Tag: Debut Novel
Forgetting Time
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2016/11/07/forgetting-time/
Title: The Forgetting Time Author: Sharon Guskin Publisher: Flatiron Books, February 2016 Summary/Review: A gripping and dramatic novel about holding on to – and letting go of – memories. Janie is doing her best to raise her son Noah as a single mom, but...
The Hatching
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2016/05/01/the-hatching/
Title: The Hatching Author: Ezekiel Boone Publisher: Atria, 7/2016 Summary/Review: Would you prefer death by a swarm of flesh eating spiders, or death by an exploding spider egg sac laid within your body? It seems like those might be your only choices, unless you...
We Are Called to Rise
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2014/10/09/we-are-called-to-rise/
Title: We Are Called to Rise Author: Laura McBride Publisher: Simon & Schuster, May 2014 Summary/Review: The mother of a returned Iraq War veteran, a young Albanian boy, an injured soldier and a volunteer social service worker have lives and stories that intersect in...
Just What Kind of Mother Are You?
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2014/01/11/just-what-kind-of-mother-are-you-2/
Title: Just What Kind of Mother Are You? Author: Paula Daly Publisher: Grove Press, 2013 Summary/Review: The words that no woman ever wants to hear. “Just what kind of mother are you?” Lisa Kallisto is sure people are asking that question of her. She...
The Dog Stars
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/09/20/the-dog-stars/
Title: The Dog Stars Author: Peter Heller Publisher: Knopf, August 2012 Summary/Review: After a pandemic kills 99% of the population, a survivor tries to find some hope for the future. Hig, along with his dog Jasper and fellow survivor Bangley, is living on a...
Age of Miracles
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/09/01/age-of-miracles/
Title: The Age of Miracles Author: Karen Thompson Walker Publisher: Random House, 2012 Summary/Review: Julia is only eleven years old when the earth’s rotation begins to slow. “The Slowing” as it comes to be called, adds minutes to the days and nights. Scientists have...
The Language of Trees
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/10/19/the-language-of-trees/
Title: The Language of Trees Author: Ilie Ruby Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, July 2010 Summary: Ilie Ruby’s debut novel opens with a canoeing accident in the waters of the Canandaigua Lake. The three small Ellis children have stolen a canoe and are making their way out...
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/09/10/major-pettigrews-last-stand/
Title: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Author: Helen Simonson Publisher: Random House, March 2010 Summary: I fell in love with widower Major Ernest Pettigrew about six pages in! The story takes place in a quaint English village, where the Major’s brother’s sudden death and the propriety of...