My LINKcat AccountIt’s hard to believe we are already at the 4th of July. The weather has been hot, humid, rainy, gloomy, and recently, downright autumnal. It’s really kinda hard to get a fix on the date when the season won’t seem to settle down. This holiday week looks like it will be pleasant – i.e. not sweltering—and since Independence Day may free up some time for you, and since reading outside in the shade in the summer is a very pleasant guilty pleasure (which I am always urging you to indulge in), you will find below a nice long list of new books for your perusal. If you’re in town on the 4th and plan on watching the parade, watch for the library’s “float”. Give us a shout out and we’ll try to get some candy to you! If you stay around for Bingo, you will find library staff and Friends of the Library scooping frozen custard as a fundraiser. Stop by and say “Hi” and help support the library by indulging in a cool summer treat. Hope to see you there!
New Non-Fiction
The time traveler's guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer. A popular history of daily life in Elizabeth I's England is presented as a historical tour of the experiences of luminaries and everyday citizens that offers insight into topics ranging from class and violence to sex and religion. By the award-winning author of “The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England”.
For a song and a hundred songs : a poet's journey through a Chinese prison / by Liao Yiwu. The award-winning exiled poet and author of "The Corpse Walker" shares a poignant account of his years in prison following the Tiananmen Square protests, describing the brutality he endured for writing the incendiary poem, "Massacre;" the humanity he discovered in his fellow cell mates and the ways in which his incarceration reflected key changes in China.
Queen of the air : a true story of love and tragedy at the circus / by Dean Jensen. Traces the story of world-famous trapeze artist Leitzel and her star-crossed love affair with Alfredo Codona of the famous Flying Codona Brothers, chronicling her disadvantaged youth, three marriages and life-defying achievements with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
New Fiction
Affliction / by Laurell Hamilton. Anita uses her familiarity with zombies to investigate why Micah’s father is dying from an inexplicable flesh-rotting disease in the latest novel of the number one best-selling series.
The goliath stone / by Larry Niven & Matthew Harrington. Using nanotechnology to enable miracle health cures and promote unprecedented levels of global wealth in the mid-21st century, Dr. Toby Glyer sparks moral debates and finds his innovations tested by their sentience and the threat of a cataclysmic asteroid collision.
Beautiful day : a novel / by Elin Hilderbrand. Gathering on Nantucket for a wedding planned to the letter by the bride’s late mother, the Carmichaels and the Grahams hide their scandal-ridden, crumbling lives from the blissfully unaware, happy couple in this new novel from the author of “Barefoot”.
Children of the Jacaranda tree : a novel / by Shar Delijani. A tale set in post-revolutionary Iran follows the experiences of Neda, Omid, Sheida and other individuals from three generations of families whose political activist loved ones were murdered during the violent purges inside Tehran's prisons.
Aftershock / by Andrew Vachss. Retiring to a seacoast village after a life in various war zones, French Foreign Legion-trained mercenary Dell and military nurse Dolly foster local teens before the shooting of a popular boy reveals stunning regional corruption and a brutal rite of passage imposed on vulnerable girls. By the best-selling author of the Burke series.
The Confessions of Al Capone / by Loren Estleman. A rigorously researched biographical novel based on the later years of the infamous mobster follows the efforts of an FBI junior agent who in 1944 is dispatched by J. Edgar Hoover to infiltrate Capone's organization, an effort that is compromised by Capone's haunted memories of prison and declining health. By the Shamus Award-winning author.
The heist : a novel / by Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg. A first entry in a new collaborative comic suspense series by the best-selling author of the Stephanie Plum mysteries and the best-selling author of the Monk tales finds FBI Special Agent Kate Winslow using her own schemes to outmaneuver charming con man Danny Cole, who becomes an unlikely partner when her next mission pits her against a formidable adversary.
The Ides of April / by Lindsey Davis. Flavia Albia, the adopted daughter of Falco, works as a private informer in Rome during the reign of Domitian and is hired to investigate a fatal accident that turns sinister when her client dies under suspicious circumstances that place Flavia Albia's reputation at stake. By the best-selling author of the Marcus Didius Falco series.
The kill room : a Lincoln Rhyme novel / by Jeffery Deaver. Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs investigate the murder of an anti-American sympathizer in the Bahamas, who may have been taken out by the U.S. government in this new suspense novel from the author of “The Bone Collector”.