Morris County Library New Fiction
Newsletter #319 - 10/1/2021
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: 8 (of 11)
Current Holds: 1 |
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Publisher, Date: Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2021]
Description: 296 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: "Kate Nelson had it all. A flourishing company founded with her husband, John; a happy marriage; and a daughter, Ashlyn. The picture-perfect family. Until John left for another woman. Tish is half his age...Tish believes she's won...But the truth is, there's a lot of baggage. Namely, his first wife, and suspicions of his infidelity...But what happens next is something neither Kate nor Tish saw coming. As best-laid plans come undone, there's no telling what a woman will do in the name of love and revenge"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2021]
Description: 229 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: "Eight years ago, Grace McMullen broke Sutton Whitlock's heart when she walked away. But it was only to save him from the baggage of her own troubled past. Now all she wants is to make sure he's okay. Only everything she learns about him online says otherwise. According to his social media accounts, he placed roots in her hometown, married a look-alike, and even named his daughter Grace. He clearly hasn't moved on. In fact, it's creepy. So Grace does what any concerned ex-girlfriend would do: she moves home...and watches him. But when Grace crosses paths with Sutton's wife, Campbell, an unexpected friendship develops. Campbell has no idea whom she's inviting into her life. As the women grow closer, it becomes clear to Grace that Sutton is not the sentimental man she once knew. He seems controlling, unstable, and threatening. And what a broken man like Sutton is capable of, Grace can only imagine. It's up to her to save Campbell and her baby now--but while she's been watching them, who's been watching her?" -- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 8 (of 14)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Description: 340 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "In this debut thriller for fans of Riley Sager and Karin Slaughter, a social worker turned true crime podcaster investigates a decades-old serial killer cold case only to unwittingly create new victims"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 3)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2021.
Description: 338 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: "Greg Hamlin's kids think he's having a mid-life crisis. With his youngest off to college, the wealthy architect has divorced his wife and begun designing a new life with Anya, a struggling lifestyle blogger whose Bronx-upbringing and Caribbean roots seeman odd match for a suburban-Connecticut dad. But before Greg's second act can truly start, a savage home invasion leaves him housebound with a traumatic brain injury and glued to the live feeds from his omnipresent security cameras. The more Greg watches, the less safe he feels. Soon, he and his kids suspect his fiance of hiding something. Greg begins monitoring Anya's every move, watching her on the cameras, tracking her phone, and digging into her past. Anya is keeping secrets. But do they relate to her involvement in the break-in? Or, is Greg's battered brain playing tricks, pushing him to terrorize the only person who truly loves him? Is his life in danger? Or are Greg and his family the ultimate threat?"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 5 (of 5)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Description: 356 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "A sweeping multigenerational novel following a family in East Germany as they fracture and come back together"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 11 (of 14)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : HQN, [2021]
Description: 327 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary: Sheriff Eli Garrett's high school sweetheart, Brynne, the girl he betrayed all those years ago, has returned to town and it's time to make amends and see what the future might hold, but Brynne wants to remain Eli's friend with anything else out of the question until one electric kiss changes everything between them.
Series: Miller, Linda Lael. Painted Pony Creek. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 22 (of 35)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021].
Description: xviii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary: In this warm and moving anthology, a group of bestselling authors and writers pay tribute to legendary, larger-than-life New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank and her literary legacy. Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for her next book--Reunion Beach--these close friends and colleagues channeled their creativity, admiration, and grief into stories and poems that celebrate this remarkable woman and her abiding love for the Lowcountry of her native South Carolina--a land of beauty, history, charm, and Gullah magic she so brilliantly brought to life in her acclaimed novels. From Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author, a sequel to Summer of '69. From Adrian Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author, comes a heartwarming, humorous interview from the hereafter with Pat Conroy and Dorothea Benton Frank, two beloved icons of Southern literature. From Patti Callahan, bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis and Surviving Savannah, comes The Bridemaids, a story about a trip to the South Carolina beach. From Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author, Mother and Child Reunion, a heartwarming story set under the warm South Carolina sun. Reunion Beach also features letters, short stories, poems, and essays from: Mary Norris, New York Times bestselling author and staff writer for The New Yorker Cassandra King Conroy, bestselling and award-winning author of Tell Me A Story Nathalie Dupree, James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Marjory Wentworth, former Poet Laureate of South Carolina Gervais Hagerty, author of In Polite Company Jacqueline Bouvier Lee, Peter Frank, Victoria Peluso, and William Frank Infused with Dorothea Benton Frank's remarkable spirit, Reunion Beach is a literary homage and beautiful keepsake that keeps this dearly missed writer's flame burning bright. |
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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 : Harper Perennial, 2021.
Description: 370 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary: Two long-term foster parents in a mid-twentieth-century Massachusetts community reluctantly take in an abused indigenous girl who strengthens their family's bonds in unexpected ways. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 4 (of 6)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: New York, N.Y.: Europa Editions, 2021.
Description: 190 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary: Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters. These raw and realistic portrayals of bullying are counterbalanced by textured exposition of the philosophical and religious debates concerning violence to which the weak are subjected. -- Provided by publisher.
Language: Text in English, translated from the Japanese. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 13 (of 15)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: New York : Scribner, 2021.
Description: 323 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary: Lunchtime on a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in southeast London receives a delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to see the first new metal in ages-after all, everything's been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated. Among the shoppers were five young children. Who were they? What futures did they lose? This brilliantly constructed novel lets an alternative reel of time run, imagining the life arcs of these five souls as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of the bustling immensity of twentieth-century London. Their intimate everyday dramas, as sons and daughters, spouses, parents, grandparents; as the separated, the remarried, the bereaved. Through decades of social, sexual, and technological transformation, as bus conductors and landlords, as swindlers and teachers, patients and inmates. Days of personal triumphs, disasters; of second chances and redemption. Ingenious and profound, full of warmth and beauty, Light Perpetual illuminates the shapes of experience, the extraordinariness of the ordinary, the mysteries of memory and expectation, and the preciousness of life. provided by www.amazon.com |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 0 (of 106)
Current Holds: 466 |
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Edition: First Simon & Shuster hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York City : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Description: 306 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "When her husband of a year disappears, Hannah quickly learns he is not who he said he was and is left to sort out the truth with just one ally- her husband's teenage daughter, who hates her"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 10 (of 12)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Description: 243 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged--that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing and deeply moving story follows Aleq, one of the few survivors of the initial outbreak, through his identification and radical isolation as the likely index patient. While he shoulders both a crushing guilt for what he may have done and the hopes of a world looking for answers, we also meet two Epidemic Intelligence Service investigators dispatched from the CDC--Jeannine, an epidemiologist and daughter of Algerian immigrants, and Danice, an MD and lab wonk. As they attempt to head off the cataclysm, Jeannine--moving from the Greeland hospital overwhelmed with the first patients to a Level 4 high-security facility in the Rocky Mountains--does what she can to sustain Aleq. Both a chamber piece of multiple intimate perspectives and a more omniscient glimpse into the megastructures (political, cultural, and biological) that inform such a disaster, the novel reminds us of the crucial bonds that form in the midst of catastrophe, as a child and several hyper-educated adults learn what it means to provide adequate support for those they love. In the process, they celebrate the precious worlds they might lose, and help to shape others that may survive"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 3 (of 56)
Current Holds: 34 |
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Edition: First Edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Celadon Books, 2021.
Description: 272 pages; cm.
Summary: "Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot is a psychologically suspenseful novel about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written-let alone published-anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot. Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker's first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that-a story that absolutely needs to be told. In a few short years, all of Evan Parker's predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says. As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his "sure thing" of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 9 (of 15)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Description: 289 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle into life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father. Over time, Huong realizes she will never see Cong again. While she copes with this loss, her sons, Tuan and Binh, grow up in their absent father's shadow, haunted by a manand a country trapped in their memory and imagination. As they push forward, the three adapt to life in America in different ways: Huong takes up with a Vietnamese car salesman who is also new in town; Tuan tries to connect with his heritage by joining alocal Vietnamese gang; and Binh, now going by Ben, embraces his burgeoning sexuality. Their search for identity--as individuals and as a family--tears them apart, until disaster strikes and they must find a new way to come together and honor the ties that bind them"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 16 (of 45)
Current Holds: 2 |
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Publisher, Date: New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Description: 366 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary: "An inside-Washington thriller about an ambitious law clerk thrown into a life-or-death treasure hunt with major national implications when the Supreme Court justice she works for slips into a sudden coma"-- Provided by publisher |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 11 (of 21)
Current Holds: 4 |
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Publisher, Date: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2021]
Description: 326 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 12 (of 21)
Current Holds: 1 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Berkley, 2021.
Description: 341 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: "Sometimes all you need is one person to really see you. Piper Parrish's life on Frick Island-a tiny, remote town smack in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay-is nearly perfect. Well, aside from one pesky detail: Her beloved husband, Tom, is dead. When Tom's crab boat capsized and his body wasn't recovered, Piper, rocked to the core, did a most peculiar thing: carried on as if her husband was not only still alive, but right there beside her, cooking him breakfast, walking him to the docks each morning, meeting him for their standard Friday night dinner date at the One-Eyed Crab. And what were the townspeople to do but go along with their beloved widowed Piper? Anders Caldwell's career is not going well. A young ambitious journalist, he'd rather hoped he'd be a national award-winning podcaster by now, rather than writing fluff pieces for a small town newspaper. But when he gets an assignment to travel to the remote Frick Island and cover their boring annual Cake Walk fundraiser, he stumbles upon a much more fascinating tale: an entire town pretending to see and interact with a man who does not actually exist. Determined it's the career-making story he's been needing for his podcast, Anders returns to the island to begin covert research and spend more time with the enigmatic Piper-but he has no idea out of all the lives he's about to upend, it's his that will change the most. USA Today bestselling author Colleen Oakley delivers an unforgettable love story about an eccentric community, a grieving widow, and an outsider who slowly learns that sometimes faith is more important than the facts"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 5 (of 10)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Graydon House, [2021]
Description: 317 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary: Kara Sullivan's life is full of love--albeit fictional. As a bestselling romance novelist and influential bookstagrammer, she's fine with getting her happily-ever-after fix between the covers of a book. But right now? Not only is Kara's best friend getting married next week--which means big wedding stress--but the deadline for her next novel is looming, and she hasn't written a single word. The last thing she needs is for her infuriating first love, Ryan Thompson, to suddenly appear in the wedding party. But Ryan's unexpected arrival sparks a creative awakening in Kara that inspires the steamy historical romance she desperately needs to deliver. With her wedding duties intensifying, her deadline getting closer by the second and her bills not paying themselves, Kara knows there's only one way for her to finish her book and to give her characters the ever-after they deserve. But can she embrace the unlikely, ruggedly handsome muse--who pushes every one of her buttons--to save the wedding, her career and, just maybe, write her own happy ending? |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 12 (of 36)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Park Row Books, [2021]
Description: 350 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary: Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 25 (of 34)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Gallery Books, 2021.
Description: 360 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "For readers of The Rosie Project and One Plus One, an "entertaining and moving" novel about what happens when a matchmaking company finds an ideal match in an unlikely pair, by the author of The Unhoneymooners"-- Provided by publisher. |
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