Morris County Library New Fiction
Newsletter #316 - 8/24/2021
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: 14 (of 23)
Current Holds: 1 |
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Edition: First Emily Bestler Books/Atria hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Emily Bestler Books, Atria, 2021.
Description: xvi, 524 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: Former Navy SEAL James Reece embarks on a top-secret CIA mission of retribution, while in a dangerous world region, the supreme leader of a cadre of assassins orchestrates a plot to defeat the United States. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 11 (of 16)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Description: 243 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 0 (of 4)
Current Holds: 1 |
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Edition: First Atria Paperback edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Atria Paperback, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021.
Description: 388 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: "Perfect for fans of The Scent Keeper and The Keeper of Lost Things, an atmospheric and enchanting debut novel about two women haunted by buried secrets but bound by a shared gift and the power the past holds over our lives"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 8 (of 10)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Gallery Books, 2021.
Description: 385 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: "From the author of Once Upon a Sunset and The Key to Happily Ever After comes a heartwarming women's fiction about three Army wives--and estranged friends--who must set aside their differences when one of them sends out a cry for help"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 14 (of 26)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Scout Press, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Incorporated, 2021.
Description: 319 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter Sister comes a new work of psychological horror about a therapist who returns to the old family home after her sister drowns in its swimming pool, where she discovers that it has something sinister lurking beneath its surface"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 4 (of 50)
Current Holds: 4 |
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Edition: First St. Martin's Press Edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.
Description: 309 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: "Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law, delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters. From the outside, everyone might think Fern and Rose are as close as twin sisters can be: Rose is the responsible one, with a home anda husband and a fierce desire to become a mother. Fern is the quirky one, the free spirit, the librarian who avoids social interaction and whom the world might just describe as truly odd. But the sisters are devoted to one another and Rose has always beenFern's protector from the time they were small. Fern needed protecting because their mother was a true sociopath who hid her true nature from the world, and only Rose could see it. Fern always saw the good in everyone. Years ago, Fern did something very,very bad. And Rose has never told a soul. When Fern decides to help her sister achieve her heart's desire of having a baby, Rose realizes with growing horror that Fern might make choices that can only have a terrible outcome. What Rose doesn't realize isthat Fern is growing more and more aware of the secrets Rose, herself, is keeping. And that their mother might have the last word after all. Spine tingling, creepy, utterly compelling and unpredictable, The Good Sister is about the ties that bind sisterstogether...and about the madness that lurks where you least expect it"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 10 (of 16)
Current Holds: 1 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021]
Description: 179 pages ; 19 cm
Summary: "From one of our most pre eminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past , and how our experience colors those meanings. Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven surviving trustees of the now defunct (for 34 years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with a description of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall , between the subtle anti-semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family history-in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie (check out his Wikipedia entry!), the source of his interest in antiquity-he reconstructs the story of his encounter from his school days with a younger student named Ben-Zion Elefantin, who seems to belong to a lost ancient Jewish sect. From this seed emerges one of Ozick's most wondrous tales, one that displays her delight in Jamesian irony and the mythical flavor of a Kafka parable, woven into her own distinct voice"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 21 (of 32)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Description: 317 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary: "Jane falls in love with Duncan easily. He is charming, good-natured, and handsome but unfortunately, he has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jane sees Duncan's old girlfriends everywhere--at restaurants, at the grocery store, even three towns away. While Jane may be able to come to terms with dating the world's most prolific seducer of women, she wishes she did not have to share him quite so widely. His ex-wife, Aggie, a woman with shiny hair and pale milkmaid skin, still has Duncan mow her lawn. His coworker, Jimmy, comes and goes from Duncan's apartment at the most inopportune times. Sometimes Jane wonders if a relationship can even work with three people in it--never mind four. Five if you count Aggie's eccentric husband, Gary. Not to mention all the other residents of Boyne City, who freely share with Jane their opinions of her choices. But any notion Jane had of love and marriage changes with one terrible car crash. Soon Jane's life is permanently intertwined with Duncan's, Aggie's, and Jimmy's, and Jane knows she will never have Duncan to herself. But could it be possible that a deeper kind of happiness is right in front of Jane's eyes? A novel that is alternately bittersweet and laugh-out-loud funny, Katherine Heiny's Early Morning Riser is her most astonishingly wonderful work to date."--Amazon. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 10 (of 17)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: New York : Library of America, [2021]
Description: xii, 228 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary: "Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system. Includes his companion essay, 'Memories of My Grandmother'."-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 9 (of 10)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Atria Books, 2021.
Description: x, 258 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "New York's last bohemia--the glittering, decadent downtown club scene of the 1980s--is the setting for this brilliantly winning novel about a smart, vulnerable young woman taking a deep dive into her dark side, essential for fans of Sweetbitter, Fleabag, and books by Patti Smith. New York, 1984: Twenty-two-year-old Phoebe Hayes is a young woman in search of excitement and adventure. But the recent death of her father has so devastated her that her mother wants her to remain home in Baltimore to recover. Phoebe wants to return to New York, not only to chase the glamorous life she so desperately craves but also to confront Ivan, the older man who painfully wronged her. With her best friend Carmen, she escapes to the East Village, disappearing into an underworld haunted by artists, It Girls, and lost souls trying to party their pain away. Carmen juggles her junkie-poet boyfriend and a sexy painter while, as Astrid the Star Girl, Phoebe tells fortunes in a nightclub and plots her revenge on Ivan. When the intoxicating brew of sex, drugs, and self-destruction leads Phoebe to betray her friend, Carmen disappears, and Phoebe begins an unstoppable descent into darkness. She may have a chance to save herself--and Carmen, if she can find her--but to do it she must face what's hiding in the shadows she's been running from--within her heart and in the dangerous midnight streets. A love letter to gritty 1980s New York City, Astrid Sees All is an irresistible, original novel about female friendship, sex and romance, and what it's like to be a young woman searching for an identity"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 16 (of 21)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First Edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Description: 419 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans. Their reunion sets her own life down a startling path. Vivid, tender, darkly funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the baby's first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo's mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel's mother, whom Angel isn't speaking to; and disapproving Tío Tíve, keeper of the family's history. In the absorbing, realist tradition of Elizabeth Strout and Jonathan Franzen, Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the final page, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save."--Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 20 (of 35)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Description: 438 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling master of psychological suspense returns with a riveting thriller in which the possible heirs of a wealthy dying man are mysteriously being eliminated, one by one by one"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 6 (of 7)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Random House, [2021]
Description: xii, 272 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: "Larissa is a stubborn, brutally honest woman in her eighties, tired of her home in Kiev, Ukraine, tired of everything in life, really, except for her beloved granddaughter, Natasha. Natasha is tired as well, but that's because she has just had a baby, and she's struggling to balance her roles as a new mother, a wife, an actress (or she used to be, anyway), and a host to her husband's greasy-haired, useless best friend, Stas, who has been staying with them in Brooklyn. When Natasha asks Larissa to tell the story of her family's Soviet wartime escape from the Nazis in Kiev, Larissa reluctantly agrees. Perhaps Natasha is just looking for distraction from her own life, but Larissa is desperate to make her happy, even though the story hurts to tell. But as she recounts the three-year period when she fled with her difficult sister, their parents, and grandmother to an abandoned army village in the Ural Mountains, and the series of unfortunate events that occurred there, such as near starvation, a cholera outbreak, a tragic suicide, and a complex love triangle with two brothers from a privileged family - neither Larissa nor Natasha can anticipate how loudly these lessons of the past will echo in their present moments. Navigating between Larissa and Natasha's perspectives, then and now, Something Unbelievable explores with piercing wit and tender feeling just how much our circumstances shape our lives and what we pass along to the younger generations, willingly or not."--Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 21 (of 40)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2021.
Description: 275 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary: "Ellie Bowman barely remembers the incident that put her into a coma. When she awoke, filled with unease, all she knew for certain was that her boyfriend, Rick, was missing. She knew she needed to get away from her old life and recover in safety. With the proceeds of a video game she helped develop, Ellie starts over in rural Missouri, working from her cottage and trusting no one except her friend and business partner. Yet even in this quiet small town, it's impossible to completely isolate herself. Especially when a curious eight-year-old boy, smitten with Ellie's pup, stops by every day to talk to him over the fence. Little by little, Ellie is being drawn back into the world through the neighbors and community around her, realizing that everyone has their own fears and obstacles to contend with. But when Ellie hears that Rick has resurfaced, her nightmares return, and with them, small snippets of memory. No one has heard from Rick since before the incident, so why is he back now? Ellie wants to move forward with her life, but first she must find the courage to look into her past, no matter what she finds there . . ."--book jacket. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 11 (of 18)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Description: 409 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember"-- Provided by publisher. |
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