Just In!
Locked On - Tom Clancy
The Faithless - Martina Cole
Holy Warrior - Angus Donald (new in Robin Hood series)
Birth of the Kingdom - Jan Guillou (#3 in Crusades trilogy)
Death Comes to Pemberley - P.D. James
An O'Brien Family Christmas - Sherryl Woods (new Chesapeake Shores)
New Thrillers
Dead by Nightfall - Beverly Barton
The Drop - Michael Connelly (new Harry Bosch)
Red Mist - Patricia Cornwell (new Scarpetta)
Soft Target - Stephen Hunter
New Best-Sellers
Sisters of Holmes County omnibus - Wanda Brunstetter
The Scottish Prisoner - Diana Gabaldon (new Lord John & Jamie)
Passing through Paradise - Susan Wiggs
The Christmas Angel - Marcia Willett
Honor Among Thieves - David Chandler (new fantasy!)
Local Author
New by Lowell Green!
Lowell Green, one of Canada's best selling authors, rushes in where angels fear to tread!
His latest book, (his sixth best seller) Here's proof only we conservatives have our heads screwed on straight unleashes a firestorm of wit, wisdom and common sense that is bound to delight, titillate, entertain and educate all those who don't believe group hugs and long walks on lonely beaches with our enemies will solve the world's problems.
New Thrillers
Explosive Eighteen - Janet Evanovich
V is for Vengeance - Sue Grafton
The Vault - Ruth Rendell - new Wexford novel
Justice - Karen Robards
Hot New Title
When She Woke - Hillary Jordan
A powerful reimagining of The Scarlet Letter, When She Woke is a timely fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of the not-too-distant future. Hannah Payne awakens in a new body to a nightmarish new life - lying on a table in a bare room with cameras broadcasting every move to millions at home, for whom observing new Chromes--criminals whose skin color has been genetically altered to match the class of their crime--is a sinister form of entertainment. Hannah is a Red for the crime of murder. The victim, says the State of Texas, was her unborn child, and Hannah is determined to protect the identity of the father, a public figure with whom she shared a fierce and forbidden love.
Booker Finalist
Touch - Alexi Zentner
Returning home on the eve of his mother's death, an Anglican priest is haunted by memories of his far northern Canada hometown and its intertwined history with his family. Stephen recalls his childhood of 30 years earlier - after his father's death, his grandfather returns and insists he has come to find his wife, though she's been dead for years. The tales he tells Stephen—of golden caribou, malevolent wood spirits, and a winter that lasted so long it buried the town in snow until July—are woven in so seamlessly that the reader never questions their validity. The rugged wilderness is captured exquisitely, as is Stephen's uncommon childhood, and despite a narrative rife with tragedy, Zentner's elegant prose keeps the story buoyant.
More Great New Titles
Time of My Life - Cecelia Ahern
The Alloy of Law - Brandon Sanderson - new Mistborn novel
New Titles
Bring Me Home for Christmas - Robyn Carr
- new Virgin River novel
Outlaw: a novel of Robin Hood - Angus Donald
Half-Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan - Booker finalist
Kill Alex Cross - James Patterson
Best-Selling Biography
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
New Romance
Christmas at Timberwoods - Fern Michaels
The Next Always - Nora Roberts - new series!
Irish Hearts - Nora Roberts
Hotel Vendome - Danielle Steel
Booker Prize Winner
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
The story of a man coming to terms with the mutable past, Julian Barnes's new novel is laced with his trademark precision, dexterity and insight.
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they navigated gawky adolescence together. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, but they swore to stay friends forever. Until Adrian's life took a turn into tragedy, and all of them moved on and did their best to forget.
Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a marriage, a calm divorce. He gets along nicely, he thinks, with his one child, a daughter, and even with his ex-wife. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. The unexpected bequest conveyed by that letter leads Tony on a dogged search through a past suddenly turned murky. And how do you carry on, contentedly, when events conspire to upset all your vaunted truths?
Book Club Pick
The Midwife's Confession - Diane Chamberlain
Dear Anna,
What I have to tell you is difficult to write, but I know it will be far more difficult for you to hear, and I'm so sorry…
The unfinished letter is the only clue Tara and Emerson have to the reason behind their close friend Noelle's suicide. Everything they knew about Noelle—her calling as a midwife, her passion for causes, her love for her friends and family—described a woman who embraced life.
Yet there was so much they didn't know. With the discovery of the letter and its heartbreaking secret, Noelle's friends begin to uncover the truth about this complex woman who touched each of their lives—and the life of a desperate stranger—with love and betrayal, compassion and deceit.
New Thrillers
Zero Day - David Baldacci (new series)
Gamble - Dick/Felix Francis
'Tis the Season
I am Half-Sick of Shadows - Alan Bradley
(new Flavia de Luce novel)
A Plain & Fancy Christmas - Cynthia Keller
Paranormal Romance
Darkness Rising - Keri Arthur (Dark Angels series)
New Best-Sellers!
Death of Kings - Bernard Cornwell
(new in his Alfred the Great series)
The Litigators - John Grisham
Forever Faithful: the complete trilogy - Karen Kingsbury
1225 Christmas Tree Lane - Debbie Macomber
(new Cedar Cove)
The Virgin Cure - Ami McKay - Canadian Author!
New Non-Fiction
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by Erik Larson
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance--and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition.
Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.
The Memory Palace
by Mira Bartok
When piano prodigy Norma Herr was healthy, she was the most vibrant personality in the room. But as her schizophrenic episodes became more frequent and more dangerous, she withdrew into a world that neither of her daughters could make any sense of. After Norma attacked her, Mira BartÓk and her sister changed their names and cut off all contact in order to keep themselves safe.
At the age of 40, Mira suffered a debilitating head injury that left her memories foggy and her ability to make sense of the world around her forever changed. Hoping to reconnect with her past, Mira learned Norma was dying in a hospital, and she and her sister traveled to their mother’s deathbed to reconcile one last time.
Through stunning prose and gorgeous original art, The Memory Palace explores the connections between mother and daughter that cannot be broken no matter how much exists—or is lost—between them.
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
by Richard Dawkins
Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific method. But there is another kind of magic, and it lies in the exhilaration of discovering the real answers to these questions. It is the magic of reality—science. Packed with clever thought experiments, dazzling illustrations and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena.
New Thrillers
Last Chance to Die - Noah Boyd (new Steve Vail)
Shock wave - John Sandford (new Virgil Flowers)
The Informationist - Taylor Stevens
New Historical Fiction
The Lady of the Rivers - Philippa Gregory
The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman
Conqueror - Conn Iggulden
Lionheart - Sharon Kay Penman
The Sea Captain's Wife - Beth Powning
Heartwarming Fiction
The Healing - Wanda Brunstetter (#2 in Kentucky series)
Barcelona Calling - Jane Kirkpatrick
The Best of Me - Nicholas Sparks
Humour
Wingfield's World - Dan Needles (based on the stage plays)
A Dublin Student Doctor - Patrick Taylor (new Irish Country Dr.)
Fantasy & Paranormal
Darkness Unbound - Keri Arthur (new series)
Den of Thieves & A Thief in the Night
- new fantasy series by David Chandler
New Best-Sellers
Reinvention of Love
by Helen Humphries
Canadian Author
featured at Kingston Writers Fest
next week!
Second Nature: a love story - Jacquelyn Mitchard
An Irish Country Courtship - Patrick Taylor
New Series - Eternity Springs by Emily March
New Series - Chesapeake Diaries by Mariah Stewart
New Thrillers
The Race - Clive Cussler & Justin Scott
Prey - Linda Howard
Pirate King - Laurie R. King
Robopocalypse - Daniel Wilson
New Books @ Your Library
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By phone: 613-269-3326By e-mail: merrickville_library@bellnet.caOr visit our Catalogue (link at left) to reserve online!(Not sure how? Click on our "How to use the Catalogue" link )
