May Brings Plenty of Great New Roads!
As the weather has certainly proved in the last few weeks, summer is just around the corner! May has several great new releases perfect for reading outside with a cool glass of lemonade.
In "Swiped" by L.M. Chilton, Gwen is back on the dating apps, but her love life goes from bad to worse when a serial killer’s victims all have one thing in common—they were one of her terrible dates. Now Gwen has to warn previous dates she’d rather not talk to again, convince the police she’s innocent, and figure out who hacked her phone and why in this fun and twisty mystery.
Graham Moore offers an economic twist on the WWII thriller with "The Wealth of Shadows." Ansel Luxford, a Treasury Department attorney, crisscrosses the globe, doing his best to ensure Axis powers don’t have access to needed supplies and the Allies do. Full of small details, little known historical facts, and real-life people like JP Morgan, John Maynard Keynes, and even Luxford himself, Moore shows an often overlooked, but vital, part of how WWII was won.
Fu Pei-Mei spent her dowry paying chefs to teach her to cook. Sharing this knowledge with other women led to a cooking school, cookbooks, a TV show and being called “The Julia Child of Chinese Food” by the New York Times. Learn more in Michelle T. King’s biography, "Chop Fry Watch Learn."
When the Challenger exploded just over a minute after blasting off, the watching world wondered what went wrong. Like he did in "Midnight in Chernobyl," Adam Higginbotham presents a meticulously researched and highly readable deep dive into the hubris and bureaucracy that created the disaster, including the many warnings that were ignored, in Challenger.
Middle grade readers will be on the edge of their seats with Rebecca E.F. Barone’s "Mountain of Fire" about the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. This thrilling read lays out the scientific questions raised by the increased volcanic activity in the lead-up to the eruption, the demand for answers, and the harrowing tales of those who survived the eruption, and those who didn’t.
Teen readers may have heard of the 1992 LA Uprising, but probably don’t know the layers and nuances of the underlying issues beyond the Rodney King verdict. In "Rising from the Ashes," Paula Yoo looks at tensions between LA’s Black and Korean American communities, LAPD’s history of racism and the systemic issues that led to the uprising. Yoo's book explores how some of these issues still remain and how the community has recovered in the subsequent years.
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May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
May is Jewish American Heritage Month.