Morris County Library New Fiction
Newsletter #303 - 8/18/2020
We're open for curbside pickup! (Tues-Wed 10-6, Thurs 11-7, Fri-Sat 9-5). 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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2020
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 17 (of 21)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
Description: 341 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary: Isaiah Quintabe is charged with clearing an arms dealer's daughter of the murder of her boyfriend, a task made more complicated by the daughter's multiple personality disorder -- adapted from dust jacket.
Series: Ide, Joe. IQ novel. |
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2019
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Northampton, MA : Interlink Books, 2019.
Description: 176 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: "After the ceasefire in 1988, the devastation to the landscape of Iraq wrought by the longest war of the twentieth century - the Iran-Iraq War - becomes visible. Yet, surveying this destruction from the sky, a strip of land bursting with green can be seen. The secret of this fertility, sustaining villages and remaining soldiers, is unclear. But it is said that one old woman is responsible for this lifeline"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2019
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 3 (of 3)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Brooklyn, New York : Melville House Publishing, 2019.
Description: 345 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "When a new student transfers in from a posh private school, he falls in with a group of like-minded suburban stoners, artists, and outcasts--too smart and creative for their own good. His classmates nickname their new friend Nietzsche (for his braininess and bleak outlook on life), and decide he must be the front man of their metal band, now christened Nietzsche and the Burbs. With the abyss of graduation--not to mention their first gig--looming ahead, the group ramps up their experimentations with sex, drugs, and ... nihilist philosophy. Are they as doomed as their intellectual heroes? And why does the end of youth feel like such a universal tragedy? And as they ponder life's biggies, this sly, elegant, and often laugh-out-loud funny story of would-be rebels becomes something special: an absorbing and stirring reminder of a particular, exciting yet bittersweet moment in life...and a reminder that all adolescents are philosophers, and all philosophers are adolescents at heart."--Amazon. |
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2019
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 5 (of 5)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019.
Description: x, 368 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul. A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a maddening text, it is told by a young woman trying to come to grips with a country that nearly devoured itself. In My Heart Struck Sorrow, a librarian discovers a recording from the Deep South -which may be the musical stylings of the Devil himself. Breathtaking and haunting, A Lush and Seething Hell is a terrifying and exhilarating journey into the darkness, an odyssey into the deepest reaches of ourselves that compels us to confront secrets best left hidden. -- Adapted from dust jacket. |
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2019
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 32 (of 39)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, [2019]
Description: 370 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary: Former Seattle homicide cop J. P. Beaumont, is learning to enjoy the new realities of retirement--doing morning crossword puzzles by a roaring fireplace; playing frisbee with his new dog; having quiet lunches with his still working wife. But then his past comes calling. When an acquaintance from long ago, Alan Dale, shows up on Beau's doorstep with a newborn infant in hand and asking for help locating his missing daughter, Beau finds himself faced with an investigation that will turn his own life upside down by dragging his none-too-stellar past onto a roller-coaster ride that may well derail his serene present. It turns out that, even in retirement. murder is still the name of the game.
Series: Jance, Judith A. J. P. Beaumont mysteries. |
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2020
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 17 (of 18)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First Edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Description: 301 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America, from the always inventive and exciting author of The Love Wife and Who's Irish. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and live on high ground, and the mostly coppertoned "Surplus," whose jobs have been stripped and whose sole duty now is to consume, living in plastic houses that talk and multi-colored houseboats at the water's edge. Neither group is happy. The story: A Surplus family--he was once a professor, she is still a lawyer--has a girl child, Gwen, who's born with a golden arm. By two she can throw her toy animals straight to the same spot every time. When AutoAmerica and ChinRussia decide to revive the Olympics, suddenly Gwen, who's been playing in the Resisters League her parents have organized, is in great demand. Soon she's at angelfair university, Net U, falling in love with her baseball coach and facing questions of "crossing over," while her mother and her "group" are bringing charges before the botjudge about Surplus rights. An amazing story of a world that looks only too possible, and a family struggling to maintain its humanity in circumstances that daily threaten their every value as well as their very existence. |
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2020
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 9 (of 12)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Del Rey, [2020]
Description: 390 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: "Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her, and all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives for only the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky. A boy, broken by his past. The scarred child does not speak, his only form of communication the beautiful and haunting music he plays from an old wooden flute. Captured by his songs, and their strange, immediate connection, Nia decides to take the boy in. And over years of starlit travel, these two outsiders discover in one another the things they lacked. For him, a home, a place of love and safety. For her, an anchor to the world outside herself. For the both of them, a family. But Nia is not the only one who wants the boy. The past hungers for him, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 22 (of 26)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Ballantine Books, [2020]
Description: 306 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: When a woman conceals her sister's death to claim their joint inheritance, her deception exposes a web of dangerous secrets. |
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2019
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 26 (of 27)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: [New York] : Viking, [2019]
Description: xiii, 320 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary: The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. Attempting to recover from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, in Land of Wolves Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire is neck deep in the investigation of what could or could not be the suicidal hanging of a shepherd. With unsettling connections to a Basque family with a reputation for removing the legs of Absaroka County sheriffs, matters become even more complicated with the appearance of an oversize wolf in the Big Horn Mountains to which Walt finds himself feeling more and more empathetic.
Series: Johnson, Craig, 1961- Walt Longmire mystery. |
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2020
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 4)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Soho Press, Inc., [2020]
Description: 350 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "Viet Nam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not officially in combat, sixteen thousand American servicemen are stationed in Viet Nam "advising" the military and government. Among them are Ellsworth Miser and Clovis Robeson, two army investigators who have been tasked with tracking down the daring killer. Set in the besieged capital of a new nation on the eve of the coup that would bring down the Diem regime and launch the Americans into the Viet Nam War, Play the Red Queen is Juris Jurjevics's capstone contribution to a lifelong literary legacy: a tour-de-force mystery-cum-social history, breathtakingly atmospheric and heartbreakingly alive with the laws and lawlessness of war"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, [2020]
Description: 358 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "Romance author Jessica Kate explores the hilariously thin line between love and hate in her heartwarming new novel"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 10 (of 12)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: [New York] : Penguin Books, [2020]
Description: 213 pages ; 20 cm
Summary: "Paul Martin was a devoted family man who had all the trappings of an enviable life: a beautiful wife and daughter, a well-appointed home on Long Island's north shore, a job at a prestigious Manhattan advertising firm. He was also a devoted son and brother, shielding the women in his orbit from the everyday horrors of the world. But what happens when Paul's fragile ego is rocked? After committing an unspeakable act--that he can never undo--Paul grapples with his sense of self. Sometimes he casts himself as a victim and, at other times, a monster. All he ever did was try to be a good man, but he may actually be a very, very bad man"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2019
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 6 (of 8)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First American edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Doubleday, [2019]
Description: 335 pages ; 25 cm |
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2019
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Local Availability: 2 (of 2)
Copies in all libraries: 16 (of 16)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Minotaur Books, 2019.
Description: viii, 306 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Keller welcomes readers back to West Virginia and a ragged chunk of what was once a high stone wall. This is all that remains of Wellwood, a psychiatric hospital for the poor that burned to the ground decades ago. And it is here that Bell Elkins--prosecutor turned private investigator--makes a grim discovery while searching for a missing teenager: a dead body, marred by a ghastly wound that can only mean murder.
Series: Keller, Julia. Bell Elkins novels ; v. 8. |
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2019
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 3 (of 3)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First North American edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Arcade Publishing, 2019.
Description: 393 pages : map ; 24 cm
Summary: "Based on the life of an incredible historical heroine, a harrowing journey in search of love, justice, and freedom, told by the daughter of best-selling author Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List) Tall and lanky, more suited to sailing and fishing than to keeping a house, Jenny Gwyn has proven herself a survivor. When she's caught stealing to support her impoverished family, she and dozens of other convicts are sent across the world to help settle England's newest colony in Australia. After being contained on a filthy ship and selling her body for better rations, Jenny is shocked to see the place that will become her home. The harsh landscape of Sydney Cove isn't welcoming to its new settlers with its arid climate and precious little fresh water. Even worse, she and the others are still prisoners under the strict watch of Governor Edward Lockharty, and no amount of cunning can earn his favor. Jenny refuses to submit to the Governor or to the barren land unable to support the growing population. Determined to find a better life for herself and her children, she braves the sea, and a journey of over three thousand miles in a small rowboat, for a chance at a future worth fighting for. Based on the true story of Mary Bryant, an iconic figure in the foundation lore of Australia as Great Britain's penal colony, Fled is a sweeping, heart-wrenching account of one woman's life-long search for freedom"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2019
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 3 (of 3)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First American edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.
Description: 209 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical, searing, and hilarious. His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but always surprise, entertain, and move.... The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see so little of the world around us and to understand each other even less. Yet somehow, in these pages, through Etgar's deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive.
Language: Translated from the Hebrew. |
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2019
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Description: xviii, 245 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: A novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War II and it's a novel about the petty dramas and demons of one strikingly vain woman. Maya Abramovna Klotsvog has had quite a life, and she wants you to know all about it. Selfish, garrulous, and thoroughly entertaining, she tells us where she came from, who she didn't get along with, and what became of all her husbands and lovers. In Klotsvog, Margarita Khemlin creates a first-person narrator who is both deeply self-absorbed and deeply compelling. From Maya's perspective, Khemlin unfurls a retelling of the Soviet Jewish experience that integrates the historical and the personal into her protagonist's vividly drawn inner and outer lives. Maya's life story flows as a long monologue, told in unfussy language dense with Khemlin's magnificently manipulated Soviet clichés and matter-of-fact descriptions of Soviet life. Born in a center of Jewish culture in Ukraine, she spent the war in evacuation in Kazakhstan. She has few friends but has had several husbands, and her relationships with her relatives are strained at best. The war looms over Klotsvog, and the trauma runs deep, as do the ambiguities and ambivalences of Jewish identity. Lisa Hayden's masterful translation brings this gripping character study full of dark, sly humor and new perspectives on Jewish heritage and survival to an English-speaking audience.
Series: Russian library (Columbia University. Press)
Language: Translated from the Russian. |
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2019
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: London : Gallic Books, 2019.
Description: 288 pages ; 20 cm
Summary: Albert Black, known as the "jukebox killer", was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral panic about teenagers, and he was to hang less than five months later, the second-to-last person to be executed in New Zealand. But what really happened? Was this a love crime, was it a sign of juvenile delinquency? Or was this dark episode in our recent history more about our society's reaction to outsiders. Black's last words, as the hangman covered his head, were "I wish you all a merry Christmas, gentlemen, and a prosperous New Year." |
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2020
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 4 (of 4)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: [New York] : Penguin Books, [2020]
Description: 226 pages ; 20 cm
Summary: "In the linked and tightly thematic stories of I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM, Kispert explores deception, performance, and the uneasiness of reconciling a queer identity with the wider world, with characters who try to navigate that dissonance by acting like another person for someone else. Throughout the collection we meet gay characters who have created sometimes elaborate falsehoods and who now must cope with the way that those deceptions eat at the very fabric of their lives and relationships. In the title story, the protagonist, desperate to save a love affair on the rocks, hires an actor to play an invented friend during an arranged meeting with his boyfriend; in "Aim for the Heart", the main character's lies about a hunting habit have left him with an unexpected deer carcass and the need to parse unsettling high school memories; in "Mooring", a trip back to the protagonist's unexpectedly dilapidated childhood home reveals the ways that he has warped the truth in his current relationship when describing his feelings about his father. Throughout the book, moments of deception collide with moments of high-stakes and at times hyper-real performance, creating a stunning portrait of queer characters searching for paths to intimacy and attempting to deal with their own vulnerability. I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM is a densely woven collection about emotional damage in the tradition of Mary Gaitskill's BAD BEHAVIOR". -- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 31 (of 45)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Berkley, 2020.
Description: 294 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz comes a new gripping romantic suspense trilogy fraught with danger and enigma. Decades ago in the small town of Fogg Lake, "The Incident" occurred: an explosion in the cave system that released unknown gases. The residents slept for two days. When they woke up they discovered that things had changed-they had changed. Some started having visions. Others heard ominous voices. And then the scientists from a mysterious government agency arrived. Determined not to become research subjects of strange experiments, the residents of Fogg Lake blamed the "hallucinations" on food poisoning, and the story worked. But now it has become apparent that the eerie effects of The Incident are showing up in the descendants of Fogg Lake... Catalina Lark and Olivia LeClair, best friends and co-owners of an investigation firm in Seattle, use what they call their "other sight" to help solve cases. When Olivia suddenly vanishes one night, Cat frantically begins the search for her friend. No one takes the disappearance seriously except Slate Arganbright, an agent from a shadowy organization known only as The Foundation, who shows up at her firm with a cryptic warning. A ruthless killer is hunting the only witnesses to a murder that occurred in the Fogg Lake caves fourteen years ago-Catalina and Olivia. And someone intends to make both women vanish"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: [Fogg Lake trilogy] ; 1 |
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2020
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 10 (of 15)
Current Holds: 1 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2020.
Description: 221 pages ; 19 cm
Summary: "In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last two left. But when the girl suddenly finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness, which offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can only learn to listen. A cautionary tale of human fragility, of love and loss, The Bear is a stunning tribute to the beauty of nature's dominion"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 4 (of 5)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020]
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "Acclaimed cartoonist Peter Kuper delivers a powerful interpretation of this controversial classic. Heart of Darkness has unsettled generations of readers with its haunting portrait of colonialism and brutal exploitation in Africa. Now award-winning illustrator Peter Kuper reimagines Conrad's masterpiece for a new generation, transforming this dramatic tale of madness, greed, and evil into something visually immersive and profoundly complex. Drawn in pen, black pencil, and ink wash reminiscent of the etchings and lithography of Francisco Goya and Honoré Daumier, Kuper's Heart of Darkness captures the ominous atmosphere and tempo of Charles Marlow's journey up the River Congo. Kuper's images and concise text confront Conrad's colonial attitudes and systemic racism yet leave room for readers to engage with these issues on their own terms. Longtime admirers of the novella will appreciate Kuper's innovative interpretations and see Conrad's opus with fresh eyes, while new readers will discover a brilliant introduction to a canonical work of twentieth- century literature"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2019
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Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Toronto : Dundurn, [2019]
Description: 155 pages ; 18 cm
Summary: "When you live for vengeance, no transgression is too small... Life is uneventful for an average girl in a sleepy Quebec town. She loves animals, long nature walks, and her parents - it's a normal childhood. Then a terrible accident leads her to discover that nothing compares to the thrill of violent retribution. Of Vengeance portrays the evolution of an innocuous girl next door into a brilliant, cold-blooded killer, whose painstaking preparation makes every crime untraceable, and whose faultless reasoning makes her all too sympathetic."--Provided by publisher. |
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