New Items ~ December 2018

FICTION The antiquities hunter by Maya Bohnhoff.  A female detective must go undercover in the Mexican jungle to hunt down a mysterious antiquities dealer.  It’s a cross between Romancing the Stone and an Indiana Jones adventure. Broken field by Jeff Hull.  Told from the perspective of a high school girl and a football coach, this reveals the tensions that tear at the fabric of a small town when a high school hazing incident escalates and threatens a championship season. Dark sacred night by Michael Connelly.  Renee Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch to solve the murder of a teenage runaway. …

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New Items ~ November 2018

FICTION An absolutely remarkable thing by Hank Green.  A young graphic artist inspires world-wide hysteria when she accidentally makes first contact with an alien.  After posting a video that goes viral, April must deal with the pressures of becoming an internet sensation. Blood communion by Anne Rice.  The Vampire Chronicles continues with Lestat’s story of how he became ruler of the vampire world. The bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett.  Bridget Jones meets The Exorcist in this funny, dark novel about one woman’s post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her. Death from a top hat …

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New Items ~ October 2018

FICTION The boy at the keyhole by Stephen Giles.  A boy is left alone in his family’s English estate with a housekeeper whom he beings to suspect has murdered his mother. A day like any other by Genie Henderson.  Set during the Great Hamptons Hurricane of 1938, a summer colony and locals are caught in the path of a sudden and devastating hurricane in this prophetic fiction that is a warning of storms to come. Depth of winter by Craig Johnson.  Sheriff Longmire takes on the head of a drug cartel in a remote area of the northern Mexican desert. …

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New Items ~ September 2018

FICTION All we ever wanted by Emily Giffin.  A scandal sends members of two Nashville families into chaos. Baby teeth by Zoje Stage.  Here’s a “bad seed” novel about a mom desperate to find help for her mute young daughter whose disturbing behavior grows increasingly dangerous. Clock dance by Anne Tyler.  This is a window into Willa Drake’s life over 50 years and how she adjusts to some of life’s surprises. Cottage by the sea by Debbie Macomber.  A lonely woman finds love in a charming seaside town. The Eastern.  Book Two: Later on by Deborah Gould.  In the second …

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New Items ~ August 2018

FICTION The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers by Terri-Lynne DeFino.  A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them. Before and again by Barbara Delinsky.  A young woman loses her daughter in a car accident and struggles to build a new life for herself in the aftermath of tragedy. By invitation only by Dorothea Benton Frank.  Two families are brought together when the daughter of a Chicago power broker and the son of a Southern peach farmer decide to …

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New Items ~ July 2018

FICTION All the ever afters by Danielle Teller.  The untold story of Cinderella’s stepmother, this gives life to the brace and resourceful Agnes, better known as one of fairy tales’ most reviled villains. The atrocities by Jeremy Shipp.  Any fans of haunted houses or strange families will thoroughly enjoy this read. Beautiful music by Michael Zadoorian.  Set in early 1970s Detroit, a racially divided city still reeling from its violent riot of 1967, this novel is the story of a high school boy’s transformation through music. The captives by Debra Jo Immergut.  A riveting story of a woman convicted of …

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