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Books in the National Media July 2019 Books People are Talking About!
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Evvie Drake starts over : a novel by Linda Holmes"In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button. When Dean moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie's house, the two make a deal: Dean won't ask about Evvie's late husband, and Evvie won't ask about Dean's baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken--and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. But before they can find out what might lie ahead, they'll have to wrestle a few demons: the bonds they've broken, the plans they've changed, and the secrets they've kept. They'll need a lot of help, but in life, as in baseball, there's always a chance--right up until the last out". Featured in Entertainment Weekly, July 5
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The lager queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan StradalA talented baker running a business out of her nursing home reconnects with her master brewer sister at the same time her pregnant granddaughter launches an IPA brewpub. By the award-winning author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest. Featured in NPR's Author Interviews, July 23
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Raised in captivity : fictional nonfiction by Chuck KlostermanThe best-selling author of But What If We're Wrong? presents an anthology of high-concept stories, including one in which an obscure pop band grapples with fame when its song becomes a white supremacist anthem. Featured on NPR Book Review, July 18
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Whisper network : a novel by Chandler BakerAn adult debut by the author of the High School Horror series follows four women who speak out when their ill-reputed boss is slated to become CEO, a decision that triggers catastrophic shifts throughout every department of their company. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, July 5
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Gods of jade and shadow : a novel by Silvia Moreno-GarciaA dark fairy tale inspired by folklore is set against the Jazz age in Mexico's underworld, where a young dreamer is sent by the Mayan God of Death on a life-changing journey. By the award-winning author of Signal to Noise. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, July 23
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The new girl : a novel by Daniel SilvaThe kidnapping of a mysterious girl from her Swiss boarding school ignites a secret war between Israeli intelligence chief Gabriel Allon and an old enemy who would transform the future of the Middle East. Featured on Today Show, July 18
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The Saturday Night Ghost Club : a novel by Craig Davidson"A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of Stranger Things and Stand by Me about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends". Featured on NPR Book Review, July 10
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Delayed rays of a star : a novel by Amanda Koe LeeInspired by Alfred Eisenstaedt's prophetic 1928 photograph, a historical first novel depicts the richly textured lives of Hollywood icon Marlene Dietrich, first Chinese-American star Anna May Wong and maligned director Leni Riefenstahl. Illustrations. Featured on NPR Book Review, July 12
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Very nice : a novel by Marcy DermanskyA darkly humorous tale of privilege, race and bad behavior find a wealthy Connecticut divorcée and her college-age daughter becoming unlikely rivals in a romantic triangle involving the latter's creative writing professor. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, July 5
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The golden hour : a novel by Beatriz WilliamsTraveling to World War II Nassau to interview the infamous Duke and Duchess of Windsor, an investigator for a New York society magazine uncovers a treasonous plot that is complicated by her romance with an unscrupulous scientist. Featured on NPR Book Review, July 14.
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Reasons to be cheerful by Nina StibbeTaking a job as an assistant to an eccentric dental surgeon, 18-year-old Lizzie pursues a fantasy relationship with her crush before realizing that he is not quite as imagined. By the author of Man at the Helm. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, July 19
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Three Summers by Margarita LymperakThree Summers is the story of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a big old house surrounded by a beautiful garden are Maria, the oldest sister, as sexually bold as she is eager to settle down and have a family of her own; beautiful but distant Infanta; and dreamy and rebellious Katerina, through whose eyes the story is mostly observed. Over three summers, the girls share and keep secrets, fall in and out of love, try to figure out their parents and other members of the tribe of adults, take note of the weird ways of friends and neighbors, worry about and wonder who they are. Karen Van Dyck's translation captures all the light and warmth of this modern Greek classic. Featured on NPR Book Review, July 12
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The gone dead : a novel by Chanelle BenzReturning to her ramshackle home in the Mississippi Delta after 30 years, Billie investigates the accident that killed her famous poet father as well as rumors that she went missing the day he died. A first novel. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, July 5
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Facing a corruption investigation, and in the twilight of his life, a wealthy man begins to re-examine all.
Featured on NPR Book Review, July 21
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Those people by Louise CandlishAn idyllic suburban neighborhood is thrown into chaos by the arrival of new neighbors who disrupt the community with rude behavior, loud music and unsightly renovations, until a shattering murder exposes a network of secrets. Featured in The Washington Post, July 19
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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-mohtarTwo time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and soon fall in love. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, July 18
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The Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadA follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning, The Underground Railroad, follows the harrowing experiences of two African-American teens at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. Featured on CBS This Morning, July 15, NPR's Fresh Air, July 16
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The Cuban Comedy by Pablo MedinaA love story steeped in political satire, poetry, and the lightest touches of magical realism, Medina has created a bold, funny narrative with an uncanny heroine at its core: Elena of Piedra Negra, Cuba. Piedra Negra is an isolated village, whose citizens consist mainly of soldiers injured in the revolution who pass the time drinking a firewater so intense, all hallucinate, and most never recover. The firewater distiller's daughter Elena longs to be a poet, and after a chance encounter with Daniel Arcilla, Cuba's most important poet, Elena wins a national poetry prize and leaves Piedra Negra behind for Havana. There she encounters a population adjusting to a new way of life, post-revolution: there are spies and secret meetings, black marketeers, and censorship. Full of outlandish humor and insights into an often contradictory and kafkaesque regime, Medina brings 1960s Cuba to life through the eyes of Elena. Featured on NPR Book Review, July 11
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Wanderers by Chuck WendigWhen her little sister is afflicted by a bizarre sleepwalking disorder that begins to affect people all across the country, Shana is embroiled in an apocalyptic epidemic involving a decadent rock star, a religious radio host and a disgraced scientist. Featured on NPR Book Review, July 6
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The most fun we ever had : a novel by Claire LombardoThe four adult daughters of two Chicago parents who have been madly in love for decades recklessly ignite old rivalries, until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they built. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, July 5
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Beijing payback : a novel by Daniel NiehShocked to discover that his murdered restaurateur father was actually a member of a vast crime syndicate with ties to communist China, Victor Li is confronted by decades-old grudges, escalating rivalries and an ambitious new plot. Featured on NPR's Author Interviews, July 22
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The chain by Adrian McKintyA parent receives a panicked phone call from a stranger who reveals that both of their children have been kidnapped by someone who demands that they abduct another child to prevent the murders of their own. Featured on NPR's Weekend Edition, July 14
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America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr. by Steven M Gillon"Through the lens of their decades-long friendship and including exclusive interviews and details from previously classified documents, noted historian and New York Times bestselling author Steven M. Gillon examines John F. Kennedy Jr.'s life and legacy from before his birth to the day he died. Gillon covers the highs, the lows, and the surprising incidents, viewpoints, and relationships that John never discussed publicly, revealing the full story behind JFK Jr.'s complicated and rich life. In the end, Gillon proves that John's life was far more than another tragedy--rather, it's the true key to understanding both the Kennedy legacy and how America's First Family continues to shape the world we live in today." Featured on Today Show, July 9, Fox News, July 16
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Featured on CBS This Morning, July 18
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Featured in The Wall Street Journal, July 23
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Featured on NPR Health News, July 23
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Defying Hitler : the Germans who resisted Nazi rule by Gordon ThomasA vivid chronicle of the underground resistance efforts of everyday Germans who thwarted Nazi rule shares the stories of heroes who risked or lost their lives to speak out, smuggle intelligence, defy wrongful laws and help Jewish escapees. Featured in The Wall Street Journal, July 19
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The gifted school : a novel by Bruce W HolsingerThe students and parents of a tight-knit community find their bonds nearly destroyed by competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens nearby, in a story told from both adult and child perspectives. By the author of A Burnable Book Featured on NPR's Weekend Edition, July 6
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They called us enemy by George TakeiThe iconic actor and activist presents a graphic memoir detailing his experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the hard choices his family made in the face of legalized racism. Original. Gr 10+ Featured on Today Show, July 16, NPR Book Review, July 17
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Featured on Today Show, July 15
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Featured in The Wall Street Journal, July 19
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Talking to robots : tales from our human-robot futures by David Ewing DuncanThe award-winning author of Experimental Man announces the arrival of high-capacity artificial-intelligence machines, drawing on expert insights to explain how the robots of today and the near-future will transform the definition of humanity and revolutionize the world. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, July 19
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Featured on Today Show, July 16
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Featured on Today Show, July 8
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Featured on NPR Book Review, July 10
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Four friends : promising lives cut short by William D CohanThe award-winning author of The Last Tycoons shares a powerful portrait of four of his fellow Andover boarding-school graduates, including John F. Kennedy, Jr., whose lives were cut short by tragedy. Featured in The Wall Street Journal, July 12
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The vagabonds : the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's ten-year road trip by Jeff GuinnExplains how two American business giants—Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—and their annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to American culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship altered dramatically. 100,000 first printing. Illustrations. Featured on NPR Book Review, July 9
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Dapper Dan : made in Harlem : a memoir by Daniel R. DayA memoir by the legendary designer who pioneered high-end streetwear traces his rise from an early-1980s Harlem storefront to the red carpet in Hollywood, working with such celebrities as Salt-N-Pepa and Beyoncé. Illustrations. Featured on NPR's All Things Considered, July 8
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