Morris County Library New Fiction
Newsletter #314 - 7/23/2021
Here is a selection of new fiction that we have added to our collection. If any of these titles sparks your interest, just click on the title to be taken to our online catalog for more information. Happy reading!
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 18 (of 44)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Mira, [2021]
Description: 414 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "It's 1972 and times are changing. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas. Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their ambitions. Vera is an activist who wants to join her boyfriend in the Peace Corps. But she is doing her duty caring for her widowed mother and younger sister until Kelly is firmly established. Kelly is studying to become a veterinarian. She plans to marry her childhood sweetheart and eventually take over his father's veterinary practice. But it's a tumultuous time and neither sister is entirely happy with the path that's been laid out for her. As each evaluates her options, everything shifts. Do you do what's right for yourself or what others want? By having the courage to follow their hearts these women will change lives for the better and the effects will be felt by the generations that follow."--Publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 0 (of 2)
Current Holds: 3 |
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Edition: English-language edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Description: 401 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: Unable to find the perfect job that suits her needs, a young woman discovers an alternative to the daily grind that comes with a high price. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 2)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : MCD x FSG Originals, 2021.
Description: vii, 180 pages ; 19 cm
Summary: "An irreverent, dirty, and profoundly intimate collection of vignettes exploring gay male desire, loneliness, sex, and self-sabotage"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 10 (of 15)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Description: 338 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "Book-smart, devoutly Catholic, and painfully unsure of herself, Jane becomes pregnant in high school; by her early twenties, she is raising three children in the suburbs of western New York State. In the fall of 1991, as her children are growing older and more independent, Jane is overcome by a spiritual and intellectual restlessness that leads her to become involved with a local pro-life group. Following the tenets of her beliefs, she also adopts a little girl from Eastern Europe. But Mirela is a difficult child. Deprived of a loving caregiver in infancy, she remains unattached to her new parents, no matter how much love Jane shows her. As Jane becomes consumed with chasing therapies that might help Mirela, her relationships with her family, especially her older daughter, Lauren, begin to fray. Feeling estranged from her mother and unsettled in her new high school, Lauren begins to discover the power of her own burgeoning creativity and sexuality - a journey that both echoes and departs from her mother's own adolescent experiences. But when Lauren is confronted with the limits of her youth and independence, Jane is thrown into an emotional crisis, forced to reconcile her principles and faith with her determination to keep her daughters safe. The Fourth Child is a piercing love story and a haunting portrayal of how love can shatter - or strengthen - our beliefs."--Publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 8 (of 8)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: [Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2021]
Description: [219 pages ; 19 cm]
Summary: "It's 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words "I Tortured People." His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to speaking about them haunt the narrator into her adulthood and career as a writer and documentarian. Like a secret service agent from the future, through extraordinary feats of the imagination, Fernández follows the "man who tortured people" to places that archives can't reach, into the sinister twilight zone of history where morning routines, a game of chess, Yuri Gagarin, and the eponymous TV show of the novel's title coexist with the brutal yet commonplace machinations of the regime."--Amazon.
Language: Translated from the Spanish. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 4 (of 5)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., c2020.
Description: 178 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary: "Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Wall. In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw," the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker. "Signal" was a sensation among readers and was featured on public radio-and it was the first short story of any kind Lanchester had ever written. Since then he's written several more eerie stories of contemporary life and the perils of technology that plunk the reader down in the uncanny world of The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror, and Reality and Other Stories gathers the best of them. A mysterious tall man haunts a country house in search of a cell signal; a translator at an academic conference starts hearing things over his headset that nobody should hear; a family discovers their dependence on the latest technological gadget goes to the very foundations of human relations; and the merry contestants in a reality TV show may actually be... somewhere very hellish indeed. Reality and Other Stories is a book of disquiet that captures the severe disconnection and distraction of our time"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 16 (of 34)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2021.
Description: 207 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt. From 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers, from Cuba to Mexico, Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals--personal and political, self-inflicted and those done by others--that have shaped the lives of these extraordinary women. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers, the legacy of the memories they carry, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America's most tangled, honest, human roots"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 3)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2021.
Description: 243 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "Faith, a mother of two young children, Cece and Connor, is in need of summer childcare. As a member of a staid old beach club in her town and a self-made business consultant, she is appalled when her brother-in-law sends her an unruly, ill-mannered teenager named Lee-Ann who appears more like a wayward child than competent help. What begins as a promising start to a redemptive relationship between the two ends in a tragedy that lands Faith in a treatment facility, leveled by trauma. Years later, Faith and her mother, Irene, visit Cece in college. A fresh-faced student with a shaved head and new boyfriend, Cece has become a force of her own. Meanwhile, her grandmother, Irene, is in the early stages of dementia. She slips in and out of clarity, telling lucid tales of her own troubled youth. Faith dismisses her mother's stories as bids for attention. The three generations of women hover between wishful innocence and a more knowing resilience against the cruelty that hidden secrets of the past propel into the present. Including stories from an array of characters orbiting Faith's family, The Ocean House weaves an exquisite world of complicated family tales on the Jersey Shore."--Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 13 (of 16)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2021.
Description: 341 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary: "Twenty years ago, Sister Souljah's debut novel, The Coldest Winter Ever, became a bestselling cultural phenomenon. Fans fell in love with the unforgettable Winter Santiaga, daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family, who captivated her lovers, friends, and enemies with her sexy street smarts. For two decades, fans have begged for answers about what happened to Winter. Now all is revealed in Sister Souljah's page-turning sequel, filled with her trademark passion, danger, temptation, and adventure. With her jail sentence coming to a close, Winter is ready to step back into the spotlight and reclaim her throne"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Coldest Winter Ever ; 2. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 6 (of 7)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: New York : Abrams ComicArts, 2020.
Description: 125 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary: "It's no secret, but we are judged by our bookshelves. We learn to read at an early age, and as we grow older we shed our beloved books for new ones. But some of us surround ourselves with books. We collect them, decorate with them, are inspired by them,and treat our books as sacred objects. In this lighthearted collection of one- and two-page comics, writer-artist Grant Snider explores bookishness in all its forms, and the love of writing and reading, building on the beloved literary comics featured onhis website, Incidental Comics."-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 7 (of 17)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2021]
Description: 342 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "An exhilarating spy thriller about two women CIA agents who become intertwined around a threat to the Russia Division--one that's coming from inside the agency"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 33 (of 62)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: New York, New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2021]
Description: pages : map ; 24 centimeters.
Summary: "Stone Barrington is settling in for a stretch in New York when he receives news that demands immediate action. An old family matter has unexpectedly resurfaced, and Stone must decamp to the craggy shores of Maine to address the issue head-on.There, Stone finds that a dual-pronged threat is hiding in plain sight among the stately houses and exclusive coastal clubs, and the incursion isn't easily rebuffed. These enemies have friends in high places, funds to spare, and a score to settle with Stone . . . and only the cleverest plot will draw them out into the open. From luxuriously renovated homes to the choppy ocean waters, the pursuit can only lead to an explosive end."
Series: Stone Barrington novel ; 57. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 14 (of 37)
Current Holds: 2 |
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| Description: 366 pages ; 22 cm |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 33 (of 53)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2021]
Description: 352 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: Haunted by the unsolved disappearance of the love of his life a decade earlier, writer David Thorne visits her suspected killer in prison before meeting a woman who uncannily resembles the person he lost. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 20 (of 29)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Toronto, Ontario : Mira Books, 2021.
Description: 328 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary: On the edge of the Everglades, an eerie crime scene sets off an investigation that sends two agents deep into a world of corrupted faith, greed and deadly secrets. |
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