Upcoming Releases for Summer 2021 The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmarried women, one of whom manipulates the other from afar, by one of Japan's most acclaimed young writers. The story explores envy, loneliness, power dynamics, and the vulnerability of unmarried women in a taut, suspenseful narrative about the sometimes desperate desire to be seen. Publication Date: June 8, 2021 The Transparency of Time by Leonardo Padura From Leonardo Padura - whose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix's Four Seasons in Havana - The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history Publication Date: June 15, 2021 People Like Them by Samira Sedira When the flashy Langlois family arrives in the peaceful town of Carmac, stirring up trouble, the Guillot family forms an uneasy, ambiguous friendship with them until financial troubles and racial tensions lead to the unthinkable. Publication Date: July 6, 2021 Ready for your next book? No matter what you're interested in, we can help you find the right book! Come to the reference desk and ask us how. Try These Authors: Asia (China / Japan / India) South America / Central America / Latin • Aravind Adiga • Anchee Min • Alma Alexander • Rohinton Mistry America / Caribbean • Rupa Bajwa • Bharati Mukherjee • Pearl S. Buck • Haruki Murakami • Kavita Daswani • Laura Joh Rowland • Isabel Allende • Leighton Gage • Kiran Desai • Arundhati Roy • Julia Alvarez • Carolina Garcia-Aguilera • Sonali Dev • Salman Rushdie • Rudolfo A. Anaya • Patricia Henley • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni • Lisa See • Sandra Benitez • Oscar Hijuelos • Arthur Golden • John Shors • Sandra Cisneros • Mario Vargas Llosa • Tarquin Hall • Dai Sijie • Paulo Coelho • Gabriel Garcia Marquez • John Hamamura • Indu Sundaresan • Edwidge Danticat • Angeles Mastretta • Lian Hearn • Manil Suri • Junot Diaz • Laura Restrepo • Ha Jin • Vikas Swarup • Laura Esquivel • Luis Alberto Urrea • Jhumpa Lahiri • Amy Tan • Gus Lee • Gail Tsukiyama • Amulya Malladi • Thrity N. Umrigar Europe • Yann Martel • Oswald Wynd • Xinran • Niccolo Ammaniti • Stieg Larsson • Sebastian Barry • Morgan Llywelyn Middle East • Gianrico Carofiglio • Ian McEwan • Christopher Castellani • Irène Némirovsky • Elizabeth Von Arnim • Jo Nesbo • Adam Bagdasarian • Soheir Khashoggi • Leslie Forbes • Brendan O’Carroll • Laura Fitzgerald • Marsha Mehran • Robert Harris • Michael Ondaatje • Masha Hamilton • Azar Nafisi • Frank Delaney • Thomas O’Malley • Nadia Hashimi • Atiq Rahimi • Roddy Doyle • Jamie O’Neill • Philip Hensher • Jean-Christophe Rufin • Ake Edwardson • Tatiana de Rosnay • Khaled Hosseini • Kamila Shamsie • Cary Fagan • Jose Saramago • Yasmina Khadra • Suzanne Fisher Staples • Gunter Glass • Bernhard Schlink • Erin Hart • Zadie Smith • Kazuo Ishiguro • Susanna Tamaro Africa • Milan Kundera • William Trevor • Camilla Lackberg • Susan Vreeland • Carlos Ruiz Zafon • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Laila Lalami • David W. Ball • Najib Mahfuz • J.M. Coetzee • Alexander McCall Smith • Giles Foden • Helen Oyeyemi Russia (Eastern Europe) • Soheir Khashoggi • Alan Paton • Barbara Kingsolver • Ahdaf Soueif • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov • Edward Rutherfurd • Debra Dean • Martin Cruz Smith • Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn • Helen Dunmore • Leo Tolstoy • John LeCarre • Iva Turgenev • Andrei Makine • Irene Zabytki.