Releases for June 15, 2021

Looking for something new? Here are some of the upcoming new releases due June 15, 2021. Stop in or give the library a call to place a copy on hold. If the library does not have one of these titles available, a Request for Purchase may be filled out.

Last Comes the Raven: And Other Stories by Italo Calvino, trans. by Ann Goldstein - is a short story collection available in English for the first time. The Sweetness of Water: A Novel by Nathan Harris - follows two freedmen brothers in Georgia during the end of the Civil War. How to Survive America by D.L. Hughley and Doug Moe - is a survival guide for minorities living in the United States.

A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Streets to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi with Joshua Horwitz - is a memoir by the astrophysicist who had an impoverished childhood and crime-filled adolescence.

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides - is psychological suspense about a Cambridge professor suspected of murder.

She Memes Well: Essays by Quinta Brunson - collects humorous essays by a comedian.

Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain--And How They Guide You by Rebecca Schwarzlose - charts new understandings of how our brains map the world.

Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever by L. Jon Wertheim - explores an especially eventful season across multiple sports.

CenterStage: My Most Fascinating Interviews--from A-Rod to Jay-Z by Michael Kay - collects interviews from a sports and entertainment broadcaster.

Steve Kerr: A Life by Scott Howard-Cooper - is the biography of a basketball player and coach.

Becoming Vanessa by Vanessa Brantley-Newton - is a first-day-of-school picture book about a girl who simply wants to fit in.

The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson - is a stand-alone follow-up to Truly Devious that features a teen sleuth.