Here are some of the new titles we’ve ordered:
FICTION
Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Hilary Mantel
The author, a two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, delivers a collection of contemporary short stories about modern England including monster tales, near-memoir pieces and mini-sagas of family and social fracture, writing about gender, marriage, class, family, and sex.
Burned
Valerie Plame & Sarah Lovett
Believing that a nuclear arms dealer she has pursued throughout her career is behind a devastating explosion at the Louvre and other terrorist incidents, covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson is contacted by her target, who claims that a government insider is actually responsible.
Counterfeit Heiress
Tasha Alexander
Entangled in a guest’s murder investigation after an odd encounter at a grand masquerade ball, Lady Emily confronts an escalating series of questions about the intended victim, a sometime actress trying to pass herself off as the mysterious heiress Estella Lamar, and her actual identity.
Deceived
Irene Hannon
Four years after the loss of her husband and son in a boating accident, Kate Marshall spots a boy on a mall escalator who she is convinced is her son and turns for help to skeptical investigator Connor Sullivan, who uncovers evidence that the accident may have been staged.
Dick Francis’s Damage
Felix Francis
Assigned by the British Horseracing Authority to investigate the activities of a suspicious racehorse trainer, undercover investigator Jeff Hinkley witnesses a gruesome murder and learns that several horses received illegal stimulants before a blackmailer makes a sinister demand.
French Pastry Murder
Leslie Meier
While in Paris to learn how to bake authentic French pastries, Lucy Stone finds her bon voyage cut short when her instructor, renowned pastry chef Larry Bruneau, is attacked and she is accused of the crime, forcing her to unpack her keen skills of detection to clear her name.
Girl Next Door
Ruth Rendell
Discovering an earthen tunnel in their 1944 London suburb, six children share a summer of subterranean exploration and reunite six decades later in the midst of a police investigation after construction workers uncover a box with skeletal remains found in that same location.
Gray Mountain
John Grisham
Losing her job at New York City’s largest law firm in the weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Samantha Kofer becomes an unpaid intern at a legal aid clinic in a small Appalachian community, taking her into litigation in the murky and dangerous world of coal mining.
Lady at Willowgrove Hall
Sarah E. Ladd
In 1819 Darbury, England, when Cecily Faire and Nathaniel Stanton meet at Willowgrove Hall, each is haunted by their own secrets, but when those secrets come to light, Cecily and Nathaniel must decide whether they will keep running from their pasts, or face them together.
Leaving Time
Jodi Picoult
Abandoned by a grief-stricken father and accomplished-scientist mother who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, 13-year-old Jenna Metcalf approaches a psychic as well as the detective who first investigated her mother’s disappearance in the hopes of finding answers.
Lila
Marilynne Robinson
Triggering a romance and debate by seeking shelter in a church and becoming a minister’s wife, homeless Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband’s gentle Christian worldview.
Lost Key
Catherine Coulter & J. T. Ellison
Investigating the Wall Street stabbing of a rare book dealer who had been secretly looking for a missing World War I U-boat full of treasure, newly-minted FBI agent Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Mike Caine, frantically try to track down the victim’s missing children.
Missing Place
Sophie Littlefield
Set against the backdrop of North Dakota’s oil boom, two determined mothers, who are from very different worlds, form an uneasy alliance to discern the fates of their young missing oil-rig worker sons and expose the company they hold responsible for covering up the truth.
Murder on the Ile Sordou
M. L. Longworth
While vacationing at the opulent Locanda Sordou hotel, Judge Antoine Verlaque and law professor Marine Bonnet investigate a murder and find things going from bad to worse when a violent storm cuts off all communication with the mainland, trapping them with a killer.
Nora Webster
Colm Toibin
Struggling with grief and financial hardships after the death of her beloved husband, Maurice, who was the love of her life, widow Nora Webster struggles to support her four children and clings to secrecy in the intrusive community of her childhood before finding her voice.
Paris Match
Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington returns to Paris to attend to some business concerns only to find himself embroiled in high-stakes trouble involving an old enemy with a vengeful associate still in hot pursuit and a scandal that threatens to disrupt a project of vital importance in the United States.
Perfect Witness
Iris Johansen
A stand-alone thriller by the author of the Eve Duncan series follows the experiences of a woman with an eidetic memory who has been in the Witness Protection Program since she 16 years old and who, seven years later, is suddenly forced to run for her life when her cover is exposed.
Proof Positive
Archer Mayor
Investigating the death of Vietnam veteran Ben Kendall, whose post-traumatic stress culminated in a hoarding disorder, Joe Gunther learns that the victim’s collection of combat photos and negatives contains information that a sinister adversary desperately wanted to keep hidden.
Silent Sister
Diane Chamberlain
Settling her late father’s affairs only to discover evidence that contradicts understandings about her sister’s suicide 20 years earlier, Riley MacPherson, learning that her older sister Lisa is still alive and has been on the run from dangerous family secrets, must decide what she will do.
Some Luck
Jane Smiley
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres follows the triumphs and tragedies of Rosanna and Walter Langdon and their five children on their Iowa farm from 1920 through the early 1950s while telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America.
Sudden Light
Garth Stein
The author of The Art of Racing in the Rain presents a long-awaited new novel in which a 14-year-old boy’s efforts to save his parents’ troubled marriage and uphold his dementia-afflicted grandfather’s final wishes are shaped by a ghost who cannot rest until past debts are paid.
To Dwell in Darkness
Deborah Crombie
Transferred to the London borough of Camden from Scotland Yard, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid must piece together the clues in a deadly bombing at historic St. Pancras Station with his new murder investigation team, while still questioning the reasons behind his transfer.
Trick or Deadly Treat
Livia J. Washburn
When the local veterinarian is charged with murdering his wife, Sam is convinced the police have arrested the wrong person, and he sets out to find the real killer with the help of his friends Phyllis Newsom and Carolyn and his newly adopted adorable Dalmatian, Buck.
Truth Be Told
Hank Phillippi Ryan
In digging up the facts on the heartbreaking story of a middle-class family evicted from their suburban home, reporter Jane Ryland soon learns the truth behind a big-bucks scheme and the surprising players who will stop at nothing, including murder, to keep their goal a secret.
Wicked Ways
Lisa Jackson & Nancy Bush
Suburban wife and mother Elizabeth Gaines Ellis worries that she is somehow the cause of a series of brutal deaths, and the more scared Elizabeth becomes, the higher the death toll grows, but no one will take her fears seriously except the private investigator digging into her past.
Wonder of All Things
Jason Mott
When her ability to heal physical ailments is exposed to the world, 13-year-old Ava, who gets weaker with each healing, turns to her best friend, Wash, for help, and must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice to save the one she loves most when his own secret is revealed.
NONFICTION
Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
Lucy Worsley
A historian explores the fascination with crime being the basis for national entertainment, highlighting the Ratcliff Highway Murders and Frederick and Maria Manning case in a book that was the basis for the BBC program A Very British Murder.
Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard
John Branch
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter traces the career of the star player for the New York Rangers, from his childhood in Saskatchewan to his professional career, and reveals how a series of concussions led to his accidental death and subsequent investigations into systematic violence in contact sports.
Easy Fixes for Everyday Things: Over 1,000 Simple Repairs to Household Equipment
Reader’s Digest
Offers straightforward instructions for making simple repairs to household equipment, including cell phones, tablets and media players, computers, pipes and plumbing, power and lighting, home security, vacuums and floor cleaners, ovens and stoves, garden tools, bikes, and more.
Even This I Get to Experience
Norman Lear
The Emmy Award-winning producer of such sitcoms as All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, Good Times, The Jeffersons and One Day at a Time traces 50 years in show business and politics while discussing his wartime contributions and experiences as a family man.
Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson
A revelatory history of the people who created the computer and the Internet discusses the process through which innovation happens in the modern world, citing the pivotal contributions of such figures as Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Bill Gates, and Tim Berners-Lee.
Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War
Yochi Dreazen
An award-winning journalist traces the story of how Army Major General Mark Graham and his wife Carol have channeled grief into advocacy on behalf of victims of mental illness in the aftermath of losing one of their sons in a roadside bombing and the other to suicide.
Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife
Eben Alexander
The author of Proof of Heaven draws on religious traditions, the insights of leading philosophers and thousands of reader testimonies from ordinary people who have had profound spiritual experiences to discuss what the world’s spiritual traditions say about the afterlife.
Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen: Learning to Cook With 65 Great Chefs and Over 100 Delicious Recipes
Dana Cowin
In a “cookbook confessional,” the editor-in-chief of Food & Wine magazine reveals that she has actually struggled with cooking most of her life and uses advice from more than 60 top chefs and 100 recipes to teach herself–and the reader–keys skills for mastering the kitchen.
Misdiagnosed: One Woman’s Tour of–And Escape From–Healthcareland
Jody Berger
The author, an award-winning journalist and marathoner, movingly describes her journey from sickness to misdiagnosis to recovery, explaining how to take control of personal health by knowing what questions to ask the doctors and how to listen to the body’s own messages.
Outpost: Life on the Front Lines of American Diplomacy
Christopher R. Hill
A former ambassador to Poland during the Cold War, South Korea during disarmament negotiations with North Korea and Iraq in the 21st century details the danger, loss of comrades, high-stakes negotiations, war criminals and American statesmen and heroes he has been witness to.
Rookie Smarts: Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work
Liz Wiseman
Explains why people are often at their best when we are doing something for the first time and lays out a plan for reclaiming and cultivating this curious, flexible, youthful “rookies smarts” mindset, which includes backpacker, hunter-gather, firewalker and pioneer modes.
Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
Jon Katz
Describes how the author rescued and fell in love with a neglected donkey who proved a loyal listener and companion, prompting the author to confront personal challenges and learn new lessons about compassion, while illuminating the depths of the bonds we form with our animals.
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
William J. Mann
Draws on primary sources–including witness testimonies, coroner’s inquest files, FBI records, court transcripts, and contemporary newspapers–to examine the mystery behind the 1922 murder of William Desmond Taylor, the president of the Motion Picture Directors Association.
You Can, You Will: 8 Undeniable Qualities of a Winner
Joel Osteen
The author of Your Best Life Now describes the eight characteristics that he believes are common to people who achieve their goals and attain the highest levels of success, including service to others, positive thinking, daring to dream big, maintaining high standards and more.
Published on October 27, 2014.
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