“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all –

-Emily Dickinson

Though much is scary and uncomfortable in our current circumstances, hope remains for brighter days ahead. For those of you who take solace between the covers of a book, we trust you will find hope in new offerings from some of your favorite authors. Below you’ll find a list of books being published this spring that we expect to be popular with our members. Though the Library is closed, the staff continues to work to order books, both for our ebook platform and for when we are able to open again. You may place reserves on any of these titles. The most popular among these will made available in our Cloud Library ebook collection. If there is something you're looking forward to reading, but don't find it here or in the Library's catalog, simply request it from the Acquisitions Department by using the Suggest a Purchase form on our website.

Due to the current situation, some publishers have chosen to delay publication of anticipated titles until later in the year, so release dates are subject to change. 

April

• Albright, Madeleine | Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
• Alvarez, Julia | Afterlife
• Bacevich, Andrew (ed.) | American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition
• Baldacci, David | Walk the Wire
• Bailyn, Bernard | Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades
• Barbery, Muriel | A Strange Country
• Barry, Sebastian | A Thousand Moons
• Bingham, Sallie | The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke
• Black, Cara | Three Hours in Paris
• Blaedel, Sara | The Third Sister
• Davis, Mike | Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
• Doty, Mark | What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life
• Gopnik, Blake | Warhol
• Grisham, John | Camino Winds
• Hill, Susan | The Benefit of Hindsight
• Kidd, Sue Monk | The Book of Longings
• McCall Smith, Alexander | The Talented Mr. Varg
• Moore, Susanna | Miss Aluminum: A Memoir
• Paretsky, Sara | Dead Land
• Perl, Jed | Calder: The Conquest of Space
• Perry, Anne | One Fatal Flaw
• Redniss, Lauren | Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
• Ryan, Kay | Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose
• Softer, Dalia | Man of My Time
• Spencer-Fleming, Julia | Hid from Our Eyes
• Tyler, Anne | Redhead by the Side of the Road
• Wade, Francesca | Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom, and London Between the Wars
• Wingate, Lisa | The Book of Lost Friends
• Wright, Laurence | The End of October

May

• Ackerman, Elliot | Red Dress in Black and White
• Baker, Peter | The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
• Buford, Bill | Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
• Burke, James Lee | A Private Cathedral
• Coetzee, J.M. | The Death of Jesus
• Connelly, Michael | Fair Warning
• Deaver, Jeffery | The Goodbye Man
• Estelman, Loren D. | Indigo
• Ferrante, Elena | The Lying Life of Adults (postponed to September)
• Ford, Richard | Sorry for Your Trouble
• Housewright, David | From the Grave
• Ignatius, David | The Paladin
• Lacey, Catherine | Pew
• Laing, Olivia | Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
• Lippman, Laura | My Life as a Villainess: Essays
• McBride, Eimear | Strange Hotel
• Mason, Daniel | A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth: Stories
• Millet, Lydia | A Children’s Bible
• Neuman, Andrés | Fracture
• Pochoda, Ivy | These Women
• Rady, Martyn | The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
• Roberts, Nora | Hideaway
• Shriver, Lionel | The Motion of the Body Through Space
• Straub, Emma | All Adults Here
• Taylor, Benjamin | Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth
• Trollope, Joanna | Mum and Dad
• Turow, Scott | The Last Trial
• Walker, Martin | The Shooting at Chateau Rock
• Weiner, Jennifer | Big Summer
• Weir, Alison | Katheryn Howard, the Scandalous Queen