Recently Received Riveting Reads: April 2017
Selective list of new fiction recently received
New Fiction
- And Then There Was Me byCall Number: F JohnsonISBN: 9781250074164Publication Date: 2017-04-11Bea and Awilda have been best friends forever. Bubbly, adventurous Awilda taught sheltered, shy Bea how to dress, wear her hair and what to do with boys. She even introduced Bea to her husband, Lonnie, in college, who pledged to take good care of her for the rest of their lives. But philanderer Lonnie breaks that promise over and over again, leaving Bea to wrestle with her self-esteem and long time secret addiction.
- Any Day Now byCall Number: F CarrISBN: 9780778319917Publication Date: 2017-04-18The rustic campground at the crossroads of the Colorado and Continental Divide trails welcomes everyone--whether you're looking for a relaxing weekend getaway or a whole new lease on life. It's a wonderful place where good people face their challenges with humor, strength and love For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear.
- Beyond the Wild River byCall Number: F MaineISBN: 9781501126956Publication Date: 2017-04-18Nineteen-year-old Evelyn Ballantyre has rarely strayed from her family's lands. Evelyn has always done her duty as a daughter, hiding her boredom and resentment behind good manners so when an innocent friendship with a servant is misinterpreted by her father as an illicit union, Evelyn is appalled. Yet the consequence is a welcome one: she is to accompany her father on a trip to North America.
- Burntown byCall Number: F McMahonISBN: 9780385541367Publication Date: 2017-04-25Ashford, Vermont, might look like a sleepy New England town, but to the residents who live among the remains of its mills and factories, it's known as "Burntown." Eva, known as "Necco" on the street, has been a part of this underworld for years, ever since her father Miles drowned in a flood that left her and her mother Lily homeless. A professor, Miles was also an inventor of fantastic machines, including one whose plans were said to have been stolen from Thomas Edison's workshop. According to Lily, it's this machine that got Miles murdered. When Lily dies under mysterious circumstances, she's convinced her mother was telling the truth.
- By Any Name byCall Number: F VoigtISBN: 9781682303092Publication Date: 2017-04-04Rida is an orphan out of California who dances for the troops in the USO. Spencer is a naval officer with roots deep in New England's upper crust. They meet during World War II at an Officer's Club dance, and Spencer might have been dissuaded if he saw just one engagement ring on her finger, but instead, he sees four. The courtship is easy, Rida wins him and wears his ring alone. But Rida is a wild card, and Spencer's family can't accept her unconventional approach to marriage, motherhood, and life.
- Cave Dwellers byCall Number: F GrantISBN: 9780307270832Publication Date: 2017-04-11A gripping novel about an eleventh-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler. In late 1937, the young lieutenant Oskar Langweil is recruited to this cause while attending a party. A high-ranking officer in Germany's counterintelligence agency brings Oskar into the fold because of their mutual involvement in a patriotic youth league, and soon dispatches him to Washington, D.C., on a perilous mission. Despite his best efforts, Oskar is compromised, and must find a way to sneak back into Germany unnoticed.
- The Color of Our Sky byCall Number: F TrasiISBN: 9780062474070Publication Date: 2017-04-18India, 1986: Mukta, a ten-year-old village girl from the lower caste Yellama cult has come of age and must fulfill her destiny of becoming a temple prostitute, as her mother and grandmother did before her. In an attempt to escape her fate, Mukta is sent to be a house girl for an upper-middle class family in Mumbai. There she discovers a friend in the daughter of the family, high spirited eight-year-old Tara, who helps her recover from the wounds of her past. Tara introduces Mukta to an entirely different world, one of ice cream, reading, and a friendship that soon becomes a sisterhood.
- Every Other Wednesday byCall Number: F KietzmanISBN: 9781617735516Publication Date: 2017-04-25For years, Ellie, Alice, and Joan enjoyed a casual friendship while volunteering at their children's Connecticut high school. Now, with those children grown and gone to college, a local tragedy brings the three into contact again. But what begins as a catch-up lunch soon moves beyond small talk to the struggles of this next stage of life. Over the course of an eventful year, Ellie, Alice, and Joan will meet every other Wednesday to talk, plan-and find the freedom, and the courage, to redefine themselves.
- The Facts of Life and Death byCall Number: F BauerISBN: 9780802126849Publication Date: 2017-04-11On the beaches and cliffs of North Devon, lone women have become victims in a terrifying game where only one player knows the rules. And when those rules change, the new game is murder. But a madman on the loose feels very far from the crumbling, seaside home of ten-year-old Ruby Trick. Instead she lives in constant fear of school bullies, the dark forest crowding her house into the sea, and the threat of her parents' divorce. Helping her father to catch the killer seems like the only way to keep him close.
- Feast of Sorrow byCall Number: F KingISBN: 9781501145131Publication Date: 2017-04-25On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar's reign, a young chef, Thrasius, is acquired for the exorbitant price of twenty thousand denarii. His purchaser is the infamous gourmet Marcus Gavius Apicius, wealthy beyond measure, obsessed with a taste for fine meals from exotic places, and a singular ambition: to serve as culinary advisor to Caesar, an honor that will cement his legacy as Rome's leading epicure.
- The F Word byCall Number: F PalmerISBN: 9781250083470Publication Date: 2017-04-25Olivia Morten is perfect. Maybe she's constantly hungry, but her body is to die for. Maybe her high-flying publicist job has taken over her life, but her clients are L.A.'s hottest celebrities. Maybe her husband is never around, but he is a drop-dead-gorgeous doctor. And maybe her past harbors an incredibly embarrassing secret, but no one remembers high school, right?
- The Golden Legend byCall Number: F AslamISBN: 9780451493781Publication Date: 2017-04-18A brave and beautiful novel set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband's American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed.
- The Half Wives byCall Number: F PelletierISBN: 9780547491165Publication Date: 2017-04-04Former Lutheran minister Henry Plageman is a master secret keeper and a man wracked by grief. He and his wife, Marilyn, tragically lost their young son, Jack, many years ago. But he now has another child--a daughter, eight-year-old Blue--with Lucy, the woman he fell in love with after his marriage collapsed. The Half Wives follows these interconnected characters on May 22, 1897, the anniversary of Jack's birth.
- I'd Die for You byCall Number: F FitzgeraldISBN: 9781501144349Publication Date: 2017-04-25I'd Die For You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished and uncollected short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Anne Margaret Daniel. Fitzgerald did not design the stories in I'd Die For You as a collection. Most were submitted individually to major magazines during the 1930s and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald's lifetime, but were never printed. Some were written as movie scenarios and sent to studios or producers, but not filmed. Others are stories that could not be sold because their subject matter or style departed from what editors expected of Fitzgerald. They date from the earliest days of Fitzgerald's career to the last.
- The Illusionist's Apprentice byCall Number: F CambronISBN: 9780718041502Publication Date: 2017-03-07Wren Lockhart, apprentice to master illusionist Harry Houdini, uses life on a vaudeville stage to escape the pain of her past. She continues her career of illusion after her mentor's death, intent on burying her true identity. But when a rival performer's act goes tragically wrong, the newly formed FBI calls on Wren to speak the truth--and reveal her real name to the world.
- The Last Neanderthal byCall Number: F CameronISBN: 9780316314480Publication Date: 2017-04-2540,000 years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to find her a mate. But the unforgiving landscape takes its toll, and Girl is left alone to care for Runt, a foundling. Girl realizes she has one final chance to save her people, even if it means sacrificing part of herself. In the modern day, archaeologist Rosamund Gale races to excavate newly found Neanderthal artifacts before her baby comes. Linked across the ages by the shared experience of early motherhood, both stories examine the often taboo corners of women's lives.
- Living in the Weather of the World byCall Number: Short Stories BauschISBN: 9780451494825Publication Date: 2017-04-04In these thirteen indelible stories, Richard Bausch once again proves himself a modern master. From the prize-winning novelist and universally acclaimed short story writer ("Richard Bausch is a master of the short story" --The New York Times Book Review), thirteen unforgettable tales that showcase his electrifying artistry.
- Long Black Veil byCall Number: F BoylanISBN: 9780451496324Publication Date: 2017-04-11On a warm August night in 1980, six college students sneak into the dilapidated ruins of Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, looking for a thrill. With a pianist, a painter and a teacher among them, the friends are full of potential. But it's not long before they realize they are locked in--and not alone. When the friends get lost and separated, the terrifying night ends in tragedy, and the unexpected, far-reaching consequences reverberate through the survivors' lives.
- The Maids byCall Number: F TanizakiISBN: 9780811224925Publication Date: 2017-04-25The Maids is a jewel: an astonishing complement to The Makioka Sisters, set in the same house, in the same turbulent decades, but among the servants as much as the masters. The Maids concerns all the young women who work before, during, and after WWII in the pampered, elegant household of the famous author Chikura Raikichi, his wife Sanko, and her younger sister. Ethereally suggestive, sensational yet serious, witty but psychologically complex, The Maids is in many ways The Makioka Sisters revisited in a lighter, more comic mode.
- Marshall's Law byCall Number: F SandersISBN: 9781250058805Publication Date: 2017-04-04Ex-undercover cop Marshall Grade is hiding out in California when he learns that federal agent Lucas Cohen has survived a kidnapping. Cohen was Marshall's ticket into witness protection, and his captors have a simple question: where's Marshall now?
- Miss You byCall Number: F EberlenISBN: 9780062460226Publication Date: 2017-04-04Tess is in Florence on an idyllic vacation before starting university in London. Gus is also visiting Florence, on a holiday with his parents seven months after tragedy shattered their lives. Headed to medical school in London, he's trying to be a dutiful son but longs to escape and discover who he really is. A chance meeting brings these eighteen-year-olds together for a brief moment, the first of many times their paths will crisscross as time passes and their lives diverge from those they'd envisioned.
- My Italian Bulldozer byCall Number: F Mccall SmithISBN: 9781101871393Publication Date: 2017-04-04Paul Stuart, a renowned food writer, finds himself at loose ends after his longtime girlfriend leaves him for her personal trainer. To cheer him up, Paul's editor, Gloria, encourages him to finish his latest cookbook on-site in Tuscany, hoping that a change of scenery (plus the occasional truffled pasta and glass of red wine) will offer a cure for both heartache and writer's block. But upon Paul's arrival, things don't quite go as planned.
- The Night the Lights Went Out byCall Number: F WhiteISBN: 9780451488381Publication Date: 2017-04-11After a newly divorced mother of two moves to an affluent Atlanta suburb with her children, she becomes involved in the secrets and scandals lurking behind the facades of the seemingly perfect families who live there as secrets that someone would kill to keep hidden.
- No One Is Coming to Save Us byCall Number: F WattsISBN: 9780062472984Publication Date: 2017-04-04JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. But as he reenters his former world, where factories are in decline and the legacy of Jim Crow is still felt, he's startled to find that the people he once knew and loved have changed just as much as he has.
- Once in a Blue Moon Lodge byCall Number: F LandvikISBN: 9781517902698Publication Date: 2017-04-11Set adrift when her mother sells the salon that has been a neighborhood institution for decades, Nora Rolvaag takes a camping trip, intending to do nothing more than roast marshmallows over an open fire and under a starry sky. Two chance encounters, however, will have enormous consequences, and her getaway turns out to be more of a retreat from her daily life than she ever imagined.
- Our Short History byCall Number: F GrodsteinISBN: 9781616206222Publication Date: 2017-03-21Karen Neulander, a successful New York political consultant and single mother, has always been fiercely protective of her son, Jacob, now six. She's had to be: when Jacob's father, Dave, found out Karen was pregnant and made it clear that fatherhood wasn't in his plans, Karen walked out of the relationship, never telling Dave her intention was to raise their child alone. But now Jake is asking to meet his dad, and with good reason: Karen is dying.
- The Perfect Stranger byCall Number: F MirandaISBN: 9781501107993Publication Date: 2017-04-11Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to rural Pennsylvania, where Leah can get a teaching position and both women can start again. But their new start is threatened when a woman with an eerie resemblance to Leah is assaulted by the lake, and Emmy disappears days later.
- Prussian Blue byCall Number: F KerrISBN: 9780399177057Publication Date: 2017-04-04The French Riviera, 1956: The invitation to dinner was not unexpected, though neither was it welcome. Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice, and he's not on holiday. An old and dangerous adversary, Mielke is calling in a debt. He intends that Bernie go to London and, with the vial of Thallium he now pushes across the table, poison a female agent they both have had dealings with.
- The Red Hunter byCall Number: F UngerISBN: 9781501101670Publication Date: 2017-04-25Claudia Bishop's perfect life fell apart when the aftermath of a brutal assault left her with a crumbling marriage, a newborn daughter, and a constant sense of anxiety about the world around her. For Zoey Drake the defining moment of her childhood was the horrific home invasion murder of her parents. Years later, she has embraced the rage that fuels her. Strangers to each other, and walking very different paths in the wake of trauma, these two women are on a collision course.
- A Single Spy byCall Number: F ChristieISBN: 9781250080813Publication Date: 2017-04-25Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov, an orphan and a thief, has been living by his wits and surviving below the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet system until his luck finally runs out. In 1936, at the age of 16, Alexsi is caught by the NKVD and transported to Moscow. There, in the headquarters of the secret police, he is given a choice: be trained and inserted as a spy into Nazi Germany under the identity of his best friend, the long lost nephew of a high ranking Nazi official, or disappear forever in the basement of the Lubyanka.
- The Sisters of Blue Mountain byCall Number: F KatchurISBN: 9781250066824Publication Date: 2017-04-04The small town of Mountain Springs, Pennsylvania thrives on the snow geese migration. Each year, the birds flock to the dam, and the tourists follow, filling up Linnet's Bed and Breakfast. But one morning Linnet wakes up to discover hundreds of dead geese by the B&B and her life is thrown into the media frenzy when her father--a former ornithology professor--is asked to study the case. As the tourists cancel their plans and Linnet's father's health grows increasingly worse, the last thing she expects is to see her estranged sister, Myna, on her doorstep.
- Spoils byCall Number: F Van ReetISBN: 9780316316163Publication Date: 2017-04-18It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already-simmering insurgency intent on making Iraq the next graveyard of empires.
- The Stars Are Fire byCall Number: F ShreveISBN: 9780385350907Publication Date: 2017-04-18In October 1947, after a summer long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast and are soon racing out of control from town to village. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband, Gene, joins the volunteer firefighters. Along with her best friend, Rosie, Grace watches helplessly as their houses burn to the ground. The women spend the night frantically protecting their children, and in the morning find their lives forever changed: homeless, penniless, awaiting news of their husbands' fate, and left to face an uncertain future.
- Startup byCall Number: F ShafrirISBN: 9780316360388Publication Date: 2017-04-25Mack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. His mindfulness app, TakeOff, is already the hottest thing in tech and he's about to launch a new and improved version that may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion dollar business. Katya Pasternack is an ambitious young journalist at a tech blog, she knows that she needs more than another PR friendly puff piece to make her the go-to byline for industry news. Sabrina Choe Blum is the exhausted mother of two and is trying to escape from her credit card debt and an inattentive husband. When Mack's bad behavior collides with Katya's search for a salacious post, Sabrina gets caught in the middle as TakeOff goes viral for all the wrong reasons.
- Sympathy byCall Number: F SudjicISBN: 9780544836594Publication Date: 2017-04-04At twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. She becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, a Japanese writer living in New York, whose life story has strange parallels to her own and who she believes is her psychic twin. Mizuko like a chance encounter with Alice is anything but--after all, in the age of connectivity, nothing is coincidence.
- The Unprotected byCall Number: F SokolISBN: 9781510718326Publication Date: 2017-04-18As a driven advertising executive, Lara James has always put her career before any plans for a family. But after her father's death, she realizes she's ready. Yet pregnancy doesn't come easily to Lara, as she and her husband endure endless IVF treatments, hormone therapy, and devastating miscarriages. When Lara at last becomes pregnant and gives birth to a daughter, Auden, she believes their determination has paid off. But Auden cries day and night, ear-shattering screams that strip Lara of her nerves and energy. Guiltily, Lara can't help but mourn for what she once had.
- What's Become of Her byCall Number: F CalettiISBN: 9781101884263Publication Date: 2017-04-18Isabelle Austen returns to her hometown on a small, isolated Pacific Northwest island to take over the family tourism business after the death of her mother, a disapproving parent and a hard woman to love. Feeling lost, Isabelle is also struggling with a recent divorce and wondering if she'll ever come into her own. Then her life takes a surprising turn: The mysterious Henry North arrives on Parrish Island, steps off a seaplane, and changes Isabelle's world forever.
- The Widow of Wall Street byCall Number: F MeyersISBN: 9781501131349Publication Date: 2017-04-11Phoebe recognizes fire in Jake Pierce's belly from the moment they meet as teenagers. As he creates a financial dynasty, she trusts him without hesitation, unaware his hunger for success hides a dark talent for deception. When Phoebe learns her husband's triumph and vast reach rests on an elaborate Ponzi scheme her world unravels. As Jake's crime is uncovered, the world obsesses about Phoebe. Did she know her life was fabricated by fraud? Was she his accomplice?
- The Witchfinder's Sister byCall Number: F UnderdownISBN: 9780399179143Publication Date: 2017-04-25Essex, England, 1645. With a heavy heart, Alice Hopkins returns to the small town she grew up in. Widowed, with child, and without prospects, she is forced to find refuge at the house of her younger brother, Matthew. In the five years she has been gone, the boy she knew has become a man of influence and wealth--but more has changed than merely his fortunes. There is a new darkness in the town, too--frightened whispers are stirring in the streets, and Alice's blood runs cold with dread when she discovers that Matthew is a ruthless hunter of suspected witches.
- The Worlds We Think We Know byCall Number: F RosenfeldISBN: 9781571311269Publication Date: 2017-05-16Fiercely funny and entirely original, this debut collection of stories takes readers from the United States to Israel and back again to examine the mystifying reaches of our own minds and hearts.
- You're the One That I Want byCall Number: F FletcherISBN: 9781250077110Publication Date: 2017-04-25In this charming novel, Giovanna Fletcher explores the complicated relationship between three friends--Maddy, her fiance Rob, and their best friend Ben. Maddy, dressed in white, stands at the back of the church. At the end of the aisle is Rob--the man she's about to marry. Next to Rob is Ben--best man and the best friend anyone could ever have. And that's the problem. Because if it wasn't Rob waiting for her at the altar, there's a strong chance it would be Ben.
New Fiction
- All the Beloved Ghosts byCall Number: Short Stories MacLeodISBN: 9781632865434Publication Date: 2017-04-18An acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories blending fiction, biography, and memoir--from a Booker-longlisted author. Evocative, sensual, and tender, these stories confront our reality culture and interrogate our relationship with iconic figures, coming to life at the boundary between reality and fiction.
- All the Rivers byCall Number: F RabinyanISBN: 9780375508295Publication Date: 2017-04-25When Liat meets Hilmi in Greenwich Village, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Charismatic and handsome, Hilmi is a talented young artist from Palestine. Liat, an aspiring translation student, plans to return to Israel the following summer. But the unfettered joy they awaken in each other cannot overcome the guilt Liat feels for hiding him from her family in Israel and her Jewish friends in New York. As her departure date looms and her love for Hilmi deepens, Liat must decide whether she is willing to risk alienating her family, her community, and her sense of self for the love of one man.
- Beartown byCall Number: F BackmanISBN: 9781501160769Publication Date: 2017-04-25People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning.
- Border Child byCall Number: F StoneISBN: 9780385541640Publication Date: 2017-04-04For Hector and Lilia, pursuit of the American Dream became every parent's worst fear when their infant daughter vanished as they crossed from Mexico to the United States--now they must try to get her back. Now, four years later, the family has a chance to reunite, but the trauma of the past may well be permanent.
- Celestial Mechanics byCall Number: F Heat-MoonISBN: 9781941110560Publication Date: 2017-04-11When Silas Fortunato applies for an editorial position for the spirituality section of a local newspaper, he is asked to fill in a bubble sheet to mark his religion. The problem is, his beliefs don't fall within any of the categories. Silas believes that selflessness enlarges vision and that what a person should strive for is to be overcome by the beyond. He believes in honoring otherness and in giving questions credence over certainty. He calls himself a Cosmoterian because his goal is to make himself worthy of the majesty of Cosmos. Silas is a man driven by big ideas, but it is the everyday smallness that perpetually both intrigues and eludes him.
- Cruel Is the Night byCall Number: F HamalainenISBN: 9781616956813Publication Date: 2017-04-11Three phones ring in a London apartment. The calls go unanswered because their recipients are all dead. It's been 10 years since Robert has seen his once-best friend, Mikko. The two had an falling-out because Robert, a banker, made millions off of unethical interest rate manipulation. Mikko is an investigative journalist who has dedicated his career to bringing down corrupt financiers and politicians. Mikko's wife, Veera and Robert's young trophy wife, Elise, are also joining the fray. And by the end of the night, there will only be one survivor.
- The Drowning King byCall Number: F HollemanISBN: 9780316383035Publication Date: 2017-04-04It's the dawn of a new era for Egypt as Cleopatra and her brother, Ptolemy, are welcomed to the throne after their father's death. But joint rule breeds its own conflicts: can the Nile be shared? Long overlooked by his father in favor of the beguiling Cleopatra, Ptolemy is determined to prove his ability as both man and king-but, at eleven, he is no match for his elder sister, who's quick to assert her primacy throughout the land.
- A Family Lexicon byCall Number: F GinzburgISBN: 9781590178386Publication Date: 2017-04-25Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking--when he isn't provoked into angry remonstration by someone misspeaking or misbehaving or wearing the wrong thing. Giuseppe is Jewish, married to Lidia, a Catholic, though neither is religious; they live in the industrial city of Turin where, as the years pass, their children find ways of their own to medicine, marriage, literature, politics. It is all very ordinary, except that the background to the story is Mussolini's Italy in its steady downward descent to race law and world war.
- The Finishing School byCall Number: F GoodmanISBN: 9780062465580Publication Date: 2017-04-11One spring night in 1998 the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycee Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamour, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain: Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? For her best friend, scholarship student Kersti Kuusk, the lingering questions surrounding Cressida's fall continue to nag long after she leaves the Lycee.
- The Forever Summer byCall Number: F BrennerISBN: 9780316394871Publication Date: 2017-04-25Marin Bishop has always played by the rules, and it's paid off: on the cusp of thirty she has a handsome fiance, a prestigious Manhattan legal career, and her father's hard-won admiration. But with one careless mistake at work, Marin suddenly finds herself unemployed and alone. Before she can summon the courage to tell her parents, a young woman appears, claiming to be Marin's half-sister.
- The Good Assassin byCall Number: F VidichISBN: 9781501110429Publication Date: 2017-04-18Former CIA Agent George Mueller arrives in Havana in August 1958, the last months before the fall of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista to look into the activities of Toby Graham, a CIA officer suspected of harboring sympathies for the rebel forces fighting the unpopular Batista regime. Under the guise of their long acquaintance Mueller is recruited to vet rumors that Graham is putting weapons, covertly provided by the CIA to Batista, into the hands of Castro's forces.
- The Hideaway byCall Number: F DentonISBN: 9780718084226Publication Date: 2017-04-11After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags's ramshackle B&B in Sweet Bay, Alabama. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life and thriving antique shop in New Orleans. Instead, she learns Mags has willed The Hideaway to her and charged her with renovating it--no small task considering her grandmother's best friends, a motley crew of senior citizens, still live there.
- The Horse Dancer byCall Number: F MoyesISBN: 9780143130628Publication Date: 2017-04-11When Sarah's grandfather gives her a beautiful horse named Boo--hoping that one day she'll join an elite French riding school, away from their gritty London neighborhood--she quietly trains in city's parks and alleys. But then her grandfather falls ill, and Sarah must juggle horsemanship with school and hospital visits. Natasha, a young lawyer, is reeling after her failed marriage: her professional judgment is being questioned, her new boyfriend is a let-down, and she's forced to share her house with her ex-husband. When fourteen-year-old Sarah lands in her path, Natasha decides to take the girl under her wing.
- I Found You byCall Number: F JewellISBN: 9781501154591Publication Date: 2017-04-25In a windswept British seaside town, single mom Alice Lake finds a man sitting on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, and no idea how he got there. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. Then the police tell her that her husband never existed.
- If We Were Villains byCall Number: F RioISBN: 9781250095282Publication Date: 2017-04-11Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.
- The Last Days of Café Leila byCall Number: F BijanISBN: 9781616205850Publication Date: 2017-04-18Noor is living in San Francisco, missing her beloved father, Zod, in Iran. Now, dragging her stubborn teenage daughter, Lily, with her, she returns to Tehran and to Cafe Leila, the restaurant her family has been running for three generations. Iran may have changed, but Cafe Leila, still run by Zod, has stayed blessedly the same. As Noor revisits her Persian childhood, she must rethink who she is--a mother, a daughter, a woman estranged from her marriage and from her life in California.
- A Line Made by Walking byCall Number: F BaumeISBN: 9780544716957Publication Date: 2017-04-18Struggling to cope with urban life-and life in general-Frankie, a twenty-something artist, retreats to her family's rural house on "turbine hill," vacant since her grandmother's death three years earlier. It is in this space, surrounded by countryside and wild creatures, that she can finally grapple with the chain of events that led her here-her shaky mental health, her difficult time in art school-and maybe, just maybe, regain her footing in art and life.
- The Lost Order byCall Number: F BerryISBN: 9781250056252Publication Date: 2017-04-04The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth has ever been found. Now, one hundred and sixty years later, two factions of what remains of the Knights of the Golden Circle want that lost treasure, one to spend it for their own ends, the other to preserve it.
- Marlena byCall Number: F BuntinISBN: 9781627797641Publication Date: 2017-04-04Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat is quickly drawn into Marlena's orbit and as she catalogues a litany of firsts--first drink, first cigarette, first kiss, first pill--Marlena's habits harden and calcify. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. Now, decades later, Cat must try again to move on, even as the memory of Marlena calls her back.
- The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence byCall Number: F PalomboISBN: 9781250071507Publication Date: 2017-04-25A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family's favored circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano deMedici's glittering circle of politicians, poets, artists, and philosophers. But it is her acquaintance with a young painter, Sandro Botticelli, which strikes her heart most.
- Music of the Ghosts byCall Number: F RatnerISBN: 9781476795782Publication Date: 2017-04-11Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as "the Old Musician" and claims to have known her father in the Khmer Rouge prison where he disappeared twenty-five years ago. In Phnom Penh, Teera finds a society still in turmoil, where perpetrators and survivors of unfathomable violence live side by side. She meets a young doctor who begins to open her heart, immerses herself in long-buried memories and prepares to learn her father's fate.
- The Night She Won Miss America byCall Number: F CallahanISBN: 9780544809970Publication Date: 2017-04-18Betty Jane Welch reluctantly enters the Miss Delaware contest to make her mother happy, only to surprisingly find herself the judges' choice. Just like that, she's catapulted into the big time, the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. Luckily, her pageant-approved escort for the week is the dashing but mercurial Griffin McAllister, and she falls for him hard. To keep him, she recklessly agrees to run away together.
- Often I Am Happy byCall Number: F GrondahlISBN: 9781455570072Publication Date: 2017-04-11Ellinor is seventy. Her husband Georg has just passed away, and she is struck with the need to confide in someone. She addresses Anna, her long-dead best friend, who was also Georg's first wife. Fully aware of the absurdity of speaking to someone who cannot hear her, Ellinor nevertheless finds it meaningful to divulge long-held secrets and burdens of her past.
- Ominous byCall Number: F JacksonISBN: 9781496711205Publication Date: 2017-04-25New York Times bestselling authors Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush, and Rosalind Noonan join together in a gripping novel of suspense, as a long-guarded secret plunges three friends into a new nightmare.Shiloh, Kat, and Ruth are unaware of the man who spies on them from the woods. They have no idea how their lives will be changed by the brutal violence that follows--and the vow of secrecy they take
- One Good Thing byCall Number: F WaxISBN: 9780451488619Publication Date: 2017-04-25Embroiled in a battle to regain control of their renovation-turned-reality TV show, Do Over, Maddie, Avery, Nikki, and Kyra find themselves holding tight to the frayed ends of their friendship and relationships. But friendship is made for times like these, to keep each other--and their dreams--from crumbling.
- The Practice House byCall Number: F McNealISBN: 9781477817902Publication Date: 2017-04-01Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna is stuck at home with her sister and aunt in a Scottish village in 1929 when two Mormon missionaries ring the doorbell. Aldine's sister converts and moves to America to marry, and Aldine follows, hoping to find the life she's meant to lead and the person she's meant to love. In New York, Aldine answers an ad soliciting a teacher for a one-room schoolhouse in a place she can't possibly imagine: drought-stricken Kansas.
- The Promise Girls byCall Number: F BostwickISBN: 9781496709219Publication Date: 2017-03-28For the Promise sisters, escaping their mother's narcissism and the notoriety that came with her bestselling book hasn't been easy. Minerva Promise claimed that her three "test tube" daughters--gifted pianist Joanie, artistic Meg, and storyteller Avery--were engineered and molded to be geniuses. In adulthood, their modest lives fall far short of her grand ambitions. But now, twenty years after the book's release, she hopes to redeem herself by taking part in a new documentary.
- Ragdoll byCall Number: F ColeISBN: 9780062653956Publication Date: 2017-04-04William Fawkes, a controversial detective known as The Wolf, has just been reinstated to his post after he was suspended for assaulting a vindicated suspect. Still under psychological evaluation, Fawkes returns to the force eager for a big case. When his former partner and friend, Detective Emily Baxter, calls him to a crime scene, he's sure this is it: the body is made of the dismembered parts of six victims, sewn together like a puppet, a corpse that becomes known as The Ragdoll.
- The Romance Reader's Guide to Life byCall Number: F PywellISBN: 9781250101754Publication Date: 2017-04-04As a young girl, Neave was often stuck in a world that didn't know what to do with her. As her mother told her, she was never going to grow up to be a great beauty. Her sister, Lilly, moved easily through the world, a parade of handsome men in pursuit. Her brother didn't want a girl joining his group of friends. And their small town of Lynn, Massachusetts, didn't have a place for a girl whose feelings often put her at war with the world -- often this meant her mother, her brother, and the town librarian who wanted to keep her away from the Dangerous Books she really wanted to read.
- The Shadow Land byCall Number: F KostovaISBN: 9780345527868Publication Date: 2017-04-11A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their bags. Inside she finds an ornately carved wooden box engraved with a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Raising the hinged lid, she discovers that she is holding an urn filled with human ashes.
- The Shadow Sister byCall Number: F RileyISBN: 9781476759944Publication Date: 2017-04-18Travel through the lush English countryside and explore the magnificent estates of the British aristocracy in this next spellbinding love story in The Seven Sisters series by #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley.
- The Shell byCall Number: F KhalifaISBN: 9781566560221Publication Date: 2016-11-15This compelling first novel is the astonishing story of a Syrian political prisoner of conscience atheist mistaken for a radical Islamist who was locked up for 13 years without trial in one of the most notorious prisons in the Middle East. The novel takes the form of a diary which Musa keeps in his head and then writes down upon his release.
- Silver and Salt byCall Number: F DymottISBN: 9780393239768Publication Date: 2017-04-04On the death of photographer Max Hollingbourne, his daughter, Ruthie, returns to his villa in Greece after fifteen years in exile. The youngest and estranged member of a once close-knit London family, Ruthie is haunted by a dark secret from her childhood, one that fractured her family and drove her mother to madness.Still, following her father's death, she and her older sister manage to build a fragile happiness at the villa. But the arrival of an English family at a neighboring cottage trigger a chain of events that will plunge both women back into their harrowing pasts.
- Tell Me How This Ends Well byCall Number: F LevinsonISBN: 9780451496881Publication Date: 2017-04-04In 2022, American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for Passover in Los Angeles. But their immediate problems are more personal than political, with the three adult children, Mo, Edith, and Jacob, in various states of crisis, the result, each claims, of a lifetime of mistreatment by their father, Julian. The siblings have begun to suspect that Julian is hastening their mother Roz's demise, and years of resentment boil over as they debate whether to go through with the real reason for their reunion: an ill-considered plot to end their father's iron rule for good.
- Three Envelopes byCall Number: F HezroniISBN: 9781250097590Publication Date: 2017-04-11Agent 10483 carried out his missions perfectly. So perfectly that he needed to be stopped. . . When Avner, a top agent in The Organization receives a notebook, written by the mysterious and psychopathic 10483, ten years after his supposed death, he realizes that something has gone terribly wrong. The notebook not only reveals the truth about 10483's missions, which include some of history's most notorious unsolved crimes, but it also reveals that 10483 might still be alive and desperate for vengeance against the Organization.
- Undergound Fugue byCall Number: F SingerISBN: 9781612196282Publication Date: 2017-04-18Esther, an American art conservator, has fled New York for London--partly to escape her failing marriage, partly to tend to her dying mother. On her first night there, she spots a young man returning home very late, wet and muddy, to the house next door. Their eyes connect and he disappears inside. This first encounter sparks Esther's curiosity about her new neighbors: Amir, the moody college student she caught sneaking in, and, more intruiguing still, Amir's father, Javad--a neuroscientist from Iran.
- War Cry byCall Number: F SmithISBN: 9780062276490Publication Date: 2017-04-04As a member of the Courtney family, Leon Courtney knows how quickly fortunes can be won and lost. Over the course of more than two centuries, generations of his family have risen and fallen with the tides of history. In the wake of his beloved wife's death, the big game hunter is raising his young daughter, Saffron, alone in colonial Kenya. As Leon attempts to navigate the murky political waters of this wildest of lands, his daughter grows into an independent young woman bound for a far different life in Britain, as a student at Oxford.
- The Watcher byCall Number: F ArmstrongISBN: 9780778330721Publication Date: 2017-04-25Lily Gullick lives with her husband, Aiden, in a brand-new apartment opposite a building that has been marked for demolition. A keen bird-watcher, she can't help spying on her neighbors. Until one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars, and soon her elderly neighbor Jean is found dead. Lily, intrigued by the social divide in her local area as it becomes increasingly gentrified, knows that she has to act.
- What to Do about the Solomons byCall Number: F BallISBN: 9780802124579Publication Date: 2017-04-04Meet Marc Solomon, an Israeli ex-Navy commando now living in L.A., who is falsely accused of money laundering through his asset management firm. As the Solomons' Santa Monica home is raided, Marc's American wife, Carolyn--concealing her own dark past--makes hopeless attempts to hold their family of five together. But news of the scandal makes its way from America to the rest of the Solomon clan on the kibbutz in the Jordan River Valley.
- Whirlwind byCall Number: F NormanISBN: 9780727886736Publication Date: 2017-03-01Liza Plain, a journalist, is dreading spending Christmas in Shiloh, Rhode Island, with her difficult grandfather - until news of the disappearance of a retired priest triggers her realization that this could be linked to a series of unsolved, church-linked missing persons cases. Michael Rider used to be a decent man. but a past traumatic event has left him dangerously close to breaking point. Now he is receiving strange emails from an organization called Whirlwind, offering him the chance to avenge himself on those who've done him wrong. Liza and Michael will both be in Shiloh on Christmas Eve. The night a raging blizzard seals off the town from the outside world.