|
New Adult Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction
|
|
|
The dark hours
by Michael Connelly
LAPD Detective Reneé Ballard, investigating a New Year’s Eve murder along with an unsolved murder, teams up Detective Harry Bosch once again when their two cases—one old and one new—intersect, while an undetected killer watches their every move.
|
|
|
The sentence : a novel
by Louise Erdrich
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author presents an unusual novel in which a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store’s most annoying customer.
|
|
|
We are not like them : a novel
by Christine Pride
The lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, is severely tested when one woman’s husband, a police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager, while the other woman, a reporter, covers this career-making story.
|
|
|
Better off dead
by Lee Child
Jack Reacher doesn't back down and doesn't hesitate to teach someone a lesson when a shadowy crew picks a fight with the former US Army military police major in the latest novel of the series following The Sentinel
|
|
|
Deadly Summer Nights
by Vicki Delany
In the summer of 1953 at Haggerman’s Catskills Resort, daring young widow Elizabeth must solve the mystery surrounding the death of a reclusive guest whose body was found in the lake on the grounds in order to save the business from going under. Original.
|
|
|
The love hypothesis
by Ali Hazelwood
When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation.
|
|
|
State of terror : a novel
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
A passionate young foreign service officer, a dedicated journalist, and a smart, determined, but as yet untested new secretary of state must team up to defeat an intricate, carefully constructed conspiracy planned to take advantage of four years of an American government out of touch with international affairs.
|
|
|
Our country friends : a novel
by Gary Shteyngart
When a group of old friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic, they end up spending six months in isolation during which old betrayals emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most.
|
|
|
On girlhood : 15 stories from the Well-Read Black Girl library
by Glory Edim
At times heartbreaking and at times hilarious, this first entry in the Well-Read Black Girl Library Series is a meticulously selected anthology features a wide range of unique voices, groundbreaking short stories that explore the thin yet imperative line between Black girlhood and womanhood.
|
|
|
Fight night
by Miriam Toews
Swiv's Grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community, she has fought those who wanted to take away her joy, her independence, and her spirit. Fight Night is a love letter to mothers and grandmothers, and to all the women who are still fighting-painfully, ferociously- for a way to live on their own terms.
|
|
|
Still life
by Sarah Winman
In 1944 Tuscany, as Allied troops advance, a young English soldier has a chance encounter with a middle-aged art historian with whom he finds a kindred spirit and who sets him off on a course of events that will shape his life for the next four decades.
|
|
|
What storm, what thunder
by Myriam J. A. Chancy
Set in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, this novel is a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and—at the same time—an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit.
|
|
|
The judge's list
by John Grisham
While on the hunt for a serial killer, Lacy Stoltz, an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, discovers that a man hiding behind the black robe may not only taking bribes but may be taking lives.
|
|
|
The book of magic
by Alice Hoffman
In this conclusion of the spellbinding Practical Magic series, a frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they discover secrets hidden from them in matters of both magic and love.
|
|
|
A Line to Kill
by Anthony Horowitz
Invited to an exclusive literary festival on an island off the English coast, Hawthorne and Horowitz become embroiled in the death of a local grandee in the latest novel of the series following The Sentence is Death.
|
|
|
Silverview
by John Le Carré
Giving up his high-powered career to run a bookshop in a small English seaside town, Julian Lawndsley finds his life upended by Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, who is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.
|
|
|
1979 : an Allie Burns novel
by Val McDermid
Journalist Allie Burns teams up with another aspiring investigative journalist, Danny Sullivan, for a series of stories in 1979 Glasgow about international tax fraud and a domestic terrorist group that create enemies and get one of them killed.
|
|
|
On Freedom : Four Songs of Care and Constraint
by Maggie Nelson
Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day.
|
|
|
On Animals
by Susan Orlean
Examining animal-human relationships through captivating stories she has written over the course of her career, the author, in this book that is equal parts wonderful and profound, celebrates the cross-species connections that grace our collective existence.
|
|
|
A Dreadful Destiny
by Rosemary Rowe
An unwelcome proposal of marriage has far-reaching repercussions in this skillfully plotted historical mystery. Set in CE 194.
|
|
|
A Carnival of Snackery : Diaries 2003-2020
by David Sedaris
In this follow-up to his previous volume of diaries, Theft by Finding, the award-winning humorist chronicles the years 2003-2020, charting the years of his rise to fame with his trademark misanthropic charm and wry wit.
|
|
|
Oh William!
by Elizabeth Strout
The iconic heroine of My Name is Lucy Barton recounts her complicated, compassionate relationship with William, her first husband—and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidant—and the lives they eventually built with other people
|
|
|
Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder
by Xiaolong Qiu
Qiu’s stellar 12th mystery featuring Insp. Chen Cao (after Becoming Inspector Chen) finds Chen, an honest cop, reassigned to the newly created Shanghai Judicial System Reform Office due to his zeal in following the evidence, even if it implicates influential Communist Party members.
|
|
|
Run. Book one
by John Lewis
This astounding graphic novel tells the story of an often overlooked chapter of civil rights history through the eyes of Congressman John Lewis—one of the “Big Six” leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington.
|
|
|
False witness
by Karin Slaughter
Defense attorney Leigh Collier is taken aback when she discovers her new, high profile case will be defending her childhood abuser in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Pieces of Her.
|
|
|
Billy Summers : a novel
by Stephen King
Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong?
|
|
|
Britain at Bay : the epic story of the Second World War, 1938-1941
by Alan Allport
The award-winning author of Demobbed examines the military and political dimensions of World War II’s early years to illuminate the marked differences between peacetime and wartime British culture and consider if England demonstrated its own values.
|
|
|
A fatal lie : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery
by Charles Todd
Dispatched from London to investigate the discovery of an unidentified body in a peaceful Welsh village, Ian Rutledge uncovers a tangle of deception involving a child’s tragic fate and a woman bent on hiding the past.
|
|
|
China : the novel
by Edward Rutherfurd
The internationally best-selling author of Paris and New York takes on an exhilarating new world.
|
|
|
While justice sleeps : a novel
by Stacey Abrams
Plunged into an explosive role she never anticipated, Avery Keene, now the legal guardian of power of attorney for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, must unravel the clues he left behind in regards to a dangerous conspiracy that has infiltrated the highest power corridors of Washington.
|
|
|
I alone can fix it : Donald J. Trump's catastrophic final year
by Carol Leonnig
The true story of what took place in Donald Trump's White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was influencing Trump after he refused to concede an election he had clearly lost and spread lies about election fraud? To answer these questions, Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal a dysfunctional and bumbling presidency's inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail.
|
|
|
Wildland : the making of America's fury
by Evan Osnos
Reported over the course of six years, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, returning to the three places he has lived in the U.S., follows ordinary individuals as they navigate the varied landscapes of 21st-century America, tracing the sources of America’s political dissolution.
|
|
|
The plague year : America in the time of COVID
by Lawrence Wright
Honoring to the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author provides essential information—and fascinating historical parallels—examining the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
|
|
|
The arsonists' city
by Hala Alyan
The scattered members of a Middle-Eastern clan unite at an ancestral home in Beirut to change a new patriarch’s decision to sell the property, igniting revelations about their family’s past in Lebanon, Syria and the United States.
|
|
|
Lincoln's mentors : the education of a leader
by Michael J. Gerhardt
Describes how after a career setback, Abraham Lincoln turned his life around by reading voraciously about a diverse group of men including Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson and using their experiences to inform his burgeoning political career.
|
|
|
Olive Free Library Association
P.O. Box 59
West Shokan, New York 12494
845.657.2482
http://olivefreelibrary.org
|
|
|
|