Adult General Fiction

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The me I used to be : a novel / Kristan Higgins.
"Back in senior year, Audrey, Micah, Jasmine and Beck were the Core Four: the lucky one, the beautiful one, the smart one, the sporty one. They had color-coded dreams, inside jokes and a lifelong friendship they thought would last forever. But graduation …
The disappearers / Marlon James.
"In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. Though strangers to one another, they share an inescapable truth: All of them are gay. And they live in a world that refuses to accept them. One night the men are savagely beaten and o…
Stitched : a novel / Eli McCann.
"Betty Lou Dearden has been a member of the Ogden Quilters Association for more than twenty years when it is announced that the biggest quilting competition in the country is coming to Utah. With the clock ticking and a chance to finally beat their long-t…
Taipei story : a novel / R. F. Kuang.
"College freshman Lily Chen is off to spend the summer in Taipei at an intensive language program like so many Chinese American students before her, hoping to connect with the culture she inherited but never fully understood. But a promising start quickly…
The ones we wait for : a novel / Michael V. Ivanov.
"As a seasoned guide, Luke has led countless souls on the journey from an old train station in the valley to the shimmering city beyond, a place both strange and wondrous. Once a traveler himself, he now helps new arrivals heal their deepest wounds and co…
The three Graces of Pearl Street / Elizabeth Wellington Rollins.
"[A]n Italian American grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter all named after the Roman myth of the Three Graces find their lives—and their secrets—colliding when, after years apart, they come to live under the same roof. Graziella, a ninety-six-year-o…
Paper ghosts / Sarah Addison Allen.
"For decades, the women of Wester House have unsettled and fascinated their small, timeless North Carolina town. Their home is full of whispers, old griefs, and uncanny knowing. But when Willamena Wester reaches out to the granddaughter she once pushed aw…
A time of witches : a novel / Madeline Martin.
"Lilith Legare’s life is unraveling. Since her mother’s death, strange things have been happening--plants turn toward her touch, animals linger in her path, and the birthmark on her arm has started tingling. Worse still is her recurring nightmare of being…
Bookends / Liz Curtis Higgs.
"Opposites attract? Maybe not. Emilie Getz and Jonas Fielding are as different as two people—of the same age, with the same faith, living in the same charming Pennsylvania town—could be. She loves history; he loves new ideas. She sticks to the rules; he …
How can my manager be so stupid? / Kazumasa Hayami ; translated by Haydn Trowell.
"Kyoko Tanihara loves books. Just about. But life at the Musashino Bookshop is starting to get her down. Instead of promoting her favorite stories, she finds herself distracted, tearing her hair out at the mere sight of her infuriating manager Takeru Yama…
Awake awake / Fiona Mozley.
"Mary has started remembering things that she knows aren’t real—but the events feel exactly like her actual memories. Who is she, if she can’t be sure she knows her own past? A writer in her 30s struggling to make rent, Mary has moved back to her childhoo…
Good eggs : a novel / Rebecca Hardiman.
"When Kevin Gogarty's irrepressible 83-year-old mother, Millie, is caught shoplifting yet again, he has no choice but to hire a caretaker to keep an eye on her. Kevin, recently unemployed, is already at his wit's end tending to a full house while his wife…
The anniversary : a novel / Andrea Bajani ; translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock.
"Can you leave your family behind? Can you slam the door, walk down the stairs, and decide never to see them again? Can you ever escape the grip of your origins? A son asks himself these questions as he celebrates a bittersweet anniversary: a decade since…
The breakup : a novel / Kurt Andersen.
"Natalie and Asher's marriage has long been marked by fault lines, quiet rifts in how they view their fellow Americans and navigate AI-suffused life in 2045. After twenty-three years together, and after surviving the two years of civil war in the 2030s, N…
Dreamers of the Full Moon Coffee Shop : a novel / Mai Mochizuki ; translated by Jordan Taylor.
"In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they'll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a bright moon. Under one s…
The boat house / Fern Michaels.
An unexpected inheritance from their late uncle brought Madison (Taylor) Wainwright and her brother Lincoln to Smuggler’s Cove. But it’s the quirky, close-knit locals who’ve convinced them to stay for the summer. The little town may be worlds away from th…
Owe it to the wind : three lives, two loves, one pact / J.R. Armstrong.
"Set in the 1960's and '70's this is a story of love and betrayal. It begins with the high school romance between Michael, an underprivileged all-star athlete, and Meg, an only child in an upper-middle-class home. Determined to flee an abusive parent, Mic…
The book of Chuck : a novel / LaToya Watkins.
"An extraordinary new novel about family, legacy, and an inherited curse, from National Book Award-nominated author LaToya Watkins Set across Texas and spanning four generations, The Book of Chuck is a gimlet-eyed investigation into birthright and belongi…
Hello, limerence / Momo Yamaguchi.
"Mika is about to turn 25, and all she has to show for it is a soul-sucking office job and a terminal case of virginity. Between unwanted advances from co-workers and subway commuters, and love-bombing from unappealing fuckboys, Mika’s ready to explode. H…
Work to do / Jules Wernersbach.
"When Eleanor founded Guadalupe Street Co-op in the early 1980s, she was in her mid-twenties and madly in love with her girlfriend, Meg. Together, they envisioned an idyllic grocery store owned by its workers and customers. Forty years later, Guadalupe S…
Appraisals : a novel / Claire Boyles.
"Maggie Brandt, a third-generation farmer, is cultivating a few acres of organic vegetables in rural Colorado--a place where industrial farming reigns supreme--when the Great Recession hits. After months of unemployment, her husband, Fish, takes a job wit…
Gold diggers / Sanjena Sathian.
"A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is funny and smart but struggles to bear the weight of expectations of his family and their Asian American enclave. He tries to want their version of succes…
Promise me never : a novel / Liv Constantine.
"Aspiring writer Savannah’s scheme to meet superstar horror novelist Bennett Bryson turns out better than she ever imagined: not only does her charming and handsome literary idol offer to read her work, he is instantly smitten with her. After a whirlwind …
They say a girl died here : a novel / Sarah Pinborough.
"Anna Maybourne never imagined herself living in a place like Harper’s Creek, a nowhere town full of dusty farmland plagued by drought. It’s supposed to be a new start for her and her family, but after dropping out of college, Anna feels stuck in place—wo…
Big little truths : a novel / Liane Moriarty.
"The last time we saw the women of Big Little Lies—Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie—their children were five years old. If someone wasn’t invited to a birthday party, feelings were hurt. But ten years have passed and the kids are in high school…
Through the valley / Patricia Johns.
"Miri Schrock never expected to inherit anything after months of caring for Old Tom Yoder, so upon his passing, she's stunned to learn he's left her everything. But Tom's family is equally shocked, and Miri is not sure she can rightfully accept an inherit…
Time travel for beginners / Jaclyn Moriarty.
"Three strangers' lives are forever changed when they're all drawn to a mysterious agency claiming to have unlocked the secret to time travel in this dazzling novel from award-winning author Jaclyn Moriarty. Anna, Teddy, and Jade are on a collision course…
The depopulation / Marina Closs ; translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead.
""Of all the happy, hermitic lands, the Guayrá was the jewel." So begins this polyphonic wonder of a novel set in a 17th-century Jesuit mission founded within the wild South American subtropics by the mystical and intense Father Ruiz and his assistant Fat…
Under the falls : a novel / Richard Russo.
"When Tyler Sinclair left Stone Mountain at eighteen, he had no plans of returning. With only a duffel bag full of clothes, a few bucks stolen from his father’s dresser, and a guitar, his most prized possession, Tyler disappeared without so much as a good…
What happens in the dark / Kia Abdullah.
"Lily and Safa were best friends growing up. Now Lily is the nation's favourite breakfast TV presenter and Safa, once a renowned journalist, is reeling from a recent fall from grace. When news breaks about suspicious bruises on Lily's body, Safa attempts …
A tender age / Chang-rae Lee.
"An exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants. Korean American Jeon-Gi is torn between competing ideas of himself. At home, his working-class parents dote on him. Outsid…
I made you up inside my head / Marta Pérez-Carbonell ; translated by Rosalind Harvey.
"On an overnight train from London to Edinburgh, a translator becomes engrossed in the stories of the strangers who share her compartment. One has adapted the harrowing childhood experience of an acquaintance for his controversial recent bestseller. The t…
All that is left of life : a novel / Roberta Recchia ; translated by Antonella Lettieri.
"It’s a sultry August night when sixteen-year-old Betta Ansaldo convinces her cousin Miriam to sneak out to the local beach for a party. Only Miriam returns. Traumatized by the violence she’s witnessed, she remains silent. The small community is riven wit…
No higher ground / Nicole Brooks.
"In the midst of a terrifying, once-in-a-lifetime flood, Raven, her two children, and their Chihuahua are trapped on the rooftop of her childhood home along with her stepmother, Joan. Surrounded by a raging torrent, Raven fights to stay calm as her though…
Furious Violet : a novel / Sarai Walker.
"Violet "West" Shelley, a self-described "low-brow" crime journalist, has unwillingly spent her life in the spotlight, as the only daughter of a legendary poet and feminist icon who died tragically young. Now as West approaches fifty—burned out, creativel…
Soft spots : a novel / Leila Renee.
"After miraculously securing a teaching job at a dysfunctional high school, loner Robin moves to South Bend, Indiana, where she’s paired with an eerily perfect roommate: Naomi. Freshly estranged from her abusive parents, Robin obsesses over two absurd goa…
Women without men : a novel of modern Iran / Shamush Parsipur ; translated from the Persian by Faridoun Farrokh ; foreword by Shirin Neshat.
"This modern literary masterpiece follows the interwoven destinies of five women--including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a prostitute, and a school-teacher--as they arrive by different paths to live together in an abundant garden on the outskirts of T…
The juniper tree / Barbara Comyns ; introduction by Sadie Stein.
"Bella Winter is homeless and jobless. The mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didn't quite catch, her once pretty face is now marred by a scar from a car accident. She's recently disentangled herself from a selfish and indifferent boyfriend and a…
Butcher's Crossing / John Williams ; introduction by Michelle Latiolais.
"It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek an original relation to nature, drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless…
The true meaning of love : a novel / Danielle Steel.
"February 24 is the eighteenth birthday of a Ukrainian ballet school student named Vlad. It also happens to be the day that the first bombs of the 2022 Russian attack land on his homeland. As life for every person in the country is turned upside down in a…
Ransom / Leslie Wolfe.
"Everyone knows who Olivia Taylor is. Or so they believe. She’s the glamorous philanthropist who just returned to her hometown after a long absence. She’s the new fiancée of the wealthy and charismatic Winston Donovan. She’s Las Vegas royalty, celebrated …
Hustle, baby / Priya Guns.
"From the incendiary voice behind Your Driver is Waiting, a fierce and unforgettable novel about a Tamil refugee family stealing from corporations to survive until their lives are up-ended by a day-trading scam, threatening what little security they have …
Should the waters take us : a novel / Stephanie Soileau.
"Residents of the bayous of southern Louisiana must survive disasters both natural and manmade"--Provided by publisher.
How are you going to save yourself / JM Holmes.
"Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in Ame…
The vet's daughter / Barbara Comyns ; foreword by Kathryn Davis.
"The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and…
The seekers of Deer Creek : a novel / Thao Thai.
"Aside from the fact they are sisters, Vivi and Calla Nguyễn have little in common. Vivi, the eldest, lives an orderly and predictable life. She works as an art conservator at a museum in Chicago, carefully preserving pieces of the past, all the while re…
The dinner party : a pick your poison adventure / Freida McFadden.
"You're broke. You have no way to pay your rent and you're about to be evicted. Fortunately, your friend has offered you a job working as a waitress at a dinner party... at an island mansion way out on Peyton's Peak. The money will be enough to cover two …
Tradwife : a novel / Michelle Brandon.
"In an idyllic coastal town, life appears picture-perfect--until it's not. Families are drawn to Crystal Harbor for its more traditional values and gender roles, a step back in time to an era of female submission and patriarchal leadership. But beneath th…
Tangled webs : a novel / Callie Coles.
"To the outside world, Sage Deverill has it all. In truth, her marriage is a gilded cage. When Sage flees from her marriage at a crumbling Panamanian estate, she takes her young son to the only place that has ever felt like home: her grandparents' estate …
The new people / a novel by Andrea Uptmor.
"Months after the housing bubble bursts, newlywed Chicagoans Emma and Rachel move into a charming little house in a conservative Indiana college town, hoping for a fresh start after a painful miscarriage. As Rachel immerses herself in her new role as a te…
Everything that is beautiful : a novel / Louise Nealon.
"For Niamh Ryan, the Foleys are family. Her childhood flew by on their farm, playing with her best friend Peter and his sister Kate - while being doted on by their mother Helen and coached by their father Liam, a legendary former hurling player. Now, foll…
Knuckle boy : stories / Dawn Newton.
"In Knuckle Boy, Dawn Newton presents nine stories in which protagonists grapple with wounded creatures-insects, animals, and humans-leaning heavily on backyard habitats and quotidian problems that nonetheless resonate. "The Derailment of the Mikado" pres…