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Here are some new additions to Peter White Public Library's Fiction collection.
Book descriptions are adapted from publisher and library catalog materials.
"Bubble, Bubble, Tea and Trouble" by Vicki Delany (MYS Delany) When Lily Roberts, Cape Cod tearoom owner, finds a group of women conducting a séance in her grandmother's Victorian B&B, she is not aware of the trouble that's about to be stirred up. The five women who are staying at her B&B are intent on finding past paranormal activity there, however, it is actually at the home next door. In the midst of their stay, the missing medium is located dead at the shore the very next morning. Lily must now solve the mystery of the murdered medium before anything else succumbs to their demise. A perfect haunted cozy mystery for October! If you're interested in more cozy mysteries like this try, Death on the Books by Victoria Gilbert, Lynn Cahoon's Eight Enchanting Elixirs, and any other of Delany's Tea by the Sea mysteries.
"City of Widows" by Nadia Hashimi (FIC Hashimi) Bestselling author, Nadia Hashimi, writes a gripping and dramatic, yet ultimately hopeful novel focusing on the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power. In February 2020, the U.S. began to withdraw troops from Afghanistan after almost 20 years of occupation. During that time a whole generation of Afghan Women had been born. They grew up in a peaceful time, went to school, entered professions, and even served in the army and Parliament. Once the Taliban began to fill the streets again, they knew their lives were about to change. This moving novel is an epic saga of fear, resistance, change and reinvention. Here are a few similar titles to read: The Gardener of Lashkar Gah by Larisa Brown, The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet, or Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan by Simar Samar.
"Cool Machine" by Colson Whitehead (FIC Whitehe) The New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead just wrote his third and final volume of his Harlem Trilogy. It's an entertaining novel that brings to life 1980's New York. With his usual pitch-perfect style, Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where skyscrapers, rise high as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. Cool Machine involves the whole city and has vivid characters that reveal the truth in this trilogy. Fans of Whitehead's trilogy will not be disappointed in his final volume of the Harlem Trilogy. The earlier titles include Harlem Shuffle and Crook Machine.
Cheryl Burtrum is a Reference Department Adult Services Assistant at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette.