Book Buzz

Looking for a good book? Ask at the Reference Desk for a suggestion or two. Whether you are a reader who likes romance, mystery, fantasy, science fiction or historical books, our librarians can assist you in finding that next great read.

New Fiction for April 2009

Click on the titles below to search the catalog

Adams, Carrie.
The stepmother. [Smart Funny Women]
Bea was once the apple of her husband’s eye– but now he’s picked a more succulent fruit. Tessa is younger, fitter, prettier… but does that make her
wicked?

Adams, Will.
The Alexander cipher. [Suspense]
“A debut, rip-roaring archeological thriller about the search for the lost tomb of Alexander the Great “–Provided by the publisher.

Archer, Jeffrey.
Paths of glory. [Historical]
This real-life mountaineering mystery recounts the story of Britain’s George Mallory and his attempt to scale Mt. Everest.

Ashworth, Heidi.
Miss Delacourt speaks her mind. [Regency Romance]
When the dowager duchess of Marcross insists he accompany her niece, Ginny, into the country for the day to execute a special task, Sir Anthony is appalled, to say the least. Ginny, who thinks little of the fashionable Sir Anthony, is as eager to be done with the chore as he, but before they arrive at their destination they are stranded by a highwaymen and launched into an adventure marked by a battle of words, wills, and wit.

Bagshawe, Louise.
Glamour.
In their struggle to rebuild their lives, Helen, Sally, and Jane come together to create a high-end department store called Glamour. But as money and recognition rocket them into the spotlight, they quickly discover what happens to promises when money is no object, lust has no bounds, and glamour is worth everything in this seductive rags-to- riches saga.

Berry, Jedediah.
The manual of detection. [Mystery]
Promising Debut. Female sleuthing.

Burnside, John.
The glister. [Suspense]
Missing children

Cain, Tom.
No survivors: an Accident man novel. [Suspense]
Samuel Carver, a man hired to make “accidents” happen, is back in a new adventure that takes him from the war rooms of Washington, D.C., to the
merciless Arctic peaks of Norway and from the palaces of the French Riviera to the war-torn countryside of Kosovo.

Chiaverini, Jennifer.
The lost quilter: an Elm Creek quilts novel.
Master quilter Sylvia Compson discovers a stash of letters in the attic of Elm Creek Manor and traces a tale back to 1859. An escaped slave, Joanna, spent a brief period at Elm Creek Farm until she was captured and returned to bondage, leaving her son in the care of the Bergstrom family. If Sylvia is to determine the fate of Joanna and her son, she must rely on one important clue–the meticulous heirloom quilt Joanna stitched and left behind.

Coben, Harlan.
Long lost. [Suspense]
Myron Bolitar hasn’t heard from Terese Collins since their torrid affair ended ten years ago, so her desperate phone call from Paris catches him completely off guard. Now a suspect in the murder of her ex-husband in Paris, Terese has nowhere else to turn for help. Myron heeds the call but then a startling piece of evidence turns the entire case upside down.

Coughlin, Jack.
Dead shot: a sniper novel. [Suspense]

Curry, John A.
Running in lane one.
Boston Author. When his son-in-law asks for his assistance, in a family matter, Jerry finds himself involved in an armored car heist. And when the robbery goes all wrong and double-cross follows double-cross, he is on the run from a vicious ganglord and three killer brothers.

Cussler, Clive.
Corsair: a novel of the Oregon Files. [Adventure]
When the U.S. secretary of state’s plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Juan Cabrillo to search for her–in a manhunt that pits him against Islamic terrorists and a search for answers regarding a centuries-old Islamic manuscript.

Davis, Katharine.
East Hope.
Widow & books in Maine

Deveraux, Jude.
Lavender morning. [Romance]

Easter Smith, Anne.
The king’s grace. [Historical]
Henry VIII/Grace Plantagenet

Eisler, Barry.
Fault line. [Suspense]
In a departure from his Rain series, Eisler invents a black-op conspiracy. NOT RAIN.

Fielding, Joy.
Still life. [Suspense]
After surviving an auto accident that broke nearly every bone in her body and plunged her into a coma, successful businesswomen and happily married Casey Marshall realizes that although she is unable to see or communicate, she can hear everything. She quickly discovers that her friends aren’t necessarily the people she thought them to be–and that her accident might not have been an accident at all.

Fitzek, Sebastian.
Therapy. [Suspense]
Missing children in Berlin

French, Nicci.
Until it’s over. [Suspense]
London intrigue

Goolrick, Robert.
A reliable wife. [Historical]
Debut about family secrets in Wisconsin.

Gross, Andrew.
Don’t look twice. [Suspense]
Detective Ty Hauck is caught in a deadly maze of cover-up and corruption in this new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Tide.

Hagberg, David.
The expediter. [Suspense]
Kirk McGarvey in North Korea

Harrison, Kim.
White witch, black curse. [Urban Fantasy]
Witch detective Rachel Morgan attempts to solve the mysterious death of her friend by an emotion-sucking banshee. To exact her revenge on the killer,
she brings in her PI partners–Ivy, a bisexual vampire, and Jenks, a pixie in
existential crisis–along with empathic psychiatrist Ford and the banshee
victim’s father, Federal Inderland Bureau captain Edden.

Hatcher, Robin Lee.
When love blooms. [Romance]
Emily wanted to be more than just a society wife. She came to the Idaho high country looking to make a difference. Gavin knows she would never make it in the rugged high country… but his resistance makes her more determined to prove herself. Christian Fiction.

Herman, Kathy.
The real enemy. [Mystery]
“Brill Jessup just became the first female police chief in Sophie Trace, Tennessee, and is riding on the credentials of a stellar eighteen-year career on the Memphis police force…Before she even has time to unpack her boxes, people start disappearing. Lots of them. To complicate matters, a local legend has many residents believing that the cause is unearthly–tied to red “shadows”, or spirits of the departed Cherokee who once inhabited the land…”–p.[4] of cover. Christian Fiction.

Hewson, David.
Dante’s numbers. [Mystery]
Nic Costa in Rome

Hinton, J. Lynne.
The order of things.
A compelling novel of one female librarian’s descent into madness and her unlikely savior.

Hunt, Angela Elwell.
She’s in a better place.
Fairlawn series; # 3/Christian Fiction.

Jackson, Lisa.
Malice. [Suspense]
When a copy of his first wife’s death certificate arrives in the mail,emblazoned with a red question mark, New Orleans detective Rick Bentz follows the postmark trail to Los Angeles, returning to the painful memories he’s tried so hard to forget, and straight into a killer’s web that catches Bentz as the prime suspect.

Kane, Ben.
The forgotten legion. [Historical]
Roman epic

Kelly, Elizabeth.
Apologize, apologize! “A novel about the triumphs and tragedies of the dysfunctionally rich”– Provided by publisher.

Kelly, Mary Pat.
Galway Bay. [Historical]
“In the bestselling tradition of Frank Delaney, Colleen McCullough, and Maeve Binchy comes a poignant historical family saga set against Ireland’s Great Starvation and the building of Chicago.”–Provided by the publisher.

Laken, Valerie.
Dream house.

Lippman, Laura.
Life sentences. [Mystery]
Baltimore

Littell, Jonathan.
The kindly ones. [Historical]
WWII/Grand Prix du roman, 2006

Lutz, Lisa.
Revenge of the Spellmans. [Mystery]
Third in delightfully wacky series

Matheson, Richard.
Button, button: uncanny stories. [Horror]

McGowan, Kathleen.
The book of love.
Romantic Suspense/Magdalene line; bk. 2.

McNeil, Gil.
The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club.
When her husband dies in a car crash–not long after announcing he wants a divorce–Jo Mackenzie packs up her two rowdy boys and moves from London to a dilapidated villa villa in her seaside hometown where she takes over her beloved Gran’s knitting shop. After a rough beginning, Jo soon finds comfort in a “Stitch and Bitch” group–a collection of quirky, lively women who share their stories, and their addiction to cake, with warmth and humor.

Mills, Kyle.
Lords of corruption. [Suspense]
When Josh Hagarty is recruited by the charitable organization NewAfrica to manage a farming project in an underdeveloped African country, he signs on,
figuring that he can put his newly acquired graduate degree in engineering to
good use. However, when Josh gets situated in Africa, he finds that NewAfrica
may not be the philanthropic charity it purports itself to be.

Noble, Kate.
Revealed. [Regency Romance]

Park, Ed.
Personal days.
Corporate Satire

Pattillo, Beth.
Jane Austen ruined my life.

Pearl, Matthew.
The last Dickens. [Historical]
Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.

Picoult, Jodi.
Handle with care.
After her daughter contracts a fatal disease, Charlotte O’Keefe must confront some serious questions that ultimately lead to one final epiphany: what
constitutes a valuable life.

Robards, Karen.
Pursuit. [Suspense]
After rookie lawyer Jessica Monaghan meets with the First Lady, the VIP is killed in a car accident in which Jessica manages to survive. When she suspects the accident was something else and she becomes the next target, she and experienced FBI agent Mark Ryan team up to uncover the plot behind the First Lady’s murder.

Robotham, Michael.
Shatter. [Suspense]
When clinical psychologist Joe O’Loughlin fails to prevent a naked woman sobbing on a cell phone from jumping off a bridge to her death, he is suspicious as to why the woman–by all accounts not suicidal–would have killed herself. Though the police rule her death a suicide, O’Loughlin’s suspicions about the cell phone call are proved prescient when the woman’s business partner is found dead under similar circumstances. Relying on retired detective Vincent Ruiz for help, O’Loughlin races to prevent his own family from becoming the killer’s next target.

Rollins, David.
A knife edge. [Suspense]
Air Force in Pakistan

Rotenberg, Robert.
Old City Hall.
[Suspense]
Toronto politics

Rotter, Jeffrey.
The unknown knowns.

Samson, Lisa.
The passion of Mary-Margaret.
Christian Fiction

Seitz, Nicole A.
A hundred years of happiness: a fable of life after war.
Christian Fiction/Vietnam War

Shaffer, Louise.
Serendipity.
Mothers & daughters

Smith, Roger.
Mixed blood: a thriller.
Reluctant bank robber Jack Burn is on the run after a heist in the United States that left $3 million missing and one cop dead. Hiding out in Cape Town, South Africa, he is desperate to build a new life for his pregnant wife and young son. But on a tranquil evening in their new suburban neighborhood they are the victims of a random gangland assault that changes everything.

Smith, Susan Arnout.
Out at night. [Mystery]
Christian Fiction

Starling, Belinda.
The journal of Dora Damage.
Bookbinders 19th England

Turgeon, Carolyn.
Godmother. [Fantasy]

Vine, Barbara.
The birthday present. [Suspense]
Political Great Britain

White, Randy Wayne.
Dead silence. [Mystery]
Florida

Bookmark and Share

Categories: Book Buzz,Booklists,New Fiction