Here are some of the new titles we’ve ordered:
FICTION
Any Other Name
Craig Johnson
Investigating a detective’s suspicious suicide in a neighboring county during a bleak high-plains winter, Sheriff Walt Longmire, awaiting the birth of a first grandchild, discovers that the victim might have suppressed information in a missing-persons case.
Black Lies, Red Blood
Kjell Eriksson
When her lover, journalist Ander Brant, goes missing and his phone number is discovered in the pocket of the dead body of a homeless man, Swedish police officer Ann Lindell pursues an investigation that requires her to hide the truth about her relationship.
Cold Shot
Mark Henshaw
Investigating the torturing death of a Somalian pirate, Red Cell analysts Kyra Stryker and Jonathan Burke, now on the hunt for a dangerous nuclear scientist, follow leads to a Venezuela-bound Iranian ship containing the components of a nuclear bomb.
Delicious!
Ruth Reichl
Working as a public relations hotline consultant for a once-prestigious culinary magazine, Billie Breslin unexpectedly enters a world of New York restaurateurs and artisanal purveyors while reading World War II letters exchanged between a plucky 12-year-old and James Beard.
Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
Jonas Jonasson
Nombeko Mayeki, who has risen out of poverty to become a chief adviser at the helm of one of the world’s most secret projects in South Africa, holds the fate of the world in her hands when she discovers a nuclear missile that was supposed to have been dismantled.
Glorious
Jeff Guinn
Rising to a life of influence and wealth after a hard-luck youth in late 19th-century Arizona Territory, Cash McLendon flees in the wake of a tragedy and tries to win back the heart from a woman from his past only to be targeted by his former father-in-law.
Hidden Child
Camilla Lackberg
After finding a Nazi medal among her late mother’s belongings, crime writer Erica Falck meets with an old friend of her mother’s, who is murdered two days later, and Erica and her husband Detective Patrik Hedstrom must turn to family wartime diaries for clues.
Keeper
John Lescroart
When one of his counselor wife’s clients suspiciously disappears and the woman’s husband, a San Francisco jail guard, is accused of her murder, lawyer Dismas Hardy examines possible suspects before discovering evidence of the corruption-related death of an inmate.
Kill Switch
James Rollins & Grant Blackwood
Recruited by Sigma Force to extract a Russian pharmaceutical magnate from Siberia, who holds the key to a new weapons system, former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his military working dog must solve an ancient mystery before the modern world suffers a fate worse than death.
Kraken Project
Douglas Preston
When a NASA accident kills seven scientists and enables a self-modifying artificial intelligence to escape into the Internet, Wyman Ford and the AI’s creator, Melissa Shepherd, struggle to keep the evolving program out of the hands of scheming Wall Street traders.
Magnificent Vibration
Rick Springfield
A novel by the Grammy Award-winning music artist chronicles the unlikely spiritual quest of Horatio “Bob” Cotton, in the company of a sharp, good-humored nun named Alice, after an unexpected cellphone conversation with a God who enjoys setting humorous challenges for him.
Natchez Burning
Greg Iles
Penn Cage must investigate when his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of their Natchez, Mississippi community, is accused of murdering Viola Turner, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s, and refuses to speak up in his own defense.
One and Only
Emily Giffin
Centering her life on the successful Walker family, into which she plans to marry, 33-year-old Shea Rigsby struggles to end her affair with a less-than-stellar boyfriend only to have her entire existence placed in question by the death of the family’s mother.
One Perfect Spring
Irene Hannon
Receiving a request from an 11-year-old girl to help an elderly neighbor, Keith Watson, a workaholic assistant to a philanthropic businessman, finds the complicated assignment enmeshing him in the life of the child’s independent single mother, Claire Summers.
Pink Suit
Nicole Mary Kelby
After Jacqueline Kennedy’s iconic pink suit becomes entrenched in the world’s collective memory for all the wrong reasons, the young, Irish immigrant seamstress at New York’s Chez Ninon boutique who worked on it feels her world being torn apart.
Possibilities
Kaui Hart Hemmings
In a Colorado resort town, overwhelmed by her son Cully’s avalanche-related death, single mother Sarah St. John struggles through the well-meant advice of loved ones before a young woman appears on her doorstep, claiming that she is carrying Cully’s child.
Prayer
Philip Kerr
Discovering he played a key role in condemning an innocent man to death row, FBI Domestic Terrorism Unit agent Gil Martins struggles with family estrangement and a loss of faith while endeavoring to stop a religious zealot who is targeting secular public figures.
Resistant
Michael Palmer
Delivering a speech for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta, Dr. Lou Welcome takes an exclusive tour of the Centers for Disease Control and learns about the development of biological weapons before becoming enmeshed in a case involving the abduction of a leading scientist.
Robert B. Parker’s Cheap Shot
Ace Atkins
Investigating the perpetrators of violent off-field incidents who compromised the public image of a star linebacker before kidnapping his young son, Spenser assembles a team of associates to comb through the underworld of Boston while the athlete weighs a controversial decision.
Sixth Grave on the Edge
Darynda Jones
Wanting to learn more about Reyes Farrow’s past after accepting his proposal, grim reaper Charley Davidson investigates his childhood abduction at the same time she is threatened by a crime syndicate to hunt down a witness who is testifying against a mob moss.
Skin Collector
Jeffery Deaver
When a serial killer begins terrorizing New York City, claiming his victims by tattooing cryptic messages on their skin using tattoo guns loaded with poison, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are drawn into the case because of its connection to the decade-old Bone Collector case.
Son
Jo Nesbo
Serving time for crimes he did not commit in exchange for heroin payouts, Sonny Lofthus uses his spiritual charisma to navigate corrupt and violent elements in his life before learning disturbing truths about his police officer father’s suicide years ago.
Starfire
Dan Brown
While leading a team of young engineers designing Starfire, the world’s first orbiting solar power plant, James McLanahan Bradley is caught in the middle of a battle that threatens to become an all-out global war for control of space after the U.S. President ignites an arms race.
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Joshua Ferris
After noticing that his identity has been stolen and used to create various social media accounts, Paul O’Rourke, a man with a troubled past who with a successful dentist practice in Manhattan, begins to wonder if his virtual alter ego is actually a better version of himself.
Wild Storm
Richard Castle
Hired to look into a recent spate of plane crashes that have killed powerful people in politics, business, and religion, Derrick Storm goes up against an unknown maniacal extremist who has created a laser with the power to shoot down planes from the ground.
Wolf
Mo Hayder
After a vagrant finds a dog wandering alone carrying a scrap of paper with the words “HELP US” attached to its collar, Caffery races against time to find the dog’s owners, while a wealthy local family, held hostage in their remote home, fight for their lives.
NONFICTION
50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany
Steven Pressman
Based on the HBO documentary, a true story of personal courage and heroism follows one Jewish American couple as they risked their own lives to travel to Nazi-controlled Vienna and Berlin to rescue fifty Jewish children.
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush
Geoff Dyer
The author, who was the oldest, second tallest and most self-conscious person on the boat, presents an entertaining look at life on board an American aircraft carrier and the military personal who must adhere to a regimen defined by service and restraint.
Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
Lawrence Goldstone
Explores the life-risking rivalry between the Wright Brothers, a pair of tenacious siblings, and machinist Glenn Hammond Curtiss, an audacious motorcycle racer, assessing how their patent war shaped early aviation and ultimately cost one of the men his life.
Clean Eats: Over 200 Delicious Recipes to Reset Your Body’s Natural Balance and Discover What It Means to Be Truly Healthy
Alejandro Junger
Serving up more than 180 simple recipes, this companion cookbook to Clean and Clean Gut focuses on clean eating, which helps restore the body’s natural ability to heal itself.
Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
Kai Bird
Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames’ widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a narrative of the making of America’s most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East.
Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty
Diane Keaton
The Academy Award-winning film star describes the ups and downs of living in a beauty-obsessed world, recounting stories about a makeup artist’s embarrassing advice, her trip to Victoria’s Secret with her teenage daughter, and the personal style choices she has made.
Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
Colson Whitehead
Describes the author’s uproarious participation in the World Series of Poker after only six weeks of training, recounting how he interacted with a gritty subculture of high-stakes players while endeavoring to maintain his parenting responsibilities.
Postcards from Cookie: A Memoir of Motherhood, Miracles, and a Whole Lot of Mail
Caroline Clarke
The author shares her life-changing search for her birthmother–Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole–and the bond that was forged between them through postcards, in this inspiring tribute to both her adoptive mother and her biological mother.
Second Amendment
Michael Waldman
The president of the Brennan Center for Justice presents a history of the Second Amendment to illuminate its controversies, debates, and misapprehensions, explaining its contexts and purposes while revealing how it came to represent gun-ownership rights in the 20th century.
Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis
James W. Russell
A critical assessment of today’s 401(k)s traces the system’s history while arguing that the Wall Street-enforced replacement of traditional pensions with 401(k) investments is failing to provide security-level income for middle-class workers in particular.
Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
Jason Padgett & Maureen Seaberg
After a violent mugging forever altered the way his brain works, the author, the first documented case of acquired savant syndrome with mathematical synesthesia, recounts how he overcame huge setbacks and embraced his unique gifts.
Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain As Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
Sam Kean
Discusses the history of neuroscience as described through opportunities to study the brain by those suffering from terrible misfortunes including strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrible accidents and lobotomies.
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
By analyzing the decisions we make, the plans we create and the morals we choose, the authors show how those insights can be applied to daily life to make smarter, harder, and better decisions, in this follow-up to Freakonomics.
Throwback: A Big-League Catcher Tells How the Game Is Really Played
Jason Kendall & Lee Judge
Based on the author’s 15 years of professional Major League Baseball experience, this volume weaves together first-person anecdotes with behind-the-scenes shenanigans, providing insight into the “how” and “why” of everything that happens on and off the field.
Published on May 15, 2014.
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