New Adult Fiction & Non-Fiction Books - October
Addiction, attachment, trauma, and recovery : the power of connection
Morgan, Oliver J., author.
2019
Understanding addiction is no longer just about understanding neurons or genes, broken brain functioning, learning, or faulty choices. Oliver J. Morgan provides a fresh take on addiction and recovery by presenting a more inclusive framework than traditional understanding. Cutting- edge work in attachment, interpersonal neurobiology, and trauma is integrated with ecological- systems thinking to provide a consilient and comprehensive picture of addiction. Humans are born into connection and require nourishing relationships for healthy living. Adversities, however, bring fragmentation and create the conditions for ill health. They create vulnerabilities. In order to cope, individuals can turn to alternatives, "substitute relationships" that ease the pain of disconnection. These can become addictions. Addiction, Attachment, Trauma, and Recovery presents a model, a method, and a mandate. This new focus calls for change in the established ways we think and behave about addiction and recovery. It reorients understanding and clinical practice for mental health and addiction counselors, psychologists, and social workers, as well as for addicts and those who love them--from publisher's website.
Call the dark : a thriller
Scott, J. Todd, author.
2023
"A small white plane hurtles from the sky, vanishing into the wilderness. Hiker Maggie Roby watches its final descent, certain that no one could have survived. But to her shock, a fifteen-year-old girl emerges from the wreckage, wounded but miraculously, impossibly alive. Maggie approaches with trepidation; she has secrets of her own, a past she can't escape. Saving the girl means risking her future, but she can't just abandon her, can she? With the young survivor, Maggie embarks on a dangerous trek through the remote Appalachian backcountry, joining up with two veterans from the local sheriff's department who know the land better than anyone. But even as Maggie charts their course through the mountains, she can sense someone--or something--else watching and waiting. Their journey is about more than enduring the elements. It's about escaping a sinister presence that makes a vast wilderness feel like it's closing in."--p.4 of cover.
Fallen
Castillo, Linda, author
2022
"When a young woman is found murdered in a Painters Mill motel, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is shocked to discover she once knew the victim. Rachael Schwartz was a charming but troubled Amish girl who left the fold years ago and fled Painters Mill. Why was she back in town? And who would kill her so brutally? Kate remembers Rachael as the only girl who was as bad at being Amish as Kate was--and those parallels dog her. But the deeper Kate digs into Rachael Schwartz's life, the more she's convinced that Rachael's dubious reputation was deserved. As a child, Rachael was a rowdy rulebreaker whose decision to leave devastated her parents and best friend. As an adult, she was charismatic and beautiful, a rabble-rouser with a keen eye for opportunity no matter who got in her way. Her no-holds-barred lifestyle earned her a lot of love and enemies aplenty-both English and Amish. As the case heats to a fever pitch and long-buried secrets resurface, a killer haunts Painters Mill. Someone doesn't want Rachael's past--or the mysteries she took with her to the grave--coming to light. As Kate digs deeper, violence strikes again, this time hitting close to home. Will Kate uncover the truth and bring a murderer to justice? Or will a killer bent on protecting a terrible past, stop her once and for all--and let the fallen be forgotten?"-- Provided by publisher.
Framed in Death Valley
Mentink, Dana, author
2021
Framed for a murder he didn't commit, firefighter Beckett Duke gave up on everything, including his marriage to spirited Laney Holland. That is, until Laney's life is threatened. Knowing the real killer is still at large, Beckett now has one purpose: protecting the woman he loves, and their unborn child. But sometimes an innocent man's second chance comes with a deadly price.
Girls like us
Alger, Cristina, author.
2021
FBI Agent Nell Flynn hasn't been home in twelve years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. And Suffolk County will always be awash in memories of her mother, Marisol, who was brutally murdered when Nell was just seven. When Martin Flynn dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house she grew up in so that she can spread her father's ashes and close his estate. At the behest of her father's partner, Detective Lee Davis, Nell becomes involved in an investigation into the murders of two young Hispanic women in Suffolk County. The further Nell digs, the more likely it seems to her that her father should be the prime suspect and that his friends on the police force are covering his tracks. Plagued by doubts about her mother's murder and her own role in exonerating her father in that case, Nell can't help but ask questions about who killed Ria Ruiz and Adriana Marques and why. But she may not like the answers she finds -- not just about those she loves, but about herself.
Grave suspicions
James, Alice (Writer of Grave secrets), author
2020
Real estate agent, amateur sleuth and necromancer Toni Windsor tries to keep the peace between vampire courts and demon contracts while determining who clubbed a cheese millionaire to death in the third novel of the series following Grave Danger.
Killer conspiracy
Diaz, Lena, author
2021
To rescue the son he never knew, he'll protect the woman he can't forget. Six years ago, First Daughter Harper Manning destroyed Gage Bishop's Secret Service career. Now his beautiful charge is back with shocking news: their baby lived and is being held hostage. Gage vows to find and protect the child, even as Harper threatens his professional restraint. As they peel back the layers to get to the truth, can they also uncover why their baby's life became such a gut-wrenching conspiracy?
Kiss and spell
Martin, Celestine author.
2023
"All Ursula Caraway wished for was to live happily ever after in her hometown of Freya Grove. The self-proclaimed Jersey Shore Witch Princess was set to begin her perfect life--until a twist of fate changed everything. Now, she's telling fortunes to the lovelorn, selling crystals at the local psychic shop, and reclaiming her missing magic. Ursula desperately wishes to shake up her life--so much so, she'll do just about anything. Including befriending a very cute, very enchanted prince. A prince in search of a kiss... Prince Xavier Alder needs to find The One, but his lack of social skills has made that a challenge--and being cursed by the Faerie Queen isn't helping either. So when Ursula, eager to believe in magic again, agrees to help Xavier find a perfect, curse--breaking kiss before Midsummer, it's the ideal opportunity for them to get what they want. So long as they don't let their mutual (and inconvenient) attraction get in the way"-- Provided by publisher.
Little girl gone
Burt, Alexandra, author.
2015
A baby goes missing. But does her mother want her back? When Estelle's baby daughter is taken from her cot, she doesn't report her missing. Days later, Estelle is found in a wrecked car, with a wound to her head and no memory. Estelle knows she holds the key to what happened that night - but what she doesn't know is whether she was responsible ...
The necromancer's house
Buehlman, Christopher, author
2014
A practicing warlock hoarding a massive collection of stolen Russian magic is not prepared to face a vengeful witch who wants to retrieve it.
Whistle at night and they will come : indigenous horror stories. Volume II
Soop, Alex, author, illustrator.
2023
Blackfoot storyteller Alex Soop plunges us again into enthralling tales that mix reality with dark terror. Within its stories, "Whisper at Night" and "They Will Come" reveals ancient theories of the paranormal, post apocalyptic scenarios, impossible wells of grief, and monstrous phobias. Soop scares the wits out of readers, all the while uncovering overlooked social anxieties and racism affecting Indigenous Peoples across North America.
The wicked and the dead : the hair-raising tale of Hack Long and his outlaw gang
Johnstone, William W., author
2024
When Hack Long and his outlaws break out of jail and split up to escape, they each find themselves scrabbling along a desolated landscape, heading for Texas to reclaim their stolen gold, while being hunted by lawmen, Comanches and a violent gang of bandits who also want their ill-gotten gains.
The witch in the well
Bruce, Camilla, author
2022
Centuries ago, beautiful young Ilsbeth Clark was accused of witchcraft after several children disappeared. Her acquittal did nothing to stop her fellow townsfolk from drowning her in the well where the missing children were last seen. When authorand social media influencer Elena returns to the summer paradise of her youth to get her family's manor house ready to sell, the last thing she expected was connecting with-and feeling inspired to write about-Ilsbeth's infamous spirit. The very historical figure that her ex-childhood friend, Cathy, has been diligently researching and writing about for years. What begins as a fiercely competitive sense of ownership over Ilsbeth and her story soon turns both women's worlds into something more haunted and dangerous than they could ever imagine.