1. society
2. unrest and war

Sallie Logan Library
New Book Releases - June 2015
This is a list of the new releases that will be available to borrow at the Sallie Logan Library in June 2015.
In addition to the title and release dates, a brief description of the book (from goodreads.com) has been
included. Some well-known authors include Judy Blume, Douglas Corleone, Richard Crompton &
Stephen King (June 2), Dale Brown & Terry Pratchett (June 9), Michael Harvey, Elin Hilderbrand,
Matthew Quick, Danielle Steel & Dick Wolf (June 16), Jude Deveraux & Karin Slaughter (June 30).
June 1, 2015
Gruber’s Complete ACT Guide 2016
by Gary R. Gruber
Essential Oils for Health
by Kymberly Keniston-pond
(R)evolution
by P.J. Manney
Scientist Peter Bernhardt has dedicated his life to nanotechnology, the
science of manipulating matter on the atomic scale. As the founder of
Biogineers, he is on the cusp of revolutionizing brain therapies with
microscopic nanorobots that will make certain degenerative diseases become
a thing of the past...(more).
Updated 5-1-2015
New Book Releases - June 2015 (cont.)
June 2, 2015
In the Unlikely Event
by Judy Blume
When a series of passenger airplanes crashed in Elizabeth, New Jersey within
a three-month period in 1951–1952, Judy Blume was a teenager. “These
events have lingered in my mind ever since,” says Blume. “It was a crazy time.
We were witnessing things that were incomprehensible to us as teenagers.
Was it sabotage? An alien invasion? No one knew, and people were
understandably terrified”...(more).
The Fold
by Peter Clines
The folks in Mike Erikson's small New England town would say he's just your
average, everyday guy. And that's just how Mike likes it. Sure, the life he's
chosen may not be much of a challenge to someone with his unique gifts, but
Mike is content with his quiet and peaceful existence...(more).
The Jansen Equation
by Douglas Corleone
Prominent U.S. Senator James Wyckoff hires former government agentsturned-private security consultants Janson and Kincaid to locate his teenage
son Gregory. Gregory's girlfriend Lynell has been found strangled in a Seoul
hotel, and Gregory has fled the city to avoid being arrested for the
crime...(more).
Page 2 of 11
New Book Releases - June 2015 (cont.)
Hell’s Gate
by Richard Crompton
When Mollel, a former Maasai warrior turned detective, ends up in a small,
fly-blown town on the edge of a national park, it looks as if his career has
taken a nose-dive. His colleagues are a close-knit group and they have not
taken kindly to a stranger in their midst. Mollel suspects they are guilty of the
extortion and bribery that plague the force...(more).
Finders Keepers
by Stephen King
A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession
with a reclusive writer goes far too far—a book about the power of
storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King
introduced in Mr. Mercedes...(more).
Freedom’s Child
by Jax Miller
Freedom Oliver has plenty of secrets. She lives in a small Oregon town and
keeps mostly to herself. Her few friends and neighbors know she works at the
local biker bar; they know she gets arrested for public drunkenness almost
every night; they know she’s brash, funny, and fearless...(more).
Cherry Harvest
by Lucy Sanna
A memorable coming-of-age story and love story, laced with suspense, which
explores a hidden side of the home front during World War II, when German
POWs were put to work in a Wisconsin farm community with dark and
unexpected consequences...(more).
Page 3 of 11
New Book Releases - June 2015 (cont.)
Fateful Lightning
by Jeff Shaara
November 1864: As the Civil War rolls into its fourth bloody year, the tide has
turned decidedly in favor of the Union. A grateful Abraham Lincoln responds
to Ulysses S. Grant’s successes by bringing the general east, promoting Grant
to command the entire Union war effort, while William Tecumseh Sherman
now directs the Federal forces that occupy all of Tennessee...(more).
Life of Lies and Spies: Tales of a CIA Covert Ops
Polygraph Interrogator
by Alan B. Trabue
A Life of Lies and Spies brings readers into the high-stakes world of covert
operations and the quest to uncover deceit, featuring a high-speed car chase,
blown clandestine meetings, surreptitious room searches, tear-gassing by riot
police, and confrontations with machine gun-armed soldiers...(more).
Madeleine’s War
by Peter Watson
Matthew Hammond is a British military officer posted to the European
theater during World War II. He sustained a serious injury on the front lines,
so bad, in fact, that it cost him a lung. Now he is back in England, unable to
fight, but he continues to serve his country by training new resistance
fighters...(more).
June 9, 2015
Fixer
by Joseph Finder
When former investigative reporter Rick Hoffman loses his job, fiancée, and
apartment, his only option is to move back into — and renovate — the home
of his miserable youth, now empty and in decay since the stroke that put his
father in a nursing home...(more).
Page 4 of 11
New Book Releases - June 2015 (cont.)
Breaking Point
by Jefferson Bass
Past, present, and future collide to throw respected forensic anthropologist
Bill Brockton’s successful, secure life into devastating turmoil in this poignant
novel in the New York Times bestselling Body Farm mystery series...(more).
Iron Wolf
by Dale Brown
In the spring of 2017, the U.S. economy is rebounding under President Stacy
Anne Barbeau, the country’s first female president. But her leadership is
about to be severely tested: Russian president Gennadiy Gryzlov has sent
Special Troops, disguised as pro-Russian activists, into Ukraine and Moldova.
Though NATO is outraged, its response is tepid....(more).
Jezebel Remedy
by Martin Clark
Lisa and Joe Stone, married for twenty years and partners in their small law
firm in Henry County, Virginia, handle less than glamorous cases, whether
domestic disputes, personal injury settlements, or never-ending complaints
from their cantankerous client Lettie VanSandt (“eccentric” by some
accounts, “certifiable” by others). When Lettie dies in a freakish fire, the
Stones think it’s certainly possible that she was cooking meth at her
trailer...(more).
Book of Numbers
by Joshua Cohen
The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world’s most powerful
tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs.
This tech mogul, known as Principal, brings Josh behind the digital veil, tracing
the rise of Tetration, which started in the earliest days of the Internet by
revolutionizing the search engine before venturing into smartphones,
computers, and the surveillance of American citizens...(more).
Page 5 of 11
New Book Releases - June 2015 (cont.)
Invasion of the Tearling
by Erica Johansen
With each passing day, Kelsea Glynn is growing into her new responsibilities
as Queen of the Tearling. By stopping the shipments of slaves to the
neighboring kingdom of Mortmesne, she crossed the Red Queen, a brutal
ruler whose power derives from dark magic, who is sending her fearsome
army into the Tearling to take what is hers. And nothing can stop the
invasion...(more).
Language Arts
by Stephanie Kallos
Charles Marlow teaches his high school English students that language will
expand their worlds. But linguistic precision cannot help him connect with his
autistic son, or with his ex-wife, who abandoned their shared life years
before, or even with his college-bound daughter who has just flown the nest.
He’s at the end of a road he’s traveled on autopilot for years when a series of
events forces him to think back on the lifetime of decisions and indecisions
that have brought him to this point...(more).
Under a Dark Summer Sky
by Vanessa Lafaye
Huron Key is already weighed down with secrets when a random act of
violence and a rush to judgment viscerally tear the town apart. As the little
island burns under the sun and the weight of past decisions, a devastating
storm based on the third-strongest Atlantic Hurricane on record approaches,
matching the anger of men with the full fury of the skies....(more).
Long Utopia
by Terry Pratchett
It is the middle of the twenty-first century. After the cataclysmic upheavals of
Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption, humanity is spreading farther into
the Long Earth. Society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to
evolve. And new challenges emerge...(more).
Page 6 of 11
New Book Releases - June 2015 (cont.)
Second Life
by S.J. Watson
She loves her husband. She's obsessed by a stranger.
She's a devoted mother. She's prepared to lose everything.
She knows what she's doing. She's out of control.
She's innocent. She's guilty as sin.
She's living two lives. She might lose both...(more).
June 16, 2015
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
by Fredrik Backman
From the author of the internationally bestselling 'A Man Called Ove', a
charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies
and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to
life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales. Elsa is seven years old and
different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy, standing-onthe-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesuscrazy...(more).
Precipice
by Paul Doiron
When two young female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness—
the most remote stretch along the entire two-thousand mile Appalachian
Trail—Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the search to find them. The
police interview everyone they can find who came in contact with the college
students and learn that the women were lovers who had been keeping their
relationship secret...(more).
Governor’s Wife
by Michael Harvey
In the latest installment in Michael Harvey's beloved Michael Kelly series,
Chicago's favorite Ovid-reading, gun-toting private investigator takes on
Illinois' first family in a blistering thriller that charts the border where
ambition ends and evil begins...(more).
Page 7 of 11
New Book Releases - June 2015 (cont.)
Rumor
by Elin Hilderbrand
Nantucket writer Madeline King couldn't have picked a worse time to have
writer's block. Her deadline is looming, her bills are piling up, and inspiration
is in short supply. Madeline's best friend Grace, is hard at work transforming
her garden into the envy of the island with the help of a ruggedly handsome
landscape architect...(more).
Margaret of Anjou
by Conn Iggulden
Paradise Sky
by Joe R. Lansdale
Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas farm when an infamous
local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes him in and
trains him in the fine arts of shooting, riding, reading, and gardening. When
Loving dies, Willie re-christens himself Nat Love in tribute to his mentor, and
heads west....(more).
Love May Fail
by Matthew Quick
Portia Kane is having a meltdown. After escaping her ritzy Florida life and her
cheating pornographer husband, she finds herself back in South Jersey, a
place that remains largely unchanged from the years of her unhappy youth.
Lost and alone, looking for the goodness she believes still exists in the world,
Portia sets off on a quest to save the one man who always believed in
her...(more).
Page 8 of 11
New Book Releases - June 2015 (cont.)
Country
by Danielle Steel
Life for Stephanie Adams is all about being a devoted mother. For years, she
has kept her unhappy marriage a secret, intent on protecting her children
from seeing their family break up. Then Stephanie’s husband dies suddenly,
and she sees a chance for everything to be different...(more).
Ultimatum
by Dick Wolf
When a leaker named Verlyn Merritt releases sensitive documents from the
NYPD Intelligence Division to WikiLeaks, some of the deadliest criminals have
access to Detective Jeremy Fisk’s unlisted home address. Within hours, three
mysterious assailants arrive at his Sutton Place apartment. Who are they and
why do they want Fisk dead?...(more).
June 23, 2015
Keepers: The Greatest Films and Personal Favorites
of a Moviegoing Lifetime
by Richard Schickel
Richard Schickel has seen, by his own estimate, more than twenty thousand
films. He has been a reviewer since 1965 (long for Time magazine), has
written almost forty books on the subject, and has produced and directed
thirty documentaries. He has counted as personal friends many of the leading
filmmakers of the twentieth century...(more).
Patience and Fortitude: Power, Real Estate, and the
Fight to Save a Public Library
by Scott Sherman
In a series of cover stories for The Nation magazine, journalist Scott Sherman
uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost took down one of New
York City’s most beloved and iconic institutions: the New York Public
Library...(more).
Page 9 of 11
New Book Releases - June 2015 (cont.)
Book of Speculation
by Erica Swyler
Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on
the Long Island Sound in his family home, a house perched on the edge of a
bluff that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long dead, his
mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister,
Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards and seldom
calls...(more).
Tiny Little Thing
by Beatrix Williams
In the summer of 1966, Christina Hardcastle—“Tiny” to her illustrious
family—stands on the brink of a breathtaking future. Of the three Schuyler
sisters, she’s the one raised to marry a man destined for leadership, and with
her elegance and impeccable style, she presents a perfect camera-ready
image in the dawning age of television politics...(more).
The Cartel
by Don Winslow
It’s 2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty
years in a blood feud against Adán Barrera, the head of El Federación, the
world’s most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller’s
partner. Finally putting Barrera away cost Keller dearly—the woman he loves,
the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead...(more).
June 30, 2015
Ever After
by Jude Deveraux
Jude Deveraux, the New York Times bestselling contemporary romance
author known for her incredible storytelling, spirited heroines, and sexy
heroes, returns with her most enchanting novel yet: a love story set on
Nantucket, featuring the Montgomerys and the Taggarts and filled with
secrets and surprises...(more).
Page 10 of 11
New Book Releases - June 2015 (cont.)
As Night Falls
by Jenny Milchman
Sandy Tremont has always tried to give her family everything. But, as the sky
darkens over the Adirondacks and a heavy snowfall looms, an escaped
murderer with the power to take it all away draws close...(more).
What Doesn’t Kill Her
by Carla Norton
Reeve LeClaire is a college student, dammit, not Daryl Wayne Flint’s victim.
Not anymore—not when Reeve is finally recovering a life of her own after
four years of captivity. Flint is safely locked up in Olshaker Psychiatric
Hospital, where he belongs. He is walking the grounds of the forensic unit,
performing his strange but apparently harmless rituals...(more).
Truth About Pretty Girls
by Karin Slaughter
43-year-old Jude Hanson returns home to Poulet and her mother - the
Georgia mountain town she grew up in and the woman she hoped never to
see again...(more).
Page 11 of 11