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Beyond the Bestsellers highlights new and notable authors
not often found on bestseller lists.
Discover new books and writers you might enjoy!
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You can also click / tap an author's name to locate any additional titles by that writer in the library catalog.
General Fiction
 Invisible as Air - Zoe Fishman - Domestic Fiction. Three years after the stillborn birth of her daughter Deliah, Sylvie Snow, wife and mother, still has not processed her grief. When her husband breaks his ankle and relies on Sylvie for every little thing, Sylvie takes one of his Oxycontin pills to quell the sadness and frustration she feels. Empowered to be a seemingly better wife and mother with the drug, Sylvie soon finds herself seduced into addiction. Timely, emotional and compelling. All the Water in the World - Karen Raney - Coming of Age. "Maddy is sixteen. Smart, funny, and profound, she has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy also has cancer. Hungry for experience, Maddy seeks out her first romantic relationship, finds solace in music and art, and tracks down her father, Antonio. She continually tests the depths and limits of her closeness with her mother, while Eve has to come to terms with the daughter she only partly knows, in a world she can't control."
Other titles to consider:
Historical Fiction
 Paris Orphan - Natasha Lester - "An American soldier and an enterprising photographer brave occupied France during World War II to help give a little girl the one thing she's never had - a family--in this gripping historical fiction from the internationally bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress."
Other titles to consider:
Mysteries
 The Chestnut Man - Soren Sveistrup - Police Procedural. "A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen. His calling card is a "chestnut man"-a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts-which he leaves at each bloody crime scene. Examining the dolls, forensics makes a shocking discovery-a fingerprint belonging to a young girl, a government minister's daughter who had been kidnapped and murdered a year ago. To save innocent lives, a pair of detectives must put aside their differences to piece together the Chestnut Man's gruesome clues."
Other titles to consider:
Romance
 Ruby and Roland - Faith Sullivan - Ruby Drake, an orphaned teenager, creates a rich life as a worker on the Schoonover farm in Harvester, Minnesota in the early twentieth century. She falls in love with Roland, the young husband of the couple who farm nearby. When Eileen Schoonover encourages her to assist Dora, Roland's fragile wife, the two women form a friendship causing Ruby to wrestle with her understanding of love.
Other titles to consider:
Sci-Fi / Fantasy
 Library of the Unwritten - A.J. Hackwith - "In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories."
Other titles to consider:
Thrillers
 The Escape Room - Megan Goldin - "Four young Wall Street rising stars discover the price of ambition when an escape room challenge turns into a lethal game of revenge."
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