Go for the Gold!

With the Olympics now in full swing, there's plenty of fiction novels about the games (or Olympians in the games). Here's a list of some the latest ones available. Bonus: also stop in the library and look for our latest 'Timely Topics' display on Brazilian Fiction - books set in Brazil - just to get in your in the spirit of the Rio games!

The Games by James Patterson
Two years ago Jack Morgan--the head of the renowned worldwide investigation firm Private--was in charge of security for the World Cup. During the championship match, the action nearly spilled from the field into the stands. Fortunately, Jack and his Private team averted disaster on soccer's biggest stage. Now he has returned to Rio to secure the Olympics. But before the torch is lit, the threats come fast and furious when Jack discovers that someone in Brazil will stop at nothing to sabotage the games. As the opening ceremonies near, Jack must sprint to the finish line to defuse a lethal plot set in motion during the World Cup that could decimate Rio, and turn the Olympics from a worldwide celebration into a deadly spectacle.

Don't Tell Me You're Afraid by Giuseppe Catozzella

A U.S. release of a best-selling tale from Italy, based on a remarkable true story, follows the experiences of a heroic Somali girl who trains to become a world-class runner in her war-stricken country and risks her life on a migrant journey to Europe so that she can compete in the Olympic Games.

You Will Know Me by Megan E. Abbott

When a violent death rocks her close-knit gymnastics community weeks before an important competition, the mother of an Olympic hopeful works frantically to hold her family together in spite of being irresistibly drawn to the crime.

Last Chance Llama Ranch by Hilary Fields

When a close encounter with an eighty-foot spruce steals Merry Manning's dreams of Olympic gold, the former ski champ finds herself falling into a career she never expected -- the life of a travel writer. Picturing glamorous trips to exotic places, Merry is speechless when her boss assigns her to the blog, "Don't Do What I Did," and sends her to a middle-of-nowhere llama ranch with instructions to "fall on her fanny" as often as possible. Soon she's eyeball-deep in alpacas, llamas, goats, and all the mess that comes with them. But when the Last Chance Llama Ranch -- and a certain gruff cowboy-- start to grow on her, Merry finds that each life might actually be just what she's been missing.

The Peerless Four by Victoria Patterson
The Canadian women's track and field team meets many challenges at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, the first games in which women were allowed to compete in track and field.