Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero
By Amanda Kloots, with Anna Kloots
Harper; hardcover, 336 pages; $27.99
Last year, amidst the horrific pandemic, the world followed the journey of Broadway star and Tony nominee Nick Cordero's battle with Covid through the eyes of his wife, Amanda Kloots, a celebrity fitness trainer and co-host of The Talk.
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence: Revised And Updated
By Ronan Farrow
W.W. Norton & Company, paperback, 480 pages; $18.95
The Stranger Behind You
By Carol Goodman
William Morrow; paperback, $16.99; available Tuesday, July 6th
Carol Goodman is the author of twenty-two novels including The Lake of Dead Languages and The Seduction of Water, which won the 2003 Hammett Prize, and The Widow's House and The Night Visitor, which won the 2018 and 2020 Mary Higgins Clark Award. Her books are known all over the world, having been translated into sixteen languages.
Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player
By Jeremy Beer
Nebraska; 456 pages; hardcover, $29.95; paperback, $21.95; eBook, $18.95
Oscar Charleston is largely regarded by experts as the best player in Negro League baseball history, and Jeremy Beer has written the definitive work on him. This book was originally released in November 2019, and it was awarded the 2020 SABR Seymour Medal and the 2019 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year, and it has just been released in paperback.
Asphalt: A History
By Kenneth O'Reilly
University of Nebraska Press; 344 pages; hardcover, $29.95; eBook, $29.95; available Thursday, July 1st
We walk on it, run on it, play on it, and with increased outdoor dining, think nothing of eating a meal at a table on it. This indispensable part of urban life is asphalt.
Choose Me
By Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver
Thomas & Mercer; 334 pages; hardcover, $24.95; paperback, $15.95; Kindle eBook, $4.99; available Thursday, July 1st
Tess Gerritsen's path to her writing career is one worthy of a novel itself. It wasn't until she was on maternity leave from her job as a physician that she began to write. She has written twenty-eight suspense novels, and they have been translated into forty languages. Her series featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the hit TNT television series Rizzoli & Isles.
Winning in Both Leagues: Reflections from Baseball's Front Office
By J. Frank Cashen
Nebraska; paperback, $19.95; hardcover, $29.95; eBook, $19.95
Former Mets General Manager Frank Cashen's autobiography, Winning in Both Leagues, which was originally released in 2014, is now out in paperback.
