“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” ― Iris Murdoch

This spring arrives with much to look forward to - warm weather and nature's rebirth chief among them. At the Library, readers will relish an abundance of new titles from our favorite authors this season. Below you'll find many of the new offerings this spring that we expect will be popular with our members. Place holds now on any of the books listed here. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, check out New Books, a list we publish at the beginning of every month that is available on the website or at the Reference Desk. If there is something you're looking forward to reading, 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 log in to our website and use the Suggest a Purchase form.

March

FICTION

• Andrews, Alexandra | Who is Maud Dixon? (ebook available)
• Banks, Russell | Foregone
• Box, C.J. | Dark Sky
• Coben, Harlan | Win
• Downing, David | Wedding Station
• Duras, Marguerite | The Impudent Ones
• Edgarian, Carol | Vera
• Engel Patricia |  Infinite Country
• Estleman, Loren D. | The Eagle and the Viper
• Evanovich, Janet | The Bounty
• Freeman, Brian | Infinite
• Greenidge, Kaitlyn | Libertie
• Griffiths, Elly | The Postscript Murders (ebook available)
• Ishiguro, Kazuo | Klara and the Sun (ebook and audiobook available)
• Lanchester, John | Reality: And Other Stories
• Lawhon, Ariel | Code Name Hélène
• Leon, Donna | Transient Desires (ebook available)
• Margolin, Phillip | A Matter of Life and Death
• May, Peter | The Night Gate
• Mbue, Imbolo | How Beautiful We Were​ (ebook available)
• Nguyen, Viet Thanh | The Committed (ebook available)
• Quinn Kate | The Rose Code
• Robinson, Peter | Not Dark Yet
• Swanson, Peter | Every Vow You Break
• Winspear, Jacqueline | The Consequences of Fear

NONFICTION

• Allende, Isabel | The Soul of a Woman (ebook available)
• Bergreen, Laurence | In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
• Gornick, Vivian | Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
• Isaacson, Walter | The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (ebook available)
• Lamott, Anne | Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
• Morton, Andrew | Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
• Peterson, Jordan B. | Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
• Taraborelli, J. Randi | Grace & Steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the Women of the Bush Dynasty
• Turkle, Sherry | The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir (ebook available)

April

FICTION

• Archer, Jeffrey | Turn a Blind Eye
• Baldacci, David | A Gambling Man
• Bannalec, Jean-Luc | The Granite Coast Murders
• Berry, Flynn | Northern Spy
• Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander | The Passenger
• Harris, C. S. | What the Devil Knows
• Heiny, Katherine | Early Morning Riser
• Kerangal, Maylis de | Painting Time
• Lahiri, Jhumpa| Whereabouts
• Lawson, Mike | House Standoff
• Lispector, Clarice | An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
• McCracken, Elizabeth | The Souvenir Museum
• McLain, Paula | When the Stars Go Dark
• Mozley, Fiona | Hot Stew
• Murakami, Haruki | First Person Singular
• Oyeyemi, Helen | Peaces
• Ozick, Cynthia | Antiquities
• Perry, Anne | Death with a Double Edge
• Sandford, John | Ocean Prey
• Scott, Joanna | Excuse Me While I Disappear
• Sears, Michael | Tower of Babel
• Sweeney, Cynthia D’Aprix | Good Company
• Thompson, Victoria | Murder on Wall Street
• Wright, Richard | The Man Who Lived Underground

NONFICTION

• Bailey, Blake | Philip Roth: The Biography
• Bourdain, Anthony and Laurie Woolever | World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
• Crowther, Gail | Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
• Diski, Jenny | Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told: Essays
• Gladwell, Malcolm | The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
• Keefe, Patrick Radden | Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
• King, Ross | The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
• Kushner, Rachel | The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
• Menand, Louis | The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
• Morris, Jan | Allegorizings
• Plokhy, Serhii | Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

May

FICTION

• Bohjalian, Chris | Hour of the Witch
• Deaver, Jeffery | The Final Twist
• Flanagan, Richard | The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
• Fuller, Claire | Unsettled Ground
• Gordon, David | Against the Law
• Jenoff, Pam | The Woman with the Blue Star
• Korelitz, Jean Hanff | The Plot
• Ragnar Jonasson | The Girl Who Died
• Rutherfurd, Edward | China
• Shepard, Jim | Phase SIx
• Silber, Joan | Secrets of Happiness
• Spufford, Francis | Light Perpetual
• Wier, Andy | Project Hail Mary
• Weiner, Jennifer | That Summer
• Weir, Alison | Katharine Parr, the Sixth Wife

Nonfiction

• de Waal, Edmund | Letters to Camondo
• Drury, Bob and Tom Clavin | Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
• Ferguson, Niall | Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
• Forna, Aminatta | The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion
• Gordon-Reed, Annette | On Juneteenth
• Junger, Sebastian | Freedom
• Kahneman, Daniel; Olivier Sibony; and Cass R. Sunstein  | Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
• Laing, Olivia | Everybody: A Book about Freedom
• Lewis, Michael | The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
• Rushdie, Salman | Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
• Saltzman, Cynthia | Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast
• Schulman, Sarah | Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
• Taylor, Alan | American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850