FICTION
The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins
Newly-elected Tibbehah County sheriff Quinn Colson investigates an old friend’s gun sales when stolen military rifles are found in the possession of a Mexican drug gang, a case that is complicated by his discovery of a black market baby adoption ring.
Lookaway Lookaway by Wilton Barnhardt
Presiding over her family and its legacy of masterpiece Civil War art, North Carolina society maven Jerene Jarvis Johnston takes increasingly haphazard steps to protect her grown children from their own heedlessness.
Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
A first novel by the internationally best-selling author of is an intimate parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone in which two long-time friends return to their ruined home village and struggle to rebuild in the face of violence, scarcity and a corrupt foreign mining company.
The Color Master by Aimee Bender
A volume of tales by the best-selling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake features characters who pursue connections through love, sex and family, including a golden-haired girl who appears in an orchard to apple-eating attendants, a woman who cannot resume normal life after sharing a fantasy with her husband and an unattractive woman who stays with her ogre husband after he accidentally eats their children.
The Wedding Gift by Marlen Suyapa Bodden
Given as a wedding gift the slave half-sister with whom she grew up, Sarah is subsequently rejected by her suspicious husband and returned to her parents’ home, setting in motion a series of events that destabilize the once-powerful family and test the powerful bonds between its women.
The Invention of Wings by Susan Monk Kidd
Traces more than three decades in the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and pursue a meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, who is placed in her charge as a child before finding courage and a sense of self.
River Road by Jayne Ann Krentz
Returning 13 years after an embarrassing incident from her teens to the hometown of her beloved late aunt, forensic genealogist Lucy Sheridan makes shocking discoveries about her aunt’s death, the disappearance of a cold-blooded local and an attractive former cop.
The Prince of Risk by Christopher Reich
When his father, a chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, is killed in a brazen attack on the White House lawn, Bobby Astor, a rising hedge fund manager, watches his carefully built business crumble and untangles a web of lies to reveal a sophisticated plot against the U.S. financial system.
Bellman and Black: A Ghost Story by Diane Setterfield
Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger.
Behind His Blue Eyes by Kaki Warner
Hoping to escape his past, Ethan Hardesty left a career as an architect and went to work for the railroad. Only two things impede his desire to transform Heartbreak Creek into a thriving town once again : a vandal bent on stopping the railroad, and the beautiful but hard-headed woman who won’t sign over the final right-of-way through the canyon.
A Seaside Christmas by Sherryl Woods
A successful Nashville songwriter returns home to Chesapeake Shores to collaborate on a Christmas production while her ex-boyfriend tries to win her back in this new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Never Let Go.
Standup Guy by Stuart Woods
Giving legal advice to an unusually well-deported gentleman only to discover that several people are interested in the man’s link to a long-ago crime, Stone Barrington pursues a winner-take-all investigation that leads him from Florida’s tropical beaches to the posh vacation homes of the Northeast.
NON-FICTION
What If…: A Lifetime of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses, and a Few Things I Know for Sure by Shirley MacLaine
The Oscar-winning actress and best-selling author of I’m Over All That presents an esoteric, laugh-out-loud collection of musings that range from what if a frog had wings to what if Downton Abbey had more American characters.
The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood by Roger Rosenblatt
Paying tribute to a post-war Manhattan childhood and celebrating the magic of the city, a New York Times bestselling author takes a stroll down memory lane as he, walking home after teaching a night class, revisits the places of his past.
Published on January 14, 2014.
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