Titles for the rest of 2018

*** Subject to change, based on availability within PLS ****

May 7 --Professor & the Madman -- Simon Winchester  (18 books, 2 audio, 3 LT)

The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness and genius, and the incredible obsessions of two men at the heart of the Oxford English Dictionary and literary history

June 4-- Snow -- Orhan Pamuk  (16 books, 6 audio, 0 LT)

In the middle of winter, a poet and journalist travels to the remote city of Kars, on the border of Turkey, after many years of political exile in Western Europe.

July 2 -- LaRose -- Louise Erdrich  (15+ books, 7 audio, 3 LT)

Horrified when he accidentally kills his best friend's five-year-old son while hunting, Landreaux Iron gives away his own young son to his friend's family according to ancient tradition, a decision that helps both families reach a tenuous peace that is threatened by a vengeful adversary.

Aug 6--Circling the Sun -- Paula  McLain (15+ books, 10+audio, 6 LT)

Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa.

Sept 10-- Homegoing -- Yaa Gyasi  (15+ books, 8 audio, 4 LT)

Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies ...

Oct 1 -- Glass Universe -- Dava Sobel  (14 books, 1 audio, 3 LT)

The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s

Nov 5 --  News of the World -- Paulette Jiles  (15+ books, 6 audio, 2 LT)

In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction.

Dec 3-- Killers of the Flower Moon --David  Grann (15+ books, 7 audio, 2 LT)

Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.