New Books for June 12
The Alice network
Quinn, Kate, author
2017
It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her French cousin Rose might still be alive somewhere. In 1915, Eve Gardiner unexpectedly gets her chance to serve when she's recruited to work as a spy for the English. She's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the "Queen of Spies", who manages a vast network. Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launching them both on a mission to find the truth ...no matter where it leads.
Always enough : God's miraculous provision among the poorest children on earth
Baker, Rolland, author
2003
Even the most desperate poverty, the most devastating illness, the most heart-wrenching grief is not beyond God's help. His love and power have no limits-and that's a message readers from all walks of life need to hear. The modern miracles that Rolland and Heidi Baker experience every day in their work with Mozambique's throwaway children, movingly chronicled in Always Enough, will inspire anyone looking for hope in the midst of suffering. The Bakers, formerly missionaries in Indonesia and Hong Kong, share how their work for the past eight years in Mozambique, one of the poorest nations on earth, has borne spiritual fruit beyond their wildest dreams. Every day presents multiple impossible needs. But in the face of everything Satan can do, as Rolland and Heidi lay down their lives and "minister to the one," there is always enough. Readers will discover that the simple practice of choosing to step out and trust God every day unleashes his provision for every need.--From publisher's description.
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
Honeyman, Gail, author
2017
Eleanor Oliphant struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond save Sammy, an elderly man who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. Ultimately, it is Raymond's big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repairing her own profoundly damaged one.
Killer heat
Chapman, Brenda, 1955- author
2019
"Ottawa is in the middle of a summer heat wave - and PI Anna Sweet takes on her httest case yet. Brent Rose secretly dated three women at the same time. One of them wants to make him pay for his cheating ways... Will Anna stop Brent's tormentor in time? Or will he meet his end in the killer heat?" -- Back cover.
Missing her
Chapman, Brenda, 1955- author
2017
Shelley Vincent has been missing for over a year. Her fiance, Albert Romaine, is desperate to find out what happened to her. With Christmas less than a week away and no plans to speak of, PI Anna Sweet is happy to take the case. But as Anna digs deeper into Shelley's past, she uncovers more questions than answers.
No trace
Chapman, Brenda, 1955- author
2016
Ryan Green disappears one day after school without a trace. His family is caught in a living nightmare. Six months later, the police have no leads. Desperate for answers, the parents contact private investigator Anna Sweet. The trail has gone cold, but Anna doesn't give up without turning over every clue. When a body is found in the woods, Anna and the police fear the worst. Who would want to harm Ryan Green, and who will be next? Anna's skills are about to be tested to their limits.
Operation Long Jump : Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the greatest assassination plot in history
Yenne, Bill, 1949- author
2015
Had it succeeded, it would have been the most shocking and audacious assassination in history, killing the three most powerful leaders in the world: Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill. The complex conspiracy was approved by Adolf Hitler himself--and yet, until now, the story was hidden behind fading memories, walls of secrecy, and shadowy archives. Veteran military historian Bill Yenne has dug deeper than anyone else into the mystery of Operation Long Jump and presents here the extraordinary story of an assassination plot that combined elements of the Nazi regime's elite commando and intelligence units, including the SS, with amateurish bungling that could have come straight out of the Keystone Cops
The outline trilogy
Cusk, Rachel, 1967- author
2019
Brought together in one exquisite collection, this groundbreaking trilogy follows Faye, a novelist facing divorce and family collapse, as she teaches creative writing in Athens, rebuilds a family in London and travels to European cities for literary events, along the way meeting people who help to reveal the merit in suffering, the fear that accompanies mysterious, inescapable change, and the hope of new possibilities that open from it. Cusk's original and powerful writing captures brilliant and startling insights into facing a great loss and the trauma of change.
Saving Faith
Baldacci, David, author
2000
Private Investigator Lee Adams is hired to follow Faith, a key witness in an important FBI case.
The tattooist of Auschwitz
Morris, Heather (Screenwriter), author.
2018
For fans of Schindler's List; The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz; and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas; comes a heart breaking story of the very best of humanity in the very worst of circumstances. He tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on his heart.
Too close to home
Chapman, Brenda, 1955- author
2019
Sometimes home is not a safe place to be. PI Anna Sweet is hired to look out for Max, a troubled teenage runaway. For Max, the woods provide safety and shelter. Until he is discovered. Max?s parents declare him mentally unfit and try to lock him up. But Anna holds the secret to his freedom.Anna agrees to take on another case, as a favour to Gail, a childhood friend. Gail, who lives overseas, is worried. Gail?s grandmother has strangers living in her home and is not answering her calls. Anna agrees to drop by the house and stumbles across a body. Sometimes, favours can go horribly wrong. Anna juggles both cases while hiding a decision that will change her own life forever
