REQUIRED READING
Sunburn Laura Lippman (f iction, William Morrow)
Polly and Adam are two people both passing through a sleepy town, both running away from their lives for different reasons. They spend a summer together with the understanding that their affair is temporary — and yet, they stay.y. Neither is what they appear to be, which will keep the reader guessing until the very end.
The Kremlin’s Candidate Jason Matthews (f iction, Scribner)
The final installment in the Red Sparrow Trilogy by retired CIA officer Matthews, this title finds Russian counterintelligence chief Dominika Egorova and her lover, CIA Agent Nate Nash trying to identify a Russian spy who’s about to receive a very impressive promotion within thee US govern-government. With cameos from Vladimir Putin.
Boys Keep Swinging Jake Shears (memoir, Atria) This memoir from the lead singer of the glam-rock band Scissor Sisters recounts his bullied teenage years as Jason Sellards, his arrival in NYC and the formation of the band, which got its start in gay nightclubs. Entertaining and honest. The Tuscan Child Rhys Bowen (f iction, Lake Union)
In 1944, a British bomber pilot parachutes from his plane into Germanoccupied Tuscany and finds refuge — and love — from a woman named Sofia. Decades later, his adult daughter finds an unopened letter addressed to Sofia while preparing for his funeral. She is shocked byy the letter and decides to travel to Tuscany in the hopes of better understanding her father.
Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America Vegas Tenold (nonfiction, Nation Books)
A terrifying, thoroughly reported look at newly empowered whitenationalist groups across the country, from Brooklyn to Tennessee, in a year that has seen racially motivatedd violence and demonstrations take center stage.
The French Girl Lexie Elliott (f iction, Berkley)
Six Oxford University students spend a carefree week together in a French farmhouse, passing the days in a mix of alcohol, swimming and twentysomething hijinks. The outsider in their group was Severine, the girl next door, who hung out with them that week — and was neverr seen again. Ten years later, the group has gone its separate ways when Severine’s body is found and all of them are possible suspects.