February 14, 2025
New Fiction
We all Live Here by JoJo Moyes – Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. She wrote a bestselling book about keeping your marriage alive. Now she’s watching her ex-husband play happy families with another woman. There are her daughters, Celie and Violet, who are avoiding school and memorizing age-inappropriate rap songs, respectively. And are both furious at their dad. There’s Jensen, who Lila may or may not be in a relationship with. She hasn’t quite worked it out. There’s Bill – her stepdad-who moved in after Lila’s mother died. He’s a sweetheart, but painfully rigid, especially when it comes to kitchen organization and healthy dinners. And he turns into a petulant child when he sees… Gene, a failed Hollywood actor, who has used up every line of credit and all his girlfriends’ goodwill and has now turned up on his daughter’s doorstep, hoping for a place to land – and that daughter is Lila. When this fractured family is forced to live under one roof, Lila thinks she may have reached her limit. But what if the one person you couldn’t forgive holds the secret to pulling your family together again?
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler – Gaile Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job – or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn’t even been invited to the bridal spa day. Then Gail’s ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep. He has no place to stay, no suit for the wedding. Instead he has a cat(never mind that the groom is deathly allergic). But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her own relationship. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max’s past.
Blood Ties by Jo Nesbo – By all accounts, Carl and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themselves. Or at least they’re doing as well as can be expected in a small town like Os. Carl manages the area’s swanky spa hotel, while Roy has ambitious plans for an amusement park, complete with a state-of-the-art roller coaster. But when news breaks about a highway to be built nearby, bypassing Os and leaving the town cut off and isolated, it’s clear that something has to be done…even if the methods are bound to be dirty. Fortunately, Carl and Roy have experience with just that kind of work. Meanwhile, the town sheriff has gotten his hands on new technology that will enable him to take a deeper look at a slate of unsolved murders from years past – including that of his own father. And just as the sheriff reopens his investigation, the death toll begins to climb: “ It’s too late to jump off a roller coaster once the ride has started.”
The Oligarch’s Daughter by Joseph Finer - Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness to evade Russian operatives who can seemingly predict his every move.Six years ago, Paul was a rising star on Wall Street who fell in love with a beautiful photographer named Tatyana—unaware that her father was a Russian oligarch and the object of considerable interest from several U.S. intelligence agencies. Now, to save his own life, Paul must unravel a decades-old conspiracy that extends to the highest reaches of the government.