Adult New Books for the week of August 31, 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

The Less Dead by Denise Mina

In this shocking new thriller, a woman in crisis sets out to find her birth mother and finds herself on the hunt for her mother’s murderer. A surprisingly moving story of daughters and mothers, secrets and choices, and how the search for the truth – and a long-hidden killer – will lead one woman to find herself.

Place a hold on The Less Dead

The Great Offshore Grounds by Vanessa Veselka

On the day of their estranged father’s wedding, half-sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. Except: instead of money, their father gives them information – a name – that both reveals a stunning secret and compels them to come to grips with it.

Place a hold on The Great Offshore Grounds

The Girls Weekend by Jody Gehrman

Sadie MacTavish invites her college friends to a baby shower at her sprawling estate in the San Juan Islands. The party gets off to a shaky start when old grudges resurface, but when they wake the next morning, they find something worse: Sadie is missing, the house is in shambles, and bloodstains mar the staircase. None of them has any memory of the night before. Everyone’s a suspect.

Place a hold on The Girls Weekend

Driftwood by Marie Brennan

In the Driftwood fantasy universe, you will find a post-apocalyptic realm where the apocalypse has not ended, where fragments of worlds cohere into shifting myths. Yet even as everything fades, Drifters gather to tell conflicting legends of Last, the guide—the man who seemed immortal.

Place a hold on Driftwood

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Pilsner: How the Beer of Kings Changed the World by Tom Acitelli

The remarkable story of the world’s most popular style of beer, from its humble birth in a far corner of the Austrian Empire in 1842 to its present dominance worldwide. Shattering myths about the style’s origins and immediate parentage, this book shows how pilsner influenced everything from modern-day advertising and marketing to today’s craft beer movement.

Place a hold on Pilsner: How the Beer of Kings Changed the World

Act Like a Lady by Keltie Knight

The hosts of the popular podcast and E! show LadyGang offer a relatable, empowering, and hilarious take on being unapologetically yourself (even if that’s not always your best self) in a manifesto that redefines womanhood for the twenty-first century lady.