More New Titles are in at Indigo
Don’t buy all the Lions of Fifth Avenue. I’m getting the book VERY soon. There better be some left!!
NEW RELEASES 8/4/2020
August 4th was a big release day with 20+ new titles going onto the shelves at Indigo Books. Here are a few of them.
One Minute Out by Mark Greaney. Greaney’s protagonist, The Gray Man, is a former military special-ops guy now CIA. This time, while in Bosnia he becomes aware of a human trafficking operation and races around the globe in pursuit. As he gets close to the top rungs of the operation, his CIA bosses want him to pull back. Paperback
Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis. Davis continues her string of historical novels set New York City, this time centered around the New York Public Library. Two women, a grandmother and granddaughter at either end of the 20th century, are involved with the Library when valuable items go missing. The granddaughter’s research into the missing items in 1993 reveal surprising ties to her grandmother in 1918.
Fire and Fortitude: the US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943, by John C. McManus. McManus was a recent professor of naval and military history at the US Naval Academy. He writes about the Army’s experience in what is generally viewed as a mainly Navy and Marine Corps theater, focusing on the early years of establishing themselves as a formidable force against the forces of Japan as well as the forces of nature—weather and malaria. Paperback.
True Crimes and Misdemeanors by Jeffrey Toobin. CNN legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer Toobin turns his investigative reporting and writing skills to the investigation and investigators involved in Donald Trump’s impeachment.
In the Valley by Ron Rash. North Carolina author Ron Rash returns to his most memorable heroine, Serena Pemberton, protagonist of his award-winning, bestselling novel, Serena. He evidently had a bit more to say about “his Appalachian Lady Macbeth” and has penned a novella and several stories collected in this volume.
All the Flowers in Paris by Sarah Jio. Another WWII book and another two women who, although separated by decades, share a destiny. A bike accident and long hidden letters lead Caroline back to Nazi-occupied Paris and a woman named Celine. Paperback.
Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer. Meyer writes Edward’s side of his and Bella’s story from The Twilight Saga.
The Palace by Christopher Reich. Simon Riske is a “private spy” who sometimes lives on the edges of legality. He works with a band of similar rogues drawn from a variety of international organizations. This time he is called to Bangkok to help one of these former associates—and finds himself in a world of trouble.
12 Seconds of Silence by Jamie Holmes. The story of the wartime development of the atomic bomb is well-known and well-recorded. Holmes tells the little-known story of a small group of American scientists who were presented with an enormous challenge—how to knock things out of the sky. Their development of the first “smart weapon” was key to protecting lives from Nazi aerial warfare and laid the foundation for future weapons development.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. The Pulitzer Prize author (The Warmth of Other Suns) investigates caste and hierarchical systems across several nations and across time. Wilkerson reveals how the results of the notion of castes are felt every day, in multiple social arenas—health, politics, and culture.