New Fiction
New Fiction
· Artifacts—Natalie Lemle. The Italian government claims an ancient cup made of dichroic glass was sold to a illegally to a museum. Attorney, Lena Connors pieces together what happened in the past at the archaeological dig at a restored Roman villa.
· Blaze of Glory: Long, Tall Texans novel—Diana Palmer
· The Body In the Kitchen Garden: Pudding Corner mystery #2—Paula Sutton
· The Children—Melissa Albert. Guinevere has two childhoods. In one, she lives in the shadow of her family's Vermont farmhouse; in the other, the pages of her mother's world-famous books, where her magical adventures have made her a household name. In reality, Guinevere's childhood isn't an enchanted idyll: she and her older brother are growing up near-feral, unwashed and underfed, escaping each day to the woods they've made their play land. Until the night it all goes up in flames...
· Children of the Wild-Kevin Powers Virginia, 1917. Roy is eager to leave his isolated rural valley for college and return with the technical knowledge to modernize his family's farm. The town expects Roy and Samantha to marry. But she hungers for more. The mysterious arrival of wild boy Ennis who tends a lost heard of cattle on the mountain, will upend the town.
· Death On the Lanai: a Golden Girls Cozy Mystery—Rachel Courage
· Down With The Shipmans—Meg Moore. It's the week after Fourth of July, and the Shipman sisters are returning to their summer home on the New Hampshire coast for what they believe is a family reunion, the first without their late mother. However, their tranquil setting quickly becomes a stage for drama when their father, Calvin, drops the bombshell news that he plans to sell the cherished beach house. As old memories are stirred up and the sisters navigate both the packing of the house and their personal crises, the arrival of Calvin's new wife pushes the sisters to decide how far they're willing to go to preserve the Shipman bond.
· Feast—Catherine Kurtz. Born in late 1800’s Britain, Minha is the daughter of an Indian aristocrat and English prostitute with a remarkable gift of an enhanced sense of taste. Facing rejection due to her mixed-race she escapes to France where she becomes the poison-taster for Duc Nicholas Mysteries swirl around the chateau. When household items go missing, antagonism toward Minha grows. Soon fingers will point her way. Will she run again, or is this the time to stand and fight?
· June Baby—Shannon Garvey. At 17, Ruth lost her mother and her father shipped her off to Block Island. Diana Beckett, a renowned photographer, took Ruth in for the summer. At 27, Ruth's world is upended by tragedy again. Diana left her a box & its contents raise questions about just how well she knew the two women who raised her. Torn between what to believe about her past, and what her future might hold, Ruth is faced with another choice: does she dare to rewrite her story.
· My Killer Vacation—Tessa Bailey
· Kissed By The Gods: The Eternal Wars—Katy Rogan
· The Jellyfish Problem—Tessa Yang A marine biologist becomes a reluctant hero for a remote Maine island being menaced by a giant jellyfish.
· The Lake House—Lori Foster
· Land—Maggie O’Farrell. The year is 1865, Ireland has been ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger. Tom and his son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. Tom is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. A story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away.
· Lost In the Summer Of ’69-Eliza Knight. Three generations of women, an unforgettable summer of music, and an epic cross-country road trip.
· Man Of My Dreams-Olivia Worley
· Murder In Springtime: a Bruno, chief of Police novel-Martic Walker
· Murder Most Delicious—Danielle Postel-Vinay. Starting over in Paris was supposed to be the opportunity of a lifetime for Olivia until her dream job ends in murder Once a rising star in the wine world, Olivia was one of a handful of women in the world to hold the distinction of being a Master Sommelier before COVID stole her sense of taste--and her career.
· Nantucket Second Chances-Pamela Kelley
· Nine Lives—Catherine Steadman. Frankie moves into a glamorous London neighborhood with Blue, her Persian cat. Blue returns one night with two words roughly scratched into his collar: HELP ME. Unwilling to ignore the incident, Frankie roots out an old unused 'cat cam' collar. What slowly begins as a voyeuristic fascination with her neighbors and the secrets they're hiding soon turns into a perilous quest for the truth that threatens to bring untold terrors to her doorstep.
· The Odyssey—Homer. A major motion picture to be released soon.
· Off The Record—Sara Confino
· The Poppy Fields—Nikki Erlick
· Queen’s Coronation-Jennifer Ryan London, 1953. Employees at Buckingham Palace find themselves in bedlam as the coronation approaches. Caroline, Lucy and Miranda discover even though a woman will be sitting atop the throne, it doesn't mean the society will change over night. If they want to make a place for themselves in the world, they will have to carve it out together.
· Scent of Hope—Susan May Warren
· Someday Garden—Ashley Poston
· Sometime This Century—Samantha Silva
· Stargazer of Nantucket—Julie Gerstenblatt
· Tata—Valerie Perrin. When Agnes hears from the local police her Aunt Colette has died, she can't believe her ears. Her father's sister Colette, her Tata, died three years ago and has been resting in peace in the cemetery of Gueugnon. Agnes is called to identify the body: there is no doubt, it's Aunt Colette. But then, who rests under the stone engraved with Colette's name? And why did she fake her own death?
· The Traveler—Joseph Eckert. It's a day like any other when Scott Treder first jumps forward through time. One moment, he's on his way to work and the next, he's tumbling down the road, his car gone and a dozen panicked voicemails from his wife waiting on his cell. From this point on, at precisely 7:52 am every morning, Scott travels forward in time in ever-doubling intervals. Meanwhile, his wife is left alone to pick up the pieces of the life they once shared together, and, before long, Lyle, Scott's genius 7-year-old son, will surpass him in age becoming the foremost scholar of quantum physics, all in an attempt to bring his father back.
· Vanished series—David Jeremiah
1. Vanished
2. Shattered
· Unicorn Hunter—Katherine Arden
· Villa Coco—Andrew Sean Greer
· What Came West—Josh Weil. Silas leaves his family to travel west. By 1840s, he is one of few white people to have crossed the Sierra Nevada, where he coexists with the native Nisenans at a mutually wary distance. But this fragile peace is disrupted when the promises of the Gold Rush bring a sudden flood of other whites west, leading Silas to commit an act of violence
· Windsor Affair—Melanie Benjamin Recreates the world of the debonair Prince of Wales, cafe society of the 1930s, and the private lives of the Windsors in the .cataclysmic events that nearly toppled the monarchy and the power struggle between Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Wallis Simpson.
