New Releases: August 2023 Edition
Check out these highly anticipated August releases featuring fiction and nonfiction titles. Click on the title to request a copy or get your name on the waitlist. Don’t forget to watch for more featured releases next month!
FICTION
Las Madres by
Esmeralda Santiago - In her first novel since the widely acclaimed When I Was
Puerto Rican, author Santiago tells the story of a close-knit group of Puerto
Rican women bound by ties of family and friendship. It all begins in 1975 when
aspiring ballerina Luz, is gravely injured in an automobile accident that takes
the lives of both of her parents. Many
years later, Luz, now living in the Bronx, returns to the island, accompanied by
her daughter and the friends who helped raise her, to revisit the past and
uncover the truth about the accident that inalterably changed the course of her
life. When Hurricane Maria strikes and long-buried secrets come to light, they
all get more than they bargained for.
Fever House by
Keith Rosson - When leg-breaking debt collectors Hutch and Tim attempt to strong
arm a drug addict named Wesley, who owes their boss $12,000, they find a severed hand hidden in a
Wonder Bread bag and decide to take it home. Bad idea. Madness ensues.
Full-throated splatter punk, gritty noir, rock and roll, break- neck pacing and,
surprisingly well-realized characters. What’s not to love?
Mobility by Lydia
Kiesling - The personal meets the political head on, in the story of Bunny a
self-described “foreign service brat" who, after a privileged childhood in
various exotic postings, moves on to an equally privileged adulthood as an oil
company executive in Texas. But can she
reconcile her comfortable life with her role in shaping the dire future she sees
looming on the horizon?
NONFICTION
The Underworld:Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey - For centuries, mariners
have spun tales of a sinister undersea world of deadly peril and marvelous creatures.
Now cutting-edge technologies have allowed scientists to dive miles beneath the
ocean’s surface, and they have discovered both marvelous creatures and
deadly peril. Soaring mountains, smoldering volcanoes, valleys 7,000 times as
deep as Everest is high, shimmering creatures one hundred feet long, sharks
that live half a millennium and an
estimated three million shipwrecks littering the ocean floor, to name a few. In
her new work, oceanographic enthusiast Casey chronicles her own literal and figurative
deep dive into the past, present and precarious future of the watery world that
lies beneath.
Anansi’s Gold: TheMan Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington and Swindled the World by Yepoka
Yeebo. Some consider him the most
successful con man in history. Beginning in 1957 after Ghana achieved
independence from Britain, John Ackah Blay-Miezah perpetrated a series of
audacious frauds, raking in millions, living large on several continents, and luring in many notable figures including, Nixon’s attorney general John Mitchell
and child star and one-time US ambassador to Ghana, Shirley Temple Black. In
Anansi’s Gold, Ghanaian journalist Yeebo tells the story of this charismatic
man who hoodwinked just about everybody he met and proved maddeningly adept at
escaping justice all along the way.
Althea by Sally Jacobs - Before Venus and Serena
Williams, there was Althea Gibson. Three years after Jackie Robinson broke the
color barrier in professional baseball, Althea Gibson entered the rarefied,
largely upper-crust world of professional tennis. Many were skeptical. After
all, apart from the color of her skin, her impoverished background, short hair
and tattered jeans fit nobody’s image of how a tennis player looks. Never mind, Gibson’s ability to play soon
silenced all critics. Now, author Jacobs
chronicles the life and career of this woman who defied multiple obstacles to
win Wimbledon, hobnob with dignitaries and become a personal hero to women and people of color who aspired to secure a place on the court.
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