Recently Received Riveting Reads: August 2017
Selective list of new fiction recently received
New Fiction
- The Address byCall Number: F DavisISBN: 9781524741990Publication Date: 2017-08-01Head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she'd make of herself. But when a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house The Dakota, leads to a job offer, her world is suddenly awash in possibility--no mean feat for a servant in 1884. In 1985, Bailey Camden is desperate for new opportunities. Fresh out of rehab, the former party girl and interior designer is homeless, jobless, and penniless. So when her cousin Melinda offers to let Bailey oversee the renovation of her lavish Dakota apartment, Bailey jumps at the chance.
- All Is Beauty Now byCall Number: F FaberISBN: 9780316394963Publication Date: 2017-08-08This mesmerizing first novel follows a glamorous family as they prepare to leave the seeming paradise of Brazil for Canada in the wake to the mysterious disappearance--and presumed drowning--of their eldest daughter a year earlier. As the novel moves back and forth between the members of the Maurer family, we are taken into the heart of a family whose beauty and charm belie a more troubling reality.
- All the Dirty Parts byCall Number: F HandlerISBN: 9781632868046Publication Date: 2017-08-29Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. "Let me put it this way," he says. "Draw a number line, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is, it's all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex."
- A Boy in Winter byCall Number: FSeiffertISBN: 9780307908834Publication Date: 2017-08-01Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. This new novel tells of the three days that follow and the lives that are overturned in the process. Each of Rachel Seiffert's characters comes to know the compromises demanded by survival, the oppressive power of fear, and the possibility of courage in the face of terror.
- A Catalog of Birds byCall Number: F HarringtonISBN: 9781609454036Publication Date: 2017-07-11Billy Flynn always wanted to fly. He is also an artist with pencil and paint and has an abiding affinity for nature. It's 1970 and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later he is the only survivor when his helicopter is shot down. A wounded Billy returns home to his family in upstate New York, especially to Nell, his adoring younger sister. In his absence, the woman he loves has mysteriously disappeared. His wounds have crippled his ability to even hold a pencil and his hearing loss has cut him off from the natural world.
- Class Mom byCall Number: F GelmanISBN: 9781250124692Publication Date: 2017-08-01Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom-Jen already has two college-age daughters by two different (probably) musicians, and it's her second time around the class mom block with five-year-old Max--this time with a husband and father by her side. From recording parents' response times to her emails about helping in the classroom, to requesting contributions of "special" brownies for curriculum night, not all of Jen's methods win approval from the other moms.
- Crossing the Lines byCall Number: F GentillISBN: 9781464209147Publication Date: 2017-08-01A successful writer, Madeleine, creates a character, Edward, and begins to imagine his life. He, too, is an author. Edward is in love with a woman, Willow, who's married to a man Edward loathes, and who loathes him, but he and Willow stay close friends. She's an artist. As Madeleine develops the plot, Edward attends a gallery show where a scummy critic is flung down a flight of fire stairs...murdered.
- The Daughter of the Castle byCall Number: F MontefioreISBN: 9780062456885Publication Date: 2017-08-15Ireland. 1925. The war is over. But life will never be the same... In the green hills of West Cork, Ireland, Castle Deverill has burned to the ground. But young Celia Deverill is determined to see her ruined ancestral home restored to its former glory -- to the years when Celia ran through its vast halls with her cousin Kitty and their childhood friend Bridie Doyle. These three daughters of Ireland seek to make their way in a world once again beset by dark forces.
- Dead on Arrival byCall Number: F RichtelISBN: 9780062443274Publication Date: 2017-08-01An airplane touches down at a desolate airport in a remote Colorado ski town. Shortly after landing, Dr. Lyle Martin, a world-class infectious disease specialist, is brusquely awakened to shocking news: Everyone not on the plane appears to be dead. The world has gone dark. While they were in the air, a lethal new kind of virus surfaced, threatening mankind's survival, and now Martin--one of the most sought-after virologists on the planet until his career took a precipitous slide--is at the center of the investigation.
- The Driver byCall Number: F HansonISBN: 9781101986363Publication Date: 2017-08-08Michael Skellig is a limo driver waiting for his client in the alley behind an upscale hotel. He's spent the past twenty-eight hours ferrying around Bismarck Avila, a skateboard mogul who isn't going home any time soon. Suddenly the wind begins to speak to Skellig in the guttural accent of the Chechen torturer he shot through the eye in Yemen a decade ago.Skellig has heard these warnings before--he's an Army Special Forces sergeant whose limo company is staffed by a ragtag band of wounded veterans, and he knows to listen carefully.
- Eat Only When You're Hungry byCall Number: F HunterISBN: 9780374146153Publication Date: 2017-08-08A father searches for his addict son while grappling with his own choices as a parent (and as a user of sorts) Achingly funny and full of feeling, Eat Only When You're Hungry follows fifty-eight-year-old Greg as he searches for his son, GJ, an addict who has been missing for three weeks. Greg is bored, demoralized, obese, and as dubious of GJ's desire to be found as he is of his own motivation to go looking.
- Freedom's Ring byCall Number: F ChiavaroliISBN: 9781496423122Publication Date: 2017-08-08Two years after nearly losing her life in the Boston Marathon bombing, Annie David is still far from "Boston strong." Instead she remains isolated and defeated--plagued by guilt over her niece, crippled in the blast, and by an antique ring alongside a hazy hero's face. But when she learns the identity of her rescuer, will he be the hero she's imagined? And can the long-past history of the woman behind the ring set her free from the guilt and fears of the present?
- Girl in Snow byCall Number: F KukafkaISBN: 9781501144370Publication Date: 2017-08-01When a beloved high schooler named Lucinda Hayes is found murdered, no one in her sleepy Colorado suburb is untouched--not the boy who loved her too much; not the girl who wanted her perfect life; not the officer assigned to investigate her murder. In the aftermath of the tragedy, these three indelible characters--Cameron, Jade, and Russ--must each confront their darkest secrets in an effort to find solace, the truth, or both.
- The Half-Drowned King byCall Number: F HartsuykerISBN: 9780062563699Publication Date: 2017-08-01An exhilarating saga of the Vikings that conjures a brutal, superstitious, and thrilling ninth-century world and the birth of a kingdom--the debut installment in a historical literary trilogy that combines the bold imagination and sweeping narrative power of Game of Thrones, Vikings, and Outlander.
- The Heart's Invisible Furies byCall Number: F BoyneISBN: 9781524760786Publication Date: 2017-08-22Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from - and over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more.
- Home Fire byCall Number: F ShamsieISBN: 9780735217683Publication Date: 2017-08-15Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she's accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away, Isma's worst fears are confirmed.
- If the Creek Don't Rise byCall Number: F WeissISBN: 9781492647454Publication Date: 2017-08-22Sadie Blue has been a wife for fifteen days. That's long enough to know she should have never hitched herself to Roy Tupkin, even with the baby. Sadie is desperate to make her own mark on the world, but in remote Appalachia, a ticket out of town is hard to come by, and hope often gets stomped out. When a stranger sweeps into Baines Creek and knocks things off kilter, Sadie finds herself with an unexpected lifeline...if she can just figure out how to use it.
- Impossible Views of the World byCall Number: F IvesISBN: 9780735221536Publication Date: 2017-08-01Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan's Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week ever. Her soon-to-be ex-husband is stalking her, a workplace romance with "a fascinating, hyper-rational narcissist" is in freefall, and a beloved colleague, Paul, has gone missing. Strange things are afoot: CeMArt's current exhibit is sponsored by a Belgian multinational that wants to take over the world's water supply, she unwittingly stars in a viral video that's making the rounds, and her mother--the impossibly glamorous Caro--wants to have lunch.
- Judgment at Appomattox byCall Number: F PetersISBN: 9780765381705Publication Date: 2017-08-29The ferocious final weeks of the Civil War come alive in Judgment at Appomattox, the final novel of New York Times bestselling author Ralph Peters's breathtaking, Boyd Award-winning series.
- A Kind of Freedom byCall Number: F SextonISBN: 9781619029224Publication Date: 2017-08-08This emotionally wrenching, character-rich debut spans three generations in a city deeply impacted by segregation, economic inequality, and racial tensions... Being able to capture 70 years of New Orleans history and the emotional changes in one family in such a short book is a testament to Sexton’s powers of descriptive restraint
- The Last Tudor byCall Number: F GregoryISBN: 9781476758763Publication Date: 2017-08-08Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king's half sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner's block, where Jane transformed her father's greedy power grab into tragic martyrdom.
- The Lauras byCall Number: F TaylorISBN: 9780451496850Publication Date: 2017-08-01I didn't realize my mother was a person until I was thirteen years old and she pulled me out of bed, put me in the back of her car, and we left home and my dad with no explanations. I thought that Ma was all that she was and all she had ever wanted to be. I was wrong. As we made our way from Virginia to California, returning to the places where she'd lived as a kid in foster care and as a teenager on the run, repaying debts and keeping promises, I learned who she was in her life-before-me and the secrets she had kept - even from herself.
- The Life She Was Given byCall Number: F WisemanISBN: 9781617734496Publication Date: 2017-07-25On a summer evening in 1931, Lilly Blackwood glimpses circus lights from the grimy window of her attic bedroom. Lilly isn't allowed to explore the meadows around Blackwood Manor. She's never even ventured beyond her narrow room. Momma insists it's for Lilly's own protection, that people would be afraid if they saw her. But on this unforgettable night, Lilly is taken outside for the first time-and sold to the circus sideshow.
- Map of the Heart byCall Number: F WiggsISBN: 9780062425485Publication Date: 2017-08-22Widowed by an unspeakable tragedy, Camille Palmer has made her peace with the past and settled into the quiet safety of life with her teenage daughter Julie in a sleepy coastal town. Then the arrival of a mysterious package breaks open the door to her family's secret past. In uncovering a hidden history, Camille has no idea that she's embarking on an adventure that will utterly transform her.
- The Misfortune of Marion Palm byCall Number: F CullitonISBN: 9781524731908Publication Date: 2017-08-08A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her.
- Mrs. Fletcher byCall Number: F PerrottaISBN: 9781501144028Publication Date: 2017-08-01Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number, the mysterious sender tells Eve, "U R my MILF!" Over the months that follow, that message comes to obsess her. Eve's online fixations begin to spill over into real life, revealing new romantic possibilities that threaten to upend her quiet suburban existence.
- My Absolute Darling byCall Number: F TallentISBN: 9780735211179Publication Date: 2017-08-29A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin.
- New People byCall Number: F SennaISBN: 9781594487095Publication Date: 2017-08-01Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn,. They've landed a starring role in a documentary about "new people" like them, who are blurring the old boundaries as a brave new era dawns. Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her--yet she can't stop daydreaming about another man, a poet she barely knows.
- The Other Girl byCall Number: F SpindlerISBN: 9781250083654Publication Date: 2017-08-22Officer Miranda Rader of the Harmony, Louisiana PD is known for her honesty, integrity, and steady hand in a crisis--but that wasn't always so. Miranda comes from the town of Jasper, and her side of the tracks was the wrong one. When Miranda and her partner are called to investigate the murder of one of the town's most beloved college professors, they're unprepared for the brutality of the scene. This murder is unlike any they've ever investigated, and just when Miranda thinks she's seen the worst of it, she finds a piece of evidence that chills her to the core.
- The Quiet Child byCall Number: F BurleyISBN: 9780062431851Publication Date: 2017-08-08It's the summer of 1954, and the residents of Cottonwood, California, are dying. At the center of it all is six-year-old Danny McCray, a strange and silent child the townspeople regard with fear and superstition, and who appears to bring illness and ruin to those around him. Sheriff Jim Kent, increasingly aware of the whispers and rumors surrounding the boy, has watched the people of his town suffer--and he worries someone might take drastic action to protect their loved ones.
- The Readymade Thief byCall Number: F RoseISBN: 9780735221833Publication Date: 2017-08-01Lee Cuddy is seventeen years old and on the run. Betrayed by her family after taking the fall for a friend, Lee finds refuge in a cooperative of runaways holed up in an abandoned building they call the Crystal Castle. But the facade of the Castle conceals a far more sinister agenda, one hatched by a society of fanatical men set on decoding a series of powerful secrets hidden in plain sight. And they believe Lee holds the key to it all.
- The Red-Haired Woman byCall Number: F PamukISBN: 9780451494429Publication Date: 2017-08-22On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck meter by meter, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before--not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities.
- Shadow of the Lions byCall Number: F SwannISBN: 9781616205003Publication Date: 2017-08-01In the middle of his senior year at the Blackburne School in Virginia, Matthias Glass's roommate and best friend Fritz Davenport runs off into the woods after the two boys have an argument--and vanishes without a trace. Ever since, Matthias has felt responsible, thinking that their fight, about a betrayal of the school's honor code, led to Fritz's disappearance. A decade later, Matthias realizes he has stalled out and become a failure as a writer, a boyfriend, a man. So when he is offered a job at Blackburne as an English teacher, he sees it as a chance to put his life back together.
- Stay with Me byCall Number: F AdebayoISBN: 9780451494603Publication Date: 2017-08-22Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage--after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures--Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time--until her family arrives on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin's second wife.
- A Stranger in the House byCall Number: F LapenaISBN: 9780735221123Publication Date: 2017-08-15Karen and Tom Krupp are happy--they've got a lovely home in upstate New York, they're practically newlyweds, and they have a comfortable life together. But one day, Tom returns home to find Karen has vanished--her car's gone and it seems she left in a rush. She even left her purse--complete with phone and ID--behind. She had a car accident as she sped through the worst part of town. The accident has left Karen with a concussion and a few scrapes. Still, she's mostly okay--except that she can't remember what she was doing or where she was when she crashed.
- Sun at Midnight byCall Number: F ThomasISBN: 9781468314953Publication Date: 2017-07-25Alice is a scientist, who relies on method, precision, and tangible proof. But when her relationship with Oxford artist Peter Brown collapses, she is forced to use her skills to evaluate her own life for the first time. In her thirties, childless, and tied to Oxford by her work, it's time to break away. Alice accepts an invitation to travel to Antarctica. Upon arrival, she is awestruck by the strangeness of a continent. And nothing has prepared her for the close confines of a small base shared with eight men and one other woman.
- Things That Happened Before the Earthquake byCall Number: F BarziniISBN: 9780385542272Publication Date: 2017-08-15Mere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles, Eugenia, a typical Italian teenager, is rudely yanked from her privileged Roman milieu by her filmmaker parents and transplanted to the strange suburban world of the San Fernando Valley. With only the Virgin Mary to call on for guidance as her parents struggle to make it big, Hollywood fashion, she must navigate her huge new public high school, complete with Crips and Bloods and Persian gang members, and a car-based environment of 99-cent stores and obscure fast-food franchises and all-night raves.
- Without Fear or Favor byCall Number: F TanenbaumISBN: 9781476793221Publication Date: 2017-08-15When a cop shoots down the son of a respected inner-city Baptist preacher, the community rises up in anger and demands to have the officer prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But there's something more than a call for justice at work here: a plot to bring down the city's police force through a conspiracy so vast and malicious only Butch Karp and his band of truth-seekers can untangle it.
- Young Jane Young byCall Number: F ZevinISBN: 9781616205041Publication Date: 2017-08-22Aviva Grossman, an ambitious congressional intern in Florida, makes the mistake of having an affair with her boss--and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the beloved congressman doesn't take the fall. But Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins: slut-shamed, she becomes a late-night talk show punch line, anathema to politics. She sees no way out but to change her name and move to a remote town in Maine.
New Fiction
- Are You Sleeping byCall Number: F BarberISBN: 9781501157660Publication Date: 2017-08-01Josie Buhrman has spent the last ten years trying to escape her family's reputation and with good reason. After her father's murder thirteen years prior, her mother ran away to join a cult and her twin sister Lanie, once Josie's closest friend and confidant, betrayed her in an unimaginable way. Now, Josie has finally put down roots in New York, settling into domestic life with her partner Caleb, and that's where she intends to stay. The only problem is that she has lied to Caleb about every detail of her past--starting with her last name.
- Birdcage Walk byCall Number: F DunmoreISBN: 9780802127143Publication Date: 2017-08-01It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. Tormented and striving Diner believes that Lizzie's independent, questioning spirit must be coerced and subdued.
- Brave Deeds byCall Number: F AbramsISBN: 9780802126863Publication Date: 2017-08-01Spanning eight hours, the novel follows a squad of six AWOL soldiers as they attempt to cross war-torn Baghdad on foot to attend the funeral of their leader, Staff Sergeant Rafe Morgan. As the men make their way to the funeral, they recall the most ancient of warriors yet are a microcosm of twenty-first-century America, and subject to the same human flaws as all of us. Emotionally resonant, true-to-life, and thoughtfully written, Brave Deeds is a gripping story of combat and of perserverance.
- The Burning Girl byCall Number: F MessudISBN: 9780393635027Publication Date: 2017-08-29Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship.
- Casanova's Secret Wife byCall Number: F Lynn-DavisISBN: 9781496712318Publication Date: 2017-07-25Set in eighteenth-century Venice and based on an actual account by Giacomo Casanova--here is a lush tale of desire and risk, offering a little known portrait of the writer as a young man. Caterina Capreta was an innocent girl of fourteen when she caught the attention of the world's most infamous chronicler of seduction: Giacomo Casanova. Intoxicated by a fierce love, she wed Casanova in secret. But his shocking betrayal inspired her to commit an act that would mark her forever . . .
- The Cottingley Secret byCall Number: F GaynorISBN: 9780062690487Publication Date: 2017-08-01When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, claim to have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when one of the great novelists of the time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, becomes convinced of the photographs' authenticity, the girls become a national sensation. Frances and Elsie will hide their secret for many decades. But Frances longs for the truth to be told.
- Dead Man's Bridge byCall Number: F MrazekISBN: 9781683312697Publication Date: 2017-08-08Unfairly disgraced former army officer Jake Cantrell has only one friend left: Bug, a wolf-dog he saved while serving in Afghanistan. Together, they try to put his bitter past behind him and Jake settles for employment at the bottom rung of the campus security ladder of a small upstate New York college. But things only turn worse when the college's richest and most powerful alumnus is found hanging from a campus footbridge on the eve of homecoming weekend.
- Deep Black byCall Number: F McFateISBN: 9780062403735Publication Date: 2017-08-08Disillusioned after a mission in Ukraine, military contractor Tom Locke is on the run from Apollo Outcomes, a private military corporation run by the treacherous Brad Winters. While working undercover with his surviving team members on the frontlines of ISIS-infected Iraq, they are approached by a Saudi middleman who offers good money to find the missing son of a high-ranking government official. What Locke doesn't know is that the missing young Prince may have been carrying the result of a secret agreement made with the Pakistanis in the 1960s, and that his father may be trying to topple the Saudi government.
- The Doll Funeral byCall Number: F HamerISBN: 9781612196657Publication Date: 2017-08-15On Ruby's thirteenth birthday, a wish she didn't even know she had suddenly comes true: the couple who raised her aren't her parents at all. Her real mother and father are out there somewhere, and Ruby becomes determined to find them. Venturing into the forest with nothing but a suitcase and the company of her only true friend--the imaginary Shadow Boy--Ruby discovers a group of siblings who live alone in the woods. The children take her in, and while they offer the closest Ruby's ever had to a family.
- Eichmann's Executioner byCall Number: F DeheISBN: 9781620973011Publication Date: 2017-07-18In May 1962, twenty-two men gathered in Jerusalem to decide by lot who would be Eichmann's executioner. These men had guarded the former Nazi SS lieutenant colonel during his imprisonment and trial, and in the absence of trained executioners in Israel it would fall to one of them to end his life. Shalom Nagar, the only one among them who had asked not to participate, drew the short straw. In a novel that picks up decades later, Nagar is living on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, haunted by his memory of Eichmann.
- Emma in the Night byCall Number: F WalkerISBN: 9781250141439Publication Date: 2017-08-08One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of a mysterious island where the two were held. But to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter, something doesn't add up.
- The Future Won't Be Long byCall Number: F KobekISBN: 9780735222489Publication Date: 2017-08-15A euphoric, provocative novel about friendship, sex, art, clubbing, and ambition set in 1980s and '90s New York City. When Adeline, a wealthy art student, chances upon a young man from the Midwest known only as Baby in a shady East Village squat, the two begin a fiery friendship that propels them through a decade of New York life.
- The Goddesses byCall Number: F HuntleyISBN: 9780385542210Publication Date: 2017-07-25When Nancy and her family arrive in Kona, Hawaii, they are desperate for a fresh start. Nancy's husband has cheated on her; they sleep in separate bedrooms and their twin sons have been acting out, setting off illegal fireworks. But Hawaii is paradise: they plant an orange tree in the yard; they share a bed once again and Nancy resolves to make a happy life for herself. She starts taking a yoga class and there she meets Ana, the charismatic teacher.
- The Hidden Light of Northern Fires byCall Number: F WangISBN: 9781250122353Publication Date: 2017-08-29Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart.
- How to Behave in a Crowd byCall Number: F BordasISBN: 9780451497543Publication Date: 2017-08-15Isidore Mazal is the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town. He doesn't quite fit in. Berenice, Aurore, and Leonard are on track to have doctorates by age twenty-four. Jeremie performs with a symphony, and Simone, older than Isidore by eighteen months, expects a great career as a novelist--she's already put Isidore to work on her biography. The only time they leave their rooms is to gather on the old, stained couch and dissect prime-time television dramas in light of Aristotle's Poetics. Isidore has never skipped a grade or written a dissertation. But he notices things the others don't, and asks questions they fear to ask.
- How to Find Love in a Bookshop byCall Number: F HenryISBN: 9780735223493Publication Date: 2017-08-15Nightingale Books, nestled on the main street in an idyllic little village, is a dream come true for book lovers--a cozy haven and welcoming getaway for the literary-minded locals. But owner Emilia Nightingale is struggling to keep the shop open after her beloved father's death, and the temptation to sell is getting stronger. The property developers are circling, but she can't imagine breaking the promise she made to her father to keep the store alive.
- The Ice-Cream Makers byCall Number: F KwastISBN: 9781501159398Publication Date: 2017-08-01As the heir to a proud Northern Italian ice-cream dynasty, Giovanni Calamine's family is none too happy when he decides to break with tradition and travel the world as a notable poet. So when Giovanni receives an unexpected call from his brother, he is faced with a difficult decision: return home to serve in his family's interests or continue on his own path in life once and for all? In a heartwarming tale that weaves history with lore and poetry with delicious culinary curiosities, The Ice-Cream Makers paints a century-long, multigenerational portrait of a family wrestling with the conflicting pulls of legacy and desire.
- In the Crosshairs byCall Number: F CoughlinISBN: 9781250103536Publication Date: 2017-08-01The Central Intelligence Agency is under attack, and so is its top field operative, Kyle Swanson. Congress is being told that Swanson has been turned, his private employer is corrupt, and the Agency itself cannot be trusted. Swanson is assigned to find the root of the problem and is partnered up with Luke Gibson. But before Kyle and Luke can eliminate the threat, they must identify and find the man who wants them dead.
- Keep You Safe byCall Number: F HillISBN: 9780778330462Publication Date: 2017-08-22Every mother faces impossible choices. Vaccination is one of the hardest. For single mom Kate O'Hara, there was no decision to make. Her daughter, Rosie, is one of a small percentage of children who can't be vaccinated against measles. For mommy blogger Madeleine Cooper, vaccination was a leap of faith she wasn't prepared to take. She and her husband declined controversial measles shots for their daughter Clara. But when classmates Clara and Rosie both become sick will Kate pay for Madeleine's choice?
- A Killer Harvest byCall Number: F CleaveISBN: 9781501153013Publication Date: 2017-08-01Joshua is convinced there is a family curse. It's taken loved ones from him, it's robbed him of his eyesight, and it's the reason why his father is killed while investigating the homicide of a young woman. Joshua is handed an opportunity he can't refuse: an operation that will allow him to see the world through his father's eyes.
- The Last Kid Left byCall Number: F BaldwinISBN: 9780374298562Publication Date: 2017-06-06When a scandalous small-town crime goes viral, a teen girl takes center stage in Rosecrans Baldwin's story of a twenty-first century Puritan witch-hunt The Last Kid Left begins when a car smashes into a sculpture of a giant cowgirl. The police find two bodies in the trunk. 19-year-old Nick Toussaint Jr. is arrested for murder, and after details of the crime rip across the internet, his 16-year-old girlfriend, Emily Portis--a sheltered teen who's been off the grid until now, her first romance coinciding with her first cellphone--is nearly consumed by a public hungry for every lurid detail, accurate or not.
- The Locals byCall Number: F DeeISBN: 9780812993226Publication Date: 2017-08-08Mark Firth is a contractor and home restorer in Howland, Massachusetts, who feels opportunity passing his family by. He finds himself envying the wealthy weekenders in his community whose houses sit empty all winter. Philip Hadi used to be one of these people. But in the nervous days after 9/11 he flees New York and hires Mark to turn his Howland home into a year-round "secure location" from which he can manage billions of dollars of other people's money. The collision of these two men's very different worlds is the engine of Jonathan Dee's powerful new novel.
- The Lovers' Guide to Rome byCall Number: F LamprellISBN: 9781250105530Publication Date: 2017-08-01Alice, an art student in New York City, has come to Rome in search of adventure and inspiration before settling down with her steady, safe fiance, Meg and Alec, successful business people from LA, are on a mission to find a certain blue tile that will make their home renovation complete--but soon it becomes clear that their marriage needs a makeover as well. Connie and Lizzie are women of a certain age--who come from London to scatter the ashes of their beloved husband and brother. Both women are seemingly done with romance, but Rome has other ideas.
- Midwinter Break byCall Number: F MacLavertyISBN: 9780393609622Publication Date: 2017-08-22A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly from their home in Scotland to Amsterdam for a long weekend--a holiday to do some sightseeing, and generally to take stock of what remains of their lives. Their relationship seems safe, easy, familiar. But over the course of the four days we discover the deep uncertainties that exist between them. Things are not helped by memories that have begun to resurface of a troubled time in their native Ireland.
- Modern Gods byCall Number: F LairdISBN: 9780670025145Publication Date: 2017-06-27Alison Donnelly is still stuck in the small Northern Irish town where she was born, working for her father's real estate agency, hoping a second marriage will help her get her life back together. Her sister Liz, who lives in New York City, is about to return to Ulster for Alison's wedding, before heading to an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea to make a TV show about the world's newest religion. Alison finds that her new husband has a past neither of them can escape. While Liz finds herself entangled in the eerie world of Belef, the cult leader.
- Motherest byCall Number: F IskandrianISBN: 9781455594443Publication Date: 2017-08-01It's the early 1990s, and Agnes is running out of people she can count on. A new college student, she is caught between the broken home she leaves behind and the wilderness of campus life. What she needs most is her mother, who has seemingly disappeared, and her brother, who left the family tragically a few years prior. As Agnes falls into new romance, mines female friendships for intimacy, and struggles to find her footing, she writes letters to her mother, both to conjure a closeness they never had and to try to translate her experiences to herself.
- No Mortal Thing byCall Number: F SeymourISBN: 9781250123695Publication Date: 2017-08-01Jago is a kid from a rough part of London who has worked hard to get a job in a bank and is now on a fast-track to the Berlin office. Marcantonio is one of the new generation in the 'Ndrangheta crime families from Calabria, Southern Italy. He is in Germany to learn how to channel their illicit millions towards legitimate businesses all over Europe. When Jago witnesses Marcantonio commit a vicious assault and the police seem uninterested, the Englishman refuses to let the matter drop.
- North Haven byCall Number: F MoriartyISBN: 9781503941519Publication Date: 2017-06-01On an island in Maine, four siblings arrive at their sprawling, old summer place for the Fourth of July. It's the Willoughbys' first summer without their parents, and their beloved house is falling apart. When a substantial offer is made on the estate, the two brothers and two sisters are forced to confront issues they had hoped to keep hidden.
- The Party byCall Number: F DayISBN: 9780316556750Publication Date: 2017-08-15A taut psychological tale of obsession and betrayal set over the course of a dinner party, THE PARTY tells the story of two married couples who, in a single evening, will come to question everything they thought they knew about each other, as the long-buried secret at the heart of their friendship comes to the surface, culminating in an explosive act of violence.
- Rebellion byCall Number: F PattersonISBN: 9780062574046Publication Date: 2017-08-08A sweeping debut that crosses continents and generations, Rebellion tells the story of Addie, Louisa, Hazel, and Juanlan: four women whose rebellions, big and small, are as unexpected as they are unforgettable. Moving from rural Illinois to the far reaches of China, Rebellion brilliantly links through action and consequence the story of four women, spanning more than a century.
- Red Swan byCall Number: F DeutermannISBN: 9781250114082Publication Date: 2017-08-22Red Swan begins with an ominous phone call from Carson McGill, the Deputy Director of Operations in the CIA, to retired CIA officer Preston Allender. Henry Wallace is dead. A behind-the-scenes operator at the CIA, Wallace was integral to the Agency's secret war against China's national intelligence service. Now, Wallace's mysterious death suggests that the CIA itself has been compromised and that China has someone inside the Agency.
- The Room of White Fire byCall Number: F ParkerISBN: 9780735212664Publication Date: 2017-08-22From three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestseller T. Jefferson Parker, a stirring new thriller about a private investigator tasked with hunting down a returned soldier, broken and made dangerous by his experiences at war.
- See What I Have Done byCall Number: F SchmidtISBN: 9780802126597Publication Date: 2017-08-01Lizzie Borden took an ax. And gave her mother forty whacks When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. Or did she? In this riveting debut novel, Sarah Schmidt recasts one of the most fascinating murder cases of all time into an intimate story of a volatile household and a family devoid of love. Shifting among the perspectives of the unreliable Lizzie, her older sister Emma, the housemaid Bridget, and the enigmatic stranger Benjamin, the events of that fateful day are slowly revealed through a high-wire feat of storytelling.
- Shattered byCall Number: F BrennanISBN: 9781250129277Publication Date: 2017-08-22Over a span of twenty years, four boys have been kidnapped from their bedrooms, suffocated, and buried nearby in a shallow grave. Serial killer or coincidence? That's the question investigative reporter Maxine Revere sets out to answer when an old friend begs her to help exonerate his wife, who has been charged with their son's recent murder. But Max can do little to help because the police and D.A. won't talk to her--they think they have the right woman.
- Sour Heart byCall Number: Short Stories ZhangISBN: 9780399589386Publication Date: 2017-08-01A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City. A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America.
- To Die in Spring byCall Number: F RothmannISBN: 9780374278144Publication Date: 2017-08-29Distant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son--the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel--is curious about Walter's experiences during World War II, and so makes him a present of a blank notebook in which to write down his memories. Walter dies, however, leaving nothing but the barest skeleton of a story on those pages, leading his son to fill in the gaps himself, rightly or wrongly, with what he can piece together of his father's early life.
- Unraveling Oliver byCall Number: F NugentISBN: 9781501167751Publication Date: 2017-08-22Oliver Ryan, handsome, charismatic, and successful, has long been married to his devoted wife, Alice. Their life together one of enviable privilege and ease--until, one evening after a delightful dinner, Oliver delivers a blow to Alice that renders her unconscious, and subsequently beats her into a coma. In the aftermath of such an unthinkable event, the couple's friends, neighbors, and acquaintances try to understand what could have driven Oliver to commit such a horrific act.
- The Walls byCall Number: F OvertonISBN: 9780316268769Publication Date: 2017-08-08Working on death row is far from Kristy Tucker's dream, but she is grateful for a job that allows her to support her son and ailing father. When she meets Lance Dobson, Kristy begins to imagine a different kind of future. But after their wedding, she finds herself serving her own life sentence---one of abuse and constant terror. But Kristy is a survivor, and as Lance's violence escalates, the inmates she's worked with have planted an idea she simply can't shake.