My LINKcat AccountThe weather lately has certainly been conducive to staying inside, under some kind of blanket (if you are like me and refuse to turn the heat on after a certain date on the calendar), and reading. The upcoming weather forecast doesn’t look all that warm or all that sunny either. But you know how things just sometimes sort of work out? Well, by happy coincidence, we have just gotten a number of shipments of books with works by many bestselling authors at the same time the weather doesn’t look all that good. Getting in some spring training on reading will also get your eyes and page-turning or page-flicking fingers in shape for the Summer Library Program (also known as the Summer Reading Program) which begins on May 30th, the day after Memorial Day – which is this coming Monday for those of you who, like me, may have lost track of where we are in the calendar. Summer Reading will be more online, more interactive, and easier for you to keep track of your reading. Watch our website or follow us on FaceBook for more details. Below you will find some of the new titles by bestselling authors. Guess which author listed below had a pre-publication run of half a million books? That would be David Baldacci. So best place a hold on that one because the demand will be very high. Enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
Mockingbird songs : my friendship with Harper Lee / by Wayne Flynt. A portrait of one of America's most beloved authors is presented through reminiscences and letters exchanged with one of her closest friends, describing how their respective experiences with the violent racism of the mid-20th-century American South shaped their families, careers and values.
A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like / by Ashley Graham. The outspoken plus-sized model and body image activist presents a collection of provocative essays that chronicle her life in fashion and offer insight into how ideas around body image are and are not evolving in today's culture.
New Fiction
Any day now / by Robyn Carr. A sequel to What We Find continues the adventures of the characters from Sullivan's Crossing, who greet diverse visitors at a rustic campground at the crossroads of the Colorado and Continental Divide Trails.
The chosen : a novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood / by J.R. Ward. Falling in love with brotherhood rival Xcor, a tortured man in custody who is awaiting interrogation, Layla seeks to gain his freedom and secure their relationship by appealing to the Black Dagger Brotherhood for a chance to let him prove himself.
Miss you / by Kate Eberlen. A chance meeting fails to bring the 18-year-old Tess and Gus they love with each other that they deserve, and they wind through lives that bring surprises and divert them from their intended paths, but will they get a second chance at love together? A first novel.
My Italian bulldozer : a novel / by Alexander Smith McCall. Visiting the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his overdue cookbook, writer Paul Stewart endures a setbacks that leave him stranded at the airport until a stranger offers him transportation on a bulldozer, triggering a madcap series of adventures on the Tuscan countryside.
All by myself, alone : a novel / by Mary Higgins Clark. Taking a cruise to escape the humiliation of her fiancé's arrest, gems expert Celia Kilbride befriends octogenarian passenger Emily Haywood, who is found dead three days out to sea at the hands of someone who has stolen the victim's priceless emerald necklace. By the best-selling author of “As Time Goes By”.
The burial hour : a Lincoln Rhyme novel / by Jeffrey Deaver. A return to Deaver's successful series finds Lincoln Rhyme investigating the abduction of a traveling businessman from an Upper East Side street, a case that is complicated by an 8-year-old girl who was the crime's only witness
Fast & loose / by Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington, a New York City cop turned rainmaker for a white-shoe Manhattan law firm, tackles a formidable case that challenges the boundaries of his talents.
The fix / by David Baldacci. A latest thriller featuring football player-turned-detective Amos Decker finds him using his eidetic memory to solve a high-stakes case. By the best-selling author of “Memory Man” and “The Last Mile”.
Golden prey / by John Sandford. A series of audacious robberies compels newly appointed U.S. marshal Lucas Davenport to investigate the possible return of a gang leader who once killed two FBI agents. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Virgil Flowers series.