Featured Summer Releases

Did one of the book covers on our homepage catch your eye? They are newly released titles for summer 2020, and all are well-reviewed and anticipated. Read below for a description of each, and click the linked title if you'd like to request a copy or get your name on the wait list. And don't forget to watch for more featured releases next month, too!

Featured Fiction for July:

Devolution by Max Brooks
As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined, until now. But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town's bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing and too earth-shattering in its implications, to be forgotten. Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us, and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity.

What's Left of Me is Yours by Stephanie Scott
In Japan, an industry has grown up around the "wakaresaseya" (literally "breaker-upper"), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Sato hires Kaitaro, a wakaresaseya agent, to have an affair with his wife, Rina, he assumes it will be easy. But Sato has never truly understood Rina, and Kaitaro's job is to do exactly that--until he does it too well. While Rina remains ignorant of what brought them together, she and Kaitaro fall in a desperate, singular love, setting in motion a series of violent acts that will haunt her daughter's life.

The Distant Dead by Heather Young
A body burns in the high desert hills. A boy walks into a fire station, pale with the shock of a grisly discovery. A middle school teacher worries when her colleague is late for work. By day's end, when the body is identified as local math teacher Adam Merkel, a small Nevada town will be rocked to its core by a brutal and calculated murder.








Featured Nonfiction for July:

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
"James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In our own moment, when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever, what can we learn from his struggle? In the midst of Trump's presidency and a Baldwin revival, Eddie Glaude has plunged to the profound depths and sublime heights of Baldwin’s prophetic challenge to our present-day crisis." - Cornel West

The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border by Rosayra Pablo Cruz
From a mother whose children were taken from her at the U.S. border by the American government in 2018 and another mother who helped reunite the family, a crucial, searing story about the immigration odyssey, family separation and reunification, and the power of individuals to band together to overcome even the most cruel and unjust circumstances.

Your Blue is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir by Aspen Matis
Aspen’s and Justin’s paths aligned on the Pacific Crest Trail when were walking, separately and alone—both using thru-hiking in hopes of escaping their pasts. By the time they made it to the trail’s end, they were in love. They built a world together, with three years of happy marriage. Until a November morning, when, after kissing Aspen goodbye, Justin left to attend the funeral of a friend. He never came back. As days became weeks, his inexplicable absence left Aspen unmoored. Shock, grief, fear, and anger battled for control—but nothing prepared her for the disarming truth.