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Forthcoming Books: April 2015
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Here are some of the best-reviewed books coming up in April. You can request them before they are published, and the library will contact you when they are available.
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God Help the Child
by Toni Morrison
A novel by the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Bluest Eye traces the impact of childhood trauma on the lives of a beautiful multiracial woman, the man she loves and an abused white girl who looks to her for help
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The Memory Painter
by Gwendolyn Womack
Bryan Pierce is an internationally famous artist whose paintings have dazzled the world. But there’s a secret to Bryan’s success: Every canvas is inspired by an unusually vivid dream. When Bryan awakes, he possesses extraordinary new skills . . . like the ability to speak obscure languages and an inexplicable genius for chess. All his life, he has wondered if his dreams are recollections—if he is re-experiencing other people’s lives. notation
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Early warning : a novel
by Jane Smiley
Follows the Langdon family from the author's best-selling novel Some Luck as they navigate the ups and downs of mid-century America. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofA Thousand Acres
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The dream lover : a novel
by Elizabeth Berg
A tale based on the controversial life of mid-19th-century French novelist George Sand follows her separation from her husband and vibrant life in Paris, where she wore men's clothing and shared love affairs and friendships with famous intimates.
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Bone tree
by Greg Iles
A first in a two-part series featuring the return of popular hero Penn Cage is set in the deep South, where a threat against Penn's doctor father manifests in the form of a wrongful murder charge and dangerous, long-buried secrets by surviving members of the Double-Eagle Club. By the best-selling author of The Devil's Punchbowl. 350,000 first printing.
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Search for My Heart
by Larry Kramer
The Academy Award-nominated screenplay writer of D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love and activist author ofFaggots presents a satirical history of homosexuality in America that imagines the alternate motivations behind key events
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A sparrow in Terezin
by Kristy Cambron
Two women, one in the present day and one in 1942, each hope for a brighter future. But they'll both have to battle through their darkest days to reach it. Today. Bound by a story of hope and the survival of one little girl, both Sera and Kája will fight to protect all they hold dear"
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GBH
by Ted Lewis
"British crime icon Ted Lewis's lost masterwork, an unnerving tale of paranoia and madness in the heart of the 1970s London criminal underworld, published in the US for the first time. Two intertwining narratives--past and present--chronicle the man's tragic fall from power. In London, George Fowler resides at the head of a lucrative criminal syndicate that specializes in the production and distribution of "blue films"--illegal pornography, and some nasty stuff. Fowler is king, with a beautiful girl at his side and a swanky penthouse office atop a high-rise, but his entire world is in jeopardy. Someone is undermining his empire from within, and Fowler becomes increasingly ruthless in his pursuit of the unknown traitor.
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House of echoes : a novel
by Brendan Duffy
Frustrating career setbacks and a heartbreaking diagnosis challenge the lives of Ben and Caroline, who after starting over in a nostalgic new hometown encounter disconcerting secrets that threaten their survival. A first novel.
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Academy street : a novel
by Mary Costello
"A vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer. Tess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely--a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with. Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation to America and her life there, concluding with a moving reencounter with her Irish family after forty years of exile. The novel has a hypnotic pull and a steadily mounting emotional force. It speaks of disappointments but also of great joy. It shows how the signal events of the last half century affect the course of a life lived in New York City. Anne Enright has said that Costello's first collection of stories, The China Factory, "has the feel of work that refused to be abandoned; of stories that were written for the sake of getting something important right. Her writing has the kind of urgency that the great problems demand" (The Guardian). Academy Street is driven by this same urgency. In sentence after sentence it captures the rhythm and intensity of inner life"
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Voices in the night : stories
by Steven Millhauser
"A new collection of sixteen stories that explore disturbing, magical, and delightful phenomena in everyday American life, and the deepest and darkest desires that we keep hidden from even ourselves"
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The fair fight : a novel
by Anna Freeman
In late 18th-century England, two very different women—Ruth, who fights bare-knuckled in the prize rings of Bristol, and Charlotte, a wealthy aristocrat desperate to escape her manipulative brother—have a life-changing encounter that helps them to discover the power of their own strength.
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A Scourge of Vipers
by Bruce DeSilva
Investigating an upsurge in organized crime when Rhode Island's colorful governor proposes the legalization of sports gambling, rogue journalist Liam Mulligan is targeted by shadowy forces when he unearths suspicious clues in the death of a powerful senator.
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I Refuse
by Per Petterson
A U.S. release of a best-seller from Norway follows a chance encounter between two childhood friends, including one who escaped an abusive father, that reveals how their fortunes have reversed. By the award-winning author ofOut Stealing Horses
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What you left behind : a novel
by Samantha Hayes
Visiting her sister in a community that was rocked by a string of teen suicides five years earlier, Detective Inspector Loraine Fisher races to find her missing nephew when two more suspicious suicides occur. By the author of the best-sellingUntil You're Mine
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The Turner house
by Angela Flournoy
Learning that after a half-century of family life that their house on Detroit's East Side is worth only a fraction of its mortgage, the members of the Turner family gather to reckon with their pasts and decide the house's fate. A first novel. 20,000 first printing.
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Reykjavik nights : an Inspector Erlendur novel
by Arnaldur Indriðason
A prequel to an internationally acclaimed series profiles Erlendur as a young, budding detective who while investigating the death of a homeless man is introduced to Reykjavik's dark underworld. By the award-winning author ofSilence of the Grave
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The Children's Crusade
by Ann Packer
When their troubled youngest sibling returns, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, finds their lives disrupted in ways they could have never imagined as they each tell their story that is interwoven with portraits of their family at crucial points in their history.
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One night
by Eric Jerome Dickey
An unlikely couple from opposing areas of society checks into an upscale hotel and shares 12 hours of passion, con games and violence that culminate in bliss—and murder. By the best-selling author ofA Wanted Woman
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Between You and Me : Confessions of a Comma Queen
by Mary Norris
A New Yorker copy veteran presents laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing errors in language and usage, drawing on examples from classic literature and pop culture while sharing anecdotes from her work with celebrated writers
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Michelle Obama : A Life
by Peter Slevin
A comprehensive portrait of the First Lady describes her working-class upbringing on Chicago's South Side, her education at Princeton and Harvard during the racially charged 1970s and her marriage to the future 44th President.
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Kl : a history of the Nazi concentration camps
by Nikolaus Wachsmann
The award-winning author of Hitler's Prisons presents an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise in the spring of 1945
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The Folded Clock : A Diary
by Heidi Julavits
Like many young girls, Heidi Julavits wrote in her diary every day. Years later, she found her old diaries, hoping to find proof that she was always destined to be a writer. Instead, "The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a phobic tax auditor." The entries are daily chronicles of anxieties about grades, looks, boys, and popularity. Reading these lines from her past self, writes Julavits, "I want to good-naturedly laugh at this person. I want to but I can't. What she wanted then is scarcely different from what I want today."
Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a forty-something woman, wife, mother, and writer. The dazzling result is The Folded Clock, in which the diary form becomes a meditation on time and self, youth and aging, sex and marriage, childhood and parenting, art and ambition, regret and pleasure.
What elevates the book above an exercise in self-absorption is Julavits's raucous sense of humor about her foibles and misadventures. The Folded Clock is as playful as it is brilliant, a tour de force by one of the most gifted prose stylists in American letters.
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