{"id":6395,"date":"2020-06-18T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2020-06-18T11:21:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:21:56","slug":"new-fiction-titles-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/2020\/06\/18\/new-fiction-titles-66\/","title":{"rendered":"New Fiction Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New titles are added weekly!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

All the Ways We Said Goodbye <\/em>by\nBeatriz Williams: <\/strong>In France, 1914, an heiress, a resistance fighter, and a\nwidow are all joined by one legendary hotel: the Ritz in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Book of Lost Friends <\/em>by\nLisa Wingate:<\/strong> Unravels the dramatic story of three young women searching\nfor family amid the destruction of the post\u2013Civil War South, and of a\nmodern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her\nstudents\u2019 lives. Author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from\nactual \u201cLost Friends\u201d advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after\nthe Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who\nhad been sold away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secrets of the Chocolate House <\/em>by\nPaula Brackston:<\/strong> After her adventures in the seventeenth century, Xanthe\ndoes her best to settle back into the rhythm of life in Marlborough. Then\nXanthe hears the song of a copper chocolate pot. Soon after, she has an\nupsetting vision of Samuel in great danger, compelling her to make another\njourney to the past. This time she’ll meet her most dangerous adversary. This\ntime her ability to travel to the past will be tested. This time she will\ndiscover her true destiny. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Better Liar <\/em>by Tanen Jones:<\/strong>\nRobin Voigt is dead. But when their father passed away, Leslie received a rude\nawakening: she and Robin would receive the inheritance he left them\ntogether–or not at all. When she meets a charismatic young woman who bears an\nuncanny resemblance to Robin, the two make a reckless bargain: Mary will\nimpersonate Robin for a week in exchange for Robin’s half of the cash. But\nneither realizes how high the stakes will be when Mary takes a dead woman’s\nname. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Reasonable Doubt <\/em>by Phillip\nMargolin:<\/strong> A magician linked to three murders and suspicious deaths years\nago disappears in the middle of his new act in Phillip Margolin’s latest\nthriller featuring Robin Lockwood. As a young criminal defense attorney, a\nformer MMA fighter, and Yale law graduate, she must unravel the tangled skein\nof murder and bloody mischief to learn how it all ties together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Last Odyssey <\/em>by James\nRollins:<\/strong> For eons, the city of Troy–whose legendary fall was detailed in\nHomer’s Iliad–was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth\ncentury uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands a map and to the a\nhidden realm of Tartarus. When word of Tartarus spreads–and of the cache of\nmiraculous weapons said to be hidden there–tensions explode in this volatile\nregion where Turks battle Kurds, terrorists wage war, and civilians suffer\nuntold horrors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cleaning the Gold <\/em>by Karin\nSlaughter and Lee Child:<\/strong> Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox to\ninvestigate a twenty-two-year-old murder. His suspect’s name: Jack Reacher.\nJack Reacher is in Fort Knox on his own mission: to bring down a dangerous\ncriminal ring operating at the heart of America’s military. But there’s a\nbigger conspiracy at play–one that neither the special agent nor the\nex-military cop could have anticipated. And the only option is for Jack Reacher\nand Will Trent to team up and play nicely. If the can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Jetsetters <\/em>by Amanda Ward:<\/strong>\nWhen seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins wins a cruise vacation, she dreams of\nreuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome\nand wifeless venture capitalist; and Regan, a harried mother who took it wrong\nwhen Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday.\nAs lovers new and old join the adventure, long-buried secrets are revealed, and\nthe Perkins family is forced to confront the defining choices in their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Minute Out <\/em>by Mark\nGreaney:<\/strong> I was on a simple mission in Bosnia. A bad guy needed to be put\ndown; in and out, no problem. But then I stumbled across a nightmare–a room\nfull of women and children who were being trafficked to rich scum. Since then,\nI’ve been tracking their smuggling ring around the globe, and I’m finally near\nthe top. Now I’ve got to make a decision: duty or honor. They all think they\nhave me boxed in, but there’s one thing they’re forgetting: I am the Gray Man<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You Are Not Alone <\/em>by Greer\nHendricks:<\/strong> Shay Miller is intrigued by a group of women who seem to have it\nall together, and they invite her with the promise: ‘You are not alone.’ Why\nnot align herself with the glamorous and seductive Moore sisters, Cassandra and\nJane? They are everything Shay aspires to be, and they seem to have the keys to\ngetting exactly what they want. But what price does she have to pay? What do\nCassandra and Jane want from her? You are not alone: Is it a promise? Or a\nthreat?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Authenticity Project <\/em>by\nClare Pooley: <\/strong>Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you\nshared the truth?’ This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric,\nseventy-nine-year-old artist, poses within a pale green exercise book that he\nlabels The Authenticity Project, before leaving it behind in Monica’s Cafe.\nWhen Monica discovers Julian’s abandoned notebook, not only does she add her\nown story to the book, she is determined to find a way to help Julian feel less\nlonely. And so it goes with the others who find the green notebook that will soon\ncontain their deepest selves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Alliance Public Library has\nreopened to the public with some restrictions. Items may still be reserved\nonline for pickup using our digital catalog at https:\/\/alliancelibrary.org. For\nmore information on current library procedures and services, please visit our\nwebsite at http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All the Ways We Said Goodbye by Beatriz Williams: In France, 1914, an heiress, a resistance fighter, and a widow are all joined by one legendary hotel: the Ritz in Paris. The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate: Unravels the dramatic story of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post\u2013Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students\u2019 lives. Author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual \u201cLost Friends\u201d advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookworm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6398,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions\/6398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}