Middletown Thrall Library augments your perspective with... Beyond the Bestsellers - Discovering New and Interesting Authors - Winter 2020 Edition

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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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General Fiction

  • American Dirt - Jeanine CumminsAmerican Dirt - Jeanine Cummins - General Fiction. is a literary achievement filled with poignancy, drama, and humanity on every page. It is one of the most important books for our times. Already being hailed as 'a Grapes of Wrath for our times" and 'a new American classic,' Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt is a rare exploration into the inner hearts of people willing to sacrifice everything for a glimmer of hope."
  • Creatures - Crissy Van MeterCreatures - Crissy Van Meter - Coming of Age. n the eve of Evangeline's wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there, in this mesmerizing, provocative debut, Evie remembers and reckons with her complicated upbringing in this lush, wild land off the coast of Southern California. With wit, love, and bracing ashes of anger, Creatures probes the complexities of love and abandonment, guilt and forgiveness, betrayal and grief - and the ways in which our ability to love can be threatened if we are not brave enough to conquer the past."

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Historical Fiction

  • Remembrance - Rita WoodsRemembrance - Rita Woods - "Remembrance.... It's a rumor, a whisper passed in the fields and veiled behind sheets of laundry. A hidden stop on the underground road to freedom, a safe haven protected by more than secrecy…if you can make it there. Ohio, present day. An elderly woman who is more than she seems warns against rising racism as a young woman grapples with her life. Haiti, 1791, on the brink of revolution. When the slave Abigail is forced from her children to take her mistress to safety, she discovers New Orleans has its own powers."

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Mysteries

  • Heart of Junk - Luke GeddesHeart of Junk - Luke Geddes - Humorous Mystery. "A hilarious debut novel about an eclectic group of merchants at a Kansas antique mall who become implicated in the kidnapping of a local beauty pageant star."
  • The Bad Place - M.K. HillThe Bad Place - M.K. Hill - Police Procedural. "A remote farm out on the Thames estuary, where six children were held captive for two weeks. Five of them got out alive. That was twenty years ago. Now adults, they meet up annually to hold a candlelit vigil for their friend who died. The only rule is that no-one can talk about what happened the night they escaped. But at this year's event, one of them witnesses a kidnapping. A young girl, Sammi, is bundled into a van in front of their eyes. Is history repeating itself? Is one of them responsible? Or is someone sending them a twisted message?"

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Romance

  • Would Like to Meet - Rachel WintersWould Like to Meet - Rachel Winters - Romantic Comedy. "Can you fall in love like they do in the movies? It's Evie Summers's job to find out. Because if she can't convince her film agency's biggest client, Ezra Chester, to write the romantic-comedy screenplay he owes producers, her career will be over. The catch? He thinks rom-coms are unrealistic--and he'll only put pen to paper if Evie shows him that it's possible to meet a man in real life the way it happens on the big screen."

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Sci-Fi / Fantasy

  • The Vanished Birds - Simon JimenezThe Vanished Birds - Simon Jimenez - Space Opera. "A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever in this captivating debut of connection across space and time."

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Thrillers

  • The Wife and the Widow - Christian WhiteThe Wife and the Widow - Christian White - Domestic Thriller. "An unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband's secret life; and Abby, an island local whose world is turned upside when she's forced to confront the evidence of her husband's guilt. But nothing on this island is quite as it seems, and only when these women come together can they discover the whole story about the men in their lives."

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