Late October and early November are traditionally busy times in the U.S. publishing market, especially for titles by high-demand authors. We have several new books from new authors and some of your favorites. Look at the bottom of the post for a list.
We’ve got several new books in, and if espionage is an interest of yours, we have three exciting titles that you will like. Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy by journalist Ben Mcintyre, is the true story of Ursula Burton, an undercover high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer who lived a quiet life in a village in the Cotswolds with her husband and children. All the while she was hunted by intelligence organizations of all the major powers in the world. This is a riveting but insightful book. If you liked The Unexpected Spy by Tracy Walder, you will like this book as well. The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Agents at the Dawn of the Cold War by Scott Anderson exposes the story of the CIA’s original four spies, a mish-mash of unlikely men who set the path of American espionage. In The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future by Chris Whipple decodes the history of the growth of power of this agency and offers behind-the-scenes glimpse through interviews with many who have seen the CIA in action first-hand.
If you like Southern literature or reading about the South, then we have some new titles for you to enjoy! Columnist Rick Bragg has compiled the best of his columns from Southern Living and Guns and Gardens magazines in Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South. These columns cover all things southern, from why Southern men should always carry a knife to the best way to kill fire ants with humor and wit. Fannie Flagg takes us, and many of our favorite characters, back to the Whistle Stop Café in The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop. This book is filled with southern humor and is as heart-warming as her other novels have been. She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh tells the story of a quieter feminism that cultural icon Dolly Parton exuded. This is not really a read just about the South, rather one that pays tribute to hard-working, overlooked women all over the United States.
There are so many new books out by high-demand authors, that I’m just going to list them here by author and title:
V.C.Andrews Whispering Hearts
Ace Atkins Robert B. Parker’s Someone to Watch Over Me
Robyn Carr Return to Virgin River
Lee Child The Sentinel
John Connolly The Dirty South, Volume 18
Clive Cussler Marauder
Janet Daily Paradise Peak
Janet Evanovich Fortune and Glory, Volume 27
Jasper Fforde The Constant Rabbit
Heather Graham Deadly Touch
Heather Graham Dreaming Death
John Grisham Time for Mercy
Lisa Jewell Invisible Girl
Craig Johnson Next to Last Stand: A Longmire Mystery
Sophie Kinsella Love Your Life
Mike Lupica Robert B. Parker’s Fool’s Paradise
James Patterson The Coast to Coast Murders
James Patterson Three Women Disappear
Louise Penny All the Devils are Here
Jodi Picoult The Book of Two Ways
Marilynne Robinson Jack
Jess Walter The Cold Millions
Stuart Woods The Shakeup
You can come by the library to browse through them in our new books section, or you can place a hold on any of them either through our app or at our catalog here: https://uppl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/external/?dt=list