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Try these book suggestions by the Library Staff August 2026 |
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The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans
Sybil is seventy-three years old, in the winter of her life. She has
always made sense of the world through writing letters and through
this epistolary novel we see how she comes to terms with her past
and present and learns forgiveness.
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The Keeper
by Tana French
On a quiet night in a remote Irish village, a girl turns up dead in a
river. The truth behind her death could bring the town down with her.
Cal Hooper, a former Chicago detective who moved to West Ireland
in search of a quieter life, has mostly been able to sidestep the local drama. His days have fallen into a simple rhythm, sharing his
fixer-upper with his fiance, Lena, and the once-feral Trey Reddy, who he's helped raise to be a fierce and headstrong teenager. But when a seedy businessman and his hot-tempered son start snapping up land across the countryside, the trio begin to suspect a connection between their scheme and the girl's death, plunging them unwillingly into the town's tangled web of vicious rumors and generations-old grudges.
As tensions boil over, Cal must uncover the secrets that threaten to
tear apart the village- and his loved ones' lives- before there's nothing
left to save.
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A Pair of Aces
by Marie Benedict
A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of
the law--a prosecutor and a madam--who team up to bring down notorious gangster Lucky Luciano. Eunice Carter, assistant district attorney for the City of New York and Manhattan's first Black female prosecutor, has her sights set on the one and only Lucky Luciano,
head of New York City's five largest organized crime families. Other prosectors have tried to bring down Lucky, but they've all focused on
the crime syndicate's traditional businesses--bootlegging, gambling,
loan sharking, and drug dealing--or tax evasion. No one has thought
to approach the mob through its hand in prostitution. Until Eunice. But she can't get Luciano alone. Polly Adler has worked long and hard to build up her high-class brothel business. Her client list is filled with
well-known names, both the famous and the infamous, who all know
her booze is top-notch, her music first-rate, her food exquisite, and her girls the best. But Lucky has gone too far, putting her girls in danger,
and Polly finally sees the chance to end his reign once and for all. Together, Eunice and Polly fashion a case utilizing a network of women. Bridging the enormous divide between them and risking their own lives, they assemble evidence bit by bit, under the nose of the man they're trying to convict. It is this very alliance that launches the most
sensational trial New York City has ever seen.
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True Crime: A Memoir
by Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell is best known for her international bestselling thriller series about forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Every story comes from somewhere, and Scarpetta's began when Patricia Cornwell embedded herself in a morgue. In this achingly honest memoir,
Cornwell excavates her own life, detailing her traumatic childhood
being raised by neglectful parents, her father abandoning the young family on Christmas day, her mother being institutionalized twice, an abusive foster family, and developing a parental relationship with evangelist Billy Graham's wife Ruth. Cornwell depicts a harrowing hospitalization and near-death car accident. She unflinchingly shares overcoming obstacles that later gave her the ambition to become an award-winning police reporter. From there it was research in a
medical examiner's office that would turn into a full-time job. She
would become a forensic expert and worldwide publishing
phenomenon. Cornwell leaves no stone unturned in this deeply
candid account of her life, offering inspiring insight into what made
her into the international sensation she is today.
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Yesteryear
by Caro Claire Burke
A traditional American woman, a tradwife influencer, suddenly
awakens in the brutal reality of 1855--where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel. Natalie
lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her
husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful
than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the heir to a political dynasty? What Natalie's followers--all 8 million of them--don't know won't hurt them. And The Angry Women?
The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They're sick with jealousy. Because Natalie
isn't simply living the good life, she's living the ideal--and just so
happens to be building an empire from it. Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn't hers. Her home, her husband, her children--they're all familiar, but something's off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering
fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her
soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she's expected to haul firewood and hand wash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a ruthless reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible. A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny
as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.
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