Spotlight Books for Fall

These are books it would be easy to miss, but highly anticipated and well reviewed.

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Nonfiction

From science to literary history to memoir

The World She Edited: Katherine S. White at the New Yorker by Amy Reading

The Wisdom of Sheep: Observations from a Family Farm by Rosamund Young

When the Ice is Gone by Paul Bierman

Drawn Testimony::  My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist by Jane Rosenberg

The Bookshop:  A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss

Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery by Theodore H. Schwartz

Fiction

Niall Williams, The Time of the Child. 
If you loved This is Happiness, here's the latest novel by this Irish author

Playground by Richard Powers
by the author of The Overstory

Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa,
a "delicate domestic novel."

Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris,
set in the Balkans in the early 90s

Death at a Sanitorium by Ragnar Jobnasson, Scandinavian Noir

And new books by YPL favorites

Rhys Bowen, Rose Arbor
William Kent Kreuger, Spirit Crossing
Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything
Louise Penny, The Grey Wolf (coming in October)

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