{"id":18121,"date":"2024-01-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/?p=18121"},"modified":"2023-12-18T16:56:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T23:56:35","slug":"new-fiction-for-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/2024\/01\/10\/new-fiction-for-january\/","title":{"rendered":"New Fiction for January"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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July 1962. A Mi\u2019kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family\u2019s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister\u2019s disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren\u2019t telling her.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Detectives Cross and Sampson are tracking a serial killer who’s fatally ambushing young men in the \u201cDead Hours\u201d murders. They don’t hear the machine gun fire. At first. \u201cDrop whatever you’re doing, Dr. Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,\u201d DC Metro Police dispatch says. \u201cA plane just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto.\u201d As Cross and Sampson race to prevent another mass murder, their fearsomely armed opponent once again looks skyward.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem, and always in a time of crisis. The Golem of Brooklyn<\/em> is an epic romp through Jewish history and the American present that wrestles with the deepest questions of our humanity\u2014the conflicts between faith and skepticism, tribalism and interdependence, and vengeance and healing.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In 1941, beautiful Irvel Ellis is too focused on her secret to take much notice in the war raging overseas. She\u2019s dating Sam but in love with his brother, Hank, and Irvel has no idea how to break the news when the unthinkable happens\u2014Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted, and Hank wants to enlist. But Sam insists Hank stay home, where he and Irvel take up the battle on the home front. While Sam fights in Europe, an undeniable chemistry builds between Irvel and Hank but neither would dare cross that line.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0<\/strong>My husband made a terrible mistake. Now our children are missing\u2026This should be the trip of a lifetime \u2013 a week in New York with my family. As we stroll along the Hudson River, drinking coffee in the sunshine, anyone would think we\u2019re the perfect family. But the truth is far more complicated. I\u2019ve been on edge the whole time because fifteen years ago when we were living in this city my husband Jack did something that ripped our lives apart. I swore I would never come back here, but Jack insisted.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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She crossed continents to chase her London dream; he works the same job in the same restaurant, night after night. Then fate steps in. When Gia\u2019s takeout is delivered, her embarrassing list of New Year\u2019s resolutions accidentally makes its way to Ben\u2019s restaurant, stuck to the bottom of a delivery backpack. With each delivery Gia orders, Ben slips in a note of his own and eagerly awaits her reply. One by one, these notes transform their lives in unexpected ways, and an unlikely love story is written.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musee de l\u2019Armee is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. From the shadow of the Eiffel Tower to the depths of the Irish Sea to the islands of the Caribbean, only Dirk Pitt and his children, Summer and Dirk Jr., can locate the treasure that will preserve the soul of a nation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell\u2019s #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been mauled beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling including a larger-than-life footprint. After the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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When CIA operative Jenny Sikwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless operatives. In need of someone who can solve the murder quickly and retrieve the missing information, the U.S. government knows just the chameleon they can call on. Ex-Army Ranger Travis Devine spent his time in the military preparing to take on any scenario, followed by his short-lived business career chasing shadows in the deepest halls of power.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 1962. A Mi\u2019kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family\u2019s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister\u2019s disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren\u2019t telling her. Detectives Cross and Sampson are tracking a\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"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-18121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookworm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18135,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18121\/revisions\/18135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}