New Adult Fiction: Thursday, January 4

It’s a new year and it’s time for some new reads! We’ve got tons of new materials arriving daily, including the items below. Stop by and check out a book, CD, movie, or other material that you find interesting. We will continue to offer “Grab and Go” services for those who prefer to place their books on hold online and then pick them up in the cabinet inside the library.

Here are a few of the new books that have arrived at the library recently. We invite you to check them out!

Cold Victory

Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country’s military attachés. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and Mikhail, drunkenly challenge each other to a cross-country wilderness race. Louise is delighted, but Natalya is worried. Stalin’s secret police rule with unforgiving brutality. If news of the race gets out and Mikhail loses, Natalya knows it would mean his death, her imprisonment, and the loss of her two children. Meanwhile, Louise uses the race as an opportunity to raise money for a local orphanage, naive to the danger it will bring to Natalya and her family.

Invisible Woman

Joni Ackerman’s decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came at a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending career at a premier television network provided a safety net. Now they’ve recently transplanted to Brooklyn so that Paul can launch a major East Coast production studio, when a scandal rocks the film industry and forces Joni to revisit a secret from long ago involving her friend Val. Joni is adamant that the time has come to tell the story, but Val and Paul are reluctant, for different reasons.

The Academy

In his final tour of duty after a remarkable career at sea, Dan Lenson is appointed superintendent of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. He begins at a difficult time: Congress is cutting military budgets in the wake of the devastating world war with China, calls for radical reform are upending traditions, and Dan himself faces legal jeopardy for his actions during the war. And when a Category 5 hurricane threatens to overwhelm the coast, Dan must fight to rescue the Academy itself. Parallel to this narrative runs the dramatic story of Dan’s years as a first class midshipman, 40 years ago. The decisions he makes will affect his entire career and shape how he comes to lead troops in battle and at peace.