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Abulhawa, Susan. Mornings in Jenin.

Previously published in 2006 under title: The scar of David.
Palestinian conflict.

Aciman, Andre. Eight white nights.

A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three words: “I am Clara.” Over the following seven days, they meet every evening at the same cinema. Overwhelmed yet cautious, he treads softly and won’t hazard a move. The tension between them builds gradually, marked by ambivalence, hope, and distrust. They move both closer together and farther apart, culminating on New Year’s Eve in a final scene charged with magic and the promise of renewal.

Banks, Ray. No more heroes. [MYSTERY]

Cal Innes, PI, Manchester, England

Banville, John. The infinities.

Family relationships–Irish fathers & sons

Beale, Elaine, Another life altogether.

Adolescent mental health in Great Britain

Berenson, Alex. The midnight house. [SUSPENSE]

CIA Terror

Bishop, George, Jr. Letter to my daughter.

A fight, ended by a slap, sends Elizabeth out the door of her Baton Rouge home on the eve of her fifteenth birthday. Her mother, Laura, is left to fret and worry–and begins writing a letter to her daughter that will convey the lessons she learned during her own troubled adolescence in rural Louisiana.

Blake, Sarah, The postmistress. [HISTORICAL]

In London covering the Blitz with Edward R. Murrow, Frankie Bard meets a Cape Cod doctor in a shelter and promises that she’ll deliver a letter for him when she finally returns to the United States. Filled with stunning parallels to today’s world, “The Postmistress” is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women–and of two countries torn apart by war.

Bohjalian, Christopher A. Secrets of Eden.

After the murder of Alice Hayward and the suicide of her husband, Reverend Stephen Drew flees the pulpit and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about angels. Heather, identifying deeply with Alice’s daughter, Katie, mentors the young girl but soon suspects that Alice’s husband may not have killed himself … and that Alice had secrets only her minister knew.

Brennert, Alan. Honolulu. [HISTORICAL]

Mail-order brides

Busfield, Andrea. Born under a million shadows.

Boys in Afghanistan

Caldwell, Wayne, Requiem by fire. [HISTORICAL]

Rural N.C.

Caroll, Robin. Deliver us from evil. [SUSPENSE]
Brannon Callahan is a search and rescue helicopter pilot for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Strong faith and a decorated history of service have kept her one step ahead of on-the-job dangers, but there’s no precedent for what’s about to happen. After a blizzard takes down a small plane carrying U.S. Marshal Roark Holland, Brannon must save him in more ways than one and safeguard the donor heart he’s transporting to a government witness on the edge of death. Otherwise the largest child trafficking ring in history–with shocking links from Thailand to Tennessee–will slip further away into darkness along the Appalachian Trail.

Coble, Colleen. The lightkeeper’s daughter: a Mercy Falls novel. [HISTORICAL]

Collins, Jackie. Poor little bitch girl. [SUSPENSE]

Rich California glitz

Conrad, Lauren. Sweet little lies: an L.A. Candy novel.

L.A. Candy series; bk.2. Now a reality show celebrity, nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts learns that not all of her new friends are trustworthy.

Delaney, Frank, Venetia Kelly’s traveling show. [HISTORICAL]

Ireland

DeLillo, Don. Point Omega.

Three unusual people–”defense intellectual” Richard Elster, who was involved in the management of the country’s war machine; young documentary filmmaker Jim Finley, who is intent on documenting Elster’s experience; and Elster’s daughter Jessica, who behaves like an “otherworldly” woman from New York–train their binoculars on the desert landscape of California and build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event throws everything into question.

Delinsky, Barbara. Not my daughter.

A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers’ love to the ultimate test in this emotionally wrenching story of love and forgiveness.

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, One amazing thing.

Late afternoon in a passport and visa office in California, nine people are in the office when an earthquake rips through the building trapping these nine together struggling to survive.

Erdrich, Louise. Shadow tag.

Chronciles the emotional war between Irene America, a beautiful, introspective woman of Native American ancestry, struggling to finish her dissertation while raising three children, and her husband Gil, a painter whose reputation is built on a series of now iconic portraits of Irene.

Fielding, Joy. The wild zone. [SUSPENSE]

Two brothers — Will and Jeff — and their friend Tom are out one night at their favorite South Beach bar, the Wild Zone, and decide to make a bet on who can be the first to seduce a mysterious-looking young woman drinking by herself. Pretty, dark-haired, blue-eyed Suzy has an innocent, almost ordinary girl-next-door way about her. Little do the friends know that their harmless bet is about to take on a life of its own, a life full of deadly consequences for all concerned.

Glynn, Alan, Winterland. [SUSPENSE]

When two men from the same family die on the same night, Gina Rafferty is filled with grief and a growing anger that drives her to find the truth behind these deaths.

Goldstein, Rebecca, 36 arguments for the existence of God: a work of fiction.

A novel about faith & reason.

Green, Tim, False convictions. [SUSPENSE]

“Casey Jordan is invited by a renowned philanthropist and financier to take on a case for the Freedom Project–a charity whose mission is to win the freedom of unjustly convicted prisoners using new DNA technology”–Provided by publisher.

Grissom, Kathleen. The kitchen house. [HISTORICAL]

Southern plantation life

Harrison, Kim. Black magic sanction. [URBAN FANTASY]

A malicious coven accuses witch detective Rachel Morgan of consorting with demons, which could mean imprisonment–or death. Series; bk.8.

Haslett, Adam. Union Atlantic.

First novel about Massachusetts renovation

Hill, Joe. Horns. [HORROR]

After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power which he uses in the name of vengeance.

Hobbet, Anastasia, Small kingdoms.

Kuwait & the Gulf War

Hoesel, Don. Hunter’s moon.

Bestselling novelist CJ Baxter has made a career out of writing hard- hitting stories ripped from his own life. But there’s one story from his past he’s never told. One secret that’s remained buried for decades. Now seventeen years later, he can no longer run from the past.

Hoffman, Richard, Interference & other stories.

Hogan, Chuck. Devils in exile. [SUSPENSE]

Boston crime

Jamison, Leslie, The gin closet.

Alcoholism in modern families

Johnson, Allan G. The first thing and the last.

Domestic violence in VT

Lansens, Lori. The wife’s tale.

On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy to come home. As night turns to day, it becomes frighteningly clear to Mary that he is gone. Through the years, disappointment and worry have brought Mary’s life to a standstill, and she has let her universe shrink to the well-worn path from the bedroom to the refrigerator. But her husband’s disappearance startles her out of her inertia, and she begins a desperate search.

Larson, Leslie, Breaking out of Bedlam.

Cora Sledge is horrified when her children, who doubt her ability to take care of herself, plot to remove her from her home. So what if her house is a shambles? Who cares when she last changed her clothes? If an eighty-two-year-old widow wants to live on junk food, pills, and cigarettes, hasn’t she earned the right? When her kids force her into The Palisades, an assisted living facility, Cora takes to her bed, planning to die as soon as possible. But life isn’t finished with her yet, not by a long shot.

Leimbach, Marti, The man from Saigon.

Vietnam War Correspondents

Lustbader, Eric Van. Last snow. [SUSPENSE]

Jack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, takes on a personal mission along with his official one: keeping safe from harm his two incompatible companions–Annika Dementieva, a rogue Russian FSB agent, and Alli Carson, the President’s daughter–and finding the people responsible for murdering an American senator who was supposedly on a political trip to the Ukraine.

Mankell, Henning, The man from Beijing. [MYSTERY]

Hudiksvall, January 2006, police find eighteen people massacred in a small village. They think it’s the work of a mad man but Birgitta and August believe they were killed by the same person who killed their mother.

Maxwell, Robin, O, Juliet. [HISTORCAL]

Verona love story

Mills, Mark, The information officer. [SUSPENSE]

When Max learns of the brutal murder of a young island woman–along with evidence that the crime was committed by a British officer–he knows that the Maltese loyalty to the war effort could be instantly shattered. As the clock ticks down toward all-out invasion, Max must investigate the murder–beyond the gaze of his superiors, friends, and even the woman he loves.

Moore, Lisa, February.

“…Propelled by a local tragedy, in which an oil rig sinks in a violent storm off the coast of Newfoundland, ‘February’ follows the life of Helen O’Mara, widowed by the accident, as she continuously spirals from the present day back to that devastating and transformative winter that persists in her mind and heart…”–Front flap.

Murphy, Dennis Stuart. Darkness at the stroke of noon. [MYSTERY]

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Palmer, Michael, The last surgeon. [SUSPENSE]

Dr. Nick Garrity and psych nurse Gillian Coates determine that one-by-one, each of those in the operating room for a fatally botched case is dying. Their discoveries pit them against genius Franz Koller–the highly-paid master of the “non-kill.” As doctor and nurse move closer to finding the terrifying secret behind these killings, Koller has been given a new directive: his mission will not be complete until Gillian and Garrity, the last surgeon, are dead.

Parker, Robert B., Split image. [MYSTERY]

What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski and a religious cult holding an 18-year-old girl against her will.

Patterson, James, Worst case. [SUSPENSE]

Detective Michael Bennett and FBI Abduction Specialist Emily Parker reluctantly team up to stop a killer targeting not only the children of New York’s wealthiest families–but the entire city of New York.

Pietroni, Anna Lawrence. Ruby’s spoon. [HISTORICAL]

Factories in 1930s England

Robb, J. D., Fantasy in death. [MYSTERY]

NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is having as much trouble figuring out how Bart Minnock, founder of the computer-gaming giant U-Play, was murdered as who did the murdering in this mystery revolving around a fantasy game of ultimate seduction and death.

Rollins, David, Hard rain: a thriller.

Turkish espionage

Schine, Cathleen. The three Weissmanns of Westport.

Contemporary Sense & Sensibility

Shafak, Elif, The forty rules of love: a novel of Rumi. [HISTORICAL]

Simmons, Dan. Black Hills. [HISTORICAL]

Haunted by Custer’s ghost, and also by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Sioux war-chief Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost forever and reclaim his people’s legacy–on the very day FDR comes to Mount Rushmore to dedicate the Jefferson face.

Smith, Roger, Wake up dead: a thriller.

“On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever.”–From publisher description.

Stabenow, Dana. A night too dark. [MYSTERY]

Kate Shugak

Stanley, Kelli. City of dragons. [MYSTERY]

February, 1940. In San Francisco’s Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support for China war relief. Miranda Corbie is a 33-year-old private investigator who stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Takahashi. The Chamber of Commerce wants it covered up, and the cops acquiesce. All Miranda wants is justice–whatever it costs.

Steel, Danielle. Big girl.

In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.

Straub, Peter, A dark matter. [HORROR]

Old friends try to come to grips with the darkness of the past–a secret ritual that left behind a gruesomely dismembered body–and find themselves face-to-face with the evil they helped create.

Trigiani, Adriana. Brava, Valentine.

A once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes shoe designer and businesswomen Valentine Roncalli from the winding streets of Greenwich Village to the sun-kissed cobblestones of Buenos Aires, where she finds a long-buried secret hidden deep within a family scandal. Once unearthed, the truth rocks the Roncallis and Valentine is determined to hold her family together as she longs to create one of her own. Follows Very Valentine.

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