New Books for Casual Reading

Take some time to enjoy a book from the Library’s Casual Reading collection. A selection of popular fiction and nonfiction books has recently been added to the New Books section located on the Library’s first floor near the Circulation Desk. For additional information about some of the newly added titles, or to place a hold on one of the items, click on any of the links below.

Fiction

• Ascension (Nicholas Binge)
• Birnam Wood (Eleanor Catton)
• Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver) 
• Happy Place (Emily Henry)
• Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt) 
• The Deluge (Stephen Markley)
• The Marriage Portrait (Maggie O’Farrell)
• The Mountain in the Sea (Ray Nayler) 
• Trust (Hernán Díaz)
• Yellowface (R. F. Kuang)

Nonfiction

• An Immense World : How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Ed Yong) 
• Awe : the New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life (Dacher Keltner) 
• Blood Money : the Story of Life, Death, and Profit inside America’s Blood Industry (Kathleen McLaughlin)
• Birth : Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America (Rebecca Grant)
• Cinema Speculation (Quentin Tarantino) 
• Knowing What We Know : the Transmission of Knowledge, from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic (Simon Winchester) 
• Saving Time : Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (Jenny Odell)
• The Facemaker : A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I (Lindsey Fitzharris)
• The Good Life : Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness (Robert J. Waldinger)
• The Teachers : A Year Inside America’s Most Vulnerable, Important Profession (Alexandra Robbins)

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