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The latest additions to The Library's collection
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In the stacks
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Buy Indie
Short Fiction Collection
Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire | Scarlet Ibis James | Contemporary Fiction; Romance (S)
In Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire, Scarlet Ibis James explores the raw truths of love through twelve unforgettable short stories featuring Black women and people of multi-ethnic origins. Will you relate to the girl longing for her father in The First Time She Met Her Father, or find your own struggles echoed in I Love My Husband But…? Perhaps the surreal digital romance in Love in Cosmic Times will take you somewhere unexpected. Are you ready to uncover the beauty, complexity, and resilience of the human heart? Buy Scarlet Yearnings today and discover where your story intertwines.
Thriller & Mystery
Picton Street | James King | Thriller & Mystery (N)
After a winter of discontent gives birth to a summer of love, how many years will it take Jack Kenright to solve the mystery. It’s the autumn of 1975 as Jack Kenright sets out on his evening walk. A cold and hungry girl huddles on a park bench, as an angry storm brews in the hills. Jack feeds and takes care of her for two days, then she mysteriously disappears. Will his search for her be in vain? It seems so, until nine months later a letter with no contact details arrives from Daisy. She must be alive, but can Jack find her? A successful banking career in the City of London gives him the opportunity to start his own business in his hometown, Bristol. It flourishes until changes in the law lead to a serious error of judgement and conflict with his biggest client. Manipulated and sucked into a criminal underworld, his life is threatened, his business and future in jeopardy. Then, after eighteen years of turmoil, Jack discovers why he never found Daisy. Will the revelation change his life?
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From the Stacks
Featuring a different, randomly-selected book every week.
Horror
North Dark | Lane Talbot | Survival Horror (NA) (I) (F)
Set in a lonesome failed state, North Dark is the story of a lone man traveling by dogsled across a dark tundra in pursuit of the fugitive who destroyed his family. Haunted by predators, the musher’s journey takes him through the remains of civilizations long-lapsed into madness. All the while, his enemy slides in and out of striking distance, always one step ahead, always one act of violence away.