{"id":6082,"date":"2020-02-21T16:29:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T23:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/?p=6082"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:14:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:14:18","slug":"new-fiction-titles-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/2020\/02\/21\/new-fiction-titles-59\/","title":{"rendered":"New Fiction Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

1922<\/em><\/strong> by Stephen King: <\/strong>The year is 1922. Together, Wilfred James and his\nteenage son commit a gruesome crime in order to keep the family\u2019s Nebraska\nhomestead intact. Soon after, supernatural terrors begin to afflict father and\nson, as well as their land. Is it just a coincidence, or is it something more\ndisturbing at work? Betrayal, murder, madness, rats; 1922 is a breathtaking\nexploration into the dark side of human nature from the great American\nstoryteller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Longer Fall <\/em>by Charlaine\nHarris:<\/strong> Lizbeth Rose is hired for transporting a crate into Dixie. But what\nseemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is\nstolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into\nthe last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve\nthe crate as what’s inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in\ntime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Treason <\/em>by Stuart Woods:<\/strong> Stone\nBarrington\u2019s close friend requires his expertise and subtlety to eradicate a\ndestructive presence in a classified agency–only it soon becomes clear that\nthis renegade was sent by a rival Stone has encountered before. From the City\nof Light to the rocky Maine coastline, Stone will need to summon all his wit\nand daring to halt the audacious plots threatening to reveal confidential\nintel, and catch the evasive traitor at last. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wives <\/em>by Tarryn Fisher:<\/strong>\nShe\u2019s never met the other wives. But she loves him so much she doesn’t care. Or\nat least that’s what she told herself. Then, under false pretenses, she strikes\nup a friendship with his other wife, Hannah. Hannah starts showing up to coffee\ndates with telltale bruises. She’s being abused by her husband. Who, of course,\nis also her<\/em> husband. But she\u2019s never\nknown him to be violent, ever. Who exactly is her husband, and how far would\nshe go to find the truth? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genesis <\/em>by Robin Cook:<\/strong> Robin\nCook takes on the ripped-from-the-headlines topic of harnessing DNA from\nancestry websites to catch a killer in this timely and explosive new medical\nthriller. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moral Compass <\/em>by Danielle\nSteel:<\/strong> Saint Ambrose has just enrolled one hundred and forty female\nstudents for the first time. Despite privilege, some students are struggling\nand wounded, dealing with insecurity and loneliness. Then a student lies in the\nhospital, her system poisoned by dangerous levels of alcohol. Everyone in this\nsheltered community are left trying to figure out what actually happened. Only\nthe handful of students who were there when she was attacked truly know the\nanswers and they have vowed to keep one another’s secrets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heaven, My Home <\/em>by Attica\nLocke:<\/strong> Bluebird Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on the hunt for a boy who’s\ngone missing–but it’s the boy’s family of white supremacists who are his real\ntarget. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Price <\/em>by Tim Tigner:<\/strong> There’s\na secret in Silicon Valley. A discovery. An invention. One so startling and\nsurprisingly sinister that it needs to be kept – at any price. Propelling the thrills\nand perched at the middle of the mystery is one of humanity’s great questions:\nwould the Fountain of Youth be a blessing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Playground <\/em>by Jane\nShemlit:<\/strong> The lives of three very different married couples collide when\ntheir children join the same tutoring circle, resulting in illicit\nrelationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout.  The story twists and then twists again while\nthe three families desperately search for answers. It’s only as they begin to\nunravel the truth of what happened over the summer that they realize evil has\ncrept quietly into their world. But has this knowledge come too late?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1922 by Stephen King: The year is 1922. Together, Wilfred James and his teenage son commit a gruesome crime in order to keep the family\u2019s Nebraska homestead intact. Soon after, supernatural terrors begin to afflict father and son, as well as their land. Is it just a coincidence, or is it something more disturbing at work? Betrayal, murder, madness, rats; 1922 is a breathtaking exploration into the dark side of human nature from the great American storyteller. A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris: Lizbeth Rose is hired for transporting a crate into Dixie. But what seemed like a straight-forward job\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-6082","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\/6082","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6083,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions\/6083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/alliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}