May 3, 2024
Library Corner
May 3, 2024
New Fiction
A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh – Stranded in the Welsh mountains, seven reality show contestants have no idea what they’ve signed up for. Each of these strangers has a secret. If another player can guess the truth, they won’t just be eliminated – they’ll be exposed live on air. The stakes are higher than they’d ever imagined, and they’re trapped. The disappearance of a contestant wasn’t supposed to be part of the drama. Detective Ffion Morgan has to put aside what she’s watched on screen and find out who these people really are, knowing she can’t trust any of them. And when a murderer strikes, Ffion knows ever one of her suspects has an alibi…and a secret worth killing for.
The Prophet and The Idiot by Jonas Jonasson - In the fading days of late summer 2011, self-taught Swedish astrophysicist Petra calculates that the atmosphere will collapse in a few weeks’ time – on September 21, at approximately 9:20p.m. to be exact – ending the world as we know it. Armed with this terrible knowledge, Petra meets two unlikely companions: Johan, a man whose intellectual prowess is remarkably overshadowed by his culinary skills; and Agnes, a seventy-five-year-old widow who has made a fortune posing as a young influencer online. Convinced of their impending doom, Petra, Johan, and Agnes soon embark on a zany adventure across the globe in a camper van as they plan to make the most out of the time they have left, in more ways than one. But of course, nothing ever goes as planned. Not even the end of the world.
Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth – For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls they were rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother, Miss Fairchild, on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance at a happy family life. But their childhood wasn’t the fairy tale everyone thinks it was. Miss Fairchild had rules. Miss Fairchild could be unpredictable. And Miss Fairchild was never, ever to be crossed. In a moment of desperation, the three broke away from Miss Fairchild and thought they were free. Even though they never saw her again, she was always somewhere in the shadows of their minds. When a body is discovered under the home they grew up in, the foster sisters find themselves thrust into the spotlight as key witnesses. Or are they prime suspects?
Just For the Summer by Melody Carlson – Ginny Masters manages a popular boutique hotel in Seattle and manages it was aplomb. But the daily challenges and irritations of a fast-paced job and a demanding boss are starting to get to her. Jacqueline Potter manages her grandfather’s fishing lodge in Idaho because it was the only job she could find after graduating with her hospitality degree. She’s grateful for the work but longs for a more sophisticated and cosmopolitan life she’s just not going to find in this backwoods town. The solution to both their problems seems obvious. Just for the summer, they’ll swap jobs and lifestyles – and even love interests. But they’ll soon find that there’s more to finding happiness than just switching up the scenery.