and who is about to get one, thanks to an unexpected tumble down a Nordstrom escalator. Meet Abbey van Holt . . . The woman whose life Abbey suddenly finds herself inhabiting when she wakes up. Married to handsome congressional candidate Alex van Holt. The woman Abbey might have been . . . if she had said yes to a date with Alex van Holt all those years ago.
- The Other Widow byCall Number: F CrawfordISBN: 9780062362889Publication Date: 2016-04-26Everybody's luck runs out. This time it could be theirs . . . It isn't safe. That's what Joe tells her when he ends their affair moments before their car skids off an icy road in a blinding snowstorm and hits a tree. Desperate to keep her life intact , her job, her husband, and her precious daughter, Lilly, Dorrie will do everything she can to protect herself, even if it means walking away from the wreckage.
- People Who Knew Me byCall Number: F HooperISBN: 9781250077981Publication Date: 2016-05-24Emily Morris got her happily-ever-after earlier than most. Married at a young age to a man she loves passionately, she is building the life she always wanted. But when her mother-in-law becomes chronically ill, enormous stress threatens her marriage. Emily watches helplessly as the devotion Drew once showed her is transferred to his ailing mother. When she's thrust into an enforced caretaker role, it's too much to bear. Emily starts spending more and more time at work. That's when she falls in love with her boss. That's when she gets pregnant.
- A Perfect Life byCall Number: F PollackISBN: 9780062419170Publication Date: 2016-05-10A young researcher at MIT, Jane Weiss is obsessed with finding the genetic marker for Valentine's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. Her pursuit is deeply personal: Valentine's killed her mother, and she and her sister, Laurel has a fifty percent chance of developing the disease. Having seen firsthand the devastating effect Valentine's had on her parents' marriage, Jane is terrified she might become a burden, so steers clear of romantic entanglement. Then, Jane falls hard for her future stepbrother, Willie.
- The Pier Falls and Other Stories byCall Number: F HaddonISBN: 9780385540759Publication Date: 2016-05-10The tales in Mark Haddon's lyrical and uncompromising new collection take many forms--Victorian adventure story, science fiction, morality tale, contemporary realism--but they all showcase his virtuoso gifts as a stylist and the deep well of empathy that made his three bestselling novels so compelling.
- Redemption Road byCall Number: F HartISBN: 9780312380366Publication Date: 2016-05-03A boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother. A troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting. After thirteen years in prison, a good cop walks free as deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen... This is a town on the brink. This is Redemption Road. Brimming with tension, secrets, and betrayal, Redemption Road proves again that John Hart is a master of the literary thriller.
- SEAL Team Six: Hunt the Dragon byCall Number: F MannISBN: 9780316377539Publication Date: 2016-05-17The North Korean government is days away from realizing its nuclear ambitions and only the heroes of SEAL Team Six can stop it. Chasing a trail of evidence that takes them from U.S. soil to international waters to China and North Korea, Crocker and the rest of SEAL Team Six find themselves in the middle of an international plot with dangerous geopolitical ramifications. The North Korean government will stop at nothing to realize its long-held nuclear ambitions--but it'll have to get through some of America's most highly trained warriors first.
- She Poured Out Her Heart byCall Number: F ThompsonISBN: 9780399573811Publication Date: 2016-05-31The night that Jane and Bonnie meet on a college campus sets them on paths forever entwined. Bonnie, the wild and experimental one, always up for anything, has spent the past two decades bouncing between ill-fated relationships, while Jane's seemingly perfect life, perfect husband, and perfect children have all but materialized out of a fantasy. But these appearances contradict the quiet, inescapable doubt Jane feels about her life.
- The Summer Guest byCall Number: F AndersonISBN: 9780062423368Publication Date: 2016-05-24During the long summer of 1888, an extraordinary friendship blossoms between Anton Chekhov and Zinaida Lintvaryova. . Recently blinded by illness, Zinaida has retreated to her family's estate in Eastern Ukraine. But when the Chekhov family arrives to spend the summer at a dacha on the estate, and she meets the middle son Anton Pavlovich, her existence is transformed by the connection they share. What begins as a journal becomes an intimate, introspective narrative. More than a century later, in 2014, the discovery of this diary represents Katya Kendall's last chance to save her struggling London publishing house.
- Sweet Lamb of Heaven byCall Number: F MilletISBN: 9780393285543Publication Date: 2016-05-03Lydia Millet's chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who's just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. As his pursuit of Anna and their child moves from threatening to criminal, Ned begins to alter his wife's world in ways she never could have imagined.
- Travelers Rest byCall Number: F MorrisISBN: 9780316335829Publication Date: 2016-01-05The Addisons-Julia and Tonio, ten-year-old Dewey, and derelict Uncle Robbie-are driving home, cross-country, after collecting Robbie from yet another trip to rehab. When a terrifying blizzard strikes outside the town of Good Night, Idaho, they seek refuge in the town at the Travelers Rest, a formerly opulent but now crumbling and eerie hotel where the physical laws of the universe are bent. Once inside the hotel, the family is separated. As Julia and Tonio drift through the maze of the hotel's spectral interiors, struggling to make sense of the building's alluring powers,
- The Turning Point byCall Number: F NorthISBN: 9780008163297Publication Date: 2016-05-03Life is short. Sometimes you have to take a chance Two single parents, Scott and Frankie, meet by chance. Their homes are thousands of miles apart: Frankie lives somewhat chaotically with her children on the shoreline of North Norfolk, while Scott s life is in the mountains of British Columbia. Distance divides them but it seems that a million little things connect them. A spark ignites, one so strong that it dares them to take a risk. But fate has one more trick in store.
- The Versions of Us byCall Number: F BarnettISBN: 9780544634244Publication Date: 2016-05-03In one moment, two lives will be changed forever . . . and forever . . . and forever. The one thing that's certain is they met on a Cambridge street by chance and felt a connection that would last a lifetime. But as for what happened next . . . They fell wildly in love, or went their separate ways. They kissed, or they thought better of it. They married soon after, or were together for a few weeks before splitting up. They grew distracted and disappointed with their daily lives together, or found solace together only after hard years spent apart.
- The Wolf of Sarajevo byCall Number: F PalmerISBN: 9780399175015Publication Date: 2016-05-24Twenty years after the Srebrenica massacre that claimed the life of his friend and colleague, Eric Petrosian is back in Sarajevo at the American embassy, and the specter of war once again hangs over the Balkans. The Bosnian Serb leader, who had for a time been seeking a stable peace, has turned back to his nationalist roots and is threatening to pull Bosnia apart in a bloody struggle for control . . . and behind him is a shadowy mafia figure pulling the strings.