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Fall into reading! In this newsletter you'll find new and forthcoming fiction books from across all genres. Click on any of the titles below to sign into your online library account and place a hold today! |
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Stop Them Dead
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Peter James
In the dead of night, a farmer hears a suspicious noise. It’s everyone’s worst nightmare: a break-in. When he confronts the intruders, he has no idea that just minutes later he will be left lying in a pool of blood. But the chilling truth lies not in the act itself, but what the perpetrators were willing to kill for.
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The Night House
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Jo Nesbø
When he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne, 14-year-old Richard Elauved, when he is suspected in the disappearances of two classmates, must prove his innocence and preserve his sanity as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing the town.
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Let Us Descend
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Jesmyn Ward
Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.
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The List : a novel
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Yomi Adegoke
A celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, Ola Olajide is set to marry the love of her life in one month's time until she finds his name on“The List,” an anonymous account posting allegations on social media, in this razor sharp exploration of the real-world impact of online life.
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Moon of the Turning Leaves
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Waubgeshig Rice
In this gripping stand-alone literary thriller set in the world of the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, a scouting party led by Evan Whitesky ventures into unknown and dangerous territory to find a new home for their close-knit Northern Ontario Indigenous community more than a decade after a world-ending blackout.
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What Wild Women Do
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Karma Brown
While staying at an isolated cabin in the Adironacks, aspiring Hollywood screenwriter Rowan is drawn into the unsettling story of a socialite-turned-feminist crusader bent of helping women unleash their inner“wildness” who vanished in these same woods the summer of 1975 and is determined to solve the mystery of her disappearance.
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The Death of Us
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Lori Rader-Day
When Ashley Hay's car is found 15 years after her disappearance, Liss Kehoe, who has raised Ashley's son as her own, must protect her family and keep her own secrets hidden as tensions rise in the small community—and someone will go to great lengths to keep the truth from surfacing.
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Kill Show : a true crime novel
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Daniel Sweren-Becker
The utterly readable novel about America's obsession with the mysteries, cold cases and violent tales we turn to for comfort follows the disappearance of 16-year-old Sara Parcell, constructing a riveting tale, with diabolical twists and provocative social commentary, about one family's tragedy and Hollywood's insatiable desire to exploit it.
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Midnight is the Darkest hour : a novel
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Ashley Winstead
When a skull found deep in the Louisiana bayou reunites her with a man from her past with a dark reputation, the daughter of the town's fire-and-brimstone preacher will do anything to protect those she loves from the real evil that walks among them.
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What We Kept to Ourselves
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Nancy Jooyoun Kim
In 1999, the Kim family, struggling to move on after their mother, Sunny, vanished a year ago, find their lives further upended when the body of a stranger is found in the backyard, carrying a letter to Sunny and leaving them with more questions than answers about their mother's disappearance.
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The Bell in the Fog
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Lev AC Rosen
"San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective--but his business hasn't exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his office..."
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Brooklyn Crime Novel
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Jonathan Lethem
In 1970s Brooklyn, with the promise of violence everywhere, a currency itself, this story of community, crime and gentrification chronicles more than 50years of life in one neighborhood where the players write the headlines, the histories and the laws of the streets.
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Edge of the Grave
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Robbie Morrison
Glasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law of one of the city's wealthiest shipbuilders is found floating in the River Clyde with his throat cut, it falls to Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn to lead the murder case-despite sharing a troubled history with the victim's widow.
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What You Are Looking For Is In The Library : a novel
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Michiko Aoyama
This tribute to the magic of libraries, friendship and community follows Tokyo's most mysterious librarian, Sayuri Komachi, as she gives her visitors one unexpected book, which has life-altering consequences, giving the borrower the motivation they didn't realize they need to change their life.
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Breaking and Entering
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Don Gillmor
Forty-nine and sweating through the hottest summer on record, Beatrice Billings is rudderless - the only novel experience that looms is the threat of divorce. Everything changes when she googles "escape" and discovers the world of amateur lock-picking. Breaking into houses is thrilling: she’s discreet and never greedy, but her curiosity about other people’s lives becomes a dangerous compulsion.
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How to be Remembered
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Michael Thompson
A big-hearted novel following a man who can never be remembered and his journey to become unforgettable... On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without toys and diapers, without photos of their baby scattered about, and without any idea that the small child asleep in his crib is theirs.
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The Circle
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Katherena Vermette
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant and unwavering epic told from a constellation of Métis voices that consider the fallout when the person who connects them all goes missing.
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I'm a Fan
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Sheena Patel
A commanding new voice in literature, in her debut novel, introduces us to an unnamed narrator who describes her involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship, dissecting the behavior of all involved, herself included, and makes surprising connections between the power struggles at the heart of human relationships. A first novel. Original.
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