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New Book Releases: Adult Fiction & Nonfiction

Check out these new titles released on May 14, 2024 at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library. The list is sorted alphabetically by author's last name.

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  • Skies of Thunder

    the Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World

    Alexander, Caroline, 1956-
    The New York Times best-selling author presents this masterpiece of modern war history in which she, drawing on obscure memoirs and long-ignored records, gives us the World War II pilots' and soldiers' eye views of flying and combat, probing at what…
    Book, 2024[New York] : Viking, [2024] — 940.5425 ALEX
  • Amphibious Soul

    Finding the Wild in a Tame World

    Foster, Craig (Filmmaker),
    One of the world’s leading natural history filmmakers shows how we can reinvigorate our lives by developing a deep connection to the Earth, nurture our individual wildness and deepen our love for all living things.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — 508 FOS
  • The story of the celebrated rapper and the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, told by one of its founding members
    Book, 2024New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. — 921 GHOSTFACE KILLAH
  • Rebel Girl

    My Life as a Feminist Punk

    Hanna, Kathleen, 1968-
    "An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — 921 HANNA Kathleen
  • Challenger

    a True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

    Higginbotham, Adam,
    Based on fascinating new archival research and deep reporting, this gripping and riveting narrative provides the definitive story of the 1986 Challenger disaster and how it led to America changing its view of itself.
    Book, 2024New York : Avid Reader Press, 2024. — 363.124 HIGG
  • They Came for the Schools

    One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

    Hixenbaugh, Mike (Journalist),
    Explains how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America--from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody…
    Book, 2024New York : Mariner Books, [2024] — 370.89 H642t
  • A Fatal Inheritance

    How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

    Ingrassia, Lawrence,
    Weaving his own moving family story with this sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia delivers an intimate, gripping tale that sits at the intersection of memoir and medical thriller.
    Book, 2024New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2024. — 616.994 ING
  • Ditching her California life for the open road, a restless, semi-famous artist leaves her husband, child and career and reinvents herself in a motel room, embarking on a journey of self-discovery and what it means to be alive and free.
    Book, 2024New York : Riverhead Books, 2024. — FIC JULY
  • The New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author discusses his life in journalism and the great members of his profession and the less-known extraordinary people he has met during his career.
    Book, 2024New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. — 070.4 KRI
  • After graduating art school in London, Jay winds up undocumented in upstate New York working as a delivery driver and living out of his car until he runs into an ex-girlfriend who invites him to live on her property.
    Book, 2024New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. — FIC KUNZRU
  • When his 100-million-dollar inheritance comes with a catch--he must be happily married for five years, Liam Weston, the uptight heir of a grocery chain, turns to his secret not-so-ex-wife Anna Green, a feisty, foul-mouthed artist, to fake their…
    Book, 2024New York : Gallery Books, [2024] — FIC LAUREN Christina
  • In 1866 Paris, Baroness Sylvie Devereux and her estranged sister, fraudulent spirit mediums, target the de Jacquinots, who believe they are being haunted, hoping to scare them out of their gold, but the sisters are faced with inexplicable horrors,…
    Book, 2024New York : Atria Books, 2024. — FICTION Lowkis, Carmella
  • When a librarian moves to a quaint Irish village where her favorite novelist lives, the last thing she expects is to fall for the author’s prickly son… until their story becomes one for the books, from the New York Times bestselling author of Summer…
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley Romance, 2024. — F MCK
  • An immersive story looks at a family born on the wrong side of history.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024] — F Mes
  • The baby of her large Colombian American family, Luciana, when her eccentric grandmother, Abue, moves into her bedroom, finds her wild demands, unpredictable antics and devastating secrets a welcome distraction, putting her on center stage, facing…
    Book, 2024New York : Hogarth, [2024] — FIC MOGOLLON Melissa
  • In 1825, sisters Beata and Ulrika, obsessed by Berggrund Island's dark past and their absent mother, find the arrival of a mysterious outsider leading them to The Blue Maiden island, the storied home of the Witches' Sabbath and Satan's realm, where…
    Book, 2024New York : Grove Press, [2024] — FIC NOYES
  • Still in denial after the death of her sister, Kit, a young mother, in the secret recesses of her mind, is keyed into everything that might distract from her surfacing pain, causing her to spiral as the thin line between reality and fantasy blurs,…
    Book, 2024New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2024] — FIC PAR N2024
  • Pain is Dymitr’s calling. His family is one in a long line of hunters who sacrifice their souls to slay monsters. Now he’s tasked with a deadly mission: find the legendary witch Baba Jaga. To reach her, Dymitr must ally with the ones he’s sworn to…
    Book, 2024New York : Tor Publishing Group, 2024. — SF ROT
  • A humorous novel features a grand English country house, a heartbroken American divorcee, three rich wives, two tycoons, a pair of miniature sausage dogs and one bereaved butler.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — FICTION Sykes, Plum
  • Fat Leonard

    How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

    Whitlock, Craig,
    This story of one of the most significant public corruption scandals in American history chronicles how a Malaysian defense contractor defrauded the U.S. Navy of tens of millions of dollars and put our nation's security at risk.
    Book, 2024New York : Simon & Schuster, 2024. — 364.132 W590f