Behind Closed Doors by B.A.Paris
Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks
and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never
lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and
dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they
seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’re
hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness
of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better.
But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are
inseparable.
Some might call this true love. Others might wonder why
Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even
though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so
slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the
house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on
all the downstairs windows.
Some might wonder what’s really going on once the dinner
party is over, and the front door has closed.
From bestselling author B. A. Paris comes the gripping
thriller and international phenomenon Behind Closed Doors. –Amazon Review
The Girl who Drank The Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as
an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will
keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is
kind. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny
Dragon. Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the
other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey.
One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of
starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she
must raise this girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. As Luna’s thirteenth
birthday approaches, her magic begins to emerge--with dangerous consequences.
Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people
by killing the witch. Deadly birds with uncertain intentions flock nearby. A
volcano, quiet for centuries, rumbles just beneath the earth’s surface. And the
woman with the Tiger’s heart is on the prowl . . .
The author of the highly acclaimed, award-winning novel The
Witch’s Boy has written an epic coming-of-age fairy tale destined to be a
modern classic. – Amazon Description
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen
Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed
impossible: to venture up the Wolverine River and pierce the vast, untamed Alaska
Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Colonel Forrester
records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her
if he doesn't return--once he passes beyond the edge of the known world,
there's no telling what awaits him.
The Wolverine River Valley is not only breathtaking and
forbidding but also terrifying in ways that the colonel and his men never could
have imagined. As they map the territory and gather information on the native
tribes, whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything they have
ever encountered, Forrester and his men discover the blurred lines between
human and wild animal, the living and the dead. And while the men knew they
would face starvation and danger, they cannot escape the sense that some
greater, mysterious force threatens their lives.
Meanwhile, on her own at Vancouver Barracks, Sophie chafes
under the social restrictions and yearns to travel alongside her husband. She
does not know that the winter will require as much of her as it does her
husband, that both her courage and faith will be tested to the breaking point.
Can her exploration of nature through the new art of photography help her to
rediscover her sense of beauty and wonder?
The truths that Allen and Sophie discover over the course of
that fateful year change both of their lives--and the lives of those who hear
their stories long after they're gone--forever. – Amazon Description
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty turns her unique,
razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families.
Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they
have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a
cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. If there’s anything
they can count on, it’s each other.
Clementine and Erika are each other’s oldest friends. A
single look between them can convey an entire conversation. But theirs is a
complicated relationship, so when Erika mentions a last minute invitation to a
barbecue with her neighbors, Tiffany and Vid, Clementine and Sam don’t
hesitate. Having Tiffany and Vid’s larger than life personalities there will be
a welcome respite.
Two months later, it won’t stop raining, and Clementine and
Sam can’t stop asking themselves the question: What if we hadn’t gone?
In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty takes on the
foundations of our lives: marriage, sex, parenthood, and friendship. She shows
how guilt can expose the fault lines in the most seemingly strong
relationships, how what we don’t say can be more powerful than what we do, and
how sometimes it is the most innocent of moments that can do the greatest harm.
– Amazon Description
The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
ELKA BARELY REMEMBERS a time before she knew Trapper. She
was just seven years old, wandering lost and hungry in the wilderness, when the
solitary hunter took her in. In the years since then, he’s taught her how to
survive in this desolate land where civilization has been destroyed and men are
at the mercy of the elements and each other.
But the man Elka thought she knew has been harboring a
terrible secret. He’s a killer. A monster. And now that Elka knows the truth,
she may be his next victim.
Armed with nothing but her knife and the hard lessons
Trapper’s drilled into her, Elka flees into the frozen north in search of her
real parents. But judging by the trail of blood dogging her footsteps, she
hasn’t left Trapper behind—and he won’t be letting his little girl go without a
fight. If she’s going to survive, Elka will have to turn and confront not just
him, but the truth about the dark road she’s been set on.
The Wolf Road is an intimate cat-and-mouse tale of revenge
and redemption, played out against a vast, unforgiving landscape—told by an
indomitable young heroine fighting to escape her past and rejoin humanity. –
Amazon Description
These books are available for checkout through the Lake County Library System.
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