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Forthcoming Books: June 2015
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Here are some of the best-reviewed books coming up in June. You can request them before they are published, and the library will contact you when they are available.
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The festival of insignificance : a novel
by Milan Kundera
An ode to friendship set in present-day Paris follows the long-running discourse among four companions on sex, desire, history, art and the meaning of human existence. By the Nobel Prize-nominated author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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Our souls at night
by Kent Haruf
"A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future"
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Finders Keepers
by Stephen King
A follow-up to Mr. Mercedes follows the experiences of an irate fan whose obsession with a reclusive writer leads to an act of violence, the discovery of a hidden manuscript decades later and a young boy's desperate struggle for survival. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author
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Death and Mr. Pickwick : a novel
by Stephen Jarvis
A novel based on the life of the artist Robert Seymour—the caricaturist behindThe Pickwick Papers, and the extraordinary events surrounding the birth of Charles Dickens' first novel—departs from the accepted origin ofPickwick put forward by Dickens and his publisher, Edward Chapman; and it does so for good reason—the accepted origin is a lie
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The household spirit
by Tod Wodicka
When tragedy strikes, the worlds of neighbors Howie Jeffries, an accidental recluse, and Emily Phane, who suffers from a terrifying nighttime affliction, collide in ways neither of them could ever have imagined, in a story of the most curious friendship. Reading-group guide available.
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The sunken cathedral : a novel
by Kate Walbert
A pair of widows, an art historian, their painting class instructor and an increasingly insecure neighbor navigate rapid changes and extreme weather in their Manhattan community. By the National Book Award-nominated author ofA Short History of Women.
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Beyond redemption
by Michael R. Fletcher
A darkly imaginative writer in the tradition of Joe Abercrombie, Peter V. Brett, and Neil Gaiman conjures a gritty mind-bending fantasy, set in a world where delusion becomes reality . . . and the fulfillment of humanity's desires may well prove to be its undoing.
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Margery Allingham's Mr Campion's Fox
by Mike Ripley
Before Albert Campion can help a Danish Ambassador who considers his 18-year-old daughter's suitor unsuitable, both the Ambassador's daughter and her beau disappear without trace—and then a body is discovered in a lagoon.
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The truth and other lies : a novel
by Sascha Arango
Famous author Henry Hayden is left to deal with the consequences after his wife—the actual writer of his books—meets an untimely death.
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Let me die in his footsteps
by Lori Roy
When a 15-year-old girl from a small mid-20th-century Kentucky town sneaks onto a rival family's property and discovers a dead body, she is forced to confront dangerous events from the past in order to protect the town. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Bent Road.
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Crazy mountain kiss : a Sean Stranahan mystery
by Keith McCafferty
When the body of a promising young rodeo star is found in the chimney of a cabin, private detective Sean Stranahan is hired by the girl's mother to find the truth and teams up with Sheriff Ettinger to investigate the mysterious legends of the Crazy Mountains to catch a killer. By the author of The Royal Wulff Murders.
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Freedom's Child
by Jax Miller
Living in witness protection to hide from her late husband's violent family, Freedom Oliver risks her life in order to save the kidnapped daughter she gave up for adoption. A first novel.
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Dinner with Buddha : a novel
by Roland Merullo
The author of Breakfast with Buddha brings his characteristic whimsy to a new novel about New York book editor Otto Ringling and Mongolian monk Volya Rinpoche, who embark on a road trip from Rinpoche’s meditation center in North Dakota to the glitter and glitz of the Las Vegas strip. What prompts the trip is Otto’s recently altered life, having lost first his wife, then his job, and then seeing both his children leave home for lives of their own. With Rinpoche’s guidance, he hopes to find a new meaning in his life, and a new direction.
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Muse : a novel
by Jonathan Galassi
From the publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux: a first novel, at once hilarious and tender, about the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions, and the iconic, alluring writer who has obsessed them both. Studded with juicy details only a quintessential insider could know, written with both satiric verve and openhearted nostalgia, Muse is a brilliant, haunting book about the beguiling interplay between life and art, and the eternal romance of literature.
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The sunlit night
by Rebecca Dinerstein
In the barren landscape of the Far North, under the ever-present midnight sun, Frances, who lives in an isolated artist colony, and Yasha, who arrives from Brooklyn to fulfill his beloved father's last wish, form a bond that offers them solace amidst great uncertainty.
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Paradise Sky
by Joe R. Lansdale
On the run after an infamous landowner murders his father, Willie becomes an expert marksman before turning Buffalo Soldier, befriending Wild Bill Hickok and earning the nickname "Deadwood Dick." By the award-winning author of The Thicket.
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Language arts
by Stephanie Kallos
A high school English teacher begins to rise out of the rut his life has fallen into with the help of an art student and an Italian nun. By the best-selling author of Broken for You.
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The Governor's Wife
by Michael Harvey
Receiving a lucrative anonymous offer to track down an escaped criminal, private investigator Michael Kelly unwinds the past of the fugitive's wife, who harbors deeply complicated and dangerous reasons for standing by her husband.
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Bobby Wonderful : An Imperfect Son Buries His Parents
by Bob Morris
Bob Morris was always the entertainer in his family, but not always a perfect son. When he finds his parents approaching the end of their lives, he begins to see his relationship to them in a whole new light and it changes his way of thinking.
How does an adult child with flaws and limitations figure out how to do his best for his ailing parents while still carrying on and enjoying his own life? And when their final days on earth come, how can he give them the best possible end?
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Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
by Matthew Dennison
"A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization. The narrative charts a fascinating course from Vita's lonely childhood at Knole, through her affectionate but 'open' marriage to Harold Nicolson, and through Vita's literary successes and disappointments, to the famous gardens the couple created at Sissinghurst.
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Unfair : the new science of criminal injustice
by Adam Benforado
Over the last two decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have uncovered many cognitive forces that operate beyond our conscious awareness. Until we address these hidden biases head-on, Benforado argues, the social inequality we see now will only widen. Weaving together historical examples, scientific studies, and compelling court cases—from the border collie put on trial in Kentucky to the five teenagers who falsely confessed in the Central Park Jogger case—Benforado shows how our judicial processes fail to uphold our values and protect society’s weakest members. With clarity and passion, he lays out the scope of the legal system’s dysfunction and proposes a wealth of practical reforms that could prevent injustice and help us achieve true fairness and equality before the law.
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Under the same sky : from starvation in North Korea to salvation in America
by Joseph Kim
A man who escaped the devastating famine in North Korea, despite being abandoned as a boy, tells the story of his survival inside the oppressive country, his escape and subsequent rescue by activists and Christian missionaries and his success in the United States thanks to a new-found faith and courage.
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The Theft of Memory : Losing My Father, One Day at a Time
by Jonathan Kozol
A deeply personal account of the life of the author's father, a nationally renowned neurologist who, after a life of helping to establish emerging fields in mental health, succumbed to Alzheimer's disease. By the National Book Award-winning author of Fire in the Ashes
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The strange case of the rickety cossack : and other cautionary tales from human evolution
by Ian Tattersall
"In his new book human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career--from young scientist in awe of his elders to crotchety elder statesman--Tattersall offers an idiosyncratic look at the competitive world of paleoanthropology, beginning with Charles Darwin 150 years ago, and continuing through the Leakey dynasty in Africa, and concluding with the latest astonishing findings in the Caucasus.
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Stalin's Daughter : The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
by Rosemary Sullivan
The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history’s most monstrous dictators—her father, Josef Stalin
Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy—the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father.
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Pirate Hunters : Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
by Robert Kurson
Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister. At large during the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth century, Bannister’s exploits would have been more notorious than Blackbeard’s, more daring than Kidd’s, but his story, and his ship, have been lost to time.
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