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Fiction A to Z January 2025 |
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The memory library
by Kate Storey
"Each year, on her daughter's birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves--with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work. But Ella--Sally's only child--fled to Australia twenty-one years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of her daughter ever thumbing through the pages are starting to dwindle. Then disaster strikes and Ella is forced to return to the home she once knew"
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The Wildes : a novel in five acts
by Louis Bayard
A historical novel explores the life of Oscar Wilde's wife, Constance, and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I.
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| Rental House by Weike WangWell-paid consultant Keru, the daughter of frugal Chinese immigrants, and Nate, the son of conservative North Carolinians, rent vacation places in Cape Cod and the Catskills to host their in-laws at different times, but tensions and unexpected guests also arrive. |
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Bellevue : a novel
by Robin Cook
"A first-year resident experiences life-shattering visions that reveal the truth behind some of the greatest medical advances in the history of medicine"
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The French winemaker's daughter : a novel
by Loretta Ellsworth
"Set during World War II, an unforgettable historical novel about love, war, family, and loyalty told in in the voices of two women, generations apart, who find themselves connected by a mysterious and valuable bottle of wine stolen by the Nazis"
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Madwoman : a novel
by Chelsea Bieker
"Clove has gone to extremes to keep her past a secret. Thanks to her lies, she's landed the life of her dreams, complete with a safe husband and two adoring children who will never know the terror that was routine in her own childhood. If her buried anxiety threatens to breach the surface, Clove focuses on finding the right supplement and meditation. When she receives a letter from a women's prison in California, her past comes screeching into the present, entangling her in a dangerous game she thought she had outrun. As we race between her precarious present-day life in Portland, Oregon, and her childhood in a Waikiki high-rise, Clove is forced to finally unravel the defining day of her life"
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Books You May Have Missed
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| Wandering Stars by Tommy OrangeThis haunting follow-up to There There spans centuries, following Jude Star, who survives the horrors of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre and imprisonment in Florida, as well as his descendants, who endure the Carlisle Indian School, addiction, PTSD, and more. |
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| Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi ThorpeAfter 19-year-old Margo gets pregnant by her English professor and ignores his request for an abortion, she starts a successful OnlyFans to pay the bills. With her former pro-wrestler dad helping with the baby, she's managing...until the professor reappears in this funny, entertaining novel. |
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| Husbands & Lovers by Beatriz WilliamsThe lives of Mallory in modern-day New England and unhappily married British diplomat's wife Hannah in 1950s Cairo, Egypt, connect in this moving dual-timeline novel. Mallory's 13-year-old son needs a kidney transplant, so she reaches out to the famous singer who doesn't know he's a father. Meanwhile, her sister digs into their mother's adoption history. |
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| A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia WilliamsAgainst her wealthy family's wishes, floral designer Ricki Wilde opens a flower shop in Harlem and befriends jazz musician Ezra "Breeze" Walker, a man who's fallen out of time. Light speculative elements and dual timelines add intrigue to this sweeping romance by the author of Seven Days in June. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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