Here’s what’s brand new on the shelves this week, available in-store and via our website, www.bookpeople.com (Blurbs provided by the books’ publishers.)
HARDCOVER FICTION
Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch – Jamrach’s Menagerie tells the story of a nineteenth-century street urchin named Jaffy Brown. Following an incident with an escaped tiger, Jaffy goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Thus begins a long, close friendship fraught with ambiguity and rivalry.
Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy – Get ready to meet ex-Navy SEAL Max Moore. A terrorist bombing in Pakistan wipes out Max Moore’s entire CIA team. As the only survivor, the former Navy SEAL plunges deeper into the treacherous tribal lands to find the terrorist cell, but what he discovers there leads him to a much darker conspiracy in an unexpected part of the globe–the US/Mexico border.
The Borrower by Rebecca Makai – In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young runaway boy obsessed with reading take to the road. The odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip from Missouri to Vermont, with ferrets, an inconvenient boyfriend, and upsetting family history thrown in their path.
The Ranger by Ace Atkins – (We had an awesome event for Ace here over the weekend. Ace was kind enough to sign plenty of copies of this latest bestseller for us, which might make your life easier for Father’s Day.) Ace Atkins returns with an extraordinary new series. Northeast Mississippi, hill country, rugged and notorious for outlaws since the Civil War, where killings are as commonplace as in the Old West. To Quinn Colson, it’s home-but not the home he left when he went to Afghanistan. Now an Army Ranger, he returns to a place overrun by corruption, and finds his uncle, the county sheriff, dead-a suicide, he’s told, but others whisper murder.
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PAPERBACK FICTION
The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst – Bestselling novelist Octavia Frost has just completed her latest book, a revolutionary novel in which she has rewritten the last chapters of all her previous books and removed clues about her personal life concealed within, especially the horrific tragedy that once befell her family.But on her way to deliver the manuscript to her editor, Octavia learns that her estranged son, Milo, a famous musician, has been arrested for the murder of his girlfriend. As the novel builds to a stunning reveal, Octavia must consider how this story will come to a close.
Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann – A literary sensation, this extraordinarily candid novel about the experience of growing up female in America will strike a nerve in readers of all ages.
Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst – Greece, 1940. As Adolf Hitler plans to invade the Balkans, spies begin to circle—and Costa Zannis, a senior police official, must deal with them all.With extraordinary historical detail and a superb cast of characters, Spies of the Balkans is a stunning novel about a man who risks everything to fight back against the world’s evil.
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