Forthcoming Books - Summer 2019
"Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth."
―Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses
Here's a sneak peek at the books that you might look forward to reading in the next few months, perfect for your vacation or just a lazy afternoon. The titles below are just some of the new books you'll find here this summer. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, check out New Books, 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 by logging in to our website and using the Suggest a Purchase form.
June
- Acampora, Lauren | The Paper Wasp
- Ackerman, Elliot | Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning
- Atkinson, Kate | Big Sky
- Baker, Jo | The Body Lies
- Billingham, Mark | Their Little Secret
- Black, Cara | Murder in Bel-Air
- Ciment, Jill | The Body in Question
- Dennis-Benn, Nicole | Patsy
- Ellroy, James | This Storm
- Gilbert, Elizabeth | City of Girls
- Haddon, Mark | The Porpoise
- Herron, Mick | Joe Country
- Koch, Herman | The Ditch
- Meacham, John | Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music that Made a Nation
- Mehta, Suketu | This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
- Mina, Denise | Conviction
- Oates, Joyce Carol | My Life as a Rat
- Ryan, Jennifer | The Spies of Shilling Lane
- Smith, Dominic | The Electric Hotel
- Taraborelli, J. Randy | The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation - A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy
- Vuong, Ocean | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
- Walker, Martin | The Body in the Castle Well
- Weiner, Jennifer | Mrs. Everything
- Wolf, Naolmi | Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love
July
- Alexievich, Svetlana | Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
- Alger, Cristina | Girls Like Us
- Baldacci, David | One Good Deed
- Benfey, Christopher | If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years
- Davis, Fiona | The Chelsea Girls
- Gordon, David | The Hard Stuff
- Kean, Sam | The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
- Lapena, Shari | Someone We Know
- Lippman, Laura | Lady in the Lake
- Lovesey, Peter | Killing with Confetti
- McKinty, Adrian | The Chain
- Nesbø, Jo | Knife
- Norman, Howard | The Ghost Clause
- Roberts, Nora | Under Currents
- Russo, Richard | Chances Are…
- Silva, Daniel | The New Girl
- Smith, Jean Edward | The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and Von Choltitz Saved the City of Light
- Stibbe, Nina | Reasons to Be Cheerful
- Whitehead, Colson | The Nickel Boys
August
- Bowen, Rhys | Love and Death Among the Cheetahs
- Box, C.J. | The Bitterroots
- Brown, Sandra | Outfox
- Cotterill, Colin | The Second Biggest Nothing
- Crais, Robert | A Dangerous Man
- Cusk, Rachel | Coventry: Essays
- Danticat, Edwidge | Everything Inside
- Fossum, Karin | The Whisperer
- Fuller, Alexandra | Travel Light, Move Fast
- James, Peter | Dead at First Sight
- Kendi, Ibram X. | How to Be an Antiracist
- Lagercrantz, David | The Girl Who Lived Twice
- Moody, Rick | The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony
- Obreht, Téa | Inland
- Penny, Louise | A Better Man
- Slaughter, Karin | The Last Widow
- Strathern, Paul | The Borgias: Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- Waldman, Amy | A Door in the Earth
- Ware, Ruth | The Turn of the Key
- Wilson, A.N. | Prince Albert
- Woods, Stuart | Contraband
- Zink, Nell | Doxology
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