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Week of June 11, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of June 11th include HUNGER, Roxane Gay's searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself; Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella's I NEED A LIFEGUARD EVERYWHERE BUT THE POOL, the mother-daughter team's eighth collection of stories from their real lives, guaranteed to make you laugh out loud; TROPHY SON, in which Douglas Brunt tells the story of a tennis prodigy, from young childhood to the finals of the US Open, Wimbledon and other tournaments around the world; and LINCOLN AND THE ABOLITIONISTS, Fred Kaplan's thought-provoking exploration of how Abraham Lincoln’s and John Quincy Adams’ experiences with slavery and race shaped their differing viewpoints.