"The summer night is like a perfection of thought." - Wallace Stevens

As the restrictions lift and the world reopens, many of us are looking forward to the summer pleasures we missed last year.  Let the Library help you find the books that will join you on this season's adventures. Below is a list of books being published this summer that we expect to be popular with our members. Click on the titles and place holds now on any of the books. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, check out New Books, a list we publish at the beginning of every month and 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. 

June

FICTION

• Arnett, Kristen | With Teeth
• Doiron, Paul | Dead by Dawn
• Ellroy, James | Widespread Panic
• Galchen, Rivka | Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch
• Griffiths, Elly | The Night Hawks
• Harris, Zakiya Dalila | The Other Black Girl
• Hilderbrand, Elin | Golden Girl
• Jance, J. A. | Unfinished Business
• Joshi, Alka | The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
• Lansdale, Joe R. | Moon Lake
• Lippman, Laura | Dream Girl
• Mangan, Christine | Palace of the Drowned
• Massey, Sujata | The Bombay Prince
• Michaelides, Alex | The Maidens
• Offut, Chris | The Killing Hills
• Padura, Leonardo | The Transparency of Time
• Patterson, James & Bill Clinton | The President’s Daughter
• Prose, Francine | The Vixen
• Sager, Riley | Survive the Night
• Shriver, Lionel | Should We Stay or Should We Go
• St. Aubyn, Edward | Double Blind
• Steadman, Catherine | The Disappearing Act
• Taddeo, Lisa | Animal
• Taylor, Brandon | Filthy Animals
• Yan Lianke | Hard Like Water

NONFICTION

• Bird, Kai | The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
• Block, Lawrence | A Writer Prepares
• Emezi, Akwaeke | Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
• Fox, Margalit | The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
• Hastings, Max | Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942
• Miles, Tiya | All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
• Packer, George | Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
• Rhodes, Ben | After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made
• Scurr, Ruth | Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows
• Sebba, Anne | Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
• Smith, Clint | How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
• Wright, Lawrence | The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

July

FICTION

• Abbott, Jeff | An Ambush of Widows
• Atkins, Ace | The Heathens
• Davis, Lindsey | A Comedy of Terrors
• El Akkad, Omar | What Strange Paradise
• Fesperman, Dan | The Cover Wife
• Jin, Ha | A Song Everlasting
• Kitamura, Katie | Intimacies
• Läckberg, Camilla | Silver Tears
• Lapena, Shari | Not a Happy Family
• McCall Smith, Alexander | The Man with the Silver Saab
• MacNeal, Susan Elia | The Hollywood Spy
• Maynard, Joyce | Count the Ways
• Miranda, Megan | Such a Quiet Place
• Paris, B. A. | The Therapist
• Reichs, Kathy | The Bone Code
• Sahota, Sunjeev | China Room
• Silva, Daniel | The Cellist
• Slaughter, Karin | False Witness
• Spiotta, Dana | Wayward
• Statovci, Pajtim | Bolla
• Thor, Brad | Black Ice
• Todd, Charles | An Irish Hostage

NONFICTION

• Garcia, Rodrigo | A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
• Jackson, Shirley | The Letters of Shirley Jackson
• Kean, Sam | The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science
• Milton, Giles | Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
• Parks, Tim | The Hero’s Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
• Pollan, Michael | This is Your Mind on Plants

August

FICTION

• Abbott, Megan | The Turnout
• Arnaldur Indriðason | The Darkness Knows
• Aswany, Alaa Al | The Republic of False Truths
• Barker, Pat | The Women of Troy
• Billingham, Mark | Rabbit Hole
• Brown, Sandra | Blind Tiger
• Burke, James Lee | Another Kind of Eden
• De Robertis, Carolina | The President and the Frog
• Faye, Lyndsay | The King of Infinite Space
• Fielding, Joy | Cul-de-sac
• Grossman, David | More Than I Love My Life
• Hawkins, Paula | A Slow Fire Burning
• Heller, Peter | The Guide
• King, Stephen | Billy Summers
• Krueger, William Kent | Lightning Strike
• Muller, Marcia | Ice and Stone
• Oates, Joyce Carol | Breathe
• Penny, Louise | The Madness of Crowds
• Preston, Douglas and Lincoln Child | Bloodless
• Rollins, James | Kingdom of Bones
• Santlofer, Jonathan | The Last Mona Lisa
• Slimani, Leila | In the Country of Others
• Trinchieri, Camilla | The Bitter Taste of Murder
• Vasquez, Juan Gabriel | Songs for the Flames: Stories
• Walker, Martin | The Coldest Case
• Wolitzer, Hilma | Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories
• Woods, Stuart | Class Act

NONFICTION

• Bernstein, Carl | Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom
• Dove, Rita | Playlist for the Apolcalypse: Poems
• King, Billie Jean | All In: An Autobiography
• Levine, Robert S.| The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• McDermott, Alice | What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
• Trump, Mary L. | The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal