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Legends & lattes : a novel of high fantasy and low stakes2022
Summary: Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv, the orc barbarian, cashes out of the warrior's life with one final score. A forgotten legend, a fabled artifact, and an unreasonable... more »- place hold (1)
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Staff PickHurricane girl2022
Summary: Allison Brody is thirty-two and newly arrived on the East Coast after just managing to flee her movie producer boyfriend. She has some money, saved up from years of writing and waitressing, and so... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickGreenwich Park2022
Summary: Helen's idyllic life -- handsome architect husband, gorgeous Victorian house, and cherished baby on the way (after years of trying) -- begins to change the day she attends her first prenatal class... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickFinlay Donovan knocks 'em dead2022
Summary: Finlay Donovan is -- once again -- struggling to finish her next novel and keep her head above water as a single mother of two. On the bright side, she has her live-in nanny and confidant Vero to... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe secret keeper of Jaipur2021
Summary: It's the spring of 1969, and Lakshmi, now married to Dr. Jay Kumar, directs the Healing Garden in Shimla. Malik has finished his private school education. At twenty, he has just met a young woman... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe lost apothecary2021
Summary: Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells... more »- place hold (1)
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Staff PickThe 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle2018
Summary: The rules of Blackheath: Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit. We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe travelling cat chronicles2018
Summary: "A life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice, The Travelling Cat Chronicles shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy. We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to... more »- place hold (0)
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An elderly lady is up to no good2018
Summary: Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and no qualms about a little murder. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickManhattan Beach : a novel2017
Summary: "The long-awaited, daring, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan,... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe couple next door2016
Summary: "How well do you know the couple next door? Or your husband? Or even--yourself? People are capable of almost anything. A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickTo the bright edge of the world : a novel2016
Summary: "In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads an exploratory expedition up the Wolverine River and into the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickVinegar girl : The taming of the shrew retold2016
Summary: Anne Tyler's retelling of the Shakespeare play "The taming of the shrew."- place hold (0)
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Staff PickWhat we find2016
Summary: Maggie Sullivan has hit a wall in her high-stress career in neurosurgery. After an emergency high-risk procedure, Maggie is in the middle of a wrongful death lawsuit. She returns to Sullivan's... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickOur souls at night2015
Summary: In Holt, Colorado, widower Louis Waters is initially thrown when the widowed Addie Moore suggests that they spend time together, in bed, to stave off loneliness, but soon they are exchanging the... more »- place hold (0)
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