New Adult Books - June 22nd, 2021                

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Painting the Light  By Gunning, Sally Cabot 2021-06 - William Morrow & Company 9780062916242 Check Our Catalog From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow's War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha's Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century. Martha's Vineyard, 1898. In her first life, Ida Russell had been a painter. Five years ago, she had confidently walked the halls of Boston's …More

Hairpin Bridge  By Adams, Taylor 2021-06 - William Morrow & Company 9780063065444 Check Our Catalog From the author of the "full-throttle thriller" (A. J. Finn) No Exit--a riveting new psychological page-turner featuring a fierce and unforgettable heroine. Three months ago, Lena Nguyen's estranged twin sister, Cambry, drove to a remote bridge seventy miles outside of Missoula, Montana, and jumped two hundred feet to her death. At least, that is the official …More

Chasing Shadows  By Austin, Lynn 2021-06 - Tyndale House Publishers 9781496437341 Check Our Catalog For fans of bestselling WWII fiction comes a powerful novel from Lynn Austin about three women whose lives are instantly changed when the Nazis invade the neutral Netherlands, forcing each into a complicated dance of choice and consequence. Lena is a wife and mother who farms alongside her husband in the tranquil countryside. Her faith has always been her compass, but can she …More

Widespread Panic  By Ellroy, James 2021-06 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780593319345 Check Our Catalog From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s L.A. underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine. Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in '50s L.A. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp--and, most notably, the…More

The Night Hawks  By Griffiths, Elly 2021-06 - Houghton Mifflin 9780358237051 Check Our Catalog 13th book in Ruth Galloway series There's nothing Ruth Galloway hates more than amateur archaeologists, but when a group of them stumble upon Bronze Age artifacts alongside a dead body, she finds herself thrust into their midst--and into the crosshairs of a string of murders circling ever closer. Ruth is back as head of archaeology at the University of North Norfolk when a group of local metal detectorists--the …More

Untitled Jane Doe Novel  By Doe, Jane 2021-06 - Little Brown and Company 9780316362481 Check Our Catalog A profound debut about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever. In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry--freed by the Emancipation Proclamation--seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to …More

Dream Girl  By Lippman, Laura 2021-06 - William Morrow & Company 9780062390073 Check Our Catalog "My dream novel. I devoured this in three days. The sharpest, clearest-eyed take on our #MeToo reckoning yet. Plus: enthralling. --Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me and The Fever Following up on her acclaimed and wildly successful New York Times bestsellerLady in the Lake, …More

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch  By Galchen, Rivka 2021-06 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux 9780374280468 Check Our Catalog The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances. The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of W rttemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a …More

One Two Three  By Frankel, Laurie 2021-06 - Henry Holt & Company 9781250236777 Check Our Catalog From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is, a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick, comes One Two Three, a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry...and laugh again. In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does... Everyone knows everyone in the …More

The Missing Treasures of Amy Ashton  By Ray, Eleanor 2021-06 - Gallery Books 9781982163525 Check Our Catalog For fans of The Keeper of Lost Things and Evvie Drake Starts Over comes a funny and tender debut about a reclusive artist whose collection has gotten out of control--but whose unexpected friendship with a pair of new neighbors might be just what she needs to start over. Amy Ashton once dreamed of becoming an artist--of creating beautiful …More

Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction  By Bronner, Stephen Eric 2017-10 - Oxford University Press, USA 9780190692674 Check Our Catalog Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Luk?cs and Ernst Bloch, …More

When the Stars Begin to Fall  By Johnson, Theodore Roosevelt 2021-06 - Atlantic Monthly Press 9780802157850 Check Our Catalog "Racism is an existential threat to America," Theodore R. Johnson declares at the start of his profound and exhilarating book. It is a refutation of the American Promise enshrined in our Constitution that all men and women are inherently equal. And yet racism continues to corrode our society. If we cannot overcome it, Johnson argues, while the United States will remain as a geopolitical entity, …More

Last Best Hope  By Packer, George 2021-06 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux 9780374603663 Check Our Catalog Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and divides In the year 2020, Americans suffered one rude blow after another to their health, livelihoods, and collective self-esteem. A ruthless pandemic, an inept and malign government response, polarizing …More

Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy's America in Black and White  By Sullivan, Patricia 2021-06 - Belknap Press 9780674737457 Check Our Catalog A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s--and shows how many of today's issues can be traced back to that pivotal time. History, race, and politics converged in the 1960s in ways that indelibly changed America. In Justice Rising, a landmark reconsideration of Robert Kennedy's life …More

The Hummingbirds' Gift  By Montgomery, Sy 2021-05 - Atria Books 9781982176082 Check Our Catalog From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of the "fascinating...entertaining" (The Daily Beast) National Book Award finalist The Soul of an Octopus, a charmingly perfect gem of a book about the most exquisite and extraordinary of winged creatures--hummingbirds. As one of the most beautiful and intriguing birds found …More

The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon ¿ Duchess of Marlborough  By Vickers, Hugo 2021-06 - Hodder & Stoughton 9781529390742 Check Our Catalog **The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020** 'This biography is truly wonderful - a masterclass in storytelling' SUNDAY TIMES 'A continuously astonishing and ultimately moving account of a unique figure, the stuff of great literature' Simon Callow, SUNDAY TIMES 'Gripping . . . jaw-dropping story, brilliantly …More

The Lone Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Great Judicial Hero  By Canellos, Peter S. 2021-06 - Simon & Schuster 9781501188206 Check Our Catalog The definitive, sweeping biography of an American hero who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. Almost a century after his death, it was John Marshall Harlan's …More

Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy  By Sebba, Anne 2021-06 - St. Martin's Press 9781250198631 Check Our Catalog New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted …More

Seeing Serena  By Marzorati, Gerald 2021-06 - Scribner Book Company 9781982127886 Check Our Catalog A riveting chronicle of trailblazing tennis champion and cultural icon Serena Williams's turbulent 2019 tour season and a revealing portrait of who she is, both on and off the court. Serena Williams is an undisputed global sports celebrity. Ranked #12 on ESPN's 2018 World Fame 100 list of popular athletes, thirty-seven-year-old Serena Williams is the only female in the top 20, and she's …More