Recently Received Riveting Reads: September 2017
Selective list of new fiction recently received
New Fiction
- Best Day Ever byCall Number: F RoudaISBN: 9781525811401Publication Date: 2017-09-19Paul Strom has the perfect life: a glittering career as an advertising executive, a beautiful wife, two healthy boys and a big house in a wealthy suburb. And he's the perfect husband: breadwinner, protector, provider. That's why he's planned a romantic weekend for his wife, Mia, at their lake house, just the two of them. And he's promised today will be the best day ever.
- The Blind byCall Number: F BradyISBN: 9780778330875Publication Date: 2017-09-26Sam James has spent years carefully crafting her reputation as the best psychologist at Typhlos, Manhattan's most challenging psychiatric institution. She believes if she can't save herself, she'll save someone else. It's this savior complex that serves her well in helping patients battle their inner demons, though it leads Sam down some dark paths and opens her eyes to her own mental turmoil.
- The Boat Runner byCall Number: F MurphyISBN: 9780062658012Publication Date: 2017-09-05Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection to the Koopman lightbulb factory, and the locals hold the family in high esteem. The boys' father naively sends his sons to a Hitler Youth Camp in an effort to secure German business for the factory. When war breaks out, Jacob's world is thrown into chaos.
- Book of Judas byCall Number: F StasiISBN: 9780765378750Publication Date: 2017-09-19When her infant son is placed in mortal danger, New York City reporter Alessandra Russo is forced to save him by tracking down the missing pages of the Gospel of Judas, a heretical manuscript that was unearthed in Al-Minya, Egypt, in the 1970s. The Gospel disappeared for decades before being rediscovered, rotted beyond repair, in a safety deposit box. Rumors insist that the most important pages had been stolen--pages that Alessandra now must find, if they even exist.
- The Child Finder byCall Number: F DenfeldISBN: 9780062659057Publication Date: 2017-09-05Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon's Skookum National Forest. She would be eight-years-old now--if she has survived. Desperate to find their beloved daughter, certain someone took her, the Culvers turn to Naomi, a private investigator with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing. Known to the police and a select group of parents as "the Child Finder," Naomi is their last hope.
- Dark Chapter byCall Number: F LiISBN: 9781943818624Publication Date: 2017-09-12Vivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a 15-year-old Irish teenager, living a neglected life on the margins of society. He has grown up in a family where crime is customary, violence is a necessity, and everything--and anyone--can be yours for the taking. As Vivian looks to find her calling professionally, she delights in exploring new cultures. But all of that changes when, on one bright spring afternoon in West Belfast, Vivian's path collides with Johnny and culminates in a horrifying act of violence.
- Eastman Was Here byCall Number: F GilvarryISBN: 9781101981504Publication Date: 2017-08-22The year is 1973, and Alan Eastman, a public intellectual, accidental cultural critic, washed-up war journalist, husband, and philanderer; finds himself alone on the floor of his study in an existential crisis. His wife has taken their kids and left him to live with her mother in New Jersey, and his best work feels as though it is years behind him. In the depths of despair, he receives an unexpected phone call from his old rival offering him the chance to go to Vietnam to write the definitive account of the end of America's longest war.
- Five-Carat Soul byCall Number: Short Sories McBrideISBN: 9780735216693Publication Date: 2017-09-26Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird. The stories in Five-Carat Soul--none of them ever published before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic--all told with McBride's unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail.
- Forest Dark byCall Number: F KraussISBN: 9780062430991Publication Date: 2017-09-12Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have, for sixty-eight years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents' deaths, his divorce from his wife of more than thirty years, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner, he's felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the last of his wealth, he travels to Israel, with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents.
- George and Lizzie byCall Number: F PearlISBN: 9781501162893Publication Date: 2017-09-05George and Lizzie have radically different understandings of what love and marriage should be. George grew up in a warm and loving family--his father an orthodontist, his mother a stay-at-home mom--while Lizzie grew up as the only child of two famous psychologists, who viewed her more as an in-house experiment than a child to love. When a shameful secret from Lizzie's past resurfaces, she'll need to face her fears in order to accept the true nature of the relationship she and George have built over a decade together.
- The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye byCall Number: F LagercrantzISBN: 9780451494320Publication Date: 2017-09-12From the author of the #1 international best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Once again, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, together, are the fierce heart of a thrilling full-tilt novel that takes on some of the most insidious problems facing the world at this very moment.
- The Golden House byCall Number: F RushdieISBN: 9780399592805Publication Date: 2017-09-05On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in the architectural jewel of "the Gardens," a cloistered community in New York's Greenwich Village. The neighborhood is a bubble within a bubble, and the residents are immediately intrigued by the eccentric newcomer and his family.
- Hanna Who Fell from the Sky byCall Number: F MeadesISBN: 9780778328735Publication Date: 2017-09-26Hanna has never been outside her secluded community of Clearhaven. She has never questioned why her father has four wives or why she has fourteen brothers and sisters. And in only one week, on her eighteenth birthday, Hanna will follow tradition and become the fifth wife of a man more than twice her age. But just days before the wedding, Hanna meets an enigmatic stranger who challenges her to question her fate and to follow her own will.
- Katalin Street byCall Number: F SzaboISBN: 9781681371528Publication Date: 2017-09-12In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. Their lives are torn apart in 1944 by the German occupation, which only the Elekes family survives intact. The postwar regime relocates them to a cramped Soviet-style apartment and they struggle to come to terms with social and political change, personal loss, and unstated feelings of guilt.
- Lies She Told byCall Number: F HolahanISBN: 9781683312956Publication Date: 2017-09-12Liza Cole, a once-successful novelist whose career has seen better days, has one month to write the thriller that could land her back on the bestseller list. Meanwhile, she's struggling to start a family, but her husband is distracted by the disappearance of his best friend, Nick. As stresses weigh her down in her professional and personal lives, Liza escapes into writing the chilling exploits of her latest heroine, Beth.
- The Light Lives Here byCall Number: F ScottISBN: 9780062655653Publication Date: 2017-09-26It's the summer when Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball's color barrier and a sweltering stretch has Harlem's elite fleeing the city for Westchester County, two predators stalk amidst the manicured gardens and fine old homes. Heiress Mae Malveaux rules society with an angel's smile and a heart of stone. To have the pleasure she craves, control is paramount, especially control of the men Mae attracts like moths to a flame. Valiant Jackson always gets what he wants--and he's wanted Mae for years. The door finally opens for him when Mae strikes a bargain: seduce her virginal young cousin, Cecily, who is engaged to Frank Washington.
- Little Fires Everywhere byCall Number: F NgISBN: 9780735224292Publication Date: 2017-09-12In Shaker Heights, a placid suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.
- Love and Other Consolation Prizes byCall Number: F FordISBN: 9780804176750Publication Date: 2017-09-12For twelve-year-old Ernest Young, a charity student at a boarding school, the chance to go to the World's Fair feels like a gift. But only once he's there, amid the exotic exhibits, fireworks, and Ferris wheels, does he discover that he is the one who is actually the prize. The half-Chinese orphan is astounded to learn he will be raffled off--a healthy boy "to a good home." The winning ticket belongs to the flamboyant madam of a high-class brothel, famous for educating her girls.
- The Ninth Hour byCall Number: F McDermottISBN: 9780374280147Publication Date: 2017-09-19On a winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove-to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife-"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, appears to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child.
- P. S. from Paris byCall Number: F LevyISBN: 9781477820285Publication Date: 2017-09-01Mia is an actress in need of a break from her real-life philandering husband--the megastar who plays her romantic interest in the movies. So she heads across the English Channel to hide in Paris. Paul is an American author hoping to recapture the fame of his first novel. His best friend sets him up with Mia through a dating website. Even though everything about Paris seems to be nudging them together, the two lonely ex-pats resist, concocting increasingly far-fetched strategies to stay "just friends."
- Risking It All byCall Number: F DarntonISBN: 9781250075253Publication Date: 2017-09-19When Marcia, a driven, successful editor in New York with a loving husband, finds she can't conceive a child, it rips the heart out of her seemingly-perfect life. Her desire to be a mother has become her obsession, and after trying and failing to become pregnant by every known method, she focuses all of her energy on her one remaining option: surrogacy. Her husband reluctantly goes along with the idea. Everything looks good...until an unexpected tragedy occurs that changes their plans, their marriage, and their lives forever.
- The Romanov Ransom byCall Number: F CusslerISBN: 9780399575549Publication Date: 2017-09-12In 1918, a ransom of enormous size was paid to free the Romanovs from the Bolsheviks, but, the Romanovs died anyway. And the ransom? During World War II, the Nazis stole it from the Russians, and after that--it vanished. Until now. When a modern-day kidnapping captures the attention of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo, the couple soon learn that these long-lost riches may be back in play, held in trust by the descendants of a Nazi guerrilla faction called the Werewolves. It is their mission to establish the Fourth Reich, and their time is coming soon.
- Sisters byCall Number: F TuckISBN: 9780802127112Publication Date: 2017-09-05Tuck's unnamed narrator lives with her new husband, his two teenagers, and the unbanishable presence of his first wife--known only as she. Obsessed with her, our narrator moves through her days presided over by the all-too-real ghost of the first marriage, fantasizing about how the first wife lives her life. Will the narrator ever equal she intellectually, or ever forget the betrayal that lies between them? And what of the secrets between her husband and she, from which the narrator is excluded?
- Something Like Happy byCall Number: F WoodsISBN: 9781525811357Publication Date: 2017-09-05Annie Hebden is stuck. Stuck in her boring job, with her irritating roommate, in a life no thirty-five-year-old would want. But deep down, Annie is still mourning the terrible loss that tore a hole through the perfect existence she'd once taken for granted--and hiding away is safer than remembering what used to be. Until she meets the eccentric Polly Leonard.
- Sourdough byCall Number: F SloanISBN: 9780374203108Publication Date: 2017-09-05Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread.
- The Summer That Made Us byCall Number: F CarrISBN: 9780778331049Publication Date: 2017-09-05For the Hempsteads, summers were idyllic. All of their problems drifted away as the days passed in sun-dappled contentment. Until the summer that changed everything. This is now... After an accident turned the lake house into a site of tragedy and grief, it was closed up. But in the face of new challenges, one woman is determined to draw her family together again, and the only way that can happen is to return to the lake and face the truth.
- To Be Where You Are byCall Number: F KaronISBN: 9780399183737Publication Date: 2017-09-19#1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs. After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one. As for what it proves, heaven only knows. Millions of Karon fans will be thrilled that it's life as usual in the wildly popular Mitford series
- The Trick byCall Number: F BergmannISBN: 9781501155826Publication Date: 2017-09-19In 1934, a rabbi's son in Prague becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini. When Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his trunk full of magic tricks becomes his only hope of surviving in the concentration camp. Years later in Los Angeles, ten-year-old Max finds a LP of Zabbatini performing his greatest tricks. But the track in which Zabbatini performs his love spell is damaged. Desperate for a solution, Max seeks out the elderly magician and begs him to perform his magic on his parents.
- The Vengeance of Mothers byCall Number: F FergusISBN: 9781250093424Publication Date: 2017-09-12The stunning sequel to the award-winning novel One Thousand White Women. The Vengeance of Mothers explores what happens to the bonds between wives and husbands, children and mothers, when society sees them as "unspeakable." What does it mean to be white, to be Cheyenne, and how far will these women go to avenge the ones they love?
- We Were Witches byCall Number: F GoreISBN: 9781558614338Publication Date: 2017-09-05Spurred on by nineties 'family values' campaigns and determined to better herself through education, a teen mom talks her way into college. Disgusted by an overabundance of phallocratic narratives and Freytag's pyramid, she turns to a subcultural canon of resistance and failure. Wryly riffing on feminist literary tropes, it documents the survival of a demonized single mother figuring things out.
- White Bodies byCall Number: F RobinsISBN: 9781501165085Publication Date: 2017-09-19Felix and Tilda seem like the perfect couple. But behind their flawless facade, not everything is as it seems. Callie, Tilda's twin, has watched her sister visibly shrink under Felix's domineering love. She knows about Felix's uncontrollable rages, and has seen the bruises on her sister's arms. Worried, Callie joins an Internet support group for victims of abuse and their friends. However, things spiral out of control when one of her new acquaintances is killed by an abusive man. And then suddenly Felix dies--or was he murdered?
- The World of Tomorrow byCall Number: F MathewsISBN: 9780316382199Publication Date: 2017-09-05June 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother Michael are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin's home in New York City, having stolen a small fortune from the IRA. During the week that follows, the lives of these three brothers collide spectacularly with big-band jazz musicians, a talented but fragile heiress, a Jewish street photographer facing a return to Nazi-occupied Prague, a vengeful mob boss, and the ghosts of their own family's revolutionary past.
New Fiction
- The Best Kind of People byCall Number: F WhittallISBN: 9780399182211Publication Date: 2017-09-19The Woodburys cherish life in the affluent, bucolic suburb of Avalon Hills, Connecticut. George is a beloved science teacher at the local prep school, a hero who once thwarted a gunman, and his wife, Joan, is a hardworking ER nurse. They have brought up their children in this thriving town of wooded yards and sprawling lakes. Then one night a police car pulls up to the Woodbury home and George is charged with sexual misconduct with students from his daughter's school.
- The Blackbird Season byCall Number: F MorettiISBN: 9781501118456Publication Date: 2017-09-26In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a thousand dead starlings fall onto a high school baseball field, unleashing a horrifying and unexpected chain of events that will rock the close-knit community. Beloved baseball coach and teacher Nate Winters and his wife, Alecia, are well respected throughout town. That is, until one of the many reporters investigating the bizarre bird phenomenon catches Nate embracing a wayward student, Lucia Hamm, in front of a sleazy motel.
- Black Rock White City byCall Number: F PatricISBN: 9781612196831Publication Date: 2017-09-05Jovan and his wife have fled war-torn Sarajevo. They have lost their children, their comfortable lives as public intellectuals, and their connection to each other. Now relocated to a suburb of Melbourne, they must rebuild their lives under the painful and sometimes violent hardships of immigrant life.
- Caroline byCall Number: F MillerISBN: 9780062685346Publication Date: 2017-09-19Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before--Caroline Ingalls, "Ma" in Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books.
- A Dark and Broken Heart byCall Number: F EllloryISBN: 9781468311280Publication Date: 2017-08-22Detective Vincent Madigan is a good cop--he's charming, effective, and knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that he's up to his neck in debt to Sandia, a notorious East Harlem drug lord. When Madigan devises a scheme to eliminate his debt by robbing Sandia and then repaying him with his own money, he thinks his heist is foolproof.But things go horribly wrong.
- Dinner at the Center of the Earth byCall Number: F EnglanderISBN: 9781524732738Publication Date: 2017-09-05From vastly different lives Nathan Englander has woven a powerful, intensely suspenseful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict, even as the lives of its citizens become fatefully and inextricably entwined--a political thriller of the highest order that interrogates the anguished, violent division between Israelis and Palestinians, and dramatizes the immense moral ambiguities haunting both sides.
- The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs byCall Number: F PerryISBN: 9781250125088Publication Date: 2017-09-19On a summer evening in the blue-collar town of Amicus, Kansas, the Campbell family gathers for a birthday dinner for their ailing patriarch, retired judge Abel Campbell, prepared and hosted by their still-hale mother Hattie. But when Billy, the youngest sibling--with a history of addiction, grand ideas, and misdemeanors--passes out in his devil's food cake, the family takes up the unfinished business of Billy's sobriety.
- Final Stop, Algiers byCall Number: F Ben-DavidISBN: 9781468310221Publication Date: 2017-09-19When a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv violently disrupts his life, Mickey Simhoni abandons his plans to become an artist and instead allows himself to be recruited into the Mossad. Slowly, he learns the art of spy craft the and painstaking process of building a cover, becoming someone else whom he resembles, who is presumed dead. His cover story takes him to Toronto where he meets an old flame--Niki, a girl he had been involved with in Tokyo a decade earlier. As Mickey is torn between loyalty to the Mossad and his intense feelings for Niki, the dilemma leads to a harrowing conclusion.
- For Two Thousand Years byCall Number: F SebastianISBN: 9781590518762Publication Date: 2017-09-12Available in English for the first time, Mihail Sebastian's classic 1934 novel delves into the mind of a Jewish student in Romania during the fraught years preceding World War II. Although he endures persistent threats just to attend lectures, he feels disconnected from his Jewish peers and questions whether their activism will be worth the cost. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and conversing with revolutionaries, zealots, and libertines, he remains isolated, even from the women he loves.
- Gangster Nation byCall Number: F GoldbergISBN: 9781619027237Publication Date: 2017-09-12It's been two years since the events of Gangsterland, when legendary Chicago hitman Sal Cupertine disappeared into the guise of Vegas Rabbi David Cohen. It's September of 2001 and for David, everything is coming up gold: Temple membership is on the rise, the new private school is raking it in, and the mortuary and cemetery--where Cohen has been laundering bodies for the mob--is minting cash. But Sal wants out.
- Good Me, Bad Me byCall Number: F LandISBN: 9781250087645Publication Date: 2017-09-05Milly's mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start: a new identity, a home with an affluent foster family, and an exclusive private school. As her mother's trial looms, with Milly as the star witness, Milly starts to wonder how much of her is nature, how much of her is nurture, and whether she is doomed to turn out like her mother after all.
- The Good People byCall Number: F KentISBN: 9780316243964Publication Date: 2017-09-19Based on true events in nineteenth century Ireland, this new novel tells the story of three women, drawn together to rescue a child from a superstitious community. Nora finds herself alone and caring for her grandson who can neither speak nor walk. A handmaid, Mary, arrives to help Nora just as rumors begin to spread that he is a changeling child who is bringing bad luck to the valley. Determined to banish evil, Nora and Mary enlist the help of Nance, an elderly wanderer who understands the magic of the old ways.
- House. Tree. Person byCall Number: F McPhersonISBN: 9780738752167Publication Date: 2017-09-08The body found in a muddy grave across the street is just the latest horror threatening to tear Ali McGovern's life apart seam by seam. She knows Angelo, her brooding teenage son, is keeping secrets. She fears he's in danger, too. But her new job at the psychiatric hospital, the job her husband pushed her into, is using up everything she's got every day.
- Keep Her Safe byCall Number: F HannahISBN: 9780062388322Publication Date: 2017-09-19Pushed to the breaking point, Cara Burrows flees her home and family and escapes to a five-star spa resort she can't afford. Late at night, exhausted and desperate, she lets herself into her hotel room and is shocked to find it already occupied -- by a man and a teenage girl. A simple mistake at the front desk... but soon Cara realizes that the girl she saw alive and well in the hotel room is someone she can't possibly have seen: the most famous murder victim in the country, Melody Chapa, whose parents are serving natural life sentences for her murder.
- A Legacy of Spies byCall Number: F Le CarreISBN: 9780735225114Publication Date: 2017-09-05The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book--his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years. Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications.
- Lie to Me byCall Number: F EllisonISBN: 9780778330950Publication Date: 2017-09-05Sutton and Ethan Montclair's idyllic life is not as it appears. Consumed by professional and personal betrayals and financial woes, the two both love and hate each other. As tensions mount, Sutton disappears, leaving behind a note saying not to look for her. Ethan finds himself the target of vicious gossip as friends, family and the media speculate on what really happened to Sutton Montclair. As the police investigate, the lies the couple have been spinning for years quickly unravel. .
- Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions byCall Number: F StewartISBN: 9780544409996Publication Date: 2017-09-05Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women brought into the Hackensack jail over dubious charges of waywardness, incorrigibility, and moral depravity. But such were the laws--and morals--of 1916. Constance uses her authority as deputy sheriff, and occasionally exceeds it, to investigate and defend these women when no one else will.
- The Other Alcott byCall Number: F HooperISBN: 9780062645333Publication Date: 2017-09-05Elise Hooper's debut novel conjures the fascinating, untold story of May Alcott--Louisa's youngest sister and an artist in her own right. Stylish, outgoing, creative, May Alcott grows up longing to experience the wide world beyond Concord, Massachusetts. While her sister Louisa crafts stories, May herself is a talented and dedicated artist, taking lessons in Boston, turning down a marriage proposal from a well-off suitor, and facing scorn for entering what is very much a man's profession.
- Proof of Life byCall Number: F JanceISBN: 9780062657541Publication Date: 2017-09-05Be careful what you wish for . . . Before he retired, J. P. Beaumont had looked forward to having his days all to himself. But too much free time doesn't suit a man used to brushing close to danger. When his longtime nemesis, retired Seattle crime reporter Maxwell Cole, dies in what's officially deemed to be an accidental fire, Beau is astonished to be dragged into the investigation at the request of none other than the deceased victim himself.
- The Resurrection of Joan Ashby byCall Number: F WolasISBN: 9781250081438Publication Date: 2017-08-29I viewed the consumptive nature of love as a threat to serious women. But the wonderful man I just married believes as I do--work is paramount, absolutely no children--and now love seems to me quite marvelous. These words are spoken to a rapturous audience by Joan Ashby, a brilliant and intense literary sensation acclaimed for her explosively dark and singular stories. When Joan finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she is stunned by Martin's delight, his instant betrayal of their pact. She makes a fateful, selfless decision then, to embrace her unintentional family.
- The Runaway Midwife byCall Number: F HarmanISBN: 9780062467300Publication Date: 2017-01-31Midwife Clara Perry is accustomed to comforting her pregnant patients...calming fathers-to-be as they anxiously await the birth of their children...ensuring the babies she delivers come safely into the world. But when Clara's life takes a nosedive, she realizes she hasn't been tending to her own needs and does something drastic: she runs away and starts over again in a place where no one knows her or the mess she's left behind in West Virginia.
- The Shadow List byCall Number: F MossISBN: 9780399175947Publication Date: 2017-09-05We laugh when it pops up in our inbox: the scam letter promising a windfall. We wonder: How does anybody fall for these things? But it is no laughing matter. It is one of the biggest organized crime rackets in the world, it is deadly - and State Department crisis manager Judd Ryker has fallen right into the middle of it.
- Sing, Unburied, Sing byCall Number: F WardISBN: 9781501126062Publication Date: 2017-09-05Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise.
- Solar Bones byCall Number: F McCormackISBN: 9781616958534Publication Date: 2017-09-12It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table and remembers. In flowing, relentless prose, Conway recalls his life in rural Ireland: as a boy and man, father, husband, citizen. His ruminations move from childhood memories of his father's deftness with machines to his own work as a civil engineer, from transformations in the local economy to the tidal wave of global financial collapse.
- Séance Infernale byCall Number: F SkaritonISBN: 9781101946732Publication Date: 2017-08-29An extraordinary debut novel--dark, fast-paced, thrilling--set in contemporary and nineteenth-century Europe, the United States, and Scotland, involving the true inventor of moving pictures; his lost film made in Edinburgh in 1888; and a shocking series of crimes terrorizing the city in present time.
- Thalia byCall Number: F McMurtryISBN: 9781631493751Publication Date: 2017-09-19Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels-- Horseman, Pass By (1961),* Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)-- all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time.
- The Twelve-Mile Straight byCall Number: F HendersonISBN: 9780062422088Publication Date: 2017-09-12Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: Two babies-one light-skinned, the other dark-are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched. Despite the prying eyes and curious whispers of the townspeople, Elma begins to raise her babies best under the roof of her mercurial father, Juke, and with the help of Nan, the young black housekeeper who is as close to Elma as a sister. But soon it becomes clear that the ties that bind all of them together are more intricate than any could have ever imagined.
- We Were Strangers Once byCall Number: F CarterISBN: 9781455571437Publication Date: 2017-09-12On the eve of World War II Egon Schneider--a gallant and successful Jewish doctor, escapes Germany to an uncertain future across the sea. Settling into the unfamiliar rhythms of upper Manhattan, he finds solace among a tight-knit group of fellow immigrants, tenacious men and women drawn together as much by their differences as by their memories of the world they left behind. But their spirits remain unbroken, and when their little community is faced with an existential threat, these strangers rise up together in hopes of creating a permanent home.
- Virtually Perfect byCall Number: F RobertsISBN: 9781496710093Publication Date: 2017-09-26Not so long ago, Lizzie Glass had a successful TV show, a cookbook deal, and a social diary crammed with parties and events. But fame doesn't stay fresh for long. Her show fizzles, her magazine column is canceled, and Lizzie's only option is a summer job as personal chef to the Silvesters, a wealthy and eccentric family.
- When They Come for You byCall Number: F HallISBN: 9781477848678Publication Date: 2017-09-01After her journalist husband and infant son are brutally executed in a fire in their Florida home, photographer Harper McDaniel has nothing left to live for--except settling the score. When the local police fail to take the arson seriously, Harper takes the reins and discovers her husband was investigating some mysterious deaths at a cacao plantation on the Ivory Coast. Now she's convinced he was targeted in a corporate conspiracy to silence him.
- The Whole of the Moon byCall Number: F RogersISBN: 9781943859405Publication Date: 2017-09-20The Whole of the Moon consists of six crisscrossing narratives set along the old Route 66, from the Inland Empire to the terminus just off Sunset Boulevard. The stories span the years from the late 1950s to the present, and the characters are bound by a fact unknown to them: they have each checked out the same public library copy of The Great Gatsby.
- The Woman Who Couldn't Scream byCall Number: F DoddISBN: 9781250028488Publication Date: 2017-09-05Merida Falcon is a world-class beauty, a trophy wife who seems to have it all...except she has no voice. For nine bitter years, Merida lived to serve her wealthy elderly husband, never leaving his side, always doing his bidding... On his death, Merida vanishes...and reappears in Virtue Falls with a new name, a new look, and a plot to take revenge on the man who loved her, betrayed her and walked away, leaving her silent, abused and bound to an old man's obsession.