“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.” ― Nora Ephron

By the time Thanksgiving arrives, readers will have more than a few reasons to be grateful given this fall's lineup of books.  Celebrated entertainers and artists join a cavalcade of historians, poets, and novelists with new books.  Keep in mind the titles below are just some of what's arriving at the Library in the next couple of months.  If there is a book you’re anticipating but don’t find on this list, simply request it from the Acquisitions Department by filling out a request slip at the Circulation Desk or login to our website and use the Suggest a Purchase form.  We love to hear from you — share your thoughts on these or other titles you’re looking forward to reading in the comments below.  Happy Reading!  — Steven McGuirl & Patrick Rayner, Acquisitions

September

• Baker, Nicholson | Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids 
• Beaton, M.C. | Pushing Up Daisies 
• Bradley, Alan | Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d 
• Burnett, Carol | In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem and Fun in the Sandbox 
• Butler, Robert Olen | Perfume River 
• Coetzee, J.M. | Schooldays of Jesus 
• Cohen, Richard | She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron 
• Davies, Peter Ho | The Fortunes 
• Donoghue, Emma | The Wonder 
• Foer, Jonathan Safran | Here I Am 
• Franklin, Ruth | Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life 
• Frost, Robert | The Letters of Robert Frost, 1920-1928 
• Gottlieb, Robert | Avid Reader: A Life 
• Greif, Mark | Against Everything: Essays 
• Hannah, Sophie | Closed Casket 
• HIaasen, Carl | Razor Girl 
• Jance, J.A. | Downfall 
• Kanigel, Robert | Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs 
• Kidder, Tracy | A Truck Full of Money: One Man’s Quest to Recover from Great Success 
• Koch, Herman | Dear Mr. M 
• Le Carré, John | The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life 
• Livesey, Margot | Mercury 
• Lelyveld, Joseph | His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt 
• McEwan, Ian | Nutshell 
• Marton, Kati | True Believer: Stalin’s Last American Spy 
• Mayor, Archer | Presumption of Guilt 
• Neville, Stuart | So Say the Fallen 
• O’Connell, Carol | Blind Sight 
• Patchett, Ann | Commonwealth 
• Perry, Anne | Revenge in a Cold River 
• Rash, Ron | The Risen 
• Shalev, Meir | Two She-Bears 
• Slaughter, Karin | The Kept Woman 
• Springsteen, Bruce | Born to Run 
• Thompson, Laura | The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters 
• Towles, Amor | A Gentleman in Moscow 
• Tremain, Rose | The Gustav Sonata 
• Wolfe, Tom | The Kingdom of Speech 

October

• Abramovic, Marina | Walk Through Walls: A Memoir 
• Alameddine, Rabih | The Angel of History 
• Atwood, Margaret | Hag-Seed 
• Brands, H.W. | The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War 
• Collins, Billy | The Rain in Portugal: Poems 
• Eade, Philip | Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited 
• French, Tana | The Trespasser 
• Ginsburg, Ruth Bader | My Own Words 
• Grisham, John | The Whistler 
• Ha Jin | The Boat Rocker 
• James, P.D. | The Mistletoe Murder: And Other Stories 
• James, Peter | Love You Dead 
• Kennedy, A.L. | Serious Sweet 
• Kirsch, Adam | The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature 
• Lasdun, James | The Fall Guy 
• Lethem, Jonathan | A Gambler’s Anatomy 
• McCall Smith, Alexander | Precious and Grace 
• Macintyre, Ben | Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War 
• May, Peter | Coffin Road 
• Moyes, Jojo | Paris for One and Other Stories 
• The New Yorker Magazine | The 60s: the Story of a Decade 
• Oliver, Mary | Upstream: Essays and Poems  
• Picoult, Jodi | Small Great Things 
• Prose, Francine | Mister Monkey 
• Sandford, John | Escape Clause 
• Semple, Maria | Today Will Be Different 
• Smith, Martin Cruz | The Girl from Venice 
• Szabo, Magda | Iza’s Ballad 
• Weiner, Jennifer | Hungry Heart 
• White, Ronald C. | American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant 
• Zink, Nell | Nicotine 

November

• Archer, Jeffrey | This Was a Man 
• Baird, Julia | Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire 
• Baldacci, David | No Man’s Land 
• Block, Lawrence | Sinner Man 
• Brookmyre, Christopher | Black Widow 
• Camilleri, Andrea | A Voice in the Night 
• Chabon, Michael | Moonglow 
• Child, Lee | Night School 
• Clark, Mary Higgins | The Sleeping Beauty Killer 
• Connelly, Michael | The Wrong Side of Goodbye 
• Cook, Blanche Wiesen | Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962 
• Cornwell, Patricia | Chaos 
• Evonvich, Janet | Turbo Twenty-Three 
• Ferrante, Elena | Frantumaglia 
• Finch, Charles | The Inheritance 
• Friedman, Thomas L. | Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations 
• HIgashino, Keigo | Under the Midnight Sun 
• Hoffman, Alice | Faithful 
• Marías, Javier | Thus Bad Begins 
• Oz, Amos | Judas 
• Smith, Zadie | Swing Time 
• Stewart, Rory | The Marches: A Borderland Journey between England and Scotland