New Books 10/16/17
Political books seem to be published in groups as this week’s list demonstrates. If you don’t like the opinions expressed in the group on this list, be assured there will be other groups of political books expressing a wide variety of opinions – something for which anyone can find disagreement. You may prefer not to think about politics and would rather focus on Halloween. Witches and ghosts are part of this list. And there are two short story collections written by prize-winning authors.
Anxious for Nothing by Max Lucado
New York Times bestselling author, Max Lucado, provides a roadmap for battling with and healing from anxiety by guiding readers in a study of Philippians 4:6-7 to calm their anxiety, explaining key concepts, including celebration, meditation, and asking for help, that offer freedom from their struggle.
Fresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey Eugenides
A first collection of short stories by the Pulitzer Prize winner includes the tales of a failed poet-turned-embezzler, a young traveler seeking enlightenment, and a high schooler whose drastic decision upends a British physicist’s life.
Ghost on the Case by Carolyn Hart
When a young woman is blackmailed into breaking into her wealthy employer’s home to steal ransom money in exchange for her sister’s life, the ghostly Bailey Ruth Raeburn follows heavenly orders to assist the distraught young woman and outmaneuver a brutal killer.
High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard
The successful online trainer profiles the psychological mindsets of top-performing individuals and teams to outline counterintuitive strategies for developing highly productive habits.
Hug Everyone You Know by Antoinette Truglio Martin
A wimpy patient’s chronicle of her journey through her first year of breast cancer treatment, and how she found courage through the art of writing and the help of loved ones to see her through it.
Killing England by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and King George III, authors O’Reilly and Dugard chronicle the path to American independence, from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe.
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Years after accompanying her father to a meeting with Dexter Styles, nineteen-year-old Anna, who now works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, encounters Dexter and begins to understand her father’s complex life and why he disappeared.
Old Scores by Will Thomas
After the first Japanese ambassador to London is killed in his office, Cyrus Barker, a private agent hired to watch the office, becomes a suspect and is hired by the new ambassador to find the killer, as Barker and his assistant find clues that point to London’s underworld.
Origin by Dan Brown
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon navigates a dangerous intersection of humanity’s two most enduring questions, interweaving codes, science, religion and other disciplines before making a paradigm-shifting discovery.
The Paradigm: The Ancient Blueprint that Holds the Mystery of Our Times by Jonathan Cahn
The best-selling author of The Harbinger examines the possibility that events in today’s world were foretold in biblical times and that a blueprint exists for understanding modern challenges and preparing for catastrophic near-future events.
Relive Box and Other Stories by T. C. Boyle
A collection of one dozen short stories includes the title piece, in which a “relive box” allows users to re-experience almost any moment from their past, and “The Five-Pound Burrito,” in which a man aspires to make the town’s largest burrito.
TB12 Method by Tom Brady
Tom Brady explains how he developed his groundbreaking approach to long-term fitness, presenting a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to his personal practice.
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History by Katy Tur
The NBC news correspondent assigned to cover the Trump campaign for the 2016 presidential election shares her perspective on witnessing Trump’s unexpected campaign successes.
We were Eight Year in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
In these urgently relevant essays, the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath – including the election of Donald Trump.
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
The former secretary of state relates her experiences as the first woman candidate nominated for president by a major party, discussing the sexism, criticism, and double standards she had to confront, and how she coped with a devastating loss.
What the Qur’an Meant: and Why It Matters by Garry Wills
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and religious scholar redirects his lifelong focus on Christianity and takes open-minded look at the Qur’an, finding the original meaning of the sacred text and showing numerous parallels between it and the Old and New Testaments.
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
A first book by the director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab outlines a groundbreaking exploration of sleep that explains how to harness its transformative power to improve overall health and life quality, covering subjects ranging from caffeine and REM sleep to sleep patterns and the role of sleep in illness.
Witches’ Tree by M. C. Beaton
Investigating the murder of an elderly woman whose body was found hanging from a tree, Agatha Raisin takes the case but begins to fear for her reputation and her life when two more murders occur.
