Publishers are closing out the summer with a wave of great books, including the new novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid! Look for these titles, and many more, arriving at the library in August!

The Last White Man
By Hamid, Mohsin
2022-08 - Riverhead Books
9780593538814
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"Perhaps Hamid's most remarkable work yet ... an extraordinary vision of human possibility." -Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies

"Searing, exhilarating ... reimagines Kafka's iconic The Metamorphosis for our racially charged era." Hamilton Cain, Oprah Daily From the New York Times-bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and …More

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
By Ford, Jamie
2022-08 - Atria Books
9781982158217
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The New York Times bestselling author of the "mesmerizing and evocative" (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington's former poet laureate, that's how she describes …More

Mercury Pictures Presents
By Marra, Anthony
2022-07 - Hogarth Press
9780451495204
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The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles--a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022--BookPage Like many before her, Maria Lagana …More

Shutter
By Emerson, Ramona
2022-08 - Soho Crime
9781641293334
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This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico's Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation. Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases--she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In …More

Alias Emma
By Glass, Ava
2022-08 - Bantam
9780593496794
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In this breakneck, race-against-the-clock thriller, a British spy has twelve hours to deliver her asset across London after Russia hacks the city's security cameras. Can she make it without being spotted . . . or killed? "Move over, James Bond--there's a new hero in town, and she's fantastic."--Karen Cleveland, New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know …More

The Book Eaters
By Dean, Sunyi
2022-08 - Tor Books
9781250810182
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Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is "a darkly sweet pastry of a book about family, betrayal, and the lengths we go to for the ones we love. A delicious modern fairy tale."-- Christopher Buehlman, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author

Truth is found between the stories we're fed and the stories we hunger for. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people …More

All This Could Be Different
By Thankam Mathews, Sarah
2022-08 - Viking
9780593489123
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"An extraordinary novel, spiny and delicate, scathingly funny and wildly moving." --Lauren Groff, author of Matrix "Sarah Thankam Mathews' prose is undeniable." --Raven Leilani, author of Luster From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself--a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, …More

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
By Thrasher, Steven W.
2022-08 - Celadon Books
9781250796639
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An irresistibly readable and humane exploration of the barbarities of class...readers are gifted that most precious of things in these muddled times: a clear lens through which to see the world.

--Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine

From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social

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Thank You for Listening
By Whelan, Julia
2022-08 - Avon Books
9780063243156
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From the author of My Oxford Year, Julia Whelan's uplifting novel tells the story of a former actress turned successful audiobook narrator--who has lost sight of her dreams after a tragic accident--and her journey of self-discovery, love, and acceptance when she agrees to narrate one last romance novel.

For Sewanee Chester, being an audiobook narrator is a …More

Yesterday's Spy
By Bradby, Tom
2022-08 - Atlantic Monthly Press
9780802159045
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From British journalist and bestselling author, Tom Bradby, Yesterday's Spy is a brilliantly plotted historical espionage novel about a father searching for his disappeared son against the backdrop of the 1953 coup in Tehran.

London, 1953. Harry Towers is a recently retired, and even more recently widowed, British intelligence officer. After a night spent drinking away his …More

The Family Remains
By Jewell, Lisa
2022-08 - Atria Books
9781982178895
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A woman stops at nothing to find her husband's murderer in this psychological thriller about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this standalone sequel to the "brilliantly chilling" (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) The Family Upstairs from the New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell. Early one morning on the shore of …More

Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Voyage
By Buck, Rinker
2022-08 - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
9781501106378
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The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, whose last book The Oregon Trail was a triumphant #1 New York Times bestseller. Life on the Mississippi is another epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure. Buck builds an authentic wooden flatboat from the early 1800s and pilots it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of …More

Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
By Maraniss, David
2022-08 - Simon & Schuster
9781476748412
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A riveting new biography of America's greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered. Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, the star …More

Moth
By Razak, Melody
2022-08 - Harper
9780063140066
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"Both a heartbreaking and heart-warming story, Melody Razak's debut transports the reader into the home of a Brahmin family in 1940s Delhi. . . . The character portrayal is so intricate that as the plot twists and turns, you'll truly care what happens to them."--The Independent (UK)

Melody Razak makes her literary debut with this internationally-acclaimed …More

A Map for the Missing
By Tang, Belinda Huijuan
2022-08 - Penguin Press
9780593300664
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"Belinda Huijuan Tang's debut novel is a beautifully drawn, sensitively rendered portrait of a man desperately searching for his father--and for reconnection to the past and people he once knew and loved. Both rich in historical detail and timeless in scope, A Map for the Missing explores the costs of choosing your own path, whether what's left behind can ever be retrieved, and …More

The Women Could Fly
By Giddings, Megan
2022-08 - Amistad Press
9780063116993
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Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times--a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely …More

The Challenge
By Steel, Danielle
2022-08 - Delacorte Press
9781984821614
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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. Fishtail, Montana, is home to Anne and Pitt Pollock, local royalty, high school sweethearts, and owners of the successful Pollock ranch. The sprawling …More

Elizabeth Finch
By Barnes, Julian
2022-08 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780593535431
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From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and particular woman, whose loss becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography. This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the …More

All Good People Here
By Flowers, Ashley
2022-08 - Bantam
9780593496473
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In the propulsive debut novel from the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown's dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor--and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later. You can't ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors. Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, …More

Haven
By Donoghue, Emma
2022-08 - Little Brown and Company
9780316413930
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Three men vow to leave the world behind them. They set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. What they find is the extraordinary island now known as Skellig Michael. Haven has Emma Donoghue's trademark world-building and psychological intensity--but this story is like nothing she has ever written before. In …More

Fox Creek
By Krueger, William Kent
2022-08 - Atria Books
9781982128715
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The latest in the New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor Mystery Series from the "master storyteller" (Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author) follows Cork in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the …More

Love on the Brain
By Hazelwood, Ali
2022-08 - Berkley Books
9780593336847
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis--with explosive results. Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the …More

Afterlives
By Gurnah, Abdulrazak
2022-08 - Riverhead Books
9780593541883
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From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his …More

Perish
By Watkins, Latoya
2022-08 - Tiny Reparations Books
9780593185919
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From a stunning new voice, comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effects of inherited trauma and intergenerational violence as the family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed. Bear it or perish. Those are the words Helen Jean hears that fateful night in her cousin's outhouse that change the trajectory of …More

Carrie Soto Is Back
By Jenkins Reid, Taylor
2022-08 - Ballantine Books
9780593158685
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In this powerful novel about the cost of greatness, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback when the world considers her past her prime--from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever …More

The Ink Black Heart
By Galbraith, Robert
2022-08 - Mulholland Books
9780316413039
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The latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case.

PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES: "Magnificent" -- Sunday Times

"[Galbraith's] greatest novelistic gifts are her ability to spin wild, intricate plots (witness the astrological elements of this …More

The House of Fortune
By Burton, Jessie
2022-08 - Bloomsbury Publishing
9781635579741
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Alive with the magic of 18th-century Amsterdam, an enchanting, fantastical stand-alone companion novel to the sensational New York Times bestseller The Miniaturist, which has sold over two million copies worldwide.

Amsterdam in the year 1705. It is Thea Brandt's eighteenth birthday. She is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms, but life at home is increasingly …More