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Forthcoming Books: January 2015
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Here are some of the best-reviewed books coming up in January. You can request them before they are published, and the library will contact you when they are available.
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The Sacrifice
by Joyce Carol Oates
A brutal act of racial violence against a 14-year-old girl shocks and galvanizes a racially torn New Jersey community, which becomes a maelstrom of strong personalities, police responses, media hype and secrets. By the National Book Award-winning author of The Accursed.
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A String of Beads
by Thomas Perry
Approached by the leaders of the Seneca clans for help finding a childhood friend who has been accused of murdering a white man, Jane discovers that her friend is also being hunted by a sinister adversary.
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Fifty mice : a novel
by Daniel Pyne
When he is forced into the Witness Protection Program by agents who believe he is hiding highly classified information, Jay Johnson, a decent guy who is trapped in a surreal and nightmarish scenario, starts to investigate the strange series of events that led him to this odd new existence. 30,000 first printing.
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Murder
by Sarah Pinborough
Rattled by the events that took place during his previous investigations, which included horrid acts by Jack the Ripper, Victorian forensics expert Dr. Thomas Bond has trouble focusing on his new case.
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Into a Raging Blaze
by Andreas Norman
Carina Dymek is on a fast track for promotion at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when she is approached by a stranger and given a USB stick containing a report to circulate in her department. Unwittingly, she delivers a time bomb of classified information that sends her career up in flames and puts her on the radar of the security service, Säpo.
Andreas Norman, a former Swedish Ministry official, has written an explosive expose of Anglo-American spying and surveillance on European civilians in the name of counter-terrorism. This dizzying thriller anticipated the Edward Snowden revelations and rocked Sweden on publication.
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The secret wisdom of the earth
by Chris Scotton
Witnessing his younger brother's accidental death, teenaged Kevin spends the summer traumatized in his grandfather's Appalachia coal-mining community, which is fighting plans for a massive mountaintop-removal operation. 100,000 first printing.
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If I Fall, If I Die
by Michael Christie
A U.S. debut by the award-winning author of The Beggar's Garden follows the experiences of young Will, who is closeted in his home by a fiercely agoraphobic mother and who ventures out and makes a new friend with whom he searches for a missing boy
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Driving the king : a novel
by Ravi Howard
Explores race and class in 1950s America, witnessed through the experiences of Nat King Cole and his driver, Nat Weary. 25,000 first printing.
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James
by Emma Hooper
Embarking on a more than 3,000-kilometer walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory and reality. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.
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Black River
by S. M. Hulse
A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront an inmate who, 20 years earlier, held him hostage during a prison riot. A first novel. Online reader's guide available. 25,000 first printing.
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The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins
Obsessively watching a breakfasting couple every day to escape the pain of her losses, Rachel witnesses a shocking event that inextricably entangles her in the lives of strangers.
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The first bad man : a novel
by Miranda July
A haunted woman's reclusively ordered world is thrown into chaos by a houseguest who bullies her into reality and brings love into her life. A first novel by the best-selling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You. 125,000 first printing. Tour
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Galapagos regained
by James Morrow
Erstwhile actress Chloe Bathurst is hired to tend to Charles Darwin's private menagerie and appropriates her employer's unpublished theory of natural selection in an effort to win the strangest contest ever staged in Victorian Britain. Map(s).
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Golden son
by Pierce Brown
A sequel to the New York Times best-selling Red Rising follows the efforts of tragedy-forged rebel hero Darrow to infiltrate the world of the elite Golds to secure his people's freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future. Tour
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First frost
by Sarah Addison Allen
A tale set 10 years after the events in Garden Spells finds Claire's happy contentment shattered by her father's revelations, which challenge everything she ever believed about herself. Tour
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Trust no one
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Retreating to her hometown after her motivational speaker boss dies from alcohol poisoning, a traumatized Grace Elland shares a dreadful blind date with a venture capitalist who uses his skills as a former Marine to help her outmaneuver a stalker.
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Honeydew : Stories
by Edith Pearlman
This new collection of short stories from the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Binocular Vision, who describes tales full of teenage drug use, anorexia, cruise-ship stowaways and a widowed nail tech who finds herself falling for a client.
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Wolf Winter
by Cecilia Ekback
Moving with her husband and children to early 18th-century Swedish Lapland to escape the traumas of their life in Finland, Maija investigates a suspicious local death that reveals their new community's dark history of betrayals.
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West of Sunset
by Stewart O'Nan
In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By December 1940, he would be dead of a heart attack. Those last three years of Fitzgerald's life, often obscured by the legend of his earlier Jazz Age glamour, are the focus of Stewart O'Nan's gorgeously and gracefully written novel.
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The jaguar's children
by John Vaillant
A man trapped inside a tanker truck during an illegal border crossing reflects on the trials of his life in Oaxaca and the events leading to his present circumstances while fellow passengers and he desperately wait for rescue.
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See how small : a novel
by Scott Blackwood
"One late autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. They bind up the three teenage girls who are working the counter, set fire to the shop, and disappear. SEE HOW SMALL tells the stories of thesurvivors--family, witnesses, and suspects--who must endure in the wake of atrocity. Justice remains elusive in their world, human connection tenuous. Hovering above the aftermath of their deaths are the three girls.
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Outline : a novel
by Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. The people she encounters speak, volubly, about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss. Outline is Cusk's finest work yet, and one of the most startling, brilliant, original novels of recent years."
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Uncle Janice : a novel
by Matt Burgess
An undercover narcotics officer who works the streets of Queens, Janice Itwaru, trying to meet the impossibly high quota of drug busts needed to make detective, must decide which evil to confront in order to meet her deadline.
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White plague
by James Abel
"In the remote, frozen waters of the Arctic Ocean, the high-powered and technically advanced submarine USS Montana is in peril. Adrift and in flames, the boat--and the entire crew--could be lost. The only team close enough to get to them in time is led by Marine doctor and bio-terror expert Joe Rush. With only thirty-six hours before the surviving crew perish, Joe and his team must race to rescue the Montana and ensure that the boat doesn't fall into enemy hands.
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The Unquiet Dead
by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Detective Esa Khattack and his partner, Detective Rachel Getty, investigate the death of a local man who may have been a Bosnian war criminal with ties to the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, in a haunting debut novel of loss, redemption and the cost of justice.
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Island on Fire : The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Covered a Continent in Darkness
by Alexandra Witze
The eruption of Laki is one of history's great untold natural disasters. The eruption, spewing out a poisionous fog, lasted for eight months, but its effects lingered across Europe for years, causing the death of people as far away as the Nile, and creating famine that may have triggered the French revolution. Island on Fire is the story not only of a volcano but also of the people whose lives it changed, such as the pastor Jon Steingrimsson, who witnessed and recorded the events in Iceland. It is the story, too, of modern volcanology, and looks at how events might work out should Laki erupt again in our time.
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