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The Opposite of Everyone: A Novel

Joshilyn Jackson · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A fiercely independent divorce lawyer learns the power of family and connection when she receives a cryptic message from her estranged mother in this bittersweet, witty novel from the nationally bestselling author of Someone Else's Love Story and gods in Alabama - an emotionally resonant...
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Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart

Claire Harman · Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. Â2015
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

A groundbreaking biography that places an obsessive, unrequited love at the heart of the writer's life story, transforming her from the tragic figure we have previously known into a smoldering Jane Eyre.Famed for her beloved novels, Charlotte Brontë has been known as well for her insular,...
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Noonday: A Novel

Pat Barker · Doubleday
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

A new novel from the Booker Prize winning Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration Trilogy, that unforgettably portrays London during the Blitz (her first portrayal of World War II) and reconfirms her place in the very top rank of British novelists.London, the Blitz, Autumn 1940. As the bombs...
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Jane Steele

Lyndsay Faye · Putnam, 2016.
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer, from the author whose work The New York Times described as "riveting" and The Wall Street Journal called "thrilling." "Young Jane Steele's favorite book, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, mirrors her life...
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The Last Days of Magic: A Novel

Mark Tompkins · Viking, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

"Simultaneously sweeping and intricate . . . Tompkins's amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue, magic and mayhem, faeries, Vikings, legates, kings and queens, angels and goddesses, this is one wild and breathless...
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At the Edge of the Orchard

Tracy Chevalier · Viking
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, a riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly...
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Fool Me Once

Harlan Coben · Dutton
Pages: 390
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestseller Harlan Coben delivers his next impossible-to-put-down thriller. In the course of eight consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers, millions of readers have discovered Harlan Coben's page-turning thrillers, filled with his trademark edge-of-your-seat suspense...
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All Things Cease to Appear: A novel

Elizabeth Brundage · Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

A dark, riveting, beautifully written book - by "a brilliant novelist," according to Richard Bausch - that combines noir and the gothic in a story about two families entwined in their own unhappiness, with, at its heart, a gruesome and unsolved murder Late one winter afternoon...
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Dear Emma

Katie Heaney · Grand Central Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 1
Format: Print book

College junior Harriet, the anonymous creator of the advice column Dear Emma, imparts weekly wisdom to the students around her struggling with relationships, academics, and existential crises. But her own life isn't in such great shape, especially since her crush Keith has gone radio silent...
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The Storm Sister: A Novel

Lucinda Riley · Atria Books, 2016.
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

Gathered at their childhood home to mourn their father's death, Ally D'Aplièse and her five adoptive sisters receive tantalizing clues to their distinct heritages. Ally soon finds herself in Norway where she begins to make sense of her elusive past in the second part of an epic new series...
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