HARDCOVER FICTION
The latest Sam Capra novel from one of our favorite #ATX #crimefiction authors, Jeff Abbott, is here! When Capra’s best customer – and friend – is murdered outside his Miami bar, Sam decides to seek justice. We can’t wait to have Jeff here Tues 7/8 to celebrate!
Joe’s pick of the day: The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross
“The Rhesus Chart is the newest Laundry Files novel by Charles Stross. This series features Bob Roberts as an IT guy turned superspy who exists in a world that resembles The Office crossed with H.P. Lovecraft. This go around: VAMPIRES! STOKED!
Joe’s (other) pick of the day: Peter Pan Must Die by John Verdon
“Peter Pan Must Die is John Verdon’s latest Dave Gurney thriller and I couldn’t put it down. What starts off as a simple whodunnit turns into a Rube Goldberg-esque assassination plot. This is a perfect beach read for the summer months.”
How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky by Lydia Netzer
(author of Shine, Shine, Shine)
The Toledo Institute of Astronomy is the nation’s premier center of astronomical discovery and a beacon of scientific learning for astronomers far and wide. Here, dreamy cosmologist George Dermont, who mines the stars to prove the existence of God, and Irene Sparks, an unsentimental scientist, who creates black holes in captivity, are on a collision course with love, destiny and fate.
The Illusionists by Rosie Thomas
Set in London in 1870, this is the story of Eliza, a young, beautiful woman of limited means, who meets the magnetic and irascible Devil–a born showman whose dream is to run his own theater company. Devil’s right-hand man is Carlo Bonomi, an ill-tempered dwarf with an enormous talent for magic and illusion. As Eliza gets sucked into their seductive and dangerous world, she risks not only her heart, but also her life.
From the bestselling author of Me Before You comes another contemporary opposites-attract love story. Booklist says: “With its ensemble cast of skillfully crafted charactersfrom single-mom Jess Thomas to tortured goth teen Nicky and gifted sister Tanzie to Ed Nicholls, technology millionaire, each person’s story flows on its own, yet they all meld together into an uncommonly good story about family, trust, and love.
PAPERBACK FICTION
Raul’s pick of the day: NIght Film by Marisha Pessl
“If I had to use one word to summarize the new novel by Marisha Pessl (author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics), it would have to be “creepy”. When the daughter of a cult film director is found dead in an abandoned New York warehouse, the story soon becomes a whirlwind of obsession. Be warned now: the obsession is transferred to the reader.”
Fabio Genovesi is the author of three novels and is a regular contributor to Vanity Fair and La Lettura. This is the story of a small Italian town where fishing, biking, and rock ‘n’ roll make the news, until tragedy strikes and fates interweaving in a story that is funny, bitter, and full of poetic fervor.
Helen’s pick of the day: The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
“This book is so much more than a gorgeous cover. It is the story of Ruth, an isolated retiree, Frida, her dubious caretaker, and a night-prowling tiger that may or may not exist. Mysterious and quietly suspenseful, this is an exploration of hauntings in our surroundings, and of the human mind.”
Michael’s pick of the day: Amy Falls Down by Jincy Willett
“This novel is a wise, funny testament to the power of chance in our lives. It also elegantly refutes the misguided notion that we have any ides what’s going to happen next.”
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
“Short fiction! In paperback! SHORT FICTION! Link is the co-founder of Small Beer Press. Her work has appeared all over the place, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. While short fiction is highly recommended reading all year long, the form is particularly amenable to those long summer days when one can consume a whole narrative in between leaps into Barton Springs. Yes.”
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood by Paul Greenberg
In 2005, the United States imported five billion pounds of seafood, nearly double what we imported twenty years earlier. Bizarrely, during that same period, our seafood exports quadrupled. American Catch examines New York oysters, Gulf shrimp, and Alaskan salmon to reveal how it came to be that 91 percent of the seafood Americans eat is foreign.
Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How do You Know It’s True? by Charles Seife
The bestselling author of Proofiness and Zero explains how to separate fact from fantasy in the digital world. Taking on everything from breaking news coverage and online dating to program trading and that eccentric and unreliable source that is Wikipedia, Seife arms his readers with actual tools–or weapons–for discerning truth from fiction online.
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease by Daniel E. Lieberman
In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years. He illuminates the major transformations that contributed to key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based diet; the advent of hunting and gathering; and how cultural changes like the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions have impacted us physically.
HUMOR
William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return by Ian Doescher
Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages.
This Movie Will Require Dinosaurs by C. W. Neill
“C.W. Neill, comedy writer & performer, provides a unique and rare glimpse into the psyche and creative process of a struggling screenwriter. From the most basic of introductory scenes, to gigantic blockbuster action films, C.W.’s imagination spans across all genres and emotions. Neill has also worked on numerous comedic web series and short films, and started the blog Untitled Screenplays.”
YOUNG ADULT
The latest book in Stievfater’s bestselling Shiver Trilogy! Cole St. Clair has come to California for one reason: to get Isabel Culpeper back. Isabel is trying to build herself a life in Los Angeles. It’s not really working. She can play the game as well as all the other fakes. But what’s the point? What is there to win? Cole and Isabel share a past that never seemed to have a future. They have the power to love each other and the power to tear each other apart. The only thing for certain is that they cannot let go.
When girls start experiencing strange tics and other mysterious symptoms at Colleen’s high school, her small town of Danvers, Massachusetts, falls victim to rumors that lead to full-blown panic, and only Colleen connects their fate to the ill-fated Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago.
KIDS
My Teacher Is A Monster! (No, I Am Not) by Peter Brown
A young boy named Bobby has the worst teacher. She’s loud, she yells, and if you throw paper airplanes, she won’t allow you to enjoy recess. She is a monster! Luckily, Bobby can go to his favorite spot in the park on weekends to play. Until one day… he finds his teacher there! Over the course of one day, Bobby learns that monsters are not always what they seem.
BookPeople 
Joe’s Pick of the Day: The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross features protagonist “Bob Howard” not “Bob Roberts” —
Ack, just seeing this now. Thank you! We’ll fix it.