Indigo Books announces new releases
Tuesday are big days in the book world. It is release day for many new titles, especially those with lots of pre-release marketing or the new works by popular authors (except for James Patterson whose books release on Mondays.) Here are some of the books that will be released on June 30, 2020.
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger. The author, an environmentalist and journalist, offers a reasoned and science-backed look at climate change and posits that people need not despair but should look at other pressing and more clearly present environmental dangers.
In the Hands of the People: Thomas Jefferson on Equality, Faith, Freedom, Compromise, and the Art of Citizenship, edited by Jon Meacham. Meacham, respected American historian, offers a collection of Jefferson’s own words on good citizenship. He has also contributed an introductory essay.
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Glaude, Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, looks to the life and times of author, James Baldwin, for hope and guidance in our own crucible moment.
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott. This engaging novel mixes literary history and spy thriller to tell the story of smuggling Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago to America. Explores the long relationship between Pasternak and his mistress, Olga Ivinskaya, the inspiration for Zhivago’s Lara. (paperback)
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is based on an actual reformatory for boys that rudely and harshly shaped the lives of thousands of young boys for over a century. A wrenching story that is at the same time beautiful in the hands of this remarkable writer. (paperback)
Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts. Renovation of a century-old house near New Orleans leads the new owner to begin to blieve the local legend that the house is haunted. His companion, Angelina, has a surprising connection to the house and together they will uncover a secret as old as the house. (paperback)
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