“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”—Oscar Wilde

So numerous are the offerings from our favorite authors this spring, it will be a tall task for even the most avid readers to keep up. The titles below are just some of the books we expect to be popular at the Library this season. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, check out New Books, a list published at the beginning of every month and available on the website or at the Circulation Desk. If there is something you're looking forward to reading, but don't find in our catalog, 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.

April

FICTION

• Baldacci, David | Simply Lies
• Clark, Mary Higgins & Alafair Burke | Where Are the Children Now?
• Cleeton, Chanel | The Cuban Heiress
• Cranor, Eli | Ozark Dogs
• Estleman, Loren | City Walls
• Frazier, Charles | The Trackers
• Griffiths, Elly |The Last Remains
• Hammad, Isabella | Enter Ghost
• Han Kang | Greek Lessons
• Heiny, Katherine | Games and Rituals: Stories
• Hepworth, Sally | The Soulmate
• Jones, Gayl | Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments
• Lawton, John | Moscow Exile
• Lehane, Dennis |Small Mercies
• McCall Smith, Alexander | The Enigma of Garlic
• Miranda, Megan | The Only Survivors
• Moore, Susanna | The Lost Wife
• Morton, Kate | Homecoming
• Parker, T. Jefferson | The Rescue
• Perry, Anne | The Fourth Enemy
• Proust, Marcel | The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts
• Robinson, Peter | Standing in the Shadows
• Sandford, John | Dark Angel
• Sittenfeld, Curtis | Romantic Comedy
• Stabenow, Dana | Not the Ones Dead
• Thompson, Victoria | Murder on Bedford Street
• Winslow, Don | City of Dreams
• Yehoshua, A. B. | The Only Daughter

NONFICTION

• Ackroyd, Peter | The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern
• Balint, Benjamin | Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
• Biskupic, Joan | Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
• Chin, Ava | Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
• Cozzens, Peter | A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
• De Courcy, Anne | Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris
• Egan, Timothy | A Fever in the Heartland:  The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
• Frankopan, Peter | The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
• Graham, Jorie | To 2040
• Grann, David | The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder
• Greenfield, Robert | True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work, and Times
• Heather, Peter | Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300
• Kundera, Milan | A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe
• Larman, Alexander | The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided
• Smith, Richard Norton | An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
• Smith, Sally Bedell | George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy
• Vuillard, Éric | An Honorable Exit
• Williams, Lucinda | Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir
• Winchester, Simon | Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

May

FICTION

• Abbott, Megan | Beware the Woman
• Abrams, Stacey | Rogue Justice
• Ackerman, Elliot | Halcyon
• Arnaldur Indridason | The Girl by the Bridge
• Baker, Jo | The Midnight News
• Banville, John | The Lock-Up
• Barclay, Linwood | The Lie Maker
• Barry, Dave | Swamp Story
• Boyle, T. C. | Blue Skies
• Carcaterra, Lorenzo | Nonna Maria and the Case of the Stolen Necklace
• Cline, Emma | The Guest
• Hanks, Tom | The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece
• Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia | The Affairs of Ashmore Castle
• Harris, Joanne | Broken Light
• Isaacs, Susan | Bad, Bad Seymour Brown
• Keane, Mary Beth | The Half Moon
• Kuang, R. F. | Yellowface
• Marías, Javier | Tomás Nevinson
• Maynard, Joyce | The Bird Hotel
• McCall Smith, Alexander | The Private Life of Spies and the Exquisite Art of Getting Even: Stories of Espionage and Revenge
• Nesbo, Jo | Killing Moon
• Onda, Riku | Honeybees and Distant Thunder
• Pochoda, Ivy | Sing Her Down
• Porter, Max | Shy
• Quick, Amanda | The Bride Wore White
• Roberts, Nora | Identity
• Smith, Martin Cruz | Independence Square
• Starnone, Domenico | The House on Via Gemito
• Taylor, Brandon | The Late Americans
• Thayer, Nancy | All the Days of Summer
• Urrea, Luis Alberto | Good Night, Irene
• Vasquez, Juan Gabriel | Retrospective
• Verghese, Abraham | The Covenant of Water
• White, Edmund | The Humble Lover

NONFICTION

• Alexander, Kwame | Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrance
• Biggs, Joanna | A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
• Eig, Jonathan | King: A Life
• Garton Ash, Timothy | Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
• Kroeger, Brooke | Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism
• Montefiore, Simon Sebag | The World: A Family History of Humanity
• Thomas, Evan | Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
• Tobar, Héctor | Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings of Myths of “Latino”
• Toobin, Jeffrey | Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism