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Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin announced herself as a unique voice in contemporary fiction with her eerie, hypnotic debut novel Fever Dream. Fans of hers can expect to be similarly unsettled by Mouthful of Birds, a collection of stories, newly translated and published in January 2019.
Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin announced herself as a unique voice in contemporary fiction with her eerie, hypnotic debut novel Fever Dream. Fans of hers can expect to be similarly unsettled by Mouthful of Birds, a collection of stories, newly translated and published in January 2019.

Forthcoming Books - Winter 2019

Friday, December 21, 2018

"...Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness."
― from "Snowy Night" by Mary Oliver

Readers will find much good company this winter. The next couple of months promise a bounty of new titles from our members' favorite authors. The list below comprises many of the new offerings we expect will be popular. For a more complete account of our recent acquisitions, see our New Books List, published 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.

January

Anolik, Lili | Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. 
Barton, Fiona | The Suspect  
Borman, Tracy | Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him 
Bradley, Alan | The Golden Tresses of the Dead 
Brett, Simon | Blotto, Twinks and the Intimate Review 
Chabon, Michael | Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros 
Conley, Susan | Elsey Come Home 
Finder, Joseph | Judgment 
Gillham, David R. | Annelies 
Hadley, Tessa | Late in the Day 
Hurwitz, Gregg | Out of the Dark 
Jin, Ha | The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai 
Jonasson, Jonas | The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man 
Jónasson, Ragnar | Rupture 
Lescroart, John | The Rule of Law 
Lipstadt, Deborah E. | Antisemitism: Here and Now 
Lipsyte, Sam | Hark 
Obioma, Chigozie | An Orchestra of Minorities 
Perry, Thomas | The Burglar 
Roupenian, Kristen | You Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories 
Sansom, C.J. | Tombland 
Schweblin, Samanta | Mouthful of Birds 
Shapiro, Dani | Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love 
Slimani, Leila | Adèle 
Walker, Karen Thompson | The Dreamers 
Winters, Ben | Golden State 
Worsley, Lucy | Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life

February

Abramson, Jill | The Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts 
Akunin, Boris | The Coronation 
Bolaño, Roberto | The Spirit of Science Fiction 
Bowen, Rhys | The Victory Garden 
Collins, Kathleen | Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary 
Cumming, Charles | The Moroccan Girl 
Dennison, Matthew | The Man in the Willows: The Life of Kenneth Grahame 
Dyer, Geoff | ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’: Watching Where Eagles Dare 
Finch, Charles | The Vanishing Man 
Fishman, Boris | Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table 
Hannah, Sophie | The Next to Die 
Harper, Jane | The Lost Man 
James, Marlon | Black Leopard, Red Wolf 
Kellerman, Jonathan | The Wedding Guest 
Lawson, Mike | House Arrest 
Lévy, Bernard-Henri | The Empire and the Five Kings: America's Abdication and the Fate of the World 
Li, Yiyun | Where Reasons End 
Lipman, Elinor | Good Riddance 
Luiseli, Valeria | Lost Children Archive 
Malcolm, Janet | Nobody’s Looking at You: Essays 
Mallon, Thomas | Landfall 
McCracken, Elizabeth | Bowlaway 
Robinson, Peter | Careless Love 
Todd, Charles | The Black Ascot 
Winslow, Don | The Border 
Yrsa Sigudardottir | The Reckoning 
 

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