Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, June 20:
The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz (Bantam, $28, 9780345545992) is the start of a new series about a widow whose late husband was part of a mysteriously high number of suicides.
Kiss Carlo: A Novel by Adriana Trigiani (Harper, $27.99, 9780062319227) follows an Italian-American family in 1949 Philadelphia.
Here and Gone: A Novel by Haylen Beck (Crown, $26, 9780451499578) is a thriller about a woman trying to rescue her children from corrupt local law enforcement.
Girl on the Leeside: A Novel by Kathleen Anne Kenney (Nan A. Talese, $26.95, 9780385542395) follows an aspiring poet in an Irish village.
Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death by Adrian Owen (Scribner, $28, 9781501135200) explores the experiences of brain-damaged patients.
Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table by Stephen Westaby (Basic Books, $27, 9780465094837) is the memoir of a heart surgeon.
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant (Little, Brown, $28, 9780316546164) looks how Apple's ubiquitous cell phone was created.
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Walden Pond Press, $16.99, 9780062643629) is a middle grade science fiction novel about a boy who must come up with 10 reasons Earth is worth saving with a time- and space-bending friend who looks like a dog but is actually an alien.
Superstar by Mandy Davis (HarperCollins, $16.99, 9780062377777) is a middle grade novel about a space and science-obsessed boy with autism who goes to public school after always being homeschooled... and learns about bullying, friendship and finding his own way.
Paperbacks:
Swimming Home: A Novel by Mary-Rose MacColl (Penguin Books, $16, 9780143129967).
You Can Draw It in Just 30 Minutes: See It and Sketch It in a Half-Hour or Less by Mark Kistler (Da Capo Lifelong, $17.99, 9780738218625).
The Pleasures of Passion (The Sinful Suitors) by Sabrina Jeffries (Pocket, $7.99, 9781501144462).
Giant Days Vol. 5 by John Allison and Max Sarin (BOOM! Box, $14.99, 9781608869824).
Movie:
The Beguiled, based on the novel by Thomas Cullinan, opens June 23. Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning and Colin Farrell star in this story of a wounded Union soldier who takes shelter in a Virginian girls' school during the Civil War. A movie tie-in edition (Penguin Books, $16, 9780143132400) is available.
