|
|
|
The thread : a novel
by Victoria Hislop
After her home in Asia Minor is destroyed by the Turkish army, Katerina finds herself on a boat to an unknown destination, which brings her into the life of Dimitri Komninos, and together they witness the changing landscape of Thessaloniki, the persecution of its people, Nazi collaboration, civil war and economic collapse. (KH)
|
|
|
One hundred names
by Cecelia Ahern
After her dying mentor leaves her a mysterious list of 100 names, journalist Kitty Logan tries to locate the people and uncover their connections in this new novel from the author of P.S. I Love You. (AL).
|
|
|
The Good Goodbye
by Carla Buckley
Huddling anxiously in the waiting room of a hospital where two college students are being treated for serious burns, two sets of parents confront disturbing truths about their roles in the accident. By the author of The Deepest Secret. (MH)
|
|
|
The map of true places
by Brunonia Barry
The author of the best-selling novel The Lace Reader is back with an emotionally resonant novel of tragedy, secrets, identity and love in which a psychotherapist finds the strands of her own life in the death of a troubled patient. (SB).
|
|
|
Maisie Dobbs : a novel
by Jacqueline Winspear
In her first case, private detective Maisie Dobbs must investigate the reappearance of a dead man who turns up at a cooperative farm called the Retreat that caters to men who are recovering their health after World War I. (MC).
|
|
|
Fates and traitors : a novel of John Wilkes Booth
by Jennifer Chiaverini
A reimagining of the life of Lincoln's assassin by the best-selling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker describes Booth's tumultuous childhood on a Maryland farm and rise to the ballrooms of D.C. at the sides of four women before he became obsessed with avenging the Confederacy. (AM)
|
|
|
Gray Mountain : a novel
by John Grisham
Losing her job at New York City's largest law firm in the weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Samantha becomes an unpaid intern in a small Appalachian community, where she stumbles upon dangerous secrets. (JF)
|
|
|
Dark matter : a novel
by Blake Crouch
Kidnapped and drugged at gunpoint for inexplicable reasons, physics professor Jason Dessen awakens in a lab and is informed that his entire life has been an illusion and that he is being hunted by a deadly adversary. By the best-selling author of the Wayward Pines trilogy. (DH)
|
|
|
Hard magic
by Larry Correia
In an alternate world during the 1920s and 1930s where magic is as powerful as technology, Jake, an ex-convict with the power to manipulate gravity, becomes involved in a war between secret societies over one of Nicholas Tesla's devices. (BS)
|
|
|
Hag-seed : The tempest retold
by Margaret Atwood
Follows the retribution plot of a deposed artistic director who teaches prison inmates while consulting with a fantasy child who has taken the place of the daughter he lost years earlier. (LR)
|
|
|
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
by Lorna Landvik
From the initial formation of The Freesia Court Book Club and over the course of the next thirty years, five women in small-town Minnesota share the events, triumphs, tragedies, hardships, joys, and sorrows of their lives, in a heartwarming story of friendship. (KD)
|
|
|
Circling the sun : a novel
by Paula McLain
Raised by her father and the Kipsigis tribe in 1920s Kenya, Beryl endures painful losses before entering a passionate love triangle and discovering her unconventional true calling. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Paris Wife. (BC)
|
|
|
A star for Mrs. Blake by April SmithMeeting for the first time for a shared pilgrimage to France to visit the graves of their World War I soldier sons, an Irish maid, a chicken farmer's wife, a Boston socialite, a former tennis star and a librarian meet a brutally scarred journalist before confronting a shocking secret set against a lesser-known historical event. (MCa)
|
|
|
The mapmaker's daughter : a novel
by Laurel Corona
On the eve of the Jewish expulsion from Spain, Amalia Riba stands at a crossroads. In a country violently divided by religion, she must either convert to Christianity and stay safe, or remain a Jew and risk everything. It's a choice she's been walking toward her whole life, from the days of her youth when her family lit the Shabbat candles in secret. Back then, she saw the vast possibility of the world, outlined in the beautiful pen and ink maps her father created. But the world has shifted and contracted since then. (KH)
|
|
|
Today will be different
by Maria Semple
Initiating small changes that she hopes will reverse negative patterns in her life, Eleanor Flood is derailed by her family members' unethical practices before an encounter with a former colleague triggers dramas that reveal a buried secret. By the author of national best-seller Where'd You Go, Bernadette. (AL)
|
|
|
The couple next door
by Shari Lapeña
When a terrible crime committed on the night of a dinner party casts suspicion on a young couple who seemed to have it all, Detective Rasbach discovers that the panicked duo had been hiding dangerous secrets from each other for years. A debut suspense novel by the award-winning author of Things Go Flying. (MH)
|
|
|
The curious charms of Arthur Pepper
by Phaedra Patrick
Finding a mysterious bracelet among his late wife's possessions, 69-year-old Arthur Pepper breaks from his routine life for the first time since her death and embarks on a quest to learn about his wife's life before their marriage, a journey that leads to unexpected self-discoveries. (LR)
|
|
|
Britt-Marie was here : a novel
by Fredrik Backman
Walking away from her loveless marriage and taking a job in a derelict, financially devastated town, 63-year-old Britt-Marie uses her fierce organizational skills to become a local soccer coach to a group of lost children, becoming a vital community member along the way. (MH)
|
|
|
The girl from Krakow
by Alexander Rosenberg
As World War II arrives, Polish Jew Rita Feuerstahl, keeping a secret so big that it could change the tide of the conflict, strives to keep her identity hidden so as to avoid being sent to a concentration camp. (BC)
|
|
|
The crossing places
by Elly Griffiths
When a child's bones are found near an ancient henge in the saltmarshes of Norfolk's north coast, Ruth Galloway, a university lecturer in forensic archaeology, is asked to date them by DCI Harry Nelson. 1st in series. (MH)
|
|
|
We should all be feminists
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Offers an updated definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. (KH)
|
|
|
My stroke of insight : a brain scientist's personal journey
by Jill Bolte Taylor
Traces the Harvard brain scientist author's massive left-hemisphere stroke at the age of thirty-seven, during which she observed the disparate functioning of her right and left brain and came into a realization that she could tap feelings of calm and well-being from her kinesthetic right hemisphere to promote her recovery and a positive outlook. (PM)
|
|
|
In an instant : a family's journey of love and healing
by Lee Woodruff
A television journalist and his wife share their personal, never-before-told story of romance, resilience, and recovery following the traumatic brain injury that had occurred after an improvised explosive device went off near the tank in which he had been riding while covering a story in Iraq. (DG)
|
|
|
Heretic : why Islam needs a reformation now
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
An impassioned plea for an Islamic Reformation by the award-winning author of Infidel explores how Islam can be reconciled with modernity to end terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities. (DH)
|
|
|
Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop speaking
by Susan Cain
A former Wall Street attorney, business coach and creator of ThePowerofIntroverts.com demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in today's culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples to counsel readers on how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations and empower introverted children. (psychology).
|
|
|
Lincoln's boys : John Hay, John Nicolay, and the war for Lincoln's image
by Joshua Zeitz
A timely and intimate look into the 16th President's White House through the lives of two of his closest aides and confidants draws on letters and diaries to evaluate their roles in every seminal event from the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to the delivery of the Gettysburg Address and their fight to establish an assassinated Lincoln's heroic legacy. (BC)
|
|
|
I am Malala : how one girl stood up for education and changed the world
by Malala Yousafzai
Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life for the cause: She was shot point-blank while riding the bus on her way home from school. No one expected her to survive. (DG)
|
|
|
|
|
|