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Weston Public Library News - June 2, 2023

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June 6, 2023

From: Weston Public Library

Get started on your summer reading with some great new releases! We're planning an exiciting summer reading program with events for the whole family. We hope to see you soon!

Lady Tan's Circle of Women
By See, Lisa
2023-06 - Scribner Book Company
9781982117085 …More

The Wind Knows My Name
By Allende, Isabel
Translator Riddle, Frances
2023-06 - Ballantine Books
9780593598108

This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019.

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during …More

The Whispers
By Audrain, Ashley
2023-06 - Pamela Dorman Books
9781984881694

From the author of THE PUSH, a pageturner about four suburban families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens--and what is lost when good people make unconscionable choices The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their  …More

All the Sinners Bleed
By Cosby, S. a.
2023-06 - Flatiron Books
9781250831910

The new novel from New York Times bestselling and Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author S. A. Cosby, "one of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction." --Washington Post.

A Black sheriff. A serial killer.

A small town ready to combust. Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of  …More
    
Same Time Next Summer
By Monaghan, Annabel
2023-06 - G.P. Putnam's Sons
9780593544969

"BURSTING WITH THE MAGIC OF FIRST LOVE, IT'S EVERYTHING I WANT IN A SUMMER ROMANCE."-Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After
Named a Best Book of Summer by Real Simple • Reader's Digest • Country Living • The Skimm

Beach Rules:
Do take long walks on the sand.
Do put an …More

Translation State
By Leckie, Ann
2023-06 - Orbit
9780316289719

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across the stars in this powerful novel from a Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author.

"There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could." --John Scalzi

Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their …More

Girls and Their Horses
By Brazier, Eliza Jane
2023-06 - Berkley Books
9780593438886

"The thriller of the summer."

--Today.com Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show...from the author of Good Rich People When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an exclusive community in the heart of Southern California, they believe it's their …More

A Disappearance in Fiji
By Rao, Nilima
2023-06 - Soho Crime
9781641294294

A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigating a missing persons case in colonial Fiji 1914, Fiji: Akal Singh, 25, would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise--or, as he calls it, "this godforsaken island." After a promising start to his police career in Hong Kong, Akal has been sent to Fiji as punishment for a humiliating  …More

The Five-Star Weekend
By Hilderbrand, Elin
2023-06 - Little Brown and Company
9780316258777

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket: After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket. Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But  …More

The Spectacular
By Davis, Fiona
2023-06 - Dutton
9780593184042

From the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Magnolia Palace A thrilling story about love, sacrifice, and the pursuit of dreams, set amidst the glamour and glitz of Radio City Music Hall in its mid-century heyday. New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life  …More

You Were Always Mine
By Pride, Christine
Author Piazza, Jo
2023-06 - Atria Books
9781668005507

The acclaimed authors of the “emotional literary roller coaster” (The Washington Post) and Good Morning America book club pick We Are Not Like Them return with this moving and provocative novel about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby, sending her on a collision course with her past, her family, and a birth mother who doesn't want to be  …More

Be Mine: A Frank Bascombe Novel
By Ford, Richard
2023-06 - Ecco Press
9780061692086

From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature

Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, …More

The Puzzle Master
By Trussoni, Danielle
2023-06 - Random House
9780593595299

Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery--one with explosive consequences for the fate of humanity--in this suspenseful thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Angelology "In short: The Puzzle Master = (The Da Vinci Code + The Silent Patient + sprinkle of Stephen King)  …More

Nightbloom
By Medie, Peace Adzo
2023-06 - Algonquin Books
9781643752846

Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese's Book Club pick His Only Wife, returns with a moving novel about the unbreakable power of female friendship.

When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls in Ghana, they were more than just cousins; they were inseparable. Selasi was exuberant and funny, Akorfa quiet and studious. They would do anything for each other, imploring  …More

Return to Valetto
By Smith, Dominic
2023-06 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
9780374607685

From the bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith's Return to Valetto tells of a nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II.

On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village--and a hub of resistance and refuge during World War II--centuries of earthquakes,  …More

Loot
By James, Tania
2023-06 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780593535974

A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero's quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty years. A wildly inventive, irresistible feat of storytelling from a writer at the height of her powers. "Loot held me spellbound from the  …More

You Can't Stay Here Forever
By Lin, Katherine
2023-06 - Harper
9780063241435

Desperate to obliterate her past, a young widow flees California for the French Riviera in this compelling debut, a tale of loss, rebirth, modern friendship, and romance that blends Sally Rooney's wryness and psychological insight with Emma Straub's gorgeous scene-setting and rich relationships.

Just days after her young, handsome husband dies in a car accident, Ellie …More

Zero Days
By Ware, Ruth
2023-06 - Gallery/Scout Press
9781982155292

The New York Times bestselling “new Agatha Christie” (Air Mail) Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller that combines Mr. and Mrs. Smith with The Fugitive about a woman in a race against time to clear her name and find her husband's murderer.

Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, …More

The Quiet Tenant
By Michallon, Clémence
2023-06 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780593534649

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED NOVELS OF 2023 - "A bravura feat of storytelling...daring and completely satisfying." --James Patterson, #1 best-selling author A PULSE-POUNDING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ABOUT A SERIAL KILLER NARRATED BY THOSE CLOSEST TO HIM: HIS 13-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, HIS GIRLFRIEND--AND THE ONE VICTIM HE HAS SPARED "All...of the expected suspense and psychological tension,  …More

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
By Moore, Lorrie
2023-06 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780307594143

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart From "one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation" (Caryn James; The New York Times)--a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first  …More

Watch Us Dance
By Slimani, Leila
Translator Taylor, Sam
2023-06 - Viking
9780593493304

The rebellions within an interracial family play out against the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s in this sexy, stylish, sophisticated new novel by the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny and In the Country of Others. It's the 1960s, and the air is electric. On the cusp of adulthood, two biracial siblings--their father is Moroccan,  …More

The Ninth Man
By Berry, Steve
Author Blackwood, Grant
2023-06 - Grand Central Publishing
9781538721070

From New York Times bestselling author of the Cotton Malone series comes a thrilling, action-packed historical adventure that sends Luke Daniels on an international manhunt for the truth about the assassination of President John Kennedy. Luke Daniels is in London, between assignments with the Magellan Billet, when he receives a frantic call from an old friend. Jillian Stein is  …More

Banyan Moon
By Thai, Thao
2023-06 - Mariner Books
9780063267107

"A riveting mother-daughter tale." -- Elle
"A celebration of life in all its forms and a joy to read." -- Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Exiles
A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling …More

The Beach at Summerly
By Williams, Beatriz
2023-06 - William Morrow & Company
9780063020849

New York Times bestseller Beatriz Williams returns with a ravishing summer read, taking readers back to a mid-century New England rich with secrets and Cold War intrigue.

June 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside …More

The First Ladies
By Benedict, Marie
Author Murray, Victoria Christopher
2023-06 - Berkley Books
9780593440285

A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian.

The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune  …More

Lucky Red
By Cravens, Claudia
2023-06 - Dial Press
9780593498248

A cinematic debut set in the American West about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck--and finding friendship, romance, and her true calling along the way

"Queer, feminist, subversive, and a good old-fashioned freight train of an adventure story."--Sara Novic, author of True Biz The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride  …More

The Only One Left
By Sager, Riley
2023-06 - Dutton
9780593183229

Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.
At seventeen, Lenora Hope

Hung her sister with a rope
Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people …More