New Books
May
Enjoy the long weekend!
- A friendship between two adolescent misfits is the catalyst for an apocalyptic reckoning in Anders's clever and wonderfully weird novel.
- For readers of All the Light We Cannot See , return to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's most devastating--yet unknown--tragedies.
- What if a group of fangirls decide to meet their idols by any means necessary?
A psychologist's gripping, troubling, and moving exploration of the brutal murder of a possibly transgender middle school student by an eighth grade classmate. Deeply compassionate, and brimming with wit and acute insight.
- Can 15 minutes really mean the difference between life and death? This is a question that keeps rolling around 16-year-old Giselle's concussed head after a terrible car accident puts her entire family in the hospital and claims the life of her twin sister an accident that might have been avoided if Giselle hadn't been running late.
- In this solemn memoir, journalist Kushner returns to the horrifying murder of his brother in Tampa in 1973. Kushner, only four years old at the time, begged 11-year-old Jonathan to get him candy at the local 7-Eleven and then watched him cycle away into the woods. Jonathan never returned.
While visiting Private's Paris office, Jack Morgan finds himself in pursuit of a client's granddaughter, who is on the run from a drug dealer and investigating the deaths of several of France's cultural elite.
Abducted by aliens periodically throughout his youth, Henry Denton is informed by his erstwhile captors that they will end the world in 144 days unless he stops them by deciding that humanity is worth saving.
- Written by an Iraq War veteran, this visceral novel is narrated by Jack Porter, a young army lieutenant tasked to counterinsurgency at the town of Ashuriyah 10 years after the invasion of Iraq.
- Debut author Heilig sets this swashbuckling time-travel adventure primarily in 19th-century Hawaii, when the islands were colonized but still had a king. Sixteen-year-old Nix Song is a resourceful and multilayered heroine who navigates a tall ship across enchanted maps that lead to particular moments and places in time-some real and some mythological, depending on the map.
- In her brilliant, hilarious, and at times shocking debut, Mona Awad simultaneously skewers the body image-obsessed culture that tells women they have no value outside their physical appearance, and delivers a tender and moving depiction of a lovably difficult young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform. As caustically funny as it is heartbreaking
- Morgan Fletcher is a recluse, hiding from the world at his family estate after a horrific act left him terribly disfigured. So, when seemingly abandoned children start appearing on his doorstep, it is surprising that he opens his home and his heart to them. But that's just the beginning. This genre-bending debut is by turns dread-inducing and heartwarming, a masterful exploration of whether innocence can truly sprout from ignorance.
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