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New Fiction ebooksApril 2020
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While we remain closed, here are our New Fiction EBOOKs – digital resources FREE and AVAILABLE to you. HOLDS are permitted. If you need help getting started or placing holds, email us at refdesk@beltiblibrary.org . Our Librarians will assist you 7 days a week.
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Oligarchy
by Scarlett Thomas
Arriving at her English boarding school, the daughter of a Russian oligarch is enmeshed in her classmates’ thin-obsessed world of pecking orders, eating disorders and online drama, before a friend goes missing amid rumors of a dormitory ghost.
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Almost just friendsby Jill ShalvisAnticipating well-earned freedom after raising her siblings, a tough woman forges an unexpected bond with an enigmatic stranger before a massive storm and demons from the past throw everything she believes into question.
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Black Sundayby Tola Rotimi AbrahamJoining a new church in 1996 Lagos in the face of impoverishing losses, twins Bibike and Riyike find their bond challenged by wrenching hardships, a father’s reckless choice and their respective views on independence.
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The antidote for everything
by Kimmery Martin
When her romantic prospects are hampered by perceptions about her work as a urologist, a doctor in a Charleston hospital faces a career-impacting choice when her employers direct staff to stop providing care to transgender patients.
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Apartmentby Teddy WayneA man who offers a rent-free bedroom in his illegal sublet of a rent-stabilized NYC apartment and the working-class Midwestern Columbia student who takes it develop a friendship that eventually clashes over politics, socioeconomic identity and privilege in 1996.
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August by Callan WinkStruggling to adapt when his parents’ divorce takes him away from his father’s dairy farm, 12-year-old August flees to a Montana ranch in the wake of a violent act before uncovering dark local secrets.
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The everlasting by Katy Simpson SmithTraces the lives of four individuals from different times in Roman history, from an early Christian child martyr and a medieval monk on crypt duty to a Medici princess of Moorish descent and a contemporary field biologist.
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Creatures by Crissy Van MeterA bride explores the complexities of love, abandonment and forgiveness when her California wedding is upended by a trapped whale carcass, the groom’s disappearance at sea and the unexpected return of her long-absent mother.
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The familiar dark by Amy EngelSeeking answers in the wake of her daughter’s murder, a woman from a small Missouri Ozarks community is forced to confront the truth about her own brutal childhood - by the author of the Book of Ivy series.
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The forgotten letters of Esther Durrant by Kayte NunnTaking shelter on a distant island, a free-spirited marine scientist discovers a cache of love letters written by a young mother who was committed to an asylum in the 1950s.
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Follow me to groundby Sue RainsfordHelping her father dispense otherworldly folk remedies to heal the sick in their village, Ada pursues a forbidden affair that transforms her lover and the dangerous source of her powers.
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The girls with no names by Serena BurdickIn 1910s New York City, a girl goes missing and her younger sister hatches an audacious plan to be admitted to the House of Mercy, a home for wayward girls, risking everything to bring her older sister home.
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Highfireby Eoin ColferBurned out by the days of yore and passing his time in the Louisiana bayou watching Flashdance, a vodka-drinking dragon endures unexpected misadventures when he crosses paths with a 15-year-old troublemaker on the run.
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House of Trelawney by Hannah RothschildFour women from an eccentric and dysfunctional family of English aristocrats navigate historical events, from wars to economic recessions, that have driven their once-grand Cornwall estate into ruin - by the author of The Improbability of Love.
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The look-alike by Erica SpindlerA decade after stumbling on a murdered classmate in college, a woman caring for her mentally ill mother begins receiving threatening phone calls before spotting a white van outside her home - by the best-selling author of Justice for Sara.
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The motion of the body through space by Lionel ShriverDeciding to face an ignominious early retirement by entering a triathlon, a once-sedentary narcissist embarks on an obsessive fitness regime while his surgery-debilitated wife is treated with contempt by his sexy personal trainer.
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New waves by Kevin NguyenFed up with discriminating bosses, an Asian-American customer service representative and a talented African-American programmer conspire to steal their employer’s user database before an unexpected setback exposes a secret double life.
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Saltwater
by Jessica Andrews
Follows the life of Lucy, beginning with her working-class childhood in northern England growing up with her mother—comforting, mysterious and tirelessly devoted—whose lessons in womanhood shape Lucy’s appreciation for desire, her sense of duty as a caretaker and her hunger for a better, maybe reckless life.
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