New Adult Fiction: Wednesday, September 2

It’s another Hump Day, and if you’re like us, you’re already thinking about the weekend. Need a book or two for some weekend reading? We have lots of new titles—so why not stop by when you can and see what’s on the shelves? To place a book 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 adult fiction titles we’ve gotten in recently:

The True Meaning of Love

As Russian troops amass on Ukraine’s borders and the city of Kyiv swiftly comes under attack, the lives of four very different women change in an instant. Tatyanna, the orphaned young ballerina is devastated when her boyfriend and best friend are killed. She must now decide whether to stay and fight, or flee to safety. Yulya, the young wife and mother whose happy life is destroyed by wartime forcing her to leave her husband and elderly parents to flee with her children. Sasha, the dedicated doctor who risks all to selflessly stay and save lives regardless of politics. And Oxana, the elderly grandmother, too old to leave and devoted to her husband, is determined to stay in their home and care for him while life disintegrates around them.

The Butcher Legacy

Two months after the life-altering events of The Butcher Game, Wren is back in the place she knows best: the New Orleans morgue. She buries herself in routine, surrounded by both familiar and new company, trying to convince herself that normalcy can be rebuilt. But in the weeks leading up to Halloween, shadows begin to move again as young girls vanish in cities where Jeremy Rose once ran rampant. Hundreds of miles away, the pastor to a close-knit congregation in Massachusetts is back behind the pulpit. But beneath his practiced composure lies something sinister. With Jeremy behind bars and Philip suddenly nowhere to be found, Wren and Leroux must mobilize.

Sunrise

In 2024, Nina’s small-engine plane crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. Her boyfriend Ben, who was flying it, is nowhere to be found. Lost and freezing on the shore, Nina is armed with only a few old protein bars, a phone with no service, and a vague hope of rescue. It is up to her to survive in the vast wilderness. But then she stumbles upon Sunrise—a town of the Old West that is strangely well maintained, but seemingly abandoned. A place that holds the missing link to a ghost story one hundred years in the making.