These adult fiction books and more will be arriving at the Library in November.
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FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION & MYSTERY
The Sunflower House / Adriana Allegri
Allina Gottlieb’s peaceful life in 1939 Germany shatters when she is forced to work as a nurse in Hochland Home, a facility for breeding Aryan children, where she conceals her Jewish identity and develops a risky relationship with Karl, an SS officer with his own hidden secrets.
To Die For / David Baldacci
Ace operative Travis Devine comes face-to-face with his mysterious nemesis–the girl on the train–as he endeavors to escort twelve-year-old Betsy to visit her accused racketeer uncle at the behest of the FBI, uncovering a vast conspiracy along the way.
The Memory Dress / Jade Beer
A missing husband and a dress once owned by Princess Diana set two very different women on paths of discovery that will change both their lives forever.
Is She Really Going Out with Him? / Sophie Cousens
A hilarious love story about a disillusioned divorcée who agrees to let her children play matchmaker.
Eleanore of Avignon / Elizabeth DeLozier
In 1347 Provence, midwife Elea Blanchet becomes an apprentice to the Pope’s physician and must navigate the complexities of her social status, a burgeoning career in medicine and the impending Black Death while facing accusations of witchcraft.
A Very Bad Thing / J.T. Ellison
When celebrated novelist Columbia Jones is murdered on her book tour, her daughter and publicist, Darian, must navigate a web of secrets from her mother’s past, unraveling the mystery before more lives are shattered.
Now or Never / Janet Evanovich
With her personal life in turmoil, New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum navigates danger and intrigue in a high-stakes case that could change her life.
The Collaborators / Michael Idov
A young intelligence officer and a troubled heiress stumble into a global conspiracy that pits Russia against the CIA.
Before We Forget Kindness / Toshikazu Kawaguchi
In the fifth book in the sensational, cozy Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests. They must follow the café’s strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold.
City of Night Birds / Juhea Kim
After a career-halting accident, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg to confront her past and to decide whether to rejoin the stage amidst the cutthroat world of Russian ballet.
An Insignificant Case / Phillip Margolin
When a minor theft case becomes a double homicide, and even more, Charlie Webb, an insignificant lawyer assigned to an insignificant case, is faced with the most important, and deadliest, case of his life.
April Storm / Leila Meacham
Katherine Walker, married to an accomplished doctor with bright and successful children, grapples with her perfect life unraveling in April, when she discovers someone might be targeting her and trying to kill her husband.
The City and Its Uncertain Walls / Haruki Murakami
The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves. The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times.
The Boundaries We Cross / Brad Parks
Charles Bliss, a teacher at an elite Connecticut boarding school, faces accusations of a romantic relationship with student Hayley Goodloe, daughter of a state senator, and must clear his name when she disappears under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind evidence suggesting his guilt.
Lazarus Man / Richard Price
The author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire presents a novel that takes place in an ever-changing Harlem.
The Mirror / Nora Roberts
When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she senses it holds dark family secrets. Then one night the mirror appears and Sonya glides through this looking glass, into the past—and sees a bride murdered on her wedding day, the circle of gold torn from her finger. It is a scene that will play out again and again—and a puzzle she must solve if there is any hope of breaking the curse.
The Author’s Guide to Murder / Williams, Willis, & White
There’s been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. Literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley has been found dead—under bizarre circumstances—in the castle tower’s book-lined study. Years ago, Presley purchased the castle as a showpiece for his brand and to lure paying guests with a taste for writerly glamour. Now it seems, the castle has done him in…or, possibly, one of the castle’s guests has. Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh, a local with no love for literary Americans, finds himself with the unenviable task of extracting statements from three American lady novelists.
Time of the Child / Niall Williams
In the Advent season of 1962, Doctor Jack Troy and his daughter Ronnie, long isolated from their small Irish town of Faha, find their lives and their understanding of family and community transformed when a baby is unexpectedly left in their care.
Variation / Rebecca Yarros
One fateful summer a celebrated dancer returns home and unearths years of family secrets with the Coast Guard rescue swimmer she never forgot.
SHC: 11/2024
