New Releases This Week

We were a little busy on Tuesday hosting former President Jimmy Carter, so, a couple of days late, here are a few of our greatest hits from the new release pile this week. Enjoy!

HARDCOVER FICTION

Astonish Me: A Novel by Maggie Shipstead

From the author of the widely acclaimed debut novel Seating Arrangements, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction: a gorgeously written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the demanding world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold over two generations.

HARDCOVER NON-FICTION

Alex’s Wake: A Voyage of Betrayal and a Journey of Remembrance by Martin Goldsmith

Staff Pick!  STEVE B., BookPeople CEO: “This is a much more personal story than most historical accounts of the Holocaust and very well written. Martin Goldsmith followed the footsteps of his grandfather and his uncle who were on the St. Louis. It follows them from when they get thrown off the boat in France to their eventual time in Auschwitz. Goldsmith talks about their hometown in northern Germany and their time being incarcerated in France. It gives you an idea of how nasty the war was in France. Goldsmith’s father and mother were concert musicians and managed to get a gig in the United States and so they escaped in 1941 to live in the States. That was the difference between living and dying for his family. It’s a good story.”

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World by Russell Gold

An award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist offers an insightful, no-holds-barred exploration of today’s most controversial yet promising new energy technology: fracking.
Russell Gold will be at BookPeople on Tuesday, April 17 at 7PM speaking & signing copies of The Boom. Click here for more information.

 
Love Life by Rob Lowe

When Rob Lowe‘s first book,Stories I Only Tell My Friends, was published, he received the kind of rapturous reviews that writers dream of and rocketed to the top of the bestseller list. Now, in Love Life, he expands his scope, using stories and observations from his life in a poignant and humorous series of true tales about men and women, art and commerce, fathers and sons, addiction and recovery, and sex and love.

Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian by Bob Saget

Bob Saget, the decidedly irreverent stand-up comedian and beloved TV star, delivers uproarious, uncensored, and heartfelt stories from a life in entertainment and beyond. Saget talks about the connection between humor and pain, offering insights into his own life, including the deaths of his beloved sisters. He pays homage to the people who shaped and inspired him.

PAPERBACK FICTION

The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary literature that became a bestseller and is now available in paperback. 
Elizabeth Strout will be at BookPeople on Tuesday, April 15 at 7PM speaking & signing copies of The Burgess Boys. Click here for more information.

PAPERBACK NON-FICTION

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport.

YOUTH

The Here and Now by Ann Brashares

From Ann Brashares, the bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, The Here and Now is thrilling, exhilarating, haunting, and heartbreaking–and a must-read novel of the year about an unforgettable epic romantic thriller about a girl from the future who might be able to save the world.
Ann Brashares will be at BookPeople on Thursday, April 24 at 7PM speaking & signing copies of The Here & Now. Click here for more information.