|
|
Newest items are displayed first. Click on a title for more information or to place a hold. |
|
|
|
Coldwire
by Chloe Gong
A dystopian story following a young soldier who is framed for a
political assassination and must team up with her country's most
wanted terrorist to clear her name.
|
|
|
|
Best Offer Wins
by Marisa Kashino
Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband Ian, and in turn, get their marriage, plan to have a baby,
and whole life back on track, Margo becomes obsessed with buying
the house before it's publicly listed and the masses descend. A
little stalking? Harmless. A bit of trespassing? Necessary.
|
|
|
|
I, Medusa
by Ayana Gray
From New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a
new kind of villain origin story, reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine. Out of place next to her beautiful, immortal sisters and her parents--both gods, albeit minor ones--she dreams of leaving her
family's island for a life of adventure. So when she catches the
eye of the goddess Athena, who invites her to train as an
esteemed priestess in her temple, Meddy leaps at the chance
to see the world beyond her home.
|
|
|
|
The White Hot
by Quiara Alegría Hudes
April is a young mother raising her daughter in an intergenerational house of unspoken secrets and loud arguments. Her only refuge
is to hide away in a locked bathroom, her ears plugged into an
ambient soundscape, and a mantra on her lips: dead inside. That
is, until one day, as she finds herself spiraling toward the volcanic
rage she calls the white hot, a voice inside her tells her to
just--walk away. She wanders to a bus station and asks for a
ticket to the furthest destination; she tells the clerk to make
it one-way.
|
|
|
|
Queen Esther
by John Irving
After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award-winning film, The Cider House
Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud's, Maine, where Dr.
Wilbur Larch takes in Esther--a Viennese-born Jew whose life is
shaped by anti-Semitism. Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905.
Her father dies on board the ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is murdered by anti-Semites in Portland. Dr. Larch knows it won't be
easy to find a Jewish family to adopt Esther; in fact, he won't find
any family who'll adopt her.
|
|
|
|
Ginster
by Siegfried Kracauer
Frst published in 1928, has as much to say about what it means
to live under the sulking great powers and blood-imbrued satrapies
of today as it does about the inflamed self-righteousness of late
imperial Germany. In Ginster, as in Greek tragedy, massacre occurs offstage, arriving only as news, but the everyday horror of a society engineered for the continual production of violence is not to be
denied.
|
|
|
|
Alchemy of secrets : a novel
by Stephanie Garber
Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by a
woman called the Professor. Most students believe the Professor’s
stories are just fiction, but Holland St. James has always been
convinced that magic is real. When she tracks down a local legend named the Watch Man, who can supposedly tell you when you’ll
die, the world finally makes sense. Except that the Watch Man
tells her she will die at midnight tomorrow unless she finds an
ancient object called the Alchemical Heart.
|
|
|
|
Nobody Knows You're Here
by Bryn Greenwood
Beatrice is about to lose everything when a kind stranger offers
her a cup of coffee and a job. It seems like a promise of a better life...until she wakes up under lock and key in an isolated mansion
in the woods.
|
|
|
|
Boleyn Traitor
by Philippa Gregory
The author of The Other Boleyn Girl returns to the court of
Henry VIII with a novel about the high cost of loyalty, love
and betrayal.
|
|
|
|
The everlasting
by Alix E. Harrow
From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of
Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about
the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly
historian sent back through time to make sure she plays her
part-even if it breaks his heart.
|
|
|
|
Mate
by Ali Hazelwood
As the first Human-Were hybrid, Serena is prey to the political machinations of Weres, Vampyres and Humans, while her mate,
Koen, Alpha of the Northwest pack, may be the only thing
standing between her and total annihilation.
|
|
|
|
The Women of Arlington Hall
by Jane Healey
Ambitious codebreaker Cat Killeen joins a covert spy-hunting
project at Arlington Hall in 1947, where her budding romance
with FBI agent and former rival Jonathan Dardis unfolds amid
Cold War tensions, high-stakes espionage, and a battle for
national security.
|
|
|
|
King sorrow
by Joe Hill
Blackmailed into stealing rare books, Arthur's friends summon
a dragon to save him, only to strike a deadly bargain that binds
them to a terrifying choice: offer a yearly sacrifice or face King
Sorrow's wrath themselves.
|
|
|
|
The Defender
by Ana Huang
As the captain of Blackcastle Football Club and one of the
highest-paid athletes in the game, Vincent DuBois should be
on top of the world. But when his fame brings danger to his
doorstep, he finds himself in a nightmare scenario―sharing
a flat with his coach's daughter, knowing full well she's far
too big a temptation for him to resist.
|
|
|
|
Bad bad girl : a novel
by Gish Jen
Spanning continents and generations, traces the turbulent bond
between a brilliant Chinese immigrant mother and her headstrong American daughter, as they navigate a lifetime of love, ambition
and aching misunderstanding, in the new novel by the author
of The Resisters.
|
|
|
|
The Wayfinder
by Adam Johnson
The perils of Tonga are compounded by a royal feud: loyalties are shifting, graves are being opened, and everyone lives in fear of a
jellyfish tattoo. Here, survival can rest on a perfectly performed
dance or the acceptance of a cup of kava. Together, the stranger
and Kōrero embark upon an epic voyage―one that will deliver
them either to salvation or to the depths of the Pacific.
|
|
|
|
Edge of the Wire
by Scott Kenemore
A Science Fiction thriller that exposes our dependence on
artificial intelligence. An elite crew of astronauts is sent to an
unknown planet. Their mission? To wire the planet within the
all-encompassing and all-knowing system of artificial intelligence,
known as "The Goo." It’s hard to remember a time before
The Goo. It is even harder to imagine a future without it.
|
|
|
|
The Christmas ring
by Karen Kingsbury
While searching for her family's missing Christmas ring, a military
widow sparks a friendship with a handsome antiques dealer,
who just might have the love and the lost heirloom she's been
longing for.
|
|
|
|
The letter carrier : a novel
by Francesca Giannone
Anna, a reserved northern woman uneasy in her husband's rural hometown in 1930s Italy, becomes a village postwoman, and even
as she remains an outsider, quietly becomes an invisible thread connecting a close-knit, watchful community over the course of
twenty years.
|
|
|
|
The gingerbread bakery
by Laurie Gilmore
As Dream Harbor prepares for Jeanie and Logan's festive wedding,
baker Annie and laid-back Mac are forced to work together amid
holiday cheer, community spirit and snowy charm. They must
decide if their playful rivalry might actually be hiding something
else.
|
|
|
|
The color of death : a novel
by Trey Gowdy
Following the death of his wife and daughter, Colm Truesdale
is left mentally scarred. After time off, and with no desire to return
to the courtroom, Truesdale is brought back into the investigation
of the murder of a young woman who ran a beauty salon outside
of town. When a page from her appointment book goes missing,
and then the crime scene burns down, it's up to Colm to untangle
the web of deception that implicates a powerful judge and
his family.
|
|
|
|
Holiday Ever After
by Hannah Grace
All Clara Davenport has ever wanted to do is climb the ladder
at Davenport Innovation Creative, her family’s toy business.
Jack Kelly would be happy to never hear the name Davenport
ever again. When Clara prances into town hoping to convince
Fraser Falls that her company is not the enemy, Jack is determined
not to be fooled by Davenport twice.
|
|
|
|
The Phoebe variations
by Jane Hamilton
When seventeen-year-old Phoebe meets her birth family for the
first time, the emotional fallout drives her to flee with the help of
her best friend Luna, seeking refuge and transformation in the
chaotic home of her friend Patrick O'Connor and his thirteen
siblings
|
|
|
|
Amity
by Nathan Harris
In 1866 New Orleans, formerly enslaved siblings Coleman and
June are separated, only to embark on perilous, individual
journeys through the Mexican desert to reunite and seize the
freedom they were promised.
|
|
|
|
Play nice
by Rachel Harrison
Clio's mother Alex lost custody of Clio and her sisters when Alex
wrote a book saying their house was possessed. After Alex's
sudden death, the house passes to the sisters. As the home
makeover begins and Clio finally reads the book, the presence
in the house becomes real and sinister.
|
|
|
|
The Academy
by Elin Hilderbrand
When a surprise national ranking thrusts underachieving Tiffin
Academy into the spotlight, a viral gossip app begins exposing
students' and staff's secrets, unraveling reputations and relationships
as the boarding school's carefully curated image gives way to chaos, scandal and unexpected alliances.
|
|
|
|
The Macabre
by Kosoko Jackson
Struggling painter Lewis Dixon is unexpectedly called upon by the
British Museum to test whether the fugue-like state he enters when painting portends magical ability that would enable him to enter
and destroy a series of paintings created by his own great-
grandfather and imbued with dark, world-destroying power.
|
|
|
|
Heart the lover : a novel
by Lily King
Decades after a tangled college love triangle shaped her life, a
woman is forced to confront her old choices and hidden truths
in this intimate novel of friendship and desire from the bestselling
author of Writers & Lovers.
|
|
|
|
What stalks the deep
by T. Kingfisher
Alex Easton investigates the dark, mysterious depths of a coal
mine in America.
|
|
|
|
Saltcrop
by Yume Kitasei
From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic
tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister―and Earth’s environmental salvation.
|
|
|
|
Please don't lie
by Christina Baker Kline
Two years ago, Hayley's parents died in a fire and her sister
overdosed, leaving Hayley alone to face a media circus. After
she accepts her husband's suggestion to start fresh in the
Adirondacks, he grows distant and the widow down the road
spews accusations sanctuary is anything but safe.
|
|
|
|
|
|