New Adult Fiction: Tuesday, January 13

Yesterday we told you about some new adult fiction books in the library—here are a few more. 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.

Five Golden Wings

Two of Meg’s cousins are getting married and both have chosen Caerphilly for their Christmas destination wedding . . on the same day, in the same venues. But while they’re cousins they’re also lifelong enemies. So Meg steps in to keep the peace. And it was going badly even before she stumbles over the murdered body of the wedding photographer. There are plenty of suspects. The photographer has been hitting on many of the guests. He’s also been slinking about and taking candid shots that are unflattering, embarrassing . . . occasionally even incriminating. Can Meg help the local police nab the killer in time for the weddings to go on as planned?

Turns of Fate

Words have power. Intentions matter. Most people come to Destiny Park for entertainment. They come to have their cards read or to walk through a beautiful park and to eat in the hotel’s restaurant. They come in the hope of catching a glimpse of the Arcana, the paranormal beings who rule the Isle of Wyrd. When Detective Beth Fahey is sent to Destiny Park to inquire about a “ghost gun,” she will begin a strange journey, where she must learn to navigate the Arcana’s unforgiving laws and dangerous attractions. Her search will draw her into seemingly impossible cases and the secrets of her own past as tensions rise between the Arcana and their human neighbors across the river. Who will live, who will die—and who will be lost in between?

The Director

G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. When he receives word that his elderly mother is ill, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria. Pabst, his wife, and his young son are suddenly confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. So, when Joseph Goebbels—the minister of propaganda in Berlin—sees the potential for using the European film icon for his directorial genius and makes big promises to Pabst and his family, Pabst must consider Goebbels’s thinly veiled order. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement.