Park County Library System

Fiction
Winter in Madrid by CJ Sansome–A reluctant British spy finds himself caught up in the intrigue of the Spanish Civil War, where his oldest friend went to fight Franco and then disappeared.

Ice Trap: A Novel of Suspense by Kitty Sewell–A Welsh doctor returns to the small Arctic town where he once spent a year when a girl who claims a DNA test proves she is his daughter contacts him out of the blue.

Split Estate by Charlotte Bacon–It’s always a gamble to buy a book that reviewers say gets the Wyoming landscape and “Western ethos” just right, but I decided to take a chance on this one. After his wife’s suicide, a New York City lawyer decides to move himself and his two children to his mother’s ranch in Wyoming, where she is busy fighting the people who own the mineral rights to her land.

Judas Horse: An Ana Grey Mystery by April Smith–FBI Special Agent Ana Grey is assigned to go undercover in order to infiltrate an ecoterrorist group that’s headed by a former FBI agent gone bad.

The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff–Wilhelmina Upton’s life is a shambles: she’s pregnant by the married professor with whom she had an affair, she’s been kicked out of her graduate program, and she’s come back to her hometown to find that her hippie mother has found religion. To top it off, her mother tells her that her father is not another vagrant hippie but rather a prominent local citizen. With that clue, Willie sets out to find the truth.

What I Was by Meg Rosoff–An old man recalls his time at a boarding school in Britain in the 1960s and his friendship with Finn, another teenager, who lived all by himself in a cabin by the beach.

Prodigy: A Novel of Suspense by Charles Atkins–Atkins, a psychiatrist himself, has written a gripping novel about a gifted cellist who has been released from an institution for the criminally insane and who now has his sights on his doctor.

A Reason to Kill by Jane A. Adams–A new series featuring retired actress Rina Martin.

His Illegal Self by Peter Carey–In 1972, seven-year-old Che is living with his grandparents when a woman who calls herself Dial shows up and says she’ll take him to meet his parents, who are ’60s era radicals living underground. A series of disasters lands Che and Dial in the Australian outback, where they try to survive with a group of vagabonds.

7th Heaven by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro–The latest in the Women’s Murder Club series. Patterson is reportedly also turning the series into a video game.

Lady Macbeth by Susan Fraser King–Lady Macbeth is, to my mind at least, one of the great characters in Shakespeare. Now she gets the royal treatment (she was, according to the historical record, of royal blood) in a novel all of her own.

Prepared for Rage by Dana Stabenow–A rogue terrorist (is there any other kind?) is plotting an attack on the Kennedy Space Center, and it’s up to a Coast Guard and an astronaut to prevent the disaster.

Death of a Gentle Lady by M.C. Beaton–The lady in question is Mrs. Gentle, a seemingly demure elderly lady who lives in a Scottish castle. Detective Hamish Macbeth lives and works in a nearby village, and he thinks he’s finally got his life on course when Mrs. Gentle’s maid, to whom he was engaged, goes missing, and Mrs. Gentle herself is murdered.

Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore–It’s the 1970s in small-town Georgia, and Catherine Grace, the daughter of a Baptist preacher, spends her time at the Dairy Queen, plotting ways to get out of town. She manages to get to Atlanta, only to be drawn back home by tragedy. Where does Catherine Grace belong? Read Gilmore’s debut novel to find out.

A Person of Interest by Susan Choi–Lee is a math professor whose career is pretty much over. When his younger and more successful colleague is injured by a mail bomb and the FBI gets interested in Lee, his past comes to the fore and his present begins to unravel.

The Last Beach Bungalow by Jennie Nash–April Newton has survived breast cancer, and now she and her family are planning to move into the enormous beach house they’ve designed together. April, however, is drawn to a small bungalow that an eccentric old woman is trying to sell. April has to figure out where to live, and, by extension, how and with whom to live.

Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline–Mary DiNunzio was voted Most Likely to Achieve Sainthood in high school. Still shy and retiring, she works as an attorney in a Philadelphia law firm, when suddenly she gets called upon to help Trish “Most Popular” Gambone get out of a tangle in South Philly.

The First Patient by Michael Palmer–The patient in question is the President of the United States, whose personal physician has disappeared. As a replacement, the President calls upon an old friend, Dr. Gabe Singleton, who leaves his Wyoming practice for what he expects will be a simple and brief stint. Needless to say, the gig is neither.

The Reserve by Russell Banks–It’s 1936. Vanessa Cole is the beautiful, troubled adopted daughter of a well-to-do family that owns an estate in the Adirondacks. Jordan Groves is a bad boy artist known for his escapades and womanizing. Find out what happens when they meet in this latest novel from Banks.

The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter–It’s the 1970s, and Nathaniel Mason is a graduate student in Buffalo. One night he meets a man named Jerome Coolberg, who insinuates himself into Nathaniel’s life–steals his clothes, his ideas, even his girlfriend. Several decades later, the two meet again.

Betrayal by John Lescroat–San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy is put on the trail of a vanished colleague, a search that leads him through innumerable tangled webs that stretch from San Francisco to Iraq.

Stalked by Brian Freeman–Booklist warns that this novel is not for the squeamish. Duluth cop Jonathan Stride returns home from Vegas only to learn that his best friend Maggie Sorenson’s husband has been murdered, and Maggie is on top of the list of suspects. As Stride and his private investigater girlfriend Serena dig into the case, they find that Maggie was involved in a whole host of mostly underground activities.

Nonfiction
Gotcha Capitalism: How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day and What You Can Do About It by Bob Sullivan–A look at the hidden costs of everything from cell phones to student loans.

Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography by Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet, translated by Andrew Hurley–An interview-style biography based on two years of conversations between Castro and Ramonet, who edits the French magazine Le Monde.

The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine by Anne Harrington–A history of the relationship between physical and mental health and of our efforts to procure one through the other.

High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed by Michael Kodas–A journalist’s account of the 2004 season on Everest, where greed and theft have become as common as disaster and death–schadenfreude for those of us who enjoy reading about mountaineering.

Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren edited by Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela M. Doughman–We had four or five books on global warming and climate change with publication dates before 1990. I thought it was time for an update.

Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More by Joe Vitale and Ihaleakala Hew Len, Ph.D–Advice from a Hawaiian doctor and an internet marketing guru.

Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer by Richard Shelton–In 1970, Shelton, then a young English professor, started teaching writing classes to prison inmates–and then he never stopped. This is his memoir of those years.

Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes by Gregg Mitman–Although we’ve made great strides in technology and medicine, the number of people suffering from allergies–and the number of things they’re allergic too–has increased. Mitman, a professor of medical history, explores why.

Hungry Hill: A Memoir by Carole O’Malley Gaunt–Gaunt was the oldest of eight children and the only girl. When her mother died, she was left to look after her brothers and alcoholic father, a situation made worse when her father married a fellow drinker with a fondness for corporal punishment. Despite all that, there are good parts to Gaunt’s growing up, and even moments of humor in her memoir.

Devil’s Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story by Tom Rea–Tom Rea has come to give a couple of talks at the library in the past year. His most recent book deals with the subject of his last talk about the history of Devil’s Gate and Martin’s Cove, and how many different groups have owned it and used it as a part of their history.

Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris–A look at the end of the studio system and the emergence of a new kind of Hollywood movie told through the story of five movies nominated for Academy Awards in 1968 (Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, and Doctor Doolittle).

Graphic Design: A New History by Stephen J. Eskilson–If you decide to check out this book, I highly recommend finding a porter who can carry it for you. It is very heavy, but it’s filled with neat pictures of a century or so’s worth of graphic design.

The Great Awakening by Jim Wallis–The author of God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It is out with a new look at religion and politics in the 21st century.

Hell Hath No Fury: True Stories of Women at War from Antiquity to Iraq by Rosalind Miles and Robin Cross–Portraits of women who were military leaders, soldiers, spies, and war correspondents.