ALA Annual 2019 "Fresh Picks" Book Buzz - PRH Library

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The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Cantoras

How To

Christy Lefteri

Carolina De Robertis

Randall Munroe

HC: 978-1-9848-2121-8 eBook: 978-0-593-12816-9 AD: 978-0-593-14765-8 Ballantine Books | 50,000 August 27, 2019

HC: 978-0-525-52169-3 eBook: 978-0-525-52170-9 AD: 978-0-593-14900-3 Knopf | 25,000 September 3, 2019

HC:978-0-525-53709-0 eBook: 978-0-525-53710-6 AD: 978-0-525-63569-7 Riverhead Books | 250,000 September 3, 2019

This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable.

From the, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find one another as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family.

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer.

Ice Cold Heart

A Single Thread

Breathe

P. J. Tracy

Tracy Chevalier

Imani Perry

Lara Prescott

HC: 978-1-64385-132-7 eBook: 978-1-64385-133-4 Crooked Lane Books | 60,000 September 10, 2019

HC: 978-0-525-55824-8 eBook: 978-0-525-55825-5 AD:978-0-593-14919-5 CD: 978-0-593-14916-4 Viking | 100,000 September 17, 2019

HC: 978-0-8070-7655-2 eBook: 978-0-8070-7656-9 AD: 978-0-8070-8120-4 Beacon Press | 30,000 September 17, 2019

HC: 978-0-525-65615-9 eBook: 978-0-525-65616-6 AD: 978-1-9848-8593-7 Knopf | 200,000 September 17, 2019

Breathe explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world.

A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies—inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.

Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth join Grace MacBride and Monkeewrench to uncover a dark and ugly conspiracy that reaches deep into the safety of homes in this latest electrifying thriller from New York Times bestselling author P. J. Tracy.

An immersive, moving story of a woman coming into her own at the dawn of the Second World War, from internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier.

How to Fight Anti-Semitism Bari Weiss HC: 978-0-593-13605-8 eBook: 978-0-593-13606-5 AD: 978-0-593-16296-5 Crown | 100,000 September 3, 2019 The prescient New York Times writer exposes the alarming rise of anti-semitism in this country—and explains what all Americans can do to defeat it.

The Secrets We Kept

Red at the Bone

The Water Dancer

Blowout

Fair Play

Jacqueline Woodson

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Rachel Maddow

Eve Rodsky

HC: 978-0-525-53527-0 eBook: 978-0-525-53529-4 AD: 978-0-593-14707-8 CD: 978-0-593-14704-7 LP: 978-0-593-15225-6 Riverhead Books | 125,000 September 17, 2019

HC: 978-0-399-59059-7 eBook: 978-0-399-59060-3 AD: 978-0-525-49487-4 One World | 150,000 September 24, 2019

HC: 978-0-525-57547-4 eBook: 978-0-525-57549-8 AD: 978-1-9848-4675-4 CD: 978-1-9848-4672-3 LP: 978-0-593-15345-1 Crown | 250,000 October 1, 2019

HC: 978-0-525-54193-6 eBook: 978-0-525-54195-0 AD: 978-0-593-10711-9 CD: 978-0-593-10708-9 LP: 978-0-593-15233-1 G.P. Putnam's Sons | 200,000 October 1, 2019

An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming.

In his boldly imagined first novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the National Book Award– winning author of Between the World and Me, brings home the most intimate evil of enslavement: the cleaving and separation of families.

The Emmy Award–winning host offers a dark, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry.

A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long—from a woman tapped by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine as the expert on this topic for a new generation of women.

The Remaking

The Giver of Stars

Life Undercover

Running with Sherman

Clay McLeod Chapman

Jojo Moyes

Amaryllis Fox

Christopher McDougall

HC: 978-1-68369-153-2 eBook: 978-1-68369-154-9 Quirk Books | 75,000 October 8, 2019

HC: 978-0-399-56248-8 eBook: 978-0-399-56250-1 AD: 978-0-525-53022-0 CD: 978-0-525-53019-0 LP: 978-0-593-15226-3 Pamela Dorman Books | 350,000 October 8, 2019

HC: 978-0-525-65497-1 eBook: 978-0-525-65498-8 AD: 978-0-525-63946-6 Knopf | 200,000 October 15, 2019

HC: 978-1-5247-3236-3 eBook: 978-1-5247-3237-0 AD: 978-1-5247-7879-8 Knopf | 100,000 October 29, 2019

Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter.

A heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America.

The Ring meets Scream in this terrifying, wickedly fun, and totally meta supernatural thriller about a true-crime tale that takes on a life of its own every 20 years.

Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey—based on the true story of The Horseback Librarians of Kentucky.

Olive, Again

One Day

Before and After

Elizabeth Strout

Gene Weingarten

Lisa Wingate and Judy Christie

HC: 978-0-8129-9654-8 eBook: 978-0-8129-9655-5 AD: 978-0-593-14737-5 CD: 978-0-593-14734-4 Random House | 200,000 October 15, 2019

HC: 978-0-399-16666-2 eBook: 978-0-698-13559-8 AD: 978-0-593-14675-0 Blue Rider Press | 50,000 October 22, 2019

HC: 978-0-593-13014-8 eBook: 978-0-593-13015-5 AD: 978-0-593-16436-5 Ballantine Books | 50,000 October 22, 2019

Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten explores the events of a random day in U.S. history, offering a diorama of American life that illuminates all that has changed—and all that hasn't—in the last three decades.

The incredible, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal—some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate's bestselling novel Before We Were Yours, and were reunited with birth family members as a result of the novel's wide reach.

From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett and Link's Book of Mythicality, a thrilling and darkly funny novel about two best friends fighting the darkness at the heart of their Southern town.

Cover Not Final

Cover Not Final

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions of readers.

The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern

The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 2

HC: 978-0-385-54121-3 eBook: 978-0-385-54122-0 AD: 978-0-7352-0790-5 LP: 978-0-593-10648-8 Doubleday | 500,000 November 5, 2019

HC: 978-0-525-57337-1 eBook: 978-0-525-57339-5 AD: 978-1-9848-2818-7 Crown | 100,000 November 19, 2019

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world— a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.

Robert Lacey

The official companion to the second and third seasons of the Emmy-winning Netflix drama about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, featuring additional historical background, expert commentary, and beautifully reproduced images.

The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek HC: 978-1-9848-2213-0 eBook: 978-1-9848-2215-4 Crown | 150,000 October 29, 2019

NVK

Meg and Jo

Temple Drake

Virginia Kantra

TR: 978-1-59051-935-6 eBook: 978-1-59051-936-3 Other Press | 75,000 November 26, 2019

TR: 978-0-593-10034-9 eBook: 978-0-593-10035-6 AD: 978-0-593-16734-2 Berkley | 75,000 December 3, 2019

Set in the otherworldly megalopolis that is today's Shanghai, Temple Drake's suspenseful first novel blends the gothic, the erotic, and the supernatural as it charts an intense and dangerous affair.

From New York Times bestselling author Virginia Kantra comes a heartwarming modern novel inspired by the timeless classic Little Women.

Reputation Sara Shepard

999

Such a Fun Age

Mr. Nobody

Heather Dune Macadam

Kiley Reid

Catherine Steadman

TR: 978-1-5247-4290-4 eBook: 978-1-5247-4291-1 AD: 978-0-593-16481-5 Dutton | 75,000 December 3, 2019

HC: 978-0-8065-3936-2 eBook: 978-0-8065-3938-6 Citadel | 10,000 December 31, 2019

HC: 978-0-525-54190-5 eBook: 978-0-525-54192-9 AD: 978-0-593-10707-2 LP: 978-0-593-15237-9 G.P. Putnam's Sons | 150,000 January 7, 2020

HC: 978-1-5247-9768-3 eBook: 978-1-5247-9769-0 AD:978-1-9848-9025-2 CD: 978-1-9848-9022-1 LP: 978-1-9848-9064-1 Ballantine Books | 150,000 July 7, 2020

In this perfectly-paced new novel from Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, the women of a tight-knit college town learn through gossip, scandal, betrayal, and even murder, who their neighbors and husbands really are.

Drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees, 999 is an important addition to Holocaust literature and women's history.

A striking debut novel—a pageturning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.

A psychiatrist treating a man with no identity or memory discovers that her patient knows far more about her past than his own in a gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water.

How Quickly She Disappears

Dear Edward

A Long Petal of the Sea

Ann Napolitano

Isabel Allende

Charles Yu

Raymond Fleischmann

HC: 978-1-9848-5478-0 eBook: 978-1-9848-5479-7 AD: 978-0-593-15098-6 The Dial Press | 150,000 January 14, 2020

HC: 978-1-9848-2015-0 eBook: 978-1-9848-2016-7 AD: 978-0-593-16798-4 CD: 978-0-593-16796-0 LP: 978-0-593-17205-6 Ballantine Books | 150,000 January 21, 2020

HC: 978-0-307-90719-6 eBook: 978-0-307-90720-2 AD: 978-0-593-14872-3 Pantheon | 50,000 January 28, 2020

HC: 978-1-9848-0517-1 eBook: 978-1-9848-0519-5 AD: 978-0-593-15112-9 Berkley | 150,000 January 14, 2020 The Dry meets The Silence of the Lambs in this intoxicating tale of literary suspense, set in the relentless Alaskan landscape, about madness and obsession, loneliness and grief, and the ferocious bonds of family.

After losing everything, a young boy discovers there are still reasons for hope in this luminous, life-affirming novel, perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Ann Patchett.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits comes an epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents, following two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a new place to call home.

Interior Chinatown

From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.

Future Bestsellers

The Girl Who Lived Twice

The Testaments

Country Music

The Ride of a Lifetime

Margaret Atwood

Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns

Robert Iger with Joel Lovell

David Lagercrantz

HC: 978-0-385-54378-1 eBook: 978-0-385-54379-8 AD: 978-0-525-59048-4 CD: 978-0-525-59045-3 LP: 978-0-593-14909-6 Nan A Talese | 500,000 September 10, 2019

HC: 978-0-525-52054-2 eBook: 978-0-525-52055-9 AD: 978-0-525-58887-0 CD: 978-0-525-58884-9 Knopf | 300,000 September 10, 2019

HC: 978-0-399-59209-6 eBook: 978-0-399-59210-2 AD: 978-0-525-49935-0 CD: 978-0-525-49932-9 LP: 978-0-593-17098-4 Random House | 200,000 September 23, 2019

Royal Holiday

Grand Union

The Body

Edison

Jasmine Guillory

Zadie Smith

Bill Bryson

Edmund Morris

HC: 978-1-9848-0221-7 eBook: 978-1-9848-0222-4 AD: 978-0-593-15162-4 Berkley | 100,000 October 1, 2019

HC: 978-0-525-55899-6 eBook: 978-0-525-55900-9 AD: 978-0-593-10759-1 LP: 978-0-593-15220-1 Penguin Press | 150,000 October 8, 2019

HC: 978-0-385-53930-2 eBook: 978-0-385-53931-9 AD: 978-0-14-752694-6 CD: 978-0-14-752691-5 LP: 978-0-593-10629-7 Doubleday | 250,000 October 15, 2019

HC: 978-0-8129-9311-0 eBook: 978-0-679-64465-1 AD: 978-0-593-14747-4 CD: 978-0-593-15367-3 Random House | 250,000 October 22, 2019

HC: 978-0-451-49434-4 eBook: 978-0-451-49435-1 AD: 978-1-5247-0904-4 CD: 978-1-5247-0901-3 LP: 978-0-593-16813-4 Knopf | 300,000 August 27, 2019

The Beautiful Ones

Long Bright River

Prince

Liz Moore

HC: 978-0-399-58965-2 eBook: 978-0-399-58966-9 AD: 978-0-593-16865-3 Spiegel & Grau | 200,000 October 29, 2019

HC: 978-0-525-54067-0 eBook: 978-0-525-54069-4 AD: 978-0-593-14691-0 CD: 978-0-593-14688-0 Riverhead | 75,000 January 7, 2020

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