May 17, 2013
New Arrivals · All Fiction
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Siege and storm
May 16, 2013
Bardugo, Leigh.
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2013.
384
Hunted across the True Sea and haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret.
Tides
May 16, 2013
Cornwell, Betsy.
Boston : Clarion Books, [2013], ©2013.
294 pages ; 22 cm
After moving to the Isles of Shoals for a marine biology internship, eighteen-year-old Noah learns of his grandmother's romance with a selkie woman, falls for the selkie's daughter, and must work with her to rescue her siblings from his mentor's cruel experiments.
Linked
May 16, 2013
Howson, Imogen.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2013.
368
When Elissa's nightmarish visions and inexplicable bruises lead to the discovery of a battered twin sister on the run from government agents, Elissa enlists the help of an arrogant new graduate from the space academy.
Weather Witch
May 16, 2013
Delany, Shannon.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2013.
320
Accused of being a Weather Witch, seventeen-year-old Jordan Astraea is taken from her family and near-boyfriend, Rowen, and sentenced to be enslaved as a living battery for an airship.
A matter of days
May 16, 2013
Kizer, Amber.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2013.
288
In the not-too-distant future when a global pandemic kills most of humanity, a teenaged girl and her younger brother struggle to survive.
Faerie after
May 16, 2013
Simner, Janni Lee.
New York : Random House, 2013.
288
Sequel to: Faerie winter.
Liza must journey to the Faerie realm in order to save both the fairy and human worlds from impending doom.
Rush
May 16, 2013
Silver, Eve.
New York : Katherine Tegen Books, 2013.
352
Rochester, New York, high schooler Miki Jones is pulled into a sort of a game in which she and other teens battle real-life aliens and the consequences of each battle could be deadly.
Spies and prejudice
May 16, 2013
Vance, Talia.
New York : Egmont USA, 2013.
304
"Berry Fields's life working for her dad's investigation firm and searching for clues to her mother's death unravels when gorgeous Tanner arrives in town and changes everything"-- Provided by publisher.
Promises to keep
May 16, 2013
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia.
New York : Delacorte Press, c2013.
236 p. ; 22 cm.
Jay Marinitch, a young vampire hunter, may be Earth's best hope for thwarting the rise of a vampire-controlled slave empire called Midnight, despite his fear that those who question his worth may be right.
A trick of the light
May 16, 2013
Metzger, Lois.
New York : Balzer + Bray, c2013.
272
Fifteen-year-old Mike desperately attempts to take control as his parents separate and his life falls apart.
Strands of bronze and gold
May 16, 2013
Nickerson, Jane.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
339 p. ; 22 cm.
After the death of her father in 1855, seventeen-year-old Sophia goes to live with her wealthy and mysterious godfather at his gothic mansion, Wyndriven Abbey, in Mississippi, where many secrets lie hidden.
Boy Nobody : a novel
May 16, 2013
Zadoff, Allen.
New York : Little, Brown, 2013.
352
Sixteen-year-old Boy Nobody, an assassin controlled by a shadowy government organization, The Program, considers sabotaging his latest mission because his target reminds him of the normal life he craves.
Slingshot : a spycatcher novel
May 15, 2013
Dunn, Matthew, 1968-
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2013.
400
The shadow tracer : a novel
May 15, 2013
Gardiner, Meg.
New York : Dutton, 2013.
368
When her quiet life is shattered by a bus accident that reveals she is not related to the five-year-old she claims is her daughter, skip tracer Sarah Keller, unable to prove her innocence, flees authorities and uses her unique skills to protect her daughter and herself.
Drop dead, gorgeous
May 15, 2013
Mason, J. D.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
320
Follows the vigilante justice quest of Lonnie Adebayo, who hunts down the secret half-brother of a man who violated her and left her for dead.
Storm front : a Derrick Storm thriller
May 15, 2013
Castle, Richard.
New York : Hyperion, [2013]
314 pages ; 24 cm
When high-level bankers around the world are being tortured and murdered by his old nemesis Gregor Volkov, Derrick Storm is called in by the CIA to figure out who Volkov is working for and why.
Sea Change
May 15, 2013
Wheeler, S. M., 1982-
New York : Tor, 2013.
288
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Never fuck up
May 15, 2013
Lapidus, Jens, 1974-
New York : Pantheon Books, 2013.
592
Former inmate Mahmud works for a brutal mob moss to pay off debts, while vigilante Niklas's efforts to maintain a low profile are compromised by a murder in his mother's building and volatile detective Thomas goes off the grid to find the truth.
Eléctrico W
May 15, 2013
Le Tellier, Hervé, 1957-
New York : Other Press, c2012.
169
"Originally published in French in 2011 by Jean-Claude Lattès, Paris, France."
The enigma of China / An Inspector Chen Novel
May 15, 2013
Qiu, Xiaolong, 1953-
New York : Minotaur Books, 2013.
320
In line for the top position of the Shanghai Police Department, Chief Inspector Chen Cao is drawn into the investigation of a major party member's son, whose suspicious suicide in the face of corruption charges forces Chen to make a difficult choice.
Remember me when : a women of hope novel
May 15, 2013
Aiken, Ginny.
New York : FaithWords, 2013.
272
""Trapped in an abusive marriage, Faith Nolan finds the courage to defy her husband to help others. When her actions result in a false charge of murder, she finds the support she needs in Nathan Bartlett." --Provided by the publisher.
Pray for us sinners
May 15, 2013
Taylor, Patrick, 1941-
New York, NY : Forge, 2013.
320
"A Tom Doherty Associates Book."
In 1973 Belfast, a British Army bomb-disposal expert agrees to go undercover to identify the source of bombs being used by the Provisional IRA only to confront events that shatter his beliefs.
Damn love
May 15, 2013
Beach-Ferrara, Jasmine.
Brooklyn, New York : Ig Publishing, [2013]
pages cm
Stayin' alive -- Different paths, same woods -- Custody bus -- Damn love -- Monkey -- Love the soldier -- Layover -- Hit me -- American martyr.
"Set in San Francisco and North Carolina, the linked stories in Damn Love introduce us to a group of characters struggling with love in all its complicated forms, including a young doctor who treats heroin addicts, a newly married gay man who tries to reconcile with his mother after years of estrangement, a trio of physicists caught in a surprising love triangle, and a soldier who takes secrets with her to the Iraqi desert. Together, these stories report from the fault lines of American life, uncertain territory where identity, risk, and desire comingle, and where resilience is found in even the most flawed efforts to connect. A recipient of a 2010 NEA Literature Fellowship, Jasmine Beach-Ferrara received her MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, The Baltimore Review, Harvard Review, and American Short Fiction. One of the stories in Damn Love, "Hit Me," was chosen as a notable story in Best American Short Stories 2008. "-- Provided by publisher.
She rises
May 15, 2013
Worsley, Kate.
New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2013.
432
"It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young dairy maid on an Essex farm, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember--after all, it stole away her father and brother. But when she is offered work in the bustling naval port of Harwich, as a lady's maid to a wealthy captain's daughter, she leaps at the chance to see more of the world. There she meets Rebecca, her haughty young mistress, who is unlike anyone Louise has encountered before: as unexpected as she is fascinating. Intertwined with her story is fifteen-year-old Luke's: He is drinking in a Harwich tavern when it is raided by Her Majesty's Navy. Unable to escape, Luke is beaten and press ganged and sent to sea on board the warship Essex. He must learn fast and choose his friends well if he is to survive the brutal hardships of a sailor's life and its many dangers, both up high in the rigging and in the dark below decks. Louise navigates her new life among the streets and crooked alleys of Harwich, where groaning houses riddled with smugglers' tunnels are flooded by the spring tides, and love burns brightly in the shadows. Luke, aching for the girl he left behind and determined to one day find his way back to her, embarks on a long and perilous journey across the ocean.The worlds they find are more dangerous and more exciting than they could ever have imagined, and when they collide the consequences are astonishing and irrevocable. A breathtakingly accomplished love story and a gripping search for identity and survival, She Rises is a bold, brilliant, and utterly original novel"-- Provided by publisher.
Anonymous sources
May 15, 2013
Kelly, Mary Louise.
New York : Gallery Books, 2013.
336
"An exciting and entertaining debut international thriller from an NPR correspondent about a terrorist's nuclear threat to blow up the White House. Alexandra James, devoted reporter for the New England Examiner, is attractive, exceptionally smart, an experienced high-end shoe shopper, and used to getting what she wants. When she is assigned to cover the death of a Harvard student doing his year abroad, the whirlwind investigation takes her to Cambridge, London, and then to Washington. The globe-trotting adventures suit her well, as Alex has always been able to talk her way into anywhere, sleep with anyone she fancies, and both out-drink and out-shop her demons. But when the circumstances surrounding the student's death point to something more nefarious than a suicide, Alex the hunter soon becomes Alex the hunted. And she must race to find a dangerous killer before she becomes the next victim"-- Provided by publisher.
In the house upon the dirt between the lake and the woods
May 15, 2013
Bell, Matt, 1980-
New York : Soho Press, 2013.
pages cm
Escaping the busy confusion of his homeland and moving to an almost-uninhabited lakeshore where he plans on living simply and raising a family, a man descends into rage, obsession, and an abstract sense of reality when his wife suffers multiple miscarriages.
Eleven days : a novel
May 15, 2013
Carpenter, Lea.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
288
When her beloved Navy SEAL son goes missing during a mission in May 2011, single mother Sara unsuccessfully taps her Washington policymaker contacts for information and traces her son's emerging leadership as documented in letters back home.
Loyalty
May 15, 2013
Thoft, Ingrid.
New York : G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 2013.
416
Protecting the interests of her managerial father and dysfunctional family business by working as a private investigator, Fina tackles the most challenging case of her career when her sister-in-law goes missing.
The hanging / A Thriller
May 15, 2013
Hammer, Lotte.
New York : Minotaur Books, 2013.
304
"A Thomas Dunne book."
"One morning before school, two children find the naked bodies of five men hanging from the gym ceiling. The case leads detective Konrad Simonsen and his murder squad to the school janitor, who may know more about the killings than he is telling. Soon, Simonsen realizes that each of the five murdered men had a dark and terrible secret in common. And when Simonsen's own daughter is targeted, he must race to find the culprit before his whole world is destroyed. Published in twenty countries around the world, with more than 150,000 copies sold in Denmark alone, this book introduces a brother and sister duo who have taken the thriller world by storm. Fast-paced, suspenseful, and brilliantly written, The Hanging is a stunning crime novel from two authors whose international fame is exploding. "-- Provided by publisher.
In times of fading light : a novel
May 14, 2013
Ruge, Eugen.
Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2013.
304
A terminal cancer patient surveys his family's political history under the East German regime, from his grandparents' return from exile in Mexico, to his father's decade spent in a gulag, to his son's desire to leave the political struggles of the twentieth century in the past.
The tower
May 14, 2013
Toyne, Simon, 1968-
New York : William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2013.
400
In the conclusion of the Sanctus trilogy, FBI Agent J. J. Shepherd must find the missing director of a NASA Control Center as strange events erupt around the globe, while Liv Adamson, pregnant and close to term, desperately searches for the final secretsof the prophecy.
Reviver : a novel
May 14, 2013
Patrick, Seth.
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2013.
336
"Jonah Miller is a Reviver, able to temporarily revive the dead so they can say goodbye to their loved ones--or tell the police who killed them. Jonah works in a department of forensics created specifically for Revivers, and he's the best in the business. For every high-profile corpse pushing daisies, it's Jonah's job to find justice for them. But while reviving the victim of a brutal murder, he encounters a terrifying presence. Something is on the other side watching. Waiting. His superiors tell him it's only in his mind, a product of stress. Jonah isn't so certain. Then Daniel Harker, the first journalist to bring revival to public attention, is murdered. Jonah finds himself getting dragged into the hunt for answers. Working with Harker's daughter Annabel, he becomes determined to find those responsible and bring them to justice. Soon they uncover long-hidden truths that call into doubt everything Jonah stands for, and reveal a sinister force that threatens us all. Putting the paranormal in the police department, first-time author Seth Patrick blends genre lines with this edgy crime thriller. The first novel in the Reviver trilogy, Reviver is sure to appeal to fans of Dean Koontz and Justin Cronin"-- Provided by publisher.
Release me : a novel
May 14, 2013
Kenner, Julie.
New York : Bantam Books Trade Paperpacks, 2012.
343 p. ; 21 cm.
An erotic, emotionally charged romance between a powerful man who's never heard "no" and a fiery woman who says "yes" on her own terms-- Source other than Library of Congress.
Claim me : a novel
May 14, 2013
Kenner, Julie.
New York : Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, [2013], ©2013.
viii, 371 pages ; 21 cm
Billionaire Damien Starck continues his obssessive relationship with Nikki Fairchild, as she tries to discover his darkest secrets and they both confront experiences from their troubled pasts.
Bottom line : a novel
May 14, 2013
Davis, Marc, 1934-
Sag Harbor, NY : The Permanent Press, [2013]
248
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