FRIENDS EXPRESS NEW BOOKS
New books are back! In November 2021, we received twenty-four new books - our first Friends Express order in eighteen months! The Friends Express Book Committee is meeting monthly again to purchase new titles for the Del Mar Library. Sign up for emails to get updates on the latest arrivals.
New Adult Books 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: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe
Stories from Sea Level by Ed Vodrazka
New Children's Books November 2021
CHAPTER BOOKS
Out of my Heart by Sharon Draper
The Bad Guys in They're Bee-hind You! by Aaron Blabey
Spy School at Sea by Stuart Gibbs
The Baby-Sitters Club: Kristy and the Snobs by Ann M. Martin
Narwhal's School of Awesomeness by Ben Clanton
Big Nate: Aloha! by Lincoln Peirce
Room to Dream by Kelly Yang
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot by Jeff Kinney
PICTURE BOOKS
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodbye? by Jane Yolen
Opposites Abstract by Mo Willems
Construction Site: Road Crew, Coming Through! by Sherri Duskey Rinker and AG Ford
Rubylicious by Victoria Kann
The Smart Cookie by Jory John and Pete Oswald
Pete the Cat's Groovy Imagination by Kimberly and James Dean
PAW Patrol: The Movie: Big Golden Book by Mary Man-Kong and Emi Ordás
Aaron Slater, Illustrator by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
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: 100 Recipes to Live to 100 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
NON FICTION
Blowout by Rachel Maddow
Dear Girls by Ali Wong
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Juli Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton
Me by Elton John
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
NON FICTION
The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
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