New Books 9/16/19
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Creek Nation and was named United States Poet Laureate this year. Her latest book of poetry, An American Sunrise, is on this week’s shelf of new books. Harjo resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley
The historian author of Cronkite draws on new primary source material and firsthand interviews in a reassessment of the space program that examines the political, cultural and scientific factors that launched NASA and the space race.
An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo
A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land.
Echoes: the Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories by Ellen Datlow
The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay.
The Last Ocean: a Journey Through Memory and Forgetting by Nicci Gerrard
The award-winning journalist and coauthor of the Nicci French best-sellers presents a lyrical, humane investigation into dementia that explores the journeys of both patients and their loved ones, exposing misguided protocols that contribute to unnecessary end-of-life pain.
The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter
After the kidnapping of a CDC scientist and a bombing in one of Atlanta’s neighborhoods, Georgia detective Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton find themselves pitted against a mysterious group intent on unleashing a deadly epidemic.
The Murder List by Hank Phillippi Ryan
A bright, hard-working law student married to a faithful and devoted husband discovers that everything she believes about her life is false and is caught up in a game of cat-and-mouse for her very survival.
Old Bones by Douglas Preston and Lee Child
Historian Clive Benton has discovered the long-lost diary of one of the Donner Party’s victims, an account which may break new ground in the truth of what happened in the wilderness all those years ago and point to an additional camp previously lost to history.
The Porpoise by Mark Haddon
When a young man attempts to rescue the daughter of a wealthy man who is imprisoned on her father’s estate, the attempt goes awry, sending him off on a fantastical sea voyage.
The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood
When an abduction tears Zee’s family apart, she turns to the last person she ever imagined—shy, autistic Gentry–and sets in motion a chain of events that will not only change both of their lives, but bind them to one another forever.
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
During England’s seventeenth-century civil war, Alinor, a woman without a husband and skilled with herbs, helps a young man on the run and unwittingly brings disaster into the heart of her life.
Tiny but Mighty by Hannah Shaw
The professional animal advocate best known as the “Kitten Lady” provides expert guidelines for caring for vulnerable newborn kittens, sharing the stories of remarkable rescues while discussing topics ranging from feline overpopulation to animal welfare.
Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller
The best-selling author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight explores how her late father’s service during the Rhodesian War, work as a banana farmer in Zambia and preference of unpredictability over security inspired her life.
The Warehouse by Rob Hart
Set in the confines of a corporate panopticon that’s at once brilliantly imagined and terrifyingly real, The Warehouse is a near-future thriller about what happens when Big Brother meets Big Business–and who will pay the ultimate price.–
The Whisper Man by Alex North
Mourning the death of his wife, a father and his young son move to Featherbank for a fresh start but find their new town has a dark past involving a serial killer named “The Whisper Man.”
