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NEW BOOK PURCHASES NOVEMBER 2024

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A WALK IN THE PARK [NF]           Kevin Fedarko - Two friends, zero preparation, one dream. From the author of the beloved bestseller THE EMERALD MILE, a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America’s most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth, The Grand Canyon.

 

BIG LOVE AND WARHOURSE       Shallen Anne Chitwood - In the wake of the Great Depression, during the 1942 bombings off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Deacon family has lost the life they knew before the Second World War. As the family and their closest friends struggle to make sense of the secrets they keep from one another, their dogs-Big Love

and War Horse-help them find the strength to survive the aftermath of devastating loss and adversity.

 

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS        Lisa Unger - Madeline Martin has built a life for herself as the owner of The Next Chapter Bookshop. When Harley Granger, a true crime podcaster, drifts into her shop days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up events Madeline would much rather forget. As Christmas approaches and a blizzard bears down, Madeline and her childhood friend Badger return to a past they both hoped was dead.

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DAUGHTERS OF SHANDONG       Eve J Chung - A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters’ harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story.

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DEN OF INIQUITY            J. A. Jance - J. A. Jance returns with a new pulse-pounding suspense novel featuring beloved private investigator J. P. Beaumont as his investigation of a seemingly accidental death uncovers a complex web of evil.

 

GATHERING MIST            Margaret Mizushima - Deputy Mattie Wray, formerly Mattie Cobb, is summoned to Washington’s Olympic peninsula for an urgent search and rescue mission to find a celebrity’s missing child. With only a week left before her wedding, Mattie is hesitant to leave Timber Creek, but her K-9 partner Robo’s tracking skills are needed.

 

THE GREY WOLF               Louise Penny - Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning.

 

HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN             Joyce Maynard - From “New York Times” bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel COUNT THE WAYS—a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor.

 

HUSBANDS AND LOVERS             Beatriz Williams - Timeless and bittersweet, Williams takes readers on an unforgettable journey of heartbreak and redemption, from the revolutionary fires of midcentury Egypt to the moneyed beaches of contemporary New England. Here we have a poignant and beautifully voiced novel of deeply human characters entangled by morally complex issues—of privilege, class, and the female experience.

 

IDENTITY UNKNOWN        Patricia Cornwell - Summoned to an abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once had an intense love affair with. Scarpetta’s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead’s secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue.

   

IN MY TIME OF DYING [NF]         Sebastian Junger - For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was, when crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. “It’s okay,” his father said. “There’s nothing to be scared of. I’ll take care of you.” That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived. IN MY TIME OF DYING is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.

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IN TOO DEEP      Lee  Child & Andew Child - We have a gripping new Jack Reacher thriller…  Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.

 

THE LIBRARY THIEF         Kuchenga Shenje - 1896. Florence is not so easy to tame - and when she brings scandal to his door, the bookbinder throws her onto the streets of Manchester. Intercepting her father's latest commission, Florence talks her way into the remote, forbidding Rose Hall to restore its collection of rare books. Then one night, the library is broken into. Strangely, all the priceless tomes remain untouched. Florence is puzzled, until she discovers a half-burned book in the fireplace. She realizes with horror that someone has found and set fire to the secret diary of Lord Belfield's dead wife - which may hold the clue to her fate.

 

LIES AND WEDDINGS      Kevin Kwan - From the iconic internationally bestselling author of the CRAZY RICH ASIANS trilogy: A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding in this outrageous comedy of manners.

 

THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE     Matt Haig - “What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet…”  When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.

 

LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN           Marjan Kamali - From the nationally bestselling author of the powerful, heartbreaking THE STATIONERY SHOP, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.

 

LONG ISLAND    Colm Toibin - Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, an Italian American plumber. One day, when Tony is at work, an Irishman comes to the door asking for Eilis by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis’s doorstep. It is what Eilis does—and what she refuses to do—in response to this stunning news that makes Tóibín’s novel so riveting and suspenseful.

 

SHADOW OF DOUBT      Brad Thor - A mysterious cargo plane, flanked by a squadron of Russia’s most lethal fighters, has just taken off from a remote airbase. No one inside the Pentagon has any idea where it’s going or what it’s carrying. A high-level Russian defector seeks asylum in Norway. Across the continent, in the heart of Paris, a lone French agent stumbles upon a conspiracy so explosive it could ignite a global firestorm. As alarm bells ring in Washington, the CIA’s most lethal weapon, Scot Harvath, is forced to choose between his conscience and his country.

 

TRIANGLE           Danielle Steel - As she approaches the milestone birthday of forty, delicate beauty Amanda Delanoe finds joy in running a chic contemporary art gallery in Paris. With the companionship of her dog, Lulu, and her friend and co-owner of the gallery, fun-loving bachelor Pascal Leblanc, Amanda lives well, but so far, the love of her life has eluded her.

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THE WEDDING PEOPLE       Alison Espach - When Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone, she's immediately mistaken by everyone for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself.

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NEW BOOK PURCHASES OCTOBER 2024

 

 

THE CLIFFS          J. Courtney Sullivan - A story of lovers lost at sea, romantic longing, shattering loss, artistic awakening, historical artefacts stolen and sold, and the long shadow of colonialism - is even older than Maine itself.

 

CONFESSIONS OF THE DEAD       James Patterson & J. D. Barker - Hollow's Bend is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and eat breakfast at the Stairway Diner. The crime rate—zero. The day the strange girl shows up is when the trouble starts. While the girl is in protective custody, the officers are called to multiple crime scenes leading them closer and closer to a lake outside of town that doesn’t appear on any map.

 

COUNTING MIRACLES    Nicholas Sparks - His whole life has been spent abroad in the military, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his next adventure, zero desire to settle down.  But when his grandmother passes away, her last words to him are find where you belong. She also drops a bombshell, telling him the name of the father he never knew—and where to find him.

 

DEATH AT THE SIGN OF THE ROOK           Kate Atkinson - Once a magnificent country house, Burton Makepeace has now partially been converted into a hotel, hosting Murder Mystery weekends. As paying guests, old friends converge, we are treated a fiendishly clever mystery; one that pays homage to the masters of the genre. Brilliantly inventive, with all of Atkinson’s signature wit, wordplay and narrative brio, this may be Jackson Brodie’s most memorable case yet.

 

DOGS DON'T CRY            John F Andrews - June 1918. The tidal wave of WWI engulfs the rural French village of Bouresches, forcing two teens to embark on a harrowing journey to an uncertain future and a destination known only to their border collie, Abby, as she seeks to enable their escape to find their uncle, her former owner in Paris…

 

FATAL INTRUSION            Jeffery Deaver & Isabella Maldonado - Carmen Sanchez is a tough Homeland Security agent who plays by the rules. But when her sister is attacked, revealing a connection to a series of murders across Southern California, she realizes a conventional investigation will not be enough to stop the ruthless perpetrator. With nowhere else to turn, Sanchez enlists the aid of a former associate, Professor Jake Heron, a quirky private security expert.

 

FLASH BACK       Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen  - They were only children when their mother was the second victim of the Bayside Strangler. Now, after spending fifteen years trying to discover his identity, the sisters have suddenly vanished. The San Diego police consider their interest in the crime to be just a coincidence and have little motivation to pursue the cold case. Kendra Michaels uses her heightened powers of deduction to draw out this serial killer.

 

THE GOD OF THE WOODS            Liz Moore - Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.

 

HOUSE ON BISCAYNE BAY            Chanel Cleeton - With the Great War finally behind them, wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay. Years later following the tragic death of her parents in Havana, Carmen Acosta journeys to Marbrisa. On the surface, the gilded estate looks like paradise, but Carmen quickly learns that nothing is as it seems. The house has a treacherous legacy, and Carmen’s own life is soon in jeopardy, unless she can unravel the secrets buried beneath the mansion’s facade and stop history from repeating itself.

 

KILLING THE WITCHES [NF]          Bill O'Reilly – KILLING THE WITCHES tells the dramatic history of how the Puritan tradition and the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the United States, influencing the founding fathers, the American Revolution, and even the Constitutional Convention. The repercussions of Salem continue to the present day, notably in the real-life story behind THE EXORCIST and in contemporary “witch hunts” driven by social media. The result is a compulsively readable book about good, evil, community panic, and how fear can overwhelm fact and reason.

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LOST MAN'S LANE           Scott Carson - Marshall Miller would’ve remembered her face even if he hadn’t seen it on a MISSING poster. When a young woman disappears in his small town, the investigation hinges on Marshall’s haunted sighting of her, crying in the back seat of a police car driven by a cop named Maddox. There’s only one problem: no local cop named Maddox exists. But the speeding ticket he handed to Marshall certainly does.

 

LULA DEAN'S LITTLE LIBRARY OF BANNED BOOKS            Kirsten Miller - The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of THE CHANGE, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.

 

ON THE HUNT    Iris Johansen  - Kira Drake has come to Paris with her highly trained golden retriever, Mack, to investigate the horrific bombing of a museum in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. What she doesn't know is that one powerful man has a special reason to find the person responsible. Jack Harlan has all the money in the world, but it can't bring his brother back. His sibling was murdered during the theft of a scientific discovery that could have made the world a better place. Now, after a four-year search, Harlan learns that this bombing was the work of the same twisted man.

 

OUR LITTLE SECRET        Lisa Jackson - He swore he’d never let her go. She should have believed him. Brooke Harmon is ready to end her brief affair. Gideon Ross is charming and sexy, but he’s not worth throwing away everything she holds dear. So she breaks it off, hoping Gideon will understand. He doesn’t. Gideon insists that he and Brooke are meant to be together. Finally, he backs off, but not before issuing a promise: he’ll never let her go. 

 

PASSIONS IN DEATH        J. D.  Robb - On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the streets of Manhattan to the Down and Dirty Club, where a joyful, boisterous pre-wedding girls’ night out has turned into a murder scene. The bride to be lies in a pool of blood, garroted in a private room. Useful witnesses are hard to come by. It all brings back some bad memories for Eve who once suffered an assault in the very same room—but she’d been able to fight back and survive. She’d gotten justice. And now she needs to provide some for poor young Erin.

 

RED SKY MOURNING      Jack Carr - Three seemingly disconnected events are on a collision course to ignite a power grab unlike anything the world has ever seen. America’s only hope is a quantum computer that has gone dark, retreating to the deepest levels of the internet, learning at a rate inconceivable at her inception. But during her time in hiding, she has done more than learn. She has become a weapon, positioned to act as the country’s greatest savior or its worst enemy.

 

SOME MURDERS IN BERLIN        Karen Robards - September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness—and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she’s been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women. Even in the midst of unspeakable evil, these killings stand apart. And with her homeland now under Nazi occupation and a young son to protect, Elin can’t refuse such a request.

 

TELL ME EVERYTHING    Elizabeth Strout - With her extraordinary capacity for radical empathy, remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”

 

THE TWELVE DOGS OF CHRISTMAS          Susan Wiggs - Brenda Malloy wants nothing to do with Christmas ever again. Last year, Brenda and her husband rushed their beloved dog Tim to the emergency vet on Christmas Eve. The good news: Tim survived after the vet cleared the obstruction--a pair of women’s lace undies. The bad news: the undies were not Brenda’s.

 

WE SOLVE MURDERS      Richard Osman - Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now. As a private security officer, she doesn’t stay still long enough for habits or routines. She’s currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie D’Antonio alive. Which was meant to be an easy job. Then a dead body, a bag of money, and a killer with sights on Amy have her sending an SOS to the only person she trusts. A breakneck race around the world begins, but can Amy and Steve stay one step ahead of a lethal enemy?

 

 

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NEW BOOKS PURCHASES SEPTEMBER 2024

 

ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK Chris Whitaker A missing persons mystery, a serial killer thriller and an epic love story with a unique twist on each…

 

ALL THE GLIMMERING STARS Mark Sullivan Anthony and Florence are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s, both outstanding students and good kids before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord's Resistance Army. Anthony and Florence meet by chance, fall in love, dream of surviving their captivity. They are helping their fellow child soldiers escape bondage and return to their families--and redemption--by following the stars.

 

ANY OTHER TIME Jodi Picoult Two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—are forced to hide behind another name to make their voices heard.

 

THE DARK WIVES Ann Cleeves The man’s body is found in the park outside Rosebank, a home for troubled teens in the coastal village of Longwater. The victim is Josh, a staff member. DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate the death, with her only clue being the disappearance of one of the home’s residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spence. Vera can’t bring herself to believe that a teenager is responsible for the murder, but even she can’t dismiss the possibility.

 

ELON MUSK (BIO) Walter Isaacson Elon Musk is an authorized biography of American business magnate and SpaceX/Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The book was written by Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN, TIME and the Aspen Institute who has previously written best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci.

 

FIRE AND BONES Kathy Reichs New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a twisty, unputdownable thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who finds herself at the center of a Washington, D.C. arson investigation that spawns deepening levels of mystery and, ultimately, violence.

 

A GRAVE IN THE WOODS Martin Walker In his latest adventure Bruno, France's favorite country cop, investigates a long-buried war crime and faces a devastating flood that threatens the town he polices and the people he loves.

 

HARD TO KILL James Patterson & Mike Lupica Attorney Jane Smith is mounting an impossible criminal defense. Her client, Rob Jacobson, is the unluckiest of the unlucky. No sooner is he accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons than a second family is gunned down. Jane’s career has spanned from NYPD beat cop to Hamptons courtroom. She’s tough to beat. She’s even tougher to kill. The defense may never rest.  

 

THE HAZELBOURNE LADIES MOTORCYCLE AND FLYING CLUB Helen Simonson It is the summer of 1919 and Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Now that all the men have returned from the front, she has been asked to give up her cottage and her job at the estate she helped to run during the war. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club is a timeless comedy of manners, refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside.

 

JOY Danielle Steel Allegra Dixon has never felt loved or wanted. Rejected by her mother and her absentee military father, Allegra's only escape from her lonely existence is through books and her own rich fantasy world. When she finds love with childhood sweetheart Shepherd Williams, her heart feels full for the first time. But as Shep follows in her father's footsteps. Pulled into the dark world of military conflict, Allegra fears she will end up alone for a second time.

 

LEAVE NO TRACE A. J. Landau In an act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Special Agent Michael Walker of the National Park Service is sent to New York as the agent-in-charge. Not long after he lands, he learns two things - one that Gina Delgado of the FBI has been placed in charge of the investigation as the lead of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and two, that threats of a second terrorism attack are already being called into the media and he lacks the security clearance to be in on their meetings.

 

THE LOST COAST Jonathan Kellerman & Jesse Kellerman This is the fifth gripping novel in the bestselling Clay Edison series. When coroner-turned-private investigator Clay Edison is approached to work on a fraud case, he uncovers more than he bargained for. His investigation leads him to a strange town in the remote California wilderness where the residents don't care much for outsiders. They certainly don't like Clay asking questions. And they'll do just about anything to keep him quiet. . .

 

MISS MORGAN’S BOOK BRIGADE Janet Skeslien Charles 1918: Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Then she disappears. 1987: When NYPL librarian Wendy Peterson stumbles across a reference to Jessie Carson in the archives, she becomes consumed with learning her fate. Based on the little-known history of the women who received the Croix de Guerre for courage under fire, here is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit and ultimately the courage it takes to make a change.

 

SHELTERWOOD Lisa Wingate Oklahoma, 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn’t have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. Oklahoma, 1990. Ranger Valerie Boren-Odell arrives at a newly minted National Park where she’s faced with local controversy over the park’s opening, a teenage hiker gone missing from one of the trails, and the long-hidden burial site of three children unearthed in a cave. She wins an ally among the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police but soon collides with old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.

 

THE SICILIAN INHERITANCE Jo Piazza From bestselling author Jo Piazza, comes “a journey to the boot of Italy with murder, romance and ricotta” (The New York Times) about a disputed inheritance and a family secret that some will kill to protect . . .

 

SMALL ACTS OF COURAGE: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy Ali Velshi A captivating family history that illustrates how small actions can have an outsized political impact.

 

SOUTHERN MAN Greg Iles A senseless tragedy: The hugely anticipated new Penn Cage novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and Cemetery Road, about a man—and a town—rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but unbowed in the fight to save those they love.

 

SPIRIT CROSSING William Kent Krueger The disappearance of a local politician’s teenaged daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O’Connor’s grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman—but nobody seems that interested. As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this discovery, they uncover a connection to the missing teenager. Soon, it’s clear that Cork’s grandson is in danger of being the killer’s next victim.

 

THIS IS WHY WE LIED   Karin Slaughter For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night.

 A murderer in their midst…

 

TOM CLANCY SHADOW STATE    M. P. Woodward Not wanting to be left behind, Hendley Associates has sent their best analyst, Jack Ryan, Jr., to mine for investment gold. But a trip with a Hendley colleague to the Highlands of Vietnam to observe the company’s operations takes a treacherous turn when their helicopter is shot down. Some things haven’t changed, and Vietnam is still the plaything of powerful neighbors. He’ll get no help from the government, because in the jungle, it’s the shadow state that rules.