Shadow of Darkness

"Together we lifted our feet and stepped into the unknown"—the thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller A Discovery of Witches

Deborah Harkness exploded onto the literary scene with her debut novel, A Discovery of Witches, Book One of the magical All Souls Trilogy and an international publishing phenomenon. The novel introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and the handsome geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont; together they found themselves at the center of a supernatural battle over an enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782.

Now, picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London, a world of spies, subterfuge, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the mysterious School of Night that includes Christopher Marlowe and Walter Raleigh. Here, Diana must locate a witch to tutor her in magic, Matthew is forced to confront a past he thought he had put to rest, and the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens.

Deborah Harkness has crafted a gripping journey through a world of alchemy, time travel, and magical discoveries, delivering one of the most hotly anticipated novels of the season.

Place a hold on Shadow of Darkness by Deborah Harkness here or start the series with A Discovery of Witches here!

New Books 7/17

The following books will be released tomorrow.

Put your name on a copy before they're checked out!

Close Your Eyes by Iris and Roy Johansen

The New York Times bestselling duo is back in a suspenseful novel about a once-blind woman with a talent for tracking serial killers


The FBI doesn’t usually consult with music therapists to solve their cases. But Kendra Michael’s astonishing powers of observation and analysis have made her a favorite of law enforcement agencies all across the country. Blind for the first twenty years of her life, she cares little for investigative work but can’t deny her unique skill, or the results she’s been able to facilitate. Kendra learned at an early age to become hyper-aware of her surroundings, perfecting the art of picking up the most subtle audio, olfactory, and tactile cues in the world around her. Like a secret weapon, she is in high demand.

Former FBI agent Adam Kyle, known as The Puppetmaster, has weapons of his own. He’s a notorious master manipulator, skillfully handling criminals and colleagues alike to get the results he wants. Now he needs Kendra’s special brand of help, but she’s not interested until Kyle reveals that Agent Robert Stedler—Kendra’s ex—is missing and may have run directly into the path of a serial killer. What began as a heinous murder investigation escalates into something even larger and more frightening: a multi-million dollar conspiracy to hide a secret that’s worth killing for, again and again and again.

Place a hold on Close Your Eyes by Iris and Roy Johansen here!

The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva

After narrowly surviving his last operation, Gabriel Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, has taken refuge behind the walls of the Vatican, where he is restoring one of Caravaggio's greatest masterpieces. But early one morning he is summoned to St. Peter's Basilica by Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private secretary to His Holiness Pope Paul VII. The body of a beautiful woman lies broken beneath Michelangelo's magnificent dome. The Vatican police suspect suicide, though Gabriel believes otherwise. So, it seems, does Donati. But the monsignor is fearful that a public inquiry might inflict another scandal on the Church, and so he calls upon Gabriel to quietly pursue the truth--with one caveat.

""Rule number one at the Vatican," Donati said. "Don't ask too many questions.""

Gabriel learns that the dead woman had uncovered a dangerous secret--a secret that threatens a global criminal enterprise that is looting timeless treasures of antiquity and selling them to the highest bidder. But there is more to this network than just greed. A mysterious operative is plotting an act of sabotage that will plunge the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions. . . .

An intoxicating blend of art, intrigue, and history, "The Fallen Angel" moves swiftly from the cloistered chambers of the Vatican to the glamorous ski slopes of St. Moritz to the graceful avenues of Berlin and Vienna--and, finally, to a shocking climax beneath the world's most sacred and contested parcel of land. Each setting in this extraordinary novel is rendered with the care of an Old Master, as are the spies, lovers, priests, and thieves who inhabit its pages. It is a story of faith and of the destructive power of secrets--and an all too timely reminder that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Place a hold on The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva here!

SYNC

Join us this summer with SYNC free audiobook downloads!


This program is intended for teen listeners, but if you enjoy young adult books or classics this may be of interest to you, too!

Each week SYNC offers two free downloadable audiobooks: one current title, and one classic title that fit a theme.

This week's theme is: Women in White

Anna Dressed In Blood by Kendare Blake, read by August Ross, published by AudioGO

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. When he arrives in a new town, Cas doesn’t expect anything outside of the ordinary: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he’s never faced before . . .

“It’s the old boy meets girl story, if the boy is a wry, self-destructive ghost-hunter bent on avenging his father and the girl is a homicidal ghost trapped in a house full of everyone she’s ever murdered. Needless to say, Cas and Anna are my new favorite twosome. When I got to the last page, I flipped back to the first.”—Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of Red Glove

Download your free copy of Anna Dressed In Blood here! Or if you prefer reading the print copy, place a hold on it here!

The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins, read by Ian Holm, published by AudioGO
One night on the road to London, Walter Hartright meets a mysterious woman dressed all in white and answers her pleas for help. Wilkie Collins’s masterpiece of terrible secrets, concealed identities, abductions, fraud, cruel aristocrats, and sinister foreigners . . .

“This involved tale of greed, subterfuge, disappointed love, and stoic loyalty is told from several points of view. Ian Holm renders each remarkably well.” –AudioFile Magazine, Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award

Download your free copy of The Woman In White here! Or place a hold on the print copy here!



Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich

Whether it’s monkey business, funny business, or getting down to business, Janet Evanovich’s Lizzy and Diesel series proves that there’s no business like Wicked Business.
 
Lizzy Tucker’s once normal life as a pastry chef in Salem, Massachusetts, turns upside down as she battles both sinister forces and an inconvenient attraction to her unnaturally talented but off-limits partner, Diesel.

When Harvard University English professor and dyed-in-the-wool romantic Gilbert Reedy is mysteriously murdered and thrown off his fourth-floor balcony, Lizzy and Diesel take up his twenty-year quest for the Luxuria Stone, an ancient relic believed by some to be infused with the power of lust. Following clues contained in a cryptic nineteenth-century book of sonnets, Lizzy and Diesel tear through Boston catacombs, government buildings, and multimillion-dollar residences. On their way they’ll leave behind a trail of robbed graves, public disturbances, and general mayhem.

Diesel’s black sheep cousin, Gerwulf Grimoire, also wants the Stone. His motives are far from pure, and what he plans on doing with the treasure, no one knows . . . but Lizzy Tucker fears she’s in his crosshairs. Never far and always watching, Grimoire has a growing, vested interest in the cupcake-baker-turned-finder-of-lost-things. As does another dangerous and dark opponent in the hunt—a devotee of lawlessness and chaos, known only as Anarchy.

Treasures will be sought, and the power of lust will be unmistakable as Lizzy and Diesel attempt to stay ahead of Anarchy, Grimoire, and his medieval minion, Hatchet, in this ancient game of twisted riddles and high-stakes hide-and-seek.

Place a hold on Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich here or catch up with the first book in the series: Wicked Appetite here.

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood.  Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.  It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard.  So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.

The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini.  In boyhood, he’d been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails.  As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile.  But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.

Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater.  Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion.  His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.

In her long-awaited new book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit.  Telling an unforgettable story of a man’s journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.

Enjoy Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand in book form, as a downloadable eBook, or as a downloadable audiobook.

Adult Summer Reading Program

Join us this summer for the first ever Adult Summer Reading Program at the library:

Plant a Seed, Feed a Neighbor!



Farm City: Sign-up to read Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter and receive a free copy with your folder of goodies including a plant-able bookmark! Simply read the book and return the review slip to be entered into our Grand Prize drawing for either a $50 gift certificate donated by Wood Jewelers of Marquette or a Sony eReader!

Book Bingo: Sign-up and receive a folder of goodies with a Book Bingo card. This card features literary genres in each square. Any book that fits the genre is eligible. Read five in a row for bingo and receive an entry into the Grand Prize drawing (up to three). Fill the entire board for an additional fourth entry into the drawing!

Plant a Seed, Feed a Neighbor: In addition to the two halves of the Summer Reading Program we are encouraging patrons to volunteer 30 minutes of time at the Grace Community Garden located on the corner of First and Euclid streets in Ishpeming. Library staff and anyone who would like to volunteer will be working on the Salvation Army plots. All food grown will go to neighbors in need at the end of the growing season. Each 30 minute session earns you another entry into the Grand Prize drawing so break out those gloves and trowels!

For more information feel free to call Sally Collins at 906-486-7195 or Evan David at 906-204-2307.

Click below to hear a bit about Farm City from the author Novella Carpenter!

As always, please feel free to contact the library with any questions at 906-486-4381.

Our Adult Summer Reading Program will continue through August 31st.

Darth Vader and Son

My inner geek demanded I share this!

What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if Luke, I am your father was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other except with all the baggage of being the Dark Lord of the Sith.

Celebrated artist Jeffrey Brown's delightful illustrations give classic Star Wars moments a fresh twist, presenting the trials and joys of parenting through the lens of a galaxy far, far away. Life lessons include lightsaber batting practice, using the Force to raid the cookie jar, Take Your Child to Work Day on the Death Star (Er, he looks just like you, Lord Vader!), and the special bond shared between any father and son.

Our copy hasn't arrived yet, but fear not; it is on it's way.

May the force be with you!