Book Lists: Morinville Community Library

Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption

By Hillenbrand, Laura, author | 2014

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Our darkest night : a novel of Italy and the Second World War

By Robson, Jennifer, 1970- author | 2021

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It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews. Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive—to leave Venice and her beloved parents and hide in the countryside with a man she has only just met. Nico Gerardi was studying for the priesthood until circumstances forced him to leave the seminary to run his family's farm. Rather than risk a perilous escape across the mountains, Nina will pose as his new bride. And to keep her safe and protect secrets of his own, Nico and Nina must convince prying eyes they are happily married and in love. But farm life is not easy for a city girl who dreams of becoming a doctor, and Nico's provincial neighbors are wary of this soft and educated woman they do not know. Even worse, their distrust is shared by a local Nazi official with a vendetta against Nico.

The mystery of Mrs. Christie : a novel

By Benedict, Marie, author | 2021

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Vortex

By Coulter, Catherine, author | 2022

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The maze

By DeMille, Nelson, author | 2022

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Heart bones

By Hoover, Colleen, author | 2023

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"Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan. Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. Which means they're drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea"--Provided by publisher.

Enemy at the gates

By Mills, Kyle, 1966- author | 2021

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The other black girl : a novel

By Harris, Zakiya Dalila, author | 2021

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As the wicked watch

By Hall, Tamron, author | 2021

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The secret keeper of Jaipur

By Joshi, Alka, author | 2021

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For your own good

By Downing, Samantha, author | 2021

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Middlemarch

By Eliot, George, 1819-1880, author | 2021

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In my dreams I hold a knife : a novel

By Winstead, Ashley, author | 2021

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Defenestrate : a novel

By Branum, Renee, author | 2022

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Marta and her twin brother Nick have always been haunted and fascinated by an ancestral legend that holds that members of their family are doomed to various types of falls. And when their own family falls apart in the wake of a revelation and a resulting devastating fight with their Catholic mother, the twins move to Prague, the city in which their "falling curse" began. There Marta and Nick try to forge a new life for themselves. But their ties to the past and each other prove difficult to disentangle, and when they ultimately return to their midwestern home and Nick falls from a window himself, they are forced to confront the truths they've hidden from each other and themselves. Through this compelling, exuberant exploration of all the ways there are to fall-from defenestration in nineteenth century Prague to the pratfalls of their childhood idol Buster Keaton, from falling in love to falling midflight from an airplane-Defenestrate is a stunning, unsettling, and deeply original debut. Grappling with family myths, repression, and mental illness, Renee Branum shows us how stories reveal and conceal life's secrets and how they affect one particular family as they try to protect one another from their true history

Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone transgression

By Hood, Joshua, author | 2022

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The brightest star

By Michaels, Fern, author | 2012

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When you are mine

By Robotham, Michael, 1960- author | 2021

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Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds and become a promising young officer with the Metropolitan Police despite being the daughter of a notorious London gangster. Called to the scene of a domestic assault, she rescues a young woman, Tempe Brown, the girlfriend of a decorated detective. The incident is hushed up, but Phil has unwittingly made a dangerous enemy with powerful friends. Determined to protect each other, the two women strike up a tentative friendship. Tempe is thoughtful and sweet and makes herself indispensable to Phil, but sinister things keep happening and something isn't quite right about the stories Tempe tells. When a journalist with links to Phil's father and to the detective is found floating in the Thames, Phil doesn't know where to turn, who to blame or who she can trust.

Autopsy

By Cornwell, Patricia Daniels, author | 2021

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Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia as the chief medical examiner, the state where she launched her storied career. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she's inherited not only an overbearing secretary, but also a legacy of neglect and potential corruption. Just weeks on the job, she's called to a scene by railroad tracks where a woman's body has been shockingly displayed, her throat cut down to the spine. At the same time, a catastrophe occurs in a top-secret laboratory in outer space, endangering at least two scientists aboard. Appointed to the highly classified Doomsday Commission that specializes in sensitive national security cases, Scarpetta is summoned to the White House and tasked with finding out exactly what happened.

Beasts of a little land : a novel

By Kim, Juhea, author | 2021

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The sorority murder

By Brennan, Allison, author. | 2021

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Remarkably bright creatures : a novel

By Van Pelt, Shelby, author | 2022

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A rip through time

By Armstrong, Kelley, author | 2022

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"May 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She's drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness. May 20, 1869: Housemaid Catriona Thomson had been enjoying a half-day off, only to be discovered that night in a lane, where she'd been strangled and left for dead . . . exactly one-hundred-and-fifty years before Mallory was strangled in the same spot. When Mallory wakes up in Catriona's body in 1869, she must put aside her shock and adjust quickly to the reality: life as a housemaid to an undertaker in Victorian Scotland. She soon discovers that her boss, Dr. Gray, also moonlights as a medical examiner and has just taken on an intriguing case, the strangulation of a young man, similar to the attack on herself. Her only hope is that catching the murderer can lead her back to her modern life . . . before it's too late" -- provided by publisher

The magnolia palace : a novel

By Davis, Fiona, 1966- author | 2022

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Married in Texas

By Macomber, Debbie, author | 2022

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The good Wife of Bath : a (mostly) true story

By Brooks, Karen, (Australian author) author | 2022

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A provocative, immersive medieval novel starring one of literature's most unforgettable characters in her own words--Chaucer's bold and libidinous Wife of Bath. In the middle ages, a famous poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? England, 1364: When married off at aged twelve to an elderly farmer, brazen redheaded Eleanor quickly realizes it won't matter what she says or does, God is not on her side--or any poor woman's for that matter. But then again, Eleanor was born under the joint signs of Venus and Mars, making her both a lover and a fighter. Aided by a head for business (and a surprisingly kind husband), Eleanor manages to turn her first marriage into success, and she rises through society from a cast-off farm girl to a woman of fortune who becomes a trusted friend of the social-climbing poet Geoffrey Chaucer. But more marriages follow--some happy, some not--several pilgrimages, many lovers, murder, mayhem, and many turns of fortune's wheel as Eleanor pursues the one thing that all women want: control of their own lives.

La vie est facile, ne t'inquiète pas : roman

By Martin-Lugand, Agnès, auteur | 2015

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The wrong woman : a novel

By Sparks, Leanne Kale, author | 2022

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The only survivor of Denver’s notorious “Reaper” serial murders, FBI Special Agent Kendall Beck grapples with the ghosts of her past by seeking justice for victims of abuse. She’s neck deep in a particularly ugly case involving the disappearance of five-year-old Emily Williams—but her investigation is derailed when her best friend and roommate, Gwen Tavich, turns up dead floating in a nearby lake. Devastated by the news of Gwen’s death, Kendall teams up with Denver detective Adam Taylor to find the killer. Gwen’s fiancé, Ty Butler, is being evasive about the last time he saw Gwen, and as the evidence mounts against him, he’s arrested for the murder. With every new clue, Kendall questions how well she really knew her friend. And when Gwen’s dark secrets begin spilling out one by one, she begins to understand the devastating magnitude of her murder. The Reaper has returned to Denver—and he’s not stopping at just one victim. As the trauma of Kendall’s past comes roaring back, she and Adam have no time to spare before more bodies start piling up. And then Kendall makes a shocking discovery that reveals the horrifying truth behind Emily Williams’s disappearance. Now, Kendall must confront her darkest fears as she and the Reaper face off one more time.

The deepest of secrets

By Armstrong, Kelley, author | 2022

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Devil house

By Darnielle, John, author | 2022

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Midnight shadows

By Roberts, Nora, author | 2022

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Grace under fire

By Garwood, Julie, author | 2022

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Isabel Grace MacKenna had a hundred things to do today. Killing someone wasn't one of them. It was supposed to just be a quick visit to Boston for the Buchanans' anniversary party. But after getting lost, she ends up with a wounded man stumbling into her and then his shooter coming after them both. When she fires back in self-defense, she doesn't expect him to drop dead. The police are torn between believing that she's an innocent bystander or more deeply involved, but thanks to the Buchanans dispatching Navy SEAL and now lawyer Michael Buchanan to deal with the police, Isabel is finally free to go. Isabel knows that she should be more grateful for Michael's help, but since she loathed him for years, gratitude is the last thing she feels. But somehow, Michael has appointed himself her de facto guardian, and he's sticking to her like glue despite their constant bickering and sizzling attraction.

Haven : a novel

By Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author | 2022

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Horse : a novel

By Brooks, Geraldine, author | 2022

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Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name painting the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a 19th equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly drawn to one another through their shared interest in the horse - one studying the stallion's bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.

NEW Fiction

By | 20uu

By Hillenbrand, Laura, author | 2014

By Thomas, Bev, author | 2019

By Brown, Sandra, 1948- author | 2019

By Wrobel, Stephanie, author | 2020

By Riordan, Kate, author. | 2019

By Kim, Nancy Jooyoun, author | 2020

By Hiaasen, Carl, author | 2020

By Robson, Jennifer, 1970- author | 2021

By Benedict, Marie, author | 2021

By Coulter, Catherine, author | 2022

By DeMille, Nelson, author | 2022

By Hoover, Colleen, author | 2023

By Mills, Kyle, 1966- author | 2021

By Harris, Zakiya Dalila, author | 2021

By Hall, Tamron, author | 2021

By Joshi, Alka, author | 2021

By Downing, Samantha, author | 2021

By Eliot, George, 1819-1880, author | 2021

By Winstead, Ashley, author | 2021

By Branum, Renee, author | 2022

By Hood, Joshua, author | 2022

By Michaels, Fern, author | 2012

By Robotham, Michael, 1960- author | 2021

By Cornwell, Patricia Daniels, author | 2021

By Kim, Juhea, author | 2021

By Brennan, Allison, author. | 2021

By Van Pelt, Shelby, author | 2022

By Armstrong, Kelley, author | 2022

By Davis, Fiona, 1966- author | 2022

By Macomber, Debbie, author | 2022

By Brooks, Karen, (Australian author) author | 2022

By Martin-Lugand, Agnès, auteur | 2015

By Sparks, Leanne Kale, author | 2022

By Armstrong, Kelley, author | 2022

By Darnielle, John, author | 2022

By Roberts, Nora, author | 2022

By Garwood, Julie, author | 2022

By Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author | 2022

By Brooks, Geraldine, author | 2022