TITLE: Dominicana
AUTHOR: Angie Cruz CALL NUMBER: FIC Cru - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Fifteen-year-old Ana Canción never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights. |
TITLE: The Only Good Indians
AUTHOR: Stephen Graham Jones CALL NUMBER: FIC Jon - NATIVE COLLECTION SUMMARY: Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends. |
TITLE: Black Sun
AUTHOR: Rebecca Roanhorse CALL NUMBER: FIC Roa - NATIVE COLLECTION SUMMARY: A trilogy debut is inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and follows the unbalancing of the holy city of Tova amid a fateful solstice eclipse. |
TITLE: The Book of Essie
AUTHOR: Meghan MacLean Weir WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Wei - NOVELS SUMMARY: Tells the story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, star of the family's hit reality show, and the secret pregnancy that threatens to blow her entire world apart. |
TITLE: Circe
AUTHOR: Madeline Miller WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Mil - FANTASY SUMMARY: Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals. |
TITLE: Educated
AUTHOR: Tara Westover WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Wes SUMMARY: Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond. |
TITLE: How Long 'Til Black Future Month?
AUTHOR: N. K. Jemisin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Jem - FANTASY SUMMARY: A collection of stories about destruction, rebirth, and redemption. |
TITLE: Spinning Silver
AUTHOR: Naomi Novik WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Nov - FANTASY SUMMARY: Deciding to collect on the outstanding debts owed her family of moneylenders, a young woman is overheard boasting about being able to turn silver into gold by the creatures who haunt the wood, in a reimagining of the Rumpelstiltskin story. |
TITLE: In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
AUTHOR: Diane Guerrero WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Gue SUMMARY: Diane Guerrero, television actress from the hits Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, recalls the day her parents were detained and deported when she was 14, and how she was able to remain in the country, finish her education, and build a successful acting career. |
TITLE: Romeo and/or Juliet
AUTHOR: Ryan North WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Nor - HUMOR SUMMARY: A choose-your-own-path adaptation of Shakespeare's classic imagines riotous "what if" scenarios, inviting readers to explore the alternate stories of the star-crossed lovers as they fall for other partners, pursue unconventional interests and team up to take over Verona in robot suits. |
TITLE: All Involved
AUTHOR: Ryan Gattis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Gat - NOVELS SUMMARY: A story set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots details a series of murders committed outside of the active rioting zones by gang members using the chaos to settle old scores. |
TITLE: The Unraveling of Mercy Louis
AUTHOR: Keija Parssinen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Par - MYSTERY SUMMARY: A superstitious oil town in Texas is sent into a tailspin when the star player of their championship girls' basketball team mysteriously collapses on the season's opening night and is followed by other girls who seem to suffer from the same peculiar condition. |
TITLE: Bones & All
AUTHOR: Camille DeAngelis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC DeA - HORROR SUMMARY: Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. Since she was a baby, Maren has had serious trouble accepting affection. Any time someone gets too close to her, she's overcome by the desire to eat them. Abandoned by her mother the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, but finds much more than she bargained for along the way. Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking for her father, she is looking for herself. The real question is, will she like who she finds? |
TITLE: Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
AUTHOR: David Wong WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Won - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Reluctantly traveling to the city in a violent near-future, a recent college grad learns that her late estranged father was the head of a superhero negotiator organization that has been fighting a surreal mob and its self-proclaimed mastermind leader. |
TITLE: Girl at War
AUTHOR: Sara Nović WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Nov - NOVELS SUMMARY: When her happy life in 1991 Croatia is shattered by civil war, 10-year-old Ana Juric is embroiled in a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers before making a daring escape to America, where years later she struggles to hide her past. |
TITLE: Bellweather Rhapsody
AUTHOR: Kate Racculia WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Nov - MYSTERY SUMMARY: A young music prodigy goes missing from a hotel room that was the site of an infamous murder-suicide 15 years earlier, renewing trauma for a bridesmaid who witnessed the first crime and rallying an eccentric cast of characters during a snowstorm that traps everyone on the grounds. |