Recently Received Riveting Reads: May 2017
Selective list of new fiction recently received
New Fiction
- According to a Source byCall Number: F SternISBN: 9781250106797Publication Date: 2017-05-23Ella Warren loves her job working for celebrity news magazine,The Life, as an undercover reporter. Her evenings are spent using her alias to discreetly attend red carpet events, nightclubs, and Hollywood hot spots where her eyes are always peeled for the next big celebrity story. When Ella's new Devil Wears Prada-type boss starts a not-so-friendly competition among the reporters to find an exclusive story or be fired, the stakes are higher than ever. As the competition grows fiercer, her life becomes intertwined in a public scandal that may cost her everything.
- Anne Boleyn, a King's Obsession byCall Number: F WeirISBN: 9781101966518Publication Date: 2017-05-16In this second novel of Alison Weir's epic Six Tudor Queens series, the acclaimed author and historian weaves exciting new research into the story of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's most infamous wife, a woman ahead of her time whose very life--and death--forever changed a nation.
- August byCall Number: F RominaISBN: 9781558614307Publication Date: 2017-05-16Traveling home to rural Patagonia to scatter her friend's ashes, a young woman grapples with her generation's wasted potential and her own choices in an increasingly globalised Argentina. Both a reverse coming-of-age story and a tangled homecoming tale, this frank confession to a deceased confidante considers the banality of life against the sudden changes that accompany death.
- Becoming Bonnie byCall Number: F WalshISBN: 9780765390189Publication Date: 2017-05-09The summer of 1927 might be the height of the Roaring Twenties, but Bonnelyn Parker is more likely to belt out a church hymn than sling drinks at an illicit juice joint. She's a girl with plans to overcome her family's poverty, provide for herself, and maybe someday marry her boyfriend, Roy. But when Roy springs a proposal on her, and financial woes jeopardize her ambitions, Bonnelyn finds salvation in an unlikely place: Dallas's newest speakeasy, Doc's. When Roy discovers her secret life, he embraces it-especially when it comes to booze and gambling--and she tries to make the pieces fit. But her life--like her country--is headed for a crash. Bonnie Parker is about to meet Clyde Barrow.
- The Best of Adam Sharp byCall Number: F SimsionISBN: 9781250130402Publication Date: 2017-05-02Two decades ago, Adam Sharp's piano playing led him into a passionate relationship with Angelina Brown, an intelligent and strong-willed actress. They had a chance at something more--but Adam didn't take it. Now, on the cusp of turning fifty, Adam likes his life. He's happy with his partner Claire, he excels in music trivia at quiz night at the local pub, he looks after his mother, and he does the occasional consulting job in IT. But he can never quite shake off his nostalgia for what might have been.
- The Book of Summer byCall Number: F GableISBN: 9781250070623Publication Date: 2017-05-09For the first time in four years, physician Bess Codman visits the compound her great-grandparents built almost a century before, but due to erosion, the once-grand home will soon fall into the sea. Bess must now put aside her complicated memories in order to pack up the house and deal with her mother, a notorious town rabble-rouser, who refuses to leave. It's not just memories of her family home Bess must face though, but also an old love that might hold new possibilities.
- The Broken Road byCall Number: F EvansISBN: 9781501111648Publication Date: 2017-05-02Chicago celebrity, Charles James can't shake the nightmare that wakes him each night. He sees himself walking down a long, broken highway the sides of which are lit in flames. Where is he going? Why is he walking? What is the wailing he hears around him? By day, he wonders why he's so haunted and unhappy when he has all he ever wanted-fame, fans and fortune and the lavish lifestyle it affords him. But now, at the pinnacle of his career, he's started to wonder if he's wanted the wrong things.
- Crimes Against a Book Club byCall Number: F CoopermanISBN: 9781503942981Publication Date: 2017-05-01Sarah, a successful lawyer, wants nothing more than to have a baby. But balancing IVF treatments with a grueling workweek is no walk in the park. Meanwhile, Annie, a chemist is cutting coupons to afford her young autistic son's expensive therapy. Desperate, the two friends come up with a brilliant plan, sell a luxury antiaging face cream to the wealthy, fading beauties in Annie's La Jolla book club. The scheme seems innocent enough, until Annie decides to add a special and oh-so-illegal ingredient that could bring their whole operation crashing to the ground.
- A Dog's Way Home byCall Number: F CameronISBN: 9780765374653Publication Date: 2017-05-09Lucas Ray is shocked when an adorable puppy jumps out of an abandoned building and into his arms. Though the apartment he shares with his mother, a disabled veteran, doesn't allow dogs, Lucas can't resist taking Bella home. As it becomes more difficult to hide her from the neighbors, Lucas begins to sneak Bella into the VA where he works. There, Bella brings joy and comfort where it is needed most.
- Dragon Teeth byCall Number: F CrichtonISBN: 9780062473356Publication Date: 2017-05-23This recently discovered novel, a thrilling adventure is set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting. The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars.
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine byCall Number: F HoneymanISBN: 9780735220683Publication Date: 2017-05-09Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living.
- Exit Strategy byCall Number: F HamiltonISBN: 9780399574382Publication Date: 2017-05-16Nick Mason fights to take back control from the crime lord who owns his life, as he races to complete a daring and dangerous new mission... He has been given a true mission impossible: Infiltrate WITSEC, the top-secret federal witness-protection program that has never been compromised, locate the three men who put his boss Darius Cole behind bars for life, and kill them. But first he has to find them.
- Fake Plastic Love byCall Number: F TaitISBN: 9781250093899Publication Date: 2017-05-09When M. meets Belle at Dartmouth, they become the unlikeliest best friends. Belle is an unapologetic Romantic, while M. is a tomboyish Realist. Despite their differences, they are drawn together, and after graduation they both move to New York. M. secures a job at the city's most prestigious investment bank, and Belle turns her nostalgic aesthetic into one of the first lifestyle blogs, which quickly goes viral. Their future is spread before them, a glittering tableau of vintage cocktails, password-guarded parties, and high-octane ambition. But In this fake plastic world, what do success and love and happiness even look like?
- Ginny Moon byCall Number: F LudwigISBN: 9780778330165Publication Date: 2017-05-02Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager, but Ginny is autistic. She starts every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, Michael Jackson, her baby doll, and crafting a secret plan of escape. After being traumatically taken from her abusive birth mother and moved around to different homes, Ginny has finally found her "forever home", a safe place with parents who will love and nurture her. This is exactly what all foster kids are hoping for, right? But Ginny has other plans.
- A Good Country byCall Number: F KhadiviISBN: 9781632865847Publication Date: 2017-05-23Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. For the first time, Reza--now Rez--feels like an American teen. But then he changes again, falling out with the bad boy surfers and in with a group of kids who share his background, and whose ideas fill him with a very different sense of purpose. Within a year, Reza and his girlfriend are making their way to Syria to be part of a Muslim nation rising from the ashes of the civil war.
- Heat Storm byCall Number: F CastleISBN: 9781484787861Publication Date: 2017-05-02Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm, New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most enduring and beloved characters, team up for the first time to save Nikki's mother, Cynthia, who has been in hiding (and presumed dead) for 17 years. Standing in their way is a nefarious group of Chinese businessmen known as the Shanghai Seven, who have the resources-and ruthlessness-to stop them.
- The House at Bishopsgate byCall Number: F HickmanISBN: 9781608199457Publication Date: 2017-05-16Most men of stature wouldn't marry their betrothed after she'd been kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery in the harem of the Great Turk, but Paul Pindar, wealthy merchant is not most men. When Paul and Celia, finally reunited, return to London in 1611, his house at Bishopsgate has stood empty for nearly a decade. A phalanx of carpenters, upholsterers, and gardeners have been summoned to restore it to its former glory. But all is not as it seems.
- House of Names byCall Number: F ToibinISBN: 9781501140211Publication Date: 2017-05-09From the thrilling imagination of Colm Toibin comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra --spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling, and her children. In ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband King Agamemnon left when he set sail with his army for Troy. Clytemnestra rules Mycenae now, along with her new lover Aegisthus, and together they plot the bloody murder of Agamemnon on the day of his return after nine years at war.
- How to Be Human byCall Number: F CocozzaISBN: 9781250129253Publication Date: 2017-05-09On leave from work, unsettled by the proximity of her ex, and struggling with her hostile neighbors, Mary has become increasingly captivated by a magnificent fox who is always in her garden. First she sees him wink at her, then he brings her presents, and finally she invites him into her house. As the boundaries between the domestic and the wild blur, and the neighbors set out to exterminate the fox, it is unclear if Mary will save the fox, or the fox save Mary.
- In the Shadow of Alabama byCall Number: F SingerISBN: 9781496709455Publication Date: 2017-05-30Rachel Fleischer has good reasons not to be at her father's deathbed. Foaling season is at hand and her horses are becoming restless and difficult. Her critical mother and grasping sister could certainly handle Marty Fleisher better without her. But Malachi, her horse manager--more father to her than Marty has ever been--convinces Rachel she will regret it if she doesn't go. When a stranger at her father's funeral delivers an odd gift and an apology, Rachel finds herself drawn into the epic story of her father's World War II experience, and the friendships and betrayals that would scar the rest of his life.
- Isadora byCall Number: F GrayISBN: 9780374279981Publication Date: 2017-05-23Using the scaffolding of Isadora Duncan's life and the stuff of her spirit, Amelia Gray delivers an incredibly imaginative portrait of the artist. In 1913, the restless world sat on the brink of unimaginable suffering. But for one woman, the darkness of a new era had already made itself at home. Isadora Duncan would come to be known as the mother of modern dance, but in the spring of 1913 she was a grieving mother, after a freak accident in Paris resulted in the drowning death of her two young children.
- It's Always the Husband byCall Number: F CampbellISBN: 9781250081803Publication Date: 2017-05-16Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, despite being as different as three women can be. As an unlikely friendship formed, the three of them swore they would always be there for each other. But twenty years later, one of them is standing at the edge of a bridge, and someone is urging her to jump. How did it come to this?
- The Language of Solitude byCall Number: F SendkerISBN: 9781476793672Publication Date: 2017-05-02Brooding expat and journalist Paul Leibovitz is beginning to imagine a new life for himself in Hong Kong, one in which the grief over a recent family tragedy doesn't consume him and his love for Christine Wu brings him great joy. When Christine gets an unexpected and emotionally-charged letter from her estranged brother, Paul journeys with her to a remote village outside of Shanghai, where a mysterious illness is affecting the locals. Paul discovers a powerful chemical conglomerate is polluting a nearby lake, and Chinese officials are doing nothing to stop it.
- Lilli de Jong byCall Number: F BentonISBN: 9780385541459Publication Date: 2017-05-16Pregnant, left behind by her lover, and banished from her Quaker home and teaching position, Lilli de Jong enters a home for wronged women to deliver her child. She is stunned at how much her infant needs her and at how quickly their bond overtakes her heart. Mothers in her position face disabling prejudice, which is why most give up their newborns. But Lilli can't accept such an outcome. Instead, she braves moral condemnation and financial ruin in a quest to keep herself and her baby alive.
- Marathon byCall Number: F FreemanISBN: 9781681442419Publication Date: 2017-05-02On a rainy June morning, tens of thousands of people crowd into Duluth for the city's biggest annual event: the Duluth Marathon. Exhausted runners push to reach the finish line and spectators line the streets to cheer them on. Then, in a terrifying echo of the Boston bombing, there is an explosion along the race course, leaving many people dead and injured.
- Men Without Women byCall Number: Short Stories MurakamiISBN: 9780451494627Publication Date: 2017-05-09A dazzling new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.
- Mr. Rochester byCall Number: F ShoemakerISBN: 9781455569809Publication Date: 2017-05-09For one hundred seventy years, Edward Fairfax Rochester has stood as one of literature's most romantic, most complex, and most mysterious heroes. Sometimes haughty, sometimes tender-professing his love for Jane Eyre in one breath and denying it in the next-Mr. Rochester has for generations mesmerized, beguiled, and, yes, baffled fans of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece. But his own story has never been told. Now, out of Sarah Shoemaker's rich and vibrant imagination, springs Edward: a vulnerable, brilliant, complicated man whom we first meet as a motherless, lonely little boy.
- No One Can Pronounce My Name byCall Number: F SatyalISBN: 9781250112118Publication Date: 2017-05-02Harit, a lonely Indian immigrant in his mid forties, lives with his mother who can no longer function after the death of Harit's sister. In an attempt to keep both himself and his mother sane, Harit has taken to dressing up in a sari every night to pass himself off as his sister. Meanwhile, Ranjana, also an Indian immigrant in her mid forties, has just seen her only child off to college. Worried that her husband has begun an affair, she seeks solace by writing paranormal romances. When Harit and Ranjana's paths cross, they begin a strange friendship that brings to light their own passions and fears.
- Not a Sound byCall Number: F GudenkaufISBN: 9780778339991Publication Date: 2017-05-30When a tragic accident leaves nurse Amelia Winn deaf, she spirals into a depression that ultimately causes her to lose everything that matters--her job, her husband, David, and her stepdaughter, Nora. Now, two years later and with the help of her hearing dog, Stitch, she is finally getting back on her feet. But when she discovers the body of a fellow nurse in the dense bush by the river, deep in the woods near her cabin, she is plunged into a disturbing mystery that could shatter the carefully reconstructed pieces of her life all over again.
- Price of Duty byCall Number: F BrownISBN: 9780062441973Publication Date: 2017-05-16In a top-secret location deep in the Ural Mountains, Russian President Gennadiy Gryzlov has built his nation's most dangerous weapon since the atomic bomb, a fearsome tool to gain superiority in Russia's long-running battle with the West. He is launching a carefully plotted series of attacks on an unsuspecting U.S. and its European allies. The first strike targets Warsaw, Poland, where Russian malware wipes out the records of nearly every Polish bank account, imploding the country's financial system and panicking the rest of Europe.
- Public Relations byCall Number: F HeaneyISBN: 9781455595686Publication Date: 2017-05-09Young PR star Rose Reed is thrown into the big leagues when her boss leaves town the day of the firm's meeting with Archie Fox, a young, hot, internationally famous British singer-songwriter. The meeting is going badly until Rose suggests a staged romance with up-and-coming, young indie star Raya. He'll do it, but only if Rose becomes his publicist. As the faux-mance between Archie and Raya begins to rehabilitate Archie's faltering career, Rose finds his herself having unexpected, inconvenient and definitely unprofessional feelings for the crooner.
- The Red Line byCall Number: F GraggISBN: 9780425283455Publication Date: 2017-05-02World War III explodes in seconds when a resurgent Russian Empire launches a deadly armored thrust into the heart of Germany. With a powerful blizzard providing cover, Russian tanks thunder down the autobahns while undercover Spetsnaz teams strike at vulnerable command points. Standing against them are the woefully undermanned American forces. What they lack in numbers they make up for in superior weapons and training. But before the sun rises they are on the run across a smoking battlefield crowded with corpses.
- Rich People Problems byCall Number: F KwanISBN: 9780385542234Publication Date: 2017-05-23When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside--but he's not alone. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch's massive fortune. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park--a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of Singapore--Nicholas's childhood home turns into a hotbed of speculation and sabotage.
- Same Beach, Next Year byCall Number: F FrankISBN: 9780062390783Publication Date: 2017-05-16One enchanted summer, two couples begin a friendship that will last more than twenty years and transform their lives. A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston's most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts, Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames.
- The Scribe of Siena byCall Number: F WinawerISBN: 9781501152252Publication Date: 2017-05-16Accomplished neurosurgeon Beatrice Trovato knows that her deep empathy for her patients is starting to impede her work. So when her beloved brother passes away, she welcomes the unexpected trip to the Tuscan city of Siena to resolve his estate, even as she wrestles with grief. But as she delves deeper into her brother's affairs, she discovers intrigue she never imagined, a 700-year-old conspiracy to decimate the city.
- Since We Fell byCall Number: F LehaneISBN: 9780062129383Publication Date: 2017-05-09Rachel Childs, a former journalist who, after an on-air mental breakdown, now lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel's marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength to conquer unimaginable fears and mind-altering truths.
- Some Rise by Sin byCall Number: F CaputoISBN: 9781627794749Publication Date: 2017-05-09The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its brutality. As the townspeople try to defend themselves by forming a vigilante group, the Mexican army and police have their own ways of fighting back. Into this volatile mix of forces for good and evil (and sometimes both) steps an unlikely broker for peace: Timothy Riordan, an American missionary priest who must decide whether to betray his vows to stop the violence and help the people he has pledged to protect.
- Sycamore byCall Number: F ChancellorISBN: 9780062661098Publication Date: 2017-05-09Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine. As news of the discovery makes its way around town, Sycamore's longtime residents fear the bones may belong to Jess Winters, who disaappeared suddenly some eighteen years earlier. In the days it takes the authorities to make an identification, the residents rekindle stories, rumors, and recollections both painful and poignant as they revisit history.
- Testimony byCall Number: F TurowISBN: 9781455553549Publication Date: 2017-05-16At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court--an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career.
- Time's a Thief byCall Number: F BirmaniISBN: 9780385541862Publication Date: 2017-05-02Francesca "Chess" Varani is an ultra-bright, sassy, but vulnerable Barnard freshman from a blue-collar background in the vibrantly gritty New York City of the mid-eighties. She strikes up a volatile and somewhat toxic friendship with drama-queen classmate Kendra and falls into the bewitching orbit of her Salingeresque, high-toned family.
- Tower Down byCall Number: F HagbergISBN: 9780765378712Publication Date: 2017-05-16A freelance killer, code-named Al-Nassar, the Eagle, topples a New York City pencil tower and sends it crashing down onto the street. Hundreds of people are killed It's like 9/11 all over again. CIA legend Kirk McGarvey believes that someone in the Saudi Arabian government is behind the attack. The internal pinch of sharply declining oil revenues and the escalating costs of defending its borders against ISIS have made the Kingdom desperate.
- Trajectory byCall Number: Short Stories RussoISBN: 9781101947722Publication Date: 2017-05-02Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels.
- What She Saw byCall Number: F StembridgeISBN: 9780062568984Publication Date: 2017-05-23The storied Hotel Chevalier on Paris ritzy Right Bank hosts celebrities, dignitaries, and for one night, Lana Gibson, an American woman who's escaped the monotony of her staid married life for a cultural jaunt to the City of Light. As long as she takes her meds, she promises herself, her heightened curiosity and manic elation will stay under control. But when that curiosity leads her to the hotel's private elevator which serves only the ultra-elite penthouse Suite Imperial, she spies much more than plush carpets and gilt chandeliers.
- You Were Here byCall Number: F SadarISBN: 9780399575006Publication Date: 2017-05-16What if the past is never buried? Death, accidental and early, has always been Abby Walters's preoccupation. Now thirty-three and eager to settle down with her commitment-shy boyfriend, a recurring dream from her past returns: a paralyzing nightmare of being buried alive, the taste of dirt in her mouth cloying and real. Looking for answers, Abby returns home to small-town Minnesota for the first time in fourteen years.
New Fiction
- After the Fall byCall Number: F CohenISBN: 9781250127426Publication Date: 2017-05-02When an unfortunate accident forces Honor back into the lives of her widowed daughter-in-law, Jo, and her only granddaughter, Lydia, she cannot wait to be well enough to get back to her own home. However, the longer she stays with Jo and Lydia, the more they start to feel like a real family. But each of the three women is keeping secrets from the others that threaten to destroy the lives they've come to know.
- Augustown byCall Number: F MillerISBN: 9781101871614Publication Date: 2017-05-23Set in the backlands of Jamaica, Augustown s a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth.
- The Awkward Age byCall Number: F SegalISBN: 9780399576454Publication Date: 2017-05-16Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will test her mother's loyalty and threaten all their fragile new happiness.
- Bad Dreams and Other Stories byCall Number: Short Stories HadleyISBN: 9780062476661Publication Date: 2017-05-16The author of six critically acclaimed novels, Tessa Hadley has proven herself to be the champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these short stories it's the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary.
- Based on a True Story byCall Number: F De ViganISBN: 9781632868152Publication Date: 2017-05-09Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. L. embodies everything Delphine has always secretly admired; she is a glittering image of feminine sophistication and spontaneity and she has an uncanny knack of always saying the right thing. Unusually intuitive, L. senses Delphine's vulnerability and slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer's life. However, as L. makes herself indispensable to Delphine, the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister ways.
- Before We Sleep byCall Number: F LentISBN: 9781620404997Publication Date: 2017-05-02Katey Snow, seventeen, slips the pickup into neutral and rolls silently out of the driveway of her Vermont home, her parents, Oliver and Ruth, still asleep. She isn't so much running away as on a journey of discovery. She carries with her a packet of letters addressed to her mother from an old army buddy of her father's. She has only recently been told that Oliver, who she adores more than anyone, isn't her biological father. She hopes the letter's sender will have answers to her many questions.
- Broken River byCall Number: F LennonISBN: 9781555977726Publication Date: 2017-05-16A modest house in upstate New York. One in the morning. Three people--a couple and their child--hurry out the door, but it's too late for them. As the virtuosic and terrifying opening scene of Broken River unfolds, a spectral presence seems to be watching with cold and mysterious interest. Soon the house lies abandoned, and years later a new family moves in.
- Chemistry byCall Number: F WangISBN: 9781524731748Publication Date: 2017-05-23Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, the unnamed narrator of this nimble debut finds her one-time love for chemistry is more hypothesis than reality. She's tormented by her failed research--and reminded of her delays by her peers, her advisor, and most of all by her Chinese parents. But there's another, nonscientific question looming: the marriage proposal from her devoted boyfriend, a fellow scientist, Eventually, the pressure mounts so high that she must leave everything she thought she knew about her future, and herself, behind.
- Crime Song byCall Number: F SwinsonISBN: 9780316264211Publication Date: 2017-05-02Frank Marr was a good cop with a bad habit, until his burgeoning addictions to alcohol and cocaine forced him into retirement from the DC police. Now barely eking out a living as a private investigator, he agrees to take on a family case: a favor for his aunt, who was like a second mother to him growing up.
- The Dinner Party byCall Number: Short Stories FerrisISBN: 9780316465953Publication Date: 2017-05-02These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling, strange, and comic. The modern tribulations of marriage, ambition, and the fear of missing out as the temptations flow like wine and the minutes of life tick down are explored with the characteristic wit and insight that have made Ferris one of our most critically acclaimed novelists.
- The End of Eddy byCall Number: F LouisISBN: 9780374266653Publication Date: 2017-05-02An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. Growing up in a poor village in northern France, all Eddy Bellegueule wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family and neighbors. But from childhood, he was different--"girlish," intellectually precocious, and attracted to other men. Already translated into twenty languages, The End of Eddy captures the violence and desperation of life in a French factory town.
- Enemy of the Good byCall Number: F PalmerISBN: 9780399175022Publication Date: 2017-05-23Kate Wallander is a second generation Foreign Service officer, recently assigned to Kyrgystan where the US is trying to build an airbase that would expand the American footprint in Central Asia. The negotiations are controversial because of the Kyrgyz regime's abysmal human rights record. Kate is assigned to infiltrate an underground democracy movement that has been sabotaging Kyrgyz security services and regime supporters.But it soon becomes clear that nothing about the mission is as it seems... and that she might need to lay her life on the line for what she knows is right.
- The Fallen byCall Number: F LustbaderISBN: 9780765388575Publication Date: 2017-05-02The End of Days has been predicted for the last two thousand years. Now, without warning, it is upon us. In a hidden cave in the mountains of Lebanon, a man makes a fateful discovery. He will bring what has been forbidden for thousands of years out of the darkness and into the light: the Testament of Lucifer. In Istanbul, Bravo Shaw, head of the Gnostic Observatine sect, is warned by Fra Leoni of the war between Good and Evil, waged to a standstill since time immemorial. Now an unfathomable danger has arisen: Lucifer's advance guard, the Fallen
- The Frozen Hours byCall Number: F ShaaraISBN: 9780345549228Publication Date: 2017-05-23June 1950. The North Korean army invades South Korea, intent on uniting the country under Communist rule. In response, the United States mobilizes a force to defend the overmatched South Korean troops, and together they drive the North Koreans back to their border with China. But several hundred thousand Chinese troops have entered Korea, laying massive traps for the Allies. In November 1950, the Chinese spring those traps. Allied forces, already battling stunningly cold weather, find themselves caught completely off guard as the Chinese advance around the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea.
- G-Man byCall Number: F HunterISBN: 9780399574603Publication Date: 2017-05-16The latest episode in the Bob Lee Swagger saga, finds Bob uncovering his family's secret tommy gun war with 1930s gangsters like John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. Eighty years later, Charles's grandson Bob Lee Swagger has finally decided to sell the family homestead, but when the developers begin to tear down the house, they uncover a strongbox hidden in the foundation. Enclosed is an array of memorabilia dating back to 1934--all belonging to Charles Swagger.
- The Garden of Small Beginnings byCall Number: F WaxmanISBN: 9780399583582Publication Date: 2017-05-02Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years--ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental breakdown and some random suicidal thoughts later, she's just starting to get the hang of this widow thing. She can now get her two girls to school, show up to work, and watch TV like a pro. The only problem is she's becoming overwhelmed with being underwhelmed.
- The Heirs byCall Number: F RiegerISBN: 9781101904718Publication Date: 2017-05-23Six months after Rupert Falkes dies, leaving a grieving widow and five adult sons, an unknown woman sues his estate, claiming she had two sons by him. The Falkes brothers are pitched into turmoil, at once missing their father and feeling betrayed by him. In disconcerting contrast, their mother, Eleanor, is cool and calm, showing preternatural composure. Struggling to reclaim their identity, the brothers find Eleanor's sympathy toward the woman and her sons confounding.
- The Homestead byCall Number: F BylerISBN: 9781680992137Publication Date: 2017-05-02Hannah is a fifteen-year-old Amish girl who lives on her family's farm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. When her family, hit hard by the Great Depression, loses their farm, Hannah's father decides it's time for a fresh start. Destitute but inspired by grand plans and dreams of a better future west of Lancaster, he loads his family and what little they have left into their covered wagon. They settle in North Dakota, hundreds of miles from any Amish community.
- Hong Kong Black byCall Number: F RyanISBN: 9781683310280Publication Date: 2017-05-16Former Navy SEAL Nick Foley reluctantly agrees to help investigate when American CIA operative Peter Yu goes missing in China. But when Yu's mutilated body washes up on a beach near Hong Kong, along with dozens of other victims, the case takes a macabre turn. Suddenly, Nick finds himself embroiled in another bio-terrorism investigation being conducted by China's elite Snow Leopard counter-terrorism unit and the Chinese CDC, this time involving illegally-harvested organs for an unknown and nefarious end.
- Inheritance from Mother byCall Number: F MizumuraISBN: 9781590517826Publication Date: 2017-05-02Award-winning novelist Minae Mizumura demystifies the notion of the selfless Japanese mother and the adult daughter honor-bound to care for her.
- Into the Water byCall Number: F HawkinsISBN: 9780735211209Publication Date: 2017-05-02A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from--a place to which she vowed she'd never return.
- Kintu byCall Number: F KintuISBN: 9781945492013Publication Date: 2017-05-16First published in Kenya in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim,Kintu is a modern classic, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections, the novel begins in 1750, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom. Along the way, he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations.
- The Leavers byCall Number: F KoISBN: 9781616206888Publication Date: 2017-05-02One morning, Deming Guo's mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon--and never comes home .No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson. But far from all he's ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptive parents' desire that he assimilate with his memories of his mother and the community he left behind.
- The Light We Lost byCall Number: F SantopoloISBN: 9780735212756Publication Date: 2017-05-09Lucy is faced with a life-altering choice. But before she can make her decision, she must start her story--their story--at the very beginning. Lucy and Gabe meet as seniors at Columbia University. Together, they decide they want their lives to mean something, to matter. When they meet again a year -perhaps they'll find life's meaning in each other. But then Gabe becomes a photojournalist assigned to the Middle East and Lucy pursues a career in New York. What follows is a thirteen-year journey of dreams, desires, jealousies, betrayals, and, ultimately, of love.
- Little Sister byCall Number: F GowdyISBN: 9781941040607Publication Date: 2017-05-23Thunderstorms are rolling across the summer sky. Every time one breaks, Rose Bowan loses consciousness and has vivid, realistic dreams about being in another woman's body. Is Rose merely dreaming? Or is she, in fact, inhabiting a stranger? Disturbed yet entranced, she sets out to discover what is happening to her, leaving the cocoon of her family's small repertory cinema for the larger, upended world. Meanwhile her mother is in the early stages of dementia, and has begun to speak for the first time in decades about another haunting presence: Rose's younger sister.
- The Mask of Sanity byCall Number: F AppelISBN: 9781579624958Publication Date: 2017-03-31On the outside, Dr. Jeremy Balint is a pillar of the community: the youngest division chief at his hospital, a model son to his elderly parents, fiercely devoted to his wife and two young daughters. On the inside, Dr. Jeremy Balint is a high-functioning sociopath--a man who truly believes himself to stand above the ethical norms of society. As long as life treats him well, Balint has no cause to harm others. When life treats him poorly, he reveals the depths of his cold-blooded depravity.
- Miss Burma byCall Number: F CraigISBN: 9780802126450Publication Date: 2017-05-02Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese Occupation, beginning a journey that will leadthem to change the country's history.
- Mother Land byCall Number: F TherouxISBN: 9780618839322Publication Date: 2017-05-09To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is the selfish, petty tyrant of Mother Land. She excels at playing her offspring against each other. As she lives well past the age of 100, her brood struggles with and among themselves to shed her viselike hold on them.
- New Boy byCall Number: F ChevalierISBN: 9780553447637Publication Date: 2017-05-16William Shakespeare's Othello retold as New Boy Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players - teachers and pupils alike - will never be the same again.
- The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories byCall Number: Short Stories LivelyISBN: 9780735222038Publication Date: 2017-05-09A glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner. Penelope Lively has captivated readers with her singular blend of wisdom, elegance, and humor. Now, in her first story collection in decades, Lively takes up themes of history, family, and relationships across varied and vividly rendered settings.
- The Reminders byCall Number: F EmmichISBN: 9780316316996Publication Date: 2017-05-30Grief-stricken over his partner Sydney's death, Gavin flees Los Angeles for New Jersey, where he hopes to find peace with the family of an old friend. Joan, the family's ten-year-old daughter, was born Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, the rare ability to recall every day of her life in cinematic detail. Joan has never met Gavin until now, but she did know his partner, and waiting inside her uncanny mind are memories to prove it. Gavin strikes a deal with Joan: in return for sharing her memories of Sydney, Gavin will help her win a songwriting contest she's convinced will make her unforgettable.
- Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone byCall Number: F PatrickISBN: 9780778319993Publication Date: 2017-05-16In the quiet village of Noon Sun, Benedict Stone has settled into a complacent and predictable routine. Business at his jewelry shop has dried up; his marriage is on the rocks. His life is in desperate need of a jump start...; And then a surprise arrives at his door.
- Round Midnight byCall Number: F McBrideISBN: 9781501157783Publication Date: 2017-05-02From the author of We Are Called to Rise comes a novel about the interconnected lives of four women in Las Vegas, each of whom experiences a life-changing moment at a classic casino nightclub. Spanning the six decades when Las Vegas grew from a dusty gambling town into the melting pot metropolis it is today, Round Midnight is the story of four women, one who falls in love, one who gets lucky, one whose heart is broken, and one who chooses happiness, whose lives change at the Midnight Room.
- Saints for All Occasions byCall Number: F SullivanISBN: 9780307959577Publication Date: 2017-05-09Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora is forced to come up with a plan--a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand.
- Salt Houses byCall Number: F AlyanISBN: 9780544912588Publication Date: 2017-05-02On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967.
- Secrets in Summer byCall Number: F ThayerISBN: 9781101967072Publication Date: 2017-05-16Memorial Day weekend means that seasonal visitors have descended on the glamorous island of Nantucket. For year-round resident Darcy Cotterill, it means late-night stargazing in the backyard of the beautiful house she grew up in and inherited from her beloved grandmother. It's also Darcy's chance to hit the beach and meet her new summertime neighbors. But the last person the thirty-year-old librarian expects to see staying next door is her ex-husband, Boyz, along with his wife, Autumn, and stepdaughter, Willow.
- Standard Deviation byCall Number: F HeinyISBN: 9780385353816Publication Date: 2017-05-23When Graham Cavanaugh divorced his first wife it was to marry his girlfriend, Audra, a woman as irrepressible as she is spontaneous and fun. But, Graham learns, life with Audra can also be exhausting, constantly interrupted by chatty phone calls, picky-eater houseguests, and invitations to weddings of people he's never met. As Graham and Audra share dinners, holidays, and late glasses of wine with his first wife he starts to wonder: How can anyone love two such different women? Did I make the right choice? Is there a right choice?
- Stars over Clear Lake byCall Number: F EllsworthISBN: 9781250097033Publication Date: 2017-05-02Lorraine Kindred's most cherished memories are of the Surf Ballroom, the place where youth lost themselves to the brassy sounds and magnetic energy of the big band swing, where boys spent their last nights before shipping off to war and where Lorraine herself was swept away by a star-crossed romance. Returning to the ballroom for the first time in decades, Lorraine enters a dazzling world she thought long vanished.
- There Your Heart Lies byCall Number: F GordonISBN: 9780307907943Publication Date: 2017-05-09Marian cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family when she volunteered during the Spanish Civil War--an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties, she shares her Rhode Island cottage with her granddaughter Amelia. Their daily existence is intertwined with Marian's secret past: the blow to her youthful idealism when she witnessed the brutalities on both sides of Franco's war and the romance that left her trapped in Spain in perilous circumstances. When Marian is diagnosed with cancer, she finally speaks about what happened to her during those years.
- Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Dark Zone byCall Number: F GaldorisiISBN: 9781250026897Publication Date: 2017-05-30In Dark Zone, a race-to-the-finish thriller in the New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, the brutal murder of an undercover agent reveals a plot to incite a full-fledged war between Russia and Ukraine.
- Touch byCall Number: F MaumISBN: 9780735212121Publication Date: 2017-05-30Sloane Jacobsen is one of the world's most powerful trend forecasters and global fashion, lifestyle, and tech companies pay to hear her opinions about the future. Her recent forecasts on the family are unwavering: the world is over-populated, and with unemployment, college costs, and food prices all on the rise, having children is an extravagant indulgence. So it's no surprise when the tech giant Mammoth hires Sloane to lead their groundbreaking annual conference, celebrating the voluntarily childless. But not far into her contract, Sloane begins to sense the undeniable signs of a movement against electronics that will see people embracing compassion, empathy, and "in-personism" again.
- Where Dead Men Meet byCall Number: F MillsISBN: 9781504779739Publication Date: 2017-05-30Paris, 1937. Luke Hamilton-a junior air intelligence officer at the British Embassy-finds himself the target of an assassination attempt. A clear case of mistaken identity-or so it first appears. As Luke is hunted across a continent sliding toward war, he comes to learn that the answers lie deep in a past that predates his abandonment as a baby on the steps of an orphanage twenty-five years ago.
- White Fur byCall Number: F LibaireISBN: 9780451497925Publication Date: 2017-05-30When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from different worlds. Elise grew up in a housing project without a father and didn't graduate from high school; Jamey is a junior at Yale, heir to a private investment bank fortune and beholden to high family expectations. Nevertheless, the attraction is instant, and what starts out as sexual obsession turns into something greater, stranger, and impossible to ignore.
- Woman No. 17 byCall Number: F LepuckiISBN: 9781101904251Publication Date: 2017-05-09High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. Left alone with her children, she's going to need a hand taking care of her young son if she's ever going to finish her memoir. In response to a Craigslist ad, S arrives, a magnetic young artist who will live in the guest house out back, care for Lady's toddler, Devin, and keep an eye on her teenage son, Seth. S performs her day job beautifully, becoming a confidante for Lady. But in the heat of the summer, S's connection to Lady's older son takes a disturbing, and possibly destructive, turn.
- You Will Pay byCall Number: F JacksonISBN: 9781617734663Publication Date: 2017-05-30It starts as a prank--a way to blow off steam after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe. Among the teen counselors, tensions and hormones are running high. No wonder the others agree when Jo-Beth Chancellor suggests they scare Monica O'Neal a little . . . or a lot. Monica has it coming, and no one will really get hurt. What could go wrong? Everything.