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Happy New Year!
We hope that you had a very merry holiday season, and were able to spend time celebrating with family and friends. Can you believe that a new year is already upon us?
We always highly suggest reading more books as a part of your new year's resolution. :-) Stop by to grab some new reads as you step into a fresh season!
Please note that we will be closed on Monday, January 17th in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
We hope that you have a wonderful January!
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From the Team at Fiction Addiction: -Nancy -Jill -Lee -Grace Anne -Melissa -Gretchen (not pictured)
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Hosted by the Greenville County Library System January 22nd, 2022 at 2pm:
Join us for this special virtual event presented via Zoom. The Southern Author Expo offers the chance to listen as featured regional authors share insights about their work. Featured speakers will share information on topics including fiction and non-fiction writing and getting your work published. During the interactive Q&A, speak to the authors and ask them your burning questions. Books will be available for online purchase.
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Welcome to Greenville Box |
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A perfect welcome gift for yourself or any newcomer to Greenville! Includes three books related to Greenville, a Falls Park bridge ornament, and a local interest sticker or two.
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Are you a local author looking for help marketing your books?
If you live in the Carolinas or your books are set in North or South Carolina, Fiction Addiction can help you market your books. Click HERE or click the image above to learn more!
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Listen while you drive, knit, etc.
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Great for those needing larger print.
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1/25/22 - Random House Publishing Group - $28.00
This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.
Through her father’s prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses everything and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling.
She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting times of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life is shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women’s rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and ultimately not one, but two pandemics.
Through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination, and sense of humor carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional.
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1/4/22 - MIRA - $27.99
“Rich and complex, The Good Son is a compelling novel about the aftermath of a crime in a small, close-knit community.”—Kristin Hannah, New York Times bestselling author
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes the gripping, emotionally charged novel of a mother who must help her son after he is convicted of a devastating crime.
What do you do when the person you love best becomes unrecognizable to you? For Thea Demetriou, the answer is both simple and agonizing: you keep loving him somehow.
Stefan was just seventeen when he went to prison for the drug-fueled murder of his girlfriend, Belinda. Three years later, he’s released to a world that refuses to let him move on. Belinda’s mother, once Thea’s good friend, galvanizes the community to rally against him to protest in her daughter’s memory. The media paints Stefan as a symbol of white privilege and indifferent justice. Neighbors, employers, even some members of Thea's own family turn away.
Meanwhile Thea struggles to understand her son. At times, he is still the sweet boy he has always been; at others, he is a young man tormented by guilt and almost broken by his time in prison. But as his efforts to make amends meet escalating resistance and threats, Thea suspects more forces are at play than just community outrage. And if there is so much she never knew about her own son, what other secrets has she yet to uncover—especially about the night Belinda died?
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1/11/22 - Berkley - $26.00
The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in White Gloves. When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the course of literature itself. Shakespeare and Company is more than a bookstore and lending library: Many of the prominent writers of the Lost Generation, like Ernest Hemingway, consider it a second home. It's where some of the most important literary friendships of the twentieth century are forged—none more so than the one between Irish writer James Joyce and Sylvia herself. When Joyce's controversial novel Ulysses is banned, Beach takes a massive risk and publishes it under the auspices of Shakespeare and Company. But the success and notoriety of publishing the most infamous and influential book of the century comes with steep costs. The future of her beloved store itself is threatened when Ulysses' success brings other publishers to woo Joyce away. Her most cherished relationships are put to the test as Paris is plunged deeper into the Depression and many expatriate friends return to America. As she faces painful personal and financial crises, Sylvia—a woman who has made it her mission to honor the life-changing impact of books—must decide what Shakespeare and Company truly means to her.
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1/25/22 - Sourcebooks Landmark - $26.99
From the New York Times bestselling author of THE MYSTERY OF MRS. CHRISTIE and THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE ROOM
Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider—brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets.
Rosalind knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture—one more after thousands—she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her.
Then it finally happens—the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what unfolds next, Rosalind could have never predicted.
Marie Benedict's powerful new novel shines a light on a woman who sacrificed her life to discover the nature of our very DNA, a woman whose world-changing contributions were hidden by the men around her but whose relentless drive advanced our understanding of humankind.
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1/25/22 - Penguin Random House - $15.95
Where the Crawdads Sing meets The Four Winds as award-winning author Donna Everhart immerses readers in a unique setting—a turpentine camp buried deep in the vast pine forests of Georgia during the Great Depression—for a captivating story of friendship, survival, and three vagabonds' intersecting lives…
During the Great Depression, wretched labor camps crop up in remote areas of the expansive pine forests throughout the American South. Destitute workers live and toil under terrible conditions to harvest pine gum, hacking into tree trunks, drawing out the sticky sap that gives the Tar Heel State its nickname, and hauling it to stills to be refined into turpentine. Trapped in these isolated locations, workers are entirely dependent on the often greedy, abusive camp owners who provide food and housing at grossly inflated prices. Subsistence living means racking huge debts they are forced to work off, creating an endless cycle of labor and debt. But for the most desperate among America’s vast unemployed, these camps are often the last and only option.
This much is true for three individuals whose lives intersect in the deep woods of Georgia at the Swallow Hill turpentine camp in 1932. For Rae Lynn Cobb, a young woman disguised as a man, Swallow Hill offers distance and anonymity from those who would wrongly imprison her for killing her kind though careless husband. For a charming bachelor named Del Reese, it’s a place where backbreaking work might drown out memories of a recent trauma that’s shaken him to his core.
But Swallow Hill is no easy haven. The squalid camp is ruled by a sadistic boss named Crow and the greedy commissary owner Otis Riddle, a man who takes out his frustrations on his browbeaten wife, Cornelia. Del and “Ray Cobb” are physically and emotionally tested as they struggle to survive harsh, brutal conditions under the ever watchful, narrow-minded Crow. As Rae Lynn forges a deeper friendship with both Del and Cornelia, she begins to envision a path out of the camp. But she will have to come to terms with her past, with all its pain and beauty, before she can open herself to a new life and seize the chance to begin again…
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1/4/22 - Scholastic Inc.: 2022 - $4.99
Take a sick day with the ocean's crankiest crab!
Pick a book. Grow a Reader!
This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With easy-to-read text, a short-story format, plenty of humor, and full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency. Acorn books plant a love of reading and help readers grow!
Oh no! Crabby doesn't feel well, and Plankton is determined to play doctor. But Plankton's ideas aren't always the most helpful. He takes his own temperature, wraps Crabby in bandages, and caters to Crabby's increasingly outrageous demands. Will Crabby get better before Plankton finally loses his cool?
This timely story addresses a concern on every child's mind -- how can we help when our friends are sick?
With comic speech bubbles and full-color artwork throughout, Geisel Award Honoree Jonathan Fenske's early reader series is sure to be a hit with new readers!
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Signed First Editions Club! |
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Our picks have won awards, been made into movies, or have simply been really good reads. Moving forward, we will not be announcing our Signed First Edition Club picks ahead of time. To sign up for a surprise Signed First Edition each month, register here.
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2/1/22 - Abrams Books for Young Readers: 2022 - $17.99 |
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Kat Hats by Daniel Pinkwater
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This is the zaniest, most creative picture book I've read in ages and as a cat lover I absolutely loved it.
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Nancy M. (Jill's mom)
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I love mysteries & thrillers, police procedurals, and psychological mysteries. I also love well written southern fiction set in the early to late 1900's.
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11/9/21 - Crooked Lane Books - $26.99 |
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Vanishing Edge by Claire Kells
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Vanishing Edge is a great start to a new series. Fans of Nevada Barr wont want to miss this new crime story that takes place in Sequoya National Park. Felicity Harland is an ex-FBI agent in her first week as a federal agent with the Investigative Service Bureau (they investigate crimes in National Parks when called in by Park Rangers). Ferdinand Huxley is an ex-navy seal and a fairly new Park Ranger. Together they form a dynamite team which does not give up when a glamping campsite in a very remote area is found deserted. This is a fun adventure filled mystery that you wont want to miss.
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1/11/22 - Ecco - $16.99 |
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Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff
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Raft of Stars will take you on an adventure through the Northwoods of WI that you can not begin to imagine. It is a coming of age story where two ten-year-old boys, Fish and Bread, share an unbreakable bond of friendship. The boys are not the only ones who are tested as they run away from the murder that Fish committed in order to save Bread from his abusive father. The adults in the story: Sheriff Cal newly arrived from Houston and not at all familiar with anything other than an urban setting, Tiffany a young waitress who has had a rough life and sees little hope for improvement. Miranda, Fishs mom, who is still mourning the death of Fishs dad 3 years earlier. And Teddy, Fishs grandfather, who just wants peace and quiet all show a side of themselves that they did not know existed as they try to find and save the boys. The writing evoked such vivid imagery I could almost feel the mosquitos biting, sense the river tossing the raft back and forth, and hear the explosive force of the rapids. Once can only wish to know boys as profoundly good as Fish and Bread and to experience the kind of friendship that they have. Raft of Stars is sure to become a classic that should be read by the young and adults alike. A must read for fans of This Tender Land.
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1/4/22 - Scribner - $17.00 |
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Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone
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This amazing debut novel opens with 11 year old twin girls cold, scared and alone late at night at a Scottish harbor in Edinburgh. All they will say are their first names and that they are waiting for a pirate ship. Twenty years later one of the twins, Catriona, is back in Scotland, for the first time in over 10 years. She is there because her twin, Ellice, has disappeared at sea and is presumed dead. Cat is sure that she would know if El is dead, even though they had not spoken in 10 years. She has come back to see what games El is now playing, because El was good at playing games and getting what she wanted. Cats search for answers takes her back to their childhood and the fantasy world of pirates, witches and clowns that she and El created in a hidden part of their house which they called Mirrorland. Memories which Cat thought were all part of their fantasy world suddenly become part of her current reality and in order to find out what happened to El she must finally face the reality of their tragic childhood, and separate out fiction from the facts she has refused to remember. Mirrorland is a modern day gothic where every page brings a new surprise. A surprise which will have you wondering what is real and what isnt in this unusual, scary and surprisingly atmospheric novel which touches on horrible abuse, a mothers desperate efforts to save her children, love, betrayal and above all else the bonds between sisters especially twins.
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1/25/22 - William Morrow - $27.99 |
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Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
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Notes on an Execution is a very compelling look at the psyche of a killer. The story is told both thru his eyes and thru the eyes of three woman in his life. I did not expect to like this book at all. You know from the beginning that the main character is a killer and as such should be totally repelling and unlikeable. But the articulate telling of the story and the philosophical questions posed made this a very unusual and riveting read. I can just imagine the hours of discussion that it will elicit from book clubs.
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1/25/22 - Gallery Books - $27.00 |
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Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
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Greenwich Park is a fabulous debut novel. The book starts off with a letter to Helen from someone in prison wanting her to know the truth. So, you know from the beginning that something bad is going to happen, but you dont know who wrote the letter. Told from 3 POV Helen who hopes to finally be bringing a baby to term after many miscarriages, Serena who is Helens college friend and now married to her brother Rory and Kate, Helens child hood friend who is her brother Charlies on again and off again girlfriend - the story takes some time to develop but once it starts going it seems to go in lots of different directions at once. The ending will surprise you, and then the rest of the ending will surprise you even more - and then the last sentence on the last page happens.
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1/11/22 - St. Martin's Press - $27.99 |
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The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain
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Diane Chamberlain's newest novel couldnt be more relevant for our current times. It is hard to believe that we are still fighting the battles for the right to vote that were being fought in 1965. Told from two story lines one in 1965 North Carolina right before the signing of the Right to Vote act and one in 2010 the separate stories of Ellie and Kayla and what they have endured merge together when Ellie comes home for the first time in 45 years and Kayla prepares to move into the house at the end of the street. Despite the personal tragedy and other strange things that have been happening including a warning to not move in that included a death threat, Kayla is determined to make the house a wonderful home for herself and her young daughter. A definite must read for fans of Big Lies in a Small Town.
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1/18/22 - Forge Books - $17.99 |
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Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton
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If you only read one book this year, this should be the one. It really puts many current issues such as climate change, immigration, and racism into a perspective you can feel personally by immersing yourself into the story and identifying with the characters in the book. Waiting for the Night Song is a lyrical and amazing story about nature and what will happened to it if we continue to ignore climate change. It is the story of wonderful, productive and caring people who live in fear because of immigration laws, it is a story about childhood trauma and the effect it has on the three children involved, it is a story about determination and doing what you believe is right regardless of the consequences, and above all else it is a heartfelt story about family and friendship and just how far and how many lies one will tell, or how many secrets one will keep to protect them. Everyone who loved Where the Crawdads Sing should put this at the top of their list. My favorite quote from the book: 'When someone says you're overreacting, but you know you're right, keep reacting until it's over.'
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1/11/22 - Flatiron - $17.99 |
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The Survivors by Jane Harper
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Jane Harper has once again created a beautifully written character driven novel and mystery. And, once again the location is one of the main characters. This time we are on the Island of Tasmania and the small tourist town of Evelyn Bay. The other characters who have known each other since high school (Kiernan, Maya, Sean, Liam, Ash and Olivia) are still living with the guilt and trauma from a horrible accident the night of the big storm 12 years earlier which resulted in the death of Kiernans older brother and Liams father, and also the disappearance and presumed drowning of Olivias 14 yo sister. When Olivia's roommate Bronte is found murdered late one evening on the beach near her home the ensuing police investigation opens many old wounds and slowly starts to unveil what really happened during the big storm. As much as I loved her previous books, I think this was her best so far but then I seem to say that about each new book she writes.
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1/25/22 - Flatiron - $27.99 |
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The Fields by Erin Young
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Riley Fisher is a newly minted head of the investigative division of the Black Hawk County Iowa Sheriffs department when the brutally murdered body of her one-time best friend is found in a corn field. Riley has a lot to live up to as her grandfather (now suffering from dementia) was the well loved and respected Sheriff at one time. Riley is also carrying a lot of baggage, trauma from an incident when she was in high school that was never resolved, a tense relationship with her brother and his ex-wife, and troubles in the department from a fellow officer who resents her promotion. When the case starts to involve more murders and a mysterious link to big Agriculture, and possibly the Gov. of Iowa Riley goes off the grid to pursue leads on her own, partly to protect her past secret and to try and protect those she loves. I love police procedurals, especially those set in small towns and The Fields was a great start to a new series. I cant wait to see how Riley resolves all the conflicts that still exist in her life.
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1/4/22 - Ballantine Books - $27.00 |
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The Maid by Nita Prose
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The Maid is a cozy mystery the way cozies should be written. It is beautifully written, extremely entertaining, has a great mystery, twists you dont see coming and most of all one of the most endearing and interesting characters you will ever meet. Molly Gray is on the autism spectrum. She does not react to people and circumstances like normal people do because she doesnt understand their facial expressions and their emotions. But her Gran has taught her over the years to be honest, to be a hard worker and to be very, very polite. Molly is a maid in a luxury hotel. A job she loves and is very, very good at because she loves order, and neatness, and routine. When she finds a dead body in one of her rooms it is not surprising that the police keep thinking that she is hiding something because, while always answering truthfully, she takes things very literally and never expounds. It is also not surprising when she is eventually arrested for the murder. What is surprising is everything else that happens. I normally like more thriller type books but this was one of the most delightful books I have read in ages and the mystery was top notch.
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1/11/22 - Minotaur Books - $27.99 |
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A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
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A Flicker in the Dark is psychological suspense at its best. Chloe Davis is a psychologist so she knows both professionally and from personal experience how a past trauma can cause you to see monsters when there are none or find out that someone close to you is truly a monster. Afterall, Chloe was only 12 that fateful summer when 6 young teens went missing from her small town. And her once beloved father is now serving life in prison having confessed to the crimes. Chloe now has a practice in Baton Rouge and has not seen or spoken to her father in twenty years. It is the twentieth anniversary of her fathers crimes and all of sudden teens are disappearing again, this time though their bodies are found and they seem to have some connection to Chloe. The story is told with bits of Chloes past intertwined with the present and every time you think you may have figured out what is going on you begin to wonder, like Chloe does, what is real and what is being blown way out of proportion because of the past.
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1/4/22 - Penguin Books - $17.00 |
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The Push by Ashley Audrain
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The Push is powerful, gripping and brutally honest look at motherhood and the inherent nature of some children. This very readable literary work explores the possibility that some women are just not meant to be mothers and some children, regardless of how they are raised , are just evil. Reminiscent of We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Push is a thought provoking, difficult, but very compelling read that looks at generational child abuse, women who do not want to be mothers, women who want to be good mothers but question their ability, family dynamics when one parent either does not see the truth or refuses to admit it exists and how one copes after a devastating tragedy.
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Melissa O., Operations
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I love the faster pacing of books written for a younger audience (middle grade and young adult), but will try just about anything fiction, especially if it has some romance. I also have a soft spot for really special picture books.
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1/4/22 - Balzer & Bray - $8.99 |
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Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston
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Amari's brother Quinton has been missing for a while, but she refuses to believe he's dead. Imagine her surprise when she gets a delivery from Quinton that includes an invitation to join a secret supernatural society (think Men in Black). Amari accepts just so she can have an opportunity to find her brother, but she doesn't count on the prejudice she experiences as a Black girl in the regular world to follow her to her new life. Add to that a rare supernatural talent that marks her immediately as someone to be feared and hated and a competition to even be considered as one of the elite agents able to go on missions, and Amari's new life is not going to be easy. But with help from new friends, and despite an unknown evil force determined to upend the entire supernatural world, Amari might just be able to excel. A fun, fanciful, magical story about doing your best and overcoming odds that will appeal to fans of Nevermoor.
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1/4/22 - Graydon House - $15.99 |
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Love at First Spite by Anna E. Collins
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Dani was supposed to have gotten married and be living with her husband in the house they bought together...but he bought the house without her, didn't buy the lot next door like she wanted, and cheated on her with their realtor, so there was no wedding. Now Dani has decided on the perfect revenge: buy the lot next door and build a house that obstructs her ex's view and will annoy him to no end. There's just one problem -- building the house means spending time with annoyingly arrogant architect Wyatt, which is no fun at all...until it becomes the main reason to spend any time on the house at all. A fun romance with good character and relationship building.
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Linda H., Volunteer
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I enjoy nonfiction the most: biographies, true crime, sociology, and civil rights narratives to name a few. When I read fiction, I choose historical novels or literary fiction most often.
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1/11/22 - Bantam - $17.00 |
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The Children's Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
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Melanie Benjamin is at her best in this historical fiction account of the terrifying blizzard of 1888. It seemingly came out of nowhere and caught the residents of the Midwest by surprise, especially the children and teachers who were preparing to go home for the day. Benjamin looks at the lives of two sisters--both teachers at different schools--and how their decisions that day meant life or death for their students. I spent several late nights on this one!
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Mary Jane, Volunteer
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I'm a retired school librarian who loves reading, walking and our rescue Corgi, Heidi. I volunteer for a local nonprofit, PS I Love You, and serve as a board member for Hub City Farmers Market.
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11/2/21 - HarperCollins Publishers - $27.99 |
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Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
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Finding love in a pandemic seems so unlikely but Burntcoat gives us not only belief in the improbable but also hope. As a virus spreads rapidly, acclaimed artist Edith shelters with her new lover, Halit, in her sprawling studio named Burntcoat. Isolation, sickness and death increase the speed and depth of the relationship and leave both characters consumed by the other. Sarah Hall's gritty and graphic imagery give the reader a deeply intimate view of both the creation of art and the powerful hope of love in every stage of life.
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1/4/22 - Simon & Schuster - $27.00 |
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The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
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Jessamine Chan has created a world that institutionalizes motherhood and grades struggling mothers on their responses to life-like robot children. The School for Good Mothers is a government run program that promises to create exactly that. Frida, the newly divorced mother of baby Harriet, finds herself navigating the school's impossible classes in a hopeful bid to regain shared custody. Chan gives readers a relevant and disturbing look at government overreach and society's absurd expectations of mothers with heartbreaking results.
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Gretchen S., Bookseller
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I love to read historical fiction, classic literature, biographies, and young adult. My favorites stories are those that make me think or look at the world with a different perspective.
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10/12/21 - Viking Books for Young Readers - $18.99 |
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So, This Is Christmas by Tracy Andreen
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Finley Brown imagined that going to Barrington Academy, the prestigious boarding school, would be her escape from her sleepy town of Christmas Oklahoma. However, by Christmas break, her ideal 'Hogwarts' boarding school image has faltered. She has no friends and is flunking out of Barrington Academy. So Finley heads back to Christmas Oklahoma chest-fallen, and ready to tell her family that she was not going back to Barrington. When Finley arrives at her grandmothers bed and breakfast in Christmas, to her horror her nemesis from Barrington, Arthur Chakrabarti Watercress and his Aunt Ayesha are staying at the Bed and Breakfast. Finley had exaggerated her little towns motif as a Christmas wonderland to gain friends and popularity at Barrington. Now, Arthur demands that Finely creates a one of a kind Christmas experience that she promised, or face the consequences of her lies. Finely will find herself racing against time and obstacles to create a Christmas experience that no one will ever forget! So, This is Christmas is a wonderful Romance comedy for the holiday season. You will find yourself laughing out loud, while getting into the holiday spirit.
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1/18/22 - William Morrow - $27.99 |
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How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
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When a scientific team discover a mummified body of a prehistoric girl buried in the ice of the Arctic, they accidentally release a pathogen that will cause a pandemic that will last for generations, and change the face of humanity forever. As decades go by, people are faced with unbelievable choices when dealing with a searingly unending pandemic. What should they do to preserve humanity? Should they end the suffering of those who are ill? Could they assist the grieving by giving them one more day with their loved ones? What is it like for those infected with the virus? Where did this alien pathogen actually come from? If there is no cure, should they reach for the stars? Each story and character is vaguely interwoven with each other as choices are made on how to help those afflicted with this plague. What is the best answer? Each generation must choose for themselves. How High We Go in the Dark is a thought provoking novel that will show the depths of humanity over generations as they face an unending pandemic.
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12/7/21 - VIZ Media LLC - $9.99 |
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Yona of the Dawn by Mizuho Kusanagi
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Yet another wonderful addition to this amazing story. Yona of the Dawn, Volume 33 gives you more insight into one of the most mysterious characters in the story, Su-Won. Who is Su-Won really? Is he the gentle boy that Yona grew up with? The evil murderer of her father? Or is there something deeper going on that has not been revealed yet? To answer these questions, Yona decides to stay with Su-Won and search for answers. When she discovers a book hidden in the library, it might hold the clues to the past, and could change everything. Yona of the Dawn, vol. 33 is an eye opening addition that will leave you reevaluating everything you thought you knew about this story.
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11/16/21 - Katherine Tegen Books - $18.99 |
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The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzi Lee
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Its finally here! The third and final installment of the Montague siblings has arrived, and it is well worth the wait! The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks introduces you to Adrienne Montague, the youngest of the Montague siblings, and the only one who is completely unaware that he has siblings. When Adriene discovers a partial spy glass that belonged to his mother, questions arise: Where did this spy glass come from And did it have anything to do with his mothers death? While searching for answers, Adriene stumbles across Henry 'Monty' Montague, the brother Adriene never knew he had. Adriene is delighted and courious to discover more about his brother, but Monty wants nothing to do with him. Yet after some persuasion, Monty decides to assist Adriene on this quest for answers. Adriene and Monty now find themselves embarking on a journey to find their sister Felicity and discover the secrets of the spy glass. But as always, a simple task for the Montague siblings will take a Herculean effort to keep out of trouble and not die. The Noblemans Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks is one of the best books I have read this year. Its filled with laughter, very relatable characters, mystery, and ghosts. Mackenzie Lee has create a historical world that takes the reader into the past and gives us characters that we can recognize and relate to.
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1/25/22 - Triumph Books - $17.95 |
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Fearless Heart by Frank Murphy
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Surya Bonaly is an amazing Olympic ice skater that astounded the world with her abilities on ice. Fearless Heart tells her story with beautiful illustrations that shows Suryas life, her challenges, and her triumph. Fearless Heart will inspire the reader to work hard to follow their dreams, and stand up for what they believe in.
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1/4/22 - Scholastic Nonfiction - $17.99 |
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Signs of Survival by Renee Hartman
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Sisters are there for each other no matter what. This is a fact that Renee and Herta know well growing up in Bratislava during German occupation in the 1940s. The situation is even more complicated because Herta is deaf, and must depend on her sister to understand the people around her. Their lives in Bratislava is complicated as Jewish children, but grow even more dire when they are separated from their parents and find themselves abandoned in an empty ghetto. With nothing else to do, they turn themselves in to the German police asking to be sent to a concentration camp to be reunited with their parents. However, they soon discover that they are not being sent to Auschwitzs to rejoin their parents, but to a different concentration camp called Bergen-Belsen. There they face starvation, disease, cruelty, and violence from the guards ordered to watch over them. Time after time the only thing Renee and Herta can depend on is each other. A gripping tale of survival, sisterhood, and the undaunted human spirit told from the prospective of a child who actually survived the darkest time in history. This book is a wonderful addition for any young reader interested in real events, the Holocaust, or biographies.
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9/28/21 - MIRA - $15.99 |
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The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer
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Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is the perfect Jewish daughter on the surface. As the daughter of the world famous Rabbi Rubenstein the pressure to please is very high, but Rachel has a secret as well. She is also Margot Cross, the famous Christmas romance novelist. Rachel fears that her secret identity will destroy her father's reputation and her own. Rachel's life feels perfect until everything turns upside down. First, her arch rival from Summer camp, Jacob Greenberg, returns to New York to host a charity Matzah ball for Hanukkah, and gets invited to her families Hanukkah celebration. Second, Rachel's publisher demands a Hanukkah themed holiday story instead of a Christmas story! Hilarity ensues as Rachel tries her best to get inspiration for her Hanukkah themed novel by obtaining one of the coveted tickets to the Matzah Ball. Every time Rachel thinks she has succeeded in obtaining her ticket, Jacob seems to get in the way and ruin her plans. Are they truly the enemies that Rachel believes, or is all the biggest misunderstand in the history of rivalries? A delightful read filled with hilarious anecdotes, relatable characters, and a ball that will rival that of Cinderella. Matzah Ball is a wonderfully fresh and original story that will leave you laughing till the end.
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Jackie W., Volunteer
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I enjoy suspense, complex political plots, psychological thrillers, really any good mystery. I also enjoy southern historical novels, especially those set in Appalachia as well as regency romance.
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1/11/22 - Harper - $26.99 |
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Find Me by Alafair Burke
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I always enjoy Alafair Burke novels, I find her characters to be engaging and very human. This book has an engaging plot that involves long term amnesia. Hope was rescued from a wrecked car by Lindsey and they have been as close as sisters since. Hope never regained her memory and Lindsey is incredibly protective of her. When Hope feels the need to break free from a town that has supported her in every way, Lindsey understands, to a point. She did not move back to her hometown after law school, but always new Hope was safe in the protective cocoon. Lindseys life spirals out of control when Hope goes off the grid. There is nothing she will not do to find Hope. What Lindsey doesn't understand is that she has no idea why Hope has disappeared and what she may uncover in her search. Hope and Lindsey are both fascinating characters, frustrating at times but engaging and unpredictable. The plot is excellent and the secondary characters are also well developed. For fans of Karin Slaughter, Alex Kava and Lisa Gardner.
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1/4/22 - St. Martin's Press - $27.99 |
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Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
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This book keeps you hanging on trying to determine who you can trust and who to fear. Daily you change your allegiance and become more embroiled in something you cannot understand. What could be more romantic and adventurous than sailing to an atoll from Hawaii on a glamorous trip of a lifetime? When you are young, carefree, and fearless you don't hesitate. Just met your fellow travelers? Not even worth considering. Lux is on the mend from the death of her Mother and feels abandoned and adrift. Meeting Nico and following him to Maui seems to be the answer to her loneliness. Heading to an abandoned atoll with a mysterious and dark history seems romantic. Unfortunately it is everything you never imagined. The book moves seamlessly between before, after and now. It is rare you find a book with six characters where they are so well developed you feel like you know all of them. This book, in typical Hawkins style accomplishes that feat. You will be shocked at the ending of the story, be sure your reading will not be interrupted!
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Brent B., Volunteer
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There are no limits to what I love to read, however I tend to gravitate to mystery/thriller action stories that are fast paced with lots of twists and turns that keep you guessing all the way to the end. There is nothing I love more than an ending that comes completely out of left field that I never saw coming.
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1/4/22 - Orbit - $29.00 |
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Anthem by Noah Hawley
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This book will punch you in the face. When you feel like you've recovered, it will kick you in the shins. Hawley paints a disturbing dystopian picture of one possible future where a global epidemic of suicides is affecting children across the globe. Where climate change has jumped past the tipping point and virtually the entire western United States is on fire. Civil disobedience has taken a life of it's own to the point of revolution and the ultra wealthy continue to indulge their excesses unabated. There is hope however, in the form of a band of misfit youngsters following another child they call "The Prophet," who seems to be leading them with words from God that only he can hear. So what we wait for and wonder is "how does this end?" With all the hopelessness and disarray in the world, can there be a satisfying end to this disturbing story? In the epilogue the author shares with us that his daughter asked him that very question. How IS he going to end this book?
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1/25/22 - Orbit - $17.99 |
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Breakout by Paul Herron
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Jack Constantine is an ex-cop serving ten years in a Florida prison for killing one of the three men who murdered his wife. Kiera Sawyer is a Correctional Officer on her first day at work at the prison on a day where a Hurricane is bearing down on the facility. When two separate Cat 5 hurricanes combine to create a super storm of unprecedented fury, the Warden is forced to call for the National Guard to staff the prison. As the storm intensifies and it becomes clear that unless the staff evacuates NOW, they will likely not survive. The decision is made to lock down the prison and gather all staff and guards and evacuate the prison hoping the Guard will arrive in time to manage through the storm. Unknowingly, Keira has been left behind; the only staff member and only female amongst 800 high security prisoners. Worse yet, in a last second show of mercy (?) one of the departing guards unlocks all of the cells hoping to spare the prisoners from drowning in their cells and to give them a fighting chance for survival. And fight they do! Meanwhile Jack and Keira find one another and agree to team up to try to survive the ensuing mayhem. However Jack has learned that the other two men who murdered his wife have been transferred to the prison because of the storm. To escape and survive, Jack and Keira have to fight their way past 800 violent and blood crazed inmates to an old facility on the property that may offer the only safe space to ride out the storm. But it also happens to house those other two killers and Keira has no idea that Jack has an agenda other than survival. This one is a compelling page-turner that grabs you quickly and doesn’t let go.
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Adam M., Volunteer
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I like to read science fiction: post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, alternate dimensions, and hard sci-fi so hard that it makes my brain hurt. I also love a good fantasy/sci-fi mash up.
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1/25/22 - Disney-Hyperio - $18.99 |
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In Every Generation by Kendare Blake
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A new series in the Buffyverse, continues the tv show, while ignoring the seasons of comic books. After an explosion at a gathering of Slayers, Willow's daughter Frankie becomes the new slayer. Same tone and quips as the show, but with a new Slayer and group of Scoobies helping out. Willow, Oz, and Spike are the grown-ups and Watcher as the new Slayer faces a new big bad.
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