These are the books we are adding to our collection this week…
Across centuries two women, Melina Green and Emilia Bassano, one a modern playwright and the other her Elizabethan ancestor, each fight societal expectations to have their voices heard on the stage in a world that silences female playwrights.
Sweeping across centuries, and stretching from Mesopotamia to London, this stunning novel follows a trio of characters living in the shadows of one of the greatest epic poems of all time. Nineveh and its Remains as they become entwined by a single drop of water.
While on their honeymoon at McAlpine Lodge, GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton must solve a murder when the Lodge’s manager is found dead, and investigating the McAlpine family and other guests, they realize everyone here is lying about their past, lying to their family, lying to themselves.
As a huge manhunt is launched to find a local politician’s daughter, Cork O’Connor. and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police, when the body of a young Ojibwe woman is found, uncover a connection to the missing teenager one that places his own grandson in the crosshairs of a killer.
Bound by friendship and a quest for justice, the members of the Sisterhood investigate when two young women go missing in Mountain Valley, Oregon, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Rock Bottom.
Cut off from his comrades at The Campus just when he needs them most, Jack Ryan, Jr. finds himself in the middle of an international conspiracy that may be too much for even him to handle.
LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan investigates what appears to be a fatal car-jacking, but uncovers details about the victim that suggests there’s more going on, in the fourth novel of the series following The Devil You Know.
SHE WHO KNOWS
When she receives The Call, which has never happened to a female in the history of her village, 13-year-old Najeeba must journey with her father and brothers to mine salt at the Dead Lake where her presence changes everything and her family will never be the same.
~Semanur
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