The Inside Story: “Check out” the new books at Hastings Memorial
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ooking for a great new book? Why not try one of these new arrivals at your local library? Stop by today to check these out or get on the holds list. While you’re here, ask us about our Bestseller’s Club. You choose your favorite authors from our list and we automatically put them on hold for you when a new book comes in. It’s easy, and ensures you never miss a new book by your favorite author!
Adult Fiction
“Dark Sky”
by C.J. Box
When the governor of Wyoming gives Game Warden Joe Pickett the thankless task of taking a tech baron on an elk hunting trip, Joe reluctantly treks into the wilderness with his high-profile charge. But as they venture into the woods, a man-hunter is hot on their heels, driven by a desire for revenge. Finding himself without a weapon, a horse, or a way to communicate, Joe must rely on his wits and his knowledge of the outdoors to protect himself and his companion.
“Win”
by Harlan Coben
Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family’s estate. Patricia escaped, but so did her captors — and the items stolen from her family were never recovered. Until now. On the Upper West Side, a recluse is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, alongside two objects of note: a stolen Vermeer painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials WHL3. Windsor Horne Lockwood III doesn’t know how his suitcase and his family’s stolen painting ended up with a dead man. The two cases have baffled the FBI for decades, but Win has three things the FBI doesn’t: a personal connection to the case; an ungodly fortune; and his own unique brand of justice.
“Active Defense”
by Lynette Eason
In the theater of war in Iraq, trauma surgeon Heather Fontaine was used to being in control. Now back home, life spins off its axis when she becomes the target of a stalker. Can security expert Travis Walker protect her? Book 3 in the Danger Never Sleeps series.
“Death by Chocolate Snickerdoodle”
by Sarah Graves
In the fourth Death by Chocolate Mystery, Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and Ellie White are fired up for Eastport, Maine’s Annual Cookie Baking Contest. But when a cunning killer and a devastating fire threaten to ravage the quaint island town, Jake and Ellie must dip into another homemade homicide investigation before all they love goes up in smoke...
“Good Company”
by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband’s wedding ring; the one he claimed he lost one summer years ago. Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise their daughter in Manhattan and keep Julian’s small theater company “Good Company” afloat. A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes and a reunion with Margot. But has their new life been built on lies? What happened that summer all those years ago? And what happens now?
Adult Non-fiction
“No Pain, No Gaines”
by Chip Gaines
Chip Gaines offers his hilarious wit and trademark wisdom on the value of network-building, the relationships and connections that are so critical to our success and happiness both in business but also in the greater arena of life.
“Broken (In the Best Possible Way)”
by Jenny Lawson
As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression.
In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way.
With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it.
From the business ideas that she wants to pitch to Shark Tank to the reason why Jenny can never go back to the post office, Broken leaves nothing to the imagination in the most satisfying way.
“The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights”
by Dorothy Wickenden
From the intimate perspective of three friends and neighbors in mid-nineteenth century Auburn, New York: Harriet Tubman, Martha Wright, Quaker mother of seven, and Frances Seward, wife of Governor, Senator, and Secretary of State William H. Seward.
Acclaimed author Dorothy Wickenden tells the fascinating and crucially American stories of abolition, the underground railroad, the early women’s rights movement, and the Civil War.