“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Here we are at last at the long, lazy days of summer. Nothing goes as well with all the daylight as a wonderful book to read.  Perhaps the quote above will make you want to re-read an old favorite, like The Great Gatsby. Or maybe you're looking for something new. The titles below are just some of the new books you'll find at the Library this summer. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, see our New Books List, published at the beginning of every month and available on the website or at the Reference Desk. If there is something you're looking forward to reading, but don't find on this list, simply request it from the Acquisitions Department by filling out a request slip at the Circulation Desk or log in to our website and use the Suggest a Purchase form.

June

• Beattie, Ann| The Accomplished Guest: Stories  
• Black, Benjamin| Wolf on a String 
• Cole, Teju| Blind Spot 
• Evanovich, Janet| Dangerous Minds 
• Everett, Percival| So Much Blue 
• Finder, Joseph| The Switch 
• Fuller, Alexandra| Quiet Until the Thaw 
• Goodman, Allegra| The Chalk Artist 
• Grisham, John| Camino Island 
• Hilderbrand, Elin| The Identicals 
• Kanon, Joseph| The Defectors 
• Keilson, Hans| 1944 Diary 
• Levingston, Steven| Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights 
• MacBride, Stuart| A Dark So Deadly 
• Maron, Margaret| Take Out 
• Meloy, Maile| Do Not Become Alarmed 
• Pfordresher, John| The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece 
• Roy, Arundhati| The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 
• Simic, Charles| Scribbled in the Dark: Poems 
• Walker, Martin| The Templars’ Last Secret 
• Westlake, Donald| Forever and a Death 
• Winslow, Don| The Force 
• Woods, Stuart| Indecent Exposure 

July

• Akunin, Boris| State Counsellor 
• Alexievich, Svetlana| The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II 
• Box, C. J.| Paradise Valley 
• Clarke, Peter| The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power and Guilt 
• Connelly, Michael| The Late Show 
• Danticat, Edwidge| The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story 
• Fairstein, Linda| Deadfall 
• Kean, Sam| Caesar’s Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us 
• Klam, Matthew| Who is Rich? 
• McCall Smith, Alexander| A Distant View of Everything 
• Molina, Antonio Muñoz| Like a Fading Shadow 
• Peters, Elizabeth| The Painted Queen 
• Scott, Joanna| Careers for Women 
• Sharma, Akhil| A Life of Adventure and Delight 
• Silva, Daniel| House of Spies 
• Steiner, Susie| Persons Unknown 
• Ware, Ruth| The Lying Game 

August

• Atlas, James| The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale 
• Bialosky, Jill| Poetry Can Save Your Life: A Memoir 
• Binet, Laurent| The Seventh Function of Language 
• Bowen, Rhys| On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service 
• Brown, Sandra| Seeing Red 
• Camilleri, Andrea| A Nest of Vipers 
• Cleeves, Ann| Telling Tales 
• Cotterill, Colin| The Rat Catchers’ Olympics
• Dee, Jonathan| The Locals 
• Grafton, Sue| Y is for Yesterday 
• Gregory, Philippa| The Last Tudor 
• Kellerman, Jonathan| Crime Scene 
• Knausgaard, Karl Ove| Autumn 
• Messud, Claire| The Burning Girl 
• Muller, Marcia| The Color of Fear 
• Oborne, Peter| How Trump Thinks: His Tweets and the Birth of a New Political Language 
• Pamuk, Orhan| The Red-Haired Woman 
• Penny, Louise| Glass Houses 
• Perrotta, Tom| Mrs. Fletcher 
• Proust, Marcel| Letters to His Neighbor 
• Robinson, Peter| Sleeping in the Ground 
• Slaughter, Karin| The Good Daughter 
• Scottoline, Lisa| Enraged 
• Woods, Stuart| Barely Legal