Morris County Library New Fiction
Newsletter #308 - 4/16/2021
OUR BOOK BUDGET HAS RESUMED! ALL NEW PURCHASES BELOW!!!
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: 17 (of 22)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Description: 228 pages ; 19 cm
Summary: "A heartbreaking, soul-baring novel about the repercussions of choice, from the award-winning author of The Welsh Girl and The Fortunes"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 25 (of 93)
Current Holds: 2 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
Description: 425 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary: "Defense attorney Mickey Haller utilizes his legal team's resources from behind bars to organize his own defense when he is framed for murder by an unknown adversary"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Connelly, Michael, 1956- Lincoln lawyer novel.
Target Audience: Adult |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 29 (of 58)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: Scottsdale, Arizonia : Thomas & Mercer : Amazon, [2020].
Description: 402 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary: Captain Calli Chase returns in a page-turning thriller from international bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
Series: Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. Captain Chase series ; bk. 2.
Language: In English. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 5 (of 48)
Current Holds: 3 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Dutton, [2020]
Description: 354 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary: "It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life-her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the city, she finds herself drawn to Greenwich Village's newbohemia, where she discovers the Heterodoxy Club-a radical, all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. Soon, Laura finds herself questioning her traditional role as wife and mother. But when valuable books are stolen back at the library, threatening the home and institution she loves, she's forced to confront her shifting priorities head on . . . and may just lose everything in the process. Eighty years later, in 1993, Sadie Donovan struggles with the legacy of her grandmother, the famous essayist Laura Lyons, especially after she's wrangled her dream job as a curator at the New York Public Library. But the job quickly becomes a nightmare when rare manuscripts, notes, and books for the exhibit Sadie's running begin disappearing from the library's famous Berg Collection. Determined to save both the exhibit and her career, the typically risk-adverse Sadie teams up with a private security expert to uncover the culprit. However, things unexpectedly become personal when the investigation leads Sadie to some unwelcome truths about her own family heritage-truths that shed new light on the biggest tragedy in the library's history"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 6 (of 19)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2021]
Description: 438 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "The #1 international-bestselling thriller that tells the electrifying story of a police inspector and a former criminal informant in a race against time as they attempt to unravel past and present secrets. Seventeen years ago, Criminal Inspector Ewert Grens was called to the scene of a brutal crime. A family had been murdered, and the only survivor--and witness--was the five-year-old daughter. The girl was placed in the witness protection program, and the case went cold, but years later, Grens is still haunted by the seemingly random slaying, and the little girl who was spared. So when he learns that the apartment where the crime occurred is now the scene of a mysterious break-in, Grens immediately fears that someone is intent on silencing the only witness." -- Provided by publisher.
Series: Roslund, Anders, 1961- Ewert Grens ; 9. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 17 (of 23)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: New York : Riverhead Books, 2020.
Description: 210 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: "The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship. A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own. In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2016
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 10)
Current Holds: 4 |
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Publisher, Date: New York : Other Press, [2016]
Description: 261 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: "A succinct and witty literary venture that tells the strange story of a priceless treasure discovered in East Anglia on the eve of World War II. In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. As the war looms ever closer, engraved gold peeks through the soil, and each character searches for answers in the buried treasure. Their threads of love, loss, and aspiration weave a common awareness of the past as something that can never truly be left behind"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 11 (of 14)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First Scarlet edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Scarlet, [2020]
Description: 278 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "After a lifetime of hardship, Jessica Thornton finally has the life she's dreamed of: a new marriage to a realtor with burgeoning success; a daughter whose athleticism has won her a scholarship to college; and a freshly-secured grant from her bank to finally complete her own higher education. Her life today is a complete reversal from the not-too-distant past, when the death of her first husband left her penniless and desperate to provide for her then-newborn child. But after the murder of her children's high school classmate, a series of disturbances brings Jessica to question whether her dreams ever actually came true, or whether they've just been delusions all along... In the days after the murder, suspicion creeps in at every corner, beginning with Jessica's daughter and stepson, who won't tell her where they were on that fateful night. Then she discovers that her husband's business is failing, not growing, and that the stories he's told of meetings with high-powered investors were nothing more than lies. And when a private investigator comes to look into the death of her first husband, her last foundation of truth slips suddenly away."--Publisher description. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 12 (of 24)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Description: xi, 388 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. A chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, CEO of Sumwun, NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor. As the only Black person in the company, Darren reimagines himself as "Buck," a ruthless salesman unrecognizable to his friends and family. When things turn tragic at home, Buck begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America's sales force, setting off a chain of events that changes the game."--Publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 8 (of 31)
Current Holds: 1 |
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Publisher, Date: New York : Riverhead Books, 2021.
Description: 477 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "From the award-winning author of NATIVE SPEAKER and ON SUCH A FULL SEA, a brilliant, exuberant and entertaining story of a young American whose life is transformed when a Chinese-American businessman suddenly takes him under his wing on a global adventure"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 9 (of 103)
Current Holds: 11 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2021.
Description: 348, 14 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: "A series of gruesome murders in New York City has Michael Bennett angry -- but when he identifies similar cases in Atlanta and San Francisco, his feelings escalate into all-out alarm. All of the victims are young women. And each one is killed in a horrifyingly distinct fashion.In the midst of such devastating loss of life, Bennett's longtime love, Mary Catherine, is soon to become his bride. As Bennett toils to connect the cases, the killer strikes again, adding to his criminal signature an ability to evade detection. Just when New York's top investigator should be donning his wedding finery, he may be stepping into a diabolical trap."--Publisher.
Series: Patterson, James, 1947- Detective Michael Bennett thriller ; 13. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 9 (of 28)
Current Holds: 3 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Description: 326 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "It's 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past. Returning home, Ruth discovers the Indiana factory town of her youth is plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair. Determined, Ruth begins digging into the past. As she uncovers burning secrets her family desperately wants to hide, she unexpectedly befriends Midnight, a young white boy who is also adrift and looking for connection. When a traumatic incident strains the town's already searing racial tensions, Ruth and Midnight find themselves on a collision course that could upend both their lives."--Publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 7 (of 32)
Current Holds: 22 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Ballantine Books, [2021]
Description: 406 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: "From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a new World War II-set story of four women on the home front competing for a spot hosting a BBC wartime cookery program and a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program called The Kitchen Front is putting on a cooking contest--and the grand prize is a job as the program's first-ever female co-host. For four very different women, winning the contest presents a crucial chance to change their lives. For a young widow, it's a chance to pay off her husband's debts and keep a roof over her children's heads. For a kitchen maid, it's a chance to leave servitude and find freedom. For the lady of the manor, it's a chance to escape her wealthy husband's increasingly hostile behavior. And for a trained chef, it's a chance to challenge the men at the top of her profession. These four women are giving the competition their all--even if that sometimes means bending the rules. But with so much at stake, will the contest that aims to bring the community together serve only to break it apart?"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 50)
Current Holds: 106 |
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Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Atria Books, 2021.
Description: 353 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Summary: "Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear--including her beloved library ... Montana, 1983. Odile's solitary existence in gossipy small-town Montana is unexpectedly interrupted by Lily, her neighbor, a lonely teenager longing for adventure. As Lily uncovers more about Odile's mysterious past, they find they share a love of language, the same longings, the same lethal jealousy"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 37)
Current Holds: 4 |
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Publisher, Date: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : HQN, [2021]
Description: 386 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "Mackenzie Dienes has a beautiful home, close friends and a successful career as an elite winemaker with her in-laws' winery. Everything in her life is tied to her husband: his mother is the closest thing to a mom that she's ever had, their home is on the family compound, his sister is her best friend. So when she and her husband admit their marriage is over, her pain goes beyond heartbreak. She's on the brink of losing her job, her home, her friends and, worst of all, her family. She can continue to work at the winery, be friends with her mother-in-law, hug her nieces and nephews--but as an employee, nothing more--or she can surrender every piece of her heart in order to build a legacy of her own. If she can dare to let go of the life she thought she wanted, she might discover something even more beautiful waiting for her beneath a painted moon."--Publisher. |
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