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Forthcoming Books: February 2016
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Here are some of the best-reviewed books coming up in February. You can request them before they are published, and the library will contact you when they are available.
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The Cellar
by Minette Walters
Allowed a bedroom, clothing and nominally improved treatment when the teen son of the African-immigrant family that enslaves her goes missing, Muna hides her cleverness from her captors and the Scotland Yard while hatching terrible plans. By the Edgar Award-winning author of The Sculptress
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Nelly Dean : A Return to Wuthering Heights
by Alison Case
In a reimagining of life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshoaw's loyal servant, young Nelly Dean suffers heartache and betrayals at the hands of those she cherishes most and discovers what it is to know true sacrifice after a new heir is born, unleashing a reign of violence.
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In other words
by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Unaccustomed Earth traces her enduring love affair with the Italian language that prompted her family's move to Rome, where her efforts to master the language as a writer shaped her feelings of belonging and exile
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Jane and the Waterloo map : being a Jane Austen mystery
by Stephanie Barron
Rushing to the bedside of a banker relative whose health has succumbed to the financial stresses of the Battle of Waterloo, Jane encounters a dying colonel whose enigmatic final words spark her hunt for a treasure of incalculable value and a killer of formidable cunning.
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The Photographer's Wife
by Suzanne Joinson
Years after photographer William Harrington participates in a 1920s project to redesign Jerusalem with British parks against a backdrop of growing nationalist unrest, his revelations about long-buried secrets transform the life of his former employer's daughter. By the author of A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
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The God's Eye View
by Barry Eisler
Working as a camera surveillance tech for a zealous security director, Evelyn stumbles on a mysterious program code connected to a string of journalist and whistle-blower deaths before finding herself and her deaf son in the crosshairs of a sadistic bomber and her boss's enforcer. By a New York Times best-selling author
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Back blast
by Mark Greaney
Returning to Washington to uncover the truth about why the CIA betrayed him, former elite agent-turned-Gray Man Court Gentry discovers that the case is still very much under discussion and that he has stumbled onto a secret that powerful enemies will kill to keep. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect
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The Yid : a novel
by Paul Goldberg
A State Jewish Theater actor and war veteran's astonishing response to Moscow pogrom goons invading his home triggers a zany and deadly series of events as he assembles a ragtag team to help him try to assassinate Stalin. A first novel by the co-author of How We Do Harm. Tour
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The Flood Girls
by Richard Fifield
Returning to her tiny Montana hometown where jaded locals refuse to let her make amends, a woman who left behind a trail of chaos discovers herself and receives assistance from a local boy in her efforts to correct past mistakes. A first novel.
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Wreck and Order
by Hannah Tennant-moore
A young woman, sick of her abusive boyfriend and dead-end job sets out for adventure, traveling from California to Brooklyn to Sri Lanka in search of experiences and human connections to help fill the perceived void in her life.
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Not All Bastards Are from Vienna
by Andrea Molesini
A U.S. release of an award-winning debut novel portrays the heroism and traumas within a Northern Italian village at the end of World War I and the experiences of a family that is forced to confront the war's injustices when their villa is requisitioned by enemy troops. By the winner of the Campiello Literary Prize. A first novel.
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Be Frank With Me
by Julia Claiborne Johnson
Reluctantly hired into the home of a famed reclusive writer who would recapture her lost fortunes by completing a new manuscript, Alice Whitley becomes obsessed with identifying the paternity of her employer's precocious young son. 50,000 first printing.
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Forty Rooms
by Olga Grushin
Follows the life of a woman, born in Moscow, who finds happiness and love in America but must also deal with the ghosts of her youth. By the author ofThe Dream Life of Sukhanov
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And After Many Days
by Jowhor Ile
In the aftermath of a teen's disappearance from bustling Port Harcourt in 1995 Nigeria, a once-ordered family is irreparably shattered in ways that prompt its youngest member, Ajie, to embark on a quest for answers that reveals long-forgotten secrets and regional brutalities. A first novel.
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The immortals
by Jordanna Max Brodsky
"A high quality contemporary fantasy novel that will appeal to a wide range of readers from American Gods to the kids who grew up reading Percy Jackson. The Relentless One, the Bearer of the Bow, the Untamed.....those are only a few of the names Selene DiSilva's answered to over the years. But these days she's content to work in secret, defending the women of Manhattan from the evils of men. She's reclusive, stubborn, and deeply unfriendly to everyone but her dog. But when a woman's mutilated body washesup in Riverside Park wearing a laurel wreath, Selene finds that she can no longer hide in the shadows. As more women are threatened, Selene is forced to embrace the one name she's tried hardest to forget -- Artemis. For who better to follow the killer's tangled trail than the Goddess of the Hunt herself?"
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The language of secrets
by Ausma Zehanat Khan
After an informant is murdered at a training camp, Rachel Getty goes undercover in a small-town Canadian mosque to gain information on a terrorist cell planning an attack on New Year's Day. By the author ofThe Unquiet Dead
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Piece of mind : a novel
by Michelle Adelman
Unable to relate to people or hold a job after suffering a head injury in early childhood, talented artist Lucy is forced out of her protective Jewish home and into a New York City studio apartment with her college-age brother, where she struggles to adapt to life without a safety net. A first novel. Illustrations.
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Breaking wild
by Diane Les Becquets
Searching for a mysterious mother of two who has gone missing during an outdoors adventure in a remote area, ranger Pru Hathaway makes unexpected discoveries about the woman, who she believes is still alive in spite of dangerous weather conditions. Readers' guide available online. A first novel. Tour.
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I'm Traveling Alone
by Samuel Bjork
Investigating the brutal murder of a 6-year-old girl found on the Norwegian countryside, veteran homicide detective Holger Munch reactivates haunted former investigator Mia Krüger, who discovers links between the case and an infant abduction years earlier. An international best-seller.
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The Vegetarian
by Han Kang
Deciding to go vegetarian in the wake of violent thoughts, Yeong-hye, a woman from an Asian culture of strict societal mores, is denounced as a subversive as she spirals into extreme rebelliousness that causes her to splinter from her true nature and risk her life.
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Exit right : the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century
by Daniel Oppenheimer
"A provocative, intimate look at the evolution of America's political soul through the lives of six political figures--from Whittaker Chambers to Christopher Hitchens--who abandoned the left and joined the right. In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major political figures whose journeys away from the left reshaped the contours of American politics in the twentieth century. Each of these six lives challenges us to ask where our own beliefs come from, and what it might take to change them.
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The Silk Roads : a new history of the world
by Peter Frankopan
"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreigngoods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols and the Black Death to the Great Game and the fall of Communism, the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. The Silk Roads vividly captures the importance of the networks that crisscrossed the spine of Asia and linked the Atlantic with the Pacific, the Mediterranean with India, America with the Persian Gulf.
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