Heroes of History: Alexander Hamilton – It’s possible that everybody in the world has heard of or seen the musical Hamilton. The production helped to blow away the mists of history from this previously obscure Founding Father, but who exactly was he? Heroes of History: Alexander Hamilton sets out to explain just that.
Heroes of History: George Washington, Janet & Geoff Benge, Liberty Street – George Washington is revered as the “Father of his Country.” His image is everywhere, from currency to portraits and statues. But who exactly was he?
Beneath a Scarlet Sky, Mark Sullivan, Lake Union – Italy, 1944. Seventeen years old, Pino Lella comes from a prosperous Milanese family. He’s full of dreams like any boy his age. War seems remote until Allied bombs begin to fall on the city.
Sugar Land, Tammy Lynne Stoner, Red Hen Press – Born and raised in Midland, Texas, Miss Dara is a large, awkward young woman working in an egg store.
The Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze, Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion – In the third book of The Trials of Apollo series, once again we find the god Apollo incarnated in the weak and flabby body of a pimply-faced human teenager named Lester.
The Betrayals, Fiona Neill, Pegasus Books – Rosie and Nick, Lisa and Barney and all their kids made one big, happy extended family, vacationing together every summer on the east Norfolk coast of England.
Match Making for Beginners, Maddie Dawson, Lake Union – Marnie McGraw, an ordinary young woman from Florida, is all at sea when she encounters her fiance Noah’s old money Virginian family for the first time.
Girls’ Night Out, Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke, Lake Union – Ashley, Natalie and Lauren have been friends for twenty years. Now in their late thirties, their friendship is under strain.
The Woman in the Woods, John Connolly, Emily Bestler Books – Private Eye Charlie Parker is called in by his old friend, lawyer Moxie Castin, to shadow a police investigation into a woman’s body found in a remote Maine woodland.
The Good Liar, Catherine McKenzie, Lake Union – In Chicago a massive gas explosion caused an office building to collapse, killing five hundred and thirteen people.
