Spring is on its way, along with dozens of must-read new books! The following is a list of eagerly-anticipated titles you can look forward to borrowing from the library this March. (Please note that Descriptions are taken from the publishers.)
Felicia’s Favorites by Danielle Steel – March 3rd
After the unexpected death of Felicia Morgan Weston, her five daughters are summoned to a historic Connecticut farmhouse for the reading of her will. Still reeling from shock, they hear revelations that will potentially change their lives—and they realize there was much more to their mother than they ever knew.
Judge Stone by James Patterson and Viola Davis – March 9th
From Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis, and the world’s #1 best-selling author James Patterson comes this tense legal thriller. The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone. She holds two responsibilities sacred: running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. It’s there she draws the most controversial case in the history of the South. Criminally, it’s open-and-shut. Ethically, there is no middle ground. Essentially, it’s a choice between life and death.
Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! By Liza Minnelli – March 10th
Global icon Liza Minnelli shares her inspiring story: stepping out from the long shadow of a mega-star mother and legendary film director father, fighting a lifetime battle with addiction, and emerging from it all to become a once-in-a-lifetime artist.
The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez – March 24th
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Say You’ll Remember Me comes a beautiful, compelling novel that revels in laughter, friendship, and the messy choices life can throw our way.
How to Be Okay When Nothing is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative In Spite of Myself by Jenny Lawson – March 31st
Jenny Lawson is full of contradictions. She’s a celebrated author but battles self-doubt, paralysis, and anxiety. She’s an award-winning humorist but struggles with treatment-resistant depression. The questions people most often ask her are, “How do you do it? How do you keep going even when it feels impossible? How do you keep creating?” This book is her answer.
Son of Nobody by Yann Martel – March 31st
From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi comes a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from the perspective of two commoners: an ancient soldier and a modern scholar.
News From Dublin by Colm Toibin – March 31st
A brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Tóibín’s stories are rich with the complexities of family dynamics, the haunting pull of the past, and the quiet revelations that define our lives. His characters, whether navigating the aftermath of war, or forbidden love, or the desires of a girl in Catalan, or the quiet struggles of mundane life, are rendered with illuminating, unforgettable empathy and insight.
Python’s Kiss by Louise Erdrich – March 31st
Written over the past two decades, Louise Erdrich’s magnificent story collection features a range of characters—a tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience can encompass; immigrant farmers whose tenuous hold on the earth, and sanity, is challenged; and ordinary people, bird lovers, artists, grade-school teachers, and romantics. A girl decides to spend her life with a stone. A man is confronted with a folk-singing thief. A woman enters a corporately owned afterlife to seek revenge on her father. These stories offer an opportunity to celebrate the wisdom and brilliant, wide-ranging imagination of one of America’s most important writers.