BOOKS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
FOR FALL READING
Some favorite writers have new
books coming this fall.
Happy Reading!
Fiction:
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead If you enjoyed Colson Whitehead’s novel “The Underground Railroad,” you might want to try his new novel, “The Nickel Boys.” Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. 
This Tender Land
by Kent Krueger If you enjoyed “Ordinary Grace” by William Kent Krueger, you might try his latest, “This Tender Land.” 1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole. |
The Testaments
by Maragaret Atwood If you read Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” you might want to read the sequel, “The Testaments.” When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her—freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. Also, check out new books by these popular writers...
A Better Man The Dutch House by Louise Penny by Ann Patchett
Chances Are...
by Richard Russo |
Nonfiction:
Cry of the Kalahari:
Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness
by Mark and Delia Owens
If you loved Delia Owens’ book “Where the Crawdads Sing,” you might want to sample “Cry of the Kalahari,” a memoir written with her husband about their life in Botswana with the animals of southern Africa.
This is the story of the Owens' travel and life in the Kalahari Desert. Here they met and studied unique animals and were confronted with danger from drought, fire, storms, and the animals they loved. This best-selling book is for both travelers and animal lovers.
FOR NONFICTION, you might also try some other favorite writers: David McCullough’s “The Pioneers,” C. L Fornari’s “Sand and Soil,” and Christopher Setterlund’s “Cape Cod Nights: Historic Bars, Clubs and Drinks.”
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