Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week

Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, September 6:

The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency by Kathryn Smith (Touchstone, $28, 9781501114960) is the first biography of Marguerite "Missy" LeHand, FDR's private secretary for 20 years.

His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt by Joseph Lelyveld (Knopf, $30, 9780385350792) chronicles the end of FDR's life.

Dear Mr. M: A Novel by Herman Koch, translated by Sam Garrett (Hogarth, $26, 9781101903322) is a psychological thriller about a writer who found fame with a fictional book based on real-life disappearance.

Manitou Canyon: A Novel by William Kent Krueger (Atria, $24.99, 9781476749266) is the 15th Cork O'Connor mystery.

Ninth City Burning by J. Patrick Black (Ace, $27, 9781101991442) is sci-fi set 500 years after aliens with seemingly-magical powers invaded Earth.

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil (Crown, $26, 9780553418811) explores the algorithms shaping society.

A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age by Daniel J. Levitin (Dutton, $28, 9780525955221) looks at how to sort fact from fiction in the modern world.

Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780544409941) is book two in the Kopp Sisters series, a crime-comedy set in early 1900s New Jersey and based on a true story.

The Fortunes: A Novel by Peter Ho Davies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9780544263703) follows four Chinese-Americans over the course of 100 years.

The Dark Talent: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson, illustrated by Hayley Lazo (Starscape, $16.99, 9780765381408) is book five in the children's Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series.

Big Nate: Revenge of the Cream Puffs by Lincoln Pierce (Andrews McMeel/AMP! Comics for Kids, $9.99, 9781449462284) is a comic book in which Nate and his baseball team want to show the world they're not just a bunch of cupcakes.

Jungle: A Photicular Book by Dan Kainen and Kathy Wollard (Workman, $25.95, 9780761189534) is the next Photicular book after Safari, Ocean and Polar.

Paperbacks:
Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France by Craig Carlson (Sourcebooks, $15.99, 9781492632122) is the memoir of a man who opened an American diner in Paris.

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong (Mariner, $18.95, 9780544859937) is a revised and expanded version of a book originally published in 2004.

Oh She Glows Every Day: Quick and Simply Satisfying Plant-based Recipes by Angela Liddon (Avery, $27, 9781583335741).

To Be or Not to Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure by Ryan North (Riverhead, $20, 9780735212190).

One-Punch Man, Vol. 8 by ONE and Yusuke Murata (VIZ, $9.99, 9781421586564).
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