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New Fiction

Laundry by Becka Mara McKay (Translator); Suzane Adam
Call Number: PJ5055.12.D355 K4813 2008

ISBN: 9780975444474

Publication Date: 2008-11-01

In 1960s Transylvania where the novel begins, five-year-old Ildiko becomes victim to psychological abuse at the hands of her babysitter, Yutzi, whom she worships and follows everywhere. Though Ildiko's family immigrates to Israel soon after, Ildiko's life continues to be shaped by the secret deep within her; not until many years later is Ildiko able to reveal her story.
The Book of Amuwapi by Christopher Lord; Petr Nikl (Illustrator)
Call Number: BL1616.A58 L574x 2000

ISBN: 8086264149

Publication Date: 2000-05-01

The Book of Amuwapi is a collection of documents from various civilizations and periods associated in some way with the cult of Amuwapi, varying from the legal documents of lost civilizations to Javanese folk tales. Intertwined with this reconstruction of the Amuwapi cult is the story of the catfish, who meets Amuwapi at the beginning of the book and is advised by him to carry out a search for Love.
Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu
Call Number: PS3625.U15 S67 2012

ISBN: 9780307948465

Publication Date: 2013-05-07

A big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during the graveyard shift, a problem that pales in comparison to his inability to ask a coworker out on a date . . . A fighter leads his band of virtual warriors, thieves, and wizards across a deadly computer-generated landscape, but does he have what it takes to be a hero? . . . A company outsources grief for profit, its slogan: "Don't feel like having a bad day? Let someone else have it for you."
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Call Number: PS3625.U15 H68 2010

ISBN: 9780307739452

Publication Date: 2011-06-28

Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change the past. That's where Charles Yu, time travel technician, steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. The key to locating his father may be found in a book. It's called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and somewhere inside it is information that will help him. It may even save his life.
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon; Paul Fussell (Introduction by)
Call Number: PR6037.A86 M35 2013

ISBN: 9780143107156

Publication Date: 2013-05-28

In this first novel of the semiautobiographical George Sherston trilogy, Sassoon wonderfully captures the vanishing idylls of the Edwardian English countryside. Never out of print since its original publication in 1928, when it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Sassoon's reminiscences about childhood and the beginning of World War I are channeled through young George Sherston, whose life of local cricket tournaments and fox-hunts falls apart as war approaches and he joins up to fight.
Notes from a Black Woman's Diary by Kathleen Collins; Danielle Evans (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3553.O47485 A6 2019

ISBN: 9780062800954

Publication Date: 2019-02-05

Relatively unknown during her life, the artist, filmmaker, and writer Kathleen Collins emerged on the literary scene in 2016 with the posthumous publication of the short story collection Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? That rediscovery continues in Notes from a Black Woman's Diary, which spans genres to reveal the breadth and depth of the late author's talent.
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi; Tina Kover (Translator)
Call Number: PQ3979.3.D53.D4713 2018

ISBN: 9781609454517

Publication Date: 2018-04-17

Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself, as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves.
Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin
Call Number: PS3622.L38 D66 2018

ISBN: 9780062684479

Publication Date: 2019-02-26

Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who wants to be somebody. He's spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese, herding sheep alone in the mountains. But while the Reeses treat him like a son, Horace can't shake the shame he feels from being abandoned by his parents.
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Call Number: PS3602.E66444 M68 2017

ISBN: 9780399184529

Publication Date: 2017-10-10

It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, 17-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance - and the subsequent cover-up - will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth.
The Devil Aspect by Craig Russell
Call Number: PR6118.U85 D48 2019

ISBN: 9780385544368

Publication Date: 2019-03-05

Prague, 1935: Viktor Kosárek, a psychiatrist newly trained by Carl Jung, arrives at the infamous Hrad Orlu Asylum for the Criminally Insane. The asylum houses the country's six most treacherous killers--known to the staff as The Woodcutter, The Clown, The Glass Collector, The Vegetarian, The Sciomancer, and The Demon--and Viktor hopes to use a new medical technique to prove that these patients share a common archetype of evil, a phenomenon known as The Devil Aspect.

New Fiction

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio; G. H. McWilliam (Introduction by, Notes by, Translator)
Call Number: PQ4272.E5 A395 1995

ISBN: 9780140446296

Publication Date: 1996-02-01

Boccaccio's collection of bawdy, comic and sometimes tragic tales, which had an enormous influence on English literature, notably on Chaucer.
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Call Number: PL856 .U673 N6713 2000

ISBN: 9780307950628

Publication Date: 2012-01-03

Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before.
Homeland by Fernando Aramburu; Alfred Macadam (Translator)
Call Number: PQ6651.R26 P3813 2019

ISBN: 9781524747121

Publication Date: 2019-03-05

Fernando Aramburu's internationally acclaimed novel evokes an unresolved history of violence, giving a fictional account of lives shattered by Basque terrorism even as it rekindles debate about truth and reconciliation.
Full-Metal Indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead
Call Number: PR9199.4.W4745 A6 2017

ISBN: 9781772011876

Publication Date: 2017-11-28

Using binary code and texts from classics of the English language such as Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Joshua Whitehead unravels the coded "I" to trace the formation of a colonized self and reclaim representations of Indigenous texts. Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit member of the Peguis First Nation.
Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce
Call Number: PS3620.I365 L68 2014

ISBN: 9780345807137

Publication Date: 2015-06-09

Marie is a waitress at an upscale Dallas steakhouse, attuned to the appetites of her patrons and gifted at hiding her private struggle as a young single mother behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. It's a world of long hours and late nights, and Marie often gives in to self-destructive impulses, losing herself in a tangle of bodies and urgent highs as her desire for obliteration competes with a stubborn will to survive.
Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault
Call Number: PS3552.E738 A6 2017

ISBN: 1887178384

Publication Date: 1997-05-01

A collection of thirty-five stories examining people's behavior and what motivates them.
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
Call Number: PS3560.O5395 M37 2017

ISBN: 9780765395108

Publication Date: 2017-06-20

Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew.
The Cactus League by Emily Nemens
Call Number: PS3614.E45244 C33 2020

ISBN: 9780374117948

Publication Date: 2020-02-04

Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends, petty criminals, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why--as they hide secrets of their own.
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: PS3603.O17 W38 2019

ISBN: 9780399590597

Publication Date: 2019-09-24

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her--but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he's ever known.
The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu
Call Number: PQ2713.A374 M4313 2010

ISBN: 9780307472137

Publication Date: 2011-11-29

Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleine--witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphans--who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine.
The Lottery by D. K. Wall
Call Number: PS3623.A43852

ISBN: 9781950293001

Publication Date: 2019-02-08

Nathan Thomas feels grateful for his loving family and a steady job in a town where work is scarce. Still haunted by a deadly accident that severed his closest friendships, he hopes his bad luck is well behind him. But a fresh betrayal and a shocking revelation could take everything he loves away.
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
Call Number: PS3603.L472 W48 2017

ISBN: 9780735221734

Publication Date: 2018-06-05

Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her mother's childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect these dislocated pieces of her life, and as her mother succumbs to cancer, Thandi searches for an anchor--someone, or something, to love.

New Fiction

Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
Call Number: PS3566.I372 P3 1995eb

ISBN: 9780140230277

Publication Date: 1995-04-01

Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own. But her mother's absence and shameful memories of her past force her to doubt whether she could ever be capable of bringing joy and meaning into the life of her child, gifts her own mother never gave.
Beside Myself by Sasha Marianna Salzmann; Imogen Taylor (Translator)
Call Number: PT2719.A49 A9613 2019

ISBN: 9781892746443

Publication Date: 2020-02-18

Beside Myself is the disturbing and exhilarating story of a family across four generations. At its heart is a twin's search for her brother. When Anton goes missing and the only clue is a postcard sent from Istanbul, Ali leaves her life in Berlin to find him. Without her twin, the sharer of her memories and the mirror of her own self, Ali is lost.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin; Elaine Showalter (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS1294.C63 A6 1992

ISBN: 9780679417217

Publication Date: 1992-11-03

With an effortless, sure-handed artistry, Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young mother and model wife, whose romantic involvement with a young man during a vacation at a seaside resort allows her for the first time to imagine a new, freer life.
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud; John Cullen (Translator)
Call Number: PQ3989.3.D365 M4813 2015

ISBN: 9781590517512

Publication Date: 2015-06-02

He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a name--Musa--and describes the events that led to Musa's casual murder on a dazzlingly sunny beach.
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Call Number: PS8607 I53 M37 2017

ISBN: 9781770864863

Publication Date: 2017-09-01

Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream.
The Subway Girls by Susie Orman Schnall
Call Number: PS3619.C446545 S83 2018

ISBN: 9781250169761

Publication Date: 2018-07-10

In 1949, dutiful and ambitious Charlotte's dream of a career in advertising is shattered when her father demands she help out with the family business. Meanwhile, Charlotte is swept into the glamorous world of the Miss Subways beauty contest, which promises irresistible opportunities with its Park Avenue luster and local fame status.
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Call Number: PS3625.U15 I58 2020

ISBN: 9780307907196

Publication Date: 2020-01-28

Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production.
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
Call Number: PR9199.4.M3347 L37 2015

ISBN: 9781101911952

Publication Date: 2015-08-04

When Lilia Albert was a child, her father appeared on the doorstep of her mother's house and took her away. Now, haunted by an inability to remember much about her early childhood, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and eluding the private detective who has dedicated a career to following close behind.
Briarpatch by Ross Thomas; Lawrence Block (Introduction by); Ross Thomas
Call Number: PS3570.H58 B75 2003

ISBN: 9780312290313

Publication Date: 2003-01-09

A long-distance call from his small Texas hometown on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister Felicity--born on the same day exactly ten years apart--has died in a car bomb explosion. She was a homicide detective who had perhaps made one enemy too many over the course of her career. Unwilling to let local law enforcement handle the investigation, Dill arrives in town that night to begin his dogged search for his sister's killer.
The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada; David Boyd
Call Number: PL874.Y36 K6513 2019

ISBN: 9780811228855

Publication Date: 2019-10-29

Where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin? What's going on with the strange animals here?
Tightrope by Amanda Quick
Call Number: PS3561.R44 T544 2019

ISBN: 9780399585364

Publication Date: 2019-05-07

An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a top secret invention.

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