New Winter Titles

Enjoy these titles being added to OPL’s collection December 2024–February 2025.

Au Revoir Now Darlint by Laura Thompson

In January 1923 Edith Thompson was executed on a charge of incitement to murder. Her letters to her lover—the primary evidence offered at her trial—are collected here for the first time, offering a glimpse into a complex woman and a spiral of tragedy.

Dirtbag Queen by Andy Corren

When Renay Mandel Corren died in 2021, her son Andy penned a heartfelt and hilarious obituary honoring his hard-living, fast-talking, larger-than-life mother. This memoir expands the obituary and its many wild characters into an unforgettable family story.

Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya

Most readers can point to a book that changed their life; Sarah Chihaya points out that doesn’t always mean changed for the better in this memoir of reading, writing and depression.

Mechanize My Hands to War by Erin K. Wagner

In future Appalachia, artificial intelligence and state violence come together with political divisions creating dire circumstances and somehow empathy and survival shine through.

You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego

An incredible private island retreat for thriller writers becomes less than paradise when the writers are propelled into a true life murder mystery after one of them turns up dead.

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