Recently Received Riveting Reads: February 2017
Selective list of new fiction recently received
New Fiction
- Always byCall Number: F JioISBN: 9781101885024Publication Date: 2017-02-07Enjoying a romantic candlelit dinner with her fiance, Ryan, at one of Seattle's chicest restaurants, Kailey Crain can't believe her good fortune: She has a great job as a journalist and is now engaged to a guy who is perfect in nearly every way. As she and Ryan leave the restaurant, Kailey spies a thin, bearded homeless man on the sidewalk. She approaches him to offer up her bag of leftovers, and is stunned when their eyes meet, then stricken to her very core: The man is the love of her life, Cade McAllister.
- Autumn byCall Number: F SmithISBN: 9781101870730Publication Date: 2017-02-07Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. It is the first installment of her Seasonal quartet--four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are)--and it casts an eye over our own time. Who are we? What are we made of?
- The Blue Hour byCall Number: F PritchettISBN: 9781619028487Publication Date: 2017-02-14The tight-knit residents of Blue Moon Mountain, nestled high in the Colorado Mountains, form an interconnected community of those living off the land, stunned by the beauty and isolation all around them. So when, at the onset of winter, the town veterinarian commits a violent act, the repercussions of that tragedy will be felt all across the mountainside, upending their lives and causing their paths to twist and collide in unexpected ways.
- The Book of Mirrors byCall Number: F ChiroviciISBN: 9781501141546Publication Date: 2017-02-21When literary agent Peter Katz receives a partial book submission entitled The Book of Mirrors, he is intrigued by its promise and original voice. The author, Richard Flynn, has written a memoir about his time as an English student at Princeton in the late 1980s, documenting his relationship with the protege of the famous Professor Joseph Wieder. One night just before Christmas 1987, Wieder was brutally murdered in his home. The case was never solved. Now, twenty-five years later, Katz suspects that Richard Flynn is either using his book to confess to the murder, or to finally reveal who committed the violent crime.
- Chasing the King of Hearts byCall Number: F KrallISBN: 9781558619449Publication Date: 2017-02-14Based on a true story, the raw interplay of history and fictionalization spans the Warsaw Ghetto, the war-torn countryside, and the nightmare of Auschwitz. This is the book's first US publication.
- The Coming byCall Number: F OsborneISBN: 9781632863850Publication Date: 2017-02-07In 1805, Lewis and Clark stumble out of the Rockies on the edge of starvation. The Nez Perce help the explorers build canoes and navigate the rapids of the Columbia, then spend two months hosting them the following spring before leading them back across the snowbound mountains. Daytime Smoke, the son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman is born not long after, and the tribe of his youth continues a deep friendship with white Americans, even aiding the United States government in wars with neighboring tribes. But when gold is discovered on Nez Perce land in 1860, it sets an inevitable tragedy in motion.
- Dead Letters byCall Number: F Dolan-LeachISBN: 9780399588853Publication Date: 2017-02-21Ava Antipova has her reasons for running away: a failing family vineyard, a romantic betrayal, a mercurial sister, an absent father, a mother slipping into dementia. In Paris, Ava acquires a French boyfriend and a taste for much better wine, and erases her past. Two years later, she must return to upstate New York. Her twin sister, Zelda, is dead. Stuck tending the vineyard and the girls' increasingly unstable mother, Zelda was allegedly burned alive when she passed out in the barn with a lit cigarette. Then Ava receives a cryptic message--from her sister.
- Distress Signals byCall Number: F HowardISBN: 9781504757522Publication Date: 2016-11-08The day Adam Dunne's girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that reads "I'm sorry-S" sets off real alarm bells. He vows to do whatever it takes to find her.
- A Divided Spy byCall Number: F CummingISBN: 9781250021045Publication Date: 2017-02-14Thomas Kell thought he was done with spying. A former MI6 officer, he devoted his life to the Service, but it has left him with nothing but grief and a simmering anger against the Kremlin. Then Kell is offered an unexpected chance at revenge. Taking the law into his own hands, he embarks on a mission to recruit a top Russian spy who is in possession of a terrifying secret.
- Earth As It Is byCall Number: F MaherISBN: 9780253024046Publication Date: 2017-01-23It's the 1930s in Texas when Charlie Bader comes of age with urges he has struggled with since childhood and does not understand. After his new bride finds him wearing her own sexy lingerie and leaves him in disgust, he tries to move on. His efforts lead him to Chicago, where he stumbles on a community of cross-dressers and begins to attend their secret soirees. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, he volunteers for the army, serving as a dentist and trying once again to leave his obsession with soft clothes behind. Instead, his wartime experiences combined with the army's faulty record-keeping lead to his reappearance in the small town of Heaven, Indiana, as Charlene.
- Forever Is the Worst Long Time byCall Number: F PaganISBN: 9781477818381Publication Date: 2017-02-07When struggling novelist James Hernandez meets poet Louisa "Lou" Bell, he's sure he's just found the love of his life. There's just one problem: she's engaged to his oldest friend, Rob. As the years pass, James's dreams always seem just out of reach-he can't finish that novel, can't mend his relationship with his father, can't fully commit to a romantic relationship. He just can't move on. But after betrayal fractures Lou's once-solid marriage, she turns to James for comfort.
- The Freedom Broker byCall Number: F HoweISBN: 9781681443102Publication Date: 2017-02-07There are twenty-five elite kidnap and ransom (K&R) specialists in the world. Only one is a woman: Thea Paris. And she's the best in the business. Twenty years ago, a terrified young boy was abducted in the middle of the night by masked intruders while his sister watched, paralyzed with fear. This life-shattering experience drove Thea to become what she is today: a world-class freedom broker. Most hostage-recovery work is done at the negotiation table, but when diplomacy fails, Thea leads Quantum Security International's black-ops team on highly sensitive rescue missions.
- The Good at Heart byCall Number: F WernerISBN: 9781501147579Publication Date: 2017-02-21Based on the author's discoveries about her great-grandfather, this novel takes place over three days when World War II comes to the doorstep of an ordinary German family living in an idyllic, rural village. When World War II breaks out, Edith and Oskar Eberhardt move their family, their daughter, Marina; son-in-law, Franz; and their granddaughters out of Berlin and into a small house in the quiet town of Blumental, near Switzerland. A member of Hitler's cabinet, Oskar is gone most of the time, and Franz begins fighting in the war, so the women of the house are left to their quiet lives in the picturesque village. But life in Blumental isn't as idyllic as it appears.
- The Housekeeper byCall Number: F DaintyISBN: 9781476771403Publication Date: 2017-02-28When Anne Morgan's successful boyfriend, who also happens to be her boss, leaves her for another woman, Anne finds herself in desperate need of a new job. Meanwhile, her celebrity idol, Emma Helmsley is in need of a housekeeper, an opportunity which seems too good to be true. Through her books, website, and blog, Emma Helmsley advises her devoted followers on how to live a balanced life in a hectic world. But Anne soon finds herself intimately ensconced in the Helmsley's dirty laundry, both literally and figuratively.
- If I Could Tell You byCall Number: F WilhideISBN: 9780143130437Publication Date: 2017-02-28England, 1939: Julia Compton has a beautifully well-ordered life. Once a promising pianist, she now has a handsome husband, a young son she adores, and a housekeeper who takes care of her comfortable home. Then, on the eve of war, a film crew arrives in her coastal town. She falls in love. The consequences are devastating. Penniless, denied access to her son, and completely unequipped to fend for herself, she finds herself adrift in wartime London with her lover.
- I See You byCall Number: F MackintoshISBN: 9781101988299Publication Date: 2017-02-21It all starts with a classified ad. During her commute home one night, while glancing through her local paper, Zoe sees her own face staring back at her; a grainy photo along with a phone number and a listing for a website called FindTheOne.com. Other women begin appearing in the same ad, a different one every day, and Zoe realizes they've become the victims of increasingly violent crimes--including murder.
- The Last Night at Tremore Beach byCall Number: F SantiagoISBN: 9781501102240Publication Date: 2017-02-14Recently divorced and in the middle of a creative crisis, Peter Harper decides to take shelter on Ireland's scenic and isolated Tremore Beach. But after he is struck by lightning one stormy night, he begins experiencing terrible headaches and strange dreams. As the line between his dreams and reality begins to blur, Peter realizes that his bizarre dreams may be a warning of horror still to come.
- Lincoln in the Bardo byCall Number: F SaundersISBN: 9780812995343Publication Date: 2017-02-14February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president says at the time. "God has called him home." Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy's body.
- A Million Little Things byCall Number: F MalleryISBN: 9780778330912Publication Date: 2017-02-28Zoe Saldivar is more than just single--she's ALONE. She recently broke up with her longtime boyfriend, she works from home and her best friend Jen is so obsessed with her baby that she has practically abandoned their friendship. The day Zoe accidentally traps herself in her attic with her hungry-looking cat, she realizes that it's up to her to stop living in isolation.
- Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars byCall Number: F EmmersonISBN: 9780062476722Publication Date: 2017-02-28In the dreary days of November 1965, American actress Iolanthe Green has become the toast of the West End. Charismatic, mysterious, and beautiful, she brings color and a sprinkling of glamour to the scuffed boards of Soho’s Galaxy Theatre. But one evening, after another rapturously received performance, Iolanthe walks through the stage door, out into the cold London night, and vanishes. All of London is riveted as Fleet Street speculates about the missing actress's fate.
- My Not So Perfect Life byCall Number: F KinsellaISBN: 9780812998269Publication Date: 2017-02-07Everywhere Katie Brenner looks, someone else is living the life she longs for, particularly her boss, Demeter Farlowe. Demeter is brilliant and creative, lives with her perfect family in a posh townhouse, and wears the coolest clothes. Katie's life, meanwhile, is a daily struggle--from her dismal rental to her oddball flatmates to the tense office politics she's trying to negotiate. No wonder Katie takes refuge in not-quite-true Instagram posts, especially as she's desperate to make her dad proud.
- The Name of the Game Is a Kidnapping byCall Number: F HigashinoISBN: 9781942993834Publication Date: 2017-02-28Sakuma is a high-profile ad agent who was about to land one of the biggest gigs of his career. But he was betrayed by the owner of the company that just hired him. Down on his luck and now on his way out career-wise, he planned to go publicly chew out the man who brought him down. Instead, upon uncovering a deep secret, he devises a plan to bring down his new rival in a twisted game called kidnapping.
- The Nearness of You byCall Number: F WardISBN: 9781101887158Publication Date: 2017-02-21Brilliant heart surgeon Suzette Kendall is stunned when Hyland, her husband of fifteen years, admits his yearning for a child. From the beginning they'd decided that having children was not an option, as Suzette feared passing along the genes that landed her mother in a mental institution. But Hyland proposes a different idea: a baby via surrogate. Suzette agrees, and what follows is a whirlwind of candidate selection, hospital visits, and Suzette's doubts over whether she's made the right decision.
- The News from the End of the World byCall Number: MillerISBN: 9780547734415Publication Date: 2017-02-21When Vance Lake--broke, jobless, and recently dumped--takes refuge with twin brother Craig back home on Cape Cod, he unwittingly finds himself smack in the middle of a crisis that would test the bonds of even the most cohesive family. Craig is strangely mournful and angry at equal turns. His exasperated wife, Gina, is on the brink of an affair. At the center of it all is seventeen-year-old Amanda: adored niece, rebellious daughter, and stubborn stepdaughter. She's also pregnant.
- Pachinko byCall Number: F LeeISBN: 9781455563937Publication Date: 2017-02-07Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them. Betrayed by her wealthy lover, Sunja finds unexpected salvation when a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan to start a new life. So begins a sweeping saga of exceptional people in exile from a homeland they never knew and caught in the indifferent arc of history.
- The Possessions byCall Number: F MurphyISBN: 9780062458322Publication Date: 2017-02-07In this electrifying debut, a young woman who channels the dead for a living crosses a dangerous line when she falls in love with one of her clients, whose wife died under mysterious circumstances. Eurydice works for the Elysian Society, a private service that allows grieving clients to reconnect with lost loved ones. She and her fellow workers, known as "bodies", wear the discarded belongings of the dead and swallow pills called lotuses to summon their spirits, numbing their own minds and losing themselves in the process. When Edie channels Sylvia, the dead wife of recent widower Patrick Braddock, she becomes obsessed with the glamorous couple.
- The Refugees byCall Number: F NguyenISBN: 9780802126399Publication Date: 2017-02-07The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.
- Rush of Blood byCall Number: F BillinghamISBN: 9780802125910Publication Date: 2017-02-07Three British couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on Easter Sunday, the last day of their vacation, tragedy strikes: the fourteen-year-old daughter of an American vacationer goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves. When the shocked couples return home to the U.K., they remain in contact, and over the course of three increasingly fraught dinner parties they come to know one another better. But buried beneath these apparently normal exteriors are some unusual kinks and unpleasant vices.
- Setting Free the Kites byCall Number: F GeorgeISBN: 9780399162107Publication Date: 2017-02-21"For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous-and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan's budding friendship is forged in the crucible of two family tragedies, and as the boys struggle to come to terms with loss, they take summer jobs at the local rundown amusement park. It's there that they learn some harsh truths about family, desire, and revenge.
- Snowblind byCall Number: F JonassonISBN: 9781910633038Publication Date: 2015-10-01In a quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, rookie cop Ari Thor Arason is being drawn into a series of suspicious accidents and deaths. As his investigation becomes increasingly personal and complex, Ari's past may be closer than he thinks.
- Spook Street byCall Number: F HerronISBN: 9781616956479Publication Date: 2017-02-21David Cartwright isn't a modern spy, however; he's legend and a bonafide Cold War hero. He's also in his dotage and losing his mind to Alzheimer's. His stories of "stotes" hiding in the bushes, following his every move have been dismissed by friends and family for years. Cartwright may be losing track of reality but he's certain about one thing: Old spooks don't go quietly and neither do the secrets they keep.
- Stolen Beauty byCall Number: F AlbaneseISBN: 9781501131981Publication Date: 2017-02-07In the dazzling glitter of 1900 Vienna, Adele Bloch-Bauer young, beautiful, brilliant, and Jewish meets painter Gustav Klimt. Adele embraces Klimt's renegade genius as the two awaken to the erotic possibilities on the canvas and beyond. Though they enjoy life, the city is also exhibiting a disturbing increase in anti-Semitism,. Nearly forty years later, Adele's niece Maria Altmann is a newlywed when the Nazis invade Austria. Maria must summon the courage and resilience that is her aunt's legacy if she is to survive.
- Sweet Lake byCall Number: F NolfiISBN: 9781503942516Publication Date: 2017-02-28When innkeeper Linnie Wayfair's brother Freddie returns to town after running off with most of the family money, local lawyer Daniel Kettering, who has been pining for Linnie for years, steps in to mediate between the siblings.
- Under the Knife byCall Number: F ParsonsISBN: 9781250033338Publication Date: 2017-02-07Biotechnology tycoon Morgan Finney is highly intelligent but shy and emotionally fragile. When his beloved wife Jenny dies of complications during a surgery led by Dr. Rita Wu, Finney's grief turns to rage. He vows to kill Rita just as he believes she killed his wife. But first he will systematically destroy her life. He will take what is precious to her just as she did to him.
- The Weight of Him byCall Number: F RohanISBN: 9781250092120Publication Date: 2017-02-14At four hundred pounds, Billy Brennan can always count on food. From his earliest memories, he has loved food's colors, textures and tastes. Food has always made everything better, until the day Billy's beloved son Michael takes his own life. Billy determines to make a difference in Michael's memory and undertakes a public weight-loss campaign, to raise money for suicide prevention--his first step in an ambitious plan to save himself, and to save others.
- We Were the Lucky Ones byCall Number: F HunterISBN: 9780399563089Publication Date: 2017-02-14It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety.
- The White City byCall Number: F RamqvistISBN: 9780802125958Publication Date: 2017-02-07Karin knew what she was getting herself into when she fell for John, the high-flying criminal and love of her life. But she never imagined things would turn out like this: John is now gone and the coke-filled parties, seemingly endless flow of money, and high social status she previously enjoyed have been replaced by cut telephone lines, cut heat, and cut cash. All that remains of Karin's former life is the big house he bought for her--and his daughter, the child Karin once swore she would never bring into their dangerous world.
- The World to Come byCall Number: F ShepardISBN: 9781524731809Publication Date: 2017-02-21Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery. These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their isolation on the frontier of settlement.
- Year of the Comet byCall Number: F LebdevISBN: 9781939931412Publication Date: 2017-02-14From the critically acclaimed author of Oblivion comes Year of the Comet, a story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse. An idyllic childhood takes a sinister turn. Rumors of a serial killer haunt the neighborhood, families pack up and leave town without a word of warning, and the country begins to unravel.
New Fiction
- All That's Left to Tell byCall Number: F LoweISBN: 9781250085559Publication Date: 2017-02-14Every night, Marc Laurent, an American taken hostage in Pakistan, is bound and blindfolded. And every night, a woman he knows only as Josephine visits his cell. At first, her questions are mercenary: is there anyone back home who will pay the ransom? But when Marc can offer no name, she asks him a question about his daughter that is even more terrifying than his captivity. And so begins a strange yet increasingly comforting ritual, in which Josephine and Marc tell each other stories.
- Be My Wolff byCall Number: F RichlerISBN: 9781101946527Publication Date: 2017-02-14Zachariah and Rachel Wolff are brother and sister. Well, not exactly. They are star-crossed lovers. Well, not exactly. Rachel is the cherished daughter born to a Russian family living in London, and Zachariah is her parents' adopted son, who arrived from the orphanage with one sweater, a head of rambunctious curls, and a dexterous set of fists, or fives, as he likes to call them. As children, they were as close as two people could be. But when they crossed this forbidden line, there was no going back.
- A Book of American Martyrs byCall Number: F OatesISBN: 9780062643049Publication Date: 2017-02-07Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God's will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic but self-regarding doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. In her moving, insightful portrait, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely-but with great empathy-confronts an intractable, abiding rift in American society.
- The Chilbury Ladies' Choir byCall Number: F RyanISBN: 9781101906750Publication Date: 2017-02-14Through letters and journals, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir unfolds the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of a village choir during World War II. As England becomes enmeshed in the early days of World War II and the men are away fighting, the women of Chilbury village forge an uncommon bond. They defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to close the choir and instead "carry on singing," resurrecting themselves as the Chilbury Ladies' Choir. We come to know the home-front struggles of five unforgettable choir members.
- The Chosen Maiden byCall Number: F StachniakISBN: 9780385678568Publication Date: 2017-01-17From their earliest days, the Nijinsky siblings appear destined for the stage. Bronia is a gifted young ballerina, but she is quickly eclipsed by her brother Vaslav. Deemed a prodigy, Vaslav Nijinsky will grow into the greatest, and most provocative, dancer of his time. To prove herself her brother's equal in the rigid world of ballet, Bronia will need to be more than extraordinary, defying society's expectations of what a female dancer can and should be.
- The Dark Flood Rises byCall Number: F DrabbleISBN: 9780374134952Publication Date: 2017-02-14Francesca Stubbs has an extremely full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives "restlessly round England," which is "her last love . . . She wants to see it all before she dies." Amid the professional conferences that dominate her schedule, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home cooked dinners to her ailing ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the shocking death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a flood plain in the West Country
- The Dressmaker's Dowry byCall Number: F JaegerISBN: 9780062469830Publication Date: 2017-02-07San Francisco: 1876 Immigrant dressmakers Hannelore Schaeffer and Margaret O'Brien struggle to provide food for their siblings, while mending delicate clothing for the city's affluent ladies. When wealthy Lucas Havensworth enters the shop, Hanna's future is altered forever. Then Margaret disappears, and Hanna turns to Lucas. San Francisco: Present Day In her elegant Marina apartment, Sarah Havensworth struggles to complete the novel she quit her job for. Then a news headline from 1876 sparks inspiration: Missing Dressmakers Believed to be Murdered. Compelled to discover what happened to Hannelore and Margaret, Sarah returns to her;roots as a journalist.
- Encircling byCall Number: F TillerISBN: 9781555977627Publication Date: 2017-02-21David has lost his memory. When a newspaper ad asks his friends and family to share their memories of him, three respond: Jon, his closest friend; Silje, his teenage girlfriend; and Arvid, his estranged stepfather. Their letters reveal David's early life in the small town of Namsos, full of teenage rebellion, the uncertainties of first love, and intense experiments in art and music. As the narrative circles ever closer to David, the letters interweave with scenes from the present day, and it becomes less and less clear what to believe.
- The Evening Road byCall Number: F HuntISBN: 9780316391283Publication Date: 2017-02-07Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw, a startling beauty in small-town Indiana. Quick of mind, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and on one day in the summer of 1930 an odyssey across the countryside to witness a dark and fearful celebration. Meet Calla Destry, a determined young woman desperate to escape the violence of her town and to find the lover who has promised her a new life. On this day, the countryside of Jim Crow-era Indiana is no place for either.
- Everything Belongs to Us byCall Number: F WuertzISBN: 9780812998542Publication Date: 2017-02-28Seoul, 1978. At South Korea's top university, the nation's best and brightest compete to join the professional elite of an authoritarian regime. Success could lead to a life of rarefied privilege and wealth; failure means being left irrevocably behind. For childhood friends Jisun and Namin, the stakes couldn't be more different. Jisun, the daughter of a powerful business mogul, grew up on a mountainside estate.Namin's parents run a tented food cart from dawn to curfew. Now Jisun wants as little to do with her father's world as possible, abandoning her schoolwork in favor of the underground activist movement, while Namin studies tirelessly to launch herself and her family out of poverty.
- The Fortunate Ones byCall Number: F UmanskyISBN: 9780062382481Publication Date: 2017-02-14It is 1939 in Vienna, and as the specter of war darkens Europe, Rose Zimmer's parents are desperate. Unable to get out of Austria, they manage to secure passage for their young daughter on a kindertransport, and send her to live with strangers in England. Six years later, the war finally over, a grief-stricken Rose attempts to build a life for herself. Alone in London, devastated, she cannot help but try to search out one piece of her childhood: the Chaim Soutine painting her mother had cherished.
- Gunmetal Gray byCall Number: F GreaneyISBN: 9780425282854Publication Date: 2017-02-14After five years on the run Court Gentry is back on the inside at the CIA. But his first mission makes him wish he had stayed on the outs when a pair of Chinese agents try to take him down in Hong Kong. Normally the Chinese prefer to stay eyes-only on foreign agents. So why are they on such high alert?
- The Horseman byCall Number: F PearsISBN: 9781632866936Publication Date: 2017-02-28Somerset, 1911. The forces of war are building across Europe, but this pocket of England, where the rhythms of lives are dictated by the seasons and the land, remains untouched. Leo, a talented rider and son of the underkeeper to the head groundskeeper, grows up alongside the master's spirited daughter Charlotte. The first book of a trilogy.
- A Horse Walks into a Bar byCall Number: F GrossmanISBN: 9780451493972Publication Date: 2017-02-21In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of stand-up. In the audience is a district court justice, Avishai Lazar, whom Dov knew as a boy, along with a few others who remember Dov as an awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually, as it teeters between hilarity and hysteria, Dov's patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood: we meet his beautiful flower of a mother and his punishing father.
- The Keeper of Lost Things byCall Number: F HoganISBN: 9780062473530Publication Date: 2017-02-21Anthony Peardew is the keeper of lost things. Forty years ago, he carelessly lost a keepsake from his beloved fiancee, Therese. That very same day, she died unexpectedly. Brokenhearted, Anthony sought consolation in rescuing lost objects, the things others have dropped, misplaced, or accidently left behind and writing stories about them.
- The Lonely Hearts Hotel byCall Number: F O'NeillISBN: 9780735213739Publication Date: 2017-02-07Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1914. Before long, their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing clown routines, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary circus show the world has ever seen. Separated as teenagers, sent off to work as servants during the Great Depression, both descend into the city's underworld, dabbling in sex, drugs and theft in order to survive. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite, the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed
- The Lost Book of the Grail byCall Number: F LovettISBN: 9780399562518Publication Date: 2017-02-28Arthur Prescott feels like a fish out of water among the concrete buildings of the University of Barchester, where he works as an English professor. His one respite is his time spent nestled in the library, nurturing his secret obsession with the Holy Grail and researching his perennially unfinished guidebook to the medieval cathedral. But when a young American named Bethany Davis arrives in Barchester charged with the task of digitizing the library's manuscripts, Arthur's tranquility is broken.
- Most Dangerous Place byCall Number: F GrippandoISBN: 9780062440556Publication Date: 2017-02-21According to the FBI, the most dangerous place for a woman between the ages of twenty and thirty is in a relationship with a man. Those statistics become all too personal when Jack Swyteck takes on a new client tied to his past. It begins at the airport, where Jack is waiting to meet his old high school buddy, Keith Ingraham, a high-powered banker based in Hong Kong, coming to Miami for his young daughter's surgery. But their long-awaited reunion is abruptly derailed when the police arrest Keith's wife, Isabelle, accusing her of conspiring to kill the man who raped her in college.
- The Mother's Promise byCall Number: F HepworthISBN: 9781250077752Publication Date: 2017-02-21All their lives, Alice Stanhope and her daughter Zoe have been a family of two, living quietly in northern California. Zoe has always struggled with crippling social anxiety and her mother has been her constant and fierce protector. With no family to speak of, and the identity of Zoe's father shrouded in mystery, their team of two works - until it doesn't. Until Alice gets sick and needs to fight for her life. Desperate to find stability for Zoe, Alice reaches out to two women who are practically strangers, but who are her only hope: Kate, a nurse, and Sonja, a social worker.
- The Murder of Willie Lincoln byCall Number: F SolomonISBN: 9780765385833Publication Date: 2017-02-21Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved land together. But Lincoln's will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the White House as Willie Lincoln is taken by typhoid fever. But was this really the cause of his death? A message arrives, suggesting otherwise.
- No Other World byCall Number: F MehtaISBN: 9780062020468Publication Date: 2017-02-28An insightful, compelling debut novel set in rural America and India in the 1980s and '90s, part coming-of-age story about a gay Indian American boy, part family saga about an immigrant family's struggles to find a sense of belonging, identity, and hope.
- The One Inside byCall Number: F ShepardISBN: 9780451494580Publication Date: 2017-02-07The first work of long fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright--a tour de force of memory, mystery, death, and life. This searing, extraordinarily evocative narrative opens with a man in his house at dawn, surrounded by aspens, coyotes cackling in the distance as he quietly navigates the distance between present and past. More and more, memory is overtaking him.
- On Turpentine Lane byCall Number: F LipmanISBN: 9780544808249Publication Date: 2017-02-14At thirty-two, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater. It's a peaceful life, really, and surely with her recent purchase of a sweet bungalow on Turpentine Lane her life is finally on track. Never mind that her fiance is off on a crowdfunded cross-country walk, too busy to return her texts (but not too busy to post photos of himself with a different woman in every state). And never mind her witless boss, or a mother who lives too close, or a philandering father who thinks he's Chagall
- Piece of the World byCall Number: F KlineISBN: 9780062356260Publication Date: 2017-02-21From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World. To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family's remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth.
- Robert B. Parker's Revelation byCall Number: F KnottISBN: 9780399575341Publication Date: 2017-02-07Territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch figured things had finally settled down in Appaloosa. But all that changed when Augustus Noble Driggs was transferred to a penitentiary just across the border from Mexico. Square-jawed, and built like a muscled thoroughbred stallion, Driggs manages to intimidate everyone inside the prison walls, including the young warden. In a haunting twist of fate, Driggs and a pack of convicts are suddenly on the loose--and it's up to any and all territorial lawmen, including Cole and Hitch, to capture the fugitives and rescue the woman kidnapped during their escape.
- Running byCall Number: F HoffmanISBN: 9781476757575Publication Date: 2017-02-21Bridey Sullivan, a young American woman who has fled a peculiar and traumatic upbringing in Washington State, takes up with a queer British couple, the poet Milo Rollack and Eton drop-out Jasper Lethe. Slipping in and out of homelessness, addiction, and under-the-table jobs, they create their own kind of family as they struggle to survive. Jasper's madness and consequent death frame a narrative of emotional intensity. In its midst this trio become linked to an act of terrorism. The group then splinters, taking us from Athens to the cliffs of the Mediterranean, and to modern-day New York.
- The Schooldays of Jesus byCall Number: F CoetzeeISBN: 9780735222663Publication Date: 2017-02-21From the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus. Coetzee deftly grapples with the big questions of growing up, of what it means to be a "parent," the constant battle between intellect and emotion, and how we choose to live our lives.
- A Separation byCall Number: F KitamuraISBN: 9780399576102Publication Date: 2017-02-07A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly agrees to go look for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she's not even sure if she wants to find him. As her search comes to a shocking breaking point, she discovers she understands less than she thought she did about her relationship and the man she used to love
- Shining City byCall Number: F RosenstielISBN: 9780062475367Publication Date: 2017-02-21Peter Rena is a fixer. He and his partner, Randi Brooks, earn their living making the problems of the powerful disappear. They get their biggest job yet when the White House hires them to vet the president's nominee for the Supreme Court. Judge Roland Madison is a legal giant, but he's a political maverick, with views that might make the already tricky confirmation process even more difficult.
- The Sisters of Sugarcreek byCall Number: F LiggettISBN: 9781496422354Publication Date: 2017-02-07Many lives were changed the day a fire burned down Faith Community Church, devastating the small town of Sugarcreek, Ohio.Now a young Amish widow, Lydia Gruber faces an uncertain future. Her husband, a craftsman and volunteer firefighter, always took care of everything, keeping her isolated from others in their community. Without anyone or any skills, how will she survive?
- Swimming Lessons byCall Number: F FullerISBN: 9781941040515Publication Date: 2017-02-07Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her two daughters.Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid, but he's getting older and this unlikely sighting is chalked up to senility. Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her father and to try to finally discover what happened to Ingrid. But what Flora doesn't realize is that the answers to her questions are hidden in the books that surround her.
- Their Finest byCall Number: F EvansISBN: 9780062414915Publication Date: 2017-02-14It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip of sea lies between Great Britain and invasion. The war could go either way and everyone must do their bit. Young copy writer Catrin Cole is drafted into the Ministry of Information to help write women into propaganda films, something that the men aren't very good at.
- The Typewriter's Tale byCall Number: F HeynsISBN: 9781250119001Publication Date: 2017-02-28"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to." This is the maxim of celebrated author Henry James and one which his typist Frieda Wroth tries to live up to. Admiring of the great author, she nevertheless feels marginalized and undervalued in her role. But when the dashing Morton Fullerton comes to visit, Frieda finds herself at the center of an intrigue every bit as engrossing as the novels she types, bringing her into conflict with the flamboyant Edith Wharton, and compromising her loyalty to James.
- Waking Lions byCall Number: F Gundar-GoshenISBN: 9780316395434Publication Date: 2017-02-28Neurosurgeon Eitan Green has the perfect life--married to a beautiful police officer and father of two young boys. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he flees the scene. When the victim's widow knocks at Eitan's door the next day, holding his wallet and divulging that she knows what happened, Eitan discovers that her price for silence is not money. It is something else entirely.
- We Were on a Break byCall Number: F KelkISBN: 9780008175603Publication Date: 2017-01-03When what should have been a proposal turns into a break, Liv and Adam find themselves on opposite sides of the life they had mapped out. Friends and family all think they re crazy; Liv throws herself into work animals are so much simpler than humans and Adam tries to get himself out of the hole he's dug. But as the short break becomes a chasm, can they find a way back to each other? Most importantly, do they want to?"
- What You Don't Know byCall Number: F ChaneyISBN: 9781250075536Publication Date: 2017-02-07He didn't take their lives -- but he ruined them. The final victims of an infamous serial killer may be the ones he didn't kill. Hoskins cracked the case of one of the most infamous serial killers -- and then it cracked him. He's in cold cases, as is his career. Sammie was the lead reporter who broke the story, but now she's selling makeup at the mall. She wants back on page 1. Gloria claims she was the unsuspecting wife. She didn't know a thing. And as new murders shake Denver, this is a final chance to get their lives back.
- Winterlong byCall Number: F CrossISBN: 9781681773148Publication Date: 2017-02-07It's been five years since Carter Blake parted ways with top-secret government operation Winterlong. They brokered a deal at the time: he'd keep quiet about what they were doing, and in return he'd be left alone.But news that one of Blake's old allies, a man who agreed the same deal, is dead means only one thing: something has changed and Winterlong is coming for him.
- The Young Widower's Handbook byCall Number: F McAllisterISBN: 9781616204747Publication Date: 2017-02-07For Hunter Cady, meeting Kaitlyn is the greatest thing that has ever happened to him. Whereas he had spent most of his days accomplishing very little, now his life has a purpose. Smart, funny, and one of a kind, Kait is somehow charmed by Hunter's awkwardness and droll humor, and her love gives him reason to want to be a better man. And then, suddenly, Kait is gone, her death as unexpected as the happiness she had brought to Hunter. Numb with grief, he stumbles forward in the only way he knows how: by running away.
- The Young Wives Club byCall Number: F PennellISBN: 9781501136467Publication Date: 2017-02-14In Toulouse, Louisiana finding your one true love happens sometime around high school. If you're lucky, he might be the man you thought he was. But as four friends are about to find out, not every girl has luck on her side in this charming debut novel perfect for fans of The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Desperate Housewives.