Recently Received Riveting Reads: January 2018
Selective list of new fiction recently received
New Fiction
- American Stranger byCall Number: F PlanteISBN: 9781883285739Publication Date: 2018-01-09Brought up in a secularized Jewish household on Manhattan's upper Eastside, Nancy Green knows suspiciously little about her parents' past. She knows they were World War II Jewish refugees who were able to escape Germany. The longing she has for some kind of spiritual connection first leads her into an encounter with an Hassidic Jewish man who, unable to find meaning in his own religion, has taken vows to becomes a monk; and then an involvement with a Catholic boy in Boston.
- Beneath the Mountain byCall Number: F D'AndreaISBN: 9780062680174Publication Date: 2018-01-02In Luca D'Andrea's atmospheric and brilliant thriller, set in a small mountain community in the majestic Italian Dolomites, an outsider must uncover the truth about a triple murder that has gone unsolved for thirty years.
- Best Friends Forever byCall Number: F HuntISBN: 9780778331131Publication Date: 2018-01-23Kat Grant and Alice Campbell have a friendship forged in shared confidences and long lunches. Though they're very different women--the artsy socialite and the struggling suburbanite--they're each other's rocks. When Kat's financier husband, Howard, plunges to his death from the second-floor balcony of their South Florida mansion, the police say he was a murder victim. The questions begin piling up. Like why Kat has suddenly gone dark: no calls, no texts and no chance her wealthy family will let Alice see her.
- Between Me and You byCall Number: F ScotchISBN: 9781503941229Publication Date: 2018-01-09When their paths first cross, Ben Livingston is a fledgling screenwriter on the brink of success; Tatum Connelly is a struggling actress tending bar in a New York City dive. They fall in love, they marry, they become parents, and they think only of the future. But as the years go by, Tatum's stardom rises while Ben's fades. In a marriage that bears the fallout of ambition and fame, Ben and Tatum are at a crossroads. Now all they can do is think back...
- Blood Sisters byCall Number: F CorryISBN: 9780525522188Publication Date: 2018-01-30Three little girls set off to school one sunny morning. Within an hour, one of them is dead. Fifteen years later, Kitty can't speak and has no memory of the accident that's to blame. She lives in an institution, unlikely ever to leave. But that doesn't keep her from being frightened when she encounters an eerily familiar face.
- Carnegie's Maid byCall Number: F BenedictISBN: 9781492646617Publication Date: 2018-01-16Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie requires skills she doesn't have, answering to an icy mistress who rules her sons and her domain with an iron fist.. But Clara can't let her guard down, not even when Andrew becomes something more than an employer.
- Cutting Edge byCall Number: F LarsenISBN: 9780765393418Publication Date: 2018-01-23Trey DeBolt is a young man at the crest of life. His role as a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Alaska offers him a rewarding job and limitless adventure. Then a tragic accident alters his life: during a harrowing rescue, his helicopter goes down. Severely injured, DeBolt awakens in a seaside cabin in Maine, thousands of miles from where the accident occurred. His lone nurse lets slip that he has been officially declared dead, lost in the crash. Back in Alaska, however, Coast Guard investigator Shannon Lund uncovers evidence that DeBolt might still be alive.
- A Distant Heart byCall Number: F DevISBN: 9781496705761Publication Date: 2017-12-26Her name means "miracle" in Sanskrit, and to her parents, that's exactly what Kimaya is. The first baby to survive after several miscarriages, Kimi grows up in a mansion at the top of Mumbai's Pali Hill, surrounded by love and privilege. But at eleven years old, she develops a rare illness that requires her to be confined to a germ-free ivory tower in her home, with only the Arabian Sea churning outside her window for company. . . . Until one person dares venture into her world.
- The English Wife byCall Number: F WilligISBN: 9781250056276Publication Date: 2018-01-09From author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full of family secrets, affairs, and murder. Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: He's recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and named it Illyria. Yes, there are rumors that she's having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip. But then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad.
- Everything Here Is Beautiful byCall Number: F LeeISBN: 9780735221963Publication Date: 2018-01-16Two sisters--Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protect∨ Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. When their mother dies and Lucia starts hearing voices, it is Miranda who must find a way to reach her sister.
- Fire Sermon byCall Number: F QuatroISBN: 9780802127044Publication Date: 2018-01-09Maggie is entirely devoted to her husband Thomas, their two beautiful children, and to God--until what begins as a platonic intellectual and spiritual exchange between Maggie and poet James transforms into an erotically-charged bond that challenges Maggie's sense of loyalty and morality, drawing her deeper into the darkness of desire.
- Fools and Mortals byCall Number: F CornwellISBN: 9780062250872Publication Date: 2018-01-09New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell makes a dramatic departure with this enthralling, action-packed standalone novel that tells the story of the first production of A Midsummer Night's Dream--as related by William Shakespeare's estranged younger brother.
- The Girlfriend byCall Number: F FrancesISBN: 9781496712462Publication Date: 2018-01-30Laura has it all. A successful career, a long marriage to a rich husband, and a twenty-three year-old son, Daniel, who is kind, handsome, and talented. Then Daniel meets Cherry. Cherry is young, beautiful and smart but hasn't led Laura's golden life. And she wants it. When tragedy strikes, a decision is made and a lie is told. A lie so terrible it changes their lives forever...
- A Girl in Exile byCall Number: F KadareISBN: 9781619029163Publication Date: 2018-01-09A Girl in Exile, is set among the bureaucratic machinery of Albania's 1945-1991 dictatorship. While waiting to hear whether his newest play will be approved for production, playwright Rudian Stefa is called in for questioning by the Party Committee. A girl--Linda B.--has been found dead, with a signed copy of his latest book in her possession. Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to Linda B.
- Happiness for Humans byCall Number: F ReizinISBN: 9781478974260Publication Date: 2018-01-09When Tom and Jen, two lonely people, are brought together by an intriguing email, they have no idea their mysterious benefactor is an artificial intelligence who has decided to play Cupid.
- Hellbent byCall Number: F HurwitzISBN: 9781250119179Publication Date: 2018-01-30Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as an off-the-books government assassin: Orphan X. After he broke with the Orphan Program, Evan disappeared and reinvented himself as the Nowhere Man, a man spoken about only in whispers and dedicated to helping the truly desperate. But this time, the voice on the other end is Jack Johns, the man who raised and trained him, the only father Evan has ever known.
- Here We Lie byCall Number: F DeBoardISBN: 9780778330264Publication Date: 2018-01-30Megan Mazeros and Lauren Mabrey are complete opposites on paper. Megan is a girl from a modest Midwest background, and Lauren is the daughter of a senator from an esteemed New England family. When they become roommates at a private women's college, they forge a strong, albeit unlikely, friendship. The summer before senior year, Megan joins Lauren and her family on their private island off the coast of Maine. It should be a summer of relaxation, a last hurrah before graduation. Then late one night, something unspeakable happens.
- I Love You Too Much byCall Number: F DrakeISBN: 9780316553209Publication Date: 2018-01-23In the sixth arrondissement everything is perfect and everyone is lonely. This is the Paris of thirteen-year-old Paul. Shy and unloved, he quietly observes the lives of the self-involved grown-ups around him: his glamorous Maman, her younger musician lover, Gabriel, and his fitness-obsessed Papa. Always overlooked, it's only a matter of time before Paul witnesses something that he's not supposed to see...
- Impossible Saints byCall Number: F HarwoodISBN: 9781681776248Publication Date: 2018-01-02Escaping the constraints of life as a village schoolmistress, Lilia Brooke bursts into London and into Paul Harris's orderly life, shattering his belief that women are gentle creatures who need protection. Lilia wants to change women's lives by advocating for the vote, free unions, and contraception. Paul, an Anglican priest, has a big ambition of his own: to become the youngest dean of St. John's Cathedral.
- In Every Moment We Are Still Alive byCall Number: F MalmquistISBN: 9781612197111Publication Date: 2018-01-30A prize-winning, bestselling debut of love, loss, and family that is based on a true story When Tom's heavily pregnant girlfriend Karin is rushed to the hospital, doctors are able to save the baby. But they are helpless to save Karin from what turns out to be acute Leukemia. And in a cruel, fleeting moment Tom gains a daughter but loses his soul-mate. In Every Moment We Are Alive is the story of the year that changes everything, as Tom must reconcile the fury and pain of loss with the overwhelming responsibility of raising his daughter, Livia, alone.
- It Occurs to Me That I Am America byCall Number: Short Stories ItISBN: 9781501179600Publication Date: 2018-01-16In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen.
- Just Between Us byCall Number: F DrakeISBN: 9781250167200Publication Date: 2018-01-09Four suburban mothers conspire to cover up a deadly crime in Just Between Us, a heart-stopping novel of suspense by Rebecca Drake . In a moment they'll come to regret, the women must decide what lengths they'll go to in order to help a friend. Just Between Us is a thrilling glimpse into the underbelly of suburbia, where not all neighbors can be trusted, and even the closest friends keep dangerous secrets. You never really know what goes on in another person's mind, or in their marriage.
- King Zeno byCall Number: F RichISBN: 9780374181314Publication Date: 2018-01-09New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose. The lives of a traumatized cop, a conflicted Mafia matriarch, and a brilliant trumpeter converge--and the Crescent City gets the rich, dark, sweeping novel it so deserves.
- The Largesse of the Sea Maiden byCall Number: Short Stories JohnsonISBN: 9780812988635Publication Date: 2018-01-16National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson's The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, Finished shortly before Johnson's death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come.
- Little Reunions byCall Number: F ChangISBN: 9781681371276Publication Date: 2018-01-16A best-selling, autobiographical depiction of class privilege, bad romance, and political intrigue during World War II in China. Now available in English for the first time.
- Munich byCall Number: F HarrisISBN: 9780525520269Publication Date: 2018-01-16From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a new spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938.
- The Music Shop byCall Number: F JoyceISBN: 9780812996685Publication Date: 2018-01-02It is 1988. On a dead-end street in a run-down suburb there is a music shop that is jam-packed with records of every kind. Frank, the shop's owner, has a way of connecting his customers with just the piece of music they need. Then, one day, into his shop comes a beautiful young woman who asks Frank to teach her about music. Terrified of closeness, Frank feels compelled to run, yet he is drawn to this mysterious woman. But Ilse is not what she seems, and Frank has old wounds that threaten to reopen, as well as a past it seems he will never leave behind.
- Need to Know byCall Number: F ClevelandISBN: 9781524797027Publication Date: 2018-01-23In pursuit of a Russian sleeper cell on American soil, CIA analyst Vivian Miller uncovers a dangerous secret that will threaten her job, her family--and her life. On track for a much-needed promotion, she's developed a system for identifying Russian agents, seemingly normal people living in plain sight. After accessing the computer of a potential Russian operative, Vivian stumbles on a secret dossier of deep-cover agents within America's borders. A few clicks later, everything that matters to her--her job, her husband, even her four children--is threatened.
- Oliver Loving byCall Number: F BlockISBN: 9781250169730Publication Date: 2018-01-16One warm, West Texas November night, a shy boy named Oliver Loving joins his classmates at Bliss County Day School's annual dance, hoping for a glimpse of the object of his unrequited affections, an enigmatic Junior named Rebekkah Sterling. But as the music plays, a troubled young man sneaks in through the school's back door. The dire choices this man makes that evening --and the unspoken story he carries-- will tear the town of Bliss, Texas apart.
- The Other Side of Everything byCall Number: F OwensISBN: 9781501167799Publication Date: 2018-01-23Bernard White is a curmudgeonly widower who has lived in Seven Springs, Florida for decades and has kept to himself since his wife passed. When his neighbor is murdered, he emerges from his solitude to reconnect with his fellow octogenarians. These connections become a literal lifeline as a second, and then a third, elderly woman is murdered, and "the originals" as they call themselves, realize that they are being targeted.
- The Pearl Sister byCall Number: F RileyISBN: 9781501180033Publication Date: 2018-01-23From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the next captivating story in New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley's epic series about two women searching for a place to call home.
- Peculiar Ground byCall Number: F Hughes-HallettISBN: 9780062684196Publication Date: 2018-01-09The Costa Award-winning author of The Pike makes her literary fiction debut with an extraordinary historical novel in the spirit of Wolf Hall and Atonement--a great English country house novel, spanning three centuries, that explores surprisingly timely themes of immigration and exclusion.
- Promise Not to Tell byCall Number: F KrentzISBN: 9780399585272Publication Date: 2018-01-02Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire burned through the compound, killing her mother. And now one of her artists has taken her own life, but not before sending Virginia a last picture: a painting that makes Virginia doubt everything about the so-called suicide--and her own past.
- Say My Name byCall Number: F HustonISBN: 9780778330714Publication Date: 2018-01-09Years ago, frightened by passion, Eve settled for less: marrying safely, building a solid, ordinary life. Now she longs for more. One day, treasure hunting for a friend's antiques shop, she finds a mysterious instrument, carved with twining vines. It sends her on a quest--and into a compelling connection with a young man, the son of an old flame. He is twenty years younger than she is, a musician, a seeker, a bohemian--and, to her amazement, he's pursuing her. Can this euphoric connection last?
- Sisters Like Us byCall Number: F MalleryISBN: 9780778330905Publication Date: 2018-01-23Divorce left Harper Szymanski scrambling to maintain her overbearing mother's ridiculous standards and still pay the bills, thanks to clients like Lucas, the annoying cop who claims he hangs around for Harper's fresh-baked cookies. Spending half her life in school hasn't prepared Dr. Stacey Bloom for her most daunting challenge--motherhood. She is in deep denial that a baby is coming. Worse, her mother will be horrified to learn that Stacey's husband plans to be a stay-at-home dad.. Separately they may be a mess, but together Harper and Stacey can survive anything.
- A Song Unheard byCall Number: F WhiteISBN: 9780764219276Publication Date: 2018-01-02Willa Forsythe is both a violin prodigy and top-notch thief, which makes her the perfect choice for a crucial task at the outset of World War I--to steal a cypher from a famous violinist currently in Wales.
- This Could Hurt byCall Number: F MedoffISBN: 9780062660763Publication Date: 2018-01-09A razor-sharp and deeply felt novel that illuminates the pivotal role of work in our lives--that captures the emotional complexities of five HR colleagues trying to balance ambition, hope, and fear as their small company is buffeted by economic forces that threaten to upend them.
- The Transition byCall Number: F KennardISBN: 9780374278717Publication Date: 2018-01-09Do you or your partner spend more than you earn? Have your credit card debts evolved into collection letters? Has either of you received a court summons? Has either of you considered turning to a life of a crime? Welcome to the Transition. While taking part in the Transition, you and your partner will spend six months living under the supervision of your mentors, two successful adults of a slightly older generation. Freed from your financial responsibilities, you will be coached through the key areas of the scheme--Employment, Nutrition, Responsibility, Relationship, Finances, and Self-respect--until you are ready to be reintegrated into adult society.
- The Unmade World byCall Number: F YarbroughISBN: 9781609531430Publication Date: 2018-01-16The Unmade World is a thoughtful literary novel with a dose of suspense. It covers a decade in the lives of an American journalist and a Polish small businessman turned petty criminal and the wrenching aftermath of an accidental, tragic encounter between these two on the outskirts of Krakow. The accident costs the lives of the American journalist Richard Brennan's wife and daughter, an event that colors the rest of his life. It also leads to a downward spiral for Bogdan Baranowsk, leaving emotional scars as he suffers the seemingly inevitable loss of his business, his home, and his wife.
- The Wedding Date byCall Number: F GuilloryISBN: 9780399587665Publication Date: 2018-01-30On the eve of his ex's wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend... After Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible, Drew has to fly back to Los Angeles and his job as a pediatric surgeon, and Alexa heads home to Berkeley, where she's the mayor's chief of staff. Too bad they can't stop thinking about the other...
- White Chrysanthemum byCall Number: F BrachtISBN: 9780735214439Publication Date: 2018-01-30Korea, 1943. Hana has lived her entire life under Japanese occupation. As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, she enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim. Until the day Hana saves her younger sister from a Japanese soldier and is herself captured and transported to Manchuria. There she is forced to become a "comfort woman" in a Japanese military brothel.
- The Wife Between Us byCall Number: F HendricksISBN: 9781250130921Publication Date: 2018-01-09When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement - a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Assume nothing.
- The Winter Station byCall Number: F ShieldsISBN: 9780316385343Publication Date: 2018-01-301910: people are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate in the Russian-ruled city of Kharbin, a major railway outpost in Northern China. Strangely, some of the dead bodies vanish before they can be identified. During a dangerously cold winter in a city gripped by fear, the Baron, a wealthy Russian aristocrat and the city's medical commissioner, is determined to stop this mysterious plague.
- Woman at 1,000 Degrees byCall Number: F HelgasonISBN: 9781616206239Publication Date: 2018-01-09She is at the beginning of the end of her life. Oh, she has two weeks left, maybe three--she has booked her cremation appointment, at a crispy 1,000 degrees, so it won't be long. But until then she has her cigarettes, a World War II-era weapon, some Facebook friends, and her memories to sustain her. And what a life this remarkable eighty-year-old narrator has led.
- The Woman in the Window byCall Number: F FinnISBN: 9780062678416Publication Date: 2018-01-02For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade's most anticipated debuts, to be published in thirty-six languages around the world and already in development as a major film from Fox: a twisty, powerful Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house.
New Fiction
- Anatomy of a Scandal byCall Number: F VaughanISBN: 9781501172168Publication Date: 2018-01-23Sophie's husband James is a loving father, a handsome man, a charismatic and successful public figure. And yet he stands accused of a terrible crime. Sophie is convinced he is innocent and desperate to protect her precious family from the lies that threaten to rip them apart. Kate is the lawyer hired to prosecute the case: an experienced professional who knows that the law is all about winning the argument. She is certain James is guilty and is determined he will pay for his crimes. Who is right about James? Sophie or Kate?
- The Black Painting byCall Number: F OlsonISBN: 9781335953810Publication Date: 2018-01-09There are four cousins in the Morse family. Their grandfather summons them to his mansion at Owl's Point. None of them have visited the family estate since they were children, when a prized painting disappeared: a self-portrait by Goya, rumored to cause madness or death upon viewing. Afterward, the family split apart amid the accusations and suspicions that followed its theft. Any hope that their grandfather planned to make amends evaporates when Teresa arrives to find the old man dead, his horrified gaze pinned upon the spot where the painting once hung.
- The Boat People byCall Number: F BalaISBN: 9780385542296Publication Date: 2018-01-09The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism. The Boat People is a spellbinding and timely novel that provokes a deeply compassionate lens through which to view the current refugee crisis.
- The Bomb Maker byCall Number: F PerryISBN: 9780802127488Publication Date: 2018-01-02In The Bomb Maker, Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost.
- Brass byCall Number: F AliuISBN: 9780399590245Publication Date: 2018-01-23A waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. Then she meets Bashkim, who is a married man who left Albania to chase his dreams--and wound up working as a line cook in Waterbury, Connecticut. Back when the brass mills were still open, this bustling factory town drew one wave of immigrants after another. Now it's the place they can't seem to leave. Elsie falls in love quickly, but when she learns that she's pregnant, Elsie can't help wondering where Bashkim's heart really lies, and what he'll do about the wife he left behind.
- City of Endless Night byCall Number: F PrestonISBN: 9781455536948Publication Date: 2018-01-16When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found. Lieutenant CDS Vincent D'Agosta quickly takes the lead. He knows his investigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so D'Agosta is delighted when FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast shows up at the crime scene assigned to the case.
- A Dangerous Crossing byCall Number: F RhysISBN: 9781501162725Publication Date: 2018-01-091939: Europe is on the brink of war when young Lily Shepherd boards an ocean liner in Essex, bound for Australia. The passage proves magical, complete with live music, cocktails, and fancy dress balls. With stops at exotic locations along the way, the voyage shows Lily places she'd only ever dreamed of and enables her to make friends with those above her social station.. She even allows herself to hope that a man she couldn't possibly have a future with outside the ship might return her feelings. But Lily soon realizes that she's not the only one hiding secrets. Her newfound friends are also running away from their pasts.
- Don't Look for Me byCall Number: F CrossISBN: 9781681776286Publication Date: 2018-01-02Six years ago, the woman Carter Blake loved disappeared and told him not to ever look for her. For six long years, he kept that promise. She was a woman on the run -- a woman with a secret many would kill for. But now someone else is looking for her. Trenton Gage is a hitman with a talent for finding people -- dead or alive. And his next job is to track down the woman Carter Blake once loved. With both men hunting the same person, the question is: Who will find her first?
- The End We Start From byCall Number: F HunterISBN: 9780802126894Publication Date: 2017-11-07As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place. The story traces fear and wonder as the baby grows, thriving and content against all the odds.
- Eternal Life byCall Number: F HornISBN: 9780393608533Publication Date: 2018-01-23Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles--widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son--are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, she's tried everything to free herself, But as the twenty-first century begins, Rachel knows she must find a way out.
- False Witness byCall Number: F GrantISBN: 9780399594335Publication Date: 2018-01-02Alabama police detective Cooper Devereaux chases a cunning serial killer terrorizing the city of Birmingham in this edge-of-your-seat thriller for readers of James Lee Burke, Craig Johnson, and Robert Crais.
- The Girls in the Picture byCall Number: F BenjaminISBN: 9781101886809Publication Date: 2018-01-16From the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife, a fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford.
- Green byCall Number: F Graham-FelsenISBN: 9780399591143Publication Date: 2018-01-02Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Unless he tests into the city's best public high school--he'll be friendless for the foreseeable future. Nobody's more surprised than Dave when Marlon Wellings sticks up for him in the school cafeteria. Mar's a loner from the public housing project on the corner of Dave's own gentrifying block, and he confounds Dave's assumptions about black culture. Cracks gradually form in their relationship, and Dave starts to become aware of the breaks he's been given--and that Mar has not.
- Grist Mill Road byCall Number: F YatesISBN: 9781250150288Publication Date: 2018-01-09The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn mountains, three friends--Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah--are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, in New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again--with even more devastating results.
- Halsey Street byCall Number: F CosterISBN: 9781503941175Publication Date: 2018-01-01Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She's accepted that her future won't be what she'd dreamed, but now, as gentrification has completely reshaped her old neighborhood, even her past is unrecognizable. Even her mother, Mirella, has abandoned the family to reclaim her roots in the Dominican Republic. That took courage. It's also unforgivable.
- Heart Spring Mountain byCall Number: F MacArthurISBN: 9780062444424Publication Date: 2018-01-09It's August 2011, and Tropical Storm Irene has just wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and destroying homes. One thousand miles away, Vale receives a call and is told that her mother, Bonnie, has disappeared. Despite a years-long estrangement from Bonnie, Vale drops everything and returns home to look for her. As Vale begins her search, the narrative opens up and pitches back and forth in time to follow three generations of women-as they seek love, bear children, and absorb losses. All the while, Vale's search has her unwittingly careening toward a family origin secret more stunning than she ever imagined.
- I Know My Name byCall Number: F CookeISBN: 9781538744444Publication Date: 2018-01-16On a small Greek island, a woman comes ashore with no memory of who she is, where she's from, or how she came to be shipwrecked there. Meanwhile, in a pretty suburb on the outskirts of London, Eloise, the mother of a newborn and a toddler, vanishes into thin air. Her husband, Lochlan, is desperate to find her--but as the police look into the disappearance, it becomes clear that Lochlan and Eloise's marriage was not the perfect union it appeared.
- The Illustrious House of Ramires byCall Number: F QueirosISBN: 9780811226028Publication Date: 2017-05-23The Illustrious House of Ramires, presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa, is the favorite novel of many.. This late masterpiece, wickedly funny and yet profoundly tender, centers on Gonalo Ramires, heir to a family so aristocratic that it predates even the kings of Portugal.
- The Immortalists byCall Number: F BenjaminISBN: 9780735213180Publication Date: 2018-01-09If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak out to hear their fortunes. The prophecies inform their next five decades. The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next.
- Into the Black Nowhere byCall Number: F GardinerISBN: 9781101985557Publication Date: 2018-01-30In this exhilarating thriller inspired by real-life serial killer Ted Bundy, a FBI profiler aces off against a charming, merciless serial killer. Rookie FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix, newly assigned to the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, fears that a serial killer is roaming the dark roads outside Austin.
- Keep Her Safe byCall Number: F TuckerISBN: 9781501149870Publication Date: 2018-01-23Noah Marshall has known a privileged and comfortable life thanks to his mother, the highly decorated chief of the Austin Police Department. But all that changes the night she reveals a skeleton that's been rattling in her closet for years, and succumbs to the guilt of destroying an innocent family's life. Reeling with grief, Noah is forced to carry the burden of this shocking secret.
- Killer Choice byCall Number: F HuntISBN: 9780399586408Publication Date: 2018-01-30The electrifying debut thriller that asks the question: To save the one you love, is there any price you wouldn't pay? His wife is sick. He needs $200,000 to save her. A mysterious man offers to give him the money with just one catch: He has to murder someone to get it.
- Light It Up byCall Number: F PetrieISBN: 9780399575631Publication Date: 2018-01-16In this action-packed thriller starring war veteran Peter Ash, a well-planned and flawlessly executed hijacking reveals the hidden dangers of Colorado's mellowest business, but Ash may find there's more to this crime than meets the eye.
- The Maze at Windermere byCall Number: F SmithISBN: 9780735221925Publication Date: 2018-01-09A reckless wager between a tennis pro with a fading career and a drunken party guest--the stakes are an antique motorcycle and an heiress's diamond necklace--launches a narrative odyssey that braids together three centuries of aspiration and adversity.
- Neon in Daylight byCall Number: F HobyISBN: 9781936787753Publication Date: 2018-01-09New York City in 2012, the sweltering summer before Hurricane Sandy hits. Kate, a young woman newly arrived from England, is staying in a Manhattan apartment while she tries to figure out her future. She has two unfortunate responsibilities during her time in America: to make regular Skype calls to her miserable boyfriend back home, and to cat-sit an indifferent feline named Joni Mitchell.The city has other plans for her. In New York's parks and bodegas, its galleries and performance spaces, its bars and clubs crowded with bodies, Kate encounters two strangers who will transform her stay.
- The Night Market byCall Number: F MooreISBN: 9780544671898Publication Date: 2018-01-16It's late Thursday night, and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene in one of the city's last luxury homes. The dead man on the floor is covered by an unknown substance that's eating through his skin. Before Carver can identify it, six FBI agents burst in and remove him from the premises. He's pushed into a disinfectant trailer, forced to drink a liquid that sends him into seizures, and then is shocked unconscious. On Sunday he wakes in his bed . He can't remember the crime scene or how he got home; he has no idea two days have passed.
- Operator Down byCall Number: F TaylorISBN: 9781101984819Publication Date: 2018-01-09Nothing is ever simple in the world of intelligence, as Aaron Bergman-a former leader of an elite direct action team under the Mossad-should have known. Executing an operation as a contractor, a cutout that gave the State of Israel plausible deniability, he disappears without a trace. Pike Logan and his team know none of this, but he's tracking an American arms dealer in Tel Aviv who may-or may not-be attempting to sell sensitive nuclear weapons components to the highest bidder.
- Our Lady of the Prairie byCall Number: F NissenISBN: 9781328662071Publication Date: 2018-01-23In the space of a few months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad--long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter--grapples with a life turned upside down. After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, Phillipa returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny's wedding. There, Phillipa must endure a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her heretofore docile husband.
- Peach byCall Number: F GlassISBN: 9781635571301Publication Date: 2018-01-23Something has happened to Peach. Staggering around the town streets in the aftermath of an assault, Peach feels a trickle of blood down her legs, a lingering smell of her anonymous attacker on her skin. It hurts to walk, but she manages to make her way to her home, where she stumbles into another oddly nightmarish reality: Her parents can't seem to comprehend that anything has happened to their daughter.
- The Perfect Nanny byCall Number: F SlimaniISBN: 9780143132172Publication Date: 2018-01-09When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau.
- Perish byCall Number: F BlackISBN: 9781496713544Publication Date: 2018-01-30Forensic expert Maggie Gardiner discovers troubling new details about her colleague Jack Renner, a homicide detective with a brutal approach to law and order . . . In a luxurious mansion on the outskirts of Cleveland, a woman's body lies gutted in a pool of blood on the marble floor. The victim is Joanna Moorehouse, founder of Sterling Financial. Maggie knows that to crack the case, she and Jack will have to infiltrate the cutthroat world of high-stakes finance.
- The Spring Girls byCall Number: F ToddISBN: 9781501130717Publication Date: 2018-01-02Four sisters are desperately seeking the blueprints to life--the modern-day retelling of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. The Spring Girls--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy--are a force of nature on the New Orleans military base where they live. As different as they are, with their father on tour in Iraq and their mother hiding something, their fears are very much the same. Struggling to build lives they can be proud of and that will lift them out of their humble station in life, one year will determine all that their futures can become.
- A State of Freedom byCall Number: F MukherjeeISBN: 9780393292909Publication Date: 2018-01-02Five characters, in very different circumstances--from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, to a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city--find out the meanings of dislocation and the desire for more.
- Strangers byCall Number: F ArcherISBN: 9781250113061Publication Date: 2018-01-09Imagine you're home alone. Suddenly a man stands before you. He claims to be your fiance. But you have no idea who he is. And nothing in your home suggests that someone lives with you. He's talking to you, but nothing makes sense. You're afraid. Are you crazy? Imagine you come home and your fiancee doesn't recognize you. She thinks you're a burglar. Worse, a rapist. She claims she's never seen you before. She obviously thinks you're crazy. Are you?
- The Take byCall Number: F ReichISBN: 9780316342353Publication Date: 2018-01-16From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Reich, an international spy thriller featuring Simon Riske: one part James Bond, one part Jack Reacher Riske is a freelance industrial spy who, despite his job title, lives a mostly quiet life above his auto garage in central London. He is hired to perform the odd job for a bank, an insurance company, or the British Secret Service, when he isn't expertly stealing a million-dollar watch off the wrist of a crooked Russian oligarch.
- Theory of Shadows byCall Number: F MaurensigISBN: 9780374273804Publication Date: 2018-01-16On the morning of March 24, 1946, the world chess champion Alexander Alekhine--was found dead in his hotel room in Portugal. He was fully dressed and wearing an overcoat, slumped back in a chair, in front of a meal, a chessboard just out of reach. The doctor overseeing the autopsy certified that Alekhine died of asphyxiation due to a piece of meat stuck in his larynx and assured the world that there was absolutely no evidence of suicide or foul play. Some, of course, have commented that the photos of the corpse look as though staged. And what about all these rumors concerning Alekhine's activities during World War II? Can he really be seen in photographs with high-ranking Nazi officials?
- This Love Story Will Self-Destruct byCall Number: F CohenISBN: 9781501168536Publication Date: 2018-01-23Meet Eve. She's a dreamer, a feeler, a careening well of sensitivities who can't quite keep her feet on the ground, or steer clear of trouble. She's a laugher, a crier, a quirky and quick-witted bleeding-heart-worrier. Meet Ben. He's an engineer, an expert at leveling floors who likes order, structure, and straight lines. So naturally, when the two first cross paths, sparks don't exactly fly. But then they meet again. And again.
- Two Girls Down byCall Number: F LunaISBN: 9780385542494Publication Date: 2018-01-09When two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot in a small Pennsylvania town, their devastated mother hires an enigmatic bounty hunter, Alice Vega, to help find the girls. Immediately shut out by a local police department already stretched thin by budget cuts and the growing OxyContin and meth epidemic, Vega enlists the help of a disgraced former cop, Max Caplan. Cap is a man trying to put the scandal of his past behind him and move on, but Vega needs his help to find the girls, and she will not be denied
- Until We Find Home byCall Number: F GohlkeISBN: 9781496428301Publication Date: 2018-01-09For American Claire Stewart, joining the French Resistance sounded as romantic as the storylines she hopes to write. But when she finds herself stranded on English shores, with five French Jewish children she smuggled across the channel reality feels more akin to fear. With nowhere to go, Claire throws herself on the mercy of an estranged aunt, begging Lady Miranda Langford to take the children into her magnificent estate. Heavily weighted with grief of her own, Miranda reluctantly agrees . . . if Claire will stay to help.
- The Voice Inside byCall Number: F FreemanISBN: 9781542049047Publication Date: 2018-01-16Four years after serial killer Rudy Cutter was sent away for life, San Francisco homicide inspector Frost Easton uncovers a terrible lie: his closest friend planted false evidence to put Cutter behind bars. When he's forced to reveal the truth, his sister's killer is back on the streets. Desperate to take Cutter down again, the detective finds a new ally in Eden Shay. She wrote a book about Cutter and knows more about him than anyone.
- Watch Me byCall Number: F GehrmanISBN: 9781250178503Publication Date: 2018-01-23Kate Youngblood is disappearing. Muddling through her late 30s as a creative writing professor at Blackwood college, she's dangerously close to never being noticed again. The follow-up novel to her successful debut tanked. Her husband left her for a woman ten years younger. She's heading into an age where soon no one will ever truly look at her, want to know her, again. Except one.
- The Wife byCall Number: F BurkeISBN: 9780062390516Publication Date: 2018-01-23When Angela met Jason Powell, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling.To her surprise, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. She and her son were finally able to move out of her mother's home to Manhattan, where no one knew about her tragic past. When a college intern makes an accusation against Jason, and another woman, Kerry Lynch, comes forward with an even more troubling allegation, their perfect life begins to unravel.
- Winter byCall Number: F SmithISBN: 9781101870754Publication Date: 2018-01-09The second novel in the Man Booker Prize-nominated author's Seasonal cycle; the much-anticipated follow-up to Autumn Winter. Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. And now Art's mother is seeing things. Come to think of it, Art's seeing things himself. When four people, strangers and family, converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for everyone?