Summer has the reputation of being a quiet time in the publishing industry, with editors and executives leaving the city in search of a respite from the heat and noise. But as with many a reputation, this one is only partly true. Plenty of important and popular books are published between the months of May and August. The following is a selection of titles, from blockbusters to literary fiction, and from old Hollywood gossip to serious nonfiction, to help you while away the quiet months of summer. Click on the titles to see the status of books in our online catalog and to place holds. Happy reading! --The Acquisitions Department

*Publication dates are subject to change.

May

• Rick Atkinson / Guns at Last Light (nonfiction)
• Emma Brockes / She Left Me the Gun (nonfiction)
• Dan Brown / Inferno
• Peter Carlson / Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey (nonfiction)
• Bill Cheng / Southern Cross the Dog
• Thomas Clavin / The DiMaggios: Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream (nonfiction)
• Clive Cussler / Zero Hour 
• Charles Emmerson / 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War (nonfiction)
• Karen Jay Fowler / We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
• Gail Godwin / Flora
• Tessa Hadley / Clever Girl
• Khaled Hosseini / And the Mountains Echoed
• Amanda Knox / Waiting to be Heard (nonfiction)
• John Lescroart / The Ophelia Cut
• Judith Mackrell / Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation (nonfiction)
• Janet Malcolm / Forty-one False Starts (nonfiction)
• Anthony Marra / A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
• Philipp Meyer / The Son (author of American Rust)
• Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning (nonfiction)
• Walter Mosley / Little Green: an Easy Rawlins mystery
• Geoffrey O'Brien / Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: writing on film, 2002-2013 (nonfiction)
• W.G. Sebald / A Place in the Country (essays)
• Lily Tuck / The House at Belle Fontaine
• Fay Weldon / Long Live the King
• Mason B. Williams / City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York (nonfiction)

June

• James Agee / Cotton Tenants: three families (photographs by Walker Evans) (nonfiction)
• S.J. Bolton / Lost
• Jeffery Deaver / The Kill Room
• Barbara Delinsky / Sweet Salt Air
• David Downing / Masaryk Station
• Joseph J. Ellis / Revolutionary Summer (nonfiction)
• Loren Estleman / Confessions Of Al Capone
• Niall Fergusson / The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die (nonfiction)
• Nicci French / Waiting for Wednesday 
• Charles Glass / The Deserters (nonfiction)
• Andrew Sean Greer / The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
• Carl Hiaasen / Bad Monkey
• Elin Hilderbrand / Beautiful Day
• Anne Holt / Death of the Demon
• Julie Kavanagh / The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis (nonfiction)
• Lily Koppel / Astronaut Wives Club (nonfiction)
• Alexander McCall Smith / Trains and Lovers
• Colum McCann / TransAtlantic
• Jason Matthews / Redsparrow
• Tim Parks / Italian Ways (nonfiction)
• Ridley Pearson / Choke Point
• Xiaolong Qiu / The Enigma of China
• Roxana Robinson / Sparta
• Lionel Shriver / Big Brother
• Curtis Sittenfeld / Sisterland
• Rebecca Solnit / The Faraway Nearby (nonfiction)
• J. Courtney Sullivan / The Engagements (author of Maine)
• Jeanette Walls / The Silver Star

July

• Tash Aw / Five Star Billionaire
• Louis Begley / Memories of a Marriage
• Peter Biskind, ed. / My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles (nonfiction)
• Chris Bohjalian / The Light in the Ruins
• James Lee Burke / Light of the World
• Susan Choi / My Education
• Kate Christensen / Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of my Appetites (nonfiction)
• Sarah Dunant / Blood and Beauty
• Benita Eisler / The Red Man’s Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman (nonfiction)
• Peter Evans & Ava Gardner / Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations (nonfiction)
• Philippa Gregory / The White Princess
• Steve Hamilton / Let it Burn: an Alex McNight novel
• Mark Leibovich / This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital (nonfiction)
• Henning Mankell / A Treacherous Paradise
• Galt Niederhoffer / Love and Happiness
• David Rakoff / Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel
• Cathleen Schine / Fin and Lady
• Daniel Silva / The English Girl 

August

• Roy Adkins / Jane Austen's England
• Andrea Barrett / Archangel
• Aimee Bender / The Color Master
• Mark Billingham / The Dying Hours
• Benjamin Black / Holy Orders: A Quirke Novel
• Rhys Bowen / Heirs and Graces
• Barbara Cleverly / A Spider in the Cup
• Arne Dahl / Bad Blood
• Edwidge Danticat / Claire of the Sea Light
• Frederick Forsyth / Kill List
• Karin Fossum  / Eva's Eye: An Inspector Sejer Mystery
• Boris Kachka / Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (nonfiction)
• Faye Kellerman / Beast: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
• Thomas Keneally / The Daughters of Mars
• James McBride / The Good Lord Bird
• Javier Marias / The Infatuations
• Carol O’Connell / It Happens in the Dark
• Louise Penny / How the Light Gets In
• Marisha Pessl / Night Film (author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics)
• Kathy Reichs / Bones of the Lost
• Charles Todd / Question of Honor
• Brenda Wineapple / Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis and the End of Compromise, 1848-1877 (nonfiction)