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Everyone on this train is a suspect : a novel / Benjamin Stevenson.

Ernest Cunningham returns in a deliciously witty locked room (train) mystery. When the Australian Mystery Writers Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn't pan out. The program is a who's who of crime writing royalty: the debut writer (me!), the forensic science writer, the blockbuster writer, the legal thriller writer, the literary writer, the psychological suspense writer. But when one of us is murdered, the remaining authors quickly turn into five detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime. Of course, we should also know how to commit one. How can you find a killer when all the suspects know how to get away with murder?
Author: Stevenson, Benjamin
First U.S. edition.
Published: New York : Mariner Books, [2024]
Published: ©2023.
320 pages : map, plans ; 24 cm.
Ernest Cunningham ; 2.
1 reserve

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F STE - New item - borrow or reserve (Set: 28 Mar 2024) - Onloan - Due: 04 May 2024 - 31111090731348

The women / Kristin Hannah.

"'Women can be heroes, too'. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances "Frankie" McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California's idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different path for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the young men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed America. Frankie will also discover the true value of female friendship and the heartbreak that love can cause"-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Hannah, Kristin
Published: London : Macmillan, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
471 pages ; 24 cm.
14 reserves

Coolbellup Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F HAN - Historical Fiction - New item - borrow or reserve (Set: 21 Mar 2024) - Onloan - Due: 13 May 2024 - L1030268893X
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The breakup tour / Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka.

Riley Wynn went from a promising singer-songwriter to a superstar overnight, thanks to her breakup song concept album and its unforgettable lead single. When Riley's ex-husband claims the hit song is about him, she does something she hasn't in ten years and calls Max Harcourt, her college boyfriend and the real inspiration for the song of the summer. Max hasn't spoken to Riley since their relationship ended. He's content with managing the retirement home his family owns, but it's not the life he dreamed of filled with music. When Riley asks him to go public as her songwriting muse, he agrees on one condition: he'll join her in her band on tour. As they perform across the country, Max and Riley start to realize that while they hit some wrong notes in the past, their future could hold incredible things. And their rekindled relationship will either last forever or go down in flames.
Author: Wibberley, Emily
First edition.
Published: New York : Berkley Romance, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
338 pages ; 21 cm.

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F WIB - New item - borrow or reserve (Set: 01 Mar 2024) - Onloan - Due: 29 Apr 2024 - 31111090778877

The excitements : a novel / CJ Wray.

Arriving in Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur for their part in the liberation of France, the 90-something Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans, use this opportunity to settle scores, avenge lost friends and pull off one last, daring heist before their illustrious careers are over.
Author: Wray, CJ (Pseudonym)
First U.S. edition.
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow, [2024]
Published: ©2024.
294 pages ; 21 cm.

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The Phoenix Crown / Kate Quinn and Janie Chang.

San Francisco, 1906. In a city booming with new money and possibility, two very different women seek an escape: Suling, a Chinatown embroideress, has only days to avoid an arranged marriage and Gemma, an opera singer, desperately needs to reignite her career. Together with Alice Eastwood, a fiercely independent botanist, the women step into the glittering orbit of Henry Thornton, a connoisseur and railroad magnate. It is a world in which Thornton pulls the strings -- and in which opportunity beckons, along with glimpses of rare objects of desire. At its very centre is Thornton's priceless antique, the Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing's fallen Summer Palace. But all that was promised is taken away when a devastating earthquake rips the city apart. Betrayal and danger are at every turn -- and, as secrets come tumbling out, it is impossible to know whom to trust. The five years later at a sumptuous ball in the palace of Versailles, the Phoenix Crown mysteriously reappears, drawing Gemma and Suling together in one last desperate quest for justice.
Author: Quinn, Kate
Published: London : HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
369 pages ; 24 cm.

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F QUI - New item - borrow or reserve (Set: 22 Mar 2024) - Onloan - Due: 03 May 2024 - 31111090915834

The Chinese groove : a novel / Kathryn Ma.

Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father's grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng's tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the "Chinese groove," a belief in the unspoken bonds between countrymen that transcend time and borders.
Author: Ma, Kathryn
First paperback edition.
Published: Berkley, California : Counterpoint, 2024.
Published: ©2023.
304 pages ; 21 cm.

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F MAK - General Fiction - Onloan - Due: 23 Apr 2024 - 31111090779057

The bright spot : a novel / Jill Shalvis.

Running her farm-to-table café as well as a menagerie of rescued animals, Luna Wright, when the owner of Apple Ridge Farm passes away and his investment manager takes over control, she, with her home threatened, must dig deep to find true strength and the real meaning of love and family.
Author: Shalvis, Jill
Published: New York, NY : Avon, [2024]
Published: ©2024.
359 pages ; 21 cm.
Sunrise Cove novels ; 5.

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F SHA - Romance - Onloan - Due: 30 Apr 2024 - 31111090775923

Canadian boyfriend / Jenny Holiday.

Once upon a time, teenage Aurora Evans met a hockey player at the Mall of America. He was from Canada. And soon, he was the perfect fake boyfriend, a get-out-of-jail-free card for all kinds of sticky situations. "I can't go to prom. I'm going to be visiting my boyfriend in Canada." He was just what she needed to cover her social awkwardness. He never had to know. It wasn't like she was ever going to see him again... Years later, Aurora is teaching kids' dance classes and battling panic and eating disorders - souvenirs from her failed ballet career - when pro hockey player Mike Martin walks in with his daughter. Mike's honesty about his struggles with widowhood helps Aurora confront some of her own demons, and the two forge an unlikely friendship. There's just one problem: Mike is the boy she spent years pretending was her "Canadian boyfriend". The longer she keeps her secret, the more she knows it will shatter the trust between them. But to have the life she wants, she needs to tackle the most important thing of all-believing in herself.
Author: Holiday, Jenny (Romance author)
First edition.
Published: New York : Forever, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
372 pages ; 21 cm.
3 reserves

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Behind you is the sea : a novel / Susan Muaddi Darraj.

Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families -- the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars -- Palestinian immigrants who've all found a different welcome in America. Their various fates and struggles cause their community dynamic to sizzle and sometimes explode: The wealthy Ammar family employs young Maysoon Baladi, whose family struggles financially, to clean up after their spoiled teenagers. Meanwhile, Marcus Salameh, whose aunt married into the wealthy Ammar family, confronts his father in an effort to protect his younger sister for "dishonoring" the family. Only a trip to Palestine, where Marcus experiences an unexpected and dramatic transformation, can bridge this seemingly unbridgeable divide between the two generations.
Author: Darraj, Susan Muaddi
First HarperVia edition.
Published: New York, NY : HarperVia, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
245 pages ; 22 cm.

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All Rhodes lead here : a novel / Mariana Zapata.

Aurora De La Torre, or Ora to her friends, knows moving back to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, a place that was once home and is now full of bittersweet memories of her late mother, isn't going to be easy. But after breaking up with her longtime, famous musician boyfriend, hiding out in a small town in the mountains might be the perfect remedy for a broken heart. And checking out her landlord who lives across the driveway might cure it, too. Only Tobias Rhodes didn't rent out the apartment to her - rather it was his teenage son, Amos. Fiercely protective of his family and distrusting of strangers, gruff and grumpy Rhodes initially keeps little miss sunshine Ora at a distance. But over days and weeks, long hikes and fireside chats, Aurora breaks down his walls and soon an unbreakable friendship blossoms into a once-in-a-lifetime love.
Author: Zapata, Mariana
New edition.
Published: New York, NY : Avon, [2024]
Published: ©2021.
600 pages ; 21 cm.
1 reserve

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F ZAP - Romance - Onloan - Due: 08 May 2024 - 31111090731322

Dream town / Lee Goldberg.

Hidden Hills is a private celebrity enclave of white picket fences and horse trails that seems to exist in a dreamworld. But when reality superstar Kitty Winslow is killed within their gates and corpses are found in the vast state park outside them, LASD detective Eve Ronin realises there is a deadly, razor-thin line between what's real and what's imagined. Eve discovers that Kitty's surreal on- and off-camera life, a blur of fact and fantasy, shockingly mirrors her own as she struggles to investigate the killings, wade into a music industry war, and battle a vicious Chilean gang - all while her life is being turned into a fictional cop show directed by her estranged father. Eve's grip on reality and the case is strained to the breaking point as the slayings continue, the media frenzy reaches a fever pitch, and the only inescapable truth she can see is death... and it's coming for her.
Author: Goldberg, Lee, 1962-
First edition.
Published: Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2024]
Published: ©2024.
276 pages ; 22 cm.
Eve Ronin series ; 5.

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F GOL - Newmarket - Crime & Thriller - New Market item - borrow or reserve (Set: 05 Mar 2024) - Onloan - Due: 06 May 2024 - 31111090776178

When grumpy met sunshine / Charlotte Stein.

Finding love was not the only goal... When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie Harding gets badgered into selling his memoirs, he knows he's never going to be able to write them. He hates revealing a single thing about himself, is allergic to most emotions, and can't imagine doing a good job of putting pen to paper. And so in walks curvy, cheery, cute-as-heck ghostwriter Mabel Willicker, who knows just how to sunshine and sass her way into getting every little detail out of Alfie. They banter and bicker their way to writing his life story, both of them sure they'll never be anything other than at odds. But after their business arrangement is mistaken for a budding romance, the pair have to pretend to be an item for a public who's ravenous for more of this Cinderella story. Or at least, it feels like its pretend until each slow-burn step in their fake relationship sparks a heat neither can control. Now they just have to decide: is this sizzling chemistry just for show? Or something so real it might just give them their fairy-tale ending?
Author: Stein, Charlotte
Published: London : Macmillan, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
321 pages ; 22 cm.
1 reserve

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F STE - Romance - Onloan - Due: 11 May 2024 - 31111086599550

The mayor of Maxwell Street / Avery Cunningham.

An epic love story that explores the American Dream between the monolith of Jim Crow, the inflexible world of the original Black upper class, and the violence of 1920s Chicago.
Author: Cunningham, Avery
First edition.
Published: Los Angeles : Hyperion Avenue, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
508 pages ; 21 cm.

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F CUN - Historical Fiction - Available - Recently returned - 31111090737014

No one can know / Kate Alice Marshall.

Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant-right as the bank account slips into the red. That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her parents' house, which she owns jointly with her estranged sisters. They can't sell it, but they can live in it. But returning home means that Emma is forced to reveal her secrets to her husband: that the house is not a run-down farmhouse but a stately mansion, and that her parents were murdered there -- and that some people say Emma did it. Emma and her sisters have never spoken about what really happened that night. Now, her return to the house may lure her sisters back, but it will also crack open family and small-town secrets lots of people don't want revealed. As Emma struggles to reconnect with her old family and hold together her new one, she begins to realize that the things they have left unspoken all these years have put them in danger again.
Author: Marshall, Kate Alice
First edition.
Published: New York : Flatiron Books, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
324 pages ; 25 cm.

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Never blow a kiss / Lindsay Lovise.

The utterly charming Emily Leverton has a dark past and is determined to leave it behind in her respectable new role as a governess. But when she is recruited by a secret network of governesses who spy on the ton, it may just be a way to redeem the dark secrets of her past. Straddling the worlds of the ton and the working class, as an ex-solider turned railroad magnate, Zach hunts killers for the Metropolitan Police by day and dutifully attends balls at night. In neither world has he met a woman with the brazenness to mock him. So when a saucy governess blows him a kiss he is determined to catch her, never expecting that when he does he will find an intelligent, quirky woman hiding more than her true name. As Zach peels back the layers of Emily's lies, he falls for the street-wise woman who handles a dagger like a pro and kisses like a mistress. But when his affair with Emily intertwines with his hunt for a killer, he discovers Emily is hiding an explosive secret -- one that could destroy them both.
Author: Lovise, Lindsay
First edition.
Published: New York, NY : Forever, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
342 pages ; 20 cm.
Secret Society of Governess Spies ; 1.

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F LOV - Historical Fiction - Onloan - Due: 16 May 2024 - 31111086590310

The missing witness / Allison Brennan.

Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot by a masked man in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness -- a whistleblower who might be the key to everything -- has disappeared. After the prosecuting DDA is stabbed to death, it's clear that anyone who knows too much about the investigation is in danger, and tracking down the witness becomes a matter of life or death. With government corruption running rampant and someone on the inside trying to pin anything they can on Kara, she trusts nobody except FBI special agent Matt Costa and a handful of allies. But when explosive secrets begin to surface within the LAPD and FBI, Kara questions everything she thought she knew about the case, her colleagues and the life she left behind months ago. Now Quinn and Costa must race to find the missing witness and get to the bottom of the avalanche of conspiracies that has rocked LA to its core... before it's too late.
Author: Brennan, Allison
Published: Toronto, Ontario : Mira, [2024]
Published: ©2024.
407 pages ; 24 cm.
Quinn & Costa thriller ; 5.

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F BRE - Newmarket - Crime & Thriller - New Market item - borrow or reserve (Set: 05 Mar 2024) - Onloan - Due: 15 May 2024 - 31111086591011

Interesting facts about space / Emily Austin.

Enid is many things: lesbian, serial dater, deaf in one ear, space obsessive, true crime fanatic. When she's not listening to grizzly murder podcasts, she's managing her crippling phobia of bald people and trying hard not to think about her mortifying teenage years - which is hard, when she's lost the password to her old YouTube account and the (many) vlogs that her teen self once uploaded. She's worried about herself, her depressive mother, and what the deal is with gender reveal parties. But as Enid fumbles her way through her first serious relationship and navigates a new family life with her estranged half-sisters, she starts to worry that someone is following her. As her paranoia spirals out of control, Enid must contend with her mounting suspicion that something is seriously wrong with her... Full of charm, humour and heart, Interesting Facts About Space is a pitch-perfect exploration of the strange ways we try to connect with others, and the power of sharing our secret selves with the people we love.
Author: Austin, Emily (Emily R.)
Published: London : Atlantic Books, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
304 pages ; 22 cm.

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F AUS - General Fiction - Available - 31111090841733

Dreams of eagles / William W. Johnstone.

It was a virgin land of vast horizons... a land of dreams and dust and blood, where men sought glory and hope died hard. But for Jamie Ian MacCallister, who'd grown to manhood among Indians and fought at the Alamo, war and wilderness were home... and survival was a way of life. From the battlegrounds of Texas to the Colorado Rockies and the goldfields of California, Jamie MacCallister was one of a handful of daring pioneers blazing trails in the American West. Joining famed frontiersman Kit Carson on the first U.S. Army expedition from Missouri to the wide Pacific, he forged a future in a dawning era of greatness and greed that would stain the pages of history with blood -- and make men like MacCallister into legends.
Author: Johnstone, William W.
Published: New York : Pinnacle Books, [2024]
Published: ©1994.
412 pages ; 18 cm.
Eagles series ; 2.

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A life of her own / Ellen Feldman.

New York City, 1945. The war is over, the men are coming home and life can go back to normal for young Fanny Fabricant. But when she loses her rosy future in a single instant, she is forced to reinvent her life and raise her daughter alone by sheer will and courage. Brought up to be a 'nice girl', to never step out of bounds, and educated for a career as a wife and mother, Fanny quickly learns that the real world isn't so straightforward. When Fanny gets a job working for the queen of radio dramas, she finally has a sense of control over her destiny -- until two very different men enter her life, giving Fanny an impossible choice. Will she play it safe, or do what she knows is right?
Author: Feldman, Ellen, 1941-
Published: Sydney, New South Wales : Macmillan, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
338 pages ; 24 cm.

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A city of flames / Rina Vasquez.

Nara has always desired justice.Could hunting dragons bring her peace at last?When a fire dragon attacks her village, the perfect opportunity presents itself - now she can take revenge on the creatures that killed her father. But the dragon she's determined to kill seems fascinated by Nara, something everyone slowly begins to notice . . . After this strange event, Nara is invited to join the Venators - a trained order of people who slay dangerous magical creatures - just like her father before her.This offer should be a dream come true. After all, who wouldn't jump at the chance to hunt down the cruel, destructive creatures that enslaved humans for thousands of years?
Author: Vasquez, Rina
Published: London : Wildfire, an imprint of Headline Publishing Group, 2023.
Published: ©2023.
446 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Solaris and Crello trilogy ; [1]

Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F VAS - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Available - 31111090885003

With you forever / Chloe Liese.

Rooney Sullivan is sunshine incarnate and the antithesis of quiet, reserved Axel. He's been able to hide his attraction to her until a party game gets out of hand and ends in an unexpected kiss. Months later, Rooney's staying just next door to him for a cozy A-frame getaway and temptingly within reach. Axel, the eldest Bergman brother, is a gorgeous grump and Rooney's longtime crush. Their kiss was an accident, and months later, so is stumbling into him at the Bergman family's property. Rooney's sure her feelings are unrequited, thanks to the distance Axel keeps, so she keeps her attraction to herself. But when Axel and Rooney unexpectedly find their paths, and problems, converging, marriage proves the perfect solution. At least, until they face a new dilemma: a marriage of convenience that's inconveniently become a love match, after all.
Author: Liese, Chloe
First Berkley Romance edition.
Published: New York : Berkley Romance, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
370 pages ; 21 cm.
Bergman brothers ; 4.

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F LIE - Newmarket - Romance - Onloan - Due: 16 May 2024 - 31111086590518

The Ukraine / Artem Chapeye ; translated by Zenia H. Tompkins.

The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications. In the title story, Chapeye facetiously plays with the English misuse of the article "the" in reference to Ukraine, capturing a country as perceived from the outside, by foreigners. That pseudo-kitsch, often historically shallow, and not-quite-real Ukraine resonates because of its highly engaging and brutally candid snapshots of ordinary lives and typical places.
Author: Chapeye, Artem
Published: New York : Seven Stories Press, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
265 pages ; 21 cm.

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F CHA - New item - borrow or reserve (Set: 28 Mar 2024) - Onloan - Due: 13 May 2024 - 31111090731652

The silence in her eyes : a novel / Armando Lucas Correa ; translated by Nick Caistor and Faye Williams, additional translation by Cecilia Molinari.

Living with motion blindness, Leah, with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice, is convinced her neighbour, who is trying to escape from an abusive husband, is going to be murdered and makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength and ultimately her sanity.
Author: Correa, Armando Lucas, 1959-
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Published: New York, NY : Atria Books, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
258 pages ; 24 cm.

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F COR - New item - borrow or reserve (Set: 01 Mar 2024) - Onloan - Due: 04 May 2024 - 31111090776293

Missing persons : a Private novel / James Patterson & Adam Hamdy.

In Afghanistan, a US Special Forces pilot is shot down during a covert mission. In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children. A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private -- the world's largest investigation agency -- with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What at first seems to be a simple missing persons case soon escalates into something much more deadly, when Jack discovers the daughter is being pursued by highly trained operatives. As Jack uncovers more of the woman's backstory, the trail leads towards Afghanistan -- where Jack's career as a US Marine ended in catastrophe... Jack will need to face the trauma of his past to save a family's future.
Author: Patterson, James, 1947-
First North American edition.
Hardcover library edition.
Published: New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2024.
Published: ©2021.
345 pages ; 22 cm.
Private novels ; 16.
2 reserves

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F PAT - New item - borrow or reserve (Set: 28 Mar 2024) - On reserve shelf at Success Library - 31111090731751

Only if you're lucky : a novel / Stacy Willingham.

Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the centre of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year, a year Margot spent studying and playing it safe, and asks her to room together, something in Margot can't say no -- something daring, or starved, or maybe even envious. And so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls, Lucy, the ringleader; Sloane, the sarcastic one; and Nicole, the nice one, the three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. It's a year that finds Margot finally coming out of the shell she's been in since the end of high school, when her best friend Eliza died three weeks after graduation. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends, but by the middle of their sophomore year, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered... and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace.
Author: Willingham, Stacy
First edition.
Published: New York : Minotaur Books, 2024.
Published: ©2023.
370 pages ; 25 cm.

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F WIL - New item - borrow or reserve (Set: 01 Mar 2024) - Onloan - Due: 14 May 2024 - 31111086591417

One in a million / Janet Dailey.

Frank Culhane may be the wealthy patriarch of one of Texas' most prestigious families, but his party girl daughter, Jasmine, is only interested in the money the ranch brings in -- and the cowboys. Until the day she heads to the stables in search of their hot horse trainer and instead discovers her daddy's body in their prize stallion's box stall. Roper's rodeo career was cut short by an injury. When an autopsy reveals Frank was murdered, Roper lands on the list of possible suspects. A city outsider, Detective Sam Rafferty's investigation propels him into a tangle of simmering rivalries. For the ranch is now in the hands of an explosive partnership: Frank's young, glamorous second wife, Lila, and his scorned first wife, Madeline. Lila has a genuine passion for ranching. Madeline is determined to destroy her. Through Sam's interviews, more tensions surface. While Lila and Roper clash, they discover a fire beneath their sparring. And with a killer still at large, the heat between Jasmine and Sam could put the case, and all their futures, on the line...
Author: Dailey, Janet
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Published: New York : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2024.
Published: ©2024.
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Rivalries ; 1.

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F DAI - New item - borrow or reserve (Set: 01 Mar 2024) - Recently returned - 31111090779016

Nothing serious / Emma Medrano.

Nicki -- 30ish, care worker living in Brighton -- is scrolling for her next hook up. A difficult home life, a job that's going nowhere, she seeks solace in random encounters. Amber -- 17, college student, lost -- desperately needs someone to notice her. She creates 'Kevin', a fake dating profile for a man in his thirties. Neither Nicki nor 'Kevin' has any idea what they're about to get into. They quickly match, and an unlikely friendship develops, giving each other the validation they both sorely need. But can you ever truly connect when one of you is a liar?
Author: Medrano, Emma
Published: [London] : Michael Joseph Ltd, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
359 pages ; 23 cm.

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F MED - New item - borrow or reserve (Set: 22 Mar 2024) - Onloan - Due: 13 May 2024 - 31111090911296

Interesting facts about space / Emily Austin.

Enid is many things: lesbian, serial dater, deaf in one ear, space obsessive, true crime fanatic. When she's not listening to grizzly murder podcasts, she's managing her crippling phobia of bald people and trying hard not to think about her mortifying teenage years - which is hard, when she's lost the password to her old YouTube account and the (many) vlogs that her teen self once uploaded. She's worried about herself, her depressive mother, and what the deal is with gender reveal parties. But as Enid fumbles her way through her first serious relationship and navigates a new family life with her estranged half-sisters, she starts to worry that someone is following her. As her paranoia spirals out of control, Enid must contend with her mounting suspicion that something is seriously wrong with her... Full of charm, humour and heart, Interesting Facts About Space is a pitch-perfect exploration of the strange ways we try to connect with others, and the power of sharing our secret selves with the people we love.
Author: Austin, Emily R.
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Published: New York : Atria Books, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
304 pages ; 22 cm.
1 reserve

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F AUS - New item - borrow or reserve (Set: 28 Mar 2024) - Onloan - Due: 29 Apr 2024 - 31111090736917

Happiness falls : a novel / Angie Kim.

We didn't call the police right away. Later, I would blame myself, wonder if things might have turned out differently if I hadn't shrugged it off, insisting Dad wasn't missing missing but just delayed, probably still in the woods looking for Eugene. Mia Parkson's life is turned upside down when her stay-at-home dad, the family's anchor, goes missing. The only witness? Eugene, her younger, nonverbal teenage brother. As the Police struggle for leads, and her mother and twin brother struggle to keep things together at home, Mia gains access to key clues about her father's disappearance. Headstrong, hyper analytical, and with secrets of her own, she decides to try and solve the case. But could Mia's impulsive actions be putting her whole family in danger?
Author: Kim, Angie, 1969-
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Published: London : Faber, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
387 pages ; 24 cm.

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F KIM - New item - borrow or reserve (Set: 12 Apr 2024) - Onloan - Due: 16 May 2024 - 31111090732924

Fathomfolk / Eliza Chan.

Welcome to Tiankawi - shining pearl of human civilization and a safe haven for those fleeing civil unrest. Or at least, that's how it first appears. But in the semi-flooded city, humans are, quite literally, on top: peering down from shining towers and aerial walkways on the fathomfolk - sirens, seawitches, kelpies and kappas - who live in the polluted waters below. For half-siren Mira, promotion to captain of the border guard means an opportunity to help her downtrodden people. But if earning the trust and respect of her human colleagues wasn't hard enough, everything Mira has worked towards is put in jeopardy when Nami, a know-it-all water dragon - fathomfolk royalty - is exiled to the city. When extremists sabotage the annual boat race, violence erupts, as does the clampdown on fathomfolk rights. Both Nami and Mira must decide if the cost of change is worth it, or, if Tiankawi should be left to drown.
Author: Chan, Eliza
Published: London : Orbit, 2024.
Published: ©2024.
421 pages ; 24 cm.
Drowned world ; 1.

Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F CHA - New item - borrow or reserve (Set: 15 Mar 2024) - 31111086599691