New Books 2/17/20
Agency by William Gibson
Verity Jane becomes the beta tester for the latest product of a San Francisco start-up: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses who soon manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and an unnervingly canny grasp of combat strategy.
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Lydia Quixano Perez lives a fairly comfortable life in the Mexican city of Acapulco, but when her journalist husband writes an article about the jefe of the newest drug cartel in the City, she and her son are forced to flee the country.
Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbably Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis by Patti Callahan
In this masterful exploration of one of the greatest love stories of modern times, we meet a brilliant writer, a fiercely independent mother, and a passionate woman who changed the life of this respected author and inspired books that still enchant us and change us.
The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100 by Dan Buettner
Building on decades of research, longevity expert Dan Buettner has gathered 100 recipes inspired by the Blue Zones, home to the healthiest and happiest communities in the world.
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Twelve-year-old Edward Adler, the sole survivor of a plane crash, struggles to find a place in a world without his family.
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? By Bill McKibben
McKibben asserts that even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience.
Fix It with Food by Michael Symon
A guide to managing inflammation and pain with 125+ recipes proving that you don’t need to sacrifice delicious food to eat healthfully and be pain free, from celebrity chef and The Chew co-host Michael Symon.
House of Fire by Joseph Finder
At the funeral of his friend Sean, an army buddy who had struggled with opioid addiction, a stranger approaches Nick with a job, and he quickly finds himself entangled in the complicated family dynamics of the Kimball Pharmaceutical dynasty.
How Not to Diet by Michael Greger
Greger lays out the key ingredients of the ideal weight-loss diet — factors such as calorie density, the insulin index, and the impact of foods on our gut microbiome — and identifies twenty-one weight-loss accelerators available to our bodies, incorporating the latest discoveries in cutting-edge areas like chronobiology to reveal the factors that maximize our natural fat-burning capabilities.
Hunter Killer by Brad Taylor
Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill head to Brazil, tracking highly-trained Russian assassins responsible for the death of their friend and team member.
In the Country of Women: A Memoir by Susan Straight
Straight’s memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emphasis on the women’s stories.
A Long Petal by the Sea by Isabel Allende
In the late1930s, two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call home.
Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich
In the 1980s, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act on what we knew about climate change before it was too late.
Martha Stewart’s Organizing by Martha Stewart
Stewart’s indispensable expertise walks you through goal-setting, principles of organizing, useful supplies, and creating systems for ongoing success.
Moral Compass by Danielle Steel
The dark side of one drunken night at an exclusive private school and its tragic consequences, from every possible point of view.
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenbert
Emma Copley Eisenberg spent years living in Pocahontas and re-investigating the brutal murder of two outsiders, and using the past and the present, she shows how this mysterious act of violence has loomed over all those affected for generations, shaping their fears, fates, and the stories they tell about themselves.
