Recently Received Riveting Reads: October 2016
Selective list of new fiction recently received
New Fiction
- The Angel of History byCall Number: F AlameddineISBN: 9780802125767Publication Date: 2016-10-04Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic,The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS.
- The Angel Tree byCall Number: F RileyISBN: 9781447288442Publication Date: 2016-10-01.Thirty years have passed since Greta left Marchmont Hall, a grand and beautiful house nestled in the hills of rural Monmouthshire. But when she returns to the Hall for Christmas, at the invitation of her old friend David Marchmont, she has no recollection of her past association with it - the result of a tragic accident that has blanked out more than two decades of her life. Then, during a walk through the wintry landscape, she stumbles across a grave in the woods, and the weathered inscription on the headstone tells her that a little boy is buried here . . .
- A Baxter Family Christmas byCall Number: F KingsburyISBN: 9781451687569Publication Date: 2016-10-25Two years have passed since the terrible car accident that took the life of John Baxter's daughter, Erin, her husband and three of their four daughters. Prompted by grief, and missing his daughter, John has invited a stranger for Christmas Eve dinner, Kendra Bryant, the transplant recipient who now has Erin's heart.
- The Best American Short Stories 2016 byCall Number: Short Stories BestISBN: 9780544582750Publication Date: 2016-10-04"The literary 'Oscars' features ;twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories."
- Broken Trust byCall Number: F GriffinISBN: 9780399171208Publication Date: 2016-10-04Having investigated his share of gruesome murders, Philadelphia Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne is beginning to think nothing can shock him - until the case of a young socialite's death lands on his desk. The Camilla Rose Morgan he'd known as a teenager was beautiful and brilliant - how was it possible she'd jumped to her death from her own balcony?
- By Gaslight byCall Number: F PriceISBN: 9780374160531Publication Date: 2016-10-04William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of the most notorious detective of all time, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a new lead on the fabled con Edward Shade. William's father died without ever finding Shade, but William is determined to drag the thief out of the shadows.
- Cakewalk byCall Number: F BrownISBN: 9780553392654Publication Date: 2016-10-18Continuing in the exuberant tradition of Six of One, Bingo, and Loose Lips, New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown returns to her much-loved fictional hamlet of Runnymede, whose memorable citizens are welcoming both the end of the Great War and the beginning of a new era.
- Christmas in Paris byCall Number: F HughesISBN: 9781250105509Publication Date: 2016-10-04Isabel Lawson is standing on the balcony of her suite at the Hotel de Crillon wondering if she's made a terrible mistake. She was supposed to be with her new husband on their honeymoon. But a week before the wedding, she called it off. Isabel is an ambitious Philadelphia finance woman, and Neil suddenly decided to take over his grandparents' farm. Isabel wasn't ready to trade her briefcase for a pair of rubber boots and a saddle. When Neil suggested she use their honeymoon tickets for herself, she thought it would give her a chance to clear her head.
- Crossing the Horizon byCall Number: F NotaroISBN: 9781451659405Publication Date: 2016-10-04The year is 1927, and Amelia Earhart has not yet made her record-breaking cross-Atlantic flight. Who will follow in Charles Lindbergh's footsteps and make her own history? Three women's names are splashed daily across the front page: Elsie Mackay, daughter of an Earl, is the first Englishwoman to get her pilot's license. Mabel Boll, a glamorous society darling is ardent to make the historic flight. Beauty pageant contestant Ruth Elder becomes the preeminent American girl of the sky.
- Cruel Beautiful World byCall Number: F LeavittISBN: 9781616203634Publication Date: 2016-10-04Sixteen-year-old Lucy Gold is about to run away with a much older man to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania, a rash act that will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. As Lucy's default parent for most of their lives, Charlotte has seen her youth marked by the burden of responsibility, but never more so than when Lucy's dream of a rural paradise turns into a nightmare.
- Dear Amy byCall Number: F CallaghanISBN: 9780062433923Publication Date: 2016-10-18Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes an advice column, Dear Amy, for the local newspaper. When one of Margot's students, fifteen-year-old Katie, disappears, the school and the town fear the worst. And then Margot gets a Dear Amy letter unlike any of the ones she's received before. It's a desperate plea for rescue from a girl who says she is being held captive and in terrible danger, a girl called Bethan Avery, who was abducted from the local area twenty years ago and never found.
- Explosion Chronicles byCall Number: F LiankeISBN: 9780802125828Publication Date: 2016-10-04With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded more than a millennium ago by refugees fleeing a seismic volcanic eruption. But in the post-Mao era the name takes on a new significance as the community grows explosively from a small village to a vast metropolis.
- Fidelity byCall Number: F FedarcykISBN: 9781476733869Publication Date: 2016-10-11Following the tragic death of her humanitarian parents, Kay and her brother, Christopher, were raised in a world of wealth and culture by their godparents. With ambition and selflessness, Kay joins the FBI to honor her parent's legacy, even while Christopher's life grows increasingly aimless. After early success in the Violent Crime Program in Baltimore she struggles working counterintelligence in New York. When Kay is assigned to investigate the loss of Russian government double agents, she sees this as her chance to prove herself.
- The German Girl byCall Number: F CorreaISBN: 9781501121142Publication Date: 2016-10-18Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places that once felt like home. Hannah and her best friend, Leo Martin, make a pact: whatever the future has in store for them, they'll meet it together. Hope appears in the form of the SS St. Louis, a transatlantic liner offering Jews safe passage out of Germany.
- The Girl from Venice byCall Number: F SmithISBN: 9781439140239Publication Date: 2016-10-18The Girl from Venice is a suspenseful World War II love story set against the beauty, mystery, and danger of occupied Venice. The war may be waning, but the city is still occupied and the people fear the power of the Third Reich. One night, a fisherman named Cenzo comes across a young woman's body floating in the lagoon and soon discovers that she is still alive and in trouble. Born to a wealthy Jewish family, Giulia is on the run from the Wehrmacht SS. Cenzo chooses to protect Giulia rather than hand her over to the Nazis.
- The Guineveres byCall Number: F DometISBN: 9781250086617Publication Date: 2016-10-04To four girls who have nothing, their friendship is everything: they are each other's confidants, teachers, and family. The girls are all named Guinevere--Vere, Gwen, Ginny, and Win--and it is the surprise of finding another Guinevere in their midst that first brings them together. They come to The Sisters of the Supreme Adoration convent by different paths, delivered by their families, each with her own complicated, heartbreaking story that she safeguards.
- House of Blazes byCall Number: F KalteisISBN: 9781770412866Publication Date: 2016-10-11Levi Hayes is out for gold -- and blood -- in this high-magnitude historical tear through the mean streets of San Francisco In the days before the great earthquake and fire of 1906, Levi Hayes returns from San Quentin Prison with a plan. After serving five years for the theft of $30,000 in gold coins from the San Francisco Mint, he's ready to take back what's his and exact revenge on the now-powerful Healey brothers who set him up and had his barroom, House of Blazes, seized by court order.
- Inheriting Edith byCall Number: F FishmanISBN: 9780062378743Publication Date: 2016-10-18For years, Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, and doing all she can to keep her head above water as a single mother. Everything changes when a former employer dies leaving Maggie a staggering inheritance. A house in Sag Harbor. The catch? It comes with an inhabitant: The deceased's eighty-two-year old mother Edith.
- IQ byCall Number: F IdeISBN: 9780316267724Publication Date: 2016-10-18The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch. They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which might be a set of tires or a homemade casserole.
- An Irish Country Love Story byCall Number: F TaylorISBN: 9780765382726Publication Date: 2016-10-04It's the winter of 1967, but the chilly weather can't stop love from warming hearts all over the county. Not just the love between a man and woman, as with young doctor, Barry Laverty, and his fiancee Sue Nolan, who are making plans to start a new life together, but also the love of an ailing pensioner for a faithful dog that's gone missing, the love of the local gentry for the great estate they are on verge of losing, or Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly's deep and abiding love for his long-time home and practice.
- Justice Is for the Lonely byCall Number: F ClarkISBN: 9780990370024Publication Date: 2015-06-30A former Dallas football star lies in a coma after heart surgery. When his family sues, alleging gross negligence, millions of dollars and reputations are at stake.
- A Lady Unrivaled byCall Number: F WhiteISBN: 9780764213526Publication Date: 2016-09-13Lady Ella Myerston can always find a reason to smile--even if it's just in hope that tomorrow will be better than today. All her life everyone has tried to protect her from the realities of the world, but Ella knows very well the danger that has haunted her brother and their friend, and she won't wait for it to strike again. She intends to take action . . . and if that happens to involve an adventurous trip to the Cotswolds, then so much the better.
- Long Way Gone byCall Number: F MartinISBN: 9780718084714Publication Date: 2016-10-04At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. Five years after losing everything, he falls in love with Daley Cross, an angelic voice in need of a song. But just as he realizes his love for Daley, Cooper faces a tragedy that threatens his life as well as his career. With nowhere else to go, he returns home to the remote Colorado mountains, searching for answers about his father and his faith.
- The Memory Stones byCall Number: F BrothersISBN: 9781632860163Publication Date: 2016-10-25The Memory Stones commemorates the thousands of Argentinians--the Disappeared--who fell victim to the brutality of the period, the effects of which are still being felt today. Following one family seeking to rebuild itself after unimaginable loss, it is the story--both heartbreaking and inspiring--of a country striving to survive even in the face of terror.
- The Mortifications byCall Number: F PalacioISBN: 9781101905692Publication Date: 2016-10-04In 1980, a rural Cuban family is torn apart during the Mariel Boatlift. Uxbal Encarnación--father, husband, political insurgent--refuses to leave behind the revolutionary ideals and lush tomato farms of his homeland. His wife Soledad takes young Isabel and Ulises and flees with them to America, leaving behind Uxbal for the promise of a better life. But instead of settling with fellow Cuban immigrants in Miami's familiar heat, Soledad pushes further north into Hartford, Connecticut. There, the exiled mother and her children begin a process of growth and transformation.
- The Mothers byCall Number: F BennettISBN: 9780399184512Publication Date: 2016-10-11It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance--and the subsequent cover-up--will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth.
- News of the World byCall Number: F JilesISBN: 9780062409201Publication Date: 2016-10-04It is1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna's parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act civilized.
- Nicotine byCall Number: F ZinkISBN: 9780062441706Publication Date: 2016-10-04Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life-by being the conventional one. Her mother, Amalia, was a member of an Amazonian tribe called the Kogi; her much older father, Norm, long ago attained cult-like deity status while operating a healing center in New Jersey. And she's never felt close to her much-older half-brothers. But all that changes when her father dies, and Penny inherits his childhood home in New Jersey. She goes to investigate the property and finds it occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters whom she finds unexpectedly charming, and who have renamed the property Nicotine House.
- Notwithstanding byCall Number: F de BernieresISBN: 9781101969878Publication Date: 2016-10-18As the world around it marches forward, the bucolic English village of Notwithstanding remains unchanged. It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local eccentrics--a retired colonel who has eschewed clothes, a spiritualist living with the ghost of her husband, and a dog named Archibald Scott-Moncrieff--almost fit in. In this delightfully evocative collection of stories, Louis de Bernières conjures up a rural idyll long since forgotten.
- The Other Einstein byCall Number: F BenedictISBN: 9781492637257Publication Date: 2016-10-18The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's shadow. Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight.
- Pharaoh byCall Number: F SmithISBN: 9780062276483Publication Date: 2016-10-18Pharaoh Tamose lies mortally wounded. The ancient city of Luxor is surrounded, All seems lost. Taita, advisor to the Pharaoh, prepares for the enemy's final, fatal push. The ex-slave, now general of Tamose's armies, is never more ingenious than when all hope is dashed. And this is Egypt's most desperate hour.
- A Question of Mercy byCall Number: F CoxISBN: 9781611177220Publication Date: 2016-10-04Adam Finney, a young man who is mentally disabled, faces sterilization and lobotomy in a state-supported asylum. When he is found dead in the French Broad River of rural North Carolina, his teenaged stepsister, Jess, is sought for questioning by their family and the police. Jess's odyssey of escape across four states leads into dark territories of life-and-death moral choices where compassion and grace offer faint illumination but few answers.
- Root, Petal, Thorn byCall Number: F OlsenISBN: 9781496705624Publication Date: 2016-08-30"In this beautifully written and powerful debut novel, Ella Joy Olsen traces the stories of five fascinating women who inhabit the same historic home over the course of a century-braided stories of love, heartbreak and courage connect the women, even across generations.
- Sirius byCall Number: F CrownISBN: 9781501144998Publication Date: 2016-10-04Levi, a fox terrier, lives with his family in a grand townhouse in Berlin. But the year is 1938, and Berlin is no longer safe for Levi or the Liliencrons, his Jewish owners. They rename him Sirius, after the constellation, to protect him. One night, Nazi troops storm the city and begin to search houses. Sirius alerts the family, and they manage to flee to California. In his new home, Carl Liliencron becomes a chauffeur and Sirius befriends everyone from Humphrey Bogart to Jack Warner. He is renamed Hercules and becomes a canine movie star. Little does Sirius know that he'll soon have to perform his most difficult acting role yet, when he winds up at the right hand of Hitler himself.
- The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things byCall Number: F MaukISBN: 9781503937055Publication Date: 2016-10-01Set against a layered Manhattan landscape, The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things explores a fractured family through the alternating perspectives of the mother, father, and brother of a young woman during the aftermath of her disappearance. A year of silent but collective anguish culminates in the fateful thirty hours after a body with a striking resemblance to hers is found, and we see her buttoned-up Upper West Side family spiral in different, dangerous directions:
- Strong Cold Dead byCall Number: F LandISBN: 9780765335135Publication Date: 2016-10-04Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong returns in Jon Land's Strong Cold Dead, a thriller with heart-stopping action and a high-stakes terrorist plot The terrorist organization ISIS is after a deadly toxin that could be the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. The same toxin holds the potential to eradicate cancer. There is a frantic race to see who can get to it first, even as Caitlin Strong begins to assemble the disparate pieces of a deadly puzzle.
- The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness byCall Number: F DawsonISBN: 9781503939103Publication Date: 2016-10-25Nina Popkin is on a search for her birth mother. She's spent her life looking into strangers' faces, fantasizing they're related to her, and now, at thirty-five, she's ready for answers. Meanwhile, the last thing Lindy McIntyre wants is someone like Nina bursting into her life, announcing that they're sisters and campaigning to track down their mother. She's too busy with her successful salon, three children, beautiful home, and...oh yes, some pesky little anxiety attacks. But Nina is determined to reassemble her birth family. Her search turns up Phoebe Mullen, a guarded, hard-talking woman convinced she has nothing to offer.
- Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil byCall Number: F MarchettaISBN: 9780316349291Publication Date: 2016-10-11When Bish Ortley, a suspended cop, receives word that a bus carrying his daughter has been bombed, he rushes to be by her side. A suspect has already been singled out: a 17-year-old girl who has since disappeared from the scene. The press has now revealed that she is the youngest member of one of London's most notorious families. Thirteen years earlier, her grandfather set off a suicide bomb in a grocery store, a bomb her mother confessed to building. Has the girl decided to follow in their footsteps?
- The Terranauts byCall Number: F BoyleISBN: 9780062349408Publication Date: 2016-10-25It is 1994, and in the desert near Tillman, Arizona, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway. As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists, four men and four women dubbed the "Terranauts," have been selected to live under glass in E2, a prototype of a possible off-earth colony. Their sealed, three-acre compound comprises five biomes, and enough wildlife, water, and vegetation to sustain them. Closely monitored by an all-seeing Mission Control, this New Eden is the brainchild of ecovisionary Jeremiah Ree, for whom the project is both an adventure in scientific discovery and a momentous publicity stunt.
- The Things We Wish Were True byCall Number: F WhalenISBN: 9781503936072Publication Date: 2016-09-01From the outside, Sycamore Glen, North Carolina, might look like the perfect all-American neighborhood. But behind the white picket fences lies a web of secrets that reach from house to house. Up and down the streets, neighbors quietly bear the weight of their own pasts-until an accident at the community pool upsets the delicate equilibrium.
- Vegas Girls byCall Number: F SkylerISBN: 9781510710832Publication Date: 2016-10-04Vegas Girls begins when three former high school friends, now in their mid-thirties, reunite in their hometown of Las Vegas--a city they vowed to escape as soon as they could--to celebrate their new lives and revisit old haunts. But what starts out as a week-long, sun-kissed reunion takes a strange turn as mysterious gifts appear, familiar faces pop up in unexpected places, and each woman reveals a secret, private quest.
- Without Mercy byCall Number: F BassISBN: 9780062363190Publication Date: 2016-10-04In the most suspenseful installment of the New York Times nestselling Body Farm series to date, forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton investigates a bizarre murder, and confronts a deadly enemy he thought he'd put behind bars for good.
New Fiction
- After the Dam byCall Number: F HassingerISBN: 9781597097536Publication Date: 2016-09-16Undone by motherhood, thirty-two-year-old Rachel Clayborne flees with her baby in the middle of the night for the one place on earth that's been her refuge: her grandmother's lake house in northern Wisconsin. Hoping to reconnect with a former, healthier self, she instead faces a confused and dying grandmother, her ever-present nurse who seems bent on thwarting each of Rachel's desires, and a changed ex-boyfriend--her first love. As a constant rain threatens the nearby dam, Rachel struggles to discern what's happened to the discern what's happened.
- The Annie Year byCall Number: F AshISBN: 9781939419965Publication Date: 2016-10-11Tall, trusted Tandy Caide, CPA, is a long-time patron of the arts in her town, which is why you will find her sitting in the front row of the high school's annual musical production. This year is an Annie year--and it would be no different than other years were it not for the high school's hiring of a new vocational agriculture (Vo-Ag) teacher.
- Between Sisters byCall Number: F KellytISBN: 9781455540853Publication Date: 2016-08-09Meet the women of Delaney Gardens, a suburban village in the outer reaches of Dublin. There's Cassie, who's spent her married life doing everything right for her,yet feels so exhausted that "wine o'clock" comes a little earlier each afternoon. There's her sister Coco, who runs a vintage dress shop, but has avoided the complications of romantic commitment. Watching over them is their grandmother Pearl, who, is contending with a long-buried secret. And then there's Elsa, the polished face of daytime TV,, but is now facing her toughest battle yet.
- The Blind Astronomer's Daughter byCall Number: F PipkinISBN: 9781632861870Publication Date: 2016-10-11In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, stargazer Caroline Ainsworth's father, Arthur, throws himself from his rooftop observatory. Caroline had often assisted her father with his observations, in pursuit of an unknown planet. When astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus, unremitting jealousy drove Arthur to madness. Now, gone blind from staring at the sun, he has chosen death over a darkened life. Grief-stricken, Caroline abandons the vain search, leaves Ireland for London.
- The Boat Rocker byCall Number: F JinISBN: 9780307911629Publication Date: 2016-10-25New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency that produces a website read by the Chinese diaspora around the world. Danlin's explosive exposes have made him legendary among readers--and feared by Communist officials. But his newest assignment may be his undoing: investigating his ex-wife, Yan Haili, an unscrupulous novelist who has willingly become a pawn of the Chinese government in order to realize her dreams of literary stardom.
- Bridget Jones's Baby byCall Number: F FieldingISBN: 9781524732400Publication Date: 2016-10-11Bridget Jones, beloved Singleton and global phenomenon, is back with a bump in Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries. As Bridget careers towards baby-deadline, a series of classic Bridget Jones moments finally leads her into pregnancy--but just not quite as intended. It's a pregnancy full of cheesy potatoes, outlandish advice from Drunken Singletons and Smug Mothers, chaos at scans and childbirth classes, high jinks and romance, joy and despair--but all of it dominated by the terribly awkward question: Who's the father?
- The Comet Seekers byCall Number: F SedgwickISBN: 9780062448767Publication Date: 2016-10-11Róisín and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica. At first glance, the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Róisín, a daughter of Ireland and a peripatetic astronomer, joins the science team to observe the fracturing of a comet overhead. François, the base's chef, has just left his birthplace in Bayeux, France, for only the second time in his life. Yet devastating tragedy and the longing for a fresh start, which they share, as well as an indelible but unknown bond that stretches back centuries, connect them to each other.
- Crane Pond byCall Number: F FrancisISBN: 9781609453510Publication Date: 2016-10-04Richard Francis's stunning novel Crane Pond is the story of Samuel Sewall, loving father and husband, anti-slavery advocate, defender of Native American rights, and presiding judge at the Salem Witchcraft Trials in 1692, where he sentenced 20 innocent women to death. He was the only judge to later admit his terrible mistake, and ask for forgiveness. At once a searing view of the Trials from the inside out, an empathetic portrait of one of the period's most tragic and redemptive figures, and an indictment of the malevolent power of religious and political idealism.
- Dolphin Drone byCall Number: F GrundvigISBN: 9781510709317Publication Date: 2016-09-27Using dolphin sonar-tracking technology, Ex-Navy SEAL Merk Toten stumbles of freshly laid Iranian sea mines while conducting surveillance on two US ships that were hijacked by Somali pirates on the Strait of Hormuz. This discovery occurs on the same day that a fake intelligence report draws three US drones away from the Persian Gulf. Toten investigates the parallel events to uncover a new super-terrorist group made up of a network of Somali warlords, Islamic assailants, Yemen-based terrorists, and ISIS sympathizers.
- The Eastern Shore byCall Number: F JustISBN: 9780544836587Publication Date: 2016-10-18Ned Ayres has never wanted anything but a newspaper career. The defining moment comes early, when Ned is city editor of his hometown paper. One of his beat reporters fields a tip: William Grant, the town haberdasher, married to the bank president's daughter and father of two children, once served six years in Joliet. The story runs--Ned offers no resistance to his publisher's argument that the public has a right to know. The consequences, swift and shocking, haunt him throughout a long career.
- El Paso byCall Number: F GroomISBN: 9781631492242Publication Date: 2016-10-04Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, best-selling author Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this episodic saga set in six parts. Pitting the legendary Pancho Villa against the Colonel, a thrill-seeking Bostonian railroad tycoon whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua, El Paso opens during a time of dramatic upheaval in Mexico, its government being squeezed on one end by Villa's revolutionaries and on the other by filthy American capitalists.
- Everything We Keep byCall Number: F LonsdaleISBN: 9781503935310Publication Date: 2016-08-01Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the perfect recipe for the perfect life: marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her parents' restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes in a boating accident, her well-baked future is swept out to sea. Instead of walking down the aisle on their wedding day, Aimee is at James's funeral--a funeral that leaves her more unsettled than at peace. As Aimee struggles to reconstruct her life, she delves deeper into James's disappearance.
- The Fall Guy byCall Number: F LasdunISBN: 9780393292329Publication Date: 2016-10-18It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountaintop house. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault lines, and with the arrival of a fourth character, the household finds itself suddenly in the grip of uncontrollable passions.
- A Gambler's Anatomy byCall Number: F LethemISBN: 9780385539906Publication Date: 2016-10-18Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur "whales" who think they can challenge his peerless acumen at backgammon. Fronted by his pasty, vampiric manager, Edgar Falk, Bruno arrives in Berlin after a troubling run of bad luck in Singapore. Perhaps it was the emergence of a blot that distorts his vision so he has to look at the board sideways. Things don't go much better in Berlin. His blot grows worse; he passes out and is sent to the local hospital, where he is given an extremely depressing diagnosis.
- Goliath byCall Number: F CorridanISBN: 9781608092154Publication Date: 2016-11-01In the Bering Sea, Bennkah, the largest oil tanker ever built, newly commissioned in Vladivostock, Russia, is on a secret mission. On this maiden voyage, Captain Borodin is at the helm. He is the only one aboard aware of the mission. Soon an engineer discovers a defect-seemingly minor, but one with disastrous potential. Despite his attempts to correct the problem, a fire erupts, contained at first, then rapidly spreads out of control, consuming the behemoth ship.
- Hag-Seed byCall Number: F AtwoodISBN: 9780804141291Publication Date: 2016-10-11William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed. Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge.
- High Heat byCall Number: F CastleISBN: 9781484781500Publication Date: 2016-10-25An ISIS-style beheading of a journalist, carried out by a New York City group pledging fealty to that rogue state, becomes more than just another case for NYPD Captain Nikki Heat when the killers announce their next target: her husband, magazine writer Jameson Rook. Meanwhile, Heat is haunted by a fleeting glimpse of someone she swears is her mother... a woman who has been dead for nearly twenty years.
- In the Country of the Blind byCall Number: F HoaglandISBN: 9781628727210Publication Date: 2016-11-01This capstone novel, set in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, introduces Press, a stockbroker going blind. Press has lost his job and his wife and is trying to figure out his next move, holed up in his Vermont cabin surrounded by a hippy commune, drug runners, farmers-gone-bust, blood-thirsty auctioneers, and general ne-er-do-wells.
- John O'Hara: Stories byCall Number: Short Stories O'HaraISBN: 9781598534979Publication Date: 2016-09-13Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism,aiming, he said, "to record the way people talked and thought and felt . . . with complete honesty."
- The Kid byCall Number: F HansenISBN: 9781501129759Publication Date: 2016-10-04Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand, a skill that both got him into and out of trouble and that turned him into an American legend of the old West.
- The Life-Writer byCall Number: F ConstantineISBN: 9781771961011Publication Date: 2016-10-11After the death of her beloved husband, Katrin, a literary biographer, copes with the loss by writing his personal history. While researching the letters and journals he left behind, however, she comes to the devastating conclusion that his life before their marriage was far richer than the one they shared.
- The Life She Wants byCall Number: F CarrISBN: 9780778330141Publication Date: 2016-09-27In the aftermath of her financier husband's suicide, Emma Shay Compton's dream life is shattered. Richard Compton stole his clients' life savings to fund a lavish life in New York City and, although she was never involved in the business, Emma bears the burden of her husband's crimes. She is left with nothing. Only one friend stands by her, a friend she's known since high school, who encourages her to come home to Sonoma County.
- Livia Lone byCall Number: F EislerISBN: 9781503939660Publication Date: 2016-10-25Seattle PD sex-crimes detective Livia Lone knows the monsters she hunts. Sold by her Thai parents along with her little sister, Nason; marooned in America; abused by the men who trafficked them...the only thing that kept Livia alive as a teenager was her determination to find Nason. Livia has never stopped looking. And she copes with her failure to protect her sister by doing everything she can to put predators in prison. Or, when that fails, by putting them in the ground.
- A Lowcountry Christmas byCall Number: F MonroeISBN: 9781501125539Publication Date: 2016-10-25As far as ten-year-old Miller McClellan is concerned, it's the worst Christmas ever. His father's shrimp boat is docked, his mother is working two jobs, and with finances strained, Miller is told they can't afford the dog he desperately wants. Your brother's return from war is our family's gift, his parents tell him. But when Taylor returns with PTSD, family strains darken the holidays.
- Mercury byCall Number: F LiveseyISBN: 9780062437501Publication Date: 2016-09-27Donald believes he knows all there is to know about seeing. An optometrist in suburban Boston, he is sure that he and his wife, Viv, who runs the local stables, are both devoted to their two children and to each other. Then Mercury, a gorgeous young thoroughbred with a murky past arrives at Windy Hill and everything changes.
- Mister Monkey byCall Number: F ProseISBN: 9780062397836Publication Date: 2016-10-18The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children's musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee's the kind of family favorite that survives far past its prime.
- My Own Dear Brother byCall Number: F MullerISBN: 9781632865335Publication Date: 2016-10-11It is 1944, and war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For thirteen-year-old Ursula Hildesheim, life in the village of Felddorf remains almost as it was: bullied by her schoolmates, enlisted in endless chores by her mother and sister, thieving, and running wild with her adored older brother, Anton. But then Russian prisoners escape from the local concentration camp, her mother starts an affair with a married man, her only friend goes missing, and her brother's allegiance to the Hitler Youth emerges in shocking ways--and Ursula finds herself alone, disturbed by dark memories, and surrounded by threat.
- Napoleon's Last Island byCall Number: F KeneallyISBN: 9781501128424Publication Date: 2016-10-04In October 1815, after losing the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was banished to the island of Saint Helena. There, in one of the most remote places on earth, he lived out the final six years of his life. On this lonely island with no chance of escape, he found an unexpected ally: a spirited British girl named Betsy Balcombe who lived on the island with her family. While Napoleon waited for his own accommodations to be built, the Balcombe family played host to the infamous exile, a decision that would have devastating consequences for them all.
- The Next byCall Number: F GangiISBN: 9781250110565Publication Date: 2016-10-18Is there a right way to die? If so, Joanna DeAngelis has it all wrong. She's consumed by betrayal, spending her numbered days obsessing over her much younger ex, and watching him thrive in the spotlight with someone new, while she wastes away. She's every woman scorned, fantasizing about revenge except she's out of time. Joanna falls from her life, from the love of her daughters and devoted dog, into an otherworldly landscape, a bleak infinity she can't escape until she rises up and returns and sets it right.
- Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down byCall Number: F ValenteISBN: 9780062429117Publication Date: 2016-10-04As members of the yearbook committee, Nick, Zola, Matt, and Christina are eager to capture all the memorable moments of their junior year at Lewis and Clark High School, the plays and football games, dances and fund-drives, teachers and classes that are the epicenter of their teenage lives. But how do you document a horrific tragedy, a deadly school shooting by a classmate?
- Public Library and Other Stories byCall Number: Short Stories SmithISBN: 9781101973042Publication Date: 2016-10-04Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives--our own personal libraries--make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make.
- The Red Car byCall Number: F DermanskyISBN: 9781631492334Publication Date: 2016-10-11Leah is living in Queens with a possessive husband she doesn't love and a long list of unfulfilled ambitions, when she's jolted from a thick ennui by a call from the past. Her beloved former boss and friend, Judy, has died in a car accident and left Leah her most prized possession and, a red sports car. Facing the jarring disconnect between the life she expected and the one she is now actually living, Leah takes off for San Francisco to claim Judy's car.
- The Secrets of Roscarbury Hall byCall Number: F O'LoughlinISBN: 9781510713727Publication Date: 2016-10-04In a crumbling mansion in a small Irish village in County Wicklow, two elderly sisters, Ella and Roberta O'Callaghan, live alone in Roscarbury Hall with their secrets, memories, and mutual hatred. Long estranged by a dark family tragedy, the two communicate only by terse notes. But when the sisters are threatened with bankruptcy, Ella defies Roberta's wishes and takes matters into her own hands, putting her baking skills to good use and converting the mansion's old ballroom into a cafe.
- Seduced byCall Number: F WhiteISBN: 9780399169779Publication Date: 2016-10-18A fishing guide and part-time investigator, Hannah Smith is a tall, strong Florida woman descended from many generations of the same. Five hundred years ago, Spanish conquistadors planted the first orange seeds in Florida, but now the whole industry is in trouble. The trees are dying at the root, weakened by infestation and genetic manipulation, and the only solution might be somehow, somewhere, to find samples of the original root stock. No one is better equipped to traverse the swamps and murky backcountry of Florida than Hannah, but once word leaks out of her quest, the trouble begins.
- Serious Sweet byCall Number: F KennedyISBN: 9781503936515Publication Date: 2016-10-18Jon Sigurdsson is fifty-nine and divorced, a senior civil servant in London who loathes his government job. Meg Williams is a bankrupt accountant--two words you don't want in the same sentence. She's forty-five and shakily sober, living on Telegraph Hill in London, Somewhere out there is Jon, pinballing around the city with a cell phone and a letter-writing habit he can't break. He's a man on the brink, leaking government secrets and affection for a woman he barely knows as he runs for his life.
- A Shoe Addict's Christmas byCall Number: F HarbisonISBN: 9781250087218Publication Date: 2016-10-18Noelle is not a fan of the holidays and to make matters worse, she is at a crossroads in her life when it seems that love and adventure are no longer possible. When she stays late at her job in a department store on a snowy Christmas Eve she accidentally gets locked in after closing. She isn't too concerned about the prospect of spending the night in the store, until a woman appears out of nowhere and tells Noelle that she's her guardian angel.
- A Soldier's Revenge byCall Number: F DunnISBN: 9780062427199Publication Date: 2016-10-11Former intelligence agent Will Cochrane must evade US authorities hunting him down for a murder he didn't commit in this captivating sixth entry in the acclaimed action-thriller series. Former operative Will Cochrane wakes up in New York's Waldorf Astoria and is horrified to see blood on his hands, something he remembers absolutely nothing about. When he then finds a woman murdered in his bathroom he knows he's stepped into a wilderness of terror that is far more dangerous than anything he's ever faced.
- Soulmates byCall Number: F GroseISBN: 9780062391575Publication Date: 2016-09-27When Dana's ex-husband is found dead in an apparent murder-suicide, she digs into the mystery surrounding his death, sifting through the clues of his life and their doomed marriage.
- Today Will Be Different byCall Number: F SempleISBN: 9780316403436Publication Date: 2016-10-04Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action-life happens.
- The Vanishing Year byCall Number: F MorettiISBN: 9781501118432Publication Date: 2016-09-27Zoe Whittaker is living a charmed life. She is the beautiful young wife to handsome, charming Wall Street tycoon Henry Whittaker. She is a member of Manhattan's social elite. What no one knows is that five years ago, Zoe's life was in danger. Back then, Zoe wasn't Zoe at all. Now her secrets are coming back to haunt her.
- The Wangs vs. the World byCall Number: F ChangISBN: 9780544734098Publication Date: 2016-10-04A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent--and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together
- The Years That Followed byCall Number: F DunneISBN: 9781501135668Publication Date: 2016-10-11Dublin. Calista is young, beautiful, and headstrong. When she falls in love with the charming, older Alexandros and moves to his native Cyprus, she could never imagine that her whirlwind courtship would lead to a dark and violent marriage. But Calista learns to survive. She knows she will find peace when she can finally seek retribution.