New Fiction

June's Spotlight Titles:

Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson

After an airport gypsy predicts that Rose's violent husband his going to kill her, Rose grabs a gun and her dog Gretel and sets out on a cross-country escape, following messages that her missing mother has left for her and unraveling family secrets along the way.

Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst

As war approaches northern Greece, the spies begin to  circle--from the Turkish     legation to the German secret service. In the ancient port of Salonika, Costa Zannis, a   senior police official, head of an office that handles special "political" cases, risks everything to secure an escape route for those hunted by the Gestapo. 

A Stranger in the Family by Robert Barnard

Having been adopted as a boy, Kit Philpson of Glasgow,  Scotland, sets out to discover the true events behind his transfer to a new family, which may have something to do with a three-year-old boy being abducted from his parents' holiday hotel in Sicily in 1989. 

The Passage by Justin Cronin

The latest test subject in a covert government  experiment, abandoned six-year-old Amy is rescued by an FBI agent who hides them in the Oregon hills, from which Amy emerges a century later to save the human race from a terrifying   virus.

In the Name of Honor by Richard North Patterson

Two prestigious military families are shattered when general's son Brian, a traumatized Iraq  veteran, shoots and kills his former commanding officer under circumstances he claims were in self-defense, a case that also calls the victim's wife into question.

 

June General Fiction
Andrews, Andy	The Heart Mender
Bagshawe, Tilly	After the Darkness
Beattie, Ann	Walks With Men
Bender, Aimee	The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Blum, Jenna	The Stormchasers
Brashares, Ann	My Name is Memory
Cabot, Meg	Insatiable
Cook, Claire	Seven Year Switch
Coulter, Catherine	Whiplash
Cronin, Justin	The Passage
Cussler, Clive	The Spy
Deaver, Jeffery	The Burning Wire
DeMille, Nelson	The Lion
Ducharme, Diann	The Outer Banks House
Farnsworth, Christopher	Blood Oath
Frank, Dorothea Benton	Lowcountry Summer
Furst, Alan	Spies of the Balkans
Green, Jane	Promises to Keep
Hamann, Hilary Thayer	Anthropology of an American Girl

 May's Spotlight Titles:

The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald

Cared for in a series of temporary homes where young women are taught mothering skills, winsome orphan toddler Henry captures the hearts of program director Martha and each of his temporary mothers while hoping for a permanent home.

 Naked Moon by Domenic Stansberry

Dante Mancuso must do his ex-employer one last favor if the security-firm owner is  going to help his shady cousin get out from under suspicions of the San Francisco police.

This Body of Death by Elizabeth George

After a woman is found dead in an isolated cemetery,  Inspector Thomas Lynley and his former partner, Barbara Havers, find that the roots of the crime trace to a long-ago act of violence that has poisoned subsequent generations.

Parrot & Olivier in America by Peter Carey

A tale loosely inspired by the life of Alexis deTocqueville is set in the early nineteenth century and follows an unlikely friendship between a survivor of the French Revolution and an itinerant English engraver's son.

31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan

In a story based on an  actual killing, Dr. Harvey Burdell, a prominent New York City dentist, is found stabbed and decapitated in his townhouse, and police promptly arrest the widow who managed his house and servants, but attorney Henry Clinton swiftly comes to her defense, and is pitted against an ambitious district attorney.

 

May General Fiction
Allende, Isabel	Island Beneath the Sea
Atkins, Ace	Infamous
Baldacci, David	Deliver Us From Evil
Bass, Jefferson	The Bone Thief
Berg, Elizabeth	The Last Time I Saw You
Bova, Ben	The Hittite
Burke, Alafair	212
Carey, Peter	Parrot & Olivier in America
Clark, Mary Higgins	The Shadow of Your Smile
Cleage, Pearl	Till You Hear From Me
Crace, Jim	All that Follows
Dallas, Sandra	Whiter Than Snow
Dekker, Ted	The Bride Collector
Dietrich, William	The Barbary Pirates
Evans, Richard Paul	The Walk
Fowler, Connie May	How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly
Garlock, Dorothy	Stay a Little Longer
George, Elizabeth	This Body of Death
Graham, Heather	The Killing Edge
Grunwald, Lisa	The Irresistible Henry House

Previous Additions:

The Infinities -John Banville

Attending the deathbed of a renowned mathematician, a second wife and his adult children reflect on their personal demons, including the son's pretty wife, who has caught the attention of the mischievous god Zeus.

Occupied City -David Peace

A tale inspired by a true story follows the murder of a dozen people in 1948 Tokyo by a man who claimed he was providing government-directed medical care, an event  recounted from the  disparate perspectives of the victims.

Angelology -Danielle Trussoni

Having entered a convent at a young age, Sister Evangeline discovers a letter from famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller that reveals an ancient conflict between an angel society Evangeline is destined to join and the  human descendants of the Nephilim.

The Postmistress -Sarah Blake

The stories of a small Cape Cod postmistress and an American radio reporter stationed in London collide on the eve of the United States's entrance into World War II, a meeting that is shaped by a broken promise to deliver a letter.

Walking to Gatlinburg -Howard Frank Mosher

Working on the Underground Railroad throughout the Civil War, Morgan Kinneson is shaken by the murder of a slave and the disappearance of his brother from the Union army, triggering his life-threatening search through war-stricken landscapes.

General Fiction
Allen, Sarah Addison	The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Andrews, V.C.	Secret Whispers
Banville, John	The Infinities
Barclay, Linwood	Never Look Away
Bennett, Vanora	The Queen's Lover
Bernhardt, William	Capitol Betrayal
Blake, Sarah	The Postmistress
Cannell, Stephen J.	The Pallbearers
Coben, Harlan	Caught
Cruisie, Jennifer	Wild Ride
Cussler, Clive	The Silent Sea
Fairstein, Linda	Hell Gate
Farber, Kirk	Postcards from a Dead Girl
Fielding, Joy	The Wild Zone
Goodman, Carol	Arcadia Falls
Grippando, James	Money to Burn