Adult New Books for the week of August 24, 2020

Download this New Book Order Form (PDF) and return it to any desk in the Library. We would be happy to put any of these books on hold for you!

Other ways to place holds:

Call the Library at 262-532-8920
Email your name, library card number, and hold requests to HoldRequests@menomonee-falls.org
Click on any of the links below to log into our catalog and place the holds yourself

Featured New Releases

Via Negativa by Daniel Hornsby

A heartfelt, daring, and divinely hilarious debut novel about an old priest looking back on his life and grappling with his mistakes as he hits the highways of the American midwest with a pistol in his pocket and an injured coyote in his backseat.

Place a hold on Via Negativa

Kiss My Cupcake by Helena Hunting

Blaire Calloway has planned every Instagram-worthy moment of her cupcake and cocktails shop launch down to the tiniest detail. What she didn’t plan on? Ronan Knight and his old-school sports bar next door opening on the very same day. He may be super swoony, but Blaire hasn’t spent years obsessing over buttercream and bourbon to have him ruin her chance at success.

Place a hold on Kiss My Cupcake

The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi

There are rules for murder mysteries. Grant McAllister once sat down and worked them all out into seven perfect detective stories. Now Julia Hart, a sharp, ambitious editor wishes to republish his book. But there are things in the stories that don’t add up. They may be clues, and Julia finds herself with a mystery of her own to solve.

Place a hold on The Eighth Detective

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Cara is dead on three hundred and seventy-four worlds. The multiverse business is booming, but when one of Cara’s eight remaining parallel selves dies under mysterious circumstances, Cara is plunged into a new world with an old secret.

Place a hold on The Space Between Worlds

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The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore

When Wayétu Moore is five years old, war breaks out in Liberia. Her family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai. Finally, they are smuggled across the border to Sierra Leone, setting them off on yet another journey, this time to the United States.

Place a hold on The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America’s Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology book cover

**Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America’s Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology by Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz**

In the spirit of Devil in the White City and Furious Hours comes the haunting true story of Eliot Ness’s forgotten final case – his years-long hunt for “The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run,” a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the 1936 World Fair.