|
|
| American Spirits by Russell BanksThe last book by the late great Russell Banks offers three gritty, character-driven tales set in rural Sam Dent, New York, where his acclaimed novel The Sweet Hereafter took place. The elegiac stories explore a kidnapping, the loss of family land, and problems with new neighbors. Read-alikes: Richard Russo's novels; Mariana Enriquez's Things We Lost in the Fire. |
|
|
2054 : a novel
by Elliot Ackerman
Set 20 years after the events of the New York Times best-selling 2034 the fate of American democracy is threatened by tech visionary in the Amazon rainforest who uses a breakthrough in AI to assassinate the president.
|
|
|
Dead in Long Beach, California
by Venita Blackburn
Discovering her brother has committed suicide, a successful yet lonely author with a hit dystopian novel begins responding to texts as her late brother on her phone and becomes more and more untethered from reality. 75,000 first printing.
|
|
| Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia FordThis sweet debut follows 77-year-old Jenny Quinn as she applies for and competes on a British baking show, where making old recipes has her recalling events from the past, including a 60-year-old secret she's never shared with her beloved husband. Read-alikes: Hazel Prior's How the Penguins Saved Veronica; Bonnie Garmus' Lessons in Chemistry. |
|
| Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl GonzalezIn the 1980s, up-and-coming artist Anita de Monte is married to Jack, an established white artist, when she dies after a suspicious fall. In the 1990s, Brown University student Raquel Toro researches a project on Jack while starting her own relationship with a wealthy white man. This Reese's Book Club pick presents a witty, thought-provoking look at art, race, class, and gender. Read-alike: Hernan Diaz's Trust. |
|
| The Other Valley by Scott Alexander HowardTeenage Odile lives in a remote valley that's bordered by itself -- 20 years earlier on one side and 20 years later on the other -- and travel between them is rarely allowed. One day while in the woods with a friend, Odile sees something she shouldn't in this buzzy, thought-provoking debut novel and inspiration for an upcoming TV series. Read-alikes: Kazuo Ishiguro's novels; This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. |
|
| The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai; translated by Jesse KirkwoodIn an unmarked Kyoto restaurant, a father and daughter work to recreate special dishes from a person's past. They help a widower who wants a dish like one his wife used to make, a student requesting one of her grandmother's meals, and more in this charming Japanese bestseller. For fans of: Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking for Is in the Library; Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold. |
|
|
Redwood court : fiction
by DâeLana R. A. Dameron
Mika Tabor, the baby of the family, learns important lessons from the people who raise her: her hardworking parents, her older sister, her retired grandparents and the community on Redwood Court, who are committed to fostering joy and love in an America so insistent on seeing Black people stumble and fall.
|
|
|
Family family : a novel
by Laurie Frankel
"India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to tv star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption, India does what you should never do - she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it tells only one story, a tragic one. But India's an adoptive mom herself and knows there's so much more to her family than tragedy. Soon she's at the center of a media storm, battling accusations from the press and the paparazzi, from protesters on the right and advocates on the left. Her daughter Fig knows they need help - and who better to call for help than family? Because India's not just an adoptive mom. She also had a baby she gave up for adoption her senior year of high school. That baby is now sixteen, excited to meet her birth mother and eager to help, but she also has an agenda and secrets of her own. It turns out what makes a family isn't blood and it isn't love because no matter how they're formed, the hallmark of true family is this: it's complicated"
|
|
|
Wandering stars
by Tommy Orange
Tracing the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 to the aftermath of Orvil Red Feather's shooting, Opal tries to hold her family together while Orvil becomes emotionally reliant on prescription medications, and his younger brother, suffering from PTSD, secretly enacts blood rituals to connect to his Cheyenne heritage.
|
|
Contact your librarian for more great books!
|
|
|
New Carlisle-Olive Township Public Library 408 S. Bray St. New Carlisle, Indiana 46552 (574) 654-3046ncpl.lib.in.us |
|
|
|