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The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles (Fiction, Viking) From the author of “A Gentleman in Moscow” and “Rules of Civility” comes something completely different: an epic 1950s cross-country journey. Emmett Watson has served his time at a juvenile work farm and is ready to start fresh with his little brother Billy — leaving their Nebraska town and trying to make their way to the promised land of California. But it turns out two of Emmett’s fellow farm mates have stowed away in the warden’s car, and have a proposition for him: only it involves going in the opposite direction, all the way to New York.
We Are Not Like Them
Christine Pride and Jo Piazza (Fiction, Atria Books) Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. But their bond is tested when Jen’s cop husband is involved in the shooting of a black teenager — and Riley, a prominent black journalist, has to cover the story.
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl (Memoir, Dey Street Books) The legendary Nirvana and Foo Fighters rocker tells his stories in this hotly anticipated memoir. He compares the experience of writing it to “listening back to a song that I’ve recorded and can’t wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the KISS posters on my wall as a child.”
April in Spain
John Banville (Fiction, Hanover Square Press) Quirke is on vacation with his wife on the coast of Spain, trying to relax. In a crowded bar, he sees April Latimer — who was murdered years ago by her brother in a scandal that rocked Ireland’s political scene. Quirke makes a call back home, and soon a detective has been sent to Spain. Also in Spain: a hit the trail of his newest target.
Catch Us When We Fall
Juliette Fay (Fiction, William Morrow Paperbacks) Life hasn’t worked out well for Cass Macklin, on her own since age 18, her 20s spent in a haze of binge drinking and bad decisions. She’s now broke, homeless and pregnant — but determined to give her baby a stable, happy life. She turns to the only person she knows who might be able to help her — and he just happens to be the third baseman for the Red Sox.
American Happiness and Discontents
George Will (Nonf iction, Hachette Books) The Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist reflects on everything from the Revolutionary War to climatology, the coronavirus, and the many other issues the nation continues to grapple with on a regular basis.