Morris County Library New Fiction
Newsletter # 352 - 1/20/2023
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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1) Ray Bradbury: The illustrated man ; The October country ; other stories
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Bradbury, Ray
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In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America's most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy. Here are two of Bradbury's most beloved collections, along...
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2) Station eternity
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Lafferty, Mur
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Midsolar murders volume 1
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"Amateur detective Mallory Viridian's talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an alien space station, but her problems still follow her in this witty, self-aware novel that puts a speculative spin on murder mysteries,from the Hugo-nominated author of Six Wakes. From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroiled in murder cases that only she has the insight to solve....
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3) Wayward
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Wendig, Chuck
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Wanderers volume 2
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"The sequel to the national bestseller Wanderers, the instant classic that "takes science, politics, horror, and science fiction and blends them into an outstanding story about the human spirit in times of turmoil, claiming a spot on the list of must-read apocalyptic novels" (NPR) Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew. And they...
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4) Sign here
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Lux, Claudia
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"A darkly humorous, surprisingly poignant, and utterly gripping debut novel about a guy who works in Hell (literally) and is on the cusp of a big promotion if only he can get one more member of the wealthy Harrison family to sell their soul Peyote Trip has a pretty good gig in the deals department on the fifth floor of Hell. Sure, none of the pens work, the coffee machine has been out of order for a century, and the only drink on offer is Jägermeister,...
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5) A cigarette lit backwards
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Hacic-Vlahovic, Tea
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"Set in the punk-rock scene of the early 2000s and vibrating with the intense ache of bad choices and deep longing, a needle-sharp portrait of a young woman and how far she'll go to find acceptance. Kat is dying to be accepted by the North Carolina punks; she is totally desperate to seem cool. At a punk show, she ends up backstage with a rock star and gets noticed by a photojournalist. And then - a dream come true for Kat- her reputation a a groupie...
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6) Double exposure
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Barry, Ava
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Four years ago, a young heiress survived an attack that claimed the lives of both her parents. The crime made headlines all over Los Angeles, both for the vicious nature of the killings and the seemingly random nature of the attack: nothing was stolen, and the van Aust family had no obvious enemies. Melia van Aust fled the city soon after the murders, which were never solved, but her brother Jasper has not been seen since. After a childhood spent...
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7) The dressmaker's secret
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Cook, Lorna
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Paris, 1941: As Coco Chanel's assistant, Adele lives side by side with German officers in the splendor of The Ritz hotel. But Adele has a secret. She is working for the resistance, right under the German's noses. As occupied Paris becomes more and more dangerous, Adele will have to decide if she can risk everything to save innocent lives and protect the man she loves... Present day: Chloe's grandmother has never spoken about the war and avoids questions...
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8) A career in books: a novel about friends, money, and the occasional duck bun
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Gavino, Kate
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"Shirin, Nina, and Silvia have just gotten their first jobs in publishing, at a University Press, a traditional publisher, and a trust-fund kid's "indie" publisher, respectively. And it's . . . great? They know they're paying their dues and the challenges they meet (Shirin's boss just assumes she knows Cantonese, Nina cannot get promoted by sheer force of will, and Silvia has to deal with daily microaggressions) are just part of "a career in books."...
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9) Love in a time of war
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Chinn, Adrienne
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The three fry sisters volume Book 1
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In 1913, in a quiet corner of London, the three Fry sisters are coming of age, dreaming of all the possibilities the bright future offers. But when war erupts their innocence is shattered and a new era of uncertainty begins. Cecelia loves Max but his soldier's uniform is German, not British, and suddenly the one man she loves is the one man she can't have. Jessie enlists in the army as a nurse and finally finds the adventure she's craved when she’s...
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10) The orchard
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Lewis, Beverly
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"For generations, Ellie Hostetler's family has tended their orchard, a tradition her twin brother, Evan, will someday continue. But when Evan is drafted for the Vietnam War, the family is shocked to learn he has not sought conscientious objector status. Can Ellie, with the support of a new beau, find the courage to face a future unlike the one she imagined?"--Provided by publisher.
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11) None of this would have happened if Prince were alive: a novel
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Prusa, Carolyn
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Struggling to evacuate Savannah as a Category Four hurricane bears down, Ramona, along with her entourage of two small children and a guinea pig, navigates police check points, bathroom emergencies, demands from her boss, torrential downpours and calls from her cheating husband, while wishing for the days when her life was like a Prince song.
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12) The choice
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Roberts, Nora
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Dragon heart legacy volume 3
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"The conclusion of the epic trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening and The Becoming. Talamh is a land of green hills, high mountains, deep forests, and seas, where magicks thrive. But portals allow for passage in and out-and ultimately, each must choose their place, and choose between good and evil, war and peace, life and death... Breen Siobhan Kelly grew up in the world of Man and was once unaware of her true nature....
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13) All the broken places
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Boyne, John
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An elderly London resident befriends the little boy who moves in downstairs, but his parents' fighting brings her back to her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve and grim post-war years in France with her mother. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi...
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14) Just like magic: a novel
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Hogle, Sarah
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Boasting about her extravagant lifestyle on social media, but actually broke and squatting in Colorado, Bettie Hughes contemplates Christmas with her family and accidentally conjures up Hall, the Holiday Spirit, who can make all her wishes come true.
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15) The whispering dead
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Mark, David John
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"Cordelia Hemlock is teetering on the verge of joining MI6 when she meets the enigmatic Walt, a high-ranking member of the Secret Intelligence Service, who tells her: They won't want you to do well. They won't ever trust you. They don't trust me and I'm one of them. She takes this as a challenge rather than a warning. She wants to protect the nation. Serve Queen and country. Who would turn down such a glorious opportunity? Fourteen years later, Cordelia...
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16) Emergency: a pastoral novel
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Hildyard, Daisy
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"Our narrator is stuck at home alone under lockdown, where she remembers her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. The ecological phenomena that start in her own backyard interconnect and spread out from China to Nicaragua as pesticides circulate, money flows around the planet, and bodies feel the force of distant power"--
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17) A wish for winter
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Shipman, Viola
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After being stood-up by a man she connected with at the starting line of an annual 5K "Santa Run," Susan Norcross, a successful bookstore owner in a Michigan lakeside community, is shocked when her grandparents try to help find him by authoring a social media post that goes viral.
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18) Ship wrecked: a novel
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Dade, Olivia
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Co-stars Maria and Peter, who once had an incredible one-night stand, find themselves unwillingly reunited to film a series on an isolated Irish island and spend six years balancing professional needs with their distrust for each other, but on their last night of filming, their pent-up desire explodes into renewed passion.
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19) Life is everywhere: a novel
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Ives, Lucy
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"Manhattan, 2014...Erin Adamo is locked out of her apartment. Her husband has just left her and meanwhile her keys are in her coat, which she abandoned at her parents' apartment...Erin takes refuge in the library of the university where she is a grad student. Her bag contains two manuscripts she's written, along with a monograph by a faculty member who's recently become embroiled in a bizarre scandal. Erin isn't sure what she's doing, but a small,...
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20) The rewind
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Scotch, Allison Winn
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Reunited for the wedding of mutual friends, former college sweethearts Frankie and Ezra wake up in bed next to each other the following morning, married, with zero memory of how they got there. They must put aside old grievances in order to figure out what happened and what didn't happen.
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21) Cursed bunny
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Chung, Bora
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"Collection of short stories that blend horror, surrealism, and speculative fiction to take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and reign of big tech"--
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22) A Christmas memory
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Evans, Richard Paul
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The #1 New York Times bestselling King of Christmas Fiction is back this holiday season with another heartwarming and wintery tale of rediscovering faith and love. A coming-of-age holiday tale based on Richard Paul Evans's own childhood that shows us how hope and acceptance can be found in the most unexpected of places. -- From the publisher.
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23) Astrid Parker doesn't fail
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Blake, Ashley Herring
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"An interior designer learns to rebuild her love life from the ground up with zero blueprints in this new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn't Care. For Astrid Parker, failure is unacceptable. Ever since she broke up with her fiancé a year ago, she's been focused on her career-her friends might say she's obsessed, but she's just driven. When Pru Everwood asks her to be the designer for the Everwood Inn's renovation...
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24) The consequences: stories
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Muñoz, Manuel
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A collection of linked stories set in the small towns surrounding Fresno depicts the struggles of Mexican American farmworkers and their families, their messy and sometimes violent realities tempered by moments of tenderness and care.
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25) Saha: a novel
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Cho, Nam-ju
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"From the international best-selling author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 comes this chilling dystopian fable for fans of Netflix's Squid Game. A National Book Award Finalist hailed as "a social treatise as well as a work of art" (Alexandra Alter, New York Times), Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 announced Cho Nam-Joo as a major literary talent. In her signature sharp prose, brilliantly translated by Jamie Chang, Nam-Joo returns with this haunting account of a...
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26) Calling for a blanket dance
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Hokeah, Oscar
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"A young Native American boy in a splintering family grasps for stability and love, making all the wrong choices until he finds a space of his own"--
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27) The double agent: a novel
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Christie, William
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"Alexsi Smirnoff - a Russian orphan - was trained as an agent by the Russian Secret Service and inserted into Nazi Germany, where he rose to a position in German intelligence services. As the war grinds on, trapped between two brutal dictatorships, Alexsi betrays both sides in a desperate ploy that succeeds... and fails. His false identities burned, his life at risk, Alexsi attempts to disappear in the hills - but is caught by the British. Recruited...
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28) The art of prophecy: a novel
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Chu, Wesley
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When the prophecy anoints the wrong hero, Jian decides to save the kingdom from a cruel immortal god-king anyway with the help of a ragtag group of allies, including a grandmaster of magical martial arts, a straight-laced warrior, and a chaotic assassin.
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29) The confessions of Matthew Strong
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Power-Greene, Ousmane K
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"A wildly original, incendiary story about race, redemption, the dangerous imbalances that continue to destabilize society, and speaking out for what's right. One could argue the story begins the night Allegra Douglass is awarded Distinguished Chair in Philosophy at her top-tier university in New York-the same night her grandmother dies-or before that: the day Allie left Birmingham and never looked back. Or even before that: the day her mother disappeared....
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30) Something fabulous
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Hall, Alexis J
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"Valentine Layton, the Duke of Malvern, has twin problems: literally. It was always his father's hope that Valentine would marry Miss Arabella Tarleton. But, unfortunately...a marriage of convenience will not do and after Valentine's proposal, she flees into the night...Arabella's twin brother, Mr. Bonaventure 'Bonny' Tarleton, has also grown up...romantic...Despite copious misgivings, Valentine finds himself on a pell-mell chase to Dover with Bonny...
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31) Geiger
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Skördeman, Gustaf
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"The landline rings as Agneta is waving off her grandchildren. Just one word comes out of the receiver: 'Geiger'. For decades, Agneta has always known that this moment would come, but she is shaken. She knows what it means. Retrieving her weapon from its hiding place, she attaches the silencer and creeps up behind her husband before pressing the barrel to his temple.Then she squeezes the trigger and disappears--leaving behind her wallet and keys....
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32) A curse of queens
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Bouchet, Amanda
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"The epic story continues in this brand new book in the USA Today bestselling Kingmaker Chronicles, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Jennifer Armentrout. The queen has been cursed, and Jocasta-herbalist and member of the royal family-is the only one who can brave Circe's Garden to save her. But with treachery brewing on Mount Olympus, only one thing is clear: Thalyria and its new royals are still pawns in an epic game of power...one that might...
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33) Murder after Christmas
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Latimer, Rupert
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""A war's on and a murder has been committed and we sit here talking nonsense about almond whirls and mince pies!" First published in 1944, Murder After Christmas is a lively riot of murder, mince pies and misdirection, cleverly twisting the tropes of Golden Age detective fiction to create a pacey, light-hearted package admirably suited for the holiday season. Featuring an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning author and series editor Martin...
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