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Friday Fiction November 17, 2017 Jessica FitzHanso, Head of Reader Services Lisa Francine, Reader Services & Reference Librarian |
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Artemis
by Andy Weir
Augmenting his limited income by smuggling contraband to survive
on the moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime only to find herself embroiled
in a conspiracy for control of the city. By the best-selling author of
The Martian.
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Bonfire : a novel
by Krysten Ritter
The star of Marvel's Jessica Jones presents a novel of psychological suspense in which a successful environmental lawyer is forced to confront her small-town past while investigating a high-profile corruption case back home.
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Dear Fahrenheit 451 : Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
by Annie Spence
A laugh-out-loud, deeply personal collection of love letters and
break-up notes to the books in the librarian author's life explains
the complicated reasons why libraries are keeping or removing
books that either are no longer checked out by readers or have
poor literary value.
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The End We Start From
by Megan Hunter
As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place. The story traces fear and wonder as the baby grows, thriving and content against all the odds.
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The Exact Nature of our Wrongs
by Janet Peery
Gathering on a summer evening to celebrate the birthday of their
ailing patriarch, the Campbell family confronts the difficult realities
of an offspring's addiction problems, his mother's enabling
behaviors, and his siblings' conflicted views.
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Five-Carat Soul
by James McBride
The National Book Award-winning author presents a never-before-published collection of stories that are funny and poignant,
insightful and unpredictable and imaginative and authentic, and
explore the ways we learn from the world and the people
around us.
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Fresh Complaint : Stories
by Jeffrey Eugenides
A first collection of short fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of The Virgin Suicides features some of his most
acclaimed pieces, including the title story, in which a high
school student, desperate to escape the strictures of her
immigrant family, makes a drastic decision that upends the
life of a British physicist.
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Future Home of the Living God
by Louise Erdrich
A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police
state follows the efforts of a pregnant woman who investigates
her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may
emerge as a member of a primitive human species.
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Heather, the Totality
by Matthew Weiner
A debut novel by the Emmy Award-winning creator and writer of Mad Men presents the story of a collision course between a dangerous young man and a privileged couple who compete for their daughter's attention.
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
by Carmen Maria Machado
In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre
to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s
lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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Hum If You Don't Know the Words
by Bianca Marais
Growing up parallel but very different lives built on apartheid in
1970s Johannesburg, a white girl from a secure family and a
Xhosa widow in a rural village meet by chance in the wake of
The Soweto Uprising, during which the girl's parents are killed
and the widow's daughter goes missing. A first novel.
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It Devours! : A Welcome to Night Vale Novel
by Joseph Fink
When her leading scientist employer gives her an assignment
to investigate mysterious rumblings in the desert wasteland
outside of the town of Night Vale, Nilanjana Sikdar discovers the existence of a congregation of religious fanatics, including the powerfully attractive Darryl, who are plotting a ritual that threatens
the local community.
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The Library at the Edge of the World
by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
A debut novel by the author of The House on an Irish Hillside
traces the experiences of a librarian on the scenic west coast
of Ireland who searches for a way to rebuild her community
and her own life in the wake of local estrangements.
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In the Midst of Winter
by Isabel Allende
A minor traffic accident becomes a catalyst for an unexpected bond among a human rights scholar, his Chilean lecturer tenant and an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, who explore firsthand the difficulties of immigrants and refugees in today's world. By the best-selling author of The House of the Spirits.
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Morningstar : Growing Up with Books
by Ann Hood
The award-winning author of The Book That Matters Most
reveals the personal stories behind her written works,
describing her early years in a Rhode Island mill town
and the books that shaped her love of literature, her
political views and her travel ambitions.
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Mr. Dickens and His Carol : A Novel of Christmas Past
by Samantha Silva
When his successful world is threatened by poor reviews
about his latest book, writer Charles Dickens is given a
one-month ultimatum by his publisher to write a successful,
nostalgic Christmas book, a challenge that is complicated
by worldly associates, self-doubt and the hardships of an
impoverished young woman and her son. A first novel.
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The Ninth Hour
by Alice McDermott
A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through
the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early 20th-century Catholic Brooklyn.
By the National Book Award-winning author of Charming Billy.
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The Power
by Naomi Alderman
In a novel of speculative fiction, an award-winning author
contemplates a world where teenage girls now have
immense physical power—they can cause agonizing
pain and even death, drastically resetting the balance
of the world. By the author of The Liars' Gospel.
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Radio Free Vermont : A Fable of Resistance
by Bill McKibben
Broadcasting from a secret location with the help of a young
computer prodigy, a septuagenarian radical and fugitive from
the law leads an eccentric group of activists who carry out their
own version of guerilla warfare when they decide that their
home state might be better off seceding from the United
States. By the author of Eaarth.
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Refugee
by Alan Gratz
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a
Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl
trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in
1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland
is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing
journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections
that tie their stories together.
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The Rooster Bar
by John Grisham
Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world,
to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students,
these close friends realize they have been duped. They
all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school
so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let
alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is
one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund
operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in
student loans, the three know they have been caught up in
The Great Law School Scam. But maybe there's a way out.
Maybe there’s a way to escape their crushing debt, expose
the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process.
But to do so, they would first have to quit school. And leaving
law school a few short months before graduation would be
completely crazy, right? Well, yes and no . . .
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The Rules of Magic
by Alice Hoffman
A prequel to the best-selling Practical Magic traces the story of the children of Susanna Owens, who, in spite of their mother's fierce edicts against witchcraft, develop powerful abilities while struggling to escape the family curse that leads to tragedy if they fall in love.
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The Secret, Book & Scone Society
by Ellery Adams
When a visiting businessman reaches out to Nora of Miracle Books for advice on the perfect novel to read, she knows exactly which ones will help, but before he can keep their appointment, he’s found dead on the train tracks. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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Seven Days of Us
by Francesca Hornak
Looking forward to a Christmas family reunion for the first
time in years, the Birch family is upended by the news that
their physician-activist daughter has been exposed to a foreign
virus that forces the entire family into quarantine for a week
also shaped by respective anxieties, past glory and a shocking
secret. A first novel by the author of Worry With Mother.
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The Silent Corner : A Novel of Suspense
by Dean R. Koontz
A first of this series finds shattered widow Jane Hawk investigating
the inexplicable truth behind her happy and successful husband's suicide and is rendered a fugitive when she discovers that
powerful enemies are somehow forcing accomplished and
popular people to end their lives.
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Smile
by Roddy Doyle
Approached by a man he does not remember who claims
they attended secondary school together, a man on his own
for the first time in years reluctantly reflects on unhappy memories
from the past, including those of a brutal teacher who left him traumatized and struggling to hold fast to his sanity. By the
award-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
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Solar Bones
by Mike McCormack
A man’s spirit ruminates on his life and all the entwined events
and circumstances in the vast systems of time and history that
lead him to that exact moment.
By the author of Crowe’s Requiem.
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Something Like Happy
by Eva Woods
Thirty-five-year-old Annie Hebden is stuck in a rut until her
bubbly new friend, Polly Leonard, challenges her to try a new
way to be happy each day for 100 days.
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The trick : a novel
by Emanuel Bergmann
A desperately optimistic 10-year-old boy seeks out a cynical,
once-famed stage magician from Prague when the boy
becomes convinced that the magician's mysterious love spell
will heal his parents' strained marriage. A first novel.
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We Were Eight Years in Power : An American Tragedy
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A compelling portrait of the historic Barack Obama era, combining
new and annotated essays from the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, includes the articles,
"Fear of a Black President" and "The Case for Reparations"
as well as two new pieces on the Obama administration and
what is coming next.
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What Unites Us : Reflections on Patriotism
by Dan Rather
The Emmy Award-winning veteran journalist shares passionate essays about what it means to be an American and the
relevance of patriotism in today's world, exploring subjects
ranging from the institutions that support the nation, major events
from that past half century and how the country can better unite to secure a collective future.
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The It Girls
by Karen Harper
Promoting themselves from genteel poverty to fame, two
beautiful sisters, one a daring fashion designer and the other
a writer of scandalous novels, become each other's most staunch supporter and harshest critic in the face of misunderstandings
and confidences. By the author of Dark Angel.
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Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone
by Phaedra Patrick
The quiet but increasingly desperate routine of a small jewelry
shop owner is turned upside-down by the arrival of his audacious teenage niece, who helps him restart and remember the
unbreakable bonds of family.
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Wonder Valley
by Ivy Pochoda
A runner who dodges through traffic at the peak of the morning
rush hour in Los Angeles inadvertently changes the lives of a
handful of locals, from a former juvie inmate looking for his
mother, to teen twins who escape their father's desert commune,
to a bored lawyer who is inspired to pursue fulfillment.
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World Without End
by Ken Follett
In the town of Kingsbridge, a Gothic cathedral and the priory
are at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride,
ambition and revenge. Proponents of the old ways fiercely
battle those with progressive minds, as the Black Death
captures the city.
Book #2 in The Pillars of the Earth series.
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