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New Books Tuesday @ RRPL

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There are many exciting new book releases coming and you don’t want to miss it…

THE OLIGARCH’S DAUGHTER

Paul Brightman, a former Wall Street star hiding in a New England town with a bounty on his head, is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness as he unravels a conspiracy involving Russian operatives and government agencies after falling in love with Tatyana, the daughter of a powerful oligarch.

ORDER OF SWANS

Kaley Adams travels to friend Jobi’s island home, but she awakens on the plane in the birthplace of fairytales, and when the king asks Kaley to find the prince, she must rely on fairytale knowledge and her handsome guide to survive this new world.

THE CRASH

Eight months pregnant and abandoned by her baby’s father, Tegan embarks on a desperate journey to her brother’s house during a storm, only to crash and find herself at the mercy of a remote couple with potentially sinister intentions.

BEEN WRONG SO LONG IT FEELS LIKE RIGHT

Detective King Oliver fulfills his grandmother’s dying wish to reunite with his estranged father while also protecting a missing woman and her daughter from a powerful billionaire, in the third novel of the series following Every Man a King.

GOOD DIRT

Ebby Freeman’s life unravels when her brother is killed and a centuries-old family heirloom is shattered but years later, while fleeing a public breakup, she uncovers how that lost, shattered jar may hold secrets to her future.

ABDUCTION OF A SLAVE

In ancient Egypt, Tetisheri, Cleopatra’s trusted agent, is sent to Cyrenaica to investigate a communication breakdown involving her uncle, a master trader. As she navigates a landscape filled with spies and hidden agendas, Tetisheri uncovers a web of intrigue linked to impending war and a local murder mystery.

JOHNNY CARELESS

Burnout from a heartbreaking NYPD case leads Jeep Mullane back to Long Island’s North Shore to head a small department, and when wealthy childhood friend Johnny Chambliss is found dead, Jeep must face Johnny’s wealthy family, enigmatic ex-wife, and decades-old secrets to untangle the mystery.

PENITENCE

When a shocking murder occurs in the home of Angie and David Sheehan, their lives are shattered; and, desperate to defend their family, they turn to small-town lawyer Martine Dumont for help.

~Semanur

New Books Tuesday @ RRPL

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Here are some of the new books coming to our shelves this week for you to add to your book list!

HARD TO KILL

Attorney Jane Smith takes on the case of an unlucky man accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons and potentially a second family in the third novel of the series following Jane Effing Smith.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

When the body of Diana Brewer is discovered in a hayfield by a local farmer, sleepy little Fairfield, Vermont, a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects and a place of fear and paranoia where everyone wants answers.

THE DAYS I LOVED YOU MOST

Spending a lifetime together, Joseph and Evelyn, when Evelyn receives a tragic diagnosis and he cannot live without her, decide, in one year’s time, to end their lives on their own terms, and decide to create new memories to cherish and make peace with the legacy they will leave behind for their family.

RETURN TO WYLDCLIFFE HEIGHTS

While transcribing the sequel to Veronica St. Clair’s 1993 hit phenomenon, The Secret of Wyldcliffe Heights, Agnes discovers the true and terrifying events that inspired the original novel and must set free the stories of all the women traumatized and victimized by Wyldcliffe Heights, a former psychiatric hospital for “wayward women.”

BROTHERSONG

Told in rotating first-person voices, this irresistibly voyeuristic peek into the lives of the rich, wealthy and ultra-wealthy follows Charlotte, Sunset Academy’s alpha mom, who’s up for PTA president until Melody, a wide-eyed transplant from Kansas, emerges as her rival while a white-collar crime investigation threatens to take down the whole institution.

PINK GLASS HOUSES

Told in rotating first-person voices, this irresistibly voyeuristic peek into the lives of the rich, wealthy and ultra-wealthy follows Charlotte, Sunset Academy’s alpha mom, who’s up for PTA president until Melody, a wide-eyed transplant from Kansas, emerges as her rival while a white-collar crime investigation threatens to take down the whole institution.

THE MISSING THREAD

Reconceiving our understanding of the ancient world by emphasizing women’s roles within it, from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless others, an award-winning classicist documents how women of antiquity are undeniably woven through the fabric of history, and in this monumental work, finally take center stage.

~Semanur

New Books Tuesday @ RRPL

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Here are some of the new books coming to our shelves this week for you to add to your book list!

Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger – In this prequel to the acclaimed Cork O’Connor series, 12-year-old Cork stumbles upon the body of a man hanging in a tree – the first in a series of events that cause him to question everything he took for granted about his hometown, his family and himself.

The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny – When a visiting professor spreads lies so that fact and fiction are so confused it’s near impossible to tell them apart, leading to murder, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache must investigate this case as well as this extraordinary popular delusion – and the madness of crowds.

The Guide by Peter Heller – Trying to return to normalcy after a young life filled with loss, Jack takes a job as a guide for the elite Kingfisher Lodge where he, while guiding a well-known singer, discovers that this idyllic fishing lodge may be a cover for a far more sinister operation.

The Women of Troy by Pat Barker – Held captive by the victorious Greeks, one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles’s slave, forges alliances when she can with Priam’s aged wife, the defiant Hecuba and the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.

The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine – Drawing on letters, articles and the most important African American newspaper of the time, the author recreates the conflicts that brought Frederick Douglass and the wider Black community to reject President Andrew Johnson and call for a guilty verdict in his impeachment trial.

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis De Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan – The New York Times bestselling author looks at the life of the Marquis de Lafayette, who helped fight and finance the American Revolution as well as the French Revolution and the overthrow of the Bourbon Dynasty.

Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton – After rescuing pets who had been trapped in their homes during the apocalypse, a Cheeto-loving crow, S.T., and his bloodhound bestie, Dennis, discover humanity’s last hope for survival in this follow-up to Hollow Kingdom.

The Secret Staircase by Sheila Connolly – After a body is discovered in a hidden staircase at Barton Mansion during renovations, Kate Hamilton hunts to identify this man who was murdered in 1880, and learns that digging up the past can be deadly when a second body is found.

Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow – After her mother dies unexpectedly of cancer, a Chinese American writer and journalist weaves together the story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America.

The Second Rebel by Linden A. Lewis – Astrid seeks to bring down the Sisterhood from within, while, on an outlaw colony station deep in space, Hiro val Akiro seeks to bring a dangerous ally into the rebellion, and Lito sol Lucious continues to grow into his role as lead revolutionary.

~semanur