Fiction on Order

May 2013

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

Americanah

Separated by differing ambitions after falling in love in occupied Nigeria, beautiful Ifemelu experiences triumph and defeat in America, while Obinze endures an undocumented status in London until the pair is reunited in their homeland fifteen years later.

Ahern, Cecelia

The Time of My Life

Al-Shaykh, Hanan

One Thousand and One Nights

An evocative reimagining of 19 tales from the classic story about young queen Shahrazad's efforts to save her life from a brutal husband focuses on female characters at the heart of each tale in a woven sequence that incorporates humor and sensuality.

Andrews, Mary Kay

Ladies' Night

Asaro, Catherine (EDT)

Nebula Awards Showcase 2013

Aslam, Nadeem

The Blind Man's Garden

Secretly entering Afghanistan to help care for wounded civilians, Jeo and Makal, foster brothers from a small Pakistani town, find that their good intentions cannot keep them out of harm's way.

Atkins, Ace

The Broken Places

Bakker, Gerbrand

Ten White Geese

A young woman flees Amsterdam and rents a farm in rural Wales where ten geese on the farm slowly disappear and speculation arises about her identity and her marital situation.

Bolton, S. J.

Lost

Bostwick, Marie

Between Heaven and Texas

Brennan, Allison

Stolen

Brookmyre, Christopher

When the Devil Drives

The second installment in Brookmyre's new crime series is an intensely gripping literary thriller that delves into the darkest reaches of the human psyche.

Bryant, Niobia

Never Keeping Secrets

Buckley, Fiona

A Rescue for a Queen

Capote, Truman

The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

A first complete collection of the O. Henry Memorial Short Story Prize-winning literary figure's short stories includes pieces set in locales ranging from the Gothic South to the chic East Coast and offers insight into his cultural influence and mastery of the short story form.

Card, Orson Scott

Earth Afire

Carlisle, Kate

A Cookbook Conspiracy

Castle, Richard

Storm Front

Clark, Marcia

Killer Ambition

Cleeves, Ann

Silent Voices

Ann Cleeves has thrilled readers everywhere with her critically acclaimed mystery series set in the Shetland Islands, which began with the award-winning Raven Black. Now, Cleeves is back with another compelling mystery series (set in Northumberland, England), featuring detective Vera Stanhope.

Colfer, Eoin

Screwed

Coonts, Deborah

Lucky Bastard

Disclafani, Anton

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

Exiled to an equestrienne boarding school in the South at the height of the Great Depression for her mysterious role in a family tragedy, strong-willed teen Thea Atwell grapples with painful memories while acclimating to the school's strict environment.

Doherty, Paul

The Straw Men

Donohue, Meg

All the Summer Girls

Returning to the New Jersey beach town where they used to spend their summers, three childhood best friends find themselves doing things they would never do in their September-to-May lives and finally find the courage to face the choices they made on a fateful summer night eight years earlier.

Doudera, Vicki

Final Settlement

Garcia, Cristina

King of Cuba

A tale told from the alternating viewpoints of an aging Castro-like dictator and a Miami exile obsessed with avenging himself against the dictator for personal betrayals traces the impact of a six-decade revolution on their lives and a homeland that has paid the price of constant violence.

Gaus, P. L.

The Names of Our Tears

Gould, Leslie

Adoring Addie

Grecian, Alex

The Black Country

When members of a prominent coal-mining family go missing, Scotland Yard's Murder Squad teammates Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith, aided by newly arrived forensics pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley, investigate dark secrets and realize that the family's village is slowly sinking into underground mines. Second in a new historical mystery series set in Victorian England.

Greenberg, Mike

All You Could Ask for

Hambly, Barbara

Good Man Friday

Benjamin January's search for a missing man takes him into a dark world filled with grave robbers and slave stealers in 1838 New Orleans.

Hayder, Mo

Poppet

Henderson, Dee

Jennifer

Busy physician Jennifer O'Malley is sorting out how to introduce her new beau, Tom Peterson, to her family, when her faith is tested in a way she does not expect.

Kallentoft, Mons

Summer Death

Kalotay, Daphne

Sight Reading

This beautifully written exploration of family, the importance of art in daily life and the role of intuition in both the creative process and the evolution of the self follows three colleagues--violinist Remy, composer Nicholas, and his beautiful and fragile wife, Hazel, from 1987 to 2007, from Europe to America.

Kennedy, Douglas

Five Days

King, Stephen

Joyland

In a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

Kwan, Kevin

Crazy Rich Asians

Lawrence, Starling

The Thief of Words

Arriving as a volunteer in Sierra Leone, Nora Fenton, who has little understanding of the local complexities of race and religion, or the hidden politics of the diamond trade, has many affairs, which are documented by a writer who is in love with her.

Leavitt, Caroline

Is This Tomorrow

Link, Charlotte

The Other Child

Investigating two murders that occurred months apart in the quiet seaside town of Scarborough, detective Valerie Almond seeks a connection between the two victims and instead discovers a link to the evacuation of children to Scarborough during World War II.

Lipperman, Lizbeth

Heard It Through the Grapevine

Loehfelm, Bill

The Devil in Her Way

Lovett, Charles C.

The Bookman's Tale

Relocating to the English countryside after the death of his wife, antiquarian book enthusiast Peter Byerly discovers an 18th-century study of Shakespeare forgeries that contains a Victorian portrait strongly resembling his late wife, a finding that sparks an obsessive search through the bard's historical period.

Lyndon, Robert

Hawk Quest

Macbride, Stuart

Close to the Bone

MacInerney, Karen

Brush With Death

Mackenzie, Jassy

Pale Horses

Macmanus, James

Black Venus

Marra, Anthony

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

In December 2004 in a rural village in Chechnya, failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized eight-year-old daughter of a man abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child. A must-read for readers of literary fiction.

McCall Smith, Alexander

Trains and Lovers

Inspired by a love of trains and the nature of love, a series of intertwined romantic tales follows the experiences of four strangers traveling from Edinburgh to London who entertain each other with reminiscences about how trains have changed their lives.

Michaels, Fern

Classified

Miller, Derek

Norwegian by Night

After witnessing a murder in Oslo, elderly former Marine sniper and watch repairman Sheldon Horrowitz flees to safety with the newly orphaned son of the victim and becomes haunted by memories of his own son who died in Vietnam.

Miller, Rebecca

Jacob's Folly

Mitzner, Adam

A Case of Redemption

Monroe, Mary

Lost Daughters

When her new husband Mel and her daughter Lorretta, an aspiring model, run off together, claiming they are in love, Maureen Montgomery must confront her tragic past to find the strength to overcome this devastating betrayal and make a new life for herself that is all her own.

Nussbaum, Susan

Good Kings Bad Kings

The residents at a facility for disabled young people in Chicago build trust and make friends in an effort to fight against their living conditions and mistreatment in this debut novel from the playwright behind “Mishuganismo.”

O'sullivan, Kathryn

Foal Play

Peterson, Tracie

The Quarryman's Bride

Pilkington, John

Marbeck and the Double-Dealer

Sir Robert Cecil, Queen Elizabeth's spymaster, calls in fellow spy Marbeck to unmask a double agent working with the Spanish, but the investigation grows sinister and forces Marbeck to confront the most dangerous forces of the Spanish empire.

Riley, Rhonda

The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope

Evelyn Roe's life is transformed when she finds a strange being all but buried on her family's farm, a being that soon morphs into a man named Adam, with whom she falls in love.

Rindell, Suzanne

The Other Typist

Working as a typist for the NYC Police Department in 1923, Rose Baker documents confessions of harrowing crimes and struggles with changing gender roles while clinging to her Victorian ideals and searching for nurturing companionship before becoming obsessed with a glamorous newcomer and her world of bobbed hair, smoking and speakeasies.

Robinson, Roxana

Sparta

Suspenseful, compassionate, and perceptive, Sparta captures the nuances of the unique estrangement that modern soldiers face as they attempt to rejoin the society they've fought for.

Rose, M. J.

Seduction

Sefton, Maggie

Close Knit Killer

Silber, Joan

Fools

This collection of interconnected stories begins with the anarchist daughter of missionaries in Manhattan who runs away to be an activist and ends with a wealthy young adulterer in Paris who is outsmarted by the object of his desire.

Singh, Nalini

Heart of Obsidian

Smith, Dan

The Child Thief

Steele, Jon

Angel City

Stevens, Chevy

Always Watching

Suri, Manil

The City of Devi

Resolving to reunite with her missing physicist husband as Mumbai is evacuated in the wake of a nuclear threat, statistician Sarita journeys through the surreal landscape of a dangerous near-abandoned city and meets an incarnation of the patron goddess Devi Ma.

Swierczynski, Duane

Point and Shoot

Tatlock, Ann

Sweet Mercy

Thayer, Nancy

Island Girls

Trenow, Liz

The Last Telegram

Decades ago, as Nazi planes dominated the sky, Lily Verner made a terrible choice. She's tried to forget, but now an unexpected event pulls her back to the 1940s British countryside. She finds herself remembering the brilliant colors of the silk she helped to weave at her family's mill, the relentless pressure of the worsening war, and the kind of heartbreaking loss that stops time.

Wallace, Daniel

The Kings and Queens of Roam

Walls, Jeannette

The Silver Star

Abandoned by their artist mother at the age of twelve, Bean and her older sister, Liz, are sent to live in the decaying antebellum mansion of their widowed uncle, where they learn the truth about their parents and take odd jobs to earn extra money before an increasingly withdrawn Liz has a life-shattering experience.

Williams, Beatriz

A Hundred Summers