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Upcoming Fiction Highlights…
Universe of Two The Exiles I Give It to You by by by Valerie Martin Stephen P. Kiernan Christina Baker Kline “A timeless story of
family, war, art, and A fictionalized account ”An ambitious, betrayal set around an “of Charlie Fisk, a gifted emotionally resonant ancient, ancestral home mathematician who was historical novel that in the Tuscan captures the hardship, drafted into Manhattan countryside from Project and ordered oppression, opportunity and hope of a trio of bestselling novelist against his morals to Valerie Martin.” build the detonator for women's lives.” the atomic bomb. With his musician wife, he spends his postwar life seeking redemption.”
More Forthcoming Fiction…
The Falcon Always Wings Twice - Donna Andrews Three Perfect Liars - Heidi Perks Someone to Romance - Mary Balogh Under Pressure - Robert Pobi Every Kind of Wicked - Lisa Black The Palace - Christopher Reich The Last Mrs. Summers - Rhys Bowen Say No More - Karen Rose Thick as Thieves - Sandra Brown The First to Lie - Hank Phillippi Ryan A Private Cathedral - James Lee Burke The Silent Wife - Karin Slaughter No Offense - Meg Cabot Royal - Danielle Steel Whirlwind - Janet Dailey The Deadline - Kiki Swinson The Lions of Fifth Avenue - Fiona Davis The Jackal - J.R. Ward The Wicked Sister - Karen Dionne Final Cut - S.J. Watson The Second Wife - Rebecca Fleet Seven Days in Summer - Marcia Willett A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Murder - Dianne Freeman The Weekend - Charlotte Wood Booked for Death - Victoria Gilbert Choppy Water - Stuart Woods Auntie Poldi and the Handsome Antonio - Mario Giordano The Night Swim - Megan Goldin Dead West - Matt Goldman Fiction Author Spotlight: Ron Rash
Imperfect Women - Araminta Hall This storyteller writes contemporary or Sucker Punch - Laurell K. Hamilton historical fiction usually set in the Ghost Ups Her Game - Carolyn Hart Appalachian Mountains. Popular titles by Rash include:
We Are All the Same in the Dark - Julia Heaberlin The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls - Ursula Hegi Above the Waterfall
Squeeze Me - Carl Hiaasen The Cove
The Hollow Ones - Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan The Risen
The Living Dead - George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus Saints at the River
Lone Jack Trail - Owen Laukkanen Serena The Boy in the Field - Margot Livesey The Finisher - Peter Lovesey According to the publisher, Rash’s Murder at Kingscote - Alyssa Maxwell latest book, In the Valley, features “a The Bangtail Ghost - Keith McCafferty collection of ten searing stories and Bitter Pill - Fern Michaels the return of the villainess who The Less Dead - Denise Mina propelled Serena to national acclaim, in a long-awaited novella.” ______Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir ______Sweet Sorrow - David Nicholls Then She Vanished - T. Jefferson Parker Looking for NONFICTION? The Midwife Murders - James Patterson Please see the back page. August 2020 Nonfiction Highlights…
Superman’s Iron Empires Make Change by Michael Hiltzik Not Coming by Shaun King by Erin Brokovich “Spanning four decades “Activist and journalist “A book to inspire change and featuring some of Shaun King reflects on the that looks at our present the most iconic figures events that made him one situation with water and of the Gilded Age, Iron reveals the imminent of the most prominent Empires reveals how the social justice leaders of our threats to our most robber barons drove the precious, essential time and lays out a clear country into the twentieth action plan for you to join element, and shows us century - and almost how we can each take the fight.” action to make changes sent it off the rails.”
in our cities, our towns, our villages, before it is too late.”
The Last Vesper Flights Tales from the Stargazers by Ant World by Emily Levesque Helen Macdonald by Edward O. Wilson
“In this sweeping work “From the bestselling “Wilson thrillingly evokes of narrative science, author of H is for Hawk his nine-decade-long Levesque shows how comes Vesper Flights, scientific obsession with astronomers in this a transcendent more than 15,000 ant scrappy and evolving collection of essays species…. A personal field are going beyond about the human account by one of our the machines to infuse relationship to greatest scientists, Tales creativity and passion the natural world.” from the Ant World is an into the stars and indispensable volume for inspires us all to peer any lover of the natural skyward in pursuit of world.” the universe's secrets.”
More Forthcoming Nonfiction Titles…
Demystifying Shariah - Sumbul Ali-Karamali White Too Long - Robert P. Jones Life of a Klansman - Edward Ball My Life As a Villainess - Laura Lippman Fallout - Lesley Blume AOC - Lynda Lopez Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher - Max Allan Collins The End of Everything - Katie Mack A Furious Sky - Eric Jay Dolin This Is Your Brain on Food - Uma Naidoo Finding Freedom - Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand Reaganland - Rick Perlstein El Jefe - Alan Feuer Veritas - Ariel Sabar Soul Full of Coal Dust - Chris Hamby The Smallest Lights in the Universe - Sara Seager Ghost Flames - Charles Hanley The Buddhist on Death Row - David Sheff Live Free or Die - Sean Hannity It Was All a Lie - Stuart Stevens Show Them You're Good - Jeff Hobbs Sitting Pretty - Rebekah Taussig 12 Seconds of Silence - Jamie Holmes True Crimes and Misdemeanors - Jeffrey Toobin The Presidents vs. the Press - Harold Holzer Levon - Sandra B. Tooze You Ought to Do a Story About Me - Ted Jackson The Socrates Express - Eric Weiner The Organ Thieves - Chip Jones Caste - Isabel Wilkerson
Nonfiction Spotlight: Morgan Jerkins This senior editor at ZORA (zora.medium.com) and visiting professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts reached the New York Times bestseller list with her first book, This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America.
Her latest book, Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots is described by HarperCollins US as “one of the most anticipated books of the year by ELLE, Buzzfeed, Esquire, Bitch Media, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Parade, and BookRiot,”
The publisher further describes Wandering in Strange Lands as a “powerful story of her journey to understand her northern and southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America“ and “a timely and enthralling look at America’s past and present, one family’s legacy, and a young black woman’s life, filtered through her sharp and curious eyes.”
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