|
New & Coming Soon FictionApril 2017
|
We are now offering a "Noteworthy Nonfiction" Libraryaware booklist! Please click here to subscribe or ask a second floor library staff member for assistance. Click on the title to check availability, and to log in and place holds online. To place holds by phone, please call us at (708) 366-5205. During open hours, you can also chat with us at www.riverforestlibrary.org. It's easy!
|
|
|
Almost Missed You : a novel by Jessica StrawserA seemingly loving husband abruptly walks out on his wife, taking their baby with him, and turns up at the home of his best friend, who faces an impossible choice between calling the police and allowing him to stay when he threatens to expose a terrible secret. A first novel. FICTION STRAWSER
|
|
|
American War : a novel by Omar El AkkadA first novel by an award-winning journalist depicts a second American Civil War and devastating plague in the late 21st century that forces a family into a camp for displaced people, where a young woman is befriended by a mysterious functionary who would transform her into a living weapon. FICTION EL AKKAD
|
|
|
Any Day Now by Robyn CarrA sequel to What We Find continues the adventures of the characters from Sullivan's Crossing, who greet diverse visitors at a rustic campground at the crossroads of the Colorado and Continental Divide Trails. 300,000 first printing. FICTION CARR
|
|
|
Anything is Possible : fiction by Elizabeth StroutTwo sisters, one who trades self-respect for a wealthy husband and one who discovers a kindred spirit in the pages of a book, struggle with intimate human dramas at the sides of their community members and a returned Lucy Barton. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge. FICTION STROUT
|
|
|
Beartown : a novel by Fredrik BackmanIn a forgotten town fractured by scandal, an amateur hockey team might just be able to change everything. By the New York Times best-selling author of A Man Called Ove. FICTION BACKMAN
|
|
|
The Best of Adam Sharp by Graeme C SimsionThe best-selling author of The Rosie Project presents the story of a 50-year-old man who reflects on his safe life choices and his long-ago, blazing affair with a strong-willed actress who contacts him unexpectedly and entices him to pursue a riskier life. FICTION SIMSION
|
|
|
The Blue Hour : a novel by Laura PritchettThe tight-knit community of Blue Moon Mountain in Colorado find their paths twisting and colliding in unexpected ways after the town veterinarian commits a violent act, forcing them all to learn to navigate the line between violence and sex, tenderness and the hard edge of yearning and the often confusing paths of mourning and lust. FICTION PRITCHETT
|
|
|
The Burial Hour : a Lincoln Rhyme novel by Jeffery DeaverA return to Deaver's successful series finds Lincoln Rhyme investigating the abduction of a traveling businessman from an Upper East Side street, a case that is complicated by an 8-year-old girl who was the crime's only witness. 100,000 first printing. FICTION DEAVER
|
|
|
Eveningland by Michael KnightA collection of interconnected short stories from the author of The Typist and Divining Rod follow a family in Mobile, Alabama, in the years before a devastating hurricane. FICTION KNIGHT
|
|
|
Every Wild Heart by Meg DonohueA popular radio host whose career was launched years earlier by an on-air rant about her unfaithful husband struggles with falling in love in career-risking ways, an obsessed stalker and her socially fearful teen daughter, who emerges from a riding accident with a high-risk new personality. 25,000 first printing. FICTION DONOHUE
|
|
|
The Finishing School by Joanna GoodmanWhen she is invited as a guest to her former finishing school, Lycee International Suisse, best-selling writer Kersti Kuusk—who is determined to, once and for all, find the truth surrounding her best friend Cressida’s death long ago—probes the cover-up, unearthing a frightening underbelly of lies and abuse at the prestigious establishment. Original. 100,000 first printing. FICTION GOODMAN
|
|
|
The Forbidden Garden by Ellen HerrickAn American nursery owner with a rare gift with plants jumps at the chance to help revive a run-down, Shakespearean garden on a country estate in England and becomes intrigued the with house’s haunting history and the owner’s brother-in-law. 25,000 first printing. FICTION HERRICK
|
|
|
The Forever Summer by Jamie BrennerWhen a single careless mistake costs her the job she so carefully built, straitlaced Marin joins a stranger claiming to be her half-sister in Cape Cod, where she meets family members she never knew she had during a fateful summer of revelations and self-discovery. 50,000 first printing. FICTION BRENNER
|
|
|
The Girl from Rawblood : a novel by Catriona WardIris Villarca, the last in her family line, inherits a curse of heartbreak and death, but dares to defy this curse, with terrifying consequences. FICTION WARD
|
|
|
Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo BuchananOpting to stay in New York City in spite of being treated like an outsider, Japanese teen Yuki Oyama pursues a career in art and a relationship with an energetic young model before being unmoored by destructive circumstances that also shape the life of the child she abandons years later. A first novel. FICTION BUCHANAN
|
|
|
The Horse Dancer by Jojo MoyesA headstrong teen quietly training to become an elite equestrian to fulfill her ailing grandfather's ambitions is taken in by a struggling lawyer and her estranged husband, whose lives are thrown into turmoil by a devastating secret. By the best-selling author of Me Before You. FICTION MOYES
|
|
|
It Happens All the Time : a novel by Amy HatvanyReturning home for the summer after graduating college and becoming engaged, a young woman lets her fears about early marriage lead her to drink too much and kiss a longtime best friend who has always secretly hoped they could share more, a slip that changes their lives in permanent ways. By the author of Best Kept Secret. FICTION HATVANY
|
|
|
The Memory of You by Catherine WestThirteen years ago, Natalie lost a part of herself when her twin sister died. Will traveling back to the family winery finally put the memory to rest, or will it completely destroy her? FICTION WEST
|
|
|
Miss You by Kate EberlenA chance meeting fails to bring the 18-year-old Tess and Gus the love with each other that they deserve, and they wind through lives that bring surprises and divert them from their intended paths, but will they get a second chance at love together? A first novel. 50,000 first printing. FICTION EBERLEN
|
|
|
Music of the Ghosts by Vaddey RatnerReturning to the Cambodian homeland she fled as a child refugee decades earlier, Teera finds herself in a country of survivors and perpetrators of the Khmer Rouge holocaust before bonding with a mysterious musician who claims to have known her late father. By the best-selling author of In the Shadow of the Banyan. FICTION RATNER
|
|
|
One Perfect Lie by Lisa ScottolineA single mom's efforts to support her shy star athlete son's recruitment into a Division I college are violently complicated by a secretly disturbed young man from an affluent family and a new teacher with a mysterious agenda. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Most Wanted. FICTION SCOTTOLINE
|
|
|
Our Short History by Lauren GrodsteinAfter finding out she is dying, a single mom contacts her ex, who left her alone rather than be a father, and is shocked to discover that he is suddenly excited to meet the child he never knew. FICTION GRODSTEIN
|
|
|
The Perfect Stranger by Megan MirandaFailed journalist Leah Stevens sets out to find a missing friend—a friend who may never have existed at all. By the author of the best-selling All the Missing Girls. FICTION MIRANDA
|
|
|
Ragdoll by Daniel ColeReinstated to his post after months of psychological assessment, controversial detective William Fawkes is summoned by his former partner and friend to help investigate a serial killer who has already murdered six victims and may be targeting Fawkes himself. 50,000 first printing. FICTION COLE
|
|
|
The Romance Reader's Guide to Life by Sharon L PywellLeft with few options when the end of World War II costs them their jobs, two sisters—one flirtatious, the other bookish—launch a makeup business that is upended when one of them disappears on what may be a romantic adventure on the high seas. By the author of What Happened to Henry. FICTION PYWELL
|
|
|
The Shadow Land : a novel by Elizabeth KostovaAccidentally taking a parcel from a family with whom she shared a cab, a young American tourist in Bulgaria is horrified to discover that the parcel contains an urn of ashes and embarks on an effort to return it to its family, making astonishing discoveries along the way. By the award-winning author of The Historian. FICTION KOSTOVA
|
|
|
Silver and Salt by Elanor DymottHaunted by a dark secret that destroyed her family and led her mother into madness, Ruthie returns to Greece after her father’s death to spend time with her sister but has her hard-won peace shattered by an English family next door. FICTION DYMOTT
|
|
|
The Stars are Fire : a novel by Anita ShreveIn a book based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine’s history, a young woman is tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermath. By the author of The Pilot's Wife. FICTION SHREVE
|
|
|
Stolen Beauty : a novel by Laurie Lico AlbaneseA tale based on the true story behind the creation and near destruction of Gustav Klimt's most remarkable paintings traces the experiences of one of the master artist's lovers in 1900 Vienna, whose experiences with anti-Semitism inspire the survival of her niece when the Nazis invade Austria decades later. FICTION ALBANESE
|
|
|
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-GoshenFleeing the scene after accidentally running down an African migrant whose widow makes an impossible demand for his silence, a neurosurgeon with a seemingly idyllic life resorts to extreme lengths to save his family and reputation. A first U.S. novel. 35,000 first printing. FICTION GUNDAR-GOSHEN
|
|
|
The Widow of Wall Street : a novel by Randy Susan MeyersMarrying the childhood sweetheart who she trusts unconditionally, Phoebe is shattered when she discovers that her husband's successes are tied to an elaborate Ponzi scheme, a situation that targets her with suspicion and forces her to make a terrible choice. By the best-selling author of Accidents of Marriage. FICTION MEYERS
|
|
|
Shadowbahn by Steve EricksonTwo siblings traveling cross-country stop to visit the Twin Towers, which have mysteriously reappeared in the badlands of South Dakota, while the stillborn twin of Elvis Presley emerges from the Towers to live a life that never was. SCI FI ERICKSON
|
|
|
|
|
|