This is the time of year we start thinking about all the outdoor chores awaiting us and planning summer activities. While waiting for the weather to break and summer to arrive, here are few new books to peruse.
How about a debut fiction by the award-winning writer, Gerald Kolpan? His novel, about the infamous Etta Place (Etta: A Novel), is sure to spark your interest in this mysterious woman. Was Etta Place her real name and was she really the girlfriend of “Sundance Kid” as depicted in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? Kolpan writes this story as he imagines what her life was like during the early 20th century. He includes many real people in his novel and gives us a glimpse of life during this era.
Another new author, Philipp Meyer, writes about two naive high school friends who leave a small Pennsylvania steel town to embark on a cross country journey to California and the tragedy that follows. His book, American Rust, narrated by several of his characters, was even mentioned in, Scarpetta, Patricia Cornwell’s latest novel. A Reliable Wife, the debut historical novel by Robert Goolrick, takes place in the early 1900s in a small Wisconsin town. This fast-paced novel will keep you on your toes until the very end.
For mystery lovers, Cursed, the new Carol Higgins Clark novel will soon be arriving. This is her twelfth book in the Regan Reilly series. Mary Higgins Clark’s new book, Just Take My Heart, is also due out this month. We can look forward to book 10, Tea Time the Traditionally Built, in a newly released No. 1 Detective Agency mystery by Alexander McCall Smith.
Douglas Preston’s Cemetery Dance, the ninth book in the Pendergast series, Iris Johansen’s Deadlock, Look Again by Lisa Scottoline and Bill Pronzini’s Schemers: A Nameless Detective Novel are some of the other new arrivals to help pass the time until the outdoor chores and summer activities begin.
For young adults many new fiction books are arriving this month. F. Paul Wilson has a new YA novel, Jack: Secret Histories, the first in his new series. P.C. Cast’s Hunted is the fifth novel in her Night series. Francisco X. Stork’s new book, Marcelo in the Real World, is just arriving. Or, read about Max and her friends as they try to discover why millions of fish are dying and hundreds of ships are being destroyed off the coast of Hawaii. Will they be able to solve the mystery or will they be stopped by Mr. Chu and his gang? Find out in Max, the exciting new Maximum Ride adventure by James Patterson.
Young adults will also find lots of new non-fiction books on music, art, and writing to go along with this year’s Summer Reading Club theme. Our summer fun will start June 8th and continue through August 7th. For more information stop by the Fiction desk or pick up a bookmark listing the season’s activities. You and your friends are invited to join us for another exciting summer as we explore ways to “Express Yourself at Your Library”.
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