You can browse our collection of e-books and audiobooks and check them out on your library card. You can have up to four items checked out at a time. If a title you want is already checked out to someone else, you can place a hold, and you’ll receive an e-mail message when the book is available for you.

The new e-book collection includes about 200 e-books for adults, teens and children, both fiction and nonfiction. As with the downloadable audiobooks, the e-book collection will grow over time.

All e-books are in the same format: EPUB with DRM (digital rights management). These must be downloaded to Adobe Digital Editions, which can be downloaded to Windows or Mac computers from Adobe’s site. The Library’s Overdrive site also has a link to download this free software. E-books download as a single file, not in parts like audiobooks, which makes for a much faster download.

To access OverDrive for either e-books or downloadable audiobooks, visit the library’s web site at www.wakefieldlibrary.org, or go directly to our collection of downloadable titles at overdrive.noblenet.org.

NOBLE hopes to expand the downloadable collection over time, but as a Massachusetts resident you have other options as well. Boston Public Library’s OverDrive service is available to all residents of the Commonwealth. You need a valid library card, but you can easily register online for a Boston Public Library e-card, which will allow you to download BPL’s audiobooks as well.

Proceeds from the Saturday event go toward the library’s book budget and the civic projects of the Chamber of Commerce. The past two Blossoms events sold out and were huge successes.

• Choose a “Then” photo from the Wakefield Then & Now set of photos from Wakefield’s past.
• Go out and take a new photo of that same place as it looks today.
• Write a few words (100 or less) about why you chose the picture and what it means to you.
• Send your photo and essay to email@wakefieldlibrary.org with your name, phone number email address and age category (kid 0-12; teen 13-18; adult 19 and older). Remember to tell us which “Then” photo you tried to duplicate (include either the photo’s title or URL.) You may also bring your photo and essay to the Reference Desk at the Library. Write your name address and age category on the back of the photo.

Deadline for entries is Friday, April 2, 2010.

Every entry will be added to the library’s digital collection. Entries will be added to the library’s “Wakefield Then & Now” Collection and will be displayed at the “Blossoms at the Beebe” celebration on April 10 & 11 at Beebe Library. Winning entries will also receive a copy of the book, “Images of America: Wakefield” by local author Nancy Bertrand.

Any questions, call the Reference desk at 781-246-6334, x2.

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Attenberg, Jami. The melting season.
Female friendships

Balogh, Mary. A matter of class. [ROMANCE]
In this Regency romance, wealthy, untitled Reginald Mason consents, and enters into a hostile engagement in which he and his prospective bride–Lady Annabelle Ashton, daughter of the Earl of Havercroft–are openly antagonistic, each one resenting the other for their current state of affairs while their respective fathers revel in their suffering.

Bauer, Belinda, Blacklands. [MYSTERY]
Nearly 20 years ago, young Billy Peters disappeared: it’s presumed that he was murdered by Arnold Avery, a serial killer who confessed to killing several other children and burying them on the moors. Now, Billy’s lonely 12-year-old nephew, Stephen, is determined to find his uncle’s body as a way to heal his still-grieving family. But digging in the moors turns dangerous when Stephen starts writing Avery, now in prison and growing ever more interested in his unidentified pen pal after he realizes the writer is a child.

Benjamin, Melanie. Alice I have been. [HISTORICAL]
Now in her twilight years, Alice Liddell looks back on a remarkable life. From a pampered childhood in Oxford to difficult years as a widowed mother, Alice examines how she became who she is–and how she became immortalized as Alice in Wonderland.

Berney, Louis. Gutshot straight. [SUSPENSE]
Las Vegas crime

Bloom, Amy, Where the god of love hangs out.
A young woman is haunted by her roommate’s murder; a man and his daughter -in-law confess their sins in the unlikeliest of places. In one quartet of interlocking stories, two middle-aged friends, married to others, find themselves surprisingly drawn to each other, risking all while never underestimating the cost. In another linked set of stories, readers follow a mother and son for thirty years as their small and uncertain family becomes an irresistible tribe.

Boyd, Noah. The bricklayer. [SUSPENSE]
Vail has resigned himself to his dismissal and is content with his life as a bricklayer. But the FBI, especially Deputy Assistant Director Kate Bannon, needs help with a shadowy group that has initiated a brilliant extortion plot. The group will keep killing their targets until the agency pays them off, the amount and number of bodies escalating each time the FBI fails.

Burdett, John. The godfather of Kathmandu. [MYSTERY]
Sonchai Jitpleecheep–John Burdett’s inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soul–is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from a personal tragedy, is more interested in Tietsin, an exiled Tibetan lama based in Kathmandu who has become his guru–and has forty million dollars’ worth of heroin for sale.

Chance, Megan. Prima donna. [HISTORICAL]
Famed opera singer Sabine Conrad’s attempt to leave her controlling manager results in his murder and Sabine on the run. She assumes a new identity as Marguerite Olson and creates a life for herself in Seattle, but then her past catches up with her.

Chevalier, Tracy. Remarkable creatures. [HISTORICAL]
When Mary Anning uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home on the English coast, she sets the religious fathers on edge, the townspeople to vicious gossip, and the scientific world alight. Luckily, Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, and in the struggle to be recognized in the wider world, Mary and Elizabeth discover that friendship is their greatest ally.

Cornwell, Bernard. The burning land. [HISTORICAL]
The Danes of East Anglia and the Vikings of Northumbria are plotting the conquest of all Britain. When King Alfred’s daughter pleads with Uhtred for help, he cannot refuse her request. In a desperate gamble, he takes command of a demoralized Mercian army, leading them in an unforgettable battle on a blood-soaked field beside the Thames.

Crais, Robert. The first rule: a Joe Pike novel. [MYSTERY]
Frank Meyer had the American dream-until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, but Joe Pike does not. With the help of Elvis Cole, Pike sets out on a hunt of his own–an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminals.

Davis, Lindsey. Rebels and traitors. [HISTORICAL]
During the terrible struggle of the English Civil War, two people–Gideon Jukes and Juliana Lovell, who are on opposites sides of the conflict–meet during one of the era’s most crucial events, their mutual attraction brings the comfort and companionship for which they both have yearned. But shadows from the past soon threaten their hard-won peace.

Dekker, Ted, Burn. [SUSPENSE]

Doetsch, Richard. The 13th hour: a thriller.
Fans of the movie Memento will quickly get into this tale, told in reverse, of a man in police custody accused of murdering his wife. Nick Quinn has lost the love of his life and is being relentlessly questioned about her death when a mysterious man offers him a timepiece that will allow him to go backwards in time and–hopefully–prevent his wife’s murder.

Dorsey, Tim. Gator a-go-go. [MYSTERY]
Humorous Serge Storms series

Durrow, Heidi W., The girl who fell from the sky.
Coming-of-age identity tale

Emerson, Kate. Between two queens. [HISTORICAL]
Secrets of the Tudor Court

Ferris, Joshua. The unnamed.
Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking.

Fforde, Jasper. Shades of Grey. [FANTASY]
Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds. In a society where the ability to see the higher end of the color spectrum denotes a better social standing, Eddie Russet belongs to the low-level House of Red and can see his own color but no other. The sky, the grass, and everything in between are all just shades of grey, and must be colorized by artificial means.

Godwin, Gail. Unfinished desires.
Sparking enthusiasm for a play about the founding of their North Carolina mountains Catholic girls’ school, a charismatic ninth grader and her recently orphaned best friend set in motion a series of events that have decades-long ramifications.

Greene, Amy, Bloodroot.
Myra Lamb of Bloodroot Mountain has troubling “haint” blue eyes and a grandma whose touch charms people and animals alike. When their neighbor John Odom tries to tame Myra, he meets a with shocking, violent disaster. Stunning Debut.

Hall, James W. Silencer. [SUSPENSE]
Thorn series

Hamilton, Laurell K. Flirt. [FANTASY]
When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss … but the creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington’s grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long.

Hamilton, Steve, The lock artist. [MYSTERY]
Traumatized at the age of eight and pushed into a life of crime by reason of his unforgiveable talent–lock picking–Michael sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long.

Hannah, Kristin. Winter garden.
The dying wish of a loving father ignites a family drama that brings two sisters and their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother together in a story that reaches back to WWII Leningrad.

Harper, Karen S. The queen’s governess. [HISTORICAL]
Katherine Ashley, the daughter of a poor country squire, happily secures an education and a place for herself in the Tudor court of Henry VIII. As a dying favor to the doomed Anne Boleyn, Kat becomes governess and surrogate-mother to the young Elizabeth Tudor … ultimately emerging as the lifelong confidante to Queen Elizabeth I.

Hawkins, Margaret, A year of cats and dogs.
Middle-aged woman’s personal transformation

Hayder, Mo. Skin. [SUSPENSE]
Great Britain crime

Higgins, Jack, The wolf at the door. [SUSPENSE]
Who’s knocking off members of a special intelligence unit known as the prime minister’s private army? Only Sean Dillon has a clue.

Hoffman, Beth. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt.
Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom. Laugh-out-loud funny, Hoffman’s charming work offers the story of a young girl who loses one mother and finds many others.

Hooper, Kay. Blood ties. [SUSPENSE]
The Special Crimes Unit finds itself targeted by a monster intent on destroying both Noah Bishop and his people.

Hosp, David. Among thieves. [SUSPENSE]
Members of Boston’s criminal underground are turning up dead. When Scott Finn learns that one of his clients, Devon Malley, was part of a $300 million artwork heist, he’s quickly drawn into the crossfire, and into the renewed hunt for the missing artwork–a hunt that may cost Finn and his colleagues their lives.

Jones, Sadie. Small wars. [HISTORICAL]
Great Britain in Cypress

Kelly, Cathy. Once in a lifetime.
A web of friendship, love, and secrets runs through the Irish town of Ardagh and Kenny’s Department Store.

Keyes, Marian. The brightest star in the sky.
Fate is on its way to the tenants of 66 Star Street, bringing with it love and tragedy, friendship and heartbreak, and the power to change lives …One of them is falling in love; another is torn between two lovers. For some, secrets they want to stay buried will come to light and for others the unveiling of those secrets will have tragic consequences.

Klaffke, Pamela, Snapped.
“Sara B. is losing her cool. Not just in the momentary-meltdown kind of way–though there’s that, too. At the helm of the must-read Snap magazine, veteran style guru Sara B. has had the job–and joy–for the past fifteen years of eviscerating the city’s fashion victims in her legendary DOs and DON’Ts photo spread. But now on the unhip edge of forty she find that as the arbiter of taste, has made her living by cutting people down…and somehow she’s got to make amends.”–P. [4] of cover.

Klassen, Julie. The silent governess. [HISTORICAL]
Regency Christian fiction

Kohler, Sheila. Becoming Jane Eyre. [HISTORICAL]
A beautifully imagined tale of the Bronte sisters, “Becoming Jane Eyre” delicately unravels the connections between one of fiction’s most indelible heroines and the remarkable woman who created her.

Kostova, Elizabeth. The swan thieves.
From the author of The Historian–Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism.

Lee, Julianne. Her mother’s daughter: a novel of Queen Mary Tudor. [HISTORICAL]

Lescroart, John T. Treasure Hunt. [SUSPENSE]
When the body of Dominic Como, one of San Francisco’s most high-profile activists–a charismatic man known as much for his expensive suits as his work on a half dozen nonprofit boards–is discovered, P.I. Mickey Dade and P.I. Wyatt Hunt investigate Como’s business associate, Alicia Thorpe–young, gorgeous, and the sister of one of Mickey’s friends.

Lively, Penelope, Family album.
All Alison ever wanted was a blissful childhood for her six children, with summers at the beach and birthday parties on the lawn at their family home. Together with Ingrid, the family au pair, she has worked hard to create a real old-fashioned family life. But beneath its postcard sheen, the picture is clouded by a distant father, Alison’s inexplicable emotional outbursts, and long-repressed secrets that no one dares mention.

McCall Smith, Alexander, The unbearable lightness of scones.
At 44 Scotland Street, six-year-old Bertie seeks escape in the Cub Scouts; Matthew rises to the challenge of married life; Domenica epitomizes the loneliness of the long-distance intellectual; and Cyril, the gold-toothed star of the whole show, succumbs to the kind of romantic temptation that no dog can resist and creates a small problem, or rather six of them, for his friend and owner Angus Lordie.

Meacham, Leila, Roses. [ROMANCE]
“Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton
industries, industries controlled by the scions of the town’s founding families” –Provided by publisher.

Meyers, Randy Susan. The murderer’s daughters.
NY domestic violence

Morris, Bob, Baja Florida. [MYSTERY]
Zack Chasteen series

Mullen, Thomas. The many deaths of the Firefly Brothers. [HISTORICAL]
Western crime

Nayman, Shira, The listener.
1940s mental illness

Oates, Joyce Carol, A fair maiden. [SUSPENSE]
teenage girls

Ochsner, Gina. The Russian dreambook of color and flight.
Magical realism

Parker, T. Jefferson. Iron river. [MYSTERY]
Charlie Hood joins a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms task force patrolling the “iron river,” where illegal guns flow from United States dealers to the Mexican drug business. Hood is part of a stakeout team when a federal officer’s bullet kills an innocent boy. The boy happens to be the son of Benjamin Armenta, head of the Gulf Cartel and one of the most violent men in the world. Armenta’s thirst for vengeance even in routine business matters is well known.

Preston, Douglas J. Impact. [SUSPENSE]
Meteorites

Rankin, Ian. Doors open. [MYSTERY]
Art thefts in Edinburgh

Reilly, Matthew. The 5 greatest warriors. [SUSPENSE]
Three friends descend upon an art auction and concoct a plan to “liberate” several paintings from the National Gallery. As enterprising
girlfriends, clever detectives, a crime boss, seductive auctioneers and a Hell’s Angel named Hate enter the picture, this fast-paced story of second guesses and double crosses keeps changing the picture.

Seitz, Nicole. Saving cicadas.
Mother/daughter road trip

Shaw, Ali. The girl with glass feet. [FANTASY]

Shepard, Sam, Day out of days: stories.
American West

Suarez, Daniel, Freedom. [SUSPENSE]
Sequel to Daemon.

Taylor, Patrick, An Irish country girl.
Presents the story of the early life of Kinky Kincaid, once known as Maureen O’Hanlon, a farmer’s daughter growing up in the hills and glens of 1920s County Cork, Ireland, who had a gift for seeing fairies, spirits, and the dreaded banshee.

Thompson, James, Snow angels. [MYSTERY]
Inspector Kari Vaara; bk.1/Finland

Trent, Christine. The Queen’s dollmaker. [HISTORICAL]
Marie Antoinette

Tyler, Anne. Noah’s compass.
From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.

Van den Berg, Laura. What the world will look like when all the water leaves us: stories.

Weber, Katharine, True confections.
Family candy business

Wheaton, Ken. The first annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival.
Welcome to Grand Prairie, Louisiana-land of confounding accents, hard-drinking senior citizens, and charming sinners-brought to hilarious life in a bracing, heartfelt debut novel simmering with Cajun spice… Father Steve Sibille has come home to the bayou to take charge of St. Pete’s church.

Willett, Marcia. The prodigal wife.

Willig, Lauren. Betrayal of the blood lily. [HISTORICAL]
As Lady Frederick Staines, Penelope Deveraux plunges into the treacherous waters of the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad and with the assistance of Captain Alex Reid draws out the deadly plans of the spy known as the Marigold. #6 in Pink Carnation series.

Woods, Stuart. Kisser. [SUSPENSE]
When P.I. Stone Barrington crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress –and sometime lip model–Stone gets a little more deeply involved with business than he’d expected. When his new lady love turns out to be a lady with a shady past, Stone and downtown cop Dino Bacchetti realize that her beauty may have an unusually high price.

In addition to BYKI Online’s advanced learning tools, you also get access to an array of online language and cultural resources including one-click access to Facebook and Twitter language communities as well as BYKI language Blogs featuring a collection of articles covering the language and the culture that surrounds it.

You can use BYKI from within the library or from home.

For Wakefield residents, use this link to create a BYKI user account, or to log in to an existing account:
BYKI Login for Wakefield residents

If you are not a Wakefield resident, please contact the Reference Desk to have us set up an account for you, and then login using this link:

BYKI Login for Non-residents of Wakefield.

Here is a complete list of the languages available to learn
in the BYKI online language program:
Albanian
Altai
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Bashkir
Belorussian
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Buriat
Chechen
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dari
Dutch
English
Estonian
Farsi
Finnish
French
Georgian
German
Greek
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Kazakh
Korean
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malay
Mirandese
Mongolian
Norwegian
Pashto
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (European)
Romanian
Russian
Scottish
Serbian
Slovak
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tajiki
Thai
Turkish
Turkmen
Tuvan
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Zulu

And ESL (English as a Second Language) for speakers of:

Spanish
Arabic
Brazilian Portuguese
Chinese
Japanese
Korean

(Plus 14 more ESL languages coming later in 2010)

“Introduction to Video Game Design” is the first in a series of workshops at the library led by gaming consultant Beth Gallaway. Additional Scratch workshops will take place on the following Wednesdays: March 24, April 7, and April 21. Funding for these programs is provided through a “Teens and Tweens” grant from the Institute of Museums and Libraries, administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

Edward Rutherfurd’s Sarum
10,000 year saga of England swirling around Stonehenge

Frank Delaney’s Ireland.
Story-within-a-story Ireland’s history

Janet Dailey’s The Great Alone
Character-driven family saga with Alaska’s history as setting

Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth
Building of a cathedral in 12th century over 4 decades
Its sequel is World Without End.

Leon Uris’s Trinity
Three families from Potato Famine to Easter Rebellion in Ireland

William Martin’s Harvard Yard
Bibliomystery follows 300 years of Harvard’s history

Barbara Wood’s The Blessing Stone
History of the world through the travels of mysterious stone with feminine point-of-view.

Nancy Zaroulis’s Massachusetts
350 years from the Mayflower to Sacco and Vanzetti

Thomas Kelly’s Empire Rising
Empire State Building’s history

Pete Hamill’s Forever
New York City from the eyes of a single immortal man

David Cruise & Alison Griffiths’ Vancouver
Vancouver from the Ice Age to the 21st Century

David A. Kaufelt’s American Tropic
Weaving Florida and compelling characters over 400 years

John Jakes’ The Gods of Newport
Lush saga set on the shores of late 19th C. Newport, RI

Beverly Swerling’s City of Dreams
Manhattan’s 1st C. follows two families from settlement to the Revolutionary War. First of series

Winston Graham’s Ross Poldark
First in series follows Poldark family from American Revolution to Napoleonic Wars.

Herman Wouk’s Winds of War
Follows the Henry Family through WWII; First in series

Taken from material originally developed for the Fitchburg Public Library by Leane M. Ellis; 2008; revised 2010

Most forms, including unusual or obscure ones, can also be printed out from the state or federal government’s tax web sites. There you can also find plenty of information on various tax topics as well as instructions on how to file your return electronically or telefile if you wish. If you are unfamiliar with computers or the Internet, a reference librarian will be happy to print out forms for you or teach you how.

It is important to note that again this year, as a cost-saving measure, the state has printed far fewer Massachusetts state tax form booklets than previous years. As a result, most libraries in the area will run out of their supplies early, and they cannot be replenished. Post offices and banks usually no longer carry Massachusetts state forms either. To obtain state forms or instructions after the initial supplies have run out, you will need to print them from the Internet. So come early, we do not expect our supply to last much beyond February.
If you need forms or instructions for past years, the library keeps seven years worth of state and federal forms that can be photocopied. Prior year forms are also available on the government’s web sites.
Please be aware that library staff are not trained to provide tax advice or help you with your tax return, but reference staff will be happy to help you find the forms or publications you need, or direct you to resources that can assist you. In addition to the many publications provided by the government, the library also has books such as J.K. Lasser’s and other guides that can help you through the maze of details you need to know for your return.

For further assistance in person, the nearest IRS Office for federal tax assistance is in Stoneham at 1 Montvale Avenue (at the corner of Main Street and Montvale Ave.). They are open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Massachusetts Department of Revenue
Internal Revenue Service

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Arsenault, Mark. Loot the moon. [MYSTERY]

Baldacci, David. True blue. [SUSPENSE]
A former Washington D.C. police cop out to prove herself and a young lawyer from a prestigious law firm meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm. As they investigate the death, they start uncovering surprising secrets from both the private and public world of the nation’s capital–and what began as a fairly routine homicide takes a terrifying and unexpected turn into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal.

Bear, Greg, Mariposa.
In this near-future thriller, three FBI agents take on the Talos Corporation and its plan to destroy the government and constitutional law by means of a treatment program code-named Mariposa.

Carver, Raymond. Collected stories.

Chamberlain, Diane, Breaking the silence.
Family Drama

Chen, Patrizia. It takes two. [ROMANCE]
Middle-aged women in Argentina

Clark, Bridie. The overnight socialite.
Smart Funny Women

Deveraux, Jude. Days of gold.
The second book in the multi-generational Edilean series, Days of Gold is a sweeping romance set in 1766 and follows Lavender Morning.

Deverell, William, Snow job. [SUSPENSE]
Arthur Beauchamp has followed his wife, the leader and first elected member of the Green Party, to Ottawa. But he hates it there: the cold, the politics, and his place in his wife’s shadow. So when a delegation of government officials from Bhashyistan is blown sky high on Bronson Avenue and the shares of a Calgary-based oil company promptly drop like a stone, Arthur is only too happy to jump to the defense of the missing suspected assassin.

Dunne, Dominick. Too much money.
Sequel to People Like Us.

Echlin, Kim. The disappeared.
“…Anne Greeves is sixteen years old when she first meets Serey, a Cambodian student and musician forced by his family to leave his country during the rise of the Khmer Rouge regime. Swept up in the fury and infatuation of first love, Anne rebels against her father’s wishes and embraces her relationship with Serey…But then the borders of Cambodia are reopened and Serey must risk his life to return home, alone, in search of his family. A decade later, Anne will travel halfway around the world to find him, and to save their relationship from the same tragic forces that first brought them together…”–Cover.

Estleman, Loren D. Alone: a Valentino mystery.
Hollywood film detective and film archivist Valentino becomes embroiled in the murder of a blackmailer in this wacky comedic murder romp.

Flynn, Vince. Pursuit of honor. [SUSPENSE]
Mitch Rapp comes up against a new and deadly enemy when he is unofficially ordered to find three terrorists by any means necessary. They’ve attacked Washington D.C., killing 185 and wounding hundreds. So far, however, his investigation has been painfully complicated and has yet to yield a single solid lead–and the last thing Rapp expected was to be in New York City to decide the fate of a man that could be his cover.

Gargash, Maha. The sand fish: a novel from Dubai.
Coming of age in the 1950s, seventeen-year-old Noora is unlike other women of the sun-battered mountains at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Though she shares their poverty and, like them, bears life’s hardships without complaint, she is also fiery and independent. Following the death of her mother and her father’s descent into dazed madness, Noora flees the threat of an arranged marriage, only to be driven back to her unwanted fate by disappointment and heartbreak. As the third wife to a rich, much older man, Noora struggles to adjust to her new home by the sea, thinking of herself as a sand fish–the
desert lizard she observed in the mountains, which, when stuck in the wrong place and desperate to escape, smashed itself again and again into unyielding rocks. But then a light is shone into her miserable darkness, resulting in an unexpected passion, a shocking indiscretion, and a secret that could jeopardize Noora’s life.

Garwood, Julie. Sizzle.
Romantic Suspense

Griffin, W. E. B. The honor of spies. [SUSPENSE]
August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he’s in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade’s job? To help Frogger escape so the OSS can use Frogger’s knowledge and connections to kill Adolf Hitler.

Hall, M. R. The coroner. [Mystery]
British Jenny Cooper series
— The disappeared.
Sequel to The Coroner

Hamilton, Laurell K. Divine misdemeanors. [FANTASY]
Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye and princess of faerie, determined to get to the bottom of the case even if means going up against Gilda, the Fairy Godmother. But even stranger things are happening. Mortals Gentry once healed with magic are suddenly performing miracles, a shocking phenomenon wreaking havoc on human/faerie relations.

Harvard Lampoon. Nightlight: a parody.
A humorous alternative to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight.

Hoag, Tami. Deeper than the dead. [SUSPENSE]
California, 1984. Detective Tony Mendez, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is charged with discovering the identity of a brutal, calculating psychopath. His search pushes him ever deeper into the lives of three children, and closer to the young teacher whose interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own.

Howard, Linda, Ice. [SUSPENSE]
As a brewing ice storm approaches, and despite the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly Helton, combat veteran Gabriel McQueen makes the long haul to the middle of nowhere to find out whether she is safe and sound. Spotting strangers in Lolly’s home–one of them packing a weapon—Gabriel rescues Lolly from her captors … but when the escape is discovered, the heat–and the hunt–are on.

Hunter, Stephen, I, sniper. [SUSPENSE]
Special Agent Nick Memphis enlists the help of retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger to unravel a sophisticated conspiracy involving the deaths of four famed ’60s radicals–a conspiracy that would require the highest level of warcraft by the most superb special operations professionals.

Jin, Ha, A good fall: stories.
From the author of Waiting.

Kanon, Joseph. Stardust. [MYSTERY]
Hollywood espionage

Krentz, Jayne Ann. Fired up. [SUSPENSE]
Jack Winters, descendant of genetically altered Nicholas, has been experiencing nightmares and blackouts–just the beginning, he believes–of the manifestation of the Winters family curse. The legend says that he must find the Burning Lamp or risk turning into a monster. But he can’t do it alone; he needs the help of private investigator Chloe Harper who possesses the gift to read the lamp’s dreamlight.

Maxted, Anna. Rich again.
Smart Funny Women

McCall Smith, Alexander, La’s orchestra saves the world.
As the war drags on, La is in need of some diversion and wants to boost the town’s morale, so she organizes an amateur orchestra, drawing musicians from the village and the local RAF base. Among the strays she corrals is Feliks, a shy, proper Polish refugee who becomes her most prized recruit–and the object of feelings she thought she’d put away forever.

McCullough, Colleen, Too many murders: a Carmine Delmonico novel.
On a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, CT, home to prestigious Chubb University and armaments giant Cornucopia, chief of detectives Captain Carmine Delmonico has more pressing concerns than finding a name for his infant son: twelve murders have taken place in one day, and Delmonico is drawn into a gruesome web of secrets and lies. Second in the series.

McLaughlin, Emma & Nicola Kraus.  Nanny returns.
A sequel to the best-selling Nanny Diaries finds Nan returning to New York after 10 years abroad and getting approached by a drunken 16-year-old Grayer X, who describes his parents’ brutal divorce and prompts her re-entry into child care for the elite.

Mitchell, Shandi. Under this unbroken sky. [HISTORICAL]
Spring 1938. After nearly two years in prison for the crime of stealing his own grain, Ukrainian immigrant Teodor Mykolayenko is a free man. While he was gone, his wife, Maria; their five children; and his sister, Anna, struggled to survive on the harsh northern Canadian prairie, but now Teodor–a man who has overcome drought, starvation, and Stalin’s purges–is determined to make a better life for them.

Mockett, Marie Mutsuki. Picking bones from ash.
Japanese Americans

Noble, Elizabeth M. The girl next door.
The bittersweet story of friendship and love in an apartment building on New York’s Upper East Side.

Palmer, Liza. A field guide to burying your parents.
As a child, Grace Hawkes was abandoned by her father; as an adult, she feels abandoned when her mother dies unexpectedly. Not knowing what to do, Grace runs away. Five years later she reunites with her siblings at her father’s deathbed and confronts her past.

Pearlman, Ann, The Christmas cookie club.
Female Friendship

Rollins, James, Altar of Eden. [SUSPENSE]
Pregnant veterinarian Maura Kelly, along with U.S. Marshall Jack Menard, risks everything, including the life of her unborn child, to unravel the mystery of a smuggler’s cache of mutated animals, a puzzle that involves fractal intelligence, stem-cell research, and a secret history of the Book of Genesis.

Roncagliolo, Santiago. Red April.
Peruvian Terrorism

Rue, Nancy N. Healing sands: a Sullivan Crisp novel.
Sullivan Crisp series; no. 3/Christian Fiction

Smyth, Amanda. Lime tree can’t bear orange.
Relationships in Caribbean

Zeltserman, Dave, Pariah. [SUSPENSE]
Once part of the holy triumvirate ruling the South Boston Irish Mob, Kyle Nevin is set up with the Feds by head mobster Red Mahoney, who leads him to a court case and a stretch in the slammer. Now out of prison, Kyle wants revenge on his old boss and mentor and, just as importantly, to reclaim his former glory.

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