Among the other standouts in the August issue of Spot-Lit are not-to-be-missed new books by Ivan Doig, Louise Penny, and Charles Cumming, a host of great debuts (see especially The Dog Stars, The Orchardist, and A Killing in the Hills), and titles featuring the supernatural world of ghostly hauntings (The Broken Ones) and book magic (Libriomancer). The Pacific Northwest is the setting for three of this month’s selections: Goodbye for Now, The Orchardist, and Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Click the titles below to read more about them in the library catalog or to place them on hold. Happy reading!
General Fiction / Literary Fiction
Goodbye for Now by Laurie Frankel
Bartender’s Tale by Ivan Doig
Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis
Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye – winner of the Prix Goncourt
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
We’re Flying: Stories by Peter Stamm
First Novels
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Syndrome E by Frank Thilliez
City of Women by David Gillham
A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller
The Twenty-Year Death by Ariel S. Winter
The Headmaster’s Wager by Vincent Lam
Crime Fiction /Suspense
A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming
The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen
The Broken Ones by Stephen M. Irwin
Bad Little Falls by Paul Doiron
SF / Fantasy / Horror
A Guile of Dragons by James Enge
Libriomancer by Jim Hines
At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson
Upon the Dull Earth: the Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick vol. 3
Wards of Faerie by Terry Brooks
