The Suspense is Killing Me!

     The titles for this week are new paperback fiction. Each one is contains a story full of mystery and suspense. They are perfect for reading while relaxing on the beach!

     “The Secrets of Lizzie Borden” is a novel by Brandy Purdy. This fictionalized account of the life of Lizzie Borden draws on the real events surrounding the murder of her father and step-mother. Lizzie and her sister Emma should have been fortunate young women. Their father was wealthy and could have easily afforded to give his daughters every modern convenience along with fashionable clothes, travel and a cultured life. However, the Fall River, Massachusetts businessman was haunted by his own childhood poverty and forced his daughters to live frugally, denying them modern conveniences like indoor plumbing and electric lighting. Suitors, too, were discouraged because Mr. Borden viewed all gentleman callers as fortune hunters. Lizzie is lonely and extremely unhappy, but she suppresses her frustrations while dreaming of the freedom and wealth she will have upon her father’s death. On a hot day in August 1892, Lizzie’s long simmering anger explodes.

     “Mermaid Moon” is a Sunset Cove Novel by Colleen Coble. Mallory Davis has stayed away from her home for the last fifteen years out of shame and confusion. When her dad mysteriously dies on his mail boat route, she has no choice but to return to Mermaid Point. Mallory comes to believe that her father was murdered and those suspicions are confirmed when Kevin O’Connor, game warden in Downeast Maine, comes to the same conclusion. Kevin is apprehensive about helping Mallory in her search for the truth; after all, she broke his heart and left without a word all those years ago. Mallory and her beloved daughter Haylie begin receiving death threats as they untangle the web surrounding the murder. Mallory must stay alive long enough to put all the pieces together. And maybe, just maybe, she can find herself again.

   “Angels Burning” is a psychological thriller by Tawni O’Dell. Dove Carnahan has lived all of her fifty years in same Pennsylvanian countryside. She is a trailblazer who, as the current police chief, is faced with investigating the most brutal crime in her career. A girl’s body has been found in a fiery sinkhole in an abandoned coal town. She is identified as a daughter of the Truly family—notorious antagonistic rednecks and petty criminals.  Chief Carnahan’s troubles are compounded when the man who was convicted of killing her mother years earlier is released from prison. He still proclaims his innocence and his accusations will force the Chief to examine the parallels between her own family’s trauma and that of the Trulys.

Want Some More Summer Reading? These Have Been Our Most Popular Titles So Far This Year.

Looking for something new or different to read?  Check over our list of popular titles to see if any catch your interest.

Adult Fiction

1. Depraved Heard
2. Best Friends Forever
3. Off the Grid : a Joe Pickett novel
4. Scandalous Behavior : a Stone Barrington novel
5. Tricky Twenty-two
6. The Crossing
7. NYPD Red 4
8. Rogue Lawyer
9. Somebody Has to Pay
10. The Bitter Season

Adult Nonfiction

1. Destiny : Step into your Purpose
2. Dinner Solved!
3. Andy and Don
4. King John
5. Vicksburg 1863
6. Chainsaws & Casseroles
7. Devotion : an Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
8. The Gluten-free Slow Cooker
9. Leonard : My Fifty Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man
10. Maggie Smith : a Biography

Young Adult

1. Twilight
2. Cinder
3. Illusion
4. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
5. Scarlet
6. Divergent
7. Insurgent
8. Matched
9. New Moon
10. The Sleeper and the Spindle

Rustle Up Some Westerns, Partner!

     This week I have decided to feature three of our new western novels from the Large Print collection.

   Shawn O’Brien, Town Tamer is a western novel by William W. Johnstone with J. A. Johnstone. Not content to settle down on the family ranch in the New Mexico territory; Shawn O’Brien has a great deal of the wanderer in him. He also has a lightning-fast draw, eagle eyes, and a heightened sense of justice. Shawn has been making a reputation for himself all over the West by taking the most dangerous and lawless towns and making them safe for the good, honest citizens to live in peace. When Shawn is stranded in Holy Rood, Utah after a stagecoach accident, he doesn’t take long to realize he’s landed in one of the most vicious towns in the territory. He’s not worried though; after all, Shawn O’Brien is the town tamer.

   The Devil’s Posse is a novel by Charles G. West. Logan and Billy Cross have worked the same cattle drive since they were teenagers and have gained a reputation as being the most dependable of workers. Unfortunately, their boss has decided to retire and the brothers are soon to be out of a job. So the boys aren’t left twisting in the wind, the boss man sends them up to Fort Pierre in the Dakota Territory so they can join a horse drive to Sturgis. On their way to meet their prospective boss, Billy smiles at the wrong woman and draws the ire of Quincy Morgan and his gang of desperados.

     Shotgun Charlie is a Ralph Compton Novel by Matthew P. Mayo. Charlie Chilton is a young and naïve drifter who happens to be big for his age. Charlie is taken in by the leader of a band of small-time crooks who sees something of himself in the kindly, restless youth. When shady character Grady Haskell joins the gang and convinces them to pursue the biggest score of their lives, Charlie fails to thwart the heist and it turns bloody. Unfortunately, Charlie is the only gang member to be caught alive and he is sentenced to hang to the crime. Determined to prove his innocence, Charlie must escape, track down Haskell and the gang, and bring them to justice before he loses his own life.

The Summer Library Program is nearing the finish line!

Remember - Friday, July 8 is the final day to report on books read for the Summer Library Program.  All participants that reach their goal by that date are invited to participate in the celebration which will feature magician Dorian LaChance!

Our end of Summer Library Program celebration will be on Thursday, July 14th.  Make sure not to miss it!