New Books 12/16/19

This week’s list includes authors with many books to their credit such as Janet Evanovich, Clive Cussler, and Mary Higgins Clark as well as the continuation of the story of a deadly microparticle, the Andromeda Strain, by an author no longer living and much, much more!

 

36 Righteous Men by Steven Pressfield
Joining forces with a disgraced but brilliant rabbinical scholar and a renowned anthropologist–who’s also the last of the righteous ones—New York homicide detectives James Manning and Covina Duwai set off on a perilous quest from New York to Gehenna to defeat a murderer who won’t stop until he’s killed everyone.

The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians by David Rubenstein
Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians.

The Andromeda Evolution by Michael Crichton
A Brazilian terrain-mapping drone has detected a bizarre anomaly of otherworldly matter in the middle of the jungle, and, worse yet, the tell-tale chemical signature of the deadly microparticle, the Andromeda Strain, which nearly annihilated the human race 50 years ago.

Final Option by Clive Cussler
Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives are again aboard the Oregon, one of the most advanced spy ships ever built, and they face new challenges and nemeses as they undertake another dangerous mission.

Finding Chika by Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart.

Kiss the Girls and Make them Cry by Mary Higgins Clark
When talented journalist Penelope “Casey” Harrison starts to research a piece about the #MeToo movement that includes an incident in her own life which she has been trying to put out of her mind for years, she does not realize that the young man who drugged and assaulted her at a fraternity house party in college is now a wealthy, powerful industrialist on the eve of a merger which will make him a billionaire–and
who will do anything, even murder, to cover his tracks

The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong
Armstrong argues that only if the world’s religious faiths rediscover such an open and spiritual engagement with their holy texts can they curtail the arrogance, intolerance and violence that flows from a narrow reading of Scripture.

The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek by Rhett McLaughlin
Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to The Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a record of putting unruly teens back on the straight and narrow–a record so impeccable that almost everyone is willing to ignore the mysterious deaths that have occurred there over the past decade.

Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving by Mo Rocca
Mobituaries is an insightful and unconventional account of the people who made life worth living for the rest of us, one that asks us to think about who gets remembered, and why.

Noel Street by Richard Paul Evans
As their lives unexpectedly entwine, Elle Sheen, a single mother, learns that William Smith, a recently returned Vietnam POW, is not only fighting demons from his past, but may also have the answer to her own secret pain–a revelation that culminates in a remarkable act of love and forgiveness.

Smoke Screen by Terri Blackstock
Nate Beckett has spent his life fighting wildfires instead of the lies and rumors that drove him from his Colorado hometown, but it isn’t until he’s sidelined by an injury that he’s forced to return and face his past.

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
A timeless love story set in a secret underground world–a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.

Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us by Donald Trump, Jr.
From his childhood summers in Communist Czechoslovakia that began his political thought process, to working on construction sites with his father, to the major achievements of President Trump’s administration, Donald Trump, Jr. focuses on success and perseverance, and proves offense is the best defense.

Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich
Grandma Mazur’s gangster husband, Jimmy, dies of a heart attack 45 minutes after the wedding and Jimmy’s former “business partners” are convinced that his widow is keeping the keys to their financial success for herself.

The Wrong Girl by Donis Casey
In February of 1926, private detective Ted Oliver is hired by a mysterious client to investigate the death of Graham Peyton, a man known for recruiting high-class prostitutes for the studios until his disappearance five years ago.