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Forthcoming Books: May 2015
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Here are some of the best-reviewed books coming up in May. You can request them before they are published, and the library will contact you when they are available.
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A God in Ruins
by Kate Atkinson
A companion to the best-selling Life After Life follows the experiences of Ursula's younger brother Teddy, who throughout the decades following wartime service he never expected to survive struggles with family life against a backdrop of a changing world. 150,000 first printing
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Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson
When a catastrophic event dooms the planet, nations around the world band together to devise an ambitious survival plan in outer space 5,000 years before their progeny organize an audacious return. By the best-selling author ofCryptonomicon. 250,000 first printing. Tour
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How to start a fire
by Lisa Lutz
A trio of former college friends reunite 20 years later to share the stories of their adventures, rivalries, secrets and losses while reevaluating the events of a single night that shaped all of them. By the award-winning author of the Spellman Files series. 40,000 first printing.
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The Water Knife
by Paolo Bacigalupi
Working as an enforcer for a corrupt developer, Angel Velasquez teams up with a hardened journalist and a street-smart Texan to investigate rumors of California's imminent monopoly on limited water supplies. By the National Book Award-finalist author ofThe Windup Girl. Tour
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The Green Road
by Anne Enright
When Christmas day reunites the Madigan children, who all left their mother Rosaleen behind to follow their dreams, under one roof in County Clare, Ireland, they each must confront the terrible weight of family ties and the journey that brought them home. Tour.
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The Book of Aron
by Jim Shepard
Aron and a handful of boys and girls in the Warsaw Ghetto smuggle and trade things through the "quarantine walls" to keep their people alive until he is rescued by a Jewish-Polish doctor and advocate of children's rights who instills within him the importance of letting the world know the atrocities they have all suffered at the hands of the enemy. Tour.
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The Daylight Marriage
by Heidi Pitlor
An introverted climate scientist who once dreamed of saving the world analyzes his failed marriage to an upper-class beauty who throughout the course of a single day confronts small decisions and long-standing resentments that culminate in her decision to leave.
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War of the encyclopaedists : a novel
by Christopher Gerald Robinson
Best friends separated by global events after college, Mickey Montauk, deployed to Baghdad with his National Guard unit, and Halifax Corderoy, struggling with disappointment and his new roommate, keep in touch with one another by editing a Wikipedia article about themselves. Map. Diagrams. Tour.
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The anchoress : a novel
by Robyn Cadwallader
Pressured to marry and stricken by her sister's death in childbirth, a 13th-century Englishwoman devotes her life to prayer in a small locked cell that proves ineffective in shutting out the world. A first novel.
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Dietland
by Sarai Walker
Biding her time alone until she can have weight-loss surgery, Plum joins an underground community of empowered women and agrees to a series of challenges, including work with a group that stages anti-misogyny terrorist acts.
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The Sniper and the Wolf : a Sniper Elite novel
by Scott McEwen
"From the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller American Sniper comes a heart-pounding military thriller in which American hero and SEAL Team sniper Gil Shannon joins up with an unlikely ally in order to stop a terrorist plot bent on destruction across Europe. Hot on the trail of "The Wolf," a rogue Russian military sniper-turned-Chechen-terrorist, Gil Shannon turns from hunter to hunted when his mission is exposed by a traitor high up in US government.
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The gracekeepers : a novel
by Kirsty Logan
A shoreside burial coordinator who lives in self-enforced exile as penance for a long-ago mistake and a performer with a floating circus face unexpected life changes and new opportunities in the wake of an offshore storm. A first novel.
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The rocks
by Peter Nichols
A tale set around a popular Mediterranean seaside resort follows the story of two honeymooners who abruptly split in 1948 and live separately for decades until children from their rivaling families fall in love.
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The Well
by Catherine Chanter
A first novel by an award-winning writer follows the experiences of an Englishwoman who is targeted by suspicion and superstition when her farm remains lush and her grandson drowns in spite of a widespread drought.
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Disclaimer
by Renee Knight
Reading a mysterious novel that recounts in haunting detail the day she became the victim of a dark secret, documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft is forced to confront the past to prevent her world from falling apart.
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Little Black Lies
by S. J. Bolton
In the wake of a series of child kidnappings in a small Falkland Islands community, a lifelong islander, her childhood best friend and her ex-lover are forced to confront shattering secrets. By the author ofDark and Twisted Tide
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The Black Snow
by Paul Lynch
After his farmhand and cattle are destroyed in a barn fire in Donegal, proud Barnabas Kane is forced to reach out to the community for help only to be met with resentment and sabotage, while his teenage son struggles with a terrible secret and his wife is suffocated by the uncertainty of their future.Annotation
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Boo
by Neil Smith
"One minute, Oliver "Boo" Dalrymple is next to his locker at school reciting the periodic table from heart; the next he finds himself in "Town," an afterlife exclusively for thirteen year-olds. As Boo works to acclimate himself to his new home, another boy from his hometown--Johnny--appears, seemingly a victim of the same school shooter. A social outcast back in America, Boo quickly finds the friendship and joy that he never knew in life, but as he and Johnny search for the identity of their mysterious murderer, possibly now a fellow resident of Town, they uncover a truth that will have profound repercussions for them both. Beautifully drawn and filled with colorful characters, Boo is a story about finding your place in the world, be it this one or the next"
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The familiar : one rainy day in May
by Mark Z. Danielewski
From the universally acclaimed, genre-busting author of House of Leaves comes a new book as dazzling as it is riveting . . . A page-turner from start to finish, ranging from Southeast Asia to Mexico to Venice, Italy, and Venice, California, with characters as diverse as a therapist-in-training whose daughters prove far more complex than her patients, an ambitious East-L.A. gang member hired for violence, two scientists on the run in Marfa, Texas, a recovering addict in Singapore summoned by a powerful but desperate billionaire, a programmer near Silicon Beach whose game engine just might augur far more than he suspects, and at the very heart a 12-year-old girl who one rainy day in May sets out from Echo Park to get a dog only to find something else . . .something that will not only alter her life but threaten the world we all think we know and the future we take for granted
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The Life of Saul Bellow : to fame and fortune, 1915-1964
by Zachary Leader
A portrait of the decorated American writer draws on unprecedented access to his papers and extensive interviews to trace his literary development, rise to eminence and roles as an artist, family man and cultural figure. By the Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of The Life of Kingsley Amis. Illustrations. Tour
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Do No Harm : Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
by Henry Marsh
In an internationally best-selling book, a modern neurosurgeon offers a revealing look into his life and work. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practised by calm and detached surgeons, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again. With astonishing compassion and candour, one of the country's leading neurosurgeons reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets and the moments of black humour that characterise a brain surgeon's life.
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The rose hotel : a memoir of secrets, loss, and love from Iran to America
by Rahimeh Andalibian
"In this searing memoir, Iran-born author Rahimeh Andalibian tells the story of her family: their struggle to survive the 1979 revolution, their move to California, and their attempts to acculturate in the face of teenage rebellion, murder, addiction, and new traditions. Andalibian struggles to make sense of two brutal crimes: a rape, solved by her father, and a murder, of which her beloved oldest brother stands accused.
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