LibraryAware July 23

FICTION

Drunk on all your strange new words
by Eddie Robson

A translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth is pulled into the middle of an intergalactic incident that threatens her future employment, in the new novel from the British comedy writer behind Welcome to our Village.

Fellowship Point : a novel
by Alice Elliott Dark

A retiring children's book author looking to secure her legacy tries to get the beautiful Maine coast where her novels are set donated to a trust, but must first convince the shareholders, one of which is her best friend

King of wrath
by Ana Huang

"Billionaire CEO Dante Russo thrives on control, both personally and professionally. He never planned to marry...until the threat of blackmail forces him into an engagement with a woman he barely knows. Vivian Lau, jewelry heiress and daughter of his newest enemy. The wife he never wanted, and the weakness he never saw coming. It doesn't matter how beautiful or charming she is. Dante will do everything in his power to destroy the blackmail and their betrothal. There's only one problem: now that he has her, he can't bring himself to let her go"

The reading list : a novel
by Sara Nisha Adams

Working at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she's facing at home, and decides to pass the list on to a lonely widower desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter. 75,000 first printing.

Such good friends : a novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill
by Stephen Greco

The housekeeper for princess and sister of Jackie Kennedy, Her Serene Highness Lee Radziwill, Marlene meets celebrated author Truman Capote, and when he takes her under his wing as a writer, she sees his darker side– especially his penchant for mining his friends' private lives for material. Original.

The sweetness of water
by Nathan Harris

"In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother, who was sold away when they were boys. Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers. The young men, recently returned from the war to the town of Old Ox, hold their trysts in the woods. But when their secret is discovered, the resulting chaos, including a murder, unleashes convulsive repercussions on the entire community. In the aftermath of so much turmoil, it is Isabelle who emerges as an unlikely leader, proffering a healing vision for the land and for the newly free citizens of Old Ox"

NONFICTION

The facemaker : a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I
by Lindsey Fitzharris

This real-life wartime medical thriller, showing what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of horror, follows pioneering plastic surgeon Dr. Harold Gillies, who after the First World War, dedicated himself to restoring the broken and burned faces of the injured soldiers under his care.

Half American : the epic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad
by Matthew F. Delmont

This history of World War II as told from the African American perspective looks at the bravery and patriotism of the one million black men and women who served in the face of unfathomable racism.