My LINKcat AccountHow did we suddenly get to Autumn Eve? Tomorrow, Friday, September 22nd, at 3:01 p.m., Autumn officially arrives. This is the autumnal equinox when we have equal (approximately) hours of day and night. After Friday, we keep losing daylight – on both ends – until about December 10th. At that darkest time of year, suddenly, we start gaining a minute or two at the end of the day. Sure we continue to lose light in the morning, but that minute at the end of the day gives one a little frision of hope. But right now, all that darkness is still a couple of months away. Right now, the light we do have is illuminate the trees as they change their colors. The light we have still provides leisurely evenings to walk around outside in the pastel sunsets while still allowing time to start that new book you just picked up at the library.
Yes, I did say new books. As I foretold last week, the book drought I experiences last week when trying to provide titles of new books for you, was broken on Monday. Book orders have continued to arrive with their wonted regularity.This week you will find a full baker’s dozen of book titles listed below. Enjoy!
New Non-Fiction
“Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory” by Michael Korda. Combining epic history with rich family stories, the author chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk.
“Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence” by Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard. In a book told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Great Britain’s King George III, the authors chronicle the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. By the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of “Killing the Rising Sun”.
“The Rise and Fall of Adam & Eve” by Stephen Greenblatt. The Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of “The Swerve” and “Will in the World” investigates the life of one of humankind’s greatest stories.
“Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History” by Katy Tur.
The NBC reporter and 2016 presidential campaign insider shares perspectives into what it was like to report on and witness Trump's unexpected campaign successes, revealing how journalists have been coerced and threatened to slant their reports in Trump's favor.
New Fiction
“The Unquiet Grave” by Sharyn McCrumb. A tale based on the bizarre 1897 case of the Greenbrier Ghost follows the "talking therapy" of an asylum inmate, a black attorney who decades earlier helped to defend a white man on trial for the murder of his young bride, who famously implicated her husband from beyond the grave. By the best-selling author of the Ballad series.
“The Vengeance of the Mothers” by Jim Fergus. A sequel to the award-winning One Thousand White Women follows the embittered journal of a woman who assisted the government's "Brides for Indians" program in 1873, only to become fully absorbed into Cheyenne culture in the face of white society's rejection.
“An Echo of Murder, No. 23 (William Monk)” by Anne Perry. Investigating the gruesome murder of a Hungarian warehouse owner, Thames River Police Commander Monk is challenged to rethink his crime-solving techniques in order to avoid being caught in the crosshairs of violence stemming from ethnic prejudice. By the best-selling author of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series.
“The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, No. 5 (Millennium)” by David Lagercrantz. Accepting help from investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the truth about her traumatic childhood, Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, navigates dangerous obstacles in the form of an anti-Muslim gang, her mafia-connected twin and the conductors of a sinister pseudoscientific experiment.
“Robert B. Parker’s The Hangman’s Sonnet, No. 16 (Jesse Stone)” by Reed Coleman. Struggling to hold himself together through Suitcase Simpson's wedding while grieving the loss of his fiancée, Jesse Stone investigates the death of an elderly woman whose demise may be linked to the disappearance of a master recording tape by a decades-reclusive music genius.
“The Scarred Woman, No. 7 (Department Q)” by Jussi Adler-Olsen. Unable to determine links between a Copenhagen park murder and another unsolved case that is unsettlingly similar, Detective Carl Morck of Department Q finds his job and division on the line at the same time the team investigates a possible crime that a struggling Rose has brought to light. By the best-selling author of “The Keeper of Lost Causes”.
“The Seagull, No. 8 (Vera Stanhope)” by Ann Cleeves. Following leads to the site of a missing con man's body, Inspector DI Vera Stanhope discovers links between the cold case, a 1980s bar and her own father. By the award-winning author of “Raven Black”.
“The Western Star, No. 13 (Longmire Mysteries)” by Craig Johnson. Sheriff Walt Longmire navigates a violent convergence of his past and present during a parole hearing for one of the most dangerous men he has ever met, a criminal whose thirst for vengeance threatens everyone Walt cares about and echoes the complicated dynamics from a Vietnam-era sheriff's convention.
“A Legacy of Spies, No. 9(George Smiley)” by John Le Carre.
A long-anticipated new Smiley novel finds George Smiley, his colleague Peter Guillam and other former members of the British Secret Service facing charges for decades-old, once-toasted intelligence operations by a generation that is unfamiliar with the dynamics of the Cold War. By the best-selling author of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”.