New Titles On the Alaska Mail Services Shelves Winter/Spring 2016 Juneau Public Libraries 292 Marine Way, Juneau, AK 99801 Phone: (907)586-5379 Fax: (907)586-5383 Email: [email protected] Website: www.juneau.org/library Inuit woman reading 'Woman's Home Companion' magazine, Alaska. [ca. 1903-1915] Photographed by Lomen Brothers, Nome, Alaska. Adult Fiction Whirlwind Gift of Truth by Rick Mofina by Robert Fleming A kind stranger helps protect a baby boy when a While visiting a fellow pastor in Alabama, New tornado rips through Dallas. But in the aftermath, York Pastor Clint Winwood witnesses a battle Jenna can't find her son or the woman who'd been between poor black farmers and rich white holding him. Reporter Kate Page, vows to planters and resolves to help prevent bloodshed determine what happened and uncovers troubling and find a solution. clues to a plot more sinister than anybody had Jewel and Amulet Dispute Over a Very Italian by Michael Moorcock Piglet by Amara Lakhous In an alternate far future, Dorian Hawkmoon is Enzo Laganà is an Italian journalist with a wry pulled unwillingly into a war against the armies of sense of humor and questionable ethics who, the Dark Empire. Antique cities, scientific sorcery, almost despite himself, will get to the bottom of a and crystalline machines serve as a backdrop to series of gang murders. But before he does, he this high adventure, the first 2 novels in the has to settle a thorny issue concerning Gino, a Hawkmoon series. small pig belonging to his Nigerian neighbor. In the Shadow of Jezebel Lip Reading by Harry Kraus by Mesu Andrews Dr. Rebecca Jackson, a medical researcher, Set in Israel in the days of Elisha and Jezebel, this stands on the verge of a breakthrough that will story weaves a tale of powerful women, kingdom transform medicine. But she soon discovers the politics, and the protection and restoration of the reason behind the miraculous progress in her rightful heir to the Throne of David. research, and it leaves her with a nearly impossible choice and little time to decide. Tide and Tempest The Island of Doves (Edge of Freedom Vol 3) by Kelly O’Connor McNees by Elizabeth Ludwig Susannah lives in one of Buffalo’s finest mansions, but her husband has made it a prison. When a Two years ago, Tillie's fiancé died crossing to mysterious woman offers to help her escape, America. Now Captain Keondric Morgan believes he Susannah boards a boat for Mackinac Island. But was murdered. Can he save Tillie from the same after being a dutiful daughter and obedient wife, fate? she realizes how unprepared she is for freedom. Rebels of the Kasbah Minister Without Portfolio by Joe O’Neill by Michael Winter When Tariq is captured from his safe life in a In a quest to find meaning in an emotionally arid Tangier orphanage and sold into slavery as a camel life, Henry travels to Afghanistan as an army- jockey, his adventures begin. Forced to compete in affiliated contractor. But everything changes during deadly camel races, and suffer the abuse of his a tragic roadside incursion. And Henry, who slave master, Tariq must rely on his wits and his survives, knows in his heart that he is responsible. newfound friendships to survive. Killer’s Instinct by Dawn Longarm and the Yuma Prison Dalton & Judith Graves by Tabor Evans Hope has always been a bit of a freak. But when Former lawman Tom Ray has been falsely convict- her mother crawls from her grave and her undead ed of murder and left to rot in Yuma Territorial Pris- corpse goes MIA, Hope's last thread of normal on, while the men who set him up steal his gold snaps with a vengeance. Enrolling in a militia-style claim. When Ray's daughter Jessica asks Longarm school for monster hunters seems her best bet for for help, the deputy marshal can't say no. He is not tracking down Mommy-dearest. about to let a good lawman die in a bad prison. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 2 Adult Fiction Shawn O’Brien, Town Tamer Devil’s Den (The Trailsman No. by William Johnstone 390) by Jon Sharpe As a town tamer, Shawn O’Brien takes the most After Sky Fargo runs afoul of the law, he's more dangerous, lawless towns in the West and makes than happy to be set free to work for a pair of pretty them safe for decent men, women, and children. sisters trying to operate a wagon run in the Ozarks. When a stagecoach accident leaves Shawn But when the competition gets deadly, the stranded in Holy Rood, Utah, it doesn't take long to Trailsman has to send a pack of savage killers realize he has landed in one ornery circle of hell. straight into the ground..." Wrath of the Savage Styxx by Sherrilyn Kenyon by Charles West As the twin to Acheron, the hero who saved the Unjustly court-martialed on a charge of cowardice, human race centuries ago, Styxx hasn't always former Lieutenant Brent Hollister and an old trapper been on his brother's side. But with an Atlantean named Coldiron rescue two women held captive by goddess bent on setting wrongs right, how do you Indians. find a way back from the darkness that wants to consume the entire world? One that wants to start by devouring your very soul? Borderland Bloodbath Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore by Jon Sharpe Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, The Trailsman rides straight into trouble when he realizes her heavy responsibility and the futility of goes up against a robber baron's agent who is relying on advisors who surround her with lies as setting explosives to re-route the Rio Grande in an she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty- attempt to get his hands on valuable mining land. five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psycho- path with mind-altering abilities. Magic Man by J. R. Roberts Ruler of the Realm (Faerie Clint Adams has seen plenty--but nothing quite like Wars bk. 3) by Herbie Brennan the magic man. After watching him take down three While simultaneously trying to prevent and prepare petty thieves with a pair of guns that appear out of for war between the Faeries of the Night and thin air, Clint decides to ride along and maybe even Faeries of the Light, Queen Holly Blue is kidnapped learn the tricks of his trade. But someone is from her Uncle Hairstreak's home by human Henry following close behind--someone convinced that the Atherton and learns she must face another, far magic man is no man at all, but the devil himself. greater enemy. Cotton’s Inferno: A Sheriff Faerie Lord (Faerie Wars Cotton Burke Western Chronicles bk. 4) by Phil Dunlap by Herbie Brennan When Carp Varner, a newcomer to Apache Springs, When a terrible plague takes over the faerie realm offers his services as a gunsmith, Sheriff Cotton and causes its inhabitants to age unnaturally Burke takes him up on his offer until he discovers quickly, Henry and Blue must find a cure in order to Varner's true nature and past crimes. save the realm. Trackdown The Faeman Quest (Faerie by Lyle Brandt Wars bk. 5) by Herbie Brenan When U.S. Marshal Jack Slade is ambushed by the Stubborn and feisty Mella, the half-faeire half- family one of the prisoners he is transporting to human daughter of Lord Henry and Queen Holly Leavenworth, Kansas, he will stop at nothing to Blue, has the power to determine the fate of both recapture the them. the faerie and "analogue world" when she travels to the country of Haleklind and discovers rebel forces preparing for war. Juneau Public Library Mail Services Department 3 Adult Fiction Marked: A Mindspace Distortion Investigations by Alex Hughes by Terri Blackstock Freelancing for the Atlanta PD isn’t a secure career; The second book in the Moonlighters series starts my job’s on the line almost as much as my life. off with a frightening incident and is filled with When my ex needs help, I head to the last place I actions from that point forward. A multilayered ever expected to set foot in again—Guild story of deception, greed and secrets unravels at a headquarters. Joining that group was a bad idea perfect pace to keep readers interested and the first time. entertained. The English Girl Spinning in Her Grave by Molly by Daniel Silva MacRae The wayward son of Israeli intelligence Kath Rutledge is settling in as the owner of the plunges into a high stakes game of murder, Weaver’s Cat, a fiber and fabric shop in Blue Plum, espionage, and corruption after a woman Tennessee. But nothing, not even the ghost haunt- vanishes on the island of Corsica, which ing her shop, prepares her for the mystery that will leave the whole town spinning. Book 3 in the threatens to destroy a prime minister's career. Haunted Yarn Mystery series. The Wicked How to Paint a Cat by Douglas Nicholas by Rebecca M. Hale The mesmerizing and highly anticipated sequel to Continuing the mystery surrounding the murder of Something Red transports readers to the harsh and the mayor's intern (in How To Tail a Cat), this fifth in enchanting world of thirteenth-century England, the clever San Francisco-based paranormal cozy where a group of unlikely heroes battles an ancient series leads up the Bohemian Highway. Perhaps the evil.