1 e books available through the online catalog, Destiny and Overdrive New Fiction 2014 – 2015 A Touch of Stardust (F Alcott) - Although Julie Crawford has dreams of becoming a screenwriter, the only job she's able to find is one in the studio publicity office of the notoriously demanding producer David O. Selznick--who is busy burning through directors, writers and money as he begins filming "Gone with the Wind." A Prisoner of Night and Fog (F Brinkman) - In 1930s Munich, the favorite niece of rising political leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter. The Boston Girl (F Daimant) - A story] about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early in twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were too unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine, a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. Eighty-five- year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her 'How did you get to be the woman you are today. The Empire Striketh Back: Star Wars’ Part the Fifth (F Doe) - A retelling of "The Empire Strikes Back" in iambic pentameter, the style of Shakespeare. All the Light We Cannot See (F Doerr) - A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II." Midnight Crossroads (F Harris) - A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II." A Winter’s Street (F Hilderbrand) - A family Christmas gathering at Kelley Quinn's Nantucket inn is thrown into turmoil by his four adult children's personal dramas and the discovery of his second wife's infidelity. The Revival (F King) - Relates the story of a young man and a new minister who fifty years earlier encountered a terrible tragedy and while the minister renounces his ministry the young man leaves his hometown only to fight the demons inside of him with addiction, but these two men once again meet up and the young man realizes that revival has more than one meaning. The City (F Koontz) - There are millions of stories in the city--some magical, some tragic, others terror-filled or triumphant. Jonah Kirk's story is all of those things as he draws readers into his life 2 in the city as a young boy, introducing his indomitable grandfather, also a "piano man;" his single mother, a struggling singer; and the heroes, villains, and everyday saints and sinners who make up the fabric of the metropolis in which they live--and who will change the course of Jonah's life forever" On Such a Full Sea (F Lee) - In a future where America has been in a long-decline, self-contained labor settlements replace abandoned urban neighborhoods, containing contented workers who devote their lives to the cultivation of pristine produce and seafood for the wealthy residents of distant elite walled villages. Fan, a Chinese descendant, fish-tank diver, and resident of the B-Mor labor settlement, shocks her community by leaving the safety of the walls to search for the man she loves after he disappears. After I’m Gone (F Lippman) - When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette 'Bambi' Gottschalk at a Valentine's Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative--if not all legal--businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes" Station Eleven (F Mandel) - In a future in which a pandemic has left few survivors, actress Kirsten Raymonde, having witnessed paparazzo-turned-EMT Jeevan Chaudhary try to save the life of actor Arthur Leander after he suffered a heart attack on stage, travels with a troupe performing Shakespeare and finds herself in a community in which a prophet will not let anyone leave alive. Includes subplots about Jeevan as he watches the world change from the pandemic and Arthur before his death. Best Seller Lists Northanger Abbey (F McDermid) - In this modern retelling of Austen's classic, bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joins her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falls for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets. The Children Act (F McEwan) - Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing down her verdicts. But Fiona's professional success belies domestic strife. Her husband, Jack, asks her to consider an open marriage and, after an argument, moves out of their house. His departure leaves her adrift, wondering whether it was not love she had lost so much as a modern form of respectability; whether it was not contempt and ostracism she really fears" Best Seller List The Winter People (F McMahon) - Ruthie Washburne does not understand her mother's insistence that they live off the grid, until her mother suddenly vanishes and she finds the diary of Sara Harrison Shea, a woman who disappeared months after the tragic death of her daughter and is rumored to haunt the streets of West Hall, Vermont, and gains insight into Sara's desperate need to hold her daughter once again. The Last Kind Words Saloon (F McMurtry) - "Traces the rich and varied friendship of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday from the town of Long Grass to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, then to Mobetie, Texas, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, culminating with the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral" The Arsonist (F Miller) - A series of summer house fires exposes deep social faults in the hometown of Frankie Rowley, who makes unsettling discoveries about her aging parents while engaging in an affair with a local journalist. 3 Big Little Lies (F Morarity) - ollows three women, each at her own personal crossroads, as they work together to solve the impossible murder. The Wonder of All Things (F Mott) - fter an air show accident thirteen-year-old Ava has her ability to heal physical ailments revealed to the world, but she has trouble dealing with all the people who come seeking a miracle, especially since, with each healing, she grows weaker. A King’s Ransom (F Penman) - Tells the story of the last event-filled years in the life of Richard, Coeur de Lion, who had been taken captive by the Holy Roman Emperor while en route home, in violation of the papal decree protecting all crusaders, in which he ends up spending fifteen months imprisoned, much of it in the notorious fortress at Trefils, while Eleanor of Aquitaine tries to raise the exorbitant ransom. Leaving Time (F Picoult) - "Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment... or worse. Still Jenna--now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief-- steadfastly refuses to believe in her mother's desertion. So she decides to approach the two people who might still be able to help her find Alice: a disgraced psychic named Serenity Jones, and Virgil Stanhope, the cynical detective who first investigated her mother's disappearance and the death of one of her mother's co-workers. Together these three lonely souls will discover truths destined to forever change their lives" Best Seller Lists Blue Labyrinth (F Preston & Childs) - Agent Aloysius Pendergast begins to dig deep into his own family's sinister past after the murdered corpse of one of his enemies is found on the doorstep of his home and a gem is found in the victims stomach. Part of a series, but can be read without reading the other books in the series The Kraker Project (F Preston) - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is designing a probe which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare, one of the methane seas of Titan. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. As the probe is being tested at Goddard, things go awry, and an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in the probe, a powerful, self-modifying AI called "Dorothy," flees into the Internet. Series character Wyman Ford is tapped by the president's science advisor to track down the software with the help of Dorothy's creator, Melissa Shepherd. As the two of them trace Dorothy in her wanderings in cyberspace, they realize Dorothy's horrific experiences in the wasteland of the Internet have changed her--utterly" The Lost Island (F Preston and Childs) - After being tasked with stealing a page from a priceless, ancient book, brilliant scientist and master thief Gideon Crew discovers a hidden map on the back of the book's parchment"- Part of the Gideon Crew Series The Good Luck of Right Now (F Quick) - When his mother dies, 38-year-old Bartholomew Neil, who doesn't know how to be on his own, discovers a letter in his mother's underwear drawer that causes him to write a series of highly intimate letters to actor Richard Gere, while embarking on a quest to find out where he belongs.