New adult fiction
Hundreds of books are added to the Library's collection each month. Here are the most recent Fiction books for adults.
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Seven Days
"One sunny fall day, Bruno Hamel's life changes forever. His seven-year-old daughter, Jasmine, is raped and murdered, and Hamel sets in play a plan to kidnap her killer and make him pay for what he has done. He manages to ambush police and disappear with his target. But he hasn't accounted for Hervu00e9 Mercure, a detective with his own troubled past, who becomes certain he can track down Hamel by studying clues in the increasingly odd phone calls he begins to make."--
Format: Book - 2019
Holds: 1 on 6 copies
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Hooked on You
A racy and sassy tale of embittered hearts, second chances, and going for the goal--on and off the ice.
Format: Book - 2018
Holds: 2 on 4 copies
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Little Black Girl Lost 3: Ill Gotten Gains
"Truth has its consequences, and Johnnie has a lot to answer for. Her innocence is gone; all that remains is a self-absorbed, self-righteous courtesan who is now complicit in three murders. The cops are sure that Johnnie is involved, and they want answers"--Page 4 of cover.
Format: Book - 2009
Holds: 2 on 8 copies
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The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
The Butler family has had their share of trials, as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest, but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives. Althea, the eldest sister and substitute matriarch, is a force to be reckoned with and her younger sisters have alternately appreciated and chafed at her strong will. They are as stunned as the rest of the small community when she and her husband Proctor are arrested, and in a heartbeat the family goes from one of the most respected in town to utter disgrace. The worst part is, not even her sisters are sure exactly what happened. As Althea awaits her fate, Lillian and Viola must come together in the house they grew up in to care for their sister's teenage daughters.
Format: Book - 2019
Holds: 107 on 213 copies
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Early Riser
"Imagine a world where all humans must hibernate through a brutally cold winter, their bodies dangerously close to death as they enter an ultra-low metabolic state of utterly dreamless sleep. All humans, that is, apart from the Winter Consuls, a group of officers who diligently watch over the vulnerable sleeping citizens. Charlie Worthing is a novice, chosen by a highflying hero Winter Consul to accompany him to the Douzey, a remote sector in the middle of Wales, to investigate a dream which is somehow spreading amongst those in the hibernational state, causing paranoia, hallucination and a psychotic episode that can end in murder. Worthing has been trained to deal with Tricksy Nightwalkers whose consciousness has been eroded by hibernation, leaving only one or two skills and an incredible hunger; he's been trained to stay alive through the bleakest and loneliest of winters - but he is in no way prepared for what awaits him in Sector Twelve. There are no heroes in Winter, Worthing has been told. And he's about to find out why."--Publisher's description.
Format: Book - 2018
Holds: 93 on 18 copies
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The Dead Zone: A Novel
"When Johnny Smith was six years old, head trauma caused by a bad ice-skating accident left him with a nasty bruise on his forehead and, from time to time, those hunches, infrequent but accurate snippets of things to come. But it isn't until Johnny's a grown man--now having survived a horrifying auto injury that plunged him into a coma lasting four and a half years--that his special abilities really push to the fore. Johnny Smith has come back from the void with an extraordinary gift that becomes his life's curse, presenting visions of what was and what will be for the innocent and guilty alive. But when he encounters a ruthlessly ambitious and amoral man who promises a terrifying fate for all humanity, Johnny must find a way to prevent a harrowing predestination from becoming reality."--Back cover.
Format: Book - 2018
Holds: 1 on 8 copies
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Leading Men
"In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, a mysteriously taciturn young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on to alter all of their lives. Ten years later, Frank revisits the tempestuous events of that fateful summer from his deathbed in Manhattan, where he waits anxiously for Tennessee to visit him one final time. Anja, now legendary film icon Anja Bloom, lives as a recluse in the present-day U.S., until a young man connected to the events of 1953 lures her reluctantly back into the spotlight after he discovers she possesses the only surviving copy of Williams's final play. What keeps two people together and what breaks them apart? Can we save someone else if we can't save ourselves?"--
Format: Book - 2019
Holds: 43 on 8 copies
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The Boarding House
Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature . In this debut novel by the Polish writer Piotr Pázinski, a young man takes a train to a small town outside of Warsaw to visit a boarding house populated by the last generation of Polish Holocaust survivors. When his grandmother was alive, he had spent a great deal of time at this boarding house, and now he returns, as if to get one last glimpse of the past--to look at old faces and think old thoughts. Pázinski's narrative is at once dreamlike and hard-nosed, and it is structured with the haunting simplicity of a fairy tale. The Boarding House is a meditation on the sad, sometimes terrifying moment when living memory becomes history and the living become the dead. (syndetics)
Format: Book - 2018
Holds: 1 on 5 copies
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Red Mountain Rising
"Join four wildly colorful characters as they search for life, love, and meaning in a tiny wine-growing region in the desert of eastern Washington State."--amazon.com.
Format: Book - 2018
Holds: 1 on 4 copies
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Ivan
As the sheltered princess of Sector One, Maricela's life is defined by duty: to her people and to her family. Her wealth and influence have allowed her to build a better world, but they come with a price---the responsibility to secure political stability with a practical marriage. Maricela cherishes the idea of marrying for love, but there's not much romance in the endless line of suitors interested only in prestige and power. And her handsome, brooding new bodyguard isn't helping the situation. Ivan is the perfect, deadly warrior, a man trained from childhood to be the ultimate protector to the Rios family. His focus on keeping her safe is intense--and a little intoxicating. When the threat of danger cracks his icy control, Maricela realizes she's not the only one fighting against temptation. Ivan knows that the blood on his hands makes him unworthy of the pure-hearted princess. But from the first kiss, their forbidden affair feels inevitable. He can give her a glimpse of life outside her gilded cage and a lover who wants the woman instead of the crown. The only thing he can never do is promise her forever. Because spurning her noble suitors to marry her bodyguard wouldn's just be a scandal. It could set off a political firestorm that would tear Sector One apart. (2/16/2019 6:53:40 PM)
Format: Book - 2018
Holds: 0 on 5 copies
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