https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog daily 0.75 2025-12-30 https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/2026-reading-challenge monthly 0.5 2025-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/3e6ffc76-e034-49a8-ac37-c73c514dc7a7/2026+FFPL+RC+Announcement.png BLOG - 2026 Reading Challenge - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-august-21-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f0782be3-2b8d-4f8c-a579-b2679b3a4baa/the-wrong-sister-claire-douglas.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 21, 2025 - The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: 8 hours, 55 minutes You’ve known her all your life. Or have you? Tasha and her older sister Alice may look alike, but they couldn’t be more different. Tasha’s married with two children and still lives in their hometown near Bristol. Alice is a high-flying scientist who travels the world with her equally successful husband. Yet each sister would trust the other with her life. When Tasha and her husband Aaron need a break and Alice offers to stay in their home with the kids, Tasha knows her family is in safe hands. She couldn’t be more wrong. The call from home is devastating. Alice and her husband Kyle have been attacked, leaving Alice in intensive care and Kyle dead. Rushing to the hospital, Tasha finds the police trying to piece events together. She can’t think why anyone would attack her sister. Then the note arrives, addressed to Tasha: It was supposed to be you . . . Every family has secrets. Some more deadly than others. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Wrong Sister” by Claire Douglas FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/7fdda544-51cb-4081-b8b6-2618dd5b85c2/kiss-her-goodye-lisa-gardner.JPG BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 21, 2025 - Kiss Her Goodbye (Frankie Elkin #4) by Lisa Gardner GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: A young mother haunted by war, determined to make a fresh start. But sometimes, the sins of the past aren't so easy to escape. Recent Afghan refugee Sabera Ahmadi was last seen exiting her place of work three weeks ago. The local police have yet to open a case, while her older, domineering husband seems unconcerned. Sabera's closest friend, however, is convinced Sabera would never willingly leave her three‑year old daughter. At her insistence, missing persons expert Frankie Elkin agrees to take up the search through the broiling streets of Tucson. Just in time for a video of the young mother to surface—showing her walking away from the scene of a brutal double murder. Frankie quickly realizes there's much more to the Ahmadi family than meets the eye. The father Isaad is a brilliant mathematician, Sabera a gifted linguist, and their little girl Zahra—she has an uncanny ability to remember anything she sees. Which given everything that has happened during the girl's short life, may be a terrible curse. When Isaad also disappears under mysterious circumstances and an attempt is made on Zahra's life, Frankie realizes she must quickly crack the code of this family's horrific past. Someone is coming for the Ahmadis. And violence is clearly an option. When everything is on the line, how far would you go to protect the ones you love? Frankie is about to find out. 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CLICK TO RESERVE “The Surrogate Mother” by Freida McFadden FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/4d019780-3d18-438a-ad52-ffa4a8898d54/shadows-in-the-moonlight-santa-montefiore.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 21, 2025 - Shadows in the Moonlight by Santa Montefiore GENRE: Historical Fiction, Romance THE SYNOPSIS: When Pixie Tate is summoned to the wild Cornish coast to unravel a curious mystery at the stately St Sidwell Manor, she knows that something quite extraordinary must be hiding in its shadows. Over one hundred years ago, in the dark of night, a child vanished from his bed never to be seen again - and Pixie must now discover the truth of those final moonlit hours. As she loses herself in the past, secrets are revealed, love affairs exposed and, ultimately, Pixie will be forced to make a devastating choice that will change her life forever... 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You’ve got to get me out of here.” Amanda doesn't trust Georgia, but she can't abandon her in a place so eerie and menacing that it seems to exist in another dimension. Is Georgia the victim of a powerful family that's so depraved murder is the least of their crimes? Or is Amanda being led down a path of madness into the web of a master manipulator? Nothing is as it seems in Sarah Pekkanen’s The Locked Ward, a shocking psychological thriller about the complex bonds of sisterhood—and what happens when they are stretched to the breaking point. Some doors in the Locked Ward should never be opened. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Locked Ward” by Sarah Pekkanen FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6ef8abf3-e9e4-4392-9e9a-033b02b470b8/the-magician-of-tiger-castle-louis-sachar.jpeg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 21, 2025 - The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar GENRE: Fantasy, Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Long ago and far away (and somewhere south of France) lies the kingdom of Esquaveta. There, Princess Tullia is in nearly as much peril as her struggling kingdom. Esquaveta desperately needs to forge an alliance, and to that end, Tullia's father has arranged a marriage between her and an odious prince. However, one month before the "wedding of the century," Tullia falls in love with a lowly apprentice scribe. The king turns to Anatole, his much-maligned magician. Eighteen years earlier, when Anatole first came to the castle, he was regarded as something of a prodigy. But after a long series of failures—the latest being an attempt to transform sand into gold—he has become the object of contempt and ridicule. The only one who still believes in him is the princess. When the king orders Anatole to brew a potion that will ensure Tullia agrees to the wedding, Anatole is faced with an impossible choice. With one chance to save the marriage, the kingdom, and, of most importance to him, his reputation, will he betray the princess—or risk ruin? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Magician of Tiger Castle” by Louis Sachar FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d628da96-dd88-4da3-ab2a-cfe0395660eb/we-are-all-guilty-here-karin-slaughter.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 21, 2025 - We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls #1) by Karin Slaughter GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help—and now she must bring her home. But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did. Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them? And what else is the town hiding? CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls #1)” by Karin Slaughter: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (eAudiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/eb5283ec-bc58-4f98-a5d5-5a82f2ff2966/crossfire-wilbur-smith.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 21, 2025 - Crossfire (Courtney #24) by Wilbur Smith GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: 1943. The tide of the Second World War is turning. The Russian victory at Stalingrad - the bloodiest battle in history - has opened the door for the Allies. Now, they must strike decisively at the heart of Hitler's Reich. But military success cannot be guaranteed without total secrecy. Special Operations Executive's Saffron Courtney is sailing from the west coast of Scotland to New York on the Queen Mary. Her mission - to identify the mole in the British Embassy in Washington, DC before Churchill and Roosevelt begin the talks that will determine British and American military strategy in the wake of the Russian victory. Haunted by the ghosts of her previous mission in the Low Countries, and with dangerous agents on her tail, Saffron must find the spy who could derail the Allied advance. Time is running out. Will Saffron complete her mission? Or will she succumb to the shadows of her past? CLICK TO RESERVE “Crossfire (Courtney #24)” by Wilbur Smith FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/eb72bf5f-e37e-47c0-af07-3520a08e0ec3/for-richer-for-poorer-danielle-steel.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 21, 2025 - For Richer For Poorer by Danielle Steel GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: After working as head designer for Oscar de la Renta, Eugenia Ward started her own company when she turned forty, fourteen years ago. She is now a major name in evening gowns and wedding gowns, ready-to-wear and haute couture. But with the fashion business in major downturn, she has recently suffered heavy losses, and Eugenia desperately needs new investors—and new ideas. At the same time, she is the matriarch and guiding light for her five adult children, a single mother for more than a decade, since her divorce from the spendthrift Italian prince she’d married young. As the family gathers for a summer vacation at a beach house, wedding plans for her daughter Gloria are ballooning in expense even as the loutish behavior of Gloria’s fiancé causes Eugenia to question her daughter’s judgment. Meanwhile, Gloria’s sister Daphne is due to deliver twins right around the wedding date . . . which is also very close make or break New York Fashion Week. The silver lining in it all may be meeting Patrick Hughes, a successful real estate developer who’s also going through a rough patch. A brilliant and creative businessman, Patrick gives her valuable advice about her business challenges. Eugenia finds friendship with Patrick sailing on his yacht and starts to imagine a new beginning, independent of her roles as mother and entrepreneur. But as the family gathers for the big wedding, tensions are running high, money may be running out, and a hurricane is looming on the horizon. CLICK TO RESERVE “For Richer For Poorer” by Danielle Steel FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-august-12-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/8641f66c-a51c-4764-b149-3e763e139381/dont-open-your-eyes-liv-constantine.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 12, 2025 - Don’t Open Your Eyes by Liv Constantine GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Annabelle has everything she’s ever wanted. A devoted husband, two wonderful daughters, and a career she loves. She couldn’t be happier. So why is she suddenly plagued by disturbing dreams of a future where she hates her husband and her daughters’ lives are at risk? At first, she chalks the dreams up to an overactive imagination. But when details from her dreams, details she couldn’t possibly have predicted, begin to materialize, she realizes these aren’t just dreams but rather premonitions of a terrifying future. They all point to a singular choice, an unknown moment that holds Annabelle’s life in the balance. Then Annabelle has a dream that her daughter, Scarlett, is in immediate danger. Someone wants Scarlett dead and Annabelle has no idea who or why. Suddenly, every choice she makes is fraught with peril, with no inkling of which move could bring this terrifying vision to life. As her present life starts to collide with the future in her dreams, she wrestles with how much control she really has over her destiny and whether or not she can change what is meant to be. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Don’t Open Your Eyes” by Liv Constantine: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0ca1d3e3-4a13-4b7f-9c72-fdc99fc98b67/fox-joyce-carol-oates.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 12, 2025 - Fox by Joyce Carol Oates GENRE: Thriller, Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be. CLICK TO RESERVE “Fox” by Joyce Carol Oates FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/093baf83-205b-4638-957f-a0374fda110b/june-in-the-garden-eleanor-wilde.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 12, 2025 - June in the Garden by Eleanor Wilde GENRE: Contemporary THE SYNOPSIS: June views the world differently from others. A keen horticulturist, she can name every flower species in the alphabet, yet when it comes to people and relationships she's still learning. After her mother's sudden death, June must vacate her home. But when the social worker urges her to move into a flat with no garden, she resists. With no other options, she embarks on her first solo trip in search of a father she’s seen only in a single old photograph. When June unexpectedly shows up at her father’s door, he panics and turns her away, unwilling to jeopardize his idyllic life and new family. On her way out, she spies an unruly backyard, and with nowhere else to go, she quietly moves into her father’s garden shed. Once again she can spend her days surrounded by flowers. But when her father’s twelve-year-old son discovers June, she must choose between being seen for the first time or running away. 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As Katie gets entangled with Hutch (the most scientifically good looking man she has ever seen . . . but also a bit of a love hater), along with his colorful Aunt Rue and his rescue Great Dane, she gets trapped in a lie. Or two. Swim lessons, helicopter flights, conga lines, drinking contests, hurricanes, and stolen kisses ensue—along with chances to tell the truth, to face old fears, and to be truly brave at last. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Love Haters” by Katherine Center: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a2305b70-a415-4fb2-ba69-4c1e24666e38/murder-takes-a-vacation-laura-lippman.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 12, 2025 - Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Mrs. Blossom is not the kind of woman to play the lottery. She is practical, a devoted grandmother, and has a knack for blending into the background, which was an asset during her days assisting private investigator Tess Monaghan. But when Mrs. Blossom finds a winning ticket in a parking lot, everything changes...including Mrs. Blossom. She is determined to see the world that sometimes feels as if it’s passing her by. But when Mrs. Blossom booked her cruise through France on the MS Solitaire, she did not expect to meet Allan on her transatlantic flight. He is the first man who’s sparked something inside her since her beloved husband passed. She also didn’t expect Allan to be found, dead, twenty-four hours later in Paris, a city he wasn’t supposed to be in. Now Mrs. Blossom doesn’t know who to trust on board the ship, especially when a new, mystifying man, Danny, keeps popping up around every corner, always present when things go awry. He claims that Allan was involved in the transport of a stolen, precious piece of art, and he’s convinced that Mrs. Blossom knows more than she lets on, regarding both the artifact and Allan’s murder. Mrs. Blossom’s questions only increase as the cruise sails down the Seine. Why does it feel like she is being followed? Who was Allan, and why was he killed? Most alarmingly, why do these mysterious men keep flirting with her? CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Murder Takes a Vacation” by Laura Lippman: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e6fab138-fa9b-4897-b267-60b8fe168b6a/the-stolen-life-of-collette-marceau.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 12, 2025 - The Stolen Life of Collette Marceau by Kristin Harmel GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Colette Marceau has been stealing jewels for nearly as long as she can remember, following the centuries-old code of honor instilled in her by her mother, take only from the cruel and unkind, and give to those in need. Never was their family tradition more important than seven decades earlier, during the Second World War, when Annabel and Colette worked side by side in Paris to fund the French Resistance. But one night in 1942, it all went wrong. Annabel was arrested by the Germans, and Colette’s four-year-old sister, Liliane, disappeared in the chaos of the raid, along with an exquisite diamond bracelet sewn into the hem of her nightgown for safekeeping. Soon after, Annabel was executed, and Liliane’s body was found floating in the Seine—but the bracelet was nowhere to be found. Seventy years later, Colette—who has “redistributed” $30 million in jewels over the decades to fund many worthy organizations—has done her best to put her tragic past behind her, but her life begins to unravel when the long-missing bracelet suddenly turns up in a museum exhibit in Boston. If Colette can discover where it has been all this time—and who owns it now—she may finally learn the truth about what happened to her sister. But she isn’t the only one for whom the bracelet holds answers, and when someone from her childhood lays claim to the diamonds, she’s forced to confront the ghosts of her past as never before. Against all odds, there may still be a chance to bring a murderer to justice—but first, Colette will have to summon the courage to open her own battered heart. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau” by Kristin Harmel: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0dca4481-5b9c-43f1-8c90-15e9f4550ad5/dont-forget-me-little-bessie-james-lee-burke.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 12, 2025 - Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie (Holland Family #5) by James Lee Burke GENRE: Historical Fiction, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerful than humanity has ever seen, Bessie Holland yearns for the love that she has never known. She finds a soulmate and mentor in a brilliant but tormented suffragette English teacher, who inspires Bessie to fight the forces of evil that permeate her world. Watching the vast Texas countryside being destroyed by an oil company and a menacing figure with a violent past, Bessie is prepared to defend her home and her family. But when she accidentally kills an unarmed man to defend her father Hackberry, she must flee to New York. There, her older brother introduces her to boys who will grow into gangsters, but as children admire and respect Bessie’s spirit and fortitude as she is cast into a gangland that yearns for justice and mercy. CLICK TO RESERVE “Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie (Holland Family #5)” by James Lee Burke FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/22560865-a745-49a9-8f1c-a3a434de7a91/a-case-of-mice-and-murder-sally-smith.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 12, 2025 - A Case of Mice and Murder (Trials of Gabriel Ward #1) by Sally Smith GENRE: Mystery, Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: When barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms at exactly two minutes to seven on a sunny May morning in 1901, his mind is so full of his latest case—the disputed authorship of bestselling children’s book Millie the Temple Church Mouse—that he scarcely registers the body of the Lord Chief Justice of England on his doorstep. But even he cannot fail to notice the judge’s dusty bare feet, in shocking contrast to his flawless evening dress, nor the silver carving knife sticking out of his chest. In the shaded courtyards and ancient buildings of the Inner Temple, the hidden heart of London’s legal world, murder has spent centuries confined firmly to the casebooks. Until now . . . The police can enter the Temple only by consent, so who better to investigate this tragic breach of law and order than a man who prizes both above all things? But murder doesn’t answer to logic or reasoned argument, and Gabriel soon discovers that the Temple’s heavy oak doors are hiding more surprising secrets than he’d ever imagined . . . 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Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easy-going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant. 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Lizzie's sworn off people - especially men - until her friendly new neighbours entice her out of her shell. Maybe she needs a flirtation - with gorgeous Nick, perhaps? Not with taciturn local Matthew, though, who definitely isn't a member of her fan club. Then an astonishing secret revealed changes everything . . . The scene is set for a fabulous new novel full of friendship, warmth and romance. CLICK TO BORROW “An Almost Perfect Summer” by Jill Mansell FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1f0c8977-8f8a-4672-af83-ebb07dd72a48/beach-reads-and-deadly-deeds-allison-brennan.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds by Allison Brennan GENRE: Cozy Mystery, Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Mia Crawford is responsible to a fault. She has to be. Between her high-demand job and taking care of her grandmother and her cats, she has little time for anything else. What time she does have, she pours into reading. Mysteries, romances, thrillers…books filled with women who are far more impulsive than she would ever dream of being. Now, forced into taking a long-overdue vacation, she finds herself on a luxurious private island where she just might have a chance to reinvent herself—for a little while, anyway. She can explore the island. Flirt shamelessly with a cute bartender. Have a vacation fling. Live like a heroine in one of her favorite novels. Or she can curl up with a good book on the beach. Turns out reinventing yourself is easier planned than done. But when gossipy notes written in the margins of an old book turn out to be clues to the disappearance of another guest, Mia finds herself diving headfirst into a dangerous adventure. With everyone at the resort hiding secrets of their own, she’ll have to solve this real-life mystery before she becomes the next target. CLICK BELOW TO BORROW “Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds” by Allison Brennan: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/947a90ca-bd8a-4575-9584-52beac330bc2/the-cardinal-alison-weir.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Cardinal by Alison Weir GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: It begins with Thomas, the son of a Suffolk tradesman. A brilliant boy sent to study at Oxford at the tender age of eleven. It ends with a disgraced Cardinal, cast from the King's side and estranged from those he loves. In her groundbreaking new novel, Alison Weir draws out the inner man for the first time and tells his story. It is one of a scholar, a lover and a father, a rival, a politician and a priest. A man who built an empire in England while leading a secret second life, who paid the highest price for his success. These many faces of Thomas Wolsey chart his incredible rise and tragic fall, and reveal a tale of power, passion and ambition. By turns riveting and surprising, this is Wolsey as you've never seen him before. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Cardinal” by Alison Weir FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5d034300-1eb7-4a69-9d11-f16da22f7758/culpability-bruce-holsinger.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Culpability by Bruce Holsinger GENRE: Contemporary, Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: When the Cassidy-Shaws’ autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver’s seat, with his father, Noah, riding shotgun. In the back seat, tweens Alice and Izzy are on their phones, while their mother, Lorelei, a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, is absorbed in her work. Yet each family member harbors a secret that implicates them in the accident. During a weeklong recuperation on the Chesapeake Bay, the family confronts the excruciating moral dilemmas triggered by the crash. Noah tries to hold the family together as a seemingly routine police investigation jeopardizes Charlie’s future. Alice and Izzy turn strangely furtive. And Lorelei’s odd behavior tugs at Noah’s suspicions that there is a darker truth behind the incident—suspicions heightened by the sudden intrusion of Daniel Monet, a tech mogul whose mysterious history with Lorelei hints at betrayal. When Charlie falls for Monet’s teenaged daughter, the stakes are raised even higher in this propulsive family drama that is also a fascinating exploration of the moral responsibility and ethical consequences of AI. CLICK TO BORROW “Culpability” by Bruce Holsinger FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1db95182-9099-4257-87bb-ea28204f4fb5/darling-beasts-michelle-gable.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Darling Beasts by Michelle Gable GENRE: Contemporary THE SYNOPSIS: Gabby, Talia, and Ozzie Gunn, heirs to a media empire, are in trouble. After several bad investments and one major scandal, their father is now trying to restore their family’s good name with a senatorial run. Even worse? He’s demanding they move to California to join the campaign or risk being cut off. It’s easy to say you don’t care about money when you have enough, but with mounting debts, unconventional hobbies, and in the case of Gabby, Portum Bestiae Syndrome—a very expensive condition in which strange symptoms arise and then an exotic animal appears—the siblings don’t have much of a choice. In California, they’ll just have to keep their distance and survive until it’s all over. But almost immediately, the Gunns find themselves right in the thick of things, dodging headlines and the creatures that seem to pop up in the most inconvenient places. Not only that—the change in scenery even has them bonding, on hot-air balloon rides and sunny beaches. But when a family secret rears its head, reopening old wounds, this new existence is thrown into chaos, and the stage is set for a long-overdue reckoning… CLICK TO RESERVE “Darling Beasts” by Michelle Gable FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/39b08c54-68a0-48fc-9681-796f50a5660b/the-deepest-fake-daniel-kalla.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Deepest Fake by Daniel Kalla GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Liam Hirsch has it all—a loving family, a thriving career as CEO of an AI company, financial security, and a bright future. But when he’s diagnosed with a terminal illness, just weeks after discovering his wife’s infidelity, his perfect life unravels. As he grapples with his fate, he prepares to face his final days on his own terms. However, unexplained events inside his company make him question everything—including his diagnosis. In a world of deepfake videos, synthetic voices, and digital deception, couldn’t these technologies be weaponized against him? What if nothing is as it seems? With time running out, Liam turns to Andrea DeWalt, a private investigator contending with her own feelings of betrayal, to help him uncover a conspiracy that threatens his life, his family, and their future. In a world where nothing is as it seems and every digital footprint can be manipulated, who can Liam trust? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Deepest Fake” by Daniel Kalla FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/cc95755d-8fad-49da-a432-8edd0485978f/do-not-disturb-freida-mcfadden.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Do Not Disturb by Freida McFadden GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime. To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what she’s done. But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too happy to offer her a cheap room for the night. Unfortunately, the Baxter Motel isn’t the quiet, safe haven it seemed to be. The motel has a dark and disturbing past. And in the dilapidated house across the way, the silhouette of Nick's ailing wife is always at the window. Always watching. In the morning, Quinn must leave the motel. She'll pack up her belongings and get back on the road to freedom. But first, she must survive the night. CLICK TO RESERVE “Do Not Disturb” by Freida McFadden FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/76cbd147-4dde-416c-b329-bcf990fce6c6/the-emperor-of-gladness-ocean-vuong.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong GENRE: Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Emperor of Gladness” by Ocean Vuong: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBOOK) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/8aa3bb72-82e3-476a-b287-eab8e199ecf2/the-expat-affair-kimberly-belle.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Expat Affair by Kimberly Belle GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Following a nasty divorce, Rayna Dumont came to Amsterdam for a fresh start. She’s never been the type for a one-night stand, but this move is all about adventure, and Xander is handsome and successful and more than willing to go along for the ride. Until the morning after, when Rayna finds him dead on the shower floor and millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds missing from his safe. From her lavish home in the heart of the city, Willow Prins is captivated by the news. Her husband is Xander’s former boss and heir to a diamond house, and the scandal strains their already-rocky marriage. As the house comes under scrutiny, Willow wonders if her life is about to implode—and how much of the blame she can place on Rayna. Soon, Willow and Rayna are dragged into the dark and dangerous underbelly of the diamond market, where they’ll have to uncover the truth to survive. Who killed Xander? Where are the missing diamonds? And who can you trust in a strange and unfamiliar city thousands of miles from home? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Expat Affair” by Kimberly Belle FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1b342f3f-0e83-4a69-a8e4-19f7e0962c96/the-frozen-people-elly-griffiths.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Some murders can’t be solved in just one lifetime. Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old, they’re frozen—or so their inside joke goes. Nobody knows that her team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence. The latest assignment sees Ali venture back farther than they have dared before: to 1850s London to clear the name of Cain Templeton, an eccentric patron of the arts. Rumor has it that Cain is part of a sinister group called The Collectors. Ali arrives in the Victorian era to another dead woman at her feet and far too many unanswered questions. As the clock counts down, Ali becomes more entangled in the mystery, yet danger lurks around every corner. She soon finds herself trapped, unable to make her way back to her beloved son, Finn, who is battling his own accusations in the present day. Could the two cases be connected? In a race through and against time, Ali must find out before it’s too late. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Frozen People” by Elly Griffiths FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c6fa99f3-90f4-42ee-bf45-5c3e78865561/the-ghostwriter-julie-clark.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: June, 1975. The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, Vincent, never shakes the whispers and accusations that he was the one who killed them. Decades later, the legend only grows as his career as a horror writer skyrockets. Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of Vincent Taylor. Now on the brink of financial ruin, she's offered a job to ghostwrite her father's last book. What she doesn't know, though, is that this project is another one of his lies. Because it's not another horror novel he wants her to write. After fifty years of silence, Vincent Taylor is finally ready to talk about what really happened that night in 1975. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Ghostwriter” by Julie Clark: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f097eac4-0ab1-497c-84ee-8b381119fdbf/going-home-in-the-dark-dean-koontz.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Going Home in the Dark by Dean Koontz GENRE: Horror, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams―and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don’t they remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always awoke…didn’t they? After two decades, not a lot has changed in Maple Grove, especially Ernie’s obnoxious, scary mother. But Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer begin to remember a hulking, murderous figure and weirdness piled on mystery that they were made to forget. As Ernie sinks deeper into darkness, something strange awaits any friend who tries to save him. For Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer, time is running out to remember the terrors of the past in a perfect town where nothing is what it seems. For Maple Grove, it’s a chance to have the “four amigos,” as they once called themselves, back in its grasp. CLICK TO RESERVE “Going Home in the Dark” by Dean Koontz FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/baf8a642-d9a1-45e6-b1f0-0b9c7b7ec0e1/hello-juliet-samantha-m-bailey.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Hello, Juliet by Samantha M. Bailey GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Ivy Westcott fled LA as her acting career imploded. In a flash, she lost her first love and chosen family—her Hello, Juliet castmates. But she never discovered who turned her closest friends against her. Now the whole world knows her as #PoisonIvy. A decade later, Ivy is horrified when a celebrity exposé thrusts the Hello, Juliet cast back into the limelight, dredging up the old scandals she hoped to escape. Desperate for a fresh start and some financial stability for her mother and manager, Ivy agrees to participate in a top-secret reunion episode. Ivy’s poised for a comeback, but past betrayals become a present danger when she and the man who once broke her heart find their costar dead. Determined to find justice and clear her name, Ivy must tear down the facades of cast and crew to uncover chilling secrets that have plagued the Hollywood set from day one. Or she could be the next to die. CLICK TO RESERVE “Hello, Juliet” by Samantha M. Bailey FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/29d2cdf9-345d-430f-ac0d-4c01a157ca55/hidden-nature-nora-roberts.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts GENRE: Romance, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store—and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot from a jittery thief was about to change her world. After being shocked back to life on the operating table, she has a long recovery ahead, so she moves back to her parents’ peaceful house in Heron’s Rest. As for the boyfriend who dumped her via text while she was in the hospital, good riddance. She may be down, but she’s not out. So when a woman vanishes, leaving her car behind in a supermarket parking lot, Sloan searches online for similar cases. She finds them, spread across three states. Men and women, old and young—the missing seem to have nothing in common. And the abductions keep happening. Luckily, the new man in her life shares her passion for solving this mystery. But it will take every ounce of endurance to get to the dark heart of this bizarre case—and she's willing to risk her life again if that's what it takes to stop the horror. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Hidden Nature” by Nora Roberts: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/7654fb71-37f7-4612-abe2-1d4c0762cb83/the-homemade-god-rachel-joyce.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce GENRE: Contemporary THE SYNOPSIS: World-famous artist Vic Kemp has relied on his four children ever since their mother died when they were young. Netta, the oldest, is a litigator who often serves as co-parent to her siblings; Susan, a housewife who cooks and cleans for both her husband and her father; Goose's own thwarted artistic ambitions have left him resigned to a job in Vic's studio; and Iris, the baby, drops everything the moment her father calls. When Vic summons the siblings with the promise of big news, they hope their father is about to tell them he has finished the mysterious masterpiece he claims will be the capstone to his career. Instead, he announces he’s getting remarried. Bella-Mae, his wife to be, is apparently beautiful, a fellow artist—and twenty-seven to his seventy-six years. When his children dare to express concern, Vic decamps with Bella-Mae to his summer home in Italy. Six weeks later, he is found dead. There is no sign of his will, or his promised final painting. Netta, Susan, Goose, and Iris gather at the house on Lake Orta to piece together what happened and prepare to bring their father’s body home. They spend the summer in a waiting game, living under the same roof as Bella-Mae, and forced to confront Vic's legacy and the buried wounds they have incurred as his children. So who is Bella-Mae? Is she the woman their father believed her to be? Or is she the force that will destroy the family for good? How long can their old bonds hold? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Homemade God” by Rachel Joyce FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/442efea2-af58-4ad6-826e-423ad48270bb/its-a-love-story-annabelle-monaghan.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - It’s a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Rules for a love story: There are none. It’s all a lie. Jane Jackson knows that true love is a lie. Laughter is the only truth—you can’t fake a belly laugh. Jane should know, she spent her adolescence as "Poor Janey Jakes," the barbecue-sauce-in-her-braces punchline on America's fifth-favorite sitcom. Now she’s a Creative Executive at Clearwater Studios and she’s living by a new mantra: Fake it till you make it. Except, she might have faked it too far. Desperate to get her first project greenlit and riled up by pompous cinematographer and one-time crush Dan Finnegan, she opened her mouth and a big fat fib fell out. She claimed that Jack Quinlan, hottest popstar of the moment, has promised to write an original song for the soundtrack. Jack may have been her first kiss—and greatest source of shame—but she hasn’t spoken to him in twenty years. Now, Jane must turn to the last man she’d ever want to owe: Dan Finnegan. Because Jack is playing a festival in Dan’s hometown on Long Island, and Dan has an in. A week in close quarters with Dan while facing down her past is Jane's idea of hell, but Dan just might surprise her. While covering up her lie, can they find something true? CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “It’s a Love Story” by Annabel Monaghan: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (eAudiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d29966df-40fa-49b7-9ffb-ed1ab26bfe42/the-lies-they-told-ellen-marie-wiseman.jpeg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Lies They Told by Ellen Marie Wiseman GENRE: THE SYNOPSIS: When Lena Conti—a young, unwed mother—sees immigrant families being forcibly separated on Ellis Island, she vows not to let the officers take her two-year old daughter. But the inspection process is more rigorous than she imagined, and she is separated from her mother and teenage brother, who are labeled burdens to society, denied entry, and deported back to Germany. Now, alone but determined to give her daughter a better life after years of living in poverty and near starvation, she finds herself facing a future unlike anything she had envisioned. Silas Wolfe, a widowed family relative, reluctantly brings Lena and her daughter to his weathered cabin in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to care for his home and children. Though the hills around Wolfe Hollow remind Lena of her homeland, she struggles to adjust. Worse, she is stunned to learn the children in her care have been taught to hide when the sheriff comes around. As Lena meets their neighbors, she realizes the community is vibrant and tight knit, but also senses growing unease. The State of Virginia is scheming to paint them as ignorant, immoral, and backwards so they can evict them from their land, seize children from parents, and deal with those possessing “inferior genes.” After a social worker from the Eugenics Office accuses Lena of promiscuity and feeblemindedness, her own worst fears come true. Sent to the Virginia State Colony for the Feebleminded and Epileptics, Lena face impossible choices in hopes of reuniting with her daughter—and protecting the people, and the land, she has grown to love. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Lies They Told” by Ellen Marie Wiseman FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/3937b452-5156-4fa6-bf86-75d18c1416cc/the-life-of-chuck-stephen-king.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Life of Chuck by Stephen King GENRE: Horror, Fantasy, Short Stories THE SYNOPSIS: In a crumbling world plagued by natural disasters, collapsing infrastructure, and mass panic, bizarre billboards and advertisements appear throughout town: "Charles Krantz. Thirty-nine great years. Thanks, Chuck!" Marty Anderson, a schoolteacher, becomes obsessed with these messages as the world, inexplicably linked to Chuck's life, seems to be approaching its end. Told in three acts, presented in reverse order, The Life of Chuck explores one man's past. We see him in middle age on a business trip in Boston as he is seduced by a busker into spinning a gorgeous sidewalk dance. And we see him as a child, in a house haunted by a terrible secret, learning to dance with his grandmother. In these pages King reminds us that life's quotidian pleasures are even more glorious because they are fleeting: the outrageous good fortune of a beautiful blue day after a string of gray ones; the delight of dancing when every move feels perfect; a serendipitous meeting. King's ability to describe pure joy rivals his ability to terrify us. Now a major motion picture and winner of the Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award, The Life of Chuck is a glorious story about community and about humanity at its best, a celebration of joy, mystery, existential wonder, and the multitudes contained in all of us. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Life of Chuck” by Stephen King: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c650b501-39eb-4cae-9487-f0d272cfe072/the-list-steve-berry.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The List by Steve Berry GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: After a ten-year self-imposed exile, Brent Walker is returning home to Concord, a quaint town in central Georgia nestled close to the Savannah River. Two years ago, his father died, and now Brent, hired by Southern Republic Pulp and Paper Company as its assistant general counsel, is returning to care for his ailing mother. For decades, Southern Republic has invested heavily in Concord, creating a thriving community where its employees live, work, and retire. But the genteel sheen of this quiet town is deceiving, and when a list of cryptic code surfaces, Brent starts to see the cracks. Southern Republic’s success is based largely on a highly unorthodox and deadly system to control costs, known only to the three owners of the company. Now, one of them, Christopher Bozin, has had a change of heart. Brent’s return to Concord, a move Bozin personally orchestrated, provides his conscience with a chance at redemption. So a plan is set into motion, one that will not only criminally implicate Bozin’s two partners, but also place Brent Walker square in the crosshairs of men who want him dead—with only one course left available. Find and reveal the shocking secret of the list. CLICK TO RESERVE “The List” by Steve Berry FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5518785a-6b14-4bfe-882e-948f36833e69/marthas-vineyard-beach-and-book-club-martha-hall-kelly.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club by Martha Hall Kelly GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: 2016: Thirty-four-year-old Mari Starwood is still grieving after her mother’s death as she travels to the storied island of Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. She’s come all the way from California with nothing but a name on a piece of paper: Elizabeth Devereaux, the famous but reclusive Vineyard painter. When Mari makes it to Mrs. Devereaux’s stunning waterfront farm under the guise of taking a painting class with her, Mrs. Devereaux begins to tell her the story of the Smith sisters, who once lived there. As the tale unfolds, Mari is shocked to learn that her relationship to this island runs deeper than she ever thought possible. 1942: The Smith girls—nineteen-year-old aspiring writer Cadence and sixteen-year-old war-obsessed Briar—are faced with the impossible task of holding their failing family farm together during World War II as the U.S. Army arrives on Martha’s Vineyard. When Briar spots German U-boats lurking off the island’s shores, and Cadence falls into an unlikely romance with a sworn enemy, their quiet lives are officially upended. In an attempt at normalcy, Cadence and her best friend, Bess, start a book club, which grows both in members and influence as they connect with a fabulous New York publisher who could make all of Cadence’s dreams come true. But all that is put at risk by a mysterious man who washes ashore—and whispers of a spy in their midst. Who in their tight-knit island community can they trust? Could this little book club change the course of the war . . . before it’s too late? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club” by Martha Hall Kelly FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/21f9b850-8985-45b9-8123-a65597490b83/michael-without-apology-catherine-ryan-hyde.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Michael Without Apology by Catherine Ryan Hyde GENRE: Contemporary, Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Michael Woodbine was seven years old when a near-fatal fireworks accident scarred him and led to his placement in foster care. Now a college freshman, he is still trying to hide the effects of his trauma from his classmates, his adoptive family, and himself. When Michael signs up for a film class, he meets Robert Dunning, a teacher who wears his own scars unapologetically. Robert encourages Michael to make a documentary that explores body image and self-perception. Michael places an ad seeking people who feel unattractive and rejected by society—and is surprised to learn that this is essentially everyone. Although some participants are recovering from injuries or surgeries, others are dealing with more everyday factors like aging or the changes to a body from giving birth. As he collects these stories—and finally tells his own—Michael feels more connected to the world than he ever has before. But he knows his journey of self-acceptance has one more his crushing doubts about why his birth parents wouldn’t fight to keep him. CLICK TO RESERVE “Michael Without Apology” by Catherine Ryan Hyde FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e7bb752c-fdb0-487c-8387-0dd736e3d607/never-flinch-stephen-king.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Never Flinch by Stephen King GENRE: Horror THE SYNOPSIS: When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to “kill thirteen innocents and one guilty” in “an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man,” Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realizes that the letter writer is deadly serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help. Meanwhile, controversial and outspoken women’s rights activist Kate McKay is embarking on a multi-state lecture tour, drawing packed venues of both fans and detractors. Someone who vehemently opposes Kate’s message of female empowerment is targeting her and disrupting her events. At first, no one is hurt, but the stalker is growing bolder, and Holly is hired to be Kate’s bodyguard—a challenging task with a headstrong employer and a determined adversary driven by wrath and his belief in his own righteousness. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Never Flinch” by Stephen King: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (eAudiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/bec45a32-3eda-4bd3-99c2-85fc80265250/not-quite-dead-yet-holly-jackson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: In seven days Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time. Until Halloween night, when Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder. She suffers a catastrophic head injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a deadly aneurysm. Jet has never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend. She has at most seven days, and as her condition deteriorates she has only her childhood friend Billy for help. But nevertheless, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish something: Jet is going to solve her own murder. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Not Quite Dead Yet” by Holly Jackson: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b26bbeb1-f91b-46f6-9d00-a18f4aa1f7be/notes-on-infinity-austin-taylor.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Notes on Infinity by Austin Taylor GENRE: Science Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Harvard students Zoe and Jack find themselves propelled into the intoxicating biotech startup world when they announce they’ve discovered the cure for ageing. Zoe, the daughter of an MIT professor who grew up in her brother’s shadow, can envision her future anew at Harvard University. Jack, a boy in Zoe’s organic chemistry class with unruly hair and a gleam of competitiveness, matches her intellect and curiosity with every breath. When Jack refers Zoe for a position in a prestigious professor’s lab, the two become entwined as colleagues, staying up late to discuss scientific ideas. They find themselves on the cusp of a breakthrough: the promise of immortality through a novel anti-ageing drug. Zoe and Jack set off on their new project in secret. Finding encouraging results, they bring their work to an investor, drop out of Harvard, and form a startup. But after the money, the magazine covers, and the national news stories detailing their success, Zoe and Jack receive a startling accusation that threatens to destroy both the company they built and their partnership. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Notes on Infinity” by Austin Taylor: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d8e71a16-7e31-415d-a080-02685b4f41b2/our-last-resort-clemence-michallon.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Our Last Resort by Clemence Michallon GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Innocence doesn't bail you out; it just makes you easier to trap. Frida and Gabriel arrive seeking a fresh start at the stunning Ara Hotel in the secluded desert of Escalante, Utah. Once so close they were able to finish each other’s sentences, they’ve grown apart in recent years after a sudden, unspeakable tragedy. Now, at the luxe resort, they are ready to reconnect between dips in the pool and hikes on spectacular desert trails. It all feels like paradise—until the dead body of a beautiful young woman who was vacationing at the Ara with her powerful, much older husband is discovered. When the local police arrive and suspicion quickly falls on Gabriel, Frida is forced to revisit memories from their upbringing in a cloistered cult in upstate New York, their dramatic escape, and the scandal that followed. Frida’s belief in Gabriel’s innocence never wavered at the time, but now even she can’t ignore the evidence mounting against him. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Our Last Resort” by Clemence Michallon: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/8becee30-eb8d-4a90-95bd-0aa0ea5c478b/she-didnt-see-it-coming-shari-lapena.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - She Didn’t See It Coming by Shari Lapena GENRE: Thrillery, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: can the detectives find her before it's too late? Bryden and Sam have it all: thriving careers, a smart apartment in a luxury condominium, supportive friends and a cherished daughter. The perfect life for the perfect couple. Then Sam receives a call at his office. Bryden–working from home that day–has failed to collect their daughter from daycare. Arriving home with their little girl, he finds his wife’s car in the underground garage. Upstairs in their apartment her laptop is open on the table, her cell phone nearby, her keys in their usual place in the hall. Except Bryden is nowhere to be seen. It’s as if she just walked out. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “She Didn’t See It Coming” by Shari Lapena: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/8b2b21dc-e2c3-4a8b-9650-c5e593907860/the-summer-you-were-mine-jill-francis.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Summer You Were Mine by Jill Francis GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Ellie Beltrami and Cristiano Conte have known each other their entire lives. Both families hail from Chiavari, a small city on the Italian Riviera. Their grandparents are friends. Their parents are friends. They were friends. And for one brief moment fourteen summers ago, they were almost more than that. After years apart, Ellie and Cris are headed back to Chiavari as generations of Beltramis and Contes gather for the unlikely second marriage between her grandmother and his grandfather. But while everyone’s celebrating, Ellie is reeling from the very public implosion of her career as the host of a sports talk show, plus overthinking her past and perceived flaws in light of the recent discovery that she is neurodivergent. Cris, a newly retired elite swimmer, also arrives adrift after being accused of using a banned substance. Reunited in a place where summer dreams come true, Cris and Ellie make a deal: an exclusive interview with Cris to fix her career, and an appearance on Ellie’s show to clear his name. Soon they’re picking up where their teen romance left off―but if this second chance can last, they’ll need to finally confront what drove them apart all those summers ago. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Summer You Were Mine" by Jill Francis FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a6430445-822c-49a4-9a0b-68ecc739568d/these-summer-storms-sarah-maclean.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Alice isn't like the other Storm siblings. While the rest stayed to battle for their parents' approval, attention, and untold billions, she left, building her own life beyond the family’s name and influence. Nothing could induce her to come back, except the shocking death of her larger-than-life father. Now back on the family’s private island off the Rhode Island coast, she plans to keep her head down, pay the last of her respects, and leave the minute the funeral is over. Unfortunately, her father had other plans. The eccentric, manipulative patriarch left his widow and their grown children a final challenge--an inheritance game designed to humiliate, devastate, and unravel the Storm family in ways both petty and life-altering. The rules of the game are clear: stay on the island for one week, complete the tasks, receive the inheritance. One week on Storm Island is an impossible task for Alice. Every corner of the sprawling old house is bursting dysfunctional chaos: Her older sister’s secret love affair. Her brother’s incessant mansplaining. Her sister-in-law’s unapologetic greed. Her younger sister’s obsession with "vibes". Her mother’s penchant for stirring up competition between her children. And all under the stern, watchful gaze of Jack Dean, her father’s enigmatic, unfairly good-looking, second-in-command. It will be a miracle if Alice manages to escape the week unscathed. CLICK TO RESERVE “These Summer Storms” by Sarah MacLean FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/702979bf-7dc5-4d4c-812f-7483bb888711/totally-and-completely-fine-elissa-sussman.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Totally and Completely Fine by Elissa Sussman GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: In her small Montana hometown, Lauren Parker has assumed a few different roles: teenage hellraiser; sister of superstar Gabe Parker; and most recently, tragically widowed single mother. She’s never cared much about labels or what people thought about her, but dealing with her grief has slowly revealed that she’s become adrift in her own life. Then she meets the devilishly handsome actor Ben Walsh on the set of her brother’s new movie. They have instant chemistry, and Lauren realizes that it has been far too long since someone has really and truly seen her. Her rebellious spirit spurs her to dive headfirst into her desire, but when a sexy encounter becomes something more, Lauren finds herself balancing old roles and new possibilities. There’s still plenty to contend with: small-town rumors, the complications of Ben’s fame, and her daughter’s unpredictable moods. An unexpected fling seemed simple at the time—so when did everything with Ben get so complicated? And is there enough room in her life for the woman Lauren wants to be? CLICK TO RESERVE “Totally and Completely Fine” by Elissa Sussman FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/adccb799-3f4f-4cdc-b700-904eb8d2080c/typewriter-beach-meg-waite-clayton.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Typewriter Beach by Meg Waite Clayton GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: 1957. Isabella Giori is ten months into a standard seven-year studio contract when she auditions with Hitchcock. Just weeks later, she is sequestered by the studio’s “fixer” in a tiny Carmel cottage. Léon Chazan, next door, is annoyed as hell when Iz interrupts his work on yet another screenplay he won’t be able to sell, because he’s been blacklisted. But soon, they’re in his roadster, speeding down the fog-shrouded Big Sur coast. 2018. Twenty-six-year-old screenwriter Gemma Chazan, in Carmel to sell her grandfather’s cottage, finds a hidden safe full of secrets—raising questions about who the screenwriter known simply as Chazan really was, and whether she can live up to his name. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Typewriter Beach” by Meg Waite Clayton: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2adfd4ee-8696-4271-bcfc-ef63ab119313/the-unraveling-of-julia-lisa-scottoline.jpeg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Unraveling of Julia by Lisa Scottoline GENRE: Gothic Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Lately, Julia Pritzker is beginning to think if she’s cursed. She’s lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold his death, she begins to spiral. She fears her fate is written in the stars, not held in her own hands. Then a letter arrives out of the blue, informing her that she has inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard – but her benefactor is a total stranger named Emilia Rossi. Julia has no information about her biological family, so she wonders if Rossi could be a blood relative. Bewildered, she heads to Tuscany for answers. There, Julia is horrified to discover that Rossi was a paranoid recluse with delusions of grandeur, who believed herself to be a descendent of Duchess Caterina Sforza, a legendary Renaissance ruler. Julia is stunned by her uncanny resemblance to Rossi and even to Caterina, then she unearths eerie parallels between them, including an obsession with astrology. Before long, Julia suspects she’s being followed, and strange things begin to happen. Not even a chance meeting with a handsome Florentine can ease her disturbed mind. When events turn deadly, she breaks with reality. Julia’s harrowing struggle becomes a search for her identity, a race to save her sanity, and ultimately, a question of her very survival. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Unraveling of Julia” by Lisa Scottoline FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a144cd1f-9ebc-486e-ac27-0dc6098594d9/vera-or-faith-gary-shteyngart.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart GENRE: Literary Fiction, Humour THE SYNOPSIS: The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. There's Daddy, a struggling, cash-thirsty editor whose Russian heritage gives him a surprising new currency in the upside-down world of twenty-first-century geopolitics; his wife, Anne Mom, a progressive, underfunded blue blood from Boston who's barely holding the household together; their son, Dylan, whose blond hair and Mayflower lineage provide him pride of place in the newly forming American political order; and, above all, the young Vera, half-Jewish, half-Korean, and wholly original. Observant, sensitive, and always writing down new vocabulary words, Vera wants only three things in life: to make a friend at school; Daddy and Anne Mom to stay together; and to meet her birth mother, Mom Mom, who will at last tell Vera the secret of who she really is and how to ensure love's survival in this great, mad, imploding world. CLICK TO RESERVE “Vera, or Faith” by Gary Shteyngart FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/8821b3c2-78e8-49d3-b428-74555292bf33/the-view-from-lake-como-adriana-trigiani.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The View from Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Jess Capodimonte Baratta is not living the life of her dreams. Not even close. In blue-collar Lake Como, New Jersey, family comes first. Recently divorced from Bobby Bilancia, “the perfect husband," Jess moves into her parents’ basement to hide and heal. Jess is the overlooked daughter, who dutifully takes care of her parents, cooks Sunday dinner, and puts herself last. Despite her role as the family handmaiden, Jess is also a talented draftswoman in the marble business run by her confidant, her dapper uncle Louie, who believes she can do anything (once she invests in a better wardrobe). When the Capodimonte and Baratta families endure an unexpected loss, the shock unearths long-buried secrets that will force Jess to question her loyalty to those she trusted. Fueled by her lost dreams, Jess takes fate into her own hands and escapes to her ancestral home, Carrara, Italy. From the shadows of the majestic marble-capped mountains of Tuscany, to the glittering streets of Milan, and on the shores of enchanting Lake Como (the other one), Jess begins to carve a place in this new/old world. When she meets Angelo Strazza, a passionate artist who works in gold, she discovers her own skills are priceless. But as Jess uncovers the truth about her family history, it will change the course of her life and those she loves the most forever. In love and work, in art and soul, Jess will need every tool she has mastered to reinvent her life. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The View from Lake Como” by Adriana Trigiani: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/df612668-592e-4995-b5d2-8ddfdf09d7d1/wayward-girls-susan-wiggs.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Wayward Girls by Susan Wiggs GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: It was a place frozen in time, an ancient fortress haunted by echoes that whispered against the gray stone in a mysterious, heavy rhythm, as though this place was entirely separate from the rest of the world. A sign by the inner door read Our Lady of Charity Refuge and Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Mairin’s breath caught in her throat as comprehension crept over her. This place was the one mentioned in scandalized whispers from the older girls at school. It was the one people gossiped about when a girl suddenly stopped showing up to class. It was the place angry parents—like her own mother—threatened their daughters “I’ll send you to the nuns, just you see if I won’t.” Amid the turbulence of the Vietnam Era, in the all-American city of Buffalo, New York, teenage girls were condemned to forced labor at the Good Shepherd, a dark and secret institution controlled by the Sisters of Charity nuns. In 1968 we meet six teens thrust into confinement at the Good Shepherd—merely for being gay, pregnant, or simply unruly. Mairin— free-spirited daughter of Irish immigrants was committed to keep her safe from her stepfather. Angela—denounced for her attraction to girls, was sent to the nuns for reform, but instead found herself the victim of a predator. Helen—the daughter of intellectuals detained in Communist China, saw her “temporary” stay at the Good Shepherd stretch into years. Odessa—caught up in a police dragnet over a racial incident, found the physical and mental toughness to endure her sentence. Denise—sentenced for brawling in a foster home, dared to dream of a better life. Janice—deeply insecure, she couldn’t decide where her loyalty lay—except when it came to her friend Kay, who would never outgrow her childlike dependency. Sister Bernadette—rescued from a dreadful childhood, she owed her loyalty to the Sisters of Charity even as her conscience weighed on her. CLICK TO RESERVE “Wayward Girls” by Susan Wiggs FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/799a0e88-472f-4570-b630-229c3e8f05b1/we-dont-talk-about-carol-kristen-l-berry.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - We Don’t Talk About Carol by Kristen L. Berry GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: In the wake of her grandmother's passing, Sydney Singleton finds a hidden photograph of a little girl who looks more like Sydney than her own sister, or mother. She soon discovers the mystery girl in the photograph is her aunt, Carol, who was one of six local North Carolina Black girls to go missing in the 1960s. For the last several decades, not a soul has talked about Carol or what really happened to her. With her grandmother gone and Sydney looking to start a family of her own, she is determined to unravel the truth behind her long-lost aunt and the sinister silence surrounding her. Unfortunately, this is familiar territory for Sydney. Several years prior, working the crime beat as a journalist on the case of another missing girl, her obsession eventually led to a psychotic break. And now, in the suffocating grip of fertility treatments and a marriage that's beginning to crumble, Sydney’s relentless pursuit might just lead her down the same path of destruction. As she delves deeper into Carol's fate, her own troubled past resurfaces, clawing its way to the surface with a vengeance. The web of secrets and lies entangling her family leaves Sydney questioning everything—her fixation on the missing girls, her future as a mom, and everyone she’s come to trust. CLICK TO RESERVE “We Don’t Talk About Carol” by Kristen L. Berry FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/acd7a529-b1ac-4005-81e9-48542752be86/what-kind-of-paradise-janelle-brown.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown GENRE: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world. Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence existence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once lived in the Bay Area and that her mother died in a car accident, the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Thoreau-like utopia. As Jane becomes a teenager she starts pushing against the boundaries of her restricted world. She begs to accompany her father on his occasional trips away from the cabin. But when Jane realizes that her devotion to her father has made her an accomplice to a horrific crime, she flees Montana to the only place she knows to look for answers about her mysterious past, and her mother's San Francisco. It is a city in the midst of a seismic change, where her quest to understand herself will force her to reckon with both the possibilities and the perils of the fledgling Internet, and where she will come to question everything she values. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “What Kind of Paradise” by Janelle Brown: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (eAudiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b1480e5b-16e4-4578-9f3b-06d0fcfb182f/whistle-linwood-barclay.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Whistle by Linwood Barclay GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Evil has a one track mind... Annie Blunt has had an unimaginably terrible year. First, her husband was killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident, then one of the children’s books she’s built her writing and illustrating career on ignited a major scandal. Desperate for a fresh start, she moves with her son Charlie to a charming small town in upstate New York where they can begin to heal. But Annie’s year is about to get worse. Bored and lonely in their isolated new surroundings, Charlie is thrilled when he finds a forgotten train set in a locked shed on their property. Annie is glad to see Charlie happy, but there’s something unsettling about his new toy. Strange sounds wake Annie in the night—she could swear she hears a train, but there isn’t an active track for miles—and bizarre things begin happening in the neighborhood. Worse, Annie can’t seem to stop drawing a disturbing new character that has no place in a children’s book. Grief can do strange things to the mind, but Annie is beginning to think she’s walked out of one nightmare straight into another, only this one is far more terrifying… CLICK TO RESERVE “Whistle” by Linwood Barclay FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/eabaaf6a-4cf2-49f2-8d11-244f981b9394/the-winds-from-further-west-alexander-mccall-smith.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Winds from Further West by Alexander McCall Smith GENRE: Contemporary, Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Dr. Neil Anderson has just started a new position at the University of Edinburgh when he meets Chrissie, an intelligent and ambitious colleague at the institute. Before long, the two move into a gorgeous flat on the south side of the city. Things seem to be going well for Neil, until an accusation of insensitive comments lands him in hot water with the university and he discovers a troubling secret about his relationship. Suddenly feeling as though his life is unraveling, he leaves everything behind for the remote and secluded beauty of the Isle of Mull off the west coast of Scotland. Not long after his arrival, a ship comes in to the harbor whose cargo—two wolf cubs—will drastically change the course of his life yet again. These cubs spark controversy on the island, leading Neil to Katie, the island’s resident veterinarian, and bring with them the possibility of new beginnings and a budding romance. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Winds From Further West” by Alexander McCall Smith FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/77ea8b02-1f23-4f86-bd4e-16374305f85b/the-woman-in-suite-11-ruth-ware.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel—owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann—arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago. The chateau on the shores of Lake Geneva is everything Lo’s ever dreamed of, and she hopes she can snag an interview with Marcus. Unfortunately, he proves to be even more difficult to pin down than his reputation suggests. When Lo gets a late-night call asking her to come to Marcus’s hotel room, she agrees despite her own misgivings. She’s greeted, however, by a woman claiming to be Marcus’s mistress, and in life-or-death jeopardy. What follows is a thrilling cat-and-mouse pursuit across Europe, forcing Lo to ask herself just how much she’s willing to sacrifice to save this woman…and if she can even trust her? CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Woman in Suite 11” by Ruth Ware: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c19e3ea7-06f8-4acb-a3f6-ac0310428c04/written-on-the-dark-guy-gavriel-kay.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay GENRE: Fantasy, Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Thierry Villar is a well-known--even notorious-- tavern poet, familiar with the rogues and shadows of that world, but not at all with courts and power. He is an unlikely person, despite his quickness, to be caught up in the deadly contests of ambitious royals, assassins, and invading armies. But he is indeed drawn into all these things on a savagely cold night in his beloved city of Orane. And so Thierry must use all the intelligence and charm he can muster as political struggles merge with a decades-long war to bring his country to the brink of destruction. As he does, he meets his poetic equal in an aristocratic woman and is drawn to more than one unsettling person with a connection to the world beyond this one. He also crosses paths with an extraordinary young woman driven by voices within to try to heal the ailing king--and help his forces in war. A wide and varied set of people from all walks of life take their places in the rich tapestry of this story. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Written on the Dark” by Guy Gavriel Kay FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f10095a8-0eee-4cbc-82e4-5f23bba3ce33/you-belong-here-megan-miranda.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - You Belong Here by Megan Miranda GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Beckett Bowery never thought she’d return to Wyatt Valley, a picturesque college town in the Virginia mountains steeped in tradition. Her roots there were strong: Beckett’s parents taught at the college, and she never even imagined studying anywhere else—until a tragedy her senior year ended with two local men dead, and her roommate on the run, never to be seen again… For the last two decades, Beckett has done her best to keep her distance. Then her daughter, Delilah, secretly applies to Wyatt College and earns a full scholarship, and Beckett can only hope that her lingering fears are unfounded. But deep down she knows that Wyatt Valley has a long memory, and that the past isn’t the only dangerous thing in town… CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “You Belong Here” by Megan Miranda: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/4653a778-8e6f-451f-95b9-27f0529432ce/coded-justice-stacey-abrams.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Coded Justice (Avery Keene #3) by Stacey Abrams GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Former Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene is back . . . trying to put the past behind her at a prestigious high-end law firm in Washington, D.C. Head down and focused on a new life, Avery is now working as an internal investigator when a high-profile client seeks her out. Camasca Enterprises has a big problem and a short runway. The tech company has developed a new integrated AI system poised to revolutionize the medical industry. To prove its potential, Camasca’s charismatic founder, retired Major Rafe Diaz, has picked a complicated delivering cutting-edge health care to his fellow veterans. The potential is staggering, but their prototype has been plagued by a series of disturbing anomalies—culminating in the mysterious death of a beloved Camasca engineer. Avery and her colleagues, Jared, Ling, and Noah, are brought into the secretive company to investigate from the inside out. At the epicenter of a burgeoning, controversial industry, and with billions of dollars on the line, their task is to determine whether Camasca’s technical troubles and rising body count reveal something sinister at work. In Coded Justice, Stacey Abrams’s storytelling prowess is on full display—a deft combination of riveting twists and vibrant characters set against the fascinating landscape of the capabilities of artificial intelligence . . . and the moral boundaries that govern it. Coded Justice is Abrams’s most entertaining novel to date. CLICK TO RESERVE “Coded Justice (Avery Keene #3)” by Stacey Abrams FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/136b9c2a-4773-452e-abd9-b300fa3bf10c/the-bourne-escape-robert-ludlum.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - The Bourne Escape (Bourne #21) by Robert Ludlum GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Jason Bourne is on a boat in the Mediterranean moonlight with his lover, Johanna. He’s happy for the first time in years. Then in the next instant, he finds himself floating on wreckage as fire and smoke choke the sky. Johanna is gone. And Bourne finds the darkness of lost memory closing around his mind again. As he did once before, Bourne must piece together the fragments of who he is, even as assassins hunt him across Europe. He teams up with his spy chief, Shadow, who reveals the shocking secret that Bourne’s surrogate father – David Abbott, the founder of Treadstone – is alive and missing. Together they must find Abbott before his enemies do. But Shadow is a master of manipulation who won’t hesitate to betray Bourne to get what she wants. With his memory returning in bits and pieces, Jason discovers that the explosion that stole away his identity is part of a deadly game being played among powerful adversaries from Moscow to Washington. It’s a game with no winners – because even if he finds David Abbott, Bourne may still find himself with no way out and everything to lose. 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And none is more hopeless than John Jackson’s—the gun that killed his neighbor found, with Jackson’s DNA, in his own home. Flynn and his unconventional team will need to use every trick they know to keep an innocent man from being locked up. But to save his client’s life, Eddie must first protect his own, as the scariest organized criminals in the city are out for his head. CLICK TO RESERVE “Witness 8 (Eddie Flynn #8)” by Steve Cavanagh FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/462d851b-6fe5-44f7-baf6-e4fa0eeeddd5/an-inside-job-daniel-silva.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - An Inside Job (Gabriel Allon #25) by Daniel Silva GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Sometimes the only way to recover a stolen masterpiece is to steal it back . . . Gabriel Allon has been awarded a commission to restore one of the most important paintings in Venice. But when he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon, he finds himself in a desperate race to recover a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. The painting, a portrait of a beautiful young girl, has been gathering dust in a storeroom at the Vatican Museums for more than a century, misattributed and hidden beneath a worthless picture by an unknown artist. Because no one knows that the Leonardo is there, no one notices when it disappears one night during a suspicious power outage. No one but the ruthless mobsters and moneymen behind the theft -- and the mysterious woman whom Gabriel found in a watery grave in Venice. A woman without a name. A woman without a face. The action moves at breakneck speed from the galleries and auction houses of London to an enclave of unimaginable wealth on the French Riviera -- and, finally, to a shocking climax in St. Peter's Square, where the life of a pope hangs in the balance. 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That's the question plaguing Jack Ryan Jr. He's in Guyana to work a deal to get his company, Hendley Associates, in on the ground floor of this new discovery, but the destruction of the Claiborne and the kidnapping of the Guyanese Interior Minister make it clear that there's a malignant force working to destroy Guyana's oil industry. It's up to Jack to identify the killers before they draw a bead on him, but how can he do that when the line of demarcation between friend and foe is constantly shifting? 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What could these two young Amish men have done to deserve such violent ends? With a heat wave bearing down, Kate learns quickly that, for reasons she doesn’t understand, no one is willing to talk about what happened to the men. Just as she begins to fear the case may be hopeless, a mystery woman comes forward and reveals that fun-loving Aaron and Samuel had recently befriended some very unsavory characters―individuals who may have ties to a larger, more sinister, black market. To solve the case, Kate must delve into the most sordid corners of her community, but when she gets too close, the killers target Kate herself. Will the secrets simmering beneath the surface of Painters Mill take another life before she can expose the truth? Or will Kate be the final victim? 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But, as bad as everything seems, things are about to get much, much worse . . . CLICK TO RESERVE “This House of Burning Bones (Logan McRae #13) by Stuart MacBride” FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/68c76c78-6ae4-4cd0-9a66-eacfb409b5b0/killer-on-the-first-page-ian-ferguson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Killer on the First Page (Miranda Abbott #3) by Ian Ferguson GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: The famous are descending on the town of Happy Rock. This time, the stars are not of the screen but of the page. The Happy Rock bookstore, I Only Read Murder, is hosting not only an author festival but a murder mystery festival, with six of the biggest names in crime fiction. New bookstore majority co-owner and former TV star Miranda Abbott loves nothing more than the idea of hosting literary luminaries. Little does she realize the authors are bringing their egos, their professional jealousies, and their personal grudges along with their books. And they all want the first look at a mysterious posthumous manuscript that has been delivered to the bookstore. This festival of rivals goes from bad to worse when one of the authors turns up dead in a locked room with no windows. And this death is just the beginning—no one knows which author will be next. Miranda is on the case, along with Edgar, her almost–ex-husband; Andrew, her one-person entourage; Ned, the patient police chief; and the good people of Happy Rock. Together, they’ll stop at nothing to solve three murders, in three locked rooms, and three impossible crimes. 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As Corrie and Nora pursue their investigation into remote canyons, haunted ruins, and long-lost rituals, they find themselves confronting a dark power that, disturbed from its long slumber, threatens to exact an unspeakable price. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Badlands (Nora Kelly #5)” by Douglas Preston: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (eAudiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/7dc49c2e-9cda-4f35-b5cc-ecb6b986ffab/edge-of-honor-brad-thor.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Edge of Honor (Scot Horvath #24) by Brad Thor GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: After six months abroad, America’s top spy returns to a new administration, a new set of global priorities, and a power struggle—the likes of which the United States has never experienced. Drawn into a web of deceit and deadly politics, Scot Harvath is thrust into a high-stakes conspiracy that could change the course of history. A cabal of shadowy elites is maneuvering for control and if they succeed, they will bring the country to its knees. When trust is fleeting and survival means making impossible decisions, Harvath finds himself at the precipice. The actions he takes will shape the future of America—and might cost him everything he holds dear. With enemies at every turn, one wrong move could push the nation over the edge. CLICK TO RESERVE “Edge of Honor (Scot Horvath #24)” by Brad Thor FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/08a2d5f9-babf-4430-8679-5573c13c9d42/hidden-in-smoke-lee-goldberg.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Hidden in Smoke (Sharpe & Walker #3) by Lee Goldberg GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: After dozens of Hollywood apartment buildings erupt in flames during a single night of terror, arson investigators Walter Sharpe and Andrew Walker are assigned to catch the serial torcher and end his spree. But then a catastrophic fire destroys a major freeway, crippling the city and forcing Sharpe and Walker to take on another massive case. Desperate for help, they know exactly who to call, homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone. Together the four detectives must quickly figure out whether the freeway disaster was a tragic accident…or the work of a mastermind with a horrific plan. As the investigations collide, an old foe with a revenge scheme enters the fray, igniting a race against time to stop a conspiracy of deception, corruption, and murder. 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But Lexi can’t refuse Ashley’s plea to honor their late mother’s final wish to make amends with the people she’d wronged. So, on behalf of her estranged mother’s estate—and with Heath in tow as the executor—Lexi embarks on a road trip to repay all the people her gambling addicted mother owed money to. Complicating everything are the feelings that well up for for her mom, for Ashley, and most of all, for Heath. And for the record, she doesn’t like it, or the way he has of scaling the walls she’s built around her heart. The road trip shenanigans that ensue are both funny and heartbreaking, but Lexi finds something shocking along the way. Acceptance. Family. And unbelievably—if you ask Lexi anyway—love. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Love Fix (Sunrise Cove #8)” by Jill Shalvis: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0d12b411-b15b-48ce-8c04-8e3a7e370f75/a-dead-draw-robert-dugoni.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - A Dead Draw (Tracy Crosswhite #11) by Robert Dugoni GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Detective Tracy Crosswhite isn’t one to lose her cool. Until her interrogation of the taunting and malicious Erik Schmidt, a suspect in two cold case killings. Schmidt also has unnerving ties to the monster who murdered Tracy’s sister, stirring memories of the crime that shaped Tracy’s life. After a critical mistake during a shooting exercise, Tracy breaks. Haunted by nightmares and flashbacks, Tracy heads to her hometown of Cedar Grove to refocus. Just a peaceful getaway with her husband, her daughter, and their nanny at their weekend house. But Tracy’s sleepless nights are only beginning. A legal glitch has allowed Schmidt to go free. And Tracy has every reason to fear that he’s followed her. Forced into a twisted game of cat and mouse, Tracy must draw on all her training, wits, and strength to defeat a master criminal before he takes away everyone Tracy loves. CLICK TO RESERVE “A Dead Draw (Tracy Crosswhite #11)” by Robert Dugoni FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/781d1acf-5b88-46cd-bd41-297c1d5ebf22/return-to-sender-craig-johnson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 5, 2025 - Return to Sender (Walt Longmire #21) by Craig Johnson GENRE: Mystery, Western THE SYNOPSIS: When Blair McGowan, the mail person with the longest postal route in the country of over three hundred mile a day, goes missing the question becomes—where do you look for her? The Postal Inspector for the State of Wyoming elicits Sheriff Longmire to mount an investigation into her disappearance and Walt does everything but mail it in; posing as a letter-carrier himself, the good sheriff follows her trail and finds himself enveloped in the intrigue of an otherworldly cult. Packed to the brim with twists and turns, the 21st novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series pushes Walt to his absolute limits, forcing him to wrestle with the impossible What good are your morals, if you’re marked for the dead letter office? 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Nina Swann is intrigued when she received a condolence card from Nick Radcliffe, an old friend of her late husband, who is looking to connect after her husband’s unexpected death. Nick is a man of substance and good taste. He has a smile that could melt the coldest heart and a knack for putting others at ease. But to Nina’s adult daughter, Ash, Nick seems too slick, too polished, too good to be true. Without telling her mother, Ash begins digging into Nick’s past. What she finds is more than unsettling… Martha is a florist living in a neighboring town with her infant daughter and her devoted husband, Alistair. But lately, Alistair has been traveling more and more frequently for work, disappearing for days at a time. When Martha questions him about his frequent absences, he always has a legitimate explanation, but Martha can’t share the feeling that something isn’t right. Nina, Martha, and Ash are on a collision course with a shocking truth that is far darker than anyone could have imagined. And all three are about to wish they had heeded the same warning: Don’t let him in. But the past won’t stay buried forever. CLICK BELOW TO BORROW “Don’t Let Him In” by Lisa Jewell: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (eAudiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/944c4dee-1c7f-4644-9969-b4d5f1615657/the-first-gentleman-james-patterson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 5, 2025 - The First Gentleman by James Patterson and Bill Clinton GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: America has a powerful new president... And her husband's on trial for murder. Clinton and Patterson are back. And they’re better than ever. The President of the United States is up for reelection. Her husband is on trial for murder. Is the First Gentleman a killer? A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the NFL star-turned-political spouse. CLICK TO RESERVE “The First Gentleman” by James Patterson and Bill Clinton FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/8005a47b-a47d-49af-a282-ded401c8c1c4/before-dorothy-hazel-gaynor.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 5, 2025 - Before Dorothy by Hazel Gaynor GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Chicago, 1924: Emily Gale and her new husband, Henry, yearn to leave the bustle of Chicago behind for the promise of their own American dream. But leaving the city means leaving Emily’s beloved sister, Annie, who was once closer to her than anyone in the world. Kansas, 1932: Emily and Henry have made a life in the warmth of the community of Liberal, Kansas, and among the harsh beauty of the prairie. Their lives hold a precarious and hopeful purpose, until tragedy strikes and their orphaned niece, Dorothy, lands on their doorstep. The wide-eyed child isn’t the only thing to disrupt Emily’s world. Drought and devastating dust storms threaten to destroy everything, and their much-loved home becomes a place of uncertainty and danger. When the past catches up with the present and old secrets are exposed, Emily fears she will lose the most cherished thing of Dorothy. CLICK TO BORROW “Before Dorothy” by Hazel Gaynor FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c00dd666-117c-449d-a187-46e48c06bfaf/kill-your-darlings-peter-swanson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 5, 2025 - Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Thom and Wendy Graves have been married for over twenty-five years. They live in a beautiful Victorian on the north shore of Massachusetts. Wendy is a published poet and Thom teaches English literature at a nearby university. Their son, Jason, is all grown up. All is well…except that Wendy wants to murder her husband. What happens next has everything to do with what happened before. The story of Wendy and Thom’s marriage is told in reverse, moving backward through time to witness key moments from the couple’s lives—their fiftieth birthday party, buying their home, Jason’s birth, the mysterious death of a work colleague—all painting a portrait of a marriage defined by a single terrible act they plotted together many years ago. Eventually we learn the details of what Thom and Wendy did in their early twenties, a secret that has kept them bound together through the length of their marriage. But its power over them is fraying, and each of them begins to wonder if they would be better off making sure their spouse carries their secrets to the grave. 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A financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, Roman must use all his skills to try to save his family while dealing with a shadow that has haunted them all for twenty years: the disappearance of their mother when Roman and his siblings were teenagers. It's a mystery that Neveah, who has sacrificed so much of her life to hold her family together, is determined to solve once and for all. As fate and chance and heartache ignite their lives, the Carruthers family must pull together to survive or see their lives turn to ash. Because, as their father counseled them from birth, nothing lasts forever. Everything burns. CLICK TO RESERVE “King of Ashes” by S.A. 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It’s a place whose inhabitants are almost as inhospitable as the tempestuous weather. The Scruffmores themselves turn out to be not much better, a snarled mess of secrets and motives connected by their mistrust for one another. Their newly arrived guest proves to be just as much an enigma to them as they are to her. While Destiny slowly works to unravel the mysteries hidden throughout the ominous castle, she struggles to interpret disturbing nightly visions of what is to come. In the midst of cryptic ciphers, hidden passages, and the family’s magical heritage and line of succession, Destiny is certain of two things: one of the Scruffmores is going to die and she’s running out of time to stop it. 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Facing her first holiday alone in years, she books a trip to Paris. On the flight over, she meets charming Bart Warner, and the two become fast friends. Halley hasn’t dated since her partner died three years ago, yet she quickly begins to feel more like herself. But when a cunning thief makes off with her handbag and then begins to harass her, it reawakens old ghosts from her past. Vowing not to be a victim, and with Bart’s help, she chooses a bold course of action. 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Her aunt harbours a deep love for crossword puzzles and Tarot cards and an equally passionate hatred for war after the death of her own fiancé in World War I. The last thing she’d want for her niece is a job that involves anything to do with the war. The codebreaking is intense, even mind-numbing at times. One day during her lunch break Gem goes for a walk and discovers a German POW camp not far from the cottage. At the barbed-wire fence, she encounters a prisoner named Toby. Even though she risks losing her job, or worse, if she’s caught fraternizing with the enemy, Gem can’t stop visiting him. After several weeks of risky conversations, Toby disappears from the camp. While Gem grows into her engrossing job, she hadn’t anticipated the tremendous mental strain it would cause, and she struggles with the burden of secrecy both at work and in her private life. As Gem is pulled deeper into wartime intelligence work, she becomes an integral part of the codebreakers’ circle. The Cottage codebreaking unit is small but determined; her female coworkers all possess a range of complementary skills. But in order to be successful, they must learn to work together. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Paper Birds” by Jeanette Lynes FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/00e6223e-5b51-4f8f-947c-29b86e24904d/the-river-is-waiting-wally-lamb.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 5, 2025 - The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that's before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mother's enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves? 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Colter and Dorion must race against a ticking clock to uncover the truth and save the citizens before the village washes out completely, destroying everything and everyone in its path. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Slow Burn Summer” by Josie Silver: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/bc6d6474-ba29-45eb-99f3-4c8d6a2b13af/so-far-gone-jess-walter.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 5, 2025 - So Far Gone by Jess Walter GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: A few weeks after the 2016 election, at Thanksgiving with his daughter and her belligerent new husband, Rhys Kinnick finally snapped. After an escalating fight about politics, he hauled off and punched the jerk. Immediately horrified by what he'd done, by the state of the world around him, and by his own spiraling mental health, Rhys chucked his smartphone out the car window and fled for a remote cabin in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. Seven years later, when his grandchildren show up on his doorstep, Rhys barely recognizes them. Their mother has disappeared, and they need a safer place to stay than with their father, who has taken up with a Christian Nationalist militia. So what if Rhys’s cabin has no electricity or indoor plumbing, and the raccoons help themselves to the monthly grocery haul? He'll do whatever he needs to for these sweet kids. But when the militia members show up and kidnap the children, Rhys realizes he'll have to re-enter the broken world. With the help of a bipolar retired detective and his caustic ex-girlfriend, Rhys reluctantly heads off on a madcap journey through the rubble of the life he left behind. 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A melody in her head, lyric-less and half-formed, and an alluring and addictive voice to go with it—belonging, apparently, to a wry musician with hangups of his own. Surely, he’s a figment of her overworked imagination. But then the very real man attached to the voice shows up in Vienna Shores. He’s aggravating and gruff on the outside—nothing like the sweet, funny voice in Joni’s head—and he has a plan: They’ll finish the song haunting them both, break their connection, and hope they don’t risk their hearts in the process. Because that song stuck in their heads? Maybe it’s there for a reason. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Sounds Like Love” by Ashley Poston: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/87bdddf2-18bb-45c8-b640-b81e41e83438/the-surf-house-lucy-clarke.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 5, 2025 - The Surf House by Lucy Clarke GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: WISH YOU WERE HERE? THINK AGAIN… High on the wave-pounded cliffs, far from the bustling souks of Marrakech, sits The Surf House. A hidden gem on Morocco’s shores, the house is a sanctuary for the surfers, travellers and dreamers who wash in. But the idyll is built on something rotten. And when Bea arrives, relieved to find refuge after a dangerous encounter in a Marrakech alleyway, she soon gets caught in the swell of a deep, dark mystery. Because another young woman went missing one year ago – and the last place she was sighted was The Surf House. Viva and Twilly are plunged into a mystery—involving dark money and darker motives—they are determined to solve, and become entangled in a world populated by some of Hiaasen’s most outrageous characters: Claude and Electra Mink—billionaire philanthropists with way too much plastic surgery and a secret right-wing agenda—and Congressman Clure Boyette—who dreams of being Florida’s (and maybe America’s) most important politician. The only things standing in his way are his love for hookers and young girls, and his total lack of intelligence. We meet Noel Kristianson—a Scandinavian agnostic injured when Figgo thinks he’s a Jewish threat to humanity and runs him over with his car; Jonas Onus—Figgo’s partner in white power idiocy; and many, many more. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Surf House” by Lucy Clarke FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/73ddbcf8-5feb-4c57-b2a3-71f3e9c03a02/the-teacher-of-auschwitz-wendy-holden.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 5, 2025 - The Teacher of Auschwitz by Wendy Holden GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Fredy built a wall against suffering in their hearts . . . Amid the brutality of the Holocaust, one bright spot shone inside the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. In the shadows of the smokestacks was a wooden hut where children sang, staged plays, wrote poetry, and learned about the world. Within those four walls, brightly adorned with hand-painted cartoons, the youngest prisoners were kept vermin-free, received better food, and were even taught to imagine having full stomachs and a day without fear. Their guiding light was a twenty-seven-year-old gay, Jewish Fredy Hirsch. Being a teacher in a brutal concentration camp was no mean feat. Forced to beg senior SS officers for better provisions, Fredy risked his life every day to protect his beloved children from mortal danger. But time was running out for Fredy and the hundreds in his care. Could this kind, compassionate, and brave man find a way to teach them the one lesson they really needed to how to survive? 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Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Wedding People” by Alison Espach: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (eAudiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/73f73070-4829-44e0-aba4-74b8ac99a7b7/welcome-to-murder-week-karen-dukess.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 5, 2025 - Welcome to Murder Week by Karen Dukess GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she’s forced to go through her mother’s things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming “murder week” in England’s Peak. A whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother’s secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself—and begins a journey she never could have anticipated. Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery lovers—Wyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husband’s birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novels—Cath sets about solving the “crime” and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a fling—or something more—with the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Welcome to Murder Week” by Karen Dukess: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/9526a053-0a40-44a6-bbd5-e6bb0d8101b0/the-whyte-python-world-tour-travis-kennedy.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 5, 2025 - The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy GENRE: Mystery, Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: It’s Los Angeles, 1986, and metal rules the world. For aspiring drummer Rikki Thunder, life is good - even if he is sleeping in a condemned paint store and playing with a band that’s going nowhere. But when he gets a shot to join L.A.’s hottest up-and-coming band, Whyte Python, Rikki’s young life turns up to 11. Soon he has a hit single scorching up the charts, and the new love of his life in the audience. Rikki couldn’t ask for anything more. But good fortune can be deceiving. With the Cold War breathing its last gasps and American music blasting through the Iron Curtain, a youth revolution is taking hold - and a hair band is unknowingly playing host to the final battle for the hearts and minds of the Eastern Bloc. Rikki Thunder soon realizes there is a deeper web of influence propelling Whyte Python, and the stakes for his mission - to spread peace, love, and epic shredding across the globe - are far more dangerous than he could ever imagine. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Whyte Python World Tour” by Travis Kennedy FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/26296f5a-16ad-4bb8-8f1a-50a7707c4a08/with-a-vengeance-riley-sager.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 5, 2025 - With a Vengeance by Riley Sager GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge. In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution. Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of fourteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who’ve wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. Justice will at last be served. But Anna’s plan is quickly derailed by the murder of one of the passengers. As the train barrels through the night, it becomes clear that someone else on board is enacting their own form of revenge—and that they won’t stop until everyone else is dead. With time running out before the train reaches its destination, Anna is forced to hunt the killer in their midst while protecting the people she hates the most. In order to destroy her enemies, she must first save them—even though it means putting her own life at risk. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “With a Vengeance” by Riley Sager: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (eAudiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f3b27748-0469-46ad-809b-61da0e2d2d74/the-death-mask-iris-johansen.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 5, 2025 - The Death Mask (Eve Duncan #31) by Iris Johansen GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: World-renowned forensic sculptor Eve Duncan’s skills frequently make her a target. And in this epic adventure, they make her the first choice to create an Egyptian death mask for a nefarious potential client. But Eve cannot be bought, not for all the riches in a gold mine. Her would-be employer soon realizes that he must threaten the lives of those she holds dear to procure Eve’s services and force her to travel to Africa to mold the priceless mask. Eve knows that her husband, Joe Quinn, is out there somewhere, searching tirelessly for a way to help. Joe has back-up from Alex Dominic, a mercenary for hire, but nothing will make it easier to set his emotions aside in order to navigate the impenetrable jungle and mastermind a breathtaking escape. Against an unpredictable enemy, Eve and Joe must each focus on their own unique abilities to get out alive. The future of their love and their family depends upon it. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Death Mask (Eve Duncan #31)” by Iris Johansen FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/66d21ebf-8625-442c-aa2e-808042454bb3/problematic-summer-romance-ali-hazelwood.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 5, 2025 - Problematic Summer Romance (Not In Love #2) by Ali Hazelwood GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother’s best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it clear that he wants her gone from his life. But not everything is as it seems—and clichés sometimes become plot twists. When Maya’s brother decides to get married in Taormina, she and Conor end up stuck together in a romantic Sicilian villa for over a week. There, on the beautiful Ionian coast, between ancient ruins, delicious foods, and natural caves, Maya realizes that Conor might be hiding something from her. And as the destination wedding begins to erupt out of control, she decides that a summer fling might be just what she needs—even if it’s a problematic one. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Problematic Summer Romance (Not In Love #2)” by Ali Hazelwood: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5ad26d7e-d623-46f0-9a57-5d3699140be2/the-presidents-shadow-james-patterson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 5, 2025 - The President’s Shadow (The Shadow #3) by James Patterson GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: The world is under attack. Failure is not an option. Disguised by his secret identity The Shadow, Lamont Cranston enacts vigilante justice in New York City. But he’s not alone – his descendent and protégé Maddy has joined the fight. However, she has a lot to learn. From a destructive superweapon to a deadly virus, the fate of the world is in their hands. There is no room for mistakes – now more than ever. Maddy and Lamont must combine forces to eliminate these threats – and save all mankind. 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CLICK TO BORROW “25 Alive (Women’s Murder Club #25)” by James Patterson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1257477f-75c2-4ba8-a4cd-cdb1ad8b9559/marble-hall-murders-anthony-horowitz.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 13, 2025 - Marble Hall Murders (Susan Ryeland #3) by Anthony Horowitz GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel, and her Greek boyfriend Andreas in search of a new life back in England. Freelancing for Causton Books, she’s working on the manuscript of a novel, Pund’s Last Case, by a young author named Eliot Crace, a continuation of the popular Alan Conway series. Susan is surprised to learn that Eliot is the grandson of legendary children’s author Marian Crace, who died some fifteen years ago—murdered, Elliot insists, by poison. As Susan begins to read the manuscript’s opening chapters, the skeptical editor is relieved to find that Pund’s Last Case is actually very good. Set in the South of France, it revolves around the mysterious death of Lady Margaret Chalfont, who, though mortally ill, is poisoned—perhaps by a member of her own family. But who did it? And why? The deeper Susan reads, the more it becomes clear that the clues leading to the truth of Marian Crace’s death are hidden within this Atticus Pund mystery. While Eliot’s accusation becomes more plausible, his behavior grows increasingly erratic.. Then he is suddenly killed in a hit-and-run accident, and Susan finds herself under police scrutiny as a suspect in his killing. Three mysterious deaths. Multiple motives and possible murderers. If Susan doesn’t solve the mystery of Pund’s Last Case, she may well be the next victim. CLICK TO BORROW “Marble Hall Murders (Susan Ryeland #3)” by Anthony Horowitz FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c29696e6-94ab-4703-b8ab-14f72e913b62/into-the-gray-zone-brad-taylor.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 13, 2025 - Into the Gray Zone (Pike Logan #19) by Brad Taylor GENRE: Thriller, Suspense THE SYNOPSIS: While on a routine security assessment in India, Taskforce operator Pike Logan foils an attempted attack on a meeting between the CIA and India’s intelligence service. Both government agencies believe it’s nothing more than a minor terrorist attack, but Pike suspects that something much more sinister is at play. After another terrorist operation at the Taj Mahal, he begins to believe that outside powers are attacking India in the gray zone between peace and war, leveraging terrorist groups for nothing more than economic gain. But the separatists conducting the operations have their own agenda. After a massive slaughter and kidnapping of hostages during an elaborate Indian pre-wedding party, two global powers are destabilized, and only Pike Logan and his team can de-escalate the tension by rescuing the captives. What follows is a race against the clock that winds through the bustling markets of Old Delhi, the luxurious resorts of Goa, and the epic halls of the Taj Mahal. It will take everything that Logan and the taskforce have to foil an intricate plot that leaves countless lives in the balance. CLICK TO RESERVE “Into the Gray Zone (Pike Logan #19)” by Brad Taylor FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/19aa5173-20b9-4490-bf07-bb7cf301f368/the-amalfi-curse-sarah-penner.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 13, 2025 - The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Powerful witchcraft. A hunt for sunken treasure. Forbidden love on the high seas. Beware the Amalfi Curse… Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical archaeologist, has come to the sun-soaked village of Positano to investigate the mysterious shipwrecks along the Amalfi Coast. But Haven is hoping to find more than old artifacts beneath the azure waters; she is secretly on a quest to locate a trove of priceless gemstones her late father spotted on his final dive. Upon Haven’s arrival, strange maelstroms and misfortunes start plaguing the town. Is it nature or something more sinister at work? As Haven searches for her father’s sunken treasure, she begins to unearth a centuries-old tale of ancient sorcery and one woman’s quest to save her lover and her village by using the legendary art of stregheria, a magical ability to harness the ocean. Could this magic be behind Positano’s latest calamities? Haven must unravel the Amalfi Curse before the region is destroyed forever… CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Amalfi Curse” by Sarah Penner: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d8500aa3-9e6d-4bb5-a3cb-fbd9e4618ae8/my-name-is-emilia-del-valle-isabel-allende.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 13, 2025 - My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In San Francisco 1866, an Irish nun, left pregnant and abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia Del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. To pursue her passion for writing, she is willing to defy societal norms. At the age of sixteen, she begins to publish pulp fiction under a man’s pen name. When these fictional worlds can't contain her sense of adventure any longer, she turns to journalism, convincing an editor at the San Francisco Examiner to hire her. There she is paired with another talented reporter, Eric Whelan. As she proves herself, her restlessness returns, until an opportunity arises to cover a brewing civil war in Chile. She seizes it, along with Eric, and while there, begins to uncover the truth about her father and the country that represents her roots. But as the war escalates, Emilia finds herself in danger and at a crossroads, questioning both her identity and her destiny. CLICK BELOW TO RESERBE “My Name is Emilia del Valle” by Isabel Allende: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/10b38e47-b987-4c88-8bd3-c6b10c3b8612/the-summers-between-us-noreen-nanja.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 13, 2025 - The Summers Between Us by Noreen Nanja GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: A decade apart, a painful secret—can two childhood sweethearts find their way back to a love that defies cultures and time? Lia Juma thought she’d buried the dreams of her heart long ago. But when she’s forced to return to her family’s summer cottage on Pike Bay, the life she’s carefully crafted begins to unravel. The perfect immigrant daughter, Lia has carved a successful career as a corporate lawyer and has just started dating a man who fulfills all her mother’s criteria for the ideal son-in-law. But underneath her polished life lies a secret she’s never spoken of—one she fears could have destroyed her family a decade ago. Back at the bay, Lia stumbles upon memories she thought long forgotten and, at the center of it all, is Wesley Forest—the boy she left behind, the boy who knew her dreams better than anyone. Their friendship and young love once burned bright, woven through long sun-drenched days and whispered promises of a future together. But when family pressures and heartbreak pulled the two lovers apart, they were forced to follow separate paths. Now, Wes is back in her life, and with him, old wounds and feelings surface. As the two confront the choices and secrets that divided them as teenagers, Lia must decide if she can heal from the past and finally embrace the life and love she’s always craved. Could a second chance with Wes be worth risking everything for? 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CLICK BELOW TO BORROW “The Bright Years” by Sarah Damoff: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2ca0030d-3ee7-4c70-ab52-c543a568b6a9/speak-to-me-of-home-jeanine-cummins.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 13, 2025 - Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway, in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments. Against the backdrop of her mother’s isolation in St. Louis, Missouri in the 1980s, Rafaela’s daughter, Ruth Brennan, longs only to belong. Eager to fit in, Ruth lets go of her language, habits, and childhood memories of Puerto Rico. It's not until decades later, when Ruth’s own daughter, Daisy, returns to Puerto Rico that her mother and grandmother begin to truly reflect on the choices that have come to define their lives. When a hurricane ravages the island in 2023, leaving Daisy critically injured, Rafaela and Ruth return to the city where it all began. As they gather at Daisy’s bedside, they’re confronted by the pasts that brought them to this point. We follow them as they come of age, fall in love, take risks, and contend with all the heartbreaks, triumphs, and reversals of fortune — both good and bad — that make up a meaningful life. As old memories come to light, so do buried secrets, leaving everyone in the family wondering exactly where it is that they belong. 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CLICK TO RESERVE “South of Nowhere (Colter Shaw #5)” by Jeffrey Deaver FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/632ed75b-3db5-42a4-bbd0-50c72616caa5/the-california-dreamers-amy-mason-doan.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 13, 2025 - The California Dreamers by Amy Mason Doan GENRE: Historical Fiction, Domestic Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: ONE GOLDEN FAMILY. ONE ICONIC PHOTO. It’s 1980s California, and everyone’s dreaming of the endless sun-drenched beaches, infinite waves, and most of all, beautiful, beautiful freedom. For the Merrick siblings, this idyllic vision is their reality, as they travel up and down the coast with their parents in a van year-round, surfing and swimming their days away. But when a photographer secretly snaps a stunning photo of the family lined up with their boards in the sand, and the image ripples across the country, the only life they’ve ever known is put at risk. Decades after, the now-distant siblings gather on a gorgeous, wild island to honor their late father. But their reunion is complicated when a journalist, eager for the truth behind the famous photo, discovers their identity and tracks them down. As the siblings reckon with the possibility that more of their lives could be shared, a revelation about their past forces them to confront long-held heartaches. Together, they’ll have to decide whether to let the same tensions rip them apart again—or if telling their story on their own terms might just be the way to recapture the family magic. CLICK TO RESERVE “The California Dreamers” by Amy Mason Doan FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6ae9815c-7009-4f60-9733-bec975b8c88a/favourite-daughter-morgan-dick.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 13, 2025 - Favourite Daughter by Morgan Dick GENRE: Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Mickey and Arlo are half sisters. But they’ve never spoken and never met. Arlo adored her father—but always lived in the shadow of his magnetic personality and burdensome vices. Meanwhile, their father abandoned Mickey and her mother years ago, and Mickey has hated him since. When she receives news of her father’s passing, Mickey is shocked to learn that he’s left her his not-inconsiderable fortune. But Mickey must attend a series of therapy sessions before the money can be released. Unbeknownst to either woman, the psychologist Mickey’s father has ensured she meets with is her half sister, Arlo. Having cared for her beloved father on his sickbed, Arlo is devastated to discover he’s cut her out of his will. She resolves to learn where the money went and why. Working together as therapist and patient—with no idea that they’re in fact sisters—Arlo and Mickey soon get under each other’s skin. Arlo, eager to outrun a mistake in her professional past, is keen to redeem herself with her new client. But Mickey is far from the model patient. As Mickey’s personal and professional lives spiral out of control and Arlo uncovers the truth about who her new patient really is, the sisters find themselves on a crash course that will break—or save—them both. CLICK TO RESERVE “Favourite Daughter” by Morgan Dick FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5e05868a-7a99-42ed-826b-a7be2509d94f/fever-beach-carl-hiaasen.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 13, 2025 - Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen GENRE: Humor, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: “The afternoon of September first, dishwater-gray and rainy, a man named Dale Figgo picked up a hitchhiker on Gus Grissom Boulevard in Tangelo Shores, Florida. The hitchhiker, who reminded Figgo of Danny DeVito, asked for a lift to the interstate. Figgo said he’d take him there after finishing an errand.” Thus begins Fever Beach, with an errand that leads—in pure Hiaasen-style—into the depths of Florida at its most Floridian: a sun-soaked bastion of right-wing extremism, white power, greed, and corruption. Figgo, it turns out, is the only hate-monger ever to be kicked out of the Proud Boys for being too dumb and incompetent. On January 6, 2021 he thought he was defacing a statue of Ulysses S. Grant, but he wound up spreading feces all over a statue of James Zacharia George, a Civil War Confederate war leader. Figgo's already messy life is about to get more complicated, thanks to two formidable adversaries. Viva Morales is a newly transplanted Floridian, a clever woman recently taken to the cleaners by her ex-husband, now working at the Mink Foundation, a supposedly philanthropic organization, and renting a room in Figgo’s apartment because there’s no place else she can afford. Twilly Spree has an anger management problem, especially when it comes to those who deface the environment, and way too many inherited millions of dollars. He's living alone a year after his dog died, two years after he sank a city councilman’s party barge, and three years after his divorce. Viva and Twilly are plunged into a mystery—involving dark money and darker motives—they are determined to solve, and become entangled in a world populated by some of Hiaasen’s most outrageous characters: Claude and Electra Mink—billionaire philanthropists with way too much plastic surgery and a secret right-wing agenda—and Congressman Clure Boyette—who dreams of being Florida’s (and maybe America’s) most important politician. The only things standing in his way are his love for hookers and young girls, and his total lack of intelligence. We meet Noel Kristianson—a Scandinavian agnostic injured when Figgo thinks he’s a Jewish threat to humanity and runs him over with his car; Jonas Onus—Figgo’s partner in white power idiocy; and many, many more. CLICK TO RESERVE “Fever Beach” by Carl Hiaasen FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f2a84520-924c-4d5c-aef4-c6f6f2a7b192/the-devils-joe-abercrombie.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 13, 2025 - The Devils by Joe Abercrombie GENRE: Horror, Fantasy THE SYNOPSIS: Holy work sometimes requires unholy deeds. Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters. The mission he is tasked with will require bloody measures from them all in order to achieve its righteous ends. Elves lurk at our borders and hunger for our flesh, while greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions and comfort. With a hellish journey before him, it's a good thing Brother Diaz has the devils on his side. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Devils (The Devils #1)” by Joe Abercrombie FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/8410e23e-a5dd-4276-9f06-ad5369e8bc08/katharine-the-wright-sister-kathey-enerson-wood.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 13, 2025 - Katharine, The Wright Sister by Kathey Enerson Wood GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: She helped her brothers soar… but was the flight worth the fall? It all started with two boys and a bicycle shop. Wilbur and Orville Wright, both unsuited to college and disinclined to leave home, jumped on the popular new fad of bicycle riding and opened a shop in Dayton, Ohio. Repairing and selling soon led to tinkering and building as the brothers offered improved models to their eager customers. Amid their success, a new dream began to take shape. Engineers across the world were puzzling over how to build a powered flying machine—and Wilbur and Orville wanted in on the challenge. But their younger sister, Katharine, knew they couldn't do it without her. The three siblings made a the three of them would solve the problem of human flight. As her brothers obsessed over blueprints and risked life and limb testing new models on the sand beaches of North Carolina, Katharine became the mastermind behind the scenes of their inventions. She sourced materials, managed communications, and kept Wilbur and Orville focused on their goal—even when it seemed hopeless. And in 1903, the Wright brothers made the first controlled, sustained flight of humankind. What followed was the kind of fame and fortune the Wrights had never imagined. The siblings traveled the world to demonstrate their invention, trained other pilots, and built new machines that could fly higher and farther. But at the height of their success, tragedy wrenched the Wright family apart… and forced Katharine to make an impossible choice that would haunt her for the rest of her life. CLICK TO RESERVE “Katharine, The Wright Sister” by Tracey Enerson Wood FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-may-7-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6eae82f6-337e-44bd-b1ff-3d9c050b28f8/my-friends-fredrik-backman.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 7, 2025 - My Friends by Fredrik Backman GENRE: Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their difficult home lives by spending their days laughing and telling stories out on a pier. There’s Joar, who never backs down from a fight; quiet and bookish Ted who is mourning his father; Ali, the daughter of a man who never stays in one place for long; and finally, there’s the artist, a boy who hoards sleeping pills and shuns attention, but who possesses an extraordinary gift that might be his ticket to a better life. These four lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream. Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be put into eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. As she struggles to decide what to do with this bequest, she embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn the story of how the painting came to be. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more she feels compelled to unleash her own artistic spirit, but happy endings don’t always take the form we expect in this fresh testament to the transformative power of friendship and art. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “My Friends” by Fredrik Backman FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/9a30c299-6562-4ba1-a31d-f46bab04a396/the-tenant-freida-mcfadden.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 7, 2025 - The Tenant by Freida McFadden GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: There’s no place like home… Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his fiancee, he's desperate to make ends meet. Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She's exactly what Blake's looking for. Or is she? Because something isn't quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange noises jar him awake in the middle of the night. And soon Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets... Danger lives right at home, and by the time Blake realizes it, it'll be far too late. The trap is already set. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Tenant” by Freida McFadden FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/55804dc2-e114-4a3d-b6d5-22f0bc00c7dc/a-mind-of-her-own-danielle-steel.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 7, 2025 - A Mind of Her Own by Danielle Steel GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Alexandra Bouvier is born in Paris in 1900, at the dawn of a new century. From an early age, she is encouraged to think for herself by her enlightened her father, a French doctor; her mother, an American nurse; and her maternal grandfather a highly regarded newspaperman back in the Midwest. At age fourteen, Alex’s comfortable life is upended as war erupts across Europe. Her parents follow their sense of duty to the front, performing triage at a field hospital and confronting the horrors of poison gas and trench warfare. The merciless fighting, coupled with the fast-spreading Spanish flu, wreaks havoc on the continent, as well as on Alex’s loved ones. By the time she is eighteen, she has suffered unimaginable losses. With her grandfather’s support, she attends the University of Chicago and decides to follow his footsteps into journalism. As a newspaper intern she meets reporter Oliver Foster, who is covering the gang wars sparked by Prohibition. He too has known devastating loss, and the two are drawn to each other, though both fear any attachment. As it turns out, Alex has good reason to be cautious. CLICK TO RESERVE “A Mind of Her Own” by Danielle Steel FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/74040115-cb19-4697-a41d-87e9bf284383/one-golden-summer-carley-fortune.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 7, 2025 - One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: I never anticipated Charlie Florek. Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother says, and it’s true. Alice spent just one summer at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen—it’s where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life. Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she’s most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. Lately though, she’s been itching for something more, and when Nan falls and breaks her hip, Alice comes up with a plan for them both: another summer in that magical place, Barry’s Bay. But as soon as they settle in, their peace is disrupted by the roar of a familiar yellow boat, and the man driving it. Charlie Florek was nineteen when Alice took his photo from afar. Now he’s all grown up—a shameless flirt, who manages to make Nan laugh and Alice long to be seventeen again, when life was simpler, when taking pictures was just for fun. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice’s soul, but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart. Because Alice sees people—that’s why she is so good at what she does—but she’s never met someone who looks and sees her right back. CLICK TO RESERVE “One Golden Summer” by Carley Fortune FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c9156a14-c39e-4c18-b45e-87665f6b3025/the-midnight-secret-karen-swan.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 7, 2025 - The Midnight Secret (The Wild Isle #4) by Karen Swan GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: If there’s one thing Jayne Ferguson has learnt in her life, it’s that every blessing comes with a curse. She married the most handsome man on the isle of St Kilda - but he’s a bully. She inherited her mother’s gift of second sight - but only ever forsees her fellow islanders’ deaths. She has learnt to keep to herself, treading in the shadows and shirking the highs for fear of the lows. When a needless death strikes at the heart of her home, Jayne’s bad marriage becomes worse and she finds solace with an unlikely friend. Glimmers of happiness tantalise her, though there’s no possibility for anything more, especially once word comes of St Kilda’s evacuation. But as the day draws near, tensions on the island rise. Secrets are being forced to the surface, passions and enmities erupting with equal violence. A man is killed, as Jayne knew he would be, and those closest to her are implicated. On the mainland, the villagers scatter into new lives, hoping distance means refuge. But then Jayne has another of her dreams and she knows the past isn’t done with them yet. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Midnight Secret (The Wild Isle #4)” by Karen Swan FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5eea620f-cf9e-4807-a11d-882992b9704d/parents-weekend-alex-finlay.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 7, 2025 - Parents Weekend by Alex Finlay GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: In the glow of their children’s exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families plan on a night of dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their kids—five residents of Campisi Hall—never show up at dinner. At first, everyone thinks that they’re just being college students, irresponsibly forgetting about the gathering or skipping out to go to a party. But as the hours click by and another night falls with not so much as a text from the students, panic ensues. Soon, the campus police call in reinforcements. Search parties are formed. Reporters swarm the small enclave. Rumors swirl and questions arise. Libby, Blane, Mark, Felix, and Stella—The Five, as the podcasters, bloggers, and TikTok sleuths call them—come from five very different families. What led them out on that fateful night? Could it be the sins of their mothers and fathers come to cause them peril or a threat to the friend group from within? CLICK TO RESERVE “Parents Weekend” by Alex Finlay FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f47a6b4b-c890-49a7-af0e-118f2606c6bf/the-children-of-eve-john-connolly.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 7, 2025 - The Children of Eve (Charlie Parker #22) by John Connolly GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a single-word RUN. Private investigator Charlie Parker is hired to find out why Riggins has fled, and from whom. Parker discovers that Riggins, an ex-soldier, has been involved in the abduction of four children from Mexico: three girls and a boy, all belonging to the cartel boss Blás Urrea—except Urrea’s family is safe and well in Mexico, which means the abductees cannot be his children. Yet whoever they are, Urrea wants them back, and has dispatched his agents to secure them, even if it means butchering everyone who stands in their way. One of those agents is Eugene Seeley, a clever, ruthless solver of other men’s problems. The other is an unknown woman. Every child has a mother. Now Charlie Parker will face one unlike any other, and learn the terrifying truth about the Children of Eve. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Children of Eve (Charlie Parker #22)” by John Connolly FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f948b33d-925d-4a3d-93e6-c8161a7c028f/the-original-daughter-jemimah-wei.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 7, 2025 - The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei GENRE: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in working-class Bedok, Genevieve is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead. As the two girls grow closer, they must navigate the intensity of life in a place where the urgent insistence on achievement demands constant sacrifice. Knowing that failure is not an option, the sisters learn to depend entirely on one another as they spurn outside friendships, leisure, and any semblance of a social life in pursuit of academic perfection and passage to a better future. When a stinging betrayal violently estranges Genevieve and Arin, Genevieve must weigh the value of ambition versus familial love, home versus the outside world, and allegiance to herself versus allegiance to the people who made her who she is. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Original Daughter” by Jemimah Wei FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1e9fae12-7c9d-4067-8694-b138073d75e5/the-names-florence-knapp.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 7, 2025 - The Names by Florence Knapp GENRE: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to name the infant after him. But when the registrar asks what she'd like to call the child, Cora hesitates... Spanning thirty-five years, what follows are three alternate and alternating versions of Cora's and her young son's lives, shaped by her choice of name. In richly layered prose, The Names explores the painful ripple effects of domestic abuse, the messy ties of family, and the possibilities of autonomy and healing. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Names” by Florence Knapp FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/be39f8f1-baef-4fcb-9c31-fb5370946332/the-missing-half-ashley-flowers.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 7, 2025 - The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Nicole “Nic” Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, she’s just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she’s been working since high school, a job she only has because her boss is a family friend and feels sorry for her. Everyone has felt sorry for her for the last seven years—since the day her older sister, Kasey, vanished without a trace. On the night Kasey went missing, her car was found over a hundred miles from home. The driver’s door was open and her purse was untouched in the seat next to it. The only real clue in her disappearance was Jules Connor, another young woman from the same area who disappeared in the same way, two weeks earlier. But with so little for the police to go on, both their cases eventually went cold. Nic wants nothing more than to move on—from her sister’s disappearance and the state it’s left her in. But then one day, Jules’s sister, Jenna Connor, walks into her life and offers Nic something she hasn’t felt in a long hope. What follows is a gripping tale of two sisters who will do anything to find their missing halves, even if it means destroying everything they’ve ever known. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Missing Half” by Ashley Flowers FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/dc27c4b4-ac61-47eb-92bb-dc6b03fd5cc5/the-ones-we-love-anna-shoekstra.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 7, 2025 - The Ones We Love by Anna Snoekstra GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Meet the Jansen family: Since the weekend of the party – the one Liv can’t remember, the one that left her covered in bruises – there’s been a padlock on the door of her bedroom. Her parents said they found mold, and it needs to be decontaminated, but they’re behaving oddly. Her friend Leilani isn’t answering her texts, so maybe Liv did get a little out of control that night. Sharing a room with her younger brother Casper for a while isn’t the end of the world, as long as he doesn’t tell their parents that she’s started sleepwalking. They’re already acting strangely enough. The guilt over that weekend is getting to her father Janus. He’s forever looking over his shoulder. Janus, a horror author, is on a deadline to adapt his book into a screenplay. Now he’s now finding it hard to stomach the violence of his own stories. But Janus brought his whole family from Australia to LA to chase his dream, and he can’t let them down. Not again. Kay wasn’t sure she wanted to be a mother when she got pregnant with Liv, but she gave up everything for her daughter and then her son, Casper. She’ll do whatever she has to do to take care of her kids. Her marriage, though, is a different story. And the neighbors – well, she’ll just have to be more careful. Casper was away that weekend, but he knows something isn’t right. His parents don’t look each other in the eye anymore. His father’s hands tremble for no reason. And where does Liv keep disappearing to in the middle of the night? Casper decides to find out what no one will tell him about that weekend, and what lies behind the padlocked door. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Ones We Love” by Anna Snoekstra FROM THE RESERVE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c3c8ca2f-de04-40df-afe3-7852ec112384/the-correspondent-virginia-evans.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 7, 2025 - The Correspondent by Virginia Evans GENRE: Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Throughout her life Sybil Van Antwerp has used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings around half past ten Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter. Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has. A mother, grandmother, wife, divorcée, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness. 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Lina’s encounters with her intellectual and personal forebearers force her to reckon with difficult questions of guilt, responsibility, and the possibility of redemption. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Book of Records” by Madeleine Thien FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/3d39fe77-627d-4d3b-9a0a-4119452adfab/austen-at-sea-natalie-jenner.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 7, 2025 - Austen at Sea by Natalie Jenner GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In Boston, 1865, Charlotte and Henrietta Stevenson, daughters of a Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice, have accomplished as much as women are allowed in those days. Chafing against those restrictions and inspired by the works of Jane Austen, they start a secret correspondence with Sir Francis Austen, her last surviving brother, now in his nineties. He sends them an original letter from his sister and invites them to come visit him in England. In Philadelphia, Nicholas & Haslett Nelson—bachelor brothers, veterans of the recent Civil War, and rare book dealers—are also in correspondence with Sir Francis Austen, who lures them, too, to England, with the promise of a never-before-seen, rare Austen artifact to be evaluated. The Stevenson sisters sneak away without a chaperone to sail to England. On their ship are the Nelson brothers, writer Louisa May Alcott, Sara-Beth Gleason—wealthy daughter of a Pennsylvania state senator with her eye on the Nelsons—and, a would-be last-minute chaperone to the Stevenson sisters, Justice Thomas Nash. It's a voyage and trip that will dramatically change each of their lives in ways that are unforeseen, with the transformative spirit of the love of literature and that of Jane Austen herself. 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In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Everything Is Tuberculosis” by John Green: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (Audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a9587412-ab79-464d-9c1c-22e7c66b8d0f/no-more-tears-gardiner-harris.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - No More Tears by Gardiner Harris GENRE: Nonfiction, Business, Medicine, Ethics THE SYNOPSIS: An incendiary, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from award-winning investigative journalist Gardiner Harris One day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, early for a flight, sat down at an airport bar and started talking to the woman on the bar stool beside him. She was a drug sales rep for Johnson & Johnson, and her horrific story about unethical sales practices and the devastating impact they’d had on her family fundamentally changed the nature of how Harris covered the company—and the entire pharmaceutical industry—for The New York Times. His subsequent investigations and ongoing research since that conversation led to new federal laws and ultimately to No More Tears, a blistering exposé of a trusted American institution and the largest healthcare conglomerate in the world. Harris takes us light years away from the company’s image as the child-friendly “baby company” as he uncovers reams of evidence showing decades of deceitful and dangerous corporate practices that have threatened the lives of millions. He covers multiple disasters: lies and cover-ups regarding baby powder’s link to cancer; the surprising dangers of Tylenol; a criminal campaign to sell dangerous anti-psychotics to children; a popular drug for cancer patients that increases the risk of tumor growth. Deceptive marketing efforts that accelerated opioid addictions rival even those of the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma. All told, Johnson & Johnson's products have helped cause drug crises that have contributed to the deaths of as many as two million people and counting. Filled with shocking, infuriating, but utterly necessary revelations, No More Tears is a landmark work of investigative journalism that lays bare the deeply rooted corruption behind the image of babies bathing with a smile. 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From 1971 to 1985 Horne’s predations on Inuit boys would disrupt life in the communities where he worked — towns of close-knit families that would suffer the intergenerational trauma created by his abuse. Journalist Kathleen Lippa, after years of research, examines the devastating impact Horne’s crimes had on individuals, families, and entire communities. Her compelling work lifts the veil of silence surrounding the Horne story once and for all. CLICK TO RESERVE “Arctic Predator” by Kathleen Lippa FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/961a088d-852a-4c17-ab99-1de91ecc4fd4/hitman-julian-sher.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - Hitman by Julian Sher GENRE: Nonfiction, True Crime THE SYNOPSIS: The wild and gripping story of Yves “Apache” Trudeau. Ideal for true crime readers and fans of crime podcasts. For Yves Trudeau, the blood was all business. An assassin for the Hells Angels in the ’70s and ’80s, Trudeau was known as Apache, the Mad Bumper and the Mad Bomber. As a contract killer, he did his job so well that the bikers sometimes lent him out to other organized-crime empires in Montreal, including the east-end French gangs led by the deadly Dubois brothers and the upstart Irish Mafia in the west end. Yves Trudeau remains one of Canada’s most prolific serial killers. When he narrowly missed being assassinated because he was in rehab, he turned government informant and confessed to his crimes, which included killing forty-three people. But as a witness, Trudeau was a disaster. His testimony led to so many acquittals that prosecutors avoided him. Award-winning writers Julian Sher and Lisa Fitterman tell the incredible story of how this assassin escaped the police and the justice system for over a decade. A compelling and revealing account of corruption, incompetence and murder, Hitman is based on extensive research and exclusive new interviews with police, lawyers and bikers who knew Yves “Apache” Trudeau. CLICK TO RESERVE “Hitman” by Julian Sher FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/91bf8ed0-59b4-49e3-ba5a-e7500b41bead/four-red-sweaters-lucy-adlington.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - Four Red Sweaters by Lucy Adlington GENRE: Nonfiction, History, Holocaust THE SYNOPSIS: The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways. Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana Zumerkorn, and Regina Feldman all faced the Holocaust in different ways. While they did not know each other—in fact had never met—each had a red sweater that would play a major part in their lives. In this absorbing and deeply moving account, award-winning clothes historian Lucy Adlington documents their stories, knitting together the experiences that fragmented their families and their lives. Adlington immortalizes these young women whose resilience, skills, strength, and kindness accompanied them through the darkest events in human history. A powerful reminder of the suffering they endured and a celebration of courage, love, and tenacity, this moving and original work illuminates moments long lost to history, now pieced back together by a simple garment. Four Red Sweaters is illustrated with more than two dozen black-and-white images throughout. 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One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over. Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition. But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room. And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Great Big Beautiful Life” by Emily Henry: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (Audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a2e2adc3-e406-44a3-ab94-7f5c395c2c5b/six-days-in-bombay-alka-joshi.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: When renowned painter Mira Novak arrives at Wadia hospital in Bombay after a miscarriage, she's expected to make a quick recovery, and Sona is excited to spend time with the worldly woman who shares her half-Indian identity, even if that's where their similarities end. Sona is enraptured by Mira's stories of her travels, and shocked by accounts of the many lovers she's left scattered through Europe. Over the course of a week, Mira befriends Sona, seeing in her something bigger than the small life she's living with her mother. Mira is released from the hospital just in time to attend a lavish engagement party where all of Bombay society. But the next day, Mira is readmitted to the hospital in worse condition than before, and when she dies under mysterious circumstances, Sona immediately falls under suspicion. Before leaving the hospital in disgrace, Sona is given a note Mira left for her, along with her four favorite paintings. But how could she have known to leave a note if she didn't know she was going to die? The note sends Sona on a mission to deliver three of the paintings—the first to Petra, Mira's childhood friend and first love in Prague; the second to her art dealer Josephine in Paris; the third to her first painting tutor, Paolo, with whom both Mira and her mother had affairs. As Sona uncovers Mira's history, she learns that the charming facade she'd come to know was only one part of a complicated and sometimes cruel woman. But can she discover what really happened to Mira and exonerate herself? Along the way, Sona also comes to terms with her own complex history and the English father who deserted her and her mother in India so many years ago. In the end, she'll discover that we are all made up of pieces, and only by seeing the world do we learn to see ourselves. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Six Days in Bombay” by Alka Joshi: AT THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (Audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1564b947-a52e-473f-8747-ce5ca9295005/2-sisters-murder-investigations-james-patterson.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - 2 Sisters Murder Investigations by James Patterson GENRE: Thriller, Crime THE SYNOPSIS: Rhonda and Barbara “Baby” Bird are half-sisters—and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. They agree on nothing. Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach to solving crimes, while teenage Baby relies on her street smarts. But when they take a controversial case of a loner whose popular wife has gone missing, they’re accused of being PIs who can’t tell a client from a killer. The Bird sisters share a late father, but not much else…except their willingness to fight. Fight the system. Fight for the underdog. Fight for the truth. If they can stop fighting each other long enough to work together. CLICK TO RESERVE “2 Sisters Murder Investigations” by James Patterson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/3ef1e840-df3e-4bbc-a117-b607d0133aed/beach-vibes-susan-mallery.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - Beach Vibes by Susan Mallery GENRE: Thriller, Crime THE SYNOPSIS: What would you do if you caught your brother cheating on your best friend? While Beth is proud of her Malibu beach shop, Surf Sandwiches, she's even prouder of her charismatic brother, Rick, who rose from foster care all the way through surgical residency. She makes subs, he saves lives. Things takes a turn for the happy after she finds out Rick is dating her new best friend, Jana. Then Jana’s handsome brother adds even more sparkle to Beth’s days…and nights. But when she catches Rick with another woman—like, with with—her visions of an idyllic family future disappear in one awful instant. Either she betrays her brother or she keeps his secret and risks losing the man she loves and her best friend. CLICK TO RESERVE “Beach Vibes” by Susan Mallery FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/25d6acac-a76d-4c6c-9b8d-d5c11df40af4/vera-wongs-guide-to-snooping-on-a-dead-man-jesse-q-sutano.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)(Vera Wong #2) by Jesse. Q. Sutano GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Ever since a man was found dead in Vera's teahouse, life has been good. For Vera that is. She’s surrounded by loved ones, her shop is bustling, and best of all, her son, Tilly, has a girlfriend! All thanks to Vera, because Tilly's girlfriend is none other than Officer Selena Gray. The very same Officer Gray that she had harassed while investigating the teahouse murder. Still, Vera wishes more dead bodies would pop up in her shop, but one mustn't be ungrateful, even if one is slightly...bored. Then Vera comes across a distressed young woman who is obviously in need of her kindly guidance. The young woman is looking for a missing friend. Fortunately, while cat-sitting at Tilly and Selena's, Vera finds a treasure Selena's briefcase. Inside is a file about the death of an enigmatic influencer—who also happens to be the friend that the young woman was looking for. Online, Xander had it a parade of private jets, fabulous parties with socialites, and a burgeoning career as a social media influencer. The only problem is, after his body is fished out of Mission Bay, the police can't seem to actually identify him. Who is Xander Lin? Nobody knows. Every contact is a dead end. Everybody claims not to know him, not even his parents. Vera is determined to solve Xander's murder. After all, doing so would surely be a big favor to Selena, and there is nothing she wouldn't do for her future daughter-in-law. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) (Vera Wang #2)” by Jesse Q. Sutano: AT THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (Audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a81ebc62-830d-40ef-b88b-dfd5cff99a17/the-impossible-thing-belinda-bauer.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer GENRE: Mystery, Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: How do you find something that doesn’t exist? 1926. On the cliffs of Yorkshire, men are lowered on ropes to steal the eggs of the sea birds who nest there. The most beautiful are sold for large sums. A small girl—penniless and neglected by her family—retrieves one such treasure. Its discovery will forever alter the course of her life. A century later. In a remote cottage in Wales, Patrick Fort finds his friend, Nick, and his mother tied up and robbed. The only thing missing: a carved case containing an incredible scarlet egg. Doggedly attempting to retrieve it, Patrick and Nick discover the cruel world of egg trafficking, and soon find themselves on the trail of a priceless collection of eggs lost to history. Until now. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Impossible Thing” by Belinda Bauer FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/fd8bab3f-1bb4-47be-83f4-0f103a2fb841/summer-light-on-nantucket-nancy-thayer.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - Summer Light on Nantucket GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Blythe Benedict is content. Her life didn’t end when her marriage did. In fact, she’s more than happy living in her comfortable house in Boston, working as a middle school teacher, and raising four wonderful children. With three of her kids in the throes of teenagerhood and one not too far behind them, Blythe has plenty of drama to keep her busy every single day. But no amount of that drama could change the family’s beloved annual summer trip to Nantucket. Blythe has always treasured the months spent at her island home-away-from-home, and has fond memories of her children growing up there. But this summer’s getaway proves to be much more than she bargained for. Yes, there are sunny days enjoyed at the beach. But Blythe must contend with teenage angst, her ex-mother-in-law’s declining health, and a troubling secret involving her ex-husband. Meanwhile, Blythe reconnects with her first love, her former high school sweetheart Aaden. But their second-time-around romance becomes complicated when another intriguing man enters the picture. It’s all a bit out of Blythe’s comfort zone. This particular island summer may not be as relaxing as Blythe had hoped, but she’s never felt that life has given her more than she can handle—especially when she has the love and support of her family around her. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Summer Light on Nantucket” by Nancy Thayer: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d17001ce-bc37-41a6-a04a-7754f7f362fa/strangers-in-time-david-baldacci.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - Strangers in Time by David Baldacci GENRE: Mystery, Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ducking school but barred from actual work, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there’s no telling when a falling bomb might end his life. Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of people to have been evacuated to the countryside via “Operation Pied Piper,” Molly has been away from her parents—from her home—for nearly five years. Her return, however, is not the homecoming she’d hoped for as she’s confronted by a devastating reality: both her parents are gone. Without guardians and stability, Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver, and solace at his book shop, The Book Keep, where A book a day keeps the bombs away. Mourning the recent loss of his wife, Ignatius forms a kinship with both children, and in each other—over the course of the greatest armed conflict the world had ever seen—they rediscover the spirit of family each has lost. But Charlie’s escapades in the city have not gone unnoticed, and someone’s been following Molly since she returned to London. And Ignatius is still reeling from a secret Imogen long kept from him while she was alive—something so shocking it resulted in her death, and his life being turned upside down. As bombs continue to bear down on the city, Charlie, Molly, and Ignatius learn that while the perils of war rage on, their coming together and trusting one another may be the only way for them to survive. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Strangers in Time” by David Baldacci: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (Audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c4ec1cef-8c97-4f87-b9e0-1ea3dba30a73/the-maids-secret-nita+prose.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - The Maid’s Secret (Molly the Maid #3) by Nita Prose GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: A wedding. A heist. A secret. Molly Gray’s life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. As the esteemed Head Maid and recently promoted Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, good things are just around the corner, including her marriage to her beloved fiancé, Juan Manuel, only two months away. But Molly’s entire existence is upended when a film crew descends upon the hotel to shoot the hit reality TV show Hidden Treasures, starring popular art appraisers Brown and Beagle. On a whim, Molly brings in a shoebox containing a few of her gran’s old things for appraisal, and much to everyone's surprise, one item turns out to be a rare and priceless treasure. Instantly, Molly is both a multi-millionaire and a media sensation—the world’s rags-to-riches darling—until the priceless piece vanishes from the hotel in the boldest, brashest antiquities heist in recent memory. The key to the mystery lies in the past, in a long-forgotten diary written by Molly’s gran. For the first time ever, Molly learns about Gran’s true-to-life fairytale, a young girl to the manor born, the only child of a wealthy magnate. But when Gran falls head over heels in love with a young man her parents deem below her station, her life is thrown into turmoil. As fate would have it, the greatest love of Gran’s life is someone Molly knows quite well…. Together with her friends, Molly combs the past and the present to catch the thief before looming threats against her become real. 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On the brink of adulthood in the early 2000s, destiny intervened, catapulting the sisters into the spotlight as the pop sensation the Griffin Sisters, hitting all the touchstones of early aughts fame—SNL, MTV, Rolling Stone magazine—along the way. But after a whirlwind year in the public eye, the band abruptly broke up. Two decades later, Zoe’s a housewife; Cassie’s off the grid. The sisters aren’t speaking, and the real reason for the Griffin Sisters’ breakup is still a mystery. Zoe’s teenage daughter, Cherry, who’s determined to be a star in spite of Zoe’s warnings, is on a quest to learn the truth about what happened to the band all those years ago. As secrets emerge, all three women must face the consequences of their choices: the ones they made and the ones the music industry made for them. Can they forgive each other—and themselves? And will the Griffin Sisters ever make music again? CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits” by Jennifer Weiner: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2221f6de-a80e-4f50-97c2-d212821766db/on-isabella-street-genevieve-graham.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - On Isabella Street by Genevieve Graham GENRE: Historical Fiction, Canada THE SYNOPSIS: Toronto, 1967. Two young women with different backgrounds, attitudes, and aptitudes are living in an exciting but confusing time, the most extreme counter-culture movement the modern world has ever seen. They have little in common except for the place they both call an apartment building on Isabella Street. Marion Hart, a psychiatrist working in Toronto’s foremost mental institution, is fighting deinstitutionalization—the closing of major institutions in favour of community-based centres—because she believes it could one day cause major homelessness. When Alex Neumann, a vet with a debilitating wound, is admitted to the mental institution, Marion will learn through him that there is so much more to life than what she is living. Sassy Rankin, a budding folk singer and carefree hippy from a privileged family, joins protests over the Vietnam War and is devastated that her brother chose to join the US Marines. At the same time, she must deal with the truth that her comfortable life is financed by her father, a real estate magnate bent on gentrifying the city, making it unaffordable for many of her friends. The strength of their unlikely friendship means that when one grapples with a catastrophic event, the other must do all she can to make it right. CLICK TO RESERVE “On Isabella Street” by Genevieve Graham FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0c32c189-5a21-4250-9645-597e552ce9f7/the-pretender-jo-harkin.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - The Pretender by Jo Harkin GENRE: Historical Fiction, British Literature THE SYNOPSIS: In 1480, John Collan’s greatest anxiety is how to circumvent the village’s devil goat on the way to collect water. But the arrival of a well-dressed stranger from London upends his life forever: John is not John Collan, not the son of Will Collan, but the son of the long-deceased Duke of Clarence, hidden in the countryside after a brotherly rift over the crown, and because Richard III has a habit of disappearing his nephews. Removed from his humble origins, sent to Oxford to be educated in a manner befitting the throne’s rightful heir, John is put into play by his masters, learning the rules of etiquette in Burgundy and the machinations of the court in Ireland, where he encounters the intractable Joan, the delightfully strong-willed and manipulative daughter of his Irish patrons, a girl imbued with both extraordinary political savvy and occasional murderous tendencies. Joan has two paths available her—marry, or become a nun. Lambert’s choices are similarly stark: he will either become King, or die in battle. Together they form an alliance that will change the fate of the English monarchy. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Pretender” by Jo Harkin FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d3fb3ff1-eaf4-4cc9-8eb3-92f7aab3061d/swept-away-beth-oleary.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - Swept Away by Beth O’Leary GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: What if you were lost at sea…with your one-night stand? Zeke and Lexi thought it would just be a night of fun. They had no intentions of seeing each other again. Zeke is only in town for the weekend to buy back his late father’s houseboat. Lexi has no time for dating when she needs to help take care of her best friend's daughter. Going back home with a stranger seems like a perfect escape from their problems. But a miscommunication in the dark, foggy night means no one tied the houseboat to the dock. The next morning, Zeke and Lexi realize all they can see is miles and miles of water. With just a few provisions on the idle boat, Zeke and Lexi must figure out how to get back home. But aside from their survival, they’re facing another challenge. Because when you’re stuck together for days on end, it gives you a lot of time to get to know someone—and to fall in love with them. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Swept Away” by Beth O’Leary: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/00e3972c-4313-4cfd-a41d-db0b4ed962dd/the-eights-joanna-miller.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - The Eights by Joanna Miller GENRE: Historical Fiction, British Literature THE SYNOPSIS: They knew they were changing history. They didn't know they would change each other. Following the unlikely friendship of four of the first ever women to matriculate at Oxford University in the aftermath of the First World War, a captivating debut novel about sisterhood, self-determination and the many forms courage can take. Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world's most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into neighbouring rooms. Beatrice, Dora, Marianne and Otto (collectively known as The Eights) have come here from all walks of life, and they are thrown into an unlikely, life-affirming friendship. Dora was never meant to go to university, but, after losing both her brother and her fiancé on the battlefield, has arrived in their place. Politically-minded Beatrice, daughter of a famous suffragette, sees Oxford as a chance to make her own way - and some friends her own age. Otto was a nurse during the war but is excited to return to her socialite lifestyle in Oxford - where she hopes to find distraction from the memories that haunt her. And finally Marianne, the quiet, clever daughter of a village pastor, who has a shocking secret she must hide from everyone, even her new friends, if she is to succeed. But Oxford's dreaming spires cast a dark shadow: in 1920, misogyny is still rife, influenza is still a threat, and the ghosts of the Great War are still very real indeed. And as the group navigate this tumultuous moment in time, their friendship will become more important than ever. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Eights” by Joanna Miller: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/beb2f87f-afa3-4900-9528-66f007694387/big-chief-jon-hickey.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - Big Chief by Jon Hickey GENRE: Indigenous, Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In 1480, John Collan’s greatest anxiety is how to circumvent the village’s devil goat on the way to collect water. But the arrival of a well-dressed stranger from London upends his life forever: John is not John Collan, not the son of Will Collan, but the son of the long-deceased Duke of Clarence, hidden in the countryside after a brotherly rift over the crown, and because Richard III has a habit of disappearing his nephews. Removed from his humble origins, sent to Oxford to be educated in a manner befitting the throne’s rightful heir, John is put into play by his masters, learning the rules of etiquette in Burgundy and the machinations of the court in Ireland, where he encounters the intractable Joan, the delightfully strong-willed and manipulative daughter of his Irish patrons, a girl imbued with both extraordinary political savvy and occasional murderous tendencies. Joan has two paths available her—marry, or become a nun. Lambert’s choices are similarly stark: he will either become King, or die in battle. Together they form an alliance that will change the fate of the English monarchy. 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This might not be where Edie intended to be but it's not long before she realises it's exactly where she needs to be… CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris” by Evie Woods: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f40ee4d5-3e8e-4178-923c-f32178e07969/murder-at-gulls-nest-jess-kidd.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 25, 2025 - Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: 1954: When her former novice’s dependable letters stop, Nora Breen asks to be released from her vows. Haunted by a line in Frieda’s letter, Nora arrives at Gulls Nest, a charming hotel in Gore-on-Sea in Kent. A seaside town, a place of fresh air and relaxed constraints, is the perfect place for a new start. Nora hides her identity and pries into the lives of her fellow guests—but when a series of bizarre murders rattles the occupants of Gulls Nest it’s time to ask if a dark past can ever really be left behind. 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She finds peace amongst the towering topiary hedges and colorful gardens, but her idyll is shattered when Ash crashes back into her life. And when it becomes clear why he didn’t show in Madrid, her heart breaks anew—for what the truth means for her, and for his fate. But they have never been able to resist each another, and when the sparks of their attraction fly, Ellie’s life will catch flame. She will have to make a choice. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “What If I Never Get Over You” by Paige Toon: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-april-10 monthly 0.5 2025-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ee7afc2d-83f7-440a-93bf-5375a5dc6a1d/the+women+on+platform+two.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 10, 2025 - The Women on Platform Two by Laura Anthony GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Dublin, 1969: Maura has just married Dr. Christy Davenport and they look forward to growing their family. But as her husband’s vicious temper emerges, Maura worries that her home might never be safe for a child. Meanwhile, her close friend Bernie, a mother of three, learns the devastating news that if she conceives again, her health complications could prove fatal. Dublin, 2023: A close call makes Saoirse realize that she may never want to be a mother. Little does she know that only a few decades ago, a group of women made this option possible for her. And she’s about to meet one of them… CLICK TO RESERVE “The Women on Platform Two ” by Laura Anthony FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/262347ac-dbea-4762-b842-bf3b6d5d2c2c/you+killed+me+first+john+marrs.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 10, 2025 - You Killed Me First by John Marrs GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Three women. Three smouldering secrets. Who will make it out alive? It’s 5 November, and a woman awakens to a nightmare. Bound and gagged, she lies trapped in the heart of a towering bonfire. As the smoke thickens, panic sets in – she’s moments away from being engulfed in flames. How did it come to this? Rewind eleven months: Margot, a faded TV star, and her long-suffering friend Anna watch as glamorous Liv and her flawless family move into their street. The three women soon fabricate the perfect pretence of friendship, but each harbours her own deadly secret – and newcomer Liv senses something is terribly wrong beneath the polished exteriors. As cracks widen in the veneer of perfection and lies escalate out of control, tension ignites. Bonfire Night is approaching and someone is set to burn…But who will it be? CLICK TO RESERVE “You Killed Me First” by John Marrs FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2e1bea2e-de6d-4600-8391-fd3dbbffe1ae/the+summer+guests+tess+gerritsen.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 10, 2025 - The Summer Guests (The Martini Club #2) by Tess Gerritsen GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: When former spy Maggie Bird retired to the seaside hamlet of Purity, Maine, she settled in for a quiet life with breathtaking views. But enemies from her past soon threatened to destroy everything. Maggie survived, thanks to her wits and the collective intelligence of the Martini Club, the circle of ex-CIA friends in her cocktail-sipping book club. Their handiwork, however, caught the attention of young police chief Jo Thibodeau. Now Jo and her neighborhood ex-spies have an uneasy alliance. After a teenager vanishes—and Maggie’s neighbor becomes the prime suspect—she joins the investigation, determined to prove her friend’s innocence. But the girl’s wealthy family pushes for an arrest. And when authorities discover a long-dead corpse in a nearby pond, the case becomes doubly complicated, with unthinkable ties to long-buried secrets. As Jo grapples with two unexplained mysteries, the Martini Club races to uncover the truth behind shadowy secrets…before more lives are lost. CLICK TO BORROW “The Summer Guests (Martini Club #2)” by Tess Gerritsen FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/bf641e48-c7cc-4d25-be24-a2e3ca390fe7/finding-flora-elinor-florence.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 10, 2025 - Finding Flora by Elinor Florence GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In 1905, Scottish newcomer Flora Craigie jumps from a moving train to escape her abusive husband. Desperate to disappear, she claims a homestead near Alix, Alberta, determined to start a new life for herself. She finds that her nearest neighbours are also a Welsh widow with three children; two American women raising chickens; and a Métis woman who makes a living by breaking in wild horses. While battling the harsh environment (and draconian local attitudes toward female farmers), the five women grapple with the differences of their backgrounds and the secrets each struggles to keep. When their homes are threatened with expropriation by the hostile federal Minister of the Interior, the women join forces to “fire the heather,” a Scottish term meaning raising a ruckus. And as the competition for land along the new Canadian Pacific railway line heats up, Flora’s violent husband closes in, and an unscrupulous land agent threatens the lives and livelihoods of the women just as they’re coming into their own. Summers always end, and so will this agreement. It’s all pretend. Promise. Until it isn’t. CLICK TO RESERVE “Finding Flora” by Elinor Florence FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1be547fb-2fb9-441b-a8ad-568e69391ab2/lethal-prey-john-sandford.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 10, 2025 - Lethal Prey (Lucas Davenport #35) by John Sandford GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was brutally stabbed to death . . . but nobody knew exactly where the crime took place. Her body was found the next night, dumped among a dense thicket of trees along the edge of an urban park, eight miles east of St. Paul, Minnesota. Despite her twin sister Lara Grandfelt’s persistent calls to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the killer was never found. Twenty years later, Lara has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Confronted with the possibility of her own death, she’s determined to find Doris’s killer once and for all. Finally taking matters into her own hands, she dumps the entire investigative file on every true-crime site in the world and offers a $5 million reward for information leading to the killer’s arrest. Dozens of true-crime bloggers show up looking for both new evidence and “clicks,” and Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to review anything that might be a new lead. When one of the bloggers locates the murder weapon, Lucas and Virgil begin to uncover vital details about the killer’s identity. But what they don’t know is the killer lurks in plain sight, and with the true-crime bloggers blasting every clue online, the killer can keep one step ahead. As the nation maneuvers the detectives closer to the truth, Lucas and Virgil will find that digging up Doris’s harrowing past might just get them buried instead. CLICK TO RESERVE “Lethal Prey (Lucas Davenport #35)” by John Sandford FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/debb838b-6225-44c6-ae65-6b4f91b6fa77/the-library-of-lost-dollhouses-elise-hooper.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 10, 2025 - The Library of Lost Dollhouses by Elise Hooper GENRE: Historical Fiction, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Tildy Barrows, Head Curator of a beautiful archival library in San Francisco, is meticulously dedicated to the century’s worth of inventory housed in her beloved Beaux Art building. She loves the calm and order in the shelves of books and walls of art. But Tildy’s uneventful life takes an unexpected turn when she, first, learns the library is on the verge of bankruptcy and, second, discovers two exquisite never-before-seen dollhouses. After finding clues hidden within these remarkable miniatures, Tildy starts to believe that Belva Curtis LeFarge, the influential heiress who established the library a century ago, is conveying a significant final message. With a newfound sense of spontaneity, Tildy sets out to decipher the secret history of the dollhouses, aiming to salvage her cherished library in the process. Her journey to understand introduces her to a world of ambitious and gifted women in Belle Époque Paris, a group of scarred World War I veterans in the English countryside, and Walt Disney’s bustling Burbank studio in the 1950s. As Tildy unravels the mystery, she finds not only inspiring, overlooked history, but also a future for herself, filled with exciting possibilities—and an astonishing familial revelation. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Library of Lost Dollhouses” by Elise Hooper FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/34246d94-a144-4179-91d4-97a4ca61f1a2/overkill-ja-jance.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 10, 2025 - OverKill (Ali Reynolds #18) by J.A. Jance GENRE: Mystery, Suspense THE SYNOPSIS: Chuck Brewster, the former business partner of Ali Reynolds’s husband B. Simpson, once carried on an affair with Clarice, B.’s first wife. So when he’s found murdered with Clarice standing nearby covered in blood, it seems an open and shut case. But Clarice swears she’s innocent and begs for Ali’s help. At the same time, someone is targeting Camille Lee while she’s on the road for High Noon. Ali is swiftly running out of time to find the real killer and keep her employee safe in this high-octane thrill ride. CLICK TO RESERVE “OverKill (Ali Reynolds #18)” by J.A. Jance FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/094da04e-bd9c-4479-b131-31716f1470c1/the-river-knows-your-name-kelly-mustian.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 10, 2025 - The River Knows Your Name by Kelly Mustian GENRE: Historical Fiction, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: For nearly thirty years, Nell has kept a childhood promise to never reveal what she and Evie found tucked inside a copy of Jane Eyre in their mother's bookcase—a record of Evie's birth naming a stranger as her mother. But lately, Nell has been haunted by hazy memories of their early life in Mississippi, years their reclusive mother, Hazel, has kept shrouded in secrecy. Evie recalls nothing before their house on Clay Mountain in North Carolina, but Nell remembers abrupt moves, odd accommodations, and the rainy night a man in a dark coat and a hat pulled low climbed their porch steps with a very little girl—Evie—then left without her. In dual storylines, Nell, forty-two in 1971, reaches into the past to uncover dangerous, long-buried secrets, and Becca, a young mother in the early 1930s, presses ahead, each moving toward 1934, the catastrophic year that would forever link them. From a windswept ghost town long forgotten, to a river house in notorious Natchez Under-the-Hill, to a moody nightclub stage, Evie's other mother emerges from the shadows of Depression-era Mississippi in a story of hardship and perseverance, of betrayal and trust, and of unexpected redemption in a world in which the lines between heroes and culprits are not always clearly drawn. CLICK TO RESERVE “The River Knows Your Name” by Kelly Mustian FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/64c96535-ca38-4220-9418-5b661475de0c/say-you%27ll-remember-me-abby-jimenez.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 10, 2025 - Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes—all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediately yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there’s nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong… . . . unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake. But after one incredible and seemingly endless date—possibly the best in living history—Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be. Only no amount of distance or time is nearly enough to forget that something between them. And the only thing better than one single perfect memory is to make a life—and even a love—worth remembering. From a windswept ghost town long forgotten, to a river house in notorious Natchez Under-the-Hill, to a moody nightclub stage, Evie's other mother emerges from the shadows of Depression-era Mississippi in a story of hardship and perseverance, of betrayal and trust, and of unexpected redemption in a world in which the lines between heroes and culprits are not always clearly drawn. CLICK TO RESERVE “Say You’ll Remember Me” by Abby Jimenez FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6fb9e435-8ee0-4979-8718-94ef7ac993ad/the-suns-shadow-sejal-badani.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 10, 2025 - The Sun’S Shadow by Sejal Badani GENRE: Contemporary THE SYNOPSIS: Celine’s life is spiraling out of control. She’s in danger of losing the beloved equestrian farm that was her childhood home. Her distant husband, Eric, is devoting a suspicious amount of time to a stunning new colleague. Then her young son, Brian, receives a devastating cancer diagnosis. How much worse can things get? Felicity has uprooted her career and her teenage son, Justin, to get closer to Eric. She’s tired of keeping his secrets—that Justin is his son, and Eric’s frequent “business trips” have been spent playing the good dad with him. Felicity is determined to get her happily ever after, even if it means confronting Celine at a delicate time. But when Brian’s prognosis worsens, and a transplant from Justin becomes his best chance at survival, Felicity must make a wrenching decision about her son’s well-being—and Celine must accept that the “other woman” is her only hope. In another life Celine and Felicity might have been friends. Can they put aside the pain between them to do what’s best for their families—and their own futures? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Sun’s Shadow” by Sejal Badani FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ca0cad59-c6db-451c-bd34-cd57653d6153/the-worlds-fair-quilt-jennifer-chiaverini.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 10, 2025 - The World’s Fair Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts #23) by Jennifer Chiaverini GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: As fall paints the Pennsylvania countryside in flaming colors, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson is contemplating the future of her beloved Elm Creek Quilts. The Elm Creek Quilt Camp remains the most popular quilter’s retreat in the country, but unexpected financial difficulties have beset them and the Bergstrom family’s stately nineteenth-century manor. Now in her eighth decade, Sylvia is determined to maintain her family’s legacy, but she needs new resources—financial and emotional. Summer Sullivan—a founding Elm Creek Quilter—arrives to discuss an antique quilt that she wants to display at the Waterford Historical Society’s quilt exhibit. When Sylvia and her sister Claudia were teenagers, they had entered a quilt in the Sears National Quilt Contest for the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair. The Bergstrom sisters’ quilt would be perfect for the Historical Society’s exhibit, Summer explains. Sylvia is reluctant to lend out the quilt, which has been stored in the attic for decades, nearly forgotten. In keeping with the contest’s “Century of Progress” theme, the girls illustrated progress of values—scenes of the Emancipation Proclamation, woman’s suffrage, and labor unions. But although it won ribbons, the quilt also drove a wedge between the sisters. As Sylvia reluctantly retraces her quilt’s story for Summer, she makes an unexpected discovery—one that restores some of her faith in this unique work of art, and helps shine some light on a way forward for the Elm Creek Quilts community. CLICK TO RESERVE “The World’s Fair Quilt (Elm’s Creek Quilts #23) by Jennifer Chiaverini FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5f05acd0-10bf-432d-951f-cea3d5f6bee0/such-quiet-girls-noelle-w-ihli.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 10, 2025 - Such Quiet Girls by Noelle W. Ihli GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Ten children, abducted in broad daylight—and buried alive. Sage and her sister won’t make it home from school today. Neither will the other children on Bus 315. But that’s only the beginning of the nightmare. New bus driver Jessa blames herself for what happened. She couldn’t protect the kids she was supposed to deliver to daycare, just like she couldn’t protect her own daughter three years ago. But this time, everything will be different. It has to be. Trapped in a shipping container buried twenty feet underground, Jessa and the children do their best to stay calm. The kidnappers insist that if everyone behaves, they’ll be freed when the ransom is paid. But Sage isn’t sure they’ll last that long. Neither is Jessa. It’s dark and cramped, and with every passing minute it’s getting harder to breathe. With time—and air—running thin, Jessa and the children must find a way to outsmart their captors, or face an unthinkable fate. CLICK TO RESERVE “Such Quiet Girls” by Noelle W. Ihli FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-march-28-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/4a1c8217-39d8-4fcb-a9c1-20fac8c4ab63/nobodys-fool-harlan-coben.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 28, 2025 - Nobody’s Fool by Harlan Coben GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There’s a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He doesn’t know what happened. His screams drown out his thoughts—and then he runs. Twenty-two years later, Kierce, now a private investigator, is a new father who’s working off his debts by doing low level surveillance jobs and teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school in New York City. One evening, he recognizes a familiar face at the back of the classroom. Anna. It’s unmistakably her. As soon as Kierce makes eye contact with her, she bolts. For Kierce there is no choice. He knows he must find this woman and solve the impossible mystery that has haunted his every waking moment since that terrible day. His investigation will bring him face-to-face with his past—and prove, after all this time, he’s nobody’s fool. CLICK TO RESERVE “Nobody’s Fool (Detective Sami Kierse #2) ” by Harlan Coben FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5da084ae-59ba-4b7d-a65c-1423df93fae1/fight-or-flight-fern-michaels.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 28, 2025 - Fight or Flight by Fern Michaels GENRE: Mystery, Romance THE SYNOPSIS: From the comfort of her beautiful mountain-top retreat, Katherine Winston creates her bestselling young adult series, Girls with Unusual Powers. No one in the nearby small town has any idea of her true identity. To them, she’s just the reclusive woman on the mountain, and Katherine is grateful to be left alone. It wasn’t always this way. Though her parents were as neglectful as they were wealthy, Katherine built up a busy, full life. Then tragedy struck and she retreated, panic-stricken at the idea of engaging with anyone again. Aside from her two faithful dogs who provide companionship and security, Katherine mostly interacts with people anonymously online through reader fan pages. Now one of those fans appears to be in danger, and Katherine desperately wants to help. But that means moving beyond her isolated world for the first time in years. More and more, Katherine can’t shake the feeling that some of her fears may be justified. Someone is watching her, she’s sure of it, and they’re getting closer all the time. And only by leaving her self-imposed exile can she hope to find the answers she needs, the courage to trust again, and an unexpected new beginning . . . CLICK TO RESERVE “Fight or Flight” by Fern Michaels FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ca6620c3-c959-45a6-b3fe-e29dc8349083/the-resistance-painter-kath-jonathan.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 28, 2025 - The Resistance Painter by Kath Jonathan GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Warsaw 1939. Irena Marianowska’s dreams of attending art school in Paris are crushed when the Nazis invade Poland. Instead, she joins the Home Army and, together with her resistance cell, risks her life guiding people to safety through the sewers of Warsaw. In 1942, after a harrowing mission, she returns home to learn that her sister, Lotka, has been abducted by the Gestapo. In her search for Lotka, Irena encounters a host of characters who lead her into greater danger. Toronto 2010. Jo Blum lives in Toronto with her beloved grandmother, a lauded painter of WWII and a decorated war hero. Jo has a budding career creating sculptures for grave sites based on the life stories of her dying clients. Her recorded interviews with Stefan, her new Polish client, unveil an heroic wartime past eerily similar to her grandmother’s. But Jo’s quest to uncover the truth about Stefan and her grandmother opens an explosive Pandora’s box whose shockwaves threaten everything she’s known about her family. CLICK TO BORROW “The Resistance Painter” by Kath Jonathan FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/94748917-74ad-40b6-9426-ea10f64b06d2/summer-in-the-city-alex-aster.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 28, 2025 - Summer in the City by Alex Aster GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter Elle has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She’s had writer’s block for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer. In a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she swore she would never return to, in an apartment she could never afford (floor-to-ceiling windows, skyline views, and a new coffee shop to haunt included). It’s the perfect place to write her screenplay…until she realizes her new neighbor is tech “Billionaire Bachelor” Parker Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It’s been a lovers-to-enemies situation ever since. When seeing him again turns into a full night of hate-fueled writing, Elle realizes her enemy/twisted muse might just be the key to finishing her screenplay... if she can stand being around her polar opposite. She writes anonymously, and he’s on the cover of every business magazine. He frequents fancy red carpeted events, and she doesn’t like leaving her emotional support five block radius. One summer. One wall apart. He needs to fake a buzzy relationship during his company’s precarious acquisition. She needs to write a movie around a list of NYC locations. Both need a break from their unrelenting schedules, and a chance to rediscover the skyscraper glimmering, pizza crusted, sunlit charms of the city. Summers always end, and so will this agreement. It’s all pretend. Promise. Until it isn’t. CLICK TO RESERVE “Summer in the City” by Alex Aster FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ebb5206d-a915-4504-a8b3-f862110643d6/the-love-we-found-jill-santopolo.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 28, 2025 - The Love We Found by Jill Santopolo GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: It’s been ten years. In case you’re out there somewhere—in case you’re listening, I’m here. And I have so much to tell you. It’s been nearly ten years since Gabe’s been gone when Lucy finds a tiny piece of paper in a box of his old photos. An address in Rome. Why did Gabe keep it, and what was he doing in Italy? Lucy buys a last-minute ticket. Impulsive, but Gabe always brought that out in her. Lucy’s journey to uncover Gabe’s secret leads her to Dr. Dax Amstrong, a New Yorker in Italy working with an NGO. His broad shoulders and sad, intense eyes draw Lucy in. His touch reaches her in a forgotten place—one that no one has neared since Gabe. But her old life awaits, along with an earth-shattering decision—whether she and Darren should tell their son Samuel the truth about his real father. How can Lucy move forward while she’s rooted in regret? Fate broke her heart in the past. Can finding new love set her free? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Love We Found” by Jill Santopolo FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a60cd0bf-d2d7-44ba-850d-d0d43f8e4c07/tilt-emma-pattee.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 28, 2025 - Tilt by Emma Pattee GENRE: Thriller, Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, she realizes there’s nothing to do but walk. Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help, a riot at a grocery store, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby. She’s determined to change her life if she can just make it home. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Story She Left Behind” by Patti Callahan Henry FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f91bf8b4-de25-4d1c-9016-d86dc41074af/finlay-donovan-is-killing-it-elle-cosimano.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 28, 2025 - Finlay Donovan is Killing It (Finlay Donovan #1) by Elle Cosimano GENRE: Mystery, Thriller, Humor THE SYNOPSIS: Finlay Donovan is killing it . . . except, she’s really not. She’s a stressed-out single-mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay’s life is in chaos: the new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors. When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer, and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet . . . Soon, Finlay discovers that crime in real life is a lot more difficult than its fictional counterpart, as she becomes tangled in a real-life murder investigation. CLICK TO RESERVE “Finlay Donovan is Killing It (Finlay Donovan #21) ” by Elle Cosimano BELOW: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-march-19-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/91905e7f-a22d-4ffc-89bd-29b804c90d98/the-writer-james-patterson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 19, 2025 - The Writer by James Patterson GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Her bestsellers explore the wildest, strangest crimes. Now her husband has been murdered— is she a target, a victim, or is this even darker? NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets the call from his lieutenant at 9:42 p.m. How fast can you get to 211 Central Park West? The Beresford Building. At Apartment 18A, Shaw’s partner briefs him. The woman inside called 911 to report a break-in—and the murder of her husband. She fired a round at first responders, then made a baffling demand. Nobody comes in but Detective Declan Shaw. The woman answers, covered in blood. She appears to be in shock. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room. Shaw walks in and spots floor-to-ceiling shelves filled with hardcover books. He recognizes the name—bestselling true-crime author Denise Morrow. When he looks closer, he sees they all show the same familiar picture on the back. “This is you?” Shaw asks. “You’re a writer?” The real question Is she also a killer? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Writer” by James Patterson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a789eefc-9b53-4b2f-ad2e-d1cdffdd17dc/the-friendship-club-robyn-carr.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 19, 2025 - The Friendship Club by Robyn Carr GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Four women come together at a tumultuous time in their lives, forging an unbreakable bond that will leave them all forever changed. Celebrity cooking show host Marni McGuire has seen it all. She’s been married—twice—and widowed and divorced. Now in her midfifties, she’s single. Happily so. She just needs to convince her pregnant daughter, Bella, of this fact. And maybe convince herself, too. Especially after Marni’s efforts to humor her determined daughter result in a series of disastrous dates that somehow prompt Marni to wonder if maybe the right man for her is still out there after all. Similarly single, Marni’s best friend and colleague is confident she’s content without a man, but both older women soon find themselves leading by example as the young intern on their show appears caught in a toxic relationship—and Bella reveals her own marriage maybe isn’t built to withstand the stresses of the baby on the way. Suddenly, all four women find themselves at a crossroads, each navigating the challenges of dating, marriage, loneliness and love. Thankfully, they have each other to lean on. The realities of modern love are far from easy, but there’s no better group to have in your corner than friends who will lift you up, no matter what, and hold fast in the face of any storm. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Friendship Club” by Robyn Carr BELOW: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ea9b6e43-92f9-450c-afa7-d02b01c69bc8/the-boxcar-librarian-brianna-labuskes.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 19, 2025 - The Boxcar Librarian by Brianna Labuskes GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: When Works Progress Administration (WPA) editor Millie Lang finds herself on the wrong end of a potential political scandal, she’s shipped off to Montana to work on the state’s American Guide Series—travel books intended to put the nation’s destitute writers to work. Millie arrives to an eclectic staff claiming their missed deadlines are due to sabotage, possibly from the state’s powerful Copper Kings who don’t want their long and bloody history with union organizers aired for the rest of the country to read. But Millie begins to suspect that the answer might instead lie with the town’s mysterious librarian, Alice Monroe. More than a decade earlier, Alice Monroe created the Boxcar Library in order to deliver books to isolated mining towns where men longed for entertainment and connection. Alice thought she found the perfect librarian to staff the train car in Colette Durand, a miner’s daughter with a shotgun and too many secrets behind her eyes. Now, no one in Missoula will tell Millie why both Alice and Colette went out on the inaugural journey of the Boxcar Library, but only Alice returned. The three women’s stories dramatically converge in the search to uncover what someone is so desperately trying to what happened to Colette Durand. Inspired by the fascinating, true history of Missoula’s Boxcar Library, the novel blends the story of the strong, courageous women who survived and thrived in the rough and rowdy West with that of the power of standing together to fight for workers’ lives. And through it all shines the capacity of books to provide connection and light to those who need it most. CLICK TO BORROW “The Boxcar Librarian” by Brianna Labuskes FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f76bccd0-53ef-478c-ae39-627792913365/splinter-effect-andrew-luddington.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 19, 2025 - Splinter Effect (Splinter Effect #1) by Andrew Luddington GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Smithsonian archaeologist Rabbit Ward travels through time on sponsored expeditions to the past to secure precious artifacts moments before they are lost to history. Although exceptional at his job, Rabbit is not without faults. In a spectacular failure twenty years ago, he lost both the menorah of the second temple and his hot-headed mentee, Aaron. So, when new evidence reveals the menorah’s reappearance in 6th century Constantinople, Rabbit seizes the chance for redemption. But from the moment he arrives in the past, things start to go wrong. Rabbit quickly finds out that his prime competition, an unlicensed and annoyingly appealing “stringer” named Helen, is also in Constantinople hunting the menorah. And that’s only the beginning. The oppressed Jewish population of the city is primed for revolution, Constantinople’s leading gang seems to have it out for Rabbit personally, and someone local is interested enough in the menorah to kill for it. As the past closes in on him and his previous failures compound, will Rabbit be able to recover the menorah before it's once again lost in time? With new and old dangers alike hiding behind every corner, time might just be up for Rabbit’s redemption—and possibly his life. CLICK TO RESERVE “Splinter Effect (Spinter Effect #1)” by Andrew Luddington FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c85ba01c-09fc-4293-ba91-f422c0b1e457/wild-eyes-elsie-silver.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 19, 2025 - Wild Side (Rose Hill #3) by Elsie Silver GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: I’d always dreamed of my wedding day. But not like this. Not looking into the eyes of the man who betrayed me. But when my nephew’s guardianship is contested, I decide I’ll do whatever it takes to keep him in Rose Hill. Even if it means marrying the enemy. Rhys Dupris. A man who is secretive, broody, and completely infuriating. A man whose work takes him away for weeks on end and brings him back covered in mysterious bruises—ones he won’t talk about. In fact, we barely talk at all. Which would be fine, except when he’s not talking, he’s staring. And the way he looks at me is borderline indecent. The tension between us has always been palpable. But living under the same roof is a dangerous temptation. I swore I would never forgive him. But that was before I knew the man behind the mask. The one who’s fierce and protective. The one who’s gentle and patient. The one who shows up for us when we need him most. He’s not at all who I thought he was. And that makes hating my husband so much harder… and loving him just a little too easy. CLICK TO RESERVE “Wild Side (Rose Hill #3)” by Elsie Silver FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6f9ff426-6d15-4875-af29-4554f065bc96/the-story-she-left-behind-patti-callahan-henry.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 19, 2025 - The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington’s magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book written in an invented language that became a national sensation when she was just twelve years old. Her departure leaves behind not only a devoted husband and heartbroken daughter, but also the hope of ever translating the sequel to her landmark work. As the headlines focus on the missing author, Clara yearns for something far deeper and more her beautiful mother. By 1952, Clara is an illustrator raising her own daughter, Wynnie. When a stranger named Charlie Jameson contacts her from London claiming to have discovered a handwritten dictionary of her mother’s lost language. Clara is skeptical. Compelled by the tragedy of her mother’s vanishing, she crosses the Atlantic with Wynnie only to arrive during one of London’s most deadly natural disasters—the Great Smog. With asthmatic Wynnie in peril, they escape the city with Charlie and find refuge in the Jameson’s family retreat nestled in the Lake District. It is there that Clara must find the courage to uncover the truth about her mother and the story she left behind. Told in Patti Callahan Henry’s lyrical, enchanting prose, The Story She Left Behind is a captivating novel of mystery and family legacy that captures the profound longing for a mother and the evergreen allure of secrets. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Story She Left Behind” by Patti Callahan Henry FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/253160c0-4ea9-4a99-8ab9-1b6eb3008cb4/the-buffalo-hunter-hunter-stephen-graham-jones.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 19, 2025 - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones GENRE: Horror THE SYNOPSIS: A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter ” by Stephen Graham Jones FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f3f43acd-16fc-43b0-a6c6-ff998e70a7f5/broken-country-clare-leslie-hall.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 19, 2025 - Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall GENRE: Mystery, Romance, Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: “The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.” Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager—the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident. As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel’s life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become. CLICK TO RESERVE “Broken Country” by Clare Leslie Hall FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/9027aad1-94ce-4d70-9c7d-96fa8943a007/jane-and-dan-at-the-end-of-the-world-colleen-oakley.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 19, 2025 - Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley GENRE: Romance, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Jane and Dan have been married for nineteen years, but Jane isn’t sure they’re going to make it to twenty. The mother of two feels unneeded by her teenagers, and her writing career has screeched to an unsuccessful halt. Her one published novel sold under five hundred copies. Worse? She’s pretty sure Dan is cheating on her. When the couple goes to the renowned upscale restaurant La Fin du Monde to celebrate their anniversary, Jane thinks it’s as good a place as any to tell Dan she wants a divorce. But before they even get to the second course, an underground climate activist group bursts into the dining room. Jane is shocked—and not just because she’s in a hostage situation the likes of which she’s only seen in the movies. Nearly everything the disorganized and bumbling activists say and do is right out of the pages of her failed book. Even Dan (who Jane wasn’t sure even read her book) admits it’s eerily familiar. Which means Dan and Jane are the only ones who know what’s going to happen next. And they’re the only ones who can stop it. This wasn’t what Jane was thinking of when she said “’til death do us part” all those years ago, but if they can survive this, maybe they can survive anything—even marriage. CLICK TO RESERVE “Jane and dan at the End of the World” by Colleen Oakley FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/46b26c67-b1ec-41bf-a9d0-9b7ba62df566/the-lamplighters-bookshop-sophie-austin.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 19, 2025 - The Lamplighter’s Bookshop by Sophie Austin GENRE: Historical Fiction, Romance THE SYNOPSIS: When Evelyn Seaton answers an advertisement for an assistant at a forgotten bookshop in York, she is not the only one with something to hide. There she meets the enigmatic and prickly William Morton, an aspiring writer keeping secrets of his own. But when the walls of Evelyn’s carefully built defences start to crumble, there is only one person she can turn to. As the layers are brushed away, Can Evelyn and William find the courage to write the next chapter of their story? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Lamplighter’s Bookshop” by Sophie Austin FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/83c28aad-75d5-4f16-b135-690204749764/theres-something-about-mira-sonali-dev.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 19, 2025 - There’s Something About Mira by Sonali Dev GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Mira Salvi has the perfect life—a job she loves, a fiancé everyone adores, and the secure future she’s always imagined for herself. Really, she hasn’t a thing to complain about, not even when she has to go on her engagement trip to New York alone. While playing tourist in the city, Mira chances upon a lost ring, and her social media post to locate its owner goes viral. With everyone trying to claim the ring, only one person seems to want to find its owner as badly as Mira journalist Krish Hale. Brooding and arrogant, he will do anything to get to write this story. As Krish and Mira reluctantly join forces and jump into the adventure of tracing the ring back to where it belongs, Mira begins to wonder if she is in the right place in her own life. She had to have found this ring for a reason…right? Maybe, like the owner of the lost ring, her happy ending hasn’t been written yet either. CLICK HERE TO BORROW “There’s Something About Mira” by Sonali Dev FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/971423ac-355b-4373-97b6-babf84358786/hold-strong-robert-dugoni.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 19, 2025 - Hold Strong by Robert Dugoni GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white—for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam is one of 1,800 starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful. Determined to use her math skills on the home front, Sarah is recruited to Washington, DC, into the covert field of code breaking. When Sarah intercepts a message about a Japanese convoy, the US Navy’s mission is sink the Arisan Maru and send it to the bottom of the South China Sea. Now, the lives of the two young lovers are about to inadvertently collide in one of the most shocking acts of World War II. 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She’s learned to live small—it’s easier to leave when you don’t need to say goodbye. So when her mother Laine shows up at school with the car loaded, Aurora assumes her latest fling has run its course. Instead, it’s her grandpa Jay’s death calling them back to the town Laine has spent fifteen years running from. Every visit to Monroe, Indiana ends in an explosive fight. Her mother and her Gran are oil and water, and it doesn’t take Aurora long to realize Gran has fallen off the wagon—again. With Gran drinking, and Laine’s discomfort in the little blue house, Aurora gives their visit a week, tops. But when Laine begins an affair with the town’s married mailman, everything changes. While her mom falls in love with a man she can’t have, Aurora has time to fall in love with the town. Her life begins to feel full—she has a friend to call her own, a gran who loves her, and a picture-perfect pastor’s son who sees Aurora as more than “Laine’s daughter.” It’s everything she never let herself dream about. As the summer months march on, and her mom’s happiness becomes even more dependent on her unstable new relationship, Aurora worries the dream she allowed herself will end in heartbreak. This isn’t just another map dot on their endless journey, and Laine won’t just burn a bridge this time. Her choices threaten to light the town on fire, burning Gran’s hope, Aurora’s future, and her own chance at redemption to the ground with it.Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate… and, unfortunately, his relatives. Sarkis is an immortal swordsman trapped in a prison of enchanted steel. 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The boys club at the top seems intent on closing the case as quickly as possible, especially since the only person who thinks it could be anything other than suicide is known to be unreliable. But Maud knows what it’s like to be dismissed as an overemotional woman and isn’t so quick to discount Nancy’s claims. As tensions reach an explosive breaking point, the line between fact and delusion becomes dangerously blurred, but Maud will stop at nothing to ensure that the truth comes to light. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Last Days of Kira Mullan (Maud O’Connor #2)” by Nicci French FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/eeb5f2df-d913-4fe7-9b32-9daaa639fab1/a-map-to-paradise-susan-meissner.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 19, 2025 - A Map to Paradise by Susan Meissner GENRE: Historical Fiction, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: 1956, Malibu, Something is not right on Paradise Circle. With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, Elwood, but the screenwriter’s agoraphobia allows for just short chats through open windows. He’s her sole confidante, though, as she and her housekeeper, Eva, an immigrant from war-torn Europe, rarely make conversation. Then one early morning Melanie and Eva spot Elwood’s sister-in-law and caretaker, June, digging in his beloved rose garden. After that they don’t see Elwood at all anymore. Where could a man who never leaves the house possibly have gone? As they try to find out if something has happened to him, unexpected secrets are revealed among all three women, leading to an alliance that seems the only way for any of them to hold on to what they can still call their own. 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As Nate and fellow falconer Geronimo Jones circle closer to their prey, Joe and Susan follow the nearly cold trail to Warm Springs. Little do Nate and Joe know that their separate journeys are about to converge . . . at Battle Mountain. CLICK TO RESERVE “Battle Mountain (Joe Pickett #25)” by C.J. Box FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f92131f5-789c-48dd-8503-628d53304f91/famous-last-words-gillian-mcallister.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 6, 2025 - Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: It is June 21st, the longest day of the year, and new mother Camilla’s life is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop her infant daughter off at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But, when she wakes, her husband Luke isn’t there, and in his place is a cryptic note. Then it starts. Breaking news: there's a hostage situation developing in London. The police arrive, and tell her Luke is involved. But he isn't a hostage. Her husband—doting father, eternal optimist—is the gunman. What she does next is crucial. Because only she knows what the note he left behind that morning says... CLICK TO RESERVE “Famous Last Words” by Gillian McAllister BELOW: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ab640979-be23-4a2a-be7a-767785e8f8cc/blood-moon-sandra-brown.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 6, 2025 - Blood Moon by Sandra Brown GENRE: Thriller, Romance, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly heavy-handed with his liquor, Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting the unsolved Mellin case. Bowie has been instructed by his unscrupulous boss to keep to himself his grievances and criticisms over the mishandling of the investigation. Beth Collins, a senior producer on Crisis Point, knows what classifies as a great story and when there’s something more to be told. After working on the show for seven years researching, fact checking, and editing dozens of episodes, Collins is convinced that Crissy Mellin’s disappearance was not an isolated incident. A string of disappearances of teenage girls in nearby areas have only one thing in common: They took place on the night of a blood moon. In a last-ditch effort to find out the truth, Beth leaves New York City for Louisiana to enlist Detective Bowie in helping her figure out what happened to Crissy and find the true culprit before he acts on the next blood moon—in four days’ time. At the risk of their jobs and lives, Bowie and Collins band together to identify and capture a canny perpetrator, while fighting an irresistible spark between them that threatens to upend everything. CLICK TO RESERVE “Blood Moon” by Sandra Brown FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5effc14f-23f6-404b-90b7-b2a09ab9eaf6/back-after-this-linda-holmes.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 6, 2025 - Back After This by Linda Holmes GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Cecily Foster loves to make podcasts. She fiercely protects her colleagues, dearly adores her friends, and never misses dinner with her sister. But after a disastrous relationship with a colleague who stole her heart and her ideas, she’s put romantic love on hold. When the boss who’s disappointed her again and again finally offers her the chance to host her own show, she wants to be thrilled. But there’s a catch—actually, two catches. First, the show will be about Cecily’s dating life. And second, she has to follow the guidance of influencer and newly minted relationship coach Eliza Cassidy, whose relentlessly upbeat attitude seems ready-made for social media, not real life. Cecily would rather do anything other than put her singledom on display (ugh) or take advice from the internet (UGH). But when her boss hints that doing the show is the only way to protect a friend’s job, she realizes she has no choice. To make matters more complicated, once she’s committed to twenty blind dates of Eliza’s choosing, Cecily finds herself unable to stop thinking about Will, a photographer she helped to rescue a very big and very lovable lost dog. Even though there are sparks between the two, Will’s own path is uncertain, and Eliza’s skeptical comments about Cecily’s decision-making aren’t helping. On the one hand, Will seems great. But on the other hand . . . don’t they all? As Cecily struggles to balance the life she truly desires and the one Eliza wants to create for her, she finds herself at a crossroads. Can Cecily sort through all the advice and find a way to do what she loves without losing herself in the process? 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Meanwhile, Lin Caster must face the aftermath of the greatest risk she’s ever taken. To save the life of a dying friend, Lin has falsely claimed to be the Goddess Reborn, the legendary heroine destined to save her people. Now the terrifying—but strangely magnetic—leader of her people has arrived to test her powers. The price of failure is exile, and only through her alliance with the Ragpicker King can she continue to access the magic that may save her. Then Prince Conor reappears in her life, demanding that she use her healing powers to cure the madness of his father, the King. Lin soon realizes the King is gripped by an ancient and terrible magic, one whose lure she cannot deny any more than she can deny her growing passion for Conor. As the simmering tensions in Castellane reach a fever pitch, Lin and Kel must decide who to trust when any false move means death—or worse. 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Now, holding a French passport handed to her by another high-level collaborator, she is whisked away from Paris under cover of darkness for her own safety. As the Allies storm the beaches, she goes into hiding in a small village in Normandy under an assumed name, unable to contact her adult children. There, she forms a friendship with Sebastien Renaud, whose wife and daughter were deported in 1941, and who eventually reveals himself as a forger in the Resistance. As war rages on, Arielle and Sebastien work for the Resistance and hold out for the time when they can search for their loved ones. 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Raff, eighteen and suffering his first heartbreak, can only find relief at his punching bag; Fen, seventeen, has started spending her nights on the beach among the seals; nine-year-old Orly, obsessed with botany, fears the loss of his beloved natural world; and Dominic can’t stop turning back toward the past, and the loss that drove the family to Shearwater in the first place. Then, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman washes up on shore. As the Salts nurse the woman, Rowan, back to life, their suspicion gives way to affection, and they finally begin to feel like a family again. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting her heart, begins to fall for the Salts, too. But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers the sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own dark secrets. 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The guy beside her at the bar, fellow student Joe Morrow, is a songwriter. And he could listen to Percy talk all night. Joe asks Percy for feedback on one of his songs—and the results kick off a partnership that will span years, ignite new passions in them both, and crush their egos again and again. Is their collaboration worth its cost? Or is it holding Percy back from finding her own voice? CLICK TO RESERVE “Deep Cuts” by Holly Brickley FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/79a0ad66-e034-404b-9e73-ae8560ac2db4/the-kings-messenger-susanne-kearsley.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 6, 2025 - The King’s Messenger by Susanna Kearsley GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: S1613: King James – sixth of Scotland, first of England, son of Mary, Queen of Scots - has unified both countries under one crown. But the death of his eldest son, Henry, has plunged the nation into mourning, as the rumours rise the prince was poisoned. Andrew Logan’s heard the rumours, but he’s paid them little heed. As one of the King’s Messengers he has enough secrets to guard, including his own. In these perilous times, when the merest suggestion of witchcraft can see someone tortured and hanged, men like Andrew must hide well the fact they were born with the Sight. He’ll need all his gifts, though, when the king sends Andrew north to find and arrest Sir David Murray, once Prince Henry’s trusted courtier, and bring him a prisoner to London to stand trial before the dreaded Star Chamber. Or the scales of a sea-maid's tail. CLICK TO BORROW “The King’s Messenger” by Susanne Kearsley FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/4273ceee-eb62-4670-a8e8-d2bca25b35b1/swordheart-t-kingfisher.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 6, 2025 - Swordheart by T. Kingfisher GENRE: Fantasy, Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate… and, unfortunately, his relatives. Sarkis is an immortal swordsman trapped in a prison of enchanted steel. When Halla draws the sword that imprisons him, Sarkis finds himself attempting to defend his new wielder against everything from bandits and roving inquisitors to her own in-laws… and the sword itself may prove to be the greatest threat of all. CLICK HERE TO BORROW “Swordheart” by T. Kingfisher FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-february-18-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/7d6822a9-c59a-48c6-ae78-7d8accb47fb9/we-all-live-here-jojo-moyes.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: February 18, 2025 - We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. 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But recently, too many of the departed have been fellow cops. “I want you to look at these deaths on special assignment,” NYPD Inspector Celeste Cantor says. “Report only to me.” Bennett excels as a solo investigator. But he’s chasing a killer who feeds on isolation… and paranoia. CLICK TO RESERVE “Paranoia (Michael Bennett #17)” by James Patterson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/221d5750-9e2c-4df6-a143-beb29f681753/open-season-jonathan-kellerman.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: February 18, 2025 - Open Season (Alex Delaware #40 GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Los Angeles is a city of stars, a city of strivers and wannabes. Not everyone can shine bright, but they’ll burn themselves up for a glimpse of the high life. LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis knows it all too The best dreamers often make the worst monsters. The body of an aspiring actress has been found—and she’d been drugged. 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The sheriff believes he has new evidence that will prove the brothers involvement in several past murders, but Carl and Roy Opgard are used to covering their tracks, and they're not afraid to get their hands dirty. The high body count of Os is about to get higher. Blood Ties is a grandiose and explosive suspense novel about loyalty, family ties, consuming love, and the fight against powerful forces. It will transport you to a community in crisis and tell the story of two brothers on the verge of losing all that they’ve fought for. CLICK TO RESERVE “Blood Ties (Kongeriket #2)” by Jo Nesbo FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/805640e6-6a20-44f7-a1d4-5009ed84a93d/people-of-means-nancy-johnson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: February 18, 2025 - People of Means by Nancy Johnson GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Two women. Two pivotal moments. One dream for justice and equality. It’s 1959, and Freda Gilroy has just arrived at Nashville’s Fisk University, eager to begin her studies and uphold the tradition of Black Excellence instilled in her by her parents back home in Chicago. Coming from an upper-middle-class lifestyle where Black and white people lived together in relative harmony, Freda is surprised to discover the menace of racism down South. When a chance encounter with an intriguing young man draws her into the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, Freda finds herself caught between two worlds, and two loves, and must decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice in the name of justice, equality, and the advancement of her people. In 1992 Chicago, Freda’s daughter Tulip is an ambitious PR professional on track for a big promotion, if workplace politics and racial microaggressions don’t get in her way. With the ruling in the Rodney King trial weighing heavily on her, Tulip feels increasingly agitated and decides she can no longer stay quiet. Called to action by a series of glaring injustices, Tulip makes an irreversible professional misstep as she seeks to uplift her community. Will she find the courage to veer off the “safe” path and follow her heart, just as her mother had three decades prior? Insightful, evocative, and richly imagined with stories of hidden history, People of Means is an emotional tour de force that offers a glimpse into the quest for racial equality, the pursuit of personal and communal success, and the power of love and family ties. CLICK TO RESERVE “People of Means” by Nancy Johnson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/59fc367f-30b2-4764-b003-2f7f62f0963f/the-medici-return-steve-berry.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: February 18, 2025 - The Medici Return (Cotton Malone #19) by Steve Berry GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Cotton Malone is on the hunt for a forgotten 16th century Pledge of Christ — a sworn promise made by Pope Julius II that evidences a monetary debt owed by the Vatican, still valid after five centuries, now worth in the trillions of dollars. But collecting that debt centers around what happened to the famed Medici of Florence — a family that history says died out, without heirs, centuries ago. Two more things also hang in the balance. Who will become the next prime minister of Italy, and who will be the next pope. 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But soon after returning to work, bizarre messages and visitors begin to arrive, with strangers threatening Meg and vandalizing the store. They are obsessed with a young adult novel tiled The Prophesy, which was published 20 years earlier. An online group of believers are convinced the book predicted a plague, and social media posts link it to Satanism. People are sure it heralds the apocalypse. These conspiracy theorists vow to seek revenge on its author...Meg. As the threats turn more violent, Meg begins to suspect that Justin's death may not have been an accident. To find answers and save herself and Lily, she must get to the root of the lies fueling these people to come after them—and find a way to face them head on. 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One stormy morning, Luce's plans are blown off course when she rescues Morgan de Chatelaine, the youngest son of the most powerful ship-owner in Saint-Malo, from the sea. Immediately drawn to his charm and sense of adventure, she longs to attend the glittering ball held in honor of his safe return and begins to contemplate a different kind of future for herself. But it is not only Luce's hopes at stake—the local fae are leaving Brittany and taking their magic with them, while the long-standing war with the English means Saint-Malo is always at risk of attack. As Luce is plunged into a world of magic, brutality, and seduction, secrets that have long been lost in the shadowy depths of the ocean begin to rise to the surface. The truth of her own power is growing brighter and brighter, shining like a sea-glass slipper. Or the scales of a sea-maid's tail. 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That’s why, when she meets the sophisticated, wealthy Martin Pearsall, Sylvia isn’t surprised at her mother’s encouragement to seize her chance for a better life, even if it means distancing herself from her family at Martin’s insistence. When their mother unexpectedly dies, the two sisters are surprised to discover that her will stipulates that they both inherit the dress shop, stirring up old resentments and hurt feelings. However, when conscription forces Izzie to join the Auxiliary Territorial Service in another part of the country, she realizes that Sylvia is the only person who can save the shop from closure. As the sisters begin an ongoing correspondence, they must confront old emotions to forge new beginnings. CLICK HERE TO BORROW “The Dressmakers of London” by Julia Kelly FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/38e77fe5-ea16-4b9d-a833-d1e30307de89/a-curse-for-the-homesick-laura-brooke-robson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: February 18, 2025 - A Curse for the Homesick by Laura Brooke Robson GENRE: Fantasy THE SYNOPSIS: On Stenland, there comes a time known as skeld season: one day, any woman on the island can wake with three black lines on her forehead, the mark of a skeld. Skeld season comes around without warning, and while each window of time lasts only three months, anyone a skeld turns to stone is very much dead. That's how Tess’s mother killed Soren’s parents. Maybe for this reason alone, Tess and Soren should not have fallen in love. Since the time her mother was a skeld, Tess has wanted to leave Stenland, to run from the windswept island, from her family and friends. She is unwilling to bear the responsibility of one day killing anyone, let alone someone she loves. Soren has been determined to stay, to live out his life in the place he knows as home, even if that life could be cut short during the latest skeld season. They cannot see eye to eye—and yet, they cannot stay apart. She tries to come back for him. He tries to leave for her. But can your love for one person outweigh everything else combined? And how do you decide how much you’re willing to risk, if it might mean destroying someone else in the process? CLICK HERE TO BORROW “A Curse for the Homesick” by Laura Brooke Robson FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-february-11-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6588f361-7319-4f5b-a642-d743531b186f/dream-girl-drama-tessa-bailey.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: February 11, 2025 - Dream Girl Drama (Big Shots #3) by Tessa Bailey GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: When professional hockey player Sig Gauthier’s car breaks down and his phone dies, he treks into a posh private country club to call a tow truck, where he encounters the alluring Chloe Clifford, the manic pixie dream girl who captivates him immediately with her sense of adventure and penchant for stealing champagne. Sparks fly during a moonlight kiss and the enamored pair can’t wait to see each other again, but when Sig finally arrives to meet his dad’s new girlfriend over dinner, Chloe is confusingly also there. Turns out the girlfriend is Chloe’s mother. Oh, and they’re engaged. Sig’s dream girl is his future stepsister. Though the pair is now wary of being involved romantically, Chloe, a sheltered harp prodigy, yearns to escape her controlling mother. Sig promises to teach her the ins and outs of independence in Boston—but not inside his bedroom. They both know there can never be more than friendship between a famous hockey player and his high-society, soon-to-be stepsister. But keeping their relationship platonic grows harder amid the developing family drama, especially knowing they were meant for so much more… CLICK TO RESERVE “Dream Girl Drama (Big Shots #3)” by Tessa Bailey FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/66e8c1c0-c41b-41c0-aa92-ee91fab7b982/punished.JPG BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: February 11, 2025 - Punished (Sapmitrilogin #2) by Ann-Helen Laestadius GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In the 1950s near the Arctic Circle, seven-year-olds Jon-Ante, Else-Maj, Nilsa, Marge, and Anne-Risten are taken from their families. As children of Sámi reindeer herders, the Swedish state has mandated they attend a “nomad school” where they are forbidden to speak their native language. As the children visit home only sporadically, their parents know little about the abuse they face, much of it at the hands of the housemother, Rita. Those who dare to speak up are silenced. Thirty years later, the five children have chosen different paths to cope with the past. Else-Maj holds strong in her Sámi identity but has turned to religion for comfort, while Anne-Risten now goes by Anne to hide her heritage from friends. Nilsa herds reindeer like his father but harbors a lot of anger, and Jon-Ante struggles with traumatic memories from the school. Then there’s Marge, who is about to adopt a daughter from Colombia, but can’t help questioning if it’s right to take a child from her homeland. Then suddenly, housemother Rita reappears. Now an old, frail woman claiming to have God on her side, she acts like nothing ever happened. But the five former students have neither forgotten nor forgiven her. As the narrative shifts between each of their perspectives, the novel If you had the chance to punish the person who hurt you as a child, would you? 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Theo has almost no recollection of her earliest years, but now she begins to piece together the fragments of her memories. Someone here has a shocking secret that they will do anything to keep hidden, and Theo is in terrible danger. Because the Daltons do not lose, and discovering what happened at Idlewood may cost Theo everything. CLICK TO RESERVE “A Killing Cold” by Kate Alice Marshall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ad9b117f-a6e8-4858-8746-1b89cb67ad4c/a-long-time-gone-joshua-moehling.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: February 11, 2025 - A Long Time Gone (Ben Packard #3) by Joshua Moehling GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: It's time to put the past to rest… Ben Packard was just a boy when his older brother disappeared. Ben watched him walk out the back door of their grandparents' house and into the cold night. His brother was never seen again. Decades later, Deputy Packard finds himself with too much time on his hands. A shooting has him on leave and under investigation, and for the first time in years, new information about his brother has surfaced that may lead them to the location of a body. The midwinter ground is frozen solid. Worse, Packard is cut off from department resources. As he strikes out to finally uncover the truth behind his brother's disappearance, he stumbles on a separate, suspicious death. A tenuous connection exists between the two cases, and as Packard starts to dig, he meets fierce resistance from friends and foes alike who want him to stand down. The winter is long and cold. By the end of it, Packard will risk everything to catch a killer and reveal the shocking truth about his brother. CLICK TO RESERVE “A Long Time Gone(Ben Packard #3)” by Joshua Moehling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/7673313d-19ff-49bc-9bb2-0bce70bbf123/bonded-in-death-jd-robb.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: February 11, 2025 - Bonded in Death (In Death #60) by J.D. Robb GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old compatriot, he landed in New York and eased into the waiting car. And died within minutes… Lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the Rossi case frustrating. She’s got an elderly victim who’d just arrived from Rome; a widow who knows nothing about why he’d left; an as-yet unidentifiable weapon; and zero results on facial recognition. But when she finds a connection to the Urban Wars of the 2020s, she thinks Summerset―fiercely loyal, if somewhat grouchy, major-domo and the man who’d rescued her husband from the Dublin streets―may know something from his stint as a medic in Europe back then. When Summerset learns of the crime, his shock and grief are clear―because, as he eventually reveals, he himself was one of The Twelve. It’s not a part of his past he likes to revisit. But now he must―not only to assist Eve’s investigation, but because a cryptic message from the killer has boasted that others of The Twelve have also died. Summerset is one of those who remain―and the murderous mission is yet to be fully accomplished… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Bonded in Death (In Death #60)” by J.D. 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May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, seemed to vanish into thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later, her body is found in the nearby woods. The murder has all the hallmarks of a locked room mystery for which these authors are famous: how did her killer manage to sneak her body out of a crowded train station without anyone noticing? If, as the police believe, the cause of death is manual strangulation, why is there is an extraordinary amount of blood at the crime scene? What is the meaning of a heartbreaking secret letter seeming to implicate an unnamed paramour? Determined to solve the highly publicized murder, the Queens of Crime embark on their own investigation, discovering they’re stronger together. But soon the killer targets Dorothy Sayers herself, threatening to expose a dark secret in her past that she would do anything to keep hidden. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Queens of Crime” by Marie Benedict FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/eaae1fc2-9f18-4632-82f7-f3c62de99bf8/junie-erin-crosby-eckstine.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: February 11, 2025 - Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her family, and tending to the white master’s daughter, Violet. Her daydreams are filled with poetry and faraway worlds, while she spends her nights secretly roaming through the forest, consumed with grief over the sudden death of her older sister, Minnie. When wealthy guests arrive from New Orleans, hinting at marriage for Violet and upending Junie’s life, she commits a desperate act—one that rouses Minnie’s spirit from the grave, tethered to this world unless Junie can free her. She enlists the aid of Caleb, the guests’ coachman, and their friendship soon becomes something more. Yet as long-held truths begin to crumble, she realizes Bellereine is harboring dark and horrifying secrets that can no longer be ignored. With time ticking down, Junie begins to push against the harsh current that has controlled her entire life. As she grapples with an increasingly unfamiliar world in which she has little control, she is forced to ask herself: When we choose love and liberation, what must we leave behind? CLICK TO RESERVE “Junie” by Erin Crosby Eckstine FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2d64aac3-38d5-4e5e-84af-217c65a7bb41/last-twilight-in-paris-pam-jenoff.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: February 11, 2025 - Last Twilight in Paris by Pam Jenoff GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: London, 1953. Louise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife when she discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand shop. The box is marked with the name of a department store in Paris, and she is certain she has seen the necklace before when she worked with the Red Cross in Nazi-occupied Europe —and that it holds the key to the mysterious death of her friend Franny during the war. Following the trail of clues to Paris, Louise seeks help from her former boss Ian, with whom she shares a romantic history. The necklace leads them to discover the dark history of Lévitan—a once-glamorous department store that served as a Nazi prison, and Helaine, a woman who was imprisoned there, torn apart from her husband when the Germans invaded France. Louise races to find the connection between the necklace, the department store and Franny’s death. But nothing is as it seems, and there are forces determined to keep the truth buried forever. Inspired by the true story of Lévitan, Last Twilight in Paris is both a gripping mystery and an unforgettable story about sacrifice, resistance and the power of love to transcend in even the darkest hours. CLICK TO RESERVE “Last Twilight in Paris” by Pam Jenoff FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1846114c-fa6b-4c02-a452-0ffdd2c8f5e1/the-bones-beneath-my-skin-tj-klune.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: February 11, 2025 - The Bones Beneath My Skin by T.J. Klune GENRE: Fantasy, Science Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In the spring of 1995, Nate Cartwright has lost everything: his parents are dead, his older brother wants nothing to do with him, and he's been fired from his job as a journalist in Washington DC. With nothing left to lose, he returns to his family's summer cabin outside the small mountain town of Roseland, Oregon to try and find some sense of direction. The cabin should be empty. It's not. Inside is a man named Alex. And with him is an extraordinary little girl who calls herself Artemis Darth Vader. Artemis, who isn't exactly as she appears. Soon it becomes clear that Nate must make a choice: let himself drown in the memories of his past, or fight for a future he never thought possible. Because the girl is special. And forces are descending upon them who want nothing more than to control her. CLICK TO BORROW “The Bones Beneath My Skin” by T.J. Klune FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b003e356-e50f-4241-95dc-77ebcf552e34/the-radio-hour-victoria-purman.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: February 11, 2025 - The Radio Hour by Victoria Purman GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Martha Berry is fifty years old, a spinster, and one of an army of polite and invisible women in 1956 Sydney who go to work each day and get things done without fuss, fanfare or reward. Working at the country's national broadcaster, she's seen highly praised talent come and go over the years but when she is sent to work as a secretary on a brand-new radio serial, created to follow in the footsteps of Australia's longest running show, Blue Hills, she finds herself at the mercy of an egotistical and erratic young producer without a clue, a conservative broadcaster frightened by the word 'pregnant' and a motley cast of actors with ideas of their own about their roles in the show. When Martha is forced to step in to rescue the serial from impending cancellation, she ends up secretly ghost-writing scripts for As The Sun Sets, creating mayhem with management, and coming up with storylines that resonate with the serial's growing and loyal audience of women listeners. But she can't keep her secret forever and when she's threatened with exposure, Martha has to decide if she wants to remain in the shadows, or to finally step into the spotlight. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Radio Hour” by Victoria Purman FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-january-29-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2bd094c4-a4be-4ef9-9df7-c2fd8f313ada/the-crash-freida-mcfadden.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - The Crash by Freida McFadden GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed. Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn’t realize she’s heading straight into a blizzard. She never arrives at her destination. Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she’s made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears. But something isn’t right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she comes to realize she is in grave danger. This safe haven isn’t what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet. And now she must do whatever it takes to save herself—and her unborn child. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Crash” by Freida McFadden FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ffa51d9c-01ab-425b-a72f-4bd7dcec0b9d/beautiful-ugly-alice-feeney.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared. A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible — a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife. Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t. Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do. 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Because nope, no matter what, he can’t fall for her again, the woman who once blew up his entire life and never looked back. How ironic then that his own personal hell (Olive) is also his ticket out of town. The question is, will the risk be worth the reward? CLICK TO RESERVE “Better Than Friends (Sunrise Cove #7)” by Jill Shalvis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/36f81122-bffb-4ce1-827c-206e814ec027/the-big-empty-robert-crais.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - The Big Empty (Elvis Cole & Joe Pike#20) by Robert Crais GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Traci Beller was thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha, not far from Los Angeles. The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned his family, but Traci never believed it. The police couldn't find her dad and neither could the detectives her mother hired, but now, ten years later, Traci is a super-popular influencer with millions of followers and the money to hire a new detective: Elvis Cole. Taking on a ten-years-cold missing person case is almost always a loser, but Elvis heads to Rancha where he learns an ex-con named Sadie Givens and her daughter, Anya, might have a line on the missing man. But when Elvis finds himself shadowed by a deadly gang of vicious criminals, the simple missing persons case becomes far more sinister and dangerous. Elvis calls in his ex-Marine friend, Joe Pike, to help, but even Pike might not be able to help. As Elvis Cole and Joe Pike follow Tommy Beller's trail into the twisted, nightmare depths of a monstrous evil, the case flips on its head. Victims become predators, predators become prey, and when everyone is a victim, can Elvis Cole save them all? CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Big Empty (Elvis Cole & Joe Pike #20)” by Robert Crais: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/8da4b8a1-fe33-42f0-9110-335e934fc378/onyx-storm-rebeccas-yarros.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca Yarros GENRE: Fantasy, Romance THE SYNOPSIS: After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there’s no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it’s impossible to know who to trust. Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him. Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything. They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find—the truth. But a storm is coming...and not everyone can survive its wrath. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3)” by Rebecca Yarros FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6d93034a-59d3-4607-a896-0c7aef5c4eac/confessions+catherine+airey.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - Confessions by Catherine Airey GENRE: Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: New York City, late September 2001. The walls of the city are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. When a letter arrives from an aunt she didn’t know existed in Ireland with the offer of a new life, the name jogs a an old videocassette game Cora used to play as a child where two sisters must save the students of a mysterious boarding school. County Donegal, 1974. An eclectic group of artists known as the Screamers arrives in Burtonport and moves into the old schoolhouse down the road from where Roisin lives with her older sister Moira. Alternately kind and cruel, brilliant artist Moira is a mystery to Roisin, as is Moira’s relationship with the boy next door, Michael. When the Screamers look to hire an artist in residence, Roisin enlists Michael’s help to get Moira the job, setting in motion a chain of events that will put an ocean between the sisters and threaten to tear them apart forever. Burtonport, 2018. Lyca Brady lives in a sprawling old house with her mother, Cora, and great aunt, Ro. Abortion has just been legalized in Ireland, and Lyca is struggling to find herself outside her mother’s activism. An unexpected message from a childhood friend sends Lyca searching her house’s mysterious attic, with its strange collection of old medical equipment, piles of paperwork, and dusty boxes of ancient video games. There, she unearths secrets hidden for decades—secrets perhaps better left unknown. CLICK TO RESERVE “Confessions” by Catherine Airey FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e02ceed5-20d3-492d-a315-c3191278ee77/the-dark-hours-amy-jordan.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - The Dark Hours by Amy Jordan GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Julia Harte has found the perfect place to disappear: Cuan Beag, a secluded coastal village on the east coast of Ireland. Home to less than one thousand residents, a popular daytrip for tourists, it has proven to be a scenic corner in which to erase a life. This corner of the world is so peaceful, at times it feels uninhabited; that’s why she chose to disappear here. But Julia knows anything is possible in the dark hours. Thirty years ago, Julia helped to bring down the most prolific serial killer Ireland had ever seen, and while that case spurred a successful career and a bestselling book, it's also the reason she's in hiding now, all alone and haunted by the things tha happened all those years ago, without the husband she had depended upon. When a copycat killer strikes, Julia is called back to active duty, but this time, she's not the young, naive officer she was then. She knows killers like this one, who hunt for sport, and she's determined to put a stop to his plans--or die trying. There’s not much time. There’s even less air. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Dark Hours” by Amy Jordan FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6894dbc3-09c2-4ef3-bbcc-a0920dd79599/the-english-problem-beena-kamlani.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - The English Problem by Beena Kamlani GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: A young Indian man is tapped to help his country’s fight for freedom—but his heart engages him in a different war. Shiv Advani is an eighteen-year-old growing up in India. But he is no ordinary young man. Shiv has been personally chosen by Mahatma Gandhi to come to England, learn their laws, and then return home and help drive the British out of India. Before he leaves, his family insists he fulfill his arranged marriage, and he is hastily betrothed to a young woman he hardly knows. He arrives in London and soon discovers a world he is both repelled by and drawn to. Shiv knows his duty: get in, learn the letter of the law, get out. But as anyone who has ever lived in a British colony can tell you, “the English Problem” is multifaceted. The racist colonialism of “the empire on which the sun never sets” seeps into everything—not just landed territories, but territories of the mind: literature, language, religion, sexuality, self-identity. Soon the people Shiv sought to be liberated from will be the people he desperately wants to be a part of. In the end, Shiv must fight not only for his country’s liberation but also his own. CLICK TO RESERVE “The English Problem” by Beena Kamlani FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/7ac7f89e-2964-4322-8c08-0fc2edd79a15/the-girls-of-the-glimmer-factory-jennifer-coburn.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - The Girls of the Glimmer Factory by Jennifer Coburn GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Hannah longs for the days when she used to be free, but now, she is a Jewish prisoner at Theresienstadt, a model ghetto where the Nazis plan to make a propaganda film to convince the world that the Jewish people are living well in the camps. But Hannah will do anything to show the world the truth. Along with other young resistance members, they vow to disrupt the filming and derail the increasingly frequent deportations to death camps in the east. Hilde is a true believer in the Nazi cause, working in the Reich Ministry of Enlightenment and Propaganda. Though they're losing the war, Hilde hasn't lost faith. She can't stop the Allied bombings, but she can help the party create a documentary that will renew confidence in Hitler's plans for Jewish containment. When the filming of Hitler Gives a City to the Jews faces production problems due to resistance, Hilde finds herself in a position to finally make a name for herself. And when she recognizes Hannah, an old childhood friend, she knows she can use their friendship to get the film back on track. CLICK TO BORROW “The Girls of the Glimmer Factory” by Jennifer Coburn FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ebc4ff72-1e40-4871-acc6-0f9cd3fa5938/good-dirt-charmaine-wilkerson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Felicity “Fizzy” Chen is lost. Sure, she’s got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she’s asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn’t been practicing what she’s preached. Fizzy hasn’t ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, can’t-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism she’s spent her career encouraging in readers starts to feel like a lie? Connor Prince, documentary filmmaker and single father, loves his work in large part because it allows him to live near his daughter. But when his profit-minded boss orders him to create a reality TV show, putting his job on the line, Connor is out of his element. Desperate to find his romantic lead, a chance run-in with an exasperated Fizzy offers Connor the perfect solution. What if he could show the queen of romance herself falling head-over-heels for all the world to see? Fizzy gives him a hard pass—unless he agrees to her list of demands. When he says yes, and production on The True Love Experiment begins, Connor wonders if that perfect match will ever be in the cue cards for him, too. CLICK TO RESERVE “The True Love Experiment” by Christina Lauren FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/3c09c013-096f-4206-b1c9-9b23216c9459/grave-danger-james-grippando.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - Grave Danger (Jack Swyteck #20) by James Grippando GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Jack Swyteck’s new client fled Iran to Miami with her daughter, and has been accused of kidnapping by her husband. The seasoned attorney must not only plan a winning defense. To stop the father from taking the girl back to Tehran, Jack must build a case under international law and prove that returning the child would put her at risk. But everything in this case isn’t what it seems, and Jack quickly learns that his client is really the child’s aunt and that the biological mother may have been killed by Iran’s morality police. But what role did the father play in his wife’s death, and why is Jack’s wife, FBI Agent Andie Henning, being pressured by her bosses to persuade Jack to drop the case? Plunging into an investigation unlike any other, Jack must discover who is behind the legal maneuvering and what their interest is. As politics threatens to derail the case and compromise the best interests of the child, Jack and Andie find themselves on opposite sides—with their marriage hanging in the balance. For their relationship to survive, the couple must navigate a treacherous web of deceit that extends from a Miami courthouse to the highest echelons of Washington DC, and spells grave danger at every turn. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. CLICK TO BORROW “Grave Danger (Jack Swyteck #20)” by James Grippando FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/84ee2d2f-3b45-460e-8836-05cf16fdc9a1/head-cases-john-mcmahon.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - Head Cases (PAR Unit #1) by John McMahon GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He also has a blind spot on the human side of investigations, a blindness that sometimes even includes people in his own life, like his beloved seven-year-old daughter Camila. Gardner and his squad of brilliant yet quirky agents make up the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit, the FBI’s hidden edge, brought in for cases that no one else can solve. When DNA links a murder victim to a serial killer long presumed dead, the team springs into action. A second victim establishes a pattern, and the murderer begins leaving a trail of clues and riddles especially for Gardner. And while the PAR team is usually relegated to working cold cases from behind a desk, the investigation puts them on the road and into the public eye, following in the footsteps of a killer. Along with Gardner, PAR consists of a mathematician, a weapons expert, a computer analyst, and their leader, a career agent. Each of them must use every skill they have to solve the riddle of the killer’s identity. But with the perpetrator somehow learning more and more about the team at PAR, can they protect themselves and their families…before it’s too late? CLICK TO RESERVE “Head Cases (PAR Unit #1)” by John McMahon FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b74be1f7-1a63-44ec-a8a8-091f8ffa3705/immortal-sye-lynn-tan.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan GENRE: Fantasy, Romance THE SYNOPSIS: “What the gods did not give us, I would take.” As the heir to Tianxia, Liyen knows she must ascend the throne and renew her kingdom’s pledge to serve the immortals who once protected them from a vicious enemy. But when she is poisoned, Liyen’s grandfather steals an enchanted lotus to save her life. Enraged at his betrayal, the immortal queen commands the powerful God of War to attack Tianxia. Upon her grandfather’s death, Liyen ascends a precarious throne, vowing to end her kingdom’s obligation to the immortals. When she is summoned to the Immortal Realm, she seizes the opportunity to learn their secrets and to form a tenuous alliance to safeguard her people, all with the one she should fear and mistrust the most: the ruthless God of War. As they are drawn together, a treacherous attraction ignites between them—one she has to resist, to not endanger all she is fighting for. But with darker forces closing in around them, and her kingdom plunged into peril, Liyen must risk everything to save her people from an unspeakable fate, even if it means forging a dangerous bond with the immortal… even if it means losing her heart. 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CLICK TO RESERVE “The Katharina Code (William Wasting #10)” by Jorn Lier Horst https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/03a925c8-037d-4bd5-9fcd-73a3842ff64f/the-kennedy-girl-julia-bryan-thomas.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - The Kennedy Girl by Julia Bryan Thomas GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: This American Girl in Paris might hold the fate of nations... It's the 1960s, and the fashion culture of New York, Paris, and Milan is starting to make an impression on the mid-century American woman. Jackie Kennedy's effortless style leads the nation, although Mia's bustling bakery job doesn't often give her the time or money to craft a stylish closet after her idol in the White House. But when a mysterious stranger suddenly offers her a modeling job in Paris at the esteemed House of Rousseau, she takes a chance on it, despite knowing nothing about the world of fashion. As an orphan with big dreams, holding a one-way plane ticket to Paris, she sets off for what she hopes is a better life. But the job of a model runs deeper than photoshoots and runway walks, and as Mia adjusts to the Parisienne lifestyle, she realizes that not everything is as it seems. Becoming more and more successful in her position as an up-and-coming model, she is soon drawn into the Cold War by the very fashion house she works for. And as she finds herself falling further into national crimes and politics, Mia will soon have to decide which side of history she's really on. Jackie Kennedy is no longer the only woman for whom fashion and politics dramatically collide... 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Linjing's fall from grace could be an opportunity for Little Flower - but will their intertwined fates lead to triumph, or tragedy for them both? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Lotus Shoes” by Jane Yang FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/430b4baf-038d-47a5-8dfb-954cb6f61787/the-oligarchs-daugther-joseph-finder.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - The Oligarch’s Daugher by Joseph Finder GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness to evade Russian operatives who can seemingly predict his every move. Six years ago, Paul was a rising star on Wall Street who fell in love with a beautiful photographer named Tatyana—unaware that her father was a Russian oligarch and the object of considerable interest from several US intelligence agencies. Now, to save his own life, Paul must unravel a decades-old conspiracy that extends to the highest reaches of the government. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Oligarch’s Daughter” by Joseph Finder FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e9971dfe-0672-4d7c-a723-3c805922e17c/penitence-kristin-koval.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - Penitence by Kristin Koval GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: When a shocking murder occurs in the home of Angie and David Sheehan, their lives are shattered. Desperate to defend their family, they turn to small-town lawyer Martine Dumont for help, but Martine isn’t just legal counsel—she’s also the mother of Angie’s first love, Julian, a now-successful New York City criminal defense attorney. As Julian and Angie confront their shared past and long-buried guilt from a tragic accident years ago, they must navigate their own culpability and the unresolved feelings between them. Spanning decades, from the ski slopes of rural Colorado to the streets of post-9/11 New York City and back again, Kristin Koval’s debut novel Penitence is an examination of the complexities of familial loyalty, the journey of redemption, and the profound experience of true forgiveness. CLICK TO RESERVE “Penitence” by Kristin Koval FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/91122b27-eaf0-4ee7-ac8f-0f5d1f76a503/pro-bono-tomas-perry.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - Pro Bono by Thomas Perry GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Charles Warren, Los Angeles attorney, has dedicated his career to aiding people in financial straits. He is particularly skilled at the art of recovering assets that have been embezzled or hidden. In his newest case, helping a beautiful young widow find the money missing from her late husband’s investment accounts, Charlie recognizes a familiar scheme—one that echoes the con job that targeted his own widowed mother many years before, and that led him, as a teenager, to commit a crime of retribution that still weighs on his conscience. Charlie can’t get the present case out of his mind, but within hours of starting his investigation, he is followed, shot at, and has his briefcase stolen. It’s clear that someone doesn’t want him following the trail of the missing money but, as Charlie continues to pursue answers, he quickly becomes too entangled in the web of fraud, betrayal, and career criminals surrounding the theft to escape its deadly snare. CLICK TO RESERVE “Pro Bono” by Thomas Perry FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/796cd38d-d4a5-4b0e-8968-823cade4d12a/the-queen-of-fives-alex-hay.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - The Queen of Fives by Alex Hay GENRE: Historical Fiction, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: A confidence scheme, when properly executed, will follow five movements in close and inviolable order. I. The Mark II. The Intrusion. III. The Ballyhoo. IV. The Knot. V. All In. There may be many counterstrikes along the way, for such is the nature of the game; it contains so many turns, so many endless possibilities… 1898. Quinn le Blanc, London’s most talented con woman, has five days to pull off her most ambitious plot trap a highly eligible duke into marriage and lift a fortune from the richest family in England. Masquerading as the season’s most enviable debutante, Quinn puts on a brilliant act that earns her entrance into the grand drawing rooms and lavish balls of high society—and propels her straight into the inner circle of her the charismatic Kendals. Among those she must convince are the handsome bachelor heir, the rebellious younger sister, and the esteemed duchess eager to see her son married. But the deeper she forges into their world, the more Quinn finds herself tangled in a complicated web of love, lies, and loyalty. The Kendals all have secrets of their own, and she may not be the only one playing a game of high deception… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Queen of Fives” by Alex Hay FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e0ef6b35-8322-481a-87a6-a6d7c3ba9d7a/the-texasmurders-james-patterson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - The Texas Murders by James Patterson GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: A cold case is about to turn hotter than the sun. Texas Ranger Rory Yates has proven his strength on the field time and again. Now he faces the toughest case of his career. He’s on the trail of two missing women. Both are Native American. Does anything else link them? As he digs deeper, he discovers that a Native American woman has gone missing every summer solstice for the past few years. The captor leaves no trace, except for a very strange calling card. The Texas Ranger must do everything he can to track down these missing women. He only hopes that he finds them alive . . . CLICK TO RESERVE “The Texas Murders” by James Patterson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2c14a863-632f-4010-b9fa-4e0865199fef/the-three-lives-of-cate-kay-kate-fagan.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan GENRE: Contemporary, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series, she’s one of the most successful authors of her generation. The thing is, Cate Kay doesn’t really exist. She’s never attended author events or granted any interviews. Her real identity had been a closely guarded secret, until now. As a young adult, she and her best friend Amanda dreamed of escaping their difficult homes and moving to California to become movie stars. But the day before their grand adventure, a tragedy shattered their dreams and Cate has been on the run ever since, taking on different names and charting a new future. But after a shocking revelation, Cate understands that returning home is the only way she’ll be a whole person again. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Three Lives of Cate Kay” by Kate Fagan: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (Audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/38c174fb-35c2-4cbf-aef0-788f46a09489/we-could-be-rats-emily-austin.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin GENRE: Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal but having always resisted the idea of growing up into the trappings of adulthood, she did not graduate high school, preferring to roam the streets of her small town with her best friend Greta, the only person in the world who ever understood her. Her older sister Margit is baffled and frustrated by Sigrid’s inability to conform to the expectations of polite society. But Sigrid’s detachment veils a deeper turmoil and sensitivity. She’s haunted by the pains of her past—from pretending her parents were swamp monsters when they shook the floorboards with their violent arguments to grappling with losing Greta’s friendship to the opioid epidemic ravaging their town. As Margit sets out to understand Sigrid and the secrets she has hidden, both sisters, in their own time and way, discover that reigniting their shared childhood imagination is the only way forward. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “We Could Be Rats” by Emily Austin FROM THE LIBARRY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/33596f22-9a53-438f-8d0b-af7c2bd80c77/what-happened-to-the-mccrays-tracey-lange.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: January 29, 2025 - What Happened to the McCrays by Tracey Lange GENRE: Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: When Kyle McCray gets word his father has suffered a debilitating stroke, he returns to his hometown of Potsdam, New York, where he doesn’t expect a warm welcome. Kyle left suddenly two and a half years ago, abandoning people who depended on him: his father, his employees, his friends—not to mention Casey, his wife of sixteen years and a beloved teacher in town. He plans to lie low and help his dad recuperate until he can leave again, especially after Casey makes it clear she wants him gone. The longer he’s home, the more Kyle understands the impact his departure has had on the people he left behind. When he’s presented with an opportunity for redemption as the coach of the floundering middle school hockey team, he begins to find compassion in unexpected places. Kyle even considers staying in Potsdam, but that’s only possible if he and Casey can come to some kind of peace with each other. 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She appreciates a simple celebration as much as a dazzling event, for she knows that a dream wedding is not necessarily the most expensive one. As much as Faith enjoys her work, her two failed engagements leave her with no desire to get married herself. She finds fulfillment in her close relationship with her twin sister, Hope, her role as a mentor for her assistant, Violet, and her career. This year, new clients have flocked to her, and she signs up an extravagant reception, a mid-sized gathering, and an intimate soirée, in addition to her mother’s next marriage and Violet’s modest ceremony. Faith finds herself forming bonds with her new clients and their loved ones—mostnotably the handsome brother of one of her grooms. But weddings are not always all champagne and roses, and in no time, Faith is grappling with private quarrels, unplanned pregnancies, family scandals, dark secrets, and the possibility of cancelled ceremonies. Through her own journey, Faith will prove once and for all that that there is not just one path to happily ever after. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Wedding Planner” by Danielle Steel FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/806d077f-f39b-4561-bc55-b1093c9ed656/hold-your-tongue-mark-tetreault.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 30, 2023 - Hold Your Tongue by Mark Tetreault GENRE: Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Upon learning his great-uncle Alfred has suffered a stroke, Richard sets out for Ste. Anne, in southeastern Manitoba, to find his father and tell him the news. Waylaid by memories of his stalled romance, tales of run-ins with local Mennonites, his job working a honey wagon, and struck by visions of Métis history and secrets of his family's past, Richard confronts his desires to leave town, even as he learns to embrace his heritage. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Hold Your Tongue” by Mark Tetreault: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/bf940b7d-8160-4deb-9de0-3ff25473e8e0/fallout-jeff-rovin.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 30, 2023 - Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Fallout (Op-Center #22) by Jeff Rovin GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team in this heart-pounding entry in the bestselling series. After successfully extricating one of Beijing’s top scientists from captivity and escorting him to America, the Black Wasp commandos find themselves targeted by Chinese assassins. The killers are not only highly trained but invisible, launching tactical strikes from multiple embassies in Washington, D.C. The Chinese squad has also infiltrated American intelligence and is aware of every move Black Wasp makes. Complicating matters, the new president of the United States seems willing to let Op Center take the fall for the mission that precipitated the crisis. The shocking murder of one of their own forces the surviving team members to seek both a safe haven and an ally in the fight for survival -- an unexpected partner who might, in fact, be part of the problem. CLICK TO RESERVE “Tom Clancy’s Op Center: Fallout (Op-Center #22)” by Jeff Rovin FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6c89a6e0-e6c4-4ac1-a14d-67991345f083/flash-point-don-bentley.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 30, 2023 - Tom Clancy: Flash Point (Jack Ryan, Jr. #16) by Don Bentley GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: If there’s one thing Jack Ryan, Jr’s father taught him, it’s that freedom isn’t free, but nothing can prepare Jack for the price he must pay in the latest electrifying entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Jack Ryan Jr. is in a world of trouble. When a benign surveillance operation takes a deadly turn, Jack finds himself locked in a struggle with an unseen enemy bent on destroying the Campus. The chase leads Jack to the South China Sea where a midair collision between aircraft from rival nations threatens to serve as a flash point for the entire region. As Jack frantically tries to put the pieces of the conspiracy together, the Campus is hit with a crippling attack. When the dust settles, Jack is one of the few operators still standing and the Campus’s de facto leader. But the fight is just beginning. As tensions escalate, Jack’s mysterious adversary executes a brilliant campaign to paralyze the American government even as China inches closer to invading Taiwan. With the odds stacked against him and no help in sight, Jack and his shattered team must stop the world’s two remaining super powers from stumbling into war even as the noose around the Campus grows ever tighter. Every operation has a cost. This time the bill might just be too much to pay. CLICK TO RESERVE “Tom Clancy: Flashpoint (Jack Ryan Jr. #16)” by Don Bentley FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d0499a9e-1faf-4bcc-866a-d05564945163/drowning-tj-newman.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 30, 2023 - Drowning by T.J. Newman GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman—whose first book Falling was an instant #1 national bestseller and the biggest thriller debut of 2021—returns for her second book, an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a commercial jetliner that crashes into the ocean, and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside, and the extraordinary rescue operation to save them. Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close the doors—but it’s too late. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives. Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent—Shannon’s mother and Will’s soon-to-be ex-wife—who must work together with Will to find a way to save their daughter and rescue the passengers from the sealed airplane, which is now teetering on the edge of an undersea cliff. There’s not much time. There’s even less air. CLICK TO RESERVE “Drowning” by T.J. Newman FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/bcbf2f54-5080-4541-b82a-1bc53f19259b/the-letter-josephine-cox.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 30, 2023 - The Letter by Josephine Cox GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: A cry for help will tear a family apart… Another gripping and dramatic family drama from the nation’s favourite storyteller Bella can’t wait to be married to her fiancée Sidney, and dreams of the day she will walk up the aisle to be given away by her widowed father, with her bookish sister Alice as her bridesmaid. Their lives are disturbed when they receive a letter from their fourteen-year-old cousin Millie. Taken in by her austere aunt and uncle when her parents were killed in an accident, Millie says she is being badly treated and pleads to be rescued. When the two sisters take a trip to find out the truth, things take a troubling turn. Millie is brought home to live with them, her only possessions her ill-fitting clothes and a tatty suitcase. But soon they are questioning this act of kindness. Does their teenaged cousin just need some love and kindness? Or is she a troublemaker, with only mischief and malice on her mind…? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Letter” by Josephine Cox FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/7dafdda4-9157-4b2e-ae8b-57c3c7034f1f/the-paris-deception-bryn-turnbull.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 30, 2023 - The Paris Deception by Bryn Turnbull GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Sophie Dix fled Stuttgart with her brother as the Nazi regime gained power in Germany. Now, with her brother gone and her adopted home city of Paris conquered by the Reich, Sophie reluctantly accepts a position restoring damaged art at the Jeu de Paume museum under the supervision of the ERR—a German art commission using the museum as a repository for art they’ve looted from Jewish families. Fabienne Brandt was a rising star in the Parisian bohemian arts movement until the Nazis put a stop to so-called “degenerate” modern art. Still mourning the loss of her firebrand husband, she’s resolved to muddle her way through the occupation in whatever way she can—until her estranged sister-in-law, Sophie, arrives at her door with a stolen painting in hand. Soon the two women embark upon a plan to save Paris’s “degenerates,” working beneath the noses of Germany’s top art connoisseurs to replace the paintings in the Jeu de Paume with skillful forgeries—but how long can Sophie and Fabienne sustain their masterful illusion? CLICK TO BORROW “The Paris Deception” by Bryn Turnbull FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0b87210c-8560-428d-aa89-e300f3d0550c/the-true-love-experiment-christina-lauren.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 30, 2023 - The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Felicity “Fizzy” Chen is lost. Sure, she’s got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she’s asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn’t been practicing what she’s preached. Fizzy hasn’t ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, can’t-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism she’s spent her career encouraging in readers starts to feel like a lie? Connor Prince, documentary filmmaker and single father, loves his work in large part because it allows him to live near his daughter. But when his profit-minded boss orders him to create a reality TV show, putting his job on the line, Connor is out of his element. Desperate to find his romantic lead, a chance run-in with an exasperated Fizzy offers Connor the perfect solution. What if he could show the queen of romance herself falling head-over-heels for all the world to see? Fizzy gives him a hard pass—unless he agrees to her list of demands. When he says yes, and production on The True Love Experiment begins, Connor wonders if that perfect match will ever be in the cue cards for him, too. CLICK TO RESERVE “The True Love Experiment” by Christina Lauren FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-may-272023 monthly 0.5 2023-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/bc9e8646-86d2-4aa5-b894-96cc7bb364d4/identity-nora-roberts.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 27,2023 - Identity by Nora Roberts GENRE: Romantic Suspense, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party—attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd been chatting her up at the bar—her carefully built world is shattered. The back door glass is broken, cash and jewelry are missing, her car is gone, and Nina lies dead on the floor. Soon, a horrific truth emerges: It was Morgan who let the monster in. "Luke” is actually a cold-hearted con artist named Gavin who targets a particular type of woman, steals her assets and identity, and then commits his ultimate goal: murder. What the FBI tells Morgan is beyond chilling. Nina wasn't his type. Morgan is. Nina was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. And Morgan's nightmare is just beginning. Soon she has no choice but to flee to her mother's home in Vermont. While she struggles to build something new, she meets another man, Miles Jameson. He isn't flashy or flirtatious, and his family business has deep roots in town. But Gavin is still out there hunting new victims, and he hasn't forgotten the one who got away. CLICK TO RESERVE “Identity” by Nora Roberts FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/812dd2d7-4a12-482e-931c-31e2e816ab71/standing-in-the-shadows-peter-robinson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 27,2023 - Standing in the Shadows (D.I. Banks #28) by Peter Robinson GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: In November 1980, student Nick Hartley returns from a lecture to find his house full of police officers. As he discovers that his ex-girlfriend has been found murdered in a nearby park, and her new boyfriend is missing, he realizes two things in quick succession: he is undoubtedly a suspect as he has no convincing alibi, and he has his own suspicions as to what might have happened . . . Decades later, in November 2019, an archaeologist unearths a skeleton that turns out to be far more contemporary than the Roman remains she is seeking. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called in, and as an investigation into the find begins, the past and the present meet with devastating consequences. CLICK TO BORROW “Standing in the Shadows (D.I. Banks #28) by Peter Robinson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0040e2c5-d6ba-4dee-b9c2-ea3171ce1f3f/killing-moon-jo-nesbo.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 27,2023 - Killing Moon (Harry Hole #13) by Jo Nesbo GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Harry has gone to Los Angeles to drink himself to death, in the wake of his life back in Oslo falling to pieces. He’s nearly managed to, but then Harry decides to help an older film actress, Lucille, free herself from the grip of a drug cartel she owes a million dollars. In return she gives him shelter, company and a tailored suit. In Oslo, two girls have disappeared and been found murdered. One of the suspects is a well-known real estate magnate, and investigator Katrine Bratt wants to bring in the country’s foremost serial killings expert. But the idea of collaborating with Harry Hole is out of the question for the chief of police. The real-estate magnate under suspicion, on the other hand, wants to hire Harry as a private investigator to clear his name. Harry declines, but that’s before the drug cartel takes Lucille hostage. If Harry clears the real estate magnate, he will award Harry a bonus big enough to cover Lucille’s debt. So Harry puts together his own kind of investigative team, consisting of a cocaine-dealing childhood friend, a corrupt police officer and a cancer-stricken psychologist. The drug cartel has given them ten days. The clock is ticking, and a blood moon has been forecast over Oslo. CLICK TO RESERVE “Killing Moon (Harry Hole #13)” by Jo Nesbo FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/be0ab503-580d-4cd4-a064-f5cb50349748/the-lie-maker-linwood-barclay.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 27,2023 - The Lie Maker by Linwood Barclay GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Your dad's not a good person. Your dad killed people, son. These are some of the last words Jack Givins' father spoke to him before he was whisked away by witness protection, leaving Jack and his mother to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives as best they could. Years later, Jack is a grown man with problems of his own. He's a talented but struggling author, barely scraping by on the royalties from his moderately successful first book. So when the U.S. Marshals approach him with a lucrative opportunity, he's in no position to turn them down. They're recruiting writers like Jack to create false histories for people in witness protection--people like Jack's father. The coincidence is astonishing to Jack at first, but he soon realizes this may be a chance to find his dad. Only there's one problem--Jack's father hasn't made contact with his handlers recently, and they have no idea where he is. He could be in serious danger, and Jack may be the only one who can find him. But how will he find a man he's never truly known? A man who has done terrible things in his lifetime and made some deadly enemies in the process--enemies who wouldn't think twice about using his own son against him. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Lie Maker” by Linwood Barclay: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/348f5635-a12a-4fd7-a40a-bb9b2ac5dee5/the-poisoners-ring-kelley-armstrong.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 27,2023 - The Poisoner’s Ring (A Rip Through Time #2) by Kelley Armstrong GENRE: Mystery, Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Edinburgh, 1869: Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is adjusting to her new life in Victorian Scotland. Her employers know she’s not housemaid Catriona Mitchell―even though Mallory is in Catriona’s body―and Mallory is now officially an undertaker’s assistant. Dr. Duncan Gray moonlights as a medical examiner, and their latest case hits close to home. Men are dropping dead from a powerful poison, and all signs point to the grieving widows… the latest of which is Gray’s oldest sister. Poison is said to be a woman’s weapon, though Mallory has to wonder if it’s as simple as that. But she must tread carefully. Every move the household makes is being watched, and who knows where the investigation will lead. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Poisoner’s Ring (A Rip Through Time #2)” by Kelley Armstrong FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a5f02937-2968-4960-a70f-da6efa2826e3/rogue-justice-stacey-abrams.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 27,2023 - Rogue Justice (Avery Keene #2) by Stacey Abrams GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States in While Justice Sleeps. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before she recently took her own life, and he gives Avery a file, a burner phone, and a fearful warning that there are highly dangerous people involved. Moments later, Avery is shocked when she witnesses Davies being murdered. After breaking the encrypted file Davies gave to her, Avery reveals a list of names--all federal judges--and, alarmingly, all judges on the FISA Court (the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court), also known as America's secret court. It is this body that grants permission to the government to wiretap American individuals or corporations suspected of terrorism. Avery knows Judge Whitner had been extorted, but as she investigates the names and cases associated with other judges on the list she begins to see a frightening pattern--and she worries that something far more sinister may be unfolding. CLICK TO RESERVE “Rogue Justice (Avery Keene #2)” by Stacey Abrams AT THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2c6345ae-619d-4bfa-aec3-50448fe86919/the-senators-wife-liv-constantine.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 27,2023 - The Senator’s Wife by Liv Constantine GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: In this town, anyone is replaceable. . . . After a tragic chain of events led to the deaths of their spouses two years ago, D.C. philanthropist Sloane Chase and Senator Whit Montgomery are finally starting to move on. The horrifying ordeal drew them together, and now they're ready to settle down again—with each other. As Sloane returns to the world of White House dinners and political small talk, this time with her new husband, she's also preparing for an upcoming hip replacement—the latest reminder of the lupus diagnosis she's managed since her twenties. With both of their hectic schedules, they decide that hiring a home health aide will give Sloane the support and independence she needs post-surgery. And they find the perfect fit in Athena Karras. Seemingly a godsend, Athena tends to Sloane, and even helps her run her charitable foundation. But Sloane slowly begins to deteriorate—a complication, Athena explains, of Sloane's lupus. As weeks go by, Sloane becomes sicker, and her uncertainty quickly turns to paranoia as she begins to suspect the worst. Why is Athena asking her so many probing questions about her foundation—about her past? And could Sloane be imagining the sultry looks between Athena and her new husband? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Senator’s Wife” by Liv Constantine FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/7c5fe3aa-ba38-453f-b538-31fb6ec4bfd3/the-revenge-list-hannah-mary-mckinnon.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 27,2023 - The Revenge List by Hannah Mary McKinnon GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: They say life flashes before your eyes when you’re about to die. But all she could see was regret. The people in Frankie Morgan’s life say she’s angry. Emotionally stunted. Combative. But really, who can blame her? It’s hard being nice when your clients are insufferable, your next-door neighbor is a miserable woman and the cowardly driver who killed your mother is still out living it up somewhere. Somehow, though, she finds herself at her very first anger-management group session—drinking terrible coffee and learning all about how “forgiveness is a process.” One that starts with a list. Frankie is skeptical. A list of everyone who’s wronged her in some way over the years? More paper, please. Still, she makes the pointless list—with her own name in a prominent spot—and promptly forgets about it…until it goes missing. And one by one, the people she’s named start getting hurt in freak accidents, each deadlier than the last. Could it be coincidence giving her the revenge she never dared to seek…or something more sinister? If Frankie doesn’t find out who’s behind it all, she might be next. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Revenge List” by Hannah Mary McKinnon FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a5caf023-c9fd-483c-8c9c-f8d431e3711d/mothers-instinct-barbara-abel.png BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 27,2023 - Mothers’ Instinct by Barbara Abel GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: David and Laetitia Brunelle and Sylvain and Tiphaine Geniot are inseparable friends and next-door neighbors in a pretty, tranquil suburb. Their sons Milo and Maxime, born in the same year, grow up together as close as brothers. But when Maxime is killed in an accident, their idyllic world shatters. Maxime's parents, Sylvain and Tiphaine, are consumed by grief and bitterness, while David and Laetitia are wracked with guilt for their role in the tragedy. Soon the couples are barely speaking, although they maintain a polite facade. Then a mysterious series of "accidents" begins to happen to Milo, raising Laetitia's suspicions. Are their former best friends trying to punish them by threatening their son? As an increasingly paranoid Laetitia frantically tries to protect Milo from harm, the little civility left between the two families curdles into outward hostility. Is Laetitia just imagining things? Or are Sylvain and Tiphaine secretly conspiring to exact their revenge . . . and if so, who will pay? CLICK TO RESERVE “Mothers’ Instinct” by Barbara Abel FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-adult-fiction-march-16-2023 monthly 0.5 2023-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a841e5eb-ac4a-4e5b-8dca-b198fd75349a/a-death-at-the-party-amy-stuart.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - A Death at the Party by Amy Stuart GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Nadine Walsh’s summer garden party is in full swing. The neighbors all have cocktails, the catered food is exquisite—everything’s going according to plan. But Nadine—devoted wife, loving mother, and doting daughter—finds herself standing over a dead body in her basement while her guests clink glasses upstairs. What happened? How did it come to this? Rewind to that morning, when Nadine is in her kitchen, making last-minute preparations before she welcomes more than a hundred guests to her home to celebrate her mother’s birthday. But her husband is of little help to her, her two grown children are consumed with their own concerns, and her mother—only her mother knows that today isn’t just a birthday party. It marks another anniversary as well. Still, Nadine will focus just on tonight. Everyone deserves a celebration after the year they’ve had. A chance for fun. A chance to forget. But it’s hard to forget when Nadine’s head is swirling with secrets, haunting memories, and concerns about what might happen when her guests unite. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “A Death at the Party” by Amy Stuart BELOW: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b77a9da5-f335-4e8b-a746-51a9850bb43f/all-that-is-mine-i-carry-with-me-william-landay.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - All That is Mine I Carry With Me by William Landay GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find her house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else is out of place. There is no sign of struggle. Her mom's pocketbook remains in the front hall, in its usual spot. So begins a mystery that will span a lifetime. What happened to Jane Larkin? Investigators suspect Jane's husband. A criminal defense attorney, Dan Larkin would surely be an expert in outfoxing the police. But no evidence is found linking him to a crime, and the case fades from the public's memory, a simmering, unresolved riddle. Jane's three children--Alex, Jeff, and Miranda--are left to be raised by the man who may have murdered their mother. Two decades later, the remains of Jane Larkin are found. The investigation is awakened. The children, now grown, are forced to choose sides. With their father or against him? Guilty or innocent? And what happens if they are wrong? CLICK TO RESERVE “All That Is Mine I Carry With Me” by William Landay FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/7b00eef4-856a-41ab-a73b-0fab136900ce/collateral-damage-ja-jance.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - Collateral Damagae (Ali Reynolds #17) by J.A. Jance GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: After spending twenty years behind bars, Frank Muñoz, a disgraced former cop, is out on parole and focused on just one thing: revenge. The wife who abandoned him after his arrest, the mistress who ratted him out for abetting a money-laundering scheme, the detectives who presided over his case all those years ago—they all have targets on their backs. For Ali Reynolds, the first Christmas without her father is riddled with grief and uncertainty. And with her husband and founding partner of High Noon Enterprises, B. Simpson, preoccupied by an upcoming New Year’s trip to London, she is ready for a break. But when Stu Ramey barges into her home with grave news about a serious—and suspicious—accident on the highway to Phoenix involving B.’s car, things reach a breaking point. At the hospital, a groggy, post-op B. insists that Ali take his place at a ransomware conference in London, as troubles brimming around High Noon come to light. But questions remain: Who would go to such lengths to cut the tech company from the picture? And what if Ali and the rest of the team are also in danger? CLICK TO RESERVE “Collateral Damage (Ali Reynolds #17)” by J.A.. Jance FROM THE LIBARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/4e3016a0-0545-45d2-a7f0-d031681d0f28/i-will-find-you-harlan-coben.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - I Will Find You by Harlan Coben GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: David and Cheryl Burroughs were living the dream life when tragedy struck. Now, five years after that terrible night, Cheryl is remarried. And David is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison for the brutal murder of their son. Then Cheryl’s sister, Rachel, arrives unexpectedly during visiting hours and drops a bombshell. She’s come with a photograph that a friend took on vacation at a theme park with a boy in the background who has a familiar, distinctive birthmark … and even though David and Rachel realize it can’t be, they both just know. It's David’s son, Matthew, and he's still alive. David plans a harrowing escape from prison, determined to do what seems impossible–save his son, clear his own name, and discover the real story of what happened that devastating night. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “I Will Find You” by Harlan Coben FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0cc4e93e-9808-46ca-89fd-ebdf942be38c/mothered-zoje-stage.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - Mothered by Zoje Stage GENRE: Horror THE SYNOPSIS: Grace isn’t exactly thrilled when her newly widowed mother, Jackie, asks to move in with her. They’ve never had a great relationship, and Grace likes her space—especially now that she’s stuck at home during a pandemic. Then again, she needs help with the mortgage after losing her job. And maybe it’ll be a chance for them to bond—or at least give each other a hand. But living with Mother isn’t for everyone. Good intentions turn bad soon after Jackie moves in. Old wounds fester; new ones open. Grace starts having nightmares about her disabled twin sister, who died when they were kids. And Jackie discovers that Grace secretly catfishes people online—a hobby Jackie thinks is unforgivable. When Jackie makes an earth-shattering accusation against her, Grace sees it as an act of revenge, and it sends her spiraling into a sleep-deprived madness. As the walls close in, the ghosts of Grace’s past collide with a new but familiar threat: Mom. CLICK TO RESERVE “Mothered” by Zoje Stage FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/639e8e98-0b31-444e-91ef-81b2196b5059/pineapple-street-jenny-jackson.JPG BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson GENRE: Literary THE SYNOPSIS: Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, carefully guarded, old-money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and inheritance for motherhood, sacrificing more of herself than she ever intended. Sasha, middle-class and from New England, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family and finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider, wondering how she might ever understand their WASP-y ways. Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can’t (and really shouldn’t) have and must confront the kind of person she wants to be. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Pineapple Street” by Jenny Jackson: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/86851d99-52e9-401e-9fbe-cbb634cd6e24/red-queen-juan-gomez-jurado.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - Red Queen by Juan Gomez-Jarado GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Antonia Scott—the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother—has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her work or even leave her apartment. Jon Gutierrez, a police officer in Bilbao—disgraced, suspended, and about to face criminal charges—is offered a chance to salvage his career by a secretive organization that works in the shadows to direct criminal investigations of a highly sensitive nature. All he has to do is succeed where many others have failed: Convince a recalcitrant Antonia to come out of her self-imposed retirement, protecting her and helping her investigate a new, terrifying case. The case is a macabre, ritualistic murder—a teen-aged boy from a wealthy family whose body was found without a drop of blood left in it. But the murder is just the start. A high-ranking executive and daughter of one of the richest men in Spain is kidnapped, a crime which is tied to the previous murder. Behind them both is a hidden mastermind with even more sinister plans. And the only person with a chance to see the connections, solve the crimes and successfully match wits with the killer before tragedy strikes again...is Antonia Scott. CLICK TO RESERVE “Red Queen” by Juan Gomez-Jurado FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/260cbfac-84cc-41e6-ab8d-93e7f7c663c1/someone-elses-shoes-jojo-moyes.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else’s shoes? Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope--she doesn’t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in. That’s because Sam Kemp – in the bleakest point of her life – has accidentally taken Nisha’s gym bag. But Sam hardly has time to worry about a lost gym bag--she’s struggling to keep herself and her family afloat. When she tries on Nisha’s six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes, the resulting jolt of confidence that makes her realize something must change—and that thing is herself. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Someone Else’s Shoes” by Jojo Moyes: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/4c2c0995-d48c-48df-a0a7-0525f4cda103/storm-watch-cj-box.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - Storm Watch (Joe Pickett #23) by C.J. Box GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped. That is, until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, Joe finds the professor's vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then he finds the professor's frozen and mutilated body. When he attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by Federal agents, extreme environmentalists, and Governor Colter Allen. Meanwhile, Joe's associate Nate Romanowski is rebuilding his falconry company, financing this through crypto mining. Nate is then approached by a shadowy group of local militant activists who are gaining in power and influence, and demanding that Wyoming join other western states and secede from the union – by force, if necessary. They ask Nate to throw in his lot with them, but he's wary. Should he trust them, or is he being set up? As a storm of peril gathers around them, Joe and Nate confront it in different ways – and maybe, for the first time, on opposite sides. CLICK TO RESERVE “Storm Watch (Joe Pickett #23)” by C.J. Box FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c7aff981-c343-4668-91d6-23bcf1ab2d59/the-housemaids-secret-freida-mcfadden.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - The Housemaid’s Secret (Housemaid #2) by Freida McFadden GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: “Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors. But I can’t risk losing this job—not if I want to keep my darkest secret safe… It’s hard to find an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It’s almost perfect. But I still haven’t met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I’m sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I’m doing laundry. And one day I can’t help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything… That’s when I make a promise. After all, I’ve done this before. I can protect Mrs Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe. Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It’s simply a question of how far I’m willing to go… CLICK TO RESERVE “The Housemaid’s Secret (Housemaid #2)” by Freida McFadden FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d80cdcdb-edbe-44f5-804a-99382624bd5e/the-kind-worth-saving-peter-swanson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - The Kind Worth Saving (Kimball & Kinter #2) by Peter Swanson GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: There was always something slightly dangerous about Joan. So, when she turns up at private investigator Henry Kimball’s office asking him to investigate her husband, he can’t help feeling ill at ease. Just the sight of her stirs up a chilling memory: he knew Joan in his previous life as a high school English teacher, when he was at the center of a tragedy. Now Joan needs his help in proving that her husband is cheating. But what should be a simple case of infidelity becomes much more complicated when Kimball finds two bodies in an uninhabited suburban home with a “for sale” sign out front. Suddenly it feels like the past is repeating itself, and Henry must go back to one of the worst days of his life to uncover the truth. Is it possible that Joan knows something about that day, something she’s hidden all these years? Could there still be a killer out there, someone who believes they have gotten away with murder? Henry is determined to find out, but as he steps closer to the truth, a murderer is getting closer to him, and in this hair-raising game of cat and mouse only one of them will survive. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Kind Worth Saving (Kimball & Kintner #2)” by Peter Swanson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0c18947c-c1bf-4770-82c1-1a9a5e5669fd/the-last-beekeeper-julie-carrick-dalton.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - The Last Beekeeper by Julie Carrick Dalton GENRE: Dystopia, Science Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: It’s been more than a decade since the world has come undone, and Sasha Severn has returned to her childhood home with one goal in mind—find the mythic research her father, the infamous Last Beekeeper, hid before he was incarcerated. There, Sasha is confronted with a group of squatters who have claimed the quiet, idyllic farm as their own. While she initially feels threatened, the group soon becomes her newfound family, offering what she hasn't felt since her father was imprisoned: security and hope. Maybe it's time to forget the family secrets buried on the farm and focus on her future. But just as she settles into her new life, Sasha witnesses the impossible. She sees a honey bee, presumed extinct. People who claim to see bees are ridiculed and silenced for reasons Sasha doesn't understand, but she can't shake the feeling that this impossible bee is connected to her father's missing research. Fighting to uncover the truth could shatter Sasha's fragile security and threaten the lives of her newfound family—or it could save them all. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Last Beekeeper” by Julie Carrick Dalton FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e6a344e7-93a1-439e-ad2b-9f546e82733d/the-london-seance-society-sarah-penner.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner GENRE: Historical Fiction, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: 1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identities of the people who killed them, she is highly sought after by widows and investigators alike. Lenna Wickes has come to Paris to find answers about her sister’s death, but to do so, she must embrace the unknown and overcome her own logic-driven bias against the occult. When Vaudeline is beckoned to England to solve a high-profile murder, Lenna accompanies her as an understudy. But as the women team up with the powerful men of London’s exclusive Séance Society to solve the mystery, they begin to suspect that they are not merely out to solve a crime, but perhaps entangled in one themselves… CLICK TO RESERVE “The London Seance Society” by Sarah Penner FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/9078e56d-4747-4081-80ef-acbd51b26e8f/the-lost-english-girl-julia-kelly.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - The Lost English Girl by Julia Kelly GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: 1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identities of the people who killed them, she is highly sought after by widows and investigators alike. Lenna Wickes has come to Paris to find answers about her sister’s death, but to do so, she must embrace the unknown and overcome her own logic-driven bias against the occult. When Vaudeline is beckoned to England to solve a high-profile murder, Lenna accompanies her as an understudy. But as the women team up with the powerful men of London’s exclusive Séance Society to solve the mystery, they begin to suspect that they are not merely out to solve a crime, but perhaps entangled in one themselves… CLICK TO RESERVE “The Lost English Girl” by Julia Kelly FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/15b36869-5330-4659-8727-0158caa81382/unnatural-history-jonathan-kellerman.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - Unnatural History (Alex Delaware #38) by Jonathan Kellerman GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. It is that shadow world and the violence it breeds that draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling case of altruism gone wrong. On a superficially lovely morning a woman shows up for work with her usual enthusiasm. She’s the newly hired personal assistant to a handsome, wealthy photographer and is ready to greet her boss with coffee and good cheer. Instead, she finds him slumped in bed, shot to death. The victim had recently received rave media attention for his latest project: images of homeless people in their personal “dream” situations, elaborately costumed and enacting unfulfilled fantasies. There are some, however, who view the whole thing as nothing more than crass exploitation, citing token payments and the victim’s avoidance of any long-term relationships with his subjects. Has disgruntlement blossomed into homicidal rage? Or do the roots of violence reach down to the victim’s family—a clan, sired by an elusive billionaire, that is bizarre in its own right? Then new murders arise, and Alex and Milo begin peeling back layer after layer of intrigue and complexity, culminating in one of the deadliest threats they’ve ever faced. CLICK TO RESERVE “Unnatural History” by Jonathan Kellerman FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ff65ca19-a18c-4e76-882e-aa91195d2713/what-have-we-done-alex-finlay.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 16, 2023 - What Have We Done by Alex Finlay GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: A stay-at-home mom with a past. A has-been rock star with a habit. A reality TV producer with a debt. Three disparate lives. One deadly secret. Twenty five years ago, Jenna, Donnie, and Nico were the best of friends, having forged a bond through the abuse and neglect they endured as residents of Savior House, a group home for parentless teens. When the home was shut down―after the disappearance of several kids―the three were split up. Though the trauma of their childhood has never left them, each went on to live accomplished―if troubled―lives. They haven’t seen one another since they were teens but now are reunited for a single haunting reason: someone is trying to kill them. To survive, the group will have to revisit the nightmares of their childhoods and confront their shared past―a past that holds the secret to why someone wants them dead. It’s a reunion none of them asked for . . . or wanted. But it may be the only way to save all their lives. CLICK TO RESERVE “What Have We Done” by Alex Finlay FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-february-2023 monthly 0.5 2023-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b3045a72-48a8-491c-af7c-40769ba90034/little-thieves-margaret-owen.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: February 2023 - TORI’S PICK: Little Thieves (Little Thieves #1) by Margaret Owen GENRE: Young Adult Fantasy, Retelling WHY SHE PICKED IT: I picked this adventurous YA fantasy because it was simply incredible, I could not put it down. The second book comes out later this year, it could be read as a stand alone, but I just can't get enough of the powerful low-gods, hilarious shapeshifter, geeky detective, just so many loveable well-written characters. A magical re-telling of 'The Goose Girl', one of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales told from the maid's perspective instead of the princess'. I loved everything about this book, the characters, the setting, the PLOT. I love when the main character is a cold scheming villain who thaws throughout the book. I can't wait to re-visit this world in May. THE SYNOPSIS: Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl... Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele's life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief, charming nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewels, stone by stone, for her greed. Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. And with a feral guardian half-god, Gisele's sinister fiancé, and an overeager junior detective on Vanja's tail, she'll have to pull the biggest grift yet to save her own life. CLICK TO RESERVE “Little Thieves (Little Thieves #1)” by Margaret Owen ON THE LIBBY APP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/148099eb-cc00-439c-943f-698844c0a817/behind-closed-doors-ba-paris.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: February 2023 - BROOKE’S PICK: Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris GENRE: Thriller WHY SHE PICKED IT: I always love a good, easy-to-read thriller, and I very much enjoyed Behind Closed Doors. Focusing on a "seemingly perfect" marriage, the story is told from Grace's point of view, alternating between the near past and the present. I really enjoyed this aspect, as it revved up the suspense, especially towards the ending. While somethings were easy to predict and it wasn't always the most realistic, I wasn't bothered; I was excited to see the story unfold. I did not want to put this book down until I was finished. THE SYNOPSIS: The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie? Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’re hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better. But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable. Some might call this true love. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on all the downstairs windows. Some might wonder what’s really going on once the dinner party is over, and the front door has closed. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Behind Closed Doors” by B.A. Paris: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5ddef221-983c-4879-9b76-a76bc283f793/hold-my-girl-charlene+-carr.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: February 2023 - LISA’S PICK: Hold My Girl by Charlene Carr GENRE: Women’s Fiction WHY SHE PICKED IT: This book confronts every parent’s worry: that their child will be switched at birth, taking it a step further with the switch happening before conception occurs. As a woman, I felt the pain these two mothers experienced in learning that their embryo’s were switched at implantation, and the aftermath of the fight for the one living child. Who is the rightful mother of a child born from in-vitro fertilization: the one who provided the egg, or the one who grew that egg and birthed the child? THE SYNOPSIS: Katherine is a woman full of obsessions. Everything clean, everything perfect, all the time. After seven years of trying—and failing—to conceive, she finally gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child. But she’s afraid that Rose may not be her daughter; her pale skin doesn’t match Katherine’s own. Tess never got her happy ending. She took on IVF alongside Katherine and a group of hopeful mothers, but her daughter, Hanna, was stillborn. After a series of poor choices, she’s divorced, broke and stuck in a job that’s below her skill set. Ten months later, Katherine and Tess get a call from the fertility clinic that reveals shocking news: the two women’s eggs were switched. While Katherine’s perfect life beings to crumble around her, for Tess it’s the glimmer of hope she needs to get her life back on track. But it will take a custody battle to decide who deserves to be Rose’s mother, a battle that will push both women to the brink. With themes of racial identity, loss and betrayal, this emotional novel centred around a difficult moral question beautifully explores the complexities of motherhood. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Hold My Girl” by Charlene Carr: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a1b5579d-cb3a-4930-980f-65e96aae2e13/sign-here-claudia-lux.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: February 2023 - KARI’S PICK: Sign Here by Claudia Lux GENRE: Horror WHY SHE PICKED IT: This was a fun take incorporating concepts that we see of hell and demons. Integrating the seven levels in Dante’s Inferno and the contracts in Supernatural, into something refreshing. The plot twists balance the humour wonderfully, and before long you find yourself invested in the futures of each character. It was a great horror novel if you are hoping to avoid the slasher stereotypes as the fear comes from the unknown. THE SYNOPSIS: Peyote Trip has a pretty good gig in the deals department on the fifth floor of Hell. Sure, none of the pens work, the coffee machine has been out of order for a century, and the only drink on offer is Jägermeister, but Pey has a plan—and all he needs is one last member of the Harrison family to sell their soul. When the Harrisons retreat to the family lake house for the summer, with their daughter Mickey’s precocious new friend, Ruth, in tow, the opportunity Pey has waited a millennium for might finally be in his grasp. And with the help of his charismatic coworker Calamity, he sets a plan in motion. But things aren’t always as they seem, on Earth or in Hell. And as old secrets and new dangers scrape away at the Harrisons’ shiny surface, revealing the darkness beneath, everyone must face the consequences of their choices. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Sign Here” by Claudia Lux: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-january-2023 monthly 0.5 2023-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/bea4c7dc-64b1-4a76-83d6-0834bbcfb1a5/tomie-junji-ito.JPG BLOG - Staff Picks: January 2023 - KARI’s PICK: Tomie by Junji Ito GENRE: Graphic Novel, Horror WHY SHE PICKED IT: Ito’s call to fame has been horror genre manga with Tomie being one of his most popular works. The manga follows the repeated deaths and reincarnations of Tomie, a beautiful school age woman that drives men insane with their love for her. Some of the shorts from this manga have found their way onto Netflix in a series honouring the artist, and displaying the incredibly detailed artwork in another form. Not for the faint of heart, but an interesting read. THE SYNOPSIS: Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. She can seduce nearly any man, and drive them to murder as well, even though the victim is often Tomie herself. While one lover seeks to keep her for himself, another grows terrified of the immortal succubus. But soon they realize that no matter how many times they kill her, the world will never be free of Tomie. CLICK TO RESERVE “Tomie” by Junji Ito FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2bd3660f-af30-47d6-8e25-028a2a66e59b/legends-and-lattes-travis-baldree.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: January 2023 - TORI’s PICK: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree GENRE: Fantasy WHY SHE PICKED IT: Have you ever read a high-fantasy book and wondered what happened to your favourite characters after the adventures and battles ended? In this heartwarming story, Viv the orc retires from her warrior life to settle down and open a coffee shop in a village that's never heard of coffee. This cozy fantasy book was a perfect comfort listen on a cold snowy night. As someone who loves coffee and fantasy, I felt this was an excellent book THE SYNOPSIS: High Fantasy with a double-shot of self-reinvention Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes out of the warrior’s life with one final score. A forgotten legend, a fabled artifact, and an unreasonable amount of hope lead her to the streets of Thune, where she plans to open the first coffee shop the city has ever seen. However, her dreams of a fresh start pulling shots instead of swinging swords are hardly a sure bet. Old frenemies and Thune’s shady underbelly may just upset her plans. To finally build something that will last, Viv will need some new partners and a different kind of resolve. A hot cup of fantasy slice-of-life with a dollop of romantic froth. CLICK TO RESERVE “Legends & Lattes” by Travis Baldree ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ce99548c-c81f-40ab-ad75-fb08f2c3fefa/the-testaments-margaret-atwood.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: January 2023 - Lexus’ Pick: The Testaments (Handmaid’s Tale #2) by Margaret Atwood GENRE: Dystopian WHY SHE PICKED IT: THE SYNOPSIS: More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation and deployment of secrets. As Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she opens up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Testaments (Handmaid’s Tale #2)” by Margaret Atwood: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/54969133-e03b-4355-8582-27e4c7703684/the-housemaid-freida-mcfadden.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: January 2023 - LISA’s PICKS: The Housemaid (The Housemaid #1) - Freida McFadden GENRE: Thriller, Psychological Suspense WHY SHE PICKED IT: I read this one cover to cover, I did not want to put it down. It’s a twisty thriller, with lots of ups and downs, and just when you think you’ve got it figured out… you don’t. THE SYNOPSIS: “Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own… Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband. I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of… CLICK TO RESERVE “The Housemaid (The Housemaid #1)” by Freida McFadden FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/2023-reading-challenge monthly 0.5 2023-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5a3a2c9f-adaf-4f19-82bc-f3716953c651/2023+Reading+Challenge.png BLOG - 2023 Reading Challenge - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/hiring-library-clerk-12-2022 monthly 0.5 2023-08-04 https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/hiring-assistant-administrator monthly 0.5 2022-12-14 https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-september-2022 monthly 0.5 2023-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0b2cef2c-66a0-4346-96b1-83ab2a15312a/if-you-tell.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: September 2022 - LISA G’s PICKS: If You Tell by Gregg Olsen GENRE: Nonfiction, True Crime WHY SHE PICKED IT: This book grabs you from the opening three page introduction where we meet the three Knotek sisters, who upon smelling or seeing certain everyday items, (like bleach), experience a visceral reaction bringing back horific memories of their mother. I couldn't put the book down, nor could I stand to read it at night, which made it a read-in-a-day. This is a book you stay up for, and it stays with you. THE SYNOPSIS: After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders. CLICK TO RESERVE “If You Tell” by Gregg Olsen FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/267076e3-4f78-45d1-81de-56a8874c9c9e/mad-honey.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: September 2022 - LISA S’s PICK: Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult GENRE: Literary Fiction WHY SHE PICKED IT: Jodi Picoult is one of my favourite authors, and this book is another hit from her (and Jennifer Finney Boylan). It deals with a tough subject and manages to feel startlingly real, despite being a work of fiction. I love being able to feel a characters' feelings, learning about their lives, seeing it through their eyes. Lily’s story is beautiful, yet incredibly sad, so be prepared to cry as her story unfolds around you. THE SYNOPSIS: Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can’t help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can she trust him completely . . . Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn’t acknowledge the flashes of his father’s temper in him, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he’s hidden more than he’s shared with her. CLICK TO RESERVE “Mad Honey” by Jodi Picoult FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/395d5c9a-f22a-4533-b41b-acd5b8a8e7d9/verity.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: September 2022 - TORI’s PICK: Verity by Colleen Hoover GENRE: Thriller WHY SHE PICKED IT: I love a good CoHo book. She's an easy read that makes you feel a lot of emotions. Verity was very dark and twisty, hard to stomach sometimes. The first line sets the tone for the whole story, and I could not put the book down right from the first chapter. It starts out with “I hear the crack of his skull before the spattering of the blood reaches me.” THE SYNOPSIS: Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Verity” by Colleen Hoover: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-october-21-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c6291468-bca4-4432-8f10-a5b9656a5397/demon-copperhead-barbara-kingsolver.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver GENRE: Literary THE SYNOPSIS: "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/7b01ba86-ab6f-47d5-a6d5-9f8f6293cde8/my-indian-summer-joseph-kakwinokanasum.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - My Indian Summer by Joseph Kakwinokanasum GENRE: Literary THE SYNOPSIS: Three kohkums, a man named Crow, two best friends, and a drug dealer . . . twelve-year-old Hunter may be getting out of Red Rock sooner than he hoped. For Hunter Frank, the summer of ’79 begins with his mother returning home only to collect the last two months’ welfare cheques, leaving her three “fucking half-breeds” to fend for themselves. When his older sister escapes their northern BC town and his brother goes to fight forest fires, Hunter is on his own, with occasional care coming from a trio of elders—his kohkums—and companionship from his two best friends. It’s been a good summer for the young entrepreneur, but the cash in the purple Crown Royal bag hidden in his mattress still isn’t enough to fund his escape from his monstrous mother and the town of Red Rock. As the Labour Day weekend arrives, so does a new friend with old wisdom and a business opportunity that might be just what a boy at the crossroads needs. CLICK TO RESERVE “My Indian Summer” by Joseph Kakwinokanasum FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b4015e4d-a5da-4f26-a87e-8e1fb83b3025/miss-bensons-beetle-rachel-joyce.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce GENRE: Historical THE SYNOPSIS: She's going too far to go it alone. It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson, a schoolteacher and spinster, is trying to get through life, surviving on scraps. One day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and small existence to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession: an insect that may or may not exist--the golden beetle of New Caledonia. When she advertises for an assistant to accompany her, the woman she ends up with is the last person she had in mind. Fun-loving Enid Pretty in her tight-fitting pink suit and pom-pom sandals seems to attract trouble wherever she goes. But together these two British women find themselves drawn into a cross-ocean adventure that exceeds all expectations and delivers something neither of them expected to find: the transformative power of friendship. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Miss Benson’s Beetle” by Rachel Joyce: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e77d0ba1-adbf-4a42-9a35-fd6fec0a03b8/the-white-hare-jane-johnson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - The White Hare by Jane Johnson GENRE: Literary THE SYNOPSIS: In the far west of Cornwall lies the White Valley, which cuts deeply through bluebell woods down to the sea at White Cove. The valley has a long and bloody history, laced with folklore, and in it sits a house above the beach that has lain neglected since the war. It comes with a reputation and a strange atmosphere, which is why mother and daughter Magdalena and Mila manage to acquire it so cheaply in the fateful summer of 1954. Magda has grand plans to restore the house to its former glory as a venue for glittering parties, where the rich and celebrated gathered for cocktails and for bracing walks along the coast. Her grown daughter, Mila, just wants to escape the scandal in her past and make a safe and happy home for her little girl, Janey, a solitary, precocious child blessed with a vivid imagination, much of which she pours into stories about her magical plush toy, Rabbit. But Janey’s rabbit isn’t the only magical being around. Legend has it that an enchanted white hare may be seen running through the woods. Is it an ill omen or a blessing? As Mila, her mother, and her young daughter adjust to life in this mysterious place, they will have to reckon with their own pasts and with the secrets that have been haunting the White Valley for decades. CLICK TO RESERVE “The White Hare” by Jane Johnson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/22c7b324-5d56-48d2-b153-f9287c2332a7/picture-you-dead-peter-james.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - Picture You Dead (Roy Grace #18) by Peter James GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Harry and Freya, an ordinary couple, dreamed for years of finding something priceless buried amongst the tat in a car boot sale. It was a dream they knew in their hearts would never come true – until the day it did… They buy the drab portrait for a few pounds, for its beautiful frame, planning to cut the painting out. Then studying it back at home there seems to be another picture beneath, of a stunning landscape. Could it be a long-lost masterpiece from 1770? If genuine, it could be worth millions. One collector is certain it is genuine. Someone who uses any method he can to get want he wants and will stop at nothing. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace finds himself plunged into an unfamiliar and rarefied world of fine art. Outwardly it appears respectable, gentlemanly, above reproach. But beneath the veneer, he rapidly finds that greed, deception and violence walk hand-in-hand. And Harry and Freya Kipling are about to discover that their dream is turning into their worst nightmare. CLICK TO RESERVE “Picture You Dead (Roy Grace #18)” by Peter James FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c14c5db8-71d8-44b1-a9cc-dbb0fc047f20/the-last-chairlift-john-irving.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - The Chairlift by John Irving GENRE: Literary THE SYNOPSIS: In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or the last ghosts he sees. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Last Chairlift” by John Irving: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/73ec7a7b-c1e6-4f3f-b9a5-b87b6fd6ad3a/it-starts-with-us-colleen-hoover.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - It Starts With Us (It Ends With Us #2) by Colleen Hoover GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “It Starts With Us (It Ends With Us #2)” by Colleen Hoover: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/866815dc-65a2-4f87-a0c9-fa1ac7477aa9/act-of-oblivion-robert-harris.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris GENRE: Historical THE SYNOPSIS: 'From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, "They killed the King." 1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I--a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control. But now, ten years after Charles' beheading, the royalists have returned to power. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the fifty-nine men who signed the king's death warrant and participated in his execution have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. Some of the Roundheads, including Oliver Cromwell, are already dead. Others have been captured, hung, drawn, and quartered. A few are imprisoned for life. But two have escaped to America by boat. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is charged with bringing the traitors to justice and he will stop at nothing to find them. A substantial bounty hangs over their heads for their capture--dead or alive. CLICK TO RESERVE “Act of Oblivion” by Robert Harris FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ed1c5994-3352-45f4-afb9-06f5d6c32f9c/book-of-knives-lise-haines.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - Book of Knives by Lise Haines GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: There are thirteen knives. One by one they begin to disappear. Nora didn't expect Hidden Lake Camp to be in a state of ruin. Dock full of rotten boards, smashed windows, cabins falling apart. To her new husband, Paul, the camp is the past he'd just as soon bury. Nora agreed to drive north with him to get his elderly parents settled while he makes enough repairs to sell the property. Only a few months, Paul said. The summer camp, however, and its deep lake have other plans. After Nora's first meal with his difficult family, one knife-part of a prized collection-goes missing. By the time the fourth and fifth vanish from behind locked doors and out from under watchful eyes, Nora can barely sleep. There's talk of ghosts, secret rooms and someone at the summer camp found dead in the tall grass. CLICK TO RESERVE “Book of Knives” by Lise Haines FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6f89bb2a-09b0-47be-95f6-047c9c408eda/voice-of-fear-heather-graham.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - Voice of Fear (Krewe of Hunters #38) by Heather Graham GENRE: Paranormal Fantasy THE SYNOPSIS: A killer is looking to silence them, once and for all. FBI agent Jordan Wallace is close to cracking the human trafficking case she’s been working, when she does the one thing she should never do: let her guard down. The botched undercover mission is semi-salvaged by the last-minute appearance of criminal psychologist Patrick Law, but Jordan can’t imagine making a worse first impression. Especially when she’s partnered with Patrick moving forward. Patrick’s innate ability to get inside a criminal’s head is an asset for the Krewe of Hunters. But Jordan wishes she could protect her own thoughts from her new partner. Patrick assures her that both she and her thoughts are safe with him, but Jordan’s less sure about her heart. Letting someone have her back has never been her strong suit, but with a dangerous killer still at large, trusting in Patrick might be the only thing keeping them alive. CLICK TO RESERVE “Voice of Fear (Krewe of Hunters #38)” by Heather Graham FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/4e420c47-a6a0-4e3a-96e5-bcf57a44cb41/the-picture-bride-lee-geum-li.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - The Picture Bride by Lee Geum-yi GENRE: Historical THE SYNOPSIS: “Your husband is a landowner,” they told her. “Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees.” “You will be able to go to school.” Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams for this new life are shattered, first by a husband who never wanted to marry her in the first place, and then by the escalation of the Korean independence movements, unified in goal, but divergent in action, which threaten to split the Hawaiian Korean community and divide Willow's family and friends. Braving the rough waters of these tumultuous years, Willow forges ahead, creating new dreams through her own blood, sweat, and tears; working tirelessly toward a better life for her family and loved ones. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Picture Bride” by Lee Geum-yi FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/aa3f74ea-d3eb-4e12-a026-18b4ba0180e0/the-blackbriar-genesis-simon-gervais.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - The Blackbriar Genesis (Blackbriar #1) by Simon Gervais GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: The assassination of a Treadstone agent leads two Blackbriar operatives down a rabbit hole of deceit and betrayal in this explosive new series from the world of Robert Ludlum. A car explodes along a quiet Prague side street—among the dead is an undercover Treadstone agent. It's not unusual for such men to meet their fates on an operation, but in this case there's one catch. None of his superiors know what he was doing there. Two Blackbriar operatives, Helen Jouvert and Donovan Wade, are sent to investigate. Their search for answers will take them deeper into the world of conspiracy and fake news than they ever expected. Treadstone and Blackbriar may be two sides of the same coin, intelligence and counterintelligence, but they have one thing in common, answers can be the deadliest commodity of all. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Blackbriar Genesis (Blackbriar #1)” by Simon Gervais FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/286a0dd8-b7e9-4c5b-843a-78ca24228388/the-favor-nicci-french.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - The Favor by Nicci French GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: It’s a simple enough favor. Jude hasn’t seen Liam in years, but when he shows up at her work asking for a favor, she finds she can’t refuse. All Jude has to do is pick Liam up at a country train station—without telling anyone. So what if she has to lie to her fiancé? Jude is still committed to him and their imminent wedding, even if she and Liam were in love once. She owes him. After the car crash that changed everything years ago, bright, ambitious Jude went to medical school, back on the path she had planned before meeting moody, artistic Liam. Meanwhile, he never fully recovered from the dark stain the accident left on his record. Now he’s gone. When the police show up at the station instead of Liam, Jude realizes that she knows nothing about the man he’s become. Now she’s tangled up in his life, the last person to have seen him, and maybe the only one who can uncover the truth about what went wrong—even if she destroys her own life in the process. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Favor” by Nicci French FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/8c994a1e-2a74-41a4-bd9c-9471e16e34cf/thief-of-fate-jude-deveraux.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - Thief of Fate (Providence Falls #3) by Jude Deveraux GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: If he truly loves her, he’ll break her heart When Liam O’Connor stole Cora McLeod from her destined soul mate, Finley Walsh, in 1844, he changed the course of history. Now Liam has been given three months to set things right, but he has failed to reunite Cora and Finn. And with time running out, things are looking worse than ever. As the three investigate a murder case together, they are caught in a devilish love triangle. Finn has always loved Cora. She has finally realized she wants Liam. And Liam knows he has no choice but to push Cora away if he has any hope of avoiding eternal damnation. The angels have made it clear—balance must be restored. As Liam tries desperately to make amends, he realizes his actions in the past have put them all in grave danger. And, once again, someone will pay the ultimate price. CLICK TO RESERVE “Thief of Fate (Providence Falls #3)” by Jude Deveraux FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e6862daf-093c-405d-91d5-1ffd4873a126/the-furies-john-connolly.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - The Furies (Charlie Parker #20) by John Connoly GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: In The Sisters Strange, criminal Raum Buker arrives in Portland, only for a shocking act of theft to threaten not only his own existence but those of his former lovers—the enigmatic sisters Strange. And in the title novel, The Furies, Parker must protect two women under threat as Portland shuts down in the face of a global pandemic. Unbeknownst to him, however, these clients are more capable of taking care of themselves than anyone could have imagined. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Furies (Charlie Parker #20)” by John Connoly FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f800868e-b74e-462c-8d91-28f23ab8d3c2/cradles-of-the-reich-jennifer-coburn.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn GENRE: Historical THE SYNOPSIS: Three women, a nation seduced by a madman, and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race. At Heim Hochland, a Nazi breeding home in Bavaria, three women's fates are irrevocably intertwined. Gundi is a pregnant university student from Berlin. An Aryan beauty, she's secretly a member of a resistance group. Hilde, only eighteen, is a true believer in the cause and is thrilled to carry a Nazi official's child. And Irma, a 44-year-old nurse, is desperate to build a new life for herself after personal devastation. All three have everything to lose. Based on untold historical events, this novel brings us intimately inside the Lebensborn Society maternity homes that actually existed in several countries during World War II, where thousands of "racially fit" babies were bred and taken from their mothers to be raised as part of the new Germany. But it proves that in a dark period of history, the connections women forge can carry us through, even driving us to heroism we didn't know we had within us. CLICK TO RESERVE “Cradles of the Reich” by Jennifer Coburn FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/100830d3-aaee-4bae-b7ab-af8c2de3ffaa/snow-john-banville.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - Snow (St. John Strafford #1) by John Banville GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Strafford—flinty, visibly Protestant, and determined to identify the murderer—faces obstruction at every turn, from the heavily accumulating snow to the culture of silence in this tight-knit community. As he delves further, he learns the Osbornes are not at all what they seem. And when his own deputy goes missing, Strafford must work to unravel the ever-expanding mystery before the community’s secrets, like the snowfall itself, threatens to obliterate everything. CLICK TO RESERVE “Snow (St. John Strafford #1)” by John Banville FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f0cc70b0-dce9-42b8-b485-8fc98b38a58d/long-shadows-david-baldacci.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - Long Shadows (Amos Decker #7) by David Baldacci GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge’s face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she’d made one too many enemies over her years on the bench. What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count—from violent gang members, drug dealers, and smugglers to a resentful ex-husband—but the bodyguard presents additional conundrums that muddy the waters even further. Who was the real target in this vicious attack? Meanwhile, Decker must contend with a series of unsettling changes, including a new partner—Special Agent Frederica “Freddie” White—and a devastating event that brings Decker’s own tragic past back to the present . . . and forces him to reckon with his future. As potential witnesses start disappearing, Decker and White are inexorably pulled down a twisted tunnel of secrets, crimes, and scandal—at the end of which lies Decker’s deadliest threat yet. CLICK TO RESERVE “Long Shadows (Amos Decker #7)” by David Baldacci FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0640bced-7fc1-4720-ab83-fe9b6b135ccd/next-in-line-jeffrey-archer.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - Next in Line (William Warwick #5) by Jeffrey Archer GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the ‘people’s princess’. Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Entrusted with protecting the most famous family on earth, they quite simply have to be the best. A weak link could spell disaster. Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the team. Maverick ex-undercover operative Ross Hogan is charged with a very sensitive—and unique—responsibility. But it soon becomes clear the problems in Royalty Protection are just the beginning. A renegade organization has the security of the country—and the Crown—in its sights. The only question is which target is next in line… CLICK TO RESERVE “Next in Line (William Warwick #5)” by Jeffrey Archer FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/80aaea53-8b57-4867-9965-12e5d23b3d9e/jackal-erin-e-adams.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 21, 2022 - Jackal by Erin E. Adams GENRE: THE SYNOPSIS: A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she’s not the first—and she may not be the last. . . . It’s watching. Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn’t exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though; she can handle whatever awaits her. But on the day of the wedding, somewhere between dancing and dessert, the bride’s daughter, Caroline, goes missing—and the only thing left behind is a piece of white fabric covered in blood. It’s taking. As a frantic search begins, with the police combing the trees for Caroline, Liz is the only one who notices a pattern: a summer night. A missing girl. A party in the woods. She’s seen this before. Keisha Woodson, the only other Black girl in school, walked into the woods with a mysterious man and was later found with her chest cavity ripped open and her heart missing. Liz shudders at the thought that it could have been her, and now, with Caroline missing, it can’t be a coincidence. As Liz starts to dig through the town’s history, she uncovers a horrifying secret about the place she once called home. Children have been going missing in these woods for years. All of them Black. All of them girls. It’s your turn. With the evil in the forest creeping closer, Liz knows what she must do: find Caroline, or be entirely consumed by the darkness. CLICK TO RESERVE “Jackal” by Erin E. Adams FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-october-12-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/53cfb958-5c7c-4bd6-941b-b0e612f42308/mad-honey-jodi-picoult.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult GENRE: Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can’t help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can she trust him completely . . . Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn’t acknowledge the flashes of his father’s temper in him, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he’s hidden more than he’s shared with her. CLICK TO RESERVE “Mad Honey” by Jodi Picoult FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/49c09ee5-f597-4835-bc6a-297cb8392b0e/black-dog-stuart-woods.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - Black Dog (Stone Barrington #62) by Stuart Woods GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: After returning home from a treacherous adventure, Stone Barrington is all too happy to settle back down in his New York City abode. But when he's introduced to a glamorous socialite with a staggering inheritance, Stone realizes his days are about to be anything but quiet. As it turns out, Stone's intriguing new companion has some surprisingly familiar ties and other far more sinister ones—including a nefarious enemy that gets too close for comfort. When it becomes clear that this miscreant will stop at nothing to get what he wants, and will endanger all whom Stone holds hear, Stone must step in to protect his friends and prevent a dangerous madman from wreaking havoc across the city. CLICK TO RESERVE “Black Dog (Stone Barrington #62)” by Stuart Woods FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a0b7a4ee-f140-4715-8fc4-32ade05ade7a/little-eve-catriona-ward.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - Little Eve by Catriona Ward GENRE: Horror THE SYNOPSIS: “A great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away.” On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off the wildest coast of Scotland, a clan prepares to bring about the end of the world and its imminent rebirth. The Adder is coming and one of their number will inherit its powers. They all want the honor, but young Eve is willing to do anything for the distinction. A reckoning beyond Eve’s imagination begins when Chief Inspector Black arrives to investigate a brutal murder and their sacred ceremony goes terribly wrong. And soon all the secrets of Altnaharra will be uncovered. CLICK TO RESERVE “Little Eve” by Catriona Ward FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/7b896cde-fc8c-4e9b-acda-f74da499cbf6/suspect-scott-turow.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - Suspect (Kindle County Legal Thriller #12) by Scott Turow GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: “A great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away.” On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off the wildest coast of Scotland, a clan prepares to bring about the end of the world and its imminent rebirth. The Adder is coming and one of their number will inherit its powers. They all want the honor, but young Eve is willing to do anything for the distinction. A reckoning beyond Eve’s imagination begins when Chief Inspector Black arrives to investigate a brutal murder and their sacred ceremony goes terribly wrong. And soon all the secrets of Altnaharra will be uncovered. CLICK TO RESERVE “Suspect (Kindle County Legal Thriller #12)” by Scott Turow FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c54c7dfa-f78b-49c9-870a-53f89de8314b/the-high-notes-danielle-steel.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - The Hight Notes by Danielle Steel GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience. In the ensuing years, never staying anywhere for long, father and daughter move from one dusty town to the next, her passion for music growing every time she takes the mike in another roadhouse. But it is not an easy life for Iris with her father in charge and using her income to pay for gambling, women, and booze. When she starts to tour at age eighteen, she takes on a real manager. Yet he exploits her too, and the singers and musicians she tours with are really the only family she has. It is they who give Iris the courage to finally fly free, leave the tour, and follow her dreams. After years of enduring the hardships of the road, exploitation, and abuse, to do what she loves, her big chance comes as her talent soars. But at the top at last, Iris still has to fight every step of the way. In The High Notes, Danielle Steel delivers an inspiring story about finding the strength to stand up for yourself and your dreams, no matter what it takes. CLICK TO RESERVE “The High Notes” by Danielle Steel FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a8693c15-39bd-44d2-b6a7-388139de4306/the-vicious-circle-katherine-st-john.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - The Vicious Circle by Katherine St. John GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: A perfect paradise? Or a perfect nightmare? On a river deep in the Mexican jungle stands the colossal villa Xanadu, a wellness center that's home to The Mandala, an ardent spiritual group devoted to self-help guru Paul Bentzen and his enigmatic wife Kali. But when, mysteriously, Paul suddenly dies, his entire estate--including Xanadu--is left to his estranged niece Sveta, a former model living in New York City. Shocked and confused, Sveta travels to Mexico to pay her respects. At first, Xanadu seems like a secluded paradise with its tumbling gardens, beautiful people, transcendent vibe, and mesmerizing de-facto leader Kali. But soon the mystical façade wears thin, revealing a group of brainwashed members drunk on false promises of an impossible utopia and a disturbing, dangerous belief system--and leader--guiding them. As the sinister forces surrounding Sveta become apparent, she realizes, too late, she can't escape. Frantic and terrified, she discovers her only hope for survival is to put her confidence in the very person she trusts the least. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Vicious Circle” by Katherine St. John FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b97c8b73-4fe6-45b7-b34f-fee11ab5ab51/titans-of-war-wilbur-smith.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - Titans of War (Ancient Egypt #8) by Wilbur Smith GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: AN UNSTOPPABLE ENEMY. A CIVILISATION IN RUINS. A QUEST FOR SALVATION. For over fifty years Egypt has known nothing but war and devastation at the hands of the Hyksos, a bloodthirsty barbarian people from the distant east who continue to advance, crushing armies in their wake. Times are desperate, but throughout the conflict, a brave resistance fights on under the great Taita, a slave who has risen far beyond his ranks. Piay, entrusted into Taita's care by his parents at the age of just five, has been trained to become a great spy, unmatched by any other. Determined to prove his worth, he embarks on a dangerous mission to the lands in the north - to Mycenae and through the heart of Hyksos land and across the great sea - to find allies to help defend Egypt. As the situation becomes increasingly precarious, and the fate of the kingdom is hanging in the balance, can Piay succeed in his quest or will this mean the end of the glory that is Egypt once and for all? CLICK TO RESERVE “Titans of War (Ancient Egypt #8)” by Wilbur Smith FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/29ac842e-656a-4e0e-b82b-3a11efc44a5a/girl-forgoteen-karin-slaughter.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - Girl, Forgotten (Andrea Oliver #2) by Karin Slaughter GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: A small town hides a big secret… Who killed Emily Vaughn? Prom Night. Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn dresses carefully for what's supposed to be the highlight of any high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the night, because of that secret, she will be dead. Nearly forty years later, Andrea Oliver, newly qualified as a US Marshal, receives her first assignment: to go to Longbill Beach to protect a judge receiving death threats. But Andrea's real focus isn't the judge – it's Emily Vaughn. Ever since she first heard Emily's name a year ago, she's been haunted by her brutal death. Nobody was ever convicted – her friends closed ranks, her family shut themselves off in their grief, the town moved on – so the killer is still out there. But now Andrea has a chance to find out what really happened… CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Girl, Forgotten (Andrea Oliver #8)” by Karin Slaughter: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b3c5f53a-e980-4b95-88d7-62ab255d9188/malice-house-megan-shepherd.JPG BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - Malice House by Megan Shepherd GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: “One step away from our world lies another: a land of violent fantasies, of sharp-toothed delights. . . .” Of all the things aspiring artist Haven Marbury expected to find while clearing out her late father’s remote seaside house, Bedtime Stories for Monsters was not on the list. This secret handwritten manuscript is disturbingly different from his Pulitzer-winning works: its interweaving short stories crawl with horrific monsters and enigmatic humans that exist somewhere between this world and the next. The stories unsettle but also entice Haven, practically compelling her to illustrate them while she stays in the house that her father warned her was haunted. Clearly just dementia whispering in his ear . . . right? Reeling from a failed marriage, Haven hopes an illustrated Bedtime Stories can be the lucrative posthumous father-daughter collaboration she desperately needs to jump-start her art career. However, everyone in the nearby vacation town wants a piece of the manuscript: her father’s obsessive literary salon members, the Ink Drinkers; her mysterious yet charming neighbor, who has a tendency toward three a.m. bonfires; a young barista with a literary forgery business; and of course, whoever keeps trying to break into her house. But when a monstrous creature appears under Haven’s bed right as grisly deaths are reported in the nearby woods, she must race to uncover dark, otherworldly family secrets—completely rewriting everything she ever knew about herself in the process. CLICK TO RESERVE “Malice House” by Megan Shepherd FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a5136340-2bed-4f59-9e0d-00fb18d7b042/signal-fires-dani-shapiro.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro GENRE: Historical THE SYNOPSIS: One Night. One Fateful Choice. A Constellation of Lives Changed Forever. SIGNAL FIRES opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so dangerous it can never be spoken. On Division Street, time has moved on. When the Shenkmans arrive—a young couple expecting a baby boy—it is as if the accident never happened. But when Waldo, the Shenkmans’ brilliant, lonely son who marvels at the beauty of the world and has a native ability to find connections in everything, befriends Dr. Wilf, now retired and struggling with his wife’s decline, past events come hurtling back in ways no one could ever have foreseen. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Signal Fires” by Dani Shapiro: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/4611a6f5-f584-421a-8fc8-ce58ce5a68bd/righteous-prey-john-sandford.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - Righteous Prey (Lucas Davenport #32) by John Sandford GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: “We’re going to murder people who need to be murdered.” So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as “The Five,” shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is believed to be made up of vigilante killers who are very bored…and very rich. They target the worst of society—rapists, murderers, and thieves—and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they’ve killed, donating untraceable bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five soon become the most popular figures on social media, a modern-day Batman…though their motives may not be entirely pure. After a woman is murdered in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport are sent in to investigate. And they soon have their hands full--the killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, the Five are virtually untraceable. But if anyone can destroy this group, it will be the dynamic team of Davenport and Flowers. CLICK TO RESERVE “Righteous Prey (Lucas Davenport #32)” by John Sandford https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/8761d068-370c-42a8-9624-cdd4b898bedf/the-school-for-german-brides-aimie-k-runyan.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - The School For German Brides by Aimie K. Runyan GENRE: Historical THE SYNOPSIS: Germany, 1939. As the war begins, Hanna Rombauer, a young German woman, is sent to live with her aunt and uncle after her mother's death. Thrown into a life of luxury she never expected, Hanna soon finds herself unwillingly matched with an SS officer. The independence that her mother lovingly fostered in her is considered highly inappropriate as the future wife of an up-and-coming officer and she is sent to a "bride school." There, in a posh villa on the outskirts of town, Hanna is taught how to be a "proper" German wife. The lessons of hatred, prejudice, and misogyny disturb her and she finds herself desperate to escape. For Mathilde Altman, a German Jewish woman, the war has brought more devastation than she ever thought possible. Torn from her work, her family, and her new husband, she fights to keep her unborn baby safe. But when the unthinkable happens, Tilde realizes she must hide. The risk of discovery grows greater with each passing day, but she has no other options. When Hanna discovers that Tilde hiding near the school, she knows she must help her however she can. For Tilde, fear wars with desperation. The women must take extraordinary risks to save the lives of mother and baby. Will they both be able to escape with their lives and if they do, what kind of future can they possibly hope for? CLICK TO RESERVE “The School For German Brides” by Aimie K. Runyan FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1638d18c-427d-4316-844a-e81d7f951ae5/poster-girl-veronica-roth.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - Poster Girl by Veronica Roth GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan--she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city. And everyone else, now free from the Insight's monitoring, went on with their lives. Sonya, former poster girl for the Delegation, has been imprisoned for ten years when an old enemy comes to her with a deal: find a missing girl who was stolen from her parents by the old regime, and earn her freedom. The path Sonya takes to find the child will lead her through an unfamiliar, crooked post-Delegation world where she finds herself digging deeper into the past--and her family's dark secrets--than she ever wanted to. CLICK TO RESERVE “Poster Girl” by Veronica Roth FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/71b98093-529e-4b15-8bba-3791a8913714/the-tragedy-of-eva-mott-david-adams-richards.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - The Tragedy of Eva Mott by David Adams Richards GENRE: Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: The Raskin brothers were once proud to be producers of a much sought-after material of great benefit to society--asbestos. But now their mine is under close scientific scrutiny, with reports of serious illness linked to the place. The world is changing, no doubt for the better... But in the shadow of the mine, the values of a whole community are transforming, in more sinister ways. The Raskins' nephew Byron, a war hero and man of wealth, urges the brothers to look for other, less toxic minerals to extract. But meanwhile his own world is unravelling in ways that are unlikely ever to be fixed. His wife Carmel, whom he vaingloriously believed he was rescuing with his marriage proposal, has become an intellectual and political poseur. She and her son Albert are contemptuous of the values of Byron and his kind, while still finding use for his wealth and property. Carmel and Albert, it seems, are heralds of a new world addicted to mimicry and empty self-promotion, to delusions and temptations. Its victims are growing in number: a college professor in town is falsely accused of sexual harassment; a young woman is slipped an hallucinogen at a party with appalling consequences for her and two boys. And what of poor, naive Eva Mott, the captivating beauty who wished to be like her talented cousin Clara? Her story and the book that bears her name will haunt you. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Tragedy of Eva Mott” by David Adams Richards: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/12a002fd-6548-4beb-8af7-2262523522ac/our-missing-hearts-celeste-ng.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng GENRE: Dystopian Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Our Missing Hearts” by Celeste Ng: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/abb66681-efde-4eaa-aad5-f02bdd2fe0b1/1989-val-mcdermid.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - 1989 (Allie Burns #2) by Val McDermid GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: It's 1989 and Allie Burns is back. Older and maybe wiser, she's running the northern news operation of the Sunday Globe, chafing at losing her role in investigative journalism and at the descent into the gutter of the UK tabloid media. But there's plenty to keep her occupied. The year begins with the memorial service for the victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, but Allie has barely filed her copy when she stumbles over a story about HIV/AIDS that will shock her into a major change of direction. The world of newspapers is undergoing a revolution, there's skullduggery in the medical research labs and there are seismic rumblings behind the Iron Curtain. When murder is added to this potent mix, Allie is forced to question all her old certainties. CLICK TO RESERVE “1989 (Allie Burns #2)” by Val McDermid FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0d344549-fb0c-4a1f-8ad2-746328f4ac27/jacqueline-in-paris-ann-mah.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - Jacqueline in Paris by Ann Mah GENRE: Historical THE SYNOPSIS: In August 1949 Jacqueline Bouvier arrives in postwar Paris to begin her junior year abroad. She’s twenty years old, socially poised but financially precarious, and all too aware of her mother’s expectations that she make a brilliant match. Before relenting to family pressure, she has one year to herself far away from sleepy Vassar College and the rigid social circles of New York, a year to explore and absorb the luminous beauty of the City of Light. Jacqueline is immediately catapulted into an intoxicating new world of champagne and châteaux, art and avant-garde theater, cafés and jazz clubs. She strikes up a romance with a talented young writer who shares her love of literature and passion for culture – even though her mother would think him most unsuitable. But beneath the glitter and rush, France is a fragile place still haunted by the Occupation. Jacqueline lives in a rambling apartment with a widowed countess and her daughters, all of whom suffered as part of the French Resistance just a few years before. In the aftermath of World War II, Paris has become a nest of spies, and suspicion, deception, and betrayal lurk around every corner. Jacqueline is stunned to watch the rise of communism – anathema in America, but an active movement in France – never guessing she is witnessing the beginning of the political environment that will shape the rest of her life—and that of her future husband. CLICK TO RESERVE “Jacqueline in Paris” by Ann Mah FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/71ce4cae-6ade-4114-b65e-159ead70d39f/no-less-the-devil-stuart-macbride.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - No Less the Devil by Stuart MacBride GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: 'We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.' It's been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer to catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast. Now isn't the time to get distracted with other cases, but Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh doesn't have much choice. When Benedict Strachan was just eleven, he hunted down and killed a homeless man. No one's ever figured out why Benedict did it, but now, after sixteen years, he's back on the streets again - battered, frightened, convinced a shadowy 'They' are out to get him, and begging Lucy for help. It sounds like paranoia, but what if he's right? What if he really is caught up in something bigger and darker than Lucy's ever dealt with before? What if the Bloodsmith isn't the only monster out there? And what's going to happen when Lucy goes after them? CLICK TO RESERVE “No Less the Devil” by Stuart MacBride FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/3edfe21d-8584-43d4-96a6-d74e567bc760/hester-laurie-lico-albanese.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: October 12, 2022 - Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese GENRE: Historical THE SYNOPSIS: Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Edinburgh for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they've arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic––leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible. When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other: he is a man haunted by his ancestors, who sent innocent women to the gallows––while she is an unusually gifted needleworker, troubled by her own strange talents. As the weeks pass and Edward's safe return grows increasingly unlikely, Nathaniel and Isobel grow closer and closer. Together, they are a muse and a dark storyteller; the enchanter and the enchanted. But which is which? CLICK TO RESERVE “Hester” by Laurie Lico Albanese FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-august-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c4a9ee12-0d81-4ec8-938c-767412e2c069/wrong-place-wrong-time-gillian-mcallister.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: August 2022 - TORI’s PICK: Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister GENRE: Thriller WHY SHE PICKED IT: I love a good spooky read for fall- and this was the perfect one. The moving backwards in time was really interesting, an original way to reveal a mystery. Every time I thought I had guessed the ending, there was a new twist. THE SYNOPSIS: Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened? Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He’s late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don’t know who. You don’t know why. You only know your son is now in custody. His future shattered. That night you fall asleep in despair. All is lost. Until you wake... and it is yesterday. And then you wake again... and it is the day before yesterday. Every morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder. With another chance to stop it. Somewhere in the past lies an answer. The trigger for this crime—and you don’t have a choice but to find it... CLICK TO RESERVE “Wrong Place Wrong Time” by Gillian McAllister BELOW: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/872e5d93-13f6-4f9f-88a1-88548f7ced70/finding-me-michelle-knight.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: August 2022 - LISA G’s PICK: Finding Me by Michelle Knight with Michelle Buford GENRE: Nonfiction, True Crime, Memoir WHY SHE PICKED IT: Written by the first of three and longest held victim of the Cleveland kidnapper, Michelle Knight disappeared in 2002 without much notice from family, friends, police, or the public. She would eventually be joined by two other young women who were abducted by the kidnapper before their escape in 2013. 'Finding Me' tells the story from Michelle's point of view, in her own languaege. At the time of the abduction, she was a 21 year old struggling single mother with no close ties-she was aware that nobody was looking for her, and relied on herself and the memory of her child and her own will to get through. This book is a great companion to 'The Lost Girls' by John Glatt and 'Hope' by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, the other two Clevland kidnapping victims. THE SYNOPSIS: Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world. Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody of her young son when she disappeared. Local police believed she had run away, so they removed her from the missing persons lists fifteen months after she vanished. Castro tormented her with these facts, reminding her that no one was looking for her, that the outside world had forgotten her. But Michelle would not be broken. In Finding Me, Michelle will reveal the heartbreaking details of her story, including the thoughts and prayers that helped her find courage to endure her unimaginable circumstances and now build a life worth living. By sharing both her past and her efforts to create a future, Michelle becomes a voice for the voiceless and a powerful symbol of hope for the thousands of children and young adults who go missing every year. CLICK TO RESERVE “Finding Me by Michelle Knight with Michelle Buford” FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ab1c30ac-202e-4aad-8244-c3c05e561b29/things-we-do-in-the-dark-jennifer-hillier.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: August 2022 - LISA S’s PICK: Things We Do In the Dark by Jennifer Hillier GENRE: Thriller WHY SHE PICKED IT: Tori chose my pick for this month, so this was my second favourite read in August. The plot kept me interested from page one, and while I did figure out the twist beforehand, it didn’t detract from my enjoyment of the book. Things We Do In The Dark is a great fall read, perfect for spooky season. THE SYNOPSIS: When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it's only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she's worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future. Twenty-five years earlier, Ruby Reyes, known as the Ice Queen, was convicted of a similar murder in a trial that riveted Canada in the early nineties. Reyes knows who Paris really is, and when she's unexpectedly released from prison, she threatens to expose all of Paris's secrets. Left with no other choice, Paris must finally confront the dark past she escaped, once and for all. Because the only thing worse than a murder charge are two murder charges. CLICK TO RESERVE “Things We Do In The Dark” by Jennifer Hillier BELOW: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-august-16-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5c033693-00ed-424b-881e-8f43cbf05924/a-hundred-other-girls-iman-hariri-kia.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 16, 2022 - A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia GENRE: Contemporary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: How far would you go to keep the job a hundred other girls are ready to take? Noora's life is a little off track. She's an aspiring writer and amateur blogger in New York—which is a nice way of saying that she tutors rich Upper East Side kids and is currently crashing on her sister's couch. But that's okay. Noora has Leila, who has always been her rock, and now she has another major influence to lean on: Vinyl magazine. The pages of Vinyl practically raised Noora, teaching her everything from how to properly insert a tampon to which political ideology she subscribes to. So when she lands a highly coveted job as assistant to Loretta James, Vinyl's iconic editor-in-chief, Noora can't believe her luck. Her only dream is to write for Vinyl, and now with her foot firmly in the door and the Loretta James as her mentor, Noora is finally on the right path... or so she thinks. Loretta is an unhinged nightmare, insecure and desperate to remain relevant in an evolving media landscape she doesn't understand. Noora's phone buzzes constantly with Loretta's bizarre demands, particularly with tasks Loretta hopes will undermine the success of Vinyl's wunderkind digital director Jade Aki. The reality of Noora's job is nothing like she expected, and a misguided crush on the hot IT guy only threatens to complicate things even more. But as Loretta and the old-school print team enter into a turf war with Jade and the woke-for-the-wrong-reasons digital team, Noora soon finds herself caught in the middle. And with her dream job on the line, she'll need to either choose a side or form her own. CLICK TO RESERVE “A Hundred Other Girls” by Iman Hariri-Kia FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2fcec6d6-6e0f-4754-8b9a-3288091b33b8/beautiful-danielle-steel.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 16, 2022 - Beautiful by Danielle Steel GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Veronique Vincent is a star. At age twenty-two, she is one of the most sought-after models in fashion, gracing the covers of magazines and walking the runways of haute couture shows across the globe. Yet, despite being the consummate professional, Veronique wants little of the glamorous life that modeling affords her. The beloved daughter of a hardworking single mother, she has always preferred spending time at home or with her kindhearted boyfriend to attending lavish parties. When a quick getaway presents a welcome break on the heels of Paris Fashion Week, and before a Vogue cover shoot in Tokyo, Veronique is thrilled, eager to escape the mayhem of her busy schedule. Then, out of nowhere, a tragic explosion at Zaventem Airport in Brussels changes her life forever. The ruthless terrorist attack has the entire world on edge. Veronique finds herself hospitalized and alone, devastated to learn that the blast has killed both of the people she loved most. She is also forced to confront the harsh reality that she has been severely injured, her famous appearance forever altered. As she plunges into seclusion, the industry that once adored her believes her to have fallen off the map. In truth, she is struggling to find herself again after losing everything, and to discover what truly matters in life. But her mother’s will, accompanied by a letter Veronique never knew existed, reveals long-held secrets, introducing her to a world she hadn’t even known was possible. As Veronique forges bonds old and new, she begins to see a light beyond the darkness she has come to inhabit, finding peace in opportunities to help others, and redefining for herself what beauty is, and what it truly means to be beautiful. Danielle Steel presents a story of one woman’s breathtaking perseverance in moving beyond tragedy to a life more meaningful than she could ever have imagined. CLICK TO RESERVE “Beautiful” by Danielle Steel FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/bc33714e-c6a7-4ab8-9f32-20096f887dac/overkill-sandra-brown.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 16, 2022 - Overkill by Sandra Brown GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger hasn’t seen his ex-wife, Rebecca Pratt, for some time—not since their volatile marriage imploded—so he’s shocked to receive a life-altering call about her. Rebecca has been placed on life support after a violent assault, and he—despite their divorce—has medical power-of-attorney. Zach is asked to make an impossible choice: keep her on life support or take her off of it. Buckling under the weight of the responsibility and the glare of public scrutiny, Zach ultimately walks away, letting Rebecca's parents have the final say. Four years later, Rebecca's attacker, Eban—the scion of a wealthy family in Atlanta—gets an early release from prison. The ludicrous miscarriage of justice reeks of favoritism, and Kate Lennon, a brilliant state prosecutor, is determined to put him back behind bars. Rebecca’s parents have kept her alive all these years, but if her condition were to change—if she were to die—Eban could be retried on a new charge: murder. It isn’t lost on Zach that in order for Eban to be charged with Rebecca’s murder, Zach must actually be the one to kill her. He rejects Kate’s legal standpoint but can’t resist their ill-timed attraction to each other. Eban, having realized the jeopardy he’s in, plots to make certain that neither Zach nor Kate lives to see the death of Rebecca—and the end of his freedom. CLICK TO RESERVE “Overkill” by Sandra Brown FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/00fd951a-6acc-40da-a58a-c84a0d07099b/punk-57-penelope-douglas.JPG BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 16, 2022 - Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: "We were perfect together. Until we met." Misha I can’t help but smile at the words in her letter. She misses me. In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed. It didn’t take long for us to figure out the mistake. And in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. The best take-out pizza. Android vs. iPhone. Whether or not Eminem is the greatest rapper ever… And that was the start. For the next seven years, it was us. Her letters are always on black paper with silver writing. Sometimes there’s one a week or three in a day, but I need them. She’s the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am. We only had three rules. No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. We had a good thing going. Why ruin it? Until I run across a photo of a girl online. Name’s Ryen, loves Gallo’s pizza, and worships her iPhone. What are the chances? F*ck it. I need to meet her. I just don’t expect to hate what I find. Ryen He hasn’t written in three months. Something’s wrong. Did he die? Get arrested? Knowing Misha, neither would be a stretch. Without him around, I’m going crazy. I need to know someone is listening. It’s my own fault. I should've gotten his number or picture or something. He could be gone forever. Or right under my nose, and I wouldn’t even know it. 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But now—Charm is also the only person who can keep an empire together, as the Emperor summons her to his deathbed, and charges her with choosing which of his awful, faithless sons will carry on the empire—by discovering which one is responsible for his own murder. If she does this last thing, she will finally have what has been denied her since the fall of Inshil—her freedom. But she will also be betraying the ghosts past and present that live on within her heart. Charm must choose. Her dead Emperor’s will or the whispers of her own ghosts. Justice for the empire or her own revenge. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Bone Orchard” by Sara A. Mueller FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5b2f36dc-d92b-4966-950f-c86aefa4a8d2/the-last-housewife-ashley-winstead.JPG BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 16, 2022 - The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: While in college in upstate New York, Shay Evans and her best friends met a captivating man who seduced them with a web of lies about the way the world works, bringing them under his thrall. By senior year, Shay and her friend Laurel were the only ones who managed to escape. Now, eight years later, Shay's built a new life in a tony Texas suburb. But when she hears the horrifying news of Laurel's death—delivered, of all ways, by her favorite true-crime podcast crusader—she begins to suspect that the past she thought she buried is still very much alive, and the predators more dangerous than ever. Recruiting the help of the podcast host, Shay goes back to the place she vowed never to return to in search of answers. As she follows the threads of her friend's life, she's pulled into a dark, seductive world, where wealth and privilege shield brutal philosophies that feel all too familiar. When Shay's obsession with uncovering the truth becomes so consuming she can no longer separate her desire for justice from darker desires newly reawakened, she must confront the depths of her own complicity and conditioning. But in a world built for men to rule it—both inside the cult and outside of it—is justice even possible, and if so, how far will Shay go to get it? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Last Housewife” by Ashley Winstead FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-august-10-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/be8b2c8b-c07c-4c15-8cb8-267a584922f0/chrysalis-lincoln-child.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 10, 2022 - Chrysalis (Jeremy Logan #6) by Lincoln Child GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by Chrysalis, the global multi-billion-dollar tech company, the small optical device connects people in a stunning new way, tapping into virtual reality for the first time on a wide scale. And yet, when Logan is summoned by Chrysalis to investigate a disturbing anomaly in the massive new product rollout, Logan is shocked to see the true scope of the massive company. He also quickly realizes that something in Chrysalis’s technology is very wrong, and could be potentially devastating. The question is what, and where is the danger coming from? CLICK TO RESERVE “Chrysalis (Jeremy Logan #6)” by Lincoln Child FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c1e56aa5-8f1b-471b-ab24-4ed2eef215f4/francies-got-a-gun-carrie-snyder.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 10, 2022 - Francie’s Got a Gun by Carrie Snyder GENRE: Psychological Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: On a June afternoon in a small city, a wild-eyed girl named Francie dashes down a neighbourhood street, clutching a gun. She doesn't know exactly what she's running from, and she doesn't know what she's heading towards. All she understands is the need to survive. To save herself, she has no choice but to run--and to save those she loves, she must hold tight to that gun. Swirling around Francie is a chorus of friends, family, and neighbours, each person with a different view of her. As we hear from these voices--Francie's steadfast best friend, Alice; Alice's comically unaware mother, Sally, and struggling mathematician father, David; Francie's distressed and distracted mother, Marietta, and troubled, unwell father, Luce--a fractured portrait emerges of the girl and the village surrounding her. And at last we arrive at a still point in the chaos: a tall tree where Francie takes shelter, and where the meaning of her flight--for herself, and for the people around her--becomes clear. CLICK TO RESERVE “Francie’s Got a Gun” by Carrie Snyder FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2519b657-b563-42b1-ab81-1f47208f24dd/mercury-pictures-presents-anthony-marra.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 10, 2022 - Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father's arrest. Fifteen years later, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Her mother won't speak to her. Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese-American actor, can't escape the studio's narrow typecasting. And the studio itself, Maria's only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy. Over the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European émigrés: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled. While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. But when the arrival of a stranger from her father's past threatens Maria's carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her father's fate--and her own. CLICK TO RESERVE “Mercury Pictures Presents” by Anthony Marra FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0aec79e5-df6a-48af-bc94-c502c786c162/only-sisters-lillian-nattel.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 10, 2022 - Only Sisters by Lilian Nattel GENRE: Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Joan has always done the right thing, both as a palliative care doctor and as a caregiver for her widowed mother, Sheila. Joan's adventurous sister, Vivien, is a different story. She left home as soon as she was able--running from an insecure childhood troubled by an alcoholic father and a mother who constantly threw away all their possessions in order to buy new ones. Vivien's rarely been back, working as a nurse in the world's trouble zones, leaving the heavy burden of family on her sister. Still, when Vivien learns that their mother is seriously ill, she reaches out to Joan. She's heading for a remote village where Ebola is spreading, and she's afraid she may die. If she does, she wants Joan to pose as her online so her dying mother won't have to grieve a daughter. It's a lie, but it's the good kind of lie, designed to spare their mother, and so Joan reluctantly agrees, figuring it will never come to that. But Vivien does die. And even as Joan mourns her sister, she begins to impersonate her online, as promised. It's difficult at first, but to her surprise, posing as Vivien becomes liberating, even addictive. Then she receives a message on her sister's Facebook from a man claiming to be the son Vivien gave up for adoption, and the line between right and wrong, adventure and tragedy, really begins to blur. CLICK TO RESERVE “Only Sisters” by Lilian Nattel FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5d6a947e-50af-4d09-abff-615cd15489ae/reckoning-catherine-coulter.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 10, 2022 - Reckoning (FBI Thriller #26) by Catherine Coulter GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian's parents were murdered and she barely escaped with her life. Fourteen years later Kirra is a commonwealth attorney back home in Porte Franklin, Virginia, and her goal is to find out who killed her parents and why. She assumes the identity of E.N.--Eliot Ness--and gathers proof to bring down the man she believes was behind her parents' deaths. She quickly learns that big-time criminals are very dangerous indeed and realizes she needs Dillon Savich's help. Savich brings in Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith to work with Lieutenant Jeter Thorpe, the young detective who'd saved Kirra years before. Emma Hunt, a piano prodigy and the granddaughter of powerful crime boss Mason Lord, was only six years old when she was abducted. Then, she was saved by her adoptive father, San Francisco federal judge Ramsey Hunt. Now a 12-year-old with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, she narrowly saves herself from a would-be kidnapper at Davies Hall in San Francisco. Worried for her safety, Emma's entire family joins her for her next performance, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.. Sherlock and officers from METRO are assigned to protect her, but things don't turn out as planned... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Reckoning (FBI Thriller #26)” by Catherine Coulter FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/199693c6-b9cc-4cae-8114-b86c557be1d8/sugar-and-salt-susan-wiggs.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 10, 2022 - Sugar and Salt (Bella Vista Chronicles #4) by Susan Wiggs GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Jerome "Sugar" Barnes learned the art of baking in his grandma's bakery, also called Sugar, on historic Perdita Street in San Francisco. He supplies baked goods to the Lost and Found Bookshop across the street. When the restaurant that shares his commercial kitchen loses its longtime tenant, a newcomer moves in: Margot Salton, a barbecue master from Texas. Margot isn't exactly on the run, but she needs a fresh start. She's taken care of herself her whole life, pulling herself up by her fingernails to recover from trauma, and her dream has been to open a restaurant somewhere far, far from Texas. The shared kitchen with Jerome Sugar's bakery is the perfect setup: a state-of-the-art kitchen and a vibrant neighborhood popular with tourists and locals. Margot instantly takes to Jerome's grandmother, the lively, opinionated Ida, and the older woman proves to be a good mentor. Margot thinks Jerome is gorgeous, and despite their different backgrounds their attraction is powerful--even though Jerome worries that Margot will simply move on from him once she's found some peace and stability. But just as she starts to relax into a happy new future, Margot's past in Texas comes back to haunt her... CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Sugar and Salt (Bella Vista Chronicles #4)” by Susan Wigg: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/627c13f7-8a6f-43c4-a4b7-466d5dbe7623/the-couple-at-number-nine-claire-douglas.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 10, 2022 - The Couple at No. 9 by Claire Douglas GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: It was the house of their dreams. Until the bodies were found . . . BODIES FOUND UNDER PATIO When pregnant Saffron Cutler moves into 9 Skelton Place with boyfriend Tom and sets about renovations the last thing she expects is builders uncovering a body - two bodies, in fact. POLICE INVESTIGATE Forensics indicate the bodies have been buried at least thirty years. Nothing Saffy need worry herself over. Until the police launch a murder investigation and ask to speak to the cottage's former owner - her grandmother, Rose. OWNER QUESTIONED Rose is in a care home and Alzheimer's means her memory is increasingly confused. She can't help the police but it is clear she remembers something. A KILLER AT LARGE? As Rose's fragmented memories resurface, and the police dig ever deeper, Saffy fears she and the cottage are being watched. What happened thirty years ago? Why did no one miss the victims? What part did her grandmother play? And is Saffy now in danger? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Couple at No. 9” by Claire Douglas FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1f2752db-9ff4-4917-bd45-e3b984c67124/the-family-remains-lisa-jewell.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 10, 2022 - The Family Remains (The Family Upstairs #2) by Lisa Jewell GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago. Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock—news that her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. All signs point to an intruder, and the French police need her to come urgently to answer questions about Michael and his past that she very much doesn’t want to answer. After fleeing London thirty years ago in the wake of a horrific tragedy, Lucy Lamb is finally coming home. While she settles in with her children and is just about to purchase their first-ever house, her brother takes off to find the boy from their shared past whose memory haunts their present. As they all race to discover answers to these convoluted mysteries, they will come to find that they’re connected in ways they could have never imagined. 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CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Last White Man” by Mohsin Hamid FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0bcfd52b-d589-4725-812b-9a6b5fa9cecd/the-lost-kings-tyrell-johnson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 10, 2022 - The Lost Kings by Tyrell Johnson GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Twins Jeanie and Jamie King are inseparable. Stuck in a cabin in rural Washington with their alcoholic father, they cling to one another for safety and companionship. Until one night, when their father comes home covered in blood. The next day, he's gone . . . and so is Jamie. Jeanie's whole world is turned upside down. Not only has she lost her beloved brother, but with no family left in Washington, she is ripped from everything she knows, including Maddox, the boy she could be learning to love. Twenty years later, Jeanie is in England. She keeps her demons at bay by drinking too much, sleeping with a married man, and speaking to a therapist she doesn't respect. But her old life catches up to her when Maddox reappears, claiming to have tracked down her dad. Stunned, Jeanie must decide whether to continue running from her past or to confront her father and finally find out what really happened that night, where her brother is, and why she was the one left behind. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Lost Kings” by Tyrell Johnson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e6d6d041-e14c-4069-a7a1-94dd9e236054/the-many-daughters-of-afong-moy-jamie-ford.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 10, 2022 - The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America. As painful recollections affect her present life, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn’t the only thing she’s inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. A stranger who’s loved her through all of her genetic memories. Dorothy endeavors to break the cycle of pain and abandonment, to finally find peace for her daughter, and gain the love that has long been waiting, knowing she may pay the ultimate price. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Many Daughters of Afong Moy” by Jamie Ford FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ab64fbc6-7ac8-4422-8460-84b5545723bf/we-should-not-be-afraid-of-the-sky-emma-hooper.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: August 10, 2022 - We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky by Emma Hooper GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: During the golden age of the Roman Empire, five young girls enjoy a modest childhood in their small Portuguese village. They race each other through lemon orchards and pick fresh fruit for the commander who overlooks his people from a large house on the hill. Though the girls are all raised by different families, there is one thing they know without a doubt: they are sisters. What they don’t know is that their simple existence is about to be irrevocably changed. When soldiers abduct them from their village and bring them to the commander, the sisters are suddenly forced to confront long-buried secrets that reveal their lives to be anything but ordinary. Burgeoning on womanhood just as the Empire begins to show signs of crumbling around them, they soon find themselves at the centre of a deadly standoff and must part ways to fight their own battles if they're to have any chance of surviving. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky” by Emma Hooper FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-july-28-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/42f7b75b-ddac-4a81-82ee-b87f8c90e096/aura-of-night-heather-graham.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 28, 2022 - Aura of Night (Krewe of Hunters #37) by Heather Graham GENRE: Fantasy THE SYNOPSIS: True evil never dies. It only waits in the dark. All book editor Megan Law wants is to bury the memory of her brutal kidnapping and move on with her life. So when her publisher asks her to spin her hellish experience into the next bestseller, Megan agrees only because it might help keep other women safe. Then a mysterious, gruesome package arrives in the mail—a reminder that the nightmare isn’t over just yet. FBI investigator Ragnar Johnson is running out of time. He knows in his gut there's more to the recent Embracer killings, and he needs Megan's help. Even with their rocky past behind them, working together now isn’t going to be easy. But when things take a deadly turn, Megan and Ragnar discover a deep connection that they'll have to use, because something is trying to tear them apart…forever. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Aura of Night (Krewe of Hunters #37)” by Heather Graham FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/95c9f275-924f-41d0-a4c5-7e6b8fe35ee2/point-last-seen-christina-dodd.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 28, 2022 - Point Last Seen by Christina Dodd GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: LIFE LAST SEEN When you’ve already died, there should be nothing left to fear… When Adam Ramsdell pulls Elle’s half-frozen body from the surf on a lonely California beach, she has no memory of what her full name is and how she got those bruises ringing her throat. GIRL LAST SEEN Elle finds refuge in Adam’s home on the edge of Gothic, a remote village located between the steep lonely mountains and the raging Pacific Ocean. As flashes of her memory return, Elle faces a terrible truth—buried in her mind lurks a secret so dark it could get her killed. POINT LAST SEEN Everyone in Gothic seems to hide a dark past. Even Adam knows more than he will admit. Until Elle can unravel the truth, she doesn’t know who to trust, when to run and who else might be hurt when the killer who stalks her nightmares appears to finish what he started… CLICK HERE TO RETURN “Point Last Seen (Last Seen in Gothic #1)” by Christina Dodd FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ed43ef60-63b9-4c87-a0ce-8431e198c779/the-big-dark-sky-dean-koontz.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 28, 2022 - The Big Dark Sky by Dean Koontz GENRE: Horror, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: As a girl, Joanna Chase thrived on Rustling Willows Ranch in Montana until tragedy upended her life. Now thirty-four and living in Santa Fe with only misty memories of the past, she begins to receive pleas—by phone, through her TV, in her dreams: I am in a dark place, Jojo. Please come and help me. Heeding the disturbing appeals, Joanna is compelled to return to Montana, and to a strange childhood companion she had long forgotten. She isn’t the only one drawn to the Montana farmstead. People from all walks of life have converged at the remote ranch. They are haunted, on the run, obsessed, and seeking answers to the same omniscient danger Joanna came to confront. All the while, on the outskirts of Rustling Willows, a madman lurks with a vision to save the future. Mass murder is the only way to see his frightening manifesto come to pass. Through a bizarre twist of seemingly coincidental circumstances, a band of strangers now find themselves under Montana’s big dark sky. Their lives entwined, they face an encroaching horror. Unless they can defeat this threat, it will spell the end for humanity. 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Twenty years later, Jürgen is one of the many German scientists offered pardons for their part in the war, and taken to America to work for its fledgling space program. For Sofie, this is the chance to exorcise the ghosts that have followed her across the ocean, and make a fresh start in her adopted country. But her neighbors aren’t as welcoming or as understanding as she had hoped. When scandalous rumors about the Rhodes family’s affiliation with Hitler’s regime spreads, idle gossip turns to bitter rage, and the act of violence that results will tear apart Sofie’s community and her family before the truth is finally revealed. 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Abby has sometimes felt like an outsider within the community, but she’s come to view Cutter’s Pass as her home. When Landon’s brother Trey shows up looking for answers, Abby can’t help but feel the town closing ranks. And she’s still on the outside. When she finds incriminating evidence that may bring them closer to the truth, Abby soon discovers how little she knows about her coworkers, neighbors, and even those closest to her. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Last to Vanish” by Megan Miranda FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/17411a40-a7fe-411c-a4fd-2584950cf9c1/the-librarian-spy-madeline-miller.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 28, 2022 - The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It’s a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those rules have been forgotten. Yet she knows that the Nazis are searching for the press and its printer in order to silence them. As the battle in Europe rages, Ava and Elaine find themselves connecting through coded messages and discovering hope in the face of war. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Librarian Spy” by Madeline Martin FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2a9bddf9-3e83-4a7d-9d7a-cd54dd3222b4/the-swell-allie-reynolds.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 28, 2022 - The Swell by Allie Reynolds GENRE: The waves are to die for. Three years ago, passionate surfer Kenna Ward lost her two great loves—after her boyfriend drowned, she hung up her surfboard and swore off the water for good. But she is drawn back to the beach when her best friend, Mikki, announces her sudden engagement to a man Kenna has never met—a member of a tight-knit group of surfers. Kenna travels to a remote Australian beach, entering a dangerous world far from civilization world where the waves, weather, and tides are all that matter. Kenna is tempted back into the surf, and drawn into the dazzling group and the beach they call their own. But this coastal paradise has a dark side, and members of the group begin to go missing. Kenna realizes that in order to protect Mikki and learn more about the surfers, she must become one of them…without becoming one of their victims. What follows is an adrenaline-fueled thriller packed with twists and turns, exploring the dangerous edge between passion and obsession. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Swell” by Allie Reynolds FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a8a7d29d-c2f9-48cf-8ada-a57afa92732d/things-we-do-in-the-dark-jennifer-hillier.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 28, 2022 - Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it's only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she's worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future. Twenty-five years earlier, Ruby Reyes, known as the Ice Queen, was convicted of a similar murder in a trial that riveted Canada in the early nineties. Reyes knows who Paris really is, and when she's unexpectedly released from prison, she threatens to expose all of Paris's secrets. Left with no other choice, Paris must finally confront the dark past she escaped, once and for all. Because the only thing worse than a murder charge are two murder charges. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Things We Do in the Dark” by Jennifer Hillier FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/3b189096-a8cf-47d5-be08-79bed0f07d2d/where-the-sky-begines-rhys-bowen.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 28, 2022 - Where the Sky Begins by Rhys Bowen GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks’s world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie’s beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to go. Evacuated to the English countryside, Josie ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a reluctant host to the survivors of the Blitz. Awed as she is by the magnificent landscape, Josie sees opportunity. Josie convinces Miss Harcourt to let her open a humble tea shop, seeing it as a chance for everyone to begin again. When Josie meets Mike Johnson, a handsome Canadian pilot stationed at a neighboring bomber base, a growing intimacy brings her an inner peace she’s never felt before. Then Stan returns from the war. Now a threat looms larger than anyone imagined. And a dangerous secret is about to upend Josie’s life again. Her newfound courage will be put to the test if she is to emerge, like a survivor, triumphant. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Where the Sky Begins” by Rhys Bowen FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-july-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d19f4304-0e82-419b-94f5-127ab22b1a30/the-bodyguard-katherine-center.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2022 - BRANDY’S PICK: The Bodyguard by Katherine Center GENRE: Romance WHY SHE PICKED IT: Kara Sullivan is a historical romance author who also moonlights as a bookstagrammer. As if Kara wasn’t busy enough with trying to write and complete her latest novel, she is also helping her best friend plan a wedding. Kara’s deadline is quickly approaching but she has been experiencing a bit of writer’s block (just like me in writing this little review). Until her college ex-boyfriend, Ryan, re-enters the picture and past feelings are suddenly providing inspiration for her latest chapters. Kara is torn between getting closer to Ryan to continue feeding off the inspiration he brings or to push him away so as to not get hurt again. A book about writing and books?!? Sign me up please! This cute little rom-com is sure to make you angry, make you cry, and make you laugh. It has a little bit of everything and will become one of your favourite summer reads. THE SYNOPSIS: She’s got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindgerten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. He’s got her heart. Jack Stapleton’s a household name—captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid. They’ve got a secret. When Jack’s mom gets sick, he comes home to the family’s Texas ranch to help out. Only one catch: He doesn’t want his family to know about his stalker. Or the bodyguard thing. And so Hannah—against her will and her better judgment—finds herself pretending to be Jack’s girlfriend as a cover. Even though her ex, like a jerk, says no one will believe it. What could possibly go wrong??? Hannah hardly believes it, herself. But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real it all starts to seem. And there lies the heartbreak. Because it’s easy for Hannah to protect Jack. But protecting her own, long-neglected heart? That’s the hardest thing she’s ever done. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Bodyguard” by Katherine Center FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c7bf5e0b-4c59-44c5-a8f7-547fd4d526af/when-a-killer-calls-john-douglas.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2022 - LISA G’s PICKS: When a Killer Calls by John Douglas GENRE: Nonfiction, True Crime WHY SHE PICKED IT: 'When a Killer Calls' is the newest true crime book by John Douglas-the famous 'Mindhunter' of the FBI who was instrumental in creating the base of criminal profiling. If you are waiting for Netflix to put out the next season of 'Mindhunter' like me-you will find 'When a Killer Calls' satisfying. It follows Douglas's own case of missing teen Shari Smith in 1985, the crimes of Larry Gene Bell, and the process of criminal profiling to work the case. An interesting read from beginning to end. THE SYNOPSIS: On May 31, 1985, two days before her high school graduation, Shari Smith was abducted from the driveway of her family home in South Carolina. Based on the crime scene and the abductor’s repeated and taunting calls to the family, law enforcement quickly realized they were dealing with a sophisticated and highly dangerous criminal. A letter arrived the next day entitled “Last Will & Testament,” in which Shari, knowing she was to be murdered, wrote bravely and achingly of her love for her parents, siblings, and boyfriend, saying that while they would miss her, she knew they would persevere through their faith. The abduction rocked her quiet town, triggering a massive manhunt and bringing in the FBI, which enlisted profiler John Douglas. A few days later, a phone call told the family where they could find Shari’s body. Then nine-year-old Debra May Helmick was kidnapped from her yard, confirming the harsh realization that Smith’s murder was no random act. A serial killer was evolving, and the only way to stop him would be to use the study of criminal behavior to anticipate his next move before he could kill again. Douglas devised a risky and emotionally fraught strategy to use Shari’s lookalike older sister Dawn as bait to draw out the unknown subject. Dawn and her parents courageously agreed. One of the most haunting investigations of Douglas’s storied career, this case details how the eerily accurate profile he created—alongside his carefully crafted and stage-managed manipulation of the killer’s psychology—combined with dedicated police work and cutting-edge forensic science to end a reign of criminal terror. As Shari’s family took incredible personal risks to lure her killer from the shadows, Douglas and the FBI pushed criminal profiling to its limits, culminating in one of his most dramatic and effective confrontations with a sadistic and remorseless killer. CLICK TO RESERVE “When a Killer Calls” by John Douglas FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e09c9568-df30-4d55-846f-802b66f65fba/hidden-pictures-jason-rekulak.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2022 - LISA S’s PICK: Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak GENRE: Horror, Thriller WHY SHE PICKED IT: I flew through this novel. The book is labelled as horror, but it reads more like a spooky thriller. The pictures Teddy draws are included in the book, which added so much to the story, because we saw the difference in his drawings from the beginning, through the middle, to the end. I didn’t see the big twist coming, and while the bread crumbs were there, they were worked into the story so organically that they were not flaming red flags. I’m so looking forward to whatever comes next from this author. THE SYNOPSIS: Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory immediately loves this new job. She lives in the Maxwell’s pool house, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body. As the days pass, Teddy’s artwork becomes more and more sinister, and his stick figures steadily evolve into more detailed, complex, and lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to suspect these are glimpses of an unsolved murder from long ago, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force lingering in the forest behind the Maxwell’s house. With help from a handsome landscaper and an eccentric neighbor, Mallory sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy—while coming to terms with a tragedy in her own past—before it’s too late. CLICK TO RESEREVE “Hidden Pictures” by Jason Rekulak FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ba4c3773-c489-42da-8a3e-24ebeaef4b0f/sorcery-of-thorns-margaret-rogerson.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2022 - TORI’s PICK: Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson GENRE: Young Adult, Fantasy WHY SHE PICKED IT: Sometimes a good dedication page is enough to get me to read a book. This one is dedicated "For all the girls who found themselves in books." That pretty much sums up this story, another world to live in for a few hundred pages. This YA fantasy is a fun adventure about sorcerers, libraries, and secrets. It's also a stand alone, so the whole story is in one book rather than a long series, something I really look for in YA fantasy. THE SYNOPSIS: All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them. As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught—about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Sorcery of Thorns” by Margaret Rogerson: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-july-20-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/79186350-d2d3-4ac9-a64a-39de0fd333fc/the-bodyguard-katherine-center.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 20, 2022 - The Bodyguard by Katherine Center GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: She’s got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindgerten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. He’s got her heart. Jack Stapleton’s a household name—captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid. They’ve got a secret. When Jack’s mom gets sick, he comes home to the family’s Texas ranch to help out. Only one catch: He doesn’t want his family to know about his stalker. Or the bodyguard thing. And so Hannah—against her will and her better judgment—finds herself pretending to be Jack’s girlfriend as a cover. Even though her ex, like a jerk, says no one will believe it. What could possibly go wrong??? Hannah hardly believes it, herself. But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real it all starts to seem. And there lies the heartbreak. Because it’s easy for Hannah to protect Jack. But protecting her own, long-neglected heart? That’s the hardest thing she’s ever done. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Bodyguard” by Katherine Center FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d94b49d6-b675-47b2-a93b-e6d4df75c628/grace-under-fire-julie-garwood.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 20, 2022 - Grace Under Fire (Buchanan-Renard #14) by Julie Garwood GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Grace Isabel MacKenna had a hundred things to do today. Killing someone wasn’t one of them. It was supposed to be a quick visit to Boston for the Buchanan anniversary party, then on to Scotland to collect an inheritance. She checks into the hotel and then decides to go for a brisk walk. But after getting lost she ends up with a wounded man stumbling into her arms, and then his shooter coming after them both. When she fires back in self-defense, she doesn’t expect him to drop dead. Thanks to the Buchanans dispatching Navy SEAL and now a lawyer Michael Buchanan to help her deal with the police, Isabel endures hours of interrogation and is finally free to go. Isabel knows she should be grateful for Michael’s help, but since she’s harbored an extreme dislike for him for years, gratitude is difficult to muster. Michael has appointed himself her de facto guardian, and she’s stuck with him despite their constant bickering and sizzling attraction. Even when Isabel goes to Scotland to claim her inheritance, Michael follows her, but he isn’t the only thing she can’t shake. Mysterious threats against Isabel surface, and before they can deal with their growing feelings for each other, Michael and Isabel must first survive. CLICK TO RESERVE “Grace Under Fire (Buchanan-Renard #14)” by Julie Gardwood FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a45da557-db67-49c0-a771-91e23507759b/one-good-thing-alexandra-potter.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 20, 2022 - One Good Thing by Alexandra Potter GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: In life, nothing is certain. Just when you think you have it all figured out, something can happen to change the course of everything . . . Liv Brooks is still in shock. Newly-divorced and facing an uncertain future, she impulsively swaps her London Life for the sweeping hills of the Yorkshire Dales, determined to make a fresh start. But fresh starts are harder than they look and feeling lost and lonely she decides to adopt Harry, an old dog from the local shelter, to keep her company. But Liv soon discovers she isn’t the only one in need of a new beginning. On their daily walks around the village, they meet Valentine, an old man who suffers from loneliness who sits by the window and Stanley, a little boy who is scared of everyone, hides behind the garden gate and Maya, a teenager who is angry at everyone and everything. But slowly things start to change… CLICK TO RESERVE “One Good Thing” by Alexandra Potter FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/7dd52a30-e3d3-4be0-84be-1c1d08c7ef5c/portrait-of-an-unknown-woman-daniel-silva.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 20, 2022 - Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Gabriel Allon #22) by Daniel Silva GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals of the watery city, bidding farewell to the demons of his tragic, violent past. But when the eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood asks Gabriel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the rediscovery and lucrative sale of a centuries-old painting, he is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse where nothing is as it seems. Gabriel soon discovers that the work in question, a portrait of an unidentified woman attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck, is almost certainly a fiendishly clever fake. To find the mysterious figure who painted it--and uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud at the pinnacle of the art world--Gabriel conceives one of the most elaborate deceptions of his career. If it is to succeed, he must become the very mirror image of the man he seeks: the greatest art forger the world has ever known. CLICK TO RESERVE “Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Gabriel Allon #22)” by Daniel Silva FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d8aa5b1e-dfe0-44f2-8543-4f500592d988/shattered-james-patterson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 20, 2022 - Shattered (Michael Bennett #14) by James Patterson GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: When an FBI agent goes missing, Detective Michael Bennett will stop at nothing to bring her home... Returning home from his honeymoon, Detective Michael Bennett is greeted with shocking news. FBI agent, Emily Parker, is missing. In order to track her down, Michael follows his former partner's investigation into an anarchist group that led her between Los Angeles, New York and Washington DC. Lurid rumours begin to surface about Emily's disappearance and Michael knows that he needs to act quickly to find her. After everything they've been through together, he owes her that much. CLICK TO RESERVE “Shattered (Michael Bennett #14)” by James Patterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/9c340680-d169-4c3a-a014-41466af625f4/sister-mother-warrior-vanessa-riley.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 20, 2022 - Sister Mother Warrior by Vanessa Riley GENRE: Historical THE SYNOPSIS: Gran Toya: Born in West Africa, Abdaraya Toya was one of the legendary minos--women called "Dahomeyan Amazons" by the Europeans--who were specially chosen female warriors consecrated to the King of Dahomey. Betrayed by an enemy, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, Toya wound up in the French colony of Saint Domingue, where she became a force to be reckoned with on its sugar plantations: a healer and an authority figure among the enslaved. Among the motherless children she helped raise was a man who would become the revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines. When the enslaved people rose up, Toya, ever the warrior, was at the forefront of the rebellion that changed the course of history. Marie-Claire: A free woman of color, Marie-Claire Bonheur was raised in an air of privilege and security because of her wealthy white grandfather. With a passion for charitable work, she grew up looking for ways to help those oppressed by a society steeped in racial and economic injustices. Falling in love with Jean-Jacques Dessalines, an enslaved man, was never the plan, yet their paths continued to cross and intertwine, and despite a marriage of convenience to a Frenchman, she and Dessalines had several children. When war breaks out on Saint Domingue, pitting the French, Spanish, and enslaved people against one another in turn, Marie-Claire and Toya finally meet, and despite their deep differences, they both play pivotal roles in the revolution that will eventually lead to full independence for Haiti and its people. CLICK TO RESERVE “Sister Mother Warrior” by Vanessa Riley FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/8f7451a6-b800-4c4e-bcc7-3e232ab82ca3/switchboard-soldiers-jennifer-chiaverini.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 20, 2022 - Switchboard Soldiers by Jennifer Chiaverini GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish American forces in Europe. He immediately found himself unable to communicate with troops in the field. Pershing needed operators who could swiftly and accurately connect multiple calls, speak fluent French and English, remain steady under fire, and be utterly discreet, since the calls often conveyed classified information. At the time, nearly all well-trained American telephone operators were women--but women were not permitted to enlist, or even to vote in most states. Nevertheless, the U.S. Army Signal Corps promptly began recruiting them. More than 7,600 women responded, including Grace Banker of New Jersey, a switchboard instructor with AT&T and an alumna of Barnard College; Marie Miossec, a Frenchwoman and aspiring opera singer; and Valerie DeSmedt, a twenty-year-old Pacific Telephone operator from Los Angeles, determined to strike a blow for her native Belgium. They were among the first women sworn into the U.S. Army under the Articles of War. The male soldiers they had replaced had needed one minute to connect each call. The switchboard soldiers could do it in ten seconds. The risk of death was real--the women worked as bombs fell around them--as was the threat of a deadly new disease: the Spanish Flu. Not all of the telephone operators would survive. CLICK TO RESERVE “Switchboard Soldiers” by Jennifer Chiaverini FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/22149b3b-d1d1-45f2-9c8e-021a792406f9/the-daughter-of-doctor-moreau-sylvia-moreno-garcia.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: July 20, 2022 - The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Carlota Moreau: a young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. The only daughter of either a genius, or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: a melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. An outcast who assists Dr. Moreau with his scientific experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas and plentiful coffers. The hybrids: the fruits of the Doctor’s labor, destined to blindly obey their creator and remain in the shadows. A motley group of part human, part animal monstrosities. All of them living in a perfectly balanced and static world, which is jolted by the abrupt arrival of Eduardo Lizalde, the charming and careless son of Doctor Moreau’s patron, who will unwittingly begin a dangerous chain reaction. For Moreau keeps secrets, Carlota has questions, and in the sweltering heat of the jungle, passions may ignite. 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Nine years later, Marya is a prisoner in a Siberian work camp when Vera, a doyenne of the KGB, has cause to reopen her case file and investigate the facts behind her sister's conviction all those years ago in Berlin. As Vera retraces the steps that brought them both to that pivotal moment in 1947, she unravels unexpected truths and discoveries that call into question the very history the Soviets were working hard to cover up. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Soviet Sisters” by Anika Scott FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/hiring-library-clerk-cataloguer monthly 0.5 2022-07-15 https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-june-14-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c2477074-9987-4e46-8c2f-bae1bf95c3f5/a-face-to-die-for-iris-johansen.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - A Face to Die For (Eve Duncan #28) by Iris Johansen GENRE: Suspense, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world in search of the tomb of the world’s most beautiful woman. Professor Smith put his life on the line to prove that, instead of a myth, Helen had been a living, breathing queen. Riley seeks the help of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, who has the unusual skills necessary to recreate the face that launched a thousand ships—revealing Helen’s true appearance for the first time in history. But convincing Eve to take on the challenge will be difficult because her efforts could come at great personal risk to her and her family… Tomb raiders have murdered Riley’s father, and now she is more determined than ever to reach the burial site first, avenge his death, and enlist Eve’s aid. Also on hand to help is dashing fixer and treasure hunter Michael Cade, but could he have his own secret agenda when it comes to finding Helen? Now both Riley and Eve are in danger and in a race across one of the most remote parts of the world. All they have is their trust in each other and their belief in a dream as they hunt for Helen. CLICK TO RESERVE “A Face to Die For (Eve Duncan #28)” by Iris Johansen FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/14d2dc5f-e193-462a-b07a-199298f7df1a/and-there-he-kept-her-joshua-moehling.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: They thought he was a helpless old man. They were wrong. When two teenagers break into a house on a remote lake in search of prescription drugs, what starts as a simple burglary turns into a nightmare for all involved. Emmett Burr has secrets he's been keeping in his basement for more than two decades, and he'll do anything to keep his past from being revealed. As he gets the upper hand on his tormentors, the lines blur between victim, abuser, and protector. Personal tragedy has sent former police officer Ben Packard back to the small Minnesota town of Sandy Lake in search of a fresh start. Now a sheriff's deputy, Packard is leading the investigation into the missing teens, motivated by a family connection. As clues dry up and time runs out to save them, Packard is forced to reveal his own secrets and dig deep to uncover the dark past of the place he now calls home. CLICK TO RESERVE “And There He Kept Her” by Joshua Moehling FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e40cce38-34d3-4ef4-99bc-1d04addc68e0/by-the-book-jasmine-guillory.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - By the Book (Meant to Be #2) by Jasmine Guillory GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: A tale as old as time—for a new generation… Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, living at home, still an editorial assistant, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. Overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, Izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. So when she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly high-profile author who has failed to deliver his long-awaited manuscript, Isabelle sees an opportunity to finally get the promotion she deserves. All she has to do is go to the author’s Santa Barbara mansion and give him a quick pep talk or three. How hard could it be? But Izzy quickly finds out she is in over her head. Beau Towers is not some celebrity lightweight writing a tell-all memoir. He is jaded and withdrawn and—it turns out—just as lost as Izzy. But despite his standoffishness, Izzy needs Beau to deliver, and with her encouragement, his story begins to spill onto the page. They soon discover they have more in common than either of them expected, and as their deadline nears, Izzy and Beau begin to realize there may be something there that wasn't there before. CLICK TO RESERVE “By the Book (Meant to Be #2)” by Jasmine Guillory FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5def77a1-fa8f-455b-935a-a74de0bc15c9/cold-cold-bones-kathy-reichs.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - Cold, Cold Bones (Temperance Brennan #21) by Kathy Reichs GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe’s place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball. GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally macabre discovery awaits. Soon after, Tempe examines a mummified corpse in a state park, and her anxiety deepens. There seems to be no pattern to the subsequent killings uncovered, except that each mimics in some way a homicide that a younger Tempe had been called in to analyze. Who or what is targeting her, and why? Helping Tempe search for answers is detective Erskine “Skinny” Slidell, retired but still volunteering with the CMPD cold case unit—and still displaying his gallows humor. Also pulled into the mystery: Andrew Ryan, Tempe’s Montreal-based beau, now working as a private detective. Could this elaborately staged skein of mayhem be the prelude to a twist that is even more shocking? Tempe is at a loss to establish the motive for what is going on…and then her daughter disappears. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Cold, Cold Bones (Temperance Brennan #21)” by Kathy Reichs BELOW: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f82b9259-d3ff-49ef-b969-fa5111ad2216/horse-geraldine-brooks.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - Horse by Geraldine Brooks GENRE: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse--one studying the stallion's bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success. CLICK TO RESERVE “Horse” by Geraldine Brooks FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f16a9f75-343c-4722-b75e-4b0d0ff47bf4/more-than-you%27ll-ever-know-katie-gutierrez.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: The dance becomes an affair, which becomes a marriage, which becomes a murder... In 1985, Dolores “Lore” Rivera marries Andres Russo in Mexico City, even though she is already married to Fabian Rivera in Laredo, Texas, and they share twin sons. Through her career as an international banker, Lore splits her time between two countries and two families—until the truth is revealed and one husband is arrested for murdering the other. In 2017, while trawling the internet for the latest, most sensational news reports, struggling true-crime writer Cassie Bowman encounters an article detailing that tragic final act. Cassie is immediately enticed by what is not explored: Why would a woman—a mother—risk everything for a secret double marriage? Cassie sees an opportunity—she’ll track Lore down and capture the full picture, the choices, the deceptions that led to disaster. But the more time she spends with Lore, the more Cassie questions the facts surrounding the murder itself. Soon, her determination to uncover the truth could threaten to derail Lore’s now quiet life—and expose the many secrets both women are hiding. CLICK TO RESERVE “More Than You’ll Ever Know” by Katie Gutierrez FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/50bf70fa-2aad-486a-b149-a15558b024f6/movie-land-lee-goldberg.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - Movieland (Eve Ronin #4) by Lee Goldberg GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Malibu Creek State Park is a beautiful locale for campers, tourists, hikers, and Hollywood. For Detective Eve Ronin, it’s a backdrop for murder in a riveting thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg. For decades Malibu Creek State Park was the spectacular natural setting where Hollywood fantasies were made. But when a female camper is gunned down, it becomes a real-life killing ground. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone are assigned the case…which Duncan fears is the latest in a series of sniper attacks that began long before Eve came to Lost Hills. Seven victims over fourteen months…and top officials still refuse to see a connection. Eve and Duncan are stonewalled, threatened, and ordered to keep quiet. But Eve won’t back down. She’s no stranger to intimidation or corruption—she’s had a target on her back from day one at Lost Hills station. Despite finding no evidentiary links between the shootings, Eve and Duncan follow their instincts into the shadows of Malibu Creek, where it’s not enough to expose the secrets and break the conspiracy of silence. They also have to make it out alive. CLICK TO RESERVE “Movie Land (Eve Ronin #4)" by Lee Goldberg FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1a7c9af9-513c-42a8-9448-2aff5530754d/out-of-the-clear-blue-sky-kristin-higgins.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - Out of the Clear Blue Sky by Kristan Higgins GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Lillie Silva knew life as an empty nester would be hard after her only child left for college, but when her husband abruptly dumps her for another woman just as her son leaves, her world comes crashing down. Besides the fact that this announcement is a complete surprise (to say the least), what shocks Lillie most is that she isn't...heartbroken. She's furious. Lillie has loved her life on Cape Cod, but as a mother, wife and nurse-midwife, she's used to caring for other people...not taking care of herself. Now, alone for the first time in her life, she finds herself going a little rogue. Is it over the top to crash her ex-husband's wedding, dressed like the angel of death? Sure! Should she release a skunk into his perfect new home? Probably not! But it beats staying home and moping. She finds an unexpected ally in her glamorous sister, with whom she's had a tense relationship all these years. And an unexpected babysitter in of all people Ben Hallowell, the driver in a car accident that nearly killed Lillie 20 years ago. And then there's Ophelia, her ex-husband's oddly lost niece, who could really use a friend. It's the end of Lillie's life as she knew it. But sometimes the perfect next chapter surprises you...out of the clear blue sky. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Out of the Clear Blue Sky” by Kristan Higgins: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/46679744-bfda-4c1c-b303-26986f43b873/reputation-sarah-vaughan.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - Reputation by Sarah Vaughan GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: As a politician, Emma has sacrificed a great deal for her career--including her marriage and her relationship with her daughter, Flora. A former teacher, she finds the glare of the spotlight unnerving, particularly when it leads to countless insults, threats, and trolling as she tries to work in the public eye. As a woman, she knows her reputation is worth its weight in gold, but as a politician, she discovers it only takes one slip-up to destroy it completely. Fourteen-year-old Flora is learning the same hard lessons at school as she encounters heartless bullying. When another teenager takes her own life, Emma lobbies for a new law to protect women and girls from the effects of online abuse. Now, Emma and Flora find their personal lives uncomfortably intersected--but then the unthinkable happens: A man is found dead in Emma’s home, a man she had every reason to be afraid of and to want gone. Fighting to protect her reputation, and determined to protect her family at all costs, Emma is pushed to the limits as the worst happens and her life is torn apart. CLICK TO RESERVE “Reputation” by Sarah Vaughan FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/264ecd40-4f08-4849-adb9-a17e49744a40/rising-tiger-brad-thor.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - The Rising Tiger (Scott Horvath #21) by Brad Thor GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: An unprecedented, potentially nation-ending threat has materialized on the world stage. Though the United States has long been aware of the growing risk, administration after administration has passed the buck, fearful of the global consequences of engaging this enemy head-on. The clock, however, has now run out and doing nothing is no longer an option. With the stakes higher than they have ever been, it is time to unleash Scot Harvath. As America’s top spy, Harvath has the unparalleled skills and experience necessary to handle any situation, but this assignment feels different and appears doomed from the start. Thrust into a completely unfamiliar culture, with few he can trust, the attempts on his life begin piling up the moment he arrives. Someone, somewhere, knows far too much. With democracy itself hanging in the balance, Harvath will risk everything to untangle the explosive plot and bring every last bad actor to justice. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Rising Tiger (Scott Horvath #21)” by Brad Thor FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/63e434cc-48c6-4755-8c6c-b0a9ecab1eb9/sparring-partners-john-grisham.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - Sparring Partners (Jake Briggance #3.5) by John Grisham GENRE: Novella, Short Stories, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: “Homecoming” takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham’s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he’s not in the courtroom. He’s called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again—until now. Now Mack is back, and he’s leaning on his old pals, Jake and Harry Rex, to help him return. His homecoming does not go as planned. In “Strawberry Moon,” we meet Cody Wallace, a young death row inmate only three hours away from execution. His lawyers can’t save him, the courts slam the door, and the governor says no to a last-minute request for clemency. As the clock winds down, Cody has one final request. The “Sparring Partners” are the Malloy brothers, Kirk and Rusty, two successful young lawyers who inherited a once prosperous firm when its founder, their father, was sent to prison. Kirk and Rusty loathe each other, and speak to each other only when necessary. As the firm disintegrates, the resulting fiasco falls into the lap of Diantha Bradshaw, the only person the partners trust. Can she save the Malloys, or does she take a stand for the first time in her career and try to save herself? 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On a whim, Jake urges her to say yes, saying that he wants to watch this other man touch her, something that surprises Jessica by arousing her like never before. A door opens for them then, into a realm of exploration neither of them knew existed. They create rules to protect their marriage, and are thrilled when their relationship is strengthened and enriched by deeper levels of communication and trust brought about by this exciting, but taboo behavior. That is, until Jessica keeps a secret from Jake and embarks on a tryst with an intriguing man from her past, who, when she tries to end things between them, decides to seek revenge. What happens after that will threaten to destroy their world--and them. CLICK TO RESERVE “Tell Me Everything” by Amy Hatvany FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d5e9241b-a1a1-4103-b49f-81064c85ada4/the-620-man-david-baldacci.JPG BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city’s most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling day in the cutthroat realm of finance. Then one morning Devine’s tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead. Sara Ewes, Devine’s coworker and former girlfriend, has been found hanging in a storage room of his office building—presumably a suicide, prompting the NYPD to come calling on him. If that wasn’t enough, Devine receives another ominous visit, a confrontation that threatens to dredge up grim secrets from his past in the Army unless he participates in a clandestine investigation into his firm. This treacherous role will take Travis from the impossibly glittering lives he once saw only through a train window, to the darkest corners of the country’s economic halls of power…where something rotten lurks. And apart from this high-stakes conspiracy, there’s a killer out there with their own agenda, and Devine is the bullseye. CLICK TO RESERVE “The 6:20 Man” by David Baldacci FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b131e5c8-3285-4942-b49b-19a51a639f6c/the-binding-room-nadine-matheson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - The Binding Room (Inspector Angelica Henley #2) by Nadine Matheson GENRE: Thriller, Suspense THE SYNOPSIS: When Detective Anjelica Henley is called to investigate the murder of a popular preacher in his own church, she discovers a second victim, tortured and tied to a bed in an upstairs room. He is alive, but barely, and his body shows signs of a dark religious ritual. With a revolving list of suspects and the media spotlight firmly on her, Henley is left with more questions than answers as she attempts to untangle both crimes. But when another body appears, the case takes on a new urgency. Unless she can apprehend the killer, the next victim may just be Henley herself. Drawing on her experiences as a criminal attorney, Nadine Matheson deftly explores issues of race, class and justice through an action-packed story that will hold you captive until the last terrifying page. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Binding Room (Inspector Angelica Henley #2)” by Nadine Matheson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/cd297632-3d0d-44b1-9664-f46125086622/the-finalists-david-bell.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - The Finalists by David Bell GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: On a beautiful spring day, six college students with nothing in common besides a desperate inability to pay for school gather to compete for the prestigious Hyde Fellowship. Milo--The front-runner. Natalia--The brain. James--The rule follower. Sydney--The athlete. Duffy--The cowboy. Emily--The social justice warrior. The six of them must surrender their devices when they enter Hyde House, an aging Victorian structure that sits in a secluded part of campus. Once inside, the doors lock behind them. The students are not allowed to leave until they spend eight hours with a college administrator who will do almost anything to keep the school afloat and Nicholas Hyde, the privileged and notoriously irresponsible heir to the Hyde family fortune. If the students leave before time is up, they'll be immediately disqualified. But when one of the six finalists drops dead, the other students fear they're being picked off one by one. With a violent protest raging outside and no way to escape, the survivors viciously turn on each other. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Finalists” by David Bell FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/473ab131-a857-4048-8f88-448c7e405b45/the-hotel-nantucket-elin-hilderbrand.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: After a tragic fire in 1922 that killed 19-year-old chambermaid, Grace Hadley, The Hotel Nantucket descended from a gilded age gem to a mediocre budget-friendly lodge to inevitably an abandoned eyesore — until it's purchased and renovated top to bottom by London billionaire, Xavier Darling. Xavier hires Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton as his general manager, and Lizbet, in turn, pulls together a charismatic, if inexperienced, staff who share the vision of turning the fate of the hotel around. They face challenges in getting along with one another (and with the guests), in overcoming the hotel's bad reputation, and in surviving the (mostly) harmless shenanigans of Grace Hadley herself — who won't stop haunting the hotel until her murder is acknowledged. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Hotel Nantucket” by Elin Hilderbrand: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/88bdfb64-cc2b-4e2e-9d26-1055397e0724/the-house-across-the-lake-riley-sager.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of liquor, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple who live in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is rich; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other—and the longer Casey watches—it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom’s marriage is not as perfect and placid as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey becomes consumed with finding out what happened to her. In the process, she uncovers eerie, darker truths that turn a tale of voyeurism and suspicion into a story of guilt, obsession and how looks can be very deceiving. CLICK TO RESERVE “The House Across the Lake” by Riley Sager FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/498d45a0-56bd-4509-9cfc-76b3c9ed7573/the-island-adrian-mckinty.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - The Island by Adrian McKinty GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: It was just supposed to be a family vacation. A terrible accident changed everything. You don't know what you're capable of until they come for your family. After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they’re deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking a chance on an adventure far from the reach of iPhones and Instagram. But as soon as they set foot on the island, which is run by a tightly knit clan of locals, everything feels wrong. Then a shocking accident propels the Baxters from an unsettling situation into an absolute nightmare. When Heather and the kids are separated from Tom, they are forced to escape alone, seconds ahead of their pursuers. Now it’s up to Heather to save herself and the kids, even though they don’t trust her, the harsh bushland is filled with danger, and the locals want her dead. Heather has been underestimated her entire life, but she knows that only she can bring her family home again and become the mother the children desperately need, even if it means doing the unthinkable to keep them all alive. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Island” by Adrian McKinty FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/04df4f46-d22f-45af-be48-88d8dee62bcb/listen-to-me-tess-gerritsen.JPG BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - Listen to Me (Rizzoli & Isles #13) by Tess Gerritsen GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Mothers know best . . . But who will listen? Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by all her neighbors, lies bludgeoned to death in her own home. But anything can happen behind closed doors, and Sofia seemed to have plenty of secrets in her last days, making covert phone calls to old contacts and traceless burner phones. When Jane finally makes a connection between Sofia and the victim of a hit-and-run months earlier, the case only grows more blurry. What exactly was Sofia involved in? One thing is clear: The killer will do anything it takes to keep their secret safe. Meanwhile, Angela Rizzoli hasn’t had a decent night’s sleep in all the years since her daughter became a homicide detective. Maybe the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree. Nothing in her neighborhood gets by Angela - not the gossip about a runaway teenager down the block and definitely not the strange neighbors who have just moved in across the street. Angela’s sure there’s no such thing as coincidence in her sleepy suburb. If only Jane would listen; instead she writes off Angela’s concerns as the result of an overactive imagination. But Angela’s convinced there’s a real wolf in her vicinity, and her cries might now fall on deaf ears. With so much happening on the Sofia case, Jane and Maura already struggle to see the forest for the trees, but will they lose sight of something sinister happening much closer to home? CLICK TO RESERVE “Listen To Me (Rizzoli & Isles #13)” by Tess Gerritsen FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/3b6d4548-a6b4-42b6-b704-d37288682c47/look-closer-david-ellis.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - Look Closer by David Ellis GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Simon and Vicky couldn't seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple, he a respected law professor, she an advocate for domestic violence victims. A stable, if unexciting marriage. But one thing's for sure ... absolutely nothing is what it seems. The pair are far from normal, and one of them just may be a killer. When the body of a beautiful socialite is found hanging in a mansion in a nearby suburb, Simon and Vicky's secrets begin to unravel. A secret whirlwind affair. A twenty-million-dollar trust fund about to come due. A decades-long grudge and obsession with revenge. These are just a few of the lies that make up the complex web...and they will have devastating consequences. And while both Vicky and Simon are liars, just who exactly is conning who? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Look Closer” by David Ellis FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b21626b1-5ff0-45ed-853b-d790cbe11bb4/lapvona-otessa-moshfegh.JPG BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - Lapvona by Otessa Moshfegh GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life’s few consolations for Marek is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him as a baby, as she did so many of the village’s children. Ina’s gifts extend beyond childcare: she possesses a unique ability to communicate with the natural world. Her gift often brings her the transmission of sacred knowledge on levels far beyond those available to other villagers, however religious they might be. For some people, Ina’s home in the woods outside of the village is a place to fear and to avoid, a godless place. Among their number is Father Barnabas, the town priest and lackey for the depraved lord and governor, Villiam, whose hilltop manor contains a secret embarrassment of riches. The people’s desperate need to believe that there are powers that be who have their best interests at heart is put to a cruel test by Villiam and the priest, especially in this year of record drought and famine. But when fate brings Marek into violent proximity to the lord’s family, new and occult forces upset the old order. By year’s end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, the natural world and the spirit world, civility and savagery, will prove to be very thin indeed. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Lapvona” by Otessa Moshfegh: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/3dd47786-62c5-44f0-a2cd-c5a39d05e499/the-it-girl-ruth-ware.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - The It Girl by Ruth Ware GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: April Coutts-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the second, April was dead. Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison. Relieved to have finally put the past behind her, Hannah’s world is rocked when a young journalist comes knocking and presents new evidence that Neville may have been innocent. As Hannah reconnects with old friends and delves deeper into the mystery of April’s death, she realizes that the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide…including a murder. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The It Girl” by Ruth Ware: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1c481624-7b29-41ec-b7a6-95f6977628f5/the-ruins-phoebe-wynne.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - The Ruins by Phoebe Wynne GENRE: Mystery, Gothic THE SYNOPSIS: Welcome to the Chateau des Sètes, a jewel of the Cote d’Azur, where long summer days bring ease, glamour, and decadence to the holidaymakers who can afford it. Ruby Ashby adores her parents’ house in France, but this August, everything feels different. Unexpected guests have descended upon the chateau––friends of her parents, and their daughters―and they are keen to enjoy the hot, extravagant summer holiday to its fullest potential. Far from England, safe in their wealth and privilege, the adults revel in bad behavior without consequence, while the girls are treated as playthings or abandoned to their own devices. But despite languid days spent poolside and long nights spent drinking, a simmering tension is growing between the families, and the sanctuary that Ruby cherishes soon starts to feel like a gilded cage. Over two decades later the chateau is for sale, its days of splendor and luxury long gone, leaving behind a terrible history and an ugly legacy. A young widow has returned to France, wanting to purchase the chateau, despite her shocking memories of what transpired that fateful summer. But there is another person who is equally haunted by the chateau, and who also seeks to reclaim it. Who will set the chateau free––and who will become yet another of its victims? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Ruins” by Phoebe Wynne FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/644de459-8d85-4d61-97bc-ad0f2b901e1b/tom-clancy-zero-hour.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - Tom Clancy Zero Hour (Jack Ryan Jr. #15) by Don Bentley GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: When the leader of North Korea is catastrophically injured, his incapacitation inadvertently triggers a "dead-man's switch," activating an army of sleeper agents in South Korea and precipitating a struggle for succession. Jack Ryan, Jr. is in Seoul to interview a potential addition to the Campus. But his benign trip takes a deadly turn when a wave of violence perpetrated by North Korean operatives grips South Korea's capital. A mysterious voice from North Korea offers Jack a way to stop the peninsula's rush to war, but her price may be more than he can afford to pay. CLICK TO RESERVE “Tom Clancy Zero Hour (Jack Ryan Jr. #15) FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d5cf0412-31bb-4800-82ad-45247bf3f1d6/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-gabrielle-zevin.JPG BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin GENRE: Romance, Contemporary THE SYNOPSIS: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts. Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before. CLICK TO RESERVE “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e21c96e9-69a5-4014-b56a-002fcafe2bce/upgrade-blake-crouch.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 14, 2022 - Upgrade by Blake Crouch GENRE: Science Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: “You are the next step in human evolution.” At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep. But before long, he can’t deny it: Something’s happening to his brain. To his body. He’s starting to see the world, and those around him—even those he loves most—in whole new ways. The truth is, Logan’s genome has been hacked. And there’s a reason he’s been targeted for this upgrade. A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy. Worse still, what’s happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large—at a terrifying cost. Because of his new abilities, Logan’s the one person in the world capable of stopping what’s been set in motion. But to have a chance at winning this war, he’ll have to become something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. And even as he’s fighting, he can’t help wondering: what if humanity’s only hope for a future really does lie in engineering our own evolution? CLICK TO RESERVE “Upgrade” by Blake Crouch FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-june-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5bd1f180-cf13-453c-be3b-cfedf20cbf75/under-currents-nora-roberts.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2022 - TORI’S PICK: Under Currents by Nora Roberts GENRE: Romance WHY SHE PICKED IT: “Under Currents” is my first Nora Roberts, surprisingly since she is so well-liked, and I do love the popular authors. I picked this book up because my late aunt’s favourite series was written by Nora Roberts and when I read the main character in this had the same name as my son, Zane, it felt like a sign to read it. I am so glad I did, and if you’re looking for a thriller, suspense, romance book – take this as your sign to read it too. This book had me in tears, jumping for joy, extra heartbreak, then more celebrating. A rollercoaster of emotions. One of the main characters Darby is a landscaping artist, written so well I started to fall in love with landscaping. I found myself googling different trees and flowers- trying to decide what I should start growing in my own yard, because of this book. THE SYNOPSIS: Zane Bigelow grew up in a beautiful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Strangers―and even Zane’s own aunt across the lake―see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children’s ballet recitals and baseball games. Only Zane and his sister know the truth, until one brutal night finally reveals cracks in the facade, and Zane escapes for college without a thought of looking back... Years later, Zane returns to his hometown determined to reconnect with the place and people that mean so much to him, despite the painful memories. As he resumes life in the colorful town, he meets a gifted landscape artist named Darby, who is on the run from ghosts of her own. Together they will have to teach each other what it means to face the past, and stand up for the ones they love. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Under Currents” by Nora Roberts: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/786dddd0-093e-4df0-b0c9-ae3b304685bf/mr-wrong-number-lynn-painter.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2022 - BRANDY’S PICK: Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn Painter GENRE: Romance WHY SHE PICKED IT: Why yes, I did pick another romantic comedy as my staff pick this month. What can I say? They are my jam! I could not put this book down. It was so fun to read and a wee bit sexy, if I dare say. The only thing that got to me was the main characters poor luck. I could relate in some ways but in others, it was a bit far-fetched. Otherwise, this book was a nice, light read to escape your daily grind. THE SYNOPSIS: Things get textual when a steamy message from a random wrong number turns into an anonymous relationship in this hilarious rom-com by Lynn Painter. Bad luck has always followed Olivia Marshall…or maybe she’s just the screw-up her family thinks she is. But when a “What are you wearing?” text from a random wrong number turns into the hottest, most entertaining—albeit anonymous—relationship of her life, she thinks things might be on the upswing…. Colin Beck has always considered Olivia his best friend’s annoying little sister, but when she moves in with them after one of her worst runs of luck, he realizes she’s turned into an altogether different and sexier distraction. He’s sure he can keep his distance, until the moment he discovers she’s the irresistible Miss Misdial he’s been sort of sexting for weeks—and now he has to decide whether to turn the heat up or ghost her before things get messy. CLICK TO RESERVE “Mr. Wrong Number” by Lynn Painter FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c6e45d63-be9c-49b1-b4f6-e42dbe40f94b/know-my-name-chanel-miller.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2022 - LISA G’s PICK: Know My Name by Chanel Miller GENRE: Nonfiction, Memoir WHY SHE PICKED IT: We are back to disturbing non fiction this month! 'Know My Name' is the story of assault survivor Chanel Miller. Her story begins during her normal university life the in weeks leading up to her sexual assault by swimming competitor and fellow university student Brock Turner, and the aftermath of the night she was left behind a dumpster unconscious. THE SYNOPSIS: She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford’s campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral–viewed by eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Thousands wrote to say that she had given them the courage to share their own experiences of assault for the first time. Now she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power of words. It was the perfect case, in many ways–there were eyewitnesses, Turner ran away, physical evidence was immediately secured. But her struggles with isolation and shame during the aftermath and the trial reveal the oppression victims face in even the best-case scenarios. Her story illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicts a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable, and, ultimately, shines with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life. CLICK BELOW TO BORROW “Know My Name” by Chanel Miller: ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0e37c2f3-f52f-4448-b890-d0afe4ecda06/the-island-adrian-mckinty.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2022 - LISA S’s PICK: The Island by Adrian McKinty GENRE: Thriller WHY SHE CHOSE IT: “The Island” was fast-paced and I felt like I was there with the family on the island, trying to stay hidden after an accident makes the island residents vengeful. I am someone who enjoys crazy plot twists, and this one had those in spades. The book flew by and before I knew it, it was over. This was my second McKinty novel, and it certainly won’t be my last as both titles have been added to my favourites list. THE SYNOPSIS: After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they’re deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking a chance on an adventure far from the reach of iPhones and Instagram. But as soon as they set foot on the island, which is run by a tightly knit clan of locals, everything feels wrong. Then a shocking accident propels the Baxters from an unsettling situation into an absolute nightmare. When Heather and the kids are separated from Tom, they are forced to escape alone, seconds ahead of their pursuers. Now it’s up to Heather to save herself and the kids, even though they don’t trust her, the harsh bushland is filled with danger, and the locals want her dead. Heather has been underestimated her entire life, but she knows that only she can bring her family home again and become the mother the children desperately need, even if it means doing the unthinkable to keep them all alive. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Island” by Adrian McKinty FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-june-10-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/9f6f04ab-db48-482a-908a-779aa9cbae74/a-rip-through-time-kelley-armstrong.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - A Rip Through Time (Rip Through Time #1) by Kelley Armstrong GENRE: Time Travel, Historical THE SYNOPSIS: May 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She’s drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness. May 20, 1869: Housemaid Catriona Mitchell had been enjoying a half-day off, only to be discovered that night in a lane, where she’d been strangled and left for dead . . . exactly one-hundred-and-fifty years before Mallory was strangled in the same spot. When Mallory wakes up in Catriona's body in 1869, she must put aside her shock and adjust quickly to the reality: life as a housemaid to an undertaker in Victorian Scotland. She soon discovers that her boss, Dr. Gray, also moonlights as a medical examiner and has just taken on an intriguing case, the strangulation of a young man, similar to the attack on herself. Her only hope is that catching the murderer can lead her back to her modern life . . . before it's too late. CLICK TO RESERVE “A Rip Through Time (A Rip Through Time #1)” by Kelley Armstrong FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6b232fa4-b434-4e59-ad99-5cdc17934384/call-of-duty-jeff-rovin.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - Tom Clancy’s Op Center: Call of Duty by Jeff Rovin GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: When the launch of their powerful new hypersonic missile ends in destruction, the Chinese government needs someone to blame. Was it a failure of engineering, or sabotage? The chief engineer on the project, Dr. Yang Dàyóu, is targeted as the scapegoat and arrested—unable to help his family as they are hunted down by the military. Op-Center’s Lt. Grace Lee is sent to China on a solo reconnaissance mission, but when she sees an opportunity to free the imprisoned scientist, she seizes it. With Lt. Lee on the run and the Chinese military at her heels, Director Chase Williams sends the rest of Op-Center to Mongolia as an extraction team. Meanwhile, Dr. Dàyóu’s son has aligned himself with a dangerous group of counterrevolutionaries hellbent on dismantling the Communist regime, putting his father’s life—and his own—in jeopardy. The Black Wasp team races to rescue their colleague and her high-risk companion without setting off an international incident that could leave China ready to release their greatest weapon yet. CLICK TO RESERVE “Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Call of Duty” by Jeff Rovin FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/23e7728f-1c01-458a-bb24-10e1ccb6f660/good-husbands-cate-ray.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - Good Husbands by Cate Ray GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Three wives, one letter, and an explosive secret that will change everything. He said, she said. Who do you believe? Jessica, Stephanie and Priyanka are complete strangers, but they have one thing in common: they’ve each received a letter accusing their husbands of committing a sexual assault more than two decades prior. Is the accusation true or is there more to the story? It was a secret that remained buried for years. With their worlds suddenly turned upside down, they don’t know who to trust—a complete stranger or the men they love and built their lives with. The three women come together to embark on a hunt for the truth, but they are hardly prepared for what they will discover. Who is the victim, and will justice ultimately be served? CLICK TO RESERVE “Good Husbands” by Cate Ray FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d796f6bd-e264-4eb6-a3b2-a7140a9da652/it-dies-with-you-scott-blackburn.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - It Dies With You by Scott Blackburn GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: For nearly a decade, twenty-nine-year-old Hudson Miller has made his living in the boxing ring, but a post-fight brawl threatens to derail his career. Desperate for money, Hudson takes a gig as a bouncer at a dive bar. That’s when life delivers him another hook to the jaw: his estranged father, Leland, has been murdered in what appears to be a robbery-gone-bad at his salvage yard, Miller’s Pull-a-Part. Soon after his father’s funeral, Hudson learns he’s inherited the salvage yard, and he returns to his Bible-belt hometown of Flint Creek, North Carolina, to run the business. But the business is far more than junk cars and scrap metal. It was the site of an illegal gun-running ring. And the secrets don’t end there; a grisly discovery is made at the yard that thrusts Hudson into the fight of his life. Reeling for answers, Hudson joins forces with his father’s former employee, 71-year-old, beer-guzzling Vietnam vet Charlie Shoaf, and a feisty teenage girl, Lucy Reyes, who’s fiercely seeking justice for her own family tragedy. With a murderer on the loose and no answers from the local cops, the trio of outcasts launch an investigation. The shocking truth they uncover will shake Flint Creek to its very core. CLICK TO RESERVE “It Dies With You” by Scott Blackburn FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/3334269f-4902-40c9-ab70-cc9edaa2b888/maras-choice-anna-jacobs.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - Mara’s Choice (Waterfront #1) by Anna Jacobs GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a child, her world is turned upside down. Aaron Buchanan only discovered that he had a daughter a couple of years ago and now he’s desperate to play a part in her life. In the face of her mother’s opposition, Mara arranges to meet her father and his family. In a breath-taking corner of the world, amid a waterfront community on Australia’s west coast, will Mara find him the disappointment that her mother promises? And when Australia brings another man into her life, she’s faced with some huge decisions and some heartrending choices. 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As a teenager, though, Cate is discovered for her looks. Modeling may be her only ticket out of the cycle of disappointment that her mother has always inhabited. Before too long, her face is everywhere; though she is always aware that she''d be a pariah in her social circles if anyone knew her true story. When Joe and Cate''s paths cross, their connection is instant. What remains to be seen is whether their relationship will survive the glare of the spotlight that follows Joe everywhere. And just as they find themselves in the make-or-break moment, the tragedy that seems to run in Joe''s family right alongside all that privilege will repeat itself. CLICK TO RESERVE “Meant to Be” by Emily Giffin FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2065d984-c7b0-4174-a62c-e6cd5058cc2a/omega-rules-eric+van+lustbader.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - Omega Rules (Evan Ryder #3) by Eric Van Lustbader GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Evan Ryder was once a field agent for a black-ops arm of the Department of Defense. Now she works for Parachute, a cutting-edge quantum-computing firm whose private espionage network exceeds any government spy agency. But her mission remains the same: seek out and destroy Omega, a fanatical global cult intent on destroying democracy. The fight against Omega has already cost Evan dearly but she will not stop until she has torn out the conspiracy by its roots, no matter the risk. In Omega Rules, the assassination of a Parachute agent in Vienna sets Evan on a dangerous, world-wide hunt for answers and on a collision course with forces so powerful they may be beyond her abilities to annihilate. Once again Lustbader delivers a prescient exploration of the political and ideological forces that are wreaking havoc on the stability of the Western world and its struggling democracies. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Omega Rules (Evan Ryder #3)” by Eric Van Lustbader FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e3689532-38af-4ef9-842b-f9a7f525bd2b/sweet-sweet-revenge-ltd-jonas-jonasson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - Sweet Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd. by Jonas Jonasson GENRE: Mystery, Humour THE SYNOPSIS: Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn’t occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors – which have him running back to Stockholm as fast as you can say circumcision without anaesthetic. Back in Stockholm, Kevin’s path crosses with Jenny’s – and they have an awful lot to talk about, not least a shared desire to get even with Victor. So it’s convenient when they run into a man selling revenge services, who has an ingenious idea involving Victor’s cellar, a goat, some forged paintings, four large boxes of sex toys, and a kilo of flour … CLICK TO RESERVE “Sweet Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd.” by Jonas Jonasson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/7c25f947-bad7-4b72-b41d-84769cc7602c/the-boardwalk-bookshop-susan-mallery.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - The Boardwalk Bookshop by Susan Mallery GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: When fate brings three strangers to a charming space for lease on the California coast, the Boardwalk Bookshop is born. Part bookstore, part gift shop, part bakery, it's a dream come true for Bree, Mikki and Ashley. But while their business is thriving, their personal lives are…not. Bree, wounded by brilliant but cold parents and her late husband's ultimate betrayal, has sworn to protect her heart at all costs. Even from Ashley's brother, a writer and adventurer who has inspired millions. He's the first man to see past Bree's barricades to her true self, which terrifies her. Mikki has this divorce thing all figured out—somehow, she's stayed friends with her ex and her in-laws…until a new man changes how everyone looks at her, and how she sees herself. Meanwhile, Ashley discovers that the love of her life never intends to marry. Can she live without being a wife if it means she can have everything else she's ever wanted? At sunset every Friday on the beach in front of the Boardwalk Bookshop, the three friends share a champagne toast. As their bond grows closer, they challenge one another to become the best versions of themselves in this heartachingly beautiful story of friendship, sisterhood and the transformative power of love. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Boardwalk Bookshop” by Susan Mallery FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f60132c9-d357-40f2-994c-bf495b0efaf6/the-book-womans-daughter-kim-michelle-richardson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - The Book Woman’s Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek #2) by Kim Michelle Richardson GENRE: Historical THE SYNOPSIS: In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother’s old packhorse library route, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. Honey is looking to prove that she doesn’t need anyone telling her how to survive, but the route can be treacherous, and some folks aren’t as keen to let a woman pave her own way. If Honey wants to bring the freedom that books provide to the families who need it most, she’s going to have to fight for her place, and along the way, learn that the extraordinary women who run the hills and hollers can make all the difference in the world. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Book Woman’s Daughter (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek #2)” by Kim Michelle Richardson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/02c4310d-d001-4524-a21e-3dfa262522a4/the-change-kirsten-miller.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - The Change by Kirsten Miller GENRE: Fantasy THE SYNOPSIS: In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment… After Nessa James’s husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she’s left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties, the former nurse begins to hear voices. It doesn’t take long for Nessa to realize that the voices calling out to her belong to the dead—a gift she’s inherited from her grandmother, which comes with special responsibilities. On the cusp of 50, suave advertising director Harriett Osborne has just witnessed the implosion of her lucrative career and her marriage. She hasn’t left her house in months, and from the outside, it appears as if she and her garden have both gone to seed. But Harriett’s life is far from over—in fact, she’s undergone a stunning and very welcome metamorphosis. Ambitious former executive Jo Levison has spent thirty long years at war with her body. The free-floating rage and hot flashes that arrive with the beginning of menopause feel like the very last straw—until she realizes she has the ability to channel them, and finally comes into her power. Guided by voices only Nessa can hear, the trio of women discover a teenage girl whose body was abandoned beside a remote beach. The police have written the victim off as a drug-addicted sex worker, but the women refuse to buy into the official narrative. Their investigation into the girl’s murder leads to more bodies, and to the town’s most exclusive and isolated enclave, a world of stupendous wealth where the rules don’t apply. With their newfound powers, Jo, Nessa, and Harriett will take matters into their own hands… CLICK TO RESERVE “The Change” by Kirsten Miller FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ac9e6363-9b00-4f07-bb00-ed7b061cd22d/the-favor-nora-murphy.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - The Favour by Nora Murphy GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Staying is dangerous. Leaving could be worse. Leah and McKenna have never met, though they have parallel lives. They don’t—ever—find themselves in the same train carriage or meet accidentally at the gym or the coffee shop. They don’t—ever—discuss their problems and find common ground. They don’t—ever—acknowledge to each other that although their lives have all the trappings of success, wealth and happiness, they are, in fact, trapped. Because Leah understands that what’s inside a home can be more dangerous than what’s outside. Driving past McKenna’s house one night, she sees what she knows only too well herself from her own marriage: McKenna’s “perfect” husband is not what he seems. She decides to keep an eye out for McKenna, until one night, she intervenes. Leah and McKenna have never met. But they will. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Favor” by Nora Murphy FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/989562ed-b76d-406e-bcc1-f81b813724ef/the-messy-lives-of-book-people-phaedra-patrick.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick GENRE: Contemporary THE SYNOPSIS: Have you ever wished you were someone else? Mother of two Liv Green barely scrapes by as a maid to make ends meet, often finding escape in a good book while daydreaming of becoming a writer herself. So she can't believe her luck when she lands a job housekeeping for her personal hero, megabestselling author Essie Starling, a mysterious and intimidating recluse. The last thing Liv expected was to be the only person Essie talks to, which leads to a tenuous friendship. But when Essie dies suddenly, a devastated Liv is astonished to learn of her last wish: for Liv to complete Essie's final novel. But to do so Liv will have to step into Essie's shoes, and as Liv begins to write, she uncovers secrets from the past that reveal a surprising connection between the two women--one that will change Liv's own story forever... CLICK TO RESERVE “The Messy Lives of Book People” by Phaedra Patrick FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d18ed384-eda2-4e8f-aea6-ba33434119bc/the-omega-factor-steve-berry.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - The Omega Factor by Steve Berry GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations’ Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick’s job is to protect the world’s cultural artifacts—from countless lesser-known objects to national treasures. When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with a woman from his past, he unwittingly stumbles on the trail of the twelfth panel for the Ghent Altarpiece, stolen in 1934 under cover of night and never seen since. Soon Nick is plunged into a bitter conflict, one that has been simmering for nearly two thousand years. On one side is the Maidens of Saint-Michael, les Vautours, Vultures, a secret order of nuns and the guardians of a great truth. Pitted against them is the Vatican, which has wanted for centuries to both find and possess what the nuns guard. Because of Nick the maidens have finally been exposed, their secret placed in dire jeopardy—a vulnerability that the Vatican swiftly moves to exploit utilizing an ambitious cardinal and a corrupt archbishop, both with agendas of their own. From the tranquil canals of Ghent, to the towering bastions of Carcassonne, and finally into an ancient abbey high in the French Pyrenees, Nick Lee must confront a modern-day religious crusade intent on eliminating a shocking truth from humanity’s past. Success or failure—life and death—all turn on the Omega Factor. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Omega Factor” by Steve Berry FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ae6eb69f-b8b5-439a-9a67-f26d23c45938/the-rising-tide-sam-lloyd.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - The Rising Tide by Sam Lloyd GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: HOW DID IT COME TO THIS? The news doesn't strike cleanly, like a guillotine's blade. Nothing so merciful. This news is a slovenly traveller, dragging its feet, gradually revealing its horrors. And it announces itself first with violence - the urgent hammering of fists on the front door. Life can change in a heartbeat. Lucy has everything she could wish for: a beautiful home high on the clifftops above the Devon coast, a devoted husband and two beloved children. Then one morning, time stops. Their family yacht is recovered, abandoned far out at sea. Lucy's husband is nowhere to be found and as the seconds tick by, she begins to wonder - what if he was the one who took the boat? And if so, where is he now? As a once-in-a-generation storm frustrates the rescue operation, Lucy pieces together what happened onboard. And then she makes a fresh discovery. One that plunges her into a nightmare more shocking than any she could ever have imagined . . . CLICK TO RESERVE “The Rising Tide” by Sam Lloyd FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/be240c2f-11b9-4f33-8083-2a414778d898/tracy-flick-tracy-flick-cant-win.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: June 10, 2022 - Tracy Flick Can’t Win by Tom Perrotta GENRE: Contemporary, Humor THE SYNOPSIS: Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede, abruptly announces his retirement, creating a rare opportunity for Tracy to ascend to the top job. Energized by the prospect of her long-overdue promotion, Tracy throws herself into her work with renewed zeal, determined to prove her worth to the students, faculty, and School Board, while also managing her personal life—a ten-year-old daughter, a needy doctor boyfriend, and a burgeoning meditation practice. But nothing ever comes easily to Tracy Flick, no matter how diligent or qualified she happens to be. Among her many other responsibilities, Tracy is enlisted to serve on the Selection Committee for the brand-new Green Meadow High School Hall of Fame. Her male colleagues’ determination to honor Vito Falcone—a star quarterback of dubious character who had a brief, undistinguished career in the NFL—triggers bad memories for Tracy, and leads her to troubling reflections about the trajectory of her own life and the forces that have left her feeling thwarted and disappointed, unable to fulfill her true potential. As she broods on the past, Tracy becomes aware of storm clouds brewing in the present. Is she really a shoo-in for the Principal job? Is the Superintendent plotting against her? Why is the School Board President’s wife trying so hard to be her friend? And why can’t she ever get what she deserves? CLICK TO RESERVE “Tracy Flick Can’t Win” by Tom Perrotta FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-may-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a218ec37-ef31-41d7-8afb-6a96a7eb6720/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: May 2022 - LISA G’s PICK: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver GENRE: Epistolary, Thriller WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I did it! I finally read a fiction book! We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver is a disturbing novel written in letters by a woman to her husband after their son commits a school shooting. The reader takes turns feeling pity, anger, sadness, and hope for each character until the shocking end. This won't be the last fiction I pick up, and definitely won't be the last book by Lionel Shriver I read. THE SYNOPSIS: Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails. CLICK TO RESERVE “We Need to Talk About Kevin” by Lionel Shriver ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/da5eedf6-fa43-4267-a0e5-06d5383b89f7/book-lovers-emily-henry.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: May 2022 - LISA S’s PICK: Book Lovers by Emily Henry GENRE: Contemporary Romance WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I don’t read a lot of romance novels, but when I read the synopsis of Book Lovers, I knew I had to read this one. The book’s opening line hooked me: “When books are your life-or in my case, your job-you get pretty good at guessing where a story is going." As an avid reader, librarian and book blogger, I identified with our main character, Nora, immediately. Charlie and Nora have great chemistry, and while I loved their love story, I truly adored the whole book. It’s the perfect read to get you ready for summer: it’s light, funny enough to make you laugh out loud, and if you are a book lover, you will likely see yourself reflected in these pages. THE SYNOPSIS: Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Book Lovers” by Emily Henry: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5321fa8e-0262-4f41-bb22-af52bfaa0066/the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: May 2022 - TORI’s PICK: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid GENRE: Romance WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I picked The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo for pride month! Old Hollywood glamour with a modern take, Taylor Jenkins Reid writes books that make you forgetting your reading. Evelyn Hugo is that fabulous famous person you meet once and brag about for the rest of your life. A book about love and friendship- its a perfect curl up in a warm blanket on a rainy night book. THE SYNOPSIS: Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b4af5039-9544-41be-ac04-83395cf29450/the-upside-of-falling-down-rebekah-crane.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: May 2022 - BRANDY’s PICK: The Upside of Falling Down by Rebekah Crane GENRE: Romance WHY SHE CHOSE IT: What would you do if you woke up in a hospital in a strange country with no memory of who you are or where you are from? Clementine wakes up to find out she is the only survivor of a plane crash in Ireland and she panics when she hears that her father will be travelling from America to take her back home. Clementine decides it is better to run away from a life she does not remember and she begins to fabricate a new life. When she meets Kieran, she tells him that her name is Jane and thus, the lies and adventures begin. This is a classic story of a girl looking to find herself while also finding love. It is a quick and easy read. Perfect for a rainy afternoon. Some of the plot points and characters are a wee bit questionable and/or problematic but if you can overlook them, you may enjoy this light read. THE SYNOPSIS: For Clementine Haas, finding herself is more than a nice idea. Ever since she woke up in an Irish hospital with complete amnesia, self-discovery has become her mission. They tell her she’s the lone survivor of a plane crash. They tell her she’s lucky to be alive. But she doesn’t feel lucky. She feels…lost. With the relentless Irish press bearing down on her, and a father she may not even recognize on his way from America to take her home, Clementine assumes a new identity and enlists a blue-eyed Irish stranger, Kieran O’Connell, to help her escape her forgotten life…and start a new one. Hiding out in the sleepy town of Waterville, Ireland, Clementine discovers there’s an upside to a life that’s fallen apart. But as her lies grow, so does her affection for Kieran, and the truth about her identity becomes harder and harder to reveal, forcing Clementine to decide: Can she leave her past behind for a new love she’ll never forget? CLICK TO BORROW “The Upside of Falling Down” by Rebekah Crane FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-may-26-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/935fdd69-a8dc-4335-9b11-b04933158f55/my-wife-is-missing-dj-palmer.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 26, 2022 - My Wife is Missing by D.J Palmer GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: A family vacation turns into a nightmare for Michael Hart when he discovers his wife and two children have disappeared from their New York City hotel room. Horrified, he fears they've been kidnapped. Michael's frantic search to find them takes a shocking turn when he discovers that his wife, Natalie, appears to have left quite willingly, taking their children with her. The police want to know why, and so does Michael. But there may be a reason why Natalie ran, something Michael can't tell the police -- the truth about his past. While untangling his deceptions might be the key to locating Natalie, Michael knows it could also be his undoing. To find his wife, he must now turn to the one person capable of exposing all that he's been hiding. Natalie thinks she has Michael all figured out and has hatched a plan to escape from him permanently. One detail, though, threatens to derail her efforts: sleep -- or more accurately, the lack of it. Since the moment the shocking revelations about her husband came to light, Natalie's insomnia has worsened to the point that she now suffers from delusions. Are her fears about Michael valid -- or a symptom of her condition? With her children's lives at risk, the stakes for Natalie could not be higher. On her own, running low on energy and resources, avoiding increasingly close calls with Michael -- who is on the hunt and closing in fast -- Natalie needs someone to turn to for help. But who can she trust when she can't even trust herself? CLICK TO RESERVE “My Wife is Missing” by D.J. Palmer FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2fe5a2db-b80c-4a09-ae31-71756dc846c0/a-wedding-in-provence-katie-fforde.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 26, 2022 - A Wedding in Provence by Katie Fforde GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Late summer, 1963 Fresh from London and a recent cookery course, Alexandra has always loved a challenge. Which is why she now finds herself standing outside an imposing chateau in Provence. Waiting for her inside is three silent, rather hostile children who are to be her charges for the next month. They will soon be more friendly, she tells herself. All they need is some fun, good food and an English education. Far more of a challenge though is their father - an impossibly good looking French count with whom she is rapidly falling in love . . . 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Some are driven by a desire to own people the way they own paintings and jewels. And after Harry takes a lucrative job commissioned by Carter LaPorte, LaPorte sees a tool he can use, and decides he wants to own Harry. The man is a predator more frightening than the alligators that haunt the bayou—and when he strongarms Harry into robbing a Baltimore museum, Harry abandons Miranda—cruelly, with no explanation—and disappears. But no matter what name he uses or where he goes, LaPorte casts a shadow over Harry’s life. To truly free himself, he must face down his enemy once and for all. Only then can he hope to possess something more valuable than anything he has ever stolen… CLICK TO RESERVE “Nightwork” by Nora Roberts FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/896235cb-df58-43e2-9fd2-4e16430e5902/poison-lilies-katie-tallo.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 26, 2022 - Poison Lilies (Gus Monet #2) by Katie Tallo GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: In Katie Tallo's thrilling follow-up to the international bestseller Dark August, Gus Monet is swept into the orbit of a prominent, wealthy family whose privilege is founded on a dangerous web of secrets they're desperate to keep hidden After moving back to her hometown and solving her mother's murder, August (Gus) Monet thought she was done. Settled. Content for the first time in her life. Cue hard reset number whatever. She made a mistake she couldn't undo, so Gus cut and run. Packed all her things in the dead of night and took off. Now somewhat settled into The Ambassador, an art-deco apartment building with cheap rent in one of Ottawa's oldest neighborhoods, Gus has found the perfect place for a fresh start—or a good place to hide. Gus also finds friendship in Poppy Honeywell, her reclusive neighbor perpetually wrapped in a pink kimono like an aging Old Hollywood starlet. She's also a descendant of the Mutchmores, one of the town's founding families. When a body is found in the pond of a nearby park, her connection to this powerful and wealthy family turns dangerous, possibly deadly. The Mutchmores are hiding something and are willing to do anything to keep their secrets buried. 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But when a shocking photo and cryptic note show up on his doorstep, Lucas goes from hunter to prey. Someone is onto him. And they’re closing in. CLICK TO RESERVE “Never Coming Home” by Hannah Mary MacKinnon FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f4512e7d-4307-49f6-918f-687bb69da9fc/every-summer-after-carley-fortune.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 26, 2022 - Every Summer After by Carley Fortune GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past. CLICK TO RESERVE “Every Summer After” by Carley Fortune FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b72f64aa-63a0-40c7-974f-0f380a6f0da7/my-summer-darlings-may-cobb.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 26, 2022 - My Summer Darlings by May Cobb GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: A woman in the forest thinks she’s going to die. I know he’s coming back for me. Jen Hansen, Kittie Spears, and Cynthia Nichols have been friends since childhood. They are now approaching forty and their lives have changed, but their insular East Texas town has not. They stay sane by drinking wine in the afternoons, dishing about other women in the neighborhood, and bonding over the heartache of their own encroaching middle age and raising ungrateful teens. Then Will Harding comes to town, moving into one of the neighborhood’s grandest homes. Mysterious and charming, he seems like the answer to each woman’s prayers. He’s a source of fascination for Jen, Kittie, and Cynthia, but none of them are ready for the way Will disrupts their lives. As Will grows closer with each of the women, their fascination twists into obsession, threatening their friendships and their families. When he abruptly pulls away, each woman scrambles to discover the source of his affection. But what they’ll uncover is far more sinister and deadly than any of them could have ever imagined. CLICK TO RESERVE “My Summer Darlings” by May Cobb FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6664e351-787e-4cf9-b7ac-05300019f7de/blood-will-tell-heather-chavez.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 26, 2022 - Blood Will Tell by Heather Chavez GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Schoolteacher and single mom Frankie Barrera has always been fiercely protective of her younger sister Izzy—whether Izzy wants her to be or not. But over the years, Izzy’s risky choices have tested Frankie’s loyalty. Never so much as on a night five years ago, when a frantic phone call led Frankie to the scene of a car accident—and a drunk and disoriented Izzy who couldn’t remember a thing. Though six friends partied on the outskirts of town that night, one girl was never seen again . . . Now, an Amber alert puts Frankie in the sights of the local police. Her truck has been described as the one used in the abduction of a girl from a neighboring town. And the only other person with access to Frankie’s truck is Izzy. This time around, Frankie will have to decide what lengths she’s willing to go to in order to protect Izzy—what lies she’s willing to tell, and what secrets she’s willing to keep—because the dangerous game that six friends once played on a warm summer night isn’t over yet . . . CLICK TO RESERVE “Blood Will Tell” by Heather Chavez FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ea1d953c-6f20-4e92-bcec-db6451b2d7d5/countdown-to-midnight-dale-brown.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 26, 2022 - Countdown to Midnight (Nick Flynn #2) by Dale Brown GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Nick Flynn is back in action, and he has a new employer--a shadowy intelligence outfit whose roots go back to the very beginning of the Cold War. But his first mission for them almost becomes his last. While meeting with a high-ranking Iranian dissident in the Austrian Alps, Flynn is ambushed and nearly killed... just after learning that Iran and Russia are working together on a mysterious project--one they have codenamed MIDNIGHT. Flynn is determined to uncover MIDNIGHT's lethal secrets. Why are Moscow and Tehran covertly retrofitting a massive oil tanker in an Iranian port? What purpose lies behind their closely guarded effort, the brainchild of Pavel Voronin--a ruthless billionaire allied with Russia's autocratic president? Flynn and his new team plan to put an end to the nefarious project, but they're dogged at every step by Voronin's hired Raven Syndicate killers--elite veterans of Russia's special forces and intelligence services. As they track the enemy from the streets of Vienna to deep inside hostile Iran, Flynn and his crew must repeatedly risk their lives to pierce the layers of deception around this shadow war. It's a race against time to stop Voronin from launching his terrifying new weapon against the United States--potentially killing hundreds of millions and overturning the world's balance of power forever. The odds are stacked high against Flynn and his team... but that's never stopped Nick before. CLICK TO RESERVE “Countdown to Midnight (Nick Flynn #2)” by Dale Brown FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/4ab8ff72-3161-4876-b328-8fbfca50e378/with-a-mind-to-kill-anthony-horowitz.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 26, 2022 - With a Mind to Kill (James Bond #49) by Anthony Horowitz GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M's murder - James Bond. Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion's den - but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives? In a mission where treachery is all around and one false move means death, Bond must grapple with the darkest questions about himself. But not even he knows what has happened to the man he used to be. CLICK TO RESERVE “With a Mind to Kill (James Bond #49)” by Anthony Horowitz FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b3534019-1095-4021-b470-4ca3787918d1/the-lost-summers-of-newport-beatriz-williams.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 26, 2022 - The Lost Summers of Newport by Beatriz Willaims GENRE: Historical THE SYNOPSIS: 2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America's gilded class--famous for the lavish "summer cottages" of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who still lives in the mansion, Lucia "Lucky" Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion's ruined boathouse. 1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother John has poured their new money into buying a place among Newport's elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch into society. But the deceptively demure Ellen has her own checkered past, and she's hiding in plain sight at Sprague Hall. 1958: Lucia "Lucky" Sprague has always felt like an outsider at Sprague Hall. When she and her grandmother--the American-born Princess di Conti--fled Mussolini's Italy, it seemed natural to go back to the imposing Newport house Nana owned but hadn't seen since her marriage in 1899. Over the years, Lucky's lost her Italian accent and found a place for herself among the yachting set by marrying Stuyvesant Sprague, the alcoholic scion of her Sprague stepfamily. But one fateful night in the mansion's old boathouse will uncover a devastating truth...and change everything she thought she knew about her past. As the cameras roll on Mansion Makeover, the house begins to yield up the dark secrets the Spragues thought would stay hidden forever.... CLICK TO RESERVE “The Lost Summers of Newport” FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/8c1571b0-5221-413e-8531-1b1b5b2eff96/the-murders-at-fleat-house-lucinda-riley.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 26, 2022 - The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen’s – a small private boarding school in deepest Norfolk – is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident. But the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine ‘Jazz’ Hunter to the force. Jazz has her own private reasons for stepping away from her police career in London, but reluctantly agrees to front the investigation as a favour to her old boss. Reunited with her loyal sergeant Alastair Miles, she enters the closed world of the school, and as Jazz begins to probe the circumstances surrounding Charlie Cavendish’s tragic death, events are soon to take another troubling turn. Charlie is exposed as an arrogant bully, and those around him had both motive and opportunity to switch the drugs he took daily to control his epilepsy. As staff at the school close ranks, the disappearance of young pupil Rory Millar and the death of an elderly Classics master provide Jazz with important leads, but are destined to complicate the investigation further. As snow covers the landscape and another suspect goes missing, Jazz must also confront her personal demons . . . Then, a particularly grim discovery at the school makes this the most challenging murder investigation of her career. Because Fleat House hides secrets darker than even Jazz could ever have imagined . . . CLICK TO RESERVE “The Murders at Fleat House” by Lucinda Riley FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6afd1c98-ecf3-45ee-90b4-7df62034f54f/every-cloak-rolled-in-blood.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 26, 2022 - Every Cloak Rolled in Blood (Holland Family #4) by James Lee Burke GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron’s only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted Horse, a no-nonsense woman who harbors some powerful secrets in her cellar. Despite the air of mystery surrounding her, Ruby is the only one Aaron can trust. That is, until the ghost of Fannie Mae shows up, guiding her father through a tangled web of the present and past and helping him vanquish his foes from both this world and the next. CLICK TO RESERVE “Every Cloak Rolled in Blood” by James Lee Burke FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/071a780d-8ce8-4d78-aa9b-5f4be84c45e3/in-the-blood-jack-carr.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 26, 2022 - In The Blood (Terminal List #5) by Jack Carr GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron’s only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted Horse, a no-nonsense woman who harbors some powerful secrets in her cellar. Despite the air of mystery surrounding her, Ruby is the only one Aaron can trust. That is, until the ghost of Fannie Mae shows up, guiding her father through a tangled web of the present and past and helping him vanquish his foes from both this world and the next. CLICK TO RESERVE “In the Blood (Terminal List #5)” by Jack Carr FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6f500e55-07e5-44f7-9c09-f738443890a9/killer-on-the-court-jessica-fletcher.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 26, 2022 - Killer on the Court (Murder She Wrote #55) by Jessica Fletcher GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Jessica is delighted when her nephew Grady invites her to spend a few days with his family in an oceanside New York bungalow. She packs her bags and heads down to the city, ready to spend some quality time with Grady, his wife, Donna, and their young son, Frank. But the morning after Jessica’s arrival, Donna finds her boss dead on a tennis court, and Jessica’s dreams of a relaxing visit are quashed. Everyone in the small beachside community is a suspect, and the local authorities—headed by an old colleague of Cabot Cove sheriff Mort Metzger—have asked that no one leave town. Will Jessica be able find a killer and salvage the rest of her trip? CLICK TO RESERVE “Killer on the Court (Murder She Wrote #55)” by Jessica Fletcher FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-may-12-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/bf0bcb6f-5876-443c-8357-f4419c28dc8c/22-seconds-james-patterson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 12, 2022 - 22 Seconds (Women’s Murder Club #22) by James Patterson GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: 22 seconds... until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge—or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There’s buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it’s Lindsay’s turn to choose. CLICK TO RESERVE “22 Seconds (Women’s Murder Club #22) by James Patterson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d0910ed9-55e9-486a-8c9a-b7a13cfac1e8/the-lioness-chris-bohjalian.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 12, 2022 - The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebras storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests—including Katie’s best friend, Carmen Tedesco, and Terrance Dutton, the celebrated Black actor who stars alongside Katie in the highly controversial film Tender Madness—will spend their days taking photos, and their evenings drinking chilled gin and tonics back at camp, as the local Tanzanian guides warm water for their baths. The wealthy Americans expect civilized adventure: fresh ice from the kerosene-powered ice maker, dinners of cooked gazelle meat, and plenty of stories to tell over lunch back on Rodeo Drive. What Katie and her glittering entourage do not expect is this: a kidnapping gone wrong, their guides bleeding out in the dirt, and a team of Russian mercenaries herding their hostages into Land Rovers, guns to their heads. As the powerful sun gives way to night, the gunmen shove them into abandoned huts and Katie Barstow, Hollywood royalty, prays for a simple thing: to see the sun rise one more time. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Lioness” by Chris Bohjalian FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e4b09f7d-9217-48be-a95b-ea57c820d5da/a-time-to-remember-josephine-cox.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 12, 2022 - A Time to Remember by Josephine Cox GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Are some memories best forgotten? Maureen Bancroft has never learned the art of putting herself first. As a widow with a gentle temperament and humble ways, she’s been easy to take advantage of. All that changes when an unexpected windfall comes her way. Determined to make up for lost time, she decides to take a holiday and, needing a companion, looks up her friend, Barbara Hayle. Glamorous, and with a successful career on the stage, Barbara seems to be everything that Maureen is not. But things aren’t as they seem, and what starts out as a nostalgic trip between friends, becomes something different altogether. Much has changed in the years since they first met ̶ now Maureen has something that her friend desperately needs, and Barbara is used to getting exactly what she wants. As their journey takes them down some dark byways, will this be the one friendship that Maureen should have left firmly in the past? CLICK TO RESERVE “A Time to Remember” by Josephine Cox FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/98de9059-3bcf-4575-b677-584d6fbc53aa/the-summer-place-jennifer-weiner.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 12, 2022 - The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah’s mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family’s beach house on Cape Cod. Sarah might be worried, but Veronica is thrilled to be bringing the family together one last time before putting the big house on the market. But the road to a wedding day usually comes with a few bumps. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling with the wounds left by the mother who walked out when she was a baby. Veronica ends up facing unexpected news, thanks to her meddling sister, and must revisit the choices she made long ago, when she was a bestselling novelist with a different life. Sarah’s twin brother, Sam, is recovering from a terrible loss, and confronting big questions about who he is—questions he hopes to resolve during his stay on the Cape. Sarah’s husband, Eli, who’s been inexplicably distant during the pandemic, confronts the consequences of a long ago lapse from his typical good-guy behavior. And Sarah, frustrated by her husband, concerned about her stepdaughter, and worn out by challenges of life during quarantine, faces the alluring reappearance of someone from her past and a life that could have been. When the wedding day arrives, lovers are revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings take on a life of their own, and secrets come to light. There are confrontations and revelations that will touch each member of the extended family, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Summer Place” by Jennifer Weiner: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b3705eb6-27d2-4428-a33b-99ae5e4de821/darling-girl-liz-michalski.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 12, 2022 - Darling Girl by Liz Michalski GENRE: Fantasy THE SYNOPSIS: Life is looking up for Holly Darling, granddaughter of Wendy--yes, that Wendy. She's running a successful skincare company; her son, Jack, is happy and healthy; and the tragedy of her past is well behind her . . . until she gets a call that her daughter, Eden, who has been in a coma for nearly a decade, has gone missing from the estate where she's been long tucked away. And, worst of all, Holly knows who must be responsible: Peter Pan, who is not only very real, but more dangerous than anyone could imagine. Eden's disappearance is a disaster for more reasons than one. She has a rare condition that causes her to age rapidly--ironic, considering her father is the boy who will never grow up--which also makes her blood incredibly valuable. It's a secret that Holly is desperate to protect, especially from Eden's half-brother, Jack, who knows nothing about his sister or the crucial role she plays in his life. Holly has no one to turn to--her mother is the only other person in the world who knows that Peter is more than a story, but she refuses to accept that he is not the hero she's always imagined. Desperate, Holly enlists the help of Christopher Cooke, a notorious ex-soldier, in the hopes of rescuing Eden before it's too late . . . or she may lose both her children. CLICK TO RESERVE “Darling Girl” by Liz Michalski FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0b341074-c648-4eae-ad57-2e4dc748f156/little-souls-sandra-dallas.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 12, 2022 - Little Souls by Sandra Dallas GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Colorado, 1918. World War I is raging overseas, but it’s the home front battling for survival. With the Spanish Flu rampant, Denver’s schools are converted into hospitals, churches and funeral homes are closed, and horse-drawn wagons collect corpses left in the street. Sisters Helen and Lutie have moved to Denver from Iowa after their parents’ deaths. Helen, a nurse, and Lutie, a carefree advertising designer at a fashionable women’s store share a small, neat house, and each finds a local beau—for Helen a doctor, for Lutie a young student who soon enlists. They make a modest income from a rental apartment in the basement. When their tenant dies from the flu, the sisters are thrust into caring for the woman’s small daughter, Dorothy. Soon after, Lutie comes home from work and discovers a dead man on their kitchen floor and Helen standing above the body, an icepick in hand. She has no doubt Helen killed the man—Dorothy’s father—in self-defense, but she knows that will be hard to prove. They decide to leave the body in the street, hoping to disguise it as a flu victim. Meanwhile Lutie also worries about her fiancé “over there.” As it happens, his wealthy mother harbors a secret of her own and helps the sisters as the danger deepens, from both the murder investigation and the outbreak. CLICK TO RESERVE “Little Souls” by Sandra Dallas FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1069757f-200b-4745-8085-be9906c560ea/trust-hernan-diaz.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 12, 2022 - Trust by Hernan Diaz GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit. Hernan Diaz’s TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation. At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts. CLICK TO RESERVE “Trust” by Hernan Diaz FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/cb14b304-8f25-4d21-8152-bf99c409610f/book-lovers-emily-henry.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 12, 2022 - Book Lovers by Emily Henry GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming.... Nora Stephens' life is books - she’s read them all - and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away - with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again - in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow - what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Book Lovers” by Emily Henry: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/100f7d12-1e08-419a-8a90-2e0a37641ee4/book-of-night-holly-black.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 12, 2022 - Book of Night by Holly Black GENRE: Fantasy THE SYNOPSIS: In Charlie Hall’s world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences—but also to increase power and influence. You can alter someone’s feelings—and memories—but manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden—a second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms. And sometimes, it has a life of its own. Charlie is a low-level con artist, working as a bartender while trying to distance herself from the powerful and dangerous underground world of shadow trading. She gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of the Berkshires. But when a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie’s present life is thrown into chaos, and her future seems at best, unclear—and at worst, non-existent. Determined to survive, Charlie throws herself into a maelstrom of secrets and murder, setting her against a cast of doppelgängers, mercurial billionaires, shadow thieves, and her own sister—all desperate to control the magic of the shadows. CLICK TO RESERVE “Book of Night” by Holly Black FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c235bd6a-1681-421a-a221-b4ee3d1fb071/something-wilder-christina-lauren.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 12, 2022 - Something Wilder by Christina Lauren GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: if not resourceful, and now uses Duke’s coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the red rock canyons of Utah. It pays the bills but doesn’t leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch her father sold years ago, and definitely not enough to deal with the sight of the man she once loved walking back into her life with a motley crew of friends ready to hit the trails. Frankly, Lily would like to take him out into the wilderness—and leave him there. Leo Grady knew mirages were a thing in the desert, but they’d barely left civilization when the silhouette of his greatest regret comes into focus in the flickering light of the campfire. Ready to leave the past behind him, Leo wants nothing more than to reconnect with his first and only love. Unfortunately, Lily Wilder is all business, drawing a clear line in the sand: it’s never going to happen. But when the trip goes horribly and hilariously wrong, the group wonders if maybe the legend of the hidden treasure wasn’t a gimmick after all. There’s a chance to right the wrongs—of Duke’s past and their own—but only if Leo and Lily can confront their history and work together. Alone under the stars in the isolated and dangerous mazes of the Canyonlands, Leo and Lily must decide whether they’ll risk their lives and hearts on the adventure of a lifetime. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Something Wilder” by Christina Lauren FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/38ba0653-8d10-43e7-9484-8ca49a06dadf/take-your-breath-away-linwood-barclay.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 12, 2022 - Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most everyone assumed Andy had got away with murder--it's always the husband, isn't it?--but the police could never build a strong case against him. For a while, Andy hit rock bottom--he drank too much to numb the pain, was abandoned by all his friends save one, nearly lost his business, and became a pariah in the place he once called home. Now, six years later, Andy has finally put his life back together. He sold the house he once shared with Brie and moved away. Truth to tell, he wasn't sad to hear that the old place was razed and a new house built on the site. He's settled down with a new partner, Jayne, and life is good. But Andy's peaceful world is about to shatter. One day, a woman shows up at his old address, screaming, "Where's my house? What's happened to my house?" And then, just as suddenly as she appeared, the woman--who bears a striking resemblance to Brie--is gone. The police are notified and old questions--and dark suspicions--resurface. Could Brie really be alive after all these years? If so, where has she been? It soon becomes clear that Andy's future, and the lives of those closest to him, depends on discovering what the hell is going on. The trick will be whether he can stay alive long enough to unearth the answers. CLICK TO RESERVE “Take Your Breath Away” by Linwood Barclay FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/87169db0-4f6f-426d-8cee-84a7311cd569/the-homewreckers-mary-kay-andrews.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 12, 2022 - The Homewreckers by Mary Kay Andrews GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at 18; married the boss’s son at 20; and was only 25 when her husband, Hank, was killed in a motorcycle accident. Broken hearted, but determined to continue the business of their dreams, she takes the life insurance money, buys a small house in a gentrifying neighborhood, flips it, then puts the money into her next project. But that house is a disaster and a money-loser, which rocks her confidence for years to come. Then, Hattie gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: star in a beach house renovation reality show called The Homewreckers, cast against a male lead who may be a love interest, or may be the ultimate antagonist. It's a question of who will flip, and who will flop, and will Hattie ever get her happily-ever-after. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Homewreckers” by Mary Kay Andrews: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d47f9a29-1dc1-45c6-823c-cd142e4364f4/the-murder-rule-dervla-mctiernan.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 12, 2022 - The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: First Rule: Make them like you. Second Rule: Make them need you. Third Rule: Make them pay. They think I’m a young, idealistic law student, that I’m passionate about reforming a corrupt and brutal system. They think I’m working hard to impress them. They think I’m here to save an innocent man on death row. They're wrong. I’m going to bury him. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Murder Rule” by Dervla McTiernan FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d5601afc-901e-4a32-9667-dda470b5428c/this-time-tomorrow-emma-straub.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 12, 2022 - This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub GENRE: Contemporary THE SYNOPSIS: On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't exactly the one she expected. She's happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her 16th birthday. But it isn't just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush, it's her dad: the vital, charming, 40-something version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could? 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Archer suspects that Eleanor knows more than she’s saying, but before he can officially take on her case, a dead body turns up inside of Eleanor’s home . . . and Eleanor herself disappears. Missing client or not, Archer is dead set on finding both the murderer and Eleanor. With the help of Callahan and his partner Willie Dash, he launches an investigation that will take him from mob-ridden Las Vegas to the glamorous world of Hollywood to the darkest corners of Los Angeles—a city in which beautiful faces are attached to cutthroat schemers, where the cops can be more corrupt than the criminals . . . and where the powerful people responsible for his client’s disappearance will kill without a moment’s hesitation if they catch Archer on their trail. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dream Town (Archer #3)” by David Baldacci FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/95104334-4cc4-4805-9d47-f246e664e034/kindgom-of-bones-james-rollins.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 7, 2022 - Kingdom of Bones (Sigma Force #16) by James Rollins GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: It begins in Africa . . . A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, cattle-like state. The natural world surrounding them—plants and animals—have grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading across the African continent, threatening the rest of the world. But is it a natural event? Or more terrifyingly, did someone engineer it? What has made the biosphere run amok? Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force are prepared for the extraordinary and have kept the world safe—vigilance for which they have paid a tragic personal price. Yet even these brilliant and seasoned scientific warriors do not understand what is behind this frightening development—or know how to stop it. As they race across the nation and around the globe—from Washington D.C. to the densest jungles of Africa—to find answers, the members of Sigma realize they have become prey. To head off global catastrophe, Sigma Force risks their lives to uncover the shattering secret at the heart of a biosphere run amok—a truth that will illuminate who we are as a species and where we may be headed . . . sooner than we know. Mother Nature—red in tooth and claw—is turning against humankind, plummeting the entire world into The Savage Zone. 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Seven for a secret never to be told… But with the threat – and body count – rising daily, and no clue as to who’s behind it, neither Ava nor Luc know whether they will live long enough to tell the tale… CLICK HERE TO BORROW “One for Sorrow (D.I. Callanach #7) FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/66235117-a247-49a8-916a-c18eb5ed4977/the-wise-women-gina-sorell.JPG BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 7, 2022 - The Wise Women by Gina Sorell GENRE: Contemporary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Popular advice columnist Wendy Wise has been skillfully advising the women who write to her seeking help for four decades, so why are her own daughters’ lives such a mess? Clementine, the working mother of a six-year-old boy, has just discovered that she is actually renting the Queens home that she thought she owned, because her husband Steve secretly funneled their money into his flailing start-up. Meanwhile, her sister Barb has overextended herself at her architecture firm and reunited semi-unhappily with her cheating girlfriend. When Steve goes MIA and Clementine receives an eviction notice, Wendy swoops in to save the day, even though her daughters, who are holding onto some resentments from childhood, haven’t asked for her help. But as soon as Wendy sets her sights on hunting down her rogue son-in-law, Barb and Clementine quickly discover that their mother has been hiding more than a few problems of her own. As the three women confront the disappointments and heartaches that have accumulated between them over the years, they discover that while the future may look entirely different from the one that they’ve expected, it may be even brighter than they’d hoped. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Wise Women” by Gina Sorell FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/af30da74-a0d9-4c6d-8af5-4b139a3f349b/the-children-on-the-hill-jennifer-mcmahon.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 7, 2022 - The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon GENRE: Horror, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: 1978: at her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when she's home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she’s just Gran—teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love. Then one day Gran brings home a child to stay with the family. Iris—silent, hollow-eyed, skittish, and feral—does not behave like a normal girl. Still, Violet is thrilled to have a new playmate. She and Eric invite Iris to join their Monster Club, where they catalogue all kinds of monsters and dream up ways to defeat them. Before long, Iris begins to come out of her shell. She and Vi and Eric do everything together: ride their bicycles, go to the drive-in, meet at their clubhouse in secret to hunt monsters. Because, as Vi explains, monsters are everywhere. 2019: Lizzy Shelley, the host of the popular podcast Monsters Among Us, is traveling to Vermont, where a young girl has been abducted, and a monster sighting has the town in an uproar. She’s determined to hunt it down, because Lizzy knows better than anyone that monsters are real—and one of them is her very own sister. 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What follows is a twisted, shocking journey on the knife-edge of life and death. If she wants to save Braithe—and herself—the only way is to step back into the past. CLICK TO RESERVE “An Honest Lie” by Tarryn Fisher FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6fbcc190-25b3-4bea-87b2-2c300b6eb650/watch-out-for-her-samantha-bailey.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 7, 2022 - Watch Out for Her by Samantha Bailey GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Wherever you go… she’ll be watching. Sarah Goldman, mother to six-year-old Jacob, is relieved to move across the country. She has a lot she wants to leave behind, especially Holly Monroe, the pretty twenty-two-year-old babysitter she and her husband, Daniel, hired to take care of their young son last summer. It started out as a perfect arrangement—Sarah had a childminder her son adored, and Holly found the mother figure she’d always wanted. But Sarah’s never been one to trust very easily, so she kept a close eye on Holly, maybe too close at times. What she saw raised some questions, not only about who Holly really was but what she was hiding. The more Sarah watched, the more she learned—until one day, she saw something she couldn’t unsee, something so shocking that all she could do was flee. Sarah has put it all behind her and is starting over in a different city with her husband and son. They’ve settled into a friendly suburb where the neighbors, a tight clique of good citizens, are always on the lookout for danger. But when Sarah finds hidden cameras in her new home, she has to wonder: Has her past caught up to her, and worse yet, who’s watching her now? CLICK TO RESERVE “Watch Out for Her” by Samantha Bailey FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/cd98f270-f827-4e51-a374-8d1d5082dee9/ill-be-you-janelle-brown.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 7, 2022 - I’ll Be You by Janelle Brown GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: “You be me, and I’ll be you,” I whispered. As children, Sam and Elli were two halves of a perfect whole: gorgeous identical twins whose parents sometimes couldn’t even tell them apart. They fell asleep to the sound of each other’s breath at night, holding hands in the dark. And once Hollywood discovered them, they became B-list child TV stars, often inhabiting the same role. But as adults, their lives have splintered. After leaving acting, Elli reinvented herself as the perfect homemaker: married to a real estate lawyer, living in a house just blocks from the beach. Meanwhile, Sam has never recovered from her failed Hollywood career, or from her addiction to the pills and booze that have propped her up for the last fifteen years. Sam hasn't spoken to her sister since her destructive behavior finally drove a wedge between them. So when her father calls out of the blue, Sam is shocked to learn that Elli’s life has been in turmoil: her husband moved out, and Elli just adopted a two-year-old girl. Now she’s stopped answering her phone and checked in to a mysterious spa in Ojai. Is her sister just decompressing, or is she in trouble? Could she have possibly joined a cult? As Sam works to connect the dots left by Elli’s baffling disappearance, she realizes that the bond between her and her sister is more complicated than she ever knew. CLICK TO RESERVE “I’ll Be You” by Janelle Brown FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b031e63d-1c15-47fc-8091-e650afd9c924/the-younger-wife-sally-hepworth.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 7, 2022 - The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: THE HUSBAND A heart surgeon at the top of his field, Stephen Aston is getting married again. But first he must divorce his current wife, even though she can no longer speak for herself. THE DAUGHTERS Tully and Rachel Aston look upon their father’s fiancée, Heather, as nothing but an interloper. Heather is younger than both of them. Clearly, she’s after their father’s money. THE FORMER WIFE With their mother in a precarious position, Tully and Rachel are determined to get to the truth about their family’s secrets, the new wife closing in, and who their father really is. THE YOUNGER WIFE Heather has secrets of her own. Will getting to the truth unleash the most dangerous impulses in all of them? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Younger Wife” by Sally Hepworth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6aac1e08-5866-4e72-b196-b41845e44195/shadow-fallen-sherrilyn-kenyon.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 7, 2022 - Shadow Fallen (Dream-Hunters #6) by Sherrilyn Kenyon GENRE: Fantasy THE SYNOPSIS: For centuries, Ariel has fought the forces of evil. Her task was to protect the souls of innocent mortals when they die. Captured by a powerful sorceress, she is transformed into a human who has no memory of her real life or calling. And is plunked into the middle of the Norman invasion of England. Cursed the moment he was born with a "demonic deformity," Valteri wants nothing of this earth except to depart it and will do his duty to his king until then. When a strange noblewoman is brought before him, Valteri realizes he has met her before…in his dreams. When others come for her, bringing with them preternatural predators, he is faced with a destiny he had no idea was waiting. One he wants no part of. The truth is that Valteri isn’t just a knight of William the Conqueror. He is the son of one of the deadliest powers in existence, and if he doesn’t restore Ariel to her place, she is not the only one who will be in peril. The world itself hangs in the balance, and he is the necessary key to hold back the powers of evil. But only if he can find a way to work with the woman who stands for everything in the universe he hates. CLICK TO RESERVE “Shadow Fallen (Dream-Hunters #6)” by Sherrilyn Kenyon FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0d27f297-83a1-4d98-a786-48ad2c4cb6f6/the-shop-on-royal-street-karen-white.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 7, 2022 - The Shop on Royal Street (Royal Street #1) by Karen White GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: After a difficult hiccup on her road to adulthood, Nola Trenholm is looking to begin anew in New Orleans, and what better way to start her future than with her first house? But the historic fixer-upper she buys comes with even more work than she anticipated when the house's previous occupants don't seem to be ready to depart. Although she can't communicate with ghosts like her stepmother, luckily Nola knows someone in New Orleans who can--even if he's the last person on earth she wants anything to do with, ever again. Because Beau Ryan comes with his own dark past, a past that involves the disappearance of his sister and parents during Hurricane Katrina, and the unsolved murder of a woman who once lived in the old Creole Cottage Nola is determined to make her own whether or not the resident restless spirits agree... CLICK TO RESERVE “The Shop on Royal Street (Royal Street #1)” by Karen White FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a332bc07-d8b7-46e9-8b02-8c3fbe146c64/death-of-the-black-widow-james-patterson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 7, 2022 - Death of the Black Widow by James Patterson GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O’Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O’Brien’s veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve—and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter’s promoted to detective, his fascination with the missing, gray-eyed woman is approaching obsession. And when Walter discovers that he’s not alone in his search, one truth is certain. This deadly string of secrets didn’t begin in his home city—but he’s going to make sure it ends there. CLICK TO RESERVE “Death of the Black Widow” by James Patterson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/dc9d82b1-b6f1-47e8-a0ac-f7a4bed85aca/ruby-falls-deborah-goodrich-royce.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 7, 2022 - Ruby Falls by Deborah Goodrich Royce GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: On a brilliantly sunny July day, six-year-old Ruby is abandoned by her father in the suffocating dark of a Tennessee cave. Twenty years later, transformed into soap opera star Eleanor Russell, she is fired under dubious circumstances. Fleeing to Europe, she marries a glamorous stranger named Orlando Montague and keeps her past closely hidden. Together, Eleanor and Orlando start afresh in LA. Setting up house in a storybook cottage in the Hollywood Hills, Eleanor is cast in a dream role—the lead in a remake of Rebecca. As she immerses herself in that eerie gothic tale, Orlando’s personality changes, ghosts of her past re-emerge, and Eleanor fears she is not the only person in her marriage with a secret. CLICK TO RESERVE “Ruby Falls” by Deborah Goodrich Royce FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/447c51d2-3afe-42cc-ac10-9d9650a75cda/breathless-amy-mcculloch.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: May 7, 2022 - Breathless by Amy McCulloch GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Journalist Cecily Wong is in over her head. She's come to Manaslu, the eighth-highest peak in the world, to interview internationally famous mountaineer Charles McVeigh on the last leg of a record-breaking series of summits. She's given up everything for this story--her boyfriend, her life savings, the peace she's made with her climbing failures in the past--but it's a career-making opportunity. It could finally put her life back on track. But when one climber dies in what everyone else assumes is a freak accident, she fears their expedition is in danger. And by the time a second climber dies, it's too late to turn back. Stranded on a mountain in one of the most remote regions of the world, she'll have to battle more than the elements in a harrowing fight for survival against a killer who is picking them off one by one. 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Each battling their own demons, David and Taylor launch an investigation, determined to help uncover the truth about what happened to Amka. David wonders if a new antidepressant he recently prescribed both Amka and Brianna played a role in what took place. Taylor, who’s familiar with the locals, suspects a drug lord with connections to Amka’s boyfriend. Who is right? Where is Amka? Is she still alive? What begins as a missing persons inquiry and suspicion over a pharmaceutical cover-up quickly evolves into a terrifying journey of treachery and death—one that will horrify this isolated town and endanger many more lives. 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CLICK TO RESERVE “Love Marriage” by Monica Ali FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-april-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6d24baf3-aa5f-481f-abfa-b7dee0a1d167/these-silent-woods-kimi-cunningham-grant.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: April 2022 - LISA S’s PICK: These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant GENRE: Suspense WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I devoured this novel. At 288 pages, this one is a quick read. I enjoy books about living in the wild, and this one reminded me a little of The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah in that way. I laughed, I cried (and if you don’t cry near the end, I don’t know if we can be friends), and I learned a lot about living off the land. This was a tender, and taut, look at what it means to be a family, and the lengths a parent will go to keep a family together. THE SYNOPSIS: No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's exactly the way Cooper wants it, because he's got a lot to hide. Finch has been raised on the books filling the cabin’s shelves and the beautiful but brutal code of life in the wilderness. But she’s starting to push back against the sheltered life Cooper has created for her—and he’s still haunted by the painful truth of what it took to get them there. The only people who know they exist are a mysterious local hermit named Scotland, and Cooper's old friend, Jake, who visits each winter to bring them food and supplies. But this year, Jake doesn't show up, setting off an irreversible chain of events that reveals just how precarious their situation really is. Suddenly, the boundaries of their safe haven have blurred—and when a stranger wanders into their woods, Finch’s growing obsession with her could put them all in danger. After a shocking disappearance threatens to upend the only life Finch has ever known, Cooper is forced to decide whether to keep hiding—or finally face the sins of his past. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “These Silent Woods” by Kimi Cunningham Grant FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/20c78de1-25a1-42f9-9202-0b263bd7ffba/skyward-brandon-sanderson.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: April 2022 - TORI’s PICK: Skyward (Skyward #1) by Brandon Sanderson GENRE: Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy WHY SHE CHOSE IT: Sanderson is my go-to guy for fantasy. This is an excellent book to start with if your wanting to get into his writing. The characters are complex and so well written, the plot unique, fresh and full of action. This was the book that made me realize sci-fi is my absolute favourite genre. Before reading this I never would have thought my favourite character of all time would be a mushroom-loving talking spaceship but here I am ordering t-shirts with M-Bot on them. Sanderson really makes an art out of building worlds that just keep getting bigger and bigger, you almost forget that your reading. THE SYNOPSIS: Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. When she discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possible—assuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly) persuade the strange machine to help her. Because this ship, uniquely, appears to have a soul. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Skyward (Skyward #1) by Brandon Sanderson: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/fb16ca7f-8894-48d8-8f8f-ba901191aab6/born-a-crime-trevor-noah.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: April 2022 - BRANDY’s PICK: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah GENRE: Memoir WHY SHE CHOSE IT: In South Africa during apartheid, Noah's existence was considered a crime (his father was white and his mother black) because at the time mixed race relationships were illegal and punishable. Noah had to be hidden away for the first few years of his life. His mother and father lived apart but there were stolen moments where he could see his father in secret so he could have a little relationship with him. Noah's story describes how he struggled to fit in as he wasn't black enough in to fit in with the black community and wasn't white enough to fit in there. Noah also explains how his mother struggled to make ends meet but was the hardest worker he knew. You can feel his love and admiration for his mother as she endures some of her own struggles while Noah was growing up. Throughout the autobiography you learn how intelligent, entrepreneurial and even mischievous Trevor was from a young age. If you are looking for heartbreaking but also hilarious at times read, please include this book in your TBR (to be read) list. THE SYNOPSIS: Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/33ed4e4d-6d07-4d0c-aee9-1992062bfa16/columbine-dave-cullen.JPG BLOG - Staff Picks: April 2022 - LISA G’s PICK: Columbine by Dave Cullen GENRE: Nonfiction, True Crime WHY SHE CHOSE IT: This book compiles all known events leading up to April 20, 1999 and the aftermath from every angle of the victims and the families of the teenage gunmen, and the evolution of their grief and emotions over the 10 years that passed between the mass shooting and the book. An interesting examination when you realize this event was the first of it's kind to unfold live on televison, which prompted changes in the response to violent situations by schools, police, and media. THE SYNOPSIS: "The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake of Newtown, Aurora, and Virginia Tech, the imperative to understand the crime that sparked this plague grows more urgent every year. What really happened April 20, 1999? The horror left an indelible stamp on the American psyche, but most of what we "know" is wrong. It wasn't about jocks, Goths, or the Trench Coat Mafia. Dave Cullen was one of the first reporters on scene, and spent ten years on this book-widely recognized as the definitive account. With a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen, he draws on mountains of evidence, insight from the world's leading forensic psychologists, and the killers' own words and drawings-several reproduced in a new appendix. Cullen paints raw portraits of two polar opposite killers. They contrast starkly with the flashes of resilience and redemption among the survivors. 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A leisurely beachfront summer promises the trio of women the opportunity to take deep healing breaths and explore new paths. But when her father’s will reveals an earth-shattering secret that tarnishes his impeccable reputation and everything she thought she knew about her family, Marlow finds herself questioning her entire childhood — and aspects of her future. Fortunately, her friends, and the most unlikely love interest she could imagine, prove that happiness can be found no matter what — as long as the right people are by your side. 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CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Chevy in the Hole” by Kelsey Ronan FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/58ba8379-94e9-4b09-8001-5921e2ccfda6/time-is-a-mother-ocean-vuong.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 28, 2022 - Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong GENRE: Poetry THE SYNOPSIS: In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong's poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Time is a Mother” by Ocean Vuong FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/56e8e6a2-db0c-41c8-a88a-5e6da5c63b9a/funny-you-should-ask-elissa-sussman.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 28, 2022 - Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Then. Twentysomething writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing book deals, she's in the trenches writing puff pieces. Then she's hired to write a profile of movie star Gabe Parker. The Gabe Parker--her forever celebrity crush, the object of her fantasies, the background photo on her phone--who's also just been cast as the new James Bond. It's terrifying and thrilling all at once . . . yet if she can keep her cool and nail the piece, it could be a huge win. Gabe will get good press, and her career will skyrocket. But what comes next proves to be life-changing in ways Chani never saw coming, as the interview turns into a whirlwind weekend that has the tabloids buzzing. Now. Ten years later, after a brutal divorce and a heavy dose of therapy, Chani is back in Los Angeles, laser-focused on one thing: her work. But she's still spent the better part of the last decade getting asked about her deeply personal Gabe Parker profile at every turn. No matter what new essay collection or viral editorial she's promoting, it always comes back to Gabe. So when his PR team requests that they reunite for a second interview, she wants to say no. She wants to pretend that she's forgotten about the time they spent together, years ago. But the truth is that those seventy-two hours are still crystal clear, etched in her memory. And so . . . she says yes. Chani knows that facing Gabe again also means facing feelings she's tried so hard to push away. Alternating between their first meeting and their reunion a decade later, this deliciously irresistible novel will have you hanging on until the last word. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Funny You Should Ask” by Elissa Sussman FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ed28ecbe-4c1a-4189-88a2-b2b82263b1db/an-unthinkable-thing-nicole-lundrigan.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 28, 2022 - An Unthinkable Thing by Nicole Lundrigan GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Tommie Ware’s life is turned upside down the summer of 1958, just after his eleventh birthday. When his beloved aunt—the woman who raised him—doesn’t return after her shift as a night nurse and is later found murdered, there is only one place left for Tommie to go: “home” to the mother who handed him over the day he was born. All is not as it seems behind the hedgerow surrounding the lavish Henneberry estate where Tommie’s mother, Esther, works as live-in housekeeper. Her employers have agreed he can stay until she “sorts things out,” but as she's at the family’s beck and call around the clock, Tommie is mostly left on his own to navigate the grounds, the massive house, and the twisted family inside. Soon he is enmeshed in the oppressive attentions of matriarch Muriel, who is often heavily medicated, and of fifteen-year-old, Martin, who treats Tommie sometimes like a kid brother, sometimes like a pawn in a confusing game. While Dr. Henneberry mostly ignores Tommie, he also seems eager for him to be gone. Then there’s the elderly neighbour, who may know more about the family's past than anyone else will say. By summer's end, the secrets and games tighten around Tommie and his mother, until a horrific crime is discovered and we are faced with an unthinkable question: could an eleven-year-old boy really have committed cold-blooded murder? 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Within the text of Olive's bestselling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe. 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Aragon Urrea is a kingpin of a major drug-dealing operation in South Texas. He's also the patron of the local area—supplying employment in legitimate operations, providing help to the helpless, rough justice to the downtrodden, and a future to a people normally with little hope. He's complicated—a not completely good man, who does bad things for often good reasons. However, for all his money and power, he is helpless when one of the most vicious cartels kidnaps his innocent eighteen year old daughter, spiriting her away into the armored complex that is their headquarters in Mexico. With no other way to rescue his daughter, he turns to The Nowhere Man. Now not only must Evan figure out how to get into the impregnable fortress of a heavily armed, deeply paranoid cartel leader, but he must decide if he should help a very bad man—no matter how just the cause. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dark Horse (Orphan X #7)” by Gregg Hurwitz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1c7ac88b-25b1-4814-a631-25f898ca90ca/shadows-reel-cj-box.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 28, 2022 - Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett #22) by C.J. Box GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett’s job has many times put his wife and daughters in harm’s way. Now the tables turn as his wife discovers something that puts the Pickett family in a killer’s crosshairs in this thrilling new novel in the bestselling series. A day before the three Pickett girls come home for Thanksgiving, Marybeth Pickett finds an unmarked package at the front door of the library where she works. When she opens the package she finds a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official. Who left it there? And why did they leave it with her? She learns that during World War II several Wyoming soldiers were in the group that fought to Hitler’s Eagles Nest retreat in the Alps—and one of them took Hitler’s personal photo album. Did another take this one and keep it all these years? When she finds the name of a deceased local man who was likely in the unit, Joe visits the man’s son—only to find him brutally tortured and murdered. Someone is after the photo album—but why? And when a close neighbor is murdered, Joe and Marybeth face a new question: How will they figure out the book’s mystery before someone hurts them…or their girls? Meanwhile, Nate Romanowski is on the hunt for a younger and more ruthless version of himself—the man who stole Nate’s falcons and attacked his wife. Using a network of fellow falconers, Nate tracks the man from one city to another, learning that his target is an agitator and a financier of anarchists. Even as he grasps the true threat his quarry presents, Nate swoops in for the kill—and a stunning final showdown. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett #22)” by C.J. Box: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/80f77577-dba5-4848-89b8-fb76edd320fc/take-my-hand-dolen-perkins-valdez.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 28, 2022 - Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Montgomery, Alabama 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives and bodies. But when her first week on the job takes her down a dusty country road to a worn down one-room cabin, she’s shocked to learn that her new patients are children—just 11 and 13 years old. Neither of the Williams sisters has even kissed a boy, but they are poor and Black and for those handling the family’s welfare benefits that’s reason enough to have the girls on birth control. As Civil grapples with her role, she takes India, Erica and their family into her heart. Until one day, she arrives at the door to learn the unthinkable has happened and nothing will ever be the same for any of them. Decades later, with her daughter grown and a long career in her wake, Dr. Civil Townsend is ready to retire, to find her peace and to leave the past behind. But there are people and stories that refuse to be forgotten.That must not be forgotten. Because history repeats what we don’t remember. 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Her search is upended when she discovers the scene of a gruesome mass murder. What does it signify? Soon Amy begins to have suspicions that Edward might not really be dead. Disquieting and yet compulsively readable, Two Storm Wood builds to an ending that is both thrilling and emotionally riveting. CLICK TO RESERVE “Two Storm Wood” by Philip Gray FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/942667aa-2309-4b9e-91e2-3be2a145ccf8/the-candy-house-jennifer-egan.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 28, 2022 - The Candy House (Goon Squad #2) by Jennifer Egan GENRE: Science Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: It’s 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He’s forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, Own Your Unconscious—that allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Candy House (Goon Squad #2)” by Jennifer Egan: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f1b0c5bf-c18e-4cec-a35b-f29541a50d10/summer-at-the-cape-raeanne-thayne.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 28, 2022 - Summer at the Cape by RaeAnne Thayne GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: As the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the odd sister out. The divide grew even wider when their parents split up—while the twins stayed in Cape Sanctuary with their free-spirited mother, Rosemary, fourteen-year-old Cami moved to LA with her attorney father. Nearly twenty years later, when Cami gets the terrible news that Lily has drowned saving a child’s life, her mother begs her to return home to help untangle the complicated estate issues her sister left behind. Navigating their own strained relationship, Cami readjusts to the family and community she hasn’t known for decades, including the neighbor who stands in the way of her late sister’s dream, while Violet grieves the loss of her twin and struggles to figure out who she is now, without her other half, as the little girl Lily saved pulls her back into the orbit of the man she once loved. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Summer at the Cape” by RaeAnne Thayne FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d2e6ab9a-a224-43e1-9330-9f6d3b5927cc/bluebird-genevieve-graham.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 28, 2022 - Bluebird by Genevieve Graham GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Present day: Cassie Simmons, a museum curator, is enthusiastic about solving mysteries from the past, and she has a personal interest in the history of the rumrunners who ferried illegal booze across the Detroit River during Prohibition. So when a cache of whisky labeled Bailey Brothers’ Best is unearthed during a local home renovation, Cassie hopes to find the answers she’s been searching for about the legendary family of bootleggers... 1918: Corporal Jeremiah Bailey of the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company is tasked with planting mines in the tunnels beneath enemy trenches. After Jerry is badly wounded in an explosion, he finds himself in a Belgium field hospital under the care of Adele Savard, one of Canada’s nursing sisters, nicknamed “Bluebirds” for their blue gowns and white caps. As Jerry recovers, he forms a strong connection with Adele, who is from a place near his hometown of Windsor, along the Detroit River. In the midst of war, she’s a welcome reminder of home, and when Jerry is sent back to the front, he can only hope that he’ll see his bluebird again. By war’s end, both Jerry and Adele return home to Windsor, scarred by the horrors of what they endured overseas. When they cross paths one day, they have a chance to start over. But the city is in the grip of Prohibition, which brings exciting opportunities as well as new dangerous conflicts that threaten to destroy everything they have fought for. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Bluebird” by Genevieve Graham BELOW: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/528ce4a0-2ddd-4bec-b26a-e8a822726e27/young-mungo-douglas-stuart.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 28, 2022 - Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart GENRE: LGBTQ THE SYNOPSIS: Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--and they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Yet against all odds, they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As they fall in love, they dream of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his big brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. And when several months later Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland with two strange men whose drunken banter belies murky pasts, he will need to summon all his inner strength and courage to try to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future. Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism and giving full voice to people rarely acknowledged in the literary world, Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the divisions of sectarianism, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Young Mungo” by Douglas Stuart: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-april-16-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/fb4be743-d9ae-4e0a-ab19-4070472b16aa/The-Darkest-Place-Phillip-Margolin.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 16, 2022 - The Darkest Place (Robin Lockwood #5) by Phillip Margolin GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Robin Lockwood is an increasingly prominent defense attorney in the Portland community. A Yale graduate and former MMA fighter, she's becoming known for her string of innovative and successful defense strategies. As a favor to a judge, Robin takes on the pro bono defense of a reprehensible defendant charged with even more reprehensible crimes. But what she doesn't know—what she can't know—is how this one decision, this one case, will wreak complete devastation on her life and plans. As she recovers from those consequences, Robin heads home to her small town of Elk Grove and the bosom of her family. As she tries to recuperate, a unique legal challenge presents itself—Marjorie Loman, a surrogate, is accused of kidnapping the baby she carried for another couple, and assaulting that couple in the process. There's no question that she committed these actions but that's not the same as being guilty of the crime. As Robin works to defend her client, she learns that Marjorie Loman has been hiding under a fake identity and is facing a warrant for her arrest for another, even more serious crime. And buried within the truth may once again be unexpected, deadly consequences. 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And Helen’s not the only one who’s noticed. Her friends and family begin to suspect that her strange new friend may be linked to their shared history in unexpected ways. When Rachel threatens to expose a past crime that could destroy all of their lives, it becomes clear that there are more than a few secrets laying beneath the broad-leaved trees and warm lamplight of Greenwich Park. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Greenwich Park” by Katherine Faulkner: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d4cb932d-ea3d-42ef-81ea-b2b05bafd882/True-Biz-Sara-Novic.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 16, 2022 - True Biz by Sara Novic GENRE: Coming-of-Age THE SYNOPSIS: True biz (adj/exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the headmistress, who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another--and changed forever. CLICK TO RESERVE “True Biz” by Sara Novic FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/fbbfac16-a8dc-47d7-9724-62fef00cb804/the-truth-about-melody-browne-lisa-jewell.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 16, 2022 - The Truth About Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: When she was nine years old, Melody Browne's house burned down, taking every toy, every photograph, every item of clothing and old Christmas card with it. But not only did the fire destroy all her possessions, it took with it all her memories—Melody Browne can remember nothing before her ninth birthday. Now in her early thirties, Melody lives in a council flat in the middle of London with her seventeen-year-old son. She hasn't seen her parents since she left home at fifteen, but Melody doesn't mind, she's better off on her own. She's made a good life for herself and her son and she likes it that way. Until one night something extraordinary happens. Whilst attending a hypnotist show with her first date in years she faints—and when she comes round she starts to remember. At first her memories mean nothing to her but then slowly, day by day, she begins to piece together the real story of her childhood. Her journey takes her to the seaside town of Broadstairs, to oddly familiar houses in London backstreets and to meetings with strangers who love her like their own. But with every mystery she solves another one materialises, with every question she answers another appears. And Melody begins to wonder if she'll ever know the truth about her past. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Truth About Melody Browne” by Lisa Jewell FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/414630d7-b382-45ee-a790-f5c132ab2d3d/the-peoples-princess-flora-harding.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 16, 2022 - The People’s Princess by Flora Harding GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Her engagement to Prince Charles is a dream come true for Lady Diana Spencer but marrying the heir to the throne is not all that it seems. Alone and bored in the palace, she resents the stuffy courtiers who are intent on instructing her about her new role as Princess of Wales… But when she discovers a diary written in the 1800s by Princess Charlotte of Wales, a young woman born into a gilded cage so like herself, Diana is drawn into the story of Charlotte’s reckless love affairs and fraught relationship with her father, the Prince Regent. As she reads the diary, Diana can see many parallels with her own life and future as Princess of Wales. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The People’s Princess” by Flora Harding: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/78ab3cbd-59d2-4fdc-ba68-c1a218445356/the-queens-lady-joanna-hickson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 16, 2022 - The Queen’s Lady (Queens of the Tower #2) by Joanna Hickson GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Raven-haired and fiercely independent, Joan Guildford has always remained true to herself. As lady-in-waiting and confidante to Queen Elizabeth, wife of Henry VII, Joan understands royal patronage is vital if she and her husband, Sir Richard, are to thrive in the volatile atmosphere of court life. But Tudor England is in mourning following the death of the Prince of Wales, and within a year, the queen herself. With Prince Henry now heir to the throne, the court murmurs with the sound of conspiracy. Is the entire Tudor project now at stake or can young Henry secure the dynasty? Drawn into the heart of the crisis, Joan’s own life is in turmoil, and her future far from secure. She faces a stark choice – be true to her heart and risk everything, or play the dutiful servant and watch her dreams wither and die. For Joan, and for Henry’s Kingdom, everything is at stake… CLICK TO RESERVE “The Queen’s Lady (Queens of the Tower #2)” by Joanna Hickson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1f687871-9f88-46ae-b1da-add58ce09031/a-train-to-moscow-elena-gorokhova.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 16, 2022 - A Train to Moscow by Elena Gorokhova GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons her first love, Andrei. Before she leaves, Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya, an artist still missing in action years after the war has ended. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin’s brutality. Kolya’s revelations and his tragic love story guide Sasha through drama school and cement her determination to live a thousand lives onstage. After graduation, she begins acting in Leningrad, where Andrei, now a Communist Party apparatchik, becomes a censor of her work. As a past secret comes to light, Sasha’s ambitions converge with Andrei’s duties, and Sasha must decide if her dreams are truly worth the necessary sacrifice and if, as her grandmother likes to say, all will indeed be well. CLICK TO RESERVE “A Train to Moscow” by Elena Gorokhova FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/e4649ff5-186c-404d-bf64-6b444b56f57c/french-braid-anne-tyler.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 16, 2022 - French Braid by Anne Tyler GENRE: Literary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.\ CLICK TO RESERVE “French Braid” by Anne Tyler FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/42c2c714-77be-4326-9632-92b2aad2523a/ocean-state-stewart-onan.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 16, 2022 - Ocean State by Stewart O’Nan GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel's younger sister Marie, who reflects on that doomed autumn of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight. Angel and Birdy love the same teenage boy, frantically and single mindedly, and are compelled by the intensity of their feelings to extremes neither could have anticipated. O'Nan's expert hand paints a fully realized portrait of these women, but also weaves a compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in Ashaway, Rhode Island. Propulsive, moving, and deeply rendered, Ocean State is a masterful novel by one of our greatest storytellers. CLICK TO RESERVE “Ocean State” by Stewart O’Nan FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b92f230c-87fc-4ef4-bec1-3eebc1202a5b/the-love-of-my-life-rosie-walsh.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 16, 2022 - The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: I have held you at night for ten years and I didn't even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you? Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie. And she might just have got away with it, if it weren’t for her husband’s job. Leo is an obituary writer; Emma a well-known marine biologist. When she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best – researching and writing about his wife’s life. But as he starts to unravel the truth, he discovers the woman he loves doesn’t really exist. Even her name isn’t real. When the very darkest moments of Emma’s past finally emerge, she must somehow prove to Leo that she really is the woman he always thought she was . . . But first, she must tell him about the other love of her life. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Love of My Life” by Rosie Walsh FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/18586b8e-1e69-4009-a063-6bc5dec3ae11/nine-lives-peter-swanson.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 16, 2022 - Nine Lives by Peter Swanson GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke - until very, very bad things begin happening to people on the list. First, a well-liked old man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine. Then, a father is shot in the back while running through his quiet neighborhood in suburban Massachusetts. A frightening pattern is emerging, but what do these nine people have in common? Their professions range from oncology nurse to aspiring actor. FBI agent Jessica Winslow, who is on the list herself, is determined to find out. Could there be some dark secret that binds them all together? Or is this the work of a murderous madman? As the mysterious sender stalks these nine strangers, they find themselves constantly looking over their shoulders, wondering who will be crossed off next.... CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Nine Lives” by Peter Swanson: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/10c48ee3-4ab1-4f86-942a-23a860f3f17d/one-night-on-the-island-josie-silver.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 16, 2022 - One Night on the Island by Josie Silver GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Spending her thirtieth birthday alone is the last thing that dating columnist Cleo wanted, but she is going on a self-coupling quasi-sabbatical--at the insistence of her boss--in the name of re-energizing herself and adding a new perspective to her column. The remote Irish island she's booked is a far cry from London, but at least it's a chance to hunker down in a luxury cabin and indulge in some quiet, solitary self-care while she figures out her next steps in her love life and her career. Mac is also looking forward to some time to himself. With his life in Boston deteriorating in ways he can't bring himself to acknowledge, his soul searching has brought him to the same Irish island in search of his roots and some clarity. Unfortunately, a mix-up with the bookings means both solitude seekers have reserved the same one-bedroom hideaway on exactly the same dates. Instantly at odds with each other, Cleo and Mac don't know how they're going to manage until the next weekly ferry arrives. But as the days go by, they no longer seem to mind each other's company quite as much as they thought they would... CLICK TO RESERVE “One Night on the Island” by Josie Silver FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-april-12-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/12053a2e-b0a5-4b69-97a0-6cb6ada77da9/Say-Her-Name-Dreyda-Say-Mitchell.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 12, 2022 - Say Her Name by Dreyda Say Mitchell GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: It’s twenty years since Eva, a biracial woman, was adopted as an eight-year-old, and Cherry and Carlton ‘Sugar’ McNeil have always been the only parents she’s wanted or needed. But when she’s dealt the double blow of Cherry’s death and her own suspension from work, Eva decides it’s time to discover who she was before she was theirs. Against Sugar’s advice, Eva joins a DNA database, desperate for a match that will unlock her identity. And when a positive hit comes, she’s excited to learn there are relations out there who might hold the key. But the closer Eva gets to uncovering her past, the more it appears someone is trying to stop her finally finding the truth… As she continues to dig, Eva is drawn into a dark and merciless underside to society, where black women disappear without a word. Names erased from history, no search parties, no desperate pleas for their return. Once, someone tried to save Eva from all this. Someone wanted a better life for her. But now that she’s torn down the facade of her life, has she come too far to be spared again? CLICK TO RESERVE “Say Her Name” by Dreyda Say Mitchell FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2b9d667d-c1af-4359-a1b9-20ff9655a15f/The-Next-Thing-You-Know-Jessica-Strawser.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 12, 2022 - The Next Thing You Know by Jessica Strawser GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: As an end-of-life doula, Nova Huston’s job—her calling, her purpose, her life—is to help terminally ill people make peace with their impending death. Unlike her business partner, who swears by her system of checklists, free-spirited Nova doesn’t shy away from difficult clients: the ones who are heartbreakingly young, or prickly, or desperate for a caregiver or companion. When Mason Shaylor shows up at her door, Nova doesn’t recognize him as the indie-favorite singer-songwriter who recently vanished from the public eye. She knows only what he’s told her: That life as he knows it is over. His deteriorating condition makes playing his guitar physically impossible—as far as Mason is concerned, he might as well be dead already. Except he doesn’t know how to say goodbye. Helping him is Nova’s biggest challenge yet. She knows she should keep clients at arm’s length. But she and Mason have more in common than anyone could guess… and meeting him might turn out to be the hardest, best thing that’s ever happened to them both. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Next Thing You Know” by Jessica Strawser FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/173e8947-1fe0-472b-b15c-fc6064ffed8b/The-Weekend-Away-Dreyda-Say-Mitchell.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 12, 2022 - The Weekend Away by Sarah Alderson GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Miles from home. Trust no one. Suspect everyone. Orla and Kate have been best friends forever. Together they’ve faced it all – be it Orla’s struggles as a new mother or Kate’s messy divorce. And whatever else happens in their lives, they can always look forward to their annual weekend away. This year, they’re off to Lisbon: the perfect flat, the perfect view, the perfect itinerary. And what better way to kick things off in style than with the perfect night out? But when Orla wakes up the next morning, Kate is gone. Brushed off by the police and with only a fuzzy memory of the night’s events, Orla is her friend’s only hope. As she frantically retraces their steps, Orla makes a series of shattering discoveries that threaten everything she holds dear. Because while Lisbon holds the secret of what happened that night, the truth may lie closer to home… CLICK TO RESERVE “The Weekend Away” by Sarah Alderson FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5a1914b1-9e04-442b-9ffd-040223349c78/Insomnia-Sarah-Pinborough.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 12, 2022 - Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Emma Averell loves her life—her high-powered legal career, her two beautiful children, and her wonderful stay-at-home husband—but it wasn’t always so perfect. When she was just five years old, Emma and her older sister went into foster care because of a horrific incident with their mother. Her sister can remember a time when their mother was loving and “normal,” but Emma can only remember her as one thing—a monster. And that monster emerged right around their mother’s fortieth birthday, the same age Emma is approaching now. Emma desperately wants to keep her successful life separate from her past, so she has always hidden her childhood trauma. But then she’s unable to sleep, and now losing time during the day, also one of the first symptoms her mother showed. Is the madness in her blood, just as her mother predicted? Could she end up hurting her family in her foggy, frenetic state? Or is she truly beginning to lose her mind? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Insomnia” by Sarah Pinborough FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0af3a9a8-625b-42ce-9901-c0bd2c003bc7/Again-Rachel-Marian-Keyes.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: April 12, 2022 - Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: In her twenties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. Since her spell in rehab, though, she's come a long way on the road to recovery - and now, she's ready to go back to where it all began. But this time, the student has become the teacher. She used to hate the staff in charge of treating her addiction. Now, she's one of them. Rachel's finally got herself on track - but life never stops being messy. And when an old flame resurfaces, will she go back to who she once was? Or nearing fifty, can she find herself all over again? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Again, Rachel” by Marian Keyes FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-march-31-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/36d06f5c-72c9-4b6f-b86a-176f029cffba/the-diamond-eye-kate-quinn.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 31, 2022 - The Diamond Eye - Kate Quinn GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper--a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC--until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. But when an old enemy from Mila's past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Diamond Eye” by Kate Quinn FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1f9e03a1-cd74-4e4d-89dc-886e24c1251c/something-to-hide-elizabeth-george.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 31, 2022 - Something to Hide (Lynley #21) - Elizabeth George GENRE: Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he knows it. In his pursuit of a killer determined to remain hidden, he's assisted by Detective Sergeants Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata. They must sort through the lies and the secret lives of people whose superficial cooperation masks the damage they do to one another. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Something to Hide (Lynley #21)” by Elizabeth George: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1bb96b50-66d9-493e-bb09-fec64c872aef/what-happened-to-the-bennetts-lisa-scottoline.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 31, 2022 - What Happened to the Bennetts -Lisa Scottoline GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter’s lacrosse game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever. Later that awful night, Jason and his family receive a visit from the FBI. The agents tell them that the carjackers were members of a dangerous drug-trafficking organization - and now Jason and his family are in their crosshairs. The agents advise the Bennetts to enter the witness protection program right away, and they have no choice but to agree. But WITSEC was designed to protect criminal informants, not law-abiding families. Taken from all they know, trapped in an unfamiliar life, the Bennetts begin to fall apart at the seams. Then Jason learns a shocking truth and realizes that he has to take matters into his own hands. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “What Happened to the Bennetts” by Lisa Scottoline FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/9451391c-bb7d-4ba5-8a1c-148c773b9a05/the-missing-piece-john-lescroart.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 31, 2022 - The Missing Piece (Dismas Hardy #19) - John Lescroart GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: No one mourned when San Francisco DA Wes Farrell put Paul Riley in prison eleven years ago for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. And no one is particularly happy to see him again when he’s released after The Exoneration Initiative uncovered evidence that pinned the crime on someone else. In fact, Riley soon turns up murdered, surrounded by the loot from his latest scam. But if Riley was really innocent all along, who wanted him dead? To the cops, it’s straightforward: the still-grieving father of Riley’s dead girlfriend killed the former prisoner. Farrell, now out of politics and practicing law with master attorney Dismas Hardy, agrees to represent the defendant, Doug Rush—and is left in the dust when Rush suddenly vanishes. At a loss, Farrell and Hardy ask PI Abe Glitsky to track down the potentially lethal defendant. The search takes Glitsky through an investigative hall of mirrors populated by wounded parents, crooked cops, cheating spouses, and single-minded vigilantes. As Glitsky embraces and then discards one enticing theory after another, the truth seems to recede ever farther. So far that he begins to question his own moral compass. CLICK HERE TO BORROW “The Missing Piece (Dismas Hardy #19)” by John Lescroart FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6f7f9958-e0a0-4983-b04b-e05ec7a9ee66/the-herd-emily-edwards.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 31, 2022 - The Herd - Emily Edwards GENRE: Contemporary THE SYNOPSIS: You should never judge how someone chooses to raise their child. Elizabeth and Bryony are polar opposites but their unexpected friendship has always worked. They're the best of friends, and godmothers to each other's daughters - because they trust that the safety of their children is both of their top priority. But what if their choice could harm your own child? Little do they know that they differ radically over one very important issue. And when Bryony, afraid of being judged, tells what is supposed to be a harmless white lie before a child's birthday party, the consequences are more catastrophic than either of them could ever have imagined . . . CLICK TO RESERVE “The Herd” by Emily Edwards FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/de4aa7bf-87f4-4304-95b3-4012e6337e25/home-or-away-kathleen-west.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 31, 2022 - Home or Away - Kathleen West GENRE: Domestic Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Once Leigh and Susy were close friends and teammates bound for Olympic hockey gold, but when Leigh's sure-fire plan to make the final roster backfired, she left everything behind to start over, including the one person who knew her secret. Two decades later, Leigh's a successful investment banker, happily married, and the mom of a hockey prodigy, so when a career opportunity lands the family back in Minnesota, Leigh takes the shot for her kid. Back in the ultra-competitive world she left behind, the move puts her in Susy's orbit, a daily reminder of how Leigh watched from the sidelines as her former teammate went on to Olympic glory. Despite the coldness between them, Susy can't help but hope that Leigh might lace up her skates and join her in the coaches' box--after all Leigh knows better than anyone how hard it is to be a woman in this world. Susy's coaching decisions are undermined by the all-male board and she knows soon her daughter, Georgie, will be seen as a "girl athlete," relegated to the B team, with less support and opportunity to advance. But Leigh's sure keeping Susy at arms' length is the only way to hide her history with her coach Jeff Carlson. When he hints of new favors in exchange for her son's ice time and allegations arise over his conduct, Leigh is caught in the ultimate bind: come clean about what happened when she was an Olympic hopeful and risk her marriage or play Jeff's game. In a moment of desperation, Leigh turns to Susy and realizes the one person she thought was her biggest competitor might turn out to be her biggest ally. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “ Home or Away” by Kathleen West FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/aa22a9ee-3c3f-41bf-a839-01f3672b46b2/these-silent-woods-kimi-cunningham-grant.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 31, 2022 - These Silent Woods - Kimi Cunningham Grant GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's exactly the way Cooper wants it, because he's got a lot to hide. Finch has been raised on the books filling the cabin’s shelves and the beautiful but brutal code of life in the wilderness. But she’s starting to push back against the sheltered life Cooper has created for her—and he’s still haunted by the painful truth of what it took to get them there. The only people who know they exist are a mysterious local hermit named Scotland, and Cooper's old friend, Jake, who visits each winter to bring them food and supplies. But this year, Jake doesn't show up, setting off an irreversible chain of events that reveals just how precarious their situation really is. Suddenly, the boundaries of their safe haven have blurred—and when a stranger wanders into their woods, Finch’s growing obsession with her could put them all in danger. After a shocking disappearance threatens to upend the only life Finch has ever known, Cooper is forced to decide whether to keep hiding—or finally face the sins of his past. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “These Silent Woods” by Kimi Cunningham Grant FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ce247986-9a87-4aa8-8a7e-e83a5c8f6899/the-long-weekend-gilly-macmillan.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 31, 2022 - The Long Weekend - Gilly Macmillan GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Three couples. Two bodies. One secret. Dark Fell Barn is a “perfectly isolated” retreat, or so says its website when Jayne books a reservation for her friends. A quiet place, far removed from the rest of the world, is exactly what they need. The women arrive for a girls’ night ahead of their husbands. There’s ex-Army Jayne, hardened and serious, but also damaged. Ruth, the driven doctor and new mother who is battling demons of her own. Young Emily, just wed and insecure, the newest addition of this tight-knit band. Missing this year is Edie, who was the glue holding them together until her husband died suddenly. But what they hoped would be a relaxing break soon turns to horror. Upon arrival at Dark Fell Barn, the women find a devastating note claiming one of their husbands will be murdered. There are no phones, no cell service to check on their men. Friendships fracture as the situation spins wildly out of control. Betrayal can come in many forms. This group has kept each other’s secrets for far too long. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Long Weekend” by Gilly Macmillan FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-march-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/636e79a1-16c3-4d41-8919-10a371324cce/pilgrims-wilderness-tom-kizzia.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2022 - LISA G’s PICK: Pilgrim’s Wilderness - Tom Kizzia GENRE: Nonfiction, Biography, True Crime WHY SHE PICKED IT: A biographical account of a large wandering family of extreme faith, who, while attempting to put down roots in the Alaskan wilderness, come to a head with the National Park Service. During the investigation, wild accusations fly, and secrets come to light making the stand off extremely dangerous and deadly for everyone involved. A must read before the end of winter. THE SYNOPSIS: When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy with his wife and fifteen children in tow, his new neighbors had little idea of the trouble to come. The Pilgrim Family presented themselves as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal, with their proud piety and beautiful old-timey music, but their true story ran dark and deep. Within weeks, Papa had bulldozed a road through the mountains to the new family home at an abandoned copper mine, sparking a tense confrontation with the National Park Service and forcing his ghost town neighbors to take sides in an ever-more volatile battle over where a citizen’s rights end and the government’s power begins. 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They're the best of friends, and godmothers to each other's daughters - because they trust that the safety of their children is both of their top priority. But what if their choice could harm your own child? Little do they know that they differ radically over one very important issue. And when Bryony, afraid of being judged, tells what is supposed to be a harmless white lie before a child's birthday party, the consequences are more catastrophic than either of them could ever have imagined . . . CLICK TO RESERVE “The Herd” by Emily Edwards FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f9dd9a89-5ae1-4915-b382-febb5d7a7ecd/the-atlas-six-olivie-blake.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2022 - TORI’S PICK: The Atlas Six (The Atlas #1) - Olivie Black GENRE: Fantasy WHY SHE CHOSE IT: This immediately goes onto my ‘favourite-of-all-time’ shelf. It’s a dark academic fantasy with multiple points-of-view (POV). Since it has multiple POV, it is definitely a character driven story. All of the characters have unique, intense personalities, making the reader love or hate them- either way your rooting for all of them as they compete against each other. Well this is about each character and their relationships to each other, it’s also about the science behind magic. THE SYNOPSIS: The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. When the newest candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they will have one year to qualify for initiation, during which time they will be permitted preliminary access to the Society’s archives and judged based on their contributions to various subjects of impossibility: time and space, luck and thought, life and death. Five, they are told, will be initiated. One will be eliminated. The six potential initiates will fight to survive the next year of their lives, and if they can prove themselves to be the best among their rivals, most of them will. Most of them. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Atlas Six (The Atlas #1)” by Olivie Blakef: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b2c4f2db-a647-4228-978c-febe1a3ac505/by-any-other-name-lauren-kate.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2022 - BRANDY’S PICK: By Any Other Name by Lauren Kate GENRE: Romance WHY SHE CHOSE IT: If you love reading books about books, this romantic comedy is for you! This cute and short story kept me turning the pages all day. Lanie works as an editor at a publishing company and when she is conditionally promoted to editorial director, she is handed the opportunity of a lifetime, to work with favourite author, Noa. When Lanie finally meets her idol face-to-face, Lanie questions everything she believes, especially her ideas surrounding love. Although somewhat predictable, it was exactly what I needed to read this weekend - something lighthearted, fun and of course, romantic. THE SYNOPSIS: What she doesn’t know about love could fill a book. With a successful career as a romance editor, and an engagement to a man who checks off all ninety-nine boxes on her carefully curated list, Lanie’s more than good. She’s killing it. Then she’s given the opportunity of a lifetime: to work with world-renowned author and her biggest inspiration in love and life—the Noa Callaway. All Lanie has to do is cure Noa’s writer’s block and she’ll get the promotion she’s always dreamed of. Simple, right? But there’s a reason no one has ever seen or spoken to the mysterious Noa Calloway. And that reason will rock Lanie’s world. It will call into question everything she thought she knew. When she finally tosses her ninety-nine expectations to the wind, Lanie may just discover that love By Any Other Name can still be as sweet. CLICK TO RESERVE “By Any Other Name” by Lauren Kate FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-release-adult-fiction-march-25-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1f7534af-cc76-4152-8e24-2973c2e2b9e2/a-novel-obsession-caitlin-barasch.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 25, 2022 - A Novel Obsession - Caitlin Barasch GENRE: Literary Fiction, Psychological Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Twenty-four-year-old New York bookseller Naomi Ackerman is desperate to write a novel, but struggles to find a story to tell. When, after countless disastrous dates, she meets Caleb—a perfectly nice guy with a Welsh accent and a unique patience for all her quirks—she thinks she’s finally stumbled onto a time-honored subject: love. Then Caleb’s ex-girlfriend, Rosemary, enters the scene. Upon learning that Rosemary is not safely tucked away in Caleb’s homeland overseas, but in fact lives in New York and also works in the literary world, Naomi is threatened and intrigued in equal measure. If they both fell for the same man, what else might they have in common? The more Naomi learns about Rosemary, the more her curiosity consumes her. Before she knows it, her casual Instagram stalking morphs into a friendship under false pretenses—and becomes the subject of her nascent novel. As her lies and half-truths spiral out of control, and fact and fiction become increasingly difficult to untangle, Naomi must decide what—and who—she’s willing to sacrifice to write the perfect ending. CLICK TO RESERVE “A Novel Obsession” by Caitlin Barasch FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/dc981999-4b41-431f-a704-249447d68c35/sisters-of-night-and-fog-erica-robuck.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 25, 2022 - Sisters of Night and Fog - Erika Robuck GENRES: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: 1940. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family’s wishes, Virginia d’Albert-Lake decides to stay in occupied France with her French husband. She’s sure that if they keep their heads down, they’ll survive. But is surviving enough? Nineteen-year-old Violette Szabo has seen the Nazis’ evil up close and is desperate to fight them. But when she meets the man who’ll change her life only for tragedy to strike, Violette’s adrift. Until she enters the radar of Britain’s secret war organization—the Special Operations Executive—and a new fire is lit in her as she decides just how much she’s willing to risk to enlist. As Virginia and Violette navigate resistance, their clandestine deeds come to a staggering halt when they are brought together at Ravensbrück concentration camp. The decisions they make will change their lives, and the world, forever. CLICK TO RESERVE “Sisters of Night and Fog” by Erica Robuck FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/4da124a4-72cc-43e9-886b-f7b829d97a3d/the-recovery-agent-janet-evanovich.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 25, 2022 - The Recovery Agent (Gabriela Rose #1) - Janet Evanovich GENRES: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a recovery agent, she’s hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets of any kind. She’s reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types. But Gabriela’s latest job isn’t for some bamboozled billionaire, it’s for her own family, whose home is going to be wiped off the map if they can’t come up with a lot of money fast. Inspired by an old family legend, Gabriela sets off for the jungles of Peru in pursuit of the Seal of Solomon and the lost treasure of Cortez. But this particular job comes with a huge problem attached to it—Gabriela’s ex-husband, Rafer. It’s Rafer who has the map that possibly points the way to the treasure, and he’s not about to let Gabriela find it without him. Rafer is as relaxed as Gabriela is driven, and he has a lifetime’s experience getting under his ex-wife’s skin. But when they aren’t bickering about old times the two make a formidable team, and it’s going to take a team to defeat the vicious drug lord who has also been searching for the fabled ring. A drug lord who doesn’t mind leaving a large body count behind him to get it. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Recovery Agent (Gabriela Rose #1)” by Janet Evanovich FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b4dc69e6-1a3c-4ba0-998a-ce1967b10e35/a-marriage-of-lions-elizabeth-chadwich.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 25, 2022 - A Marriage of Lions - Elizabeth Chadwick GENRES: Historical Fiction, Historical Romance THE SYNOPSIS: England, 1238 Raised at the court of King Henry III as a chamber lady to the queen, young Joanna of Swanscombe's life changes forever when she comes into an inheritance far above all expectations, including her own. Now a wealthy heiress, Joanna's arranged marriage to the King's charming, tournament-loving half-brother William de Valence immediately stokes the flames of political unrest as more established courtiers object to the privileges bestowed on newcomers. As Joanna and William strive to build a life together, England descends into a bitter civil war. In mortal danger, William is forced to run for his life, and Joanna is left with only her wit and courage to outfox their enemies and prevent them from destroying her husband, her family, and their fortunes. CLICK TO RESERVE “A Marriage of Lions” by Elizabeth Chadwick FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/912a5e6b-5527-4ce9-82fa-763222fb0e1f/the-book-of-cold-cases-simone-st-james.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 25, 2022 - The Book of Cold Cases - Simone St. James GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect--a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion. Oregon, 2017. Shea Collins is a receptionist, but by night, she runs a true crime website, the Book of Cold Cases--a passion fueled by the attempted abduction she escaped as a child. When she meets Beth by chance, Shea asks her for an interview. To Shea's surprise, Beth says yes. They meet regularly at Beth's mansion, though Shea is never comfortable there. Items move when she's not looking, and she could swear she's seen a girl outside the window. The allure of learning the truth about the case from the smart, charming Beth is too much to resist, but even as they grow closer, Shea senses something isn't right. Is she making friends with a manipulative murderer, or are there other dangers lurking in the darkness of the Greer house? 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It will call into question everything she thought she knew. When she finally tosses her ninety-nine expectations to the wind, Lanie may just discover that love By Any Other Name can still be as sweet. CLICK TO RESERVE “By Any Other Name” by Lauren Kate FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/bf77240b-16dd-4b91-a740-8faf82d6bf62/the-next-ship-home-heather-webb.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 25, 2022 - The Next Ship Home - Heather Webb GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Ellis Island, 1902. Francesca arrives on the shores of America, her sights set on a better life than the one she left in Italy. That same day, aspiring linguist Alma reports to her first day of work at the immigrant processing center. Ellis, though, is not the refuge it first appears thanks to President Roosevelt's attempts to deter crime. Francesca and Alma will have to rely on each other to escape its corruption and claim the American dreams they were promised. A thoughtful historical inspired by true events, this novel probes America's history of prejudice and exclusion—when entry at Ellis Island promised a better life but often delivered something drastically different, immigrants needed strength, resilience, and friendship to fight for their futures. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Next Ship Home” by Heather Webb FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c1f52031-96b4-46e2-826a-509f498cf541/the-atlas-six-olivie-blake.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 25, 2022 - The Atlas Six (Atlas #1) - Olivie Blake GENRE: Fantasy THE SYNOPSIS: The Alexandrian Society is a secret society of magical academicians, the best in the world. Their members are caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity. And those who earn a place among their number will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams. Each decade, the world’s six most uniquely talented magicians are selected for initiation – and here are the chosen few... - Libby Rhodes and Nicolás Ferrer de Varona: inseparable enemies, cosmologists who can control matter with their minds. - Reina Mori: a naturalist who can speak the language of life itself. - Parisa Kamali: a mind reader whose powers of seduction are unmatched. - Tristan Caine: the son of a crime kingpin who can see the secrets of the universe. - Callum Nova: an insanely rich pretty boy who could bring about the end of the world. He need only ask. When the candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they must spend one year together to qualify for initiation. During this time, they will be permitted access to the Society’s archives and judged on their contributions to arcane areas of knowledge. Five, they are told, will be initiated. One will be eliminated. If they can prove themselves to be the best, they will survive. Most of them. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Atlas Six (Atlas #1)” by Olivie Blake: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6b62b825-d9ad-4156-99e4-0f952369081f/the-match-harlan-coben.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 25, 2022 - The Match (Wilde #2) - Harlan Coben GENRES: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Wilde has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity . All he knows is that, as a young child, he was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey. He became known simply as Wilde, the boy from the woods. Now Wilde has had a hit on the DNA website he has been researching. A 100% match. His father. They meet up, and Wilde soon realises that his father doesn't even know he had a son and is as mystified as Wilde is by his existence. Undaunted, Wilde continues his research for his family on DNA websites where he becomes caught up in a community of online doxxers, a secret group committed to exposing anonymous trolls. Then one by one these doxxers start to die, and it soon becomes clear that a serial killer is targeting this secret community - and that his next victim might be Wilde himself … CLICK TO RESERVE “The Match (Wilde #2)” by Harlan Coben FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/dceb09b0-5d26-4465-b893-de79973e03b7/the-golden-couple-greer-hendricks.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 25, 2022 - The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen GENRES: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Wealthy Washington suburbanites Marissa and Matthew Bishop seem to have it all—until Marissa is unfaithful. Beneath their veneer of perfection is a relationship riven by work and a lack of intimacy. She wants to repair things for the sake of their eight-year-old son and because she loves her husband. Enter Avery Chambers. Avery is a therapist who lost her professional license. Still, it doesn’t stop her from counseling those in crisis, though they have to adhere to her unorthodox methods. And the Bishops are desperate. When they glide through Avery’s door and Marissa reveals her infidelity, all three are set on a collision course. Because the biggest secrets in the room are still hidden, and it’s no longer simply a marriage that’s in danger. 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Fifteen years later, more teenage employees are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. In the aftermath of the latest crime, three lives intersect: the lone survivor of the Blockbuster massacre who’s forced to relive the horrors of her tragedy; the brother of the fugitive accused, who’s convinced the police have the wrong suspect; and FBI agent Sarah Keller who must delve into the secrets of both nights—stirring up memories of teen love and lies—to uncover the truth about murders on the night shift. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Night Shift” by Alex Finlay FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f404e3fa-689b-447c-a1b4-b790202c80ba/the-summer-we-buried-jody-gehrman.jpg BLOG - New Release Adult Fiction: March 25, 2022 - The Summer We Buried - Jody Gehrman GENRES: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: Twenty years ago, Tansy was drawn to Selene’s hard edges, her grit, and her knack for survival. Since then, the confused tangle of guilt about covering up a murder shattered their friendship, and even now, at thirty-eight, Tansy has never come to terms with what happened that night. But now, Selene is back, demanding her old friend repay her. Selene’s daughter, Jupiter, attends the college where Tansy works as a guidance counselor. Selene is convinced that Jupiter’s boyfriend, Colton, is abusive, and wants Tansy to intervene. As she is drawn back into the intensity of Selene’s world, Tansy discovers the ugly truth about Colton. But Tansy suspects there’s far more to the story, and now she’ll finally have to confront Selene once and for all. 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And then a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, and that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, and seeing parallels that aren't really there, or for the second time in her life, is she about to unmask a killer? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Flicker in the Dark” by Stacy Willingham FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/march-2022-reading-challenge-read-a-book-set-in-another-country monthly 0.5 2022-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/4dc3370b-da43-4120-9409-d5a7913c42a1/the-dictionary-of-lost-words.jpg BLOG - March 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Book Set in Another Country - The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world. Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women’s experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, secretly, she begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Dictionary of Lost Words” by Pip Williams FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/ce629592-5c65-4bcf-b925-ea75d6aa7c96/the-guernsey-literary-and-potato-peel-pie-society-mary-ann-shaffer.jpg BLOG - March 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Book Set in Another Country - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows GENRE: Epistolary Novel, Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: "I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb... As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all. Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society's members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever. 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And while his latest job puts him at the pinnacle of his trade, it may be mutating into his greatest mistake. . . . CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Blood on Snow (Blood on Snow #1) by Jo Nesbo: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/7ac9a655-3db6-43e3-a2ea-cfb580448b92/pachinko-min-jin-lee.jpg BLOG - March 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Book Set in Another Country - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant — and that her lover is married — she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. CLICK BELOW TO BORROW “Pachinko” for Min Jin Lee: ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f384371d-e28b-4529-8357-6a204355d67f/the-poisonwood-bible-barbara-kingsolver.jpg BLOG - March 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Book Set in Another Country - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/a6a26717-074b-4ef6-8226-5282e5ea3f14/the-librarian-of-auschwitz-antonio-iturbe.jpg BLOG - March 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Book Set in Another Country - The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz. Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Librarian of Auschwitz” by Antonio Iturbe: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/db8bef25-64db-4422-8a27-58c686a5c494/the-dry-jane-harper.jpg BLOG - March 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Book Set in Another Country - The Dry by Jane Harper GENRE: Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain. Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier. But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret. A secret Falk thought was long buried. A secret Luke's death now threatens to bring to the surface in this small Australian town, as old wounds bleed into new ones. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Dry” by Jane Harper: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/5b7903c6-9206-4164-8b06-4c321e5afe54/the-little-paris-bookshop-nina-george.jpg BLOG - March 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Book Set in Another Country - The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened. After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country’s rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Little Paris Bookshop” by Nina George: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/caa62dd2-28aa-4b72-86ef-559fec030d85/memoirs-of-a-geisha-arthur-golden.jpg BLOG - March 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Book Set in Another Country - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction - at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful - and completely unforgettable. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden: ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d5897c94-ffcc-46ab-a687-ea4274a701f9/the-kite-runner-khaled-hosseini.jpg BLOG - March 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Book Set in Another Country - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini GENRE: Historical Fiction, Coming-of-Age THE SYNOPSIS: The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini: ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2d43e93c-5e08-4c49-b800-8b6fca892573/the-orphans-tale-pam-jenoff.jpg BLOG - March 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Book Set in Another Country - The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep. When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies and flees into the snowy night. Noa finds refuge with a German circus, but she must learn the flying trapeze act so she can blend in undetected, spurning the resentment of the lead aerialist, Astrid. At first rivals, Noa and Astrid soon forge a powerful bond. But as the facade that protects them proves increasingly tenuous, Noa and Astrid must decide whether their friendship is enough to save one another - or if the secrets that burn between them will destroy everything. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Orphan’s Tale” by Pam Jenoff: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/9ef77a1a-cb64-41cd-9360-0fb86cb821f8/the-pearl-that-broke-its-shell-nadia-hashimi.jpg BLOG - March 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Book Set in Another Country - The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age. As a son, she can attend school, go to the market, and chaperone her older sisters. But Rahima is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom. A century earlier, her great-aunt, Shekiba, left orphaned by an epidemic, saved herself and built a new life the same way. Crisscrossing in time, The Pearl the Broke Its Shell interweaves the tales of these two women separated by a century who share similar destinies. But what will happen once Rahima is of marriageable age? Will Shekiba always live as a man? And if Rahima cannot adapt to life as a bride, how will she survive? CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Pearl That Broke Its Shell” by Nadia Hashimi: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-february-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0e243faa-1c4f-4b8d-b31e-b5ad242e79b6/furiously-happy-jenny-lawson.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: February 2022 - BRANDY’S PICK: Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson GENRE: Humour, Autobiography WHY SHE PICKED IT: I love reading anything written by Jenny Lawson. As someone who deals with mental health issues like Lawson, I can relate to how she feels most of the time. The stories that she shares are hilarious and some are so crazy they almost seem unbelievable. This book will make you laugh so hard and that is exactly what we need in these strange, tough times. THE SYNOPSIS: In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest: "I've often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they might be able to experience extreme joy in a way that ‘normal people' also might never understand. And that's what Furiously Happy is all about." Jenny’s readings are standing room only, with fans lining up to have Jenny sign their bottles of Xanax or Prozac as often as they are to have her sign their books. Furiously Happy appeals to Jenny's core fan base but also transcends it. There are so many people out there struggling with depression and mental illness, either themselves or someone in their family—and in Furiously Happy they will find a member of their tribe offering up an uplifting message (via a taxidermied roadkill raccoon). Let's Pretend This Never Happened ostensibly was about embracing your own weirdness, but deep down it was about family. Furiously Happy is about depression and mental illness, but deep down it's about joy—and who doesn't want a bit more of that? CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Furiously Happy” by Jenny Lawson: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d3846301-0118-4945-84c7-d456989bdb05/kitchen-confidential-anthony-bourdain.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: February 2022 - LISA G’s PICK: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain GENRE: Memoir WHY SHE PICKED IT: His first autobiography about when he was coming up in the gritty kitchens of NYC as a nobody cook and learning the ropes. Even as someone who can barely turn on an oven, I enjoyed the fast-paced momentum of the book. I felt swept up in the pace of the life of a chef until I put down the book and was able to resume my life as a librarian again. THE SYNOPSIS: After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny. CLICK BELOW TO BORROW “Kitchen Confidential” by Anthony Bourdain: ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/14443bd6-4ff4-4b82-9494-7282cddc0625/the-overnight-guest-heather-gudenkauf.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: February 2022 - LISA S’s PICK: The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf GENRE: Thriller WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I read this one cover to cover, I couldn’t put it down. It was fast-paced, and while I figured out the big twist ahead of time, it didn’t ruin the book for me. Part of the plot reminded me of “Room” by Emma Donoghue, but the rest stood on it’s own: a story that hooked me from page one and didn’t let go. THE SYNOPSIS: She thought she was alone… True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very house, two people were murdered in cold blood and a girl disappeared without a trace. As the storm worsens, Wylie finds herself trapped inside the house, haunted by the secrets contained within its walls—haunted by secrets of her own. Then she discovers a small child in the snow just outside. After bringing the child inside for warmth and safety, she begins to search for answers. But soon it becomes clear that the farmhouse isn’t as isolated as she thought, and someone is willing to do anything to find them. CLICK TO BORROW “The Overnight Guest” by Heather Gudenkauf: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/33f06a50-22d9-4949-8691-0a6b2159b6e0/reckless-girls-rachel-hawkins.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: February 2022 - TORI’S PICK: Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins GENRE: Thriller WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I picked this book because it was a fast, fun read. I'm normally not a huge fan of thrillers/mysteries, but this was one of those 'can not put down' books. The story just catches you and keeps going from start to finish. This was a bright and sunny story with an eerie vibe. If adventures, questionable friendships, secrets and murder are your thing, this is the book for you! THE SYNOPSIS: When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Stuck in a dead-end job in Hawaii, and longing to travel the world after a family tragedy, Lux is eager to climb on board The Susannah and set out on an adventure. She’s also quick to bond with their passengers, college best friends Brittany and Amma. The two women say they want to travel off the beaten path. But like Lux, they may have other reasons to be seeking an escape. Shimmering on the horizon after days at sea, Meroe Island is every bit the paradise the foursome expects, despite a mysterious history of shipwrecks, cannibalism, and even rumors of murder. But what they don’t expect is to discover another boat already anchored off Meroe’s sandy beaches. The owners of the Azure Sky, Jake and Eliza, are a true golden couple: gorgeous, laidback, and if their sleek catamaran and well-stocked bar are any indication, rich. Now a party of six, the new friends settle in to experience life on an exotic island, and the serenity of being completely off the grid. Lux hasn’t felt like she truly belonged anywhere in years, yet here on Meroe, with these fellow free spirits, she finally has a sense of peace. But with the arrival of a skeevy stranger sailing alone in pursuit of a darker kind of good time, the balance of the group is disrupted. Soon, cracks begin to emerge: it seems that Brittany and Amma haven’t been completely honest with Lux about their pasts––and perhaps not even with each other. And though Jake and Eliza seem like the perfect pair, the rocky history of their relationship begins to resurface, and their reasons for sailing to Meroe might not be as innocent as they first appeared. When it becomes clear that the group is even more cut off from civilization than they initially thought, it starts to feel like the island itself is closing in on them. And when one person goes missing, and another turns up dead, Lux begins to wonder if any of them are going to make it off the island alive. CLICK TO BORROW “Reckless Girls” by Rachel Hawkins FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/february-2022-read-listen-to-a-book-on-libby monthly 0.5 2022-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/006888aa-23a7-416b-8f9d-26cd5f0d5854/Libby-App-Screenshot-000a.png BLOG - February 2022 Reading Challenge: Read or Listen to a Book on Libby - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2b8e2525-5335-4558-8fe4-d5603bcb684d/Libby-App-Screenshot-001a.png BLOG - February 2022 Reading Challenge: Read or Listen to a Book on Libby - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/4d3439f3-9810-4b40-b4b3-441b96e90e16/Libby-App-Screenshot-002a.png BLOG - February 2022 Reading Challenge: Read or Listen to a Book on Libby - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c30f5c8a-bb2e-4642-a5cb-9bf0e2c968d0/Libby-App-Screenshot-003a.png BLOG - February 2022 Reading Challenge: Read or Listen to a Book on Libby - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/january-2022-staff-picks monthly 0.5 2022-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/90108b10-6bb7-40ac-b964-326487e7fb9c/circe-madeline-miller.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Staff Picks - TORI’S PICK: Circe by Madeline Miller GENRE: Historical Fiction, Fantasy Fiction WHY SHE PICKED IT: This is a book about finding yourself and who you are meant to be, but it is so much more than that. This book is a warm golden hug that lets you slip into the world of living on a remote island with nature, wolves, lions, and swine. This is my go-to comfort book, and I love the audiobook just as much as the physical book. THE SYNOPSIS: In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child - not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power - the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. CLICK BELOW TO BORROW “Circe” by Madeline Miller: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/92bc80c4-abf8-47c9-866c-b5c64d46aece/if-i-go-missing-brianna-jonnie.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Staff Picks - BRANDY’S PICK: If I Go Missing by Brianna Jonnie GENRE: Nonfiction, Graphic Novel WHY SHE CHOSE IT: When Brianna Jonnie was only 14 years old she penned a heart wrenching letter to the Winnipeg Chief of Police imploring that "if I go missing, do not treat me like the Indigenous person I am proud to be." Even at the tender age of 14 she realized that Indigenous people like herself were not afforded the same swift response in action and media attention that others not of Indigenous descent were given when someone was reported missing. This graphic novel is wonderfully illustrated with haunting pictures that compliment the powerful words written in Brianna's letter. Her letter ended up going viral and was also forwarded to many others in positions of authority including the Premier of Manitoba, Minister of Family Services, Minister of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs, the Mayor of Winnipeg. This book reminds us once again how we fail to stand up and speak up against racism and violence towards women, but especially the racism and violence that Indigenous women experience. THE SYNOPSIS: If I Go Missing is derived from excerpts of a letter that went viral and was also the basis of a documentary film. In her letter, Jonnie calls out the authorities for neglecting to immediately investigate missing Indigenous people and urges them to not treat me as the Indigenous person I am proud to be if she were to be reported missing. Indigenous artist Neal Shannacappo provides the artwork. Through his illustrations, he imagines a situation in which a young Indigenous woman does disappear, portraying the reaction of her community, her friends, the police, and media. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “If I Go Missing” by Brianna Jonnie FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/088cb005-8043-4812-af36-cff9bd1d7d42/the-storyteller-dave-grohl.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Staff Picks - LISA G’s PICK: The Storyteller by Dave Grohl GENRE: Nonfiction, Autobiography WHY SHE CHOSE IT: For any fans of Scream, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, 90's to current rock music, or Dave himself, this is a MUST READ. This will (probably) be the first account you hear about the 90's music life from someone who actually stayed (mostly) sober for his entire career. Grohl has met and worked with EVERYONE, and Dave himself says in the book that this was the tip of the iceberg for stories he has to tell, so I hope this is The Storyteller Part One. I'd read at least ten more volumes. THE SYNOPSIS: So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. This certainly doesn't mean that I'm quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it's like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard, to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughters…the list goes on. I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Storyteller” by Dave Grohl FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d942e4ec-649f-45e6-a5db-385882ccdd97/wish-you-were-here-jodi-picoult.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Staff Picks - LISA S’s PICK: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult GENRE: Literary Fiction WHY SHE PICKED IT: This book is one story, that turns into a completely separate one. I know that sounds cryptic, but I can’t say any more without ruining it for you. The story is a moving exploration about what it means to find yourself outside of a life you thought you loved, one that was exactly what you wanted. It’s courageous, heartbreaking, and hopeful, all at once. NOTE: Wish You Were Here is set during the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, so if you prefer not to read about that, save this one for later. THE SYNOPSIS: Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Galápagos—days before her thirtieth birthday. Right on time. But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks the news: It’s all hands on deck at the hospital. He has to stay behind. You should still go, he assures her, since it would be a shame for all of their nonrefundable trip to go to waste. And so, reluctantly, she goes. Almost immediately, Diana’s dream vacation goes awry. The whole island is now under quarantine, and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely isolated, she must venture beyond her comfort zone. Slowly, she carves out a connection with a local family when a teenager with a secret opens up to Diana, despite her father’s suspicion of outsiders. CLICK TO RESERVE “Wish You Were Here” by Jodi Picoult FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/january-2022-reading-challenge-read-a-classic-book monthly 0.5 2022-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d9567056-da21-417a-be53-8d89b03aa7bf/little-women-louisa-may-alcott.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Classic Book - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott GENRE: Coming-of-Age THE SYNOPSIS: Four sisters and their mother at home. Their father is fighting in the war. Louisa May Alcott semi-autobiographical novel has captured young women and the young at heart for years. On Christmas evening they receive a lovely dinner by their nieighbor James Laurence. Jo meets the old mans grandson at a dance. Jo, Amy, Beth, and Meg befriend him. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/0225ecdf-0c3f-4895-91fa-cd71805dff95/a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-betty-smith.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Classic Book - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith GENRE: Coming-of-Age THE SYNOPSIS: The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/2639f77d-1bd3-442b-837c-223d25d382ca/the-catcher-in-the-rye-j.d.-salinger.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Classic Book - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger GENRE: Coming-of-Age THE SYNOPSIS: The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d8837093-5b9f-4863-819b-b65c79c3f0c9/to-kill-a-mockingbird-harper-lee.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Classic Book - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee GENRE: Coming-of-Age THE SYNOPSIS: A gripping, heart-wrenching and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father- a crusading local lawyer - risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/3d995446-137c-4db1-857c-e0f96f7418c1/1984-george-orwell.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Classic Book - 1984 by George Orwell GENRE: Science Fiction, Dystopian THE SYNOPSIS: Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions—a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “1984” by George Orwell: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/8428b4bb-bdb8-47fe-9af7-970548056813/sense-and-sensibility-jane-austen.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Classic Book - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c894f33f-92c3-4df9-8b11-12e032be7a5a/frankenstein-mary-shelley.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Classic Book - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley GENRE: Gothic Fiction, Science Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley, while staying in the Swiss Alps with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, conceived the tale of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life. The resulting book, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a dark parable warning against the risks of scientific and creative endeavor, the corrupting influence of technology and progress, and the dangers of knowledge without understanding. Frankenstein was an instant bestseller on publication in 1818 and has long been regarded as a masterpiece of suspense, a classic of nineteenth-century Romanticism and Gothic horror, and the prototype of the science fiction novel. Though it has spawned countless imitations and adaptations, it remains the most powerful story of its kind. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/db425013-099a-40f5-87e7-052d30bc3da5/great-expectations.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Classic Book - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens GENRE: Coming-of-Age Story THE SYNOPSIS: Pip is content with his simple life until a bitter gentlewoman employs him as a sometime companion to herself and her adopted daughter. Pip then aspires to become a gentleman himself, though his dreams are unrealistic until the day he mysteriously comes into a fortune and is sent to London to become refined. The story follows Pip’s journey into adulthood and emotional maturity and understanding. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6ce73542-fce5-48b0-89d6-cd41a7b74fcf/dracula-bram-stoker.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Classic Book - Dracula by Bram Stoker GENRE: Horror, Gothic Fiction, Epistolary Novel THE SYNOPSIS: The story is told through a series of letters recounting a young Jonathan Harker, a lawyer who visits Count Dracula to arrange a real estate transaction and realizes before long that he has been taken hostage there. Harker escapes after a series of horrifying events, and Dracula makes it his mission to go after the young lawyer - and his lovely fiancé, Mina, and Mina’s friends. With the assistance of an old teacher, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, the tide turns against Dracula with Van Helsing chasing the Count back to his Transylvania castle, where the ultimate battle takes place. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Dracula” by Bram Stoker: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/755c84f6-b17a-49d5-8ffa-263644b63ba8/the-picture-of-dorian-gray.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Classic Book - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde GENRE: Gothic Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: As Basil Hallward, an aspiring artist, puts a few touches on a portrait of his handsome young friend Dorian Gray, Gray wishes that the portrait might grow old while he remains forever young. While Dorian Gray spends his life pursuing fresh experiences and new sensations, his looks do not change. However, the portrait, secretly hidden in the attic of his residence and with which he has grown increasingly obsessed, does. More And more, as Dorian struggles to hide his true identity, the portrait reveals his progressive pathway to dissolution. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/34d5d8e7-070a-49e1-b92c-1b7700cc09ee/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-mark-twain.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Classic Book - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain GENRE: Adventure Fiction, Coming-of-Age THE SYNOPSIS: The orphan Tom Sawyer, raised by his aunt, is never out of trouble for long. A mischievous, charming boy (not to mention genius at escaping from trouble), Tom's adventures involve many unwitting bystanders. From one moment to the next, the boy could change into a pirate, or ship's captain - when he's not trying to win Becky Thatcher for a sweetheart, of course. Tom is also a friend of Twain's other beloved boy-hero, Huckleberry Finn. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" of Mark Twain: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/d42114a6-b540-4e42-801c-bba6d83d0afd/the-scarlet-letter-nathaniel-hawthorne.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Classic Book - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne GENRE: Romance, Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Set in the staunchly Puritan world of 1600s Boston Hester Prynne has committed adultery and given birth to an illegitimate daughter, Pearl, while her elder husband is away. Refusing to reveal Pearl’s father Hester is punished and scorned by the community and forced to wear a red letter “A”. Over seven years Hester, Pearl’s father, and Hester’s estranged husband Roger Chillingworth, suffer the consequences of betrayal, guilt, revenge, and humiliation. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/23d8af89-1443-4b83-8e75-75edb8b86bb1/the-outsiders-s.e.-hinton.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Classic Book - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton GENRE: Young Adult Fiction, Coming-of-Age THE SYNOPSIS: The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/81a8c630-e4f3-4be2-94f0-e72e1f59b73f/of-mice-and-men-john-steinbeck.jpg BLOG - January 2022 Reading Challenge: Read a Classic Book - Of Mice and Men and John Steinbeck GENRE: Novella, Trajedy THE SYNOPSIS: In this classic story of an unlikely pair, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression who grasp for their American Dream, profoundly touches readers and audiences alike. George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come to work on a ranch in the fertile Salinas Valley of California, their hopes, like “the best laid schemes o’mice an’ men,” begin to go awry. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/2022-reading-challenge monthly 0.5 2022-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/223aad29-88d8-4e69-8659-731423dabe55/Copy+of+You+could+win+a.png BLOG - 2022 Reading Challenge - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/the-top-10-circulating-books-of-2021 monthly 0.5 2022-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/c123640d-491d-4fde-9184-425c15f9cedc/four-winds.jpg BLOG - The Top 10 Circulating Books of 2021 - #1: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/6d636f3f-47ee-42c2-9887-6407f8390559/the-push.jpg BLOG - The Top 10 Circulating Books of 2021 - #2: The Push by Ashley Audrain GENRE: Psychological Thriller, Suspense THE SYNOPSIS: Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter–she doesn’t behave like most children do. Or is it all in Blythe’s head? Her husband, Fox, says she’s imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well. Then their son Sam is born–and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she’d always imagined with her child. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Push” by Ashley Audrain": FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/de1eac6c-193d-4124-9111-8a52ff12195b/neighbors.jpg BLOG - The Top 10 Circulating Books of 2021 - #3: Neighbors by Danielle Steel GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Meredith White was one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer day, a massive earthquake strikes Northern California, plunging the Bay Area into chaos. Without a moment’s hesitation, Meredith invites her stunned and shaken neighbors into her mostly undamaged home as the recovery begins. These people did not even realize that movie star Meredith White was living on their street. Now, they are sharing her mansion, as well as their most closely kept secrets. Without the walls and privacy of their own homes, one by one, new relationships are forged. For every neighbor there is a story, from the doctor whose wife and children fear him, to the beautiful young woman dating a dishonorable man, to the aspiring writer caring for a famous blind musician. In the heart of the crisis, Meredith finds herself venturing back into the world. And thanks to the suspicions and the dogged detective work of a disaster relief volunteer, a former military officer named Charles, a shocking truth about her own world is exposed. Suddenly Meredith sees her isolation, her estranged family, and even her acting career in a whole new light. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Neighbors” by Danielle Steel: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/66f1e0dd-f26c-4538-af6c-168296919dda/before-she-disappeared.jpg BLOG - The Top 10 Circulating Books of 2021 - #4: Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier. Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim's wary family tells Frankie she's on her own--and she soon learns she's asking questions someone doesn't want answered. But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to go missing could be her. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Before She Disappeared” by Lisa Jewell: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/8751aa8e-6b83-4afc-9920-a4ca6fe85818/its-better-this-way.jpg BLOG - The Top 10 Circulating Books of 2021 - #5: It’s Better This Way by Debbie Macomber GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: It's been nearly six years since Julia Jones had her heart broken. After her husband became involved with another woman, she did everything she could to save their marriage, to no avail. Their two daughters continue to stand by Julia in the wake of their father's behavior--and they've had a tough time getting along with the other woman who became their stepmother. Distraught after selling the family home, Julia moved into a condominium complex that offers the warmth and charm of a fresh start. Now, having settled into her new community and sold her successful interior design business, she's embraced a fulfilling new life, one that doesn't seem to need a man in it. Her beloved father's trusty saying is ringing truer than ever: It's better this way. But when Julia meets a handsome new resident in the building's exercise room, she can't help but be drawn to him. Heath Johnson is a welcome change from the men she's encountered on the occasional--mostly disastrous--dates her sister has eagerly planned for her over the years. As she and Heath, a divorcé himself, begin to grow close, their friendship blossoms into a love neither of them had expected. However, they soon realize that combining families, even with four adult children, presents inevitable challenges. When a dramatic revelation threatens the happiness they've found, Julia and Heath must reconcile their love for their children with their love for each other. If they can't, their bright future together may be nothing but a dream. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “It’s Better This Way” by Debbie Macomber: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/805e7c2e-644c-466c-894c-1c6de9cc5bd0/a-gambling-man.jpg BLOG - The Top 10 Circulating Books of 2021 - #6: A Gambling Man by David Baldacci (Archer #2) GENRE: Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you’re hard-working, lucky, criminal—or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible—plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood. But when the two arrive in Bay Town, California, Archer quickly discovers that the hordes of people who flocked there seeking fame and fortune landed in a false paradise that instead caters to their worst addictions and fears. Archer’s first stop is a P.I. office where he is hoping to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent named Willie Dash. He lands the job, and immediately finds himself in the thick of a potential scandal: a blackmail case involving a wealthy well-connected politician running for mayor that soon spins into something even more sinister. As bodies begin falling, Archer and Dash must infiltrate the world of brothels, gambling dens, drug operations, and long-hidden secrets, descending into the rotten bones of a corrupt town that is selling itself as the promised land—but might actually be the road to perdition, and Archer’s final resting place. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “A Gambling Man” by David Baldacci: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/4ecdea3e-959b-4108-97a2-af3735d2b2c5/dark-sky.jpg BLOG - The Top 10 Circulating Books of 2021 - #7: Dark Sky by C.J. Box (Joe Pickett #21) GENRE: Mystery, Thriller, Western THE SYNOPSIS: It's a crisp October morning in Wyoming's Twelve Sleep County, and game warden Joe Pickett should be keeping watch over his patch. Instead, the state governor has roped him into leading Silicon Valley billionaire Steven Price on a hunting trip. The department is facing major budget cuts and Price's social media empire could bring serious business into the state – if someone can persuade him of Wyoming's charms. It looks like a straightforward job, but unbeknownst to Joe, there is a hunter hot on their heels, one with a different manner of prey in mind. When Joe's daughter Sheridan and his closest friend Nate Romanowksi learn of the threat, they head out to rescue Joe and his charge. To get out of the woods alive, they will all have to draw on their wits and knowledge of the outdoors as they confront the worst man – and nature – can throw at them. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Dark Sky” by C.J. Box: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/f8843142-0452-4c48-a8a4-19e0fb32fc93/the-wish.jpg BLOG - The Top 10 Circulating Books of 2021 - #8: The Wish by Nicholas Sparks GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: 1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she meets Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach town—and introduces her to photography, a passion that will define the rest of her life. By 2019, Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. She splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this year she is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she finds herself becoming close to him. As they count down the last days of the season together, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier—and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Wish” by Nicholas Sparks: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/3107c2d9-d091-4b4f-8d93-eb52b58f1152/sooley.jpg BLOG - The Top 10 Circulating Books of 2021 - #9: Sooley by John Grisham GENRE: Sports, Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In the summer of his seventeenth year, Sam­uel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basket­ball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. Samuel is an amazing athlete, with speed, quick­ness, and an astonishing vertical leap. The rest of his game, though, needs work, and the American coaches are less than impressed. During the tournament, Samuel receives dev­astating news from home: A civil war is raging across South Sudan, and rebel troops have ran­sacked his village. His father is dead, his sister is missing, and his mother and two younger brothers are in a refugee camp. Samuel desperately wants to go home, but it's just not possible. Partly out of sympathy, the coach of North Carolina Central offers him a scholar­ship. Samuel moves to Durham, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season. There is plenty of more mature talent and he isn't immediately needed. But Samuel has something no other player has: a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America. He works tirelessly on his game, shooting baskets every morning at dawn by himself in the gym, and soon he's dominating everyone in practice. With the Central team los­ing and suffering injury after injury, Sooley, as he is nicknamed, is called off the bench. And the legend begins. But how far can Sooley take his team? And will success allow him to save his family? CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Sooley” by John Grisham: FROM THE LIBRARY ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/b26eb7b2-ac50-4e99-8230-214ad1f1bd93/scorpions-tale.jpg BLOG - The Top 10 Circulating Books of 2021 - #10: The Scorpion’s Tale by Preston & Child (Nora Kelly #2) GENRE: Mystery, Thriller, Adventure THE SYNOPSIS: Following OLD BONES, the second "happily anticipated" new thriller in Preston & Child's new series will once again feature Nora Kelly, archaeologist at the Santa Fe Archeological Institute, and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson investigating a new case that requires both their skills (Booklist). After a shoot-out Swanson is involved in leaves a senior FBI agent gravely wounded, Corrie finds herself under investigation. Her supervisor assures her she's not to blame and the black mark on her record will be cleared in short order. But Corrie finds herself shake her overwhelming guilt. As a distraction, she takes on a new case involving a fifty-year-old, mummified corpse discovered in a hidden enclave at High Lonesome, a long-abandoned New Mexico ghost town. Quickly out of her depth, she quickly realizes she needs the help of her foe-turned-ally, archaeologist Nora Kelly, who soon uncovers a startling truth: the deceased had been poisoned, and died clutching a priceless artifact from outside High Lonesome. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Scorpion’s Tail” by Preston & Child: FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/hiring-archive-clerk monthly 0.5 2021-09-16 https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/hiring-library-clerk monthly 0.5 2022-07-14 https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/hiring-librarian monthly 0.5 2021-09-10 https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-jul monthly 0.5 2021-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627073295170-RWL83DS68WTP5VQSHVAZ/71B-QW9gQdL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - At the End of the World, Turn Left - Zhanna Slor Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Zhanna Slor's debut novel, a unique literary mystery set in Milwaukee's eclectic Riverwest neighborhood during the 2008 recession, weaves together the tale of two immigrant sisters with very different ideas of home. Masha remembers her childhood in the former USSR, but found her life and heart in Israel's Orthodox community. Anna, a young artist and student, was only an infant when her family left but still yearns to find her roots. When Anna is contacted by a stranger from their hometown and then disappears, Masha is called back to Wisconsin to find her, and this search changes the family forever. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “At the End of the World, turn Left” by Zhanna Slor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627073437343-OL8RRDDWOD9RZSXN02ZS/81JFwwMELdL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Black Ice (Scot Harvath #20) - Brad Thor Genres: Fiction, Thriller Scot Harvath is having his best summer ever. With a cottage on the fjord, a boat, and his beautiful girlfriend Solvi, he's got everything he could possibly want. But out of vacation days and long overdue back home, America's top spy has a decision to make--return, or submit his resignation. When his deadly past comes calling, though, he'll be left with no choice at all. Leaving his favorite Oslo cafe, Harvath watches as a ghost climbs out of a taxi--a man he killed years ago, halfway around the world. How is he still alive? And what is he doing in Norway? In a race against time that will take him high above the Arctic Circle, Harvath is tested in ways he has never imagined and pushed to a limit few human beings could ever endure. If he succeeds, he'll walk away with everything. If he fails, the United States and its allies will be at the mercy of one of the world's most dangerous actors. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Black Ice” by Brad Thor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627073550675-TARGDASG5D1AU5SXOQT2/71NCbQ-oZUS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Black Order (OP-Center #20) - Jeff Rovin Genres: Fiction, Thriller America's elite task force must take down a group of ruthless domestic terrorists determined to paralyze the country through extreme acts of violence. They are known as the Black Order. Self-proclaimed patriots and survivalists, they refuse to surrender their values and beliefs to the left-leaning cultural and progressive forces threatening their nation. Military veterans and high-tech specialists, they've begun a savage war from public assassinations of politicians and celebrities to high-profile bombings, striking without warning or mercy. The Black Order wants nothing less than complete capitulation from the US government, giving them free rein to make their ideologies the law of the land. Only Op-Center's Black Wasp, a skilled team of military operatives answerable to the President, can defeat these militant revolutionaries. But even as Admiral Chase Williams and his agents force them on the run, the Black Order possesses a weapon of mass destruction that they will not hesitate to unleash against millions of innocent civilians. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Black Order” by Jeff Rovin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627073810323-0OYKF95FLUICKJBZTULB/81J5BVQp0sL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Blush - Jamie Brenner Genres: Fiction, Romance For decades, the lush vineyards and majestic manor house of the Hollander Estates winery made it the North Fork of Long Island's premier destination for lavish parties and romantic day trips. Now the Hollander family fortunes have suffered, and as matriarch Vivian Hollander prepares for the arrival of her daughter and granddaughter for their annual summer reunion, she fears it might be their last. Worse, selling the family legacy to strangers might expose the dark secret she's harbored for thirty-five years.... Visits to the winery have been bittersweet for Leah Hollander Bailey ever since her father refused to let her take her place in the family business. Now a successful Manhattan shop owner, Leah loves the life she's built with her husband and daughter--but with her store, and her marriage, at a crossroads, she can't help but view this year's pilgrimage home as a sorely needed escape. College senior Sadie Bailey has a thesis to write, and the towering shelves of the manor's library offer endless academic inspiration. But when Sadie discovers evidence that her proper Grandma Vivian once ran a book club dedicated to the scandalous women's novels of decades past, the shockingly outrageous tomes give her new insight into her family's glory days. Resurrecting the trashy book club begins as the distraction all three women need. But as they battle to save their birthright and heal old wounds, they just might find that the pages contain everything they need to know about how to fight for what they want--and for the life, and love, they deserve. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Blush” by Jamie Brenner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627073922498-I347KJVZM9N0Y85KX7EV/91bg9dBVVOL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Burning Girls - C J Tudor Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller Welcome to Chapel Croft. 500 years ago, eight Protestant martyrs were burned at the stake here. 30 years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And two months ago, the vicar of the local parish killed himself. Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent with a 14-year-old daughter and a heavy conscience, arrives in the village hoping to make a fresh start and find some peace. Instead, Jack finds a town mired in secrecy and a strange welcome package: an old exorcism kit and a note quoting scripture. 'But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed and hidden that will not be known.' The more Jack and daughter Flo get acquainted with the town and its strange denizens, the deeper they are drawn into their rifts, mysteries, and suspicions. And when Flo is troubled by strange sightings in the old chapel, it becomes apparent that there are ghosts here that refuse to be laid to rest. But uncovering the truth can be deadly in a village where everyone has something to protect, everyone has links with the village's bloody past, and no one trusts an outsider. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Burning Girls” by C J Tudor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627074060683-RE5JWE0XXDFGFFBL3FRL/91QwE4XaHtS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Cave Dwellers - Christina McDowell Genres: Fiction, Historical, Thriller They are the families considered worthy of a listing in the exclusive Green Book—a discriminative diary created by the niece of Eleanor Roosevelt’s social secretary. Their aristocratic bloodlines are woven into the very fabric of Washington—generation after generation. Their old money and manner lurk through the cobblestone streets of Georgetown, Kalorama and Capitol Hill. They only socialize within their inner circle, turning a blind eye to those who come and go on the political merry-go-round. Parents and their children living life free of consequences in a gilded existence of power and privilege. But what they have failed to understand is that the world is changing. And when the family of one of their own is held hostage and brutally murdered, everything about their legacy is called into question. They are The Cave Dwellers. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Cave Dwellers” by Christina McDowell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627074175642-I7ZS7R9QYYUM6W15EO49/71gVRO0yloS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Cellist (Gabriel Allon #21) - Daniel Silva Genres: Fiction, Thriller The fatal poisoning of a Russian billionaire sends Gabriel Allon on a dangerous journey across Europe and into the orbit of a musical virtuoso who may hold the key to the truth about his friend’s death. The plot Allon uncovers leads to secret channels of money and influence that go to the very heart of Western democracy and threaten the stability of the global order. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Cellist” by Daniel Silva https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627075580374-UJOB44XOKTHJBVEO2H6N/91uwQZB6P-L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Comfort of Monsters - Willa C Richards Genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller In the summer of 1991, a teenage girl named Dee McBride vanished in the city of Milwaukee. Nearly thirty years later, her sister, Peg, is still haunted by her sister's disappearance. Their mother, on her deathbed, is desperate to find out what happened to Dee so the family hires a psychic to help find Dee’s body and bring them some semblance of peace. The appearance of the psychic plunges Peg back to the past, to those final carefree months when she last saw Dee—the summer the Journal Sentinel called “the deadliest . . . in the history of Milwaukee.” Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s heinous crimes dominated the headlines and overwhelmed local law enforcement. The disappearance of one girl was easily overlooked. Peg’s hazy recollections are far from easy for her to interpret, assess, or even keep clear in her mind. And now digging deep into her memory raises doubts and difficult—even terrifying—questions. Was there anything Peg could have done to prevent Dee’s disappearance? Who was really to blame for the family's loss? How often are our memories altered by the very act of voicing them? And what does it mean to bear witness in a world where even our own stories are inherently suspect? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Comfort of Monsters” by Willa C Richards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627075923766-AV8GKZNTUAFJON2P6COL/815a-GdLs2S.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Count the Ways - Joyce Maynard Genres: Fiction Eleanor and Cam meet at a crafts fair in Vermont in the early 1970s. She’s an artist and writer, he makes wooden bowls. Within four years they are parents to three children, two daughters and a red-headed son who fills his pockets with rocks, plays the violin and talks to God. To Eleanor, their New Hampshire farm provides everything she always wanted—summer nights watching Cam’s softball games, snow days by the fire and the annual tradition of making paper boats and cork people to launch in the brook every spring. If Eleanor and Cam don’t make love as often as they used to, they have something that matters more. Their family. Then comes a terrible accident, caused by Cam’s negligence. Unable to forgive him, Eleanor is consumed by bitterness, losing herself in her life as a mother, while Cam finds solace with a new young partner. Over the decades that follow, the five members of this fractured family make surprising discoveries and decisions that occasionally bring them together, and often tear them apart. Tracing the course of their lives—through the gender transition of one child and another’s choice to completely break with her mother—Joyce Maynard captures a family forced to confront essential, painful truths of its past, and find redemption in its darkest hours. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Count the Ways” by Joyce Maynard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627076052644-G05I2L8S925RF2P9Y99L/71QTl33pcRL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Disappearing Act - Catherine Steadman Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Once a year, actors from across the globe descend on the smog and sunshine of Los Angeles for pilot season. Every cable network and studio looking to fill the rosters of their new shows enticing a fresh batch of young hopefuls, anxious, desperate and willing to do whatever it takes to make it. British star Mia Eliot has landed leading roles in costume dramas in her native country, but now it's time for Hollywood to take her to the next level. Mia flies across the Atlantic to join the hoard of talent scrambling for their big breaks. One day she meets Emily, another actress from out of town and a kindred spirit. Emily is friendly and genuine and reassuringly doesn't seem to be taking any of it too seriously. She stands out in a conveyor-belt world of fellow auditionees. But a simple favor turns dark when Emily disappears and Mia realizes she was the last person to see her, and the woman who knocks on Mia's door the following day claiming to be her new friend isn't the woman Mia remembers at all. All Mia has to go on is the memory of a girl she met only once . . . and the suffocating feeling that something terrible has happened. Worse still, the police don't believe her when she claims the real Emily has gone missing. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Disappearing Act” by Catherine Steadman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627410968214-PYB0J89ZDS60H00QR4WT/91buj-Zus0S.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Dream Girl - Laura Lippman Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller After being injured in a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows, utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions. But Gerry is also beginning to question his own competency. As he moves in and out of dreamlike memories and seemingly random appearances of a persistent ex-girlfriend at his bedside, he fears he may be losing his grip on reality, much like his mother who recently passed away from dementia. Most distressing, he believes he’s being plagued by strange telephone calls, in which a woman claiming to be the titular character of his hit novel Dream Girl swears she will be coming to see him soon. The character is completely fictitious, but no one has ever believed Gerry when he makes that claim. Is he the victim of a cruel prank—or is he actually losing his mind? There is no record of the calls according to the log on his phone. Could there be someone he has wronged? Is someone coming to do him harm as he lies helplessly in bed? Then comes the morning he wakes up next to a dead body—and realizes his nightmare is just beginning... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dream Girl” by Laura Lippman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627411136002-LIU9OEOKVLT8HCE8Z2JP/81Ley1mZ60L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The English Wife - Adrienne Chinn Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance VE Day 1945: As victory bells ring out across the country, war bride Ellie Burgess' happiness is overshadowed by grief. Her charismatic Newfoundlander husband Thomas is still missing in action. Until a letter arrives explaining Thomas is back at home on the other side of the Atlantic recovering from his injuries. Travelling to a distant country to live with a man she barely knows is the bravest thing Ellie has ever had to do. But nothing can prepare her for the harsh realities of her new home...September 11th 2001Sophie Parry is on a plane to New York on the most tragic day in the city's history. While the world watches the news in horror, Sophie's flight is rerouted to a tiny town in Newfoundland and she is forced to seek refuge with her estranged aunt Ellie. Determined to discover what it was that forced her family apart all those years ago, newfound secrets may change her life forever... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The English Wife” by Adrienne Chinn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627411331809-ZBVEQ4WP2CN0Q214D8BP/A1NMqeTRYlS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Fallen (Kate Burkholder #13) - Linda Castillo Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When a young woman is found murdered in a Painters Mill motel, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is shocked to discover she once knew the victim. Rachael Schwartz was a charming but troubled Amish girl who left the fold years ago and fled Painters Mill. Why was she back in town? And who would kill her so brutally? Kate remembers Rachael as the only girl who was as bad at being Amish as Kate was—and those parallels dog her. But the more Kate learns about Rachael's life, the more she's convinced that her dubious reputation was deserved. As a child, Rachael was a rowdy rulebreaker whose decision to leave devastated her parents and best friend. As an adult, she was charismatic and beautiful, a rabble-rouser with a keen eye for opportunity no matter who got in her way. Her no-holds-barred lifestyle earned her a lot of love and enemies aplenty—both English and Amish. As the case heats to a fever pitch and long-buried secrets resurface, a killer haunts Painters Mill. Someone doesn’t want Rachael’s past—or the mysteries she took with her to the grave—coming to light. As Kate digs deeper, violence strikes again, this time hitting close to home. Will Kate uncover the truth and bring a murderer to justice? Or will a killer bent on protecting a terrible past stop her once and for all—and let the fallen be forgotten? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Fallen” by Linda Castillo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627411505497-JWEJKOZIXAGKTBW6T4KU/falling-9781982177881_xlg.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Falling - TJ Newman Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight. 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People are looking for them, the past is catching up, and Chrissie fears losing the only thing in this world she cares about, her child. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Fiancee” by Kate White https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627411746466-M4RLHM2P5PLCAN1X56NL/91hcQ8cJhhL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - For Your Own Good - Samantha Downing Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Teddy Crutcher has just won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest. He says his wife couldn't be more proud--though no one has seen her in a while. But Teddy can't be bothered with any of the rumors and the recent string of murders on campus. His main focus is on these kids. Sure, his methods can be a little unorthodox and maybe just a few of them don't actually deserve a bright a future. But someone's got push these kids to their full potential. It's really too bad that sometimes excellence can come at such a high cost. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “For Your Own Good” by Samantha Downing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627411881712-OYEO8O8K09NY047MJOE2/81bdYRrmtPS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Forest of Vanishing Stars - Kristin Harmel Genres: Fiction, Historical After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what’s happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest—and in turn, they teach her some surprising lessons about opening her heart after years of isolation. But when she is betrayed and escapes into a German-occupied village, her past and present come together in a shocking collision that could change everything. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Forest of Vanishing Stars” by Kristin Harmel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627412046337-NN480X1U7F04B36OPYYM/81kzCNGmFHL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - A Gambling Man (Aloysius Archer #2) - David Baldacci Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you’re hard-working, lucky, criminal—or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible—plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood. But when the two arrive in Bay Town, California, Archer quickly discovers that the hordes of people who flocked there seeking fame and fortune landed in a false paradise that instead caters to their worst addictions and fears. Archer’s first stop is a P.I. office where he is hoping to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent named Willie Dash. He lands the job, and immediately finds himself in the thick of a potential scandal: a blackmail case involving a wealthy well-connected politician running for mayor that soon spins into something even more sinister. As bodies begin falling, Archer and Dash must infiltrate the world of brothels, gambling dens, drug operations, and long-hidden secrets, descending into the rotten bones of a corrupt town that is selling itself as the promised land—but might actually be the road to perdition, and Archer’s final resting place. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Gambling Man” by David Baldacci https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627412182281-GMUAEJMHGQQ45F75GF2O/81UenzpMOIL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Girl One - Sara Flannery Murphy Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Sci-fi, Thriller Josephine Morrow is Girl One, the first of nine “Miracle Babies” conceived without male DNA, raised on an experimental commune known as the Homestead. When a suspicious fire destroys the commune and claims the lives of two of the Homesteaders, the remaining Girls and their Mothers scatter across the United States and lose touch. Years later, Margaret Morrow goes missing, and Josie sets off on a desperate road trip, tracking down her estranged sisters who seem to hold the keys to her mother’s disappearance. Tracing the clues Margaret left behind, Josie joins forces with the other Girls, facing down those who seek to eradicate their very existence while uncovering secrets about their origins and unlocking devastating abilities they never knew they had. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Girl One” by Sara Flannery Murphy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627412304961-EJL9BAXWYJM67U8DCYN0/71UFrgE6L0S.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Godmothers - Camille Aubray Genres: Fiction, Historical Meet the Godmothers: Filomena is a clever and resourceful war refugee with a childhood secret, who comes to America to wed Mario, the family's favored son. Amie, a beautiful and dreamy French girl from upstate New York, escapes an abusive husband after falling in love with Johnny, the oldest of the brothers. Lucy, a tough-as-nails Irish nurse, ran away from a strict girls' home and marries Frankie, the sensuous middle son. And the glamorous Petrina, the family’s only daughter, graduates with honors from Barnard College despite a past trauma that nearly caused a family scandal. All four women become godmothers to one another’s children, finding hope and shelter in this prosperous family and their sumptuous Greenwich Village home, and enjoying New York life with its fine dining, opulent department stores and sophisticated nightclubs. But the women’s secret pasts lead to unforeseen consequences and betrayals that threaten to unravel all their carefully laid plans. And when their husbands are forced to leave them during the second World War, the Godmothers must unexpectedly contend with notorious gangsters like Frank Costello and Lucky Luciano who run the streets of New York City. Refusing to merely imitate the world of men, the four Godmothers learn to put aside their differences and grudges so that they can work together to protect their loved ones, and to find their own unique paths to success, love, forgiveness, and the futures they’ve always dreamed of. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Godmothers” by Camille Aubray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627412413228-T2UC9DBVV0NHUBY1C1CS/81duwPf9qtL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Golden Girl - Elin Hilderbrand Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three “nudges” to change the outcome of events on earth, and with her daughter Willa on her third miscarriage, Carson partying until all hours, and Leo currently “off again” with his high-maintenance girlfriend, she’ll have to think carefully where to use them. From the Beyond, Vivi watches “The Chief” Ed Kapenash investigate her death, but her greatest worry is her final book, which contains a secret from her own youth that could be disastrous for her reputation. But when hidden truths come to light, Vivi’s family will have to sort out their past and present mistakes—with or without a nudge of help from above—while Vivi finally lets them grow without her. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Golden Girl” by Elin Hilderbrand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627413546780-KCJK2Z9BCE5RWS2N1X9Q/91gPNiWN3HS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead Genres: Fiction, Historical After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two women's fates collide. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Great Circle” by Maggie Shipstead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627413718010-7UJPAPUAXW6UW5MAJR7A/91e%2BltceL5S.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Hairpin Bridge - Taylor Adams Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Three months ago, Lena Nguyen’s estranged twin sister, Cambry, drove to a remote bridge sixty miles outside of Missoula, Montana, and jumped two hundred feet to her death. At least, that is the official police version. But Lena isn’t buying it. Now she’s come to that very bridge, driving her dead twin’s car and armed with a cassette recorder, determined to find out what really happened by interviewing the highway patrolman who allegedly discovered her sister’s body. Corporal Raymond Raycevic has agreed to meet Lena at the scene. He is sympathetic, forthright, and professional. But his story doesn’t seem to add up. For one thing, he stopped Cambry for speeding a full hour before she supposedly leapt to her death. Then there are the sixteen attempted 911 calls from her cell phone, made in what was unfortunately a dead zone. But perhaps most troubling of all, the state trooper is referred to by name in Cambry’s final enigmatic text to her sister: Please Forgive Me. I couldn’t live with it. Hopefully you can, Officer Raycevic. Lena will do anything to uncover the truth. But as her twin’s final hours come into focus, Lena’s search turns into a harrowing, tooth-and-nail fight for her own survival—one that will test everything she thought she knew about her sister and herself... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hairpin Bridge” by Taylor Adams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627413841894-BL5S03GTPCSV9VRES777/A18qWycWYeL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Half Sick of Shadows - Laura Sebastian Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Everyone knows the legend. Of Arthur, destined to be a king. Of the beautiful Guinevere, who will betray him with his most loyal knight, Lancelot. Of the bitter sorceress, Morgana, who will turn against them all. But Elaine alone carries the burden of knowing what is to come--for Elaine of Shalott is cursed to see the future. On the mystical isle of Avalon, Elaine runs free and learns of the ancient prophecies surrounding her and her friends--countless possibilities, almost all of them tragic. When their future comes to claim them, Elaine, Guinevere, Lancelot, and Morgana accompany Arthur to take his throne in stifling Camelot, where magic is outlawed, the rules of society chain them, and enemies are everywhere. Yet the most dangerous threats may come from within their own circle. As visions are fulfilled and an inevitable fate closes in, Elaine must decide how far she will go to change fate--and what she is willing to sacrifice along the way. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Half Sick of Shadows” by Laura Sebastian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627414151881-4JJPNHDSCDIV1UZW626T/56628286.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Hostage - Clare Mackintosh Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems of her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination. Someone who needs Mina's assistance and who knows exactly how to make her comply. It's twenty hours to landing. A lot can happen in twenty hours. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hostage” by Clare Mackintosh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627417353514-TKK0H5XYMT5J8JWOIZCA/the-hunted-9781501184840_xlg.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Hunted - Roz Nay Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Stevie Erickson is looking for a fresh start. The sudden loss of her grandmother has sent her life into a tailspin, dredging up old losses and putting a strain on her relationship with her boyfriend, Jacob. So when Jacob is offered a job as a diver for GoEco, a dive operation for ecotourists on Rafiki, a beautiful, secluded island off the coast of Tanzania, he thinks it’s just the adventure they need and Stevie reluctantly agrees to go with him. Their trip gets off to a rough start with a nighttime scare at their first hostel. Already fragile, Stevie can’t shake the feeling that she’s being watched. Things improve when they meet seasoned backpackers Leo and Tamsin, a drop-dead gorgeous couple who instantly take a shine to Stevie and Jacob. But on Rafiki Island, their new friendship is put to the test, as is Stevie and Jacob’s own relationship. And when innocent flirting goes too far, past truths surface, exposing a killer in their midst—a killer whose sights are set on Stevie. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Hunted” by Roz Nay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627417538175-DKIIO9N8M5Q3YNWN3KMY/55077688.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - I Don’t Forgive You - Aggie Blum Thompson Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller An accomplished photographer and the devoted mom of an adorable little boy, Allie Ross has just moved to an upscale DC suburb, the kind of place where parenting feels like a competitive sport. Allie's desperate to make a good first impression. Then she's framed for murder. It all starts at a neighborhood party when a local dad corners Allie and calls her by an old, forgotten nickname from her dark past. The next day, he is found dead. Soon, the police are knocking at her door, grilling her about a supposed Tinder relationship with the man, and pulling up texts between them. She learns quickly that she's been hacked and someone is impersonating her online. Her reputation--socially and professionally--is at stake; even her husband starts to doubt her. As the killer closes in, Allie must reach back into a past she vowed to forget in order to learn the shocking truth of who is destroying her life. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “I Don’t Forgive You” by Aggie Blum Thompson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627417686947-MLHUKHQCWEL4PVP09XID/91ofKGYWPiL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - In Royal Service to the Queen - Tessa Arlen Genres: Fiction, Historical Marion Crawford can remember each of the wonderful sixteen years when she was governess to the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Marion had been a vital part of their lives; someone they confided in, needed, trusted, and loved. These memories will never dim, ever. In her mind, she will always be their Crawfie. But things become increasingly complicated as the young royals navigate adulthood. It is May 1945, and Princess Elizabeth-the heiress presumptive to the British throne-has fallen in love, and the only member of her family who is happy for her is her governess. No one in the young princess's life thinks that Prince Philip of Greece would be a suitable husband for the future Queen of England. No one, that is, except for Marion Crawford. Crawfie wholeheartedly supports Elizabeth in her determination to marry Philip. She too has fallen in love-and has convinced her fiancee, George, that they must wait for Elizabeth and Philip to receive the King's blessing before she can leave her service to the Crown. Over the next two years, Crawfie is caught between loyalty to Princess Elizabeth; running the risk of alienating her royal employer, Queen Elizabeth; and losing the man she loves. But as Crawfie prevails to marry George and stands with him in Westminster Abbey on Elizabeth and Philip's wedding day, she is unaware that her troubled relationship with Queen Elizabeth is far from over. And just around the corner is a betrayal that will sever her bond with the royal family forever. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “In Royal Service to the Queen” by Tessa Arlen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627417828926-J9SLV9YVWAC93C03ZC8B/913kr5nQnQL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Jackpot (Teddy Fay #5) - Stuart Woods Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. He'll soon come to find that world of posh casinos, luxurious developments, and boundless wealth has a dark underbelly of crime and political intrigue...and that the biggest players behind the scenes may be far closer to home than anticipated. With international deals and private vendettas at stake, the villains behind the plot aren't about to let Teddy stand in their way. What they don't know is that this seemingly harmless film producer has more than a few tricks up his sleeve. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Jackpot” by Stuart Woods https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627417957577-ICQ9PXFCTPVJK6NBTWV7/81nlGM01K-L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Kobalt Dossier (Evan Ryder #2) - Eric van Lustbader Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller After thwarting the violent, international, fascist syndicate known as Nemesis, Evan Ryder returns to Washington, D.C., to find her secret division of the DOD shut down and her deceased sister's children missing. Now the target of a cabal of American billionaires who were among Nemesis's supporters, Evan and her former boss, Ben Butler, must learn to work together as partners - and navigate their intricate past. Their search will take them from Istanbul to Odessa to an ancient church deep within the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. And all along the way, an unimaginable enemy stalks in the shadows, an adversary whose secretive past will upend Evan's entire world and everything she holds dear. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Kobalt Dossier” by Eric van Lustbader https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627418087970-VUAPMIA42QZ0SJGGB232/81QZvyGXNGL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Lady Sunshine - Amy Mason Doan Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance For Jackie Pierce, everything changed the summer of 1979, when she spent three months of infinite freedom at her bohemian uncle's sprawling estate on the California coast. As musicians, artists, and free spirits gathered at The Sandcastle for the season in pursuit of inspiration and communal living, Jackie and her cousin Willa fell into a fast friendship, testing their limits along the rocky beach and in the wild woods ... until the summer abruptly ended in tragedy, and Willa silently slipped away into the night. Twenty years later, Jackie unexpectedly inherits The Sandcastle and returns to the iconic estate for a short visit to ready it for sale. But she reluctantly extends her stay when she learns that, before her death, her estranged aunt had promised an up-and-coming producer he could record a tribute album to her late uncle at the property's studio. As her musical guests bring the place to life again with their sun-drenched beach days and late-night bonfires, Jackie begins to notice startling parallels to that summer long ago. And when a piece of the past resurfaces and sparks new questions about Willa's disappearance, Jackie must discover if the dark secret she's kept ever since is even the truth at all. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Lady Sunshine” by Amy Mason Doan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627418262664-KYH2TX1JQY03XI3LYNAR/9780785239918.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Librarian of Saint-Malo - Mario Escobar Genres: Fiction, Historical Saint-Malo, France: August 1939. Jocelyn and Antoine are childhood sweethearts, but just after they marry, Antoine is drafted to fight against Germany. As World War II rages, Jocelyn uses her position as a librarian in her town of Saint-Malo to comfort and encourage her community with books. Jocelyn begins to write secret letters smuggled to a famous Parisian author, telling her story in the hope that it will someday reach the outside world. France falls and the Nazis occupy Jocelyn's town, turning it into a fortress. The townspeople try passive resistance, but the German commander ruthlessly begins to destroy part of the city's libraries. Books deemed unsuitable by the Nazis are burnt or stolen, and priceless knowledge is lost. Risking arrest and even her life, Jocelyn manages to hide some of the books while desperately waiting to receive news from her husband Antoine, now a prisoner in a German camp. Jocelyn's mission unfolds in her letters: to protect the people of Saint-Malo and the books they hold so dear. Mario Escobar brings to life the occupied city in sweeping and romantic prose, re-creating the history of those who sacrificed all to care for the people they loved. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Librarian of Saint-Malo” by Mario Escobar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627418456612-GVWJKRQKH073VH140EZV/Love%2BFor%2BBeginners.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Love for Beginners (Wildstone #7) - Jill Shalvis Genres: Fiction, Comedy, Romance When Emma Harris wakes up from a coma, she learns that her fiancé and her BFF have fallen in love, she’s lost her job, and the life she knew is gone. Overwhelmed but grateful to be alive, she decides to start over from scratch. Not as easy as it sounds, of course. But she’s never been a quitter, even if she wishes she could quit rehab, where her hot but evil physical therapist, Simon, puts her through the wringer. Desperate for a new start, Emma opens a doggy day care. Unfortunately, the only space she can afford is owned by her childhood nemesis Ali Pratt. But hey, she’s been through worse, right? She tries to roll with the punches, but a friend drops his grandpa off at the doggy day care because he can’t find senior care. On top of that, she and Ali bring the term “frenemies” to a whole new level. And then another grandparent shows up. And another. In the midst of all that, Emma realizes she’s accidentally fallen for her Evil PT. But the most horrifying thing of all is that Ali just might have turned into the best friend she’s ever had. And as Emma grows from the pain of her past and takes on her new path, she comes to learn that life isn’t what you’re given, it’s what you make of it. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Love for Beginners” by Jill Shalvis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627418607654-WM1OKH9OOU5IZLAU87FB/61XTCHOMMKL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Maidens - Alex Michaelides Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike--particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered in Cambridge. Mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, and beneath the ancient traditions, lies something sinister. And she becomes convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder. But why would the professor target one of his students? And why does he keep returning to the rites of Persephone, the maiden, and her journey to the underworld? When another body is found, Mariana's obsession with proving Fosca's guilt spirals out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships. But Mariana is determined to stop this killer, even if it costs her everything--including her own life. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Maidens” by Alex Michaelides https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627418732796-1T3M1VHYTOX37PJ36OFU/71OPWBiY%2BYL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Man with the Silver Saab (Detective Varg #3) - Alexander McCall Smith Genres: Fiction, Comedy, Mystery Perplexing, unfathomable, and perhaps unimportant, the cases that Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes take on will test them to their limits. Life--and crime--is not always as it seems for Ulf Varg and the other fearless detectives in Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes. There are always surprising new cases to take on, and the latest batch is no exception. And that's not to mention Ulf's struggle to contain his feelings for his colleague Anna Bengsdotter. All in all, things are distinctly difficult in Malmo, and it seems up to Ulf and the Department to set them right. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Man with the Silver Saab” by Alexander McCall Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627418894273-3XMNZBZX5K1KZMUVJ5GM/81Gl4kXIl-L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Mary Jane - Jessica Anya Blau Genres: Fiction, Historical In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Show Tunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. A respectable job, Mary Jane’s mother says. In a respectable house. The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it’s a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface, IMPEACHMENT: Now More Than Ever bumper stickers on the doors, cereal and takeout for dinner. And even more troublesome (were Mary Jane’s mother to know, which she does not): The doctor is a psychiatrist who has cleared his summer for one important job—helping a famous rock star dry out. A week after Mary Jane starts, the rock star and his movie star wife move in. Over the course of the summer, Mary Jane introduces her new household to crisply ironed clothes and a family dinner schedule, and has a front-row seat to a liberal world of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll (not to mention group therapy). Caught between the lifestyle she’s always known and the future she’s only just realized is possible, Mary Jane will arrive at September with a new idea about what she wants out of life, and what kind of person she’s going to be. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Mary Jane” by Jessica Anya Blau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627419065667-1YZJ0YLB3XVL8DV30FK9/y648.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Mothers - Genevieve Gannon Genres: Fiction Grace and Dan Arden are in their forties and have been on the IVF treadmill since the day they got married. Six attempts have yielded no results, and with each failure a little piece of their hope dies. Priya Laghari and her husband Nick Archer are being treated at the same fertility clinic, and while they don’t face the same time pressure as the Ardens, the younger couple have their own problems. On the same day that Priya is booked for her next IVF cycle, Grace goes in for her final, last-chance embryo transfer. Two weeks later, both women get their results. A year on, angry and heartbroken, one of the women learns her embryo was implanted in the other’s uterus and must make a devastating choice: live a childless life knowing her son is being raised by strangers or seek custody of a baby who has been nurtured and loved by another couple. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Mothers” by Genevieve Gannon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627419168631-0UGH1C9DOUHVTRQQS2SF/91HcGKEzX5L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Nature of Fragile Things - Susan Meissner Genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, but Martin's odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right. Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. Sophie discovers hidden ties to two other women. The first, pretty and pregnant, is standing on her doorstep. The second is hundreds of miles away in the American Southwest, grieving the loss of everything she once loved. The fates of these three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating earthquake, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately, their belief that love can overcome fear. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Nature of Fragile Things” by Susan Meissner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627419292900-83OZ1P6C1LCNCZYDOL04/81tmt5K2O5L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Nine Lives - Danielle Steel Genres: Fiction, Romance A woman who longs to avoid risk at all cost learns that men who love danger are the most exciting. After a carefree childhood, Mary Margaret Kelly came of age in the shadow of grief. Her father, a dashing daredevil Air Force pilot, died when she was nine. Maggie saw her mother struggle to put their lives back together. As the family moved from one city to the next, her mother warned her to beware of daredevil men and avoid risk at all cost. Following her mother's advice, and forgoing the magic of first love with a high school boyfriend who was too wild to feel safe, Maggie instead sought out all the things her mother had lost--a predictable partner, a stable home, and a regular paycheck. She chose to marry a dependable, kind man who was a reliable husband and successful accountant. Together they had a son and found happiness in a conventional suburban life. Until tragedy struck again. Now on her own, feeling a sense of adventure for the first time, Maggie decides to face her fears, setting off on a whirlwind trip from San Francisco to Rome, Paris, and Monaco. But when her travels reconnect her with the very same irresistible, thrill-seeking man she's spent thirty years trying to forget, Maggie becomes terrified that rushing into love and sharing his life may very well end in disaster. But ultimately, while Maggie tries to outrun her fears and painful memories of her past, fate will surprise her in the most astounding of ways, as she walks the tightrope between danger and courage, and between wisdom and love. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Nine Lives” by Danielle Steel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627419430097-YFVC3G3O9DNH6BZVDT8A/91ncR7yIe-L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot - Marianne Cronin Genres: Fiction Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital. Though the teenager has been told she’s dying, she still has plenty of living to do. Joining the hospital’s arts and crafts class, she meets the magnificent Margot, an 83-year-old, purple-pajama-wearing, fruitcake-eating rebel, who transforms Lenni in ways she never imagined. As their friendship blooms, a world of stories opens for these unlikely companions who, between them, have been alive for one hundred years. Though their days are dwindling, both are determined to leave their mark on the world. With the help of Lenni’s doting palliative care nurse and Father Arthur, the hospital’s patient chaplain, Lenni and Margot devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived—stories of love and loss, of courage and kindness, of unexpected tenderness and pure joy. Though the end is near, life isn’t quite done with these unforgettable women just yet. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot” by Marianne Cronin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627419660561-AKH2ZTE8806HPYT7F9V5/54860443.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - One Last Stop - Casey McQuinston Genres: Fiction, Romance, Sci-fi For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures. But then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train. Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August’s day when she needed it most. August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane doesn’t just look like an old school punk rocker. She’s literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. Maybe it’s time to start believing in some things, after all. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “One Last Stop” by Casey McQuinston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627420516198-Z96O9SPLFVWTPZ2EJHE5/81RYU3AckbS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - One Two Three - Laurie Frankel Genres: Fiction Mab is the "normal" one, never mind Bourne Memorial High School has banned that term, and besides, she's a stickler for words and definitions and knows normal isn't normal in Bourne. Monday is a stickler for everything else. She doesn't like abbreviations, contractions, lies, typos, or wearing green clothes on yellow days. When the Bourne library shut down--funds desperately needed elsewhere--she stashed the books under her bed, behind the sofa, along the stairs, inside the microwave, and lends them from home. Mirabel's the smart one, the slow one, the stuck one. Much of her body requires augmentation--she needs a wheelchair to navigate the world, a voice app to speak to it--but her right arm and hand work flawlessly. And so do her brain and her heart. Nora gave her girls "M" names with escalating syllables so she'd be able to keep them straight. As if single parenting sixteen-year-old triplets weren't enough, her two jobs--Bourne's only therapist and its only bartender--are both in unusually high demand. And then there's the job she can't let go--lead plaintiff in Bourne's class-action lawsuit against Bison Chemical. Seventeen years ago, the Bison plant was pumping toxic chemicals into Bourne's river. Flowers stopped blooming. Pets got sick, then their owners did too. A generation was born not quite whole. Nora assures her daughters they're perfect just the way they are, but she's still spent their whole lives fighting to make Bison pay. When a new student at Bourne Memorial High turns out to be the grandson of Bison's CEO, everyone realizes that in a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything has. And when Bison announces plans to reopen the plant, the girls take up their mother's cause in a race to find what Bison is hiding and to stop them. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “One Two Three” by Laurie Frankel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627420644122-LBVNRI881BWZXQG9NL9B/8105Vm9H%2BtS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust. Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW. It’s hard to believe Hazel is behind these hostile messages. But as Nella starts to spiral and obsess over the sinister forces at play, she soon realizes that there’s a lot more at stake than just her career. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Other Black Girl” by Zakiya Dalila Harris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627420770453-PCI4C240V0F1UYOCELBM/81FhMUJ2O8L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Our Woman in Moscow - Beatriz Williams Genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West’s most vital secrets? Four years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the twin sister she hasn’t seen since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940, as war engulfed the continent and Iris fell desperately in love with an enigmatic United States Embassy official named Sasha Digby. Within days, Ruth is on her way to Moscow, posing as the wife of counterintelligence agent Sumner Fox in a precarious plot to extract the Digbys from behind the Iron Curtain. But the complex truth behind Iris’s marriage defies Ruth’s understanding, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet KGB officer forces them to make a heartbreaking choice between two irreconcilable loyalties. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Our Woman in Moscow” by Beatriz Williams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627421030071-X4KHCCC1Y0LGUXBK6O9T/Pack-Up-the-Moon.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Pack Up the Moon - Kristan Higgins Genres: Fiction, Romance Joshua and Lauren are the perfect couple. Newly married, they're wildly in love, each on a successful and rewarding career path. Then Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal illness. As Lauren's disease progresses, Joshua struggles to make the most of the time he has left with his wife and to come to terms with his future--a future without the only woman he's ever loved. He's so consumed with finding a way to avoid the inevitable ending that he never imagines his life after Lauren. But Lauren has a plan to keep her husband moving forward. A plan hidden in the letters she leaves him. In those letters, one for every month in the year after her death, Lauren leads Joshua on a journey through pain, anger, and denial. It's a journey that will take Joshua from his attempt at a dinner party for family and friends to getting rid of their bed...from a visit with a psychic medium to a kiss with a woman who isn't Lauren. As his grief makes room for laughter and new relationships, Joshua learns Lauren's most valuable lesson: The path to happiness doesn't follow a straight line. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Pack Up the Moon” by Kristin Higgins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627421393942-C69MIDO3GYI4UKZCFTPW/810v9flXPFL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Painting the Light - Sally Cabot Gunning Genres: Fiction, Historical Martha’s Vineyard, 1898. In her first life, Ida Russell had been a painter. Five years ago, she had confidently walked the halls of Boston’s renowned Museum School, enrolling in art courses that were once deemed “unthinkable” for women to take, and showing a budding talent for watercolors. But no more. Ida Russell is now Ida Pease, resident of a seaside farm on Vineyard Haven, and wife to Ezra, a once-charming man who has become an inattentive and altogether unreliable husband. Ezra runs a salvage company in town with his business partner Mose Barstow, but he much prefers their nightly card games at the local pub to his work in their Boston office, not to mention filling haystacks and tending sheep on the farm at home—duties that have fallen to Ida and their part-time farmhand Lem. Ida, meanwhile, has left her love for painting behind. It comes as no surprise to Ida when Ezra is hours late for a Thanksgiving dinner, only to leave abruptly for another supposedly urgent business trip to Boston. But then something truly unthinkable happens: a storm strikes, and the Portland sinks. Ezra and Mose are presumed dead. In the wake of this shocking tragedy, Ida must settle the affairs of Ezra’s estate, a task that brings her to a familiar face from her past—Henry Barstow, Mose’s brother and executor. As she joins Henry in sifting through the remnants of her husband’s life and work, Ida must learn to separate truth from lies and what matters from what doesn’t. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Painting the Light” by Sally Cabot Gunning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627421940298-73HGJC67IY8A3LG0XEMQ/91TVazmYtjS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller Genres: Fiction, Romance It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace"--the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Now, over the next twenty-four hours, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made with her genuinely beloved husband, Peter, and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love, Jonas, if a tragic event hadn't forever changed the course of their lives. As Heller colors in the experiences that have led Elle to this day, we arrive at her ultimate decision with all its complexity. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Paper Palace” by Miranda Cowley Heller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627422049044-4X8735DIRENERD4LZI30/81pinR6Xf7S.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Personal Librarian - Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray Genres: Fiction, Historical In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class collection. But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle's complexion isn't dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white--her complexion is dark because she is African American. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Personal Librarian” by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627422178727-QIHKJKWDJGDD8L7CCNO8/81dBxMMe4dL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Phase Six - Jim Shepard Genres: Fiction, Sci-fi, Thriller In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing and deeply moving story follows Aleq, one of the few survivors of the initial outbreak, through his identification and radical isolation as the likely index patient. While he shoulders both a crushing guilt for what he may have done and the hopes of a world looking for answers, we also meet two Epidemic Intelligence Service investigators dispatched from the CDC--Jeannine, an epidemiologist and daughter of Algerian immigrants, and Danice, an M.D. and lab wonk. As they attempt to head off the cataclysm, Jeannine--moving from the Greeland hospital overwhelmed with the first patients to a Level 4 high-security facility in the Rocky Mountains--does what she can to sustain Aleq. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Phase Six” by Jim Shepard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627422292829-M3VQLAZ3E4MCM4HRB11G/81m7t9ESavL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The President’s Daughter - James Patterson & Bill Clinton Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL—and a past president—has always defended his family as staunchly as he has his country. Now those defenses are under attack. A madman abducts Keating’s teenage daughter, Melanie—turning every parent’s deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches in real time, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths: as a leader, a warrior, and a father. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The President’s Daughter” by James Patterson & Bill Clinton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627422506923-8UIGL6T4T6N38DQ938F2/81G6HJv4P3L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Rock the Boat - Beck Dorey-Stein Genres: Fiction, Comedy, Romance When Kate Campbell's life in Manhattan suddenly implodes, she is forced to return to Sea Point, the small town full of quirky locals, quaint bungalows, and beautiful beaches where she grew up. She knows she won't be home for long; she's got every intention (and a three-point plan) to win back everything she thinks she's lost. Meanwhile, Miles Hoffman--aka "The Prince of Sea Point"--has also returned home to prove to his mother that he's capable of taking over the family business, and he's promised to help his childhood best friend, Ziggy Miller, with his own financial struggles at the same time. Kate, Miles, and Ziggy converge in Sea Point as the town faces an identity crisis when a local developer tries to cash in on its potential. The summer swells, and white lies and long-buried secrets prove as corrosive as the salt air, threatening to forever erode not only the bonds between the three friends but also the landscape of the beachside community they call home. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Rock the Boat” by Beck Dorey-Stein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627501113904-L56TXPWUHC1S0YF1SA1P/81pMHTxNJrL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (Henna Artist #2) - Alka Joshi Genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery It's the spring of 1969, henna artist Lakshmi arranges for her protégé Malik to intern at the Facilities Office of the Jaipur Royal Palace. Power and money still move seamlessly among the wealthy class, but only if certain secrets remain buried. When the cinema's balcony tragically collapses on opening night, blame is placed where it is convenient. But Malik suspects something far darker and sets out to uncover the truth. As a former street child, he always knew to keep his own counsel - it's a lesson that will serve him as he untangles a web of lies. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Secret Keeper of Jaipur” by Alka Joshi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627501342260-JE77LJ3VFY4VJN3YRS01/91cTYHI0DsL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Shadow - James Patterson & Brian Sitts Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Sci-fi Only two people know that 1930s society man Lamont Cranston has a secret identity as the Shadow, a crusader for justice. One is his greatest love, Margo Lane, and the other is fiercest enemy, Shiwan Khan. When Khan ambushes the couple, they must risk everything for the slimmest chance of survival . . . in the future. A century and a half later, Lamont awakens in a world both unknown and disturbingly familiar. The first person he meets is Maddy Gomes, a teenager with her own mysterious secrets, including a knowledge of the legend of the Shadow. Most disturbing, Khan's power continues to be felt over the city and its people. No one in this new world understands the dangers of stopping him better than Lamont Cranston. And only the Shadow knows that he’s the one person who might succeed before more innocent lives are lost. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Shadow” by James Patterson and Brian Sitts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627501508894-SAE3Y9DJBEKNPBJLQM3O/81US%2BfrlMPL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Shiver - Allie Reynolds Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When Milla accepts an off-season invitation to Le Rocher, a cozy ski resort in the French Alps, she's expecting an intimate weekend of catching up with four old friends. It might have been a decade since she saw them last, but she's never forgotten the bond they forged on this very mountain during a winter spent fiercely training for an elite snowboarding competition. Yet no sooner do Milla and the others arrive for the reunion than they realize something is horribly wrong. The resort is deserted. The cable cars that delivered them to the mountaintop have stopped working. Their cell phones--missing. And inside the hotel, detailed instructions await them: an icebreaker game, designed to draw out their secrets. A game meant to remind them of Saskia, the enigmatic sixth member of their group, who vanished the morning of the competition years before and has long been presumed dead. Stranded in the resort, Milla's not sure what's worse: the increasingly sinister things happening around her or the looming snowstorm that's making escape even more impossible. All she knows is that there's no one on the mountain she can trust. Because someone has gathered them there to find out the truth about Saskia...someone who will stop at nothing to get answers. And if Milla's not careful, she could be the next to disappear... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Shiver” by Allie Reynolds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627501666220-N5A75FNWPPIG9CGU5YEE/81jjj2sddoS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Shoulder Season - Christina Clancy Genres: Fiction, Historical The small town of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is an unlikely location for a Playboy Resort, and nineteen-year old Sherri Taylor is an unlikely bunny. Growing up in neighboring East Troy, Sherri plays the organ at the local church and has never felt comfortable in her own skin. But when her parents die in quick succession, she leaves the only home she's ever known for the chance to be part of a glamorous slice of history. In the winter of 1981, in a costume two sizes too small, her toes pinched by stilettos, Sherri joins the daughters of dairy farmers and factory workers for the defining experience of her life. Living in the "bunny hutch"-Playboy's version of a college dorm-Sherri gets her education in the joys of sisterhood, the thrill of financial independence, the magic of first love, and the heady effects of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. But as spring gives way to summer, Sherri finds herself caught in a romantic triangle-and the tragedy that ensues will haunt her for the next forty years. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Shoulder Season” by Christina Clancy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627501863138-JEEG1KPZTP0J78NCXQ4D/9780062983565.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Silence - Susan Allott Genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney, Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father phoning from Sydney. 30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of summer 1967, the Greens’ next-door neighbour Mandy disappeared. At the time, it was thought she had fled a broken marriage and gone to start a new life; but now Mandy’s family is trying to reconnect, and there is no trace of her. Isla’s father Joe was allegedly the last person to see her alive, and now he’s under suspicion of murder. Isla unwillingly plans to go back to Australia for the first time in a decade to support her father. The return to Sydney will plunge Isla deep into the past, to a quiet street by the sea where two couples live side by side. Isla’s parents, Louisa and Joe, have recently emigrated from England—a move that has left Louisa miserably homesick while Joe embraces this new life. Next door, Steve and Mandy are equally troubled. Mandy doesn’t want a baby, even though Steve—a cop trying to hold it together under the pressures of the job—is desperate to become a father. The more Isla asks about the past, the more she learns: about both young couples and the secrets each marriage bore. Could her father be capable of doing something terrible? How much does her mother know? What will happen to their family if Isla’s worst fears are realized? And is there another secret in this community, one which goes deeper into Australia’s colonial past, which has held them in a conspiracy of silence? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Silence” by Susan Allott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627502004209-0C7Z5TO1HE724GM6P113/y648.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Silver Tears (Faye Adelheim #2) - Camilla Lackberg Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller She's had to fight for it every step of the way, but Faye finally has the life she believes she deserves: she is rich, the business she built has become a global brand, and she has carefully hidden away her small family in Italy, where Jack, her ex-husband, can no longer harm them. But Faye's world turns upside down when she learns that Jack is no longer locked behind bars. Not only does she have to fight again to keep her family safe, but now, at long last, she is forced to face the truth about her past. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Silver Tears” by Camilla Lackberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627502143697-H1QDSZP5FSRPCSBOBV91/55507042.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Sisters of the Resistance - Christine Wells Genres: Fiction, Historical France, 1944: The Nazis still occupy Paris, and twenty-five-year-old Gabby Foucher hates these enemies, though, as the concierge of ten rue Royale, she makes it a point to avoid trouble, unlike her sister Yvette. Until she, like her sister, is recruited into the Resistance by Catherine Dior—sister of the fashion designer, Christian Dior. Gabby and Yvette are both swept into the world of spies, fugitives, and Resistance workers, and it doesn't take long for the sisters to realize that their lives are in danger. Gabby discovers an elderly tenant is hiding a wounded British fugitive, and Yvette becomes a messenger for the Resistance. But as Gabby begins to fall in love with her patient and Yvette’s impulsiveness lead her into intrigue at an ever-higher level, both women will discover that their hearts and even their souls hang in the balance as well. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Sisters of the Resistance” by Christine Wells https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627502272981-5QKHF4XTTDDMSYE0GQCQ/91b6BQRlsrL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Stepsisters - Susan Mallery Genres: Fiction, Romance Once upon a time, when her dad married Sage's mom, Daisy was thrilled to get a bright and shiny new sister. But Sage was beautiful and popular, everything Daisy was not, and she made sure Daisy knew it. Sage didn't have Daisy's smarts, she had to go back a grade to enroll in the fancy rich-kid school so she used her popularity as a weapon, putting Daisy down to elevate herself. After the divorce, the stepsisters rivalry continued until the final, improbable straw: Daisy married Sage's first love, and Sage fled California. Eighteen years, two kids and one troubled marriage later, Daisy never expects - or wants - to see Sage again. But when the little sister they have in common needs them both, they put aside their differences to care for Cassidy. As long-buried truths are revealed, no one is more surprised than they when friendship blossoms. Their fragile truce is threatened by one careless act that could have devastating consequences. They could turn their backs on each other again or they could learn to forgive once and for all and finally become true sisters of the heart. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Stepsisters” by Susan Mallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627502398346-IK6J8JOSGSQSXJ9LUM67/81cpEoYdJfS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Stranger in the Mirror - Liv Constantine Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Addison’s about to get married, but she’s not looking forward to the big day. It’s not her fiancé; he’s a wonderful man. It’s because Addison doesn't know who she really is. A few years ago, a kind driver found her bleeding next to a New Jersey highway and rescued her. While her physical wounds healed, Addison’s memory never returned. She doesn’t know her real name. Or how she ended up injured on the side of a road. Or why she can’t shake the notion that she may have done something very, very bad… In a posh home in the Boston suburbs, Julian tries to figure out what happened to his loving, caring wife, Cassandra, who disappeared without a trace two years ago. She would never have left him and their seven-year-old daughter Valentina of her own free will—or would she? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Stranger in the Mirror” by Liv Constantine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627502586220-UR9U3984IIIZXYBHJCSD/811QShKeUhL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Sunrise by the Sea (Little Beach Street Bakery #4) - Jenny Colgan Genres: Fiction, Romance Marisa Rosso can't understand why everyone else is getting on with their lives as she still struggles to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Everyone loses grandparents, right? Why is she taking it so badly? Retreating further and further from normal life, she moves to the end of the earth-the remote tidal island of Mount Polbearne, at the foot of Cornwall, hoping for peace and solitude, whilst carrying on her job as a registrar, dealing with births, weddings, and deaths, even as she feels life is passing her by. Unfortunately-or fortunately?-the solitude she craves proves elusive. Between her noisy Russian piano-teaching neighbor, the bustle and community spirit of the tiny village struggling back to life after the quarantine, and the pressing need to help save the local bakery, can Marisa find her joy again at the end of the world? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Sunrise by the Sea” by Jenny Colgan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627502711376-Q896K49R9LODEL7M89DA/55628983.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Survive the Night - Riley Sager Genres: Fiction, Horror, Thriller Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it's guilt and grief over the murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it's to help care for his sick father. Or so he says. Like the Hitchcock heroine she's named after, Charlie has her doubts. There's something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn't seem to want Charlie to see inside the car's trunk. As they travel an empty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly worried Charlie begins to think she's sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie's suspicion merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination? What follows is a game of cat-and-mouse played out on night-shrouded roads and in neon-lit parking lots, during an age when the only call for help can be made on a pay phone and in a place where there's nowhere to run. In order to win, Charlie must do one thing--survive the night. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Survive the Night” by Riley Sager https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627503197822-A24HAVYGIS60AQUWO6D8/91a0ckL3BCL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Target Acquired (Jack Ryan Jr #6) - Tom Clancy & Don Bentley Genres: Fiction, Thriller Jack Ryan, Jr. would do anything for Ding Chavez. That's why Jack is currently sitting in an open-air market in Israel, helping a CIA team with a simple job. The man running the mission, Peter Beltz, is an old friend from Ding's Army days. Ding hadn't seen his friend since Peter's transfer to the CIA eighteen months prior, and intended to use the assignment to reconnect. Unfortunately, Ding had to cancel at the last minute and asked Jack to take his place. It's a cushy assignment—a trip to Israel in exchange for a couple hours of easy work, but Jack could use the downtime after his last operation. Jack is here merely as an observer, but when he hastens to help a woman and her young son, he finds himself the target of trained killers. Alone and outgunned, Jack will have to use all his skills to protect the life of the child. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Target Acquired” by Tom Clancy & Don Bentley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627505389273-NAMLJZH4WCHJUUAAI7BW/819PMZ1ptHL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Therapist - B A Paris Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive... As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with Nina, the therapist who lived there before. Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened two years before. But no one wants to talk about it. Her neighbors are keeping secrets and things are not as perfect as they seem... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Therapist” by B A Paris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627505557173-M6303RW2HDS4T0AQ6K3G/81HkvE0xejL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Third Grave (Savannah #4) - Lisa Jackson Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller The old Beaumont mansion is a rotting shell of its once-grand self, especially after a disastrous hurricane sweeps through Georgia. The storm does more than dislodge shutters and shingles. It leads to a grisly find in the cellar. Three graves. But only two skeletons . . . For Nikki, the discovery is a gift, the perfect subject for her next crime book though Reed has made her promise not to keep involving herself in dangerous police business. But despite the increasing tension between them, Nikki cant stay away from this story. Rumors are widespread that the burial site is the resting place of the Duval sisters, three young girls who went to the movies with their older brother, Owen, twenty years ago, and never returned. Forensics confirms that the remains belong to Holly and Poppy Duval. But where is the youngest sister, Rose? Owen Duval was, and remains, the prime suspect, alibi or no. But as Nikki and Reed delve deep into the mystery, fractures in the case begin to show. There is more to the sisters disappearance than anyone ever guessed. Far from an isolated act, those deaths were just the beginning. And there will be no rest, and no relenting, until the killer has buried the twisted truth along with his victims . . . CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Third Grave” by Lisa Jackson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627505754527-HGC6F2MOHATMHYW0OJQD/55809793.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Three Words for Goodbye - Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb Genres: Fiction, Historical New York, 1937: When estranged sisters Clara and Madeleine Sommers learn their grandmother is dying, they agree to fulfill her last wish: to travel across Europe—together. They are to deliver three letters, in which Violet will say goodbye to those she hasn’t seen since traveling to Europe forty years earlier; a journey inspired by famed reporter, Nellie Bly. Clara, ever-dutiful, sees the trip as an inconvenient detour before her wedding to millionaire Charles Hancock, but it’s also a chance to embrace her love of art. Budding journalist Madeleine relishes the opportunity to develop her ambitions to report on the growing threat of Hitler’s Nazi party and Mussolini’s control in Italy. Constantly at odds with each other as they explore the luxurious Queen Mary, the Orient Express, and the sights of Paris and Venice,, Clara and Madeleine wonder if they can fulfil Violet’s wish, until a shocking truth about their family brings them closer together. But as they reach Vienna to deliver the final letter, old grudges threaten their reconciliation again. As political tensions rise, and Europe feels increasingly volatile, the pair are glad to head home on the Hindenburg, where fate will play its hand in the final stage of their journey. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Three Words for Goodbye” by Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627505899649-MLC3SDZI3A4NZGQVBMMW/61dTAAWLJgS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Together We Will Go - J Michael Straczynski Genres: Fiction Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is planning a cross-country road trip. He buys a beat-up old tour bus. He hires a young army vet to drive it. He puts out an ad for others to join him along the way. But this will be a road trip like no other: His passengers are all fellow disheartened souls who have decided that this will be their final journey—upon arrival in San Francisco, they will find a cliff with an amazing view of the ocean at sunset, hit the gas, and drive out of this world. The unlikely companions include a young woman with a chronic pain sensory disorder and another who was relentlessly bullied at school for her size; a bipolar, party-loving neo-hippie; a gentle coder with a literal hole in his heart and blue skin; and a poet dreaming of a better world beyond this one. We get to know them through access to their texts, emails, voicemails, and the daily journal entries they write as the price of admission for this trip. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Together We Will Go” by J Michael Straczynski https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627506049291-O2TUDGES39ZLUDPYXQUU/81t%2BQ-j2GIL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Unforgiven (Krewe of Hunters #33) - Heather Graham Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance Twelve years after the grisly murder of her parents, Kaitlyn Delaney has finally found peace. She has friends, a good job, a place to call home and a new life to live. But then a shadow creeps in from Katie's past, reminding her that she will never completely escape its terrifying grip. When private investigator Dan Oliver is called to the scene of a gruesome crime in New Orleans, he can't help but hear echoes of the Delaney case, the unsolved murder that made him leave law enforcement. As he digs deeper, he unearths more chilling similarities--including mysterious letters connecting the killer to a string of murders that terrorized the Big Easy in 1919. Now reunited after all this time, Dan and Katie scour the streets together, desperate to find answers before more lives are lost. But the otherworldly roots of this evil run far deeper than they ever imagined ... and only the most precious of sacrifices will bring its twisted reign to an end. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Unforgiven” by Heather Graham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627506215401-53WLMCOGA2H7HT68AD5V/55893352.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Walking Through Needles - Heather Levy Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When Sam Mayfair was sixteen, her life was shattered by an abuser close to her. News of her abuser's murder fifteen years later should have put an end to the torture she's endured because of one decision plaguing her life. But with her stepbrother Eric as the prime suspect, Sam is flung back into the hell of her rural Oklahoma childhood. As Sam tries to help exonerate Eric while hiding certain truths of their past from investigators, details of the murder unravel. And Sam quickly learns some people, including herself, will do anything to keep their secrets buried deep. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Walking Through Needles” by Heather Levy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627506791871-N0H1ET3KR95NUH3TBZP6/81RH82EMWpL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Warsaw Orphan - Kelly Rimmer Genres: Fiction, Historical In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews, but has never given much thought to what goes on behind the walls that contain her Jewish neighbors. She knows all too well about German brutality--and that it's the reason she must conceal her true identity. But in befriending Sara, a nurse who shares her apartment floor, Elzbieta makes a discovery that propels her into a dangerous world of deception and heroism. Using Sara's credentials to smuggle children out of the ghetto brings Elzbieta face-to-face with the reality of the war behind its walls. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Warsaw Orphan” by Kelly Rimmer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627506932823-08JRV25RTPUL471B6XEV/612TlsFqgdS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - A Week at the Shore - Barbara Delinsky Genres: Fiction, Romance One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone - running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with the love of her life, Jack Sabathian. Twenty years during which she lived in New York, building her career as a photographer and raising her now teenage daughter Joy. But that phone call makes it clear that something has brought the past forward again - something involving Mallory's father. Compelled by concern for her family and by Joy's wish to visit her mother's childhood home, Mallory returns to Bay Bluff, where conflicting loyalties will be faced and painful truths revealed. In just seven watershed days at the Rhode Island shore, she will test the bonds of friendship and family - and discover the role that love plays in defining their lives. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Week at the Shore” by Barbara Delinsky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627507548725-PSOFV1MNSYAH0ISO7NIL/91ZOqWHM%2BUL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - What’s Done in Darkness - Laura McHugh Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller On a hot, hazy summer day, Sarabeth is forced to work her family's farmstand in Arkansas. It was only recently that Sarabeth had a normal teenage life in town, able to see her friends, starting to date--but that was before her parents found God and moved her and her siblings to a farm in the middle of nowhere. Now she has to wear long dresses even in the blistering heat, can't cut her hair, and can't spend time with anyone her age. Sarabeth has become rebellious and wayward, refusing to adapt--then she is taken. Blindfolded and chained to a basement wall, Sarabeth is held captive for weeks by a person she never sees or speaks to, and just when she thinks her life is about to be over, she wakes up along the side of a highway, where she is discovered by a passing motorist. Now an adult, she goes by Sarah, has cut ties with her family entirely, and has made a contented, if solitary life for herself as an adult in St. Louis. That is, until Detective Nick Farrow with the Missouri Highway Patrol Missing Persons until calls her, wanting her help to investigate the recent disappearance of a young girl in a case which bears striking similarities to Sarah's own. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “What’s Done in Darkness” by Laura McHugh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627507762535-VWOLS9VEDTCQT3D2R6WC/91twCkuO7rL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Where the Grass is Green and the Girls are Pretty - Laura Weisberger Genres: Fiction A seat at the anchor desk of the most-watched morning show. Recognized by millions across the country, thanks in part to her flawless blond highlights and Botox-smoothed skin. An adoring husband and a Princeton-bound daughter. Peyton is that woman. She has it all. Until... Skye, her sister, is a stay-at-home mom living in a glitzy suburb of New York. She has degrees from all the right schools and can helicopter-parent with the best of them. But Skye is different from the rest. She's looking for something real and dreams of a life beyond the PTA and pickup. Until... Max, Peyton's bright and quirky seventeen-year-old daughter, is poised to kiss her fancy private school goodbye and head off to pursue her dreams in film. She's waited her entire life for this opportunity. Until... One little lie. That's all it takes. For the illusions to crack. For resentments to surface. Suddenly the grass doesn't look so green. And they're left wondering: will they have what it takes to survive the truth? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Where the Grass is Green and the Girls are Pretty” by Lauren Weisberger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627507901132-37NF7L501XH78MCVT8E9/91dOWoCPtNL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Wolf and the Woodsman - Ava Reid Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodline—her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a pagan girl for the king’s blood sacrifice, Évike is betrayed by her fellow villagers and surrendered. But when monsters attack the Woodsmen and their captive en route, slaughtering everyone but Évike and the cold, one-eyed captain, they have no choice but to rely on each other. Except he’s no ordinary Woodsman—he’s the disgraced prince, Gáspár Bárány, whose father needs pagan magic to consolidate his power. Gáspár fears that his cruelly zealous brother plans to seize the throne and instigate a violent reign that would damn the pagans and the Yehuli alike. As the son of a reviled foreign queen, Gáspár understands what it’s like to be an outcast, and he and Évike make a tenuous pact to stop his brother. As their mission takes them from the bitter northern tundra to the smog-choked capital, their mutual loathing slowly turns to affection, bound by a shared history of alienation and oppression. However, trust can easily turn to betrayal, and as Évike reconnects with her estranged father and discovers her own hidden magic, she and Gáspár need to decide whose side they’re on, and what they’re willing to give up for a nation that never cared for them at all. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Wolf and the Woodsman” by Ava Reid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627508019994-5NODP6DCSK8Q3P9KTDF4/91ukv1WB27L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Woman with the Blue Star - Pam Jenoff Genres: Fiction, Historical 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Jewish Ghetto in Krakow, Poland, during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her mother are forced to seek refuge in the sewers beneath the city. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed close alliances with the occupying Germans. While on an errand in the market, she catches a glimpse of something moving beneath a grate in the street. Upon closer inspection, she realizes it's a girl hiding. Ella begins to aid Sadie and their lives are set on a collision course that will test them in the face of overwhelming odds. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Woman with the Blue Star” by Pam Jenoff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627508157137-GLJHV535RZG796SFF3HN/81C5GGGFoGS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Women’s March - Jennifer Chiaverini Genres: Fiction, Historical Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes, she is nevertheless determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. Nine states have already granted women voting rights, but only a constitutional amendment will secure the vote for all. To inspire support for the campaign, Alice organizes a magnificent procession down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, the day before the inauguration of President-elect Woodrow Wilson, a firm antisuffragist. Joining the march is thirty-nine-year-old New Yorker Maud Malone, librarian and advocate for women’s and workers’ rights. The daughter of Irish immigrants, Maud has acquired a reputation—and a criminal record—for interrupting politicians’ speeches with pointed questions they’d rather ignore. Civil rights activist and journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett resolves that women of color must also be included in the march—and the proposed amendment. Born into slavery in Mississippi, Ida worries that white suffragists may exclude Black women if it serves their own interests. On March 3, 1913, the glorious march commences, but negligent police allow vast crowds of belligerent men to block the parade route—jeering, shouting threats, assaulting the marchers—endangering not only the success of the demonstration but the women’s very lives. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Women’s March” by Jennifer Chiaverini https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628098913196-EERYLUWPB45X9B9AZBLJ/81Wl0zBSH4S.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Care Of - Ivan Coyote Genres: Non-fiction In the early days of the coronavirus lockdown, like every artist and creator, writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote was faced with a calendar full of cancelled shows and a heart full of questions that all rhymed with what now? To keep busy while figuring out what to write about next, Ivan began to answer the backlog of mail and correspondences that had come in while they were on the pre-pandemic road: emails, letters, direct messages on social media, soggy handwritten notes found tucked under the windshield wiper of their car after a gig, all of it. In Care Of, Coyote combines the most moving and powerful of these letters with the responses they've sent in the months since the lockdown. Taken together, they become an affirming and joyous reflection on many of the themes and ideas central to Coyote's beloved work as an author and storyteller--a giant love letter to the idea of human connection and the power of truly listening to each other. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Care Of” by Ivan Coyote https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628099128189-WPU85R8Q9T365A31M4KO/81F8SIFrKFL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Chief Witness - Sayragul Sauytbay Genres: Biography, Current events Born in China's north-western province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime: being Kazakh, one of China's ethnic minorities. The north-western province borders the largest number of foreign nations and is the point in China that is closest to Europe. In recent years it has become home to over 1,200 penal camps--modern-day gulags that are estimated to house three million members of the Kazakh and Uyghur minorities. Imprisoned solely due to their ethnicity, inmates are subjected to relentless punishment and torture, including being beaten, raped, and used as subjects for medical experiments. The camps represent the greatest systematic incarceration of an entire people since the Third Reich. In prison, Sauytbay was put to work teaching Chinese language, culture, and politics, in the course of which she gained access to secret information that revealed Beijing's long-term plans to undermine not only its minorities, but democracies around the world. Upon her escape to Europe she was reunited with her family, but still lives under constant threat of reprisal. This rare testimony from the biggest surveillance state in the world reveals not only the full, frightening scope of China's tyrannical ambitions, but also the resilience and courage of its author. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Chief Witness” by Sayragul Sauytbay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628099833554-6M0VLR7CDOQK3KFT691Y/81cxsP96mLL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Confidence Men - Margalit Fox Genres: Non-fiction, History, World War I Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate seances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp, and one day, a Turkish officer approaches Jones with a query: Could Jones contact the spirit world to find a vast treasure rumored to be buried nearby? Jones, a trained lawyer, and Hill, a brilliant magician, use the Ouija board--and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception--to build a trap for the Turkish officers that will ultimately lead them to freedom. The Confidence Men is the story of the only known con game played for a good cause--and of a profound but unlikely friendship. Had it not been for "the Great War," Jones, the Oxford-educated son of a British lord, and Hill, a mechanic from an Australian sheep farm, would never have met. But in pain, loneliness, hunger, and isolation, they formed a powerful emotional and intellectual alliance that saved both of their lives. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Confidence Men” by Margalit Fox https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628109501648-BBTH26ORIQKNSDIUM01D/9109ziFow3L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Home Made - Liz Hauck Genres: Non-fiction Liz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teen-aged boys in state care, which was run by the human services agency he co-directed. When her father died unexpectedly after a brief illness, Liz decided to attempt the cooking project without him. She didn't know what to expect volunteering with court-involved youth, but as a high school teacher she knew that teenagers are drawn to food-related activities, and as a daughter, she believed that if she and the kids made even a single dinner together she could check one box off of her father's long, unfinished to-do list. This is the story of what happened around the table, and how one dinner became one hundred dinners. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Home Made” by Liz Hauck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628110029003-HP3ZE68QQTTOX4TRGX89/Keto_Diet_Book_Leanne_Vogel_Front.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Keto Diet - Leanne Vogel Genres: Non-fiction, Cooking, Health Leanne Vogel, the voice behind the highly acclaimed website Healthful Pursuit, brings an entirely new approach to achieving health, healing, weight loss, and happiness through a keto-adapted lifestyle with The Keto Diet: The Complete Guide to a High-Fat Diet. For too long we've blamed dietary fat for weight gain and health problems. The truth is, a diet that is high in natural, healthy fats can actually help your body burn fat! That s the secret behind the ketogenic diet. As you get more of your calories from healthy fats and cut back on carbs, you ll start burning fat, losing weight, and feeling strong and energetic without feeling hungry or deprived. The Keto Diet does away with the one size fits all philosophy offering a customizable approach that is tailored to the unique needs of the individual. Leanne provides the tools to empower everyone to develop a personalized nutrition plan, offering limitless options while taking away the many restrictions of a traditional ketogenic diet. A one-stop guide to the ketogenic way of eating, The Keto Diet shows you how to transition to and maintain a whole foods based, paleo-friendly, ketogenic diet with a key focus on practical strategies and tons of mouthwatering recipes. It includes: Over 125 healthy and delicious whole-food recipes that will help your body burn fat, including: Chicken Crisps Bacon-Wrapped Veggies Keto Sandwich Bread Waldorf Tomatoes Sizzling Cinnamon French Toast Gravy Pot Pies Fat Bomb Ice Cream Six 30-day meal plans that walk you through a month of eating keto Tools to make your high-fat life a breeze including guides for your favorite grocery stores, yes/no food lists, food sensitivity replacements, how to go dairy-free to reduce inflammation, and more The Keto Diet will help you gain energy, lose weight, improve your health, and turn you into the ultimate fat-burning machine all without restricting or even counting calories. You'll have all the tools you need to fall in love with your body and banish your fear of fat forever! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Keto Diet” by Leanne Vogel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628113135958-EHYRXEZ8U7J6QWAWUXC3/819KJFQVjmS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Nice Rasicm - Robin DiAngelo Genres: Non-fiction, Race relations Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common white racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm. DiAngelo explains how spiritual white progressives seeking community by co-opting Indigenous and other groups’ rituals create separation, not connection. She challenges the ideology of individualism and explains why it is OK to generalize about white people, and she demonstrates how white people who experience other oppressions still benefit from systemic racism. Writing candidly about her own missteps and struggles, she models a path forward, encouraging white readers to continually face their complicity and embrace courage, lifelong commitment, and accountability. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Nice Racism” by Robin DiAngelo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628114135613-88ILLM9JTHO970GAUCR1/91y4QklzNAS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Perversion of Justice - Julie K Brown Genres: Non-fiction, True crime For many years, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's penchant for teenage girls was an open secret in the high society of Palm Beach, Florida and Upper East Side, Manhattan. Charged in 2008 with soliciting prostitution from minors, Epstein was treated with unheard of leniency, dictating the terms of his non-prosecution. The media virtually ignored the failures of the criminal justice system, and Epstein's friends and business partners brushed the allegations aside. But when in 2017 the U.S Attorney who approved Epstein's plea deal, Alexander Acosta, was chosen by President Trump as Labor Secretary, reporter Julie K. Brown was compelled to ask questions. Despite her editor's skepticism that she could add a new dimension to a known story, Brown determined that her goal would be to track down the victims themselves. Poring over thousands of redacted court documents, traveling across the country and chasing down information in difficulty and sometimes dangerous circumstances, Brown tracked down dozens of Epstein's victims, now young women struggling to reclaim their lives after the trauma and shame they had endured. Brown's resulting three-part series in the Miami Herald was one of the most explosive news stories of the decade, revealing how Epstein ran a global sex trafficking pyramid scheme with impunity for years, targeting vulnerable teens, often from fractured homes and then turning them into recruiters. The outrage led to Epstein's arrest, the disappearance and eventual arrest of his closest accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and the resignation of Acosta. The financier's mysterious suicide in a New York City jail cell prompted wild speculation about the secrets he took to the grave-and whether his death was intentional or the result of foul play. Tracking Epstein’s evolution from a college dropout to one of the most successful financiers in the country—whose associates included Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, and Bill Clinton—Perversion of Justice builds on Brown's original award-winning series, showing the power of truth, the value of local reportage and the tenacity of one woman in the face of the deep-seated corruption of powerful men. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Perversion of Justice” by Julia K Vrown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628530514533-TKLT330F0DEAS583JV64/61tgHQnsx8L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Run as One - Errol Ranville Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography, Music Errol Ranville has been running all his life: from chronic poverty and racism in rural Manitoba; a discriminatory music business; alcohol and drug addiction; and the responsibilities that come with being regarded as a role model. Though Errol has faced seemingly insurmountable barriers as an Indigenous performer in a predominately white music business, his band C-Weed & the Weeds released several #1 songs and went on to score JUNO nominations in 1985 and 1986. Errol was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Indigenous Music Awards in 2011. Errol's autobiography Run as One is filled with love and passion as he embraces the role of trailblazer for the countless musicians that follow his path. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Run as One” by Errol Ranville https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628532849477-4C71BHNDV4ZNTVR9Z83I/51CfBE9kvkS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Two Pieces of Cloth - Joe Gold Genres: Non-fiction, Biography, History, War Torn apart by war. Reunited through faith. In this remarkable true story of the Holocaust, we follow David Goldberger from the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, back to Budapest where his wife, Aurelia, and infant son are hiding under false Christian identities. By the time he is liberated by the allies, Goldberger weighs a skeletal sixty-five pounds and is told to wait for the Slovakian legion to rescue him. With the threat of typhus looming, Goldberger instead escapes with a group of men to Hannover. There, he is given two pieces of wool cloth--the key to rebuilding his future as he searches for his wife and child. Drawn from survivor testimony, personal conversations, and archival documents, and vividly brought to life by Goldberger's son Joe Gold, Two Pieces of Cloth bears witness to the horrors of the Holocaust, while serving as a testament to the power and resilience of the human spirit. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Two Pieces of Cloth” by Joe Gold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627508417349-M4Z6NR8J0XLZ6EOKS787/81rB3kTlCsL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Ace of Spades - Faridah Abike-Iyimide Genres: Young adult fiction, Mystery, Thriller When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school's senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. After all, not only does it look great on college applications, but it officially puts each of them in the running for valedictorian, too. Shortly after the announcement is made, though, someone who goes by Aces begins using anonymous text messages to reveal secrets about the two of them that turn their lives upside down and threaten every aspect of their carefully planned futures. As Aces shows no sign of stopping, what seemed like a sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game, with all the cards stacked against them. Can Devon and Chiamaka stop Aces before things become incredibly deadly? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Ace of Spades” by Faridah Abike-Iyimide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627508577217-ZIK3W6RB32PYLNLMGHGN/71fDQkiTLqL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children #6) - Seanan McGuire Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late. When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to "Be Sure" before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines-a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes. But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of heroism are equal, and not all quests are as they seem... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Across the Green Grass Fields” by Seanan McGuire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627508706988-YQYAK3ZBCL5606Q4K7PN/81q-qNwhu6L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow #3) - Rainbow Rowell Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy, Romance Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to move forward. For Simon, that means deciding whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages---and if he doesn't, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. Penelope would love to help, but she's smuggled an American Normal into London, and now she isn't sure what to do with him. And Agatha? Well, Agatha Wellbelove has had enough. This ending to the Simon Snow trilogy takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet. It is a finale that tells secrets, answers questions, and lays ghosts to rest. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Any Way the Wind Blows” by Rainbow Rowell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628107185699-HTPGRRTMF8V7W5WX6UYS/91JoLmfrFkL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Firekeeper’s Daughter - Angeline Boulley Genres: Young adult fiction, Mystery Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug. Reluctantly, Daunis agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars. At the same time, she grows concerned with an investigation that seems more focused on punishing the offenders than protecting the victims. Now, as the deceptions—and deaths—keep growing, Daunis must learn what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she’ll go for her community, even if it tears apart the only world she’s ever known. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Firekeeper’s Daughter” by Angeline Boulley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628107594230-CR6ICEOYKOB8L5XPVSL9/81b6ahl1u%2BL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Gilded Ones (Deathless #1) - Namina Forna Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity--and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death. Then a mysterious woman comes to her with a choice: stay in the village and submit to her fate, or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her. They are called alaki--near-immortals with rare gifts. And they are the only ones who can stop the empire's greatest threat. Knowing the dangers that lie ahead yet yearning for acceptance, Deka decides to leave the only life she's ever known. But as she journeys to the capital to train for the biggest battle of her life, she will discover that the great walled city holds many surprises. Nothing and no one are quite what they seem to be--not even Deka herself. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Gilded Ones” by Namina Forna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628107747327-23WJPA3YLC9H70APQ0X7/71NDBeX9H9L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Heartstopper Vol. 1 - Alice Oseman Genres: Young adult fiction, Romance, Graphic novel Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, they come to understand the surprising and delightful ways in which love works. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Heartstopper Vol. 1” by Alice Oseman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628107892369-BS7BPCOMASWFADQ9H7R1/71BLQGMihEL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Heartstopper Vol. 2 - Alice Oseman Genres: Young adult fiction, Romance, Graphic novel Nick and Charlie are best friends, but one spontaneous kiss has changed everything. In the aftermath, Charlie thinks he's made a horrible mistake and ruined his friendship with Nick, but Nick is more confused than ever. Love works in surprising ways, and Nick comes to see the world from a new perspective. He discovers all sorts of things about his friends, his family . . . and himself. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Heartstopper Vol. 2” by Alice Oseman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628109251247-5V2BFYTO7HMYV4FUSPCQ/71aSWPmllCS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Heartstopper Vol. 3 - Alice Oseman Genres: Young adult, Romance, Graphic novel Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Nick has even found the courage to come out to his mom. But coming out isn't something that happens just once, and Nick and Charlie try to figure out when to tell their friends that they're dating. Not being out to their classmates gets even harder during a school trip to Paris. As Nick and Charlie's feelings get more serious, they'll need each other more than ever. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Heartstopper Vol. 3” by Alice Oseman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628109878670-VBLTHPZH8CT9RHVK3OME/54870214.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Incredible Doom Vol. 1 - Matthew Bogart Genres: Young adult fiction, Historical, Graphic novel Allison is drowning under the weight of her manipulative stage magician father. When he brings home the family's first computer, she escapes into a thrilling new world where she meetings Samir, a like-minded new online friend who has just agreed to run away from home with her. After moving to a new town and leaving all of his friends behind, Richard receives a mysterious note in his locker with instructions on how to connect to 'Evol BBS,' a dial-in bulletin board system, and meets a fierce punk named Tina who comes into his life and shakes his entire worldview loose. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Incredible Doom Vol. 1” by Matthew Bogart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628112677248-B2TET0QXQ67U14M3HDS4/81PfYi%2Bwr8L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Me and Mr. Cigar - Gibby Haynes Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy For the past five years seventeen-year-old Oscar Lester has never been without his dog, Mr. Cigar. The two have made a pretty good life for themselves in North Texas. Oscar spends most of his time organizing drug-fueled dance parties with his best friend, Lytle Taylor. And all three benefit from the care of Carla Marks, the genius behind the mysterious IBC corporation. Oscar's deceased CEO father "discovered" Carla, though Oscar's mother spends all her time with her new boyfriend. As for Oscar's older sister, Rachel . . . she fled Texas after Mr. Cigar bit off her left hand. Oscar was twelve. But he alone knows now as he knew then: his beloved pet is no menace. Mr. Cigar is a supernatural companion. After years of silence, Rachel—now a twenty-two-year-old artist living in New York—phones Oscar out of the blue. She's being held hostage and will only be released if she pays a debt she owes. At the same time, Carla Marks warns Oscar to get out of town. Nefarious forces are after his dog. Suddenly Oscar, Lytle, and Mr. Cigar find themselves on the run to New York, to save Rachel and to save themselves. And in the end, the truth of Rachel's circumstances ultimately uncovers the truth of Oscar's own . . . and the truth about Mr. Cigar. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Me and Mr. Cigar” by Gibby Haynes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628112809928-M4HJQF2XL0A553B09A3P/71J0SUrP8PS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Mister Impossible (Dreamer #2) - Maggie Stiefvater Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy The stakes have never been higher as it seems like either the end of the world or the end of dreamers approaches. Do the dreamers need the ley lines to save the world . . . or will their actions end up dooming the world? As Ronan, Hennessy, and Bryde try to make dreamers more powerful, the Moderators are closing in, sure that this power will bring about disaster. In the remarkable second book of The Dreamer Trilogy, Maggie Stiefvater pushes her characters to their limits - and shows what happens to them and others when they start to break. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Mister Impossible” by Maggie Stiefvater https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628529777287-KZ4YHDIRMH6F9QC0PZCQ/81sBsJ6JCFL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Project - Courtney Summers Genres: Young adult fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller Lo Denham is used to being on her own. After her parents died, Lo's sister, Bea, joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo in the care of their great aunt. Thanks to its extensive charitable work and community outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most in the Upstate New York region, but Lo knows there's more to the group than meets the eye. She's spent the last six years of her life trying--and failing--to prove it. "The Unity Project murdered my son." When a man shows up at the magazine Lo works for claiming The Unity Project killed his son, Lo sees the perfect opportunity to expose the group and reunite with Bea once and for all. When her investigation puts her in the direct path of its charismatic and mysterious leader, Lev Warren, he proposes a deal: if she can prove the worst of her suspicions about The Unity Project, she may expose them. If she can't, she must finally leave them alone. But as Lo delves deeper into The Project, the lives of its members, and spends more time with Lev, it upends everything she thought she knew about her sister, herself, cults, and the world around her--to the point she can no longer tell what's real or true. Lo never thought she could afford to believe in Lev Warren . . . but now she doesn't know if she can afford not to. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Project” by Courtney Summers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628529891855-YCPGFJKW5FSO2L0UHSIL/91hina16y2L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Rule of Wolves (King of Scars #2) - Leigh Bardugo Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy The wolves are circling. And Ravka's time is running out. The Demon King. As Fjerda's massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm—and even the monster within—to win this fight. But a dark threat looms that cannot be defeated by a young king's gift for the impossible. The Stormwitch. Zoya Nazyalensky has lost too much to war. She saw her mentor die and her worst enemy resurrected, and she refuses to bury another friend. Now duty demands she embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs. No matter the cost. The Queen of Mourning. Deep undercover, Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital. But her desire for revenge may cost her country its chance at freedom and Nina the chance to heal her grieving heart. King. General. Spy. Together they must find a way to forge a future in the darkness. Or watch a nation fall. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Rule of Wolves” by Leigh Bardugo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628531111613-7UZ72XPD9PV5TDS4RBWK/91vJF2z5frL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes #1) - Elizabeth Lim Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy Shiori, the only princess of Kiata, has a secret. Forbidden magic runs through her veins. Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal ceremony, Shiori loses control. At first, her mistake seems like a stroke of luck, forestalling the wedding she never wanted, but it also catches the attention of Raikama, her stepmother. Raikama has dark magic of her own, and she banishes the young princess, turning her brothers into cranes, and warning Shiori that she must speak of it to no one: for with every word that escapes her lips, one of her brothers will die. Peniless, voiceless, and alone, Shiori searches for her brothers, and, on her journey, uncovers a conspiracy to overtake the throne--a conspiracy more twisted and deceitful, more cunning and complex, than even Raikama's betrayal. Only Shiori can set the kingdom to rights, but to do so she must place her trust in the very boy she fought so hard not to marry. And she must embrace the magic she's been taught all her life to contain--no matter what it costs her. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Six Crimson Cranes” by Elizabeth Lim https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628531373976-AXTQD3EO9HMSC6BGGXIU/812pwWM8WEL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Summer Spirit - Elizabeth Holleville Genres: Young adult fiction, Paranormal, Graphic novel Summer for Louise means sand, surf, and... the supernatural. Louise spends every summer at her grandma's house with her older sister, cousins, and Rodin the dog. But, this year, her plans to relax and read comics on the beach are about to be turned upside down by a mischievous ghost, bored with being forced to haunt the same house. While the other girls are wrapped up in romance and teenage problems, Louise takes refuge with her new paranormal BFF, determined to escape the drama and just enjoy her summer break, something that is proving to be a lot harder than she anticipated. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Summer Spirit” by Elizabeth Holleville https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628531615834-UD7BKQUHORFMWG8TPA82/81dCkc8NhTS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - These Feathered Flames (These Feathered Flames #1) - Alexandra Overy Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy Twins Asya and Izaveta were separated at 10 after a ceremony determined Izaveta would be the next queen of Tourin, while Asya would be the next Firebird, a creature who demands a price in exchange for magic. Six years later, after the sudden death of their mother, they are reunited as the time has come to fulfill their predestined roles. Each maintains secrets as they struggle to get to know one another again. Izaveta has been taught everything is a game to be won, while Asya has been isolated with her strict aunt teaching her how to be the feared Firebird. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “These Feathered Flames” by Alexandra Overy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627508876273-CGGS6ZMCS74BBG6YH9G7/81iY8cqoGeL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Re-Entry (Astronaut Academy #2) - Dave Roman Genres: Junior fiction, Sci-fi, Graphic novel It's a new semester at Astronaut Academy, and everyone is excited for the Fireball Championship--especially Hakata's cranky roommate, Tak Offsky. But lurking in the shadows is a shapeshifting, heart-stealing monster, and it might just knock the Fireball team out of the competition! Can Hakata and Tak put aside their differences, lead the team to victory, and save the lives of their classmates? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Re-Entry” by Dave Roman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627509509517-C9Z7HEXNSLP9CTXI6E4C/9178rlv6uHL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Splashdown (Astronaut Academy #3) - Dave Roman Genres: Junior fiction, Sci-fi, Graphic novel It's summer vacation for the students of Astronaut Academy, and Maribelle Mellonbelly is throwing the best party ever on Beach Planet? Yes! But tensions rise when Hakata Soy's archrival, Rick Raven, arrives. And soon the whole planet is heating up--with a giant volcano threatening to blow its top! Unless they can work together to save the planet, the students of Astronaut Academy will be toast. But can they put aside their differences in time to turn the tide? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Splashdown” by Dave Roman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628098625886-XIZ41NZIS1TRW3GMO13T/916NV6wK0vL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Zero Gravity (Astronaut Academy #1) - Dave Roman Genres: Junior fiction, Sci-fi, Graphic novel This former space hero is doing his best to keep his head down at Astronaut Academy. Things aren’t going so great, though. The most popular girl in school has it in for him. His best friend won’t return his calls. And his new roommate is a complete jock who only cares about Fireball. Hakata just wants to make a fresh start. But how will he find time to study Anti-Gravity Gymnastics and Tactical Randomness when he’s got a robot doppelganger on its way to kill him? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Zero Gravity” by Dave Roman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628098769133-5UQ3QWJX3XAP7EC2BIR5/71T9KQsUUGS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - In Your Face! (Big Nate #24) - Lincoln Pierce Genres: Junior fiction, Comedy, Graphic novel When you're a sixth-grade dynamo like Nate Wright, life comes at you fast. Whether it's a soccer ball to the gut or another teacher tirade, surprises lurk around every corner. In the latest Big Nate collection, Nate's friends issue the ultimate insult: they point out all the ways he resembles his arch-nemesis, Gina. Nate also scores a new job as an intern at Klassic Komix, and his master plan to carpet-bomb the school with Valentine's Day cards goes seriously sideways. And when Nate gets dragged into a cringe-worthy party for the dreaded Mrs. Godfrey, what could possibly go wrong? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “In Your Face!” by Lincoln Pierce https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628100053111-UJ1IQ0DLJU7ZCME2FN7T/71ubcz43%2BbL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Delicates - Brenna Thummler Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy, Graphic novel Marjorie Glatt's life hasn't been the same ever since she discovered a group of ghosts hiding in her family's laundromat. Wendell, who died young and now must wander Earth as a ghost with nothing more than a sheet for a body, soon became one of Marjorie's only friends. But when Marjorie finally gets accepted by the popular kids at school, she begins to worry that if anyone learns about her secret ghost friends, she'll be labeled as "a freak who sees dead people." With Marjorie's insistence on keeping Wendell's ghost identity a secret from her new friends, Wendell begins to feel even more invisible than he already is. Eliza Duncan feels invisible too. She's an avid photographer, and her zealous interest in finding and photographing ghosts to get her labeled as "different" by all the other kids in school. Constantly feeling on the outside, Eliza begins to feel like a ghost herself. Marjorie must soon come to terms with the price she pays to be accepted by the popular kids. Is it worth losing her best friend, Wendell? Is she partially to blame for the bullying Eliza endures? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Delicates” by Brenna Thummler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628100448708-ORC1ST40RWL3RHA87R03/71y5MiSV8ES.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Dragon Path - Ethan Young Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy, Graphic novel The Wong Clan must leave their ruined homeland for a better life in the mythical Old Land, but to get there they must follow the dragon path, where their sworn enemies, the Dragon Tribe, rule. During a surprise attack, Prince Sing is separated from his clan. With the help of Ming, a powerful mystic from the Old Land, and Midnight, a monstrous warrior beast, Prince Sing must do all he can to save both his family and the Dragon Tribe from mutual destruction. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Dragon Path” by Ethan Young https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628100653829-NYNI26RQRCJUGT1BBOT2/71eXM1P74dS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Fearless - Kenny Porter Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Kara hoped to spend the summer re-enacting episodes of her favorite TV show, Shinpi Rider, with her best friend Alice. But when Alice moves to a new home two towns over, everything changes. Alice mysteriously stops answering Kara's phone calls and letters. In order to reignite their friendship, Kara hatches a brave plan to bike over to Alice's new school all on her own. After all, "A rider never leaves a friend behind!" Kara's bravery on the journey proves how strong she is but when Kara finally finds Alice, her bravado fades: Alice has found new friends and has left Kara behind. Can Kara be fearless when she feels so alone? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Fearless” by Kenny Porter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628112344875-SS9XEB25EMVXK2NHVRN3/913kcTSGYAL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Kitty Sweet Tooth - Abby Denson Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel There's just one thing Kitty Sweet Tooth loves more than going to movies, and that's eating delicious desserts. Now that Pop-Pop's movie theater has fallen on hard times, Kitty decides that only dessert can keep it from closing its doors. With a coat of paint, a tasty new menu, and a lot of hard work, Kitty and her friends transform this ramshackle theater into the Taste-O-Rama, a combination movie house restaurant. At the Taste-O-Rama, special film screenings are paired with custom-made dishes. But when you have a mad scientist and a witch working in the kitchen, recipes can go awry! On opening night, the theater is flooded with magical jelly that grows out of control. How can Kitty Sweet Tooth and her friends save the day? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Kitty Sweet Tooth” by Abby Denson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628112510091-9P2YZUSQMLBKCZ34KWRZ/81hIJc3v84L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Horticultural Horizons (Lumberjanes #18) - Shannon Watters Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy, Graphic novel When April, Jo, Mal, Molly, and Ripley get in trouble with Rosie, the mysterious director of Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types, they figure the punishment is gonna be a walk in the park--er, woods, but no one's ready for the surprises that await! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Horticultural Horizons” by Shannon Watters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628113621515-0FNM1D4OQ8AS4HAW61J7/71rF7yTOj%2BL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Flying Lessons (Owly #3) - Andy Runton Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Owly and Wormy love making new friends, and when they spot an unfamiliar animal flying through the trees, they can't wait to meet her! Unfortunately, Shadow the flying squirrel doesn't want to be friends with Owly because she's afraid of him. Wormy tries to convince Shadow that she can trust Owly, but she's still scared... When Wormy gets stuck high up in a tree, Owly's own fear of flying keeps him grounded. Can Owly overcome his fears? And will Shadow be able to do the same? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Flying Lessons” by Andy Runton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628113870905-ERWWOB2NKVMU6YHF5II7/81FYD-FuSbS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Pawcasso - Remy Lai Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Every Saturday, Pawcasso trots into town with a basket, a shopping list, and cash in paw to buy groceries for his family. One day, he passes eleven-year-old Jo, peering out the window of her house, bored and lonely. Astonished by the sight of an adorable basket-toting dog on his own, Jo follows Pawcasso, and when she's seen alongside him by a group of kids from her school, they mistake her for Pawcasso's owner. Excited to make new friends, Jo reluctantly hides the truth and agrees to let "her" dog model for an art class the kids attend. What could go wrong? But what starts as a Chihuahua-sized lie quickly grows Great Dane-sized when animal control receives complaints about a dog roaming the streets off-leash. With Pawcasso's freedom at stake, is Jo willing to spill the truth and risk her new friendships? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Pawcasso” by Remy Lai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628529132066-RI2ZO1KCHXZNQ4S38DXP/810RULgPeJL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Postman from Space (Postman from Space #1) - Guillaume Perreault Genres: Junior fiction, Sci-fi, Graphic novel Bob is a dedicated and deadpan mail carrier who remains unfazed when assigned a new postal route that takes his space ship to surprising planets. One is shaped like a bone and full of cosmic dogs who can't wait to get a tasty bite out of a postman. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Postman from Space” by Guillaume Perreault https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628529237225-YYKEOQSZEBECPTO7W6YA/71j3EsW3gwL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Biker Bandits (Postman from Space #2) - Guillaume Perreault Genres: Junior fiction, Sci-fi, Graphic novel Bob, our postman from space, has certainly gained a lot of confidence since we last met him. He's been named Employee of the Month! But this time around, the big unknown isn't the problem. . . The problem is, he has a partner for the first time. And Bob likes to work alone. Still, what could possibly go wrong? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Biker Bandits” by Guillaume Perreault https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628530624222-BKMMAO7GU486KJQ9RP51/81yJpdnY45L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - RWBY Vol. 1 - Bunta Kinami Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy, Graphic novel Monsters known as the Grimm are wreaking havoc on the world of Remnant. Ruby Rose seeks to become a Huntress, someone who eliminates the Grimm and protects the land. She enrolls at Beacon Academy, eager for the tests and combat challenges to come. Ruby knows she has the talent to achieve her goal, but is she ready to clash with Weiss Schnee, a fellow student and the haughty scion of the Schnee Dust Company? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “RWBY Vol. 1” by Bunta Kinami https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628530851443-TXJTIHJG8MOVUSHNWX0N/815-Ua4CFRL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - RWBY Vol. 2 - Bunta Kinami Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy, Graphic novel Ruby's first year at Beacon Academy continues! Team RWBY has officially formed, and Ruby Rose is their leader. While Roman Torchwick still lurks in the shadows, new forces begin to move against Beacon Academy. Who are the White Fang, and what does Blake know about them? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “RWBY Vol. 2” by Bunta Kinami https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628530996969-62EDX29NEX7P2CIVGJQZ/71RlJ1wj2qS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Shark Summer - Ira Marcks Genres: Junior fiction, Mystery, Graphic novel When a Hollywood film crew arrives on Martha's Vineyard with a mechanical shark and a youth film contest boasting a huge cash prize, disgraced pitcher Gayle "Blue Streak" Briar sees a chance to turn a bad season into the best summer ever. After recruiting aspiring cinematographer Elijah Jones and moody director Maddie Grey, Gayle and her crew set out to uncover the truth of the island's own phantom shark and win the prize money. But these unlikely friends are about to discover what happens when you turn your camera toward the bad things lurking below the surface. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Shark Summer” by Ira Marcks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628531234566-RR7D5LYRXPARNI3WPG3K/81txi7jpeoL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - The Sprite and the Gardener - Rii Abrego & Joe Whitt Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy, Graphic novel Long, long ago, sprites were the caretakers of gardens. Every flower was grown by their hand. But when humans appeared and began growing their own gardens, the sprites' magical talents soon became a thing of the past. When Wisteria, an ambitious, kind-hearted sprite, starts to ask questions about the way things used to be, she'll begin to unearth her long-lost talent of gardening. But her newly honed skills might not be the welcome surprise she intends them to be. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Sprite and the Gardener” by Rii Abrego & Joe Whitt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628532458095-P6A231AB1SKWBENLPGSF/81T7Ilm1y8L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Truly Tyler (Emmie & Friends #5) - Terri Libenson Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Cliques. Crushes. Comics. Middle school. Ever since Tyler started getting into art and hanging out with Emmie, his friends and teammates have been giving him a hard time. He wonders why can't he nerd out on drawing and play ball? Emmie is psyched that she gets to work on a comics project with her crush, Tyler. But she gets the feeling that his friends don't think she's cool enough. Maybe it's time for a total reinvention... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Truly Tyler” by Terri Libenson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1628532685219-KCC1EVUB7WS48WXPH6IM/81G9UydnKlL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 20, 2021 - Turtle in Paradise - Jennifer L Holm Genres: Junior fiction, Historical, Graphic novel Life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple. She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935 and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle's mama gets a job housekeeping for a lady who doesn't like kids, Turtle says goodbye without a tear and heads off to Key West, Florida, to live with relatives she's never met. Florida's like nothing Turtle's ever seen before though. It's hot and strange, full of ragtag boy cousins, family secrets, scams, and even buried pirate treasure! Before she knows what's happened, Turtle finds herself coming out of the shell she's spent her life building, and as she does, her world opens up in the most unexpected ways. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Turtle in Paradise” by Jennifer L Holm https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-july-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1629320081886-X4YYJSTZX8F19T9M5SPO/treasure-island-robert-louis-stevenson.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2021 - GABBIE: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson GENRES: Young Adult, Adventure Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is a favourite of mine. It is one of those books I read at least once a year. The story follows Jim Hawkins, after a pirate takes up a room at his parents' inn, Jim finds himself with a map to a famous pirate's buried treasure. With the help of some friends and some swashbuckling pirates, Jim disembarks on the seafaring adventure of a life time. This story is filled with action, friendship, betrayal, and good old fashioned adventure. I highly recommend it as a must-read classic, but be warned, once you begin it is nearly impossible to put down. THE SYNOPSIS: From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil. It is the villainy of that most ambiguous rogue Long John Silver that sets the tempo of this tale of treachery, greed, and daring. AVAILABILITY: The Library and the Libby App (eBook and audiobook) CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1629322263679-91V46DXG1JBDML7KGJIU/in-the-realm-of-hungry-ghosts-gabor-mate.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2021 - LISA G.: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate GENRES: Nonfiction, Self-Help WHY SHE CHOSE IT: This book will expand your thinking on addictions and trauma as their source. Dr. Mate works in East Vancouver's most challenging neighborhood for addiction, homelessness, as well as other social issues. This book will open your eyes to how the people you pass on the street ended up there. THE SYNOPSIS: He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treating the drug addicts of Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside with sympathy in his heart and legislative reform in mind can't be easy. But Maté never judges. His book is a powerful call-to-arms, both for the decriminalization of drugs and for a more sympathetic and informed view of addiction. As Maté observes, "Those whom we dismiss as 'junkies' are not creatures from a different world, only men and women mired at the extreme end of a continuum on which, here or there, all of us might well locate ourselves." In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts begins by introducing us to many of Dr. Maté's most dire patients who steal, cheat, sell sex, and otherwise harm themselves for their next hit. Maté looks to the root causes of addiction, applying a clinical and psychological view to the physical manifestation and offering some enlightening answers for why people inflict such catastrophe on themselves. Finally, he takes aim at the hugely ineffectual, largely U.S.-led War on Drugs (and its worldwide followers), challenging the wisdom of fighting drugs instead of aiding the addicts, and showing how controversial measures such as safe injection sites are measurably more successful at reducing drug-related crime and the spread of disease than anything most major governments have going. AVAILABILITY: The Libby App (eBook and audiobook) CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts” by Gabor Mate: FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1629323665432-KDL4VJMG8ZJN9U1X8NPR/the-john-lennon-letters-john-lennon.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2021 - ABBEY: The John Lennon Letters by John Lennon GENRE: Biography WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I love knowing more about celebrities lives outside of what made they’re famous for. This book made me feel like someone who personally knew John Lennon despite him having died so many years before I was even born. It was really cool being able to actually see the handwritten letters and all the art that went with them. THE SYNOPSIS: John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of "Help!", "Come Together", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Imagine", and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow unguarded. Now, gathered for the first time in book form, are his letters to family, friends, strangers, and lovers from every point in his life. Funny, informative, wise, poetic, and sometimes heartbreaking, his letters illuminate a never-before-seen intimate side of the private genius. This groundbreaking collection of almost 300 letters and postcards has been edited and annotated by Hunter Davies, whose authorized biography The Beatles (1968) was published to great acclaim. With unparalleled knowledge of Lennon and his contemporaries, Davies reads between the lines of the artist's words, contextualizing them in Lennon's life and using them to reveal the man himself. AVAILABILITY: Library CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The John Lennon Letters” by John Lennon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1629317407302-GZFH6TJK80HNJW8V3Y1V/master-of-one-jaida-jones.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2021 - RACHEL: Master of One by Jaida Jones & Dani Bennett GENRES: Young Adult, Fantasy WHY THEY CHOSE IT: I haven’t picked up a YA novel in quite some time, but boy, am I ever glad I chose this one. Master of One made me laugh out loud, made me cry, and on several occasions made me want to scream incoherently into a pillow. The entire cast of characters is so fun and likeable that I couldn’t help but get hopelessly attached to them immediately, and now that I devoured the book in record time, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a sequel. SYNOPSIS: Rags the thief has never met a pocket he couldn’t pick, but when he’s captured by a sorcerer with world-ending plans, he realizes even he is in over his head. Forced to use his finely honed skills to nab pieces of an ancient fae relic, Rags is stunned to discover that those “relics” just happen to be people: A distractingly handsome Fae prince, A too-honorable Queensguard deserter, A scrappy daughter of a disgraced noble family, A deceptively sweet-natured prince, A bona fide member of the Resistance, And him. Rags. They may all be captives in the sorcerer’s terrible scheme, but that won’t stop them from fighting back. And, sure, six unexpected allies against one wicked enemy doesn’t make for generous odds, but lucky for him, Rags isn’t generous—he’s smart. And he has a plan that just might get them out of this alive. AVAILABILITY: Library CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Master of One” by Jaida Jones & Dani Bennett FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1629318666806-28DPVPYK7YZVLGXHPASN/the-boy-on-the-bridge-mike-carey.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2021 - ELIZABETH: The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey GENRES: Science Fiction, Dystopian Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I am, once again, recommending an end-of-the-world book. I loved M.C. Carey’s novel, “The Girl with all the Gifts” and with the sequel set in the same world, I had to borrow it and start listening. I wouldn’t have wanted to start “The Boy on the Bridge” without first reading “The Girl with all the Gifts” and since I did (and I don’t want to give away spoilers if you haven’t), when you start reading the sequel, you already know what’s going on in the world Carey has created. I don’t think it’s as good as the first book in the series, but it definitely held my interest for the entire 13 hours of the audiobook. AVAILABILITY: Libby (eBook and audiobook) CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Boy on the Bridge” by M.R. Carey: FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1629393728593-UOJM5IZOT9SZHKZCT7KX/falling-tj-newman.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2021 - LISA S.: Falling by T.J. Newman GENRE: Thriller, Suspense WHY SHE CHOSE IT: When the first line of a book is “When the shoe dropped into her lap, the foot was still in it.", you know it’s gonna be good. Falling didn’t disappoint, the first line reeled me in and the book didn’t let go. I read it in one sitting because I couldn’t put it down. THE SYNOPSIS: You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight. AVAILABILITY: Library CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Falling” by T.J. Newman FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-june-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627587617625-F62URP3LTL1ZPSA1X3QZ/blue-ticket-sophie-mackintosh-audiobook.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2021 - ELIZABETH: Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh GENRE: Dystopian Fiction, Science Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I’m a huge fan of the dystopian genre so chose this book because it has been likened to Orwell’s “1984” and Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Testaments”. At eight hours long on Libby, it was a very good listen and if you like end-of-the-world stories, this might be a story you enjoy. THE SYNOPSIS: Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. A blue ticket grants you a career and freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life you're given is the wrong one? When Calla, a blue ticket woman, begins to question her fate, she must go on the run. But her survival will be dependent on the very qualities the lottery has taught her to question in herself and on the other women the system has pitted against her. Pregnant and desperate, Calla must contend with whether or not the lottery knows her better than she knows herself and what that might mean for her child. AVAILABILITY: The Libby app (audiobook) CLICK TO RESERVE “Blue Ticket” by Sophie Mackintosh ON THE LIBBY APP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627589411679-A8XPWHLCQKM4ZL4L4YST/great-expectations-charles-dickens.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2021 - GABBIE: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens GENRE: Coming-of-Age, Classic Literature WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I chose this book because it is a book that I recently read. It was a beautiful story about a boy named Pip and the expectations he faces as he grows up. I was surprised by how easily I was sucked into the story and the few but great plot twists kept me entranced. The characters are great, and you will find yourself attached to them quickly. Great Expectations was a great read and I would, without a doubt, read it again. THE SYNOPSIS: An orphan destined for a life of misery and poverty, Pip does not have much in the way of expectations. Only when he begins to visit a rich old woman, Miss Havisham, does he begin to hope for better. When Pip discovers that he has inherited a large sum of money on the condition that he move to London to live the life of a gentleman, Pip takes his chance to leave behind the world he knows and embark upon a new adventure. AVAILABILITY: Library and the Libby app (eBook and audiobook) CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627588037196-X1S1Q2OR52B7U0I2MAI5/oryx-and-crake-margaret-atwood-book.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2021 - RACHEL: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood GENRE: Science Fiction, Dystopian Fiction WHY THEY CHOSE IT: I’ve always been a fan of Margaret Atwood ever since I came across one of her poems in high school, but this is the first time I’ve actually read one of her novels. Due to it’s disjointed narrative, Oryx and Crake is a little difficult to grasp at first, but Snowman’s clear—even if not exactly likeable—voice pulls you in and keeps you searching for answers in this strange, unfamiliar world that Atwood has created. THE SYNOPSIS: Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining. AVAILABILITY: The Library and the Libby app (audiobook and eBook) CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Oryx and Crake” by Margaret Atwood: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627590240393-CEY2WLMQCVDQE2X2IPNN/seven-fallen-feathers-tanya-talaga.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2021 - LISA G.: Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga GENRE: Biography WHY SHE CHOSE IT: A timely book to read about seven residential school victims in Thunder Bay, ON who lost their lives over the course of 11 years to various circumstances while hundreds of kilometres away from homes and families. THE SYNOPSIS: In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were applied. More than a quarter of a century later, from 2000 to 2011, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave home and live in a foreign and unwelcoming city. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Jordan Wabasse, a gentle boy and star hockey player, disappeared into the minus twenty degrees Celsius night. The body of celebrated artist Norval Morrisseau’s grandson, Kyle, was pulled from a river, as was Curran Strang’s. Robyn Harper died in her boarding-house hallway and Paul Panacheese inexplicably collapsed on his kitchen floor. Reggie Bushie’s death finally prompted an inquest, seven years after the discovery of Jethro Anderson, the first boy whose body was found in the water. AVAILABILITY: Library and the Libby app (eBook and audiobook) CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Seven Fallen Feathers” by Tanya Talaga: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1627599788666-C0OUH7HQDAS86MHZYSKS/the-last-thing-to-burn-will-dean.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2021 - LISA S.: The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean GENRE: Thriller, Mystery WHY SHE CHOSE IT: It caught my attention on Instagram, and most of my reader friends raved about it. This one caught me from the beginning (I read all 256 pages in one sitting) and it kept my attention through the very last page. Reminiscent of Room by Emma Donoghue, this one’s a great psychological thriller for reading on a rainy summer afternoon. THE SYNOPSIS: On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago. When she discovers she is pregnant, she resolves to protect her child no matter the cost, and starts to meticulously plan her escape. But when another woman is brought into the fold on the farm, her plans go awry. Can she save herself, her child, and this innocent woman at the same time? Or is she doomed to spend the remainder of her life captive on this farm? AVAILABILITY: Library CLICK TO RESERVE “The Last Thing to Burn” by Will Dean FROM THE LIBRARY https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-may-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1622930701534-14DG9PLA5YWFCRAB8QRB/rosemary-kate-clifford-larson.jpeg BLOG - Staff Picks: May 2021 - LISA G.: Rosemary by Kate Clifford Larson GENRE: Nonfiction, Biography WHY SHE CHOSE IT: Little was known about Rosemary Kennedy's true life until after she was gone, and this is a great addition to any Kennedy family biography reader. It is a thorough account of her life from birth to death, and seems meticulously researched by the author. THE SYNOPSIS: They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted away made all the difference. Joe and Rose Kennedy’s strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and traveled the world with her high-spirited sisters. And yet, Rosemary was intellectually disabled — a secret fiercely guarded by her powerful and glamorous family. Major new sources — Rose Kennedy’s diaries and correspondence, school and doctors' letters, and exclusive family interviews — bring Rosemary alive as a girl adored but left far behind by her competitive siblings. Kate Larson reveals both the sensitive care Rose and Joe gave to Rosemary and then — as the family’s standing reached an apex — the often desperate and duplicitous arrangements the Kennedys made to keep her away from home as she became increasingly intractable in her early twenties. Finally, Larson illuminates Joe’s decision to have Rosemary lobotomized at age twenty-three, and the family's complicity in keeping the secret. Rosemary delivers a profoundly moving coda: JFK visited Rosemary for the first time while campaigning in the Midwest; she had been living isolated in a Wisconsin institution for nearly twenty years. Only then did the siblings understand what had happened to Rosemary and bring her home for loving family visits. It was a reckoning that inspired them to direct attention to the plight of the disabled, transforming the lives of millions. AVAILABILITY: The Libby App (audiobook) CLICK TO RESERVE “Rosemary” by Kate Clifford Larson ON THE LIBBY APP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1622931629204-U9CA9L7LTILS3BT97CLD/seconds-bryan-lee-o%27malley.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: May 2021 - RACHEL: Seconds by Brian Lee O’Malley GENRE: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Magical realism WHY SHE CHOSE IT: Capping out at 321 pages (for a graphic novel, that’s a LOT), Seconds spins a unique tale full of humour, heart, and just a dash of horror. As someone who has read O’Malley’s previous works, I was excited to see his spin on a story for a more mature audience, and this book really hit all the checkboxes for me. SYNOPSIS: Katie's got it pretty good. She's a talented young chef, she runs a successful restaurant, and she has big plans to open an even better one. Then, all at once, progress on the new location bogs down, her charming ex-boyfriend pops up, her fling with another chef goes sour, and her best waitress gets badly hurt. And just like that, Katie's life goes from pretty good to not so much. What she needs is a second chance. Everybody deserves one, after all--but they don't come easy. Luckily for Katie, a mysterious girl appears in the middle of the night with simple instructions for a do-it-yourself do-over: 1. Write your mistake 2. Ingest one mushroom 3. Go to sleep 4. Wake anew. And just like that, all the bad stuff never happened, and Katie is given another chance to get things right. She's also got a dresser drawer full of magical mushrooms--and an irresistible urge to make her life not just good, but perfect. Too bad it's against the rules. But Katie doesn't care about the rules--and she's about to discover the unintended consequences of the best intentions. AVAILABILITY: Library CLICK TO RESERVE “Seconds” by Brian Lee O’Malley FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1622932083305-Z187H8C4A74FVEHQRNML/the-last-day-andrew-hunter-murray.jpeg BLOG - Staff Picks: May 2021 - ELIZABETH: The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray GENRE: Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopian WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I love apocalyptical and dystopian novels and this book nicely fits the bill. The world has stopped turning and half the world is in perpetual darkness while the rest of humanity is suffering under the boiling hot sun or in constant twilight. And when you love end-of-the-world stories, what's not to love with a premise like this? THE SYNOPSIS: The world has stopped turning. The hunt has just begun. It is 2059, and the world has crashed. Forty years ago, a solar catastrophe began to slow the planet's rotation to a stop. Now one half of the globe is permanently sunlit, the other half trapped in an endless night. The United States has colonized the southern half of Great Britain--lucky enough to find itself in the narrow habitable region left between frozen darkness and scorching sunlight--where both nations have managed to survive the ensuing chaos by isolating themselves from the rest of the world. Ellen Hopper is a scientist living on a frostbitten rig in the cold Atlantic. She wants nothing more to do with her country after its slide into casual violence and brutal authoritarianism. Yet when two government officials arrive, demanding she return to London to see her dying college mentor, she accepts--and begins to unravel a secret that threatens not only the nation's fragile balance, but the future of the whole human race. AVAILABILITY: The Libby App (audiobook) CLICK TO RESERVE “The Last Day” by Andrew Hunter Murray ON THE LIBBY APP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1622932605086-1KUFCA3NOLKHVGXX1MNS/the-tale-of-despereaux-kate-dicamillo.jpeg BLOG - Staff Picks: May 2021 - GABBIE: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo GENRE: Fiction, Fairy Tale, Fantasy Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I chose the Tale of Despereaux as my staff pick because it is a book that I recently read. It is a Junior Fiction book, but even as an adult I found this tale of adventure, chivalry, and hope so much fun. It is a beautiful little story which can easily be enjoyed by someone of any age. THE SYNOPSIS: Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each other's lives. What happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out. AVAILABILITY: Library and the Libby App (eBook and audiobook) CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Tale of Despereaux” by Kate Dicamillo: FROM THE LIBRARY FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1622933259870-VR4LNK6SP85RZ1QXT0Z1/gord-downie-steve-newton.jpeg BLOG - Staff Picks: May 2021 - ABBEY: Gord Downie by Steve Newton GENRE: Nonfiction, Biography WHY SHE CHOSE IT: The Tragically Hip’s new album, Saskadelphia, just came out. I think a lot of Hip fans (including myself) are probably thinking more about Gord Downie lately, and wanting to learn more about the behind-the-scenes stuff. I am halfway through and really enjoying it so far. THE SYNOPSIS: This is the story of Gord Downie’s creative journey as lead singer and lyricist for venerable rock band the Tragically Hip, covering his solo career, his philanthropic work, and beyond, leading up to the much-loved musician’s untimely death from brain cancer at the age of 53 in October 2017. In this unofficial retrospective, rock journalist Steve Newton, a longtime Hip fan, charts the quintet’s rise to fame as “a group of buddies from Kingston who started out playing Stones covers in a basement before finding their own unique and powerful voice, one conveyed by a rock poet whose art would capture the imagination of an entire country.” During the Hip’s meteoric rise, Newton interviewed Downie five times for the Georgia Straight, gaining keen insight into how the Kingston rocker regarded his work and the artistic motivations behind it. Newton blends Downie’s candid commentary with impressions drawn from seeing the band live, poring over classic Hip albums, and studying their songs, many of which are inspired by references to Canadian locations, people, and events. Containing more than 175 colour photographs and reproductions of rare memorabilia, this is the first fully illustrated, comprehensive book paying tribute to Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip–an essential keepsake for every true fan. AVAILABILITY: Library CLICK TO RESERVE “Gord Downie” by Steve Newton FROM THE LIBRARY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623099560501-PEKL5R8MJXEBD256WTSS/five-little-indians-michelle-good.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: May 2021 - LISA S.: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good GENRE: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: It’s been sitting on my shelf for awhile, and I picked it up because June is National Indigenous History Month. The story is heartbreaking, and it’s one I think everyone can benefit from reading. This part of our history isn’t talked about enough. THE SYNOPSIS: Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn’t want them. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission. Fuelled by rage and furious with God, Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Maisie internalizes her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. Famous for his daring escapes from the school, Kenny can’t stop running and moves restlessly from job to job—through fishing grounds, orchards and logging camps—trying to outrun his memories and his addiction. Lucy finds peace in motherhood and nurtures a secret compulsive disorder as she waits for Kenny to return to the life they once hoped to share together. After almost beating one of his tormentors to death, Howie serves time in prison, then tries once again to re-enter society and begin life anew. AVAILABILITY: The Libby App (eBook and audiobook) CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Five Little Indians” by Michelle Good: FROM THE LIBBY APP (eBook) FROM THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-june-7-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623172398489-UPQJ2FIXIOT56E75VOH4/718905V7TFL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - All the Children are Home - Patry Francis Genres: Fiction, Historical When Dahlia decided to become a foster mother, she had a few caveats: no howling newborns, no delinquents, and above all, no girls. A harrowing incident years before left her a virtual prisoner in her own home, forever wary of the heartbreak and limitation of a girl's life. Eleven years after they began fostering, the Moscatellis are raising three children as their own and Dahlia and Louie consider their family complete, but when the social worker begs them to take a young girl who has been horrifically abused and neglected, they can't say no. Six-year-old Agnes Juniper arrives with no knowledge of her Native American heritage or herself beyond a box of trinkets given to her by her mother and dreamlike memories of her sister. Before long, this stranger in their midst has strengthened the bond in this unusual family, showing them how to contend with outside forces that want to tear them apart. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “All the Children are Home” by Patry Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623172571859-HNAIFBTK0D6696V7O24N/81LYWveD4qL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Anatomy of Desire - L R Dorn Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Claire Griffith seems to have it all, a thriving career, a gorgeous, successful boyfriend, a glamorous circle of friends. She always knew she was destined for more than the life her deeply conservative parents preached to her. Arriving in Los Angeles as a flat broke teenager, she has risen to become a popular fitness coach and social media influencer. Having rebranded herself as Cleo Ray, she stands on the threshold of achieving her most cherished dreams. One summer day, Cleo and a young woman named Beck Alden set off in a canoe on a quiet, picture-perfect mountain lake. An hour later, Beck is found dead in the water, her face cut and bruised, and Cleo is missing. Authorities suspect foul play and news about Cleo’s involvement goes viral. Who was Beck and what was the nature of her and Cleo’s relationship? Was Beck an infatuated follower who took things too far? If Cleo is innocent, why did she run? Was it an accident? Or was it murder? As evidence of Cleo’s secret life surfaces, the world begins to see just how hard she strived to get to the top— and how fast and far the fall is from celebrity to infamy. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Anatomy of Desire” by L R Dorn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623172748285-K1TKF1YDDUS2THX900ND/81YWyMml2yL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Arctic Storm Rising (Nick Flynn #1) - Dale Brown Genres: Fiction, Thriller After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska’s Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice, but Flynn’s not the type to fade quietly into obscurity... As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals for a possible first strike, using Russia’s new long-range stealth cruise missiles? Or is some other motive driving the Kremlin to take ever-increasing risks along the hostile Arctic frontier separating two of the world’s great powers? When an American F-22 collides with one of the Russian interlopers, things go south fast—in seconds, missiles are fired. There are no survivors. Despite horrific weather, Flynn and his security team are ordered to parachute into the area in a desperate bid to reach the crash sites ahead of the Russians. It’s now obvious that the Pentagon and CIA are withholding vital information, but Flynn and his men have no choice but to make the dangerous jump. Soon they’re caught in a deadly game of hide-and-seek with Spetsnaz commandos operating covertly on American soil. It seems that the F-22s and their Russian counterparts aren’t the first aircraft to have gone missing in these desolate mountains. The Kremlin is hunting for the first prototype of its new stealth bomber—which vanished on what was supposed to be a test flight…while loaded with nuclear-armed stealth cruise missiles. As Russia and the U.S. square off on the brink of all-out-war, it’s up to Nick to find the missing bomber…and prevent a potential nuclear holocaust. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Arctic Storm Rising” by Dale Brown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623172877420-URZGU9WDKCCFH1A1A1MO/81su3S92-mL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen #1) - Mia P. Manansala Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a confrontation with Lila, her life quickly swerves from a Nora Ephron romp to an Agatha Christie case. With the cops treating her like she's the one and only suspect, and the shady landlord looking to finally kick the Macapagal family out and resell the storefront, Lila's left with no choice but to conduct her own investigation. Armed with the nosy auntie network, her barista best bud, and her trusted Dachshund, Longanisa, Lila takes on this tasty, twisted case and soon finds her own neck on the chopping block... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Arsenic and Adobo” by Mia P Manansala https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623173016935-1X4MKU3OQ6DNN1D7A4NQ/611Bt9rmrdL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Basil’s War - Stephen Hunter Genres: Fiction, Historical, Thriller Basil St. Florian is an accomplished agent in the British Army, tasked with dozens of dangerous missions for crown and country across the globe. But his current mission, going undercover in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, might be his toughest assignment yet. He will be searching for an ecclesiastic manuscript that doesn't officially exist, one that genius professor Alan Turing believes may hold the key to a code that could prevent the death of millions and possibly even end the war. St. Florian isn't the classic British special agent with a stiff upper lip--he is a swashbuckling, whisky-drinking cynic and thrill-seeker who resents having to leave Vivien Leigh's bed to set out on his crucial mission. Despite these proclivities, though, Basil's Army superiors know he's the best man for the job, carrying out his espionage with enough charm and quick wit to make any of his subjects lower their guards. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Basil’s War” by Stephen Hunter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623173161697-69XWFYN03M0M1Y779ES7/91cfOcW5jVL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Betrayals - Bridget Collins Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Mystery At Montverre, an ancient and elite academy hidden high in the mountains, society’s best and brightest are trained for excellence in the grand jeu—the great game—an arcane and mysterious competition that combines music, art, math, poetry, and philosophy. Léo Martin once excelled at Monteverre, but lost his passion for scholarly pursuits after a violent tragedy. He turned to politics instead, and became a rising star in the ruling party, until a small act of conscience cost him his career. Now, he has been exiled back to Monteverre, his fate uncertain. But this rarified world of learning he once loved is not the same place Léo remembers. Once the exclusive bastion of men, Montverre is now run by a woman: Claire Dryden, also known as Magister Ludi, the head of the grand game. At first, Léo feels an odd attraction to the Magister—a mysterious, eerily familiar connection—though he’s sure they’ve never met before. As the legendary Midsummer Game approaches—the climax of the academy’s year—long-buried secrets rise to the surface and centuries-old traditions are shockingly overturned. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Betrayal” by Bridget Collins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623432583941-J0489T7AFZHT4BDODCTT/81h1QGSiaoL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Bookshop of Second Chances - Jackie Fraser Genres: Fiction, Romance Thea Mottram is having a bad month. Her husband of nearly twenty years has just left her for one of her friends, and she is let go from her office job--on Valentine's Day, of all days. Bewildered and completely lost, Thea doesn't know what to do. But when she learns that a distant great uncle in Scotland has passed away, leaving her his home and a hefty antique book collection, she decides to leave Sussex for a few weeks. Escaping to a small coastal town where no one knows her seems to be exactly what she needs. Almost instantly, Thea becomes enamored with the quaint cottage, comforted by its cozy rooms and shaggy, tulip-covered lawn. The locals in nearby Baldochrie are just as warm, quirky, and inviting. The only person she can't seem to win over is bookshop owner Edward Maltravers, to whom she hopes to sell her uncle's antique novel collection. His gruff attitude--fueled by an infamous, long-standing feud with his brother, a local lord--tests Thea's patience. But bickering with Edward proves oddly refreshing and exciting, leading Thea to develop feelings she hasn't felt in a long time. As she follows a thrilling yet terrifying impulse to stay in Scotland indefinitely, Thea realizes that her new life may quickly become just as complicated as the one she was running from. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Bookshop of Second Chances” by Jackie Fraser https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623173327629-LU58U7FDMG6WQJZ4AP1S/91vvaSKlr%2BL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Courage, My Love - Kristin Beck Genres: Fiction, Historical Lucia Colombo has had her doubts about fascism for years, but as a single mother in an increasingly unstable country, politics are for other people--she needs to focus on keeping herself and her son alive. Then the Italian government falls and the German occupation begins, and suddenly, Lucia finds that complacency is no longer an option. Francesca Gallo has always been aware of injustice and suffering. A polio survivor who lost her father when he was arrested for his anti-fascist politics, she came to Rome with her fiancé to start a new life. But when the Germans invade and her fiancé is taken by the Nazis, Francesca decides she has only one option: to fight back. As Lucia and Francesca struggle against the Nazi occupation, they learn to resist alongside the partisans to drive the Germans from Rome. As winter sets in though, the occupation tightens its grip on the city, and the resistance is in constant danger. In the darkest days, Francesca and Lucia face their pasts, and find the courage to love and strive for a future that is finally free. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Courage, My Love” by Kristin Beck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623174354829-418JBMRID7DVMB5137XW/81dTIC1XZlL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Devil May Dance - Jake Tapper Genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web of power in the nation's capital can operate. Attorney General Robert Kennedy needs them to look into a potential threat to the security of the United States. Charlie and Margaret quickly find themselves on a flight to sunny Los Angeles. At the center of their investigation is Frank Sinatra, a close friend of President John F. Kennedy and a rumored mob crony. But in a town built on illusions, where friends and foes all look alike, nothing is easy, and drinks by the pool at the Sands and late-night adventures with the Rat Pack soon lead to a body in the trunk of their car. Before they know it, Charlie and Margaret are being pursued by sinister forces from Hollywood's stages to the newly founded Church of Scientology, facing off against the darkest and most secret side of Hollywood's power. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Devil May Dance” by Jake Tapper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623174678625-66H7A86JJ6HSDDY0C5LG/81kvLq5oYgL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Early Morning Riser - Katherine Heiny Genres: Fiction, Comedy, Romance Jane falls in love with Duncan easily. He is charming, good-natured, and handsome but unfortunately, he has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jane sees Duncan's old girlfriends everywhere--at restaurants, at the grocery store, even three towns away. While Jane may be able to come to terms with dating the world's most prolific seducer of women, she wishes she did not have to share him quite so widely. His ex-wife, Aggie, a woman with shiny hair and pale milkmaid skin, still has Duncan mow her lawn. His coworker, Jimmy, comes and goes from Duncan's apartment at the most inopportune times. Sometimes Jane wonders if a relationship can even work with three people in it--never mind four. Five if you count Aggie's eccentric husband, Gary. Not to mention all the other residents of Boyne City, who freely share with Jane their opinions of her choices. But any notion Jane had of love and marriage changes with one terrible car crash. Soon Jane's life is permanently intertwined with Duncan's, Aggie's, and Jimmy's, and Jane knows she will never have Duncan to herself. But could it be possible that a deeper kind of happiness is right in front of Jane's eyes? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Early Morning Riser” by Katherine Heiny https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623174872291-B3YCFKNUE8QXRC60BIDX/91BkjpQA0BL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The End of Her - Shari Lapena Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller In upstate New York, Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin babies. When Erica, a woman from Patrick's past, drops in on them unexpectedly, raising questions about his late first wife, Stephanie supports her husband wholeheartedly. But Erica is persistent, and now she's threatening to go to the police. And when the police start digging, Stephanie's trust in her husband begins to falter and Patrick is primed to lose everything he loves. As their marriage crumbles, Stephanie feels herself coming unglued, and soon she isn't sure what--or who--to believe. Now the most important thing is to protect her girls, but at what cost? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The End of Her” by Shari Lapena https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623175188646-TNOZYSIG2T45A3X5DFND/81ejAOkpYaL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Everyone is Beautiful - Katherine Center Genres: Fiction, Romance Lanie Coates’s life is spinning out of control. She’s piled everything she owns into a U-Haul and driven with her husband, Peter, and their three little boys from their cozy Texas home to a multiflight walkup in Boston. She’s left behind family and friends—all so her husband can realize his dream of becoming a professional musician. But somewhere in the eye of her personal hurricane, it hits Lanie that she once had dreams too . . . if only she could remember what they were. These days, Lanie always seems to prioritize herself last—and when another mom accidentally assumes she’s pregnant, it’s the final straw. Fifteen years, three babies, and more pounds than she’s willing to count since the day she said “I do,” Lanie longs desperately to feel like her old self again. It’s time to rise up, fish her moxie out of the diaper pail, and find the woman she was before motherhood consumed her entire existence. Lanie sets change in motion—joining a gym, signing up for photography classes, and finding a new best friend. But she also creates waves that come to threaten her whole life. Balancing motherhood and me-time, marriage and independence, and supporting loved ones while also realizing her own dreams, Lanie must figure out once and for all how to find herself without losing everything else in the process. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Everyone is Beautiful” by Katherine Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623175693552-USW2RUFFW5HD4FE08IEN/91YqVssLlXL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Family Law - Gin Phillips Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When an ambitious female lawyer becomes the victim of harassment, she must decide what's more important: her family's safety or the rights she's fighting for. Set in Alabama in the early '80s, Family Law follows a young lawyer, Lucia, who is making a name for herself at a time when a woman in a courtroom is still a rarity. She's been the recipient of threats and vandalism for her work extracting women from painful and sometimes dangerous marriages, but her own happy marriage has always felt sheltered from the work she does. When her mother's pending divorce brings teenaged Rachel into Lucia's orbit, Rachel finds herself smitten--not just with Lucia, but with the change Lucia represents. Rachel is out-spoken and curious, and she chafes at the rules her mother lays down as the bounds of acceptable feminine behaviour. In Lucia, Rachel sees the potential for a new path into womanhood. But their unconventional friendship takes them both to a crossroads. When a moment of violence--a threat made good--puts Rachel in danger, Lucia has to decide how much her work means to her and what she's willing to sacrifice to keep moving forward. Written in alternating voices from Lucia and Rachel's perspectives, Family Law is a fresh take on what the advancement of women's rights looks like on the ground to the ordinary women and girls who imagine a world redefined. Addressing mother-daughter relationships and what roles we can play in the lives of women who aren't our family, the novel examines how we shape each other and how we make a difference. The funny, strong and yet tender-hearted female leads of Family Law illuminate a new kind of Southern women's fiction--atmospheric, rich, and with quietly surprising twists and nuances all its own. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Family Law” by Gin Phillips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623175840359-WSST3Y1JF1PYKMWERSP5/71Y8n5Q9UOL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Final Revival of Opal and Nev - Dawnie Walton Genres: Fiction, Historical Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can’t imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job—despite her unusual looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar’s amateur night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together for the fledgling Rivington Records. In early seventies New York City, just as she’s finding her niche as part of a flamboyant and funky creative scene, a rival band signed to her label brandishes a Confederate flag at a promotional concert. Opal’s bold protest and the violence that ensues set off a chain of events that will not only change the lives of those she loves, but also be a deadly reminder that repercussions are always harsher for women, especially black women, who dare to speak their truth. Decades later, as Opal considers a 2016 reunion with Nev, music journalist S. Sunny Shelton seizes the chance to curate an oral history about her idols. Sunny thought she knew most of the stories leading up to the cult duo’s most politicized chapter. But as her interviews dig deeper, a nasty new allegation from an unexpected source threatens to blow up everything. 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Suddenly, the job takes on a frightening urgency: Only by finding the courier bag can he expose the company and stop the murder of an entire family--slated to die in forty-eight hours. With the help of an unexpected figure from his past, and with the enforcers closing the net, Shaw narrows in on the truth--and learns that the courier bag contains something unexpected: a secret that could only be described as catastrophic. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Final Twist” by Jeffery Deaver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623176205784-A62WQ9GRUM9NCKO5OEE2/81T5DNsttNL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Find You First - Linwood Barclay Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Tech millionaire Miles Cookson has more money than he can ever spend, and everything he could dream of-except time. He has recently been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and there is a fifty percent chance that it can be passed on to the next generation. For Miles, this means taking a long hard look at his past . . . Two decades ago, a young, struggling Miles was a sperm donor. Somewhere out there, he has kids-nine of them. And they might be about to inherit both the good and the bad from him-maybe his fortune, or maybe something much worse. As Miles begins to search for the children he's never known, aspiring film documentarian Chloe Swanson embarks on a quest to find her biological father, armed with the knowledge that twenty-two years ago, her mother used a New York sperm bank to become pregnant. When Miles and Chloe eventually connect, their excitement at finding each other is overshadowed by a series of mysterious and terrifying events. One by one, Miles's other potential heirs are vanishing-every trace of them wiped, like they never existed at all. Who is the vicious killer-another heir methodically erasing rivals? Or is something even more sinister going on? It's a deadly race against time . . . CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Find You First” by Linwood Barclay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623176604634-IDSQ0T1JF43LPYV1UWS0/81IN%2BHaS2AL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Finding Ashley - Danielle Steel Genres: Fiction, Romance Melissa Henderson is leading a quiet life. Once a bestselling author, she now pours all her energy into renovating a Victorian house nestled in the foothills of rural New England. Six years ago, she lost her young son to cancer, and her marriage dissolved. She stopped writing. It was only when she bought the old house that Melissa found a purpose, and came alive as she made it beautiful again. After a wildfire that threatens her home appears on the news, Melissa receives a call from her sister, Hattie. They were close once, but that was before Melissa withdrew from the world. Now Hattie, who became a nun at twenty-five, is determined to help Melissa turn a new page, even if it means reopening one of the most painful chapters of her life. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Finding Ashley” by Danielle Steel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623176752787-LZSS00O06H7XZ3YEMED0/81hz4qSJZnL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Girl from the Channel Islands - Jenny Lecoat Genres: Fiction, Historical Summer 1940: Hedy Bercu watches the skies over Jersey for German planes, convinced that an invasion is imminent. When it finally comes, there is no counterattack from Allied forces. Most islanders and occupying forces settle into an uneasy coexistence, but for Hedy, the situation is perilously different. For Hedy is Jewish. With no means of escape, Hedy works as a translator for the Germans while silently working against them, and forges a tentative friendship with a sympathetic German officer. Soon, her survival will depend not just on her own courage but on the community she has come to cherish and a man who should be her enemy. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Girl from the Channel Islands” by Jenny Lecoat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623176885150-0NWKXPAFXMFGM4HT692I/91tO3nBXusL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Girls in the Stilt House - Kelly Mustian Genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family from the whims and demands of some particularly callous locals is an ongoing struggle. She forms a plan to go north, to pack up the secrets she's holding about her life in the South and hang them on the line for all to see. As the two girls are drawn deeper into a dangerous world of bootleggers and moral corruption, they must come to terms with the complexities of their tenuous bond and a hidden past that links them in ways that could cost them their lives. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Girls in the Stilt House” by Kelly Mustian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623177036281-2FEXL87J4KT6LLSHIQGC/81%2BQLJAhaLL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Good Sister - Sally Hepworth Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller From the outside, everyone might think Fern and Rose are as close as twin sisters can be: Rose is the responsible one, with a home and a husband and a fierce desire to become a mother. Fern is the quirky one, the free spirit, the librarian who avoids social interaction and whom the world might just describe as truly odd. But the sisters are devoted to one another and Rose has always been Fern's protector from the time they were small. Fern needed protecting because their mother was a true sociopath who hid her true nature from the world, and only Rose could see it. Fern always saw the good in everyone. Years ago, Fern did something very, very bad. And Rose has never told a soul. When Fern decides to help her sister achieve her heart's desire of having a baby, Rose realizes with growing horror that Fern might make choices that can only have a terrible outcome. What Rose doesn't realize is that Fern is growing more and more aware of the secrets Rose, herself, is keeping. And that their mother might have the last word after all. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Good Sister” by Sally Hepworth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623177340727-3WFPXLBS4V4Q08C2CYTY/818xM-U7shL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Hour of the Witch - Chris Bohjalian Genres: Fiction, Historical, Thriller Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbor is watching for signs of the devil, a woman like Mary - a woman who harbors secret desires and finds it difficult to tolerate the brazen hypocrisy of so many men in the colony - soon finds herself the object of suspicion and rumor. When tainted objects are discovered buried in Mary's garden, when a boy she has treated with herbs and simples dies, and when their servant girl runs screaming in fright from her home, Mary must fight to not only escape her marriage, but also the gallows... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hour of the Witch” by Chris Bohjalian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623177782656-YFIVCP3WRNHNQDF1VKXX/71FN7NydljS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - How Lucky - Will Leitch Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He’s got a couple close friends, a steady paycheck working for a regional airline, and of course, for a few glorious days each Fall, college football tailgates. He considers himself to be a mostly lucky guy—despite the fact that he’s suffered from a debilitating disease since he was a small child, one that has left him unable to speak or to move without a wheelchair. Largely confined to his home, Daniel spends the hours he’s not online communicating with irate air travelers observing his neighborhood from his front porch. One young woman passes by so frequently that spotting her out the window has almost become part of his daily routine. Until the day he’s almost sure he sees her being kidnapped. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “How Lucky” by Will Leitch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623177970350-G1SB88E97856CHAIC4BR/71ICv45kk9L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Hunting Wives - May Cobb Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Sophie O'Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realizes that life is now too quiet, and she's feeling bored and restless. Then she meets Margot Banks, an alluring socialite who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Sophie is completely drawn to Margot and swept into her mysterious world of late-night target practice and dangerous partying. As Sophie's curiosity gives way to full-blown obsession, she slips further away from the safety of her family and deeper into this nest of vipers. When the body of a teenage girl is discovered in the woods where the Hunting Wives meet, Sophie finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation and her life spirals out of control. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Hunting Wives” by May Cobb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623178078641-XU254XESBAOPK2XZBZKA/81PuCvhuBFS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Imposter Syndrome - Kathy Wang Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she’s recruited by Russia’s largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she’s in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America’s most famous technology companies. In between her executive management (make offers to promising startups, crush them and copy their features if they refuse); self promotion (check out her latest op-ed in the WSJ, on Work/Life Balance 2.0); and work in gender equality (transfer the most annoying females from her team), she funnels intelligence back to the motherland. But now Russia's asking for more, and Julia’s getting nervous. Alice Lu is a first generation Chinese American whose parents are delighted she’s working at Tangerine (such a successful company!). Too bad she’s slogging away in the lower echelons, recently dumped, and now sharing her expensive two-bedroom apartment with her cousin Cheri, a perennial “founder’s girlfriend”. One afternoon, while performing a server check, Alice discovers some unusual activity, and now she’s burdened with two powerful but distressing suspicions: Tangerine’s privacy settings aren’t as rigorous as the company claims they are, and the person abusing this loophole might be Julia Lerner herself. The closer Alice gets to Julia, the more Julia questions her own loyalties. Russia may have placed her in the Valley, but she's the one who built her career; isn’t she entitled to protect the lifestyle she’s earned? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Imposter Syndrome” by Kathy Wang https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623178182805-SUHL533FX40I2VAYT742/81lWh3Hi5NL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Infinite Country - Patricia Engel Genres: Fiction Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogota, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north. How this family came to occupy two different countries, two different worlds, comes into focus like twists of a kaleidoscope. We see Talia's parents, Mauro and Elena, fall in love in a market stall as teenagers against a backdrop of civil war and social unrest. We see them leave Bogota with their firstborn, Karina, in pursuit of safety and opportunity in the United States on a temporary visa, and we see the births of two more children, Nando and Talia, on American soil. We witness the decisions and indecisions that lead to Mauro's deportation and the family's splintering--the costs they've all been living with ever since. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Infinite Country” by Patricia Engel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623178351003-3KBF4Y85YOTDQUGZLRJW/91NPuhM9EML.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Invisible Husband of Frick Island - Colleen Oakley Genres: Fiction, Romance Sometimes all you need is one person to really see you. Piper Parrish's life on Frick Island-a tiny, remote town smack in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay-is nearly perfect. Well, aside from one pesky detail: Her beloved husband, Tom, is dead. When Tom's crab boat capsized and his body wasn't recovered, Piper, rocked to the core, did a most peculiar thing: carried on as if her husband was not only still alive, but right there beside her, cooking him breakfast, walking him to the docks each morning, meeting him for their standard Friday night dinner date at the One-Eyed Crab. And what were the townspeople to do but go along with their beloved widowed Piper? Anders Caldwell's career is not going well. A young ambitious journalist, he'd rather hoped he'd be a national award-winning podcaster by now, rather than writing fluff pieces for a small town newspaper. But when he gets an assignment to travel to the remote Frick Island and cover their boring annual Cake Walk fundraiser, he stumbles upon a much more fascinating tale: an entire town pretending to see and interact with a man who does not actually exist. Determined it's the career-making story he's been needing for his podcast, Anders returns to the island to begin covert research and spend more time with the enigmatic Piper-but he has no idea out of all the lives he's about to upend, it's his that will change the most. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Invisible Husband of Frick Island” by Colleen Oakley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623178601561-LJ29URTIGW50FPE934Q5/71%2BwuqxzYqL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Just Last Night - Mhairi McFarlane Genres: Fiction, Comedy, Romance Eve, Justin, Susie, and Ed have been friends since they were teenagers. Now in their thirties, the four are as close as ever, Thursday pub trivia night is sacred, and Eve is still secretly in love with Ed. Maybe she should have moved on by now, but she can’t stop thinking about what could have been. And she knows Ed still thinks about it, too. But then, in an instant, their lives are changed forever. In the aftermath, Eve’s world is upended. As stunning secrets are revealed, she begins to wonder if she really knew her friends as well as she thought. And when someone from the past comes back into her life, Eve’s future veers in a surprising new direction... They say every love story starts with a single moment. What if it was just last night? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Just Last Night” by Mhairi McFarlane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623183641864-XWTZH19VD4DZ0CW071BQ/91-9oKZQa5L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Sci-fi From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In Klara and the Sun, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly-changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623432748213-6ZMNHFCUJ5ZCCPCGF836/81YdHIuvh%2BL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Lamplighters - Emma Stonex Genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery The heavy sea whispers their names. Black rocks roll beneath the surface, drowning ghosts. And out of the swell like a finger of light, the salt-scratched tower stands lonely and magnificent. It's New Year's Eve, 1972, when a boat pulls up to the Maiden Rock lighthouse with relief for the keepers. But no one greets them. When the entrance door, locked from the inside, is battered down, rescuers find an empty tower. A table is laid for a meal not eaten. The Principal Keeper's weather log describes a storm raging round the tower, but the skies have been clear all week. And the clocks have all stopped at 8:45. Two decades later, the wives who were left behind are visited by a writer who is determined to find the truth about the men's disappearance. Moving between the women's stories and the men's last weeks together in the lighthouse, long-held secrets surface and truths twist into lies as we piece together what happened, why, and who to believe. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Lamplighters” by Emma Stonex https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623183853155-53K4DD4L4E6DGTIWISIX/81cUcwVg8pS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Last Bookshop in London - Madeline Martin Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and blackout curtains that she finds on her arrival were not what she expected. And she certainly never imagined she’d wind up working at Primrose Hill, a dusty old bookshop nestled in the heart of London. Through blackouts and air raids as the Blitz intensifies, Grace discovers the power of storytelling to unite her community in ways she never dreamed—a force that triumphs over even the darkest nights of the war. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Last bookshop in London” by Madeline Martin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623184052431-OHYNI9LCAQN18DUF4XH2/81qMz8E8unL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Last Exiles - Ann Shin Genres: Fiction. Historical Jin and Suja meet and fall in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She is a young journalist from a prominent family, while he is from a small village of little means. Outside the school, North Korea has fallen under great political upheaval, plunged into chaos and famine. When Jin returns home to find his family starving, their food rations all but gone, he makes a rash decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Meanwhile, miles away, Suja has begun to feel the tenuousness of her privilege when she learns that Jin has disappeared. Risking everything, and defying her family, Suja sets out to find him, embarking on a dangerous journey that leads her into a dark criminal underbelly and tests their love and will to survive. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Last Exiles” by Ann Shin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623184260172-JXX5X27J8LJQD13146DC/91uyXpTwqkL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Last Green Valley - Mark Sullivan Genres: Fiction, Historical In late March 1944, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear’s intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves—murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect “pure-blood” Germans? The Martels are one of many families of German heritage whose ancestors have farmed in Ukraine for more than a century. But after already living under Stalin’s horrifying regime, Emil and Adeline decide they must run in retreat from their land with the wolves they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Last Green Valley” by Mark Sullivan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623184649066-N8JBSTK7YABUZ1GJX14M/81BdMSuI5ZS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to who the note refers-Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as a U.S. marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn't who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen's true identity-and why he really disappeared. Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen's past, they soon realize they are also building a new future-one neither of them could have anticipated. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Last Thing He Told Me” by Laura Dave https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623184959385-I8ZBWXSYQF938ZCX6IJ1/81-cTnQ6kkL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Last Thing to Burn - Will Dean Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago. When she discovers she is pregnant, she resolves to protect her child no matter the cost, and starts to meticulously plan her escape. But when another woman is brought into the fold on the farm, her plans go awry. Can she save herself, her child, and this innocent woman at the same time? Or is she doomed to spend the remainder of her life captive on this farm? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Last Thing to Burn” by Will Dean https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623187782857-FJPGNDRRTLKLY8LGH2K7/811CN0MFEQL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Letters Across the Sea - Genevieve Graham Genres: Fiction, Historical 1933 At eighteen years old, Molly Ryan dreams of becoming a journalist, but instead she spends her days working any job she can to help her family through the Depression crippling her city. The one bright spot in her life is watching baseball with her best friend, Hannah Dreyfus, and sneaking glances at Hannah’s handsome older brother, Max. But as the summer unfolds, more and more of Hitler’s hateful ideas cross the sea and “Swastika Clubs” and “No Jews Allowed” signs spring up around Toronto, a city already simmering with mass unemployment, protests, and unrest. When tensions between the Irish and Jewish communities erupt in a riot one smouldering day in August, Molly and Max are caught in the middle, with devastating consequences for both their families. 1939 Six years later, the Depression has eased and Molly is a reporter at her local paper. But a new war is on the horizon, putting everyone she cares about most in peril. As letters trickle in from overseas, Molly is forced to confront what happened all those years ago, but is it too late to make things right? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Letters Across the Sea” by Genevieve Graham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623187981859-XGDSYFTBT6C14UF7OO30/91A6a-U9X-S.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Libertie - Kaitlyn Greenidge Genres: Fiction, Historical Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie will go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie feels stifled by her mother's choices and is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be his equal on the island, she accepts, only to discover that she is still subordinate to him and all men. As she tries to parse what freedom actually means for a Black woman, Libertie struggles with where she might find it-for herself and for generations to come. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Libertie” by Kaitlyn Greenidge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623188125933-057U18MK9CGC3L5E4RYM/81h2xuAD-nL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Light Through the Leaves - Glendy Vanderah Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended - for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola's abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well - into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache for her children deeper with every step into the mountain wildernesses she treks alone. In a remote area of Washington, a young girl named Raven keeps secrets inside, too. She must never speak to outsiders about how her mother makes miracles spring from the earth, or about her father, whose mysterious presence sometimes frightens her. Raven spends her days learning how to use her rare gifts - and more important, how to hide them. With each lesson comes a warning of what dangers lie in the world beyond her isolated haven. But despite her mother's cautions, Raven finds herself longing for something more. As Ellis and Raven each confront their powerful longings, their journeys will converge in unexpected and hopeful ways, pulled together by the forces of nature, love, and family. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Light Through the Leaves” by Glendy Vanderah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623188260607-PXG1A56FYOKE9BP214NV/71tm8kW8FGL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Little Cruelties - Liz Nugent Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Will, Brian and Luke grow up competing for their mother's unequal love. As men, the competition continues - for status, money, fame, women… They each betray each other, over and over, until one of them is dead. But which brother killed him? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Little Cruelties” by Liz Nugent https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623188388333-V5UWQUJNPLTFPLTARMO8/81j8Zp5kPGL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Local Woman Missing - Mary Kubica Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller People don’t just disappear without a trace… Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they’ll find…. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Local Woman Missing” by Mary Kubica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623188666952-L29ZDJFSFZZ1ZCQ38FTF/81mIsdsoBhL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Madam - Phoebe Wynne Genres: Fiction, Gothic, Historical, Mystery, Thriller For 150 years, high above rocky Scottish cliffs, Caldonbrae Hall has sat untouched, a beacon of excellence in an old ancestral castle. A boarding school for girls, it promises that the young women lucky enough to be admitted will emerge 'resilient and ready to serve society.' Into its illustrious midst steps Rose Christie: a 26-year-old Classics teacher, Caldonbrae's new head of the department, and the first hire for the school in over a decade. At first, Rose is overwhelmed to be invited into this institution, whose prestige is unrivaled. But she quickly discovers that behind the school's elitist veneer lies an impenetrable, starkly traditional culture that she struggles to reconcile with her modernist beliefs-not to mention her commitment to educating 'girls for the future.' It also doesn't take long for Rose to suspect that there's more to the secret circumstances surrounding the abrupt departure of her predecessor-a woman whose ghost lingers everywhere-than anyone is willing to let on. In her search for this mysterious former teacher, Rose instead uncovers the darkness that beats at the heart of Caldonbrae, forcing her to confront the true extent of the school's nefarious purpose, and her own role in perpetuating it. A darkly feminist tale pitched against a haunting backdrop, and populated by an electrifying cast of heroines, Madam will keep readers engrossed until the breathtaking conclusion. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Madam” by Phoebe Wynn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623188827691-3YLKEBLG7TGDY7B1TXTW/91DXSGLDxfL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance Malibu: August 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over--especially as the offspring of the legendary singer Mick Riva. The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud--because it is long past time for him to confess something to the brother from whom he's been inseparable since birth. Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can't stop thinking about promised she'll be there. And Kit has a couple secrets of her own--including a guest she invited without consulting anyone. By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family's generations will all come rising to the surface. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Malibu Rising” by Taylor Jenkins Reid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623189031320-G4OHMNKG65686HEY1NTE/918pJ6cKNVL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Meet Me in Another Life - Catriona Silvey Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance Two people. Infinite lifetimes. One impossible choice. Thora and Santi are strangers in a foreign city when a chance encounter intertwines their fates. At once, they recognize in each other a kindred spirit—someone who shares their insatiable curiosity, who is longing for more in life than the cards they’ve been dealt. Only days later, though, a tragic accident cuts their story short. But this is only one of the many connections they share. Like satellites trapped in orbit around each other, Thora and Santi are destined to meet again: as a teacher and prodigy student; a caretaker and dying patient; a cynic and a believer. In numerous lives they become friends, colleagues, lovers, and enemies. But as blurred memories and strange patterns compound, Thora and Santi come to a shocking revelation—they must discover the truth of their mysterious attachment before their many lives come to one, final end. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Meet Me in Another Life” by Catriona Silvey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623189245067-SQZ44FF7BJYIXDK5AZLM/71PJ83XFf-L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Mirrorland - Carole Johnstone Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller Cat lives in Los Angeles, about as far away as she can get from her estranged twin sister El and No. 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house in Edinburgh where they grew up. As girls, they invented Mirrorland, a dark, imaginary place under the pantry stairs full of pirates, witches, and clowns. These days Cat rarely thinks about their childhood home, or the fact that El now lives there with her husband Ross. But when El mysteriously disappears after going out on her sailboat, Cat is forced to return to the grand old house, which has scarcely changed in twenty years. No. 36 Westeryk Road is still full of shadowy, hidden corners, and at every turn Cat finds herself stumbling on long-held secrets and terrifying ghosts from the past. Because someone—El?—has left Cat clues all over the house: a treasure hunt that leads right back to Mirrorland, where she knows the truth lies crouched and waiting... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Mirrorland” by Carole Johnstone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623432883998-CB5ASZU2DK745XMYAOXR/81TRuuAJnrL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Missing and Endangered (Joanna Brady #19) - J A Jance Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When Jennifer Brady returns to Northern Arizona University for her sophomore year, she quickly becomes a big sister to her new roommate, Beth Rankin, a brilliant yet sheltered sixteen-year-old freshman. For a homeschooled Beth, college is her first taste of both freedom and unfettered access to the internet, and Jenny is concerned that she’s too naïve and rebellious for her own good. Her worries are well-founded because one day Beth vanishes, prompting Jenny to alert campus authorities, local police, and her mom, Sheriff Joanna Brady—who calls in a favor. Beth is found, but Jenny’s concern has unwittingly put her in the crosshairs of a criminal bent on revenge. With Christmas vacation approaching, and Beth at war with her parents, Jenny invites Beth to the shelter of the Brady home. While Joanna is sympathetic, she’s caught up in a sensitive case—an officer-involved shooting that has placed the lives of two young children in jeopardy—leaving her stretched thin to help a fragile young woman recently gone missing and endangered. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Missing and Endangered” by J A Jance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623189356687-YDPU2EX0NI06J28N7FLR/91PzpBVLRdL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Mother May I - Joshilyn Jackson Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Revenge doesn't wait for permission. Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat was warned that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree rejected that fearful outlook, and life has proved her right. Having married into a family with wealth, power, and connections, Bree now has all a woman could ever dream of. Until the day she awakens and sees someone peering into her bedroom window-an old gray-haired woman dressed all in black who vanishes as quickly as she appears. It must be a play of the early morning light or the remnant of a waking dream, Bree tells herself, shaking off the bad feeling that overcomes her. Later that day though, she spies the old woman again, in the parking lot of her daughters' private school . . . just minutes before Bree's infant son, asleep in his car seat only a few feet away, vanishes. It happened so quickly-Bree looked away only for a second. There is a note left in his place, warning her that she is being is being watched; if she wants her baby back, she must not call the police or deviate in any way from the instructions that will follow. The mysterious woman makes contact, and Bree learns she, too, is a mother. Why would another mother do this? What does she want? And why has she targeted Bree? Of course Bree will pay anything, do anything. It's her child. To get her baby back, Bree must complete one small-but critical-task. It seems harmless enough, but her action comes with a devastating price. Bree will do whatever it takes to protect her family-but what if the cost tears their world apart? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Mother May I” by Joshilyn Jackson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623433025176-HRW5DQED837I4D777670/71QxUj6cONL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Next Wife - Kaira Rouda Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Kate Nelson had it all. A flourishing company founded with her husband, John; a happy marriage; and a daughter, Ashlyn. The picture-perfect family. Until John left for another woman. Tish is half his age. Ambitious. She's cultivated a friendship with Ashlyn. Tish believes she's won. She's wrong. Tish Nelson has it all. Youth, influence, a life of luxury, and a new husband. But the truth is there's a lot of baggage. Namely, his first wife and suspicions of his infidelity. After all, that's how she got John. Maybe it's time for a romantic getaway, far from his vindictive ex. If Kate plans on getting John back, Tish is one step ahead of her. She thinks. But what happens next is something neither Kate nor Tish saw coming. As best-laid plans come undone, there's no telling what a woman will do in the name of love and revenge. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Next Wife” by Kaira Rouda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623189487428-6YP723FHQS3K1OXWNC4J/919qHTTa2YL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Northern Spy - Flynn Berry Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid--a robbery at a gas station--Tessa's sister appears on the screen. Tessa watches in shock as Marian pulls a black mask over her face. The police believe Marian has joined the IRA, but Tessa knows this is impossible. They were raised to oppose Republicanism, and the violence enacted in its name. They've attended peace vigils together. And besides, Marian is vacationing by the sea. Tessa just spoke to her yesterday. When the truth of what has happened to Marian reveals itself, Tessa will be forced to choose: between her ideals and her family, between bystanderism and action. Walking an increasingly perilous road, she fears nothing more than endangering the one person she loves more fiercely than her sister: her infant son. A riveting and exquisite novel about family, terror, motherhood, betrayal, and the staggering human costs of an intractable conflict. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Northern Spy” by Flynn Berry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623189616695-UJYHHBFI4LR98SL1HAEL/91-wT79i5gL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Not Dark Yet (Inspector Banks #27) - Peter Robinson Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller The gruesome double-murder at an Eastvale property developer's luxury home should be an open and shut case for Superintendent Alan Banks and his team of detectives. There's a clear link to the notoriously vicious Albanian mafia, men who left the country suspiciously soon after the murder. When Banks and his team find a cache of spy-cam videos hidden in the house, the investigation pivots to another violent crime that could cast the murders in an entirely different light. Meanwhile, Banks's friend Zelda is increasingly uncertain of her future in Britain's hostile environment. She thinks she will be safer in Moldova, hunting the men who enslaved her, than she is Yorkshire or London. Her search takes her back to the orphanage where it all began. By stirring up the murky waters of the past, Zelda is putting herself in greater danger than ever before. And as the threat to Zelda escalates, so does the danger for Banks and all those around them . . . CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Not Dark Yet” by Peter Robinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623189753680-KF7SBZ4MVDYQQW98U52D/91t4xIG9RUL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Of Women and Salt - Gabriela Garcia Genres: Fiction, Historical In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt. From 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers, from Cuba to Mexico, Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals--personal and political, self-inflicted and those done by others-that have shaped the lives of these extraordinary women. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers, the legacy of the memories they carry, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America's most tangled, honest, human roots. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Of Women and Salt” by Gabriela Garcia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623189915342-S7AMQB2K8MROOTEF075O/71NPx0yJESL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson Genres: Fiction, Romance In a crowded London pub, two young people meet. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists-he a photographer, she a dancer-and both are trying to make their mark in a world that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence, and over the course of a year they find their relationship tested by forces beyond their control. Narrated with deep intimacy, Open Water is at once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity that asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body; to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength; to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, and blistering emotional intelligence, Caleb Azumah Nelson gives a profoundly sensitive portrait of romantic love in all its feverish waves and comforting beauty. This is one of the most essential debut novels of recent years, heralding the arrival of a stellar and prodigious young talent. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Open Water” by Caleb Azumah Nelson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623264006673-BDQEMZSMTT6UU0F6V8FC/81hSVzuM43L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Other Bennet Sister - Janice Hadlow Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance What if Mary Bennet's life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the affection and authority to satisfy Austen fans. Ultimately, Mary's journey is like that taken by every Austen heroine. She learns that she can only expect joy when she has accepted who she really is. She must throw off the false expectations and wrong ideas that have combined to obscure her true nature and prevented her from what makes her happy. Only when she undergoes this evolution does she have a chance at finding fulfillment; only then does she have the clarity to recognize her partner when he presents himself--and only at that moment is she genuinely worthy of love. Mary's destiny diverges from that of her sisters. It does not involve broad acres or landed gentry. But it does include a man; and, as in all Austen novels, Mary must decide whether he is the truly the one for her. In The Other Bennet Sister, Mary is a fully rounded character--complex, conflicted, and often uncertain; but also vulnerable, supremely sympathetic, and ultimately the protagonist of an uncommonly satisfying debut novel. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Other Bennet Sister” by Janice Hadlow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623264162558-92XG7M4W2LOG2FHIA3Z7/71gUyeubanL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Our Darkest Night - Jennifer Robson Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews like the Mazin family. With Nazi Germany now occupying most of her beloved homeland, and the threat of imprisonment and deportation growing ever more certain, Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive--to leave Venice and her beloved parents and hide in the countryside with a man she has only just met. Nico Gerardi was studying for the priesthood until circumstances forced him to leave the seminary to run his family's farm. A moral and just man, he could not stand by when the fascists and Nazis began taking innocent lives. Rather than risk a perilous escape across the mountains, Nina will pose as his new bride. And to keep her safe and protect secrets of his own, Nico and Nina must convince prying eyes they are happily married and in love. But farm life is not easy for a cultured city girl who dreams of becoming a doctor like her father, and Nico's provincial neighbors are wary of this soft and educated woman they do not know. Even worse, their distrust is shared by a local Nazi official with a vendetta against Nico. The more he learns of Nina, the more his suspicions grow--and with them his determination to exact revenge. As Nina and Nico come to know each other, their feelings deepen, transforming their relationship into much more than a charade. Yet both fear that every passing day brings them closer to being torn apart... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Our Darkest Night” by Jennifer Robson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623264295657-OH4R42D4AGB5U8G2FNOY/813QkLg2LaL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - People We Meet on Vacation - Emily Henry Genres: Fiction, Romance When Poppy met Alex, there was no spark, no chemistry, and no reason to think they'd ever talk again. Alex is quiet, studious, and destined for a future in academia. Poppy is a wild child who only came to U of Chicago to escape small-town life. But after sharing a ride home for the summer, the two form a surprising friendship. After all, who better to confide in than someone you could never, ever date? Over the years, Alex and Poppy's lives take them in different directions, but every summer the two find their way back to each other for a magical weeklong vacation. Until one trip goes awry, and in the fallout, they lose touch. Now, two years later, Poppy's in a rut. Her dream job, her relationships, her life--none of it is making her happy. In fact, the last time she remembers feeling truly happy was on that final, ill-fated Summer Trip. The answer to all her problems is obvious: She needs one last vacation to win back her best friend. As a hilariously disastrous week unfolds and tensions rise, Poppy and Alex are forced to confront what drove them apart--and decide what they're willing to risk for the chance to be together. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “People We Meet on Vacation” by Emily Henry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623264437276-55EIWEPTB5MJ8AX0EHBK/81S4jQsjmRL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Perfect Kill (DI Callanach #6) - Helen Fields Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Alone, trapped in the darkness and with no way out, Bart Campbell knows that his chances of being found alive are slim. Drugged and kidnapped from his Edinburgh home, the realization soon dawns that he's been locked inside a shipping container - but what Bart doesn't know is that he's now heading for France, where his unspeakable fate is already sealed.... DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach are working on separate cases that soon collide as it becomes clear that the men and women being shipped to France are being traded for women trafficked into Scotland. With so many lives at stake, it seems an impossible task - but there's no option of failure when Bart and so many others will soon be dead... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Perfect Kill” by Helen Fields https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623269097939-VX08NBK6YPMJAVO55EQ6/81qmNljec6S.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written-let alone published-anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot. Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker's first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that-a story that absolutely needs to be told. In a few short years, all of Evan Parker's predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says. As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his "sure thing" of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Plot” by Jean Hanff Korelitz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623269293907-GXJSFRYWG07XLOBCU9JF/71mBUcu13JS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Reunion Beach Genres: Fiction, Romance, Short stories Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for her next book—Reunion Beach—these close friends and colleagues channeled their creativity, admiration, and grief into stories and poems that celebrate this remarkable woman and her abiding love for the Lowcountry of her native South Carolina—a land of beauty, history, charm, and Gullah magic she so brilliantly brought to life in her acclaimed novels. From Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author, a sequel to Summer of ’69. From Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author, comes a heartwarming, humorous interview from the hereafter with Pat Conroy and Dorothea Benton Frank, two beloved icons of Southern literature. From Patti Callahan, bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis and Surviving Savannah, comes The Bridemaids, a story about a trip to the South Carolina beach. From Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author, Mother and Child Reunion, a heartwarming story set under the warm South Carolina sun. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Reunion Beach” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623270218590-NK11G7JZU5FKJBT363VU/y648.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Shadow Man - Helen Fields Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller He collects his victims. But he doesn't keep them safe. Elspeth, Meggie and Xavier are locked in a flat. They don't know where they are, and they don't know why they're there. They only know that the shadow man has taken them, and he won't let them go. Desperate to escape, the three of them must find a way out of their living hell, even if it means uncovering a very dark truth. Because the shadow man isn't a nightmare. He's all too real. And he's watching. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Shadow Man” by Helen Fields https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623270355743-GYB0Z422CR4J4FCHVAA5/61MrIL4%2BiSS.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Siren - Katherine St. John Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Thriller In the midst of a sizzling hot summer, some of Hollywood's most notorious faces are assembled on the idyllic Caribbean island of St. Genesius to film The Siren, starring dangerously handsome megastar Cole Power playing opposite his ex-wife, Stella Rivers. The surefire blockbuster promises to entice audiences with its sultry storyline and intimately connected cast. Three very different women arrive on set, each with her own motive. Stella, an infamously unstable actress, is struggling to reclaim the career she lost in the wake of multiple, very public breakdowns. Taylor, a fledgling producer, is anxious to work on a film she hopes will turn her career around after her last job ended in scandal. And Felicity, Stella's mysterious new assistant, harbors designs of her own that threaten to upend everyone's plans. With a hurricane brewing offshore, each woman finds herself trapped on the island, united against a common enemy. But as deceptions come to light, misplaced trust may prove more perilous than the storm itself. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Siren” by Katherine St. John https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623270475354-CVOK2S9OW8OB4Y6VAKQD/81zXYluXDxL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Sooley - John Grisham Genres: Fiction, Thriller After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called off the bench, the legend begins. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Sooley” by John Grisham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623270590822-57UCZM9H0WB1G94ODNUL/91Ega4N0fQL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Horror Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised - flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future - outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Sorrowland” by Rivers Solomon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623270777958-K3YPOSKO3PWF7HQ4HN5N/81Zje0Q8mkL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Soulmate Equation - Christina Lauren Genres: Fiction, Romance Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. Raised by her grandparents--who now help raise her seven-year-old daughter, Juno--Jess has been left behind too often to feel comfortable letting anyone in. After all, her father's never been around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn't "father material" before Juno was even born. Jess holds her loved ones close, but working constantly to stay afloat is hard...and lonely. But then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that's predicted to change dating forever. Finding a soulmate through DNA? The reliability of numbers: This Jess understands. At least she thought she did, until her test shows an unheard-of 98% compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAlly's founder, Dr. River Pena. This is one number she can't wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Pena. The stuck-up, stubborn man is without a doubt not her soulmate. But GeneticAlly has a proposition: Get to know him and we'll pay you. Jess--who is barely making ends meet--is in no position to turn it down, despite her skepticism about the project and her dislike for River. As the pair are dragged from one event to the next as the "Diamond" pairing that could make GeneticAlly a mint in stock prices, Jess begins to realize that there might be more to the scientist--and the science behind a soulmate--than she thought. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Soulmate Equation” by Christina Lauren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623270921133-GZ30JDWRPF6TV1M33LVD/81qIF0%2B1TuL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Summer of Lost and Found (Beach House #7) - Mary Alice Munroe Genres: Fiction, Romance The coming of Spring usually means renewal, but for Linnea Rutledge, Spring 2020 threatens stagnation. Linnea faces another layoff, this time from the aquarium she adores. For her--and her family--finances, emotions, and health teeter at the brink. To complicate matters, her new love interest, Gordon, struggles to return to the Isle of Palms from England. Meanwhile, her old flame, John, turns up from California and is quarantining next door. She tries to ignore him, but when he sends her plaintive notes in the form of paper airplanes, old sparks ignite. When Gordon at last reaches the island, Linnea wonders--is it possible to love two men at the same time? Love in the time of the coronavirus proves challenging, at times humorous, and ever changing. Relationships are redefined, friendships made and broken, and marriages tested. As the weeks turn to months, and another sea turtle season comes to a close, Linnea learns there are more meaningful lessons learned during this summer than opportunities lost, that summer is a time of wonder, and that the exotic lives in our own back yards ... Linnea and the Rutledge family continue to face their challenges with the strength, faith, and commitment. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Summer of Lost and Found” by Mary Alice Munroe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623271089209-QCD3HTQA3H0T9O11MWL9/91YrexIsI1L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Sunflower Sisters - Martha Hall Kelly Genres: Fiction, Historical Georgeanna "Georgy" Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her status. So when war ignites the nation. Georgy follows her passion for nursing during at a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. In proving them wrong, Georgy and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Perler Plantation in Maryland, where she lives with her mother and father. Jemma's sister, Patience, is enslaved on the plantation next door, and both live in fear of LeBaron, an abusive overseer who tracks their every move. When Jemma is sold by the cruel plantation mistress Anne-May at the same time the Union army comes through, she sees a chance to finally escape - but only by abandoning the family she loves. Anne-May is left behind to run Peeler Plantation when her husband joins the union army and her cherished brother enlists with the Confederates. Now in charge of the household, she uses the opportunity to follow her ambitions and is drawn into troubles of her own, as she works to sabotage Northern soldiers, finally exposing herself to the fate she deserves. Inspired by true accounts, Sunflower Sisters provides a vivid, detailed look at the Civil War experience, from the barbaric and inhumane plantations, to a New York City struggling to stay united, to the horrors of the battlefield. It's a sweeping story of women caught in a country on the brink of collapse, in a society grappling with nationalism and unthinkable racial cruelty, a story still relevant today. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Sunflower Sisters” by Martha Hall Kelly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623271305112-0G6TZTKPRFR328SHD6ST/81HdRta2%2BDL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Treadstone Exile (Treadstone #2) - Joshua Hood Genres: Fiction, Thriller Operation Treadstone made Jason Bourne, but he's not the only agent they trained. After the revival of Operation Treadstone, former operative Adam Hayes has retreated to Africa, determined to escape the black-ops CIA program for good. Hayes knows just how destructive the program can be, as it turns government agents into nearly superhuman assassins. But his quiet life in Africa changes irrevocably, when Hayes is attacked by extremists while flying a charitable mission in Burkina Faso. Forced to make an emergency landing, his plane is damaged and he is left in a hornet's nest of trouble. In order to get back in the air, Hayes agrees to transport a passenger - Zoe Cabot, the daughter of a tech baron - to a small coastal city. But on arrival, Zoe is abducted. Searching for the missing girl, Hayes runs afoul of multiple enemies, including a rogue Treadstone operative, all of whom are searching for him - and for the information about a wire transfer of millions of dollars bound for the relief effort in Burkina Faso. Hayes must outrun and outgun the factions that are hunting him and prevent the theft of the much-needed millions from one of Africa's poorest nations. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Treadstone Exile” by Joshua Hood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623271467291-5PRT409IMV5QC45PX70S/81IUk78b-wL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Twenty (Jack Swyteck #17) - James Grippando Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller After a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties at Riverside Day School, the tragedy prompts mass hysteria-- and dangerous speculation. The police haven't identified the shooter, but a handgun found on the school grounds is registered to a parent, a Muslim man named Amir Khoury. News of the gun goes viral, and Al Qaeda claims responsibility. When Xavier, Amir and Lilly's oldest child, an eighteen-year-old senior at Riverside, confesses to the crime, anti-Muslim fervor explodes to levels unseen since 9/11. Lilly asks Jack to step in. Now he must unearth the Khourys' family secrets to save his client from certain death. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Twenty” by James Grippando https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623271763983-XMOSODZTXPZK5E6BDBGI/81Mtm5sPdvL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Unfinished Business (Ali Reynolds #16) - J A Jance Genres: Fiction, Mystery Mateo Vega, a one-time employee of Ali Reynold’s husband, B. Simpson, has spent the last sixteen years of his life behind bars. According to the courts, he murdered his girlfriend. But Mateo knows that her real killer is still on the loose, and the first thing he’s going to do when he gets a taste of freedom is track him down. After being granted parole, a wary Mateo approaches Stu Ramey of High Noon Enterprises for a reference letter for a job application, but to his surprise, Stu gives him one better: He asks him to come on board and work for B. once again. Just as Mateo starts his new job, though, chaos breaks out at High Noon—a deadbeat tenant who is in arrears has just fled, and tech expert Cami Lee has gone missing. As Ali races to both find a connection between the two disappearances and help Mateo clear his name with the help of PI J.P. Beaumont, tragedy strikes in her personal life, and with lives hanging in the balance, she must thread the needle between good and evil before it’s too late. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Unfinished Business” by J A Jance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623272164006-AYSUEKDHFKKZ7A26TSYM/BNCImageAPI_c5a23ad2-3719-45b7-8818-2006930238b7_800x.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Unsettled Ground - Claire Fuller Genres: Fiction, Mystery Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At fifty-one years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sanctuary against the perils of the outside world, even as their mother's secrets begin to unravel, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Unsettled Ground” by Claire Fuller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623272290258-U09Z2ZDXRBKZ276TI2HG/91m6wpQt1LL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Venice Sketchbook - Rhys Bowen Genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Romance Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper…Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet "Lettie" Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. It's 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, it's a wealth of history, art, and beauty. For Juliet, it's poignant memories and a chance to reconnect with Leonardo Da Rossi, the man she loves whose future is already determined by his noble family. However star-crossed, nothing can come between them. Until the threat of war closes in on Venice and they're forced to fight, survive, and protect a secret that will bind them forever. Key by key, Lettie's life of impossible love, loss, and courage unfolds. It's one that Caroline can now make right again as her own journey of self-discovery begins. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Venice Sketchbook” by Rhys Bowen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623272419065-7IYCUC9NDL34WNQTD40J/91IVDk7AsHL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - What Comes After - Joanne Tompkins Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller In misty, coastal Washington state, Isaac lives alone with his dog, grieving the recent death of his teenage son Daniel. Next door, Lorrie, a working single mother, struggles with a heinous act committed by her own teenage son. Separated by only a silvery stretch of trees, the two parents are emotionally stranded, isolated by their great losses--until an unfamiliar sixteen year-old girl shows up, bridges the gap, and changes everything. Evangeline's arrival at first feels like a blessing, but she is also clearly hiding something. When Isaac, who has retreated into his Quaker faith, isn't equipped to handle her alone, Lorrie forges her own relationship with the girl. Soon all three characters are forced to examine what really happened in their overlapping pasts, and what it all possibly means for a shared future. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “What Comes After” by Joanne Tompkins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623272532832-EJXM5U032PO9KWDENPTQ/81MgJFc1plL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - When the Stars Go Dark - Paula McLain Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller A detective hiding away from the world. A series of disappearances that reach into her past. Can solving them help her heal? Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino. She spent summers there as a child with her beloved foster parents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her to heal. Yet the day she arrives, she learns a local teenage girl has gone missing. Anna is in no condition to become involved with the search--until a childhood friend, now the village sheriff, pleads for her help. Then, just days later, a twelve-year-old girl is abducted from her home. The crimes feel frighteningly reminiscent of the most crucial time in Anna's childhood, when a string of unsolved murders touched Mendocino. As past and present collide, Anna realizes that she has been led to this moment. The most difficult lessons of her life have given her insight into how victims come into contact with violent predators. As Anna becomes obsessed with these missing girls, she must learn that true courage means getting out of her own way and learning to let others in. Weaving together true crime, trauma theory, and a hint of the metaphysical, this tense, affecting story is about fate, unlikely redemption, and what it takes, when the worst happens, to reclaim our lives--and our faith in one another. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “When the Stars Go Dark” by Paula McLain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623272676897-FZBDF2IPKA0M1G28COXY/910yiSWLJeL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - While Justice Sleeps - Stacey Abrams Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together--excelling in an arduous job with the court while also dealing with a troubled family. When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynn--the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile cases--has slipped into a coma, Avery's life turns upside down. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left instructions for her to serve as his legal guardian and power of attorney. Plunged into an explosive role she never anticipated, Avery finds that Justice Wynn had been secretly researching one of the most controversial cases before the court--a proposed merger between an American biotech company and an Indian genetics firm, which promises to unleash breathtaking results in the medical field. She also discovers that Wynn suspected a dangerously related conspiracy that infiltrates the highest power corridors of Washington. As political wrangling ensues in Washington to potentially replace the ailing judge whose life and survival Avery controls, she begins to unravel a carefully constructed, chesslike sequence of clues left behind by Wynn. She comes to see that Wynn had a much more personal stake in the controversial case and realizes his complex puzzle will lead her directly into harm's way in order to find the truth. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “While Justice Sleeps” by Stacey Abrams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623433192118-BMRH2Y7R0LTYJTLLKJBH/81sTDf8iZQL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Wild Girls - Phoebe Morgan Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller It’s been years since Grace, Felicity, Alice and Hannah were together – The Wild Girls, as they were once called, are no longer so wild. Alice has settled with a new baby and partner. Hannah is now a teacher. Grace has gone to ground. Only Felicity seems to have the same spark she once had. And now Felicity has invited them all on the weekend of a lifetime – a mini-break in Botswana to celebrate her birthday, a chance to put that night two years ago behind them, when things went so very wrong between them, and their bomb-proof friendship was shattered forever. But on arriving at the luxury safari lodge, a feeling of unease settles on Grace, Hannah and Alice. Felicity isn’t there to meet them. There’s no sign of the party she promised. The awful phone signal means that they are on their own, in the wild… It’s a weekend with a difference. But who is hunting who? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Wild Girls” by Phoebe Morgan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623272833461-0UQGIU9MMP7APD5CL62Z/81jdo-JJmsL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - You Love Me (You #3) - Caroline Kepnes Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller Joe is done with the cities. He’s done with the muck and the posers, done with Love. Now, he’s saying hello to nature, to simple pleasures on a cozy island in the Pacific Northwest. For the first time in a long time, he can just breathe. He gets a job at the local library—he does know a thing or two about books—and that’s where he meets her: Mary Kay DiMarco. Librarian. Joe won’t meddle, he will not obsess. He’ll win her the old-fashioned way... by providing a shoulder to cry on, a helping hand. Over time, they’ll both heal their wounds and begin their happily ever after in this sleepy town. The trouble is... Mary Kay already has a life. She’s a mother. She’s a friend. She’s... busy. True love can only triumph if both people are willing to make room for the real thing. Joe cleared his decks. He’s ready. And hopefully, with his encouragement and undying support, Mary Kay will do the right thing and make room for him. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “You Love Me” by Caroline Kepnes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623344174274-D397VEUJOB85XW98B8YD/910CXe0tpFL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - You Will Remember Me - Hannah Mary McKinnon Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Lily Reid thinks she knows her boyfriend, Jack. Until he goes missing one night, and her frantic search reveals that he's been lying to her since they met, desperate to escape a dark past he'd purposely left behind. Maya Scott has been trying to find her estranged stepbrother, Asher, since he disappeared without a trace. Having him back, missing memory and all, feels like a miracle. But with a mutual history full of devastating secrets, how far will Maya go to ensure she alone takes them to the grave? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “You Will Remember Me” by Hannah Mary McKinnon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623344413546-YW4K760LXLJHSICXH3X7/81wuQfU94QL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Billie Eilish - Billie Eilish Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography Legendary recording artist Billie Eilish shares an intimate inside look at her life - both on and off the stage - in this stunning, photo-filled book. Billie Eilish is a phenomenon. With distinctive visual flare and darkly poignant lyrics that are unparalleled among music icons of the 21st century, Billie is a musician who stands out from the crowd. Between her record-shattering award-winning music and her uncompromising and unapologetic attitude, it's no surprise that her fanbase continues to grow by millions month after month. She is that rare combination of wildly popular and highly respected for her prodigious talent, a once in a generation superstar. Now in this stunning visual narrative journey through her life, she is ready to share more with her devoted audience for the first time, including hundreds of never-before-seen photos. This gorgeous book will capture the essence of Billie inside and out, offering readers personal glimpses into her childhood, her life on tour, and more. A must-have for any fan. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Billie Eilish” by Billie Eilish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623344533388-AC7G3G7PS2E2A21MJ65L/81euC4Y2MgL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Blackjack: Play Like the Pros - John Bukofsky Genres: Non-fiction Blackjack gives you the best odds of any casino game, and armed with a little know-how, you can obtain an advantage. Let veteran blackjack player and expert card counter John Bukofsky show you how. So you want to be Rain Man but just can't seem to instantly divide eight zillion by your shoe size? No problem--neither can the world's best blackjack players. But what they can do is work some simple techniques to increase their chances at the one game that already offers better odds for winning than slots, craps, roulette or any other. John Bukofsky explains all you need to know--from the basics of game-play and strategy to card counting at the professional level--so you can actually gain an advantage over the house. Blackjack: Play Like the Pros also provides helpful information on other important aspects of the game, including: • Betting and bankroll • Casino countermeasures • Camouflage techniques • Plus a special section devoted to "negative swings"--the number-one reason why many players end up leaving the game Beating the casinos at their own game isn't easy. But it can be done, and Blackjack: Play Like the Pros can increase your chances of walking out a winner. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Blackjack: Play Like the Pros” by John Bukofsky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623344814758-0KPQCHWDUEGL6PL5HQT2/81u3aJiUHLL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Broken (in the best possible way) - Jenny Lawson Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography, Comedy As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way. With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it. From the business ideas that she wants to pitch to Shark Tank to the reason why Jenny can never go back to the post office, Broken leaves nothing to the imagination in the most satisfying way. And of course, Jenny’s long-suffering husband Victor―the Ricky to Jenny’s Lucille Ball―is present throughout. A treat for Jenny Lawson’s already existing fans, and destined to convert new ones, Broken is a beacon of hope and a wellspring of laughter when we all need it most. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Broken (in the best possible way)” by Jenny Lawson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623344984907-ZVHQN1ZOLCESFLQ5EP7W/91STfr6z3oL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Call Me Indian - Fred Saskamoose Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography Trailblazer. Residential school survivor. First Indigenous player in the NHL. All of these descriptions are true -- but none of them tell the whole story. Fred Sasakamoose suffered abuse in a residential school for a decade before becoming one of 125 players in the most elite hockey league in the world -- and has been heralded as the first Canadian Indigenous player with Treaty status in the NHL. He made his debut with the 1954 Chicago Black Hawks on Hockey Night in Canada and taught Foster Hewitt how to correctly pronounce his name. Sasakamoose played against such legends as Gordie Howe, Jean Beliveau, and Maurice Richard. After twelve games, he returned home. When people tell Sasakamoose's story, this is usually where they end it. They say he left the NHL after only a dozen games to return to the family and culture that the Canadian government had ripped away from him. That returning to his family and home was more important to him than an NHL career. But there was much more to his decision than that. Understanding Sasakamoose's decision to return home means grappling with the dislocation of generations of Indigenous Canadians. Having been uprooted once, Sasakamoose could not endure it again. It was not homesickness; a man who spent his childhood as "property" of the government could not tolerate the uncertainty and powerlessness of being a team's property. Fred's choice to leave the NHL was never as clear-cut as reporters have suggested. And his story was far from over. He continued to play for another decade in leagues around Western Canada. He became a band councillor, served as Chief, and formed athletic programs for kids. He paved a way for youth to find solace and meaning in sports for generations to come. This isn't just a hockey story; Sasakamoose's groundbreaking memoir intersects Canadian history and Indigenous politics, and follows his journey to reclaim pride in an identity that had previously been used against him. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Call Me Indian” by Fred Saskamoose https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623345110281-JYUCUU2SDIU05UJBTCKS/71UvJOwu7NL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Driven - Marcello di Cintio Genres: Non-fiction, Short stories In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. 'A taxi,' writes Marcello Di Cintio, 'is a border.' Inside every cab is a space both private and public: accessible to all, and yet, once the doors close, strangely intimate, as two strangers who might otherwise never have met share a five or fifty minute trip. In a series of interviews with Canadian taxi drivers, their backgrounds ranging from the Iraqi National Guard, to the Westboro Baptist Church, to an arranged marriage that left one woman stranded in a foreign country, Di Cintio seeks out those missed conversations, revealing the untold lives of the people who take us where we want to go. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Driven” by Marcello di Cintio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623345337577-07BXP9FBZ099BZHZVFG2/800-Glazed-Chicken-aaDSC_5142.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Everyone’s Table - Gregory Gourdet Genres: Non-fiction, Cooking Everyone's Table features 200 mouth-watering, decadently flavorful recipes carefully designed to focus on superfoods--ingredients with the highest nutrient-density, the best fats, and the most minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants--that will delight and inspire home cooks. Gourdet's dishes are inspired by his deep affection for global ingredients and techniques--from his Haitian upbringing to his French culinary education, from his deep affection for the cuisines of Asia as well as those of North and West Africa. His unique culinary odyssey informs this one-of-a-kind cookbook, which features dynamic vegetable-forward dishes and savory meaty stews, umami-packed sauces and easy ferments, and endless clever ways to make both year-round and seasonal ingredients shine. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Everyone’s Table” by Gregory Gourdet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623345542921-YIPBC3H15EPQLJYLYMSY/81mDMRlfm3L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Happiest Man on Earth - Eddie Jaku Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography, History Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Eddie was beaten by SS thugs, arrested, and sent to a concentration camp with thousands of other Jews across Germany. Every day of the next seven years of his life, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors in Buchenwald, Auschwitz, and finally on a forced death march during the Third Reich’s final days. The Nazis took everything from Eddie—his family, his friends, and his country. But they did not break his spirit. Against unbelievable odds, Eddie found the will to survive. Overwhelming grateful, he made a promise: he would smile every day in thanks for the precious gift he was given and to honor the six million Jews murdered by Hitler. Today, at 100 years of age, despite all he suffered, Eddie calls himself the “happiest man on earth.” In his remarkable memoir, this born storyteller shares his wisdom and reflects on how he has led his best possible life, talking warmly and openly about the power of gratitude, tolerance, and kindness. Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. With The Happiest Man on Earth, Eddie shows us how. . CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Happiest Man on Earth” by Eddie Jaku https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623433745158-MIS2VDNE5YVKATEMKUIO/IconicStoriesFrom150YearsofSportinMB.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Iconic Stories from 150 Years of Sport in Manitoba - Sean Grassie Genres: Non-fiction, History, Sports The book consists of 150 stories from 150 years of Manitoba sports history (1870-2019). There are stories on athletes, teams, events, and iconic sports moments. Cindy Klassen and Clara Hughes, who each won six Olympic medals, are among the athletes featured in the book. Others include sprinter John Armstrong Howard, who became Canada's first black Olympian in 1912, and Brigette Lacquette, who became the first First Nations player to play on Canada's Olympic women's hockey team in 2018. The 1967 and 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg are among the events featured in the book. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Iconic Stories from 150 Years of Sport in Manitoba” by Sean Grassie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623345675153-JAV9G4X9LS8BG6X37XJA/81MMX7CVvAL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - My Name is Selma - Selma van de Perre Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography, History Selma van de Perre was seventeen when World War II began. She lived with her parents, two older brothers, and a younger sister in Amsterdam, and until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had not presented much of an issue. But by 1941 it had become a matter of life or death. On several occasions, Selma barely avoided being rounded up by the Nazis. While her father was summoned to a work camp and eventually hospitalized in a Dutch transition camp, her mother and sister went into hiding—until they were betrayed in June 1943 and sent to Auschwitz. In an act of defiance and with nowhere else to turn, Selma took on an assumed identity, dyed her hair blond, and joined the Resistance movement, using the pseudonym Margareta van der Kuit. For two years “Marga” risked it all. Using a fake ID, and passing as non-Jewish, she traveled around the country and even to Nazi headquarters in Paris, sharing information and delivering papers—doing, as she later explained, what “had to be done.” But in July 1944 her luck ran out. She was transported to Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp as a political prisoner. Without knowing the fate of her family—her father died in Auschwitz, and her mother and sister were killed in Sobibor—Selma survived by using her alias, pretending to be someone else. It was only after the war ended that she could reclaim her identity and dared to say once again: My name is Selma. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “My Name is Selma” by Selma van de Perre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623361152356-OKDGT36QSQV1YZKE7EIA/91jSmTi-JWL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - My Remarkable Journey - Katherine Johnson Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography, History Katherine Johnson was 97 years old in 2015, when the world caught up to her. That year, President Barack Obama awarded her the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom-the nation's highest civilian honor-for her pioneering work decades earlier as a mathematician on NASA's first flights into space. The next year, a blockbuster movie, Hidden Figures, told the world the story of the West Area Computing unit, where Katherine worked as a human computer among an unheralded cadre of African American female mathematicians. In the days before IBM introduced its first electronic computers and at a time when African Americans were subjected to inferior treatment and status, these brilliant women were among those doing the computations that helped send the United States' first manned spaceflights to the moon. Even among such a talented group, Katherine stood out. Astronaut John Glenn was reluctant to trust her computations of NASA's first electronic computers for the trajectory of his 1962 flight to the moon, until Katherine did the math by hand. "Get the girl," Glenn said then, referring to Katherine. "If she says they're good, then I'm ready to go." Now, in her definitive new memoir, Katherine shares her personal journey from a child prodigy growing up in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to the peaceful centenarian she was in her final days. In A Remarkable Journey: The Wisdom, Grit, and Grace of a Pioneering NASA Mathematician, Katherine wraps her story around some of the basic tenets of her life-the value of knowing that no one is better than you, education is paramount, timing is everything, and asking questions can break barriers. Readers will see this heroine in full dimension-curious "daddy's girl," standout college student, pioneering professional, doting mother, grieving widow, and sage elder. They will hear the wisdom of a woman who handled great fame with genuine humility and great tragedy with enduring hope. They will see the brilliance of a young college student who latched onto a dream, inspired by a college professor who told her she would make a good "research mathematician." She would carry the mantle of that professor, who in 1933 became one of the first African Americans in the country to receive a doctorate in math, only to find his own dreams of becoming a research mathematician crushed by racism. The book moves with Katherine through 100 years of racial history, pausing to show, for example, the influential role that educators at segregated schools and Historically Black Colleges and Universities played in nurturing the dreams of trailblazers. In this uplifting narrative, readers see a woman who navigated tough racial terrain with the soft-spoken grace expected of a woman of her era, and the unrelenting grit required to make history and inspire future generations. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “My Remarkable Journey” by Katherine Johnson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623361471978-XZZIFEWE6I539N8ZHEOG/41qvZS3d8zL._SX260_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Nishga - Jordan Abel Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography, Poetry From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking and emotionally devastating autobiographical meditation on the complicated legacies that Canada's reservation school system has cast on his grandparents', his parents' and his own generation. NISHGA is a deeply personal and autobiographical book that attempts to address the complications of contemporary Indigenous existence. As a Nisga'a writer, Jordan Abel often finds himself in a position where he is asked to explain his relationship to Nisga'a language, Nisga'a community, and Nisga'a cultural knowledge. However, as an intergenerational survivor of residential school--both of his grandparents attended the same residential school in Chilliwack, British Columbia--his relationship to his own Indigenous identity is complicated to say the least. NISHGA explores those complications and is invested in understanding how the colonial violence originating at the Coqualeetza Indian Residential School impacted his grandparents' generation, then his father's generation, and ultimately his own. The project is rooted in a desire to illuminate the realities of intergenerational survivors of residential school, but sheds light on Indigenous experiences that may not seem to be immediately (or inherently) Indigenous. Drawing on autobiography, a series of interconnected documents (including pieces of memoir, transcriptions of talks, and photography), NISHGA is a book about confronting difficult truths and it is about how both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples engage with a history of colonial violence that is quite often rendered invisible. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Nishga” by Jordan Abel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623361586786-FWLQQ587MLF9TG5NBWY6/51bTZpGOOPL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Peyakow - Darrel J McLeod Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography Mamaskatch, Darrel J. McLeod's 2018 memoir of growing up Cree in Northern Alberta, was a publishing sensation---winning the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for many other major prizes and translated into French and German editions. In Peyakow, McLeod continues the poignant story of his impoverished youth, beset by constant fears of being dragged down by the self-destruction and deaths of those closest to him as he battles the bullying of white classmates, copes with the trauma of physical and sexual abuse, and endures painful separation from his family and culture. With steely determination, he triumphs: now elementary teacher; now school principal; now head of an Indigenous delegation to the UN in Geneva; now executive in the Government of Canada---and now a celebrated author. Brutally frank but buoyed throughout by McLeod's unquenchable spirit, Peyakow, a title borrowed from the Cree word for "one who walks alone" is an inspiring account of triumph against unimaginable odds. McLeod's perspective as someone whose career path has crossed both sides of the Indigenous/white chasm resonates with particular force in today's Canada. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Peyakow” by Darrel J McLeod https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623361699169-M4SBW9UUDR4HV3BRKQ55/71yrinyur-L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Remember - Lisa Genova Genres: Non-fiction, Science The Harvard-trained neuroscientist presents an exploration of the intricacies of human memory that distinguishes between normal and concerning memory loss while explaining the profound roles of sleep, stress, and other contributing influences. Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can't for the life of you remember the name of that actor in the movie you saw last week, or you walk into a room only to forget why you went there in the first place? If you're over forty, you're probably not laughing. You might even be worried that these lapses in memory could be an early sign of Alzheimer's or dementia. In reality, for the vast majority of us, these examples of forgetting are completely normal. Why? Because while memory is amazing, it is far from perfect. Our brains aren't designed to remember every name we hear, plan we make, or day we experience. Just because your memory sometimes fails doesn't mean it's broken or succumbing to disease. Forgetting is actually part of being human. In Remember, neuroscientist and acclaimed novelist Lisa Genova delves into how memories are made and how we retrieve them. You'll learn whether forgotten memories are temporarily inaccessible or erased forever and why some memories are built to exist for only a few seconds (like a passcode) while others can last a lifetime (your wedding day). You'll come to appreciate the clear distinction between normal forgetting (where you parked your car) and forgetting due to Alzheimer's (that you own a car). And you'll see how memory is profoundly impacted by meaning, emotion, sleep, stress, and context. Once you understand the language of memory and how it functions, its incredible strengths and maddening weaknesses, its natural vulnerabilities and potential superpowers, you can both vastly improve your ability to remember and feel less rattled when you inevitably forget. You can set educated expectations for your memory, and in doing so, create a better relationship with it. You don't have to fear it anymore. And that can be life-changing. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Remember” by Lisa Genova https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623361849303-2Z2XMTVE3F2WWE0XWIAO/91ffntdSG2L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - The Secret Ingredient Cookbook - Kelly Senyei Genres: Non-fiction, Cooking Kelly Senyei, founder of the food site Just a Taste, has garnered millions of fans with a delicious hook--every one of her recipes has a secret ingredient, something totally unexpected that takes a dish from common to extraordinary. Some of the 125 tried-and-tested recipes are surprisingly simple, like her Vanilla Bean Drop Doughnuts made with Greek yogurt, or the Sweet and Tangy Baked Chicken Wings made with blackberry jam. Other recipes are nothing short of genius, such as the Kale Panzanella made with croissants, the Healthy White Chicken Chili made with hummus, or the Crispy Slow Cooker Carnitas made with cocoa powder. And just because the secret ingredients are surprising doesn't mean they're expensive or hard to find, either. Kelly is a busy mother of two, and she made sure every ingredient can be found in any supermarket. Her family-friendly recipes cover every occasion, from crowd-pleasing snacks and 30-minute entrées to make-ahead sides and holiday-worthy desserts. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Secret Ingredient Cookbook” by Kelly Senyei https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623361971212-57I9HY7X0GHH8THKGYEV/71ZyEKLTM5L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend - Ben Philippe Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography, Comedy In an era in which “I have many black friends” is often a medal of Wokeness, Ben hilariously chronicles the experience of being on the receiving end of those fist bumps. He takes us through his immigrant childhood, from wanting nothing more than friends to sit with at lunch, to his awkward teenage years, to college in the age of Obama, and adulthood in the Trump administration—two sides of the same American coin. Ben takes his role as your new black friend seriously, providing original and borrowed wisdom on stereotypes, slurs, the whole “swimming thing,” how much Beyoncé is too much Beyoncé, Black Girl Magic, the rise of the Karens, affirmative action, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other conversations you might want to have with your new BBFF. Oscillating between the impulse to be "one of the good ones" and the occasional need to excuse himself to the restrooms, stuff his mouth with toilet paper, and scream, Ben navigates his own Blackness as an "Oreo" with too many opinions for his father’s liking, an encyclopedic knowledge of CW teen dramas, and a mouth he can't always control. From cheating his way out of swim tests to discovering stray family members in unlikely places, he finds the punchline in the serious while acknowledging the blunt truths of existing as a Black man in today’s world. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend” by Ben Philippe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623362275014-0OXD7GBYJ6B0VYM1RJWA/81taIpk%2B8YL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 7, 2021 - Inkblot Vol. 1 - Emma Kubert Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy A powerful sorceress must attempt to correct her greatest mistake--the creation of a magical cat which can travel through time, space, and the seven realms of reality. The cat threatens to unravel the fabric of the universe, doesn't care, and just won't listen! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Inkblot” by Emma Kubert https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-may-11-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623182202726-PGVNIW211682R58A81V2/21st-Birthday-James-Patterson.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - 21st Birthday (Women’s Murder Club #21) - James Patterson Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Detective Lindsay Boxer vows to protect a young woman from a serial killer long enough to see her twenty-first birthday. When young wife and mother Tara Burke goes missing with her baby girl, all eyes are on her husband, Lucas. He paints her not as a missing person but a wayward wife—until a gruesome piece of evidence turns the investigation criminal. While Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas pursues the story and M.E. Claire Washburn harbors theories that run counter to the SFPD’s, ADA Yuki Castellano sizes Lucas up as a textbook domestic offender . . . who suddenly puts forward an unexpected suspect. If what Lucas tells law enforcement has even a grain of truth, there isn't a woman in the state of California who's safe from the reach of an unspeakable threat. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “21st Birthday (Women’s Murder Club #21) by James Patterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623182936657-V7Q02WP98KRU69U9DSBE/the-coffin-makers-garden-stuart-macbride.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Coffinmaker’s Garden (Ash Henderson #3) - Stuart MacBride Genres: Fiction, Thriller A house of secrets… As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith’s home is falling into the sea. The trouble is: that’s where he’s been hiding the bodies. A killer on the run… It’s too dangerous to go near the place, so there’s no way of knowing how many people he’s murdered. Or how many more he’ll kill before he’s caught. An investigator with nothing to lose… As more horrors are discovered, ex-detective Ash Henderson is done playing nice. He’s got a killer to catch, and God help anyone who gets in his way. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Coffinmaker’s Garden (Ash Henderson #3) by Stuart MacBride https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623183690453-V8K6BSWK2HMMRMLQOR06/the-dictionary-of-lost-words-pip-williams.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams Genres: Fiction, Historical In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world. Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women’s experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, secretly, she begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Dictionary of Lost Words” by Pip Williams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623184271407-IR1D4RSLF1BOGJ3F55NC/the-drowning-kind-jennifer-mcmahon.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Drowning Kind - Jennifer McMahon Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Psychological, Paranormal Be careful what you wish for. When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it’s just another one of her sister’s episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year. But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother’s estate. When Jax arrives at the house to go through her sister’s things, she learns that Lexie was researching the history of their family and the property. And as she dives deeper into the research herself, she discovers that the land holds a far darker past than she could have ever imagined. In 1929, thirty-seven-year-old newlywed Ethel Monroe hopes desperately for a baby. In an effort to distract her, her husband whisks her away on a trip to Vermont, where a natural spring is showcased by the newest and most modern hotel in the Northeast. Once there, Ethel learns that the water is rumored to grant wishes, never suspecting that the spring takes in equal measure to what it gives. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Drowning Kind” by Jennifer McMahon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623184564142-X57B19HCHEN578TTFTFX/good-company-cynthia-d%27aprix-sweeney.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Good Company - Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Genres: Fiction, Domestic Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband’s wedding ring—the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five. Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julian’s small theater company—Good Company—afloat. A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes, a chance to breathe easier, and a reunion with Margot, now a bona fide television star. But has their new life been built on lies? What happened that summer all those years ago? And what happens now? 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And when further testing reveals that the strain of the bacteria is one that caused catastrophic losses in Iceland six months before, Lisa decides to take a drastic step: she contacts Nathan Hull, vice president of a pharmaceutical company that is doing final-phase trials on a viable vaccine, and asks him to release it early for use on the city’s population. An epidemic in the making Lisa gets the go-ahead on her controversial plan, despite the protests of dubious government officials, anti-vaxxers, and even those on her own team. Vaccine clinics roll out across the city, and the risky strategy appears to be working, leaving Lisa, Nathan, and thousands of others breathing a sigh of relief. Until people start dying from mysterious and horrific causes—and the vaccine itself is implicated. But what if science isn’t to blame? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Lost Immunity” by Daniel Kalla https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623185272134-26G7L486W96GBLVWPD0E/the-newcomer-mary-kay-andrews.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Newcomer - Mary Kay Andrews Genres: Fiction, Romance In trouble and on the run... After she discovers her sister Tanya dead on the floor of her fashionable New York City townhouse, Letty Carnahan is certain she knows who did it: Tanya's ex; sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield. Even in the grip of grief and panic Letty heeds her late sister's warnings: "If anything bad happens to me--it's Evan. Promise me you'll take Maya and run. Promise me." With a trunkful of emotional baggage... So Letty grabs her sister's Mercedes and hits the road with her wailing four-year-old niece Maya. Letty is determined to out-run Evan and the law, but run to where? Tanya, a woman with a past shrouded in secrets, left behind a "go-bag" of cash and a big honking diamond ring--but only one clue: a faded magazine story about a sleepy mom-and-pop motel in a Florida beach town with the improbable name of Treasure Island. She sheds her old life and checks into an uncertain future at The Murmuring Surf Motel. The No Vacancy sign is flashing & the sharks are circling... And that's the good news. Because The Surf, as the regulars call it, is the winter home of a close-knit flock of retirees and snowbirds who regard this odd-duck newcomer with suspicion and down-right hostility. As Letty settles into the motel's former storage room, she tries to heal Maya's heartache and unravel the key to her sister's shady past, all while dodging the attention of the owner's dangerously attractive son Joe, who just happens to be a local police detective. Can Letty find romance as well as a room at the inn--or will Joe betray her secrets and put her behind bars? With danger closing in, it's a race to find the truth and right the wrongs of the past. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Newcomer” by Mary Kay Andrews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623185692609-04TJV8PWAU07CL75N9UP/other-people%27s-children-rj-hoffman.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Other People’s Children - R.J. Hoffman Genres: Fiction, Literary Gail and Jon Durbin moved to the Chicago suburbs to set up house as soon as Gail got pregnant. But then she miscarried—once, twice, three times. Determined to expand their family, the Durbins turn to adoption. When several adoptions fall through, Gail’s desire for a child overwhelms her. Carli is a pregnant teenager from a blue-collar town nearby, with dreams of going to college and getting out of her mother’s home. When she makes the gut-wrenching decision to give her baby up for adoption, she chooses the Durbins. But Carli’s mother, Marla, has other plans for her grandbaby. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Other People’s Children” by R.J. Hoffman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623186070567-JBIDLW6MQ2JSEBT7KE9N/the-perfect-guests-emma-rous.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Perfect Guests - Emma Rous Genres: Fiction, Mystery 1988. Beth Soames is fourteen years old when her aunt takes her to stay at Raven Hall, a rambling manor in the isolated East Anglian fens. The Averells, the family who lives there, are warm and welcoming, and Beth becomes fast friends with their daughter, Nina. At times, Beth even feels like she's truly part of the family...until they ask her to help them with a harmless game--and nothing is ever the same. 2019. Sadie Langton is an actress struggling to make ends meet when she lands a well-paying gig to pretend to be a guest at a weekend party. She is sent a suitcase of clothing, a dossier outlining the role she is to play, and instructions. It's strange, but she needs the money, and when she sees the stunning manor she'll be staying at, she figures she's got nothing to lose. In person, Raven Hall is even grander than she'd imagined--even with damage from a fire decades before--but the walls seem to have eyes. As day turns to night, Sadie starts to feel that there's something off about the glamorous guests who arrive, and as the party begins, it becomes chillingly apparent their unseen host is playing games with everyone...including her. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Perfect Guests” by Emma Rous https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623186318340-NI3EOXGQ42ZW6JD9BUY8/the-sanatorium-sarah-pearse.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Sanatorium - Sarah Pearse Genres: Fiction, Thriller You won’t want to leave. . . until you can’t. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin’s taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge–there’s something about the hotel that makes her nervous. And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic. Elin is under pressure to find Laure, but no one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. And she’s the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they are all in. . . CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Sanatorium” by Sarah Pearse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623186619099-N429B2RMQHZ1H5MVBAAY/the-secret-path-karen-swan.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Secret Path - Karen Swan Genres: Fiction, Romance In Costa Rica, amid startling white beaches and hot, dense rainforests, the luxurious world of the super-rich butts up against something darker, something more sinister. Tara Tremain has worked hard to leave the controlling grasp of her extremely affluent family far behind. With her own career in medicine, she doesn’t need the Tremains’ expectations weighing her down any more. But pulled back into the family’s orbit one last time for an unmissable party in the jungles of Costa Rica, she finds herself flung into action: a local boy is desperately ill and she must trek for days into the jungle to save his life. What Tara could never have predicted is that the one person who can help her in this impossible journey is Alex Carter, the man who destroyed her life ten years ago . . . CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Secret Path” by Karen Swan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623187003080-ZWXLQE38H3N29IK7TBYF/six-weeks-to-live-catherine-mckenzie.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Six Weeks to Live - Catherine McKenzie Genres: Fiction, Thriller Jennifer Barnes never expected the shocking news she received at a routine doctor’s appointment: she has a terminal brain tumor—and only six weeks left to live. While stunned by the diagnosis, the forty-eight-year-old mother decides to spend what little time she has left with her family—her adult triplets and twin grandsons—close by her side. But when she realizes she was possibly poisoned a year earlier, she’s determined to discover who might have tried to get rid of her before she’s gone for good. Separated from her husband and with a contentious divorce in progress, Jennifer focuses her suspicions on her soon-to-be ex. Meanwhile, her daughters are each processing the news differently. Calm medical student Emily is there for whatever Jennifer needs. Moody scientist Aline, who keeps her mother at arm’s length, nonetheless agrees to help with the investigation. Even imprudent Miranda, who has recently had to move back home, is being unusually solicitous. But with her daughters doubting her campaign against their father, Jennifer can’t help but wonder if the poisoning is all in her head—or if there’s someone else who wanted her dead. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Six Weeks to Live” by Catherine McKenzie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623187323705-6OS1LJAJY1X4KS6A9P3G/you%27ll-thank-me-for-this-nina-siegal.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - You’ll Thank Me For This - Nina Siegal Genres: Psychological, Thriller Twelve-year old Karin is blindfolded and dropped into the Hoge Veluwe National Forest with three other children. With nothing but a few basic supplies and emergency food, the children are tasked with working together to navigate one of the Netherlands' most beautiful and wild locations and return to where their families are anxiously waiting. Karin quickly finds herself at odds with two of the older teens, and suddenly looks up to see that the other children have vanished. As Karin struggles against the elements to find her way back, she soon realizes that something far more sinister lurks in the woods. Grace, Karin’s mother and an American married to a Dutch husband, has been nervous about this practice from the start. At first she tells herself the space is good for her daughter, but as the hours begin to tick by and the children fail to arrive at their designated campsite, she becomes certain something has gone horribly wrong. As Karin fights for survival, and Grace hastens to find her daughter, the night culminates in the reveal of a deadly secret—and a shocking confrontation—that will push each of them to her edge. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “You’ll Thank Me For This” by Nina Siegal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623187829309-GIAPAGLFV91W34YPXPJQ/because-he%27s-jeff-goldblum-travis-m-andrews.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Because He’s Jeff Goldblum - Travis M. Andrews Genres: Non-fiction, Biography When did you first encounter Jeff Goldblum? Maybe as a deranged killer in his 1974 screen debut in Death Wish? Maybe as a cynical journalist in 1983s The Big Chill? Or a brilliant if egotistical scientist-turned-fly in 1986s The Fly? Perhaps as the wise-cracking skeptical mathematician in 1993s Jurassic Park? Or maybe you're not a film buff but noticed his face as part of one of the Internet's earliest memes. Who knows? Whenever it was, you've probably noticed that Goldblum has become one of Hollywood's most enduring actors, someone who only seems to grow more famous, more heralded, more beloved through the decades, even though he's always followed his own, strange muse. The guy primarily plays jazz music these days, but is more famous than ever. Actor, pianist, husband, father, style icon, meme. Goldblum contains multitudes, but why? What does he mean? The Washington Post's Travis M. Andrews decided to find out. And so he set out on a journey through Goldblum's career, talking to directors like Lawrence Kasdan and Philip Kaufman, colleagues like Harry Shearer and Billy Crudup, and pop culture experts like Chuck Klosterman and Sean Fennessey, to get to the bottom of this whole Goldblum thing. And then he took what he learned and he wrote this book, which is titled Because He's Jeff Goldblum and is the best thing written since The Brothers Karamazov and slightly easier to follow. But you should already know that. In this new semi-biography, semi-rumination, and semi-ridiculous look at the career of Goldblum, Andrews takes you behind the scenes of his iconic movies, explores the shifting nature of fame in the twenty-first century, and spends far too much time converting Goldblum's name into various forms of speech. Want to hear how Goldblum saved a script supervisor from an amorous baboon? Or what he would write on the mirror after taking showers when he was a teenager? How about his feelings on various brands of throat lozenges? (That one could be an entire book unto itself.) Then this is the book for you! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Because He’s Jeff Goldblum” by Travis M. Andrews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623188228458-P4DWC54POW4GCT03XOPQ/the-bomber-mafia-malcolm-gladwell.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell Genres: Non-fiction, History, World War II An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the “Bomber Mafia,” asked: What if precision bombing could cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In contrast, the bombing of Tokyo on the deadliest night of the war was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared even more by averting a planned US invasion. In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell asks, “Was it worth it?” Things might have gone differently had LeMay’s predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. Hansell believed in precision bombing, but when he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II. The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Bomber Mafia” by Malcolm Gladwell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623188787410-R8NCK7RB43949MWEA7N4/how-to-do-the-work-nicole-lepera.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - How to Do The Work - Dr. Nicole LePera Genres: Non-Fiction, Self-Help As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional psychotherapy. Wanting more for her patients—and for herself—she began a journey to develop a united philosophy of mental, physical and spiritual wellness that equips people with the interdisciplinary tools necessary to heal themselves. After experiencing the life-changing results herself, she began to share what she’d learned with others—and soon “The Holistic Psychologist” was born. Now, Dr. LePera is ready to share her much-requested protocol with the world. In How to Do the Work, she offers both a manifesto for SelfHealing as well as an essential guide to creating a more vibrant, authentic, and joyful life. Drawing on the latest research from a diversity of scientific fields and healing modalities, Dr. LePera helps us recognize how adverse experiences and trauma in childhood live with us, resulting in whole body dysfunction—activating harmful stress responses that keep us stuck engaging in patterns of codependency, emotional immaturity, and trauma bonds. Unless addressed, these self-sabotaging behaviors can quickly become cyclical, leaving people feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, and unwell. 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Jann weaves her own story together with tales of her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and the father she came close to hating, to show her younger self--and all of us--that fear and avoidance is no way to live. "What I'm thinking about now aren't all the ways I can try to hang on to my youth or all the seconds ticking by in some kind of morbid countdown to death," she writes, "but rather how I keep becoming someone I always hoped I could be. If I'm lucky one day a very old face will look back at me from the mirror, a face I once shied away from. I will love that old woman ferociously, because she has finally figured out how to live a life of purpose--not in spite of but because of all her mistakes and failures." CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “If I Knew Then” by Jann Arden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623189689072-IBKCNSTTZKCW29PMCPZM/you-are-your-best-thing-tarana-burke-brene-brown.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - You Are Your Best Thing - Tarana Burke and Brene Brown Genres: Non-fiction It started as a text between two friends. Tarana Burke, founder of the 'me too.' Movement, texted researcher and writer Brené Brown to see if she was free to jump on a call. Brené assumed that Tarana wanted to talk about wallpaper. They had been trading home decorating inspiration boards in their last text conversation so Brené started scrolling to find her latest Pinterest pictures when the phone rang. But it was immediately clear to Brené that the conversation wasn't going to be about wallpaper. Tarana's hello was serious and she hesitated for a bit before saying, "Brené, you know your work affected me so deeply, but as a Black woman, I've sometimes had to feel like I have to contort myself to fit into some of your words. The core of it rings so true for me, but the application has been harder." Brené replied, "I'm so glad we're talking about this. It makes sense to me. Especially in terms of vulnerability. How do you take the armor off in a country where you're not physically or emotionally safe?" Long pause. "That's why I'm calling," said Tarana. "What do you think about working together on a book about the Black experience with vulnerability and shame resilience?" There was no hesitation. Burke and Brown are the perfect pair to usher in this stark, potent collection of essays on Black shame and healing. Along with the anthology contributors, they create a space to recognize and process the trauma of white supremacy, a space to be vulnerable and affirm the fullness of Black love and Black life. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “You Are Your Best Thing” by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623259654412-DCLB2BHR1IVKWMP05724/attack-on-titan-1-hajime-isayama.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Attack on Titan (Attack on Titan #1) - Hajime Isayama Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Horror, Sci-fi For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city, trapped in fear of the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming humankind, but the sudden appearance of an enormous Titan is about to change everything... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Attack on Titan (Attack of Titan #1) by Hijime Isayama https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623262675995-E9IJG2I8PPSJ63S9BO1N/attack-on-titan-2-hajime-isayama.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Attack on Titan (Attack on Titan #2) -Hajime Isayama Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Horror, Sci-fi The Colossal Titan has breached humanity’s first line of defense, Wall Maria. Mikasa, the 104th Training Corps’ ace and Eren’s best friend, may be the only one capable of defeating them, but beneath her calm exterior lurks a dark past. When all looks lost, a new Titan appears and begins to slaughter its fellow Titans. Could this new monster be a blessing in disguise, or is the truth something much more sinister? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Attack on Titan (Attack on Titan #2) by Hajime Isayama https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623269545162-ZWDESKZ96AQATAQ4EI8D/attack-on-titan-3-hajime-isayama.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Attack on Titan (Attack on Titan #3) - Hajime Isayama Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Horror, Sci-fi The last thing Eren remembers before blacking out, a Titan had bitten off his arm and leg and was getting ready to eat him alive. Much to his surprise he wakes up without a scratch on him, with a crowd of angry soldiers screaming for his blood. What strange new power has he awakened, and what will happen when the boy devoted to destroying the Titans becomes one himself? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Attack on Titan (Attack on Titan #3) by Hajime Isayama https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623269990867-OAWTO5QXOA4HKV0PAUWK/the-avant-guards-2.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Avant-Guards, Volume 2 (The Avant-Guards) - Carly Usdin Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Romance The Avant-Guards have been on a roll, but when they hit the end of their winning-streak, will these new friendships survive? As The Avant-Guards struggle to move forward, they’ll soon learn just what it means to truly be a team - on the court and, most importantly, off the court. The critically-acclaimed team of writer Carly Usdin (Heavy Vinyl) and artist Noah Hayes (Wet Hot American Summer) deliver the next chapter of the series where every shot counts when you take them with your friends. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Avant-Guards, Volume Two (The Avant Guards #2) by Carly Usdin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623284933260-7KOD3O4O73YB9MP2VPHD/magi-1-shinobu-ohtaka.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Volume 1 (Magi #1) - Shinobu Ohtaka Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Deep within the deserts lie the mysterious Dungeons, vast stores of riches there for the taking by anyone lucky enough to find them and brave enough to venture into the depths from where few have ever returned. Plucky young adventurer Aladdin means to find the Dungeons and their riches, but Aladdin may be just as mysterious as the treasures he seeks. Together with the djinn Ugo and his friend Alibaba, Aladdin sets out to find his fortune in the depths of the endless dunes. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Volume 1 (Magi #1) by Shinobu Ohtaka https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623285335376-C38W584AQVNND3VVF95W/magi-2-shinobu-ohtaka.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Volume 2 (Magi #2) - Shinobu Ohtaka Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Aladdin and Alibaba have entered the Dungeon of Qishan hoping to find hidden treasure—but danger's found them! A horde of slimes closes in on them, while Lord Jamil and his slaves head into the dungeon looking to intercept Aladdin and grab any riches he may have found! But these rivals have more to worry about than each other, and new friends, new enemies and amazing riches are yet to be discovered! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Volume 2 (Magi #2) by Shinobu Ohtaka https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623285728515-45EUJ4LRVVZYNYWXWEYD/magi-3-shinobu-ohtaka.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (Magi #3) - Shinobu Ohtaka Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Aladdin finds himself among the Kouga tribe, who live deep in the desert far from Qishan. An emissary from the Kou Empire arrives offering peace, but when it turns out to be an offer they can't refuse, things take a turn for the worse. Aladdin learns more about the legend of the Magi and the Rukh, bird-like beings of light, with whom he appears to share a deep connection... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (Magi #3) by Shinobu Ohtaka https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623286349769-OTN78DF75836LVRDVCFU/nubia-real-one-l.l.-mckinney.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Nubia: Real One -L.L. McKinney Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Can you be a hero...if society doesn’t see you as a person? Nubia has always been a little bit...different. As a baby she showcased Amazonian-like strength by pushing over a tree to rescue her neighbor’s cat. But, despite having similar abilities, the world has no problem telling her that she’s no Wonder Woman. And even if she was, they wouldn’t want her. Every time she comes to the rescue, she’s reminded of how people see her; as a threat. Her Moms do their best to keep her safe, but Nubia can’t deny the fire within her, even if she’s a little awkward about it sometimes. Even if it means people assume the worst. When Nubia’s best friend, Quisha, is threatened by a boy who thinks he owns the town, Nubia will risk it all—her safety, her home, and her crush on that cute kid in English class—to become the hero society tells her she isn’t. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Nubia: Real One” by L.L. McKinney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623286644111-N1ZSHSUX4SZM6XIDNFBP/the-outside-circle-patti-laboucane-benson.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Outside Circle - Patti LaBoucane-Benson Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel In this important graphic novel, two Aboriginal brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives. Pete, a young Aboriginal man wrapped up in gang violence, lives with his younger brother, Joey, and his mother who is a heroin addict. One night, Pete and his mother’s boyfriend, Dennis, get into a big fight, which sends Dennis to the morgue and Pete to jail. Initially, Pete keeps up ties to his crew, until a jail brawl forces him to realize the negative influence he has become on Joey, which encourages him to begin a process of rehabilitation that includes traditional Aboriginal healing circles and ceremonies. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Outside Circle” by Patti LaBoucane-Benson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623290830321-VMZKHABIUGBY2AV5C6W3/paper-girls-volume-1.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Paper Girls: Vol. 1 (Paper Girls #1) - Brian K. Vaughn Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Sci-fi In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Paper Girls: Vol. 1 (Paper Girls #1) by Brian K. Vaughn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623291112923-97B1OOC6QTTVD1ZLZYTK/paper-girls-volume-2.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Paper Girls: Vol. 2 (Paper Girls #2) - Brian K. Vaughn Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Sci-fi After surviving the strangest night of their lives in the Cleveland suburb of Stony Stream, intrepid young newspaper deliverers Erin, Mac, and Tiffany find themselves launched from 1988 to a distant and terrifying future... the year 2016. What would you do if you were suddenly confronted by your 12-year-old self? 40-year-old newspaper reporter Erin Tieng is about to find out in this action-packed story about identity, mortality, and growing older in the 21st century. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Paper Girls: Vol. 2 (Paper Girls #2) by Brian K. Vaughn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623291507020-3447BTI2I4RD4Q9Z5ROD/paper-girls-volume-3.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Paper Girls: Vol. 3 (Paper Girls #3) - Brian K. Vaughn Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Sci-fi Erin, Mac and Tiffany finally reunite with their long-lost friend KJ in an unexpected new era, where the girls must uncover the secret origins of time travel... or risk never returning home to 1988. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Paper Girls (Paper Girls #3) by Brian K. Vaughn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623291841797-LFE3W81DBY21G05LEYCK/paper-girls-volume-4.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Paper Girls: Vol. 4 (Paper Girls #4) - Brian K. Vaughn Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Sci-fi Intrepid newspaper deliverer Tiffany is launched from the prehistoric past into the year 2000! In this harrowing version of our past, Y2K was even more of a cataclysm than experts feared, and the only person who can save the future is a 12-year-old girl from 1988. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Paper Girls: Vol. 4 (Paper Girls #4) by Brian K. Vaughn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623292122696-LB0V7BX5ZRIWO9J2Z9HL/paper-girls-volume-5.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Paper Girls: Vol. 5 (Paper Girls #5) - Brian K. Vaughn Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Sci-fi Can anyone escape fate? That's what Mac and her fellow newspaper delivery girls must discover as they escape the year 2000 and travel to the distant future. Plus, the truth behind the mysterious “old-timers” is finally revealed. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Paper Girls: Vol. 5 (Paper Girls #5) by Brian K. Vaughn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623292509744-WIO0QFM8B5MB1X4CT7D4/paper-girls-volume-6.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Paper Girls: Vol 6 (Paper Girls #6) -Brian K. Vaughn Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Sci-fi After surviving adventures in their past, present and future, the Paper Girls of 1988 embark on one last journey, a five-part epic that includes the emotional double-sized series finale. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Paper Girls: Vol. 6 (Paper Girls #6) by Bryan K. Vaughn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623359980815-2X47CC13EXDTXCGCKQF3/81gv-D-LqhL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Tokyo Ghoul Vol. 1 - Sui Ishida Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Horror, Sci-fi Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way—except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Shy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize. But it turns out that she’s only interested in his body—eating it, that is. When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists alongside our own. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Tokyo Ghoul Vol. 1” by Sui Ishida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623360139583-JHZIH6NB1WH95ZAHKLRU/81tT56t0Y8L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Tokyo Ghoul Vol. 2 - Sui Ishida Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Horror, Sci-fi Unable to discard his humanity but equally unable to suppress his Ghoul hunger, Ken finds salvation in the kindness of friendly Ghouls who teach him how to pass as human and eat flesh humanely. But recent upheavals in Ghoul society attract the police like wolves to prey, and they don't discriminate between conscientious and ravenous Ghouls. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Tokyo Ghoul Vol. 2” by Sui Ishida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623360340108-ORVB6PD9PNVBQ3QZJWQ4/819ykfVAzKL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Tokyo Ghoul Vol. 3 - Sui Ishida Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Horror, Sci-fi Kaneki is still trying to get used to his new life when Commission of Counter Ghoul agents Mado and Amon start sniffing around for Hinami. Kaneki and Touka are going to have to get them off her tail and fast. No easy task now that Kaneki's got to bring humans and Ghouls to a rapid truce at the same time. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Tokyo Ghoul Vol. 3” by Sui Ishida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623271314845-F35FQ1T3DRSW6J8FK06T/the-backstagers-rebel-without-applause.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Backstagers: Rebel Without Applause (The Backstagers #1) - James Tynion IV Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy When Jory transfers to an all-boys private high school, he's taken in by the only ones who don't treat him like a new kid, the lowly stage crew known as the Backstagers. Not only does he gain great, lifetime friends, Jory is also introduced to an entire magical world that lives beyond the curtain. With the unpredictable twists and turns of the underground world, the Backstagers venture into the unknown, determined to put together the best play their high school has ever seen. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Backstagers: Rebel Without Applause (The Backstagers #1) - James Tynion IV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623271609311-MOZ7JSFRYSKHKM8F2W99/the-backstagers-the-show-must-go-on.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Backstagers: The Show Must Go On (The Backstagers #2) - James Tynion IV Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fanatsy Jory and the rest of the Backstagers have one goal this semester: to put on the best show their town’s ever seen. But best laid plans aren’t easy to achieve when there’s an entire magical world that lives beyond the curtain! When one of the actors suddenly goes missing, the Backstagers must band together to save their comrade and maintain the natural balance of . . . theater. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Backstagers: The Show Must Go On (The Backstagers #3) by James Tynion IV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623270860177-HCCYHIHJA2WV3S46D4BK/the-backstagers-encore.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Backstagers: Encore (The Backstagers #3) - James Tynion IV Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy The Backstagers are back in (stage) blacks, for a festive collection of Valentine’s Day and Halloween stories! Join Jory and the rest of the Backstagers as they wrestle with anti-Valentine crusades, totally creepy phantoms (NOT of the opera), and the everpresent magic of the backstage world in this romantically spooky third volume of the hit series. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Backstagers: Encore (The Backstagers #3) by James Tynion IV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623280895137-2EQIHWPX2JLM53BBGHYE/cells-at-work-1.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Cells at Work! (Cells at Work #1) - Akane Shimizu Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Science Strep throat! Hay fever! Influenza! The world is a dangerous place for a red blood cell just trying to get her deliveries finished. Fortunately, she's not alone... she's got a whole human body's worth of cells ready to help out! The mysterious white blood cell, the buff and brash killer T cell, the nerdy neuron, even the cute little platelets -- everyone's got to come together if they want to keep you healthy! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Cells at Work! (Cells at Work #1) by Akane Shimizu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623281379010-VPM077ZO5P2GIOY4RGA2/cells-at-work-2.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Cells at Work! (Cells at Work #2) - Akane Shimizu Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Science Strep throat! Hay fever! Influenza! The world is a dangerous place for a red blood cell just trying to get her deliveries finished. Fortunately, she’s not alone… she’s got a whole human body’s worth of cells ready to help out! The mysterious white blood cell, the buff and brash killer T cell, the nerdy neuron, even the cute little platelets — everyone’s got to come together if they want to keep you healthy! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Cells at Work! (Cells at Work #2) by Akane Shimizu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623282677281-SA01AZFNU28AZROACAUY/cells-at-work-3.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Cells at Work! (Cells at Work #3) by Akane Shimizu Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Science Strep throat! Hay fever! Influenza! The world is a dangerous place for a red blood cell just trying to get her deliveries finished. Fortunately, she's not alone... she's got a whole human body's worth of cells ready to help out! The mysterious white blood cell, the buff and brash killer T cell, the nerdy neuron, even the cute little platelets -- everyone's got to come together if they want to keep you healthy! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Cells at Work! (Cells at Work #3) by Akane Shimizu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623283064175-F1T71G2L3M36G4J993JZ/girl-haven-lilah-sturges.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Girl Haven - Lilah Sturges Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Three years ago, Ash's mom, Kristin, left home and never came back. Now, Ash lives in the house where Kristin grew up. All of her things are there. Her old room, her old clothes, and the shed, where she spent her childhood creating a fantasy world called Koretris. Ash knows all about Koretris: how it's a haven for girls, with no men or boys allowed, and filled with fanciful landscapes and creatures. When Ash's friends decide to try going to Koretris, using one of Kristin's spellbooks, Ash doesn't think anything will happen. But the spell works, and Ash discovers that the world Kristin created is actually a real place, with real inhabitants and very real danger. But if Koretris is real, why is Ash there? Everyone has always called Ash a boy. Ash uses he/him pronouns. Shouldn't the spell have kept Ash out? And what does it mean if it let Ash in? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Girl Haven” by Lilah Sturges https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623283680544-5J7QPRBLGCNQ4DCN4P8G/hex-vet-witches-in-training.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Hex Vet: Witches in Training (Hex Vet #1) - Sam Davies Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy In a world where magic is an ordinary part of daily life, two young apprentice veterinarians pursue their dreams of caring for supernatural creatures. Have you ever wondered where witches' cats go when they pull a claw? Or what you do with a pygmy phoenix with a case of bird flu? Nan and Clarion have you covered. They're the best veterinarian witches of all time—at least they're trying to be. But when an injured spectral wolf beast from another realm stumbles into their lives, Nan and Clarion have to put down their enchanted potions and face the biggest test of their magical, medical careers...outside of the clinic. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hex Vet: Witches in Training (Hex Vet #1) by Sam Davies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623283384547-70UU8KR21CSTANVMVE97/hex-vet-the-flying-surgery.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Hex Vet: The Flying Surgery (Hex Vet #2) - Sam Davies Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy It’s time for the monthly “Winged Creature Clinic” at Willows Whisper Veterinary Practice, where flying creatures from all over come to get treated. But when Glenn the Wildlife Warlock brings in an injured flying pig that looks like it may have been mistreated, panic strikes and a greater mystery unfolds. It’s up to everyone’s favorite witches-in-training, Nan and Clarion, to keep everything under control at the chaotic clinic while Dr. Talon is away. Will Nan and Clarion save the day and keep their jobs? Or are their days at Willows Whisper numbered? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hex Vet: The Flying Surgery (Hex Vet #2) by Sam Davies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623284002769-G8I0ZLXEZVCZTXD0ZB0U/hunter-x-hunter-volume+1-yoshihiro-togashi.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Hunter x Hunter (Hunter x Hunter #1) - Yoshihiro Togashi Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Adventure Hunters are a special breed, dedicated to tracking down treasures, magical beasts, and even other people. But such pursuits require a license, and less than one in a hundred thousand can pass the grueling qualification exam. Those who do pass gain access to restricted areas, amazing stores of information, and the right to call themselves Hunters. Gon might be a country boy, but he has high aspirations. Despite his Aunt Mito's protests, Gon decides to follow in his father's footsteps and become a legendary Hunter. The Hunter hopefuls begin their journey by storm-tossed ship, where Gon meets Leorio and Kurapika, the only other applicants who aren't devastated by bouts of seasickness. Having survived the terrors of the high seas, Gon and his companions now have to prove their worth in a variety of tests in order to find the elusive Exam Hall. And once they get there, will they ever leave alive...? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hunter x Hunter (Hunter x Hunter #1) by Yoshihiro Togashi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623284361600-VD3PID2PY6N8C3FBMOK0/hunter-x-hunter-volume-2-yoshihiro-togashi.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Hunter x Hunter (Hunter x Hunter #2) - Yoshihiro Togashi Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Adventure Gon and his friends Leorio and Kurapika have more to worry about than just the Hunter Exam--their fellow applicants are deadly serious. Hisoka, the mad magician, nearly kills them all in a mock test and Killua reveals that appearances can be deceiving. Then there are the tests, which prove to be as varied as they are difficult. The picky proctors of the second exam demand the applicants perform culinary feats of wonder, and it takes the intervention of the President of the Hunter Association Review Board to convince them to let anyone pass at all! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hunter x Hunter (Hunter x Hunter #2) by Yoshihiro Togashi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623284598077-42BKGUJ7YW40BSB9EPL8/hunter-x-hunter-volume-3-yoshihiro-togashi.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Hunter x Hunter (Hunter x Hunter #3) - Yoshihiro Togashi Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Adventure Gon and his teammates have been challenged by a group of criminals hired by the Hunter Association. Gon wins with wits, and Kurapika's red-eyed rage assures a victory. But Leorio is all out of luck, and loses precious time for his team. It's up to Killua to save the day with a gruesome display of his assassin skills. With time running out, it takes ingenuity and brute force to beat the clock and the test. And the fourth exam finds the team stranded on an island for a battle royale. Can Gon get the best of Hisoka, or will he be... eliminated? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hunter x Hunter (Hunter x Hunter #3) by Yoshihiro TogashI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623347259060-E5QGU4CE9T22DH2VV1AG/81VJh-gB7CL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Prince and the Dressmaker - Jen Wang Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Historical Paris, at the dawn of the modern age: Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride―or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia―the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion! Sebastian’s secret weapon (and best friend) is the brilliant dressmaker Frances―one of only two people who know the truth: sometimes this boy wears dresses. But Frances dreams of greatness, and being someone’s secret weapon means being a secret. Forever. How long can Frances defer her dreams to protect a friend? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Prince and the Dressmaker” by Jen Wang https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623359167086-AGCNNIBT7CULNY22CDQI/257609._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Princeless: Be Yourself (Princeless #4) - Jeremy Whitley Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Angoisse Ashe, the oft-forgotten middle sister of the Ashe royal family, is locked in a castle deep in the swamp. Not only is her castle guarded by zombies, but the swamp is full of dangerous hazards. Everything from quicksand to goblins to swamp monsters to-- vampires! But does that give Adrienne pause? Unfortunately not, as she and Bedelia dive head-first into their most dangerous adventure yet! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Princeless: Be Yourself” by Jeremy Whitley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623351539378-YE8PLFC98XGAD9NF3WNH/817WTeunItL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Princeless: Find Yourself (Princeless #7) - Jeremy Whitley Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy With Bedelia left behind, Adrienne and Sparky are on their own for the first time since they left the tower...and it's not going well. Alize's castle is somewhere in the Great Southern Desert, but they can't find it! They've been lost in the desert for days and when tempers flare, Adrienne may find herself alone and in peril on her quest. But what waits for her in the desert is more amazing than she could have imagined...and more deadly. It's time for a final confrontation with the Black Knight. And as they emerge from the Black Forest, Devin and company find themselves going head to head with an old enemy in an unexpected place. Soon Asheland will be under attack, but will they make it back to Asheland to tell anyone? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Princeless: Find Yourself” by Jeremy Whitley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623351849353-B4MKAJA45AQT1AXQUG0N/819cfwrsvPL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Princeless: Get Over Yourself (Princeless #2) - Jeremy Whitley Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Princess Adrienne sets out as the mysterious dragon riding knight to rescue her sister Angelica, meanwhile her father, believing Adrienne has been killed by the dragon riding knight, gathers the bravest knights in the land to seek justice. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Princeless: Get Over Yourself” by Jeremy Whitley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623353959528-7AKPQCUZSTA9993QCVAR/81XhBw4lRkL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Princeless: Love Yourself (Princeless #9) - Jeremy Whitler Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy With only one more volume left until our epic conclusion, Princeless Volume 9 is the biggest and most intense the series has ever been. Adrienne has one last sister left to save, but she’s going to have to go through a maze, a minotaur, and her own father to get there. And far away in the woods of the elves Devin, Tempest, Kira, and Noni have been taken captive. They’re all in danger and the only one who can save them is Tempest. Is she really the daughter of the fallen elf king and queen? Everyone is waiting for her to wake up to find out. . CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Princeless: Love Yourself” by Jeremy Whitler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623359187669-1MVECLXINH32EHDOJKE6/604204._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Princeless: Make Yourself Part Two (Princeless #6) - Jeremy Whitley Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Fresh off their time fighting vampires, zombies, and giant creatures in the swamp - Princess Adrienne, Bedelia the Blacksmith, and Sparky the Dragon are in for their biggest adventure yet! Join our team of fearless ladies as they set off into the mountains to save twin princesses Andrea and Antonia. They'll meet a team of dragon slaying dwarf women, a farm full of trained monsters, and perhaps some of their most dangerous foes yet! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Princeless: Make Yourself Part Two” by Jeremy Whitley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623359200594-DRFZFEFQLEMSRGH7EKAQ/380835._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Princeless: Make Yourself Part One (Princeless #5) - Jeremy Whitley Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Adrienne and Bedelia are only a few sisters away from finishing their quest of rescuing Adrienne's sisters from their towers. Now comes one of their greatest challenges! Adrienne's older twin sisters Andrea and Antonia are locked deep within the treacherous mountains of The Rim. Adrienne will have to push deep into the bitter cold to get to them, but first she must face The Dragon Slayers. And Sparky the Dragon's quest to meet her mom will finally see break through, but somebody else on the team may be reunited with a family member they weren't expecting to see. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Princeless: Make Yourself Part One” by Jeremy Whitley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623359030182-T0WEH1S1QBOSJMW9LVL3/780928._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Princeless: Princesses (Princeless #8) - Jeremy Whitley Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy What type of princess are you? With all of the secrets finally out and Adrienne heading toward fulfilling her quest. It's time to find out what's really been going on. What has the Black Knight been up to and how does it involve Adrienne's sisters? And now that they're free, what are Adrienne's sisters up to? THese four issues tell the stories of the princesses left behind and shape the future of the Princeless universe in a way that will change everything. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Princeless: Princesses” by Jeremy Whitley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623359507293-MLL41M0838GB7QHVWW8V/FEB120706_1._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Princeless: Save Yourself (Princeless #1) - Jeremy Whitley Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Princess Adrienne is tired of being locked in a tower, waiting around to be rescued by a prince. She escapes from the tower with the help of her guardian dragon, Sparky, and with her plucky sidekick Bedelia, Adrienne sets off on a quest to rescue her sisters who are suffering the same fate. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Princeless: Save Yourself” by Jeremy Whitley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623359835226-L26XH57QLRWF3JQ1H9LC/81nXBpyfgWL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - The Shark King - R Kikuo Johnson Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy In graphic novel format, retells the Hawaiian story of Nanaue, born of human mother and shark father, who struggles to find his place in a village of humans. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Shark King” by R Kikuo Johnson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1623360524085-EEYKV3XGH8YKGPHQEEZH/512hG4AVmoL._SX341_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 11, 2021 - Siha Tooskin Knows the Love of the Dance - Charlene Bearhead Genres: Junior fiction Siha Tooskin (Paul) and his Uncle Lenard help a school friend, Jeff learn about Nakota forms of traditional and non-traditional dance at a pow wow. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Siha Tooskin Knows the Love of the Dance” by Charlene Bearhead https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-april-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619638361338-5BQLESWCGMWOQWBT62E3/the-evening-and-the-morning-ken-follett.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: April 2021 - ELIZABETH: “The Evening and The Morning (#0.5 Kingsbridge)” - Ken Follett GENRE: Fantasy Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I've always loved Ken Follett's writing and really enjoyed reading and listening to his Kingsbridge series books, "Pillars of the Earth" (1989) (and 41 hours long), "World Without End" (2006) (and 45.5 hours long), and "Column of Fire" (2017) (and 30 hours long). When I recently found out Follett had written a prequel to the series, I knew I had to listen to it. It's an amazing book and an amazing series (and a satisfying 24 hours long). THE SYNOPSIS: It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined. A young boatbuilder's life is turned upside down when the only home he's ever known is raided by Vikings, forcing him and his family to move and start their lives anew in a small hamlet where he does not fit in. . . . A Norman noblewoman marries for love, following her husband across the sea to a new land, but the customs of her husband's homeland are shockingly different, and as she begins to realize that everyone around her is engaged in a constant, brutal battle for power, it becomes clear that a single misstep could be catastrophic. . . . A monk dreams of transforming his humble abbey into a center of learning that will be admired throughout Europe. And each in turn comes into dangerous conflict with a clever and ruthless bishop who will do anything to increase his wealth and power. AVAILABILITY: Library and Libby app CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Evening and The Morning” - Ken Follett: FROM THE LIBRARY: https://ffpl.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0058&i=12788&ti=0 ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook): https://libbyapp.com/search/elm/search/query-the%20evening%20and%20the%20morning/page-1/5116186 ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook): https://libbyapp.com/search/elm/search/query-the%20evening%20and%20the%20morning/page-1/5167650 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619715703063-6K8NRHPPJ8K3TGRQT70D/think-like-a-monk-jay-shetty.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: April 2021 - LISA G.: “Think Like a Monk” - Jay Shetty GENRE: Nonfiction, Self-Help WHY SHE CHOSE IT: A great read for anyone looking to learn to slow down in life, to get more meaning out of everyday, and to appreciate everything, even in the darkest times. Part autobiography, and part 'how-to', this is the perfect book for a reset after a tough year, a tough obstacle, or just a new start. THE SYNOPSIS: When you think like a monk, you’ll understand: - How to overcome negativity - How to stop overthinking - Why comparison kills love - How to use your fear - Why you can’t find happiness by looking for it - How to learn from everyone you meet - Why you are not your thoughts - How to find your purpose - Why kindness is crucial to success - And much more... Shetty grew up in a family where you could become one of three things—a doctor, a lawyer, or a failure. His family was convinced he had chosen option three: instead of attending his college graduation ceremony, he headed to India to become a monk, to meditate every day for four to eight hours, and devote his life to helping others. After three years, one of his teachers told him that he would have more impact on the world if he left the monk’s path to share his experience and wisdom with others. Heavily in debt, and with no recognizable skills on his résumé, he moved back home in north London with his parents. Shetty reconnected with old school friends—many working for some of the world’s largest corporations—who were experiencing tremendous stress, pressure, and unhappiness, and they invited Shetty to coach them on well-being, purpose, and mindfulness. Since then, Shetty has become one of the world’s most popular influencers. In 2017, he was named in the Forbes magazine 30-under-30 for being a game-changer in the world of media. In 2018, he had the #1 video on Facebook with over 360 million views. His social media following totals over 38 million, he has produced over 400 viral videos which have amassed more than 8 billion views, and his podcast, On Purpose, is consistently ranked the world’s #1 Health and Wellness podcast. In this inspiring, empowering book, Shetty draws on his time as a monk to show us how we can clear the roadblocks to our potential and power. Combining ancient wisdom and his own rich experiences in the ashram, Think Like a Monk reveals how to overcome negative thoughts and habits, and access the calm and purpose that lie within all of us. He transforms abstract lessons into advice and exercises we can all apply to reduce stress, improve relationships, and give the gifts we find in ourselves to the world. Shetty proves that everyone can—and should—think like a monk. AVAILABILITY: Libby app CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Think Like a Monk” by Jay Shetty: ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook): https://libbyapp.com/search/elm/search/query-think%20like%20a%20monk/page-1/5004858 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619718938187-EFAI58DM0EEF1Z62K8MY/room-emma-donoghue.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: April 2021 - ABBEY: “Room” - Emma Donoghue GENRE: Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Suspense WHY SHE CHOSE IT: It’s a fascinating book because it’s told from the perspective of a 5 year old kid who has never had any sort of life outside of one small room. It’s a situation that’s impossible to imagine being in but the author does an amazing job of making it feel real. I haven’t seen the movie yet but after the book it’s definitely on my list! THE SYNOPSIS: To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world.... Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience—and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough ... not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work. Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another. AVAILABILITY: Library and Libby app CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Room” - Emma Donoghue: FROM THE LIBRARY: https://ffpl.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0058&i=6494&ti=0 ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook): https://libbyapp.com/search/elm/search/query-room/page-1/1146091 ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook): https://libbyapp.com/search/elm/search/query-room/page-1/469957 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1620070560792-REQURL6H451HUZ2R55JB/the-hate-u-give-angie-thomas.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: April 2021 - EDEN: “The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give #1)” - Angie Thomas GENRE: Young Adult Fiction, Urban Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: It gives a very well written view on racial differences in the States. THE SYNOPSIS: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice. AVAILABILITY: Library and Libby app CLICK BELOW TO BORROW “The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give #1) - Angie Thomas: FROM THE LIBRARY: https://ffpl.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0058&i=910&ti=0 ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook): https://libbyapp.com/search/elm/search/query-the%20hate%20u%20give/page-1/2962709 ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook): https://libbyapp.com/search/elm/search/query-the%20hate%20u%20give/page-1/2985772 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619716326089-04E13VRT8ZGRD4JRVCZ7/juliet-takes-a-breath-graphic-novel-gabby-rivera.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: April 2021 - RACHEL: “Juliet Takes a Breath” - Gabby Rivera GENRE: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel WHY SHE CHOSE IT: A relatable queer WOC coming-of-age story, Juliet Takes a Breath is a story unlike anything else I’ve read before. It touches on subjects like family, relationships, and racism within the queer community. Despite dealing with heavy topics, this book is ultimately an ode to the importance of community and accepting yourself for who you are. I absolutely loved it. SYNOPSIS: Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn’t sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But don’t worry, Juliet has something kinda resembling a plan that’ll help her figure out what it means to be Puerto Rican, lesbian and out. See, she’s going to intern with Harlowe Brisbane - her favorite feminist author, someone’s who’s the last work on feminism, self-love and lots of of ther things that will help Juliet find her ever elusive epiphany. There’s just one problem - Harlowe’s white, not from the Bronx and doesn’t have the answers. Okay, maybe that’s more than one problem but Juliet never said it was a perfect plan... Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn’t sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But don’t worry, Juliet has something kinda resembling a plan that’ll help her figure out what it means to be Puerto Rican, lesbian and out. See, she’s going to intern with Harlowe Brisbane - her favorite feminist author, someone’s who’s the last work on feminism, self-love and lots of of ther things that will help Juliet find her ever elusive epiphany. There’s just one problem - Harlowe’s white, not from the Bronx and doesn’t have the answers. Okay, maybe that’s more than one problem but Juliet never said it was a perfect plan... CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Juliet Takes a Breath” - Gabby Rivera: FROM THE LIBRARY: https://ffpl.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0058&i=88741&ti=0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1620059432355-KE7CDHBAINGH9ENLN1LX/the-perfect-guests-emma-rous.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: April 2021 - LISA S.: “The Perfect Guests” by Emma Rous GENRE: Thriller, Suspense, Mystery WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I really enjoyed Emma Rous’ first novel The Au Pair so when I found out she was writing The Perfect Guests I knew I had to read it. It’s a Gothic mystery tale with a large English estate house, a family with secrets to hide, and there are dual timelines, one in 1988 and one in 2019. It reminded me of V.C. Andrews, with a hint of Kate Morton, and it kept me turning pages and I read it in one afternoon. THE SYNOPSIS: 1988. Beth Soames is fourteen years old when her aunt takes her to stay at Raven Hall, a rambling manor in the isolated East Anglian fens. The Averells, the family who lives there, are warm and welcoming, and Beth becomes fast friends with their daughter, Nina. At times, Beth even feels like she's truly part of the family...until they ask her to help them with a harmless game—and nothing is ever the same. 2019. Sadie Langton is an actress struggling to make ends meet when she lands a well-paying gig to pretend to be a guest at a weekend party. She is sent a suitcase of clothing, a dossier outlining the role she is to play, and instructions. It's strange, but she needs the money, and when she sees the stunning manor she'll be staying at, she figures she’s got nothing to lose. In person, Raven Hall is even grander than she'd imagined—even with damage from a fire decades before—but the walls seem to have eyes. As day turns to night, Sadie starts to feel that there’s something off about the glamorous guests who arrive, and as the party begins, it becomes chillingly apparent their unseen host is playing games with everyone...including her. AVAILABILITY: Library CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Every Last Fear” - Alex Finlay FROM THE LIBRARY: Currently being catalogued. Contact us to add your name to the reserve list. https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-march-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619131673341-NMDKF9HPC179J5M8R2ZP/every-heart-has-a-doorway-seanan-mcguire.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2021 - ELIZABETH: “Every Heart a Doorway” (Wayward Children #1) - Seanan McGuire GENRE: Fantasy Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: While I usually look for long (+25 hours) audiobooks, this time I purposely looked for a quick and easy fantasy book and I'm so happy I found this on Libby! At a little under five hours long, this book has pulled me hook, line, and sinker into the story of the Wayward Children and I'm anxious to start book two. While this is an older book (released 2016), there are still volumes being written by the author (latest release was 2021) so I'm happy I have something to look forward to. THE SYNOPSIS: Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children No Solicitations No Visitors No Quests Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world. But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter. No matter the cost. AVAILABILITY: Library and Libby app CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Every Heart a Doorway” (Wayward Children #1) -Seanan McGuire: FROM THE LIBRARY: https://ffpl.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0058&i=6858&ti=0 ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook): https://libbyapp.com/search/elm/search/query-every%20heart%20a%20doorway/page-1/2217167 ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook): https://libbyapp.com/search/elm/search/query-every%20heart%20a%20doorway/page-1/2636845 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619121294514-1W0K59AE2EK248Q5KRGY/wow-no-thank-you-samantha-irby.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2021 - LISA G.: “wow, no thank you.” - Samantha Irby GENRE: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Humour WHY SHE CHOSE IT: Samantha Irby takes another honest and glaring look at life in a new batch of essays in "Wow, No Thank You." A great read when you are having a day on the couch, or in need of a bit of hilarity. Don't be fooled by her adorable covers and fun titles, this book is not for the faint of heart. THE SYNOPSIS: A new essay collection from Samantha Irby about aging, marriage, settling down with step-children in white, small-town America. Irby is turning forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and is courted by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife and two step-children in a small white, Republican town in Michigan where she now hosts book clubs. This is the bourgeois life of dreams. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with "skinny, luminous peoples" while being a "cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person," "with neck pain and no cartilage in [her] knees," and hides Entenmann's cookies under her bed and unopened bills under her pillow. AVAILABILITY: Libby app CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Wow, no thank you.” - Samantha Kirby: eBook: https://libbyapp.com/search/elm/search/query-Wow%2C%20No%20Thank%20You./page-1/5039051 Audiobook: https://libbyapp.com/search/elm/search/query-Wow%2C%20No%20Thank%20You./page-1/4876337 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619123941867-BNGSQRIAHMV6QKAUOGAB/the-humans-matt-haig.jpeg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2021 - ABBEY: “The Humans” - Matt Haig GENRE: Fiction, Science Fiction, Humour WHY SHE CHOSE IT: It’s written from the perspective of an alien in a way that makes it feel like it’s illegal for me to be reading it. The character development is amazing! It was one of few books that made me cry at the end. THE SYNOPSIS: Our hero, Professor Andrew Martin, is dead before the book even begins. As it turns out, though, he wasn’t a very nice man--as the alien imposter who now occupies his body discovers. Sent to Earth to destroy evidence that Andrew had solved a major mathematical problem, the alien soon finds himself learning more about the professor, his family, and “the humans” than he ever expected. When he begins to fall for his own wife and son--who have no idea he’s not the real Andrew--the alien must choose between completing his mission and returning home or finding a new home right here on Earth. AVAILABILITY: Library and Libby app CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Humans” - Matt Haig: FROM THE LIBRARY: https://ffpl.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0058&i=19653&ti=0 ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook): https://libbyapp.com/search/elm/search/query-the%20humans/page-1/1260747 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619129870046-ILPBGKNAT8PH41APTOL3/under-the-dome-stephen-king.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2021 - EDEN: “Under the Dome” - Stephen King GENRE: Fiction, Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I picked “Under the Dome” because I thought it was an interesting concept of being trapped but still having a sense of freedom at the same time. THE SYNOPSIS: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens—town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a selectwoman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing—even murder—to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn’t just short. It’s running out. AVAILABILITY: Library and Libby app CLICK BELOW TO BORROW “Under the Dome” - Stephen King: FROM THE LIBRARY: https://ffpl.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0058&i=20708&ti=0 ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook): https://libbyapp.com/search/elm/search/query-Under%20the%20Dome/page-1/312232 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619130885719-AHETDR3XS97GBB9KGJ7N/deep-and-dark-blue-niki-smith.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2021 - RACHEL: “The Deep & Dark Blue” - Niki Smith GENRE: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I devoured this book all in one sitting; the colourful art, unique concept and diverse cast had me hooked almost immediately. The world that Niki Smith takes you to is ripe with magic and strife that leaves you wanting to know more about it even after the final page. Five stars from me! THE SYNOPSIS: After a terrible political coup usurps their noble house, Hawke and Grayson flee to stay alive and assume new identities, Hanna and Grayce. Desperation and chance lead them to the Communion of Blue, an order of magical women who spin the threads of reality to their will. As the twins learn more about the Communion, and themselves, they begin to hatch a plan to avenge their family and retake their royal home. While Hawke wants to return to his old life, Grayce struggles to keep the threads of her new life from unraveling, and realizes she wants to stay in the one place that will allow her to finally live as a girl. AVAILABILITY: Library CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Deep & Dark Blue” - Niki Smith FROM THE LIBRARY: https://ffpl.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0058&i=2830&ti=0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619132192675-2YRR8DA50BP43ZJ9FXB6/every-last-fear-alex-finlay.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2021 - LISA S.: “Every Last Fear” - Alex Finlay GENRE: Thriller, Suspense, Mystery WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I love a good thriller, and this one fits the bill. It was exciting, the pacing was great, and while I figured out ‘whodunnit’ ahead of time, the reveal was still satisfying. THE SYNOPSIS: “They found the bodies on a Tuesday.” After a late night of partying, NYU student Matt Pine returns to his dorm room to devastating news: nearly his entire family—his mom, his dad, his little brother and sister—have been found dead from an apparent gas leak while vacationing in Mexico. The local police claim it was an accident, but the FBI and State Department seem far less certain—and they won’t tell Matt why. The tragedy makes headlines everywhere because this isn’t the first time the Pine family has been thrust into the media spotlight. Matt’s older brother, Danny—currently serving a life sentence for the murder of his teenage girlfriend Charlotte—was the subject of a viral true crime documentary suggesting that Danny was wrongfully convicted. Though the country has rallied behind Danny, Matt holds a secret about his brother that he’s never told anyone: the night Charlotte was killed Matt saw something that makes him believe his brother is guilty of the crime. When Matt returns to his small hometown to bury his parents and siblings, he’s faced with a hostile community that was villainized by the documentary, a frenzied media, and memories he’d hoped to leave behind forever. Now, as the deaths in Mexico appear increasingly suspicious and connected to Danny’s case, Matt must unearth the truth behind the crime that sent his brother to prison—putting his own life in peril—and forcing him to confront his every last fear. AVAILABILITY: Library CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Every Last Fear” - Alex Finlay FROM THE LIBRARY: https://ffpl.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0058&i=88720&ti=0 https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-april-9-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618255116053-D46AD91JIG14SGOTPEME/81LDr5xGd8L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The Affair - Danielle Steel Genres: Fiction, Romance When Rose McCarthy's staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood's hottest young actress, the actress's sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose's son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her. Her daughter Nadia, a talented interior designer, has been struggling to hold her marriage together, and conceal the truth from their young daughters, her family, and the world. But Nicolas, her straying husband, is blinded by passion for a younger woman--and not only that, she is pregnant with his child. Nadia's three sisters close ranks around her, flying to Paris from Los Angeles and New York to lend support and offer their widely divergent advice. Athena, a jovial celebrity chef with her own TV show in Los Angeles, is leery of marriage. Olivia, a stern conservative New York superior court judge, is haunted by a shocking secret of her own. Venetia, a zany fashion designer, happily married with three kids, has the gentlest, most realistic point of view. Despite their well-meaning advice, Nadia needs to figure out what she herself thinks, and what to do next. The Affair is about the painful journey to discover who you are, what you want, and how much forgiveness and compromise you are capable of in order to be loved. It's about finding yourself at the crossroads of life when everything is on the line. It's about the hard lessons we are forced to learn about others and ourselves. Right up until its final twist, this gripping novel is full of powerful insights about who we love, how much, and even how much we love ourselves. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Affair” by Danielle Steel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618255323380-QW1M2CMNXQO802EN93GN/54303948.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The Bounty (Fox & O’Hare #7) - Janet Evanovich Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Straight as an arrow special agent Kate O’Hare and international criminal Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest bad guys out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet—a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the Brotherhood. Directly descended from the Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood is on a frantic search for a lost train loaded with $30 billion in Nazi gold, untouched for over seventy-five years somewhere in the mountains of Eastern Europe. Kate and Nick know that there is only one man who can find the fortune and bring down the Brotherhood—the same man who taught Nick everything he knows—his father, Quentin. As the stakes get higher, they must also rely on Kate’s own father, Jake, who shares his daughter’s grit and stubbornness. Too bad they can never agree on anything. From a remote monastery in the Swiss Alps to the lawless desert of the Western Sahara, Kate, Nick, and the two men who made them who they are today must crisscross the world in a desperate scramble to stop their deadliest foe in the biggest adventure of their lives. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Bounty” by Janet Evanovich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618255504588-NPKC1P6BP1IDZ4MN0LNV/52682429.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Drown Her Sorrows (Bree Taggert #3) - Melinda Leigh Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Thriller When Sheriff Bree Taggert discovers the body of a young woman floating near the bank of the Scarlet River, a note in her abandoned car suggests suicide. The autopsy reveals a different story. Holly Thorpe was dead long before she dropped off the bridge and hit the water. As Bree and her investigator Matt Flynn delve into the case, secrets in Holly’s personal life complicate their efforts to solve the murder. Holly left behind a volatile marriage, an equally divisive relationship with her sister, and an employer whose intimate involvement with Holly was no secret. Each one has a motive for murder. When Holly’s sister is terrorized by a stalker’s sick prank, and the prime suspect turns up dead, everything Bree was sure of is upended and her case goes off the rails. When the killer strikes close to home, Bree and Matt must race to solve the murders before one of their own becomes the next victim. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Drown Her Sorrows” by Melinda Leigh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618255699956-WTCDMIBTZ2F96GPR26G7/91H4DitTKkL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Eternal - Lisa Scottoline Genres: Fiction, Historical Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love, with both Sandro and Marco hoping to win Elisabetta's heart. But in the autumn of 1937, all of that begins to change as Mussolini asserts his power, aligning Italy's Fascists with Hitler's Nazis and altering the very laws that govern Rome. In time, everything that the three hold dear--their families, their homes, and their connection to one another--is tested in ways they never could have imagined. As anti-Semitism takes legal root and World War II erupts, the threesome realizes that Mussolini was only the beginning. The Nazis invade Rome, and with their occupation come new atrocities against the city's Jews, culminating in a final, horrific betrayal. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Eternal” by Lisa Scottoline https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618256054538-TFI0JU58KPR1XXOY3CRZ/91uzdigcb%2BL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Every Last Fear - Alex Finlay Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller After a late night of partying, NYU student Matt Pine returns to his dorm room to devastating news: nearly his entire family—his mom, his dad, his little brother and sister—have been found dead from an apparent gas leak while vacationing in Mexico. The local police claim it was an accident, but the FBI and State Department seem far less certain—and they won’t tell Matt why. The tragedy makes headlines everywhere because this isn’t the first time the Pine family has been thrust into the media spotlight. Matt’s older brother, Danny—currently serving a life sentence for the murder of his teenage girlfriend Charlotte—was the subject of a viral true crime documentary suggesting that Danny was wrongfully convicted. Though the country has rallied behind Danny, Matt holds a secret about his brother that he’s never told anyone: the night Charlotte was killed Matt saw something that makes him believe his brother is guilty of the crime. When Matt returns to his small hometown to bury his parents and siblings, he’s faced with a hostile community that was villainized by the documentary, a frenzied media, and memories he’d hoped to leave behind forever. Now, as the deaths in Mexico appear increasingly suspicious and connected to Danny’s case, Matt must unearth the truth behind the crime that sent his brother to prison—putting his own life in peril—and forcing him to confront his every last fear. Told through multiple points-of-view and alternating between past and present, Alex Finlay's Every Last Fear is not only a page-turning thriller, it’s also a poignant story about a family managing heartbreak and tragedy, and living through a fame they never wanted. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Every Last Fear” by Alex Finlay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618256281625-1KDWWC7UK4OIGJGY9AX5/every-vow-you-break-4.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Every Vow You Break - Peter Swanson Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Abigail Baskin never thought she'd fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. He's a good guy, stable, level-headed, kind—a refreshing twist from her previous relationships. But right before the wedding, Abigail has a drunken one-night stand on her bachelorette weekend. She puts the incident—and the sexy guy who wouldn't give her his real name—out of her mind, and now believes she wants to be with Bruce for the rest of her life. Then the mysterious stranger suddenly appears—and Abigail's future life and happiness are turned upside down. He insists that their passionate night was the beginning of something much, much more. Something special. Something real—and he's tracked her down to prove it. Does she tell Bruce and ruin their idyllic honeymoon—and possibly their marriage? Or should she handle this psychopathic stalker on her own? To make the situation worse, strange things begin to happen. She sees a terrified woman in the night shadows, and no one at the resort seems to believe anything is amiss... including her perfect new husband. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Every Vow You Break” by Peter Swanson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618256597373-W299W04TOCNJ45BRKP79/91De5TiGcHL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Fast Ice (NUMA #18) - Clive Cussler Genres: Fiction, Thriller In the early days of World War II, the infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica, hoping to set up a military base to support their goal of world domination. Though the military outpost never comes to fruition, what the Nazis find on the icy continent indeed proves dangerous...and will have implications far into the future. In the present day, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala embark for the freezing edge of the world after a former NUMA colleague disappears in Antarctica. While there, they discover a photo of the Luftwaffe expedition of 1939, and are drawn into a decades-old conspiracy. Even as they confront perilous waters and frigid temperatures, they are also are up against a terrifying man-made weapon--a fast-growing ice that could usher in a new Ice Age. Pitted against a determined madman and a monstrous storm, Kurt and the NUMA team must unravel the Nazi-era plot in order to save the globe from a freeze that would bury it once and for all. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Fast Ice” by Clive Cussler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618257301774-HBJ9Q9FYNH4SABR84IGL/the-girls-are-all-so-nice-here-9781982144623_hr.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The Girls Are All So Nice Here - Laurie Elizabeth Flynn Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller A lot has changed in the years since Ambrosia Wellington graduated from college, and she's worked hard to create a new life for herself. But then an invitation to her ten-year reunion arrives in the mail, along with an anonymous note that reads, "We need to talk about what we did that night." It seems that the secrets of Ambrosia's past-and the people she thought she'd left there-aren't as buried as she'd believed. Amb can't stop fixating on what she did or who she did it with: larger-than-life Sloane "Sully" Sullivan, Amb's former best friend, who could make anyone do anything. At the reunion, Amb and Sully receive increasingly menacing messages, and it becomes clear that they're being pursued by someone who wants more than just the truth of what happened that first semester. This person wants revenge for what they did and the damage they caused--the extent of which Amb is only now fully understanding. And it was all because of the game they played to get a boy who belonged to someone else, and the girl who paid the price. Alternating between the reunion and Amb's freshman year, The Girls Are All So Nice Here is a shocking novel about the brutal lengths girls can go to get what they think they're owed, and what happens when the games we play in college become matters of life and death. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Girls Are All So Nice Here” by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618257467029-70M3R4Q8AWMDUH0WOTH6/91KRtxa8-1L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Her Dark Lies - J T Ellison Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Jutting from sparkling turquoise waters off the Italian coast, Isle Isola is an idyllic setting for a wedding. In the majestic cliff-top villa owned by the wealthy Compton family, up-and-coming artist Claire Hunter will marry handsome, charming Jack Compton, surrounded by close family, intimate friends...and a host of dark secrets. From the moment Claire sets foot on the island, something seems amiss. Skeletal remains have just been found. There are other, newer disturbances, too. Menacing texts. A ruined wedding dress. And one troubling shadow hanging over Claire's otherwise blissful relationship--the strange mystery surrounding Jack's first wife. Then a raging storm descends, the power goes out--and the real terror begins... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Her Dark Lies” by J T Ellison https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618257589042-AK8GDYLYZT8L2GK438H9/91Tw6BbFHTL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Thriller Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary’s fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile in present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, running from her own demons. When she stumbles upon a clue to the unsolved apothecary murders that haunted London two hundred years ago, her life collides with the apothecary’s in a stunning twist of fate—and not everyone will survive. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Lost Apothecary” by Sarah Penner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618257926784-TLK6QK65Y3GPW9R3TYOJ/81R0kREJHvL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The Lost Boys (Decker & Lazarus #26) - Faye Kellerman Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller A disappearance… When Bertram Lanz, a disabled man, goes missing from a local diner, detective Peter Decker is put on the case. He soon realizes there is more to the disappearance than meets the eye when he discovers Lanz’s nurse is missing too, and blood is found in her house. A body… Then, while combing the woods, searchers discover the remains of a young man who vanished during a camping trip years ago. A detective facing his toughest case yet… Juggling a hot case and a cold case, Decker races to find justice for the families. But as the answers become ever more elusive, he is forced to question if the woods will ever give up their dark secrets . . . and if these intertwining cases will ever be solved. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Lost Boys” by Faye Kellerman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618260878340-X9JJEWUV7IHF8LBOP7JK/61ZMs%2BksriL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The Night Gate - Peter May Genres: Fiction, Mystery In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy years apart. Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former, forensics expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two extraordinary narratives are set in train - one historical, unfolding in the treacherous wartime years of Occupied France; the other contemporary, set in the autumn of 2020 as France re-enters Covid lockdown. And Enzo's investigations reveal an unexpected link between the murders - the Mona Lisa. Tasked by the exiled General Charles de Gaulle to keep the world's most famous painting out of Nazi hands after the fall of France in 1940, 28-year-old Georgette Pignal finds herself swept along by the tide of history. Following in the wake of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa as it is moved from château to château by the Louvre, she finds herself just one step ahead of two German art experts sent to steal it for rival patrons - Hitler and Göring. What none of them know is that the Louvre itself has taken exceptional measures to keep the painting safe, unwittingly setting in train a fatal sequence of events extending over seven decades. Events that have led to both killings. The Night Gate spans three generations, taking us from war-torn London, the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Berlin and Vichy France, to the deadly enemy facing the world in 2020. In his latest novel, Peter May shows why he is one of the great contemporary writers of crime fiction. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Night Gate” by Peter May https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618261029972-GA16E6Q9O6RTE5PULMJU/51OASPbdjtL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The Palm Beach Murders - James Patterson Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller The Palm Beach Murders (previously published as Let's Play Make-Believe): Both survivors of the divorce wars, Christy and Martin don't believe in love at first sight and certainly not on a first date. But from the instant they lock eyes, life becomes a sexy, romantic dream come true. That is, until they start playing a strangely intense game of make-believe—a game that's about to go too far. (with James O. Born) Stingrays: When a teenager goes missing on a Caribbean beach, the local police are baffled. It's up to the Stingrays, a world class team that solves the unsolvable, to unearth the truth: a truth that no one will believe. (with Duane Swierczynski) Nooners: Everyone who knows Tim says he's a good guy. But the popular advertising exec has a problem: a lot of the people who know him are getting murdered. And by the time he figures out why, Tim won't feel so good anymore. (with Tim Arnold) CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Palm Beach Murders” by James Patterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618261203337-56IB6KH030KZAO9J9TZJ/81j0wqrvGfL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The Paris Library - Janet Skeslien Charles Genres: Fiction, Historical Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear - including her beloved library. After the invasion, as the Nazis declare a war on words and darkness falls over the City of Light, Odile and her fellow librarians join the Resistance with the best weapons they have: books. They risk their lives again and again to help their fellow Jewish readers. When the war finally ends, instead of freedom, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal. Montana, 1983. Odile's solitary existence in gossipy small-town Montana is unexpectedly interrupted by Lily, her neighbor, a lonely teenager longing for adventure. As Lily uncovers more about Odile's mysterious past, they find they share a love of language, the same longings, the same lethal jealousy. Odile helps Lily navigate the troubled waters of adolescence by always recommending just the right book at the right time, never suspecting that Lily will be the one to help her reckon with her own terrible secret. Based on the true story of the American Library in Paris, The Paris Library explores the geography of resentment, the consequences of terrible choices made, and how extraordinary heroism can be found in the quietest of places. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Paris Library” by Janet Skeslien Charles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618261338761-XTQ5SJQ40SKC3IYBNZB2/91Znn6gW0sL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The Rose Code - Kate Quinn Genres: Fiction, Historical 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. 1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter--the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger--and their true enemy--closer. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Rose Code” by Kate Quinn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618261509044-O7WC1VD5N5A1K08Y79MB/81Eq2HlZ79L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - See Her Die (Bree Taggert #2) - Melinda Leigh Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Thriller New sheriff Bree Taggert is called to a shooting in a campground shuttered for the winter. But she arrives to find a perplexing crime. There is no shooter, no victim, and no blood. No one but Bree believes the sole witness, Alyssa, a homeless teenager who insists she saw her friend shot. Bree calls in former deputy Matt Flynn and his K-9 to track the killer and search for Alyssa's friend. They discover the battered corpse of a missing university student under the ice in Grey Lake - but it's not the victim they were looking for. When two more students go missing and additional bodies turn up, Bree must find the link between the victims. She knows only one thing for certain: the murders are fueled by rage. When Alyssa disappears, Bree must race against time to find her before her witness becomes another victim. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “See Her Die” by Melinda Leigh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618262090095-98TFNJGI1XZBZ57C403W/81aG0d-FdzL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Serpentine (Alex Delaware #36) - Jonathan Kellerman Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a master detective. He has a near-perfect solve rate and he s written his own rule book. Some of those successes the toughest ones have involved his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But Milo doesn't call Alex in unless cases are different. This murder warrants an immediate call. Milo s independence has been compromised as never before, as the department pressures him to cater to the demands of a mogul: a hard-to-fathom, mega-rich young woman who is obsessed with reopening the coldest of cases the decades-old death of the mother she never knew. The facts describe a likely loser: a mysterious woman found with a bullet in her head in a torched Cadillac that has overturned on infamously treacherous Mulholland Drive. No physical evidence, no witnesses, no apparent motive. And a slew of detectives have already worked the case and failed. But as Delaware and Sturgis begin digging, the mist begins to lift. Too many coincidences. Facts turn out to be anything but. And as they soon discover, very real threats lurking in the present. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Serpentine” by Jonathan Kellerman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618262530636-4FIODLNEYRQYYQKUI8Z2/81ojVLtMiLL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Sparks Like Stars - Nadia Hashimi Genres: Fiction, Historical An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives in this brilliant and compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, The House Without Windows, and When the Moon Is Low. Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zalmani lives a privileged life in Afghanistan's thriving cosmopolitan capital. The 1970s are a time of remarkable promise under the leadership of people like Sardar Daoud, Afghanistan's progressive president, and Sitara's beloved father, his right-hand man. But the ten-year-old Sitara's world is shattered when communists stage a coup, assassinating the president and Sitara's entire family. Only she survives. Smuggled out of the palace by a guard named Shair, Sitara finds her way to the home of a female American diplomat, who adopts her and raises her in America. In her new country, Sitara takes on a new name--Aryana Shepherd--and throws herself into her studies, eventually becoming a renowned surgeon. A survivor, Aryana has refused to look back, choosing instead to bury the trauma and devastating loss she endured. New York, 2018: Forty years after that fatal night in Kabul, Aryana's world is rocked again when an elderly patient appears in her examination room--a man she never expected to see again. It is Shair, the soldier who saved her, yet may have murdered her entire family. Seeing him awakens Aryana's fury and desire for answers--and, perhaps, revenge. Realizing that she cannot go on without finding the truth, Aryana embarks on a quest that takes her back to Kabul--a battleground between the corrupt government and the fundamentalist Taliban--and through shadowy memories of the world she loved and lost. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Sparks Like Stars” by Nadia Hashimi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618262739268-8K7IXEBCF0C2HRNXBDUG/81vQx2rtTHL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The Survivors - Jane Harper Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets in The Survivors, a thrilling mystery by New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home. Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn. When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Survivors” by Jane Harper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618262855447-7C47EN4CJPQFPD2R50C8/81t-NMSRTEL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The Vineyard at Painted Moon - Susan Mallery Genres: Fiction, Romance Mackenzie Dienes seems to have it all—a beautiful home, close friends and a successful career as an elite winemaker with the family winery. There’s just one problem—it’s not her family, it’s her husband’s. In fact, everything in her life is tied to him—his mother is the closest thing to a mum that she’s ever had, their home is on the family compound, his sister is her best friend. So when she and her husband admit their marriage is over, her pain goes beyond heartbreak. She’s on the brink of losing everything. Her job, her home, her friends and, worst of all, her family. Staying is an option. She can continue to work at the winery, be friends with her mother-in-law, hug her nieces and nephews—but as an employee, nothing more. Or she can surrender every piece of her heart in order to build a legacy of her own. If she can dare to let go of the life she thought she wanted, she might discover something even more beautiful waiting for her beneath a painted moon. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Vineyard at Painted Moon” by Susan Mallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618263341747-FORJTVFBXFCOQR2F7C2L/81Ez6VbrjSL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - We Begin at the End - Chris Whitaker Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he's in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother. Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released. And Duchess and Walk must face the trouble that comes with his return. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “We Begin at the End” by Chris Whitaker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618263460892-EQ7TXNFJ4052QLGDVALK/71aUM9vai1L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Who is Maud Dixon? - Alexandra Andrews Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Florence Darrow is a low-level publishing employee who believes that she's destined to be a famous writer. When she stumbles into a job the assistant to the brilliant, enigmatic novelist known as Maud Dixon -- whose true identity is a secret -- it appears that the universe is finally providing Florence's big chance. The arrangement seems perfect. Maud Dixon (whose real name, Florence discovers, is Helen Wilcox) can be prickly, but she is full of pointed wisdom -- not only on how to write, but also on how to live. Florence quickly falls under Helen's spell and eagerly accompanies her to Morocco, where Helen's new novel is set. Amidst the colorful streets of Marrakesh and the wind-swept beaches of the coast, Florence's life at last feels interesting enough to inspire a novel of her own. But when Florence wakes up in the hospital after a terrible car accident, with no memory of the previous night -- and no sign of Helen -- she's tempted to take a shortcut. Instead of hiding in Helen's shadow, why not upgrade into Helen's life? Not to mention her bestselling pseudonym... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Who is Maud Dixon?” by Alexandra Andrews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618263711975-454MFT1SKP2N1MKYU42Q/61qeMaYc3pL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The 2021 Charlton Coin Guide - M Drake Genres: Non-fiction, Numismatics The 2021 Charlton Coin Guide is a handy resource for knowing dealer’s buying prices for Canadian, Newfoundland and Maritme coinage, Canadian Medals, Tokens and Paper Money, United States and World Gold Coinage. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The 2021 Charlton Coin Guide” by M Drake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618263904535-588AL2VFNGX56TS8XE7C/81Z8zdml2uL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Crossroads - Kaleb Dahlgren Genres: Non-fiction, Biography On April 6, 2018, sixteen people died and thirteen others were injured after a bus taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game collided with a transport truck in a rural intersection. The tragedy moved millions of people to leave hockey sticks by their front door to show sympathy and support for the Broncos. People from more than eighty countries pledged millions of dollars to families whose relatives had been directly involved in the accident. Crossroads is the story of Kaleb Dahlgren, a young man who survived the bus crash and faced life after the tragedy with resiliency and positivity. In this chronicle of his time with the Broncos and the loving community of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Dahlgren takes a hard look at his experience of unprecedented loss, but also revels in the overwhelming response and outpouring of love from across Canada and around the world. But this book also goes much deeper, revealing the adversity Dahlgren faced long before his time in Humboldt and his inspiring journey since the accident. From a childhood spent learning to live with type 1 diabetes to his remarkable recovery from severe brain trauma that astounded medical professionals, Dahlgren documents a life of perseverance, gratitude and hope in the wake of enormous obstacles and life-altering tragedy. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Crossroads” by Kaleb Dahlgren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619108881931-TKZ35X1OPWF89B7C1FRU/81mJwBAtdCL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn't sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But don't worry, Juliet has something kinda resembling a plan that'll help her figure out what it means to be Puerto Rican, lesbian and out. See, she's going to intern with Harlowe Brisbane - her favorite feminist author, someone whose last work on feminism, self-love and lots of other things will help Juliet find her ever elusive epiphany. There's just one problem; Harlowe's white, not from the Bronx and doesn't have the answers. Okay, maybe that's more than one problem but Juliet never said it was a perfect plan... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Juliet Takes a Breath” by Gabby Rivera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618264140658-EUE6V8B9BSC20DPLZK4Z/91d6eIapZVL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Brightly Woven - Leigh Dragoon Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Extraordinary things just don't happen to fourteen-year-old Sydelle Mirabil, a talented weaver who dreams about life outside of her tiny village. But that all changes when a mysterious young wizard named Wayland North appears and asks for Sydelle's help. He's got a shocking secret that could stop a war between kingdoms-if he can reach the capital with the news in time. North needs a navigator who can mend his magical cloaks, and Sydelle is perfect for the job. As Sydelle and North race against the clock to deliver their message, they must contend with unusually wild weather and a dark wizard who will do anything to stop them. But the sudden earthquakes and freak snowstorms may not be a coincidence. As Sydelle discovers more about North's past and her own strange abilities, she realizes that the fate of the kingdom may rest in her fingertips. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Brightly Woven” by Leigh Dragoon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618264285110-XKGNMWGCS8TOZN7F686F/811ynd%2BoJhL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Class Act (New Kid #2) - Jerry Craft Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying “You have to work twice as hard to be just as good.” His grandmother has reminded him his entire life. But what if he works ten times as hard and still isn’t afforded the same opportunities that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted? To make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids. He wants to pretend like everything is fine, but it's hard not to withdraw, and even their mutual friend Jordan doesn't know how to keep the group together. As the pressures mount, will Drew find a way to bridge the divide so he and his friends can truly accept each other? And most important, will he finally be able to accept himself? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Class Act” by Jerry Craft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1618264554189-EEZEYZVSV9IH7IPZG5OB/61U3EGG9q0L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Dragonslayer (Wings of Fire: Legends #2) - Tui T Sutherland Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy Ivy doesn't trust the Dragonslayer. He may be her father and the beloved ruler of Valor, but she knows he's hiding more than the treasure from the sand dragon he killed two decades ago. Leaf doesn't trust dragons. They're the reason his favorite sister, Wren, is dead, and now he'll do whatever it takes to slay even one. Wren doesn't trust anyone. She swore off humans after her village tried to sacrifice her to the dragons. She only has one friend, a small, wonderful mountain dragon named Sky, and they don't need anyone else. In a world of dragons, the humans who scramble around underfoot are easy to overlook. But Ivy, Leaf, and Wren will each cross paths with dragons in ways that could shape the destiny of both species. Is a new future possible for all of them . . . one in which humans can look to the skies with hope instead of fear? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dragonslayer” by Tui T Sutherland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619108225306-GL6JL24OA0EK4QQTB6V5/9781328841612_hres.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Gloom Town - Ronald L Smith Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy When twelve-year-old Rory applies for a job at a spooky old mansion in his gloomy seaside town, he finds the owner, Lord Foxglove, odd and unpleasant. But he and his mom need the money, so he takes the job anyway. Rory soon finds out that his new boss is not just strange, he's not even human - and he's trying to steal the townspeople's shadows. Together, Rory and his friend Isabella set out to uncover exactly what Foxglove and his otherworldly accomplices are planning and devise a strategy to defeat them. But can two kids defeat a group of ancient evil beings who are determined to take over the world? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Gloom Town” by Ronald L Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619108407308-I1Y500LE0NKFTLQ579CJ/1768672_xl.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The Hidden Witch (Witch Boy #2) - Molly Knox Ostertag Genres: Junior fiction, , Graphic novel, Fantasy Aster and his family are adjusting to his unconventional talent for witchery; unlike the other boys in his family, he isn't a shapeshifter. He's taking classes with his grandmother and helping to keep an eye on his great-uncle whose corrupted magic wreaked havoc on the family. Meanwhile, Aster's friend from the non-magical part of town, Charlie, is having problems of her own -- a curse has tried to attach itself to her. She runs to Aster and escapes it, but now the friends must find the source of the curse before more people -- normal and magical alike -- get hurt. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Hidden Witch” by Molly Knox Ostertag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619109136060-HBHR17HJY5T695D4SSN6/s238613979156165194_p3398_i1_w612.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The Leak - Kate Reed Petty Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Ruth Keller is brash and precocious; she argues with her dentist, her parents, and her teachers. So, when she discovers a strange black slime in the man-made lake of her suburban neighborhood, she decides to investigate. Fortified by the encouragement of those around her, Ruth seeks the truth at all costs, even if it means taking on the rich local country club owner, who she believes is responsible for the pollution. Between the teasing of former friends, and a sudden viral spotlight, Ruth discovers how difficult it is for a journalist to take a stand for what's right in the face of critique and controversy. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Leak” by Kate Reed Petty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619109357022-F9485BV79Y36TCMHG0EQ/lumberjanes-vol-15-9781684155514_hr.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Birthday Smarty (Lumberjanes #15) - Shannon Watters Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Jo's birthday is coming up, and Paril is determined to pull out all the stops for her best friend! But when her elaborate plans for a huge, over-the-top celebration fall through, April recruits the Yetis and some fellow Janes to put on the best play ever, instead. Meanwhile, Mal's Mission? Keeping Jo busy, to to protect the surprise. . .but Mal might've done too good a job. Will the birthday girl make it back in time for her own party? And does she even want to? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Birthday Smarty” by Shannon Watters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619109781123-3OXET0OJ5RKLGS287VAO/lumberjanes-vol-16-9781684156160_hr.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Mind Over Mettle (Lumberjanes #16) - Shannon Watters Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novels, Fantasy Mal wants to learn to be braver, but when she recruits Ripley to help her face her fears, she ends up somewhere she really should be afraid of--the Land of Lost Things, a pocket universe where dinosaurs still roam the earth, and time doesn't work the way it should. Stranded on her own in an alternate dimension, will Mal be able to find her way back home to camp? And back on the other side of the portal, will Molly, April, Jo, and Ripley be able to find Mal again and save her? Or are they about to get stuck, too? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Mind Over Mettle” by Shannon Watters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619109925849-NUJGCTWM8L8RZ01E3CPU/lumberjanes-vol-17-9781684156672_hr.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Smitten in the Stars (Lumberjanes #17) - Shannon Watters Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Jen and Rosie plan to take the Lumberjane scouts to see an amazing astronomical event. But their night of star-gazing is thrown off course when half of the Roanoke and Zodiac cabins sneak away into the night in search of aliens, leaving everyone else to deal with a gatecrashing goddess who throws the entire camp into a tizzy. Not to mention there’s a nefarious kitten-napping and a super-secret crush to contend with! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Smitten in the Stars” by Shannon Watters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619111218982-8ZNSFJ6NYKASAV4V1OS0/lumberjanes-vol-14-9781684155507_hr.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - X Marks the Spot (Lumberjanes #14) - Shannon Watters Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Ripley found a treasure map! The Roanoke scouts are eager to hunt down what they hope might be some kind of mystical hoard of gems and jewels, rad dinosaur bones, or maybe even more treasure maps (that you have to piece together to find an EVEN BIGGER prize, obviously)! The adventure has only just begun! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “X Marks the Spot” by Shannon Watters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619111378468-FPE3JKV5347WONBCXQX1/71o0%2BeqrfzL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - The Midwinter Witch (Witch Boy #3) - Molly Knox Ostertag Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Aster always looks forward to the Midwinter Festival, a reunion of the entire Vanissen family that includes competitions in witchery and shapeshifting. This year, he's especially excited to compete in the annual Jolrun tournament--as a witch. He's determined to show everyone that he's proud of who he is and what he's learned, but he knows it won't be easy to defy tradition. Ariel has darker things on her mind than the Festival--like the mysterious witch who's been visiting her dreams, claiming to know the truth about Ariel's past. She appreciates everything the Vanissens have done for her. But Ariel still craves a place where she truly belongs. The Festival is a whirlwind of excitement and activity, but for Aster and Ariel, nothing goes according to plan. When a powerful and sinister force invades the reunion, threatening to destroy everything the young witches have fought for, can they find the courage to fight it together? Or will dark magic tear them apart? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Midwinter Witch” by Molly Knox Ostertag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619111561875-8EK7KFCYBQO7AORIFV32/8189nCNa3oL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - New Kid (New Kid #1) - Jerry Craft Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and not really fitting into either one. Can Jordan learn to navigate his new school culture while keeping his neighborhood friends and staying true to himself? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “New Kid” by Jerry Craft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619111972317-H7LLJ9UU3N1ZUU7WBZX7/815DAmxiI%2BL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Tristan Strong Destroys the World (Tristan Strong #2) - Kwame Mbala Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy Tristan Strong, just back from a victorious but exhausting adventure in Alke, the land of African American folk heroes and African gods, is suffering from PTSD. But there's no rest for the weary when his grandmother is abducted by a mysterious villain out for revenge. Tristan must return to Alke--and reunite with his loud-mouthed sidekick, Gum Baby--in order to rescue Nana and stop the culprit from creating further devastation. Anansi, now a ""web developer"" in Tristan's phone, is close at hand to offer advice, and several new folk heroes will aid Tristan in his quest, but he will only succeed if he can figure out a way to sew broken souls back together. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Tristan Strong Destroys the World” by Kwame Mbala https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1619112132848-5A6CPR0OS7L3ZSKVAUP4/61PAyQEzEwL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: April 9, 2021 - Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong #1) - Kwame Mbala Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan chases after it, and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a Bottle Tree. In a last attempt to get it away from the creature, Tristan punches the tree, accidentally ripping open a chasm into the MidPass, a volatile place with a burning sea, haunted bone ships, and iron monsters. Tristan finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left black American folk heroes John Henry and Brer Rabbit exhausted. In order to get back home, Tristan and these new allies will need to entice the god Anansi, the Weaver, to come out of hiding. Can Tristan save this world before he loses more of the things he loves? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky” by Kwame Mbala https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-february-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1615329410797-HZ6F9C32JR6UY2S8ZSQ8/stuff-you-should-know.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: February 2021 - RACHEL: “Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things” by Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant GENRE: Non-fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I don’t read a lot of non-fiction, but this book caught my interest. It’s an easy read for those with commitment issues (like myself) due to it’s format – each chapter covers a different topic, making it the kind of book that you can read at your own pace. Stuff You Should Know covers a wide range of subjects and answers questions that you didn’t even know you had, like the science of aging and the history of Mr. Potato Head. (did you know that the original Mr. Potato Head only came with his various attachments, like the facial features, and you had to supply your own potato? True story.) The authors, Josh Clark and Josh Bryant, have a long-running podcast by the same name, so if you like trivia but crave a deeper understanding of the material, I would recommend giving it a try also! THE SYNOPSIS: Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious—curious about the world around them, curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations, and curious to dig deeper on stuff they thought they understood. As it turns out, they aren't the only curious ones. They've since amassed a rabid fan base, making "Stuff You Should Know" one of the most popular podcasts in the world. Armed with their inquisitive natures and a passion for sharing, they uncover the weird, fascinating, delightful, or unexpected elements of a wide variety of topics. The pair have now taken their near-boundless "whys" and "hows" from your earbuds to the pages of a book for the first time—featuring a completely new array of subjects that they’ve long wondered about and wanted to explore. Each chapter is further embellished with snappy visual material to allow for rabbit-hole tangents and digressions—including charts, illustrations, sidebars, and footnotes. Follow along as the two dig into the underlying stories of everything from the origin of Murphy beds, to the history of facial hair, to the psychology of being lost. Have you ever wondered about the world around you, and wished to see the magic in everyday things? Come get curious with Stuff You Should Know. With Josh and Chuck as your guide, there’s something interesting about everything (…except maybe jackhammers). CLICK TO RESERVE “Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly True Things” by Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1615329998715-VRTZS6GEH9WTEBN3F4D2/birth-marked.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: February 2021 - EDEN: “Birthmarked (Birthmarked #1)” by Caragh M. O’Brien GENRES: Young Adult, Dystopian WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I chose Birthmarked because it’s a completely new spin on the dystopian genre. THE SYNOPSIS: In the future, in a world baked dry by the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the walled Enclave and those, like sixteen-year-old Gaia Stone, who live outside. Following in her mother's footsteps Gaia has become a midwife, delivering babies in the world outside the wall and handing a quota over to be "advanced" into the privileged society of the Enclave. Gaia has always believed this is her duty, until the night her mother and father are arrested by the very people they so loyally serve. Now Gaia is forced to question everything she has been taught, but her choice is simple: enter the world of the Enclave to rescue her parents, or die trying. CLICK TO RESERVE “Birthmarked (Birthmarked #1)” by Caragh M. O’Brien https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1617136569534-KO8I57QGHJQOIO46U3GO/east-of-eden-john-steinbeck.jpeg BLOG - Staff Picks: February 2021 - ABBEY: “East of Eden” by John Steinbeck GENRE: Romance WHY SHE CHOSE IT: It’s a book I wanted to read for a long time but I didn’t because it’s a classic and I thought it would be hard to get in to. I was so wrong. The characters were all so unique and completely essential to the story. I loved comparing the novel to the original story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. THE SYNOPSIS: Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness. CLICK TO RESERVE “East of Eden” by John Steinbeck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1617132787271-5TF598SG4GMNRKCP0I5Y/permanent-record-edward-snowden.jpeg BLOG - Staff Picks: February 2021 - LISA G.: “Permanent Record” by Edward Snowden GENRE: Autobiography WHY SHE CHOSE IT: Part autobiography of former CIA employee/subcontractor and part whistle blower account of the capabilities of the CIA to spy on any citizen in the world. If you've ever opened a bank account, email account, or bought a computer and used the internet with it, the CIA has access to you. A sobering account of what it cost one young man to let the world know exactly how unsafe our personal data is and who really has access to it. THE SYNOPSIS: In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online—a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “Permanent Record” by Edward Snowden: ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1617131967828-1EURHF1BP3FETLL2BNED/the-broken-earth-trilogy-n.k.-jemisin.jpeg BLOG - Staff Picks: February 2021 - ELIZABETH: “The Broken Earth Series” by N.K. Jemisin GENRE: Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic WHY SHE CHOSE IT: As a fan of post-apocalyptic stories, how could I not dive head first into a story whose first sentence of the synopsis starts with, "This is the way the world ends…for the last time"? Trilogies can often be iffy with the first book being AMAZING, the second okay (but a let down nevertheless), and the third being "meh". But rest assured, since all three of these books won a Hugo Award for Fiction in the year they were published, you will not be disappointed. Jemisin is the first African American author to win the Hugo in Fiction, the first writer to win three years in a row, AND the first writer to win for all three books in a trilogy. Also, the third book, "The Stone Sky", also won the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel. I can't tell you much about the second and third books as it will spoil the first book so let me say, this is one of those series where I wish I could re-read it without knowing what I know now. THE SYNOPSIS: This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries. Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter. CLICK BELOW TO RESERVE “The Fifth Season (Broken Earth #1)” by N.K. Jemisin: ON THE LIBBY APP (eBook) ON THE LIBBY APP (audiobook) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1617133467856-77U60N3LXTUPXZXU0FW3/the-one-john-marrs.jpeg BLOG - Staff Picks: February 2021 - LISA S.: “The One” by John Marrs GENRE: Thriller, Suspense, Science Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: “The One” has been on my to-be-read list for awhile, and when I saw Netflix was adapting it into a series, I knew I needed to read it before watching. The book follows the five newly matched individuals: an engaged man, a serial killer, a divorcee, a woman stuck in a job she hates, and the female scientist who created Match Your DNA. This book is a bit “soapy” but in a great way because with five plots, I was racing toward more than one finale. I read this book in two sittings, and it would have been one, if I hadn’t started it on my lunch break at work. THE SYNOPSIS: A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon you’ll be matched with your perfect partner; the one you are genetically made for. That’s the promise made by Match Your DNA. A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs each of us with our soul mate. Since then, millions of people around the world have been matched. But the discovery has its downsides: test results have led to the breakup of countless relationships and upended the traditional ideas of dating, romance and love. Now five very different people have received the notification that they’ve been “Matched.” They’re each about to meet their one true love. But “happily ever after” isn’t guaranteed for everyone. Because even soul mates have secrets. And some are more shocking than others… CLICK HERE TO EMAIL OUR ILL CLERK ABOUT “The One” by John Marrs https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-february-20-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614194720518-SL3HLKHME89I9QOB3F0U/81cXWkNrpvL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - Before She Disappeared - Lisa Gardner Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier. Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim's wary family tells Frankie she's on her own--and she soon learns she's asking questions someone doesn't want answered. But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to go missing could be her. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Before She Disappeared” by Lisa Gardner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614196069302-K50M33VC8HCFVVUGBFXR/91pTofCUxyL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - Faithless in Death (In Death #52) - J D Robb Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wine glasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in. But when Dallas tracks down the wealthy Upper East Side woman who called 911, the details don't add up. Gwen Huffman is wealthy, elegant, comforted by her handsome fiancé as she sheds tears over the trauma of finding the body--but why did it take an hour to report it? And why is she lying about little things? As Eve and her team look into Gwen, her past, and the people around her, they find that the lies are about more than murder. As with sculpture, they need to chip away at the layers of deception to find the shape within--and soon they're getting the FBI involved in a case that involves a sinister, fanatical group and a stunning criminal conspiracy. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Faithless in Death” by J D Robb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614196299718-STAMQGX0517R37HEDRSU/91g%2BaK0nCnL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - The Four Winds - Kristin Hannah Genres: Fiction, Historical Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614196988235-FMVS7IQRMDORHNG6L9JZ/81F64vcNJhL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - The Guest List - Lucy Foley Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller On a remote island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate the wedding of Jules Keegan and Will Slater. Will is a rising television star, handsome and charming. Jules is a smart, ambitious magazine publisher. Though the sea is a little choppy and the cell service spotty, their wedding is everything you'd expect of a young power couple: designer dress, four-tiered cake, boutique whiskey, vintage champagne. Every detail has been curated to perfection. All that's left to orchestrate is the happiness. But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. It's not long after the cake is cut and the champagne popped that resentments and petty jealousies come out. Worse yet, the latest barometer reading shows the weather has shifted from FAIR to CHANGEABLE, and dark clouds are looming overhead. Everyone on the island has a secret. Everyone has a motive. And someone won't leave this wedding alive... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Guest List” by Lucy Foley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614197352835-HQYQDC3NFEW4IUGT9MP5/91UncVaahnL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - The Push - Ashley Audrain Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter–she doesn’t behave like most children do. Or is it all in Blythe’s head? Her husband, Fox, says she’s imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well. Then their son Sam is born–and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she’d always imagined with her child. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Push” by Ashley Audrain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614207229600-6AV6XCME7T1QRI86KGMS/91jxR7jxXdL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - Unrestricted Access - James Rollins Genres: Fiction, Anthology, Mystery, Thriller In this breathtaking collection of short fiction, his first ever anthology, James Rollins brings together twelve thrilling stories that dig a little deeper into his creative stomping grounds and open vistas into new landscapes and characters. At the center of Unrestricted Access is the never-before-published novella "Sun Dogs.” While trekking through the Sonora desert, a gunshot thrusts Tucker and Kane into an adventure that challenges their considerable skills. The discovery of secrets known only to the native tribes of Arizona threatens to unleash an ancient force that could irreparably alter the future. It also forces Tucker to make a terrible choice that will shatter his relationship with his soul-bonded companion Kane. As these partners learn, nothing remains buried forever and old debts must be paid, no matter the cost. Other stories—each with an introduction by James Rollins—are just as compelling, offering broader insight into this acclaimed master’s fictional universes, including: “The Pit”: a young dog is kidnapped and brutalized into becoming the bloody champion of a dog-fighting ring. But can this tortured monster find redemption and a path back to the boy who first raised him with love and compassion? “Tagger”: A pair of teenage street artists must protect San Francisco from a demon who has been seeking revenge for centuries. “The Devil’s Bones”: In this jungle adventure—the first joint story from Rollins and Steve Berry—Commander Gray Pierce and Cotton Malone must work together using their unique skills to survive a deadly threat. The stories “The Midnight Watch,” “The Skeleton Key,” “Tracker,” and “Kowalski's in Love” shine light into some of Sigma Force’s secrets. Who were these characters before they were recruited by Sigma? What solo adventures did they experience? How do these short adventures tie into the larger Sigma universe? Rollins offers some clues. And rounding out this collection are a pair of entertaining stories “Blood Brothers” and “City of Screams” that complement The Order of the Sanguines series. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Unrestricted Access” by James Rollins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614195209173-ASEUS8KJM0IKEVRCXI25/41KceRn2VoL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - Dear Life - Rachel Clarke Genres: Autobiography, Health Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on learning to save lives, and was left wanting when it came to helping patients and their families face death. She came to specialize in palliative medicine because it is the one specialty in which the quality, not quantity of life truly matters. In the same year she started to work in a hospice, Rachel was forced to face tragedy in her own life when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He'd inspired her to become a doctor, and the stories he had told her as a child proved formative when it came to deciding what sort of medicine she would practice. But for all her professional exposure to dying, she remained a grieving daughter. Dear Life follows how Rachel came to understand—as a child, as a doctor, as a human being—how best to help patients in the final stages of life, and what that might mean in practice. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dear Life” by Rachel Clarke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614194411887-GPSTQAG88H6LVUAZKEW9/81zrHn8KWaL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - Be More Chill: The Graphic Novel - Ned Vizzini Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Sci-fi Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the "squip.” A pill-sized supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in life. By instructing him on everything from what to wear, to how to talk and walk, the squip transforms Jeremy from geek to the coolest guy in class. Soon he is friends with his former tormentors and has the attention of the hottest girls in school. But Jeremy discovers that there is a dark side to handing over control of your life--and it can have disastrous consequences. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Be More Chill” by Ned Vizzini https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614196496681-4781XSZTQVQEY2TVSHW1/81cK7hjxoZL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation - K Woodman-Maynard Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Historical From the green light across the bay to the billboard with spectacled eyes, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 American masterpiece roars to life in Katharine Woodman-Maynard’s exquisite graphic novel—among the first adaptations of the book in this genre. Painted in lush watercolors, the inventive interpretation emphasizes both the extravagance and mystery of the characters, as well as the fluidity of Nick Carraway’s unreliable narration. Excerpts from the original text wend through the illustrations, and imagery and metaphors are taken to literal, and often whimsical, extremes, such as when a beautiful partygoer blooms into an orchid and Daisy Buchanan pushes Gatsby across the sky on a cloud. This faithful yet modern adaptation will appeal to fans with deep knowledge of the classic, while the graphic novel format makes it an ideal teaching tool to engage students. With its timeless critique of class, power, and obsession, The Great Gatsby Graphic Novel captures the energy of an era and the enduring resonance of one of the world’s most beloved books. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaption” by K Woodman-Maynard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614197158622-9SQFQDN2VUSO599LD91Y/51mjkAL4%2BwL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - How to be Ace - Rebecca Burgess Genres: Young adult, Graphic novel, Memoir Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. From school to work to relationships, this book offers an unparalleled insight into asexuality. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “How to be Ace” by Rebecca Burgess https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614203290704-PCNWRB6UGPM5R2FE8T2C/814D-wJNPVL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life (Scott Pilgrim #1) - Bryan Lee O’Malley Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Comedy Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, he's in a rockband, he's "between jobs" and he's dating a cute high school girl. Nothing could possibly go wrong, unless a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. Will Scott's awesome life get turned upside-down? Will he have to face Ramona's seven evil ex-boyfriends in battle? The short answer is yes. The long answer is Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life” by Bryan Lee O’Malley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614203727133-JO4ZKAXHAUMOQ87A8JHF/81ErBnnEbYL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim #2) - Bryan Lee O’Malley Genres: Young adult, Graphic novels, Comedy Does Scott and Ramona's burgeoning relationship have a future? Isn't Scott still supposedly dating Knives Chau? Who is Ramona's second evil ex-boyfriend, and why is he in Toronto? Who are The Clash At Demonhead, and what kind of bizarre art-punky music do they play? Who's their hot girl keyboardist, and what is Scott's relation to her? Why is The Clash At Demonhead Knives Chau's new favourite band? Fights! Drama! Secrets revealed! The answers to all these questions and more! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” by Bryan Lee O’Malley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614204300328-YQJO5E5R7CAB36IZS7AD/71pR0Nrv9ZL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness (Scott Pilgrim #3) - Bryan Lee O’Malley Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Comedy Ramona's third evil ex-boyfriend, Todd Ingram, is currently dating the former love of Scott Pilgrim's life! Envy Adams broke Scott's heart a year and a half ago. Now she and her evil art-rock band are back, and they're getting Scott's band to open a show two days from now! That's just enough time for Scott to fight Todd, keep Ramona happy, fend off demented ex-girlfriends, and practice that new setlist. Right?? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness” by Bryan Lee O’Malley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614204464336-DU9M2QY2E3V1G4LB2XTE/81Pdb-ihHWL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together (Scott Pilgrim #4) - Bryan Lee O’Malley Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Comedy A couple months have passed since the last time we caught up with our intrepid hero, but what can change in a few short months? Well, not much has... Scott’s still living with his roommate Wallace Wells. He’s still playing in a mediocre rock band named Sex Bob-omb. And most importantly, he’s still dating the lovely Ramona Flowers while working his way through the gaggle of superpowered, superstylish, superevil ex-boyfriends determined to take him down. But something is different. Don’t look now, but Scott Pilgrim may actually be getting it together. And it’s a good thing, too, because Scott is about to confront Ramona’s most intimidating ex yet! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together” by Bryan Lee O’Malley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614204686746-TVT1MUNMZ1CM21BWGKRX/51WR1ORtSiL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe (Scott Pilgrim #5) - Bryan Lee O’Malley Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Comedy Scott Pilgrim just turned 24, and things couldn't possibly be better! This means things are about to get infinitely worse! Suddenly, TWO of Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends are in town, and they're playing dirty. His band is in turmoil, and his own exes aren't making things any easier. And what's up with Ramona, anyway? She's been acting kinda weird ever since they moved in together! Scott's precious little life is coming back around to bite him in the butt, and it may not be pretty! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe” by Bryan Lee O’Malley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614206669755-0POVKF5J4DKKU29QMSEW/81jCCevJUCL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour (Scott Pilgrim #6) - Bryan Lee O’Malley Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Comedy It's finally here! Six years and almost one-thousand pages have all led to this epic finale! With six of Ramona's seven evil exes dispatched, it should be time for Scott Pilgrim to face Gideon Graves, the biggest and baddest of her former beaus. But didn't Ramona take off at the end of Book 5? Shouldn't that let Scott off the hook? Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't, but one thing is for certain—all of this has been building to SCOTT PILGRIM'S FINEST HOUR! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour” by Bryan Lee O’Malley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614207026115-DMSHHHS0Z4V1SVDWVK42/919KHd3t8ZL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - The Silvered Serpents (Gilded Wolves #2) - Roshani Chokshi Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy, Historical Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost — one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends, Séverin pursues a dangerous lead to find a long lost artifact rumored to grant its possessor the power of God. Their hunt lures them far from Paris, and into the icy heart of Russia where crystalline ice animals stalk forgotten mansions, broken goddesses carry deadly secrets, and a string of unsolved murders makes the crew question whether an ancient myth is a myth after all. As hidden secrets come to the light and the ghosts of the past catch up to them, the crew will discover new dimensions of themselves. But what they find out may lead them down paths they never imagined. A tale of love and betrayal as the crew risks their lives for one last job. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Silvered Serpents” by Roshani Chokshi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1614194995342-7XB9E36L11H6U55JK636/71%2BRx%2BETuKL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: February 20, 2021 - The Dark Secret (Wings of Fire #4) - Tui T Sutherland Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy In the shadows, trouble is brewing... The mysterious NightWings keep everything hidden, from their home and their queen to their allegiance in the war. Now they've kidnapped their own dragonet of destiny, and Starflight is finally meeting the rest of his tribe -- whether he wants to or not. The NightWings have also kidnapped several innocent RainWings, now trapped in the dark, barren, miserable place that is the NightWing kingdom. Starflight wants to help the RainWings, but he's busy saving his own scales and trying to find a way back to his friends. The fate of two kingdoms rests in his talons, and with no one to save him, Starflight will have to find a way to be brave...before it's too late. 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CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Savor” by Neil Kleid https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-january-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612816903715-9SMA7BJHHZXM2IM6MJOA/a-good-man-ani-katz.png BLOG - Staff Picks: January 2021 - RACHEL: A Good Man by Ani Katz GENRE: Fiction, Suspense WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I demolished this book in a single sitting, partially because of how little it is but also because the simple prose sucked me in immediately. The tension of the story strung me along the whole way, and even though I knew what is going to happen, watching exactly how the situation degraded to that point was as fascinating as it was sickening. The best (and worst) thing about A Good Man is that, despite the fact that it’s fictitious, the story is real. The main character is a perfect reflection of how badly the patriarchy fails both men and women in equal measure, but in completely different ways. This is a good book if you are looking for a short read that packs a punch, or if you want to feel unspeakably angry with a man who is made-up, but in many ways, most definitely exists. THE SYNOPSIS: Thomas Martin is everything a man is supposed to be. He has a beautiful wife and a loving daughter, a good house on Long Island, a flourishing career at a prestigious Manhattan advertising firm. He’s a good son and brother, taking it upon himself to support his ailing mother and adult sisters. He knows it’s his God-given duty to shield them, his girls, from the everyday horrors of the world. But he has failed, and unspeakable tragedy has befallen his family. Now, Thomas struggles to come to terms with what has become of his life. If only he can tell the story as he saw it, he believes he might find out how and why things unravelled so horribly; how he failed so disastrously. Because Thomas Martin is a good man. CLICK TO RESERVE “A Good Man” by Ani Katz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612817329889-BLXU57QQW6SLPT5S1ESV/recursion-blake-crouch.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: January 2021 - ELIZABETH: Recursion by Blake Crouch GENRE: Science Fiction, Thriller WHY SHE CHOSE IT: Do you remember it as the Berenstain Bears or the Berenstein Bears? (It's Berenstain.) Do you remember Rich Uncle Pennybags (from the Monopoly boardgame) wearing a monocle? (Nope, he must have perfect eyesight as he doesn't wear a monocle.) In "Silence of the Lambs" does Hannibal Lecter say, “Hello, Clarice” or does he say, “Good morning”? (Spoiler - he says "Good morning.") Do you recall watching Ed McMahon showing up on doorsteps to hand out oversized cheques because people had struck it rich in the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes? (Nope, never happened.) How about C-3PO in "Star Wars" - was the droid completely gold - top to bottom? (Surprise! C-3PO's right leg below the knee is silver.) Is it the lion or a wolf that lies down with the lamb? (It's a wolf.) These are a few examples of the Mandela Effect (also known as Collective False Memories) and if you have been curious about this phenomenon, you might enjoy this story. Happy reading! THE SYNOPSIS: Reality is broken. At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen. It’s just the first shock wave, unleashed by a stunning discovery—and what’s in jeopardy is not our minds but the very fabric of time itself. In New York City, Detective Barry Sutton is closing in on the truth—and in a remote laboratory, neuroscientist Helena Smith is unaware that she alone holds the key to this mystery . . . and the tools for fighting back. Together, Barry and Helena will have to confront their enemy—before they, and the world, are trapped in a loop of ever-growing chaos. CLICK TO RESERVE “Recursion” by Blake Crouch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612818273118-JWJJPAOYH759B7MLS8MQ/the-push-ashely-audrain.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: January 2021 - LISA S.: The Push by Ashley Audrain GENRE: Fiction, Psychological Drama WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I could not put this book down, and I am devastated that I will never experience again for the first time. It’s not for the faint of heart, as the subject matter is heavy. The Push deals with the relationships between mothers and daughters (and subtly poses the question of abuse and mental illness being genetically predisposed), and what happens when the mother you turn out to be brings all your worst fears to light. This novel was compulsive, hard to stomach in many parts, and also made me cringe when I saw some of my own thoughts reflected back at me. Motherhood is HARD, and this book deals with the ugly underbelly of a mother’s anxiety and fear. This book is one thing that turns into another, and it’s a must-read. THE SYNOPSIS: Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter—she doesn’t behave like most children do. Or is it all in Blythe’s head? Her husband, Fox, says she’s imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well. Then their son Sam is born—and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she’d always imagined with her child. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Push” by Ashley Audrain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612819654769-DKK3JCTURJPNAU5OR98Y/hidden-valley-road-robert-kolker.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: January 2021 - LISA G.: Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker GENRE: Biography WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I picked this book because it sounded interesting, and it had me hooked from the first line. Clocking in at just over 17 hours for the audiobook, I listened to it over two days, and I don't think the shock wore off for two more after that. The Galvin family has 12 children in a little over two decades in the 60s and 70s, six of whom are diagnosed schizophrenics by adulthood, and abuse the healthy 6 children while they are growing up. The family is the first to be part of a study determining the nature vs. nurture effects of schizophrenia on the human brain giving researchers a unique look at their family to see why some children of the same family were able to escape the same mental illness, and others were not. I started this book on NYE 2021, and it is easily my fave book of the year. THE SYNOPSIS: Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the dream. After World War II, Don's work with the US Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years there was an established script for a family like the Galvins— aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony— and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen in one family? What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institutes of Mental Health. Their shocking story also offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy and the premise of the schizophrenogenic mother, to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amidst profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. Unknown to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment and even the possibility of the eradication of the disease for future generations. CLICK TO RESERVE THE AUDIOBOOK “Hidden Valley Road” by Robert Kolker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612983228183-ZQI3WIPA60LQ8GULITJ0/ella-minnow-pea-mark-dunn.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: January 2021 - ABBEY: Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn GENRE: Fiction, Epistolary Novel WHY SHE CHOSE IT: Even though it’s a really short book it required me to use my brain the entire time. It’s written in letters between characters and it’s so unique. A bunch of terrible things happen in the story but I was just so fascinated with the crazy writing that I barely noticed. One of the coolest books I have ever read. THE SYNOPSIS: Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram* "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl's fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere. *pangram: a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet CLICK TO RESERVE THE EBOOK “Ella Minnow Pea” by Mark Dunn https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/monthly-reading-challenge-books-by-black-authors monthly 0.5 2021-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612303404159-5W1K71XF8SKOYGZRIB17/the-vanishing-half-brit-bennett.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett GENRE: Historical Fiction, Family Saga, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters’ storylines intersect? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612304761500-6LNHT7CRYZ7JETTMS45F/the-death-of-vivek-oji-akwaeke-emezi.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi GENRE: Coming-of-Age THE SYNOPSIS: One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in friendships with the warm, boisterous daughters of the Nigerwives, foreign-born women married to Nigerian men. But Vivek’s closest bond is with Osita, the worldly, high-spirited cousin whose teasing confidence masks a guarded private life. As their relationship deepens—and Osita struggles to understand Vivek’s escalating crisis—the mystery gives way to a heart-stopping act of violence in a moment of exhilarating freedom. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Death of Vivek Oji” by Akwaeke Emezi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612304798302-1TSZ99C61IV242STPYCJ/transcendent-kingdom-yaa-gyasi.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi GENRE: Psychological Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family’s loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. CLICK TO RESERVE “Transcendent Kingdom” by Yaa Gyasi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612305365274-TMIM64QNCXIVSSW4OM6K/black-leopard-red-wolf-marlon-james.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Black Leopard Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy #1) by Marlon James GENRE: Fantasy Fiction, Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. CLICK TO RESERVE “Black Leopard Red Wolf” by Marlon James https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612305580766-O8TLRADU9FBMO006G10N/sing-unburied-sing-jesmyn-ward.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward GENRE: Coming-of-Age Story THE SYNOPSIS: Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. He doesn’t lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent White father, Michael, who is being released from prison; his absent White grandfather, Big Joseph, who won’t acknowledge his existence; and the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager. His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent presence in his and his toddler sister’s lives. She is an imperfect mother in constant conflict with herself and those around her. She is Black and her children’s father is White. She wants to be a better mother but can’t put her children above her own needs, especially her drug use. Simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high, Leonie is embattled in ways that reflect the brutal reality of her circumstances. When the children’s father is released from prison, Leonie packs her kids and a friend into her car and drives north to the heart of Mississippi and Parchman Farm, the State Penitentiary. At Parchman, there is another thirteen-year-old boy, the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of the ugly history of the South with him in his wandering. He too has something to teach Jojo about fathers and sons, about legacies, about violence, about love. CLICK TO RESERVE “Sing, Unburied, Sing” by Jesmyn Ward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612306046567-SZLSZBJ5X023IZIGAMOB/ginger-bread-helen-oyeyemi.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Ginger Bread by Helen Oyeyemi GENRE: Fantasy Fiction, Fairy Tale THE SYNOPSIS: Perdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there’s the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but it’s very popular in Druhástrana, the far-away (or, according to many sources, non-existent) land of Harriet Lee’s early youth. The world’s truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread, however, is Harriet’s charismatic childhood friend Gretel Kercheval —a figure who seems to have had a hand in everything (good or bad) that has happened to Harriet since they met. Decades later, when teenaged Perdita sets out to find her mother’s long-lost friend, it prompts a new telling of Harriet’s story. As the book follows the Lees through encounters with jealousy, ambition, family grudges, work, wealth, and real estate, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that reliably holds a constant value. CLICK TO RESERVE “Ginger Bread” by Helen Oyeyemi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612307017525-YPN7TAIJGAVM71YDX7GP/children-of-blood-and-bone-tomi-adeyemi.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha #1) by Tomi Adeyemi GENRE: Young Adult, Fantasy Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good. Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers and her growing feelings for an enemy. CLICK TO RESERVE “Children of Blood and Bone” by Tomi Adeyemi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612378305663-PYHO39SYRL0Y8YFVJYL6/the-hate-u-give-angie-thomas.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas GENRE: Young Adult Fiction, Social Justice THE SYNOPSIS: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612378643633-7W1LGC4TFQFB7ZVCO942/the-color-purple-alice-walker.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - The Color Purple by Alice Walker GENRE: Epistolary Novel THE SYNOPSIS: A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612379080699-XIYSJ1EKJ6ELW2ZD62K9/an-american-marriage-tayari-jones.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones GENRE: Domestic Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Newlyweds, Celestial and Roy, are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is artist on the brink of an exciting career. They are settling into the routine of their life together, when they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. CLICK TO RESERVE “An American Marriage” by Tayari Jones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612379380775-7AWSIMNL6TE2HMT4IRI2/the-nickel-boys-colson-whitehead.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, “The Nickel Boys” is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612379757760-8O62W6WO9XZNI0F3RYU7/queenie-candice-mccarty-williams.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams GENRE: Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, “What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?”—all of the questions today’s woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her. CLICK TO RESERVE “Queenie” by Candice Carty-Williams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612381375465-F5TBWFCA1ZYRBIVFEFJ3/such-a-fun-age-kiley-reid.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid GENRE: Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In the midst of a family crisis one late evening, white blogger Alix Chamberlain calls her African American babysitter, Emira, asking her to take toddler Briar to the local market for distraction. There, the security guard accuses Emira of kidnapping Briar, and Alix's efforts to right the situation turn out to be good intentions selfishly mismanaged. CLICK TO RESERVE “Such a Fun Age” by Kiley Reid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612381691425-LYE9B82412ROF4I3HC5P/deacon-king-kong-james-mcbride.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Deacon King Kong by James McBride GENRE: Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. In “Deacon King Kong”, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters--caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York--overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. CLICK TO RESERVE “Deacon King Kong” by James McBride https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612381952827-K85L1RXGBWAQMU2IZCYT/whiskey-ribbons-leesa-cross-smith.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Whiskey & Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith GENRE: Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Evi—a classically-trained ballerina—was nine months pregnant when her husband Eamon was killed in the line of duty on a steamy morning in July. Now, it is winter, and Eamon's adopted brother Dalton has moved in to help her raise six-month-old Noah. “Whiskey & Ribbons” is told in three intertwining, melodic voices: Evi in present day, as she’s snowed in with Dalton during a freak blizzard; Eamon before his murder, as he prepares for impending fatherhood and grapples with the danger of his profession; and Dalton, as he struggles to make sense of his life next to Eamon’s, and as he decides to track down the biological father he’s never known. CLICK TO RESERVE “Whiskey & Ribbons” by Leesa Cross-Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612384040774-MBPZUGG5NKMWTRM8ERBL/punching-the-air-ibi-zoboi-yusef-salaam.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam GENRE: Young Adult, Social Justice THE SYNOPSIS: The story that I thought was my life didn’t start on the day I was born Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. The story that I think will be my life starts today Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it? CLICK TO RESERVE “Punching the Air” by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612382246532-90BM1UK72Y1I2ZFODLCK/washington-black-esi-edugyan.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Washington Black by Esi Edugyan GENRE: Historical Fiction, Adventure Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, Titch abandons everything to save him. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life, one which will propel him further across the globe. From the sultry cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, “Washington Black” tells a story of friendship and betrayal, love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again--and asks the question, what is true freedom? CLICK TO RESERVE “Washington Black” by Esi Edugyan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612383256544-MEFBGAQUQ6JO01EUQNGY/the-deep-rivers-solomon.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - The Deep by Rivers Solomon GENRE: Fantasy Fiction, Science Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities—and discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past—and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity—and own who they really are. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Deep” by Rivers Solomon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612383516092-GRP12NPNYP1AGNL0MXU2/real-life-brandon-taylor.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Real Life by Brandon Taylor GENRE: Gay Fiction, Coming-of-Age Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends—some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. CLICK TO RESEREVE "Real Life” by Brandon Taylor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612383795324-NBJWQTYZ0P7VHFBUBAVN/i-almost-forgot-about-you-terry-mcmillan.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan GENRE: Romance THE SYNOPSIS: Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful career--aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, including quitting her job as an optometrist and moving house, she finds herself on a wild journey that may or may not include a second chance at love. Georgia’s bravery reminds us that it’s never too late to become the person you want to be, and that taking chances, with your life and your heart, are always worthwhile. CLICK TO RESERVE “I Almost Forgot About You” by Terry McMillan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612467646354-84RCTGHWUIC84AW60BVV/libby-by-overdrive-home-small.png BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612384455823-7GO9JL57ME5MVWTIH07M/hunger-roxanne-gay.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Hunger by Roxanne Gay GENRE: Memoir THE SYNOPSIS: “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.” In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes. CLICK TO RESERVE “Hunger” by Roxanne Gay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612384911829-AF85H6OYNSLL1LR33VBM/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race-ijeoma-oluo.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo GENRE: Social Justice THE SYNOPSIS: In “So You Want to Talk About Race”, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions readers don't dare ask, and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans. Oluo is an exceptional writer with a rare ability to be straightforward, funny, and effective in her coverage of sensitive, hyper-charged issues in America. Her messages are passionate but finely tuned, and crystalize ideas that would otherwise be vague by empowering them with aha-moment clarity. Her writing brings to mind voices like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay, and Jessica Valenti in Full Frontal Feminism, and a young Gloria Naylor, particularly in Naylor's seminal essay "The Meaning of a Word." CLICK TO RESERVE “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612385033451-1FO0MS87ZVVA53LQ0HK0/the-new-jim-crow-michelle-alexander.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander GENRE: Social Justice, Race, Politics THE SYNOPSIS: "Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole." As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status--much like their grandparents before them. In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community--and all of us--to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. CLICK TO RESERVE “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612385340962-HQP16L9JHBT4EXLGEEST/until-we-are-free.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada by Multiple Contributors GENRE: Social Justice, Race, Politics THE SYNOPSIS: The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired the Black Lives Matter movement, which quickly spread outside the borders of the United States. The movement’s message found fertile ground in Canada, where Black activists speak of generations of injustice and continue the work of the Black liberators who have come before them. ”Until We Are Free” contains some of the very best writing on the hottest issues facing the Black community in Canada. It describes the latest developments in Canadian Black activism, organizing efforts through the use of social media, Black-Indigenous alliances, and more. CLICK TO RESERVE “Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada” by Multiple Contributors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612385663106-242FG6JGO9WHS64WDIYL/i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings-maya-angelou.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou GENRE: Autobiography THE SYNOPSIS: Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local "powhitetrash." At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors ("I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare") will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. CLICK TO RESERVE “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612385953395-VZQ5B5XIZ0BU8SZVJAL5/how-to-be-less-stupid-about-race-crystal-fleming.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - How to Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal M. Fleming GENRE: Social Justice, Race THE SYNOPSIS: “How to Be Less Stupid About Race” is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. Centuries after our nation was founded on genocide, settler colonialism, and slavery, many Americans are kinda-sorta-maybe waking up to the reality that our racial politics are (still) garbage. But in the midst of this reckoning, widespread denial and misunderstandings about race persist, even as white supremacy and racial injustice are more visible than ever before. Combining no-holds-barred social critique, humorous personal anecdotes, and analysis of the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on systemic racism, sociologist Crystal M. Fleming provides a fresh, accessible, and irreverent take on everything that’s wrong with our “national conversation about race.” Drawing upon critical race theory, as well as her own experiences as a queer black millennial college professor and researcher, Fleming unveils how systemic racism exposes us all to racial ignorance—and provides a road map for transforming our knowledge into concrete social change. CLICK TO RESERVE “How to Be Less Stupid About Race” by Crystal M. Fleming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612386377601-OD1PN02UWSJGPL03IKJA/quiet-strength-rosa-parks.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Quiet Strength by Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed GENRE: Biography THE SYNOPSIS: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks became the "mother of the modern civil rights movement" when she refused to surrender her seat to a white man on a segregated Montgomery, AL., bus. Quiet Strength reveals Rosa Park's insights, dreams, and reflections on a variety of themes--her Christian faith, race relations, today's youth, her vision for the future, and much more. CLICK TO RESERVE “Quiet Strengths” by Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612386637961-GJNPYACTQHOFQCOYJM4N/becoming-michelle-obama.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Becoming by Michelle Obama GENRE: Autobiography THE SYNOPSIS: In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same. CLICK TO RESERVE “Becoming” by Michelle Obama https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612387663437-J2JP5OZGOYM1Z6Q0GVTL/between-the-world-and-me-ta-nehisi-coates.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates GENRE: Biography THE SYNOPSIS: “This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? ”Between the World and Me” is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, “Between the World and Me” clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward. CLICK TO RESERVE “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612388268085-1V5RPNCJ7AO10OOADI0G/born-a-crime-trevor-noah.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah GENRE: Memoir THE SYNOPSIS: Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. ”Born a Crime” is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. CLICK TO RESERVE “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612389639707-K1OKY1T6Q79QJNPH7MHL/12-years-a-slave-solomon-northrup.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup GENRE: Autobiography THE SYNOPSIS: A testimony of personal strength and a telling portrait of American slavery in the pre-Civil War South. When Solomon Northup, born a free black man in Saratoga, New York, was offered a short-term job with a circus in Washington, D.C., in 1841, he jumped at the opportunity. But when he arrived, he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Finally, with the help of a Canadian abolitionist, he was rescued and reunited with his family in New York. In this memoir published in 1853, Northup tells the incredible story of his twelve years as a slave. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “12 Years a Slave” by Solomon Northrup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612389905266-UI9ZX0KWGHJWBBZJA14D/how-to-be-an-antiracist-ibram-x-kendi.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi GENRE: Autobiography, Race, Social Justice THE SYNOPSIS: Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In “How to be an Antiracist”, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it. In this book, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism. “How to Be an Antiracist” is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society. CLICK TO RESERVE “How to be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612390368689-XDH9JMKEDUZCT23TO9S7/dreams-from-my-father-barack-obama.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama GENRE: Autobiography THE SYNOPSIS: In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. CLICK TO RESERVE “Dreams from my Father” by Barack Obama https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612391650757-ZYLM6RTF7QDIKT1DI475/caste-isabel-wilkerson.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Caste by Isabel Wilkerson GENRE: History, Race, Politics, Social Justice THE SYNOPSIS: “As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.” In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. CLICK TO RESERVE “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612391968288-KHPM0TLOOUYWZSCP8OK3/the-skin-we%27re-in-desmond-cole.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole GENRE: THE SYNOPSIS: In his 2015 cover story for “Toronto Life” magazine, Desmond Cole exposed the racist actions of the Toronto police force, detailing the dozens of times he had been stopped and interrogated under the controversial practice of carding. The story quickly came to national prominence, shaking the country to its core and catapulting its author into the public sphere. Cole used his newfound profile to draw insistent, unyielding attention to the injustices faced by Black Canadians on a daily basis. Both Cole’s activism and journalism find vibrant expression in his first book, “The Skin We’re In”. Puncturing the bubble of Canadian smugness and naive assumptions of a post-racial nation, Cole chronicles just one year—2017—in the struggle against racism in this country. It was a year that saw calls for tighter borders when Black refugees braved frigid temperatures to cross into Manitoba from the States, Indigenous land and water protectors resisting the celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, police across the country rallying around an officer accused of murder, and more. The year also witnessed the profound personal and professional ramifications of Desmond Cole’s unwavering determination to combat injustice. In April, Cole disrupted a Toronto police board meeting by calling for the destruction of all data collected through carding. Following the protest, Cole, a columnist with the Toronto Star, was summoned to a meeting with the paper’s opinions editor and informed that his activism violated company policy. Rather than limit his efforts defending Black lives, Cole chose to sever his relationship with the publication. Then in July, at another police board meeting, Cole challenged the board to respond to accusations of a police cover-up in the brutal beating of Dafonte Miller by an off-duty police officer and his brother. When Cole refused to leave the meeting until the question was publicly addressed, he was arrested. The image of Cole walking out of the meeting, handcuffed and flanked by officers, fortified the distrust between the city’s Black community and its police force. Month-by-month, Cole creates a comprehensive picture of entrenched, systemic inequality. Urgent, controversial, and unsparingly honest, “The Skin We’re In” is destined to become a vital text for anti-racist and social justice movements in Canada, as well as a potent antidote to the all-too-present complacency of many white Canadians. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Skin We’re In” by Desmond Cole https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612392308066-VA15XDJ951UK0G585OC6/me-and-white-supremacy-layla-f-saad.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad GENRE: Race, Politics, Social Justice THE SYNOPSIS: When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #MeAndWhiteSupremacy, she never predicted it would spread as widely as it did. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 90,000 people downloaded the Me and White Supremacy Workbook. The updated and expanded “Me and White Supremacy” takes the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources. Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. The numbers show that readers are ready to do this work - let's give it to them. CLICK TO RESERVE “Me and White Supremacy” by Layla F. Saad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612393091116-EXZVYWPPW35ZVMT0RINP/what-i-know-for-sure-oprah.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey GENRE: Memoir THE SYNOPSIS: As a creative force, student of the human heart and soul, and champion of living the life you want, Oprah Winfrey stands alone. Over the years, she has made history with a legendary talk show - the highest-rated program of its kind, launched her own television network, become the nation's only African-American billionaire, and been awarded both an honorary degree by Harvard University and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. From all her experiences, she has gleaned life lessons—which, for fourteen years, she's shared in “O, The Oprah Magazine's” widely popular "What I Know For Sure" column, a monthly source of inspiration and revelation. Now, for the first time, these thoughtful gems have been revised, updated, and collected in “What I Know For Sure”, a beautiful cloth bound book with a ribbon marker, packed with insight and revelation from Oprah Winfrey. Organized by theme—joy, resilience, connection, gratitude, possibility, awe, clarity, and power—these essays offer a rare, powerful and intimate glimpse into the heart and mind of one of the world's most extraordinary women—while providing readers a guide to becoming their best selves. Candid, moving, exhilarating, uplifting, and frequently humorous, the words Oprah shares in “What I Know For Sure” shimmer with the sort of truth that readers will turn to again and again. CLICK TO RESERVE “What I Know for Sure” by Oprah Winfrey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612393577851-452FLBRH5MNIVR5MJFDQ/make-change-shaun-king.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Make Change by Shaun King GENRE: Race, Politics, Social Justice THE SYNOPSIS: As a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, Shaun King has become one of the most recognizable and powerful voices on the front lines of civil rights in our time. His commitment to reforming the justice system and making America a more equitable place has brought challenges and triumphs, soaring victories and crushing defeats. Throughout his wide-ranging activism, King’s commentary remains rooted in both exhaustive research and abundant passion. In “Make Change”, King offers an inspiring look at the moments that have shaped his life and considers the ways social movements can grow and evolve in this hyper-connected era. He shares stories from his efforts leading the Raise the Age campaign and his work fighting police brutality, while providing a roadmap for how to stay sane, safe, and motivated even in the worst of political climates. By turns infuriating, inspiring, and educational, “Make Change” will resonate with those who believe that America can—and must—do better. CLICK TO RESERVE “Make Change” by Shaun King https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612393955803-JJUFCUVXEERYP6S8J15T/the-pursuit-of-happyness-chris-gardner.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner GENRE: Memoir THE SYNOPSIS: At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm than Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him as part of the city's working homeless and with a toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving among shelters, "HO-tels," soup lines, and even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station. Never giving in to despair, Gardner made an astonishing transformation from being part of the city's invisible poor to being a powerful player in its financial district. More than a memoir of Gardner's financial success, this is the story of a man who breaks his own family's cycle of men abandoning their children. Mythic, triumphant, and unstintingly honest, “The Pursuit of Happyness” conjures heroes like Horatio Alger and Antwone Fisher, and appeals to the very essence of the American Dream. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Pursuit of Happyness” by Chris Gardner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612394229601-IX2OAIQJEDCWZFTVAVEV/intimations-zadie-smith.jpg BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors - Intimations by Zadie Smith GENRE: Essays, Memoir THE SYNOPSIS: “There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those—the year isn’t half-way done. What I’ve tried to do is organize some of the feelings and thoughts that events, so far, have provoked in me, in those scraps of time the year itself has allowed. These are above all personal essays: small by definition, short by necessity.” Crafted with the sharp intelligence, wit and style that have won Zadie Smith millions of fans, and suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these unprecedented times, Intimations is a vital work of art, a gesture of connection and an act of love—an essential book in extraordinary times. CLICK TO RESERVE “Intimations” by Zadie Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1612467754741-WXZE8IH0WEYAIGMUIM4S/libby-by-overdrive-home-small.png BLOG - Monthly Reading Challenge: Books by Black Authors https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/wvkq0immts5p6716lev0z2x1yer3ma monthly 0.5 2021-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611953224162-ETQ9MGOC4XLQ1XN5C2GG/41dabf4mHjL._SX329_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 30, 2021 - All the Colors of Night (Fogg Lake #2) - Jayne Ann Krentz Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller North Chastain has always had the mysterious ability to channel energy through crystals. He and his father both have the ability, which is what the doctors believe is the cause of his father's sudden coma. But North knows that isn't the case. He's convinced it was brought on by an artifact his father had been looking for--and found. With his unique talent of channeling energy through crystals, North has the best chance at recovering the artifact, but he also needs someone who knows the shadowy world of crazy collectors, deceptive dealers, and dangerous raiders. Sierra Raines is looking for a fresh start after a failed gig at a major auction house. With her reputation ruined, she turns to the murky backwaters of the paranormal artifacts trade. She takes commissions to find, acquire, and transport objects that are hot commodities in the antiquities world, staying in the shadows to avoid attracting the attention of the Foundation. When North Chastain approaches her, Sierra takes him on as a client, though not without reservations. They wind up in Fogg Lake, and soon discover that they will have to trust each other in order to not only save North's father but also to survive. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “All the Colors of Night” by Jayne Ann Krentz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611954207975-8Q9FY0BM3VM758ZWUCP8/51xMQu6bYtL._SX329_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 30, 2021 - Hush-Hush (Stone Barrington #56) - Stuart Woods Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Stone Barrington is settling in for some downtime in New York City when an anonymous enemy makes himself known. This nameless foe's threats hit close to home, and before Stone can retaliate, the fearsome messages turn into very real consequences. With the help of old friends--and a lovely new tech-savvy acquaintance--Stone sets out to unravel the fatal agenda. But as the web of adversaries expands, Stone realizes that no place is safe, and he'll have to flush out the mastermind before he and those closest to him are silenced for good. 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But when Erin's "proof of life" video makes it to air -- rather than to evidence -- every A-lister on the guest list becomes a target of suspicion . . . or just a target. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “NYPD Red 6” by James Patterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611954682088-1JJ2WODHY5QICB1YNTF2/51gnGzkjKAL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 30, 2021 - The Russian (Michael Bennet #13) - James Patterson Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Investigating a trio of horrifying murders in three major U.S. cities against a backdrop of his impending nuptials, Detective Michael Bennett risks getting caught in a deadly trap set by a particularly elusive killer. A series of gruesome murders in New York City has Michael Bennett angry-- but when he identifies similar cases in Atlanta and San Francisco, his feelings escalate into all-out alarm. All of the victims are young women, and each one is killed in a manner as precise as it was gruesome. Working alongside the FBI, Bennett and his new partner toil to connect the cases. But as Bennett prepares to make a lifetime commitment to Mary Catherine, the killer has a lethal vow of his own to fulfill. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Russian” by James Patterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611954843265-1B7PSXIPYQ4ML9JJMDF1/51QmcFXxkbL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 30, 2021 - The Scorpion’s Tail (Nora Kelly #2) - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller After a shoot-out leaves a senior FBI agent gravely wounded, Corrie Swanson finds herself under investigation. Her supervisor assures her she's not to blame and the black mark on her record will be cleared in short order. But Corrie finds she cannot shake off an overwhelming feeling of guilt. As a distraction, she takes on a new case involving a fifty-year-old, mummified corpse discovered in a hidden enclave at High Lonesome, a long-abandoned New Mexico ghost town. Quickly out of her depth, she realizes she needs the help of her old enemy, archaeologist Nora Kelly. The two women soon uncover a startling truth: the deceased was poisoned, and died clutching a priceless artifact. Can the two women solve the mystery of the scorpion's tail? Or will they – like others before them – die in the attempt? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Scorpion’s Tail” by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611955069347-HOJL0S253Q1242LS88O1/41LICSov%2BOL._SX329_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 30, 2021 - Someone to Watch Over Me (Spenser #48) - Ace Atkins Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Ten years ago, Spenser helped a teenage girl named Mattie Sullivan find her mother's killer and take down an infamous Southie crime boss. Now Mattie--a college student with a side job working for the iconic private eye--dreams of being an investigator herself. When Mattie's childhood friend from the South Boston housing projects, Chloe Turner, is found dead, she decides to take on the case for the family. Taking a cue from her boss, Mattie has a knack for asking the right questions of the wrong people. Soon Spenser and Mattie find ties between Turner and dozens of other girls from poor families to an eccentric billionaire with a massive home along Commonwealth Avenue. The man owns properties and businesses throughout Massachusetts with connections to local politicians, the state house, and beyond. As a bleak winter bears down on Boston, Spenser and trusted ally Hawk must again watch out for Mattie as she unravels a massive sex-trafficking ring that will take them from Boston to the Bahamas, crossing paths with local toughs and an old enemy of Spenser's--the Gray Man--for a final epic showdown. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Someone to Watch Over Me” by Ace Atkins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611953641793-5WO4JPSTTW788V7FNJSF/71-bTsDnheL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 30, 2021 - Beginners - Tom Vanderbilt Genres: Non-fiction, Self-help Why do so many of us stop learning new skills as adults? Are we afraid to fail? Have we forgotten the sheer pleasure of being a beginner? Or is it simply a fact that you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Inspired by his young daughter's insatiable need to know how to do almost everything, and stymied by his own rut of mid-career competence, Tom Vanderbilt begins a year of learning purely for the sake of learning. He tackles five main skills (and picks up a few more along the way), choosing them for their difficulty to master and their distinct lack of career marketability--chess, singing, surfing, drawing, and juggling. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Beginners” by Tom Vanderbilt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611953911605-J3SCJGIX1RPAB2GAW4IU/41ilrD-K-yL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 30, 2021 - Change - Damon Centola Genres: Non-fiction, Sociology Most of what we know about how ideas spread comes from bestselling authors who give us a compelling picture of a world, in which "influencers" are king, "sticky" ideas "go viral," and good behavior is "nudged" forward. The problem is that the world they describe is a world where information spreads, but beliefs and behaviors stay the same. When it comes to lasting change in what we think or the way we live, the dynamics are different: beliefs and behaviors are not transmitted from person to person in the simple way that a virus is. The real story of social change is more complex. When we are exposed to a new idea, our social networks guide our responses in striking and surprising ways. Drawing on deep-yet-accessible research and fascinating examples from the spread of coronavirus to the success of the Black Lives Matter movement, the failure of Google+, and the rise of political polarization, Change presents groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting new science for understanding what drives change, and how we can change the world around us. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Change” by Damon Centola https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611953448733-FGWX4RN9X1IKMAYM8R3L/becoming-brianna-1.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 30, 2021 - Becoming Brianna (Emmie & Friends #4) - Terri Libenson Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Everyone knows how much brainy Bri likes the spotlight (not). So why did she ever agree to something that forces her to learn a new language, give a speech, help organize a party, and juggle drama at school and home?! As the big event inches closer, Bri wonders if it's all worth it. . . .Told in alternating past and present chapters, Bri's heartwarming story unfolds over the eight months leading up to her bat mitzvah--as well as over the course of the big day itself. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Becoming Brianna” by Terri Libenson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611953775099-EFGAOZYX35LMY2SDMGHM/81899lWILiL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 30, 2021 - The Gerbil Ate My Homework (Big Nate #23) - Lincoln Peirce Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel You've got to know where you stand to survive sixth grade, and Nate Wright's found the perfect spot: right next to Sherman, the class gerbil. Can Nate's furry friend bail him out of his latest homework jam with Mrs. Godfrey? Or will there be a paper trail leading straight to detention? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Gerbil Ate My Homework” by Lincoln Peirce https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611954022059-EAVA438VGAGODZY8OAC9/61Mspabft1L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 30, 2021 - Claudia and the New Girl (Baby-Sitters Club #9) - Gabriela Epstein Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Claudia has always been the most creative kid in her class... until Ashley Wyeth comes along. Ashley's really different: She wears hippie clothes and has multiple earrings, and she's the most fantastic artist Claudia has ever met. Ashley says Claudia is a great artist, too, but thinks she's wasting her artistic talent with The Baby-sitters Club. When Claudia starts spending more time with Ashley and missing BSC meetings, it becomes clear that Claudia has to make a decision -- one of them has to go! 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CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Wizard of Oz” by Russell Punter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611956090184-JOVWBQQW4GE0Z3I5X441/71jnjJPJ%2BfL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 30, 2021 - Wolfwalkers - Sam Sattin Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Robyn Goodfellowe and her father arrive in Kilkenny, Ireland, tasked with hunting the last of the wolves, but Robyn's friendship with Mebh, a girl living in the forests and protecting the wolves, threatens everything Robyn--and her father--hold dear. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Wolfwalkers” by Sam Sattin https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-last-quarter-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1610661025185-WYL0URB1VVPNK2PFETPI/this-is-your-brain-on-parasites-kathleen-mcauliffe.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: Last Quarter 2020 - ELIZABETH’S PICK: This is Your Brain on Parasites by Kathleen McAuliffe GENRE: Nonfiction, Medical WHY SHE CHOSE IT: This non-fiction book details how invasive creatures that can only be seen under a microscope can shape society in every way imaginable by controlling our brains and altering our behaviours, changing our cognitive functioning, and making us violent and/or sexually aggressive. This book was published in 2016 but I found it extremely helpful in explaining many of Canada’s neighbours’ inexplicable (to me) behaviours and beliefs over the course of the past four years. I cannot tell you how many times this book has come to mind and I found myself thinking, “Bingo! Microbes have been at work here!” Reviewers have said this book is a strong story but the science behind it is shaky. However, over the past number of years, more and more research is coming out that supports the claim that brain damage is linked to religious extremism. I am recommending this book because it answered many of my “WHY?!” questions. THE SYNOPSIS: Parasites can live only inside another animal and, as Kathleen McAuliffe reveals, these tiny organisms have many evolutionary motives for manipulating the behavior of their hosts. With astonishing precision, parasites can coax rats to approach cats, spiders to transform the patterns of their webs, and fish to draw the attention of birds that then swoop down to feast on them. We humans are hardly immune to their influence. Organisms we pick up from our own pets are strongly suspected of changing our personality traits and contributing to recklessness and impulsivity—even suicide. Germs that cause colds and the flu may alter our behavior even before symptoms become apparent. Parasites influence our species on the cultural level, too. Drawing on a huge body of research, McAuliffe argues that our dread of contamination is an evolved defense against parasites. The horror and revulsion we are programmed to feel when we come in contact with people who appear diseased or dirty helped pave the way for civilization, but may also be the basis for major divisions in societies that persist to this day. This Is Your Brain on Parasites is both a journey into cutting-edge science and a revelatory examination of what it means to be human. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “This is Your Brain on Parasites” by Kathleen McAuliffe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1610664532886-W7E4OSVUMT9JHW8YV0Y9/john-dies-at-the-end-david-wong.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: Last Quarter 2020 - RACHEL’S PICK: John Dies at the End by David Wong GENRE: Fiction, Science Fiction, Humour WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I don’t even know where to start with this book. I’ve never experienced a story quite like “John Dies at the End”, and I doubt I ever will again. A blend of comedy and cosmic horror, this book had me bent over laughing even as my stomach turned from the visceral terror that the story provided. David Wong’s writing style is sharp and witty, and will grab you like a barbed fishhook and reel you in; keeping you stuck in morbid fascination as the story unfolds. Reading this book is akin to watching a car crash—grisly, but impossible to look away from. I absolutely loved it! THE SYNOPSIS: An alien drug is the first wave of attack by an enemy society from an alternate universe in this comic horror novel. David Wong converses with a reporter to confess to all the bizarre, metaphysical adventures he has endured over the past two years. This conversation frames the whole book. He tells the reporter that he has changed his name to Wong, even though he white, because Wong is the most common name in the world, making him harder to find. He reveals that he is a highly secretive person, isolated from most people, even his family. David was involved in an incident where he injured a bully in high school, an event that eventually led to the boy's suicide. David ended up labeled a disturbed teenager. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “John Dies at the End” by David Wong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1610744362649-9HV90KSMBU4CVHIJW2V5/the-midnight-library-matt-haig.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: Last Quarter 2020 - LISA S’s PICK: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig GENRE: Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: Doesn’t everyone wonder what life would have been like if you had made different decisions? In “The Midnight Library”, Matt Haig tackles just that: the roads you didn’t take and where they would have led. While the book leaned a little on the fluffy side for me, I also had a hard time putting it down. I got a few quotes from the book that struck me and had me saying, “YES!!” rather emphatically. This was a quick and easy read, perfect for the beginning of the year. THE SYNOPSIS: Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren’t always what she imagined they’d be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger. Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1610663625868-OH72FIXEOBY9KFY3KS05/warriors-into-the-wild-erin-hunter.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: Last Quarter 2020 - RACHEL’S PICK: Warriors Into the Wild by Erin Hunter GENRE: Junior Fiction, Fantasy Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: If you have been lucky enough to never been on the receiving end of one of my rants about Erin Hunter’s prolific “Warriors” series, I’m sorry to tell you, but your luck has run out today. “Warriors” is a massive, trans-generational epic spanning 40+ books (and counting) and over 15 more spinoffs and side stories. It has been running since 2003, and Erin Hunter gives no sign of slowing down as of yet. And what is it about, you may ask? Well…cats. Cats in the woods. It may sound a bit ludicrous, I know, but “Warriors” is filled with enough drama, sabotage, politics (watered down enough to be palatable for a younger audience, of course), intrigue and romance to rival Game of Thrones. It is technically a junior fiction series, but the relative simplicity of the writing style and the depth of the plot makes it accessible to both younger and older demographics. Heck, if I had the time, I would read the whole series over again at the age of 20. So tell your kids! Tell your friend’s kids! The literary journey of a lifestime all starts here, with “Warriors: Into the Wild” by Erin Hunter. THE SYNOPSIS: Fire alone can save our Clan... For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by the powerful ancestors. But the warrior code is threatened, and the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger. The sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. Noble warriors are dying — and some deaths are more mysterious than others. In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary housecat named Rusty... Who may yet turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Warriors Into the Wild” by Erin Hunter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1610662706409-A0LAV6PMJQL0PS4ON2OZ/white-fragility-robin-diangelo.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: Last Quarter 2020 - ELIZABETH’S PICK: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo GENRE: Nonfiction, Social Movements WHY SHE CHOSE IT: f you’ve not heard about this book, you need to read it. If you’ve heard about it and have been putting off reading it, you need to read it. This New York Times best-selling book hit me hard. I cannot tell you how many times, as I listened to the audiobook, I thought to myself, “I do that. I say that. I think that. I am being described here. That is me.” And, as a person who considers herself non-judgmental and evolved on the acceptance of other people scale, I found out that I’m not really and that I have a lot of work to do. I would like everyone to read this book. I would like everyone to take this book to heart and really see themselves within its pages. I believe our World would be a much, much better place if we all read this book. Note: This title is also available on the Libby app in eBook and audiobook formats. THE SYNOPSIS: In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608152169927-G1FBRVY2MHLI5AKVVDGZ/highway-of-tears-jessica-mcdiarmid.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: Last Quarter 2020 - LISA G’s PICK: Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid GENRE: Nonfiction, True Crime WHY SHE CHOSE IT: A 2019 account of the stretch of B.C. highway where an alarming number of Indigenous women have been found murdered or gone missing. This book also has a staggering number of facts from the first page about being an Indigenous woman in Canada today, and the work we need to do to put a spotlight on the problem of unsolved murders and missing women who have never been found. This book is an important read for every Canadian. THE SYNOPSIS: A searing and revelatory account of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and an indictment of the society that failed them. For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. Journalist Jessica McDiarmid investigates the devastating effect these tragedies have had on the families of the victims and their communities, and how systemic racism and indifference have created a climate where Indigenous women and girls are over-policed, yet under-protected. Through interviews with those closest to the victims—mothers and fathers, siblings and friends—McDiarmid offers an intimate, first-hand account of their loss and relentless fight for justice. Examining the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settlers and Indigenous peoples in the region, McDiarmid links these cases to others across Canada—now estimated to number up to 4,000—contextualizing them within a broader examination of the undervaluing of Indigenous lives in this country. Highway of Tears is a powerful story about our ongoing failure to provide justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and a testament to their families and communities' unwavering determination to find it. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Highway of Tears” by Jessica McDiarmid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1610664108513-D5DZK23B6HW0Q3LN5B12/cleopatra-in-space-book-one-target-practice.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: Last Quarter 2020 - RACHEL’S PICK: Target Practice by Mike Maihack GENRE: Graphic Novel, Science Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: Mike Maihack’s “Cleopatra in Space” series is a fun little 5-volume graphic novel adventure. Its plot is exactly what it says on the tin: it’s Cleopatra, but she’s in space. Filled with time travel, laser guns and feline overlords, “Target Practice” is the start to an exciting space opera that’s the perfect fit if you’re looking for something short and enjoyable to dip your toes into! THE SYNOPSIS: When Cleopatra finds a mysterious tablet that zaps her to the far, REALLY far future, she learns of an ancient prophecy that says she is destined to save the galaxy from the tyrannical rule of the evil Xaius Octavian. She enrolls in Yasiro Academy, a high-tech school with classes like algebra, biology, and alien languages (which Cleo could do without), and combat training (which is more Cleo's style). With help from her teacher Khensu, Cleo learns what it takes to be a great leader, while trying to figure out how she's going to get her homework done, make friends, avoid detention, and everything else that comes with being the future queen of the universe! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Target Practice” by Mike Maihack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1610745140853-R53MIBBXGLA2UH2BGYG8/firefly-lane-kristin-hannah.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: Last Quarter 2020 - LISA S’s PICK: Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah GENRE: Fiction, Coming-Of-Age WHY SHE CHOSE IT: This is one of THOSE books for me. It made me laugh, it made me ugly cry, it made me want to throw the book across the room. It was just one of those books that touched on ALL of my emotions. It’s the story of two lifelong best friends, one living in the other’s shadow, the betrayal that breaks them apart, and what finally brings them back together. Tully and Kate are characters I still think about today. To me, that’s the mark of a great story: one where the characters continue to pop up in my mind, like old friends. “Firefly Lane” has been adapted into a series on Netflix (premiering February 3, 2021), and I can’t wait to see this story brought to the screen. THE SYNOPSIS: In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all—beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer’s end they’ve become TullyandKate. Inseparable. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success… and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn’t know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she’ll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she’ll envy her famous best friend… For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship—jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they’ve survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart…and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Firefly Lane” by Kristin Hannah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1610657874525-ZUC3WCIOKP7WS7T4UEGV/how-to-be-an-antiracist-ibram-x-kendi.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: Last Quarter 2020 - LISA G’s PICK: How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi GENRE: Nonfiction, Social Movements WHY SHE CHOSE IT: A great book to learn not only how to be a proper ally to our BIPOC friends, but to channel the energy we most often spend defending ourselves into furthering justice and equality. P.S. His voice in the audiobook is amazing! Note: This title is also available on the Libby app in eBook and audiobook formats. THE SYNOPSIS: Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “How to be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608151608186-RDZM4Y60PB5J34KRALY0/finding-murph-rick-westhead.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: Last Quarter 2020 - LISA G’s PICK: Finding Murph by Rick Westhead GENRE: Nonfiction, Biography WHY SHE CHOSE IT: A must read for everyone, not just hockey fans. While the story reflects on how his sports injuries have contributed to his current situation, any reader who appreciates gritty life stories should find this hard to put down, and find it hard to forget about Joe Murphy. THE SYNOPSIS: Joe Murphy had it all. In 1986, he became the first college-educated hockey player selected first overall in the NHL entry draft. He won a Stanley Cup in Edmonton four years later. But since then, his life has taken a tragic turn, largely due to the untreated brain injuries he suffered as a player. Murphy’s life didn’t begin on a track that would lead to homelessness. He was smart, dedicated to hockey and was a key player for the Oilers, Red Wings and Blackhawks, among other teams. But one vicious body check changed his life forever. Despite being shaken by the hit, Murphy was cleared to return to the game. Soon after, his entire life seemed to change. Murphy became a journeyman, moving from team to team. Along the way, other NHLers said they noticed something different about him, too. Murphy wasn’t acting like himself and soon found himself out of the NHL entirely. Eventually, Murphy became homeless. In the spring of 2018, Murphy made his way to Kenora, Ontario, where he lived in the bush, spending his days outside a local convenience store, muttering to himself and taking handouts of food and drinks from passersby. The player who had once set the NHL aflame now slept by the side of the road in the unforgiving North. In Finding Murph, Rick Westhead traces the true story of Joe Murphy and examines the role of the NHL in the downward spiral of one of the league’s most promising players. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Finding Murph” by Rick Westhead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1610664924661-NVK7CXANN4YNIUUPAXVI/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry-neil-degrasse-tyson.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: Last Quarter 2020 - RACHEL’S PICK: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson GENRE: Nonfiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: As someone who loves science but rarely has time to sit down and sift through wordy research papers on the secrets of the universe, this book was a great find! Tyson walks you through all the basics of astrophysics in a clear and concise manner, all within just over 200 pages. Perfect for those looking to understand physics at the macro scale or those who just want a refresher, “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry” is an informative and interesting read for everyone. THE SYNOPSIS: What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day. While you wait for your morning coffee to brew, for the bus, the train, or a plane to arrive, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Astrophysics in a Hurry” by Neil deGrasse Tyson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1610662368041-2ZA6P2XMWKKUT8CO4X2I/the-dutch-house-ann-patchett.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: Last Quarter 2020 ELIZABETH’S PICK: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett GENRE: Historical Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I listened to the audiobook narrated by Tom Hanks and feel my recommendation should stop right here because who wouldn’t want to listen to a book narrated by Tom Hanks? However, it’s not simply that the narration is wonderful, it’s that the story is one you get lost in. Set in the suburbs of Philadelphia, this “paradise lost” tale spans five decades and tells the story of Danny and Maeve Conroy and the home they grow up in and eventually lose. The story is told from Danny’s point of view looking back at his life. Sentimental and yet heart-warming, the book has been likened to Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Dicken’s Great Expectations. At ten hours long, this was a story I keeping wishing wouldn’t end. THE SYNOPSIS: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakeable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures. Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Dutch House” by Ann Patchett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608153286779-7RK0I9EIZ1COY3I1J7KJ/never-split-the-difference-chris-voss.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: Last Quarter 2020 - LISA G’s PICK: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss GENRE: Nonfiction, Self-Help WHY SHE CHOSE IT: Chris Voss is a former FBI top negotiator who now teaches a negotiation Masterclass. Never Split the Difference is a crash course on what he has to teach and also has some of his personal experiences sprinkled in from his many years negotiating in hostage situations all over the world. You don’t have to negotiate for hostages to love this book-negotiate for a low price on a new car, a big raise, a promotion…anything. Voss breaks down the psychology of negotiation and makes it interesting. THE SYNOPSIS: A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom or at home. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. Reaching the pinnacle of his profession, he became the FBI’s lead international kidnapping negotiator. Never Split the Difference takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations and into Voss’s head, revealing the skills that helped him and his colleagues succeed where it mattered most: saving lives. In this practical guide, he shares the nine effective principles—counterintuitive tactics and strategies—you too can use to become more persuasive in both your professional and personal life. Life is a series of negotiations you should be prepared for: buying a car, negotiating a salary, buying a home, renegotiating rent, deliberating with your partner. Taking emotional intelligence and intuition to the next level, Never Split the Difference gives you the competitive edge in any discussion. CLICK TO RESERVE “Never Split the Difference” by Chris Voss https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/top-20-books-of-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611076447357-PHDGENUNYCUILYVKS9X6/woman-on-the-edge-samantha-bailey.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 20. Woman on the Edge by Samantha M. Bailey GENRE : Thriller THE SYNOPSIS : A total stranger on the subway platform whispers, “Take my baby.” She places her child in your arms. She says your name. Then she jumps... In a split second, Morgan Kincaid’s life changes forever. She’s on her way home from work when a mother begs her to take her baby, then places the infant in her arms. Before Morgan can stop her, the distraught mother jumps in front of an oncoming train. Morgan has never seen this woman before, and she can’t understand what would cause a person to give away her child and take her own life. She also can’t understand how this woman knew her name. The police take Morgan in for questioning. She soon learns that the woman who jumped was Nicole Markham, prominent CEO of the athletic brand Breathe. She also learns that no witness can corroborate her version of events, which means she’s just become a murder suspect. To prove her innocence, Morgan frantically retraces the last days of Nicole’s life. Was Nicole a new mother struggling with paranoia or was she in danger? When strange things start happening to Morgan, she suddenly realizes she might be in danger, too. CLICK TO RESERVE “Woman on the Edge” by Samantha M. Bailey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611077170185-OMREHLOOHZSPSA9SFF8I/the-fallen-david-baldacci.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 19. The Fallen by David Baldacci (Amos Decker, Vol. 4) GENRE : Mystery, Police Procedural THE SYNOPSIS : Small towns which have seen better times are not unusual. But the mysterious events in Baronville, Pennsylvania, are raising the highly-tuned antennae of agent Amos Decker and his FBI partner, Alex Jamison. What was supposed to be a relaxing vacation turns into a murder investigation when two bodies are found in a nearby deserted house. With the body count rising, Decker and Jamison dig deep to uncover a sinister truth in Baronville, which could be the canary in the coalmine for the rest of the country. But even the duo’s skills and Amos Decker’s infallible memory may not be enough to save this town, or them, from becoming the next victims. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Fallen” by David Baldacci https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611077410152-M71OPS6FJZCQYPFAZQP8/warsaw-protocol-steve-berry.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 18. Warsaw Protocol by Steve Berry (Cotton Malone, Vol. 15) GENRE : Suspense, Political Thriller THE SYNOPSIS : After former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone witnesses the theft of one of them, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will be offered to the highest bidder—blackmail that both the United States and Russia want, but for vastly different reasons. The price of admission to that auction is one of the relics, so Malone is first sent to a castle in Poland to steal the Holy Lance, a thousand-year-old spear sacred to not only Christians but to the Polish people, and then on to the auction itself. But nothing goes as planned and Malone is thrust into a bloody battle between three nations over information that, if exposed, could change the balance of power in Europe. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Warsaw Protocol” by Steve Berry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611080019150-VWN0DS4XN0P75BPPKHL4/the-forgotten-home-child-genevieve-graham.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 17. The Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve Graham GENRE : Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS : 2018 At ninety-seven years old, Winnifred Ellis knows she doesn’t have much time left, and it is almost a relief to realize that once she is gone, the truth about her shameful past will die with her. But when her great-grandson Jamie, the spitting image of her dear late husband, asks about his family tree, Winnifred can’t lie any longer, even if it means breaking a promise she made so long ago... 1936 Fifteen-year-old Winny has never known a real home. After running away from an abusive stepfather, she falls in with Mary, Jack, and their ragtag group of friends roaming the streets of Liverpool. When the children are caught stealing food, Winny and Mary are left in Dr. Barnardo’s Barkingside Home for Girls, a local home for orphans and forgotten children found in the city’s slums. At Barkingside, Winny learns she will soon join other boys and girls in a faraway place called Canada, where families and better lives await them. But Winny’s hopes are dashed when she is separated from her friends and sent to live with a family that has no use for another daughter. Instead, they have paid for an indentured servant to work on their farm. Faced with this harsh new reality, Winny clings to the belief that she will someday find her friends again. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Forgotten Home Child” by Genevieve Graham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611080383157-7RA5R9ZD5XR4QJRCBZ7Z/cilkas-journey-heather-morris.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 16. Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris (Tattooist of Auschwitz, Vol. 2) GENRE : Historical Fiction THE BOOK SYNOPSIS : Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp. But did she really have a choice? And where do the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was send to Auschwitz when she was still a child? In Siberia, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she meets a kind female doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions. Confronting death and terror daily, Cilka discovers a strength she never knew she had. And when she begins to tentatively form bonds and relationships in this harsh, new reality, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Cilka’s Journey” by Heather Morris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611080917519-ZUJR0TTYL6BQALVLIA01/the-giver-of-stars-jojo-moyes.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 15. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes GENRE : Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS : Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve, hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice’s greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who’s never asked a man’s permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. What happens to them–and to the men they love–becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity, and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Giver of Stars” by Jojo Moyes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611081200490-BFM1H4QFILYI03DE5WW6/the-20th-victim-james-patterson.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 14. The 20th Victim by James Patterson (Women’s Murder Club, Vol. 20) GENRE : Thriller THE SYNOPSIS : Three victims, three bullets, three cities. The shooters’ aim is as fearsomely precise as their target selection. When Lindsay realizes that the fallen men and women excel in a lucrative, criminal activity, she leads the charge in the manhunt for the killers. As the casualty list expands, fear and fascination with this suspicious shooting gallery galvanizes the country. The victims were no angels, but are the shooters villains . . . or heroes? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The 20th Victim” by James Patterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611082510673-F9DIHZ7O3P160XOJKQJJ/bloody-genius-john-sanford.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 13. Bloody Genius by John Sanford (Virgil Flowers, Vol. 12) GENRE : Thriller THE SYNOPSIS : At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then a renowned and confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate . . . and as he probes the recent ideological unrest, he soon comes to realize he’s dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy. Among this group of wildly impassioned, diametrically opposed zealots lurks a killer, and it will be up to Virgil to sort the murderer from the mere maniacs. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Bloody Genius” by John Sanford https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611083070460-HL9KKC1CQ2FAQHHH1E9A/one-good-deed-david-baldacci.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 12. One Good Deed by David Baldacci GENRE : Thriller THE SYNOPSIS : In 1949, Aloysius Archer arrives in the dusty Southern town of Poca City. He has nothing but a handful of dollars, the clothes he’s wearing and an appointment with his new parole officer. After his wartime experiences in Italy and a prison sentence for a crime he didn’t commit, Archer is looking for a fresh start and a peaceful life. On his first night of freedom, Archer meets local business tycoon Hank Pittleman, who promises Archer handsome compensation to work as his debt collector. Yet Archer takes on more than he bargains for, as he becomes embroiled in a long-running feud between the drought-struck town’s most dangerous residents. When one of them dies, the authorities label Archer as their number one suspect. A bloody game is being played above and below the law. Everybody playing has a deeply buried secret, and Archer must uncover them all – if he’s to avoid going back behind bars. CLICK TO RESERVE “One Good Deed” by David Baldacci https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611084975794-4WE66CM87XPSLDFTL1IR/long-range-cj-box.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 11. Long Range by C.J. Box (Joe Pickett, Vol. 20) GENRE : Thriller THE SYNOPSIS : When Joe Pickett is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a startling grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind. One survivor of the grizzly’s rampage tells a bizarre story, but just as Joe begins to suspect the attack is not what it seems, he is brought home by an emergency on his own turf. Someone has targeted a prominent local judge, shooting at him from a seemingly impossible distance. While the judge was not hit, his wife is severely wounded, and it is up to Joe to find answers–and the shooter. The search for the would-be assassin becomes personal when Joe’s best friend, Nate Romanowski–just as he’s adjusting to the arrival of his first child–falls under suspicion for the crime. It’s a race against the clock as Joe tries to clear Nate’s name and identify the real shooter, all while deciphering the grizzly encounter. Beset by threats both man-made and natural, the two men must go to great lengths to keep their loved ones safe. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Long Range” by C.J. Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611087331755-5J2O1AZWQN38IMNCTBX5/the-bitterroots-cj-box.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 10. The Bitterroots by C.J. Box (Cassie Dewell, Vol. 5) GENRE : Thriller THE SYNOPSIS : Former sheriff’s investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start her life over as in private practice. She’s her own boss and answers to no one, and that’s just the way she likes it after the past few tumultuous years. All that certainty changes when an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young woman from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out by the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana, twisted family loyalty runs as deep as the ties to the land, and there's always something more to the story. The Kleinsassers have ruled this part of Montana for decades, and the Iron Cross Ranch is their stronghold. They want to see Blake Kleinsasser, the black sheep of the family, put away forever for the assault. As Cassie attempts to uncover the truth, she must fight against a family whose roots are tangled and deadly—as well as the ghosts of her own past that threaten to bring her down. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Bitterroots” by C.J. Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611088879712-P1PBSOKQ8EA84JB03I4F/blue-moon-jack-reacher.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 09. Blue Moon by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, Vol. 24) GENRE : Thriller THE SYNOPSIS : “This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.” This isn’t one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right. An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs. Reacher has to stay one step ahead of the loan sharks, the thugs, and the assassins. He teams up with a fed-up waitress who knows a little more than she’s letting on, and sets out to take down the powerful and make the greedy pay. It’s a long shot. The odds are against him. But Reacher believes in a certain kind of justice . . . the kind that comes along once in a blue moon. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Blue Moon” by Lee Child https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611090455592-IQDU8WV35H9ORXY2VGPB/the-night-fire-michael-connelly.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 08. The Night Fire by Michael Connelly GENRE : Mystery, Police Procedural THE SYNOPSIS : Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before — the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the murder book to Renée Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson’s fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Night Fire” by Michael Connelly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611090750014-ZNXMBC7DEEMDNGJ4R0A4/the-guardians-john-grisham.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 07. The Guardians by John Grisham GENRE : Legal Thriller THE SYNOPSIS : In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo’s. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one was listening. He had no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. In desperation, he writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit run by Cullen Post, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal minister. Guardian accepts only a few innocence cases at a time. Cullen Post travels the country fighting wrongful convictions and taking on clients forgotten by the system. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, and they do not want Quincy Miller exonerated. They killed one lawyer twenty-two years ago, and they will kill another without a second thought. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Guardians” by John Grisham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611091338987-MURGQ9M4LSO0ZWUO70DK/the-wedding-guest-jonathan-kellerman.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 06. The Wedding Guest by Jonathan Kellerman (Alex Delaware, Vol. 34) GENRE : Thriller THE SYNOPSIS : LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a fine homicide detective, but when he needs to get into the mind of a killer, he leans on the expertise of his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. While Sturgis has a knack for piecing together the details of a crime, Delaware can decipher the darkest intents driving the most vicious of perpetrators. And there’s no better place for the doctor’s analytical skills to shine than a rowdy hall full of young men and women intoxicated on life and lust . . . and suddenly faced with the specter of death. Summoned to a run-down former strip joint, Delaware and Sturgis find themselves crashing a wild Saints and Sinners–themed wedding reception. But they’re not the only uninvited guests. A horrified bridesmaid has discovered the body of a young woman, dressed to impress in pricey haute couture and accessorized with a grisly red slash around her neck. What’s missing is any means of identification, or a single partygoer who recognizes the victim. The baffled bride is convinced the stranger snuck in to sabotage her big day—and the groom is sure it’s all a dreadful mistake. But Delaware and Sturgis have a hundred guests to question, and a sneaking suspicion that the motive for murder is personal. Now they must separate the sinners from the saints, the true from the false, and the secrets from those keeping them. The party’s over—and the hunt for whoever killed it is on. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Wedding Guest” by Jonathan Kellerman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611091796478-CIHRG4Y7M2KTGW6GCO0G/the-tattooist-of-auschwitz-heather-morris.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 05. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (Tattooist of Auschwitz, Vol. 1) GENRE : Biographical Fiction, Historical Fiction THE SYNOPSIS : In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive. One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” by Heather Morris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611092041207-6Z92C4U99DE6KIMH54PR/chance-of-a-lifetime-jude-deveraux.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 04. Chance of a Lifetime by Jude Deveraux (Providence Fall, Vol. 1) GENRE : Romance, Science Fiction THE SYNOPSIS : In 1844 Ireland, Liam O’Connor, a rogue and a thief, fell madly in love with a squire’s daughter and unwittingly altered the future. Shy and naive Cora McLeod thought Liam was the answer to her prayers. But the angels disagreed and they’ve been waiting for the right moment in time to step in. Now Liam finds himself reunited with his beloved Cora in Providence Falls, North Carolina. The angels have given Liam a task. He must make sure Cora falls in love with another man—the one she was supposed to marry before Liam interfered. But this Cora is very different from the innocent girl who fell for Liam in the past. She’s a cop and has a confidence and independence he wasn’t expecting. She doesn’t remember Liam or their past lives, nor is she impressed with his attempts to guide her in any way. Liam wants Cora for himself, but with his soul hanging in the balance, he must choose between a stolen moment in time or an eternity of damnation. CLICK TO RESERVE “Chance of a Lifetime” by Jude Deveraux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611092419147-81ZRZAPO5WXLUPCEW0OV/twisted-twenty-six-janet-evanovich.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 03. Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum, Vol. 26) GENRE : Mystery, Romance THE SYNOPSIS : Grandma Mazur has decided to get married again - this time to a local gangster named Jimmy Rosolli. If Stephanie has her doubts about this marriage, she doesn't have to worry for long, because the groom drops dead of a heart attack 45 minutes after saying, "I do." CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Twisted Twenty-Six” by Janet Evanovich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611092706617-J2VKI69ZFC2P8I7J55UO/rise-of-magicks-nora-roberts.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 02. Rise of Magicks by Nora Roberts (Chronicles of the One, Vol. 1) GENRE : Fantasy Fiction, Science Fiction THE SYNOPSIS : After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical Purity Warriors, endlessly hunted or locked up in laboratories, brutalized for years on end. She is determined to save even those who have been complicit with this evil out of fear or weakness—if, indeed, they can be saved. Strengthened by the bond she shares with her fellow warrior, Duncan, Fallon has already succeeded in rescuing countless shifters and elves and ordinary humans. Now she must help them heal—and rediscover the light and faith within themselves. For although from the time of her birth, she has been The One, she is still only one. And as she faces down an old nemesis, sets her sights on the enemy’s stronghold, and pursues her destiny—to finally restore the mystical shield that once protected them all—she will need an army behind her… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Rise of Magicks” by Nora Roberts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1611094170006-IWHX56ZLS3SCQBT16CAE/bombshell-stuart-woods.jpg BLOG - Top 20 Books of 2020 - 01. Bombshell by Stuart Woods (Teddy Fay, Vol. 4) GENRE : Thriller BOOK SYNOPSIS : Teddy Fay is back in Hollywood and caught in two tricky situations. First, a rising star at Centurion becomes the target of malicious gossip, and Teddy must find and neutralize the source before the situation gets out of hand--or becomes violent. At the same time, Teddy finds himself targeted by a criminal thug bearing a grudge. It's a lot of knives to juggle, even for a former-CIA-operative-turned-movie-producer accustomed to hazardous working conditions. This time Teddy will need to leverage every bit of his undercover skills and fearless daring to stay one step ahead of his foes . . . or he'll find himself one foot in the grave. CLICK TO RESERVE “Bombshell” by Stuart Woods https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/5kj5vjoidpe7s4vbtrvhmmt42buf1q monthly 0.5 2021-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609965885460-Y49OLJJS5YIWSLQI6CSJ/81aSFi06c%2BL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - All That Glitters - Danielle Steel Genres: Fiction, Romance Nicole 'Coco' Martin is destined to have it all. As the only child of doting and successful parents, she has been given every opportunity in life. Having inherited her mother's stunning beauty and creativity, along with her father's work ethic and diligence, she has the world at her feet. Her graduation from Columbia is fast approaching, and with it the summer job of her dreams working at a magazine. Between work, leisurely weekends at her family's home in Southampton, and spending as much time as possible with her best friend, Sam, life couldn't be better - until tragedy strikes. Coco's beloved parents are killed in a terrorist attack while on vacation in France. Now devastated and alone, Coco must find a way to move forward and make her way in the world without the family she loved. Determined to forge her own path and make her parents proud, Coco pursues her dreams, dazzled by exciting opportunities that come her way. Her goals are to think outside the box - and always play by her own rules. As she finds herself drawn to charismatic, fascinating men, each relationship will teach Coco new lessons, some delightful, some painful. She will come to realize what matters, and how strong she truly is - and in the end, she will discover herself. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “All That Glitters” by Danielle Steel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609966033657-JA68O5CUWJQUIO3LM6UJ/41O7MnrY%2BHL._SX328_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - Attack Protocol (Net Force) - Tom Clancy Genres: Fiction, Thriller The president's new cybersecurity team, Net Force, is up and running. But a political deadlock in Washington makes the young agency dangerously vulnerable to the criminals, terror groups and hostile governments who would use the digital space to advance their destructive goals. In Central Europe, an unknown enemy mounts a crippling high-tech assault against the organization's military threat-response unit on its home base. The strike casts suspicion on a core member of Net Force, threatening to destroy the cyber defense group from within. But as they race to track down their attackers, the stakes are suddenly ratcheted higher. For a global syndicate of black hat hackers and a newly belligerent Russia are hatching a mysterious, shadowy scheme for world domination from a place known only as the Secret City. Their attack protocol: leave Net Force in ashes while Moscow and its Dark Web allies set the stage for a devastating strike against the United States. Unless the men and women of Net Force can regroup in time to stop them. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Attack Protocol” by Tom Clancy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609966213372-65FC2D3NV624DFBQNXRW/71XapXN2xwL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi Genres: Fiction, Literary A tender, potent, and compulsively readable novel of a Nigerian-Indian family and the deeply held secret that tests their traditions and bonds"-- Southeastern Nigeria. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in friendships with the boisterous daughters of the Nigerwives, foreign-born women married to Nigerian men. But Vivek's closest bond is with Osita, the worldly, high-spirited cousin whose teasing confidence masks a guarded private life. As their relationship deepens, an act of violence leads to a family's struggle with loss and transcendence. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Death of Vivek Oji” by Akwaeke Emezi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609966298249-31DRSNWYIYLJKX0OIE9V/81UWwfBw2CL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - Eight Detectives - Alex Pavesi Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. Grant McAllister, a professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked all the rules out - and wrote seven perfect detective stories to demonstrate. But that was thirty years ago. Now Grant lives in seclusion on a remote Mediterranean island, counting the rest of his days. Until Julia Hart, a brilliant, ambitious editor knocks on his door. Julia wishes to republish his book, and together they must revisit those old stories: an author hiding from his past and an editor keen to understand it. But there are things in the stories that don't add up. Inconsistencies left by Grant that a sharp-eyed editor begins to suspect are more than mistakes. They may be clues, and Julia finds herself with a mystery of her own to solve. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Eight Detectives” by Alex Pavesi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609966490000-KB16DYGYOZB314V7Z76U/814ZgKYobmL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - How to Pronounce Knife - Souvankham Thammavongsa Genres: Fiction, Short stories After a boxer loses his dream of becoming a championship fighter, he finds an unexpected chance at redemption while working at his sister's nail salon. A daughter becomes an unwilling accomplice in her mother's growing infatuation with country singer Randy Travis. When a seventy-year-old woman begins a relationship with her much younger neighbour, her assumptions about the limits of love unravel. As he watches his wife gradually drift into an affair with her boss, a school bus driver must grapple with what he's willing to give up in order to belong. And in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize-shortlisted title story, a young girl's unconditional love for her father transcends the fickleness of language. The author paints an indelible portrait of immigrants and refugees caught between cultures, languages, and values, and struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world." CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “How to Pronounce Knife” by Souvankham Thammavongsa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609966594138-9NS9KW0445FP6617QQ22/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - Indians on Vacation - Thomas King Genres: Fiction, Humour Inspired by a handful of old postcards, sent by Uncle Lenny nearly a hundred years before, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace the steps of Mimi's long-lost uncle and the family medicine bundle he took with him to Europe. By turns witty, sly and poignant, this is the unforgettable tale of one couple's holiday trip to Prague. The often grumpy Bird and optimistic Mimi and their wanderings through the European capitals reveal a complicated history, both personal and political. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Indians on Vacation” by Thomas King https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609966678340-SM2G4JPS9DCH4FR9WW6S/51tHzjrpMUL._SX342_SY445_QL70_ML2_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - The Kingdom - Jo Nesbo Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in, unlike his little brother Carl who couldn't wait to get out and escape his troubled past. Just like everyone else in town, Roy believed Carl was gone for good. But Carl has big plans for his hometown. And when he returns with a mysterious new wife and a business opportunity that seems too good to be true, simmering tensions begin to surface and unexplained deaths in the town's past come under new scrutiny. Soon powerful players set their sights on taking the brothers down by exposing their role in the town's sordid history. But Roy and Carl are survivors, and no strangers to violence. Roy has always protected his younger brother. As the body count rises, though, Roy's loyalty to family is tested. And then Roy finds himself inextricably drawn to Carl's wife, Shannon, an attraction that will have devastating consequences. Roy's world is coming apart and soon there will be no turning back. He'll be forced to choose between his own flesh and blood and a future he had never dared to believe possible. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Kingdom” by Jo Nesbo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609966752220-0ABM3QHRSPUM78M2TUX0/710TsP4a8uL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - Moonflower Murders (Magpie Murders #2) - Anthony Horowitz Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she's always wanted. But is it? And then the Trehearnes come to stay. The strange and mysterious story they tell, about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married, a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Farlingaye Halle, fascinates Susan and piques her editor's instincts. When the Trehearnes reveal that their daughter Cecily is now missing, Susan knows that she must return to England and find out what really happened. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Moonflower Murders” by Anthony Horowitz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609966958294-BKOWYMLCO7DKQI7HZ3V4/51VS2o2YiIL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - Pianos and Flowers - Alexander McCall Smith Genres: Fiction, Romance, Short stories In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must have it like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that. This journey of exploration takes us to some exotic places. We share the lives of three sisters, brought up in Penang. We read of what happened to them, and to their Chinese neighbors caught in the tides of war. We see a group of small boys in a Glasgow slum, their young lives stunted by poverty, and hear how life worked out in contrasting ways for them. We follow a young woman's search for love in the unlikely realm of Egyptian antiquities. And through all of these photographs, and all of these stories, there runs the same refrain: the possibilities of love, of friendship, of happiness lie before us. There are big stories in these simple pictures. At first glance the photographs may seem unexceptional: the mere freezing of a moment in time. But delve deeper and you will realize that these photographs speak volumes. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Pianos and Flowers” by Alexander McCall Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609967231330-O0BDX4SR03O3007TH83M/A1%2B8UNJItLL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike #5) - Robert Galbraith Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller While visiting his family in Cornwall, Private Detective Cormoran Strike agrees to take on a cold case involving a woman who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974, and as Strike and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, investigate the disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer, and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Troubled Blood” by Robert Galbraith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609967316992-8XYJJJGO2RXBXX5P3UE7/51HNzFP1YZL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - War Lord (Last Kingdom #13) - Bernard Cornwell Genres: Fiction, Historical, War THE FINAL BATTLE AWAITS... The epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series, coming October 2020. England is under attack. Chaos reigns. Northumbria, the last kingdom, is threatened by armies from all sides, by land and sea - and only one man stands in their way. Torn between loyalty and sworn oaths, the warrior king Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg faces his greatest ever battle - and prepares for his ultimate fate... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “War Lord” by Bernard Cornwell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609966395052-O6BU3VAPCPNVJBK6292C/41JMH%2B5JNCL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography "I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. This book is an album, a record, a story of his life and the graces, truths, and beauties he has seen while trying to dance between the raindrops. It's also his guide to catching more greenlights-- and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Greenlights” by Matthew McConaughey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609966861342-36HAIAQBIXZW7P75GRAX/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - Newspapering - Norman Webster Genres: Non-fiction In this collection of articles, Norman Webster takes readers on a journey through his 50 years of newspapering - in Canada, China in the early 1970s, the UK of Maggie Thatcher, and around the world. Webster, a distinguished international journalist, worked at a time when you couldn't rely on Google for your basic facts. You had to go there, look, ask questions. It's old-style reporting from a journalist with a sharp eye for the absurd, as the title (from a reporting trip to Tibet) suggests. As a renowned editor, Webster writes about some of the big issues in Canada, such as the Quebec Neverendum, the sovereignty debate that consumed the province and the country for three decades. Unlike so many political players in the world today, he is thoughtful and measured in his analysis. His book is entertaining and inspiring for readers of politics, and for journalists looking for award-winning examples of international reporting and editorial columns. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Newspapering” by Norman Webster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609967060956-6INBL6CFTEMX6M6AEYTE/81FjW9UBQWL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - Radical Intuition - Kim Chestney Genres: Non-fiction, Applied psychology Discusses the role of intuition in business, relationships, health, and the arts. The author maintains that intuition is a higher cognitive ability that all people possess and that it can be developed with effort and mindful attention. The book includes exercises and self-assessment quizzes. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Radical Intuition” by Kim Chestney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609967415109-LRW6ZBP2QA4YX826EJ39/716iec6EjtL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - When Politics Comes Before Patients - Dr. Shawn Whatley Genres: Non-fiction, Health, Science At some point you will find yourself lying in a hospital bed. There is a good chance that your bed will be a firm, rubber pad held secure between two rails and parked along a corridor in a busy emergency department. Moans of "Nurse!" will echo from the beds ahead of you in line. Those pleas will fall largely on deaf ears. Your hospital is underfunded and understaffed. Welcome to the current reality of Medicare in the 21st century. Using searing analogies and first-hand accounts, Dr. Whatley makes the argument that the current Medicare system is unsustainable and unless critical choices and changes are made soon, the publicly funded, single-payer system in Canada will implode. Successive governments, regardless of political stripe, know all too well that Canada's system of health care is one of the defining characteristics of "being a Canadian", and any changes deemed harmful will have them thrown out of power. Thus, decades of cuts around the margins, centralized control, federal/provincial infighting, and government oversight has left doctors and hospitals with little input on how your health dollars are allocated and spent. Citizens are being left to languish in pain for months, sometimes years, because the current cost and delivery system is programmed for the benefit of governments staying in power. That was not what was intended. Medicare should be about delivering high-quality and timely healthcare value for Canadians. This is not an easy fix. Treatment starts with a serious look at the disease, and Dr. Whatley pulls no punches. But what sounds like a radical new approach is neither new nor radical. He is not arguing for the end of Medicare per se but is making the case to let medical professionals - those providing the services - become equal partners in its design, implementation and delivery. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “When Politics Comes Before Patients” by Dr. Shawn Whatley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1609966106254-ZFOVW9N4U2ZV62L0GD2P/810Ukmf7bSL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: January 4, 2021 - Cat Kid Comic Club (Cat Kid Comic Club #1) - Dav Pilkey Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel In Cat Kid Comic Club, Li'l Petey, Flippy, and Molly introduce twenty-one rambunctious, funny, and talented baby frogs to the art of comic making. As the story unwinds with mishaps and hilarity, readers get to see the progress, mistakes, and improvements that come with practice and persistence. 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Anxious to avenge the death of his friend and find forgiveness for himself, he begins a macabre ritual: every night he sneaks across enemy lines to find and murder a blue-eyed German soldier, and every night he returns to base, unharmed, with the German’s severed hand. At first his comrades look at Alfa’s deeds with admiration, but soon rumors begin to circulate that this super soldier isn’t a hero, but a sorcerer, a soul-eater. Plans are hatched to get Alfa away from the front, and to separate him from his growing collection of hands, but how does one reason with a demon, and how far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend? 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Here, she will begin to understand why she kept seeing that silver-haired, elusive man, why she imagined his voice in her head saying Come home, Breen Siobhan. It’s time you came home. Why she dreamed of dragons. And where her true destiny lies—through a portal in Galway that takes her to a land of faeries and mermaids, to a man named Keegan, and to the courage in her own heart that will guide her through a powerful, dangerous destiny. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Awakening” by Nora Roberts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608664384844-3RMY9EG6QUM7Q1M2H90I/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Before You Go - Tommy Butler Genres: Fiction In the Before, humankind is created with a hole in its heart, the designers not realizing their mistake - if it was a mistake - until too late. Elliot Chance is just a boy, and knows nothing of this. All he knows is that he doesn't feel at home in this world, and his desire for escape becomes more urgent as he grows into adulthood, where the turbulence of life seems to offer no cure for the emptiness. Desperate and lost, he stumbles upon a support group on the edge of Manhattan. There he meets two other drifting souls - Sasha, a young woman who leaves coded messages in the copy she writes for advertising campaigns, and Bannor, whose detailed depictions of the future make Elliot think he may have actually been there. With these two unlikely allies, Elliot launches into the business of life, determined to be happy in spite of himself. Yet the hole in the heart is not so easily filled. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Before You Go” by Tommy Butler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608664736465-ORXMPFK0RKD13EIZKG5Q/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Dark Tides (Fairmile #2) - Philippa Gregory Genres: Fiction, Historical It's 1670 London, where Alinor is approached by a wealthy man who abandoned her years ago because he's interested in her son-who's his son and heir. Meanwhile, Alinor's warehouse is on hard times, and a Venetian widow soon sweeps in with both bad news and a promise to save the flailing business. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dark Tides” by Philippa Gregory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608664861195-YQEPY7HY6DZNLK44PRNC/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Daylight (Atlee Pine #3) - David Baldacci Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller For many long years, Atlee Pine was tormented by uncertainty after her twin sister, Mercy, was abducted at the age of six and never seen again. Now, just as Atlee is pressured to end her investigation into Mercy's disappearance, she finally gets her most promising breakthrough yet: the identity of her sister's kidnapper, Ito Vincenzo. With time running out, Atlee and her assistant Carol Blum race to Vincenzo's last known location in Trenton, New Jersey -- and unknowingly stumble straight into John Puller's case, blowing his arrest during a drug ring investigation involving a military installation. Stunningly, Pine and Puller's joint investigation uncovers a connection between Vincenzo's family and a breathtaking scheme that strikes at the very heart of global democracy. Peeling back the layers of deceit, lies and cover-ups, Atlee finally discovers the truth about what happened to Mercy. And that truth will shock Pine to her very core. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Daylight” by David Baldacci https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608664978854-FEUURZKBTX3C2YZREOAZ/51M13InUI5L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Eartheater - Dolores Reyes Genres: Fiction, Magical Realism Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely relationship with a withdrawn police officer, word of her ability begins to spread, and soon desperate members of her community beg for her help, anxious to uncover the truth about their own loved ones. Surreal and haunting, spare yet complex, Earth-eater is a dark, emotionally resonant tale told from a feminist perspective that brilliantly explores the stories of those left behind--the women enduring the pain of uncertainty, whose lives have been shaped by violence and loss. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Eartheater” by Dolores Reyes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608665077513-QH8P49826YWEGAA668SX/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - A Family Affair - Nadine Bismuth Genres: Fiction Kitchen designer Magalie is being cheated upon and so cheats in turn, in the office and with a divorced policeman who has hired her. Her partner, Mathieu, has no idea what he wants, and the policeman Guillaume no idea how to court. So begins a story of messy relationships wrested against the odds from the detritus of failed marriages, the demands of professional lives, and the pull of the internet and its false messages of perfection. With an assiduous eye that is both clinical and sympathetic, Bismuth's elegant and highly readable novel captures the alienating nature of contemporary life and sheds light on this, our strange new world full of unrequited yearning in a sea of seeming plenty. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Family Affair” by Nadine Bismuth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608665165066-WUB0IA6O8MA2PY3EAMQN/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Fool Me Twice (Riley wolfe #2) - Jeff Lindsay Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Stealing a Faberge egg. Surviving a double cross. And pulling off the most incredible robbery ever, for the world’s most demanding—and dangerous collector. This will be the challenge of thief extraordinaire Riley Wolfe’s life. Fool Me Twice opens in St. Petersburg, where Riley steals the egg—no easy task. Betrayed by the pilot he hired to help him get away, he wakes chained to a rock wall on one of the Kerguelen Islands—the most remote spot on earth—prisoner of a top-dog international arms dealer, and a top-notch art collector. He wants Riley to steal an artwork. Small problem--it’s a fresco, “The Liberation of St. Peter.” Slightly larger problem--it’s in the Vatican. And, it's a literal wall. Riley has no choice: agree or die. But when his captor turns him loose, he's grabbed by another arms dealer looking to do a double cross. Worse, he gives Riley a special incentive: a surveillance photograph of Monique, the love of his life, and more important, the art forger he can't pull off any heist without. The threat is clear. Riley knows they both have only one way out. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Fool Me Twice” by Jeff Lindsay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608665657191-0CCXEC8Q7E3FL4UX51Y1/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - How to Raise an Elephant (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #21) - Alexander McCall Smith Genres: Fiction, Mystery The next book in the perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she's faced with a two-ton case. They say it takes a village to raise a child, but can Mma Ramotswe and the rest of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm? We may find out in this novel. We may not. Who can say? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “How to Raise an Elephant” by Alexander McCall Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608666632132-HV6132UAPTXB3CAPM4UH/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - I Follow You - Peter May Genres: Fiction, Thriller To the outside world, suave, charming and confident doctor Marcus Valentine has it all. A loving wife, three kids, a great job. But there's something... or someone... missing. Driving to work one morning, his mind elsewhere and not on the road, he almost mows down a female jogger on a crossing. As she runs on, Marcus is transfixed. Infatuated. She is the spitting image of a girl he was crazy about in his teens. A girl he has never been able to get out of his mind. Lynette had dumped him harshly. For years he has fantasized about seeing her again and rekindling their flame. Might that jogger possibly be her all these years later? Could this be the most incredible coincidence? Despite all his attempts to resist, he is consumed by cravings for this woman. And when events take a tragically unexpected turn, his obsession threatens to destroy both their worlds. But still he won't stop. Can't stop. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “I Follow You” by Peter James https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608670032665-Z7MQV3Z1YU3CDHOX1QVN/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Little Wishes - Michelle Adams Genres: Fiction On her favorite day of the year, Elizabeth Davenport awakens in her cottage on the wild and windy Cornish coast, opens her front door, and discovers a precious gift: the small blue crocus and a note that begins I Wish ... They are not signed, but she knows they've been left by her first and truest love, Tom Hale. Each of these precious missives convey a simple wish for something they had missed, and the life they might have shared. She has kept them all. But on this day, what should have been the fiftieth anniversary of their falling in love, the gift fails to arrive. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Little Wishes” by Michelle Adams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608670100760-XUTYVIMGR49F5467ONZP/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Marauder (Oregon Files #15) - Clive Cussler Genres: Fiction, Thriller Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives return in this latest entry in Clive Cussler's Oregon Files series. Aboard the Oregon, one of the most advanced spy ships ever built, they face new challenges and nemeses as they undertake another dangerous mission. 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Their bodies are discovered in a nearby apple orchard, with a copy of Mary's book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. within five years three more people die on the property-- and the Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever. The now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when writer Merritt Emmons publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the "haunted and cursed" Gilded Age institution. Her book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again for filming, soon it's impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Plain Bad Heroines” by Emily M Danforth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608670740221-24G85VKW8075RUWGKLJP/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Ready Player Two (Ready Player #2) - Ernest Cline Genres: Fiction, Fantast, Sci-fi Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous--and addictive--than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest--a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who'll kill millions to get what he wants. Wade's life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance. Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Ready Player Two” by Ernest Cline https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608670894862-MJT24YT1GTBNSOSXZSQW/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Shadow of the Dragon (Jack Ryan #30) - Tom Clancy Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Aboard an icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean a sonar operator hears an unusual noise coming from the ocean floor. She can't isolate it and chalks the event up to an anomaly in a newly installed system. Meanwhile, operatives with the Chinese Ministry of State Security are dealing with their own mystery--the disappearance of brilliant but eccentric scientist, Liu Wangshu. They're desperate to keep his crucial knowledge of aerospace and naval technology out of their rivals' hands. Finding Liu is too great an opportunity for any intelligence service to pass up, but there's one more problem. A high-level Chinese mole, codenamed Surveyor, has managed to infiltrate American Intelligence. President Jack Ryan has only one choice: send John Clark and his Campus team deep into China to find an old graduate student of the professor's who may hold the key to his whereabouts. It's a dangerous gamble, but with John Clark holding the cards, Jack Ryan is all in. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Shadow of the Dragon” by Tom Clancy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608670997942-I94OS39MBWJUD2Q64EDG/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Smoke Bitten (Mercy Thompson #12) - Patricia Briggs Genres: Fiction, Paranormal I am Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman. My only "superpowers" are that I turn into a thirty-five-pound coyote and I can fix Volkswagens. But I have friends in odd places and a pack of werewolves at my back. It looks like I'm going to need them. Centuries ago, the fae dwelt in Underhill-until she locked her doors against them. They left behind their great castles and troves of magical artifacts. They abandoned their prisoners and their pets. Without the fae to mind them, those creatures who remained behind roamed freely through Underhill, wreaking havoc. Only the deadliest survived. Now one of those prisoners has escaped. It can look like anyone, any creature it chooses. But if it bites you, it controls you. It lives for chaos and destruction. It can make you do anything-even kill the person you love the most. It is here, in the Tri-Cities, in my territory. It won't-can't-remain. Not if I have anything to say about it. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Smoke Bitten” by Patricia Briggs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608671237461-RS9H4BK717HHFTO86XRN/816vENSIwML.jpg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Truth Be Told - Kia Abdullah Genres: Fiction, Legal, Mystery Are you ready to start this conversation? Kamran Hadid feels invincible. He attends Hampton school, an elite all-boys boarding school in London, he comes from a wealthy family, and he has a place at Oxford next year. The world is at his feet. And then a night of revelry leads to a drunken encounter and he must ask himself a horrific question. With the help of assault counsellor, Zara Kaleel, Kamran reports the incident in the hopes that will be the end of it. But it's only the beginning... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Truth Be Told” by Kia Abdullah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608664288860-IQ9P3WAGLHHZU6ZBD6AO/81kv6Np7SqL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Badass Habits - Jen Sincero Genres: Non-fiction, Self help The motivational coach and best-selling author of You Are a Badass shares illustrative case studies to outline a step-by-step, 21-day guide for overcoming self-sabotaging behaviors while cultivating habits that support healthy priorities and personal goals. "Badass Habits is a eureka-sparking, easy-to-digest look at how our habits make us who we are, from the measly moments that happen in private to the resolutions we loudly broadcast (and, erm, often don't keep) on social media. Habit busting and building goes way beyond becoming a dedicated flosser or never showing up late again--our habits reveal our unmet desires, the gaps in our boundaries, our level of self-awareness, and our unconscious beliefs and fears. Badass Habits features Jen's trademark hilarious voice and offers a much-needed fresh take on the conventional wisdom and science that shape the optimism (or pessimism?) around the age-old topic of habits. The book includes enlightening interviews with people who've successfully strengthened their discipline backbones, new perspective on how to train our brains to become our best selves, and offers a simple, 21 day, step-by-step guide for ditching habits that don't serve us and developing the habits we deem most important. Habits shouldn't be impossible to reset--and with healthy boundaries, knowledge of--and permission to go after--our desires, and an easy to implement plan of action, we can make any new goal a joyful habit. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Badass Habits” by Jen Sincero https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608664634962-C6DKVR8MWBRHXMYFONQ0/61EywAG4peL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Cold Case North - Michael Nest Genres: Non-fiction, True Crime A small team uncovers new evidence and exposes police failure in one of the North's most enduring missing persons cases. Missing persons. Double murder? Métis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada. A communist, strategist, and bibliophile, he led Métis and First Nations to rebel against government and church oppression. Brady's success made politicians and clergy fear him; he had enemies everywhere. In 1967, while prospecting in Saskatchewan with Cree Band Councillor and fellow activist, Absolom Halkett, both men vanished from their remote lakeside camp. For 50 years rumours swirled of secret mining interests, political intrigue, and murder. Cold Case North is the story of how a small team, with the help of the Indigenous community, exposed police failure in the original investigation, discovered new clues and testimony, and gathered the pieces of the North's most enduring missing persons puzzle. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Cold Case North” by Michael Nest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608665301038-SBKB977UVH7MV8JPTWG5/A1RPeVoWCTL._AC_UL600_SR399%2C600_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - The Gender Creative Child - Diane Ehrensaft Genres: Non-fiction, Parenting In this comprehensive resource, Dr. Ehrensaft explains the interconnected effects of biology, nurture, and culture to explore why gender can be fluid, rather than binary. As an advocate for the gender affirmative model and with the expertise she has gained over three decades of pioneering work with children and families, she encourages caregivers to listen to each child, learn their particular needs, and support their quest for a true gender self. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Gender Creative Child” by Diane Ehrensaft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608665425628-OVREMLCQU52G74Y03JSL/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Home Body - Rupi Kaur Genres: Non-fiction, Poetry Kaur walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. In her poems, she has raw, honest conversations with oneself, reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Home Body” by Rupi Kaur https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608667272371-B1AYX9NB9VW4OJRDUJKR/image-asset.png BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - The Last Days of John Lennon - James Patterson Genres: Non-fiction, Biography John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles' controversial 1966 American tour, the band had feared for their safety. "You might as well put a target on me," Lennon said, and the Nixon administration complied by opening an FBI file. If only the agents hadn't been so intently focused on the star himself, they might have detected Mark David Chapman's powerful, ever-growing obsession with his onetime idol. Chapman, himself a tragic nowhere man, ultimately achieved the notoriety he craved by actualizing the target on Lennon -- single-handedly wounding the spirit of a generation. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Last Days of John Lennon” by James Patterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608670356473-2Q7L9LO81TC005GWWK1A/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - The Mind-Body Cure - Bal Pawa Genres: Non-fiction, Self-help, Health A medical doctor and Harvard-trained mind-body expert shares the key to long-lasting health—stress management—with seven simple tools. What if someone told you that 75 percent of disease is caused by continuous and excessive stress hormones released by the body? What if they said you could manage that chronic stress and its harmful side effects with seven easy and affordable tools? The Mind-Body Cure teaches you to do just that, interweaving evidence-based science with practical advice to calm your mind so you can move from primitive fight-or-flight mode to send healing hormones into your body instead. Dr. Bal Pawa also shares her own story of anxiety and chronic pain following a tragic car accident. Only when she recognized how stress hormones disrupt every system in the body, from digestion to immunity to sleep, was she able to reclaim her health. Having healed herself—and many patients since—Dr. Pawa now shares the secrets to good health in The Mind-Body Cure. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Mind-Body” by Bal Pawa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608671118099-OMXBJR0W4ZBINUBR5JNY/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Stuff You Should Know - Josh Clark & Chuck Bryant Genres: Non-fiction, Trivia The duo behind the massively successful podcast "Stuff You Should Know" offers an unexpected look at weird, fascinating, delightful, or unexpected elements of a wide variety of topics, featuring new subjects that they've long wondered about and wanted to explore. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Stuff You Should Know” by John Clark & Chuck Bryant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608671509054-G30HVPG7JDKZOMKBGOAN/91fzVT0b4OL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat - Aubrey Gordon Genres: Non-fiction, Social issues Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people's experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further towards authentic fat activism, which includes ending legal weight discrimination, giving equal access to health care for large people, increased access to public spaces, and ending anti-fat violence. As she argues, I did not come to body positivity for self-esteem. I came to it for social justice. By sharing her experiences as well as those of others--from smaller fat to very fat people--she concludes that to be fat in our society is to be seen as an undeniable failure, unlovable, unforgivable, and morally condemnable. Fatness is an open invitation for others to express disgust, fear, and insidious concern. To be fat is to be denied humanity and empathy. Studies show that fat survivors of sexual assault are less likely to be believed and less likely than their thin counterparts to report various crimes; 27% of very fat women and 13% of very fat men attempt suicide; over 50% of doctors describe their fat patients as awkward, unattractive, ugly and noncompliant; and in 48 states, it's legal--even routine--to deny employment because of an applicant's size. Advancing fat justice and changing prejudicial structures and attitudes will require work from all people. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat is a crucial tool to create a tectonic shift in the way we see, talk about, and treat our bodies, fat and thin alike. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat” by Aubrey Gordon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608665544890-U3IIN6LX58LWUJQJQL2E/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (Folk of the Air novella) - Holly Black Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy Before he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, Cardan was a faerie child with a heart of stone...and a wicked tongue. Born into a family overburdened with heirs, nourished on cat milk and contempt, perhaps it's no surprise he turned out the way he did. This is the story of Elfhame's enigmatic high king, Cardan-- and his visits the mortal world to face the troll woman, Aslog of the West-- told wholly from Cardan's perspective. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories” by Holly Black https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608667489366-50UBJG13VHE49BUT9DU3/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Lies Like Poison - Chelsea Pitcher Genres: Young adult fiction, Mystery Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna would do anything to protect their best friend, Raven. When they discovered he was suffering abuse at the hands of his stepmother, they came up with a lethal plan: petals of poppy, belladonna, and lily in her evening tea so she'd never be able to hurt Raven again. But someone got cold feet, and the group fell apart. Three years later, on the eve of Raven's seventeenth birthday, his stepmother turns up dead. When belladonna is found in her tea, it's only Belladonna who is carted off to jail. Belle reaches out to her estranged friends to prove her innocence. Soon everyone has something to lose... and something equally dangerous to hide. 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CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Master of One” by Jaida Jones and Dani Bennett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608663738177-W7Y2442GR5AJEABO8AGQ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Anya and the Nightingale (Anya #2) - Sofiya Pasternack Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy Thirteen-year-old Anya sets out to find her missing father but instead travels to Kiev, where she meets the tsar, dines with a rabbi, and rescues two brothers from a dangerous monster lurking beneath the city. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Anya and the Nightingale” by Sofiya Pasternick https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608664128231-QM4F1MJPQUP70C3R1IGA/71ZpLV3M35L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - The Bad Guys in the One?! (Bad Guys #12) - Aaron Blabey Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Seriously, WHAT is going on with Snake?! Terrible powers have been revealed! Evil allies have materialized! Inter-dimensional doors have opened! Shady-looking cloaks have been purchased! What is his deal?! And that's not all! Why does Agent Fox suddenly have a whole lot more backstory than we'd counted on?! Dang it! We need answers! WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?! Wolf and the gang are back. And things are worse than ever. Or badder than ever... if you think that sounds cooler and don't have a problem with bad grammar. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Bad Guys in the One?!” by Aaron Blabey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608664510618-AZZPU5N66TL2SQSDN2E3/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - The Boy, the Wolf and the Stars - Shivaun Plozza Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy Long ago, the land of Ulv was filled with magic. But that was before a wolf ate all the Stars in the night sky, ridding the world of magic and allowing Shadow Creatures, beasts made of shadow and evil, to flourish. Twelve-year-old Bo knows the stories but thinks the Stars and the wolf who ate them are nothing more than myths—until the day Bo’s guardian, Mads, is attacked by a giant wolf straight from the legends. With his dying breath, Mads tells Bo that Ulv is in danger and the only way to prevent the Shadow Creatures from taking over is to return the Stars to the sky. And so Bo—accompanied by his best friend, a fox called Nix, a girl named Selene who’s magic is tied to the return of the Stars, and Tam, a bird-woman who has vowed to protect Bo at all costs—sets off on a quest to find the three magical keys that will release the Stars. But Bo isn’t the only one who wants the Stars, and the friends soon find themselves fleeing angry villagers, greedy merchants, and a vengeful wolf. And all the while, an evil witch lurks in the shadows and time is running out. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Boy, the Wolf and the Stars” by Shivaun Plozza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1608667068658-TF1LEBJX15VSZGW9B1PI/81hghhJqKaL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: December 18, 2020 - Jane, the Fox and Me - Fanny Britt Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies — Hélène weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, Hélène has one consolation, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Hélène identifies strongly with Jane’s tribulations, and when she is lost in the pages of this wonderful book, she is able to ignore her tormentors. But when Hélène is humiliated on a class trip in front of her entire grade, she needs more than a fictional character to allow her to see herself as a person deserving of laughter and friendship. Leaving the outcasts’ tent one night, Hélène encounters a fox, a beautiful creature with whom she shares a moment of connection. But when Suzanne Lipsky frightens the fox away, insisting that it must be rabid, Hélène’s despair becomes even more pronounced: now she believes that only a diseased and dangerous creature would ever voluntarily approach her. But then a new girl joins the outcasts’ circle, Géraldine, who does not even appear to notice that she is in danger of becoming an outcast herself. And before long Hélène realizes that the less time she spends worrying about what the other girls say is wrong with her, the more able she is to believe that there is nothing wrong at all. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Jane, the Fox and Me” by Fanny Britt https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/auk9y9w1n3o0hucqppcau0lb9byuba monthly 0.5 2021-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607368259756-HFFXDH388VZXOC30WAFG/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Black Sun - Rebecca Roanhorse Genres: Fiction, Fantasy A god will return when the earth and sky converge under the black sun in the holy city of Tova... The winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man's mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Black Sun” by Rebecca Roanhorse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607368648997-AYLNQ6I80X2FLD9OFMYE/91OU5XVdQcL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Book of Two Ways - Jodi Picoult Genres: Fiction Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She’s on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her work as a death doula, in which she helps ease the transition between life and death for her clients. But somewhere in Egypt is Wyatt Armstrong, who works as an archaeologist unearthing ancient burial sites, a career Dawn once studied for but was forced to abandon when life suddenly intervened. And now, when it seems that fate is offering her second chances, she is not as sure of the choice she once made. After the crash landing, the airline ensures that the survivors are seen by a doctor, then offers transportation to wherever they want to go. The obvious option for Dawn is to continue down the path she is on and go home to her family. The other is to return to the archaeological site she left years before, reconnect with Wyatt and their unresolved history, and maybe even complete her research on The Book of Two Ways—the first known map of the afterlife. As the story unfolds, Dawn’s two possible futures unspool side by side, as do the secrets and doubts long buried with them. Dawn must confront the questions she’s never truly asked: What does a life well lived look like? When we leave this earth, what do we leave behind? Do we make choices . . . or do our choices make us? And who would you be if you hadn’t turned out to be the person you are right now? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Book of Two Ways” by Jodi Picoult https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607369425784-ZBTX07NJBIYLIOE5XT9E/A1kIAr8s3NL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Cold Millions - Jess Walter Genres: Fiction, Historical Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause. But when Rye's turn on the soap box catches the eye of well-known activist and suffragette Elizabeth Gurley, he is swept into the world of labor activism-and dirty business. With his brother's life on the line, Rye must evade the barbaric police force, maneuver his way out of the clutches of a wealthy businessman-and figure out for himself what he truly stands for. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Cold Millions” by Jess Walter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607373019182-QYCW1LB3YBFANILG0779/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Dirty South (Charlie Parker #18) - John Connolly Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one in the Dirty South wants to admit it. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. Obsessed with avenging his lost family, his life is about to take a shocking turn. Witness the dawning of a conscience. Witness the birth of a hunter. Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Dirty South” by John Connolly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607373160013-7DBO46OZD4MUT7CWHTH3/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Drowned Country (Greenhollow #2) - Emily Tesh Genres: Fiction, Fantasy Even the Wild Man of Greenhollow can't ignore a summons from his mother, when that mother is the indomitable Adela Silver, practical folklorist. Henry Silver does not relish what he'll find in the grimy seaside town of Rothport, where once the ancient wood extended before it was drowned beneath the sea - a missing girl, a monster on the loose, or, worst of all, Tobias Finch, who loves him. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Drowned Country” by Emily Tesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607373547699-335FFP3RD0CIB72937SC/91B1yxpwd1L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Elsewhere - Dean Koontz Genres: Fiction, Sci-fi, Thriller Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It's a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object-something he calls "the key to everything"-and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, Jeffy and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth. The device allows them to jump between parallel planes at once familiar and bizarre, wondrous and terrifying. And Jeffy and Amity can't help but wonder, could Michelle be just a click away? Jeffy and Amity aren't the only ones interested in the device. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Elsewhere” by Dean Koontz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607373772232-7QQVI1AIFTQ687I2SXDW/81YYzDOgeSL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Exiles - Christina Baker Kline Genres: Fiction, Historical Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naive young governess, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to London's notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is being sent to Tasmania, a penal colony established by Great Britain in the early nineteenth century. Though she is uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline does know one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land. During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils, who has been sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel-a skilled midwife and herbalist - is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favors. Though Australia has been home to native peoples for more than 50,000 years, the British government in the 1840s considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and unsettled, and views the Aboriginals as an unpleasant nuisance. By the time the Medea arrives, many of them have been forcibly relocated, their land seized by white colonists. One of these relocated people is Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, who has been adopted by the new governor of Tasmania. In this gorgeous novel, Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna. While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some, an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom. Told in exquisite detail and incisive prose, Tin Ticket is a story of grace born from hardship, the unbreakable bonds of female friendships, and the unfettering of legacy. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Exiles” by Christina Baker Kline https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607373931933-WYBBHSQDUI17M1ERCBIN/81Pi2gWPXPL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Forgotten Daughter - Joanna Goodman Genres: Fiction, Historical 1992: French-Canadian factions renew Quebec's fight to gain independence. Veronique Fortin, daughter of a radical separatist convicted of kidnapping and murdering a prominent politician in 1970, has embraced her father's cause. Then she falls for James Phenix, a journalist of French-Canadian heritage who opposes Quebec separatism. Their love affair is as passionate as it is turbulent. His sister, Elodie Phenix, one of the Duplessis Orphans, becomes involved with a coalition demanding justice and reparations for their suffering in the 1950s when Quebec's orphanages were converted to mental hospitals. Veronique is the only person Elodie can rely on as she fights for retribution, while Elodie becomes a sisterly presence for Veronique, who continues to struggle with her family's legacy. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Forgotten Daughter” by Joanna Goodman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607374056622-J77LGSKPLHF39IZU8J12/71tPmybVKxL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Fortune and Glory (Stephanie Plum #27) - Janet Evanovich Genres: Fiction, Mystery When Stephanie's beloved Grandma Mazur's new husband died on their wedding night, the only thing he left her was a beat-up old easy chairand the keys to a life-changing fortune. But as Stephanie and Grandma Mazur search for Jimmy Rosolli's treasure, they discover that they're not the only ones on the hunt. Two dangerous enemies from the past stand in their way-along with a new adversary who's even more formidable: Gabriela Rose, a dark-eyed beauty from Little Havana with a taste for designer clothes. She's also a soldier of fortune, a gourmet cook, an expert in firearms and mixed martial arts-and someone who's about to give Stephanie a real run for her money. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Fortune and Glory” by Janet Evanovich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607374665329-1MYYLGL34KGTNJEKJAEM/91-ztkaxLkL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Goodnight Beautiful - Aimee Molloy Genres: Fiction, Suspense Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York City and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown upstate. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions can be heard from the room upstairs. The pharmacist's wife, contemplating a divorce. The well-known painter whose boyfriend doesn’t satisfy her in bed. Who could resist listening? Everything is fine until the French girl in the green mini Cooper shows up, and Sam decides to go to work and not come home, throwing a wrench into Sam and Annie's happily ever after. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Goodnight Beautiful” by Aimee Molloy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607375547304-XS5RG13DKM8HVH3JPBTM/51izCsLJrBL._SX327_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Hidden in Plain Sight (William Warwick #2) - Jeffrey Archer Genres: Fiction, Mystery William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately tasked with apprehending Ahmed Rashedi, a notorious drug dealer, who operates his extensive network out of South London. As the investigation progresses, William runs into enemies old and new: Adrian Heath, from his school days, now a street dealer who he convinces to turn informer; and financier Miles Faulkner, who makes a mistake that could finally see him put behind bars. Meanwhile, William and his fiancᤥ Beth enjoy making preparations for their upcoming wedding, though an unpleasant surprise awaits them at the altar. As William's team closes the net around a criminal network like none they have ever faced before, he devises a trap they would never expect, one that is hidden in plain sight... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hidden in Plain Sight” by Jeffrey Archer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607379635075-11IMIVIAUBBZ5NTDPQL3/71voWEjqcEL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Hollow Places - T Kingfisher Genres: Fiction, Fantasy A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle's house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel from the author of the "innovative, unexpected, and absolutely chilling" (Mira Grant, Nebula Award-winning author) The Twisted Ones. Pray they are hungry. Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she's discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle's house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area-only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts...and the more one fears them, the stronger they become. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Hollow Places” by T Kingfisher https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607380401321-B2PCGY7FD4PFJG5V84P2/81o%2BdRJxHSL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Invisible Girl - Lisa Jewell Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Owen Pick's life is falling apart. He's thirty-three, a virgin, and has just been suspended from his teaching job after accusations of sexual misconduct. He then discovers the dark world of incel--involuntary celibate--online forums and meets the mysterious and sinister Bryn. Across the street from Owen lives the Fours family, who have a bad feeling about their neighbor. Meanwhile, young Saffyre Maddox spent three years as a patient of Roan Fours, a child psychologist. Feeling abandoned when their therapy ends, she tries to maintain her connection with him. Then, on Valentine's night, Saffyre Maddox disappears--and the last person to see her alive is Owen Pick. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Invisible Girl” by Lisa Jewell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607380748368-WCHHT16D8MRWZGHWT65C/81e6AwO7uWL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Law of Innocence (Lincoln Lawyer #6) - Michael Connelly Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is charged with murder and can't make the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge. Mickey elects to defend himself and must strategize and build his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles, all the while looking over his shoulder -- as an officer of the court he is an instant target. Mickey knows he's been framed. Now, with the help of his trusted team, he has to figure out who has plotted to destroy his life and why. Then he has to go before a judge and jury and prove his innocence. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Law of Innocence” by Michael Connelly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607380990182-ZWU8LXMA8DCCIOEPMCAN/81szp%2B33lUL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Love Your Life - Sophie Kinsella Genres: Fiction, Comedy, Romance Call Ava romantic, but she thinks love should be found in the real world, not on apps that filter men by height, job, or astrological sign. She believes in feelings, not algorithms. So after a recent breakup and dating app debacle, she decides to put love on hold and escapes to a remote writers' retreat in coastal Italy. She's determined to finish writing the novel she's been fantasizing about, even though it means leaving her close-knit group of friends and her precious dog, Harold, behind. At the retreat, she's not allowed to use her real name or reveal any personal information. When the neighboring martial arts retreat is canceled and a few of its attendees join their small writing community, Ava, now going by "Aria," meets "Dutch," a man who seems too good to be true. The two embark on a baggage-free, whirlwind love affair, cliff-jumping into gem-colored Mediterranean waters and exploring the splendor of the Italian coast--stretches of beaches, architectural wonders, aromas of olive groves and lemon trees, signature orecchiette pasta, and rainbow-colored houses that line the shore. Things seem to be perfect for Aria and Dutch. But then their real identities--Ava and Matt--must return to London. As their fantasy starts to fade, they discover just how different their personal worlds are. From food choices to annoying habits to sauna etiquette . . . are they compatible in anything? And then there's the prickly situation with Matt's ex-girlfriend, who isn't too eager to let him go. As one mishap follows another, it seems while they love each other, they just can't love each other's lives. Can they reconcile their differences to find one life together? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Love Your Life” by Sophie Kinsella https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607381270438-KDQKDDDY9C8RBM3PIRM5/61s4OKTqsDL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Midnight Library - Matt Haig Genres: Fiction, Magical realism Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place"-- Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived, to see how things would be if you had made other choices. Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? Up until now Nora Seed's life has been full of misery. When she finds herself in the Midnight Library, she can now undo every decision she regrets. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be.... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607447668278-RFVYNN5YWT3E5H0KA7D3/81HSA5LPqqL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The New Wilderness - Diane Cook Genres: Fiction, Sci-fi Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment to see if humans can exist in nature without destroying it. Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, they slowly and painfully learn to survive in an unpredictable, dangerous land, bickering and battling for power and control as they betray and save one another. But as Agnes embraces the wild freedom of this new existence, Bea realizes that saving her daughter's life means losing her in a different way. The farther they get from civilization, the more their bond is tested in astonishing and heartbreaking ways. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The New Wilderness” by Diane Cook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607449165242-7WR8BJH1DXAQP3ZDGU93/91JRZQT3GML.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Return - Nicholas Sparks Genres: Fiction, Romance Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, NC. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked as an orthopedic surgeon sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any. Tending to his grandfather's beloved bee hives while gearing up for a second stint in medical school, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love with a local . . . and yet, from their very first encounter, his connection with Natalie Masterson can't be ignored. But even as she seems to reciprocate his feelings, she remains frustratingly distant, making Trevor wonder what she's hiding. Further complicating his stay in New Bern is the presence of a sullen teenage girl, Callie, who lives in the trailer park down the road from his grandfather's cabin. Claiming to be 19, she works at the local sundries store and keeps to herself. When he discovers she was once befriended by his grandfather, Trevor hopes Callie can shed light on the mysterious circumstances of his grandfather's death, but she offers few clues -- until a crisis triggers a race that will uncover the true nature of Callie's past, one more intertwined with the elderly man's passing than Trevor could ever have anticipated. In his quest to unravel Natalie and Callie's secrets, Trevor will learn the true meaning of love and forgiveness . . . and that in life, to move forward, we must often return to the place where it all began. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Return” by Nicholas Sparks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607449490353-0VW5HBLDRYLDCSAZNJJR/91lZyNqR4xL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Sentinel (Jack Reacher #25) - Lee Child & Andrew Child Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller It is close to midnight on a Saturday night when Jack Reacher gets off a bus at the Greyhound station in Nashville. Reacher is in no hurry. He has no appointments to keep. No people to see. No scores to settle. Not yet anyway. But in the early morning hours, under particular circumstances, a familiar thought will be snaking through his sharp, instinctual lizard brain: A voice in his head telling him to walk away. Of course, this wouldn?t be the first time he listened to his gut instead. Meanwhile, seventy-five miles south and west of Music City is a sleepy little town where a recently-fired guy nurses a grudge that will fester into fury?and a desire for payback. But who is watching him, standing guard over a long-buried secret, ready to strike before it can be revealed? If you don't have a sense of the danger you're in, then it's best to have Reacher. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Sentinel” by Lee Child & Andrew Child https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607449824459-K11KIM08ZIM9TJB7X5SO/91A1UdXbmSL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Shadows in Death (In Death #51) - J D Robb Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller As it often did since he'd married a cop, murder interrupted more pleasant activities. Then again, Roarke supposed, the woman lying in a pool of her own blood a few steps inside the arch in Washington Square Park had a heftier complaint. When a night out at the theatre is interrupted by the murder of a young woman in Washington Square Park, it seems like an ordinary case for Detective Eve Dallas and her team. But when Roarke spots a shadow from his past in the crowd, Eve realises that this case is far from business as usual. Eve has two complex cases on her hands - the shocking murder of this wealthy young mother and tracking down the shadow before he can strike again, this time much closer to home. Eve is well used to being the hunter, but how will she cope when the tables are turned? As Eve and the team follow leads to Roarke's hometown in Ireland, the race is on to stop the shadow making his next move . . CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Shadows in Death” J D Robb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607450021055-XTZZ9LQWCK43SF4VV4AG/9153SmLVYpL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Shakeup (Stone Barrington #55) - Stuart Woods Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Upon returning from a dangerous coastal adventure, Stone Barrington is looking forward to some normalcy with the leading lady in his life. But when a grisly crime arrives on his doorstep, along with some suspicious new clients eager for his help, Stone realizes peace and quiet are no longer an option. As it turns out, the mastermind behind the malfeasance rocking New York City and the nation's capital wields a heavy hand of influence. And when Stone is unable to recruit those closest to the case to his side, he is left with few leads and a handful of dead-ends. But with the help of important people in high places--and the expertise of alluring new friends--Stone is more than ready to rise to the occasion. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Shakeup” by Stuart Woods https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607450359655-I0IBZTKKPGIP5J383JL8/71gc3guNPwL._AC_UL600_SR375%2C600_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Silver in the Wood (Greenhollow #1) - Emily Tesh Genres: Fiction, Fantasy There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Old secrets better left buried are dug up, and Tobias is forced to reckon with his troubled past--both the green magic of the woods, and the dark things that rest in its heart. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Silver in the Wood” by Emily Tesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607451270049-OQWSO8E92W7T84O9AGDQ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - White Ivy - Susie Yang Genres: Fiction Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant, grows up in a low-income apartment complex in Massachusetts desperate to assimilate with her American peers. She develops a crush on the golden boy Gideon Speyer, whose patrician New England family is the paragon of the WASP ideal. Ivy's mother is a Tiger Mom, berating Ivy regularly when she disapproves of her grades, her looks, her attitude. But that's where the familiar story ends. Because Ivy has a mentor-her grandmother Meifeng- from whom she learns to shoplift to get the things she needs. Ivy develops a taste for winning and for wealth. Years later, when she bumps into Gideon's father, Ivy believes it's destiny. She's worked long and hard to be the right woman for Gideon. But just as they begin dating, another man from Ivy's past appears, and he has his own set of rules. Ivy soon has a foot in two vastly different worlds. The question is: Which will she choose? A coming-of-age story, a love triangle, an exploration of class and race and identity. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “White Ivy” by Susie Yang https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607367945693-J6T7C9Z1Y3GI7KEVOULT/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Attached - Amir Levine Genres: Non-fiction, Applied Psychology, Self-help Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. F. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory-the most advanced relationship science in existence today-can help us find and sustain love. Attachment theory forms the basis for many bestselling books on the parent/child relationship, but there has yet to be an accessible guide to what this fascinating science has to tell us about adult romantic relationships-until now. Attachment theory owes its inception to British psychologist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby, who in the 1950s examined the tremendous impact that our early relationships with our parents or caregivers has on the people we become. Also central to attachment theory is the discovery that our need to be in a close relationship with one or more individuals is embedded in our genes. In Attached, Levine and Heller trace how these evolutionary influences continue to shape who we are in our relationships today. According to attachment theory, every person behaves in relationships in one of three distinct ways: *ANXIOUS people are often preoccupied with their relationships and tend to worry about their partner's ability to love them back. *AVOIDANT people equate intimacy with a loss of independence and constantly try to minimize closeness. *SECURE people feel comfortable with intimacy and are usually warm and loving. Attached guides readers in determining what attachment style they and their mate (or potential mates) follow. It also offers readers a wealth of advice on how to navigate their relationships more wisely given their attachment style and that of their partner. An insightful look at the science behind love, Attached offers readers a road map for building stronger, more fulfilling connections. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Attached” by Amir Levine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607369127121-KJSYT2PUVJACX98XXXW4/813DYRb%2B9EL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz - Jeremy Dronfield Genres: Non-fiction, World War II In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering they endured, there was one constant that kept them alive: the love between father and son. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz” by Jeremy Dronfield https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607369283399-1G2H7Q9QQI0QERNYRS85/81p6QSAgZSL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Burke’s Law - Brian Burke Genres: Non-fiction, Biography, Sports The gruffest man in hockey opens up about the challenges, the feuds, and the tragedies he's fought through. Brian Burke is one of the biggest hockey personalities--no, personalities full-stop--in the hockey media landscape. His brashness makes him a magnet for attention, and he does nothing to shy away from it. Most famous for advocating "pugnacity, truculence, testosterone, and belligerence" during his tenure at the helm of the Maple Leafs, Burke has lived and breathed hockey his whole life. He has been a player, an agent, a league executive, a Stanley Cup-winning GM, an Olympic GM, and a media analyst. He has worked with Pat Quinn, Gary Bettman, and an array of future Hall of Fame players. No one knows the game better, and no one commands more attention when they open up about it. But there is more to Brian Burke than hockey. He is a graduate of Harvard Law, and an accomplished businessman with hard-earned lessons that come from highly-scrutinized decisions made at the helm of multi-million-dollar companies. Not only does he know the game, but he has expertise to share in the business and management principles arenas as well. And despite his gruff persona, he is also a father with a story to tell. He lost his youngest son in a car accident, and has grappled with that grief. Many Canadians knew Burke's name already, because he became one of the country's most outspoken gay-rights advocates when his son Brendan came out in 2009. Brian Burke has learned many truths the hard way, and is courageous and insightful enough to share them with readers for the first time. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Burke’s Law” by Brian Burke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607369567029-BWUIN2GBP12SROQSIZD1/51114662.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Company - Stephen R Bown Genres: Non-fiction, History A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people--from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America. When the Company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson--one of the greatest villains in Canadian history--and the Company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world. Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Company” by Stephen R Bown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607369715748-WE02C6LN8VMPVC9T1SWX/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Conservative Sensibility - George F Will Genres: Non-fiction, Politics For more than four decades, George F. Will has attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to America's civic life. Today, the stakes could hardly be higher. Vital questions about the nature of man, of rights, of equality, of majority rule are bubbling just beneath the surface of daily events in America. The Founders' vision, articulated first in the Declaration of Independence and carried out in the Constitution, gave the new republic a framework for government unique in world history. Their beliefs in natural rights, limited government, religious freedom, and in human virtue and dignity ushered in two centuries of American prosperity. Now, as Will shows, conservatism is under threat -- both from progressives and elements inside the Republican Party. America has become an administrative state, while destructive trends have overtaken family life and higher education. Semi-autonomous executive agencies wield essentially unaccountable power. Congress has failed in its duty to exercise its legislative powers. And the executive branch has slipped the Constitution's leash. In the intellectual battle between the vision of Founding Fathers like James Madison, who advanced the notion of natural rights that pre-exist government, and the progressivism advanced by Woodrow Wilson, the Founders have been losing. It's time to reverse America's political fortunes. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Conservative Sensibility” by George F Will https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607369924724-6LXHB7L8YIB9A4H2SSM1/91d5Bdw4CVL._AC_UL600_SR399%2C600_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Dark Archives - Megan Rosenbloom Genres: Non-fiction, History, Science On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy--the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world's most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, innocents, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. In Dark Archives--captivating and macabre in all the right ways--she has crafted a narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dark Archives” by Megan Rosenbloom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607372469573-3V575P7TFTRR9JTC8NJP/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Dearly - Margaret Atwood Genres: Non-fiction, Poetry The internationally acclaimed author presents her first collection of poetry in over a decade that addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, nature, and zombies. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dearly” by Margaret Atwood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607374888072-H8IGHVKH9X3FJPG9I5IW/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Group - Christie Tate Genres: Non-fiction, Self-help Christie Tate had just been named the top student in her law school class and finally had her eating disorder under control. Why then was she driving through Chicago fantasizing about her own death? Why was she envisioning putting an end to the isolation and sadness that still plagued her in spite of her achievements? Enter Dr. Rosen, a therapist who calmly assures her that if she joins one of his psychotherapy groups, he can transform her life. All she has to do is show up and be honest. About everything—her eating habits, childhood, sexual history, etc. Christie is skeptical, insisting that that she is defective, beyond cure. But Dr. Rosen issues a nine-word prescription that will change everything: “You don’t need a cure, you need a witness. So begins her entry into the strange, terrifying, and ultimately life-changing world of group therapy. Christie is initially put off by Dr. Rosen’s outlandish directives, but as her defenses break down and she comes to trust Dr. Rosen and to depend on the sessions and the prescribed nightly phone calls with various group members, she begins to understand what it means to connect. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Group” by Christie Tate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607379501276-1B5A4UGMMR53G9NRHOXY/913tOc4viRL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Highway of Tears - Jessica McDiarmid Genres: Non-fiction, Social issues An explosive examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them. For decades, women--overwhelmingly from Indigenous backgrounds--have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern B.C. The highway is called the Highway of Tears by locals, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. In Highway of Tears, Jessica McDiarmid meticulously explores the effect these tragedies have had on communities in the region, and how systemic racism and indifference towards Indigenous lives have created a culture of "over-policing and under-protection," simultaneously hampering justice while endangering young Indigenous women. Highway of Tears will offer an intimate, first-hand look at the communities along Highway 16 and the families of the victims, as well as examine the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settler and Indigenous peoples that underlie life in the region. Finally, it will link these cases with others found across Canada--estimated to number over 1,200--contextualizing them within a broader examination of the undervaluing of Indigenous lives in the country and of our ongoing failure to provide justice for the missing and murdered. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Highway of Tears” by Jessica McDiarmid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607379765113-DX7QGVKT06IPRXYLSGAN/81XOR6-nprL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The House of Kennedy - James Patterson Genres: Non-fiction, Biography, Politics The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs." And they do--but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's most storied family, as told by America's most trusted storyteller. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The House of Kennedy” by James Patterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607380269525-ECFLQDBLQL939VY4NMTU/81B9UvoxbCL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Instant Pot Cheese - Claudia Lucero Genres: Non-fiction, Cooking Lucero presents the basics of the cheesemaking process for use in a multicooker, then covers a range of recipes for classic kinds of cheese and other dairy products. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Instant Pot Cheese” by Claudia Lucero https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607380598425-R0S1JL274TZBFZT9VCR8/81N%2BNUvkfiL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - A Lab of One’s Own - Rita Colwell Genres: Non-fiction, Science If you think sexism thrives only on Wall Street or in Hollywood, you haven’t visited a lab, a science department, a research foundation, or a biotech firm. Rita Colwell escaped the narrow expectations of her Italian immigrant family to become a groundbreaking microbiologist and ecologist who tracked down how cholera survives around the world, a discovery that would save countless lives. But when she first applied for a graduate fellowship in biology, she was told, “We don’t give fellowships to women.” Colwell could have given up then and there, but she persisted, although a lack of support from some of her male superiors would force her to change her area of study six times before she earned her PhD. A Lab of One’s Own documents all Colwell saw and heard over the next six decades as she rose to the top of her profession, from tales of sexual assault in the lab to secret systems used to block women from leading professional organizations and getting their work published. Along the way, she also meets women pushing back against the status quo, like a group at MIT who revolt when they discover their labs are a fraction of the size of their male colleagues’. Colwell’s resistance gives her special gifts: forced to change specialties so many times, she comes to see science as interdisciplinary, which turns out to be key to making new discoveries in the silo-less 21st century. She also witnesses the advances that can be made when men and women work together as equals, such as when she led the team whose work was critical in identifying the source of the anthrax powder used in the 2001 letter attacks. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Lab of One’s Own” by Rita Colwell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607380887008-87PBSMX41LEYKZD24FBB/41keu7nypqL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Librarian Tales - William Ottens Genres: Non-fiction Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly of librarian William Ottens's experience working behind service desks and in the stacks of public libraries, most recently at the Lawrence Public Library in Kansas. In Librarian Tales, published in cooperation with the American Library Association, readers will learn about strange things librarians have found in book drops, weird and obscure reference questions, the stress of tax season, phrases your local librarians never want to hear, stories unique to children's librarians, and more. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Librarian Tales” by William Ottens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607381109744-DI9VXEKV1AUP0VFNKBB4/91%2BGroRByrL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Meaning of Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey Genres: Non-fiction, Biography It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my career and very public personal life, it's been impossible to communicate the complexities and depths of my experience in any single magazine article or a ten-minute television interview. And even then, my words were filtered through someone else's lens, largely satisfying someone else's assignment to define me. This book is composed of my memories, my mishaps, my struggles, my survival and my songs. Unfiltered. I went deep into my childhood and gave the scared little girl inside of me a big voice. I let the abandoned and ambitious adolescent have her say, and the betrayed and triumphant woman I became tell her side. Writing this memoir was incredibly hard, humbling and healing. My sincere hope is that you are moved to a new understanding, not only about me, but also about the resilience of the human spirit. Love, Mariah CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Meaning of Mariah Carey” Mariah Carey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607448639583-KHAREBVT7CSLOPFF7BOF/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - A Peculiar Indifference - Elliott Currie Genres: Non-fiction, Social issues In the United States today, a young black man has a sixteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined. Even black women are more affected by violence than white men, despite its usual gender patterns. These disparities translate into starkly divergent experiences of life and death for whites and blacks in the United States. Yet aside from occasional flare-ups of violence that periodically hit the headlines, the problem has largely receded into the background of public discussion and has nearly disappeared as a target of public policy. The country has been understandably outraged by the recent spate of police shootings of black Americans. But as acclaimed criminologist Elliott Currie points out, the far more widespread problem of "everyday" violent death and injury in black communities has received much less sustained attention or concern. Yet both kinds of violence reflect the same underlying condition: the continuing marginality and structural disadvantage of many black communities in America today. Our unwillingness to confront those conditions helps to perpetuate a level of preventable trauma and needless suffering that has no counterpart anywhere in the developed world. Compelling and accessible, drawing on a rich array of both classic and contemporary research, A Peculiar Indifference describes the dimensions and consequences of this enduring emergency, explores its causes, and offers an urgent plea for long-overdue social action to end it. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Peculiar Indifference” by Elliott Currie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607448944513-R7Y9YBXONRBI9ZETE236/61-%2BV0EHU5L._AC_UL600_SR480%2C600_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Quick and Easy Ketogenic Cooking - Maria Emmerich Genres: Non-fiction, Cooking The ketogenic diet is a way of getting your body to stop relying on sugar for energy. When we get most of our energy from fat instead, something amazing happens--our health soars and extra weight falls off. The ketogenic diet has been used as a treatment for epilepsy for decades, and it also can help treat obesity, heart disease, metabolic syndrome, autoimmune disease, and more. This book makes the ketogenic diet simple and accessible for everyone, no matter how busy you are or how much cooking experience you have. Plus, with its emphasis on real, whole foods, it's perfect for anyone following Paleo, and its abundance of nut-free, egg-free, and dairy-free options make it ideal for those with food allergies or intolerances. It includes more than 170 recipes; plus, an introduction to the ketogenic diet explains how and why it works and how to become a fat burner. There are also tips and tricks for keto success, suggestions for eating keto at restaurants, and six meal plans--two weekly and four monthly--to make meal planning effortless. No matter how busy you are, there is time to eat well. Your health is worth it. 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CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Say Goodbye to Plastic” by Sandra Ann Harris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607450583908-WNT0RAM4EEW8746ELCTY/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Somewhere - Lorna Jane Harvey Genres: Non-fiction, Collection Somewhere is an inspiring collection of essays about migration. Written from twenty women's perspectives, it brings a refreshing and uniting voice to this compelling and trending topic. More people are likely to be migrating now than at any other time in history, and this is set to increase as climate change and political unrest pushes even more people to relocate. The implications of migration, especially for women, are often unknown, unheard, unspoken. From the fleeing refugee to the political and economic migrant, a broad range of migration by people of many cultures, ethnicities, and beliefs is shared in this book. Identity, belonging, assimilation and alienation are some of the key topics in this sometimes sad but also joyful book. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Somewhere” by Lorna Jane Harvey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607451430864-57WK41NFCWX3DHKF5G9R/41T8Q57PQvL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Wise as FU*K - Gary John Bishop Genres: Non-fiction, Self-help When the shit storms of life hit us, many of us don’t know what to do—whether it’s losing a job, suffering a broken heart, or just feeling a lack of purpose. We need wisdom to help us navigate forward. While the internet is full of seemingly good advice, it isn’t helping us actually change our lives. Wise As Fu*k breaks through the bullshit, providing insight to inspire us in the four areas we need it most: love, loss, fear, and success. Written with his widely admired no-nonsense style, Wise As Fu*k provides a welcome fresh perspective to help us transform how we approach a variety of life’s problems. But Bishop makes clear, the work doesn’t stop there. Now that you’ve unfu*ked yourself and and are wise as fu*k about these touchy areas, you can apply the lessons to make a positive impact on the world. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Wise as FU*K” by Gary John Bishop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607372568186-V2LAEI3C7Q7IA8SUJ04I/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Demon Slayer (Vol 1) - Koyoharu Gotouge Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy In Taisho-era Japan, kindhearted Tanjiro Kamado makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who ruined his life. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Demon Slayer (Vol 1)” by Koyoharu Gotouge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607372752888-7WPW3X98KW9IG5GN0VVU/91gjcZ40%2BIL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Demon Slayer (Vol 2) - Koyoharu Gotouge Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Fanatsy During final selection for the Demon Slayer Corps, Tanjiro faces a disfigured demon and uses the techniques taught by his master, Urokodaki! As Tanjiro begins to walk the path of the Demon Slayer, his search for the demon who murdered his family leads him to investigate the disappearances of young girls in a nearby town. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Demon Slayer (Vol 2)” by Koyoharu Gotouge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607372876679-1SX13P8LYFG67OZZCI75/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Demon Slayer (Vol 3) - Koyoharu Gotouge Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Tanjiro and Nezuko cross paths with two powerful demons who fight with magical weapons. Even help from Tamayo and Yushiro may not be enough to defeat these demons who claim to belong to the Twelve Kizuki that directly serve Kibutsuji, the demon responsible for all of Tanjiro's woes! But if these demons can be defeated, what secrets can they reveal about Kibutsuji? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Demon Slayer (Vol 3)” - Koyoharu Gotouge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607373291406-BB8J6EUFZTMKRRPKQSHD/91F%2BjTIBl1L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger Genres: Young adult fiction, Mystery, Fantasy Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and should never see the light of day. Seventeen-year-old Elatsoe ("Ellie" for short) lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry. The picture-perfect façade of Willowbee masks gruesome secrets, and she will rely on her wits, skills, and friends to tear off the mask and protect her family. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Elatsoe” by Darcie Little Badger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607447843832-Y9ZK39T2VCL637JV5X61/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - One-Punch Man (Vol 1) - ONE Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Comedy, Fantasy Nothing about Saitama passes the eyeball test when it comes to superheroes, from his lifeless expression to his bald head to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking guy has a not-so-average problem-- he just can't seem to find an opponent strong enough to take on! Every time a promising villain appears, he beats the snot out 'em with one punch! Can Saitama finally find an opponent who can go toe-to-toe with him and give his life some meaning? Or is he doomed to a life of superpowered boredom? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “One-Punch Man (Vol 1)” by ONE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607447967007-C1CMJ1ZLCTBMHVTU613L/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - One-Punch Man (Vol 2) - ONE Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Comedy, Fantasy Saitama has easily taken out a number of monsters, including a crabby creature, a malicious mosquito girl and a muscly meat head. But his humdrum life takes a drastic turn when he meets Genos--a cyborg who wants to uncover the secret behind his strength. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “One-Punch Man (Vol 2)” by ONE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607448199086-ZNXGDI459WQQQP0VRDGF/81dUBoOlCGL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - One-Punch Man (Vol 3) - ONE Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Comedy, Fantasy Nothing about Saitama passes the eyeball test when it comes to superheroes, from his lifeless expression to his bald head to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking guy has a not-so-average problem-he just can't seem to find an opponent strong enough to take on! Saitama is now a certified hero! And with that title comes great responsibility-he's required to perform one heroic deed per week. While Saitama makes the rounds to meet his quota, and incoming threat from outer space is screeching toward Earth. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “One-Punch Man (Vol 3)” by ONE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607448763280-Z32XJLFRCPPJUB1QPAJT/8160WRg8lTL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Punching the Air - Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam Genres: Young adult fiction The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. "Boys just being boys" turns out to be true only when those boys are white. The story that I think will be my life starts today. Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Punching the Air” by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607449377758-45CQQLVDLCURSHQJDJOE/51peisdE9BL._SX377_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Seconds - Bryan Lee O’Malley Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Magical realism Katie's got it pretty good. She's a talented young chef, she runs a successful restaurant, and she has big plans to open an even better one. Then, all at once, progress on the new location bogs down, her charming ex-boyfriend pops up, her fling with another chef goes sour, and her best waitress gets badly hurt. And just like that, Katie's life goes from pretty good to not so much. What she needs is a second chance. Everybody deserves one, after all--but they don't come easy. Luckily for Katie, a mysterious girl appears in the middle of the night with simple instructions for a do-it-yourself do-over: 1. Write your mistake 2. Ingest one mushroom 3. Go to sleep 4. Wake anew. And just like that, all the bad stuff never happened, and Katie is given another chance to get things right. She's also got a dresser drawer full of magical mushrooms--and an irresistible urge to make her life not just good, but perfect. Too bad it's against the rules. But Katie doesn't care about the rules--and she's about to discover the unintended consequences of the best intentions. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Seconds” by Bryan Lee O’Malley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607450464395-0Q6CB74GTY3QI6SVM4G7/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Skyhunter (Skyhunter #1) - Marie Lu Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy, Sci-fi The Karensa Federation has conquered a dozen countries, leaving Mara as one of the last free nations in the world. Refugees flee to its borders to escape a fate worse than death, transformation into mutant war beasts known as Ghosts, creatures the Federation then sends to attack Mara. The legendary Strikers, Mara's elite fighting force, are trained to stop these monsters. But as the number of Ghosts grows and Karensa closes in, defeat seems inevitable. Still, one Striker refuses to give up hope. Robbed of her voice and home, Talin Kanami knows firsthand the brutality of the Federation. After another devastating battle, Mara seems ready to fall. But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front, Talin senses there's more to him than meets the eye. Is he a spy from the Federation? Or could he be the weapon that will save them all? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Skyhunter” by Marie Lu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607450831981-CJCAYK0FTBTPMQ93Z5ZR/81CfbcFFyHL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Uzumaki - Junji Ito Genres: Young adult fiction, Horror Kurōzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. But the spirit that haunts it does not have a name or a body, only a shape: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It possessed the father of teenage Kirie's withdrawn boyfriend Shuichi, compelling him to end his life by remaking himself in its image. It grows in ferns, in seashells, in curls of hair, and in the twisting folds of the human brain. As events unfold, giant snails are sighted near the high school, an eerie glow shines from the abandoned lighthouse, mosquitoes seeking blood fly in drowsy circles, and babies seek to return to the womb. People become obsessed with swirl shapes and kill themselves in gruesome ways. The very smoke from the crematorium hangs in an ominous spiral over the town, reminding everyone that even in death there is no escape from the insane swirls! As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Uzumaki” by Junji Ito https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607450927457-P2FF5V99EC4U3ENV9LIZ/81O9%2BtqlXdL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Warriors of Wing and Flame (Sisters of Shadow and Light #2) - Sara B Larson Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy The doorway between the magical world of the Paladin and the human world where sisters Zuhra and Inara grew up in isolation is open once more. But the joyous reunion with their Paladin father is shattered when a treacherous sorcerer attacks Inara, stealing her power for himself. Now nearly invincible and determined to rule over both Paladin and human alike, he will let nothing stand in his way. Armed only with the power of love, courage, and sacrifice, two sisters must bridge the divide between worlds to confront the unspeakable evil that threatens to destroy everything--and everyone--they love. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Warriors of Wing and Flame” by Sara B Larson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607367804353-EI3HY4YRMTUQP8NPWSGS/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Ana on the Edge - A J Sass Genres: Junior fiction, Sports Twelve-year-old Ana-Marie Jin, the reigning US Juvenile figure skating champion, is not a frilly dress kind of kid. So, when Ana learns that next season's program will be princess themed, doubt forms fast. Still, Ana tries to focus on training and putting together a stellar routine worthy of national success. Once Ana meets Hayden, a transgender boy new to the rink, thoughts about the princess program and gender identity begin to take center stage. And when Hayden mistakes Ana for a boy, Ana doesn't correct him and finds comfort in this boyish identity when he's around. As their friendship develops, Ana realizes that it's tricky juggling two different identities on one slippery sheet of ice. And with a major competition approaching, Ana must decide whether telling everyone the truth is worth risking years of hard work and sacrifice. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Ana on the Edge” by A J Sass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607368125608-8A0GJW85TXV54S6R6GYV/91zC0kthF7L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Billy Johnson and His Duck are Explorers - Mathew New Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Billy Johnson, the son of two world-famous explorers (who mysteriously disappeared eight years ago) has big dreams. The teenager may be a part-time janitor now, but exploring is in his blood. He just needs one big discovery to prove to the Explorers League that he's worthy of the rank of Ace Explorer. Luckily, Billy has an ally in his best friend, Barrace. Not only is Barrace a college professor of linguistics, but he's also a duck! Together, these boon companions brave hidden jungle kingdoms, haunted tombs, deadly deserts, and treacherous mythological trials to uncover the mysteries of the world. But will they discover that the biggest mystery of all may be following them every step of the way? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Billy Johnson and His Duck are Explorers” by Mathew New https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607374276914-S5Q6GU892OUKVRPGSBUR/91aSC14jgwL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Fourth Closet (Five Nights at Freddy's #3) - Scott Cawthorn Genres: Junior fiction, Horror, Thriller What really happened to Charlie? It's the question that John can't seem to shake, along with the nightmares of Charlie's seeming death and miraculous reappearance. John just wants to forget the whole terrifying saga of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, but the past isn't so easily buried. Meanwhile, there's a new animatronic pizzeria opening in Hurricane, along with a new rash of kidnappings that feel all too familiar. Bound together by their childhood loss, John reluctantly teams up with Jessica, Marla, and Carlton to solve the case and find the missing children. Along the way, they'll unravel the twisted mystery of what really happened to Charlie, and the haunting legacy of her father's creations. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Fourth Closet” by Scott Cawthorn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607374408828-EL5O8PZB57JKJT60GS2Z/81YRBf2RvPL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Fourth Suit (Magic Misfits #4) - Neil Patrick Harris Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy Ridley Larsen is everything you want in a friend. She's tough as nails, she's fiercely loyal, and she's smart as a whip. But she can be a harsh critic, which has put her position with the Magic Misfits on the rocks, even as the threat of the group's longtime enemy Kalagan looms large. Ever since his recent appearance in Mineral Wells, the kids know that a showdown with the vicious magician is imminent. They must first deal with a series of odd instances and random attacks, though, all of which they use to bring themselves closer to discovering where Kalagan may be hiding, and the nature of his true identity. But can Ridley finally master her temper and put her essential magical skills to good use? She'll do anything to protect her friends, and when the time comes, she'll find that the Magic Misfits are strongest when they all work together. Join the Magic Misfits as they discover adventure, friendship, and more than a few hidden secrets in this finale of the unique and always surprising series. Whether you're a long-time expert at illusion or simply a new fan of stage magic, hold on to your top hat! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Fourth Suit” by Neil Patrick Harris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607375066983-Y0LDPMPI5JDKZXB4KGB6/8125DI58M%2BL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Haikyu!! (Vol 1) - Haruichi Furudate Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Sports Ever since he saw the legendary player known as 'the Little Giant' compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else? After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, 'the King of the Court, ' Shoyo Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens when the guy he wants to defeat ends up being his teammate?! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Haikyu!! (Vol 1)” - Haruichi Furudate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607375226205-80VF38OUASY7FC9MX7VJ/91MYtDJje4L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Haikyu!! (Vol 2) - Haruichi Furudate Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Sports After proving themselves to be the ultimate combination in their practice match against Kei Tsukishima, Kageyama and Hinata are finally allowed to join the club! Hinata's true power--to perfectly time his spikes with his eyes closed--is awakened, and nothing can seem to stop this crazy setter-spiker duo. Now their skills are about to be put to the test at a practice game against one of Kageyama's former teammates from middle school, Tohru Oikawa. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Haikyu!! (Vol 2)” by Haruichi Furudate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607375453897-2IYKAUIFR6HGS40R7MGY/81BKb6Wx%2BeL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Haikyu!! (Vol 3) - Haruichi Furudate Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Sports Karasuno has successfully defeated Tohru Oikawa and Aoba Johsai in their practice match, but the team's future doesn't look so bright. The match uncovered serious holes in Karasuno's defense, which would be fatal in a real game! What they need is a defense expert, a libero, to cover their holes for them. It turns out Karasuno does have a libero named Yu Nishinoya, but he was suspended for one week for violent behavior! And he's even shorter than Hinata! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Haikyu!! (Vol 3)” by Haruichi Furudate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607447556132-CP2R8HBAKOG29V536M29/91uFyqoWBFL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Minor Third (Magic Misfits #3) - Neil Patrick Harris Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy Theo Stein-Meyer loves being part of the Magic Misfits. Armed with his trusty violin bow, he completes the team with his levitation skills, unflappable calm, and proper manners. But when a girl named Emily begins to spend time with the group and the other Misfits grow suspicious, Theo is surprisingly drawn to her. She seems to understand the pull he feels between music and magic, family and friends. Then a famous ventriloquist arrives in town, and the Misfits are sure he (and his creepy dummy Daniel) are up to no good. With their mentor, Mr. Vernon, suddenly called away and tension simmering among the friends, will they be able to come together to stop this newest member of the mysterious Emerald Ring? It's time for Theo to make a choice about where -- and with whom -- he belongs. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Minor Third” by Neil Patrick Harris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607449619278-967OCDL3ILQ09X6AM0HV/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Shadow Crosser (Storm Runner #3) - J C Cervantes Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy Zane Obispo has been looking forward to his training at the Shaman Institute for Higher Order Magic, and not only because it means he'll be reunited with his best friend, Brooks. Anything would be better than how he has spent the last three months: searching for the remaining godborns with a nasty demon who can sniff them out (literally). But when Zane tracks down the last kid on his list, he's in for a surprise: the ""one"" is actually a pair of twins, and they're trying to prevent a mysterious object from falling into the wrong hands. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Shadow Crosser” by J C Cervantes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607450217245-T80CC8LNS8DPJU4LB6JO/71MTJikiWaL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Silver Eyes (Five Nights at Freddy’s #1) - Scott Cawthorn Genres: Junior fiction, Horror Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie, whose father owned the restaurant, and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place, which had been locked up and abandoned for years. After they discover a way inside, they realize that things are not as they used to be. The four adult-sized animatronic mascots that once entertained patrons have changed. They now have a dark secret…and a murderous agenda. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Silver Eyes” by Scott Cawthorn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607450689424-JS6R7JLPCWZ6DTQOPQC2/91PMtgJX8eL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - The Twisted Ones (Five Nights at Freddy’s #2) - Scott Cawthorn Genres: Junior fiction, Horror It's been a year since the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlie is just trying to move on. Even with the excitement of a new school and a fresh start, she's still haunted by nightmares of a masked murderer and four gruesome animatronic puppets. Charlie thinks her ordeal is over, but when a series of bodies are discovered near her school bearing wounds that are disturbingly familiar she finds herself drawn back into the world of her father's frightening creations. Something twisted is hunting Charlie, and this time if it finds her, it's not letting her go. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Twisted Ones” by Scott Cawthorn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607380153385-E93MUVX8VENYH8RGJMGL/81qaCevru9L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - I Am, I Can - Wynne Kinder Genres: Junior non-fiction, Applied psychology A collection of 365 daily affirmations includes special mindful movements, inspiring people and events in history, and activites to help bring affirmations to life. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “I Am, I Can” by Wynne Kinder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607373419391-9EL253GMHWTK3GHBDUW1/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - An Elephant and Piggie Biggie (Vol 3) - Mo Willems Genres: Beginner reader, Collection A collection of five Elephant & Piggie adventures. For the third time ever, best friends Elephant and Piggie have five biggie adventures in one book! Gerald has a bird on his head! Should Piggie swoop in to help? Will rain ruin Gerald and Piggie's fun in the sun? Piggie teachers Gerald how to dance. But what will Piggie learn? Gerald has a big decision to make. Can he make it in time? Gerald is tired and cranky. Will his nap dreams come true? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “An Elephant and Piggie Biggie” by Mo Willems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1607449049752-DKA9VO1WK7BUFP4AX6QA/71scDLVnhqL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: November 30, 2020 - Red Shoes - Karen English Genres: Beginner reader Malika loves her new red shoes and wears them everywhere, but eventually she outgrows them, and her grandmother takes them to a second-hand shop--where they will become a special present for Amina (who fasted half the month of Ramadan) in Africa, who will enjoy her special red shoes every bit as much as Malika did. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Red Shoes” by Karen English https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-october-30-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604092659083-5WI2OO6G6W22VY83JYYT/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Daughter of Black Lake - Cathy Marie Buchanan Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical In a northern misty bog surrounded by woodlands and wheat fields, a settlement lies far beyond the reach of the Romans invading hundreds of miles to the southeast. Here, life is simple, or so it seems to the tightly knit community. Sow. Reap. Honor Mother Earth, who will provide at harvest-time. A girl named Devout comes of age, sweetly flirting with the young man she's tilled alongside all her life, and envisions a future of love and abundance. Seventeen years later, though, the settlement is a changed place. Famine has brought struggle, and outsiders, with their foreign ways and military might, have arrived at the doorstep. For Devout's daughter, life is more troubled than her mother ever anticipated. But she has an extraordinary gift. As worlds collide and peril threatens, it will be up to her to save her family and community. Immersing readers in a lost world of pagan traditions, Daughter of Black Lake is a transporting story of love, family, survival, and the sublime power of the natural world. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Daughter of the Black Lake” by Cathy Marie Buchanan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604092796751-4IR7LRS03Z0ESP4GKMD0/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Devil and the Dark Water - Stuart Turton Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Thriller Samuel Pipps is the greatest detective of his day . . . but now he's a prisoner, accused of an unknown crime by one of the world's most powerful men. Along with his faithful sidekick, Arent Hayes, he's sailing back to Amsterdam from the East Indies, where he'll stand trial. But no sooner are they out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. Still shackled in his cell, Pipps sends Hayes to solve a mystery that connects every passenger on board. All hope is pinned on Hayes solving the mystery, but when he goes missing, Pipps is faced with the most dangerous puzzle of his career. All the while, voices whisper to him in the dark. But are those whispers clues? Warnings? Or the devil himself? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Devil and the Dark Water” by Stuart Turton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604093434536-FZW5KUQ6E680YGCPIJYK/81uRgou0ghL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - The Girl in the Mirror - Rose Carlyle Genres: Fiction, Thriller Cynical and insecure, Iris has long been envious of her twin sister Summer's seemingly never-ending good fortune... including her perfect husband Adam. Called to Thailand to help her sister sail the family yacht to the Seychelles, Iris unexpectedly finds herself alone in the middle of the Indian Ocean. When she makes it to land, Iris allows herself to be swept up by Adam, who assumes that she is Summer. Now she has the golden life she's always envied, and is one step closer to the hundred-million-dollar inheritance left by her manipulative father. All Iris has to do is be the first of his seven children to produce an heir. How far will she go to ensure no one discovers the truth? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Girl in the Mirror” by Rose Carlyle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604094763070-10V58844CPQANL2UOFEN/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - The Invisible Life of Addie Larue - V. E. Schwab Genres: Fiction, Historical, Fantasy France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-- and cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Addie LaRue's life will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art. After nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore. He remembers her name-- and everything changes. How far will she go to leave her mark on the world? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Invisible Life of Addie Larue” by V. E. Schwab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604442595005-O0UOR58476CD86V3OEOZ/41QdV0yHQOL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Life After Life - Kate Atkinson Genres: Fiction, Magical Realism What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Life After Life” by Kate Atkinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604442871192-FMOF17GRSMB9IXT9AHWM/71MFOIf8VfL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Medicine Walk - Richard Wagamese Genres: Fiction Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He's sixteen years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with the man. The rare moments they've shared haunt and trouble Frank, but he answers the call, a son's duty to a father. What ensues is a journey through the rugged and beautiful backcountry, and a journey into the past, as the two men push forward to Eldon's end. From a poverty-stricken childhood, to the Korean War, and later the derelict houses of mill towns, Eldon relates both the desolate moments of his life and a time of redemption and love, and in doing so offers Frank a history he has never known, the father he has never had, and a connection to himself he never expected. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Medicine Walk” by Richard Wagamese https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604443406009-5PGWTDWU54WKLPA7TMWZ/61C3oOpISNL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - A Song for the Dark Times (Inspector Rebus #23) - Ian Rankin Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days. Rebus fears the worst - and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect. He wasn't the best father - the job always came first - but now his daughter needs him more than ever. But is he going as a father or a detective? As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast - and a small town with big secrets - he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn't want to find... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Song for the Dark Times” by Ian Rankin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604444344966-2NSS8YDRIH3919HZZQED/A1v4pyTdeJL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Still Life (Karen Pirie #6) - Val McDermid Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in his traps, he finds something he wasn't expecting to catch-a body. Turns out the dead man was the brother of a senior Scottish government official who vanished without a trace, and Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is asked to take over the investigation. At the same time, a woman in the wealthy enclave of Perth is clearing out her sister's home after a fatal road accident and finds a mysterious camper van in the garage containing a skeletonized body. But who is it? And how long has it been there? The two cases will draw Karen into the world of imposters, identity theft, and art forgery. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Still Life” by Val McDermid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604444456391-DLE0EWG3KROT5SUV5W4I/A1nc-bUEprL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - A Time For Mercy (Jake Brigance #3) - John Grisham Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Jake is the court-appointed lawyer for Drew Gamble, a young man accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance sees it another way. Once he learns the details of the case, he realizes he has to do everything he can to save Drew--who is sixteen. Jake's commitment to the truth puts his career and the safety of his family at risk. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Time for Mercy” by John Grisham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604510157943-KSEHPKG7OBHD8GGX98HQ/7185L-X8KBL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi Genres: Fiction Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford University's School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behaviour in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to hard science to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith, and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Transcendent Kingdom” by Yaa Gyasi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604516839227-WC7BU1O7JLK3MOMN8SLE/41FEfFcZznL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Troubles in Paradise (Paradise #3) - Elin Hilderbrand Genres: Fiction, Mystery After uprooting her life, Irene Steele has just settled in at the villa on St. John where her husband Russ had been living a double life. But a visit from the FBI shakes her foundations, and Irene once again learns just how little she knew about the man she loved. Meanwhile, as Irene and her sons try to get on with setting up their new lives, evidence mounts that the helicopter crash that killed Russ may not have been an accident. As a storm gathers strength in the Atlantic, all will be revealed about the secrets and lies that brought Irene and her sons to St. John at last. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Troubles in Paradise” by Elin Hilderbrand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604516946214-U1L0IFEJWB9CGV9J3RAT/814jyhMJIaL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - When We Were Young and Brave - Hazel Gaynor Genres: Fiction, Historical China, December 1941. Elspeth Kent left England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China. Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School, protected by her British status. When Japan declares war on Britain and America, Japanese forces take control of the school. Nancy and her friends face privation, uncertainty and fear. The children look to their teachers- to Miss Kent and her new Girl Guide patrol especially- to provide a sense of unity and safety. Sent to a distant internment camp, even greater uncertainty and danger await. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “When We Were Young and Brave” by Hazel Gaynor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604092433150-F9ASJFCGSVE6P4GM6Q7K/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Be Water, My Friend - Shannon Lee Genres: Non-fiction, Spirituality Bruce Lee's daughter illuminates her father's most powerful life philosophies--demonstrating how martial arts are a perfect metaphor for personal growth, and how we can practice those teachings every day. "Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water." Bruce Lee is a cultural icon, renowned the world over for his martial arts and film legacy. But Lee was also a deeply philosophical thinker, learning at an early age that martial arts are more than just an exercise in physical discipline--they are an apt metaphor for living a fully realized life. Now, in Be Water, My Friend, Lee's daughter Shannon shares the concepts at the core of his philosophies, showing how they can serve as tools of personal growth and self-actualization. Each chapter brings a lesson from Bruce Lee's teachings, expanding on the foundation of his iconic "be water" philosophy. Over the course of the book, we discover how being like water allows us to embody fluidity and naturalness in life, bringing us closer to our essential flowing nature and our ability to be powerful, self-expressed, and free. Through previously untold stories from her father's life and from her own journey in embodying these lessons, Shannon presents these philosophies in tangible, accessible ways. With Bruce Lee's words as a guide, she encourages readers to pursue their essential selves and apply these ideas and practices to their everyday lives--whether in learning new things, overcoming obstacles, or ultimately finding their true path. Be Water, My Friend is an inspirational invitation to us all, a gentle call to action to consider our lives with new eyes. It is also a testament to how one man's exploration and determination transcended time and place to ignite our imaginations--and to inspire many around the world to transform their lives. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Be Water, My Friend” by Shannon Lee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604092946936-ZWP3IK4TC2QCPF8ZYQF7/91M%2BBJuSWjL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Field Notes from a Pandemic - Ethan Lou Genres: Non-fiction, Health Equal parts travelogue and pandemic guide, journalist Ethan Lou examines the societal effects of COVID-19 and takes us on a mesmerizing journey around a world that will never be the same. Visiting Beijing in January to see his dying grandfather, Canadian journalist Ethan Lou unknowingly walks into a state under siege. In his journey out of China and into other hot zones in Asia and Europe, he finds himself witnessing the very earliest stages of a virus that will forever change the world as we know it. Lou argues that Coronavirus will have a far greater impact than SARS, for example, simply because China is now many more times integrated with the increasingly interconnected world. Over decades, globalization has crafted a world painfully sensitive and susceptible to shocks such as this pandemic. A crisis like it has thus been long overdue--and we have yet to see it unfold fully. In our integrated world, events that may previously be isolated now ripple farther and wider and in ways we do not expect and cannot foresee. We have not seen the worst, and if and when we outlast this pandemic, nothing will ever be the same--not just healthcare systems but also economies, politics and culture. Decisions now--or indecisions--will shape and define the world for decades. These ideas are fleshed out through the virus's spawning and how it spread, the unprecedented measures to contain it and an examination of past pandemics and other crises and how they shaped the world--and an argument for why this one's different. Lou shows how drastically the virus has transformed the world and charts the greater and more radical shifts to come. His ideas and arguments are framed around his journey around the world, whose path the virus seemed to follow until he landed safely in quarantine in a small town in Germany where he was able to take stock and start telling his story. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Field Notes from a Pandemic” by Ethan Lou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604093041868-UL2BF8ARJQXDXRMFKO9O/41SyKu1R1WL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Finding Murph - Rick Westhead Genres: Non-fiction, Biography, Sports Joe Murphy had it all. In 1986, he became the first college-educated hockey player selected first overall in the NHL entry draft. He won a Stanley Cup in Edmonton alongside Mark Messier four years later. But since then, his life has taken a tragic turn, largely due to the untreated brain injuries he suffered as a player. Murphy's life didn't begin on a track that would take him to homelessness and substance abuse. He was smart, dedicated to hockey, and he wasn't afraid to chart his own course. Murphy once scored eighty-two points in a season and was a key player for the Oilers, Red Wings and Blackhawks, among other teams. But one vicious body check during a game changed his life forever. Despite being shaken by the hit, Murphy was cleared to return to the game. Soon after, his entire life seemed to change. Murphy became a journeyman, moving from team to team. Along the way, other NHLers said they noticed something different about him too. Murphy wasn't acting like himself. He was using drugs and alcohol and soon found himself out of the NHL entirely. Eventually, Murphy became homeless. In the spring of 2018, Murphy made his way to Kenora, Ontario, where he lived in the bush, spending his days outside a local convenience store, muttering to himself and taking handouts of food and drinks from passersby. The player who had once set the NHL aflame now slept by the side of the road in the unforgiving North. In Finding Murph, Rick Westhead traces the tragic true story of Joe Murphy and examines the role of the NHL in the downward spiral of one of the league's most promising players. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Finding Murph" by Rick Westhead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604093310827-UJWYW0KDB8LDBUTLJQU4/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Four Umbrellas - June Hutton & Tony Wanless Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from -- memory. At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future dogged by self-doubt and financial worry. June is forty-eight years old then, a writer and a teacher, and over the following nine years she watches as her husband gradually changes -- in interests, goals, and behaviour -- until Tony has a sudden fall, ending their life as they have known it. While it will be another seven years before they receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, the signs of dementia are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip contains four umbrellas jammed into every available space, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The two of them begin looking, researching, and remembering -- and make some surprising discoveries about Alzheimer's that lead to one undeniable conclusion: this is not an old person's disease. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Four Umbrellas” by June Hutton & Tony Wanless https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604094484223-VBWRVEZYUPBVV34JB1SP/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Golem Girl - Riva Lehrer Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography What do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? And what becomes possible when we embrace monstrosity? In 1958, Riva is one of the first children born with spina bifida to survive. Her parents and doctors are determined to "fix" her, sending the message over and over again that she is broken. That she will never have a job, a romantic relationship, or an independent life. Enduring countless medical interventions, Riva tries her best to be a good girl and a good patient in the quest to be cured. Everything changes when, as an adult, Riva is invited to join a group of artists, writers, and performers who are building Disability Culture. Their work is daring, edgy, funny, and dark; it rejects tropes that define disabled people as pathetic, frightening, or worthless. They insist that disability is an opportunity for creativity and resistance. Emboldened, Riva asks if she can paint their portraits--an intimate and collaborative process that will transform the way she sees herself, others, and the world. With each portrait, and each person's story, the myths she's been told her whole life--about her body, her sexuality, and the value of normalcy--begin to crumble. Written with the vivid, cinematic prose of a visual artist, and the love and playfulness that defines all of Riva's work, Golem Girl is an extraordinary story of survival and creativity. With the author's magnificent portraits featured throughout, this memoir invites us to stretch ourselves toward a world where bodies flow between all possible forms of what it is to be human. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Golem Girl” by Riva Lehrer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604094673156-JNWKA8XVQ45720RMM2H8/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Humans - Brandon Stanton Genres: Non-fiction Brandon Stanton's new book, Humans ... shows us the world. Brandon Stanton created Humans of New York in 2010. What began as a photographic census of life in New York City, soon evolved into a storytelling phenomenon. A global audience of millions began following HONY daily. Over the next several years, Stanton broadened his lens to include people from across the world. Traveling to more than forty countries, he conducted interviews across continents, borders, and language barriers. Humans is the definitive catalogue of these travels. The faces and locations will vary from page to page, but the stories will feel deeply familiar. Told with candor and intimacy, Humans will resonate with readers across the globe-providing a portrait of our shared experience. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Humans” by Brandon Stanton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604442122325-2J26XNS2ZCUS3BOJBK0L/61uvuFhTeyL._AC_UL600_SR405%2C600_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Is This Anything? - Jerry Seinfeld Genres: Non-fiction, Comedy Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub "Catch a Rising Star" as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved everything. "Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a stage, in a conversation, or working it out on my preferred canvas, the big yellow legal pad, I kept it in one of those old school accordion folders," Seinfeld writes. "So I have everything I thought was worth saving from forty-five years of hacking away at this for all I was worth." For this book, Jerry Seinfeld has selected his favorite material, organized decade by decade. In page after hilarious page, one brilliantly crafted observation after another, readers will witness the evolution of one of the great comedians of our time and gain new insights into the thrilling but unforgiving art of writing stand-up comedy. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Is This Anything?” by Jerry Seinfeld https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604443520075-QU6BVZSYEVSF2OF4XRMX/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Speaking for Myself - Sarah Huckabee Sanders Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography A candid, riveting account of the Trump White House, on the front lines and behind the scenes. Sarah Huckabee Sanders served as White House Press Secretary for President Donald J. Trump from 2017 to 2019. A trusted confidante of the President, Sanders advised him on everything from press and communications strategy to personnel and policy. She was at the President's side for two and a half years, battling with the media, working with lawmakers and CEOs, and accompanying the President on every international trip, including dozens of meetings with foreign leaders--all while unfailingly exhibiting grace under pressure. Upon her departure from the administration, President Trump described Sarah as "irreplaceable," a "warrior" and "very special person with extraordinary talents, who has done an incredible job." Now, in Speaking for Myself, Sarah Huckabee Sanders describes what it was like on the front lines and inside the White House, discussing her faith, the challenges of being a working mother at the highest level of American politics, her relationship with the press, and her unique role in the historic fight raging between the Trump administration and its critics for the future of our country. This frank, revealing, and engaging memoir will offer a truly unique perspective on the most important issues and events of the era, and unprecedented access to both public and behind-the-scenes conversations within the Trump White House. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Speaking for Myself” by Sarah Huckabee Sanders https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604443805508-LY29L94UYNQFQ8B8ZVOD/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Spectrums - Maxfield Sparrows Genres: Non-fiction, Anthology This is an edited collection of human stories from trans autistic writers. The stories collected in this anthology address the struggles and joys of living at the intersection of neurodivergence and gender divergence with personal insight and nuance. They explore the positives of deep self-knowledge, belonging to a community and living a life in tune with one's inner being. They also address common struggles such as suicide, homelessness, and barriers to adequate healthcare. These are human narratives: lives filled with pain and pleasure, accomplishments and setbacks. The flesh-and-blood realities of the contributors' lives goes beyond the story told by statistics and research on the subject. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Spectrums” by Maxfield Sparrows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604442746904-NCNZZGS65ADW1MF5ED67/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Love, Creekwood (Simonverse #3.5) - Becky Albertalli Genres: Young adult fiction It's been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship, and just a few months since Abby and Leah's unforgettable night at senior prom. Now the Creekwood High crew are in their first years at different colleges, navigating friendship and romance the way their story began-- on email. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Love, Creekwood” by Becky Albertalli https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604443040649-67MAT1BEVZDYR82YMHW4/91nPrQmQNGL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - The Once and Future Witches - Alix E Harrow Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters -- James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna -- join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote -- and perhaps not even to live -- the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as witches. But there will be. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Once and Future Witches” by Alix E Harrow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604444221217-PZC6JB68297UUTJOOPTP/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Star Daughter - Shveta Thakrar Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy The daughter of a star and a mortal, Sheetal is used to keeping secrets. Pretending to be "normal." But when an accidental flare of her starfire puts her human father in the hospital, Sheetal needs a full star's help to heal him. A star like her mother, who returned to the sky long ago. Sheetal's quest to save her father will take her to a celestial court of shining wonders and dark shadows, where she must take the stage as her family's champion in a competition to decide the next ruling house of the heavens--and win, or risk never returning to Earth at all. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Star Daughter” by Shveta Thakrar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604093204602-19XJ4WU5NPD4IIR8L67S/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - The Flower of the Witch - Enrico Orlandi Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Defeating monsters and saving princesses has not been enough, and now he must find the fabled flower of the witch. But in his quest, Tami inadvertently sparks a feud between the villagers who shelter him and the demon Yabra! And when the conflict comes to a head, Tami will have to choose between proving himself as a man and protecting the villagers he has come to love. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Flower of the Witch” by Enrico Orlandi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604094566828-W6DFUZVGBFP6SUTN4TNZ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Here in the Real World - Sara Pennypacker Genres: Junior fiction Ware can't wait to spend summer "off in his own world"--dreaming of knights in the Middle Ages and generally being left alone. But then his parents sign him up for dreaded Rec camp, where he must endure Meaningful Social Interaction and whatever activities so-called "normal" kids do. On his first day Ware meets Jolene, a tough, secretive girl planting a garden in the rubble of an abandoned church next to the camp. Soon he starts skipping Rec, creating a castle-like space of his own in the church lot. Jolene scoffs, calling him a dreamer--he doesn't live in the "real world" like she does. As different as Ware and Jolene are, though, they have one thing in common: for them, the lot is a refuge. But when their sanctuary is threatened, Ware looks to the knights' Code of Chivalry: Thou shalt do battle against unfairness wherever faced with it. Thou shalt be always the champion of the Right and Good--and vows to save the lot. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Here in the Real World” by Sara Pennypacker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604442395202-9CJ7NPEMGDLOCSPU93CL/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Kitchen Princess (Vol. 1-3) - Natsumi Ando Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Romance Najika is a great cook and likes to make meals for the people she loves. But something is missing from her life. When she was a child, she met a boy who touched her heart-- and now she's determined to find him. The only clue Najika has is a silver spoon that leads her to the prestigious Seika Academy. Attending Seika will be a challenge. Every kid at the school has a special talent, and the girls in Najika's class think she doesn't deserve to be there. But Sora and Daichi, two popular brothers who barely speak to each other, recognize Najika's cooking for what it is-- magical. Is either boy Najika's mysterious prince? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Kitchen Princess (Vol. 1-3) by Natsumi Ando https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604443194313-C34WLH4SMKJXFFN3ZENU/917-WX%2BCuqL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Over the Woodward Wall - A Deborah Baker Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is precise, from the way he washes his face in the morning, to the way he completes his homework - without complaint, without fuss, without prompt. Zib is also an exceptional child, because all children are, in their own way. But where everything Avery does and is can be measured, nothing Zib does can possibly be predicted, except for the fact that she can always be relied upon to be unpredictable. They live on the same street. They live in different worlds. On an unplanned detour from home to school one morning, Avery and Zib find themselves climbing over a stone wall into the Up and Under - an impossible land filled with mystery, adventure and the strangest creatures. And they must find themselves and each other if they are to also find their way out and back to their own lives. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Over the Woodward Wall” by A Deborah Baker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604510312276-N8Z5E0SC3B8X2B8VCFSS/71Vhu%2B09VRL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel The story begins with the death of an old sailor and the discovery of a secret treasure map. Young Jack Hawkins sets out on the biggest adventure of his life. Will he live to tell the tale? Find out in this vivid graphic novel retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's literary classic. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604442280981-S2DD3EDFXB4OKV3N4PU6/61-OCtefk%2BL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - Izzy in the Doghouse - Caroline Adderson Genres: Early chapter Seven-year-old Isabel is an adopted, only child, who lives with her single mom and her nanny, Rosa. Isabel's best friend is Zoë. Zoë adores the shenanigans they get up to together, EXCEPT when it gets them into trouble, which does happen now and then! Getting into trouble is Zoë's idea of CATASTROPHE. Each time it happens, it means the friendship is on the rocks -- freeze-out time. Whenever this happens, it's really tough on Isabel, who desperately misses her best friend and doesn't feel like herself at all. Isabel decides that her problem must be that she has TOO MUCH LOVE and not enough people to give it to. Luckily, her mom and Rosa present her with a solution! They decide to adopt a dog. "Just like when Mom adopted me!" Isabel thinks. Now Isabel will have her very own baby to LOVE LOVE LOVE with all her heart. But she soon discovers taking care of a baby is not as easy as she thought ... And when things go wrong, that's when Zoë and Isabel's friendship really shines through. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Izzy in the Doghouse” by Caroline Adderson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1604517073178-W6AO8FUL3YR0FRQHDKJ0/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 30, 2020 - The World Needs More Purple People - Kristen Bell & Benjamin Hart Genres: Beginner reader What is a purple person? Great question. I mean, really great! Because purple people always ask really great questions. They bring their family, friends, and communities together, and they speak up for what's right. They are kind and hardworking, and they love to laugh (especially at Grandpa's funny noises)! A purple person is an everyday superhero! How do you become one? That's the fun part! Penny Purple will lead you through the steps. Get ready to be silly, exercise your curiosity, use your voice, and be inspired. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The World Needs More Purple People” by Kristen Bell & Benjamin Hart https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-october-7th-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602174061157-IF404J889LJGT96RGJTH/81xZRqcMTRL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - All This Could Be Yours - Jami Attenberg Genres: Fiction, Humour “If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am," says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Now that her father is on his deathbed, Alex - a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and loving sister--feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who Victor is and what he did over the course of his life and career. (A power-hungry real estate developer, he is, by all accounts, a bad man.) She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tightlipped mother, Barbra. As Barbra fends off Alex's unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous life with Victor. Meanwhile Gary, Alex's brother, is incommunicado, trying to get his movie career off the ground in Los Angeles. And Gary's wife, Twyla, is having a nervous breakdown, buying up all the lipstick in drug stores around New Orleans and bursting into crying fits. Dysfunction is at its peak. As each family member grapples with Victor's history, they must figure out a way to move forward - with one another, for themselves, and for the sake of their children. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “All This Could Be Yours” by Jami Attenberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602174191989-T3684W7516MBDN5Y39UN/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - Aseroë - Dominique Francois Genres: Fiction Aseroë, the mushroom, as object of fascination. First observed in Tasmania and South Africa, it appeared suddenly in France in 1920, at which time it was believed by some to be used for witchcraft and even sabotage. It is characterized by its stench and, at maturity, its grotesque beauty. Aseroë, the word, as incantation. Can a word create a world? It does, here. François Dominique is a conjurer, who through verbal sorcery unleashes the full generative force of language, while evoking the essential rupture between the word and the object. An impossible endeavor, perhaps, but one at the very heart of literature. The narrator of Aseroë wanders medieval streets and dense forests, portrait galleries and rare bookshops. As he explores the frontiers of language, the boundaries of science, art, and alchemy melt away, and the mundane is overtaken by the bizarre. Inhabited by creatures born in darkness, both terrible and alluring, Aseroë is ultimately a meditation on memory and forgetting, creation and oblivion. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Aseroë” by Francois Dominique https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602174877428-S5VQJPOF95Y9PRGSSX1S/51ckJUjPeFL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - Chaos - Iris Johansen Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Iris Johansen introduces a new kickass female protagonist, Alisa Flynn, a CIA agent who may be willing to go rogue if it means catching the most heartless band of criminals she's ever encountered. Alisa is aided by mysterious billionaire-genius-inventor Gabe Korgan and recurring character Margaret Douglas, an animal whisperer who brings along her beloved dog Juno to fight alongside them. Alisa is determined to rescue schoolgirls kidnapped from their African boarding school, in a ripped-from-the-headlines story. But Alisa is hiding her personal stake in the rescue from Korgan, and when the truth gets out, the stakes grow even higher. Now Alisa and Gabe's budding relationship may be at a breaking point. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Chaos” by Iris Johansen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602175258448-4D4DWOORL4OLNZLJVWX6/A1VZsDrF0RL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope #9) - Ann Cleeves Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope's only thought is to get there quickly. But with the snow driving down heavily, she becomes disorientated and loses her way. Ploughing on, she sees a car slewed off the road ahead of her. With the driver's door open, Vera assumes the driver has sought shelter but when she inspects the car she is shocked to find a young toddler strapped in the back seat. Afraid they will freeze, Vera takes the child and drives on, arriving at Brockburn, a run-down stately home she immediately recognizes as the house her father Hector grew up in. Inside Brockburn a party is in full swing, with music and laughter to herald the coming Christmas. But outside in the snow, a young woman lies dead and Vera knows immediately she has a new case. Could she be the child's mother, and if it is, what happened to her? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Darkest Evening” by Ann Cleeves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602175797558-VN3YLD4EEOLXWZ4LHD7C/81Boju4EYPL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - Dreaming Death (Krewe of Hunters #32) - Heather Graham Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance Ever since she was a child, Stacey Hanson has had strange dreams-and sometimes they come true. Her skills and experience led her straight to the FBI's Krewe of Hunters. Now a serial killer is stalking Washington, DC, and people are scared. And it will be Stacey's first case. Special Agent Keenan Wallace isn't exactly thrilled to be teamed up with a rookie, but they're going to have to get past their mutual friction if they want to stop a brutal killer. The victims are all vulnerable women, though the clues lead to suspects from DC's powerful elite. Stacey can't escape her nightly visions, but in trying to prevent them from occurring in real life, she might come face-to-face with a nightmare. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dreaming Death” by Heather Graham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602176221078-1KR04218T4D0P0SNNRW5/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - The German Heiress - Anika Scott Genres: Fiction, Historical, Thriller Clara Falkenberg earned the nickname "the Iron Fräulein" during World War II for her role operating her family's ironworks empire. Two years after the war ended she's left with nothing but a false identification card and a series of burning questions about her family's past. Returning home to take refuge with her friend, Elisa, she arrives to discover the city in ruins, and Elisa missing. Jakob, a charismatic young man working on the black market, is for his own reasons also searching for Elisa. They can help each other-- if they can stay ahead of the British officer determined to make Clara answer for her actions during the war. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The German Heiress” by Anika Scott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602176939292-IRRATP1HPVBLHJK7AOGB/91Wz%2BLjUdjL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - Greenwood - Michael Christie Genres: Fiction, Historical In 2038, scientist Jake Greenwood is working as an overqualified tour guide to ultra-rich eco-tourists in one of the world's last remaining forests. As the rest of humanity chokes on the dust storms that follow the environmental collapse known as the Great Withering, Jake finds temporary refuge on Greenwood Island, a place whose connection to her own family name she had thought just a coincidence -- until someone from her past reappears with a journal that might give Jake the family story she's long craved. As we move backward in time from the Great Withering to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and then forward into the future again, we meet an injured carpenter facing the possibility of his own death, an eco-warrior trying to atone for the sins of her father's rapacious timber empire, a blind tycoon with a secret he will pay a terrible price to protect, and a Depression-era drifter who saves an abandoned infant from certain death, only to find himself the subject of a country-wide manhunt. At the very centre of the book is a tragedy that will bind the fates of two boys together, setting in motion events whose reverberations will be felt for over a century. A magnificent novel of inheritance, sacrifice, nature, and love that takes its structure from the nested growth rings of a tree, Greenwood spans generations to tell the story of a family living and dying in the shadows cast by its own secrets. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Greenwood” by Michael Christie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602177261393-IWLT18XEROY1KSSD4JG4/54750283.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - The Lightning of Possible Storms - Jonathan Ball Genres: Fiction Aleya's world starts to unravel after a café customer leaves behind a collection of short stories. Surprised and disturbed to discover that it has been dedicated to her, Aleya delves into the strange book... A mad scientist seeks to steal his son's dreams. A struggling writer, skilled only at destruction, finds himself courted by Hollywood. A woman seeks to escape her body and live inside her dreams. Citizens panic when a new city block manifests out of nowhere. The personification of capitalism strives to impress his cutthroat boss. The more Aleya reads, the deeper she sinks into the mysterious writer's work, and the less real the world around her seems. Soon, she's overwhelmed as a new, more terrifying existence takes hold. Jonathan Ball's first collection of short fiction blends humour and horror, doom and daylight, offering myriad possible storms. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Lightning of Possible Storms” by Jonathan Ball https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602179684093-D201ZL6ZJZ3AAREEGU8Q/71k4BZ8YcjL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - Silence is My Mother Tongue - Sulaiman Addonia Genres: Fiction Saba arrives in an East African refugee camp as a young girl, devastated to have been wrenched from school and forced to abandon her books as her family flees to safety. In this unfamiliar, crowded and often hostile environment, she must carve out a new existence. As she struggles to maintain her sense of self, she remains fiercely protective of her mute brother, Hagos - each sibling resisting the roles gender and society assign. 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But Hannah has a secret, and the Cordina palace is not as safe as it once was. She must retain her privacy to protect herself...and Bennett. Even if Bennett is finally willing to risk his heart, their love couldn't be anything more than a fleeting Christmas romance...could it? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Starlit Winter Nights” by Nora Roberts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602182315307-6S6LWGWM16JK4JNCD4DW/71Wu-5SBWJL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - Total Power (Mitch Rapp #19) - Vince Flynn Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Captured by Mitch Rapp, ISIS’s top technology expert reveals that he was about to meet a man who could bring down America’s power grid. When the CIA trap to eliminate this man fails, ISIS operatives help the cyber terrorist do what he said he would – plunge the country into darkness. With no concept of how this unprecedented act was accomplished, the task of getting the power back on could take months, or even years. Computers and phone networks are down, petrol pumps are inoperable, even water systems and food supplies are struggling. With resources suddenly gone and America on the brink of collapse, Rapp and his team embark on a mission to find the only people who can repair the damage – the ones who caused it. But this is unlike anything he’s experienced before and time is running out . . . CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Total Power” by Vince Flynn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602174393461-TO2TFZTVK9V6JMPJR3NN/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - Boys and Sex - Peggy Orenstein Genres: Non-fiction, Applied Psychology Today's young men are steeped in the distorted media images and binary stereotypes of female sexiness and toxic masculinity which shape how they, too, navigate sexual and emotional relationships. Orenstein uses a mix of anecdote and research to reveal how young men understand and negotiate the new rules of physical and emotional intimacy, taking an unprecedented look at the myriad factors that are shaping boys' ideas of sex, girls, and masculinity. The result is a provocative and paradigm-shifting work that offers a much-needed vision of how boys can truly move forward as better men. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Boys and Sex” by Peggy Orenstein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602175065002-JNJ64JJTRTD8BMWJHET2/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - Dancing with the Octopus - Debora Harding Genres: Non-fiction, Biography, Crime For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city. Debora survived. She identified her attacker to the police and then returned to her teenage life in a dysfunctional home where she was expected to simply move on. Denial became the family coping strategy offered by her fun-loving, conflicted father and her cruelly resentful mother. It wasn't until decades later - when beset by the symptoms of PTSD- that Debora undertook a radical project: she met her childhood attacker face-to-face in prison and began to reconsider and reimagine his complex story. This was a quest for the truth that would threaten the lie at the heart of her family and with it the sacred bond that once saved her. Dexterously shifting between the past and present, Debora Harding untangles the incident of her kidnapping and escape from unexpected angles, offering a vivid, intimate portrait of one family's disintegration in the 1970s Midwest, a rusted landscape where the loss of white male power can flare into unspeakable violence. Written with dark humor and the pacing of a thriller, Dancing with the Octopus is a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking narrative of reckoning, recovery, and the inexhaustible strength it takes to survive. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dancing with the Octopus” by Debora Harding https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602175907014-0BF8SSRZN3LXEOYWA5NA/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - Found in Transition - Paria Hassouri Genres: Non-fiction, Parenting In this autobiographical narrative, an Iranian-American pediatrician and mother of three is blindsided when one of her children comes out as transgender. As the author grapples with her child's transition from male to female, she is forced to re-examine her ideas of parenting, gender, and personal identity. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Found in Transition” by Paria Hassouri https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602182173191-QXN4CC9UM4CYMV2AFRVF/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - Total Meditation - Deepak Chopra Genres: Non-fiction, Applied Psychology For the last thirty years, Deepak Chopra has been at the forefront of the meditation revolution in the West. Total Meditation is the culmination of his teachings over the years, a complete exploration and reinterpretation of the physical, mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual benefits that this practice can bring. Deepak guides readers on how to wake up to new levels of awareness that will ultimately cultivate a clear vision, heal suffering in your mind and body, and help recover who you really are. Readers will undergo a transformative process, which results in an awakening of the body, mind, and spirit and a life led in a state of open, free, creative, and blissful awareness twenty-four hours a day. With this new book, Deepak elevates the practice of meditation to a life-changing quest for higher consciousness and a more fulfilled existence. He also incorporates new research on meditation and its benefits as well as a daily program of meditations to help revolutionize every aspect of our lives. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Total Meditation” by Deepak Chopra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602179149261-ZM9COSFM70CCOHD0Q9AH/15803579.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - Neon Genesis Evangelion (Vol. 1-3) - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Genres: Young adult fiction, Science fiction, Graphic novel Once Shinji didn t care about anything; then he found people to fight for only to learn that he couldn't protect them or keep those he let into his heart from going away. As mankind tilts on the brink of the apocalyptic Third Impact, human feelings are fault lines leading to destruction and just maybe, redemption and rebirth. 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CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Tomie” by Junji Ito https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602182475064-XW2B6AUPR3FZUGIROCNN/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - Venus in the Blind Spot - Junji Ito Genres: Young adult fiction, Horror, Graphic novel This striking collection presents the most remarkable short works of Junji Ito's career, featuring an adaptation of Rampo Edogawa's classic horror story 'Human Chair' and fan favorite 'The Enigma of Amigara Fault'. With a deluxe presentation--including special color pages, and showcasing illustrations from his acclaimed long-form manga No Longer Human--each chilling tale invites readers to revel in a world of terror. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Venus in the Blind Spot” by Junji Ito https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602177105049-Z7XSZA523U6OXPKWEIPT/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - Haunt Me - K R Alexander Genres: Junior fiction, Paranormal Maria has never gotten over her sister Isabella's death . . . and the guilt she feels about what happened. It hangs over everything she does, even an innocent slumber party with her two best friends. When one friend suggests they play a game that summons the spirits of the dead, Maria thinks it's all make-believe. But then she starts to hear from a spirit -- a spirit claiming to be her sister. Maria doesn't want to think it's possible. . . but the sinister spirit has a way of making her listen. Has her sister actually returned? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Haunt Me” by K R Alexander https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602177661309-PAXSEP2Z1DQFHVPG7FP7/25074597.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - My Hero Academia Vol. 1 - Kohei Horikoshi Genres: Junior fiction, Action/Adventure, Graphic novel What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks"? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless? Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn't got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “My Hero Academia Vol. 1” by Kohei Horikoshi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602177960395-C5SHVM7OG99HVTKJ0IAX/25111261.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - My Hero Academia Vol. 2 - Kohei Horikoshi Genres: Junior fiction, Action/Adventure, Graphic novel Getting into U.A. High School was difficult enough, but it was only the beginning of Midoriya's long road toward becoming a superhero. The new students all have amazing powers, and although Midoriya has inherited All Might's abilities, he can barely control them. What's more, the first-year students are told they will have to compete just to avoid being expelled! 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When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school, and Shoya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shoya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Silent Voice Vol. 1” by Yoshitoki Oima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602180127628-MNJD7PC9E9U2CCCQLD61/23995507.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - A Silent Voice Vol. 2 - Yoshitoki Oima Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel It's been five years since Shoya Ishida bullied Shoko Nishimiya so badly she left their elementary school, because of one simple difference between them: Shoya can hear, and Shoko can't. In the intervening time, Shoya's life has changed completely. Shunned by his friends, Shoya's longed for the chance to make up for his cruelty. When it finally comes, will he find the voice to tell Shoko he's changed? And will Shoko listen? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Silent Voice Vol. 2” by Yoshitoki Oima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602180177250-T9B9TFMA9O20GAUUTW5R/23995508._SY475_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - A Silent Voice Vol. 3 - Yoshitoki Oima Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Years ago, Shoya met Shoko, a girl who can't hear. His youthful boredom bred cruelty, and he stole away what should have been her happy childhood years. Now, as a high schooler, his own despair has driven him to understand how wrong he was. When he meets Shoko once again, that despair turns to hope. But is it really possible to make up for the happiness he stole away? 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CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Silent Voice Vol. 4” by Yoshitoki Oima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602180388627-JMLUSY75V1SL3LCUYSYO/25387768.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - A Silent Voice Vol. 5 - Yoshitoki Oima Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Despite their tense pasts, Shoya begins to embrace the friends who used to terrorize Shoko because she couldn't hear, and as summer's days pass quickly, doubt tugs at his heart, making him want to cling to the meaningful moments before they're gone. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Silent Voice Vol. 5” by Yoshitoki Oima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602180425050-Z9IO6QTNOZGTBQDCN1SU/26067699.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - A Silent Voice Vol. 6 - Yoshitoki Oima Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Time stands still for both Shoya and Shoko. Triggered by past traumas, Shoya coldly attacked his friends and burnt the bridges he first set out to rebuild. Shoko feels a deep responsibility for this disaster and attempts to pay for it by taking her own life. Meanwhile, each of their friends finally show their true colors. After everything has fallen apart, how will they mend their hearts and put the pieces back together? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Silent Voice Vol. 6” by Yoshitoki Oima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602180467050-DGGL0UYZTF3Y2T8134B1/26192732.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - A Silent Voice Vol. 7 - Yoshitoki Oima Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Time stands still for both Shoya and Shoko. Triggered by past traumas, Shoya coldly attacked his friends and burnt the bridges he first set out to rebuild. Shoko feels a deep responsibility for this disaster and attempts to pay for it by taking her own life. Meanwhile, each of their friends finally show their true colors. After everything has fallen apart, how will they mend their hearts and put the pieces back together? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Silent Voice Vol. 7” by Yoshitoki Oima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602180998074-7K7NGUG20ISKYF3PN5G6/71rJRIPM%2BWL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon #2) - Katie O’Neill Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy, Graphic novel Aedhan is a young dragon who was appointed to protect the village, but fell asleep in the forest eighty years ago. With the aid of Rinn's adventuring uncle Erik and his partner Hesekiel, they investigate the mystery of his enchanted sleep... but Rinn's real challenge is to help Aedhan come to terms with feeling that he cannot get back the time he has lost. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Tea Dragon Festival” by Katie O’Neill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602181116172-LQTQ0UBR8M84GIT1924C/71LKW4EyZQL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: October 7, 2020 - The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon #1) - Katie O’Neill Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy, Graphic novel After discovering a lost tea dragon in the marketplace, Greta learns about the dying art form of tea dragon care-taking from the kind tea shop owners, Hesekiel and Erik. As she befriends them and their shy ward, Minette, Greta sees how the craft enriches their lives—and eventually her own. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Tea Dragon Society” by Katie O’Neill https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-august-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1600455530310-9WSN09ZTB3DN611EX1K6/too-much-and-never-enough.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: August 2020 - LISA G’s PICK: Too Much and Never Enough- Mary Trump, Ph.D GENRE: Nonfiction, Biography WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I chose this book because it’s the viewpoint from a member of the Trump family. Mary is also a doctor, giving her a unique and informed opinion on his psychology. THE SYNOPSIS: Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald. A firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s. Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Too Much and Never Enough” by Mary Trump https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1600459394233-JKKQNIFMQCY545010952/nimona.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: August 2020 - RACHEL’S PICK: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson GENRE: Graphic Novel WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I chose it because it was a quick, easy read that drew me in almost immediately and had me hooked until the very end. I blew through the whole book in one sitting and even after finishing it, the story lingered in my mind. THE SYNOPSIS: Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from Noelle Stevenson. Featuring an exclusive epilogue not seen in the web comic, along with bonus conceptual sketches and revised pages throughout, this gorgeous full-color graphic novel has been hailed by critics and fans alike as the arrival of a “superstar” talent (NPR.org). Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are. But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious battle, Lord Blackheart realizes that Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her past. And her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to admit. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Nimona” by Noelle Stevenson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1600462264365-POOPES94G0YYAE1UTKZE/the-pull-of-the-stars.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: August 2020 - LISA S’ PICK: The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue GENRE: Fiction, Historical Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I initially picked this up because we are living through a pandemic right now, so reading about the 1918 Spanish Flu was appealing. However, the book sucked me in right from the beginning, and while the flu was a part of the story, it wasn’t the focus. I read it in one sitting, and enjoyed every single page. THE SYNOPSIS: In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders—Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. CLICK HERE TO BORROW “The Pull of the Stars” by Emma Donoghue https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1600458343766-6HXQQWR7990C0MJ2OJWF/hitch-hikers-guide-to-the-galaxy.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: August 2020 - ABBEY’S PICK: The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Universe by Douglas Adams GENRE: Science Fiction, Comedy WHY SHE CHOSE IT: I chose this book because everything that happens is so absurd that you have to keep reading to see where it goes. THE SYNOPSIS: It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace bypass and his best friend has just announced that he's an alien. At this moment, they're hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and an innocuous-looking book inscribed with the big, friendly words: DON'T PANIC. The weekend has only just begun...Volume one in the trilogy of five. CLICK HERE TO BORROW “The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1600460716945-1PDOKYULAZCA0WXRKOFJ/night.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: August 2020 - ELIZABETH’S PICK: Night by Elie Wiesel GENRE: Memoir, Autobiography WHY SHE CHOSE IT: “Night” by Elie Wiesel (b 1928 - d 2016). My recommendation is available on Libby as both an audiobook and an e-book (for which I see there is a 14-week waiting list). Note: While both audio versions are on Libby, I highly recommend waiting for the 2018 version (narrated by George Guidall - because he does a far superior job) rather than listening to the 2006 version (narrated by Jeffrey Rosenblatt). Ten years after the end of WWII, Wiesel wrote, in Yiddish, a 900-page memoir, “Un di velt hot geshvign” (“And the World Remained Silent”). In 1955 he rewrote, in French, a shortened version of his manuscript, “La Nuit” and that version was later translated into English as “Night” in 1960. The version available on Libby is a new translation that Wiesel’s wife, Marion Wiesel, translated from Wiesel’s original French memoir, “La Nuit”. This version, which includes a new preface by Wiesel, sat at number one on “The New York Times” bestseller list for paperback non-fiction for 18 months from February 13, 2006, until the newspaper decided to remove it. Translated into 30 languages, “Night” ranks as one of the bedrocks of Holocaust literature (12 years ago it had already sold over 10 million copies around the world). If you’ve been resistant to listening to an audiobook, the 2018 version of “Night” is one I think you should borrow as Guidall brings a depth to Wiesel’s story that reading alone simply cannot convey. This is a book I am going to be thinking about for a long, long time. THE SYNOPSIS: Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. CLICK HERE TO BORROW “Night” by Elie Wiesel https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-september-11-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1601067545508-EZULWUA8J0AUHZENQ5PM/91CD6UHYkeL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - All the Devils are Here (Chief Inspector Gamache #16) - Louise Penny Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller The Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man's life. When a strange key is found in Stephen's possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Surete Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d'Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art. It sends them deep into the secrets Armand's godfather has kept for decades. A gruesome discovery in Stephen's Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized. Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. His own family. For even the City of Light casts long shadows. And in that darkness devils hide. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “All the Devils are Here” by Louise Penny https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1601068341355-GXTGII16AUJQRIY42MAL/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett - Annie Lyons Genres: Fiction Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic world—all of it. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age and has lived a full life. At eighty-five, she isn’t going to leave things to chance. Her end will be on her terms. With one call to a clinic in Switzerland, a plan is set in motion. Then she meets ten-year-old Rose Trewidney, a whirling, pint-sized rainbow of color and sparkling cheer. All Eudora wants is to be left alone to set her affairs in order. Instead, she finds herself embarking on a series of adventures with the irrepressible Rose and their affable neighbor, the recently widowed Stanley—afternoon tea, shopping sprees, trips to the beach, birthday celebrations, pizza parties. While the trio of unlikely BFFs grow closer and anxiously await the arrival of Rose’s new baby sister, Eudora is reminded of her own childhood—of losing her father during World War II and the devastating impact it had on her entire family. In reflecting on her past, Eudora realizes she must come to terms with what lies ahead. But now that her joy for life has been rekindled, how can she possibly say goodbye? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett” by Annie Lyons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1601069655984-ZMPQQ9467XH7V35GYQQV/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Dark August - Katie Tallo Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter boyfriend when she learns that her great grandmother - her last living relative - has just died. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns to the home she left as a young girl. Her inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated house and an old dog named Levi. While combing through her great grandmother's possessions, Gus stumbles across an old trunk filled with long-lost childhood belongings. But that's not all the trunk contains. She also discovers cold case files that belonged to her mother, a disgraced police detective who died in a car accident when Gus was eight. Gus remembers her mother obsessing over these very same documents and photographs, especially a Polaroid of a young ballerina.When Gus spots a front-page news story about the unearthing of a body linked to one of the cold case files from her childhood trunk, she can't resist following her mother's clues. As she digs deeper, determined to finish her mother's investigation, her search leads her to a deserted ghost town, which was left abandoned when the residents fled after a horrific fire. As Gus' obsession with the case grows, she inadvertently stirs up the evils of the past, putting her life in danger. But Gus is undeterred and is committed to uncovering long-buried secrets, including the secrets surrounding a missing geology student, the young ballerina in the Polaroid, a prominent family's devastating legacy, and a toxic blast that blew an entire town off the map. But is Gus ready to learn the truths that culminated on one terrible August night, more than a decade earlier, when lives were taken, and secrets were presumed buried forever...? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dark August” by Katie Tallo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602099173365-I0T2O4K5YG40M1SOCN4A/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Find Me - Anne Frasier Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Convicted serial killer Benjamin Fisher has offered to lead San Bernardino detective Daniel Ellis to the isolated graves of his victims. One catch: he'll only do it if FBI profiler Reni Fisher, his estranged daughter, accompanies them. She still feels complicit in her father's crimes: Reni was the bait to lure unsuspecting women to their deaths. Ellis shares her obsession with the past: he is convinced that his mother was one of Fisher's victims. As thirty years of bad memories flood back, it's only the beginning of a nightmare. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Find Me” by Anne Frasier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602099267203-1KKSYD1AQHQXSN6VPGGH/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Fool’s Paradise (Jesse Stone #19) - Robert B Parker & Mike Lupica Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When a body is discovered at the lake in Paradise, Police Chief Jesse Stone is surprised to find he recognizes the murder victim--the man had been at the same AA meeting as Jesse the evening before. But otherwise, Jesse has no clue as to the man's identity. He isn't a local, nor does he have ID on him, nor does any neighboring state have a reported missing person matching the man's description. Their single lead is from a taxi company that recalls dropping off the mysterious stranger outside the gate at the mansion of one of the wealthiest families in town... Meanwhile, after Jesse survives a hail of gunfire on his home, he wonders if it could be related to the mysterious murder. When both Molly Crane and Suitcase Simpson also become targets, it's clear someone has an ax to grind against the entire Paradise Police Department. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Fool’s Paradise” by Robert B Parker & Mike Lupica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602100132032-X6Y21ZPNNFPTE3ISQ018/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - The Last Wife - Karen Hamilton Genres: Fiction, Thriller Nina and Marie were best friends--until Nina was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Before she died, Nina asked Marie to fulfill her final wishes. But her mistake was in thinking Marie was someone she could trust. What Nina didn't know was that Marie always wanted her beautiful life, and that Marie has an agenda of her own. She'll do anything to get what she wants. Marie thinks she can keep her promise to her friend's family on her own terms. But what she doesn't know is that Nina was hiding explosive secrets of her own… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Last Wife” by Karen Hamilton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602100259695-R5QPXDN25P3HULZ1HKR0/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - The Lions of Fifth Avenue - Fiona Davis Genres: Fiction, Mystery It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life—her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the city, she finds herself drawn to Greenwich Village's new bohemia, where she discovers the Heterodoxy Club—a radical, all-female group, in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. Soon, Laura finds herself questioning her traditional role as wife and mother. But when valuable books are stolen back at the library, threatening the home and institution she loves, she's forced to confront her shifting priorities head on . . . and may just lose everything in the process. Eighty years later, in 1993, Sadie Donovan struggles with the legacy of her grandmother, the famous essayist Laura Lyons, especially after she's wrangled her dream job as a curator at the New York Public Library. But the job quickly becomes a nightmare when rare manuscripts, notes, and books for the exhibit Sadie's running begin disappearing from the library's famous Berg Collection. Determined to save both the exhibit and her career, the typically risk-adverse Sadie teams up with the library's private security expert to uncover the culprit. However, things unexpectedly become personal when the investigation leads Sadie to some unwelcome truths about her own family heritage—truths that shed new light on the biggest tragedy in the library's history. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Lions of Fifth Avenue” by Fiona Davis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602101366310-91U2DG6R6O39IB0LQLBM/81d6gX6RJRL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - One By One - Ruth Ware Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company. At stake is a billion-dollar dot com buyout that could make them all millionaires, or leave some of them out in the cold. The clock is ticking on the offer, and with the group irrevocably split, tensions are running high. When an avalanche cuts the chalet off from help, and one board member goes missing in the snow, the group is forced to ask - would someone resort to murder, to get what they want? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “One by One” by Ruth Ware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602102066670-70LZIWBIHIUD636BSG44/71SudsGzYnL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Set My Heart to Five - Simon Stephenson Genres: Fiction, Humour, Science fiction Set in a 2054 where humans have locked themselves out of the internet and Elon Musk has incinerated the moon, Set My Heart To Five is the hilarious yet profoundly moving story of one android’s emotional awakening. Unhappy with his programmed job of dentistry and inspired by a love of classic movies, Jared sets out on a bold mission: to use the power of his burgeoning feelings to forever change the world for him and all his kind. Unfortunately, Jared intends to do this by writing his own movie, and things do not proceed according to plan… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Set My Heart to Five” Simon Stephenson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602102226836-EGU85UIY81BN62GVGIXE/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - The Shame - Makenna Goodman Genres: Fiction Alma and her family live close to the land: they raise chickens and sheep, they make maple syrup. Every day Alma's husband leaves for his job at a nearby college while she stays home with their young children, cleans, searches for secondhand goods online, and reads books by the women writers she adores. Then, one night, she abruptly leaves it all behind - speeding through the darkness, away from their Vermont homestead, bound for New York. In a series of flashbacks, Alma reveals the circumstances and choices that led to this moment. The joys and claustrophobia of their remote life through the passing of each season. Her fears and uncertainties about motherhood. The painfully awkward faculty dinners. Her feelings of loneliness and failure. And her growing fascination with Celeste: the mysterious ceramicist and self-loving doppelganger whose story begins as inspiration for Alma before turning into a powerful obsession. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Shame” by Makenna Goodman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602102384658-E8N1N8SBFT3RSAZX2879/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - The Silent Wife (Will Trent #10) - Karin Slaughter Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When a battered young woman is left for dead, a prisoner in the state penitentiary points out that the attack closely resembles the one for which he was convicted-and which he insists he didn't commit. Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent enlists the help of his girlfriend, medical examiner Sara Linton, to investigate the new case in light of the older one. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Silent Wife” by Karin Slaughter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602102840123-0MFKSHO1ZVZI9EOX15FE/5182TqGmpUL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Thick as Thieves - Sandra Brown Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Twenty years ago in the dead of night, four seemingly random individuals pulled the ultimate heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. But by daybreak, their plan had been shot to hell. One of them was in the hospital. One was in jail. One was dead. And one got away with it. Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who disappeared all those years ago, presumably with the money, after murdering his accomplice, has never reconciled with her father's abandonment of her and her sister. After countless personal setbacks she decides to return to her family home near mysterious Caddo Lake, and finally get answers to the many questions that torment her. Little does she know, two of her father's co-conspirators, a war hero and a corrupt district attorney, are watching her every move. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Thick as Thieves” by Sandra Brown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602103054642-BWAZA62D9BW068V4EJEF/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - ATraveler at the Gates of Wisdom - John Boyne Genres: Fiction, Historical This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons. One with his father's violence in his blood. One with his mother's artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning. Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years. They will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium and journeying across fifty countries to a life amongst the stars in the third, the world will change around them, but their destinies remain the same. It must play out as foretold. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom” John Boyne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602103238394-1DUU5YBPUBNT9XQFC75D/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - We Are All the Same in the Dark - Julia Heaberlin Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Found on the side of a remote highway, half-dead and blowing wishes in a field of dandelions, the young girl refuses to speak. No one knows who she is or where she came from--only that she fell from the sky. It's Wyatt who finds her and takes her home to nurse her back to health, setting into motion the town's rumor mill. A pariah, Wyatt still believes he can still communicate with his long-gone sister, and he might be the only one left who knows the truth about the night of her disappearance. The night that Wyatt's cousin, Odette Tucker, also lost something important: her leg. Now a cop, uninhibited by her prosthetic, Odette must reenter Wyatt's ghost-ridden world. In Angel's case and her beautiful green eye, she sees her once-broken self and all the things she was told she'd never do. As she begins to coax Angel into speaking and slowly pieces together her identity, Odette is ignited to reopen the cold case that has haunted her. Soon she is ensnared in a lethal game of cat and mouse with someone who doesn't want that night revisited. The night that inspired her to become a cop, the night her friend disappeared and they both exploded into a small Texas town's dark, violent mythology. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “We Are All the Same in the Dark” by Julia Heaberlin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1601067826993-FNTNNT2J2I9CVI41PR8P/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - The Answer Is… - Alex Trebek Genres: Non-fiction, Biography Since debuting as the host of Jeopardy! in 1984, Alex Trebek has been something like a family member to millions of television viewers, bringing entertainment and education into their homes five nights a week. Last year, he made the stunning announcement that he had been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. What followed was an incredible outpouring of love and kindness. Social media was flooded with messages of support, and the Jeopardy! studio received boxes of cards and letters offering guidance, encouragement, and prayers. For over three decades, Trebek had resisted countless appeals to write a book about his life. Yet he was moved so much by all the goodwill, he felt compelled to finally share his story. "I want people to know a little more about the person they have been cheering on for the past year," he writes in [this book]. The book combines illuminating personal anecdotes with Trebek's thoughts on a range of topics, including marriage, parenthood, education, success, spirituality, and philanthropy. Trebek also addresses the questions he gets asked most often by Jeopardy! fans, such as what prompted him to shave his signature mustache, his insights on legendary players like Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer, and his opinion of Will Ferrell's Saturday Night Live impersonation. The book uses a novel structure inspired by Jeopardy!, with each chapter title in the form of a question, and features dozens of never-before-seen photos that candidly capture Trebek over the years. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Answer is…” by Alex Trebek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1601069331103-K5ZJBSVT5NGX1K69B8EO/81UEsP-UjPL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Carry - Toni Jensen Genres: Non-fiction, Biography, Politics, Racism A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence--for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot. Toni Jensen grew up in the Midwest around guns: As a girl, she learned how to shoot birds with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face in the fracklands around Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. And she has always known she is not alone. As a Metis woman, she is no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies of indigenous women, on indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten. In Carry, Jensen maps her personal experience onto the historical, exploring how history is lived in the body and redefining the language we use to speak about violence in America. In the title chapter, Jensen recalls the discrimination she faced in college as a Native American student from her roommate to her faculty adviser. "The Worry Line" explores the gun and gang violence in her neighborhood the year her daughter was born. "At the Workshop" focuses on her graduate school years, during which a classmate repeatedly wrote stories in which he killed thinly veiled versions of her. In "Women in the Fracklands," Jensen takes the reader inside Standing Rock during the Dakota Access pipeline protests, as well as the peril faced by women, in regions overcome by the fracking boom. In prose at once forensic and deeply emotional, Toni Jensen shows herself to be a brave new voice and a fearless witness to her own difficult history--as well as to the violent cultural landscape in which she finds her coordinates as a Native American woman. With each chapter, Carry reminds us that surviving in one's country is not the same as surviving one's country. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Carry” by Toni Jensen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602099035201-LGU3V1H0NSM0MY2A5XDO/81RntsTgdFL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - The Fight For History - Tim Cook Genres: Non-fiction, War A masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years. The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters of trade, security, and popular culture, which then sparked a desire to strengthen Canadian nationalism from the threat of American hegemony. The Fight for History examines how Canadians framed and reframed the war experience over time. Just as the importance of the battle of Vimy Ridge to Canadians rose, fell, and rose again over a 100-year period, the meaning of Canada's Second World War followed a similar pattern. But the Second World War's relevance to Canada led to conflict between veterans and others in society--more so than in the previous war--as well as a more rapid diminishment of its significance. By the end of the 20th century, Canada's experiences in the war were largely framed as a series of disasters. Canadians seemed to want to talk only of the defeats at Hong Kong and Dieppe or the racially driven policy of the forced relocation of Japanese-Canadians. In the history books and media, there was little discussion of Canada's crucial role in the Battle of the Atlantic, the success of its armies in Italy and other parts of Europe, or the massive contribution of war materials made on the home front. No other victorious nation underwent this bizarre reframing of the war, remaking victories into defeats. The Fight for History is about the efforts to restore a more balanced portrait of Canada's contribution in the global conflict. This is the story of how Canada has talked about the war in the past, how we tried to bury it, and how it was restored. This is the history of a constellation of changing ideas, with many historical twists and turns, and a series of fascinating actors and events. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Fight For History” by Tim Cook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602099642514-ZN7BQF7OMS1Z0552D67O/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Intimations - Zadie Smith Genres: Non-fiction “There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those. What I've tried to do is organize some of the feelings and thoughts that events, so far, have provoked in me, in those scraps of time the year itself has allowed. These are, above all, personal essays: small by definition, short by necessity. Early on in the crisis, I picked up Marcus Aurelius and for the first time in my life read his Meditations not as an academic exercise, nor in pursuit of pleasure, but with the same attitude I bring to the instructions for a flat-pack table - I was in need of practical assistance. I am no more a Stoic now than I was when I opened that ancient book, but I did come out with two invaluable intimations. Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.” CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Intimations” by Zadie Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602100634514-BPXTRBJVUDRYKIMT5GN2/81C0JbzifkL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - The Office - Andy Greene Genres: Non-fiction When did you last hang out with Jim, Pam, Dwight, Michael, and the rest of Dunder Mifflin? It might have been back in 2013, when the series finale aired . . . or it might have been last night, when you watched three episodes in a row. But either way, fifteen years after the show first aired, it's more popular than ever, and fans have only one problem--what to watch, or read, next. Fortunately, Rolling Stone writer Andy Greene has that answer. In his brand-new oral history, The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, Greene will take readers behind the scenes of their favorite moments and characters. Greene gives us the true inside story behind the entire show, from its origins on the BBC through its impressive nine-season run in America, with in-depth research and exclusive interviews. Fans will get the inside scoop on key episodes from "The Dundies" to "Threat Level Midnight" and "Goodbye, Michael," including behind-the-scenes details like the battle to keep it on the air when NBC wanted to pull the plug after just six episodes and the failed attempt to bring in James Gandolfini as the new boss after Steve Carell left, spotlighting the incredible, genre-redefining show created by the family-like team, who together took a quirky British import with dicey prospects and turned it into a primetime giant with true historical and cultural significance. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Office” by Andy Greene https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1601068224718-4OW9G327ANI01WU8FL7N/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Blood and Honey (Serpent and Dove #2) - Shelby Mahurin Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy Lou, Reid, Coco, and Ansel are on the run from coven, kingdom, and church—fugitives with nowhere to hide. To survive, they need allies. Strong ones. But as Lou becomes increasingly desperate to save those she loves, she turns to a darker side of magic that may cost Reid the one thing he can’t bear to lose. Bound to her always, his vows were clear: where Lou goes, he will go; and where she stays, he will stay. Until death do they part. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Blood and Honey” by Shelby Mahurin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1601069804446-7W4UWYSXS9YO0BE11TQK/81dgzFNH3fL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - The Dark Tide (Dark Tide #1) - Alicia Jasinka Genres: Fiction, Fantasy Sixteen-year-old Lina Kirk sacrifices herself to her sinking island's Witch Queen, Eva, to save her brother and her secret crush, but when she and Eva fall in love, everyone is in danger. Every year on St. Walpurga's Eve, Caldella's Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace. An innocent life to be sacrificed on the full moon to keep the island city from sinking. Lina Kirk is convinced her brother is going to be taken this year. To save him, she enlists the help of Thomas Lin, the boy she secretly loves, and the only person to ever escape from the palace. But they draw the queen's attention, and Thomas is chosen as the sacrifice. When Lina offers herself to the queen in exchange for Thomas's freedom, the two girls await the full moon together. But Lina is not at all what Eva expected, and the queen is nothing like Lina envisioned. Against their will, they find themselves falling for each other. As water floods Caldella's streets and the dark tide demands its sacrifice, they must choose who to save: themselves, each other, or the island city relying on them both. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Dark Tide” by Alicia Jasinska https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602100371335-EPPOEBAJ23CX9OKZ56AW/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Lobizona (Wolves of No World #1) - Romina Garber Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy When her mother is arrested by ICE, sixteen-year-old Argentinian Manu -- who thinks she is hiding in a Miami apartment because she is an undocumented immigrant -- discovers that her entire existence is illegal. As an undocumented immigrant on the run from her father's Argentine crime-family, Manuela Azul is confined to a small apartment and a small life in Miami, Florida. Then her surrogate grandmother is attacked, lifelong lies are exposed, and her mother is arrested by ICE. Without a home, without answers, Manu investigates the only clue she has about her past: a mysterious "Z" emblem. It leads her to a secret world connected to her dead father and his criminal past. A world straight out of Argentine folklore, where the seventh consecutive daughter is born a bruja and the seventh consecutive son is a lobizón, a werewolf. A world where her unusual eyes allow her to belong. It's not just her U.S. residency that's illegal-- it's her entire existence. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Lobizona” by Romina Garber https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602100478676-IG2XSL17W5GHXLJIXJUA/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - The Lost Book of the White (Eldest Curses #2) - Cassandra Clare & Wesley Chu Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy Life is good for Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. They’re living together in a fabulous loft, their warlock son, Max, has started learning to walk, and the streets of New York are peaceful and quiet—as peaceful and quiet as they ever are, anyway. Until the night that two old acquaintances break into Magnus’s apartment and steal the powerful Book of the White. Now Magnus and Alec will have to drop everything to get it back. They need to follow the thieves to Shanghai, they need to call some backup to accompany them, and they need a babysitter. Also, someone has stabbed Magnus with a strange magical weapon and the wound is glowing, so they have that to worry about too. Fortunately, their backup consists of Clary, Jace, Isabelle, and newly minted Shadowhunter Simon. In Shanghai, they learn that a much darker threat awaits them. Magnus’s magic is growing unstable, and if they can’t stop the demons flooding into the city, they might have to follow them all the way back to the source—the realm of the dead. Can they stop the threat to the world? Will they make it back home before their kid completely wears out Alec’s mom? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Lost Book of the White” by Cassandra Clare & Wesley Chu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1601069174369-PEUDJJ9YFS08W686CKJ4/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers (Captain Underpants #10) - Dav Pilkey Genres: Junior fiction, Comedy George and Harold have been turned into evil zombie nerds doomed to roam a devastated, postapocalyptic planet for all eternity! Unfortunately, the boys can't count on Captain Underpants for help because Tippy Tinkletrousers and his time-traveling hijinks prevented George and Harold from creating him in the first place! With Tippy having changed the course of human history forever, George and Harold will have to figure out a way to change it back! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers” by Dav Pilkey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1601069982175-WWWQCF4B1AUNK944DAGK/71yNM1dZlwL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - The Deep and Dark Blue - Niki Smith Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy After a terrible political coup usurps their noble house, Hawke and Grayson flee to stay alive and assume new identities, Hanna and Grayce. Desperation and chance lead them to the Communion of Blue, an order of magical women who spin the threads of reality to their will. As the twins learn more about the Communion, and themselves, they begin to hatch a plan to avenge their family and retake their royal home. While Hawke wants to return to his old life, Grayce struggles to keep the threads of her new life from unraveling, and realizes she wants to stay in the one place that will allow her to finally live as a girl. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Deep and Dark Blue” by Niki Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1601070103416-JPQHQXPPV5AUBQZ62OF4/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Digital Disaster (CatStronauts #6) - Drew Brockington Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Humour, Science fiction Darby Fuzzelton, the world's richest cat, is determined to open the first-ever space hotel! Her first guests? The elite CatStronauts along with a few kittens who were top of their class at Space Camp. Their job? To prove that her space hotel is safe to the public. When the cats and kittens arrive, they're greeted by AVA, an advanced Artificial Intelligence system programmed to handle countless hotel operations. Upon seeing Cat-Stro-Bot and his ability to go ANYWHERE, AVA becomes obsessed with gaining her own freedom. With AVA distracted, all the hotel systems go on the fritz! Will the CatStronauts escape this hotel of horrors? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Digital Disaster” by Drew Brockington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602098908092-EOPZ0KZEC1276PVA0VGB/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Double Dog Dare (Sparks! #2) - Ian Boothby Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Charlie and August, the two cats that control the mechanical superhero dog, Sparks, are keeping the city safe. But when a second, evil Sparks shows up and starts causing trouble around town, everybody blames the real Sparks. Determined to prove that Sparks is still the hero everyone can count on, Charlie and August set out to uncover the shocking truth about who is responsible for all the chaos. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Double Dog Dare” by Ian Boothby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602099476487-KWF0YQTFBMS4Y8JUQR73/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Grime and Punishment (Dog Man #9) - Dav Pilkey Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel The Supa Buddies bamboozled the baddies, but all's not right in the world. Dog Man has a new problem to pound, and he's going to need his entire pack to help him. Will he go barking up the wrong tree? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Grime and Punishment” by Dav Pilkey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602101668409-DLK1RDFBKVI1L2KLA0VY/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Queen of the Nile (Cleopatra in Space #6) - Mike Maihack Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy, Science fiction The time has come for Cleo to fulfill the ancient prophecy that declares her a savior and a hero, a prophecy she still struggles to accept. Cleo is joined by old and new friends as they fight to defend the galaxy she's come to call home against the evil Xaius Octavian. The Queen of the Nile must summon the strength to face down her enemy one last time, and keep both her friends - and herself - alive. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Queen of the Nile” by Mike Maihack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602101837234-WT8E7VNOZTO77Z7TBLLI/81u05WvOZoL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - Remarkables - Margaret Haddix Genres: Junior fiction, Mystery One minute they’re there: laughing and having fun at the house next door. The next minute, the teens are gone. Like magic. Marin can’t believe her eyes. Who are they? Can anyone else see them? What makes them so happy? Marin is lonely in this new town of hers and eager to figure out more. Then she meets Charley, who reveals that he knows about them, too. He calls them the “Remarkables.” Charley warns her to stay away from the Remarkables—and him. Charley and Marin both have painful secrets they’re holding on to, but could solving the mystery of the Remarkables help them both? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Remarkables” by Margaret Haddix https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602102510306-4PXLHS2WE4MQ7LG91CLR/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - A Tale of Magic (Tale of Magic #1) - Chris Colfer Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy When Brystal Evergreen stumbles across a secret section of the library, she discovers a book that introduces her to a world beyond her imagination and learns the impossible: She is a fairy capable of magic! But in the oppressive Southern Kingdom, women are forbidden from reading and magic is outlawed, so Brystal is swiftly convicted of her crimes and sent to the miserable Bootstrap Correctional Facility. But with the help of the mysterious Madame Weatherberry, Brystal is whisked away and enrolled in an academy of magic! Adventure comes with a price, however, and when Madame Weatherberry is called away to attend to an important problem she doesn't return. Do Brystal and her classmates have what it takes to stop a sinister plot that risks the fate of the world, and magic, forever? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Tale of Magic” by Chris Colfer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1602103490098-77RO3WM6VKQCL6OX1NCW/511P6pkN7vL._SX337_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: September 11, 2020 - The Worry (Less) Book - Rachel Brian Genres: Junior non-fiction, Self-help Expertly vetted and playfully presented with comic illustrations, a young person's guide to anxiety management shares reassurance about how everyone gets worried sometimes and what to do when too much anxiety gets in the way. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Worry (Less) Book” by Rachel Brian https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/aug-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598978725623-ZO3183VG4ZTYHMQJDORF/41d8DCzGgML.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - 28 Summers - Elin Hilderbrand Genres: Fiction, Romance When Mallory Blessing's son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, he's not sure what to expect. But he certainly does not expect Jake McCloud to answer. It's the late spring of 2020 and Jake's wife, Ursula DeGournsey, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Presidential election. There must be a mistake, Link thinks. How do Mallory and Jake know each other? Flash back to the sweet summer of 1993: Mallory has just inherited a beachfront cottage on Nantucket from her aunt, and she agrees to host her brother's bachelor party. Cooper's friend from college, Jake McCloud, attends, and Jake and Mallory form a bond that will persevere -- through marriage, children, and Ursula's stratospheric political rise -- until Mallory learns she's dying. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “28 Summers” by Elin Hilderbrand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598981067317-KOLN9XOYZGWVTTIM8TEH/51yehfGTJwL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Alice Knott - Blake Butler Genres: Fiction, Psychological Alice Knott lives alone, a reclusive heiress haunted by memories of her deceased parents and mysterious near-identical brother. Much of her family's fortune has been spent on a world-class collection of artwork, which she stores in a vault in her lonely, cavernous house. One day, she awakens to find the artwork destroyed, the act of vandalism captured in a viral video that soon triggers a rash of copycat incidents. As more videos follow and the world's most priceless works of art are destroyed one by one, Alice finds that she has become the chief suspect in an international conspiracy -- even as her psyche becomes a shadowed landscape of childhood demons and cognitive disorder. Unsettling, almost physically immersive, Alice Knott is a virtuoso exploration of the meaning of art and the lasting afterlife of trauma, as well as a deeply humane portrait of a woman whose trials feel both apocalyptic and universal. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Alice Knott” by Blake Butler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598378558890-Y0TN9ZGHAK5D46RUF0OS/81R5jQmP2jL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - All We Left Behind - Danielle R Graham Genres: Fiction, Historical, War Vancouver 1941. As the war rages around the world, Hitler's fury is yet to be felt on the peaceful shores of Mayne Island. Sweethearts Hayden and Chidori are in love. But everything changes after Pearl Harbor. Now seen as the enemy, Chidori and her family are forced into an internment camp. Powerless to help them, Hayden joins the air force to bring about an end to this devastating war - the thought of Chidori is all that keeps him alive. Can they both survive long enough to be reunited? Or will the war be the only thing to separate their love? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “All We Left Behind” by Danielle R Graham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598378881499-6UAF8I509ZD4R1GM3EES/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Blindness (Blindness #1) - Jose Saramago Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science fiction A city is struck by an epidemic of "white blindness." Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards under instructions to shoot anyone trying to escape. Inside, the criminal element among the blind holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers--among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears--through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twientieth century, Blindness is a powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses--and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Blindness” by Jose Saramago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598982593111-MLD9ERAH6PP13QA1AETV/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Book of Lost Names - Kristin Harmel Genres: Fiction, Historical Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin's Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don't know where it came from--or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer--but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war? As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Book of Lost Names” by Kristin Harmel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598379073275-DHQSE6LNPTZ5BDA7N4I4/818Lvvxby4L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall Genres: Fiction, Comedy, Romance Luc O'Donnell is tangentially-and reluctantly-famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything. To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice, normal relationship ... and Oliver Blackwood is as nice and normal as they come. He's a barrister, an ethical vegetarian, and he's never inspired a moment of scandal in his life. In other words: perfect boyfriend material. Unfortunately apart from being gay, single, and really, really in need of a date for a big event, Luc and Oliver have nothing in common. So they strike a deal to be publicity-friendly (fake) boyfriends until the dust has settled. Then they can go their separate ways and pretend it never happened. But the thing about fake-dating is that it can feel a lot like real-dating. And that's when you get used to someone. Start falling for them. Don't ever want to let them go. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Boyfriend Material” by Alexis Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598381254513-DWCDF5J2B96P6ZQJ4J88/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Bunny - Mona Awad Genres: Fiction, Horror, Magical Realism, Thriller Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more different from the other members of her master's program at New England's elite Warren University. A self-conscious scholarship student who prefers the company of her imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight it seems their bodies might become permanently fused. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' exclusive monthly "Smut Salon," and finds herself drawn as if by magic to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, an audacious art school dropout, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into Bunny world, and starts to take part in the off-campus "Workshop" where they devise their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur, and her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are brought into deadly collision. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Bunny” by Mona Awad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598983217118-SGGQCNMXRFX240NJN8MN/71p9xKhzMIL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Cajun Justice - James Patterson Genres: Fiction, Suspense, Thriller Cain Lemaire is an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. With help from his sister who's working in Japan, Cain takes a job in Tokyo as head of security detail for a very successful and important CEO. Cain ends up tangling with the yakuza (Japanese mafia) and unraveling a sex slavery ring. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Cajun Justice” by James Patterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598381719957-FJ27KEQ1FMC2WELYDUO7/81aeVKBYM3L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Circe - Madeline Miller Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power--the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Circe” by Madeline Miller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598983495278-TNXVPH8EAD06G2B5G3B9/61NHcgVIdyL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Deadlock (FBI Thriller #24) - Catherine Coulter Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller A young wife is forced to confront a decades-old deadly secret when a medium connects her to her dead grandfather. A vicious psychopath wants ultimate revenge against Savich, but first, she wants to destroy what he loves most-his family. A series of three red boxes are delivered personally to Savich at the Hoover Building, each one containing puzzle pieces of a town only FBI agent Pippa Cinelli recognizes. Savich sends in Cinelli to investigate undercover but someone knows who she is. Savich and Sherlock are up to their eyebrows in danger, but can they figure out the red box puzzle and the young wife's secret before it's too late? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Deadlock” by Catherine Coulter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598381834968-5Z3G6YSYT6DIVKO0TM2G/71Da9RYuSaL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Death in Her Hands - Ottessa Moshfegh Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. "Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body." But there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one. Becoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how she met her fate. With very little to go on, she invents a list of murder suspects and possible motives for the crime. Oddly, her suppositions begin to find correspondences in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to fade into menacing certainty. As her investigation widens, strange dissonances accrue, perhaps associated with the darkness in her own past; we must face the prospect that there is either an innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Death in Her Hands” by Ottessa Moshfegh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598983663158-C57H88OMD1OAFQUAIJXM/81xeO7XBVVL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Deep - Rivers Solomon Genres: Fiction, Fantasy Yetu holds the memories for her people--water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners--who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save one--the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities--and discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected about her own past--and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they'll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity--and own who they really are. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Deep” by Rivers Solomon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598381975313-I7XN5BSI46ZZV4G7TZ7O/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Dilemma - B A Paris Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller For Livia's 40th birthday, her husband Adam throws the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding they never had. Daughter Marnie, is studying abroad-- and Livia is secretly glad Marnie won't be there. Livia has recently uncovered a secret about their daughter which will shake the foundation of their family to its core. She plans to tell Adam, but after the party is over so they can have this last happy time together. Adam has his own surprise: he arranged for Marnie to fly back for the party. How far are Adam and Livia willing to go to protect the ones they love-- and to give each other a last few hours of happiness? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Dilemma” by B A Paris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598983970698-USNZKW18DXWJN09LV5F0/51YF0cGADvL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Disaster Tourist - Yun Ko-eun Genres: Fiction For ten years, Yona has been stuck behind a desk as a coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specializing in vacation packages to destinations devastated by disaster and climate change. Her work life is uneventful until trouble arises in the form of a predatory colleague. To forestall any disruption of business as usual, Jungle makes Yona a proposition: a paid 'vacation' to the desert island of Mui. But Yona must pose as a tourist and assess whether Jungle should continue their partnership with the unprofitable destination. Yona travels to the remote island, whose major attraction is an underwhelming sinkhole, a huge disappointment to the customers who've paid a premium. Soon Yona discovers the resort's plan to fabricate a catastrophe in the interest of regaining their good standing with Jungle'and the manager enlists Yona's help. Yona must choose between the callous company to whom she's dedicated her life or the possibility of a fresh start in a powerful new position. As she begins to understand the cost of the manufactured disaster, Yona realizes that the lives of Mui's citizens are in danger, and so is she. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Disaster Tourist” by Yun Ko-eun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598984150169-QL93FPCI2Q5CCYGFIERG/91eUC%2B8TvyL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Eight Perfect Murders - Peter Swanson Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre’s most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack—which he titled “Eight Perfect Murders”—chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie’s A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin’s Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, John D. Macdonald's The Drowner, and Donna Tartt's A Secret History. But no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of the Old Devils Bookstore in Boston, when an FBI agent comes knocking on his door one snowy day in February. She’s looking for information about a series of unsolved murders that look eerily similar to the killings on Mal’s old list. And the FBI agent isn’t the only one interested in this bookseller who spends almost every night at home reading. There is killer is out there, watching his every move—a diabolical threat who knows way too much about Mal’s personal history, especially the secrets he’s never told anyone, even his recently deceased wife. To protect himself, Mal begins looking into possible suspects . . . and sees a killer in everyone around him. But Mal doesn’t count on the investigation leaving a trail of death in its wake. Suddenly, a series of shocking twists leaves more victims dead—and the noose around Mal’s neck grows so tight he might never escape. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Eight Perfect Murders” by Peter Swanson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598985238186-94P5H0XNW6CRTMP7EAIF/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Florence Adler Swims Forever - Rachel Beanland Genres: Fiction, Historical Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to "America's Playground" and move into the apartment above their bakery. The apartment is where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence, and, despite the cramped quarters, it still feels like home. Now Florence has returned from college, determined to spend the summer training to swim the English Channel, and Fannie, pregnant again after recently losing a baby, is on bedrest, leaving her young daughter Gussie in Esther's care. After Joseph insists they take in a mysterious young woman whom he recently helped emigrate from Nazi Germany, the apartment is bursting at the seams. Esther wants nothing more than to keep her daughters close and safe but some matters are beyond her control: there's Fannie's risky pregnancy-not to mention her always-scheming husband, Isaac-and the fact that Stuart Williams, the heir of a hotel notorious for its anti-Semitic policies, seems to be in love with Florence. When tragedy strikes during one of Florence's practice swims, Esther makes the shocking decision to keep the truth about Florence's death from Fannie-at least until the baby is born. She pulls the rest of the family into an elaborate web of secret-keeping and lies, forcing to the surface long-buried tensions that show us just how quickly the act of protecting those we love can turn into betrayal. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Florence Adler Swims Forever” by Rachel Beanland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598985417040-H5BIRGYCWDKIJ1M9CBBB/81xV-dpS-PL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Friendship List - Susan Mallery Genres: Fiction, Romance Best friends Unity and Ellen are in serious ruts. High school teacher Ellen, whose son's dream of going out of state for college is arousing financial anxiety, hasn't dated since she became pregnant on the night of her junior prom. Unity, a successful handyman, is grieving after her soldier husband was killed three years ago. Each woman goads the other to venture out of her restrictive comfort zone, daring the other to take on a list of challenges, ranging from singing karaoke to wearing sexy clothes, skydiving, getting a tattoo, and having sex. Summer brings big changes. Ellen accompanies her son, a dozen other high school athletes, and her good friend Coach Keith on a bus tour of Pacific coast universities. Unity, who works at a senior living community, is speechless when a septuagenarian friend tries to set her up with her great-nephew, but then she thinks about her bet with Ellen. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Friendship List” by Susan Mallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598985670225-07A56ZGC9IPCWM8RI36J/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Girl From Widow Hills - Megan Miranda Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Psychological, Thriller As a child, Arden Maynor was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm. Found alive days later clinging to a storm drain, the girl from Widow Hills was a living miracle. Arden's mother wrote a book. Now a young woman living hundreds of miles away, Arden goes by Olivia. With the twentieth anniversary of her rescue approaching, the media will inevitably renew its interest in Arden. Then Olivia begins sleepwalking again. One night she jolts awake in her yard-- and at her feet is the corpse of a man she knows from her previous life. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Girl From Widow Hills” by Megan Miranda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598986206600-5BNOF3PQTYEGJKJZAGQA/8151JkxGlfL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Happy and You Know It - Laura Hankin Genres: Fiction After her former band shot to superstardom without her, Claire reluctantly agrees to a gig as a playgroup musician for overprivileged infants on New York's Park Avenue. Claire is surprised to discover that she is smitten with her new employers, a welcoming clique of wellness addicts with impossibly shiny hair, who whirl from juice cleanse to overpriced miracle vitamins to spin class with limitless energy. There is perfect hostess Whitney who is on the brink of social-media stardom and just needs to find a way to keep her perfect life from falling apart. Caustically funny, recent stay-at-home mom Amara who is struggling to embrace her new identity. And old money, veteran mom Gwen who never misses an opportunity to dole out parenting advice. But as Claire grows closer to the cool women who pay her bills, she uncovers secrets and betrayals that no amount of activated charcoal can fix. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Happy and You Know It” by Laura Hankin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598986734137-HBDO3ODU880KA3JI39K8/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - He Started It - Samantha Downing Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasons--we'll get to those later. But when their wealthy grandfather dies and leaves a cryptic final message in his wake, the siblings and their respective partners must come together for a cross-country road trip to fulfill his final wish and--more importantly--secure their inheritance. But time with your family can be tough. It is for everyone. It's even harder when you're all keeping secrets and trying to forget a memory--a missing person, an act of revenge, the man in the black truck who won't stop following your car--and especially when at least one of you is a killer and there's a body in the trunk. Just to name a few reasons. But money is a powerful motivator. It is for everyone. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “He Started It” by Samantha Downing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598987362182-9A4HW3Z3R8WS4FIMR63Q/818c0NN6J-L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Henna Artist - Alka Joshi Genres: Fiction, Historical Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist--and confidante--to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own. Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips who could ruin her reputation and her livelihood. As she pursues her dream of an independent life, she is startled one day when she is confronted by her husband, who has tracked her down these many years later with a high-spirited young girl in tow--a sister Lakshmi never knew she had. Suddenly the caution that she has carefully cultivated as protection is threatened. Still she perseveres, applying her talents and lifting up those that surround her as she does. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Henna Artist” by Alka Joshi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598988037141-0DL6L3313ZVT4VANL26M/51VgPIgY6bL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - His and Hers - Alice Feeney Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Anna Andrews finally has what she wants. Almost. She's worked hard to become the main TV presenter of the BBC's lunchtime news, putting work before friends, family, and her now ex-husband. So, when someone threatens to take her dream job away, she'll do almost anything to keep it. When asked to cover a murder in Blackdown--the sleepy countryside village where she grew up--Anna is reluctant to go. But when the victim turns out to be one of her childhood friends, she can't leave. It soon becomes clear that Anna isn't just covering the story, she's at the heart of it. CI Jack Harper left London for a reason, but never thought he'd end up working in a place like Blackdown. When the body of a young woman is discovered, Jack decides not to tell anyone that he knew the victim, until he begins to realise he is a suspect in his own murder investigation. One of them knows more than they are letting on. Someone isn't telling the truth. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “His and Hers'“ by Alice Feeney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598988753263-H0HIT921OXPRH7216ZZ6/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Home Before Dark - Riley Sager Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal, Thriller Bells that ring themselves. Record players that turn on an play music to empty rooms. Ghosts that can climb out of wardrobes... Maggie Holt doesn't believe in these things, even though they are the details of the story that made her family famous. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved to Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent twenty days there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a horror memoir, House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with the malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity - and skepticism. Maggie has lived her life in the shadow of her father's book, so when she inherits Baneberry Hall after his death, she returns to renovate the house to prepare it for sale. However, her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the past, chronicled in the House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. And locals aren't thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie's father. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself - a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of Ewan's book, she starts to wonder if what he wrote was more fact than fiction. Alternating between Maggie's uneasy homecoming and chapters from her father's book, this is the story of a house with long-buried secrets and a woman's quest to uncover them - even if the truth is far more terrifying than any haunting. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Home Before Dark” by Riley Sager https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598989019407-N6ALL9X5ZN147QP4M5J9/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - In Five Years - Rebecca Serle Genres: Fiction, Romance When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan. But when she wakes up, she's suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. The television news is on in the background, and she can just make out the scrolling date. It's the same night -December 15 -but 2025, five years in the future. After a very intense, shocking hour, Dannie wakes again, at the brink of midnight, back in 2020. She can't shake what has happened. It certainly felt much more than merely a dream, but she isn't the kind of person who believes in visions. That nonsense is only charming coming from free-spirited types, like her lifelong best friend, Bella. Determined to ignore the odd experience, she files it away in the back of her mind. That is, until four-and-a-half years later, when by chance Dannie meets the very same man from her long-ago vision. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “In Five Years” by Rebecca Serle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598382477644-K0XRBQD4J3IRV5LMLEHI/51XOA4xALhL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Lending Library - Aliza Fogelson Genres: Fiction, Romance When the Chatsworth library closes indefinitely, Dodie Fairisle loses her sanctuary. How is a small-town art teacher supposed to cope without the never-ending life advice and enjoyment that books give her? Well, when she’s as resourceful and generous as Dodie, she turns her sunroom into her very own little lending library. At first just a hobby, this lit lovers’ haven opens up her world in incredible ways. She knows books are powerful, and soon enough they help her forge friendships between her zany neighbors—and attract an exciting new romance. But when the chance to adopt an orphaned child brings Dodie’s secret dream of motherhood within reach, everything else suddenly seems less important. Finding herself at a crossroads, Dodie must figure out what it means to live a full, happy life. If only there were a book that could tell her what to do… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Lending Library” by Aliza Fogelson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598989149019-82UYGL4OPOLPSBKLWW0K/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Less Dead - Denise Mina Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller She thought she was finding her birth mother. Now she's searching for a killer. Dr. Margo Dunlop is at a crossroads. Her adoptive mom just passed away, and Margo misses her so much she can't begin to empty the house-or, it seems, get her brother on the phone. Not to mention she's newly single, secretly pregnant, and worried about her best friend's dangerous relationship. In an effort to cheer herself up she goes in search of her birth mother. Instead she finds Nikki, her mother's sister. Aunt Nikki isn't what Margo expects, and she brings upsetting news: Margo's mother is dead. Worse, she was murdered years ago, and her killer is still at large-and sending Nikki threatening letters. Margo is torn. Should she stay out of this mess, or try to find justice? But then Margo receives a letter, too. Someone out there has been waiting and watching, and in Margo sees the spitting image of her mother… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Less Dead” by Denise Mina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598989640315-8MLPQTM5F8XDALJHTSPD/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Malorie (Bird Box #2) - Josh Malerman Genres: Fiction, Dystopia, Horror In the seventeen years since the 'creatures' appeared, many people have broken that rule. Many have looked. Many have lost their minds, their lives, their loved ones. In that time, Malorie has raised her two children - Olympia and Tom - on the run or in hiding. Now nearly teenagers, survival is no longer enough. They want freedom. When a census-taker stops by their refuge, he is not welcome. But he leaves a list of names - of survivors building a future beyond the darkness - and on that list are two names Malorie knows. Two names for whom she'll break every rule, and take her children across the wilderness, in the hope of becoming a family again… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Malorie” by Josh Malerman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598990232349-1MCV3QMUV38TNJC3Q7PO/51XZe2j--KL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Midwife Murders - James Patterson Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition, it's her life's work. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch in a university hospital in Manhattan, her focus abruptly changes. Something has to be done, and Lucy is fearless enough to try. Rumors begin to swirl, blaming everyone from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network. The feisty single mom teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective to solve the case, but the truth is far more twisted than Lucy could have ever imagined… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Midwife Murders” by James Patterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598990468240-0SHC0FUN295TJ20OQ5D1/71I2XzeKcAL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Mother Daughter Widow Wife - Robin Wasserman Genres: Fiction, Psychological 'Wendy Doe' was found on a bus to Philadelphia with no money, no ID, and no memory of who she is, where she was going, or what she might have done. She is diagnosed with dissociative fugue, a temporary amnesia that could lift at any moment-- or never at all. Dr. Benjamin Strauss invites her to submit herself for experimental observation at his Meadowlark Institute for Memory Research. To Strauss's ambitious student, Lizzie Epstein, Wendy is an object of fascination, and an invitation to wonder: once a woman is untethered from all past and present obligations of womanhood, who is she allowed to become? CLICK HERE TO RESEREVE “Mother Daughter Widow Wife” by Robin Wasserman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598990585321-JBJG2GMFE7KK5RN71JE2/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Mum and Dad - Joanna Trollope Genres: Fiction It's been 25 years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a vineyard and wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke and their idyllic Mediterranean life is thrown into upheaval, it's left to their three grown-up children in London to step in . . . Sebastian is busy running his company with his wife, Anna, who's never quite seen eye-to-eye with her mother-in-law. Katie, a successful solicitor in the city, is distracted by the problems with her long-term partner, Nic, and the secretive lives of their three daughters. And Jake, ever the easy-going optimist, is determined to convince his new wife, Bella, that moving to Spain with their 18-month-old would be a good idea. As the children descend on the vineyard, it becomes clear that each has their own idea of how best to handle their mum and dad, as well as the family business. But as long-simmering resentments rise to the surface and tensions reach breaking point, can the family ties prove strong enough to keep them together? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Mum and Dad” by Joanna Trollope https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598990745766-O2HPIDHW216T9HQOWF7J/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Near Dark (Scot Harvath #20) - Brad Thor Genres: Fiction, Thriller The world’s largest bounty has just been placed upon America’s top spy. His only hope for survival is to outwit, outrun, and outlast his enemies long enough to get to the truth. But for Scot Harvath to accomplish his most dangerous mission ever—one that has already claimed the lives of the people closest to him, including his new wife—he’s going to need help—a lot of it. Not knowing whom he can trust, Harvath finds an unlikely ally in Norwegian intelligence operative Sølvi Kolstad. Just as smart, just as deadly, and just as determined, she not only has the skills, but also the broken, troubled past to match Harvath’s own. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Near Dark” by Brad Thor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598990905215-ZW56RKWQCK9NINJ3SZ01/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Night Swim - Megan Goldin Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller The Escape Room, a true crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town's dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before. After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name-and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she's used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help. The small town of Neapolis is being torn apart by a devastating rape trial. The town's golden boy, a swimmer destined for Olympic greatness, has been accused of raping a high school student, the beloved granddaughter of the police chief. Under pressure to make Season Three a success, Rachel throws herself into interviewing and investigating-but the mysterious letters keep showing up in unexpected places. Someone is following her, and she won't stop until Rachel finds out what happened to her sister twenty-five years ago. Officially, Jenny Stills tragically drowned, but the letters insists she was murdered-and when Rachel starts asking questions, nobody seems to want to answer. The past and present start to collide as Rachel uncovers startling connections between the two cases that will change the course of the trial and the lives of everyone involved. Electrifying and propulsive, The Night Swim asks: What is the price of a reputation? Can a small town ever right the wrongs of its past? And what really happened to Jenny? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Night Swim” by Megan Goldin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599064566043-ZYLYZLCU5C9KZNTPNCH0/41VxtI0Q0vL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - One to Watch - Kate Stayman-London Genres: Fiction, Romance Bea Schumacher is a leading fashion blogger, known for her warm, honest body-positive message. But after an unexpected heartbreak, Bea's confidence is shaken and she feels hopelessly alone. In the midst of her sadness (and some drunken internet rantings), she receives a surprising proposition: Would Bea like to be the first plus-size woman to star in the next season of reality dating competition sensation Main Squeeze? Against her better judgment, she accepts. The producers promise it will be the most diverse cast yet and a great opportunity to expand her brand. And while she knows she'll never find love, she might find distraction from her broken heart and inspire other plus-sized women to believe that they have a right to the spotlight too. But as the cameras roll, she is forced to face down judgement, ridicule, and expectations amidst over-the-top dates and international travel with a line-up of men who feel like fantasies (a sexy French chef, a sardonic professor, a playful younger man) as she ultimately discovers the truth behind the fairytale, and the reality of falling in love. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “One to Watch” by Kate Stayman-London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599064667224-TESRKZEIX35B3DVINK38/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones Genres: Fiction, Horror, Thriller Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Only Good Indians” by Stephen Graham Jones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599064822720-VVZW1FLAW4DLBL8ZLV4I/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Order (Daniel Silva #20) - Daniel Silva Genres: Fiction, Thriller Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has slipped into Venice for a much-needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father’s loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch the night of the pope’s death is missing. So, too, is the letter the Holy Father was writing during the final hours of his life. A letter that was addressed to an old friend: Gabriel. ”While researching in the Vatican Secret Archives, I came upon a most remarkable book …” The book is a long-suppressed gospel that calls into question the accuracy of the New Testament’s depiction of one of the most portentous events in human history. For that reason alone, the Order of St. Helena will stop at nothing to keep it out of Gabriel’s hands. A shadowy Catholic society with ties to the European far right, the Order is plotting to seize control of the papacy. And it is only the beginning … CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Order” by Daniel Silva https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599073674240-T06I9X5F234W5T9G95D9/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Other People - C J Tudor Genres: Fiction, Psychological, Thriller Three years ago, Gabe's family disappeared. Most people think they died. Some of them blame Gabe. Hardly anyone believes the truth--that Gabe saw his daughter the day she and his wife disappeared, smiling at him from the back of a rusty old car speeding down the highway. So even though it's been three years since that day, Gabe cannot give up hope. Even though he has given up everything else. His home, his job, his old life. He spends his days travelling up and down the highway and sleeping in service stations, searching for the car that took her. It's hard for most people to understand. But Gabe has found some who do in an online group set up by people who have also lost loved ones--who have suffered like him. They call themselves "The Other People." Because isn't that what everyone thinks: bad stuff only happens to "other people." When the car that Gabe saw driving away that night is found in a lake with a body inside, Gabe is suddenly under suspicion--and in danger. In desperation, he turns to The Other People for help. Because they are good people. They know what loss is like. They know what pain is like. They know what death is like. There's just one problem . . . they want other people to know it too. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Other People” by C J Tudor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599073813651-EJV56A5F9ZHSN2ZZB1MC/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Outsider (Kate Burkholder #12) - Linda Castillo Genres: Fiction, Mystery Chief of Police Kate Burkholder's past comes back to haunt her when she receives a call from Amish widower Adam Lengacher. While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, he discovered a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. Kate arrives at his farm and is shocked to discover the driver is a woman she hasn't seen in ten years: fellow cop Gina Colorosa. Ten years ago, Kate and Gina were best friends at the police academy, graduating together as rookies with the Columbus Division of Police. But the reunion takes an ominous turn when Kate learns Gina is wanted for killing an undercover officer. Gina claims she's innocent, that she was framed by corrupt officers who want her gone because she was about to turn them in for wrongdoing. Kate calls upon state agent John Tomasetti for help and with a blizzard bearing down, they delve into the incident. But no one wants to talk about what happened the night Gina allegedly gunned down a fellow cop. Even Tomasetti is stonewalled, his superior telling him in no uncertain terms to back off. With whisperings of corruption and the threat of rogue cops seeking revenge, Kate and Gina hunker down at Adam Lengacher's farm. As Kate gets closer to the truth, a killer lies in wait. When violence strikes, Kate must confront a reality that changes everything she thought she knew not only about friendship, but the institution to which she's devoted her life. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Outsider” by Linda Castillo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599074585200-FGRDJXY3KFOGR42H3208/71-X-8-STzL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Parakeet - Marie-Helene Bertino Genres: Fiction, Magical Realism The week of her wedding, the bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: What is the Internet? Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow, the bride's march to the altar becomes a wild and increasingly fragmented, unstable journey that bends toward the surreal and forces her to confront matters long buried. A novel that does justice to the hectic confusion of becoming a woman today, Parakeet asks and begins to answer the essential questions. What do our memories make us? How do we honor our experiences and still become our strongest, truest selves? Who are we responsible for, what do we owe them, and how do we allow them to change? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Parakeet” by Marie-Helene Bertino https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599074976559-070H4AL0QAJLEDX34FW3/71UEk8pXGwL.__BG0%2C0%2C0%2C0_FMpng_AC_UL600_SR396%2C600_.png BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - A Private Cathedral (Dave Robicheaux #23) - James Lee Burke Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooming young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny and Isolde are in love. And like Romeo and Juliet, Johnny and Isolde are being kept apart by their families. In fact, Isolde tells Robicheaux, her parents have given her to the Shondell patriarch to be used as a sex slave. Seeking to uncover why, Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde's mother and her father's mistress. As retribution, the elder Balangie orders a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcell. Yet this is unlike any hitman Robicheaux has ever faced: he has the ability induce hallucinations and might be a time-traveling reptilian. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Private Cathedral” by James Lee Burke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599075216113-TLWYRICD6A8HKRS26PNJ/71u7tzFCWVL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue Genres: Fiction, Historical Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and ROOM. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders--Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Pull of the Stars” by Emma Donoghue https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599075393043-RIG70GH9ULALCACAVPX8/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Queen’s Secret - Karen Harper Genres: Fiction, Historical 1939. As the wife of the King George VI and the mother of the future queen, Elizabeth--"the queen mother"--shows a warm, smiling face to the world. But it's no surprise that Hitler himself calls her the "Most Dangerous Woman in Europe." For behind that soft voice and kindly demeanor is a will of steel. Two years earlier, George was thrust onto the throne when his brother Edward abdicated, determined to marry his divorced, American mistress Mrs. Simpson. Vowing to do whatever it takes to make her husband's reign a success, Elizabeth endears herself to the British people, and prevents the former king and his brazen bride from ever again setting foot in Buckingham Palace. Elizabeth holds many powerful cards, she's also hiding damaging secrets about her past and her provenance that could prove to be her undoing. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Queen’s Secret” by Karen Harper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599075511481-B6HIJ47DK7TXV5A2MNAC/91zp0GVEDZL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Royal - Danielle Steel Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance Summer, 1943. The King and Queen choose to send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a noble family in the country. Despite her headstrong nature, the princess's fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in war-torn London. She arrives in Yorkshire under an alias; only her guardians know her true identity. Charlotte befriends a young evacuee, trains with her cherished horse - and falls deeply in love with her protectors' son. When a tragic turn of events leaves an infant orphaned, the child is raised in humble circumstances by a stable manager and his wife. No one, not even she, knows of her lineage. When a stack of hidden letters comes to light, a secret kept for nearly two decades finally surfaces, and a long lost princess emerges. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Royal” by Danielle Steel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599075711349-GJH2EH8GA35V8SRDS585/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Sex and Vanity - Kevin Kwan Genres: Fiction, Comedy, Romance On her very first morning on the island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao-- and instantly can't stand him. Especially when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa and they are caught by her snobbish, disapproving cousin Charlotte. The daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and a blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has always sublimated the Asian side of herself in favor of the white side, and she adamantly denies having feelings for George. Several years later, when George appears in East Hampton where Lucie is weekending with her new fiancᣬ Lucie finds herself drawn to George again. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Sex and Vanity” by Kevin Kwan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599075830401-2WSKMX1HPN52E2VK6JLE/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Shadows - Alex North Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller A dark imagination, a sinister smile--always on the outside of the group. Some part of you suspected he might be capable of doing something awful. Twenty-five years ago, Crabtree did just that, committing a murder so shocking that it's attracted that strange kind of infamy that only exists on the darkest corners of the internet--and inspired more than one copycat. Paul Adams remembers the case all too well: Crabtree--and his victim--were Paul's friends. Paul has slowly put his life back together. But now his mother, old and senile, has taken a turn for the worse. Though every inch of him resists, it is time to come home. It's not long before things start to go wrong. Reading the news, Paul learns another copycat has struck. His mother is distressed, insistent that there's something in the house. And someone is following him. Which reminds him of the most unsettling thing about that awful day twenty-five years ago. It wasn't just the murder. It was the fact that afterward, Charlie Crabtree was never seen again… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Shadows” by Alex North https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599076337385-F2F241OE0KHEYQVKP1DG/81WBbxmd4dL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Stranger in the Lake - Kimberly Belle Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When Charlotte married the wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her humble past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman's body floating in the exact same spot where Paul's first wife tragically drowned. At first, it seems like a horrific coincidence, but the stranger in the lake is no stranger. Charlotte saw Paul talking to her the day before, even though Paul tells the police he's never met the woman. His lie exposes cracks in their fragile new marriage, cracks Charlotte is determined to keep from breaking them in two. As Charlotte uncovers dark mysteries about the man she married, she doesn't know what to trust--her heart, which knows Paul to be a good man, or her growing suspicion that there's something he's hiding in the water. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Stranger in the Lake” by Kimberly Belle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599076573676-P3WZ2AHCY2VCFMBYKTU3/41MH8v67-IL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Swan Song - Lisa Alther Genres: Fiction Dr. Jessie Drake, in her mid-sixties, following the sudden deaths of her parents and Kat, her partner of twenty years, has fled the Vermont life she has known for decades. In an effort to escape the oppressive constancy of grief, she accepts a job from an old flame from her residency in New York City's Roosevelt Hospital, and agrees to assist Ben as the ship's doctor on a British liner. Jessie boards in Hong Kong, and, as the Amphitrite sails throughout Southeast Asia and the Middle East, cruise ship antics ensue. Jessie is lulled back into a long-ago romance with the ship's co-doctor, and both she and her new/old beau become enmeshed with the ship's lead (female) singer/entertainer. Among the passengers who fling socialized behavior aside on the high seas: a former Florida beauty queen (Miss Florida Power and Light) on a second honeymoon with her husband, as she causes high-velocity scandal, while juggling onboard affairs with a suicidal golf pro, and a defrocked priest hired as one of the liner's gentleman hosts, until she vanishes--poof!--from the ship off the coast of Portugal . . . As the ship sails through the Gulf of Aden and into a possible hijacking by Somali pirates, Jessie retreats into her lover's journals, written during her final months, journals filled with sketches of potential characters, observations on life and love--as well as drafts of a long new poem in progress, "Swan Song," that seems to be about being in love with someone else, someone new. As Jessie's grief turns to suspicion about the woman she thought she knew so well, her illumination of the poem's meaning begins to lift the constraints of the past and make clear the way toward the future. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Swan Song” by Lisa Alther https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598382752979-CG2FYQQXC6OC2S9XO82Q/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Swap - Robyn Harding Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Low Morrison is not your average teen. You could blame her hippie parents or her looming height or her dreary, isolated hometown on an island in the Pacific Northwest. But whatever the reason, Low just doesn’t fit in—and neither does Freya, an ethereal beauty and once-famous social media influencer who now owns the local pottery studio. After signing up for a class, Low quickly falls under Freya’s spell. And Freya, buoyed by Low’s adoration, is compelled to share her darkest secrets and deepest desires. Finally, both feel a sense of belonging...that is, until Jamie walks through the studio door. Desperate for a baby, she and her husband have moved to the island hoping that the healthy environment will result in a pregnancy. Freya and Jamie become fast friends, as do their husbands, leaving Low alone once again. Then one night, after a boozy dinner party, Freya suggests swapping partners. It should have been a harmless fling between consenting adults, one night of debauchery that they would put behind them, but instead, it upends their lives. And provides Low the perfect opportunity to unleash her growing resentment. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Swap” by Robyn Harding https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599077388492-XGY7RMM48GQGO4A1QOQ2/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Thief River Falls - Brian Freeman Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the "Dark Star." Then a nameless runaway boy shows up at her door with a terrifying story - he's just escaped death after witnessing a brutal murder - a crime the police want to cover up. Obsessed with the boy's safety, Lisa resolves to expose this crime, but powerful men in Thief River Falls are desperate to get the boy back, and now they want her too. Lisa and her young visitor have nowhere to go as the trap closes around them. Still under the strange, unforgiving threat of the Dark Star, Lisa must find a way to save them both, or they'll become the victims of another shocking tragedy she can't foresee. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Thief River Falls” by Brian Freeman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599077657025-4VPT3OWVASWRWLK1C0YT/81KLv44Me9L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Truths I Never Told You - Kelly Rimmer Genres: Fiction, Historical With her father recently moved to a care facility, Beth Walsh volunteers to clear out the family home and is surprised to discover the door to her childhood playroom padlocked. She's even more shocked at what's behind it--a hoarder's mess of her father's paintings, mounds of discarded papers and miscellaneous junk in the otherwise fastidiously tidy house. As she picks through the clutter, she finds a loose journal entry in what appears to be her late mother's handwriting. Beth and her siblings grew up believing their mother died in a car accident when they were little more than toddlers, but this note suggests something much darker. Beth soon pieces together a disturbing portrait of a woman suffering from postpartum depression and a husband who bears little resemblance to the loving father Beth and her siblings know. With a newborn of her own and struggling with motherhood, Beth finds there may be more tying her and her mother together than she ever suspected. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Truths I Never Told You” by Kelly Rimmer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599077755711-DCPHOAVGBAU7Z9RXJM2H/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett Genres: Fiction, Historical The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599077885052-BIN33K3IKBEWYHN8TNV8/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - A Walk Along the Beach - Debbie Macomber Genres: Fiction, Romance Inseparable since the sudden loss of their mother as teenagers, Willa and Harper Lakey are perfect opposites. Quiet, demure Willa has always admired Harper's sense of fearlessness and adventure, but enjoys her peaceful routine as a cafᣠowner in their quaint, coastal hometown of Oceanside, Washington. When a handsome customer shows interest in Willa, Harper urges her sister to take a chance on love--something totally out of Willa's comfort zone. But just as Willa begins to explore the possibilities, Harper receives crushing news that threatens to bring everything to a screeching halt. Though the time ahead may be trying, little do Willa and Harper know that it will bring about the most beautiful rewards. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Walk Along the Beach” by Debbie Macomber https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599078003241-4TCUCHVTKPSUQV49TYJB/81htIxYretL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Want - Lynn Steger Strong Genres: Fiction Elizabeth is tired. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life, she has found herself with two kids, a husband, two jobs, a PhD--and now they're filing for bankruptcy. As she tries to balance her dream and the impossibility of striving toward it while her work and home lives feel poised to fall apart, she wakes at ungodly hours to run miles by the icy river, struggling to quiet her thoughts. When she reaches out to Sasha, her long-lost childhood friend, it feels almost harmless; one of those innocuous ruptures that exist online, in texts. But her timing is uncanny. Sasha is facing a crisis, too, and perhaps after years apart, their shared moments of crux can bring them back into each other's lives. In Want, Strong explores the subtle violences enacted on a certain type of woman when she dares to want things-and all the various violences in which she implicates herself as she tries to survive. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Want” by Lynn Steger Strong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599078126880-ADU995HQMLNF73A8V6XO/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - What You Wish For - Katherine Center Genres: Fiction, Romance Samantha Casey loves everything about her job as an elementary school librarian on the sunny, historic island of Galveston, Texas-the goofy kids, the stately Victorian building, the butterfly garden. But when the school suddenly loses its beloved principal, it turns out his replacement will be none other than Duncan Carpenter-a former, unrequited crush of Sam's from many years before. When Duncan shows up as her new boss, though, he's nothing like the sweet teacher she once swooned over. He's become stiff, and humorless, and obsessed with school safety. Now, with Duncan determined to destroy everything Sam loves about her school in the name of security-and turn it into nothing short of a prison-Sam has to stand up for everyone she cares about before the school that's become her home is gone for good. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “What You Wish For” by Katherine Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598382985273-069EYCLTYQP7OHP4DZP1/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Whisper Network - Chandler Baker Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc. for years. The sudden death of Truviv’s CEO means their boss, Ames, will likely take over the entire company. Each of the women has a different relationship with Ames, who has always been surrounded by whispers about how he treats women. Those whispers have been ignored, swept under the rug, hidden away by those in charge. But the world has changed, and the women are watching this promotion differently. This time, when they find out Ames is making an inappropriate move on a colleague, they aren’t willing to let it go. This time, they’ve decided enough is enough. Sloane and her colleagues’ decision to take a stand sets in motion a catastrophic shift in the office. Lies will be uncovered. Secrets will be exposed. And not everyone will survive. All of their lives—as women, colleagues, mothers, wives, friends, even adversaries—will change dramatically as a result. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Whisper Network” by Chandler Baker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598378744617-STZ39JH27JB3SRYLLHCM/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close - Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman Genres: Non-fiction, Self-help Two of the nation's leading feminists and hosts of the hit podcast "Call Your Girlfriend" make the bold and compelling argument that a close friendship is the most influential and important relationship a human life can contain-helping you improve as a person and in your relationships with others. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Big Friendship” by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598982943409-HY0MUT1USK7SYACI1J93/41Cg%2B3OO6eL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Buddhist on Death Row - David Sheff Genres: Non-fiction, Religion The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls who seem to move and speak as one. "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more different from the other members of her master's program at New England's elite Warren University. A self-conscious scholarship student who prefers the company of her imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight it seems their bodies might become permanently fused. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' exclusive monthly "Smut Salon," and finds herself drawn as if by magic to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, an audacious art school dropout, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into Bunny world, and starts to take part in the off-campus "Workshop" where they devise their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur, and her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are brought into deadly collision. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Buddhist on Death Row” by David Sheff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598983368604-PWNN072MOI7280UKE4E6/811opppMPQL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Caste - Isabel Wilkerson Genres: Non-fiction As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people--including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball's Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others--she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of America life today. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598985540828-7KE4H9S8KCKNQFJOOAJ2/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Gender - Lee Airton Genres: Non-fiction An authentic and accessible guide to understanding--and engaging in--today's gender conversation. The days of two genders--male, female; boy, girl; blue, pink--are over, if they ever existed at all. Gender is now a global conversation, and one that is constantly evolving. More people than ever before are openly living their lives as transgender men or women, and many transgender people are coming out as neither men or women, instead living outside of the binary. Gender is changing, and this change is gaining momentum. We all want to do and say the right things in relation to gender diversity--whether at a job interview, at parent/teacher night, and around the table at family dinners. But where do we begin? From the differences among gender identity, gender expression, and sex, to the use of gender-neutral pronouns like singular they/them, to thinking about your own participation in gender, Gender: Your Guide serves as a complete primer to all things gender. Guided by professor and gender diversity advocate Lee Airton, PhD, you will learn how gender works in everyday life, how to use accurate terminology to refer to transgender, non-binary, and/or gender non-conforming individuals, and how to ask when you aren't sure what to do or say. It provides you with the information you need to talk confidently and compassionately about gender diversity, whether simply having a conversation or going to bat as an advocate. Just like gender itself, being gender-friendly is a process for all of us. As revolutionary a resource as Our Bodies, Ourselves, Gender: Your Guide invites everyone on board to make gender more flexible and less constricting: a source of more joy, and less harm, for everyone. Let's get started. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Gender” by Lee Airton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598985933165-NWI7SBVABB5DOPE8PBRT/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Girls and Sex - Peggy Orenstein Genres: Non-fiction A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow's women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over seventy young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, journalist Peggy Orenstein pulls back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities of girls' sex lives in the modern world. While the media has focused--often to sensational effect --on the rise of casual sex and the prevalence of rape on campus, Orenstein brings more to the table. She examines the ways in which porn and all its sexual myths have seeped into young people's lives, what it means to be the "the perfect slut" and why many girls scorn virginity, the complicated terrain of hookup culture, and the unfortunate realities surrounding assault. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Girls and Sex” by Peggy Orenstein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598988231188-X7C14OQ7JSTSI5KD0POL/81JEQW15ePL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - A History of My Brief Body - Billy-Ray Belcourt Genres: Non-fiction, Poetry A profound meditation on queerness and indigeneity from the youngest ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize Billy-Ray Belcourt begins A History of My Brief Body with a letter to his nohkom, his grandmother. "In the world-to-come," he writes, "everyone is loved by an NDN woman like you whose soft voice reminds us that we can stop running now." What follows is a charting of the distance between the world he was born into and the world he wants--a book as beautiful as it is devastating. Reflecting on his personal history, Belcourt maps his "un-Canadian and otherworldly" desire to love at all costs. We're taken to his birthplace in Joussard, in northern Alberta, where he and his twin brother come to exemplify opposites: hard and soft, masculine and feminine. To his high school graduation, where a hug from his father teaches him how to hold and be held. To a hotel room in Edmonton, where destroying the photographic evidence of his adolescence is an act of self-abolition and of making himself anew. Blending memoir and essay, and with a poet's delight in language, A History of My Brief Body is both a grappling with a legacy of trauma and a record of the joy that flourishes in spite of it. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A History of My Brief Body” by Billy-Ray Belcourt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598988896264-FDDAW29JHM8ILAIJVF7B/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - How to be Less Stupid About Race - Crystal M Fleming Genres: Non-fiction, Racism How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. Centuries after our nation was founded on genocide, settler colonialism, and slavery, many Americans are kinda-sorta-maybe waking up to the reality that our racial politics are (still) garbage. But in the midst of this reckoning, widespread denial and misunderstandings about race persist, even as white supremacy and racial injustice are more visible than ever before. Combining no-holds-barred social critique, humorous personal anecdotes, and analysis of the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on systemic racism, sociologist Crystal M. Fleming provides a fresh, accessible, and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our "national conversation about race." Drawing upon critical race theory, as well as her own experiences as a queer black millennial college professor and researcher, Fleming unveils how systemic racism exposes us all to racial ignorance--and provides a road map for transforming our knowledge into concrete social change. Searing, sobering, and urgently needed, How to Be Less Stupid About Race is a truth bomb and call to action for everyone who wants to challenge white supremacy and intersectional oppression. If you like Issa Rae, Justin Simien, Angela Davis, and Morgan Jerkins, then this deeply relevant, bold, and incisive book is for you. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “How to Be Less Stupid About Race” by Crystal M Fleming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598989878414-29BD12GCOO59FZ5B2Z93/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Medical Apartheid - Harriet A Washington Genres: Non-fiction, Medicine, Racism The first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between Africans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the way both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without a hint of informed consent--a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of blacks, and a view that they were biologically inferior, oversexed, and unfit for adult responsibilities. New details about the government's Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, and private institutions. This book reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Medical Apartheid” by Harriet A Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598990015985-IDPJRP27498PV3Q7DK11/61jZ7pV4AGL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Medicine of Peace - Jeffrey Paul Ansloos Genres: Non-fiction In The Medicine of Peace, Jeffrey Ansloos explores the complex intersections of colonial violence, the current status of Indigenous youth in Canada in regards to violence and the possibilities of critical-Indigenous psychologies of nonviolence. Indigenous youth are disproportionately at risk for violent victimization and incarceration within the justice system. They are also marginalized and oppressed within our systems of academia, mental health and social work. By linking the contemporary experiences of Indigenous youth with broader contexts of intergenerational colonial violence in Canadian society and history, Ansloos highlights the colonial nature of current approaches to Indigenous youth care. Using a critical-Indigenous discourse to critique, deconstruct and de-legitimize the hegemony of Western social science, Ansloos advances an Indigenous peace psychology to promote the revitalization of Indigenous identity for these youth. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Medicine of Truth” by Jeffrey Paul Ansloos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599063832335-U14XTLHNF0TYKY2CN40Y/71TLcIzbusL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - No Home in a Homeland - Julia Christensen Genres: Non-fiction The Dene, a traditionally nomadic people, have no word for homelessness, a rare condition in the Canadian North prior to the 1990s. Julia Christensen documents the rise of Indigenous homelessness and proposes solutions by interweaving analysis of the region's unique history with personal narratives of homeless men and women in two cities--Yellowknife and Inuvik. What emerges is a larger story of displacement and intergenerational trauma, hope and renewal. Understanding what it means to be homeless in the North and how Indigenous people think about home and homemaking is the first step, Christensen argues, on the path to decolonizing existing approaches and practices. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “No Home in a Homeland” by Julia Christensen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599064087560-0AH3BSK8QPA9QCQO4SGA/712adhKqYnL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The NRA - Frank Smyth Genres: Non-fiction The National Rifle Association is unique in American life. Few other civic organizations are as old or as large. None is as controversial. It is largely due to the NRA that the U.S. gun policy differs so extremely—some would say so tragically— from that of every other developed nation. But, as Frank Smyth shows, the NRA has evolved from an organization concerned above all with marksmanship—and which supported most government efforts around gun control for a hundred years—to one that resists all attempts to restrict guns in any way. At the same time, the organization has also buried its own remarkable history. Here is that story, from the NRA’s surprising roots in post-Civil War New York City to the defining event that changed its culture forever— the so called “Cincinnati Revolt” of 1977—to the present day, where President Donald Trump is the most ardent champion in the White House the NRA has ever had. For anyone who has looked at access to guns in our society and asked “Why?”, this is an unmatched account of how we got here, and who got us here. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The NRA” by Frank Smyth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598382591873-5XTO4BGYAUGVPGCEVI1J/91Vy7xCP3nL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Our House is on Fire - Malena Ernman & others Genres: Non-fiction, Biography, Environment This is the story of a family led to confront a crisis they had never foreseen. Aged eleven, their eldest daughter has stopped eating and speaking. Alongside diagnoses of autism and selective mutism, her parents slowly become aware of another source for her distress: her imperilled future on a rapidly heating planet. Steered by her determination to understand the truth, the family begins to see the deep connections between their own and the planet's suffering. Against forces that try to silence them, disparaging them for being different, they discover ways to strengthen, heal, and act in the world. And then one day, fifteen-year-old Greta decides to go on strike. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Our House is on Fire” by Malena Ernman & others https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599074780963-NN5GXRPB6P3AEH06MGOB/91UCa%2BZgnPL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Policing Black Lives - Robyn Maynard Genres: Non-fiction, Racism, Social justice Policing Black Bodies is a timely and much-needed exposure of historical and contemporary practices of state-sanctioned violence against Black lives in Canada. This groundbreaking work dispels many prevailing myths that cast Canada as a land of benevolence and racial equality, and uncovers long-standing state practices that have restricted Black freedom. A first of its kind, Policing Black Bodies creates a framework that makes legible how anti-Blackness has influenced the construction of Canada's carceral landscape, including the development and application of numerous criminal law enforcement and border regulation practices. The book traces the historical and contemporary mobilization of anti-Blackness spanning from slavery, 19th and 20th century segregation practices, and the application of early drug and prostitution laws through to the modern era. Maynard makes visible the ongoing legacy of a demonized and devalued Blackness that is manifest today as racial profiling by police, immigration agents and social services, the over-representation of Black communities in jails and prisons, anti-Black immigration detention and deportation practices, the over-representation of Black youth in state care, the school-to-prison pipeline and gross economic inequality. Following the dictums of the Black Lives Matter movement, Policing Black Bodies adopts an intersectional lens that explores the realities of those whose lives and experiences have historically been marginalized, stigmatized, and made invisible. In addressing how state practices have impacted Black lives, the book brings from margin to centre an analysis of gender, class, sexuality, (dis)ability, citizenship and criminalization. Beyond exploring systemic racial injustice, Policing Black Bodies pushes the limits of the Black radical imagination: it delves into liberatory Black futures and urges the necessity of transformative alternatives. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Policing Black Lives” by Robyn Maynard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599076081820-50JJRVJGAJ6QRNFXTFRB/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Smallest Lights in the Universe - Sara Seager Genres: Non-fiction, Autobiography Canadian MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace after losing her first husband to cancer, her unflagging search for an Earth-like exoplanet and her unexpected discovery of new love. Sara Seager has made it her life's work to peer into the spaces around stars--looking for exoplanets outside our solar system, hoping to find the one-in-a-billion world enough like ours to sustain life. But with the unexpected death of her husband, her life became an empty, lightless space. Suddenly, she was the single mother of two young boys, a widow at forty, clinging to three crumpled pages of instructions her husband had written for things like grocery shopping--things he had done while she did pioneering work as a planetary scientist at MIT. She became painfully conscious of her Asperger's, which before losing her husband had felt more like background noise. She felt, for the first time, alone in the universe. In this probing, invigoratingly honest memoir, Seager tells the story of how, as she stumblingly navigated the world of grief, she also kept looking for other worlds. She continues to develop groundbreaking projects, such as the Starshade, a sunflower-shaped instrument that, when launched into space, unfurls itself so as to block planet-obscuring starlight, and she takes solace in the alien beauty of exoplanets. At the same time, she discovers what feels every bit as wondrous: other people, reaching out across the space of her grief. Among them are the Widows of Concord, a group of women offering consolation and advice, and her beloved sons, Max and Alex. Most unexpected of all, there is another kind of one-in-a-billion match with an amateur astronomer. Equally attuned to the wonders of deep space and human connection, The Smallest Lights in the Universe is its own light in the dark. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Smallest Lights in the Universe” by Sara Seager https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598382837170-LP3QW3F209NRD49UD4TU/71ZWHBWqcdL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Until We Are Free - Rodney Diverlus & others Genres: Non-fiction, Social justice The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired the Black Lives Matter movement, which quickly spread outside the borders of the United States. The movement's message found fertile ground in Canada, where Black activists speak of generations of injustice and continue the work of the Black liberators who have come before them. Until We Are Free contains some of the very best writing on the hottest issues facing the Black community in Canada. It describes the latest developments in Canadian Black activism, organizing efforts through the use of social media, Black-Indigenous alliances, and more. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Until We Are Free” by Rodney Diverlus & others https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599078296690-J4YWARY70GJ1JA0MQ6BS/81V8ozIJTVL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - White Fragility - Robin Diangelo Genres: Non-fiction, Racism In this groundbreaking and timely book, antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility. Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo explores how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “White Fragility by Robin Diangelo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598985033852-76N0NOXR0T7SEWILFG48/815YWbN-FrL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Extraordinaries - TJ Klune Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy Nick Bell? Not extraordinary. But being the most popular fanfiction writer in the Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower, right? After a chance encounter with Shadow Star, Nova City’s mightiest hero (and Nick’s biggest crush), Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary. And he’ll do it with or without the reluctant help of Seth Gray, Nick's best friend (and maybe the love of his life). CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Extraordinaries” by TJ Klune https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598985805925-0DICA6IGLAU8W988RQAW/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Girl, Serpent, Thorn - Melissa Bashardoust Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy Soraya, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch, has lived eighteen years in the shadows but as her twin brother's wedding approaches, she faces choices with unimaginable consequences. Soraya has lived her life hidden away, apart from her family. She is a princess--and her touch is poisonous. As the day of her twin brother's wedding approaches, Soraya must decide if she is willing to step outside of the shadows for the first time. Below in the dungeon is a demon who holds knowledge that she craves, the answer to her freedom. And above is a young man who isn't afraid of her, whose eyes linger not with fear, but with an understanding of who she is beneath the poison. But choices have consequences, and Soraya begins to question whether she is human or demon, Princess or monster. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Girl, Serpent, Thorn” by Melissa Bashardoust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598986055760-8R2BNV9GM22FGKSBZ7VE/81ITAoaVM3L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder ( A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder #1) - Holly Jackson Genres: Young adult fiction, Mystery, Thriller Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular Andy Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. After five years, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer? Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent ... and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn't want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” by Holly Jackson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1599064372757-8YS3DF18NR5JI836OZTE/81iq6RlPa8L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - One of Us Is Next (Bayview High #2) - Karen M McManus Genres: Young adult fiction, Mystery A year after the Bayview four were cleared of Simon Kelleher's death a ton of copycat gossip apps have popped up, but no one's been able to fill the gossip void quite like he could. Now a game with dangerous consequences is targeting students at Bayview-- and if the creator isn't found soon, dangerous could prove deadly. If you choose not to play, it's a truth. And Phoebe is the first target. Maeve is next. By the time Knox is tagged, the dares have become deadly. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “One of Us Is Next” by Karen M McManus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598981249219-0F2G78OZWRXO96V0LPIR/81ZPKW6AbwL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Amber Anthem (5 Worlds #4) - Mark Siegel Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Oona Lee arrives on Salassandra determined to light the yellow beacon and continue her quest to save the Five Worlds from the evil Mimic's influence. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Amber Anthem” by Mark Siegel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598382334486-M9VJYEDGDHG7KSR12OSS/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - Hamlet (The Graphic Novel) - William Shakespeare Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Classic literature With his father murdered and the killer crowned king, Prince Hamlet struggles to deliver justice on his own terms even as his own countrymen write him off as a madman. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hamlet“ by William Shakespeare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598987660075-SV1WYN1FMOQ9K6YSQERL/71pxce3i9EL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Hidden Kingdom (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel #3) - Tui T Sutherland Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Glory knows that the dragon world is wrong about her being "a lazy RainWing." Maybe she wasn't meant to be one of the dragonets of destiny, but Glory is sharp and her venom is deadly...even if that's still a secret. So when the dragonets seek shelter in the rain forest, Glory is devastated to find that the treetops are full of RainWings that nap all day and know nothing of the rest of Pyrrhia. Worst of all, they don't realize -- or care -- that RainWings are going missing from their beautiful forest. But Glory and the dragonets are determined to find the missing dragons, even if it drags the peaceful RainWing kingdom where they never wanted to be -- into the middle of the war. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Hidden Kingdom” by Tui T Sutherland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1598989393264-C9YOGECHLJZSYTNA3IPH/71GsputIJdL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: August 31, 2020 - The Lost Heir (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel #2) - Tui T Sutherland Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy The lost heir to the SeaWing throne is going home at last. She can't believe it's finally happening. Tsunami and her fellow dragonets of destiny are journeying under the water to the great SeaWing Kingdom. Stolen as an egg from the royal hatchery, Tsunami is eager to meet her future subjects and reunite with her mother, Queen Coral. But Tsunami's triumphant return doesn't go quite the way she'd imagined. Queen Coral welcomes her with open wings, but a mysterious assassin has been killing off the queen's heirs for years, and Tsunami may be the next target. The dragonets came to the SeaWings for protection, but this ocean hides secrets, betrayal -- and perhaps even death. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Lost Heir” by Tui T Sutherland https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-july-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1595355544322-Y2CFW9VIEF0LU949A12P/giant-days.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2020 - RACHEL’S PICK: Giant Days, Fall Semester- John Allison GENRE: Fiction, Young Adult Graphic Novel WHY SHE CHOSE IT: It’s a fun, upbeat coming-of-age story with interesting characters, and it’s a quick read. SYNOPSIS: Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, “personal experimentation,” influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of “academia,” they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther, Susan, and Daisy, things are about to get a little weird. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Giant Days Volume One” by John Allison https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1595443554149-TN5MUX5M11W8A3KY00ZZ/every-day.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2020 - EDEN’S PICK: Every Day- David Levithan GENRE: Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Romance, Fantasy WHY SHE CHOSE IT: It’s a unique way of showing love is a matter of heart and mind over physical things. SYNOPSIS: Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl. There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere. It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Every Day” by David Levitan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1595444094071-3YCGHZ3029IT71VKJILN/the-giver.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2020 - ABBEY’S PICK: The Giver (The Giver #1)- Lois Lowry GENRE: Fiction, Junior Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: The plot and the society the book takes place in are so interesting. It’s also one of a few books that the movie closely matches it and does an excellent job of visually portraying what the book described. THE SYNOPSIS: Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. December is the time of the annual Ceremony at which each twelve-year-old receives a life assignment determined by the Elders. Jonas watches his friend Fiona named Caretaker of the Old and his cheerful pal Asher labeled the Assistant Director of Recreation. But Jonas has been chosen for something special. When his selection leads him to an unnamed man — the man called only the Giver — he begins to sense the dark secrets that underlie the fragile perfection of his world. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Giver” by Lois Lowry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1595445805412-OPHAU2BL0BYZXSAKIZ9P/betty.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2020 - LISA G’s PICK: Betty- David Robertson GENRE: Fiction, Young Adult Graphic Novel WHY SHE CHOSE IT: It happened close to here and it was a different kind of true crime reading for me. THE SYNOPSIS: Helen Betty Osborne, known as Betty to her closest friends and family, dreamed of becoming a teacher. She left home to attend residential school and later moved to The Pas, Manitoba, to attend high school. On November 13, 1971, Betty was abducted and brutally murdered by four young men. Initially met with silence and indifference, her tragic murder resonates loudly today. Betty represents one of almost 1,200 Indigenous women in Canada who have been murdered or gone missing. This is her story. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Betty” by David Robertson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1595446291655-M70A5M4VP4VSZ2SD86YP/my-dark-vanessa.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2020 - LISA S’s PICK: My Dark Vanessa- Kate Elizabeth Russell GENRE: Fiction, Literary Fiction WHY SHE CHOSE IT: This book was disturbing. Reading about the way Vanessa’s teacher groomed her, and progressed from touching her to taking her virginity, while drilling into her that she had to keep their relationship a secret, was vile. As much as this book disturbed me, it also enlightened me about how these relationships can define a person, and how it creeps into every corner of their self-worth. THE SYNOPSIS: 2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager—and who professed to worship only her—may be far different from what she has always believed? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “My Dark Vanessa” by Kate Elizabeth Russell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1595607366848-40D7WHWGM0A8G83B8WV6/farseer-trilogy-book-one.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: July 2020 - ELIZABETH’S PICK: The Farseer Trilogy- Robin Hobb GENRE: Fiction, Fantasy WHY SHE CHOSE IT: The Farseer series is an older one but stands the test of time as it is set in a completely different world. The books I’m recommending are: -Assassin’s Apprentice (1995) -Royal Assassin (1996) -Assassin’s Quest (1997) Robin Hobb (and why was I so surprised to find out she was a woman??) has written a number of series about the life of FitzChivalry Farseer (Fitz) and his world. They are all well written fantasy stories. My only caution is to look up the author on Fantastic Fiction to ensure you are reading the books in chronological order or you can get very confused. SYNOPSIS for book one, “Assassin’s Apprentice”: In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma. Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility. So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Assassin’s Apprentice” by Robin Hobb https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-july-29-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1596044972807-DX56CRMLYR1SEN1L19GX/71JxYdOp-gL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - The 20th Victim (Women’s Murder Club #20) - James Patterson Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller The shooters' aim is as fearsomely precise as their target selection. When Lindsay realizes that the fallen men and women excel in a lucrative, criminal activity, she leads the charge in the manhunt for the killers. As the casualty list expands, fear and fascination with this suspicious shooting gallery galvanizes the country. The victims were no angels, but are the shooters villains . . . or heroes? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The 20th Victim” by James Patterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1596045734928-Y9TD1AUXFKYONJQN19LD/91eWMSClpvL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - All Adults Here - Emma Straub Genres: Fiction When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide, so many years later, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid's 13-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most. In All Adults Here, Emma Straub's unique alchemy of wisdom, humor and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings, aging parents, high school boyfriends, middle school mean girls, the lifelong effects of birth order, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like them to or not. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “All Adults Here” by Emma Straub https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1596059064015-KHTMVQOMZEPJSILZTT0J/91ms-yzyJGL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda #1) - Michael Crichton Genres: Fiction, Science fiction, Suspense A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol. Four of the nation's most elite biophysicists are summoned to a clandestine underground laboratory located five stories beneath the desert and fitted with an automated atomic self-destruction mechanism for cases of irremediable contamination. Under conditions of total news blackout and the utmost urgency, the scientists race to understand and contain the crisis. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Andromeda Strain” by Michael Crichton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1596059124473-37W9PTVX6H8ZJCKMDW3D/81BCw-tkhJL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Daughter of the Reich - Louise Fein Genres: Fiction, Romance Leipzig, 1930's Germany. Hetty Herta is a young girl growing up under Nazi rule. With an SS officer father, a brother in the Luftwaffe and a member of the BDM Hetty is the epitome of a perfect German child. But Walter changes everything. Blond haired, blue-eyed, perfect in every way Walter. The boy who saved her life when she was a young child. Her brother's childhood best friend. A Jew. As she falls more and more in love with a man who is against all she has been taught, Hetty begins to question everything. Will the steady march of dark forces destroy their world, or can love ultimately triumph? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Daughter of the Reich” by Louise Fein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1596059147470-WSEOHVQVSSKD44VZF2FY/51REJS-6ciL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Dragonfire (Alex Hawke #11) - Ted Bell Genres: Fiction, Action, Suspense, Thriller The dashing playboy heir to the British throne has gone missing in the Bahamas. The young prince's devoted grandmother, the Queen, knows only one man who can be trusted to find him before his kidnappers make good on their deadly threats. Lord Alexander Hawke, dashing British gentleman spy and MI6 legend, will risk all to save the young royal in this breathtaking new adventure from New York Times bestselling novelist Ted Bell. December 8, 1941, Washington, D.C. The new Chinese ambassador to the United States, Tiger Tang, meets with beleaguered President Roosevelt one day after the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. China and the U.S. are wartime allies-but the charming, sophisticated Chinese ambassador may be playing his own treacherous game, including a wicked assassination plot that could well change the course of history. Present Day, the Bahamas Alex Hawke is recovering from horrific injuries suffered after a battle royale with a malevolent enemy. Suddenly, Hawke's recuperation is interrupted by a desperate call from the Queen. Her favorite grandson has disappeared in the Bahamas and Lord Hawke is the only man she trusts with a mission this time-sensitive. All she knows is that the young prince was last seen at the ultra-exclusive Dragonfire Resort, owned by Tiger's twin grandsons, the nefarious Tang brothers, evil heads of the Tang Dynasty's worldwide criminal enterprise. Time inexorably ticks down as Hawke, in the epic fight of his life, battles to unravel a shadowy conspiracy that may be centuries old. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dragonfire” by Ted Bell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1596059205402-ROLHHM69HTVD372J6XZX/71In-49jN3L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Grown Ups - Marian Keyes Genres: Fiction A brand-new book from the #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life. They're a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together--birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they're a happy family. Johnny's wife, Jessie--who has the most money--insists on it. Under the surface, though, conditions are murkier. While some people clash, other people like each other far too much . . . Still, everything manages to stay under control--that is, until Ed's wife, Cara, gets a concussion and can't keep her thoughts or opinions to herself. One careless remark at Johnny's birthday party, with the entire family present, and Cara starts spilling all their secrets. As everything unravels, each of the adults finds themselves wondering if it's--finally--the time to grow up. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Grown Ups” by Marian Keyes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1596059282324-DP2LH3MT04QKA4PFDU8H/81EY1ZYAu4L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Little Family - Ishmael Beah Genres: Fiction Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five young people have improvised a home in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country's tumultuous past. Elimane, the bookworm, is as street-smart as he is wise. Clever Khoudiemata manuevers to keep the younger kids--athletic, pragmatic Ndevui, thoughtful Kpindi, and especially their newest member, Namsa--safe and fed. When Elimane makes himself of service to the shadowy William Handkerchief, it seems as if the little family may be able to keep the world at bay and their household intact. But when Khoudi comes under the spell of the 'beautiful people'--the fortunate sons and daughters of the elite--the desire to resume an interrupted coming-of-age and follow her own destiny proves impossible to resist. A profound and tender portrayal of the connections we forge to survive the fate we're dealt, Little Family marks the further blossoming of a unique global voice. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Little Family” by Ishmael Beah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1596059325287-RL7FOI0HKA8TJDAZL7J9/61-%2BsltfUgL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Lockdown - Peter May Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Written over fifteen years ago, this prescient, suspenseful thriller is set against a backdrop of a capital city in quarantine, and explores human experience in the grip of a killer virus. They said that twenty-five percent of the population would catch the flu. Between seventy and eighty percent of them would die. He had been directly exposed to it, and the odds weren't good.' A city in quarantine. London, the epicenter of a global pandemic, is a city in lockdown. Violence and civil disorder simmer. Martial law has been imposed. No-one is safe from the deadly virus that has already claimed thousands of victims. Health and emergency services are overwhelmed. A murdered child. At a building site for a temporary hospital, construction workers find a bag containing the rendered bones of a murdered child. A remorseless killer has been unleashed on the city; his mission is to take all measures necessary to prevent the bones from being identified. A powerful conspiracy. D.I. Jack MacNeil, counting down the hours on his final day with the Met, is sent to investigate. His career is in ruins, his marriage over and his own family touched by the virus. Sinister forces are tracking his every move, prepared to kill again to conceal the truth. Which will stop him first - the virus or the killers? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Lockdown” by Peter May https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597858621637-XRPWKDLDENKGU09DMU9A/A1GffujHj3L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Masked Prey (Lucas Davenport #30) - John Sandford Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. politicians in the latest thriller by #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford. The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures . . . of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants from a motley variety of radical groups. It's obviously alarming--is there an unstable extremist tracking the loved ones of powerful politicians with deadly intent? But when the FBI is called in, there isn't much the feds can do. The anonymous photographer can't be pinned down to one location or IP address, and more importantly, at least to the paper-processing bureaucrats, no crime has actually been committed. With nowhere else to turn, influential Senators decide to call in someone who can operate outside the FBI's constraints: Lucas Davenport. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Masked Prey” by John Sandford https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597858658204-NZF8XKJWKC94ZXA2A1CS/71bgrE3r6DL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Master Class - Christina Dalcher Genres: Fiction, Science fiction From the critically acclaimed author of Vox comes a suspenseful new novel that explores a disturbing alternate reality where the government has legalized eugenics. Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state's new elite schools, where children undergo routine tests for their quotient (Q). Those who don't measure up are placed in the many state boarding schools that have cropped up under a new government mandate--Elena's daughter, Freddie, is one of them. In order to be with Freddie, Elena immediately requests to transfer to the state school. To her horror, she learns that the children are receiving the bare minimum of instruction. Instead, they spend their days making handcrafted goods--valuable commodities in the age of machine-made products. What began as a shock quickly becomes a nightmare as Elena discovers the terrifying atrocities inflicted upon the students. Not only have their test scores been tampered with, but they're also unwitting subjects of experiments, one of which tests a new method of chemical sterilization. The plan? To render all adolescents with undesirable quotients infertile...and Freddie may be next in line. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Master Class” by Christina Dalcher https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597858877542-E5HAD7LLTQOEFRD54J69/51orM32c0ML.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - The Mercies - Kiran Millwood Hargrave Genres: Fiction, Historical Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Bergensdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Northern town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified by it. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God and flooded with a mighty evil. As Maren and Ursa are pushed together and are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, the island begins to close in on them with Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Mercies” by Kiran Millwood Hargrave https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597858914916-BVDRPAFB31Y2NG4M1869/81rQC8Ws%2BiL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - The Numbers Game - Danielle Steel Genres: Fiction, Romance Eileen Jackson was happy to set aside her own dreams to raise a family with her husband, Paul. Together they built an ordinary life in a Connecticut town, the perfect place for their kids to grow up. But when Eileen discovers that Paul’s late nights in the city are hiding an affair with a younger woman, she begins to question all those years of sacrifice and compromise. On the brink of forty and wondering what she’s going to do with the rest of her life, is it too late for her to start over? Meanwhile, as Paul is thrust back into the role of suburban fatherhood, his girlfriend, Olivia, is in Manhattan, struggling to find herself in the shadow of her mother, a famous actress, and her grandmother, a fiercely independent ninety-two-year-old artist. With their unique brands of advice ringing in her head, Olivia takes a major step, expanding her art gallery business internationally. Seeing her mother pursue old dreams and even find new love, Olivia realizes that there is so much she must learn about herself before committing her life to someone else. Ultimately, Eileen decides to chase her own dreams as well. She’s off to Paris to attend Le Cordon Bleu cooking school. What awaits is an adventure that reinvents her life and redefines her. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Numbers Game” by Danielle Steel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597858998238-M4M2QHJ1D7USCHTSX7V9/516IgTLHWJL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Pretty Things - Janelle Brown Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career. When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing from rich kids in L.A. alongside her wily Irish boyfriend, Lachlan. Nina learned from the best: Her mother was the original con artist, hustling to give her daughter a decent childhood despite their wayward life. But when her mom gets sick, Nina puts everything on the line to help her, even if it means running her most audacious, dangerous scam yet. Vanessa is a privileged young heiress who wanted to make her mark in the world. Instead she becomes an Instagram influencer—traveling the globe, receiving free clothes and products, and posing for pictures in exotic locales. But behind the covetable façade is a life marked by tragedy. After a broken engagement, Vanessa retreats to her family’s sprawling mountain estate, Stonehaven: a mansion of dark secrets not just from Vanessa’s past, but from that of a lost and troubled girl named Nina. Nina’s, Vanessa’s, and Lachlan’s paths collide here, on the cold shores of Lake Tahoe, where their intertwined lives give way to a winter of aspiration and desire, duplicity and revenge. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Pretty Things” by Janelle Brown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859030883-8LVRDGG7QTMDX8LI7VJ8/71kpRL1bTfL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Seeing (Blindness #1) - Jose Saramago Genres: Fiction, Science fiction On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. What's going on? Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent are blank. The citizens are rebellious. A state of emergency is declared. The president proposes that a wall be built around the city to contain the revolution. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or even blindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that had hit the city four years before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? Is she the organizer of a conspiracy against the state? A police superintendent is put on the case. What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinister. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Seeing” by Jose Saramago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859064103-B0SCCFZTFJRLV1949X75/61wEPZaieSL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - A Silent Death - Peter May Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Spain, 2020. When ex-pat fugitive Jack Cleland watches his girlfriend die, gunned down in a pursuit involving officer Cristina Sanchez Pradell, he promises to exact his revenge by destroying the policewoman Cristina's aunt Ana has been deaf-blind for the entirety of her adult life: the victim of a rare condition named Usher Syndrome. Ana is the centre of Cristina's world, and of Cleland's cruel plan. John Mackenzie, an ingenious yet irascible Glaswegian investigator, is seconded to aid the Spanish authorities in their manhunt. He alone can silence Cleland before the fugitive has the last, bloody, word. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Silent Death” by Peter May https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859096240-EU2OYLX0AMXFARKYFJYI/81KDg0ttrIL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - The Water Keeper - Charles Martin Genres: Fiction Murphy Shepherd lives alone, doing maintenance work for a church that no one attends and trying to heal from scars gained rescuing others who dwell in the margins. His specialty is finding young girls bought and sold in the flesh trade, and leading them from brokenness to freedom, but Shepherd thinks he has given everything he has and it may be time to retire. His hermetic healing process is interrupted when he rescues a woman named Summer in Florida's Intercoastal Waterway and gets drawn into a hunt after a gang of international human traffickers. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Water Keeper” by Charles Martin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859130086-334B0EKO2VKIQIC1GTKV/81MkW1mDUpL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - When You See Me (Detective D D Warren #11) - Lisa Gardner Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D. D. Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to a small town where something seems to be deeply wrong. What at first looks like a Gothic eeriness soon hardens into something much more sinister ... and they discover that for all the evil Jacob committed while alive, his worst secret is still to be revealed. Quincy and DD must summon their considerable skills and experience to crack the most disturbing case of their careers - and Flora must face her own past directly in the hope of saving others. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “When You See Me” by Lisa Gardner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859174063-M26160P4NVLY5NGPCEMB/71w7UDQ7%2BIL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - American Poison - Eduardo Porter Genres: Non-fiction, History, Politics, Race Compared to other industrialized nations, the United States is losing ground across nearly every indicator of social health. Its race problem, argues Eduardo Porter, is largely to blame. In American Poison, the New York Times veteran shows how racial animus has stunted the development of nearly every institution crucial for a healthy society, including organized labor, public education, and the social safety net. The consequences are profound and are only growing graver with time. Leading us through history and across America--from FDR's New Deal through Bill Clinton's welfare reform to Donald Trump's retrograde and divisive policies--Porter pieces together how racial hostility has blocked American social cohesion at every turn, producing a nation that fails not only its black and brown citizens but white Americans as well. American Poison is at once a broad, rigorous argument, and a profound cri de coeur. Even as it uncovers our most tenacious national pathology, it points the way toward hope, illuminating the ways in which, as the nation becomes increasingly diverse, it may well be possible to construct a new understanding of racial identity--and a more cohesive society on top of it. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “American Poison” by Eduardo Porter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859205767-RAFHEFXTXMFNKEDQG4WU/71C16p97rBL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Biography of Resistance - Muhammad H Zaman Genres: Non-fiction, Health, Medical, Science In September 2016, a woman in Nevada became the first known case in the U.S. of a person who died of an infection resistant to every antibiotic available. Her death is the worst nightmare of infectious disease doctors and public health professionals. While bacteria live within us and are essential for our health, some strains can kill us. As bacteria continue to mutate, becoming increasingly resistant to known antibiotics, we are likely to face a public health crisis of unimaginable proportions. “It will be like the great plague of the middle ages, the influenza pandemic of 1918, the AIDS crisis of the 1990s, and the Ebola epidemic of 2014 all combined into a single threat,” Muhammad H. Zaman warns. The Biography of Resistance is Zaman’s riveting and timely look at why and how microbes are becoming superbugs. It is a story of science and evolution that looks to history, culture, attitudes and our own individual choices and collective human behavior. Following the trail of resistant bacteria from previously uncontacted tribes in the Amazon to the isolated islands in the Arctic, from the urban slums of Karachi to the wilderness of the Australian outback, Zaman examines the myriad factors contributing to this unfolding health crisis—including war, greed, natural disasters, and germophobia—to the culprits driving it: pharmaceutical companies, farmers, industrialists, doctors, governments, and ordinary people, all whose choices are pushing us closer to catastrophe. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Biography of Resistance” by Muhammad H Zaman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859260562-6KI0WCCSEQFA5DKQOT5L/81gAOZ9872L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Dark Mirror - Barton Hellman Genres: Non-fiction, History, Politics Dark Mirror is the ultimate inside account of the vast global surveillance network that now pervades all our lives. Barton Gellman’s informant called himself ‘Verax’ - the truth-teller. It was only later that Verax unmasked himself as Edward Snowden. But Gellman’s primary role in bringing Snowden’s revelations to light, for which he shared the Pulitzer Prize, is only the beginning of this gripping real-life spy story. Snowden unlocked the door: here Gellman describes what he found on the other side over the course of a years-long journey of investigation. It is also the story of his own escalating battle against unknown digital adversaries after he discovered his own name on a file in the leaked document trove and realised that he himself was under attack. Through a gripping narrative of paranoia, clandestine operations and jaw-dropping revelations, Dark Mirror delineates in full for the first time the hidden superstructure that connects government espionage with Silicon Valley. Who is spying on us and why? Here are the answers. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dark Mirror” by Barton Hellman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859300734-D8SFIVKMI0IW0X8J4C9C/41Rt3bnIEnL._SX331_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - The Future of Feeling - Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips Genres: Non-fiction, Psychology, Science There’s no argument that technology has made it easier to communicate. It’s also easier to shut someone out when we are confronted with online discourse. Why bother to understand strangers—or even acquaintances—when you can troll them, block them, or just click “Unfriend” and never look back? However briefly satisfying that might be, it’s also potentially eroding one of our most human traits: empathy. So what does the future look like when something so vital to a peaceful, healthy, and productive society is fading away? The cautionary, yet hopeful, answer is in this champion for an endangered emotion. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Future of Feeling” by Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859325765-LLA2D85X9QSPIQERYY2F/71sVWdQyDGL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Happy Fat - Sofie Hagen Genres: Non-fiction, Feminism In Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fatphobic influences from her daily life and found self-acceptance in a world where judgement and discrimination are rife. From shame and sex to airplane seats, love and getting stuck in public toilets, Sofie provides practical tips for readers – drawing wisdom from other Fat Liberation champions along the way. Part memoir, part social commentary, Happy Fat is a funny, angry and impassioned look at how taking up space in a culture that is desperate to reduce you can be radical, emboldening and life-changing. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Happy Fat” by Sofie Hagen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859375227-2SXMDJGWQPHDSLJKC5XK/51OmO%2BTimgL._SX354_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - How Not to be a Hot Mess - Craig Hase & Devon Hase Genres: Non-fiction, Self-help The dumpster fire of life rages on, but you got this. Practice six rules to keep you grounded, weather the storm, and actually be a decent person. It may seem like the world is going to hell in a hand basket right now. Whether it's big stuff like politics and climate change, or just the daily spin of paying your bills, getting to work on time, and fending off social media trolls, we can all admit, modern life ain't easy. Here are six really good guiding principles, inspired from the ancient wisdom of Buddhism and mindfulness practice, to keep you anchored and steady amidst the chaos. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “How Not to Be a Hot Mess” by Craig Hase and Devon Hase https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859405480-K8HWD7LSL33JQP40GHRO/81-f4IIOraL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness - Sarah Ramey Genres: Non-fiction, Biography, Feminism, Health Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of college turned into a prolonged and elusive condition that destroyed her health but that doctors couldn't diagnose or treat. Worse, as they failed to cure her, they hinted that her devastating symptoms were psychological. The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness is a memoir with a mission, to help the millions of (mostly) women who suffer from unnamed or misunderstood conditions. Ramey's pursuit of a diagnosis and cure for her own mysterious illness is a medical mystery that she says reveals a new understanding of today's chronic illnesses as ecological in nature, driven by modern changes to the basic foundations of health, from the quality of our sleep, diet, and social connection to the state of our microbiomes. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness” by Sarah Ramey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859433032-AOVPFGE5RN7QI4VAEPKK/71TjQSkwRJL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Looks Can Kill - Riam Shammaa Genres: Non-fiction, Health, Science From fitspiration vlogs touting "fit" as the new skinny to magazines imploring men to get "shredded" and "massive" in the gym, fitness stars and elevated body-image standards are driving a burgeoning industry meant, ostensibly, to make us all more healthy. But are those images of rippling abs, bulging shoulders and tiny waists truly inspiring good health? In this book, leading sports doctor (and former champion powerlifter) Riam Shammaa exposes the dirty secret of online fitness culture: rampant steroid and drug use, not only amongst its Instagram stars and wellness gurus, but eagerly enjoined by millions seeking to emulate a new beauty ideal (and its myth, of being all-natural). Never mind the high-profile cases of athletes Marion Jones and Lance Armstrong. Steroids and other pharmaceuticals are being sold and consumed in life-threatening quantities online and through the backrooms of gyms and fitness centres, and the people buying them range from teen girls trying to look good on Instagram to middle-aged men who can't say good-bye to their youthful physiques. This is a vivid, eye-opening and compassionate journey alongside a young doctor as he discovers an underworld of misinformation and misdirected ambition, drug abuse and lives cut short for the glory of competition, pageantry or the mistaken belief that we need to be fantastically beautiful in order to be fit. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Looks Can Kill” by Riam Shammaa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859458968-6PS7LSRGEH424FW9K2UX/91dFNPI36sL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander Genres: Non-fiction, Race Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859496216-2H3XTS0MJG1GD8J7AK2P/81K0d3XR8kL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Recollections of My Nonexistence - Rebecca Solnit Genres: Non-fiction, Biography, Feminism In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. Solnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her, the trauma that changed her, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women, including her. Looking back, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for women’s rights. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer—books themselves, the gay men around her who offered other visions of what gender, family, and joy could be, and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. These influences taught her how to write in the way she has ever since, and gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Recollections of My Nonexistence” by Rebecca Solnit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859526451-2DGPZXRUIUZNZK2QCJ1F/7107aMSBd9L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - The Skin We’re In - Desmond Cole Genres: Non-fiction, Race In his 2015 cover story for Toronto Life magazine, Desmond Cole exposed the racist actions of the Toronto police force, detailing the dozens of times he had been stopped and interrogated under the controversial practice of carding. The story quickly came to national prominence, shaking the country to its core and catapulting its author into the public sphere. Cole used his newfound profile to draw insistent, unyielding attention to the injustices faced by Black Canadians on a daily basis. Both Cole’s activism and journalism find vibrant expression in his first book, The Skin We’re In. Puncturing the bubble of Canadian smugness and naive assumptions of a post-racial nation, Cole chronicles just one year—2017—in the struggle against racism in this country. It was a year that saw calls for tighter borders when Black refugees braved frigid temperatures to cross into Manitoba from the States, Indigenous land and water protectors resisting the celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, police across the country rallying around an officer accused of murder, and more. The year also witnessed the profound personal and professional ramifications of Desmond Cole’s unwavering determination to combat injustice. In April, Cole disrupted a Toronto police board meeting by calling for the destruction of all data collected through carding. Following the protest, Cole, a columnist with the Toronto Star, was summoned to a meeting with the paper’s opinions editor and informed that his activism violated company policy. Rather than limit his efforts defending Black lives, Cole chose to sever his relationship with the publication. Then in July, at another police board meeting, Cole challenged the board to respond to accusations of a police cover-up in the brutal beating of Dafonte Miller by an off-duty police officer and his brother. When Cole refused to leave the meeting until the question was publicly addressed, he was arrested. The image of Cole walking out of the meeting, handcuffed and flanked by officers, fortified the distrust between the city’s Black community and its police force. Month-by-month, Cole creates a comprehensive picture of entrenched, systemic inequality. Urgent, controversial, and unsparingly honest, The Skin We’re In is destined to become a vital text for anti-racist and social justice movements in Canada, as well as a potent antidote to the all-too-present complacency of many white Canadians. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Skin We’re In” by Desmond Cole https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859561107-ZFQJ6D4H4T7DR7O0GYK0/816vxVXANgL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Too Much and Never Enough - Mary L Trump Genres: Non-fiction, Biography, History, Politics In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald. A first-hand witness to countless holiday meals and family interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for re-gifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s. Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Too Much and Never Enough” by Mary L Trump https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597859595396-YL405VRK26NHCI42TL87/71uzgb8m7KL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - The Velvet Rope Economy - Nelson D Schwartz Genres: Non-fiction, Economics, Politics In nearly every realm of daily life--from health care to education, highways to home security--there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how Americans live. On one side of the rope, for a price, red tape is cut, lines are jumped, appointments are secured, and doors are opened. On the other side, middle- and working-class Americans fight to find an empty seat on the plane, a place in line with their kids at the amusement park, a college acceptance, or a hospital bed. We are all aware of the gap between the rich and everyone else, but when we weren't looking, business innovators stepped in to exploit it, shifting services away from the masses and finding new ways to profit by serving the privileged. And as decision-makers and corporate leaders increasingly live on the friction-free side of the velvet rope, they are less inclined to change--or even notice--the obstacles everyone else must contend with. Schwartz's "must read" book takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of this new reality and shows the toll the velvet rope divide takes on society. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Velvet Rope Economy” by Nelson D Schwartz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1597860113184-7B36HTLQABLMNT8ANW65/61-AKLtwPcL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 29, 2020 - Boys of Alabama - Genevieve Hudson Genres: Young adult fiction, Paranormal fiction A queer coming-of-age told with magical realism, Boys of Alabama guides us through 16-year-old Max's first year in America. Conflicted about leaving Germany, Max is in awe of his new "home" - here, the heat is thick, the food is grossly delicious, and football and religion-seemingly intertwined-permeate everything. While his parents don't know what to make of an American South pining for the "good ol' days," or the people who live there, shy Max thrives-he makes the football team, goes to church for the first time, and even makes friends. When Max meets Pan in Chemistry class, they embark on a quixotic, strange, and consuming relationship. They tell each other their secrets; Max tells Pan about his witchy powers, Pan tells Max about the snake poison initiations of a local church. But the boys aren't sure whose secrets are darker, or what is more frightening - their true selves, or staying true in an intolerant Alabama. Written in atmospheric, propulsive prose, Boys of Alabama is an evocative and urgent novel of young love, identity, faith, and the dangers of each. 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CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A For Anonymous” by David Kushner https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-june-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1595178671306-J5PO9PELPGHRY1FYZ9NE/everything-i-never-told-you.jpeg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2020 - LISA S’s PICK: Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng GENRE: Fiction, Suspense, Literary Fiction WHY SHE RECOMMENDS IT: Celeste Ng is great at nailing family dynamics, and she does it really well here. As a mom, I absolutely identified with Marilyn Lee; the life she gave up to become a mother, and the pressure that put on her children’s shoulders. If you like character driven, emotional reads, this one is for you. SYNOPSIS: “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Everything I Never Told You” by Celeste Ng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1595178021376-IY2VAWSS9DJ1M7LEKSPL/a-boy-and-his-dog-at-the-end-of-the-world.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2020 - ELIZABETH’S PICK: A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World - C.A. Fletcher GENRE: Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopian WHY SHE RECOMMENDS IT: I’m not even going to give away any secrets about the book (and in fact the author asks readers not to) except to say it has a couple of interesting twists at the end. It’s a post-apocalyptic/dystopian novel (my two favourite genres) that is very character driven. If you pick it up expecting your typical post-apocalyptic read, you will be disappointed. But if you pick it up expecting a story about a boy and the lengths he’ll go to find his stolen dog, you’ll love it. SYNOPSIS: My name's Griz. I've never been to school, I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football. My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, before all the people went away. But we were never lonely on our remote island. We had each other, and our dogs. Then the thief came. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World” by C.A. Fletcher https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1595271981932-36JX29SJSLTYY7VNV7NI/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2020 - EDEN’S PICK: War Brothers - Sharon E. McKay GENRE: Fiction, Young Adult Fiction WHY SHE RECOMMENDS IT: This book opened my eyes to reality and made me realise the importance of recognizing the struggles of 3rd world countries. SYNOPSIS: Sharon McKay's novel is set in Uganda, where Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has, since 1987, abducted up to 30,000 children from their villages and homes for use as soldiers and slaves. It is in these nightmarish times that the fates of five boys and a girl are entwined. Captured from their school by the LRA, the boys wait for rescue only to discover that if they are to survive they must rely on themselves. But friendship, courage, and resilience might not be enough to save them. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “War Brothers” by Sharon E. McKay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1595271697033-50VT5RH00V6NEI2S7PI5/naruto-volume-1-3.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2020 - RACHEL’S PICK: Naruto 3-in-1 - Masashi Kishimoto GENRE: Fiction, Junior Graphic Novel WHY SHE RECOMMENDS IT: I picked this because it’s the first three volumes of a sage that was written for over 20 years. If you are looking to get a fun and fast-paced intro to the Manga world, this is a great place to start. SYNOPSIS: Naruto is a young shinobi with an incorrigible knack for mischief. He’s got a wild sense of humour, but Naruto is completely serious about his mission to be the world’s greatest ninja! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Naruto 3-in-1” by Masashi Kishimoto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1595272740823-ZY98W5IF141VGSDUJEJ4/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2020 - ABBEY’S PICK: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon GENRE: Fiction, Mystery WHY SHE RECOMMENDS IT: I chose this book because it was written from the perspective of a character with Asperger’s, so it was fascinating to see how his way of viewing the world was different than my own. SYNOPSIS: Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. At fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbour’s dog Wellington impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing. Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer, and turns to his favourite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents’ marriage. As Christopher tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, the narrative draws readers into the workings of Christopher’s mind. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1595270109050-K29GNL3YZMJIZC4EPXVH/10-happier.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: June 2020 - LISA G’s PICK: 10% Happier - Dan Harris GENRE: Nonfiction, Self-Help WHY SHE RECOMMENDS IT: I picked this book up because I heard about the author having a panic attack on a live TV newscast, and was curious to find out how he coped with the anxiety.I learned some great tips on meditation, and overall mental health. SYNOPSIS: Nightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable. WHY SHE RECOMMENDS IT: Lisa picked this book up because she heard about the author having a panic attack on a live TV newscast, and was curious to find out more about it. She says the book has good tips on meditation, and overall mental health. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “10% Happier” by Dan Harris https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-july-9-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594313830064-LFA0ZJ1C9GWAXBB6C7SG/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - The Apartment - K L Slater Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller They say every cloud has a silver lining. . . When Freya Miller is struck by tragedy, losing her husband and her home within a short time, she is burdened with many worries. The main one being where she and her five-year old daughter, Skye, are going to live. A chance meeting with the charismatic Dr. Marsden changes all that. He offers the young mother the most amazing opportunity; an apartment at one of London's most exclusive addresses for a fraction of the market rental cost. It's an offer Freya simply can't refuse. Within a couple of weeks, Freya and Skye are moving into Adder House and meeting the other welcoming residents. They very quickly feel part of the family. But just when Freya truly believes all her problems are history, a series of strange, unexplained occurrences begin. It leaves Freya with the unshakeable feeling that even when their apartment door is securely locked, she and her daughter are not alone. Freya thought she'd left all her troubles behind her yet she soon realizes there are problems here that are far more terrifying than before. For behind the doors of Adder House, everything is most definitely not as it seems. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Apartment” by K L Slater https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594313957929-DILBK1U1BQOB7KEU80YR/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Ask Again, Yes - Mary Beth Keane Genres: Fiction A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the bond between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marriage, and the power of forgiveness. Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, two rookie cops in the NYPD, live next door to each other outside the city. What happens behind closed doors in both houses—the loneliness of Francis’s wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian’s wife, Anne—sets the stage for the explosive events to come. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Ask Again, Yes” by Mary Beth Keane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594314398839-4M2KM4LG6D9SY4H8OXF5/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Catherine House - Elisabeth Thomas Genres: Fiction, Gothic, Mystery, Thriller Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world’s best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance comes with a price. Students are required to give the House three years—summers included—completely removed from the outside world. Family, friends, television, music, even their clothing must be left behind. In return, the school promises its graduates a future of sublime power and prestige, and that they can become anything or anyone they desire. Among this year’s incoming class is Ines, who expects to trade blurry nights of parties, pills, cruel friends, and dangerous men for rigorous intellectual discipline—only to discover an environment of sanctioned revelry. The school’s enigmatic director, Viktória, encourages the students to explore, to expand their minds, to find themselves and their place within the formidable black iron gates of Catherine. For Ines, Catherine is the closest thing to a home she’s ever had, and her serious, timid roommate, Baby, soon becomes an unlikely friend. Yet the House’s strange protocols make this refuge, with its worn velvet and weathered leather, feel increasingly like a gilded prison. And when Baby’s obsessive desire for acceptance ends in tragedy, Ines begins to suspect that the school—in all its shabby splendor, hallowed history, advanced theories, and controlled decadence—might be hiding a dangerous agenda that is connected to a secretive, tightly knit group of students selected to study its most promising and mysterious curriculum. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Catherine House” by Elisabeth Thomas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594314654130-0QFR6LYI1USX7DHZL6CK/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Deacon King Kong - James McBride Genres: Fiction, Historical In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters--caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York--overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Deacon King Kong” by James McBride https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594314872557-IVDRBKS7A51CP3NU41A8/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Dead to Her - Sarah Pinborough Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller “Once a cheat, always a cheat,” they say. Marcie Maddox has worked hard to get where she is after the illicit affair that started her new life a few years ago. But her world of country clubs, yachts and sumptuous houses in Savannah, Georgia, isn’t easy to maintain, no matter how hard she tries. Nor is keeping her husband, Jason, truly interested. So, when Jason’s boss brings home a hot new wife from his trip to London, the young Mrs William Radford IV isn’t quite the souvenir everyone expected. Sexy, drop-dead gorgeous and black—Keisha quickly usurps Marcie’s place as the beautiful second wife. But when Marcie sees the extra spark in the room when Keisha and Jason are together and their obvious, magnetic attraction, the gloves come off. Revenge is best served cold, but in the steamy Savannah heat, blood runs so hot that this summer it might just boil over into murder. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dead to Her” by Sarah Pinborough https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594315061225-017RRIX1JNT1VGF4MMVH/91S0-IQerlL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Dear Edward - Ann Napolitano Genres: Fiction One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them is a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured vet returning from Afghanistan, a septuagenarian business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. And then, tragically, the plane crashes. Edward is the sole survivor. Edward's story captures the attention of the nation, but he struggles to find a place for himself in a world without his family. He continues to feel that a piece of him has been left in the sky, forever tied to the plane and all of his fellow passengers. But then he makes an unexpected discovery--one that will lead him to the answers of some of life's most profound questions: When you've lost everything, how do find yourself? How do you discover your purpose? What does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dear Edward” by Ann Napolitano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594315327815-V0KLYKPJJ2ZGYUP2026F/51rnUXo85fL._SX331_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Final Judgement (Samantha Brinkman #4) - Marcia Clark Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When it comes to relationships and self-preservation, defense attorney Samantha Brinkman has always been cut and run. But it’s different with her new lover, Niko, an ambitious and globally famous entrepreneur. Sam is putting her faith in him. She has to. He’s also her new client—a suspect in the murder of an investor whose shady dealings turned Niko’s good life upside down. He had the motive: revenge. As did many others who banked a fortune on the wrong man. That’s a point in Niko’s favor. So is his alibi for the day of the slaying. Until that alibi mysteriously disappears. As Sam’s feverish search for another viable killer begins, the investigation only leads deeper into Niko’s past and its secrets. From the darkest suspicions to final judgment, fighting for Niko is Sam’s job. To do it, she must risk everything on a man who could make all her worst fears come true. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Final Judgement” by Marcia Clark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594315955522-7MGFFXGHA3I7VAMPGG0H/81qxcGzJgUL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Find Them Dead (Roy Grace #16) - Peter James Genres: Fiction, Mystery Ending his secondment to London’s Met Police, Roy Grace gets a tip-off about a county lines drugs mastermind operating out of Brighton. On his first day back in his old job in Sussex, he is called to a seemingly senseless murder. Separately, Meg Magellan finally has her life back together, five years after the car crash that killed her husband and their son. Her daughter, Laura, now 18, is on her gap year travelling in South America with a friend, and Meg misses her badly. Laura is all she has in the world. In between jobs, Meg receives a summons for jury service. She’s excited – it might be interesting and will help distract her from constantly worrying about Laura. But when she is selected for the trial of a major Brighton drugs overlord, everything changes. Gradually, Grace’s investigation draws him increasingly into the sinister sphere of influence of the drug dealer on trial. A man utterly ruthless and evil, prepared to order the death of anyone it takes to enable him to walk free. Just a few days into jury service, Meg arrives home to find a photograph of Laura, in Ecuador, lying on her kitchen table. Then her phone rings. A sinister, threatening stranger is on the line. He tells her that if she ever wants to see Laura alive again, it is very simple. At the end of the trial, all she has to do is make sure the jury says just two words . . . Not guilty. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Find them Dead” by Peter James https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594316458313-8TK5I4GKDU055ON889Y6/713OPvo31pL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Followers - Megan Angelo Genres: Fiction, Science fiction Orla Cadden is a budding novelist stuck in a dead-end job, writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla meets Floss―a striving wannabe A-lister―who comes up with a plan for launching them both into the high-profile lives they dream about. So what if Orla and Floss's methods are a little shady and sometimes people get hurt? Their legions of followers can't be wrong. Thirty-five years later, in a closed California village where government-appointed celebrities live every moment of the day on camera, a woman named Marlow discovers a shattering secret about her past. Despite her massive popularity―twelve million loyal followers―Marlow dreams of fleeing the corporate sponsors who would do anything to keep her on-screen. When she learns that her whole family history is based on a lie, Marlow finally summons the courage to run in search of the truth, no matter the risks. Followers traces the paths of Orla, Floss and Marlow as they wind through time toward each other, and toward a cataclysmic event that sends America into lasting upheaval. At turns wry and tender, bleak and hopeful, this darkly funny story reminds us that even if we obsess over famous people we’ll never meet, what we really crave is genuine human connection. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Followers” by Megan Angelo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594316593119-Y2SYIB9YAZS4RGKM1PI1/81QrR69h4jL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - A Forgotten Murder (Medlar Mystery #3) - Jude Deveraux Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance After solving two murder cases in their hometown of Lachlan, Florida, Sara Medlar, her niece Kate and their friend Jack need a change of scenery. Sara arranges for them to visit an old friend of hers in England. Upon arrival at Oxley Manor, a centuries-old estate that has been converted to a luxury hotel, Kate and Jack quickly realize that Sara is up to something. They learn that Sara has also invited a number of others to join them at Oxley. When everyone assembles, Sara lets them know why they are there. Decades earlier, two people ran off together from Oxley and haven’t been heard from since—and Sara wants to solve the case. As the people who were there the night the two went missing, the guests find themselves cast in a live mystery-theater event. In reenacting the events of that night, it becomes clear that everyone has something to hide and no one is safe, especially when the discovery of a body makes it clear that at least one of the people who disappeared was murdered. Sara, Jack and Kate are once again at the heart of a mysterious case that only they are able to solve. But someone is willing to continue to kill to keep the truth about Oxley Manor buried, and none of the guests are safe. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Forgotten Murder” by Jude Deveraux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594316992087-74XV7D03VRMSX7Y5FMVV/91dDueP5aoL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Hunter Killer (Pike Logan #14) - Brad Taylor Genres: Fiction, Thriller Pike Logan and the Taskforce were once the apex predators, an unrivaled hunting machine that decimated those out to harm the United States, but they may have met their match. While Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill prepare to join their team on a counter-terrorist mission in the triple frontier—the lawless tri-border region where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay meet—they are targeted in Charleston, South Carolina. A vicious explosion kills a friend, and the perpetrators have set it up to look like an accident. While the authorities believe this was not foul play, Pike knows the attack was meant for him. When he loses contact with the team in South America, Pike is convinced he and the Taskforce are under assault. His men are the closest thing to family that Pike has, which means he will do anything, even ignore direct orders to stand down, to find them. Pike and Jennifer head to Brazil to investigate their disappearance and run headlong into a crew of Russian assassins. Within days they are entangled in a byzantine scheme involving Brazilian politics and a cut-throat battle for control of offshore oil fields. Forged in combat, the Russians are the equal of anything the Taskforce has encountered before, but they make a mistake in attacking Pike’s team, because Pike has a couple of elite Israeli assassins of his own. And Pike will stop at nothing to protect his family. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hunter Killer” by Brad Taylor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594317130436-3MIG4792KJVEKRYPVROF/A1nBv1wNw5L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - The Illness Lesson - Clare Beams Genres: Fiction, Historical A mysterious flock of red birds has descended over Birch Hill. Recently reinvented, it is now home to an elite and progressive school designed to shape the minds of young women. But Eliza Bell – the most inscrutable and defiant of the students – has been overwhelmed by an inexplicable illness. One by one, the other girls begin to experience the same peculiar symptoms: rashes, fits, headaches, verbal tics, night wanderings. Soon Caroline – the only woman teaching – begins to suffer too. She tries desperately to hide her symptoms but, with the birds behaving strangely and the girls’ condition worsening, the powers-that-be turn to a sinister physician with grave and dubious methods. Caroline alone can speak on behalf of the students, but only if she summons the confidence to question everything she’s ever learnt. Does she have the strength to confront the all-male, all-knowing authorities of her world and protect the young women in her care? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Illness Lesson” by Clare Beams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594317298903-ZSE2JOE2PFB1RCO231A2/815lsQDJZQL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - The Last Sister (Columbia River #1) - Kendra Elliot Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Thriller Twenty years ago Emily Mills’s father was murdered, and she found his body hanging in the backyard. Her younger sister, Madison, claims she was asleep in her room. Her older sister, Tara, claims she was out with friends. The tragedy drove their mother to suicide and Tara to leave town forever. The killer was caught. The case closed. Ever since, Emily and Madison have tried to forget what happened that night—until an eerily similar murder brings it all back. It also brings FBI special agent Zander Wells to the Oregon logging town. As eager as he is to solve the brutal double slaying, he is just as intrigued with the mystery of Emily’s and her sisters’ past. When more blood is shed, Zander suspects there’s a secret buried in this town no one wants unearthed. Is it something Emily and Madison don’t know? Or aren’t telling? And Tara? Maybe Emily can’t bear to find her. Because when Tara disappeared, she took a secret of her own with her. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Last Sister” by Kendra Elliot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594317647103-1RPD54EDZYLBEKF7HAJH/81emgKJKQ-L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - The Lost Book of Adana Moreau - Michael Zapata Genres: Fiction, Historical, Science fiction In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel titled Lost City. It is a strange and beautiful novel, set in a near future where a sixteen-year-old Dominican girl, not all that unlike Adana herself, searches for a golden eternal city believed to exist somewhere on a parallel Earth. Lost City earns a modest but enthusiastic readership, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she and her son, Maxwell, destroy the only copy of the manuscript. Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower is cleaning out his dead grandfather’s home when he discovers a mysterious package containing a manuscript titled A Model Earth, written by none other than Adana Moreau. Who was Adana Moreau? How did Saul’s grandfather, a Jewish immigrant born on a steamship to parents fleeing the aftershocks of the Russian Revolution, come across this unpublished, lost manuscript? Where is Adana Moreau’s mysterious son, Maxwell, a theoretical physicist, and why did Saul’s grandfather send him the manuscript as his final act in life? With the help of his friend Javier, Saul tracks down an address for Maxwell in New Orleans, which is caught at that moment in the grip of Hurricane Katrina. Unable to reach Maxwell, Saul and Javier head south through the heartland of America toward that storm-ravaged city in search of answers. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Lost Book of Adana Moreau” by Michael Zapata https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594317853099-SZJKMH3F5SFKWXG6IZ16/9781542009980.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - The Master’s Apprentice (Faust #1) - Oliver Potzsch Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Science fiction It’s the fifteenth century and only heretics are curious about the universe. Germany, 1494. Born under a rare alignment of the stars, Johann Georg Gerlach, “the lucky one” to his mother—is fated for greatness. But Johann’s studies and wonder at the sky have made him suspect. Especially in wake of the child disappearances that have left the God-fearing locals trembling and his one true love trapped in terrified catatonia. Her only words: “I have seen the devil…” Banished from Knittlingen as cursed, Johann crosses paths with Tonio del Moravia. The traveling fortune-teller and master of the arcane arts recognizes something extraordinary in the wanderer. Taking Johann under his wing, Tonio promises a new world of knowledge and sensations. But with it comes a sinister web of deception and a chilling prophecy. The stars are set to align again. Now Johann must draw on the skills of his apprenticeship to solve the dark mystery that grips his village in fear and the deepening mystery of his own destiny. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Master’s Apprentice” by Oliver Potzsch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594318032518-I2AF6XZWS26BEG6IY4AL/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia Genres: Fiction, Historical, Horror After receiving a frantic letter from her newly wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region. Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom. Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness. And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Mexican Gothic” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594318149867-D3K4GGPKVK6II309KKZX/81CBonEmekL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell Genres: Fiction 2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager—and who professed to worship only her—may be far different from what she has always believed? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “My Dark Vanessa” by Kate Elizabeth Russell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594318486034-48I9VG8070P9K7T1JE8N/81fcj0tGeML.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich Genres: Fiction, Historical Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new “emancipation” bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn’t about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a “termination” that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans “for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run”? Since graduating high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Patrice, the class valedictorian, has no desire to wear herself down with a husband and kids. She makes jewel bearings at the plant, a job that barely pays her enough to support her mother and brother. Patrice’s shameful alcoholic father returns home sporadically to terrorize his wife and children and bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to follow her beloved older sister, Vera, who moved to the big city of Minneapolis. Vera may have disappeared; she hasn’t been in touch in months, and is rumored to have had a baby. Determined to find Vera and her child, Patrice makes a fateful trip to Minnesota that introduces her to unexpected forms of exploitation and violence, and endangers her life. Thomas and Patrice live in this impoverished reservation community along with young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother Juggie Blue, her niece and Patrice’s best friend Valentine, and Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Night Watchman” by Louise Erdrich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594318606357-9ZMIV0FANQKLO8WPL2QI/81xvOKREI0L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Real Life - Brandon Taylor Genres: Fiction Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends—some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Real Life” by Brandon Taylor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594318737700-VILHWWAQ3CK72NY7LOPF/81uKFeSplpL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - The Remaking - Clay McLeod Chapman Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Paranormal Ella Louise has lived in the woods surrounding Pilot’s Creek, Virginia, for nearly a decade. Publicly, she and her daughter Jessica are shunned by their upper-crust family and the Pilot’s Creek residents. Privately, desperate townspeople visit her apothecary for a cure to what ails them—until Ella Louise is blamed for the death of a prominent customer. Accused of witchcraft, both mother and daughter are burned at the stake in the middle of the night. Ella Louise’s burial site is never found, but the little girl has the most famous grave in the South: a steel-reinforced coffin surrounded by a fence of interconnected white crosses. Their story will take the shape of an urban legend as it’s told around a campfire by a man forever marked by his boyhood encounters with Jessica. Decades later, a boy at that campfire will cast Amber Pendleton as Jessica in a ’70s horror movie inspired by the Witch Girl of Pilot’s Creek. Amber’s experiences on that set and its meta-remake in the ’90s will ripple through pop culture, ruining her life and career after she becomes the target of a witch hunt. Amber’s best chance to break the cycle of horror comes when a true-crime investigator tracks her down to interview her for his popular podcast. But will this final act of storytelling redeem her—or will it bring the story full circle, ready to be told once again? And again. And again… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Remaking” by Clay McLeod Chapman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594319025417-HUZNGI3EGYL6R26YYE5A/81VHbRLS-FL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Valentine - Elizabeth Wetmore Genres: Fiction, Historical Mercy is hard in a place like this . . . It’s February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Valentine” by Elizabeth Wetmore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594320299819-U2FKWXALXP2QBNO0F4GR/819FLd6HlvL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - The Wedding Dress - Danielle Steel Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance From the glamorous San Francisco social scene of the 1920s, through war and the social changes of the '60s, to the rise of Silicon Valley today, this extraordinary novel takes us on a family odyssey that is both heartbreaking and inspiring, as each generation faces the challenges of their day. The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the 1960s--history holds many surprises, and lives are changed forever. For richer or for poorer, in cramped apartments and grand mansions, the treasured wedding dress made in Paris in 1928 follows each generation into their new lives, and represents different hopes for each of them, as they marry very different men. From inherited fortunes at the outset to self-made men and women, the wedding dress remains a cherished constant for the women who wear it in each generation and forge a destiny of their own. It is a symbol of their remaining traditions and the bond of family they share in an ever-changing world. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Wedding Dress” by Danielle Steel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594312964744-40P0I64YMT4NGRNSHC0Q/81vPQ60rgJL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Abolish Silicon Valley - Wendy Liu Genres: Non-fiction, Politics, Science Innovation. Meritocracy. The possibility of overnight success. What's not to love about Silicon Valley? These days, it's hard to be unambiguously optimistic about the growth-at-all-costs ethos of the tech industry. Public opinion is souring in the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica, Theranos, and the workplace conditions of Amazon warehouse workers or Uber. We're starting to see the cracks in the edifice, as we realise that the wealth that the tech industry is so good at creating is neither sustainable nor always desirable. Abolish Silicon Valley is both a heartfelt personal story about the wasteful inequality and unsubstantiated lies of Silicon Valley, and a rallying call to engage in the radical politics needed to upend the status quo. Going beyond the idiosyncrasies of the individual founders and companies that characterize the industry today, Liu delves into the structural factors of the economy that led to Silicon Valley in its current form, and links them to the economy at large. Ultimately, she proposes a more radical way of developing technology, where innovation is conducted for the benefit of society at large, and not merely to enrich a select few. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Abolish Silicon Valley” by Wendy Liu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594317458490-163H5W5FEO4E7XFNWHUM/91gCIHrp0dL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Legendary Children - Tom Fitzgerald Genres: Non-fiction, History Legendary Children centers itself around the idea that not only is Drag Race the queerest show in the history of television, but that RuPaul and company devised a show that serves as an actual museum of queer cultural and social history, drawing on queer traditions and the work of legendary figures going back nearly a century. In doing so, Drag Race became not only a repository of queer history and culture, but an examination and illustration of queer life in the modern age. It is a snapshot of how LGBTQ folks live, struggle, work and reach out to each other – and how they always have. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Legendary Children” by Tom Fitzgerald https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594318878637-25QPL9DCCYVUGBIGMGW6/91yeltFNrGL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Untamed - Glennon Doyle Genres: Non-fiction, Self-help There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn’t it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful. We hide our simmering discontent—even from ourselves. Until we reach our boiling point. Four years ago, Glennon Doyle—bestselling Oprah-endorsed author, renowned activist and humanitarian, wife and mother of three—was speaking at a conference when a woman entered the room. Glennon looked at her and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. Soon she realized that they came to her from within. Glennon was finally hearing her own voice—the voice that had been silenced by decades of cultural conditioning, numbing addictions, and institutional allegiances. This was the voice of the girl Glennon had been before the world told her who to be. She vowed to never again abandon herself. She decided to build a life of her own—one based on her individual desire, intuition, and imagination. She would reclaim her true, untamed self. Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both a memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It offers a piercing, electrifying examination of the restrictive expectations women are issued from birth; shows how hustling to meet those expectations leaves women feeling dissatisfied and lost; and reveals that when we quit abandoning ourselves and instead abandon the world’s expectations of us, we become women who can finally look at ourselves and recognize: There She Is. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Untamed” by Glennon Doyle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594320141566-MK6BV00YTEZVDXEZTWFP/91KBVBdcU4L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Warhol - Blake Gopnik Genres: Non-fiction, Biography, History, Art When critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the Pop artist was happy to present himself as shallower still: He claimed that he silkscreened to avoid the hard work of painting, although he was actually a meticulous workaholic; in interviews he presented himself as a silly naïf when in private he was the canniest of sophisticates. Blake Gopnik's definitive biography digs deep into the contradictions and radical genius that led Andy Warhol to revolutionise our cultural world. Based on years of archival research and on interviews with hundreds of Warhol's surviving friends, lovers and enemies, Warhol traces the artist's path from his origins as the impoverished son of Eastern European immigrants in 1930s Pittsburgh, through his early success as a commercial illustrator and his groundbreaking pivot into fine art, to the society portraiture and popular celebrity of the '70s and '80s, as he reflected and responded to the changing dynamics of commerce and culture. Warhol sought out all the most glamorous figures of his times - Susan Sontag, Mick Jagger, the Barons de Rothschild - despite being burdened with an almost crippling shyness. Behind the public glitter of the artist's Factory, with its superstars, drag queens and socialites, there was a man who lived with his mother for much of his life and guarded the privacy of his home. He overcame the vicious homophobia of his youth to become a symbol of gay achievement, while always seeking the pleasures of traditional romance and coupledom. (Warhol explodes the myth of his asexuality.) Filled with new insights into the artist's work and personality, Warhol asks: Was he a joke or a genius, a radical or a social climber? As Warhol himself would have answered: Yes. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Warhol” by Blake Gopnik https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594320456356-X9NCLT67PEY90GDFNEHN/51tFhiubaaL._SX329_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - What We Carry - Maya Shanbhag Lang Genres: Non-fiction, Biography How much can you judge another woman's choices? What if that woman is your mother? Maya Shanbhag Lang grew up idolizing her brilliant mother, an accomplished physician who immigrated to the United States from India and completed her residency, all while raising her children and keeping a traditional Indian home. She had always been a source of support--until Maya became a mother herself. Then, the parent who had once been so capable and attentive turned unavailable and distant. Struggling to understand this abrupt change while raising her own young child, Maya searches for answers and soon learns that her mother is living with Alzheimer's When Maya steps in to care for her, she comes to realize that despite their closeness, she never really knew her mother. Were her cherished stories--about life in India, about what it means to be an immigrant, about motherhood itself--even true? Affecting, raw, and poetic, What We Carry is the story of a daughter and her mother, of lies and truths, of receiving and giving care--and how we cannot grow up until we fully understand the people who raised us. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “What We Carry” by Maya Shanbhag Lang https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594321234370-25ULDLETPNUUINK45V61/619pFukWRqL._AC_SL1500_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Why We’re Polarized - Ezra Klein Genres: Non-fiction, History, Politics After Election Day 2016, both supporters and opponents of the soon-to-be president hailed his victory as a historically unprecedented event. Most Americans could agree that no candidate like Donald Trump had ever been elected President before. But political journalist Ezra Klein makes the case that the 2016 election wasn't surprising at all. In fact, Trump's electoral victory followed the exact same template as previous elections, by capturing a nearly identical percentage of voter demographics as previous Republican candidates. Over the past 50 years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. Those merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. In this groundbreaking book, Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and each other. And he traces the feedback loops between our polarized political identities and our polarized political institutions that are driving our political system towards crisis. Neither a polemic nor a lament, Klein offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump's rise to the Democratic Party's leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. A revelatory book that will change how you look at politics, and perhaps at yourself. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Why We’re Polarized” by Ezra Klein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594321862638-DGA2Q2C6Z4UWVI9X7IU5/91KsLO3sqJL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - You Are An Artist - Sarah Urist Green Genres: Non-fiction, Art A few years ago curator Sarah Urist Green left her office in the basement of an art museum to travel and visit a diverse range of artists, asking them to share prompts that relate to their own ways of working. The result is You Are an Artist, a journey of creation through which you'll invent imaginary friends, sort books, declare a cause, construct a landscape, find your band, and become someone else (or at least try). Your challenge is to filter these assignments through the lens of your own experience and make art that reflects the world as you see it. You don't have to know how to draw well, stretch a canvas, or mix a paint colour that perfectly matches that of a mountain stream. This book is for anyone who wants to make art, regardless of experience level. The only materials you'll need are what you already have on hand or can source for free. You Are an Artist brings together more than 50 assignments gathered from some of the most innovative creators working today. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “You Are an Artist” by Sarah Urist Green https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594314236320-DE0WBT56R3H389CGZ5UM/71EsQj8ZIOL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Bloom (Overthrow #1) - Kenneth Oppel Genres: Junior fiction, Science Fiction, Horror It was just rain. But after the downpour, odd black plants begin to shoot up. Suddenly— They. Are. Everywhere. They take over fields and twine around houses. They bloom and throw off toxic pollen—and feed. Strangely, three Salt Spring Island teens seem immune. Anaya, Petra and Seth. What’s their connection? What’s their secret? A week ago, they wouldn’t have thought they had one. But they’d better figure it out fast—the invasion has already begun. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE "Bloom” by Kenneth Oppel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594316797506-2LT3G9UH31Z5V3K38MRY/91fhhUusE1L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 1-3 - Hiromu Arakawa Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical ""auto-mail"" limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his and his brother's bodies...the legendary Philosopher's Stone. Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world, somewhere between magic, art and science. When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabbled in these powers to grant their dearest wish, one of them lost an arm and leg...and the other became nothing but a soul locked into a body of living iron. Now they are agents of the government, slaves of the military-alchemical complex, using their unique powers to obey their orders...even to kill. But their powers aren't unique. The world crawls with evil alchemists. And in pursuit of the ultimate alchemical treasure, the Philosopher's Stone, their enemies are even more ruthless than they are... 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CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Naruto Vol. 1-3” by Masashi Kishimoto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594321053555-0MC27540H1W0BLQVANH6/81aq6ZE9NuL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - When Stars are Scattered - Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, the only family member he has left, every day. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “When Stars are Scattered” by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594321546514-409YI34PQ17WN4X5J0FN/91MQ4Jti0wL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Witchlight - Jessi Zabarsky Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Jessi Zabarsky's lushly illustrated shoujo-adventure comic that introduces Lelek the witch as she blows through town one day, kidnapping the peasant girl Sanja. The unlikely pair grow more entangled as they travel together, looking for the missing half of Lelek's soul – the source of her true magical abilities. Both women are seeking to learn, in their own ways, how to be whole again. This book collects the serialized story all into a single volume, including the heart-gripping conclusion and other all-new material. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Witchlight” by Jessi Zabarsky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594321748711-4H7H3VLBIEHU7TR0O9BV/81MSCX8KZ9L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 9, 2020 - Witchy - Ariel Slamet Ries Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined by the length of your hair. Those that are strong enough are conscripted by the Witch Guard, who enforce the law in peacetime and protect the land during war. However, those with hair judged too long are pronounced enemies of the kingdom, and annihilated. This is called a witch burning. Witchy is a comic about the young witch Nyneve, who is haunted by the death of her father and the threat the Witch Guard poses to her own life. When conscription rolls around, Nyneve has a choice to make; join the institution complicit in her father's death, or stand up for her ideals? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Witchy” by Arial Slamet Ries https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-july-7-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594145051053-XJKNFL0XW21NLI4YL7U8/beach-read-emily-henry.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Beach Read - Emily Henry GENRE: Fiction, Romance Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighbouring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Beach Read” by Emily Henry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594145660963-01SAWBPYKWDS8IN8KVLK/bombshell-stuart-woods.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Bombshell - Stuart Woods GENRES: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Teddy Fay is back in Hollywood and caught in two tricky situations. First, a rising star at Centurion becomes the target of malicious gossip, and Teddy must find and neutralize the source before the situation gets out of hand--or becomes violent. At the same time, Teddy finds himself targeted by a criminal thug bearing a grudge. It's a lot of knives to juggle, even for a former-CIA-operative-turned-movie-producer accustomed to hazardous working conditions. This time Teddy will need to leverage every bit of his undercover skills and fearless daring to stay one step ahead of his foes . . . or he'll find himself one foot in the grave. CLICK TO RESERVE “Bombshell” by Stuart Woods https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594146257701-MI41AL6VWZ139BIQ82CG/devolution-max-brooks.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Devolution - Max Brooks GENRES: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined . . . until now. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing—and too earth-shattering in its implications—to be forgotten. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it. Kate’s is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity’s defiance in the face of a terrible predator’s gaze, and, inevitably, of savagery and death. Yet it is also far more than that. Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us—and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Devolution” by Max Brooks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594146630682-GV32QHD2P7UYKS9MB1TH/fair-warning-michael-connelly.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Fair Warning (Jack McEvoy #3) - Michael Connelly GENRE: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. Jack investigates--against the warnings of the police and his own editor--and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. Undetected by law enforcement, a vicious killer has been hunting women, using genetic data to select and stalk his targets. Uncovering the murkiest corners of the dark web, Jack races to find and protect the last source who can lead him to his quarry. But the killer has already chosen his next target, and he's ready to strike. CLICK TO RESERVE “Fair Warning” by Michael Connelly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594146869507-PX2D7MAOIO4TTBI50KV7/hush-james-patterson.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Hush (Harriet Blue #4) - James Patterson GENRES: Fiction, Thriller Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop -- as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside. But Woods is not there to gloat. His daughter Tonya and her two-year-old child have gone missing. He's ready to offer Harriet a deal: find his family to buy her freedom . . . CLICK TO RESERVE “Hush” by James Patterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594147911853-H766R77LEK2SSKNZW6KO/polar-vortex-shani-mootoo.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Polar Vortex - Shani Mootoo GENRES: Fiction Priya and Alexandra have moved from the city to a picturesque countryside town. What Alex doesn’t know is that in moving, Priya is running from her past—from a fraught relationship with an old friend, Prakash, who pursued her for many years, both online and off. Time has passed, however, and Priya, confident that her ties to Prakash have been successfully severed, decides it’s once more safe to establish an online presence. In no time, Prakash discovers Priya online and contacts her. Impulsively, inexplicably, Priya invites him to visit her and Alex in the country, without ever having come clean with Alex about their relationship— or its tumultuous end. Prakash’s sudden arrival at their home reveals cracks in Priya and Alex’s relationship and brings into question Priya’s true intentions. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Polar Vortex” by Shani Mootoo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594148280931-QHLTXNLBGDND66E5ZV2Y/revenge-james-patterson.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Revenge - James Patterson GENRES: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Former SAS soldier David Shelley was part of the most covert operations team in the special forces. Now settling down to civilian life in London, he has plans for a safer and more stable existence. But the shocking death of a young woman Shelley once helped protect puts those plans on hold. The police rule the death a suicide but the grieving parents can't accept their beloved Emma would take her own life. They need to find out what really happened, and they turn to their former bodyguard, Shelley, for help. When they discover that Emma had fallen into a dark and seedy world of drugs and online pornography, the father demands retribution. But his desire for revenge will make enemies of people that even Shelley may not be able to protect them from, and take them into a war from which there may be no escape. CLICK TO RESERVE “Revenge” by James Patterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594148722983-D0T2DXM3R7DT7QE3WWQV/walk-the-wire-david-baldacci.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Walk the Wire (Amos Decker #6) - David Baldacci GENRES: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller A lone hunter discovers the remains of a woman in North Dakota’s Badlands. She appears to have had a post-mortem performed on her reminiscent of those only seen on TV shows – but this time, there was no slab, morgue or camera in sight. The reason why Irene Cramer’s death merits an FBI investigation becomes rapidly clear when key questions surface about her mysterious past. Little is known about this school teacher, where she came from or her true identity. She clearly had something to hide. FBI investigator, Amos Decker and his colleague, Alex Jamison, are summoned to seek answers in the local community of London, North Dakota, which sits at the very heart of the fracking industry. Enriched with oil money, jealousy and a deep-set rivalry lie beneath a veneer of glitz and opulence. Decker soon realizes that the nearby ‘eye in the sky’, the Air Force Station, may hold the vital clues and that this town holds secrets so explosive that they could destabilize the entire country . .. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Walk the Wire” by David Baldacci https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594149129046-1BLGC9VLB23X07ZD93K0/the-wife-stalker-liv-constantine.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - The Wife Stalker - Liv Constantine GENRES: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Joanna and Leo seem to have the perfect relationship. Two adorable children, a beautiful house in a chic area of Connecticut – they have the kind of life people envy. Then Piper moves to town. Piper is young, attractive, flirtatious. It’s almost no wonder Leo is tempted away… Devastated, Joanna starts digging into Piper’s past, and discovers some very disturbing secrets – not least that Piper’s previous two husbands ended up dead. But Piper dismisses Joanna’s fears for her family as paranoia. Who is telling the truth? Joanna? Piper? The only certainty in this web of lies is that no one is who they appear to be…and no one will escape unscathed. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Wife Stalker” by Liv Constantine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594149330414-FMKX7VNOFU1A3A1BB4NI/wrath-of-poseidon-clive-cussler.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Wrath of Poseidon (Fargo Adventures #12) - Clive Cussler GENRES: Fiction, Adventure, Thriller, Action, Mystery Ten years ago, a chance meeting at the Lighthouse Café in Redondo Beach led Sam Fargo and Remi Longstreet on the adventure of a lifetime, hunting the legendary riches stolen from the Persian King Croesus in 546 B.C. But they weren't the only ones. Someone else is after the gold, and he's willing to kill anyone who gets in his way. When Sam and Remi run afoul of a criminal drug-running operation, their hopes of finding the treasure are dashed. But with Sam's ingenuity and Remi's determination, they survive their confrontation with the drug runners, and manage to send one of the key players to prison. Though the cache of gold is never found, life goes on. Sam and Remi marry--and years later return to Greece to find the one treasure that got away. Time becomes their enemy when the kingpin they helped send to prison over a decade ago is released--and he has two goals in mind. Find the legendary hoard of King Croesus, and kill Sam and Remi Fargo. The Fargos know that as long as this gold is out there, no one is safe. They return to Greece for a final showdown--and one last chance to find that elusive treasure. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Wrath of Poseidon” by Clive Cussler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594149657416-ZBM6QEA60X8ZWLTA3N00/active-measures-thomas-rid.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Active Measures - Thomas Rid GENRES: Nonfiction, History, Politics We live in the age of disinformation—of organized deception. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm. More than four months before the 2016 election, he warned that Russian military intelligence was "carefully planning and timing a high-stakes political campaign to disrupt the democratic process. But as crafty as such so-called active measures have become, they are not new. The story of modern disinformation begins with the post-Russian Revolution clash between communism and capitalism, which would come to define the Cold War. In Active Measures, Rid reveals startling intelligence and security secrets from materials written in more than ten languages across several nations, and from interviews with current and former operatives. He exposes the disturbing yet colorful history of professional, organized lying, revealing for the first time some of the century's most significant operations--many of them nearly beyond belief. A White Russian ploy backfires and brings down a New York police commissioner; a KGB-engineered, anti-Semitic hate campaign creeps back across the Iron Curtain; the CIA backs a fake publishing empire, run by a former Wehrmacht U-boat commander, that produces Germany's best jazz magazine. Rid tracks the rise of leaking, and shows how spies began to exploit emerging internet culture many years before WikiLeaks. Finally, he sheds new light on the 2016 election, especially the role of the infamous "troll farm" in St. Petersburg as well as a much more harmful attack that unfolded in the shadows. CLICK TO RESERVE “Active Measures” by Thomas Rid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594150071034-GMJM12JK8U66D9W2MHIL/the-age-of-fentanyl-brodie-ramin.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - The Age of Fentanyl - Brodie Ramin, M.D. GENRES: Nonfiction, Science, Health In The Age of Fentanyl, Brodie Ramin tells the story of the opioid crisis, showing us the disease and cure from his perspective as an addiction doctor working on the front lines. We meet his patients, hear from other addiction experts, and learn about the science and medicine of opioid addiction and its treatments. He shows us how addiction can be prevented, how knowledge can reduce stigma, and how epidemics can be beaten. Dr. Ramin brings the hopeful message that just as patients and health care workers rallied together to fight HIV one generation ago, a coalition of patients, advocates, scientists, doctors, and nurses is once again finding solutions and making plans to stem the overdose deaths, block the spread of fentanyl, and end the epidemic. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Age of Fentanyl” by Brodie Ramin, M.D. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594150307401-XYNCS6VIB5SNQ1IEGH02/the-hilarious-world-of-depression-john-moe.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - The Hilarious World of Depression - John Moe GENRES: Nonfiction, Health, Mental Health, Memoir, Self Help For years John Moe, critically-acclaimed public radio personality and host of The Hilarious World of Depression podcast, struggled with depression; it plagued his family and claimed the life of his brother in 2007. As Moe came to terms with his own illness, he began to see similar patterns of behavior and coping mechanisms surfacing in conversations with others, including high-profile comedians who'd struggled with the disease. Moe saw that there was tremendous comfort and community in open dialogue about these shared experiences and that humor had a unique power. Thus was born the podcast The Hilarious World of Depression. Inspired by the immediate success of the podcast, Moe has written a remarkable investigation of the disease, part memoir of his own journey, part treasure trove of laugh-out-loud stories and insights drawn from years of interviews with some of the most brilliant minds facing similar challenges. Throughout the course of this powerful narrative, depression's universal themes come to light, among them, struggles with identity, lack of understanding of the symptoms, the challenges of work-life, self-medicating, the fallout of the disease in the lives of our loved ones, the tragedy of suicide, and the hereditary aspects of the disease. The Hilarious World of Depression illuminates depression in an entirely fresh and inspiring way. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Hilarious World of Depression” by John Moe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594150538483-Z1CIEA5N94WZ9Y71LT1C/island-stories-david-reynolds.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Island Stories - David Reynolds GENRES: Nonfiction, Politics, History When the British voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the country’s future was thrown into doubt. So, too, was its past. The story of British history is no longer a triumphalist narrative of expanding global empire, nor one of ever-closer integration with Europe. What is it now? In Island Stories, historian David Reynolds offers a multi-faceted new account of the last millennium to make sense of Britain’s turbulent present. With sharp analysis and vivid human detail, he examines how fears of decline have shaped national identity, probes Britain’s changing relations with Europe, considers the creation and erosion of the “United Kingdom,” and reassesses the rise and fall of the British Empire. Island Stories is essential reading for anyone interested in global history and politics in the era of Brexit. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Island Stories” by David Reynolds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594154996916-JZH8GV7Z4EUX0YR92QMK/franci%27s-war-france-rabinek-epstein.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Franci’s War - Franci Rabinek Epstein GENRES: Nonfiction, Autobiography, History In the summer of 1942, twenty-two year-old Franci Rabinek--designated a Jew by the Nazi racial laws--arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her three-year journey from Terezin to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, to the slave labor camps in Hamburg, and Bergen Belsen. After liberation by the British in April 1945, she finally returned to Prague. Franci was known in her group as the Prague dress designer who lied to Dr. Mengele at an Auschwitz selection, saying she was an electrician, an occupation that both endangered and saved her life. In this memoir, she offers her intense, candid, and sometimes funny account of those dark years, with the women prisoners in her tight-knit circle of friends. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Franci’s War” by Franci Rabinek Epstein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594155234114-0OKYJ9G248SHMQ85BRJA/i-overcame-my-autism-sarah-kurchak.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder - Sarah Kurchak GENRES: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Health, Mental Health Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn’t let that get in the way of pursuing her dream to become a writer, or to find love, but she has let it get in the way of being in the same room with someone chewing food loudly, and of cleaning her bathroom sink. In I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, Kurchak examines the Byzantine steps she took to become “an autistic success story,” how the process almost ruined her life and how she is now trying to recover. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder” by Sarah Kurchak https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594155638339-M23WUADYBW44YDB9ME8F/more-myself-alicia-keys.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - More Myself - Alicia Keys GENRES: Nonfiction, Autobiography As one of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Alicia Keys has enraptured the nation with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirring piano compositions. Yet away from the spotlight, Alicia has grappled with private heartache―over the challenging and complex relationship with her father, the people-pleasing nature that characterized her early career, the loss of privacy surrounding her romantic relationships, and the oppressive expectations of female perfection. Since her rise to fame, Alicia’s public persona has belied a deep personal truth: she has spent years not fully recognizing or honoring her own worth. After withholding parts of herself for so long, she is at last exploring the questions that live at the heart of her story: Who am I, really? And once I discover that truth, how can I become brave enough to embrace it? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “More Myself” by Alicia Keys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594155880756-QHWYLPVBKZJIWTHFPRAX/uncanny-valley-anna-wiener.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener GENRES: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Feminism, Science In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial--left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress. Anna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. Part coming-age-story, part portrait of an already-bygone era, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. With wit, candor, and heart, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Uncanny Valley” by Anna Wiener https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594150920806-KUUPYAI7GEW8WJDOBFPV/clap-when-you-land-elizabeth-acevedo.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo GENRES: Fiction, Young Adult, Poetry Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance - and Papi's secrets - the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they've lost everything of their father, they learn of each other. Papi's death uncovers all the painful truths he kept hidden, and the love he divided across an ocean. And now, Camino and Yahaira are both left to grapple with what this new sister means to them, and what it will now take to keep their dreams alive. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Clap When You Land” by Elizabeth Acevedo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594151172415-4151RCO7444JRM6OAZQG/the-gilded-wolves-roshani-chokshi.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves #1) - Roshani Chokshi GENRES: Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy It's 1889. The city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. Here, no one keeps tabs on dark truths better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. When the elite, ever-powerful Order of Babel coerces him to help them on a mission, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance. To hunt down the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin calls upon a band of unlikely experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. A historian banished from his home. A dancer with a sinister past. And a brother in arms if not blood. Together, they will join Séverin as he explores the dark, glittering heart of Paris. What they find might change the course of history--but only if they can stay alive. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Gilded Wolves” by Roshani Chokshi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594151404267-TC2PXJO7OOX7KNQI27K3/late-to-the-party-kelly-quindlen.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Late to the Party - Kelly Quindlen GENRES: Fiction, Young Adult, LGBT, Romance She’s never crashed a party, never stayed out too late. She’s never even been kissed. And it’s not just because she’s gay. It’s because she and her two best friends, Maritza and JaKory, spend more time in her basement watching Netflix than engaging with the outside world. So when Maritza and JaKory suggest crashing a party, Codi is highly skeptical. Those parties aren’t for kids like them. They’re for cool kids. Straight kids. But then Codi stumbles upon one of those cool kids, Ricky, kissing another boy in the dark, and an unexpected friendship is formed. In return for never talking about that kiss, Ricky takes Codi under his wing and draws her into a wild summer filled with late nights, new experiences, and one really cute girl named Lydia. The only problem? Codi never tells Maritza or JaKory about any of it. CLICK TO RESERVE “Late to the Party” by Kelly Quindlen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594153254112-T41IZE2WZOMBQFFAOIK0/so-this-is-love-elizabeth-lim.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - So This is Love - Elizabeth Lim GENRES: Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Retellings What if Cinderella never tried on the glass slipper? Unable to prove that she's the missing princess, and unable to bear life under Lady Tremaine any longer, Cinderella attempts a fresh start, looking for work at the palace as a seamstress. But when the Grand Duke appoints her to serve under the king's visiting sister, Cinderella becomes witness to a grand conspiracy to take the king-and the prince-out of power, as well as a longstanding prejudice against fairies, including Cinderella's own Fairy Godmother. Faced with questions of love and loyalty to the kingdom, Cinderella must find a way to stop the villains of past and present . . . before it's too late. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “So This is Love” by Elizabeth Lim https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594153472311-X735W3MK0ALW6Z2ZWG39/straight-on-till-morning-liz-braswell.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Straight on Till Morning - Liz Braswell GENRES: Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Retellings Sixteen-year-old Wendy Darling's life is not what she imagined it would be. The doldrums of an empty house after her brothers have gone to school, the dull parties where everyone thinks she talks too much, and the fact that her parents have decided to send her away to Ireland as a governess-it all makes her wish things could be different. Wendy's only real escape is in writing down tales of Never Land. After nearly meeting her hero, Peter Pan, four years earlier, she still holds on to the childhood hope that his magical home truly exists. She also holds on to his shadow. So when an opportunity to travel to Never Land via pirate ship presents itself, Wendy makes a deal with the devil. But Never Land isn't quite the place she imagined it would be. Unexpected dangers and strange foes pop up at every turn, and a little pixie named Tinker Bell seems less than willing to help. But when Captain Hook reveals some rather permanent and evil plans for Never Land, it's up to the two of them to save Peter Pan-and his world. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Straight on Till Morning” by Liz Braswell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594153744078-UHXYT028LI5Q0ZY4WEMY/sword-in-the-stars-amy-rose-capetta.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Sword in the Stars (Once and Future #2) - Amy Rose Capetta GENRES: Fiction. Young Adult, Fantasy, LGBT, Science Fiction Ari Helix may have won her battle against the tyrannical Mercer corporation, but the larger war has just begun. Ari and her cursed wizard Merlin must travel back in time to the unenlightened Middle Ages and steal the King Arthur's Grail---the very definition of impossible. It's imperative that the time travelers not skew the timeline and alter the course of history. Coming face-to-face with the original Arthurian legend could produce a ripple effect that changes everything. Somehow Merlin forgot that the past can be even more dangerous than the future... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Sword in the Stars” by Amy Rose Capetta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594153985329-V6JNB9Y9BRNQQOCV82EB/wayward-son-rainbow-rowell.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Wayward Son (Simon Snow #2) - Rainbow Rowell GENRES: Fiction, Young Adult, LGBT, Fantasy, Romance Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after… So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light… That’s how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West. They find trouble, of course. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost. They get so lost, they start to wonder whether they ever knew where they were headed in the first place… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Wayward Son” by Rainbow Rowell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594156196477-IXSL9RF0SJ8C47LC1IKQ/fruits-basket-natsuki-takaya.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Fruits Basket - Natsuki Takaya GENRES: Fiction, Junior Fiction, Graphic Novel, Manga, Fantasy, Romance After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out...into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own--when embraced by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Fruits Basket” by Natsuki Takaya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594156532152-H5YPE758JQ959STIHAOC/the-phantom-twin-lisa-brown.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - The Phantom Twin - Lisa Brown GENRES: Fiction, Junior Fiction, Graphic Novel Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show—until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails, causing Jane's death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted, altered, and alone for the first time, can Isabel build a new life that's truly her own? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Phantom Twin” by Lisa Brown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1594156785144-YDY8UPG7JKY9SAYP3HW5/snapdragon-kat-leyh.jpg BLOG - New Releases: July 7, 2020 - Snapdragon - Kat Leyh GENRES: Fiction, Junior Fiction, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, LGBT Snap's town had a witch. At least, that's how the rumor goes. But in reality, Jacks is just a crocks-wearing, internet-savvy old lady who sells roadkill skeletons online--after doing a little ritual to put their spirits to rest. It's creepy, sure, but Snap thinks it's kind of cool, too. They make a deal: Jacks will teach Snap how to take care of the baby opossums that Snap rescued, and Snap will help Jacks with her work. But as Snap starts to get to know Jacks, she realizes that Jacks may in fact have real magic--and a connection with Snap's family's past. CLICK TO RESERVE “Snapdragon” by Kat Leyh https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/top-10-books-january-june-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593545988443-ATW5M0Z51B000BKITV74/twisted-twenty-six-janet-evanovich.jpg BLOG - Top 10 Books: January-June 2020 - 1) Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance Grandma Mazur has decided to get married again – this time to a local gangster named Jimmy Rosolli. If Stephanie has her doubts about this marriage, she doesn’t have to worry for long, because the groom drops dead of a heart attack 45 minutes after saying, “I do.” A sad day for Grandma Mazur turns into something far more dangerous when Jimmy’s former “business partners” are convinced that his new widow is keeping the keys to a financial windfall all to herself. But the one thing these wise guys didn’t count on was the widow’s bounty hunter granddaughter, who’ll do anything to save her. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Twisted Twenty-Six” by Janet Evanovich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593546427357-Y2TOFA8PHKFD12TCBR4A/the-wives-tarryn-fisher.jpg BLOG - Top 10 Books: January-June 2020 - 2) The Wives by Tarryn Fisher GENRES: Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Psychological Fiction You’ve never met the other wives. None of you know each other, and because of this unconventional arrangement, you can see your husband only one day a week. But you love him so much you don’t care. Or at least that’s what you’ve told yourself. But one day, while you’re doing laundry, you find a scrap of paper in his pocket—an appointment reminder for a woman named Hannah, and you just know it’s another of the wives. You thought you were fine with your arrangement, but you can’t help yourself: you track her down, and, under false pretenses, you strike up a friendship. Hannah has no idea who you really are. Then, Hannah starts showing up to your coffee dates with telltale bruises, and you realize she’s being abused by her husband. Who, of course, is also your husband. But you’ve never known him to be violent, ever. Who exactly is your husband, and how far would you go to find the truth? Would you risk your own life? And who is his mysterious third wife? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Wives” by Tarryn Fisher https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593546955511-PA528VPWH1VQMCIF0J27/the-rise-of-magicks-nora-roberts.jpg BLOG - Top 10 Books: January-June 2020 - 3) The Rise Of Magicks (Chronicles of One #3) by Nora Roberts GENRES: Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical Purity Warriors, endlessly hunted or locked up in laboratories, brutalized for years on end. She is determined to save even those who have been complicit with this evil out of fear or weakness-if, indeed, they can be saved. Strengthened by the bond she shares with her fellow warrior, Duncan, Fallon has already succeeded in rescuing countless shifters and elves and ordinary humans. Now she must help them heal-and rediscover the light and faith within themselves. For although from the time of her birth, she has been The One, she is still only one. And as she faces down an old nemesis, sets her sights on the enemy's stronghold, and pursues her destiny-to finally restore the mystical shield that once protected them all-she will need an army behind her. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Rise Of Magicks (Chronicles of One 3#)” by Nora Roberts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593547590750-UTZRE3WVZ1Z36YAEDY0B/blue-moon-lee-child.jpg BLOG - Top 10 Books: January-June 2020 - 4) Blue Moon (Jack Reacher #24) GENRES: Fiction, Adventure Fiction, Action Fiction, Thriller, Suspense Reacher sits in the back of a Greyhound bus watching an old man asleep in his seat, a fat envelope of money about to slip from his pocket. Reacher's also watching a guy who would like to get his hands on that money. Ain't gonna happen. The old man is grateful and thanks Reacher but turns down Reacher's offer to help him home. Huh? He's vulnerable, frightened, and clearly in big trouble. Coincidentally, this city has a gang problem. The Albanians vs. Ukrainians. Is that why the man is so scared? Will Reacher sit back and let bad things happen? Or can he twist the situation to everyone's benefit? "This is a random universe," he says. "Once in a blue moon things turn out just right." CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Blue Moon (Jack Reacher #24) by Lee Child https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593547932752-NOLNDU8RIHRO5CVDJ9CS/the-tattooist-of-auschwitz-heather-morris.jpg BLOG - Top 10 Books: January-June 2020 - 5) The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris GENRES: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Biographical Fiction In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for over two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive. One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her. A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful re-creation of Lale Sokolov''s experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” by Heather Morris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593548234390-SC47HUHI4IBKS6SQCAQS/the-night-fire-michael-connelly.jpg BLOG - Top 10 Books: January-June 2020 - 6) The Night Fire (Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch #2) by Michael Connelly GENRES: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Police Procedural Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before — the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the murder book to Renée Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson’s fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Night Fire (Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch #2)” by Michael Connelly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593548551694-4CROTOUP5I4DWFHXQXZC/the-wedding-guest-jonathan-kellerman.jpg BLOG - Top 10 Books: January-June 2020 - 7) The Wedding Guest (Alex Delaware #24) by Jonathan Kellerman GENRES: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a fine homicide detective, but when he needs to get into the mind of a killer, he leans on the expertise of his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. While Sturgis has a knack for piecing together the details of a crime, Delaware can decipher the darkest intents driving the most vicious of perpetrators. And there’s no better place for the doctor’s analytical skills to shine than a rowdy hall full of young men and women intoxicated on life and lust . . . and suddenly faced with the specter of death. Summoned to a run-down former strip joint, Delaware and Sturgis find themselves crashing a wild Saints and Sinners–themed wedding reception. But they’re not the only uninvited guests. A horrified bridesmaid has discovered the body of a young woman, dressed to impress in pricey haute couture and accessorized with a grisly red slash around her neck. What’s missing is any means of identification, or a single partygoer who recognizes the victim. The baffled bride is convinced the stranger snuck in to sabotage her big day—and the groom is sure it’s all a dreadful mistake. But Delaware and Sturgis have a hundred guests to question, and a sneaking suspicion that the motive for murder is personal. Now they must separate the sinners from the saints, the true from the false, and the secrets from those keeping them. The party’s over—and the hunt for whoever killed it is on. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Wedding Guest (Alex Delaware #24)” by Jonathan Kellerman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593548989854-VGMFZVJPDCG9TIIFBJT0/the-giver-of-stars-jojo-moyes.jpg BLOG - Top 10 Books: January-June 2020 - 8) The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes GENRES: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice’s greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who’s never asked a man’s permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. What happens to them–and to the men they love–becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Giver of Stars” by Jojo Moyes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593549198705-0EMJ9L0MXX5R0YMH0LZJ/woman-on-the-edge-samantha-m-bailey.jpg BLOG - Top 10 Books: January-June 2020 - 9) Woman on the Edge by Samantha M. Bailey GENRES: Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Thriller, Suspense A total stranger on the subway platform whispers, “Take my baby.” She places her child in your arms. She says your name. Then she jumps... In a split second, Morgan Kincaid’s life changes forever. She’s on her way home from work when a mother begs her to take her baby, then places the infant in her arms. Before Morgan can stop her, the distraught mother jumps in front of an oncoming train. Morgan has never seen this woman before, and she can’t understand what would cause a person to give away her child and take her own life. She also can’t understand how this woman knew her name. The police take Morgan in for questioning. She soon learns that the woman who jumped was Nicole Markham, prominent CEO of the athletic brand Breathe. She also learns that no witness can corroborate her version of events, which means she’s just become a murder suspect. To prove her innocence, Morgan frantically retraces the last days of Nicole’s life. Was Nicole a new mother struggling with paranoia or was she in danger? When strange things start happening to Morgan, she suddenly realizes she might be in danger, too. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Woman on the Edge” by Samantha M. Bailey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593549694483-OQ7KKI5071XZIR90S6U2/the-shape-of-night-tess-gerritsen.jpg BLOG - Top 10 Books: January-June 2020 - 10) The Shape of Night by Tess Gerritsen GENRES: Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense After an unspeakable tragedy in Boston, Ava Collette flees to a remote village in Maine, where she rents an old house named Brodie’s Watch. In that isolated seaside mansion, Ava finally feels at peace . . . until she glimpses the long-dead sea captain who still resides there. Rumour has it that Captain Jeremiah Brodie has haunted the house for more than a century. One night, Ava confronts the apparition, who feels all too real, and who welcomes her into his world—and into his arms. Even as Ava questions her own sanity, she eagerly looks forward to the captain’s ghostly visits. But she soon learns that the house she loves comes with a terrible secret, a secret that those in the village don’t want to reveal: Every woman who has ever lived in Brodie’s Watch has also died there. Is the ghost of Captain Brodie responsible, or is a flesh-and-blood killer at work? A killer who is even now circling closer to Ava? CLICK TO RESERVE “The Shape of Night” by Tess Gerritsen https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-june-30-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593720175106-0429LK4GW0O3RTKNOELN/61%2Bc1kj2mpL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Big Summer - Jennifer Weiner Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Thriller Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn’t spoken one word to Drue in all this time—she doesn’t even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media—so when Drue asks if she will be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless. Drue was always the one who had everything—except the ability to hold onto friends. Meanwhile, Daphne’s no longer the same self-effacing sidekick she was back in high school. She’s built a life that she loves, including a growing career as a plus-size Instagram influencer. Letting glamorous, seductive Drue back into her life is risky, but it comes with an invitation to spend a weekend in a waterfront Cape Cod mansion. When Drue begs and pleads and dangles the prospect of cute single guys, Daphne finds herself powerless as ever to resist her friend’s siren song. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Big Summer” by Jennifer Weiner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593720496864-FBJ212W2ZYXMFQCWGF2N/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Chosen Ones - Veronica Roth Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science fiction A decade ago near Chicago, five teenagers defeated the otherworldly enemy known as the Dark One, whose reign of terror brought widespread destruction and death. The seemingly un-extraordinary teens—Sloane, Matt, Ines, Albie, and Esther—had been brought together by a clandestine government agency because one of them was fated to be the “Chosen One,” prophesized to save the world. With the goal achieved, humankind celebrated the victors and began to mourn their lost loved ones. Ten years later, though the champions remain celebrities, the world has moved forward and a whole, younger generation doesn’t seem to recall the days of endless fear. But Sloane remembers. It’s impossible for her to forget when the paparazzi haunt her every step just as the Dark One still haunts her dreams. Unlike everyone else, she hasn’t moved on; she’s adrift—no direction, no goals, no purpose. On the eve of the Ten Year Celebration of Peace, a new trauma hits the Chosen: the death of one of their own. And when they gather for the funeral at the enshrined site of their triumph, they discover to their horror that the Dark One’s reign never really ended. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Chosen Ones” by Veronica Roth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593720663149-AHHTRAFV8RL8XUMY9RAA/91NyLLCHPXL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Cleanness - Garth Greenwell Genres: Fiction Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song. In this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each bearing uncanny reminders of his past. A queer student’s confession recalls his own first love, a stranger’s seduction devolves into paternal sadism, and a romance with another foreigner opens, and heals, old wounds. Each echo reveals startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love, with the places we inhabit, and with our own fugitive selves. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Cleanness” by Garth Greenwell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593720891259-Y7OHBVN24AIJAIBSWQ78/8190Vatzq7L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - A Good Marriage - Kimberly McCreight Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Lizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call. Grueling hours are standard at elite law firms like Young & Crane, but they’d be easier to swallow if Lizzie was there voluntarily. Until recently, she’d been a happily underpaid federal prosecutor. That job and her brilliant, devoted husband Sam—she had everything she’d ever wanted. And then, suddenly, it all fell apart. No. That’s a lie. It wasn’t sudden, was it? Long ago the cracks in Lizzie’s marriage had started to show. She was just good at averting her eyes. The last thing Lizzie needs right now is a call from an inmate at Rikers asking for help—even if Zach Grayson is an old friend. But Zach is desperate: his wife, Amanda, has been found dead at the bottom of the stairs in their Brooklyn brownstone. And Zach’s the primary suspect. As Lizzie is drawn into the dark heart of idyllic Park Slope, she learns that Zach and Amanda weren’t what they seemed—and that their friends, a close-knit group of fellow parents at the exclusive Grace Hall private school, might be protecting troubling secrets of their own. In the end, she’s left wondering not only whether her own marriage can be saved, but what it means to have a good marriage in the first place. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Good Marriage” by Kimberly McCreight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593721276896-R6WGTD94O1XPNJ8N1XN0/915mP6tc2CL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Hello, Summer - Mary Kay Andrews Genres: Fiction, Mystery Conley Hawkins left her family’s small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rearview mirror years ago. Now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position in Washington, D.C. Or so she thinks. When the new job goes up in smoke, Conley finds herself right back where she started, working for her sister, who is trying to keep The Silver Bay Beacon afloat—and she doesn’t exactly have warm feelings for Conley. Soon she is given the unenviable task of overseeing the local gossip column, “Hello, Summer.” Then Conley witnesses an accident that ends in the death of a local congressman—a beloved war hero with a shady past. The more she digs into the story, the more dangerous it gets. As an old heartbreaker causes trouble and a new flame ignites, it soon looks like their sleepy beach town is the most scandalous hotspot of the summer. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hello, Summer” by Mary Kay Andrews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593721636196-7PMT7MH807IQFTNPOI7H/91bUbO3i98L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Hideaway - Nora Roberts Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance Caitlyn Sullivan, a daughter of Hollywood royalty, was already a star at ten, but still loved to play hide-and-seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. It was during one of those games that she disappeared. Despite her glamorous background, Cate was a shrewd, scrappy survivor, and she managed to escape her abductors. Dillon Cooper was shocked to find the bruised and terrified girl huddled in his ranch house kitchen—but when the teenager and his family heard her story they provided refuge and comfort, reuniting her with her loved ones. Cate’s ordeal, though, was far from over. First came the discovery of a betrayal that would send someone she’d trusted to prison. Then there were years away in Ireland, sheltered and protected but with restlessness growing in her soul. Then, finally, she returned to Los Angeles, hoping to act again and get past the trauma that had derailed her life. What she didn’t yet know was that two seeds had been planted that long-ago night—one of a great love, and one of a terrible vengeance… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hideaway” by Nora Roberts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593721852685-VVMUX0BO1BRQGNOMU3AV/816xYXCNeCL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Hit List (Stone Barrington #53) - Stuart Woods Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When Stone Barrington finds his name on a hit list, he plans to lie low until the culprit is caught. But when this foe shows no signs of stopping until his deadly objective is realized in full, Stone is left with no choice but to face the problem head-on. Armed and alert, Stone joins forces with his most savvy connections to catch the perpetrator before the next strike. But it turns out this scum is an expert at evasion in more ways than one, and the international cat-and-mouse hunt that ensues has Stone questioning if he has become the predator or the prey... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hit List” by Stuart Woods https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593722619460-D0EDCT3FWDFX8XQ2PDK2/91CD3NzGaNL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - If It Bleeds - Stephen King Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Short stories The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand By Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (Shawshank Redemption). Like Four Past Midnight, Different Seasons, and most recently Full Dark, No Stars, If It Bleeds is a uniquely satisfying collection of longer short fiction by an incomparably gifted writer. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “If It Bleeds” by Stephen King https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593722815650-JWJQDK9U6QZ04RW4XDL3/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - The Jane Austen Society - Natalie Jenner Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. These people—a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor, and a movie star, among others—could not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma, some from the recent war, others from more distant tragedies, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Jane Austen Society” by Natalie Jenner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593723067539-B4VD1996ILR8KM4ISD3G/917k-V9CNQL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - The Last Odyssey (Sigma Force #15) - James Rollins Genres: Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller For eons, the city of Troy—whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer’s Iliad—was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. If Troy was real, how much of Homer’s twin tales of gods and monsters, curses and miracles—The Iliad and The Odyssey—could also be true and awaiting discovery? In the frozen tundra of Greenland, a group of modern-day researchers stumble on a shocking find: a medieval ship buried a half-mile below the ice. The ship’s hold contains a collection of even older artifacts—tools of war—dating back to the Bronze Age. Inside the captain’s cabin is a magnificent treasure that is as priceless as it is miraculous: a clockwork gold map imbedded with an intricate silver astrolabe. The mechanism was crafted by a group of Muslim inventors—the Banū Mūsā brothers—considered by many to be the Da Vincis of the Arab world—brilliant scientists who inspired Leonardo’s own work. Once activated, the moving map traces the path of Odysseus’s famous ship as it sailed away from Troy. But the route detours as the map opens to reveal a fiery river leading to a hidden realm underneath the Mediterranean Sea. It is the subterranean world of Tartarus, the Greek name for Hell. In mythology, Tartarus was where the wicked were punished and the monstrous Titans of old, imprisoned. When word of Tartarus spreads—and of the cache of miraculous weapons said to be hidden there—tensions explode in this volatile region where Turks battle Kurds, terrorists wage war, and civilians suffer untold horrors. The phantasmagoric horrors found in Homer’s tales are all too real—and could be unleashed upon the world. Whoever possesses them can use their awesome power to control the future of humanity. Now, Sigma Force must go where humans fear to tread. To prevent a tyrant from igniting a global war, they must cross the very gates of Hell. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Last Odyssey” by James Rollins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593723444168-ZAGXDDJFDMFXTV77JKU9/512jyyZGhAL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Latitudes of Longing - Shubhangi Swarup Genres: Fiction, Magical Realism A spellbinding work of literature, Latitudes of Longing follows the interconnected lives of characters searching for true intimacy. The novel sweeps across India, from an island, to a valley, a city, and a snow desert to tell a love story of epic proportions. We follow a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who speaks to them; a geologist working to end futile wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a mother struggling to free her revolutionary son; a yeti who seeks human companionship; a turtle who transforms first into a boat and then a woman; and the ghost of an evaporated ocean as restless as the continents. Binding them all together is a vision of life as vast as the universe itself. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Latitudes of Longing” by Shubhangi Swarup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593724354847-XX7AZZUK908TB4VPAQGB/71NdiDmAr2L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - The Mirror and the Light (Thomas Cromwell #3) - Hilary Mantel Genres: Fiction, Historical England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to the breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Mirror and the Light” by Hilary Mantel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593724955277-5M8BG426P8EF8U3EQTMX/9132uQd5ZvL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - The Murder of Twelve (Murder, She Wrote #51) - Jessica Fletcher Genres: Fiction, Mystery Still staying at the Hill House hotel while her beloved home is being rebuilt, Jessica Fletcher finds herself sharing the space for a weekend with a dozen members of a wedding party who have gathered there for a rehearsal dinner. The families of the bride and groom can't stand each other but have agreed to put aside years of long-simmering tension to celebrate the nuptials. Unfortunately, weather forecasters underestimated the severity of a storm that turns into a historic blizzard that dumps nearly five feet of snow on Cabot Cove, leaving everyone stranded. But the hotel guests have bigger things to worry about than bad weather conditions and potential cold feet, because a murderer has shown up uninvited--one who has vowed to take them down one by one.... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Murder of Twelve” by Jessica Fletcher https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593725782341-IQKGIL8B9S048RQYJB44/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - The Paris Hours - Alex George Genres: Fiction, Historical Paris between the wars teems with artists, writers, and musicians, a glittering crucible of genius. But amidst the dazzling creativity of the city’s most famous citizens, four regular people are each searching for something they’ve lost. Camille was the maid of Marcel Proust, and she has a secret: when she was asked to burn her employer’s notebooks, she saved one for herself. Now she is desperate to find it before her betrayal is revealed. Souren, an Armenian refugee, performs puppet shows for children that are nothing like the fairy tales they expect. Lovesick artist Guillaume is down on his luck and running from a debt he cannot repay—but when Gertrude Stein walks into his studio, he wonders if this is the day everything could change. And Jean-Paul is a journalist who tells other people’s stories, because his own is too painful to tell. When the quartet’s paths finally cross in an unforgettable climax, each discovers if they will find what they are looking for. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Paris Hours” by Alex George https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593725921131-IHAGZNM9FDO0FA534L9V/91SjjQ0XuLL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Queen of the Unwanted (Women’s War #2) - Jenna Glass Genres: Fiction, Fantasy Alys may be the acknowledged queen of Women's Well—the fledgling colony where women hold equal status with men—but she cares little for politics in the wake of an appalling personal tragedy. It is grief that rules her now. But the world continues to turn. In a distant realm unused to female rulers, Ellin struggles to maintain control. Meanwhile, the king of the island nation of Khalpar recruits an abbess whom he thinks holds the key to reversing the spell that Alys's mother gave her life to create. And back in Women's Well, Alys's own half-brother is determined to bring her to heel. Unless these women can all come together and embrace the true nature of female power, everything they have struggled to achieve may be at risk. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Queen of the Unwanted” by Jenna Glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593726097851-NX8RL6450FCTLKE32KV7/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Take Me Apart - Sara Sligar Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When the famed photographer Miranda Brand died mysteriously at the height of her career, it sent shock waves through Callinas, California. Decades later, old wounds are reopened when her son, Theo, hires ex-journalist Kate Aitken to create an archive of his mother's work. From Miranda's vast maze of personal effects, Kate pieces together a portrait of a vibrant artist buckling under the pressures of ambition, motherhood, and marriage. As the summer progresses, Kate navigates vicious local rumors and her growing attraction to the enigmatic Theo, all while unearthing the shocking details of Miranda's private life. But Kate has secrets of her own, and when she stumbles across a diary that may finally resolve the mystery of Miranda's death, her curiosity starts to spiral into a dangerous obsession. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Take Me Apart” by Sara Sligar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593726252515-PETA5Y3Y4GS02IZ32Z01/81hJAAIb5mL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - This Town Sleeps - Dennis E Staples Genres: Fiction On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the rez, two men enter into a secret romance. Marion Lafournier, a midtwenties gay Ojibwe man, begins a relationship with his former classmate Shannon, a heavily closeted white man obsessed with his image as a northern Minnesotan. While Marion is far more open about his sexuality, neither is immune to the realities of the lives of gay men in small towns and closed societies. One night, while roaming the dark streets of Geshig, Marion unknowingly brings to life a dog from beneath the elementary school playground. The mysterious revenant leads him to the grave of Kayden Kelliher, an Ojibwe basketball star who was murdered at the young age of seventeen and whose presence still lingers in the memories of the townsfolk. While investigating the fallen hero’s death, Marion discovers family connections and an old Ojibwe legend that may be the secret to unraveling the mystery he has found himself in. Meanwhile, Marion’s mother, Hazel, must come to terms not only with her role in her son’s haunting but also with a mummified jawbone she uncovers at her grandmother’s burial site and the possible curse it has cast on the Lafournier family. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “This Town Sleeps” by Dennis E Staples https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593726439574-7ESRXEO185T7HJ2SY1KS/818jyTsV9fL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Under the Rainbow - Celia Laskey Genres: Fiction Big Burr, Kansas, is the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone, and everyone shares the same values-or keeps their opinions to themselves. But when a national nonprofit labels Big Burr "the most homophobic town in the US" and sends in a task force of queer volunteers as an experiment-they'll live and work in the community for two years in an attempt to broaden hearts and minds-no one is truly prepared for what will ensue. Furious at being uprooted from her life in Los Angeles and desperate to fit in at her new high school, Avery fears that it's only a matter of time before her "gay crusader" mom outs her. Still grieving the death of her son, Linda welcomes the arrivals, who know mercifully little about her past. And for Christine, the newcomers are not only a threat to the comforting rhythms of Big Burr life, but a call to action. As tensions roil the town, cratering relationships and forcing closely guarded secrets into the light, everyone must consider what it really means to belong. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Under the Rainbow” by Celia Laskey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593726752710-QZWX4MDTRF61C4VB3GP5/71wt48Cn0XL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - On Vanishing - Lynn Casteel Harper Genres: Non-fiction, Medicine, Psychology An estimated 50 million people in the world suffer from dementia. Diseases such as Alzheimer’s erase parts of one’s memory but are also often said to erase the self. People don’t simply die from such diseases; they are imagined, in the clichés of our era, as vanishing in plain sight, fading away, or enduring a long goodbye. In On Vanishing, Lynn Casteel Harper, a Baptist minister and nursing home chaplain, investigates the myths and metaphors surrounding dementia and aging, addressing not only the indignities caused by the condition but also by the rhetoric surrounding it. Harper asks essential questions about the nature of our outsize fear of dementia, the stigma this fear may create, and what it might mean for us all to try to “vanish well.” CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “On Vanishing” by Lynn Casteel Harper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593726946693-Z0OARPY1B3DPBDYQSOZQ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Spirit Run - Noe Alvarez Genres: Biography, Non-fiction, Travel Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who “slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives.” A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group of Dené, Secwépemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O’odham, Seri, Purépecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, Álvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala that pushed him to his limits. He writes not only of overcoming hunger, thirst, and fear—dangers included stone-throwing motorists and a mountain lion—but also of asserting Indigenous and working-class humanity in a capitalist society where oil extraction, deforestation, and substance abuse wreck communities. Running through mountains, deserts, and cities, and through the Mexican territory his parents left behind, Álvarez forges a new relationship with the land, and with the act of running, carrying with him the knowledge of his parents’ migration, and—against all odds in a society that exploits his body and rejects his spirit—the dream of a liberated future. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Spirit Run” by Noe Alvarez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593793789915-Z798APWQCUZGZSKAT69U/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Chain of Gold (Last Hours #1) - Cassandra Clare Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance Welcome to Edwardian London, a time of electric lights and long shadows, the celebration of artistic beauty and the wild pursuit of pleasure, with demons waiting in the dark. For years there has been peace in the Shadowhunter world. James and Lucie Herondale, children of the famous Will and Tessa, have grown up in an idyll with their loving friends and family, listening to stories of good defeating evil and love conquering all. But everything changes when the Blackthorn and Carstairs families come to London…and so does a remorseless and inescapable plague. James Herondale longs for a great love, and thinks he has found it in the beautiful, mysterious Grace Blackthorn. Cordelia Carstairs is desperate to become a hero, save her family from ruin, and keep her secret love for James hidden. When disaster strikes the Shadowhunters, James, Cordelia and their friends are plunged into a wild adventure which will reveal dark and incredible powers, and the true cruel price of being a hero…and falling in love. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Chain of Gold” by Cassandra Clare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593793971362-RMS8RF9KBFZ5402V56C7/81H4wGd2jjL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Dancing at the Pity Party - Tyler Feder Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Biography From before her mother's first oncology appointment through the stages of her cancer to the funeral, sitting shiva, and afterward, when she must try to make sense of her life as a motherless daughter, Tyler Feder tells her story in this graphic novel that is full of piercing--but also often funny--details. She shares the important post-death firsts, such as celebrating holidays without her mom, the utter despair of cleaning out her mom's closet, ending old traditions and starting new ones, and the sting of having the "I've got to tell Mom about this" instinct and not being able to act on it. This memoir, bracingly candid and sweetly humorous, is for anyone struggling with loss who just wants someone to get it. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dancing at the Pity Party” by Tyler Feder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593794765428-41A6HRNS0X6DCAM18BGE/81D-PU6GlQL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - The Midnight Lie (Midnight Lie #1) - Marie Rutoski Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy, Romance Where Nirrim lives, crime abounds, a harsh tribunal rules, and society’s pleasures are reserved for the High Kith. Life in the Ward is grim and punishing. People of her low status are forbidden from sampling sweets or wearing colors. You either follow the rules, or pay a tithe and suffer the consequences. Nirrim keeps her head down and a dangerous secret close to her chest. But then she encounters Sid, a rakish traveler from far away who whispers rumors that the High Caste possesses magic. Sid tempts Nirrim to seek that magic for herself. But to do that, Nirrim must surrender her old life. She must place her trust in this sly stranger who asks, above all, not to be trusted. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Midnight Lie” by Marie Rutoski https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593797013521-ZC2RDXTSXKKG6I0HGS36/819wRE-AaML.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - We Set the Dark on Fire ( We Set the Dark on Fire #1) - Tehlor Kay Mejia Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband’s household or raise his children, but both are promised a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class. Daniela Vargas is the school’s top student, but her bright future depends upon no one discovering her darkest secret—that her pedigree is a lie. Her parents sacrificed everything to obtain forged identification papers so Dani could rise above her station. Now that her marriage to an important politico’s son is fast approaching, she must keep the truth hidden or be sent back to the fringes of society, where famine and poverty rule supreme. On her graduation night, Dani seems to be in the clear, despite the surprises that unfold. But nothing prepares her for all the difficult choices she must make, especially when she is asked to spy for a resistance group desperately fighting to bring equality to Medio. Will Dani cling to the privilege her parents fought to win for her, or to give up everything she’s strived for in pursuit of a free Medio—and a chance at a forbidden love? 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There she must reckon with her beloved leader, who is under the influence of an aggressive new recruit, and with the devastating news that her true love might be the target of an assassination plot. Will Carmen break with her community and save the girl who stole her heart—or fully embrace the ruthless rebel she was always meant to be? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “We Unleash the Merciless Storm” by Tehlor Kay Mejia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593798806851-72CXXG2E0LUOL9L44WF2/81m8Y5k-CaL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Y2K-O! (Heavy Vinyl #2) - Carly Usdin Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel SAVE THE INTERNET, SAVE THE WORLD (OF MUSIC)! It’s 1999 and Chris is living her dream: working at Vinyl Destination by day and fighting for (musical) justice by night (okay, maybe during the day too) in the world’s coolest teen girl vigilante fight club. But when the girls of Vinyl Destination enter a Battle of The Bands – to investigate and, of course, win – they learn that the shadowy corporate masters of the music industry plan to destroy the fledging world of digital music and blame it on Y2K. Now it’s time for Chris and the gang to dial up 56k (or more, pretty please) of justice so they can save the day once again! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Y2K-O!” by Carly Usdin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593797678985-OACX8D7FEKPV031S44MD/71IR2gnfNrL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Camping with Unicorns (Phoebe and Her Unicorn #11) - Dana Simpson Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy School’s out, so Phoebe and her unicorn best friend, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, have the entire summer to play games, visit the pool, and even go camping. Unicorn horns are excellent utensils for roasting things over the campfire, too, even if Marigold prefers toasted apples to s’mores. While exploring in the woods, Phoebe and friends meet a unicorn named Alabaster, who uses a special video game console that’s powered by plants. Throughout her summer adventures, Phoebe learns that being cool isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and that it’s much better to be your true self. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Camping with Unicorns” by Dana Simpson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593799096070-767QWHMB1PRGKREFRZ2N/81rt7pl7y5L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - The Runaway Princess - Johan Troianowski Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy Robin? Robin? Robin?! Where are you? She couldn't have gone far. . . . Princesses don't run away to have their own adventures. Right? Princesses stay quietly and obediently at home. They would never want mermaids and swamps and pirates and getting kidnapped to be a part of their lives. Not this princess! Adventures await when Robin (bored of princess-ing all the time) embarks on the best adventure of her life--meeting friends along the way as she travels through the magical landscape of her country. But her parents aren't so pleased--and they're coming to find her and bring her back to the castle, no matter how she feels about it! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Runaway Princess” by Johan Troianowski https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593799378623-VFAYCS9FQZBFYX9QY81V/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Stand Up, Yumi Chung! - Jessica Kim Genres: Junior fiction, Comedy On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids calling her "Yu-MEAT" because she smells like her family's Korean barbecue restaurant. On the inside, Yumi is ready for her Netflix stand-up special. Her notebook is filled with mortifying memories that she's reworked into comedy gold. All she needs is a stage and courage. Instead of spending the summer studying her favorite YouTube comedians, Yumi is enrolled in test-prep tutoring to qualify for a private school scholarship, which will help in a time of hardship at the restaurant. One day after class, Yumi stumbles on an opportunity that will change her life: a comedy camp for kids taught by one of her favorite YouTube stars. The only problem is that the instructor and all the students think she's a girl named Kay Nakamura--and Yumi doesn't correct them. As this case of mistaken identity unravels, Yumi must decide to stand up and reveal the truth or risk losing her dreams and disappointing everyone she cares about. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Stand Up, Yumi Chung!” by Jessica Kim https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593799542597-2CDC2WYY0BHXMSX5DPKX/81AKIe0x2JL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 30, 2020 - Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader’s Castle - Scott Cavan Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel This exciting graphic novel explores the hidden corners of the Star Wars universe and features a wretched hive of scum and villainy including Darth Maul, Jabba the Hutt, Grand Moff Tarkin, Asaji Ventress--all under the shadow of Darth Vader! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader’s Castle” by Scott Cavan https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-june-25-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593453518783-PL54SZN3J6MW4NPYMCZ3/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: June 25, 2020 - The Sinner (Black Dagger Brotherhood #18) - J R Ward Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal Syn has kept his side hustle as a mercenary a secret from the Black Dagger Brotherhood. When he takes another hit job, he not only crosses the path of the vampire race’s new enemy, but also that of a half-breed in danger of dying during her transition. Jo Early has no idea what her true nature is, and when a mysterious man appears out of the darkness, she is torn between their erotic connection and the sense that something is very wrong. Fate anointed Butch O’Neal as the Dhestroyer, the fulfiller of the prophecy that foresees the end of the Omega. As the war with the Lessening Society comes to a head, Butch gets an unexpected ally in Syn. But can he trust the male—or is the warrior with the bad past a deadly complication? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Sinner” by J R Ward https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-june-24-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593452235676-7AV2EMLZSLHDYG010DFL/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: June 24, 2020 - Camino Winds (Camino Island #2) - John Grisham Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen—even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida’s governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives. One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce’s and an author of thrillers. But the nature of Nelson’s injuries suggests that the storm wasn’t the cause of his death: He has suffered several suspicious blows to the head. Who would want Nelson dead? The local police are overwhelmed in the aftermath of the storm and ill equipped to handle the case. Bruce begins to wonder if the shady characters in Nelson’s novels might be more real than fictional. And somewhere on Nelson’s computer is the manuscript of his new novel. Could the key to the case be right there—in black and white? As Bruce starts to investigate, what he discovers between the lines is more shocking than any of Nelson’s plot twists—and far more dangerous. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Camino Island” by John Grisham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593452463702-B33M8QOHV72L623YEH9G/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: June 24, 2020 - Credible Threat (Ali Reynolds #15) - J A Jance Genres: Fiction, Mystery Years after her son’s fatal overdose, grieving mother Rachel Higgins learns that his addiction may have grown out of damage suffered at the hands of a pedophile priest while he was in high school. Looking for vengeance, she targets the Catholic Church’s most visible local figure, Archbishop Francis Gillespie. When the archbishop begins receiving anonymous threats, local police dismiss them, saying they’re not credible. So he turns to his friends, Ali Reynolds and her husband, B. Simpson. With B. out of the country on a cybersecurity emergency, it’s up to Ali to track down the source of the threats. When a shooter assassinates the archbishop’s driver and leaves the priest himself severely injured, Ali forms an uneasy alliance with a Phoenix homicide cop in hopes of preventing another attack. But Ali doesn’t realize that the killer has become not only more unhinged but also more determined to take out his or her target. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Credible Threat” by J A Jance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1593451926217-104PIRQ8X6SB8E5CX1FR/61lSH0gv5WL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: June 24, 2020 - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games #0.5) - Suzanne Collins Genres: Young adult fiction, Action, Fanatsy It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuvre his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined – every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favour or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes. 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In this book, the original author pulls back the curtain even further, offering a first-of-its-kind look at the president and his record - a must-read before Election Day. It will surprise and challenge both Democrats and Republicans, motivate them to consider how we judge our nation's leaders, and illuminate the consequences of re-electing a commander in chief unfit for the role. This book is a sobering assessment of the man in the Oval Office and a warning about something even more important - who are we as a people. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Warning” by Anonymous https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-may-15-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589566612875-B0IZE62NB04APF190ZO5/9780062792129-us.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - After Sundown - Linda Howard & Linda Jones Genres: Fiction, Romance, Suspense Sela Gordon, the shy owner of a Tennessee general store, finds safety in solitude. But if anyone can pierce her protective shell it’s the handsome, mysterious ex-military man living alone in the wilds of Cove Mountain. For two years, he’s kept his distance—until the day he appears to warn her that a catastrophic solar storm capable of taking down the power grid is coming. Now, Sela must find the courage to become the leader Wears Valley needs. Bitter experience has taught Ben Jernigan it’s best to look out for number one. For two years the former soldier has lived in a self-imposed exile, using a top-notch security system to keep people away. But he had to let Sela know about the impending threat—and now the quiet and undeniably sexy woman is making it too easy for him to lower his guard. As panic spreads, Sela and Ben discover that in the dark, cut off from the outside world, there’s no more playing it safe—in life or in love. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “After Sundown” by Linda Howard & Linda Jones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589566750452-PYKJEM4RI15E729RPF0F/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - The Ancestor - Danielle Trussoni Genres: Fiction, Gothic, Horror, Mystery It feels like a fairy tale when Alberta ”Bert” Monte receives a letter addressed to “Countess Alberta Montebianco” at her Hudson Valley, New York, home that claims she’s inherited a noble title, money, and a castle in Italy. While Bert is more than a little skeptical, the mystery of her aristocratic family’s past, and the chance to escape her stressful life for a luxury holiday in Italy, is too good to pass up. At first, her inheritance seems like a dream come true: a champagne-drenched trip on a private jet to Turin, Italy; lawyers with lists of artwork and jewels bequeathed to Bert; a helicopter ride to an ancestral castle nestled in the Italian Alps below Mont Blanc; a portrait gallery of ancestors Bert never knew existed; and a cellar of expensive vintage wine for Bert to drink. But her ancestry has a dark side, and Bert soon learns that her family history is particularly complicated. As Bert begins to unravel the Montebianco secrets, she begins to realize her true inheritance lies not in a legacy of ancestral treasures, but in her very genes. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Ancestor” by Danielle Trussoni https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589566977179-C1P6H4U52GQL7HNQQZ41/9781496720139.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - And the Killer Is… (Savannah Reid #25) - G A McKevett Genres: Fiction, Mystery PI Savannah Reid has delved into the ugly side of SoCal’s celebrity culture more than once. But the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency may have bitten off more than they can chew when a Hollywood legend makes a deadly comeback . . . It will be a cold day in San Carmelita before Savannah skips over a high-profile homicide case, especially one attached to a tasty reward. But when 90-year-old former silver screen siren Lucinda Faraday is murdered inside her derelict mansion, serving justice comes with unsavory risks. The fallen star, considered one of the most beautiful women of her time, was found strangled by a pair of vintage stockings amid a hoard of garbage and priceless memorabilia. Now, Lucinda is making headlines again—and, like in the past, her name is connected with the worst kind of scandal . . . As a quest for answers reveals sleazy secrets about the victim’s history, the Moonlight Magnolia Agency soon discover that corruption, addiction, and blackmail were as rampant in the good old days of Hollywood as in the present—maybe even more so. Balancing a suspect list longer than the Lucinda’s acting credits and evidence that could destroy the reputation of people still alive, can Savannah outsmart the culprit before she or someone else get reduced to tabloid fodder next? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “And the Killer Is…” by G A McKevett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589567191695-A2KDWNOQYYX6M3XCQW4D/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - A Bad Day for Sunshine (Sunshine Vicram #1) - Darynda Jones Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance Sheriff Sunshine Vicram finds her cup o’ joe more than half full when the small village of Del Sol, New Mexico, becomes the center of national attention for a kidnapper on the loose. Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, its strong cups of coffee—and a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff--an election her adorably meddlesome parents entered her in--and she expects her biggest crime wave to involve an elderly flasher named Doug. But a teenage girl is missing, a kidnapper is on the loose, and all of it's reminding Sunny why she left Del Sol in the first place. Add to that trouble at her daughter’s new school and a kidnapped prized rooster named Puff Daddy, and Sunshine has her hands full. Enter sexy almost-old-flame Levi Ravinder and a hunky US Marshall, both elevens on a scale of one to blazing inferno, and the normally savvy sheriff is quickly in over her head. Now it’s up to Sunshine to juggle a few good hunky men, a not-so-nice kidnapping miscreant, and Doug the ever-pesky flasher. And they said coming home would be drama-free. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Bad Day for Sunshine” by Darynda Jones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589567338171-G1K0O4YMMVONA8AMSWX6/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Behind Every Lie - Christina McDonald Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller If you can’t remember it, how do you prove you didn’t do it? Eva Hansen wakes in the hospital after being struck by lightning and discovers her mother, Kat, has been murdered. Eva was found unconscious down the street. She can’t remember what happened but the police are highly suspicious of her. Determined to clear her name, Eva heads from Seattle to London—Kat’s former home—for answers. But as she unravels her mother’s carefully held secrets, Eva soon realizes that someone doesn’t want her to know the truth. And with violent memories beginning to emerge, Eva doesn’t know who to trust. Least of all herself. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Behind Every Lie” by Christina McDonald https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589567454669-L51HCGSNQJAZ1ETXO1PZ/81K5Koy9I2L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - The Big Lie (Jack Swyteck #16) - James Grippando Genres: Fiction, Mystery The country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote will not occupy the Oval Office. President Malcolm MacLeod, the Machiavellian incumbent, was spared from impeachment only because his political foes were certain they would oust him at the ballot box. Now, he appears to have secured a second term, thanks to a narrow victory in the Electoral College. His opponent, Florida Senator Evan Stahl, saw his campaign rocked by allegations of an extramarital affair—with another man. Despite the salacious headline-making scandal and the surrounding media frenzy, most Americans chose Stahl to lead the politically polarized nation. But Stahl is refusing to concede. Backed by millions of supporters, he looks to individual members of the Electoral College to cross party lines. Gun lobbyist Charlotte Holmes is one of Floridas twenty-nine electors who is bound by law and by oath to cast her vote for MacLeod, who won Florida by the thinnest of margins. When Charlotte announces that she intends to vote her conscience and throw the Electoral College to Stahl, the president and his Florida machine haul her into court on felony charges—which, for some, isn’t nearly punishment enough. Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is going to use every legal maneuver he can to keep his new client free—and alive. MacLeod’s hand-picked prosecutor is determined to prove Charlotte is unfit to cast a vote. Dredging through her past, he’s looking for skeletons to humiliate and discredit her, while others with far deadlier intentions have begun acting on their threats. As the pressure mounts, Charlotte and Jack must decide how far they’ll go to stand their ground in the stand-your-ground state. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Big Lie” by James Grippando https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589567632099-XX785AE3XFBY8B7TODM3/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - The Chill - Scott Carson Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller Far upstate, in New York’s ancient forests, a drowned village lays beneath the dark, still waters of the Chilewaukee reservoir. Early in the 20th century, the town was destroyed for the greater good: bringing water to the millions living downstate. Or at least that’s what the politicians from Manhattan insisted at the time. The local families, settled there since America’s founding, were forced from their land, but they didn’t move far, and some didn’t move at all… Now, a century later, the repercussions of human arrogance are finally making themselves known. An inspector assigned to oversee the dam, dangerously neglected for decades, witnesses something inexplicable. It turns out that more than the village was left behind in the waters of the Chill when it was abandoned. The townspeople didn’t evacuate without a fight. A dark prophecy remained, too, and the time has come for it to be fulfilled. Those who remember must ask themselves: who will be next? For sacrifices must be made. And as the dark waters begin to inexorably rise, the demand for a fresh sacrifice emerges from the deep... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Chill” by Scott Carson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589570619608-1S282RMIAGU1NO1Y3J4R/91qRzuGse8L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Code Name Helene - Arial Lawhon Genres: Fiction, Historical, War In 1936, foreign correspondent, Nancy Wake, witnesses first-hand the terror of Hitler's rise in Europe. No sooner has Nancy met, fallen in love with and agreed to marry French industrialist Henri Fiocca, than the Germans invade France and force her to take on her first code name of many. The Gestapo call her the White Mouse for her remarkable ability to evade capture when smuggling Allied soldiers across borders. She becomes Helene when she leaves France to train in espionage with an elite special forces group in London. Then, when she returns to France, she is the deadly Madame Andree. But the closer France gets to liberation, the more exposed Nancy - and the people she loves - will become. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Code Name Helene” by Arial Lawhon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589570778414-G37AVPX5EHHLWKKSJV6F/81AVGBCR-YL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Darling Rose Gold - Stephanie Wrobel Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller A dark, shocking, and unputdownable thriller debut about a mother and daughter--and the lengths to which a daughter will go to find independence. There is always a special bond between mothers and daughters--but sometimes it goes horribly wrong. For eighteen years, Rose Gold believed she was chronically sick. She thought she needed the feeding tube, the surgeries, and the wheelchair. She thought her mother, Patty, was her guardian angel. Turns out her mom is just a really good liar. Patty was sentenced to five years in prison for mistreating Rose Gold as a child. When Patty gets out, Rose Gold, now a grown woman, decides her mother has paid her dues and invites Patty to move in with her. After all, Rose Gold is a mother herself now. She has a beautiful baby boy, so she understands how tough parenting can be. And Patty claims all she wants is to reconcile with her daughter and help care for her brand-new grandson. But Rose Gold knows her mother so very well. Patty won't rest until she has her darling Rose Gold back under her thumb. Which is a smidge inconvenient, because Rose Gold wants to be free of Patty forever. Who will get her way? Mother or daughter? And in the end, what will that mean? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Darling Rose Gold” by Stephanie Wrobel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589570993776-FK30GESMASD1Q2QGIS02/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut (Death by Chocolate Mystery #3) - Sarah Graves Genres: Fiction, Mystery When a pirate festival blows into their small town, bakeshop owners Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and her best friend Ellie White expect they’ll be busy baking up a storm, but instead they find themselves marooned in a new murder investigation after someone kills a well-known food writer and TV personality . . . Everything is shipshape at Jake and Ellie’s new waterfront bakery, The Chocolate Moose, especially now that the annual Pirate Festival is dropping anchor in their quaint island village of Eastport, Maine. Jake and Ellie are ready for the bounty of tourists sure to flood their shop. But their plans quickly sink when the body of celebrity foodie, Henry Hadlyme, is discovered in the Moose’s basement. Jake and Ellie are horrified, but their shock turns to dismay when Jake is pegged for the murder. Now, to clear Jake’s name and save the shop, Jake and Ellie must swashbuckle down and figure out who among Henry’s numerous enemies scuttled him in the cellar. Was it a long-ago jilted sweetheart’s vengeful relative? His long-suffering personal assistant? Or perhaps some bitter-as-dark-chocolate unknown enemy, now aboard the mysterious ship lurking in Eastport’s harbor? Alas, dead men tell no tales, so Jake and Ellie will have to get to the bottom of the case on their own and find the real killer before anyone else is forced to walk the plank . . . CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut” by Sarah Graves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589571256177-BKBT9KDLC3270LZZNBPQ/51w62qCOrAL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - The Gilded Cage - Camilla Lackberg Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller People would kill to have Faye von Essen’s life. She lives in an ultra-swanky apartment in the most exclusive area of Stockholm, she has a gorgeous husband who gives her everything she’s ever wanted, and she has an adorable daughter who lights up her world. Faye’s life is perfect. So how is it, then, that she now finds herself in a police station? The truth is that Faye’s life is far from what it seems. The truth is that Faye isn’t even her real name. And now she’s been caught out. There’s no way she’s going to go down without a fight. The only question is – who will escape with their life? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Gilded Cage” by Camilla Lackberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589571606247-QKI16H81KJPXN7H4ZPTH/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Grace is Gone - Emily Elgar Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller A small town's beloved family. A shocking, senseless crime--and the dark secret at the heart of it all. Everyone in Ashford, Cornwall, knows Meg Nichols and her daughter, Grace. Meg has been selflessly caring for Grace for years, and Grace--smiling and optimistic in spite of her many illnesses--adores her mother. So when Meg is found brutally bludgeoned in her bed and her daughter missing, the community is rocked. Meg had lived in terror of her abusive, unstable ex, convinced that he would return to try and kidnap Grace...as he had once before. Now it appears her fear was justified. Jon Katrin, a local journalist, knows he should avoid getting drawn back into this story. The article he wrote about Meg and Grace caused rifts within his marriage and the town. Perhaps if he can help find Grace, he can atone for previous lapses in judgment. The Nichols' neighbor, Cara--contending with her own guilt over not being a better friend to Grace--becomes an unexpected ally. But in searching for Grace, Jon and Cara uncover anomalies that lead to more and more questions. Through multiple viewpoints and diary entries, the truth about Grace emerges, revealing a tragedy more twisted than anyone could could have ever imagined… CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Grace is Gone” by Emily Elgar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589571934943-A97C4NFL8IQBWF3N5RVM/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Gwendy’s Magic Feather (Gwendy #2) - Richard Chizmar Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery Something evil has swept into the small Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the latest winter storm. Sheriff Norris Ridgewick and his team are desperately searching for two missing girls, but time is running out. In Washington, DC, thirty-seven-year-old Gwendy Peterson couldn't be more different from the self conscious teenaged girl who had once been entrusted -- or cursed -- with an extraordinary and powerful box covered with colorful buttons by a mysterious stranger dressed in black. One day, though, the button box suddenly reappears without explanation. Between this and the troubling disappearances back home, Gwendy decides she might be able to do something to help. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Gwendy’s Magic Feather” by Richard Chizmar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589906964074-42LWB3019GYQ5HIF2RX8/91sWh5OXZ6L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Hid From Our Eyes (Fergusson and Van Alstyne #9) - Julia Spencer-Fleming Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense 1952. Millers Kill Police Chief Harry McNeil is called to a crime scene where a woman in a party dress has been murdered with no obvious cause of death. 1972. Millers Kill Police Chief Jack Liddle is called to a murder scene of a woman that's very similar to one he worked as a trooper in the 50s. The only difference is this time, they have a suspect. Young Vietnam War veteran Russ van Alstyne found the body while riding his motorcycle and is quickly pegged as the prime focus of the investigation. Present-day. Millers Kill Police Chief Russ van Alstyne gets a 911 call that a young woman has been found dead in a party dress, the same MO as the crime he was accused of in the 70s. The pressure is on for Russ to solve the murder before he's removed from the case. Russ will enlist the help of his police squad and Reverand Clare Fergusson, who is already juggling the tasks of being a new mother to her and Russ's baby and running St. Alban's Church, to finally solve these crimes. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Hid From Our Eyes” by Julia Spencer-Fleming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589907188487-TFL03NQR4ZDDYPODAFYI/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) - Sarah J Maas Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance Bound by blood. Tempted by desire. Unleashed by destiny. Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life—working hard all day and partying all night—until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She’ll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths. Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose—to assassinate his boss’s enemies, no questions asked. But with a demon wreaking havoc in the city, he’s offered an irresistible deal: help Bryce find the murderer, and his freedom will be within reach. As Bryce and Hunt dig deep into Crescent City’s underbelly, they discover a dark power that threatens everything and everyone they hold dear, and they find, in each other, a blazing passion—one that could set them both free, if they’d only let it. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “House of Earth and Blood” by Sarah J Maas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589907474473-PE7U8ZP0J71BJWE81WGF/91YescC45nL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - How a Woman Becomes a Lake - Marjorie Celona Genres: Fiction, Thriller It's New Year's Day and the residents of a small fishing town are ready to start their lives anew. Leo takes his two young sons out to the lake to write resolutions on paper boats. That same frigid morning, Vera sets out for a walk with her dog along the lake, leaving her husband in bed with a hangover. But she never returns. She places a call to the police saying she's found a boy in the woods, but the call is cut short by a muffled cry. Did one of Leo's sons see Vera? What are they hiding from the police? And why are they so scared of their own father? In the months ahead, Vera's absence sets off a chain of reverberating events in Whale Bay. Her apathetic husband succumbs to grief. Leo heads south and remarries. And the cop investigating the case falls for Leo's ex-wife but finds himself slipping further away from the truth. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “How a Woman Becomes a Lake” by Marjorie Celona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589907691127-VRKZ0NKJU8VBBNFET6NJ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Into the Fire (Orphan X #5) - Gregg Hurwitz Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was trained as an off-the-books government assassin: Orphan X. After breaking with the Program, he reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man, a figure shrouded in shadows who helps the truly desperate. But the government didn’t let go of him easily, sending their best to hunt him down and eliminate him. All of them failed. With his deadliest enemies behind him, Evan is facing a new challenge—what is he going to do now that no one is after him? Max Merriweather is at the end of his rope. Separated from the woman he loves and barely scraping by, Max is a disappointment to everyone in his life. Then his very successful cousin Grant is brutally murdered. Two months before, Grant left Max an envelope with instructions to take it to a reporter if anything happened to him. Now the reporter is missing and Max’s apartment is ransacked. A man at the end of his rope, he calls The Nowhere Man. With mixed feelings, Evan takes on this mission, easily finding the men who are after Max and executing a plan to keep him safe. But it isn’t as obvious as it seems—and Evan finds himself enmeshed in one of the most challenging missions of his life, one that he can’t survive on his own. With the help of Joey Morales, a genius-level hacker and the last Orphan recruited into the Program, and the brilliant, off-the-books gunsmith, Tommy Stojack, Orphan X once more heads…Into the Fire. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Into the Fire” by Gregg Hurwitz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589907838845-K82JOF3SZ7K15ABH0YOR/91iSImYCnTL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - The Lady of the Ravens (Queens of the Tower #1) - Joanna Hickson Genres: Fiction, Historical Two women, two very different destinies, drawn together in the shadow of the Tower of London: Elizabeth of York, her life already tainted by dishonour and tragedy, now queen to the first Tudor king, Henry the VII. Joan Vaux, servant of the court, straining against marriage and motherhood and privy to the deepest and darkest secrets of her queen. Like the ravens, Joan must use her eyes and her senses, as conspiracy whispers through the dark corridors of the Tower. Through Joan's eyes, The Lady of the Ravens inhabits the squalid streets of Tudor London, the imposing walls of its most fearsome fortress and the glamorous court of a kingdom in crisis. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Lady of the Ravens” by Joanna Hickson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589908094121-ZEFDXTSKPZ0SGJ6IOW5D/817iKtgMhuL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Naked Came the Florida Man (Serge Storms #23) - Tim Dorsey Genres: Fiction, Comedy, Mystery Though another devastating hurricane is raking Florida, its awesome power can’t stop the Sunshine State’s most loyal son, Serge A. Storms, from his latest scenic road trip: a cemetery tour. With his best bro Colman riding shotgun, Serge hits the highway in his ’69 gold Plymouth Satellite, putting pedal to the metal on a grand tour of the past. Beginning in Key West, the sunshine boys’ odyssey includes a forgotten mass grave in Palm Beach county holding the remains of African Americans killed by the Great Hurricane of 1928, and the resting place of one world-famous television dolphin (RIP Flipper) from the 1960s. But one deadland—a haunted old sugar field—holds more than just the bones of those who’ve passed. For years, local children have whispered about a boogeyman hiding among the stalks. Could it be the same maniac known as Naked Florida man who’s been raising hell all over the place? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Naked Came the Florida Man” by Tim Dorsey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589908282358-MWIQBZ6RIOK8L9XYAMFI/81qhrE6o2IL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - No Bad Deed - Heather Chavez Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Driving home one rainy night, Cassie Larkin sees a man and woman fighting on the side of the road. After calling 911, the veterinarian makes a split-second decision that will throw her sedate suburban life into chaos. Against all reason and advice, she gets out of her minivan and chases after the violent man, trying to help his victim. When Cassie physically tries to stop him, he suddenly turns on her and spits out an ominous threat: “Let her die, and I’ll let you live.” A veterinarian trained to heal, Cassie can’t let the woman die. But while she’s examining the unconscious victim, the attacker steals her car. Now he has her name. Her address. And he knows about her children. Though they warn her to be careful, the police assure her that the perpetrator—a criminal named Carver Sweet—won’t get near her. Cassie isn’t so sure. The next day—Halloween—her husband disappears while trick-or-treating with their six-year-old daughter. Are these disturbing events a coincidence or the beginning of a horrifying nightmare? Her husband has been growing distant—is it possible he’s become involved with another woman? Is Cassie’s confrontation with the road-side attacker connected to her husband’s disappearance? With all these questions swirling in her mind Cassie can trust no one, maybe not even herself. The only thing she knows for sure is that she can’t sit back while the people she loves are in danger. As she desperately searches for answers, Cassie discovers that nothing is as random as it seems, and that she is more than willing to fight—to go the most terrifying extremes—to save her family and her marriage. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “No Bad Deed” by Heather Chavez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589908424293-PMB8X56UT2HBPZTDDVTG/81pmO%2B5MMlL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Please See Us - Caitlin Mullen Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Summer has come to Atlantic City but the boardwalk is empty of tourists, the casino lights have dimmed, and two Jane Does are laid out in the marshland behind the Sunset Motel, just west of town. Only one person even knows they’re there. Meanwhile, Clara, a young boardwalk psychic, struggles to attract clients for the tarot readings that pay her rent. When she begins to experience very real and disturbing visions, she suspects they could be related to the recent cases of women gone missing in town. When Clara meets Lily, an ex-Soho art gallery girl who is working at a desolate casino spa and reeling from a personal tragedy, she thinks Lily may be able to help her. But Lily has her own demons to face. If they can put the pieces together in time, they may save another lost girl—so long as their efforts don’t attract perilous attention first. Can they break the ill-fated cycle, or will they join the other victims? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Please See Us” by Caitlin Mullen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589908628403-KELMQUZ0FDOL43GADP7L/81Rmhab9fuL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - The Return - Rachel Harrison Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller An edgy and haunting debut novel about a group of friends who reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance. Julie is missing, and the missing don't often return. But Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and she feels in her bones that her best friend is out there, and that one day she'll come back. She's right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she's been or what happened to her. Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at the eccentric, remote Red Honey Inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong--she's emaciated, with sallow skin, chipped teeth and odd appetites. In so many ways, Julie seems to be the friend they all loved and lost. But in others, she seems to be a stranger. When bad weather traps them inside the hotel, tensions flare. Elise begins to hear scratching within the walls, to see the slither of shadows cast by nothing. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who--or what--is she? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Return” by Rachel Harrison https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589908787160-0O1N1ZLA7PXZY8SFNI2T/81UnVee9eaL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - The Sea Glass Cottage - RaeAnne Thayne Genres: Fiction, Romance The life Olivia Harper always dreamed of isn’t so dreamy these days. The 16-hour work days are unfulfilling and so are things with her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when she hears that her estranged mother, Juliet, has been seriously injured in a car accident, Liv has no choice but to pack up her life and head home to beautiful Cape Sanctuary on the Northern California coast. It’s just for a few months—that’s what Liv keeps telling herself. But the closer she gets to Cape Sanctuary, the painful memories start flooding back: Natalie, her vibrant, passionate older sister who downward-spiraled into addiction. The fights with her mother who enabled her sister at every turn. The overdose that took Natalie, leaving her now-teenaged daughter, Caitlin, an orphan. As Liv tries to balance her own needs with those of her injured mother and an obstinate, resentful fifteen-year-old, it becomes clear that all three Harper women have been keeping heartbreaking secrets from one another. And as those secrets are revealed, Liv, Juliet, and Caitlin will see that it’s never too late—or too early—to heal family wounds and find forgiveness. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Sea Glass Cottage” by RaeAnne Thayne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589908893341-ABYG8KGVZLJVTF3AN1YO/71c04DSypJL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Sin Eater - Megan Campisi Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Mystery The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers Following Her to the grave, unseen, unheard The Sin Eater Walks Among Us. For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a Sin Eater—a shunned woman, brutally marked, whose fate is to hear the final confessions of the dying, eat ritual foods symbolizing their sins as a funeral rite, and thereby shoulder their transgressions to grant their souls access to heaven. Orphaned and friendless, apprenticed to an older Sin Eater who cannot speak to her, May must make her way in a dangerous and cruel world she barely understands. When a deer heart appears on the coffin of a royal governess who did not confess to the dreadful sin it represents, the older Sin Eater refuses to eat it. She is taken to prison, tortured, and killed. To avenge her death, May must find out who placed the deer heart on the coffin and why. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Sin Eater” Megan Campisi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589909066055-9XCVICQVBP1T48ZU7KRC/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Things in Jars - Jess Kidd Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Mystery Bridie Devine, female detective extraordinaire, is confronted with the most baffling puzzle yet: the kidnapping of Christabel Berwick, secret daughter of Sir Edmund Athelstan Berwick, and a peculiar child whose reputed supernatural powers have captured the unwanted attention of collectors trading curiosities in this age of discovery. Winding her way through the labyrinthine, sooty streets of Victorian London, Bridie won’t rest until she finds the young girl, even if it means unearthing a past that she’d rather keep buried. Luckily, her search is aided by an enchanting cast of characters, including a seven-foot tall housemaid; a melancholic, tattoo-covered ghost; and an avuncular apothecary. But secrets abound in this foggy underworld where spectacle is king and nothing is quite what it seems. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Things in Jars” by Jess Kidd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589909254832-V61BE5GCGMWCKOW23P8A/917qRcOMNML.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - The Woman in the Mirror - Rebecca James Genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond. In 1947, Londoner Alice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne, looking after Captain Jonathan de Grey’s twin children. Falling under the de Greys’ spell, Alice believes the family will heal her own past sorrows. But then the twins’ adoration becomes deceitful and taunting. Their father, ever distant, turns spiteful and cruel. The manor itself seems to lash out. Alice finds her surroundings subtly altered, her air slightly chilled. Something malicious resents her presence, something clouding her senses and threatening her very sanity. In present day New York, art gallery curator Rachel Wright has learned she is a descendant of the de Greys and heir to Winterbourne. Adopted as an infant, she never knew her birth parents or her lineage. At long last, Rachel will find answers to questions about her identity that have haunted her entire life. But what she finds in Cornwall is a devastating tragic legacy that has afflicted generations of de Greys. A legacy borne from greed and deceit, twisted by madness, and suffused with unrequited love and unequivocal rage. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Woman in the Mirror” by Rebecca James https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589909411594-XAG5N7PPNOOGKJF2K3MS/91PK21UjrmL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - You Let Me In - Camilla Bruce Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller Cassandra Tipp is dead...or is she? After all, the notorious recluse and eccentric bestselling novelist has always been prone to flights of fancy--everyone in town remembers the shocking events leading up to Cassie's infamous trial (she may have been acquitted, but the insanity defense only stretches so far). Cassandra Tipp has left behind no body--just her massive fortune, and one final manuscript. Then again, there are enough bodies in her past--her husband Tommy Tipp, whose mysterious disembowelment has never been solved, and a few years later, the shocking murder-suicide of her father and brother. Cassandra Tipp will tell you a story--but it will come with a terrible price. What really happened, out there in the woods--and who has Cassie been protecting all along? Read on, if you dare... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “You Let Me In” by Camilla Bruce https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589912584502-TIY0KZBHM5B4Z8YV8CEC/71dTGjShNJL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Benny on the Beach - Ed and Diego Arandojo Genres: Beginner fiction, Graphic novel At first, Benny isn't too excited about spending a day on the beach. But what happens when the young boy digs up a living, breathing woolly mammoth? Find out in this wordless graphic novel where the artwork brings the story to life. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Benny on the Beach” by Ed and Diego Arandojo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589912811094-86E566FRHOZBS7BYY3F7/81j9QND-1AL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Blow the Roof Off (Big Nate #22) - Lincoln Peirce Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Nate Wright is born to be wild! And when Enslave the Mollusk is invited to play at the P.S. 38 annual open house, he and his bandmates are on the stairway to heaven. While the kids rock, the school year rolls on. Mrs. Godfrey is back in black, Gina thinks she’s hot stuff, and Coach John is dazed and confused. The good news: Nate’s finally reunited with Trudy, his summer crush. But when he finds out she’s a—gulp—seventh grader, will Nate lose that lovin’ feeling? Middle school is a long, strange trip, and this new collection of riotous Big Nate comics just might BLOW THE ROOF OFF! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Blow the Roof Off” by Lincoln Peirce https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589912992385-VQX50NLMNUOEEP5BQ025/5126-c8KNQL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Consent (For Kids!) - Rachel Brian Genres: Beginner fiction, Graphic novel Consent is like being ruler of your own country...population: YOU. This is a smart, playful guide to consent and bodily autonomy, packed with bright and energetic illustrations. Readers will learn about boundaries and how to set them; ways to respect themselves and others; what to do if someone makes them feel uncomfortable or unsafe; and much more. Along the way, they'll be encouraged to reflect on (and improve!) their own behavior and to practice consent in their daily lives. Whether you're looking for a consent primer to share with a friend or searching for a way to talk to your child about what it means to be in control of their own body and respect others', look no further! This humorous and insightful book from the co-creator of the viral "Tea Consent" video is the perfect teaching tool, conversation starter, and insightful, empowering resource for educators, kids, and families everywhere. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Consent (For Kids!) by Rachel Brian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589913221749-BTTWIJEWCT48WL7LVAU1/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Dragon Hoops - Gene Luen Yang Genres: Young adult fiction, Sports, Graphic novel Gene understands stories—comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins. But Gene doesn’t get sports. As a kid, his friends called him “Stick” and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men’s varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that’s been decades in the making. Each victory brings them closer to their ultimate goal: the California State Championships. Once Gene gets to know these young all-stars, he realizes that their story is just as thrilling as anything he’s seen on a comic book page. He knows he has to follow this epic to its end. What he doesn’t know yet is that this season is not only going to change the Dragons’s lives, but his own life as well. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Dragon Hoops” by Gene Luen Yang https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589913560589-S8QRH6O2ZZ1A95N327D6/8120X6%2BiiTL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Legend of the Coral Caves (S.Q.U.I.D. Squad #1) - Megan Miller Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Torn from their lives as regular Librarian’s kids, Max, Ingrid, and Luke must survive in a hidden Librarian outpost—underwater! While their parents scramble to safeguard the books of the Overworld, the trio sneak out of their warren of underwater caves to investigate the deep waters of the oceans. When they hear about the Legend of the Coral Caves, a trove of golden coral beyond imagining, Max, Luke, and Ingrid realize that this wealth could help solve all their problems. Now it’s up to them to find the cave and bring the fortune back to save their families—and their books! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Legend of the Coral Caves” by Megan Miller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589913747977-P7D02E7RKPV2MVFOB0PU/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - My Little Pony: Legends of Magic Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy It's all here: the origins of cutie marks, friendships, magic, and more. In this opening story arc, we travel back in time to uncover the secrets of Starswirl the Bearded and his magical friends! Sure to entice longtime readers, it also makes a good entry point for new fans of the brand. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “My Little Pony: Legends of Magic” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589913920448-H45VWA27PBY91ZXBQKGY/8191DaBpcyL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - They Changed the World Genres: Junior nonfiction, Biography, Graphic novel In the 15th Century, most astronomers agreed that the Earth was the centre of the universe. This idea dated back more than 1000 years, to the Greek astronomer Ptolomy, who stated that the Earth was motionless, and that all other heavenly bodies moved in complicated patterns around the Earth. This view became the accepted view of the Catholic Church, an institution so powerful that few would dare to question it. Until Copernicus, Bruno and Galileo... Learn the life stories of these three great minds, their great breakthroughs, right to their final years. This story is about science and religion. About brave individuals vs a powerful institution. But ultimately, it's about mankind as a species learning to grow up. Like a child must one day learn that it's not the most important thing in the world, humanity had to learn its own small place in the vast universe. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “They Changed the World” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589914452381-NRXKX1LOTYNSAZEYJNYG/71Fkn05y7GL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 19, 2020 - Martin McLean, Middle School Queen - Alyssa Zaczek Genres: Junior fiction Seventh-grader Martin McLean has always been surrounded by people who can express themselves. His mother is an artist, his colorful Tío Billy works in theater, and his best friends Carmen and Pickle are outgoing and don’t care what other people think. But Martin can only find the right words when he’s answering a problem at a Mathletes competition—until his tío introduces him to the world of drag. In a swirl of sequins and stilettos, Martin creates his fabulous drag queen alter ego, Lottie León. As Lottie, he is braver than he’s ever been; but as Martin, he doesn’t have the guts to tell anyone outside of his family about her. Not Carmen and Pickle, not his Mathletes teammates, and definitely not Chris, an eighth-grader who gives Martin butterflies. When Martin discovers that his first-ever drag show is the same night as the most important Mathletes tournament, he realizes that he can only pull off both appearances by revealing his true self to his friends—and channeling his inner drag superstar. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Martin McLean, Middle School Queen” by Alyssa Zaczek https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-may-6-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589305158331-FERHL6WL3SN1DJA8T99N/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children #5) - Seanan McGuire Genres: Fiction, Fantasy When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister--whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice--back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world isn't always as permanent as it is here, and when Jack is herself carried back into the school, it becomes clear that something has happened to her. Something terrible. Something of which only the maddest of scientists could conceive. Something only her friends are equipped to help her overcome. Eleanor West's "No Quests" rule is about to be broken. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Come Tumbling Down” by Seanan McGuire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589305401740-N1TFSEC58ML3KGQVVIGU/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - A Conspiracy of Bones (Temperance Brennan #19) - Kathy Reichs Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller It’s sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm, is battling nightmares, migraines, and what she thinks might be hallucinations when she receives a series of mysterious text messages, each containing a new picture of a corpse that is missing its face and hands. Immediately, she’s anxious to know who the dead man is, and why the images were sent to her. An identified corpse soon turns up, only partly answering her questions. To win answers to the others, including the man’s identity, she must go rogue, working mostly outside the system. That’s because Tempe’s new boss holds a fierce grudge against her and is determined to keep her out of the case. Tempe bulls forward anyway, even as she begins questioning her instincts. But the clues she discovers are disturbing and confusing. Was the faceless man a spy? A trafficker? A target for assassination by the government? And why was he carrying the name of a child missing for almost a decade? With help from a number of law enforcement associates including her Montreal beau Andrew Ryan and the always-ready-with-a-smart-quip, ex-homicide investigator Skinny Slidell, and utilizing new cutting-edge forensic methods, Tempe draws closer to the astonishing truth. But the more she uncovers, the darker and more twisted the picture becomes... CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Conspiracy of Bones” by Kathy Reichs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588718286831-8PDPZ8MUKAN7105U799O/MO626LURBQI6TNLQMQLO7XAIAM.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Conviction - Denise Mina Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller The day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life exploded started off like all the days before: Packing up the kids for school, making breakfast, listening to yet another true crime podcast. Then her husband comes downstairs with an announcement, and Anna is suddenly, shockingly alone. Reeling, desperate for distraction, Anna returns to the podcast. Other people's problems are much better than one's own -- a sunken yacht, a murdered family, a hint of international conspiracy. But this case actually is Anna's problem. She knows one of the victims from an earlier life, a life she's taken great pains to leave behind. And she is convinced that she knows what really happened. Then an unexpected visitor arrives on her front stoop, a meddling neighbor intervenes, and life as Anna knows it is well and truly over. The devils of her past are awakened -- and in hot pursuit. Convinced she has no other options, she goes on the run, and in pursuit of the truth, with a washed-up musician at her side and the podcast as her guide. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Conviction” by Denise Mina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589305624141-3Z7W5OVZBCSJEXWM308M/51019892._SX0_SY0_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Crooked River (Agent Pendergast #19) - Preston & Child Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Dozens of identical blue shoes are found in the ocean off the southwestern coast of Florida, all with a severed human foot inside, all exhibiting unmistakable signs of violence. They appear out of nowhere one day, floating in on the tide. Called off the tarmac from his return flight back to New York City, Pendergast reluctantly arrives on Captiva Island and is quickly drawn into the mystery. A preliminary pathology report indicates the feet were wrenched from their bodies in the crudest of ways. As the days continue, more wash in until the number tops one hundred. Soon, Pendergast and his partner, junior agent Coldmoon find themselves squaring off against an adversary more powerful and deadly than they've ever encountered. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Crooked River” by Preston & Child https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589305859443-C4BRPIEZGXS6URCITGCA/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Devoted by Dean Koontz Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller Woody Bookman hasn’t spoken a word in his eleven years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father’s death and now threatens him and his mother. And he’s not alone in his thoughts. An ally unknown to him is listening. A uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his breed, Kipp is devoted beyond reason to people. When he hears the boy who communicates like he does, without speaking, Kipp knows he needs to find him before it’s too late. Woody’s fearful suspicions are taking shape. A man driven by a malicious evil has set a depraved plan into motion. And he’s coming after Woody and his mother. The reasons are primal. His powers are growing. And he’s not alone. Only a force greater than evil can stop what’s coming next. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Devoted” by Dean Koontz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589306011644-OWVIWCXOXGR29CTSCH6L/91jNtmu56DL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - The Final Deception (New York Confidential #5) - Heather Graham Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance How do you confront a threat that is hiding in plain sight? FBI agent Craig Frasier and psychologist Kieran Finnegan hunt a serial killer with a too-close connection to Finnegan’s Pub in this explosive thriller, the latest story in the New York Confidential series It was one of Kieran’s most chilling cases: her assessment of a murderer known as the Fireman. There was no doubt that the man was dangerous and needed to be locked away for his gruesome acts. Now Craig is called to a crime scene that matches the killer’s methods, and news breaks that the Fireman has escaped prison. Amid a citywide manhunt, Kieran and Craig need to untangle a web of deceit, privilege and greed. They begin to suspect there is a new threat stalking the streets of Manhattan. Either those closest to the killer have been drawn into his evil, or someone is using another man’s madness and cruelty to disguise their crimes. When their investigation brings the danger right to the doorstep of Finnegan’s Pub, Kieran and Craig will have to be smarter and bolder than ever before, because this time it’s personal, and they have everything to lose. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Final Deception” by Heather Graham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589306264116-9OBV54VZTA6W7VW7XD6R/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Grudge Match (Sunny Randall #8) - Mike Lupica Genres: Fiction, Mystery When Sunny's long-time gangster associate Tony Marcus comes to her for help, Sunny is surprised--after all, she double crossed him on a recent deal, and their relationship is on shakier ground than ever. But the way Tony figures it, Sunny owes him, and Sunny's willing to consider his case if it will clear the slate. Tony's trusted girlfriend and business partner has vanished, appears to have left in a hurry, and he has no idea why. He just wants to talk to her, he says, but first he needs Sunny to track her down. While Sunny isn't willing to trust his good intentions, the missing woman intrigues her--against all odds, she's risen to a position of power in Tony's criminal enterprise. Sunny can't help but admire her, and if this woman's in a jam, Sunny would like to help. But when a witness is murdered hours after speaking to Sunny, it's clear there's more at stake than just Tony's love life. Someone--maybe even Tony himself--doesn't want this woman on the loose...and will go to any lengths to make sure she stays silent. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Grudge Match” by Mike Lupica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588718489588-6B4E7LSUO6IJ7MXLZI9D/9780062979391-us.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Have You Seen Me? - Kate White Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller On a cold, rainy morning, finance journalist Ally Linden arrives early to work in her Manhattan office, only to find that she’s forgotten her keycard and needs to have a colleague she’s never met let her in. When her boss finally arrives, he seems surprised to see her—because she hasn’t worked there in five years. Ally knows her name, but little else, and it’s only after several hours in an emergency room and multiple interviews with the hospital psychiatrist that she begins to piece together important facts: she lives on the Upper West Side; she’s now a freelance personal finance journalist; she’s married to a lovely man named Hugh. But she still can’t recall what happened to her during the previous two days. When she learns that she’s experienced a dissociative fugue state, Ally tries to think of triggers and remembers that she’d been seeing a therapist about a traumatic event from her childhood, in which she came across evidence for a murder that was never solved. Desperate to unearth answers, Ally focuses on figuring out where she spent the missing forty-eight hours. As ominous details of the two days pile up, so does the terrifying pressure: she must recover the time she lost before the time she has left runs out. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Have You Seen Me?” by Kate White https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588718672915-SRQGTILRSBEIWPWRUO1F/45046683.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Little Secrets - Jennifer Hillier Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Marin had the perfect life. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. They're admired in their community and are a loving family. Up until the day Sebastian is taken. A year later, Marin is a shadow of herself. The FBI search has gone cold. The publicity has faded. She and her husband rarely speak. The only thing keeping her going is the unlikely chance that one day Sebastian reappears. She hires a P.I. to pick up where the police left off, but instead of finding him, she discovers that Derek is having an affair with a younger woman. Kenzie Li is an artist and grad student—Instagram famous—and up to her eyeballs in debt. She knows Derek is married. She also knows he's rich, and dating him comes with perks: help with bills, trips away, expensive gifts. He isn't her first rich boyfriend, but she finds herself hoping he'll be the last. She's falling for him—and that was never part of the plan. Discovery of the affair sparks Marin back to life. She's lost her son; she's not about to lose her husband, too. Kenzie is an enemy with a face, which means this is a problem Marin can fix. But as she sets a plan in motion, another revelation surfaces. Derek's lover might know what happened to their son. And so might Derek. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Little Secrets” by Jennifer Hillier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588718841570-JMCIYDDC8VBVKTT5PU73/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - The Lost Orphan - Stacey Halls Genres: Fiction, Historical London, 1754. Six years after leaving her newborn, Clara, at London’s Foundling Hospital, young Bess Bright returns to reclaim the illegitimate daughter she has never really known. Dreading the worst—that Clara has died in care—the last thing she expects to hear is that her daughter has already been reclaimed. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl—and why. Less than a mile from Bess’s lodgings in a quiet town house, a wealthy widow barely ventures outside. When her close friend—an ambitious doctor at the Foundling Hospital—persuades her to hire a nursemaid for her young daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home and her life. But her past is threatening to catch up with her—and will soon tear her carefully constructed world apart. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Lost Orphan” by Stacey Halls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588718984604-F99HEEBKJBYSLIZE2W1A/45135035.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Mercy House - Alena Dillon Genres: Fiction, Historical In the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn stands a century-old row house presided over by renegade, silver-haired Sister Evelyn. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, Evelyn and her fellow sisters makes Mercy House a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Women like Lucia, who arrives in the dead of night; Mei-Li, the Chinese and Russian house veteran; Desiree, a loud and proud prostitute; Esther, a Haitian immigrant and aspiring collegiate; and Katrina, knitter of lumpy scarves… all of them know what it’s like to be broken by men. Little daunts Evelyn, until she receives word that Bishop Robert Hawkins is coming to investigate Mercy House and the nuns, whose secret efforts to help the women in ways forbidden by the Church may be uncovered. But Evelyn has secrets too, dark enough to threaten everything she has built. Evelyn will do anything to protect Mercy House and the vibrant, diverse women it serves—confront gang members, challenge her beliefs, even face her past. As she fights to defend all that she loves, she discovers the extraordinary power of mercy and the grace it grants, not just to those who receive it, but to those strong enough to bestow it. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Mercy House” by Alena Dillon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589306860220-JRKO6U3QACEUNZNV92RS/9781250252203-us.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Miss Austen - Gill Hornby Genres: Fiction, Historical England, 1840. Two decades after the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury and the home of her family friends, the Fowles. In a dusty corner of the vicarage, there is a cache of Jane’s letters that Cassandra is desperate to find. Dodging her hostess and a meddlesome housemaid, Cassandra eventually hunts down the letters and confronts the secrets they hold, secrets not only about Jane but about Cassandra herself. Will Cassandra bare the most private details of her life to the world, or commit her sister’s legacy to the flames? Moving back and forth between the vicarage and Cassandra’s vibrant memories of her years with Jane, interwoven with Jane’s brilliantly reimagined lost letters, Miss Austen is the untold story of the most important person in Jane’s life. With extraordinary empathy, emotional complexity, and wit, Gill Hornby finally gives Cassandra her due, bringing to life a woman as captivating as any Austen heroine. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Miss Austen” by Gill Hornby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588719167737-N850CD5CO2AZ6HRTQVO9/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - The Museum of Desire (Alex Delaware #35) - Jonathan Kellerman Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis has solved a lot of murder cases. On many of them--the ones he calls "different"--he taps the brain of brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. But neither Alex nor Milo are prepared for what they find on an early morning call to a deserted mansion in Bel Air. This one's beyond different. This is predation, premeditation, and cruelty on a whole new level. Four people have been slaughtered and left displayed bizarrely and horrifically in a stretch limousine. Confounding the investigation, none of the victims seems to have any connection to any other, and a variety of methods have been used to dispatch them. As Alex and Milo make their way through blind alleys and mazes baited with misdirection, they encounter a crime so vicious that it stretches the definitions of evil. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Museum of Desire” by Jonathan Kellerman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588785078722-WWIMB88VH88IX3EQKZ4U/45046677.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - The New Husband - D J Palmer Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Nina Garrity learned the hard way that her missing husband, Glen, had been leading a double life with another woman. But with Glen gone―presumably drowned while fishing on his boat―she couldn't confront him about the affair or find closure to the life he blew apart. Now, a year and a half later, Nina has found love again and hopes she can put her shattered world back together. Simon, a widower still grieving the death of his first wife, thinks he has found his dream girl in Nina, and his charm and affections help break through to a heart hardened by betrayal. Nina's teenage son, Connor, embraces Simon as the father he wishes his dad could have been, while her friends see a different side to him, and they aren't afraid to use the word obsession. Nina works hard to bridge the divide that’s come between her daughter and Simon. She wants so badly to believe her life is finally getting back on track, but she’ll soon discover that the greatest danger to herself and her children are the lies people tell themselves. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The New Husband” by D J Palmer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588785389288-DS1IDTGVCAY5CVBUZ3WM/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - The Secret Hours - Santa Montefiore Genres: Fiction, Historical Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her death, she leaves unexpected instructions. Instead of being buried in America, on the wealthy East Coast where she and her late husband raised their two children, Arethusa has decreed that her ashes be scattered in a remote corner of Ireland, on the hills overlooking the sea. All Arethusa ever told Faye was that she grew up in a poor farming family and left Ireland, alone, to start a new life in America as did so many in those times of hardship and famine. But who were her family in Ireland and where are they now? What was the real reason that she turned away from them? And who is the mysterious benefactor of a significant share of Arethusa’s estate? Arethusa is gone. There is no one left to tell her story. Faye feels bereft, as if her mother’s whole family has died with her. Leaving her own husband and children behind, she travels to the picturesque village of Ballinakelly, determined to fulfil her mother’s last wish and to find out the reason for Arethusa’s insistence on being laid to rest in this faraway land. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Secret Hours” by Santa Montefiore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588785535030-95XDVNTU92XUTDEUZHEH/91o7o9C2aeL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Sisters by Choice (Blackberry Island #4) - Susan Mallery Genres: Fiction, Romance After her cat toy empire goes up in flames, Sophie Lane returns to Blackberry Island, determined to rebuild. Until small-town life reveals a big problem: she can’t grow unless she learns to let go. If Sophie relaxes her grip even a little, she might lose everything. Or she might finally be free to reach for the happiness and love that have eluded her for so long. Kristine has become defined by her relationship to others. She’s a wife, a mom. As much as she adores her husband and sons, she wants something for herself—a sweet little bakery just off the waterfront. She knew changing the rules wouldn’t be easy, but she never imagined she might have to choose between her marriage and her dreams. Like the mainland on the horizon, Heather’s goals seem beyond her grasp. Every time she manages to save for college, her mother has another crisis. Can she break free, or will she be trapped in this tiny life forever? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Sisters by Choice” by Susan Mallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588785835917-O3852UIONVXBIA84DUMJ/9780778309482TP.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Sunrise on Halfmoon Bay - Robyn Carr Genres: Fiction, Romance Adele and Justine have never been close. Born twenty years apart, Justine was already an adult when Addie was born. The sisters love each other but they don’t really know each other. When Addie dropped out of university to care for their ailing parents, Justine, a successful lawyer, covered the expenses. It was the best arrangement at the time but now that their parents are gone, the future has changed dramatically for both women. Addie had great plans for her life but has been worn down by the pressures of being a caregiver and doesn’t know how to live for herself. And Justine’s success has come at a price. Her marriage is falling apart despite her best efforts. Neither woman knows how to start life over but both realize they can and must support each other the way only sisters can. Together they find the strength to accept their failures and overcome their challenges. Happiness is within reach, if only they have the courage to fight for it. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Sunrise on Half Moon Bay” by Robyn Carr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589307130907-FFDNWQQRLCCY3CYM9VTH/71gNgpIwWSL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - The Talented Mr. Varg (Detective Varg #2) - Alexander McCall Smith Genres: Fiction, Comedy, Mystery The Department of Sensitive Crimes, renowned for taking on the most obscure and irrelevant cases, led by Ulf Varg, their best detective, is always prepared to take on an investigation, no matter how complex. So when Ulf is approached by the girlfriend of Trig Oloffson, who claims her beau (the infamous bad boy of Swedish letters) is being blackmailed, Ulf is determined to help. It turns out that this wild bear of a man may be more of a teddy. And while Swedes are notoriously tolerant, finding out that their beloved rough and tumble ink slinger is more likely to use a pen than a sword . . . well, there are limits. Even for the Swedish. The case requires all of Ulf's concentration, but he finds himself distracted by his brother's questionable politics and meteoric rise within the Moderate Extremist Party and by his own constant attraction to his married co-worker Anna. When Ulf is then tasked with looking into a group of dealers exporting wolves that seem decidedly domestic, it will require all of his team's investigative instincts and dogged persistence to put these matters to bed. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Talented Mr. Varg” by Alexander McCall Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589307319988-05EYA6IV23IY5YB5Y2YN/s-l640.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Texas Outlaw (Rory Yates #2) - James Patterson Genres: Fiction, Mystery Texas Ranger Rory Yates is not keen for hero status. But it's unavoidable once his girlfriend, country singer Willow Dawes, writes a song about his bravery. Rory escapes his newfound fame when he's sent to the remote West Texas town of Rio Lobo, a municipality with two stoplights. And now, according to the Chief of Police, it has one too many Texas Rangers. Rio Lobo Detective Ariana Delgado is the one who requested Rory, and the only person who believes a local councilwoman's seemingly accidental death is a murder. Then Rory begins to uncover a tangle of small-town secrets, favors, and lies as crooked as Texas law is straight. To get to the truth before more people die, Rory is forced to take liberties with the investigation. The next ballad of Rory Yates may not be about a hero, but rather an outlaw song. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Texas Outlaw” by James Patterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589307475756-T14Q5DECCLGMMO832WFT/513%2BcsnGZLL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Two Sisters - Josephine Cox Genres: Fiction The pretty Arnold sisters have grown up on their father’s farm and yearn for something more out of life than drudgery and toil. Ellen, loyal and honest, is her father’s favourite, but Georgina is impulsive and unreliable, and can’t please a father who has never shown her love. The big house, Grindle Hall, offers them both a chance of betterment, but while Ellen follows the steady path, Georgina takes a darker road and soon, her actions will have fateful consequences for them all. Only Ellen can help them, but will a sister’s love be enough? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Two Sisters” by Josephine Cox https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588786050683-GBBIT68Z3N1YI9Y7D9VK/44143895._SY475_.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - You Deserve Each Other - Sarah Hogle Genres: Comedy, Fiction, Romance Naomi Westfield has the perfect fiancé: Nicholas Rose holds doors open for her, remembers her restaurant orders, and comes from the kind of upstanding society family any bride would love to be a part of. They never fight. They're preparing for their lavish wedding that's three months away. And she is miserably and utterly sick of him. Naomi wants out, but there's a catch: whoever ends the engagement will have to foot the nonrefundable wedding bill. When Naomi discovers that Nicholas, too, has been feigning contentment, the two of them go head-to-head in a battle of pranks, sabotage, and all-out emotional warfare. But with the countdown looming to the wedding that may or may not come to pass, Naomi finds her resolve slipping. Because now that they have nothing to lose, they're finally being themselves--and having fun with the last person they expect: each other. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “You Deserve Each Other” by Sarah Hogle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588788014565-7CVHXJKXJVU4LZNSGYIS/81bNT82PoXL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - The Art of Resistance - Justus Rosenberg Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, History, War In 1937, as the Nazis gained control and anti-Semitism spread in the Free City of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent to Paris to finish his education in safety. Three years later, France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, penniless, and cut off from contact with his family in Poland, Justus fled south. A chance meeting led him to Varian Fry, an American journalist in Marseille helping thousands of men and women, including many artists and intellectuals—among them Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst—escape the Nazis. With his German background, understanding of French cultural, and fluency in several languages, including English, Justus became an invaluable member of Fry’s refugee network as a spy and scout. The spry blond who looked even younger than his age flourished in the underground, handling counterfeit documents, secret passwords, black market currency, surveying escape routes, and dealing with avaricious gangsters. But when Fry was eventually forced to leave France, Gussie, as he was affectionately known, could not get out. For the next four years, Justus relied on his wits and skills to escape captivity, survive several close calls with death, and continue his fight against the Nazis, working with the French Resistance and later, becoming attached with the United States Army. At the war’s end, Justus emigrated to America, and built a new life. Justus’ story is a powerful saga of bravery, daring, adventure, and survival with the soul of a spy thriller. Reflecting on his past, Justus sees his life as a confluence of circumstances. As he writes, “I survived the war through a rare combination of good fortune, resourcefulness, optimism, and, most important, the kindness of many good people.” CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Art of Resistance” by Justus Rosenberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589309706897-1VHIFE4OBZ48UZIZJ96R/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Babes in the Wood - Graham Bartlett Genres: Nonfiction, True crime Hadaway went out to play on their Brighton estate. They would never return home; their bodies discovered the next day concealed in a local park. This devastating crime rocked the country. With unique access to the officers charged with catching the killer, former senior detective Graham Bartlett and bestselling author Peter James tell the compelling inside story of the investigation as the net tightens around local man Russell Bishop. The trial that follows is one of the most infamous in the history of Brighton policing – a shock result sees Bishop walk free. Three years later, Graham is working in Brighton CID when a seven-year-old girl is abducted and left to die. She survives . . . and Bishop’s name comes up as a suspect. Is history repeating itself? Can the police put him away this time, and will he ever be made to answer for his past horrendous crimes? Both gripping police procedural and an insight into the motivations of a truly evil man, Babes in the Wood by Graham Bartlett with Peter James is a fascinating account of what became a thirty-two year fight for justice. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Babes in the Wood” by Graham Bartlett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588788420439-FNXIF1RE4KVA2L4S6QP4/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - A House in the Mountains - Caroline Moorehead Genres: Nonfiction, History In the late summer of 1943, when Italy broke with the Germans and joined the Allies after suffering catastrophic military losses, an Italian Resistance was born. Four young Piedmontese women—Ada, Frida, Silvia and Bianca—living secretly in the mountains surrounding Turin, risked their lives to overthrow Italy’s authoritarian government. They were among the thousands of Italians who joined the Partisan effort to help the Allies liberate their country from the German invaders and their Fascist collaborators. What made this partisan war all the more extraordinary was the number of women—like this brave quartet—who swelled its ranks. The bloody civil war that ensued pitted neighbor against neighbor, and revealed the best and worst in Italian society. The courage shown by the partisans was exemplary, and eventually bound them together into a coherent fighting force. But the death rattle of Mussolini’s two decades of Fascist rule—with its corruption, greed, and anti-Semitism—was unrelentingly violent and brutal. Drawing on a rich cache of previously untranslated sources, prize-winning historian Caroline Moorehead illuminates the experiences of Ada, Frida, Silvia, and Bianca to tell the little-known story of the women of the Italian partisan movement fighting for freedom against fascism in all its forms, while Europe collapsed in smoldering ruins around them. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A House in the Mountains” by Caroline Moorehead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588788981262-CY8B89842GKE99HDD5YF/81%2BcZ71w-DL.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - House of Glass - Hadley Freeman Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, History Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother Sara lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Long after her grandmother’s death, she found a shoebox tucked in the closet containing photographs of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross, and a drawing signed by Picasso. This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long quest to uncover the significance of these keepsakes, taking her from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island to Auschwitz. Freeman pieces together the puzzle of her family’s past, discovering more about the lives of her grandmother and her three brothers, Jacques, Henri, and Alex. Their stories sometimes typical, sometimes astonishing—reveal the broad range of experiences of Eastern European Jews during Holocaust. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “House of Glass” by Hadley Freeman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589307968754-DS06R8FUJCJWQ23HNL6T/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - I Want You to Know We’re Still Here - Esther Safran Foer Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, World War II Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, Esther always felt herself searching. So when Esther's mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation--that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust--Esther resolves to find out who they were, and how her father survived. Armed with only a black-and-white photo and a hand-drawn map, she travels to Ukraine, determined to find the shtetl where her father hid during the war. What she finds reshapes her identity and gives her the opportunity to finally mourn. I Want You to Know We're Still Here is the poignant and deeply moving story not only of Esther's journey but of four generations living in the shadow of the Holocaust. They are four generations of survivors, storytellers, and memory keepers, determined not just to keep the past alive but to imbue the present with life and more life. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “I Want You to Know We’re Still Here” by Esther Safran Foer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588788659247-4PN2QWW3X0GPHU7RKYZX/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - Race Against Time - Jerry Mitchell Genres: Nonfiction, Crime, History On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings would become known as the “Mississippi Burning” case and even though the killers’ identities, including the sheriff’s deputy, were an open secret, no one was charged with murder in the months and years that followed. It took forty-one years before the mastermind was brought to trial and finally convicted for the three innocent lives he took. If there is one man who helped pave the way for justice, it is investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell. In Race Against Time, Mitchell takes readers on the twisting, pulse-racing road that led to the reopening of four of the most infamous killings from the days of the civil rights movement, decades after the fact. His work played a central role in bringing killers to justice for the assassination of Medgar Evers, the firebombing of Vernon Dahmer, the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham and the Mississippi Burning case. His efforts have put four leading Klansmen behind bars, years after they thought they had gotten away with murder. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Race Against Time” by Jerry Mitchell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1589312856812-8AMZPJ8BH9RMMCV7FQKR/8196YquTc-L.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 12, 2020 - That’s Why I’m a Doctor - Mark Bulgutch Genres: Nonfiction Doctors hold a pretty special place in our lives. They’re often there when we’re born, and they’re usually there when we die. 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But when Lucy’s rising status becomes a threat to the mistress’s current companion, the delicate balance of power and loyalty begins to shift, setting into motion a brewing storm of betrayal, suspicion, and rage. Now, with her execution looming closer, Lucy’s allies fight to have her sentence overturned as the tale she’s spinning nears its conclusion. But how much of her story can we trust? 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Teaming up with Justin’s old friend, former sheriff’s investigator and K-9 handler Matt Flynn, Bree vows to uncover the secrets of her sister’s life and death, as she promised Erin’s children. But as her investigation unfolds, the danger hits close to home. Once again, Bree’s family is caught in a death grip. And this time, it could be fatal for her. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Cross Her Heart” by Melinda Leigh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588619831639-WMJ2N4IAB2QTSLQ2J5X0/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 4, 2020 - A Good Man - Ani Katz Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Thomas Martin is everything a man is supposed to be. He has a beautiful wife and a loving daughter, a good house on Long Island, a flourishing career at a prestigious Manhattan advertising firm. He’s a good son and brother, taking it upon himself to support his ailing mother and adult sisters. He knows it’s his God-given duty to shield them, his girls, from the everyday horrors of the world. But he has failed, and unspeakable tragedy has befallen his family. Now, Thomas struggles to come to terms with what has become of his life. If only he can tell the story as he saw it, he believes he might find out how and why things unravelled so horribly; how he failed so disastrously. Because Thomas Martin is a good man. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Good Man” by Ani Katz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588620018248-4400WV957P9VFFAXI7IS/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 4, 2020 - If She Were Dead - J P Smith Genres: Fiction, Mystery Amelie and Janet are in love with the same man: Janet's husband. One knows it; the other doesn't. Or does she? As best-selling novelist Amelie Ferrar knows, an affair with a married person is like a work of fiction - a kind of spy story with its own rules and customs, negotiations and compromises, and many private rituals. But like any spy story, there will inevitably be a betrayal: something will slip; someone else will find out; someone may even die. As Amelie falls deeper into her obsession with the man she loves - and his wife - the line between the fiction she writes and the reality she lives begins to blur...and the twisted ending to this story is one that not even she could have seen coming. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “If She Were Dead” by J P Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588620367735-YONWDVBFX3BTLY5S94FE/51038165.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 4, 2020 - Last Girl Standing - Lisa Jackson & Nancy Bush Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller At Bristol High they were an elite clique known as the Five Firsts: Amanda, Bailey, Carmen, Delta and Zora . . . ABCD & Z. They could have accepted their classmate, Emmy, as "E", but she was too bookish and a scholarship student to boot, so they rejected her and chose wealthy Zora instead. At a pre-graduation party just before the end of senior year, Lance Ventura, the hottest guy in school, falls down an embankment toward the river and is barely rescued in time to save his life. One of the Five Firsts, Carman, rushes to save him, but isn't so lucky. Her sudden death causes a community to mourn and rumors of foul play to swirl, but the tragedy is ruled an accident. Fast forward ten years and the classmates all meet again at the high school reunion. Some of them have had good fortune in their lives. Others, not so much. 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The search for the would-be assassin becomes personal when Joe's best friend, Nate Romanowski --just as he's adjusting to the arrival of his first child--falls under suspicion for the crime. It's a race against the clock as Joe tries to clear Nate's name and identify the real shooter, all while deciphering the grizzly encounter. Beset by threats both man-made and natural, the two men must go to great lengths to keep their loved ones safe. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Long Range” by C J Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588621259524-KVOWDGWXTQ7ANR83ONKD/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 4, 2020 - The Memory Wood - Sam Lloyd Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When Elijah stumbles across thirteen-year-old Elissa, in the woods where her abductor is hiding her, he refuses to alert the police. Because in his twelve years, Elijah has never had a proper friend. And he doesn’t want Elissa to leave. Not only that, Elijah knows how this can end. After all, Elissa isn’t the first girl he’s found inside the Memory Wood. As her abductor’s behaviour grows more erratic, Elissa realises that outwitting strange, lonely Elijah is her only hope of survival. Their cat-and-mouse game of deception and betrayal will determine both their fates, and whether either of them will ever leave the Memory Wood . . . CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Memory Wood” by Sam Lloyd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588621439106-W0TBQOMX6C4W8PMXVUYZ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 4, 2020 - The Other Mrs. - Mary Kubica Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal island, but no one is more shaken than Sadie. But it’s not just Morgan’s death that has Sadie on edge. And as the eyes of suspicion turn toward the new family in town, Sadie is drawn deeper into the mystery of what really happened that dark and deadly night. But Sadie must be careful, for the more she discovers about Mrs. Baines, the more she begins to realize just how much she has to lose if the truth ever comes to light. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Other Mrs.” by Mary Kubica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588621597566-4A6XGMJ3MIRN0KHMXPGO/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: May 4, 2020 - Recipe For a Perfect Wife - Karma Brown Genres: Fiction, Historical When Alice Hale leaves a career in publicity to become a writer and follows her husband to the New York suburbs, she is unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house. But when she finds a vintage cookbook buried in a box in the old home's basement, she becomes captivated by the cookbook’s previous owner--1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch. As Alice cooks her way through the past, she realizes that within the cookbook’s pages Nellie left clues about her life--including a mysterious series of unsent letters penned to her mother. Soon Alice learns that while baked Alaska and meatloaf five ways may seem harmless, Nellie's secrets may have been anything but. When Alice uncovers a more sinister--even dangerous--side to Nellie’s marriage, and has become increasingly dissatisfied with the mounting pressures in her own relationship, she begins to take control of her life and protect herself with a few secrets of her own. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Recipe For a Perfect Wife” by Karma Brown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1588621785690-AQEPIHL4RS8M5PLTA8HA/49418492.jpg BLOG - New Releases: May 4, 2020 - Watching From the Dark (DCI Jonah Sheens #2) - Gytha Lodge Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Aidan Poole logs on to his laptop late at night to Skype his girlfriend, Zoe. To his horror, he realizes that there is someone else in her flat. Aidan can only listen to the sounds of a violent struggle taking place in the bathroom—and then the sound of silence. He is desperate to find out if Zoe is okay. But then why is he so hesitant to call the police? When Aidan’s cryptic messages finally reach them, Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Sheens and his team take the case—and discover the body. They soon find that no one has a bad word to say about Zoe, a big hearted young artist at the center of a curious web of waifs and strays, each relying on her for support, each hiding dark secrets and buried resentments. Has one of her so-called “friends” been driven to murder? Or does Aidan have the biggest secret of them all? 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Riley and Max know that if they can’t get out, they’ll be next—but they’re about to find out that even escape doesn’t equal freedom. CLICK TO BORROW “THE MASKED TRUTH” by Kelley Armstrong on Libby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1585693967751-8WYFKAPOGPR6QF8ZCCXI/darkest-fear-harlan-coben.jpg BLOG - Libby Fiction Recommendations: April 01, 2020 - “DARKEST FEAR” by Harlan Coben (Myron Bolitar, #7) GENRE: Mystery, Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: It all begins when Myron’s ex tells him he’s a father . . . of a dying thirteen-year-old boy. A surprise visit from an ex-girlfriend is unsettling enough. But Emily Downing’s news brings Myron to his knees. Her son Jeremy is dying and needs a bone marrow transplant from a donor who has vanished without a trace. Then comes the real shocker: Jeremy is Myron’s son, conceived the night before Emily’s wedding to another man. Myron is determined to help him. But finding the missing donor means cracking open a dark mystery that involves a broken family, a brutal kidnapping spree, and the FBI. And as doubts emerge about Jeremy’s true paternity, a child vanishes, igniting a chain reaction of heartbreaking truth and chilling revelation. CLICK HERE TO BORROW “Darkest Fear” by Harlan Coben on Libby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1585775851695-O5TP8U5WCACMVMDZ8033/the-grace-year-kim-liggett.jpg BLOG - Libby Fiction Recommendations: April 01, 2020 - “THE GRACE YEAR” by Kim Liggett GENRE: Science Fiction, Dystopian Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life—a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just the brutal elements they must fear. It’s not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Their greatest threat may very well be each other. CLICK TO BORROW “THE GRACE YEAR” by Kim Liggett on Libby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1585773437163-92X8L42WSV7U8N1WD7QJ/misery-stephen-king.jpg BLOG - Libby Fiction Recommendations: April 01, 2020 - “MISERY” by Stephen King GENRE: Horror, Psychological Thriller THE SYNOPSIS: Bestselling novelist Paul Sheldon thinks he’s finally free of Misery Chastain. In a controversial career move, he’s just killed off the popular protagonist of his beloved romance series in favor of expanding his creative horizons. But such change doesn’t come without consequences. After a near-fatal car accident in rural Colorado leaves his body broken, Paul finds himself at the mercy of the terrifying rescuer who’s nursing him back to health—his self-proclaimed number one fan, Annie Wilkes. Annie is very upset over what Paul did to Misery, and demands that he find a way to bring her back by writing a new novel—his best yet, and one that’s all for her. After all, Paul has all the time in the world to do so as a prisoner in her isolated house…and Annie has some very persuasive and violent methods to get what she wants… CLICK TO BORROW “MISERY” by Stephen King on Libby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1585783634055-ZRDVFGGHD1ZO7EJB6F6B/i-let-you-go-clare-mackintosh-a.jpg BLOG - Libby Fiction Recommendations: April 01, 2020 - “I LET YOU GO” by Clare Mackintosh GENRE: Psychological Thriller, Mystery THE SYNOPSIS: On a rainy afternoon, a mother’s life is shattered as her son slips from her grip and runs into the street… ”I Let You Go” follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind, desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past. At the same time, the novel tracks the pair of Bristol police investigators trying to get to the bottom of this hit-and-run. As they chase down one hopeless lead after another, they find themselves as drawn to each other as they are to the frustrating, twist-filled case before them. CLICK TO BORROW “I LET YOU GO” by Clare Mackintosh on Libby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1585691096213-05EJ8JEUQGCPAWZ0Y6CN/the-clay-girl-heather-tucker.jpg BLOG - Libby Fiction Recommendations: April 01, 2020 - “THE CLAY GIRL” by Heather Tucker GENRE: Coming-of-Age Fiction, Contemporary Fiction THE SYNOPSIS: Vincent Appleton smiles at his daughters, raises a gun, and blows off his head. For the Appleton sisters, life had unravelled many times before. This time it explodes. Eight-year-old Hariet, known to all as Ari, is dispatched to Cape Breton and her Aunt Mary, who is purported to eat little girls. But Mary and her partner, Nia, offer an unexpected refuge to Ari and her steadfast companion, Jasper, an imaginary seahorse. Yet the respite does not last, and Ari is torn from her aunts and forced back to her twisted mother and fractured sisters. Her new stepfather, Len, and his family offer hope, but as Ari grows to adore them, she's severed violently from them too, when her mother moves in with the brutal Dick Irwin. Through the sexual revolution and drug culture of the 1960s, Ari struggles with her father's legacy and her mother's addictions, testing limits with substances that numb and men who show her kindness. Ari spins through a chaotic decade of loss and love, the devilish and divine, with wit, tenacity, and the astonishing balance unique to seahorses. 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Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods on the outskirts of town, content to be an outcast, comfortable only outdoors, preferably alone, and with few deep connections to other people. When a local girl goes missing, famous TV lawyer Hester Crimstein--with whom Wilde shares a tragic connection--asks him to use his unique skills to help find her. Meanwhile, a group of ex-military security experts arrive in town, and when another teen disappears, the case's impact expands far beyond the borders of the peaceful suburb. Wilde must return to the community where he has never fit in, and where the powerful are protected even when they harbor secrets that could destroy the lives of millions . . . secrets that Wilde must uncover before it's too late. 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But when someone else dies in the same grisly manner, it becomes clear that she’s dealing with either a madman―or someone who has a hidden and elusive connection to both victims. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Golden in Death” by J. D. Robb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584642195362-1QPU6RKNJLR6BA6N653L/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 19, 2020 - The Hollows (Kinship #2) - Jess Montgomery Genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery Ohio, 1926: For many years, the underground railroad track in Moonvale Tunnel has been used as a short cut through the Appalachian hills. When an elderly woman is killed walking along the tracks, the brakeman tells tales of seeing a ghostly female figure dressed all in white. Newly elected Sheriff Lily Ross is called on to the case to dispel the myths, but Lily does not believe that an old woman would wander out of the hills onto the tracks. In a county where everyone knows everyone, how can someone have disappeared, when nobody knew they were missing? As ghost stories and rumors settle into the consciousness of Moonvale Hollow, Lily tries to search for any real clues to the woman’s identity. With the help of her friend Marvena Whitcomb, Lily follows the woman’s trail to The Hollows—an asylum is northern Antioch County—and they begin to expose secrets long-hidden by time and the mountains. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Hollow” by Jess Montgomery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584642407477-LXUX3S5DIXOB9T6ZFF9C/jour.jpg BLOG - New Releases: March 19, 2020 - Journey of the Pharaohs (NUMA Files #17) - Clive Cussler Genres: Action, Adventure, Fiction In 1074 B.C., vast treasures disappear from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil American aviator vanishes on an attempted transcontinental flight. And in the present day, a fishing trawler--along with its mysterious cargo--sinks off the coast of Scotland. How are these three mysterious events connected? And, more importantly, what do they mean for Kurt Austin and his NUMA team? As they search for answers, the NUMA squad join the agents of the British MI5 to take on a wide-reaching international conspiracy. Their common enemy is the Bloodstone Group, a conglomerate of arms dealers and thieves attempting to steal ancient relics on both sides of the Atlantic. Kurt and his team soon find themselves wrapped up in a treacherous treasure hunt as they race to find the lost Egyptian riches. . . before they fall into the wrong hands. 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Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life – and the fate of his country – forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile. When opportunity to seek refuge arises, they board a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda to Chile, the promised 'long petal of sea and wine and snow'. There, they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations, destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world. 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It's the children. Twelve years ago, Thomas and Emily were five and three years old. Today, they look precisely as they did then. They are still five and three. They are Thomas and Emily without a doubt - Hilary hears Flora call them by their names - but they haven't changed at all. They are no taller, no older... Why haven't they grown? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Perfect Little Children” by Sophie Hannah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584645256553-LVTHY9DFJIYZDSMENOGF/9781250117540-us.jpg BLOG - New Releases: March 19, 2020 - A Reasonable Doubt (Robin Lockwood #3) - Phillip Margolin Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Robin Lockwood is a young criminal defense attorney and partner in a prominent law firm in Portland, Oregon. A former MMA fighter and Yale Law graduate, she joined the firm of legal legend Regina Barrister not long before Regina was forced into retirement by early onset Alzheimer's. One of Regina's former clients, Robert Chesterfield, shows up in the law office with an odd request - he's seeking help from his old attorney in acquiring patent protection for an illusion. Chesterfield is a professional magician of some reknown and he has a major new trick he's about to debut. This is out of the scope of the law firm's expertise, but when Robin Lockwood looks into his previous relationship with the firm, she learns that twenty years ago he was arrested for two murders, one attempted murder, and was involved in the potentially suspicious death of his very rich wife. At the time, Regina Barrister defended him with ease, after which he resumed his career as a magician in Las Vegas. Now, decades later, he debuts his new trick - only to disappear at the end. He's a man with more than one dark past and many enemies - is his disappearance tied to one of the many people who have good reason to hate him? Was he killed and his body disposed of, or did he use his considerable skills to engineer his own disappearance? Robin Lockwood must unravel the tangled skein of murder and bloody mischief to learn how it all ties together. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Reasonable Doubt” by Phillip Margolin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584645464633-LF82GZVQ8JK473QLVOYU/9780593152379-us.jpg BLOG - New Releases: March 19, 2020 - Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid Genres: Fiction Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. A mother to two small girls, she started out as a blogger and has quickly built herself into a confidence-driven brand. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains’ toddler one night. Seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, a security guard at their local high-end supermarket accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make it right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix’s desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix’s past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Such a Fun Age” by Kiley Reid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584645583639-VVS0FHO1769GH6GL2LMB/9781250202031-us.jpg BLOG - New Releases: March 19, 2020 - You Are Not Alone - Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Shay Miller wants to find love, but it eludes her. She wants to be fulfilled, but her job is a dead end. She wants to belong, but her life is increasingly lonely. Until Shay meets the Moore sisters. Cassandra and Jane live a life of glamorous perfection, and always get what they desire. When they invite Shay into their circle, everything seems to get better. Shay would die for them to like her. She may have to. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “You Are Not Alone” by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584983042559-437N0F66Q1N94L7CC21S/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 19, 2020 - 18 Tiny Deaths - Bruce Goldfarb Genres: Biography, Non-Fiction, Science, True Crime Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes and made it her life's work. Best known for creating the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of dioramas that appear charming-until you notice the macabre little details: an overturned chair, a blood-spattered comforter. And then, of course, there are the bodies-splayed out on the floor, draped over chairs-clothed in garments that Lee lovingly knit with sewing pins. Lee developed a system that used the Nutshells dioramas to train law enforcement officers to investigate violent crimes, and her methods are still used today. 18 Tiny Deaths is the story of a woman who overcame the limitations and expectations imposed by her social status and pushed forward an entirely new branch of science that we still use today. 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Gaddy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584983860842-D9QXO2Z0DJ1D2B6ER3UJ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 19, 2020 - Gone At Midnight - Jake Anderson Genres: Mystery, Non-Fiction, True Crime A Los Angeles hotel with a haunting history. A missing young woman. A disturbing video followed by a shocking discovery. A cold-case mystery that has become an internet phenomenon--and for one determined journalist, a life-changing quest toward uncomfortable truths. Twenty-one-year-old Vancouver student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown L.A.'s Cecil Hotel--a 600-room building with a nine-decade history of scandal and tragedy. The next day, Elisa vanished. A search of the hotel yielded nothing. More than a week later, complaints by guests of foul-smelling tap water led to a grim discovery: Elisa's nude body floating in a rooftop water tank, in an area extremely difficult to access without setting off alarms. The only apparent clue was a disturbing surveillance video of Elisa, uploaded to YouTube in hopes of public assistance. As the eerie elevator video went viral, so did the questions of its tens of millions of viewers. Was Elisa's death caused by murder, suicide, or paranormal activity? Was it connected to the Cecil's sinister reputation? And in that video, what accounted for Elisa's strange behavior? With the help of web sleuths and investigators from around the world, journalist Jake Anderson set out to uncover the facts behind a death that had become a macabre internet meme, as well as a magnet for conspiracy theorists. In poring through Elisa's revealing online journals and social-media posts, Anderson realized he shared more in common with the young woman than he imagined. His search for justice and truth became a personal journey, a dangerous descent into one of America's quiet epidemics. Along the way, he exposed a botched investigation and previously unreported disclosures from inside sources who suggest there may have been a corporate conspiracy and a police cover-up. In Gone at Midnight, Anderson chronicles eye-opening discoveries about who Elisa Lam really was and what--or whom--she was running from, and presents shocking new evidence that may re-open one of the most chilling and obsessively followed true crime cases of the century. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Gone at Midnight” by Jake Anderson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584984014050-VHV0698VIVTTTEVT4X79/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 19, 2020 - Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad Genres: Non-Fiction, Race, Social Justice When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated and expanded from the original edition, Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Me and White Supremacy” by Layla F. Saad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584984177575-3ZLXYQF3UKH33T2JXRQE/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 19, 2020 - My Mother, A Serial Killer - Hazel Baron & Janet Fife-Yeomans Genres: Biography, Non-Fiction, True Crime Dulcie Bodsworth was the unlikeliest serial killer. She was loved everywhere she went, and the townsfolk of Wilcannia, which she called home in the late 1950s, thought of her as kind and caring. The officers at the local police station found Dulcie witty and charming, and looked forward to the scones and cakes she generously baked and delivered for their morning tea. That was one side of her. Only her daughter Hazel saw the real Dulcie. And what she saw terrified her. Dulcie was in fact a cold, calculating killer who, by 1958, had put three men in their graves - one of them the father of her four children, Ted Baron - in one of the most infamous periods of the state's history. She would have got away with it all had it not been for Hazel. Written by journalist Janet Fife-Yeomans together with Hazel Baron, this book is both an evocative insight into the harshness of life on the fringes of Australian society in the 1950s, and a chilling story of a murderous mother and the courageous daughter who testified against her and put her in jail. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “My Mother, A Serial Killer” by Hazel Baron & Janet Fife-Yeomans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584984457138-J94WIZUVEDFF6MP59HZX/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 19, 2020 - Nobody Will Tell You This but Me - Bess Kalb Genres: Biography, Non-Fiction Bess Kalb, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor, saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force--irrepressible, glamorous, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at ninety, Bobby died. But in this debut memoir, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as passionate as it ever was in life. Recounting both family lore and family secrets, Bobby brings us four generations of indomitable women and the men who loved them. There's Bobby's mother, who traveled solo from Belarus to America in the 1880s to escape the pogroms, and Bess's mother, a 1970s rebel who always fought against convention. Then there's Bess, who grew up in New York and entered the rough-and-tumble world of L.A. television. Her grandma Bobby was with her all the way--she was the light of Bess's childhood and her fiercest supporter, giving Bess unequivocal love, even if sometimes of the toughest kind. 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Motivated not by money but by a desire for prestige, Peters lied, stole, and cheated his way to academic positions and religious posts from Cambridge to New York, Singapore, and South Africa. Frequently deported, and even more frequently discovered, his trail of destruction included seven marriages (three of which were bigamous), an investigation by the FBI, and a disastrous appearance on Mastermind. Based on Trevor-Roper's own detailed "file on Peters," The Professor and the Parson is a witty and charming account of eccentricity, extraordinary narcissism, and a life as wild and unlikely as any in fiction. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Professor and the Parson” by Adam Sisman https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-march-17-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584474156322-LYWWWH54XMNHW85YX80O/it-chapter-two.jpg BLOG - New Releases: March 17, 2020 - It: Chapter Two Genres: Drama, Horror, Fantasy Evil resurfaces in Derry as director Andy Muschietti reunites the Losers Club in a return to where it all began with "IT Chapter Two," the conclusion to the highest-grossing horror film of all time. Twenty-seven years after the Losers Club defeated Pennywise, he has returned to terrorize the town of Derry once more. Now adults, the Losers have long since gone their separate ways. However, kids are disappearing again, so Mike, the only one of the group to remain in their hometown, calls the others home. Damaged by the experiences of their past, they must each conquer their deepest fears to destroy Pennywise once and for all...putting them directly in the path of the clown that has become deadlier than ever. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “It: Chapter Two” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584474197753-AWNBIZXUCDK7ID7E8VHV/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 17, 2020 - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Genres: Comedy, Drama A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles. CLICK TO RESERVE “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/staff-picks-march-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584241870407-STV25ED1YDFF3WVVOU7P/flin-flon-public-library-time-of-contempt-book.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2020 This is the second novel in the “Witcher” series, not the first book noted in our title. “Blood of Elves” is out at the moment, so we took a photo of book two instead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584242465878-6EVI6209TMYR5FGQVMWP/flin-flon-public-library-all-american-murder-book.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584385753848-3BXWDP1GGN6Y040XXW2G/flin-flon-public-library-a-darker-shade-of-magic.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584242257554-EIA6DK6JVQ0WV4DGW1WU/flin-flon-public-library-after-the-end-book.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584386069537-4BE57ETSS4I0I2FS4S9S/flin-flon-public-library-its-kind-of-a-funny-story.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584242233923-YY7J2VG2MUQOKFGZ6VLB/flin-flon-public-library-cruel-prince-book.jpg BLOG - Staff Picks: March 2020 https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-march-12-2020-h9r3n monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1583959986971-PTS8TC45NQ06EV1AKGCK/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 12, 2020 - Monsters (The Reckoner #2) - David A Robertson Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy, Mystery Cole Harper is struggling to settle into life in Wounded Sky First Nation. He may have stopped a serial killer but the trouble is far from over. A creature lurks in the shadows of Blackwood Forest, the health clinic is on lockdown by a mysterious organization, and long-held secrets threaten to bubble to the surface. Can Cole learn the truth about his father's death? Why won't Choch give him a straight answer? Where the heck is Jayne? Oh, and high school sucks. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Monsters” by David A Robertson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1583960052494-MSRBYLNEQFNC43CAHP13/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 12, 2020 - Ghosts (The Reckoner #3) - David A Robertson Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy, Mystery Cole Harper is dead. Reynold McCabe is alive and free. Mihko Laboratories has reopened the research facility and works to manufacture and weaponize the illness that previously plagued Wounded Sky. People are missing. The community has been quarantined. What deal did Eva strike with Choch? Who will defeat Reynold and Mihko? Time is running out. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Ghosts” by David A Robertson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1583959917597-O4QNAPVD9C6VZQIFU5RH/strangers.jpg BLOG - New Releases: March 12, 2020 - Strangers (The Reckoner #1) - David A Robertson Genres: Young adult fiction, Fantasy, Mystery When Cole Harper is compelled to return to Wounded Sky First Nation, he finds his community in chaos: a series of shocking murders, a mysterious illness ravaging the residents, and reemerging questions about Cole’s role in the tragedy that drove him away 10 years ago. With the aid of an unhelpful spirit, a disfigured ghost, and his two oldest friends, Cole tries to figure out his purpose, and unravel the mysteries he left behind a decade ago. Will he find the answers in time to save his community? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Strangers” by David A Robertson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584032778350-Q3G15N8GGXKEB7MOFWMW/betty.jpg BLOG - New Releases: March 12, 2020 - Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story Genres: Young adult nonfiction, Graphic novel Helen Betty Osborne, known as Betty to her closest friends and family, dreamed of becoming a teacher. She left her home to attend residential school and high school in a small town in Manitoba. On November 13, 1971, Betty was abducted and brutally murdered by four young men. Initially met with silence and indifference, her tragic murder resonates loudly today. Betty represents one of almost 1,200 Indigenous women in Canada who have been murdered or gone missing. This book is a true account. Content may be disturbing to some readers. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story” by David Alexander Robertson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584033088600-8K9P1163TLA9PG8JAUG8/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 12, 2020 - A Blanket of Butterflies - Richard van Camp Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel “A Blanket of Butterflies” explores the journey of Shinobu, a mysterious stranger who visits Fort Smith, NWT, to retrieve his family’s samurai suit of armor and sword from the local museum. When he discovers that his grandfather’s sword has been lost in a poker game to the man they call “Benny the Bank,” he sets out to retrieve it with the help of a young boy, Sonny, and his grandmother. Together, they face Benny and his men, Torchy, Sfen and the giant known as Flinch, and come to an unexpected realization. This graphic novel, beautifully illustrated by Scott B. Henderson, explores the grace of family and of trusting the power of the spirit world. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Blanket of Butterflies” by Richard van Camp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584033378360-92JZ670P71A3UPFMULTF/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 12, 2020 - Eternal: Zachary’s Story (Tantalize #2) - Cynthia Leitich Smith Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance Reckless guardian angel Zachary has an unusual assignment. He’s meant to save the soul of Miranda, high-school theater wannabe turned glamorous royal vampire. Completely devoted to Miranda, Zachary takes his demotion to human form in stride, taking a job as the princess’s personal assistant. Of course, this means he has to balance his soul-saving efforts with planning the Master’s fast-approaching Deathday gala. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “A Blanket of Butterflies” by Richard van Camp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584033415934-NV1D9L31RJSI81JJZE63/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 12, 2020 - The Night Wanderer - Drew Hayden Taylor Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy, Paranormal, Horror Newcomers to the Otter Lake native reserve don’t go unnoticed for long. So it’s no surprise that 16-year-old Tiffany’s curiosity is piqued when her father rents out her room to a complete stranger. But little do Tiffany, her father, or even her insightful Granny Ruth suspect the truth about their guest. The mysterious Pierre L’Errant has a dreadful secret. After centuries roaming Europe as a brooding vampire, he has returned home to reclaim his Native roots before facing the rising sun and certain death. Meanwhile, Tiffany is deeply troubled—she doubts her boyfriend is being faithful, has escalating disputes with her father, and her estranged mother is starting a new life with somebody else. Fed up and heartsick, Tiffany threatens drastic measures and flees into the bush. There, in the midnight woods, a chilling encounter with L’Errant changes everything as Pierre introduces Tiffany to her proud Native heritage. For Pierre, though, destiny is fixed at sunrise. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “The Night Wanderer” by Drew Hayden Taylor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584033557715-T1QSA7TJ56IBRNA2DQL2/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 12, 2020 - Red Power - Brian Wright-McLeod Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel Shelley and Billy join a group of young native activists in the battle against the huge corporate mining interest to protect their lands and culture. The story of the fight for land rights is combined with imagery of native spirits and gods and the history of the first contacts between the European explorers and the indigenous peoples. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Red Power” by Brian Wright-McLeod https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584033984390-02MGSZGQOG56UK91196J/tantalize.jpg BLOG - New Releases: March 12, 2020 - Tantalize: Kieren’s Story (Tantalize #1) - Cynthia Leitich Smith Genres: Young adult fiction, Graphic novel, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance As a hybrid werewolf, Kieren is destined to join an urban Wolf pack and learn to master his shift. Soon, he'll leave everything behind: home, school, his family, and Quincie, his human best friend . . . who's beginning to be a whole lot more than a friend. For years, Kieren has managed to keep his desires-- and his wolf-- at bay. But when the chef at Quincie' s family restaurant is brutally murdered, Kieren resolves to be there for her, even if it means being framed. Even if it means watching Quincie's beloved restaurant morph into a vampire lair. But when the new chef begins wooing her, how long can Kieren control his claws? How long can he protect Quincie-- and himself? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Tantalize: Kieren’s Story” by Cynthia Leitich Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584034186534-A9OXOS4P9EL95OCERX17/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 12, 2020 - Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws: Council of the Animals - Christopher Meyer Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel “It’s a dog’s life for me,” Rabbit thinks as he’s stuck doing chores while his dog Giibot enjoys the day. But things take a surprising turn when Rabbit sees his father, Grey Stone secretly meeting with a gigantic bear. Grey Stone has been summoned as the first human to ever appear before the Secret Council of the Animals. Rabbit, his brother Bear Paws and Strawberry sneak into the council to make sure Grey Stone stays safe. There, they discover that the animals are deciding the fate of humankind once and for all! How will the fates of our beloved characters be sealed: by the unconditional love of a single dog, or in the fangs of a wolf? CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws: Council of the Animals” by Christopher Meyer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1584034531658-43ZS22O3L86GSIN13A36/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 12, 2020 - Three Feathers - Richard van Camp Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel Three young men—Flinch, Bryce, and Rupert—have vandalized their community and are sent by its Elders to live nine months on the land as part of the circle sentencing process. There, the young men learn to take responsibility for their actions and acquire the humility required to return home. But, when they do return, will they be forgiven for what they’ve done? Three Feathers explores the power and grace of restorative justice in one Northern community and the cultural legacy that can empower future generations. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE “Three Feathers" by Richard van Camp https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1583948652860-HULGVZFLF1XMH60BKGK3/keeper-the.jpg BLOG - New Releases: March 11, 2020 - The Keeper - Jessica Moor Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller When Katie Straw's body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police are ready to write it off as a standard-issue female suicide. But the residents of the domestic violence shelter where Katie worked disagree. These women have spent weeks or even years waiting for the men they're running from to catch up with them. They know immediately: This was murder. Still, Detective Dan Whitworth and his team expect an open-and-shut case - until they discover evidence that suggests Katie wasn't who she appeared. Weaving together the investigation with Katie's final months as it barrels toward the truth, The Keeper is a riveting mystery and a searing examination of violence against women and the structures that allow it to continue, marking the debut of an incredible new voice in crime fiction. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Keeper” by Jessica Moor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1583950330845-CI0PZJSX65QZHAC7CKFC/one-minute-out.jpg BLOG - New Releases: March 11, 2020 - One Minute Out (Gray Man #9) - Mark Greaney Genres: Fiction, Thriller While on a mission to Croatia, Court Gentry uncovers a human trafficking operation. The trail leads from the Balkans all the way back to Hollywood. Court is determined to shut it down, but his CIA handlers have other plans. The criminal ringleader has actionable intelligence about a potentially devastating terrorist attack on the US. The CIA won't move until they have that intel. It's a moral balancing act with Court at the pivot point. CLICK TO RESERVE “One Minute Out” by Mark Greaney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1583950131672-Z2VKSTC02PSLN9AJNLLM/operator-the.jpg BLOG - New Releases: March 11, 2020 - The Operator - Gretchen Berg Genres: Fiction, Historical It's 1952. The switchboard operators in Wooster, Ohio, love nothing more than to eavesdrop on their neighbours' conversations, and gossip about what they learn. Vivian Dalton is no different (despite her teenage daughter's disapproval), and always longs to hear something scandalous. But on the night of December 15th, she wishes she hadn't. The secret that's shared by a stranger on the line threatens to rip the rug of Vivian's life from under her. Vivian may be mortified, but she's not going to take this lying down. She wants the truth, no matter how painful it may be. But one secret tends to lead to another . . . This moving, heart-felt and ultimately uplifting novel brilliantly weaves together an irresistible portrayal of a town buzzing with scandal, and an unforgettable story of marriage, motherhood and the unbreakable ties of family. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Operator” by Gretchen Berg https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/new-releases-march-4-2020 monthly 0.5 2020-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1583783552033-U43GAHWTKRBK0CVGZB9E/Mar4.jpg BLOG - New Releases: March 4, 2020 - My First Bilingual Books Genres: Non-fiction, French language, Children Looking to venture into Canada's other official language? These beginner French books have you covered! With bold, easy-to-read text and eye-catching illustrations, My First Bilingual Books are perfect for people of all ages who are looking to start their language-learning journey. Come and check them out! https://www.flinflonpubliclibrary.org/blog/58l4rzrg5wzimtael4fv4007abq6km monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1583774635724-2WM54P5J8W42QTLY0R2E/the-forgotten-home-child-9781982128951_hr.jpg BLOG - New Releases: March 3, 2020 - The Forgotten Home Child - Genevieve Graham Genres: Fiction, Historical 2018 At ninety-seven years old, Winnifred Ellis knows she doesn’t have much time left, and it is almost a relief to realize that once she is gone, the truth about her shameful past will die with her. But when her great-grandson Jamie, the spitting image of her dear late husband, asks about his family tree, Winnifred can’t lie any longer, even if it means breaking a promise she made so long ago... 1936 Fifteen-year-old Winny has never known a real home. After running away from an abusive stepfather, she falls in with Mary, Jack, and their ragtag group of friends roaming the streets of Liverpool. When the children are caught stealing food, Winny and Mary are left in Dr. Barnardo’s Barkingside Home for Girls, a local home for orphans and forgotten children found in the city’s slums. At Barkingside, Winny learns she will soon join other boys and girls in a faraway place called Canada, where families and better lives await them. But Winny’s hopes are dashed when she is separated from her friends and sent to live with a family that has no use for another daughter. Instead, they have paid for an indentured servant to work on their farm. Faced with this harsh new reality, Winny clings to the belief that she will someday find her friends again. Inspired by true events, The Forgotten Home Child is a moving and heartbreaking novel about place, belonging, and family—the one we make for ourselves and its enduring power to draw us home. CLICK TO RESERVE “The Forgotten Home Child” by Genevieve Graham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1583775046983-O1JVQVL0PFSAQZZK90UU/lavender-blue-murder.jpg BLOG - New Releases: March 3, 2020 - Lavender Blue Murder (A Teashop Mystery #21) - Laura Childs Genres: Fiction, Mystery Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier Drayton Conneley are guests at a bird hunt styled in the precise manner of an English shooting party. Which means elevenses (sloe gin fizzes), gun loaders, the drawing of pegs, fine-looking bird dogs, and shooting costumes of tweed, herringbone, and suede. But as gunshots explode like a riff of Black Cat firecrackers, another shot sounds too close for comfort to Theodosia and Drayton. Intrigued but worried, Theodosia wanders into the neighbor's lavender field where she discovers their host, Reginald Doyle, bleeding to death. His wife, Meredith, is beside herself with grief and begs Theodosia and Drayton to stay the night. But Theodosia awakens at 2:00 a.m. to find smoke in her room and the house on fire. As the fire department screams in and the investigating sheriff returns, Meredith again pleads with Theodosia for help. As Theodosia investigates, fingers are pointed, secrets are uncovered, Reginald's daughter-in-law goes missing presumed drowned, and Meredith is determined to find answers via a seance. All the while Theodosia worries if she's made a mistake in inviting a prime suspect to her upscale Lavender Lady Tea. CLICK TO RESERVE “Lavender Blue Murder” by Laura Childs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e58332f8a06db07ca321898/1583775131571-515WS253JBJFWFJ8R5K6/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - New Releases: March 3, 2020 - The Warsaw Protocol (Cotton Malone #15) - Steve Berry Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller After former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone witnesses the theft of one of the relics of Arma Christi, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will be offered to the highest bidder - blackmail that both the United States and Russia want, but for vastly different reasons. The price of admission to that auction is one of the relics, so Malone is first sent to a castle in Poland to steal the Holy Lance, a thousand-year-old spear sacred to not only Christians but to the Polish people, and then on to the auction itself. But nothing goes as planned and Malone is thrust into a bloody battle between three nations over information that, if exposed, could change the balance of power in Europe. From the tranquil canals of Bruges, to the elegant rooms of Wawel Castle, to deep beneath the earth into an ancient Polish salt mine, Malone is caught in the middle of a deadly war - the outcome of which turns on a secret known as the Warsaw Protocol. 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