New Adult Fiction: Monday, February 3

Looking for an interesting new novel to read? MPL can help. 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!

The Rowan

Prize-winning investigative writer Valentina Garnier loves a good story, so when she learns that CIA director Agnes Pendalon wants her to travel to Kunashir Island in Russia, she jumps at the chance. Top scientists, political aides, and even the vice president’s daughter have made trips to the island, and have come away changed. When Val arrives in Kunashir, she’s mesmerized by a magical rowan tree and its leaves that turn to golden threads. Something incredible is happening in front of her. With the CIA determined to hunt down this unknown force, is a new battle for the future of humanity about to begin?

To Save the Man

In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle School, a military-style boarding school for Indians, founded and run by Captain Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt’s motto, “To save the man, we must kill the Indian,” is severely enforced. As the young students navigate surviving the school, they begin to hear rumors of a “ghost dance” amongst the tribes of the west—a ceremonial dance aimed at restoring the Native People to power, and running the invaders off their land. The government responds by deploying troops onto lands that had been granted to the Indians. As news of these developments reaches Carlisle, each student must make a choice: to follow the white man’s path, or be true to their own way of life.

We Do Not Part

One morning in December, Kyungha receives a message from her friend Inseon saying she has been hospitalized in Seoul and asking that Kyungha join her urgently. Inseon has had to leave behind her pet bird. Bedridden, she begs Kyungha to take the first plane to Jeju to save the animal. A snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives. She wonders if she will arrive in time to save Inseon’s bird—or even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step. Lost in a world of snow, she doesn’t yet suspect the vertiginous plunge into the darkness which awaits her at her friend’s house. There, the long-buried story of Inseon’s family surges into light, in dreams and memories passed from mother to daughter, and in the archive painstakingly assembled at the house, documenting a terrible massacre on the island.