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Cold, Cold Bones
by Kathy Reichs

Publish date: 7.5.2022
 
Kathy Reichs returns with her 21st taut novel of suspense featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, after receiving a box with a human eyeball in it, uncovers a series of ever more grisly killings eerily reenacting the most shocking of her prior cases.
 
Series: Temperance Brennan (21)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin

Publish date: 7.5.2022
 
'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' is a glorious and immersive novel - spanning over thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Venice Beach, California - about two childhood friends, once estranged, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives.
 
Also by Gabrielle Zevin: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The 6:20 Man
by David Baldacci

Publish date: 7.12.2022
 
Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city’s most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling day in the cutthroat realm of finance.
Then one morning Devine’s tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead.
Sara Ewes, Devine’s coworker and former girlfriend, has been found hanging in a storage room of his office building—presumably a suicide, prompting the NYPD to come calling on him. If that wasn’t enough, Devine receives another ominous visit, a confrontation that threatens to dredge up grim secrets from his past in the Army unless he participates in a clandestine investigation into his firm.
Groupies
by Sarah Priscus

Publish date: 7.12.2022
 
Hopping a Greyhound to Los Angeles in 1977, Faun, a naive college dropout and aspiring photographer reconnects with her childhood best friend who is a rising model and a muse to a rock band front man. 
 
A debut, perfect for fans of best seller (and staff pick)
 Daisy Jones & The Six
Chrysalis : A Thriller
by Lincoln Child

Publish date: 7.12.2022
 
Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by Chrysalis, the global multibillion dollar tech company, the small optical device connects people in a stunning new way, tapping into virtual reality for the first time on a wide scale. And yet, when Logan is summoned by Chrysalis to investigate a disturbing anomaly in the massive new product rollout, Logan is shocked to see the true scope of the massive company. He also quickly realizes that something in Chrysalis's technology is very wrong, and could be potentially devastating. The question is what, and where, is the danger coming from?
 
Series: Jeremy Logan (6)
Any other family
by Eleanor Brown

Publish date: 7.12.2022
 
Three sets of parents become intertwined after adopting four biological siblings and making a commitment to keep the children connected in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Weird Sisters.
The It Girl
by Ruth Ware

Publish date: 7.12.2022
 
April Coutts-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.
Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the second, April was dead.

Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison. Relieved to have finally put the past behind her, Hannah’s world is rocked when a young journalist comes knocking and presents new evidence that Neville may have been innocent. As Hannah reconnects with old friends and delves deeper into the mystery of April’s death, she realizes that the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide…including a murder.
Upgrade
by Blake Crouch

Publish date: 7.12.2022
 
When his DNA is rewritten with a genetic-engineering breakthrough beyond anything the world has seen, Logan Ramsey finds his transformation threatening everything around him as he is forced to take sides in a fight to save humankind.
 
From the author of Dark Matter and Recursion
Sister Mother Warrior : A Novel
by Vanessa Riley

Publish date: 7.12.2022
 
Both an emotional love story and a detail-rich historical novel, 'Sister Mother Warrior' tells the often-overlooked history of the most successful Black uprising in history. It is a novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti.
Hokuloa Road
by Elizabeth Hand

Publish date: 7.12.2022
 
Leaving Maine for a job as at a luxury property in Hawaii, Grady Kendall is shocked to discover that the island is known as a place where people vanish and becomes determined to uncover the truth. 
 
Shattered
by James Patterson & James O'Born

Publish date: 7.18.2022
 
Returning home from his honeymoon, Detective Michael Bennett is greeted with shocking news. FBI agent, Emily Parker, is missing.
In order to track her down, Michael follows his former partner's investigation into an anarchist group that led her between Los Angeles, New York and Washington DC.
Lurid rumours begin to surface about Emily's disappearance and Michael knows that he needs to act quickly to find her.
 
Series: Michael Bennett (14)
Dead Water
by C. A. Fletcher

Publish date: 7.19.2022
 
Community members on a remote island in the Northern Atlantic become infected with a strange disorder that threatens to grow from a minor inconvenience to a nightmarish ordeal that threatens to tear apart the tight-knit community. 
The Life She Had
by K. L. Armstrong

Publish date: 7.19.2022
 
Celeste has a woman living in her shed and the local police are ill-inclined to help. When Celeste meets her, she is surprised to find that Daisy is polite and friendly, and the two women quickly develop a friendship. But, they both have secrets they want to keep buried... When a body is discovered near Celeste's house, she and Daisy must move quickly to prove their innocence and protect the lives they've built for themselves.
Sugar and Salt : A Novel
by Susan Wiggs

Publish date: 7.26.2022
 
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Lost and Found Bookstore returns to Perdita Street with a can't-miss tale of friendship, hardship, redemption, and love between a San Francisco baker and a barbecue master from Texas"
The Last to Vanish
by Megan Miranda

Publish date: 7.26.2022
 
Megan Miranda returns with a gripping and propulsive thriller that opens with the disappearance of a journalist who is investigating a string of vanishings in the resort town of Cutter’s Pass - will its dark secrets finally be revealed?
Black Dog
by Stuart Woods

Publish date: 8.2.2022
 
After returning home from a treacherous adventure, Stone Barrington is all too happy to settle back down in his New York City abode. But when he's introduced to a glamorous socialite with a staggering inheritance, Stone realizes his days are about to be anything but quiet.

As it turns out, Stone's intriguing new companion has some surprisingly familiar ties and other far more sinister ones—including a nefarious enemy that gets too close for comfort. When it becomes clear that this miscreant will stop at nothing to get what he wants, and will endanger all whom Stone holds hear, Stone must step in to protect his friends and prevent a dangerous madman from wreaking havoc across the city.
 
Series: Stone Barrington (62)
Reckoning
by Catherine Coulter

Publish date: 8.2.2022
 
When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian’s parents were murdered and she barely escaped with her life. Fourteen years later Kirra is a commonwealth attorney back home in Porte Franklin, Virginia, and her goal is to find out who killed her parents and why. She assumes the identity of E.N.—Eliot Ness—and gathers proof to bring down the man she believes was behind her parents’ deaths. She quickly learns that big-time criminals are very dangerous indeed and realizes she needs Dillon Savich’s help. Savich brings in Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith to work with Lieutenant Jeter Thorpe, the young detective who’d saved Kirra years before.

Emma Hunt, a piano prodigy and the granddaughter of powerful crime boss Mason Lord, was only six years old when she was abducted. Then, she was saved by her adoptive father, San Francisco federal judge Ramsey Hunt. Now a 12-year-old with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, she narrowly saves herself from a would-be kidnapper at Davies Hall in San Francisco. Worried for her safety, Emma’s entire family joins her for her next performance, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.. Sherlock and officers from METRO are assigned to protect her, but things don’t turn out as planned…
 
Series: FBI Thriller (26)
The Family Remains
by Lisa Jewell

Publish date: 8.9.2022
 
A woman stops at nothing to find her husband’s murderer in this psychological thriller about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions.
Overkill
by Sandra Brown

Publish date: 8.16.2022
 
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown delivers a riveting thriller where a conflict of conscience for a former football star and an ambitious state prosecutor swiftly intensifies into a fight for their lives.
The Challenge
by Danielle Steel

Publish date: 8.16.2022
 
In this thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a small community is tested when their children go missing while exploring a dangerous local peak, forcing them to band together during the crisis.
The Blame Game
by Sandie Jones

Publish date: 8.16.2022
 
On the morning after psychologist Naomi helps her client Jacob make the decision to leave his wife, doors that Naomi is sure she’d locked have been mysteriously left open, and Jacob’s file is missing. But are the missing papers and unlocked doors symptoms of Naomi’s own dark past raising its ugly head, or something more? And is it possible that her clients aren’t the only ones in danger, but Naomi herself?
 
Also by Sandie Jones: The Other Woman
The Ninth Month
by James Patterson & Richard DiLallo

Publish date: 8.23.2022
 
In this newest psychological thriller, mother-to-be Emily Atkinson is sure she’s being stalked. But without proof, will anyone trust her mother’s intuition? But as a series of women in her wealthy social circles go missing, Emily’s pregnancy becomes decidedly high-risk.
Haven
by Emma Donoghue

Publish date: 8.23.2022
 
Set in 17th-century Ireland, 'Haven' follows three men who vow to leave the world behind and set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them.
 
Also by Emma Donoghue: Room, The Pull of the Stars
   UPCOMING NON-FICTION TITLES:    
Under the skin : The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of our Nation
by Linda Villarosa

Publish date: 6.14.2022


Drawing on real-life human stories, and offering incontrovertible proof, this dramatic, tragic and necessary book lays bare the forces in the American healthcare system and in American society that cause Black people to live sicker and die quicker compared to their white counterparts. 
The Romance of Reality : How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
by Bobby Azarian

Publish date: 6.28.2022


"In The Romance of Reality, cognitive neuroscientist Bobby Azarian explains the science behind this new view of reality and explores what it means for all of us. In engaging, accessible prose, Azarian outlines the fundamental misunderstanding of thermodynamics at the heart of the old assumptions about the universe's evolution, and shows us the evidence that suggests that the universe is a "self-organizing" system, one that is moving toward increasing complexity and awareness"
Corrections in Ink : A Memoir
by Keri Blakinger

Publish date: 7.7.2022


The former figure skater shares her journey from the ice rink to a life of addiction that led to a two-year prison sentence, getting sober and becoming a reporter dedicated to exposing our flawed prison system.
Proving Ground : The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer
by Kathy Kleiman

Publish date: 7.26.2022


This untold, WWII-era story restores the six women who programmed the worlds first modern computer to their rightful place as technological revolutionaries.
The viral underclass : the human toll when inequality and disease collide
by Steven W. Thrasher

Publish date: 8.2.2022


Drawing from heart-rending stories of friends, activists and teachers navigating COVID, HIV and other viruses, a preeminent LGBTQ scholar and journalist presents, for the first time, his unified theory of one of the most pressing social justice issues of our time: how viruses expose the fault lines of society.
Diana, William, and Harry
by James Patterson

Publish date: 8.15.2022


The worlds best-selling author examines the heartbreaking story of Princess Diana, taken from her sons William and Harry at a painfully young age, and how they carried on her name and spirit into adulthood.
   STAFF PICKS
 
At ECL, we're an eclectic team of readers who are passionate about the books on our shelves.
 Here's a look at what our staff are reading and loving right now!
 
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The Sixteen Trees of the Somme
Lars Mytting
The Map of Salt and Stars
Jennifer Zeynab
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
Stranger in the Life Boat
Mitch Albom
Greenwich Park
Katherine Faulkner
 
 
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