FRIENDS EXPRESS NEW BOOKS
The Friends purchased the following books as part of our Friends Express program. As you enter the library, the latest books are on the carousel. The Friends Express Book Committee meets monthly if you're interested in joining. We donate kid's books as well - check the Children's Area regularly. Sign up for emails to get updates on new arrivals. Click the button to help us pick new books!
May 2022
FICTION
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
City on Fire by Don Winslow
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani
Nine Lives by Peter Swanson
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
The Sacred Bridge by Anne Hillerman
The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner
When She Dreams by Amanda Quick
NON FICTION
Finding Me by Viola Davis
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
April 2022
FICTION
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
The Club by Ellery Lloyd
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Dream Town by David Baldacci
French Braid by Anne Tyler
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
The Missing Piece by John Lescroart
The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
A Relative Murder by Jude Devereaux
Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton, James Patterson
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
A Sunlit Weapon by Jacqueline Winspear
What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline
NON FICTION
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff
March 2022
FICTION
The Berlin Exchange by Joseph Kanon
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead by Elle Cosimano
House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
The Match by Harlan Coben
Lightning in a Mirror by Jayne Ann Krentz
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
Shadows Reel by C.J. Box
Sierra Six by Mark Greaney
The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers
NON FICTION
The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan
Eating to Extinction by Dan Saladino
From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks
Funny Farm by Laurie Zaleski
Never Simple by Liz Scheier
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
February 2022
FICTION
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
City of the Dead by Amanda Gorman
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk
The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide
The Horsewoman by James Patterson, Mike Lupica
Lightning in a Mirror by Jayne Ann Krentz
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González
One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
Violeta by Isabel Allende
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
NON FICTION
Chasing History by Carl Bernstein
South to America by Imani Perry
January 2022
FICTION
Call Us What We Carry by Jonathan Kellerman
Criminal Mischief by Stuart Woods
Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
Flying Angels by Danielle Steel
Guild Boss by Jayne Castle
Joan is Okay by Weike Wang
The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain
Last Redemption by Matt Coyle
The Maid by Nita Prose
The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
NON FICTION
All About Me! by Mel Brooks
The Beatles: Get Back by The Beatles, John Harris (Editor)
The Power of Fun by Catherine Price
December 2021
FICTION
The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly
Game On by Janet Evanovich
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon
The Jailhouse Lawyer by James Patterson and Nancy Allen
Last Redemption by Matt Coyle
Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey
Never by Ken Follett
O Beautiful by Jung Yun
Still Life by Sarah Winman
The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
NON FICTION
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney
November 2021
FICTION
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarity
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Billy Summers by Stephen King
The Bookseller’s Secret by Michelle Gable
Breathe by Joyce Carol Oates
The Cellist by Daniel Silva
False Witness by Karin Slaughter
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
The Heron’s Cry by Ann Cleeves
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
NON FICTION
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage by Eleanor Henderson
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe
Stories from Sea Level by Ed Vodrazka
March 2020
FICTION
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
The Dark Corners of the Night by Meg Gardiner
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Long Range by C.J. Box
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
Trace Elements by Donna Leon
Weather by Jenny Offill
NON FICTION
Arguing with Zombies by Paul Krugman
Dark towers : Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an epic trail of destruction by David Enrich
The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant
You Never Forget Your First: a biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe
Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun
February 2020
FICTION
The Cactus League by Emily Nemens
Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
Crooked River by Douglas Preston
A Divided Loyalty by CharlesTodd
Golden in Death by J.D. Robb
House on Fire by Joseph Finder
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict
Little Gods by Meng Jin
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
NON FICTION
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
January 2020
FICTION
The Accomplice by Joseph Kanon
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
Lost Hills by Lee Goldberg
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Treason by Stuart Woods
The Vanishing by Jayne Anne Krentz
When You See Me by Lisa Gardner
NON FICTION
The Blue Zones Kitchen by Dan Buettner
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Martha Stewart's Organizing by Martha Stewart
November/December 2019
FICTION
The 19th Christmas by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré
All This Could be Yours by Jami Attenberg
The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson and Michael Crichton
Blue Moon by Lee Child
A Cruel Deception by Charles Todd
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
The Guardians by John Grisham
A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci
A Mrs. Miracle Christmas by Debbie Macomber
The Night Fire by Michael Connelly
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Quantum by Patricia Cornwell
The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
The Siberian Dilemma by Martin Cruz Smith
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
To the Land of Long Lost Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
Blowout by Rachel Maddow
Dear Girls by Ali Wong
Home Work by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton
Me by Elton John
NON FICTION
October 2019
FICTION
Bloody Genius by John Sandford
Cold Storage by David Koepp
A Door in the Earth by Amy Waldman
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay
The Institute by Stephen King
Land of Wolves by Craig Johnson
Lethal Agent by Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
No Judgments by Meg Cabot
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
The Titanic Secret by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
NON FICTION
September 2019
FICTION
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz
The Inn by James Patterson and Candice Fox
The Last Good Guy by T. Jefferson Parker
The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
Outfox by Sandra Brown
The Perfect Wife by J.P. Delaney
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
NON FICTION
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Perfect Predator by Steffanie Strathdee and
Thomas Patterson
Range by David Epstein
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom