It’s time for another While-You’re-Waiting update! If you’re on hold for these high-demand eBook
or eAudio titles, I have some great suggestions to tide you over while you
wait!
EBOOK
Waiting for The Guest List by Lucy Foley? Try:
(Libby) Lock
Every Door by Riley Sager
The next heart-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling
author Riley Sager follows a young woman whose new job apartment sitting in one
of New York’s oldest and most glamorous buildings may cost more than it pays.
(Libby) Something
in the Water by Catherine Steadman
A shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise changes the
lives of a picture-perfect couple in this taut psychological thriller debut—for
readers of Ruth Ware, Paula Hawkins, and Shari Lapena.
(Hoopla) The Hunting Party by
Lucy Foley
“My favorite kind of whodunit, kept me guessing all the way
through, and reminiscent of Agatha Christie at her best -- with an extra dose
of acid.” -- Alex Michaelides, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The
Silent Patient
(Hoopla) Try
Kimberly Belle’s exciting domestic thrillers on Hoopla.
Waiting for The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett? Try:
(Libby) Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into
different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and
lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The
other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same
castle, and sold into slavery.
(Libby) The
Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
"Sexton takes on [Toni Morrison's artful invocation of
the ghost] in her new novel The Revisioners. . . She writes with
such a clear sense of place and time that each of these intermingled stories
feels essential and dramatic in its own way." —Ron Charles, The
Washington Post "A powerful tale of
racial tensions across generations." —People
(Hoopla) Saving Ruby King by
Catherine Adel West
An unforgettable debut novel, Saving Ruby King is
a powerful testament that history doesn’t determine the present and the bonds
of friendship can forever shape the future.
(Hoopla) Paper Daughters of
Chinatown by Heather Moore
A powerful story based on true events surrounding Donaldina
Cameron and other brave women who fought to help Chinese-American women escape
discrimination and slavery in the late 19th century in California.
Waiting for The Evening and the Morning by Ken
Follett? Try:
(Libby) Bernard Cornwell’s The
Last Kingdom series
Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling
series chronicles the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of
Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom,
the hit Netflix series.
(Libby) The Long
Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
A beloved Viking saga and masterpiece of historical fiction, The
Long Ships is a high spirited adventure that stretches from Scandinavia to
Spain, England, Ireland, and beyond.
(Hoopla audio) the
Hakon’s Saga novels of Eric Schumacher
(Hoopla audio) the
Norsemen Saga novels of James L. Nelson
AD 852. For centuries the Vikings have swept out of the
Norse countries and fallen on whatever lands they could reach aboard their
longships, and few could resist the power of their violent onslaught. They came
at first to plunder and then to settle, an encroachment fiercely resisted
wherever they went. Such was the case in the southern lands of Ireland. En
route to the Viking longphort there, known as Dubh-linn, Thorgrim Night Wolf
and Ornolf the Restless stumble across an Irish ship that carries aboard it a
single item: a crown.
Waiting for Anxious People by Fredrik Backman?
Try:
(Libby) Olive
Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive,
at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher,
deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at
large. As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is
brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life—sometimes painfully,
but always with ruthless honesty.
(Libby) Nine
Perfect Strangers by Jodi Picoult
Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here
to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for
reasons they can’t even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and
pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might
involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the
next ten days are going to be.
(Libby) Nights
of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
The lives of four strangers are forever altered when they
meet in a Greek seaside village in this compelling novel from #1 New York
Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy.
(Hoopla) Bel Canto by Ann
Patchett
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's
vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful
businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has
mesmerized the international guests with her singing.
It is a perfect evening—until a band of gun-wielding
terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked,
life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a
moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and
people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and
lovers.
Waiting for Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner?
Try:
(Libby) Beach Read
by Emily Henry
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a
literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just
upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
(Libby) Followers
by Megan Angelo
An electrifying story of two ambitious friends and the dark
choices they make to become internet famous.
(Libby) Less
by Andrew Sean Greer
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward
wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting
lyricism and beauty" (New York Times Book Review).
(Hoopla) Otherwise Engaged by
Lindsey Palmer
Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Jennifer Weiner,
OTHERWISE ENGAGED explores the life we seek when the life we have... suddenly
goes down the drain.
Similar authors:
Elin Hilderbrand (Libby)
Mary Kay Andrews (Libby
and Hoopla)
Nancy Thayer (Libby)
Dorothea Benton Frank (Libby
and Hoopla)
EAUDIO
Waiting for The Guest List by Lucy Foley? Try:
(Hoopla) The Hunting Party by
Lucy Foley
During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of
thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a
tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve
chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands—the perfect
place to get away and unwind by themselves. Amid the boisterous revelry of New
Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps, just as a historic blizzard
seals the lodge off from the outside world.
(Hoopla) The Woman in Apartment 49
by Ross Armstrong (previously published as The Watcher)
Lily Gullick lives with her husband, Aiden, in a brand-new
apartment opposite a building that has been marked for demolition. A keen
bird-watcher, she can’t help spying on her neighbors. Until one day Lily sees
something suspicious through her binoculars, and soon her elderly neighbor Jean
is found dead. Convinced of foul play, she knows she has to act. But her
interference is not going unnoticed, and as she starts to get close to the
truth, her own life comes under threat.
Similar authors:
Kimberly Belle (Libby
and Hoopla)
Catherine Steadman (Libby)
Waiting on The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett?
Try:
(Libby) Run
by Ann Patchett
"Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a
thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals
with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all
else, family." -- Washington Post
(Libby) Sing,
Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Rich with Ward’s distinctive, lyrical language, Sing,
Unburied, Sing is a majestic and unforgettable family story and “an
odyssey through rural Mississippi’s past and present” (The Philadelphia
Inquirer).
(Hoopla) Saving Ruby King by
Catherine Adel West
An unforgettable debut novel, Saving Ruby King is
a powerful testament that history doesn’t determine the present and the bonds
of friendship can forever shape the future.
(Hoopla) Tidewater Sisters by
Lisa Wingate
Tandi Reese and her sister, Gina, have always been bound by
complicated ties. Amid the rubble of a difficult childhood lie memories of
huddling beneath beds and behind sofas while parental wars raged. Sisterhood
was safety . . . once. But now?
Waiting on American Dirt by Jeanne Cummings?
Try:
(Libby) Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah
Engrossing, beautiful, and deeply imaginative, Out of
Darkness, Shining Light is a novel that lends voice to those who appeared
only as footnotes in history, yet whose final, brave act of loyalty and respect
changed the course of it. An incredible and important book by a masterful
writer.” —Yaa Gyasi, author of Homegoing
(Libby) The
Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, "the single most
compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S.
border policy" (The Atlantic).
(Hoopla) The
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
At once naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel,
and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck's, The Grapes of Wrath is
perhaps the most American of American classics. Although it follows the
movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire
nation during the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s, The Grapes of Wrath is
also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven off their
homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.
(Hoopla) Midnight in Mexico: A
Reporter’s Journey Through a Country’s Descent into Darkness by Alfredo
Corchado
A crusading Mexican American journalist searches for justice
and hope in an increasingly violent Mexico.
(Hoopla) All the Agents and Saints:
Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Elizondo Griest weaves seven years of stories into a
meditation on the existential impact of international borderlines by
illuminating the spaces in between and the people who live there.
Waiting on A Promised Land by Barack Obama?
Try:
(Libby) American
Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America
by Michelle Obama
Mrs. Obama invites you inside the White House Kitchen Garden
and shares its inspiring story, from the first planting to the latest harvest. Mrs.
Obama's journey continues across the nation, sharing the stories of other
gardens that have moved and inspired her.
(Libby) Of Thee
I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters by Barack Obama
In this poignant letter to his daughters, Barack Obama has
written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals
that have shaped our nation. From the artistry of Georgia O'Keeffe, to the
courage of Jackie Robinson, to the patriotism of George Washington, Obama sees
the traits of these heroes within his own children, and within all of America’s
children.
(Hoopla) Homeland: An Extraordinary
Story of Hope and Survival by George Obama
Homeland is the remarkable memoir of George Obama,
President Obama’s Kenyan half brother, who found the inspiration to strive for
his goal, to better the lives of his own people, in his elder brother’s
example.
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U.S. presidents on Libby
Waiting on One by One by Ruth Ware? Try:
(Libby) The
Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a
mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very
quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the
cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the
money.
(Libby) The
Lying Game by Ruth Ware
From the instant New York Times bestselling author
of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The
Woman in Cabin 10 comes a chilling new novel of friendship, secrets,
and the dangerous games teenaged girls play.
(Libby
and Hoopla) I Found
You by Lisa Jewell
“Jewell’s novel explores the space between going missing and
being lost….how the plots intersect and finally collide is one of the great
thrills of reading Jewell’s book. She ratchets up the tension masterfully, and
her writing is lively.” —The New York Times
Libby and Hoopla) Winter’s Bone
by Daniel Woodrell
"The lineage from Faulkner to Woodrell runs as deep and
true as an Ozark stream in this book...his most profound and haunting
yet." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
Similar authors:
(Libby)
Fiona Barton
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