January 21, 2022
New Fiction
Her Name is Knight by Yasmin Angoe – Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe, she gets plenty of chances. But while on assignment in Miami, Nena ends up saving a life, not taking one. She emerges from the experience a changed woman, finally hopeful for a life beyond rage and revenge. Tasked with killing a man she’s come to respect, Nena struggles to reconcile her loyalty to the Tribe with her new purpose. Meanwhile, she learns a new Tribe council member is the same man who razed her village, murdered her family, and sold her into captivity. Nena can’t resist the temptation of vengeance – and she doesn’t want to. Before she can reclaim her life, she must leverage everything she was and everything she is to take him down and end the cycle of bloodshed for good.
A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw – Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Hired by families as a last resort, he requires only a single object to find the person who has vanished. When he takes on the case of Maggie St. James – a well-known author of dark, macabre children’s books – he’s led to a place many believed to be only legend. Known as Pastoral, this reclusive community was founded by like-minded people searching for a simpler way of life. But soon after Travis stumbles upon it…he disappears. Just like Maggie St. James. Years later, Theo, a lifelong member of Pastoral, discovers Travis’s abandoned truck beyond the border of the community. No one is allowed in or out, not without the risk of bringing a disease – the rot – into Pastoral. Unraveling the mystery of what happened reveals secrets that Theo, his wife, Calla, and her sister, Bee, keep from one another. Secrets that prove their perfect, isolated world isn’t as safe as they believed – and that darkness takes many forms.
The Left-Handed Twin by Thomas Perry – Jane Whitefield helps people disappear. Fearing for their lives, her clients come to her when they need to vanish completely – to assume a new identity and establish a new life somewhere they won’t be found. Sara Doughton, the most recent to seek these services, arrives at Whitefield’s rural New York home with a whole lot of trouble behind her – including the vengeful ex-boyfriend she testified against in a murder trial, acquitted by a bribed jury, and his deadly new friends from the Russian mob. When the Russians learn that Sara is traveling with a tall, dark-haired woman, skillet the art of elusion, they become increasingly interested in helping find the duo. They’ve heard rumors of Jane’s existence and know that, if she is the person they think she is, the information she has on past escapees could be worth millions. Thus begins a bloodthirsty pursuit that winds through the cities of the Northeast before plunging into Maine’s Hundred Mile Wilderness. In a chase where unknown dangers lurk around every corner, one thing is certain: only one party – Jane or her pursuers – will emerge alive.
New Non-Fiction
Mother Trucker by Amy Butcher - Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor, mentor, and writer, but in her own home, she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified of the ways her partner’s behavior could escalate, Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy “Mothertrucker” Wiebe. Joy was a fifty-year-old wife and mother and the nation’s only female ice road trucker, a woman who maneuvered big rigs through the Alaskan wilderness along the deadliest road in America. Joy was everything Amy wanted to be: independent, fearless, and in charge of her life in a landscape dominated by men. Invited by Joy to ride shotgun, Amy found her escape on a road that was treacherous, beautiful, and exhilarating―an adventurous ride through the Alaskan wilderness that was profoundly life changing.