New Adult Fiction: Friday, December 13

It’s Friday, and time to plan your weekend. What better way to spend it than reading? We’ve got tons of new books coming in regularly—stop by and check them out. 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!

This Child’s Gonna Live

Set in a fishing village on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the early 1930s, This Child’s Gonna Live tells the story of Mariah Upshur, the wife of a poor oysterman, and her struggles to keep her land and family together amidst the harsh realities of rural African American life. Described by the Philadelphia Inquirer as having a “sharp, idiomatic rhythm that is reminiscent of the work of Zora Neale Hurston,” Wright’s eloquent, heartbreaking novel is an unsurpassed testament to human endurance in the face of racism, poverty, and despair.

Offended Sensibilities

Chronicles a series of sudden deaths that occur among officials of a provincial Russian town. The events relate to a notorious law banning forms of expression that “offend the sensibilities” of religious believers. This novel address contemporary themes such as nationalism, Orthodox religiosity, sexuality, and political corruption. These weighty issues are handled with a light touch and at times rollicking sense of humor. This timely, entertaining, and thought-provoking novel can be read as an allegory for Russia’s current political, social, religious, and cultural climate.

The Way

It’s 2048, and the world has been ravaged by a lethal virus. Will Collins, the last surviving resident of a Buddhist retreat center in Colorado, receives an urgent and mysterious request: to deliver a potential cure to a scientist on the West Coast. Will sets out into an unknown and perilous world, haunted by dreams of the woman he once loved, in a rusted-out pickup pulled by two mules. He doesn’t have much time—temperatures are rising to lethal heights, a hit man is on his tail, and armed militias patrol the roads. The only way he’ll make it is with the help of a clever raven, an opinionated cat, and a tough teenage girl who has learned to survive on her own.