Fresh New Reads for Spring

Spring has sprung, and so has a bunch of great new books! The editors over at Amazon created a list of books that they believe will be the talk of the town this season (click here to access the full list). Listed below are five new novels in the fiction and literature category that you can find at the Community Library. Place your hold today!

Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

Love & Treasure by Ayelet Waldman

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose

Gemini by Carol Cassella

Summaries (from left to right):

Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler is about childhood friends, Hank, Leland, Kip, and Ronny who grew up in small-town Wisconsin. The group is reunited during a visit marked by culture clashes and a woman who inspires passion in each of them.

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi is a modern day Snow White fairy tale about a woman who marries a mid-20th-century Massachusetts single father and succumbs to vanity when the birth of her baby reveals her husband to be a light-skinned African American. By the award-winning author of White Is for Witching.

Inspired by the World War II Hungarian Gold Train, Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldmanfollows the 1945 American capture of a locomotive filled with riches and the efforts of a Jewish-American lieutenant's granddaughter to track down a mysterious woman 70 years later. By the author of Red Hook Road.

An acclaimed athlete and cross-dressing lesbian, Lou Villars finds refuge at the Chameleon Club in the Lovers of the Chameleon Club by Francine Prose. As time passes, Lou finds herself experiencing a transformation that warps her earnest desire for love and approval into something dangerous

When a coma patient's status turns critical, Seattle ICU doctor, Charlotte Reese and her boyfriend, Eric, find themselves in conflict with regards to their feelings about death, love and marriage in Gemini by Carol Cassella. By the best-selling author of Oxygen.

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