Cardington-Lincoln Public Library

Fiction A to Z
July 2025
New On Our Shelves
Awake in the Floating City
by Susanna Kwan

In a flooded near-future San Francisco, grieving artist Bo lives in a high rise and hopes for the return of her mother, missing for two years. On the verge of finally leaving the city, she instead stays to help her 130-year-old neighbor, whose stories inspire Bo's creativity. Exploring grief, art, memory, climate change, and multi-generational friendships, this is a "marvelously graceful debut" (Kirkus Reviews).
Badlands
by Douglas J. Preston

In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found--and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands--lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. Is it suicide or... sacrifice? When a second body is found--exactly like the other--investigators realize the case runs deeper than they imagined and  they find themselves confronting a dark power that, disturbed from its long slumber.
Second chance at Sunshine Inn
by Amy Clipston

"Welcome to the Sunshine Inn, a picturesque coastal inn with sweeping views and two new owners who couldn't be more opposite. From bestselling author Amy Clipston comes a no spice grumpy/sunshine romance perfect for fans of Anne-Marie Meyer and RaeAnne Thayne"
Knave of diamonds : a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
by Laurie R. King

Mary Russell's long-lost Uncle Jake reappears and is somehow connected to the infamous theft of the Irish Crown Jewels, pulling her into a mystery and pitting her against Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft and her own loyalties.
Rage
by Linda Castillo

Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a brutal double murder that takes her into the dark underbelly of society and exposes the dangers of Amish lives gone wrong. no one is willing to talk about what happened to the men. To solve the case, Kate must delve into the most sordid corners of her community, but when she gets too close, the killers target Kate herself. Will the secrets simmering beneath the surface of Painters Mill take another life before she can expose the truth? 
The view from Lake Como : a novel
by Adriana Trigiani

After a painful divorce and family upheaval in working-class Lake Como, New Jersey, draftswoman Jess Capodimonte Baratta flees to Carrara, Italy, where artistic ambition, and new relationships reshape her understanding of love, loyalty, and personal fulfillment
We Live Here Now
by Sarah Pinborough

A haunting Gothic novel about a house—and a marriage—gone terribly wrong Emily and her husband, Freddie, move from London to a beautiful Dartmoor country house called Larkin Lodge. Emily, however, starts to believe that the house is being haunted by someone who was murdered in it, though she can find no evidence of a wrongful death. As bizarre events pile up and her marriage starts to crumble, Emily becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about Larkin Lodge. But if the house has secrets, so do Emily and her husband..
Contact your librarian for more great books!

128 E Main Street Cardington OH 43315

419-864-8181

www.cardingtonlibrary.org