Monthly Archives: May 2017

UPS delivered a big books of new books and CDs, just in time for Memorial Day weekend!   There’s new fiction by Scott Turow and Jeffrey Lent,   suspense by Lincoln Child and Clive Cussler,  romantic suspense by Jayne Krentz … Continue reading →

Readers fast-paced action will want to read The Thirst by Jo Nesbø.  Detective Harry Hole is tasked with investigating a killer targeting Tinder daters.  Little White Lies by Ace Atkins continues Robert B Parker’s Spenser series.  The 16th Seduction (Women’s Murder Club) and … Continue reading →

Reader’s wanting to keep up with books that critics are talking about will want to try The Language of Solitude by Jan Philipp Sendker. This is a “tour de force of suspenseful intrigue and nuanced characters.” House of Names by Colm … Continue reading →

Bestselling Fiction: Beartown by Fredrick Backman (Man called Ove) is a “poignant story of a hockey town paralyzed by scandal.” Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (woman in Cabin 10) investigates suspicious deaths of young women in a river known … Continue reading →

Memorial Day is a week away and we have already had a taste of summer heat, so it’s a good thing that the 2017 summer beach reads are arriving at  NL. The Forever Summer by Jamie Brenner reprises the multi-generational … Continue reading →

New thrill rides by your favorite  authors.  In Sara Paretsky’s Fallout, VI Warshawski searches for two missing persons at the site of a 1983 anti-nuclear protest.   In John Sandford’s Golden Prey, US Marshall Lucas Davenport pursues a holdup man whose last … Continue reading →

Movie lovers may be pleased to know that La La Land, the musical wrongly announced as Best Picture, is now on DVD at the Nichols Library.  Critics were dazzled by director Damien Chazelle’s throwback style (with one notable exception).  Patriots … Continue reading →

  No, not the name of new series characters, but the underlying theme in three new novels at the Nichols Library.   Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout is about the folks Lucy Barton (“My Name is”) left behind in Allagsh, … Continue reading →