The Inside Story: Hastings Memorial adds new books
Welcome to a new column from the staff at Hastings Memorial Library featuring everything you need to know about what is happening at 505 Central Avenue.
For our inaugural entry, here’s a rundown of a few of the many new books we’ve recently added to the collection
Adult Fiction
“Burden of Proof”
by Davis Bunn
Three weeks after his twenty-third birthday, Ethan missed the chance to save his brother’s life when he was murdered. Ever since, Ethan has sensed a deep disconnect between the man he should have been and the one he has become. When his brother’s widow appears, asking for his help in uncovering what was really behind his brother’s death, Ethan joins the search for answers. In doing so, he will enter into his own past and discover a means of redeeming his future.
“Four Winds”
by Kristin Hannah
Set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them. A powerful American epic about love, heroism, and hope.
“The Vineyard at Painted Moon”
by Susan Mallery
Mackenzie Dienes seems to have it all—a beautiful home, close friends and a successful career as an elite winemaker with the family winery. There’s just one problem—it’s not her family, it’s her husband’s. In fact, everything in her life is tied to him. So, when she and her husband admit their marriage is over, her pain goes beyond heartbreak. She’s on the brink of losing everything: her job, her home, her friends, and, worst of all, her family.
“The Nature of Fragile Things”
by Susan Meissner
The fates of three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake. A gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, and the power of female solidarity.
“The Russian”
by James Patterson
Weeks before NYPD Detective Michael Bennett is to marry his longtime love, Mary Catherine, an assassin announces his presence in the city with a string of grisly murders.
“The Sanatorium”
by Sarah Pearse
Le Sommet, an abandoned sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, has just been renovated into a 5-star hotel. Detective Elin Warner arrives for her brother’s engagement as a storm rages outside, and soon his fiancée disappears. Elin and the other guests are trapped by the blizzard with an unknown, unseen danger that lurks closer than they know.
“Neighbors”
by Danielle Steel
A reclusive woman opens up her home to her neighbors in the wake of a devastating earthquake, setting off events that reveal secrets, break relationships apart, and bring strangers together to forge powerful new bonds.
“American Traitor”
by Brad Taylor
Pike Logan is on the desperate hunt for a man who is about to betray his country—and ignite a horrific new world war—in this pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer.
Adult Non-fiction
“The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America”
by Bradford Pearson
An impeccably researched, deeply moving, never-before-told tale about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team. This book honors the resilience of extraordinary heroes and the power of sports in a sweeping and inspirational portrait of one of the darkest moments in American history.
“The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine”
by Janice Nimura
A compelling history of Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, the first female doctors in the United States, who pioneered careers for women in the late 19th century medical community.