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Fiction A to Z October 2021 |
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The Arctic Fury : a novel
by Greer Macallister
What it's about: "1855: Virginia Reeve is summoned by an eccentric Brit with a compelling offer. Lady Jane Franklin wants her to lead a dozen women into the Arctic in search of the ships of her husband's lost expedition, and she's willing to pay handsomely. All four search attempts Lady Franklin has sponsored have failed. She has decided only a radical new approach can succeed: let women make the decisions. Lady Franklin will disavow all knowledge of the expedition if it fails, but if it succeeds, she promises great rewards .A year later, Virginia stands trial for murder. Survivors of the expedition willing to publicly support her sit in the front row. There are only six left. Set against the unforgiving backdrop of one of the world's most inhospitable locations, THE ARCTIC FURY uses the true story of Lady Jane Franklin's tireless attempts to find her husband's lost expedition as a jumping-off point to spin a tale of bravery, intrigue, perseverance and hope"
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Retrospective : a novel
by Danielle McLaughlin
What it's about: A woman finds her precarious marriage and career thrown into turmoil by a reckoning with an old friend and an enigmatic woman’s claim that she is the true creator of a famous work of art.
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House of the Patriarch
by Barbara Hambly
What it's about: Reluctantly accepting a missing-persons case in New York, Benjamin January navigates religious zealots, human circus shows and kidnapping slavers to solve the mystery of a girl’s baffling disappearance from a crowded steamboat.
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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House : a Novel
by Cherie Jones
What it's about: Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados.
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A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
by Peter Ho Davies
What it's about: A family grapples with the decision to terminate a pregnancy after receiving catastrophic test results and must deal with questions that reverberate down the years, in a new novel from the award-winning author of The Welsh Girl.
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Dark, Creepy, or Ghostly Reads
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| Universal Harvester by John DarnielleWhat it's about: Jeremy, an employee at a 1990s video rental store, discovers chilling footage that has been captured on one of the store's VHS tapes. Soon he's in over his head with the knowledge of what it contains.
Why you might like it: Film becomes the launching point for a journey into creepy, unconventional horror with a rural noir vibe. |
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| Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate RacculiaStarring: an eclectic cast of characters, all sent on an inventive treasure hunt across Boston by an unconventional billionaire's final request.
For fans of: literary and pop culture references; ghost stories; inheritance drama; loners; bankers who used to be theater kids; Edgar Allan Poe; cape-wearing gentlemen; scavenger hunts; camp, whimsy, and eccentricity. And, of course, Ellen Raskin's classic kids' book The Westing Game.
Read this next: Ernest Cline's nostalgic sci-fi scavenger hunt Ready Player One. |
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| Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig RiceThe situation: Power outages aren't uncommon in this close-knit northern Ontario Anishinaabe community, but this one goes on far too long...and then a food shipment fails to arrive, and a newcomer brings news of chaos in the south.
What happens next: Community relations splinter as the food supply dwindles, the winter gets harsher, and the newcomer fosters discord.
Read it for: the escalating tension, the own voices depiction of Anishinaabe culture, and the realization that the end of the "civilized" world doesn't necessarily mean the end of the world for everyone. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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