By Joyce Carol Oates
Itinerant lawman Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch join a manhunt for the swaggeringly intimidating Augustus Nobel Driggs, who’s broken out of jail.
A Book of American Martyrs
The Book Thieves
By Anders Rydell
The Nazis didn’t just burn books. They also looted millions of volumes from Jewish institutions and both public and private libraries, creating their own vast collections as the basis of rewriting history. Now, a small team at Berlin’s state library is working to find and return the purloined titles.
“Fourth Tuesday” Book Club: February Selection
Meets in the upper level of the library Tuesday, February 28 at 7 PM. Members will discuss The Siege by Helen Dunmore. (books available at the library). New members are always welcome.
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Fatal
By John Lescroart
When Kate attends a dinner party with devoted husband Ron, she meets Peter and is wildly attracted to him. Her obsession leads to a burning one-night stand, after which Kate pulls back, sure she can get on with her life. but not so fast. A masked man shooting up the cafe where Kate sits with her best friend is only the first of several incidents indicating that Kate has made a grave mistake.
The Fifth Petal
By Brunonia Barry
Author of the New York Times best-selling The Lace Reader, Barry returns to spooky Salem for a 25-year-old triple homicide now being reinvestigated by Chief of Police John Rafferty, husband of lace reader Towner Whitney. He’s helped by Callie Cahill, the daughter of one of the victims, who were all descendants of accused Salem witches and were brutally knifed to death one cold Halloween. Callies shivery premonitions and attraction to a man who might be connected to the murders make things far from routine.
Power Game
By Christine Feehan
Find out why as two lovers surrounded by greed and corruption discover there’s no telling whom you can trust–or who will come out on top…
Death’s Mistress
By Terry Goodkind
Onetime lieutenant of the evil Emporer Jagang, the deadly Nicci captured Richard Rahl in order to convince him that the Imperial Order stood for the greater good. But it was Richard that converted Nicci instead, and for years she served Richard and Kahlan as one of their closest friends—and one of their most lethal defenders. Now with the reign of Richard and Kahlan finally stablized, Nicci has set out on her own for new adventures. This will launch an entirely new series and cast of characters centered on one of the best-loved characters in the now -concluded Sword of Truth.
Silver City
By Jeff Guinn
Still in the saddle after Glorious and Buffalo Trail, Cash McLendon travels to Mountain View in the Arizona Territory to persuade Gabrielle Tirrito to come away with him. Mission accomplished, but then his former father-in-law, who blames Cash for his daughter’s death, seeks vengeance by sending along a bad guy who kidnaps Gabrielle.
Lara: the Untold Love Story and The Inspiration For Doctor Zhivago
By Anna Pasternak
The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya- the true tragedy behind the timeless classic.
Difficult Women
By Roxanne Gay
The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. From a girl’s fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America remininscent of Merritt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda July.
