Fiction
HOUSE OF UNEXPECTED SISTERS: NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY (18)
Written by McCall Smith, Alexander
Precious Ramotswe learns valuable lessons about first impressions and forgiveness in this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are approached by their part-time colleague, Mr.
UNCOMMON TYPE: SOME STORIES
Written by Hanks, Tom
A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that the legendary Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. "Reading Tom Hanks's Uncommon Type is like finding out that Alice Munro is also the greatest actress of our time." --Ann Patchett, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dutch House A gentle Eastern European immigrant arriv
HAME
Written by McAfee, Annalena
A rich, sultry, ambitious novel about a young American writer/curator, fleeing a crumbling marriage in New York who travels with her nine-year old daughter to one of the remote islands in the north of Scotland, birthplace of her grandfather. Commissioned to set up a museum there and to write the biography of the island's celebrated poet and chronicler, Mhairi McPhail is slowly drawn in
GIRL WHO TAKES AN EYE FOR AN EYE: A LISBETH SALANDER NOVEL, CONTINUING STIEG LARSSON'S MILLENNIUM SERIES
Written by Lagercrantz, David
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series continues with this "engrossing" novel (USA Today) as brilliant hacker Lisbeth Salander teams up with journalist Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the secrets of her childhood and take revenge.
NORMA
Written by Oksanen, Sofi
From the internationally best-selling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki, about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother's death. When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their li
DINNER AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
Written by Englander, Nathan
The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges--a political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pivots on the complex relationship between a secret prisoner and his guard. A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years.
RED-HAIRED WOMAN
Written by Pamuk, Orhan
From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain.
MISFORTUNE OF MARION PALM
Written by Culliton, Emily
A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzle
PARIS IN THE PRESENT TENSE
Written by Helprin, Mark
Mark Helprin's powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories.
KISS ME SOMEONE: STORIES
Written by Shepard, Karen
Bold and unapologetic, Karen Shepard's Kiss Me Someone is inhabited by women who walk the line between various states: adolescence and adulthood, stability and uncertainty, selfishness and compassion. They navigate the obstacles that come with mixed-race identity and instabilities in social class, and they use their liminal positions to leverage power.