Check out these highly anticipated March 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!
Featured Fiction
The Night Shift by Alex Finlay
New Year’s Eve 1999. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. None of that happens. But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers are attacked. Only one inexplicably survives. Fifteen years later, more teenage employees are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. In the aftermath of the latest crime, three lives intersect: the lone survivor of the Blockbuster massacre, the brother of the fugitive accused, and FBI agent Sarah Keller who must delve into the secrets of both nights.
Kamila Hussain’s life might not be perfect, but it’s close. She lives a life of comfort, filled with her elaborate Bollywood movie parties, a dog with more Instagram followers than most reality stars, a job she loves, and an endless array of friends who clearly need her help finding love. In fact, Kamila is so busy with her friends’ love lives, she’s hardly given any thought to her own. Fortunately, Kamila has Rohan Nasser, longtime friend of the family. Only lately, Kamila’s “harmless flirting” with Rohan is making her insides do a little bhangra dance.
Memphis by Tara M. StringfellowAs she grows up, Joan finds relief in her artwork, painting portraits of the community in Memphis. One of her subjects is the enigmatic Miss Dawn, who claims to know something about curses, and whose stories about the past help Joan see how her passion and imagination are the continuation of a long matrilineal tradition. Joan begins to understand that her mother, her mother’s mother, and the mothers before them made impossible choices and put their dreams on hold so that her life would not have to be defined by loss and anger-that the sole instrument she needs for healing is her paintbrush.
Featured Nonfiction
The Worth of Water by Gary White & Matt Damon
On any given morning, you might wake up and shower with water, make your coffee with water, flush your toilet with water and think nothing of it. But around the world, more than three-quarters of a billion people can’t do any of that because they have no clean water source near their homes. This crisis affects a third of the people on the planet. It keeps kids out of school and women out of work. It traps people in extreme poverty. It spreads disease. From the founders of nonprofits Water.org & Water Equity Gary White and Matt Damon, the incredible true story of two unlikely allies on a mission to end the global water crisis for good.
Celebrated feminist writer Mona Chollet explores three types of women who were accused of witchcraft and persecuted: the independent woman, since widows and celibates were particularly targeted; the childless woman, since the time of the hunts marked the end of tolerance for those who claimed to control their fertility; and the elderly woman, who has always been an object of at best, pity, and at worst, horror. Examining modern society, Chollet concludes that rather than being a brief moment in history, the persecution of witches is an example of society's seemingly eternal misogyny.
In four essays, Elena Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of “bad language” and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women’s truth; she proposes a choral fusion of feminine talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Ingeborg Bachmann, and many others.
