Ellen Baker – The Hidden Life Of Cecily Larson
1924: FOUR-YEAR-OLD CECILY LARSON’S mother reluctantly drops her off at an orphanage in Chicago, promising to be back once she’s made enough money to support both Cecily and herself. But she never returns, and shortly after-spirited Cecily turns seven, she is sold to a traveling cricus to perform as the “little sister” to glamorous bareback rider Isabelle DuMonde. With Isabelle and the rest of the circus, Cecily feels she’s found the family she craves. But as the years go by, the cracks in her little world begin to show. Ane when teenage Cecily meets and falls in love with a young roustabout named Lucky, she finds her life thrown onto an entirely unexpected-and dangerous-course.
2015: CECILY IS NOW NINETY-FOUR AND living a quiet life in Minnesota with her daughter, granddaughter, and great-grandson. But when her family decides to surprise her with an at-home DNA test, the unexpected results not only bring to light the tragic love story that Cecily has kept hidden for decades but also throw into question everything about the family she’s raised and claimed as her own for nearly seventy years. Cecily and everyone in her life must now decide who they really are and what family-and forgiveness-really mean.
Richard Paul Evans – Sharing Too Much
Richard Paul Evans is known to most as the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of beloved holiday novels. But he wasn’t always the “King of Christmas Fiction”. In grade school, he was bullied relentlessly. He was raised by a mother who struggled with depression as she mourned the dreams she never achieved. Richard worked for years to get his first novel published, once even sneaking into an author event just to share his book with readers. In these pages, Richard offers the interesting insights, everyday advice, and eye-opening perspective he has picked up over the course of his unlikely life. He shares stories about his upbringing, his marriage, parenthood, faith, and his career. His tales of chance encounters and miraculous moments, from helping a fallen man out of a bush to surviving a near-death experience in the ocean, will delight and perhaps even instill faith in his readers.
Lee Goldberg – Dream Town
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 realizes 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.
C.J. Box – Three-Inch- Teeth
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human—in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box.
A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage—killing, among others, the fiancee of Joe’s daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a list of six names tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him the people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property. Targeted are a judge, the county prosecutor, his lawyer, a prison guard—and both Nate Romanowski and Joe Pickett. Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates devises a method of violence identical to the bear killings and sets out to methodically check off his list.
