New Releases: October 7, 2020
Adult Fiction
All This Could Be Yours - Jami Attenberg
Genres: Fiction, Humour
“If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am," says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Now that her father is on his deathbed, Alex - a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and loving sister--feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who Victor is and what he did over the course of his life and career. (A power-hungry real estate developer, he is, by all accounts, a bad man.) She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tightlipped mother, Barbra. As Barbra fends off Alex's unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous life with Victor. Meanwhile Gary, Alex's brother, is incommunicado, trying to get his movie career off the ground in Los Angeles. And Gary's wife, Twyla, is having a nervous breakdown, buying up all the lipstick in drug stores around New Orleans and bursting into crying fits. Dysfunction is at its peak. As each family member grapples with Victor's history, they must figure out a way to move forward - with one another, for themselves, and for the sake of their children.
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Aseroë - Dominique Francois
Genres: Fiction
Aseroë, the mushroom, as object of fascination. First observed in Tasmania and South Africa, it appeared suddenly in France in 1920, at which time it was believed by some to be used for witchcraft and even sabotage. It is characterized by its stench and, at maturity, its grotesque beauty. Aseroë, the word, as incantation. Can a word create a world? It does, here. François Dominique is a conjurer, who through verbal sorcery unleashes the full generative force of language, while evoking the essential rupture between the word and the object. An impossible endeavor, perhaps, but one at the very heart of literature. The narrator of Aseroë wanders medieval streets and dense forests, portrait galleries and rare bookshops. As he explores the frontiers of language, the boundaries of science, art, and alchemy melt away, and the mundane is overtaken by the bizarre. Inhabited by creatures born in darkness, both terrible and alluring, Aseroë is ultimately a meditation on memory and forgetting, creation and oblivion.
Chaos - Iris Johansen
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Iris Johansen introduces a new kickass female protagonist, Alisa Flynn, a CIA agent who may be willing to go rogue if it means catching the most heartless band of criminals she's ever encountered. Alisa is aided by mysterious billionaire-genius-inventor Gabe Korgan and recurring character Margaret Douglas, an animal whisperer who brings along her beloved dog Juno to fight alongside them. Alisa is determined to rescue schoolgirls kidnapped from their African boarding school, in a ripped-from-the-headlines story. But Alisa is hiding her personal stake in the rescue from Korgan, and when the truth gets out, the stakes grow even higher. Now Alisa and Gabe's budding relationship may be at a breaking point.
The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope #9) - Ann Cleeves
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope's only thought is to get there quickly. But with the snow driving down heavily, she becomes disorientated and loses her way. Ploughing on, she sees a car slewed off the road ahead of her. With the driver's door open, Vera assumes the driver has sought shelter but when she inspects the car she is shocked to find a young toddler strapped in the back seat. Afraid they will freeze, Vera takes the child and drives on, arriving at Brockburn, a run-down stately home she immediately recognizes as the house her father Hector grew up in. Inside Brockburn a party is in full swing, with music and laughter to herald the coming Christmas. But outside in the snow, a young woman lies dead and Vera knows immediately she has a new case. Could she be the child's mother, and if it is, what happened to her?
Dreaming Death (Krewe of Hunters #32) - Heather Graham
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance
Ever since she was a child, Stacey Hanson has had strange dreams-and sometimes they come true. Her skills and experience led her straight to the FBI's Krewe of Hunters. Now a serial killer is stalking Washington, DC, and people are scared. And it will be Stacey's first case. Special Agent Keenan Wallace isn't exactly thrilled to be teamed up with a rookie, but they're going to have to get past their mutual friction if they want to stop a brutal killer. The victims are all vulnerable women, though the clues lead to suspects from DC's powerful elite. Stacey can't escape her nightly visions, but in trying to prevent them from occurring in real life, she might come face-to-face with a nightmare.
The German Heiress - Anika Scott
Genres: Fiction, Historical, Thriller
Clara Falkenberg earned the nickname "the Iron Fräulein" during World War II for her role operating her family's ironworks empire. Two years after the war ended she's left with nothing but a false identification card and a series of burning questions about her family's past. Returning home to take refuge with her friend, Elisa, she arrives to discover the city in ruins, and Elisa missing. Jakob, a charismatic young man working on the black market, is for his own reasons also searching for Elisa. They can help each other-- if they can stay ahead of the British officer determined to make Clara answer for her actions during the war.
Greenwood - Michael Christie
Genres: Fiction, Historical
In 2038, scientist Jake Greenwood is working as an overqualified tour guide to ultra-rich eco-tourists in one of the world's last remaining forests. As the rest of humanity chokes on the dust storms that follow the environmental collapse known as the Great Withering, Jake finds temporary refuge on Greenwood Island, a place whose connection to her own family name she had thought just a coincidence -- until someone from her past reappears with a journal that might give Jake the family story she's long craved. As we move backward in time from the Great Withering to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and then forward into the future again, we meet an injured carpenter facing the possibility of his own death, an eco-warrior trying to atone for the sins of her father's rapacious timber empire, a blind tycoon with a secret he will pay a terrible price to protect, and a Depression-era drifter who saves an abandoned infant from certain death, only to find himself the subject of a country-wide manhunt. At the very centre of the book is a tragedy that will bind the fates of two boys together, setting in motion events whose reverberations will be felt for over a century. A magnificent novel of inheritance, sacrifice, nature, and love that takes its structure from the nested growth rings of a tree, Greenwood spans generations to tell the story of a family living and dying in the shadows cast by its own secrets.
The Lightning of Possible Storms - Jonathan Ball
Genres: Fiction
Aleya's world starts to unravel after a café customer leaves behind a collection of short stories. Surprised and disturbed to discover that it has been dedicated to her, Aleya delves into the strange book... A mad scientist seeks to steal his son's dreams. A struggling writer, skilled only at destruction, finds himself courted by Hollywood. A woman seeks to escape her body and live inside her dreams. Citizens panic when a new city block manifests out of nowhere. The personification of capitalism strives to impress his cutthroat boss. The more Aleya reads, the deeper she sinks into the mysterious writer's work, and the less real the world around her seems. Soon, she's overwhelmed as a new, more terrifying existence takes hold. Jonathan Ball's first collection of short fiction blends humour and horror, doom and daylight, offering myriad possible storms.
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Silence is My Mother Tongue - Sulaiman Addonia
Genres: Fiction
Saba arrives in an East African refugee camp as a young girl, devastated to have been wrenched from school and forced to abandon her books as her family flees to safety. In this unfamiliar, crowded and often hostile environment, she must carve out a new existence. As she struggles to maintain her sense of self, she remains fiercely protective of her mute brother, Hagos - each sibling resisting the roles gender and society assign.
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Starlit Winter Nights (Cordina's Royal Family #3) - Nora Roberts
Genres: Fiction, Romance
The holidays in Cordina are always laced with romance and mystery...The Royal Rake. The Playboy Prince. Ever the ladies' man, Prince Bennett of Cordina has always happily lived up to his public reputation with an element of recklessness. When a distant relative, Lady Hannah Rothchild, arrives in Cordina as a hired companion to his sister, Bennett couldn't be less interested in his modest, academic cousin. Still, he sees something of a challenge in this lovely stranger. With Christmas approaching, Bennett and Hannah are drawn together and, try as they might, the two cannot ignore the attraction growing between them. But Hannah has a secret, and the Cordina palace is not as safe as it once was. She must retain her privacy to protect herself...and Bennett. Even if Bennett is finally willing to risk his heart, their love couldn't be anything more than a fleeting Christmas romance...could it?
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Total Power (Mitch Rapp #19) - Vince Flynn
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Captured by Mitch Rapp, ISIS’s top technology expert reveals that he was about to meet a man who could bring down America’s power grid. When the CIA trap to eliminate this man fails, ISIS operatives help the cyber terrorist do what he said he would – plunge the country into darkness. With no concept of how this unprecedented act was accomplished, the task of getting the power back on could take months, or even years. Computers and phone networks are down, petrol pumps are inoperable, even water systems and food supplies are struggling. With resources suddenly gone and America on the brink of collapse, Rapp and his team embark on a mission to find the only people who can repair the damage – the ones who caused it. But this is unlike anything he’s experienced before and time is running out . . .
Adult Non-Fiction
Boys and Sex - Peggy Orenstein
Genres: Non-fiction, Applied Psychology
Today's young men are steeped in the distorted media images and binary stereotypes of female sexiness and toxic masculinity which shape how they, too, navigate sexual and emotional relationships. Orenstein uses a mix of anecdote and research to reveal how young men understand and negotiate the new rules of physical and emotional intimacy, taking an unprecedented look at the myriad factors that are shaping boys' ideas of sex, girls, and masculinity. The result is a provocative and paradigm-shifting work that offers a much-needed vision of how boys can truly move forward as better men.
Dancing with the Octopus - Debora Harding
Genres: Non-fiction, Biography, Crime
For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city. Debora survived. She identified her attacker to the police and then returned to her teenage life in a dysfunctional home where she was expected to simply move on. Denial became the family coping strategy offered by her fun-loving, conflicted father and her cruelly resentful mother. It wasn't until decades later - when beset by the symptoms of PTSD- that Debora undertook a radical project: she met her childhood attacker face-to-face in prison and began to reconsider and reimagine his complex story. This was a quest for the truth that would threaten the lie at the heart of her family and with it the sacred bond that once saved her. Dexterously shifting between the past and present, Debora Harding untangles the incident of her kidnapping and escape from unexpected angles, offering a vivid, intimate portrait of one family's disintegration in the 1970s Midwest, a rusted landscape where the loss of white male power can flare into unspeakable violence. Written with dark humor and the pacing of a thriller, Dancing with the Octopus is a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking narrative of reckoning, recovery, and the inexhaustible strength it takes to survive.
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Found in Transition - Paria Hassouri
Genres: Non-fiction, Parenting
In this autobiographical narrative, an Iranian-American pediatrician and mother of three is blindsided when one of her children comes out as transgender. As the author grapples with her child's transition from male to female, she is forced to re-examine her ideas of parenting, gender, and personal identity.
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Total Meditation - Deepak Chopra
Genres: Non-fiction, Applied Psychology
For the last thirty years, Deepak Chopra has been at the forefront of the meditation revolution in the West. Total Meditation is the culmination of his teachings over the years, a complete exploration and reinterpretation of the physical, mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual benefits that this practice can bring. Deepak guides readers on how to wake up to new levels of awareness that will ultimately cultivate a clear vision, heal suffering in your mind and body, and help recover who you really are. Readers will undergo a transformative process, which results in an awakening of the body, mind, and spirit and a life led in a state of open, free, creative, and blissful awareness twenty-four hours a day.
With this new book, Deepak elevates the practice of meditation to a life-changing quest for higher consciousness and a more fulfilled existence. He also incorporates new research on meditation and its benefits as well as a daily program of meditations to help revolutionize every aspect of our lives.
Young Adult Fiction
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Vol. 1-3) - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Genres: Young adult fiction, Science fiction, Graphic novel
Once Shinji didn t care about anything; then he found people to fight for only to learn that he couldn't protect them or keep those he let into his heart from going away. As mankind tilts on the brink of the apocalyptic Third Impact, human feelings are fault lines leading to destruction and just maybe, redemption and rebirth.
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Tomie - Junji Ito
Genres: Young adult fiction, Horror, Graphic novel
Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. She can seduce nearly any man, and drive them to murder as well, even though the victim is often Tomie herself. While one lover seeks to keep her for himself, another grows terrified of the immortal succubus. But soon they realize no matter how many times they kill her, the world will never be free of Tomie.
Venus in the Blind Spot - Junji Ito
Genres: Young adult fiction, Horror, Graphic novel
This striking collection presents the most remarkable short works of Junji Ito's career, featuring an adaptation of Rampo Edogawa's classic horror story 'Human Chair' and fan favorite 'The Enigma of Amigara Fault'. With a deluxe presentation--including special color pages, and showcasing illustrations from his acclaimed long-form manga No Longer Human--each chilling tale invites readers to revel in a world of terror.
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Junior Fiction
Haunt Me - K R Alexander
Genres: Junior fiction, Paranormal
Maria has never gotten over her sister Isabella's death . . . and the guilt she feels about what happened. It hangs over everything she does, even an innocent slumber party with her two best friends. When one friend suggests they play a game that summons the spirits of the dead, Maria thinks it's all make-believe. But then she starts to hear from a spirit -- a spirit claiming to be her sister. Maria doesn't want to think it's possible. . . but the sinister spirit has a way of making her listen. Has her sister actually returned?
My Hero Academia Vol. 1 - Kohei Horikoshi
Genres: Junior fiction, Action/Adventure, Graphic novel
What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks"? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless? Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn't got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny…
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My Hero Academia Vol. 2 - Kohei Horikoshi
Genres: Junior fiction, Action/Adventure, Graphic novel
Getting into U.A. High School was difficult enough, but it was only the beginning of Midoriya's long road toward becoming a superhero. The new students all have amazing powers, and although Midoriya has inherited All Might's abilities, he can barely control them. What's more, the first-year students are told they will have to compete just to avoid being expelled!
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My Hero Academia Vol. 3 - Kohei Horikoshi
Genres: Junior fiction, Action/Adventure, Graphic novel
A sinister group of villains has attacked the first-year U.A. students, but their real target is All Might. It's all that Midoriya and his classmates can do to hold them off until reinforcements arrive. All Might joins the battle to protect the kids, but as his power runs out he may be forced into an extremely dangerous bluff!
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A Silent Voice Vol. 1 - Yoshitoki Oima
Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel
Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school, and Shoya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shoya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late?
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A Silent Voice Vol. 2 - Yoshitoki Oima
Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel
It's been five years since Shoya Ishida bullied Shoko Nishimiya so badly she left their elementary school, because of one simple difference between them: Shoya can hear, and Shoko can't. In the intervening time, Shoya's life has changed completely. Shunned by his friends, Shoya's longed for the chance to make up for his cruelty. When it finally comes, will he find the voice to tell Shoko he's changed? And will Shoko listen?
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A Silent Voice Vol. 3 - Yoshitoki Oima
Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel
Years ago, Shoya met Shoko, a girl who can't hear. His youthful boredom bred cruelty, and he stole away what should have been her happy childhood years. Now, as a high schooler, his own despair has driven him to understand how wrong he was. When he meets Shoko once again, that despair turns to hope. But is it really possible to make up for the happiness he stole away?
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A Silent Voice Vol. 4 - Yoshitoki Oima
Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel
Once upon a time, Shoya was terribly cruel to Shoko, his elementary school classmate who couldn't hear. To make up for his past sins, Shoya has devoted himself to repaying the debt of happiness he owes. So when Shoko faces a romantic setback, Shoya assembles some familiar faces from their past for a trip to the amusement park that may just change things for Shoya, too.
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A Silent Voice Vol. 5 - Yoshitoki Oima
Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel
Despite their tense pasts, Shoya begins to embrace the friends who used to terrorize Shoko because she couldn't hear, and as summer's days pass quickly, doubt tugs at his heart, making him want to cling to the meaningful moments before they're gone.
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A Silent Voice Vol. 6 - Yoshitoki Oima
Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel
Time stands still for both Shoya and Shoko. Triggered by past traumas, Shoya coldly attacked his friends and burnt the bridges he first set out to rebuild. Shoko feels a deep responsibility for this disaster and attempts to pay for it by taking her own life. Meanwhile, each of their friends finally show their true colors. After everything has fallen apart, how will they mend their hearts and put the pieces back together?
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A Silent Voice Vol. 7 - Yoshitoki Oima
Genres: Junior fiction, Graphic novel
Time stands still for both Shoya and Shoko. Triggered by past traumas, Shoya coldly attacked his friends and burnt the bridges he first set out to rebuild. Shoko feels a deep responsibility for this disaster and attempts to pay for it by taking her own life. Meanwhile, each of their friends finally show their true colors. After everything has fallen apart, how will they mend their hearts and put the pieces back together?
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The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon #2) - Katie O’Neill
Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy, Graphic novel
Aedhan is a young dragon who was appointed to protect the village, but fell asleep in the forest eighty years ago. With the aid of Rinn's adventuring uncle Erik and his partner Hesekiel, they investigate the mystery of his enchanted sleep... but Rinn's real challenge is to help Aedhan come to terms with feeling that he cannot get back the time he has lost.
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The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon #1) - Katie O’Neill
Genres: Junior fiction, Fantasy, Graphic novel
After discovering a lost tea dragon in the marketplace, Greta learns about the dying art form of tea dragon care-taking from the kind tea shop owners, Hesekiel and Erik. As she befriends them and their shy ward, Minette, Greta sees how the craft enriches their lives—and eventually her own.
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