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SUMMER 2022
All the newest, buzzworthy releases.
Put any of these titles on hold now.
5/3
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES 5/10 UNDER FORTUNATE STARS
by Shelby Van Pelt by Ren Hutchings
A charming exploration of friendship, In the final throes of the generations-
reckoning, and hope that traces a long war with the alien Felen, smuggler
widow's unlikely connection with a Jereth Keeven’s junk freighter breaks
giant Pacific octopus after she begins down in a strange rift in deep space, with
working as an overnight janitor at her little chance of rescue – until they
local aquarium. For fans of A Man encounter a science vessel that claims to
Called Ove. Literary Fiction. be from 152 years in the future. Sci-fi.
5/3 5/17
TRUST YOU HAVE A FRIEND IN 10A
by Hernan Diaz by Maggie Shipstead
Pulitzer finalist Diaz returns with a The 10 stories in this daring, wide-
wondrous portrait of devious financier ranging debut collection from Shipstead
Andrew Bevel, who survives the Wall (Great Circle) resonate as they leap
Street crash of 1929 and becomes one across time and space. Short Stories.
of New York City’s chief financial barons
before dying a decade later at age 62.
Historical Fiction.
5/3 5/17
BOOK OF NIGHT THIS TIME TOMORROW
by Holly Black by Emma Straub
Best-selling YA author Black (The Cruel As the book opens, Alice Stern is visiting
Prince) makes her adult debut with this her gravely ill father, Leonard, author of a
gritty urban fantasy where the shadows bestselling time-travel novel, in the
have not only eyes but teeth as well—and hospital. A week later, when she wakes
feeding them is the way to magical up on her 40th birthday, it’s actually her
power. Fantasy. 16th birthday in 1996, and she is once
again a teenager. What follows is a
delightful and captivating take on time
travel and familial love. Contemporary
Fiction.
5/10 5/17
THE HIGH SIERRA NERUDA ON THE PARK
by Kim Stanley Robinson by Cleyvis Natera
Robinson first ventured into the Sierra This novel follows a Dominican family
Nevada Mountains during the summer in New York City as they face family
of 1973. He has returned throughout his drama, gentrification, and family
life and has gathered a vast store of secrets. The story manages to be
knowledge. Packed with maps, gear chilling, fun, and profound all at once.
advice, and more than 100 breathtaking Literary Fiction.
photos, this book will inspire veteran
hikers, casual walkers, and travel readers
to prepare for a magnificent adventure.
Memoir.
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5/24 6/7
TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON THESE IMPOSSIBLE THINGS
by Chris Pavone by Salma El-Wardany
When American businessman John Malak, Kees, and Jenna have been best
Wright vanishes one morning from his friends since childhood, but as their
hotel, his wife, Ariel Pryce, insists he college years end, the bond between
was kidnapped, but issues soon these young Muslim women may be
emerge that make both the Lisbon irreparably broken as they each learn to
police and the CIA skeptical. balance love, faith and family.
International Thriller. Contemporary Fiction.
5/31 A RIP THROUGH TIME 6/7
AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT
by Kelley Armstrong by John Vercher
Outlander meets The Alienist in this series Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace, a mixed-race
debut, where a modern-day homicide MMA fighter, is aging out of the sport,
detective finds herself in Victorian fending off devastating injuries, and
Scotland—in an unfamiliar body—with a facing the fight of his life. This explosive
killer on the loose. Mystery/Time Travel. story about family, complicated
relationships, misplaced loyalties, and the
price athletes pay to entertain is from the
critically acclaimed author of Three-
Fifths. Contemporary Fiction.
6/7 MORE THAN YOU'LL EVER KNOW 6/7
WOMAN OF LIGHT
by Katie Gutierrez by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
An evocative drama about a woman Denver, 1930s. Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a
caught leading a double life after one laundress and tea leaf reader, begins to
husband murders the other, and the have visions about the devastation of her
true-crime writer who becomes obsessed ancestors' homelands during the
with telling her story. For fans of Megan expansion of the American West. She soon
Miranda. Literary Thriller. realizes that it's up to her to protect her
Indigenous Chicano family's stories before
they are lost forever. Historical Fiction.
6/7 6/14
LAST SUMMER ON STATE STREET
AURORA
by David Koepp by Toya Wolfe
In this chilling scientific thriller from This hauntingly beautiful debut about
Koepp (Cold Storage), astronomers learn friendship, community, and resilience
about an incoming devastating global follows the story of Felicia "Fe Fe" Stevens,
blackout, and we follow the ordinary a teen growing up in Chicago's housing
people who must deal with these projects during one life-changing
extraordinary circumstances. For fans of summer. For fans of Jacqueline Woodson
Michael Crichton. Scientific Thriller. and Brit Bennett. Coming of Age.
6/7 THE MONSTER'S BONES 6/14 ISLAND TIME
by David K. Randall by Georgia Clark
A gripping narrative of a fearless The Kellys are messy, loud, loving
paleontologist, the founding of Australians. The Lees are sophisticated,
America’s most loved museums, and aloof, buttoned-up Americans. They have
the race to find the largest dinosaurs nothing in common, except that their
on record. Nonfiction/Science. daughters are married. When a nearby
volcano erupts during their vacation, the
families find themselves stranded
together for 6 weeks in this fun
romance. Rom-com.
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6/14 7/5
WE CARRY THEIR BONES THE PALLBEARERS CLUB
by Erin Kimmerle by Paul Tremblay
The Arthur G. Dozier Boys School was a Art was an awkward 17-year-old loner who
well-guarded secret in Florida for over a started an extracurricular club for
century, until reports of cruelty, abuse, and volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended
“mysterious” deaths shut the institution funerals. When the coolest girl he'd ever
down in 2011. Forensic anthropologist Erin met wanted to be his friend AND join the
Kimmerle investigates the notorious club, things were looking up. But then she
school—the true story behind the Pulitzer turned out to be weird and, years later, a
Prize–winning novel The Nickel Boys. little terrifying. This book seamlessly blurs
Nonfiction/True Crime. the lines between fiction and memory.
Horror.
6/21
ON ROTATION 7/5
by Shirlene Obuobi KEYA DAS'S SECOND ACT
by Sopan Deb
Ghanaian-American Angela has checked off
all the boxes for the perfect immigrant This debut novel weaves a heartwarming
daughter. When her life suddenly falls and charmingly funny tale about how a
apart, her parents, whose approval seems box hidden in a suburban attic in New
to hinge on how closely she follows the Jersey leads one troubled Bengali
path they chose, are a lot less proud of their American family down a path toward
daughter. It’s a quarter life crisis of epic understanding the importance of family.
proportions. For fans of Grey's Anatomy and This is a story of redemption and righting
Seven Days in June. Contemporary/ the wrongs of the past. Contemporary
Coming of Age. Fiction.
6/28 7/12 ANY OTHER FAMILY
THE GOLDENACRE
by Philip Miller by Eleanor Brown
Art expert Thomas Tallis travels to Edinburgh Though they look like any other family,
to authenticate a masterpiece by an iconic they aren’t one—not quite. They are three
Scottish architect and painter. Reeling from sets of parents who find themselves
recent personal pitfalls, Tallis is eager to sign intertwined after adopting four biological
off on the painting and go home. But when siblings, having committed to keeping the
a horrifying parcel arrives on Tallis’s desk, he children as connected as possible. Family
soon finds himself embroiled in a series of Saga/Literary Fiction.
unsolved murders that are somehow linked
to the artwork. Mystery.
7/5 7/12
TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, UPGRADE
AND TOMORROW by Blake Crouch
by Gabrielle Zevin
In this lightning-fast tale, Logan Ramsey
Sam and Sadie are friends—often in love, reaps the benefits of a genetic
but never lovers— who come together as modification while struggling with its
creative partners in the world of video broader consequences. What if humanity’s
game design, where success brings them only hope for a future really does lie in
fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, engineering our own evolution? From the
ultimately, a kind of immortality. Literary bestselling author of the Wayward Pines
Fiction. Trilogy. Sci-fi Thriller.
7/5 7/19
LOOK CLOSER WALKING IN THE TALL WEEDS
by David Ellis by Robin W. Pearson
Simon and Vicky couldn’t seem more Paulette and Fred Baldwin were already
normal: a wealthy Chicago couple, he a growing apart, but when their only son
respected law professor, she an advocate makes life choices that his parents don't
for domestic violence victims. But when agree with, their life together begins to
the body of a beautiful socialite is found crumble. In this Southern family drama,
hanging in a mansion in a nearby suburb, the Baldwins discover their history is
Simon and Vicky’s seemingly perfect life only skin-deep and that God’s love is the
begins to unravel. For fans of Gone Girl only family tie that binds. Inspirational.
and Strangers on a Train. Thriller. 3
7/19 THE KINGDOMS OF SAVANNAH 8/2 SHUTTER
by George Dawes Green by Ramona Emerson
Society darling Morgana Musgrove finds When Rita, a forensic photographer, is
herself immersed in a darkly sinister web sent to the scene of a supposed suicide
of murder and secrets that spans from on a highway overpass, the furious,
Savannah's homeless encampments to discombobulated ghost of the victim—
the stately homes of the city’s elite. who insists she was murdered—latches
Green’s novel brilliantly depicts the onto Rita, forcing her on a quest for
underbelly of a city with a dark history revenge against her killers and into the
and the strangely mesmerizing crosshairs of one of Albuquerque’s
dysfunction of a complex family. Thriller. most dangerous cartels. Suspense.
7/26 8/9
THE LIBRARIAN SPY STAY AWAKE
by Madeline Martin by Megan Goldin
Inspired by the true history of America’s Liv wakes up in the back of a taxi in a
library spies of World War II, two women New York City that looks nothing like
find themselves connecting through she remembers and finds herself on
coded messages and discovering hope the run for a crime she doesn’t
in the face of war. Historical Fiction. remember committing. This
electrifying novel proves that memory
can be deadly. Thriller.
8/2 8/23
DIRT CREEK DIARY OF A MISFIT
by Hayley Scrivenor by Casey Parks
When twelve-year-old Esther Follow Parks on her journey to unravel
disappears on the way home from the mystery of Roy Hudgins, a small-
school in a small town in Australia, the town country singer from her
community is thrown into a maelstrom grandmother’s youth, in this sweeping
of suspicion and grief. Can D.S. Sarah journalistic saga about sexuality and
Michaels find her? Mystery/Suspense. gender, family trauma and the
redemptive force of love. Memoir.
8/2 8/23 LETHAL TIDES
MIKA IN REAL LIFE
by Emiko Jean by Catherine Musemeche
Mika's life is a mess when she receives a Discover the story of the virtually
call from the daughter she placed up for unknown Mary Sears, “the first
adoption in this heart-wrenching and oceanographer of the Navy,” whose
uplifting novel that explores what it groundbreaking oceanographic research
means to be a mother. From the NYT led the U.S. to victory in the Pacific
bestselling author of Tokyo Ever After. theater during World War II. Nonfiction/
Contemporary Fiction. History.
8/2 THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF 8/30 THE LOST TICKET
AFONG MOY by Freya Sampson
by Jamie Ford
Strangers on a London bus unite to help
Dorothy Moy has always struggled with an elderly man find his missed love
mental illness, but when her daughter connection in a beautifully uplifting
exhibits similar behaviors, Dorothy takes novel about how a shared common
drastic measures. She undergoes an experience among strangers can
experimental treatment that intimately transform lives in the most marvelous
connects her with past generations of ways. From the acclaimed author of The
women in her family in hopes of breaking Last Chance Library. Contemporary
the cycle of pain and abandonment and Fiction/Rom-com.
finding peace for her daughter. Historical
Fiction.
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