New Adult Fiction: Tuesday, October 14

Looking for an intriguing new read? Stop by when you can (we’re open til 8 pm). We have many options! To place a title on hold online, visit https://owwl.org and sign in to your account using your library card number. Pick up your book from the shelves near the circulation desk when you have time.

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

In the Time of Five Pumpkins

The rains are coming. When they do, there will be green shoots of growth throughout Botswana. Pumpkins will flourish — particularly those of Mma Potokwani. Mma Potokwani and Mma Ramotswe have many other things to talk about, including a friendship that Mr J.L.B. Matekoni has struck up with Mr Freddie Mohlala, a prominent figure in the motor trade. Freddie has invited Mr J.L.B. Matekoni to go fishing with him on the local dam. They do not catch anything, but something nearly catches them. In the meantime, Mma Ramotswe looks into what seems to be a straightforward matter involving a husband who thinks his wife may be having affair. This is obviously a case that will require tact — which of course is a quality Mma Ramotswe has in abundance.

The Christmas House: An Amish Christmas Novella

Liz Lantz runs a Hickory Hollow buggy tour business that has her pair up for the busy Christmas season with a single Amish man from another church. Her Englisher neighbors’ lavishly decorated house has brought the quiet community unwanted attention, creating tensions that Liz hopes to bridge. This romantic novella will delight with Amish holiday traditions!

The Killing Stones

One stormy winter night, Detective Jimmy Perez’s oldest friend, Archie Stout, goes missing. Perez catches a boat to the island of Westray, where Archie worked as a farmer and lived with his wife and children. But when he arrives he finds Archie’s body, on an archaeological dig site and an ancient Westray story stone with precise spirals carved into it beside him, the clear murder weapon. The artifact, taken from a nearby museum, seems to suggest a premediated murder. But Perez is so close to the case that he struggles to maintain an objective distance. Rumors swirl about the dead man’s relationship with a young woman new to the island, an artist. With each new lead, the case becomes more twisted and Perez wonders if he will ever find out what happened in his friend’s final days.