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Titles We Are Looking Forward to

Brand new titles coming soon to SFPL that we can't wait to get our hands on.

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  • Asian American Is Not a Color

    Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family

    Poon, OiYan,
    A mother and race scholar seeks to answer her daughter’s many questions about race and racism with an earnest exploration into race relations and affirmative action from the perspectives of Asian Americans.
    Book, 2024Boston : Beacon Press, [2024]
  • "The lovely latest from novelist Tan (Where the Past Begins) brings together selections from “nine personal journals filled with sketches and handwritten notes of naive observations” about birds spotted in her northern California backyard between…
    Book, 2024New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
  • "Best seller Baldacci (Simply Lies) tries something new here, a thriller set in the 1960s in his hometown of Richmond, VA, during desegregation." - Library Journal
    Book, 2024New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2024.
  • "The best-selling Alvarez has a committed readership, and word of this inventive novel will also attract new followers." - Booklist
    Book, 2024Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.
  • "Winslow (City of Dreams) concludes his Danny Ryan trilogy—and his career as a novelist—with an addictive finale that charts the Rhode Island mobster turned Las Vegas casino mogul’s turbulent business dealings and deadly feuds." - Publishers Weekly
    Book, 2024New York, NY : William Morrow,an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]
  • "An absolutely engrossing tale, including a locked-room second murder, written with the abundance of whimsy and dark humor that seems to permeate nearly everything that Horowitz creates. Kudos to anyone who can figure this one out!" - Booklist
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.
  • The Demon of Unrest

    a Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

    Larson, Erik, 1954-
    "In this twisty and cinematic account, bestseller Larson (The Splendid and the Vile) recreates the five-month period between Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 election and the outbreak of the Civil War, focusing on the intensifying showdown over Fort Sumter in…
    Book, 2024New York : Crown, [2024]
  • The Everything War

    Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power

    Mattioli, Dana,
    "Mattioli spins the legal wrangling into surprisingly riveting reading, and the meticulous accounts of Amazon’s nefarious practices outrage. This is investigative journalism at its finest." - Publishers Weekly
    Book, 2024New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024.
  • "Bardugo (Hell Bent) masterfully weaves magical realism with historical fiction and romance, which makes this book impossible to put down." - Library Journal
    Book, 2024New York : Flatiron Books, 2024.
  • "Henry perfectly balances sorrow and discord with love and humor, and romance fans will appreciate watching the growth of the characters’ relationships and of Daphne as a person. This is a heartwarming take on summer love." - Publishers Weekly
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley, [2024]
  • "As suspicious deaths mount on a reservation in Louisiana, Noemi begins to uncover secrets about what is menacing the tribal lands." - Library Journal
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley, [2024]
  • "Justin and Emma, who are dating each other just to try to break a curse (all their exes find true love after leaving them), find a lot more than they bargained for when deeper feelings develop." - Library Journal
    Book, 2024New York : Forever, 2024.
  • Knife

    Meditations After An Attempted Murder

    Rushdie, Salman,
    From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.
    Book, 2024New York : Random House, [2024]
  • "Edwin, age 84, and the much younger Natalka, unlikely partners in a detective agency, go undercover at a creative-writing retreat to solve the murder of a local writer." - Library Journal
    Book, 2024New York : Mariner Books, [2024]
  • "Every novel by Smiley is a surprise, and her ardent readership will be intrigued by her latest." - Booklist
    Book, 2024New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
  • The Moment

    Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now

    Sellers, Bakari, 1984-
    "Politician, CNN political analyst, and best-selling author of My Vanishing Country, Sellers continues the conversation he started in that book, focusing upon Black lives in the U.S. and examining inequities across healthcare, education, and…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]
  • "An intimate memoir of shattering pain." - Kirkus
    Book, 2024New York : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]
  • "Diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, Kenetria "Ken" Nash and her other identities get a job as caretaker of an island estate. As a nor'easter begins to brew, a murder also storms in, washing Ken up as the main suspect. She and her alters…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]
  • Open Wide

    a Cookbook for Friends

    Blanco, Benny,
    A cookbook by the artist, actor and producer.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2024]
  • "Food critic and novelist Reichl (Delicious!) serves up a delectable story of an introverted copy editor’s life-changing visit to Paris in the 1980s." - Publishers Weekly
    Book, 2024New York : Random House, [2024]