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<\/a> by Walter Tevis<\/p>\nEight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she’s competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as she hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting. Engaging and fast-paced, The Queen’s Gambit speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. <\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following format:<\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n The Lady Upstairs<\/strong><\/em><\/a> A modern-day noir featuring a twisty cat-and-mouse chase, this dark debut thriller tells the story of a a woman who makes a living taking down terrible men…then finds herself in over her head and with blood on her hands. The only way out? Pull off one final con.<\/em><\/p>\n Jo’s job is blackmailing the most lecherous men in Los Angeles–handsy Hollywood producers, adulterous actors, corrupt cops. Sure, she likes the money she’s making, which comes in handy for the debt she is paying off, but it’s also a chance to take back power for the women of the city. Eager to prove herself to her coworker Lou and their enigmatic boss, known only as the Lady Upstairs, Jo takes on bigger and riskier jobs.<\/em><\/p>\n When one of her targets is murdered, both the Lady Upstairs and the LAPD have Jo in their sights. Desperate to escape the consequences of her failed job, she decides to take on just one more sting–bringing down a rising political star. It’s her biggest con yet–and she will do it behind the Lady’s back, freeing both herself and Lou. But Jo soon learns that Lou and the Lady have secrets of their own, and that no woman is safe when there is a life-changing payout on the line.<\/em><\/p>\n A delicious debut thriller crackling with wit and an unforgettable feminist voice, The Lady Upstairs is a chilling and endlessly surprising take on female revenge.<\/em><\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n The Thirty Names of Night<\/strong><\/em><\/a> Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother\u2019s ghost has begun to visit him each evening. As his grandmother\u2019s sole caretaker, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment, avoiding his neighborhood masjid, his estranged sister, and even his best friend (who also happens to be his longtime crush). The only time he feels truly free is when he slips out at night to paint murals on buildings in the once-thriving Manhattan neighborhood known as Little Syria.<\/em><\/p>\n One night, he enters the abandoned community house and finds the tattered journal of a Syrian American artist named Laila Z, who dedicated her career to painting the birds of North America. She famously and mysteriously disappeared more than sixty years before, but her journal contains proof that both his mother and Laila Z encountered the same rare bird before their deaths. In fact, Laila Z\u2019s past is intimately tied to his mother\u2019s\u2014and his grandmother\u2019s\u2014in ways he never could have expected. Even more surprising, Laila Z\u2019s story reveals the histories of queer and transgender people within his own community that he never knew. Realizing that he isn\u2019t and has never been alone, he has the courage to officially claim a new name: Nadir, an Arabic name meaning rare.<\/em><\/p>\n As unprecedented numbers of birds are mysteriously drawn to the New York City skies, Nadir enlists the help of his family and friends to unravel what happened to Laila Z and the rare bird his mother died trying to save. Following his mother\u2019s ghost, he uncovers the silences kept in the name of survival by his own community, his own family, and within himself, and discovers the family that was there all along.<\/em><\/p>\n Featuring Zeyn Joukhadar\u2019s signature \u201cmagical and heart-wrenching\u201d (The Christian Science Monitor) storytelling, The Thirty Names of Night is a timely exploration of how we all search for and ultimately embrace who we are.<\/em><\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n At Night All Blood is Black<\/a> Selected by students across France to win the Prix Goncourt des Lyc\u00e9ens, David Diop\u2019s English-language, historical fiction debut At Night All Blood is Black is a \u201cpowerful, hypnotic, and dark novel\u201d (Livres Hebdo) of terror and transformation in the trenches of the First World War.<\/em><\/p>\n Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called \u201cChocolat\u201d soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man\u2019s Land.<\/em><\/p>\n Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa\u2019s mind as he comes to see this refusal as a cruel moment of cowardice. Anxious to avenge the death of his friend and find forgiveness for himself, he begins a macabre ritual: every night he sneaks across enemy lines to find and murder a blue-eyed German soldier, and every night he returns to base, unharmed, with the German\u2019s severed hand. At first his comrades look at Alfa\u2019s deeds with admiration, but soon rumors begin to circulate that this super soldier isn\u2019t a hero, but a sorcerer, a soul-eater. Plans are hatched to get Alfa away from the front, and to separate him from his growing collection of hands, but how does one reason with a demon, and how far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?<\/em><\/p>\n Peppered with bullets and black magic, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of World War I. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty, day-to-day, journalistic horror of life in the trenches, David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a man\u2019s descent into madness.<\/em><\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n A Certain Hunger<\/strong><\/em> <\/a> Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy’s clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about. Dorothy loves sex as much as she loves food, and while she has struggled to find a long-term partner that can keep up with her, she makes the best of her single life, frequently traveling from Manhattan to Italy for a taste of both. But there is something within Dorothy that’s different from everyone else, and having suppressed it long enough, she starts to embrace what makes Dorothy uniquely, terrifyingly herself. Recounting her life from a seemingly idyllic farm-to-table childhood, the heights of her career, to the moment she plunges an ice pick into a man’s neck on Fire Island, Dorothy Daniels show us what happens when a woman finally embraces her superiority.<\/em><\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n Little Cruelties<\/strong><\/em><\/a> This story begins with a funeral. One of three brothers is dead, mourned by his siblings. But which one? And how? And, most importantly: why?<\/em><\/p>\n William, Brian, and Luke are each born a year apart in a lower middle class Catholic family in 1960s Dublin. William, the eldest, rises to the top of the heap in the film industry as a successful movie producer. Luke, the baby of the family, surprises everyone by morphing into a worldwide pop star. Brian, the compliant middle son, is the eternal adult in the room: the helpful, steady one, the manager of finances and careers.<\/em><\/p>\n But none of them is actually quite what he seems. Wounded by childhood, they have betrayed one another in myriad ways, hiding behind little lies that have developed into full blown treachery. With an unnerving eye for the complexities of families, Nugent delves into the secret life of a deeply troubled household and provides stunning insights into the many forces that shape us from childhood.<\/em><\/p>\n Liz Nugent\u2019s new work of fiction follows three working class Irish brothers, and delves into the many ways families can wreak emotional havoc across generations.<\/em><\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n Christmas at the Island Hotel<\/strong><\/em> <\/a> New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan returns to the setting of Christmas on the Island and Endless Beach for a heartwarming new novel celebrating the season, and Scotland.<\/em><\/p>\n On the tiny, beautiful, and remote island of Mure, halfway between Scotland and Norway, a new hotel opening is a big event. New mother Flora MacKenzie and her brother Fintan are working themselves half to death to get it ready in time for Christmas.<\/em><\/p>\n The new hotel\u2019s impressive kitchens throw together two unlikely new friends: Isla Gregor is the hardworking young girl who has been a waitress in the island’s cafe, dreaming of a bigger, better life now that she\u2019s at a proper fancy hotel. Konstantin Pederson is working his way up in the hotel’s kitchens too\u2026but he is also, secretly, the only son of the Duke of Utsire. Konstantin has been sent to learn what it is to work hard for a living, before receiving his inheritance. Although he\u2019s initially resentful, the place grows on him; he has never met anyone quite like Isla and her fellow Murians before.<\/em><\/p>\n As the island\u2019s residents and special VIP guests gather for the hotel\u2019s grand opening gala, Christmas is in the air. But so are more than a few small-town secrets\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following format:<\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n Cobble Hill<\/strong><\/em><\/a> From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of the Gossip Girl series, a deliciously irresistible novel chronicling a year in the life of four families in an upscale Brooklyn neighborhood as they seek purpose, community, and meaningful relationships\u2014until one unforgettable night at a raucous neighborhood party knocks them to their senses.<\/em><\/p>\n Welcome to Cobble Hill.<\/em><\/p>\n In this eclectic Brooklyn neighborhood, private storms brew amongst four married couples and their children. There\u2019s ex-groupie Mandy, so underwhelmed by motherhood and her current physical state that she fakes a debilitating disease to get the attention of her skateboarding, ex-boyband member husband Stuart. There\u2019s the unconventional new school nurse, Peaches, on whom Stuart has an unrequited crush, and her disappointing husband Greg, who wears noise-cancelling headphones\u2014everywhere.<\/em><\/p>\n A few blocks away, Roy, a well-known, newly transplanted British novelist, has lost the thread of his next novel and his marriage to capable, indefatigable Wendy. Around the corner, Tupper, the nervous, introverted industrial designer with a warehouse full of prosthetic limbs struggles to pin down his elusive artist wife Elizabeth. She remains…elusive. Throw in two hormonal teenagers, a 10-year-old pyromaniac, a drug dealer pretending to be a doctor, and a lot of hidden cameras, and you\u2019ve got a combustible mix of egos, desires, and secrets bubbling in brownstone Brooklyn.<\/em><\/p>\n Smart, sophisticated, yet surprisingly tender, Cobble Hill is highly entertaining portrait of contemporary family life and the colorful characters who call Brooklyn home.<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following format:<\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n Bright and Dangerous Objects<\/strong><\/em><\/a> Commercial deep-sea diver Solvig has a secret. She wants to be one of the first human beings to colonize Mars, and she\u2019s one of a hundred people shortlisted by the Mars Project to do just that. But to fulfil her ambition, she\u2019ll have to leave behind everything she\u2019s ever known\u2014for the rest of her life.<\/em><\/p>\n As the prospect of heading to space becomes more real, thirty-seven-year-old Solvig is forced to define who she really is. Will she come clean to James, her partner, about her plans? Or will she turn her back on the project, and commit to her life on Earth? Maybe even try for a baby, like James is hoping? Is there any way she can start a family and go to Mars? Does she even want both things? Intimate and captivating, Bright and Dangerous Objects explores the space between ambition and obligation, grappling with questions women have faced for centuries while investigating a future that humanity is only beginning to think about. In frank, honest, and moving prose, author Anneliese Mackintosh moves from sea to sky, head to heart, and present to future, asking all the while what it means when our wildest dreams begin to come true.<\/em><\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n The Blended Quilt<\/strong><\/em><\/a> Will pursuing Sadie\u2019s dreams mean leaving a romance behind?<\/em><\/p>\n Sadie Kuhns has a lot happening in her life. She is creating a unique quilt by blending a traditional Amish pattern with a Hawaiian pattern as a tribute to her time spent in the islands, and she is working on a self-published book. But her relationship with Wyman Kauffman has stagnated after six months of courtship. He can\u2019t seem to commit to a profession that would secure a future, and he is jealous of the time Sadie gives to her own pursuits. Is there really any reason to drag this courtship out? Only time will tell in this new novel from New York Times bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter, writing with her daughter-in-law Jean Brunstetter.<\/em><\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n Sisters<\/strong><\/em><\/a> A New York Times Notable Book (2020) from a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: a blazing portrait of one darkly riveting sibling relationship, from the inside out..<\/em><\/p>\n Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins.<\/em><\/p>\n Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand. A creeping sense of dread and unease descends inside the house. Meanwhile, outside, the sisters push boundaries of behavior\u2014until a series of shocking encounters tests the limits of their shared experience, and forces shocking revelations about the girls\u2019 past and future.<\/em><\/p>\n Sisters is a one-two punch of wild fury and heartache\u2014a taut, powerful, and deeply moving account of sibling love and what happens when two sisters must face each other\u2019s darkest impulses.<\/em><\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n The Lost Love Song<\/strong><\/em><\/a> This is the story of a love song. And like any good love song, it has two parts.<\/em><\/p>\n In Australia, Arie Johnson waits impatiently for classical pianist Diana Clare to return from a world tour, hopeful that after seven years together she’ll finally agree to marry him.<\/em><\/p>\n On her travels, Diana composes a song for Arie. It’s the perfect way to express her love, knowing they’ll spend their lives together… Won’t they?<\/em><\/p>\n Then late one night, her love song is overheard, and begins its own journey across the world.<\/em><\/p>\n In Scotland, Evie Greenlees is drifting. It’s been years since she left Australia with a backpack, a one-way ticket and a dream of becoming a poet. Now she spends her days making coffee and her nights serving beer. And she’s not even sure whether the guy she lives with is really her boyfriend or just a flatmate.<\/em><\/p>\n Then one day she hears an exquisite love song. One that will connect her to a man with a broken heart…<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following format:<\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n The Dirty South<\/strong><\/em> <\/a> It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas.<\/em><\/p>\n But no one in the Dirty South wants to admit it.<\/em><\/p>\n In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. Obsessed with avenging his lost family, his life is about to take a shocking turn.<\/em><\/p>\n Witness the dawning of a conscience.<\/em><\/p>\n Witness the birth of a hunter.<\/em><\/p>\n Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker.<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n Marauder<\/strong><\/em><\/a> Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon are back with a new adventure in this thrilling suspense novel in Clive Cussler’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.<\/em><\/p>\n Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives return in this latest entry in Clive Cussler’s Oregon Files series. Aboard the Oregon, one of the most advanced spy ships ever built, they face new challenges and nemeses as they undertake another dangerous mission.<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n Hidden in Plain Sight<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a> William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately tasked with apprehending Khalil Rashidi, a notorious drug dealer, who operates his extensive network out of South London.<\/em><\/p>\n As the investigation progresses, William runs into enemies old and new: Adrian Heath, from his school days, now a street dealer who he convinces to turn informer; and financier Miles Faulkner, who makes a mistake that could finally see him put behind bars. Meanwhile, William and his fianc\u00e9e Beth enjoy making preparations for their upcoming wedding, though an unpleasant surprise awaits them at the altar.<\/em><\/p>\n As William\u2019s team closes the net around a criminal network like none they have ever faced before, he devises a trap they would never expect, one that is hidden in plain sight . . .<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n Shakeup<\/strong><\/em><\/a> Stone Barrington must track down an enemy intent on disturbing law and order in the latest action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author<\/em><\/p>\n Upon returning from a dangerous coastal adventure, Stone Barrington is looking forward to some normalcy with the leading lady in his life. But when a grisly crime arrives on his doorstep, along with some suspicious new clients eager for his help, Stone realizes peace and quiet are no longer an option.<\/em><\/p>\n As it turns out, the mastermind behind the malfeasance rocking New York City and the nation’s capital wields a heavy hand of influence. And when Stone is unable to recruit those closest to the case to his side, he is left with few leads and a handful of dead-ends. But with the help of important people in high places–and the expertise of alluring new friends–Stone is more than ready to rise to the occasion.<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n Are you looking for a new book? Check out the following new fiction titles that hit the shelves at our Eastern location in October, November, and December. Check out the titles and see if any of them are something that you would be interested in. 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<\/a> by Halley Sutton<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/The-Thirty-Names-of-Night.jpg?resize=265%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a> by Zeyn Joukhadar<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/At-Night-All-Blood-is-Black.jpg?resize=266%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by David Diop<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/A-Certain-Hunger.jpg?resize=258%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>by Chelsea G. Summers<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Little-Cruelties.jpg?resize=265%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a> by Liz Nugent<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Christmas-at-the-Island-Hotel.jpg?resize=262%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>by Jenny Colgan<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a> by Cecily Von Ziegesar<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a> by Anneliese Mackintosh<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/The-Blended-Quilt.jpg?resize=275%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a> by Wanda Brunstetter and Jean Brunstetter<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Sisters.jpg?resize=254%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a> by Daisy Johnson<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/The-Lost-Love-Song.jpg?resize=259%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a> by Minnie Darke<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>by John Connolly<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a> by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>by Jeffrey Archer<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a> by Stuart Woods<\/p>\n\n