New Adult Fiction: Monday, February 2

Happy Groundhog Day! We are overwhelmed with new reading material—so why not stop by when you can (we’re open til 8 pm tonight) and see what’s on the shelves? 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.

Sheer

From her start as a precocious suburban child to her decades as a workaholic visionary, Maxine Thomas, the founder and creative director of the cult makeup company Reveal, proselytizes a sheer, dewy look-cosmetics through a female gaze—all while battling sexist investors, the whiplash of cultural change, and the mounting pressure to keep her sexuality a secret. But when Max’s story catches up to her present, she must contend with the cost of true transparency. Told over nine intense days yet spanning a lifetime, Sheer is a gripping, incisive, and provocative tale of a complicated female vanguard’s insatiable drive and the slippery ground between empowerment and abuse of power.

Wreck Your Heart

As part of Chicago’s country music scene, Dahlia “Doll” Devine isan up-and-coming singer of classic country tunes. Up and coming, that is, until her boyfriend Joey up and went, taking the rent money with him. So Dahlia is back to square one, relying on Alex McPhee—again. Alex helped her out of a bad situation when she was a kid living rough with her mother. Now he’s part landlord, part band booster, all-around rescuer. It’s just that Dahlia wishes she didn’t keep giving him reasons to have to do it. But when a body is discovered outside McPhee’s Tavern, the crime threatens not just the place Dahlia has made into a home, but everything she’s believed about her past, her dreams for the future, and the people she was just, maybe, beginning to let into her heart.

The Cyprian

Elena Whitstone and her seven brothers find themselves with a new stepmother, who proves herself evil; she is an actual magician, a Master of Water, who attempts to murder Elena’s brothers. When they survive by transforming into swans, she drives them away. But the shock is too much for Elena’s father. He dies, and his widow is confronted with the truth that the estate is entailed, and she not only must leave, but she is lawfully in charge of Elena. Furious, the stepmother retreats to Bath, to take up residence in a luxurious townhouse and resume her former profession as a “Cyprian,” a very exclusive courtesan, with Elena reluctantly posing as a page-boy and her servant. Alone, Elena must not only find a way to save herself, but to reverse the spell that has transformed her brothers.