Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week

Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, May 22:

The Outsider: A Novel by Stephen King (Scribner, $30, 9781501180989) is a supernatural mystery about a murdered boy.

The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations by John McCain and Mark Salter (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781501178009) is the Senator's political memoir.

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (Knopf, $27.95, 9781524731656) reveals the fraud behind multibillion-dollar biotech startup Theranos.

Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence by James R. Clapper and Trey Brown (Viking, $30, 9780525558644) is a memoir by the former Director of National Intelligence.

The High Season: A Novel by Judy Blundell (Random House, $27, 9780525508717) follows invasive summer renters and their house's owner in the Hamptons.

Beach House Reunion by Mary Alice Monroe (Gallery, $26, 9781501193293) continues the Beach House series.

The Mandela Plot by Kenneth Bonert (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27, 9781328886187) follows a Jewish South African family in the late 1980s.

Star of the North: A Novel by D.B. John (Crown, $27, 9780525573296) is a thriller about a woman rescuing her sister from North Korea.

The Empirium Trilogy: Furyborn by Claire Legrand (Sourcebooks Fire, $18.99, 9781492656623) introduces a fantastical world in which two prophesied queens may bring an end to everything.

The Sasquatch and the Lumberjack by Crix Sheridan (Little Bigfoot, $14.99, 9781632171610) is a picture book about a sasquatch and a lumberjack becoming close friends.

Movie:
How to Talk to Girls at Parties, based on the short story by Neil Gaiman, opens May 25. In 1970s suburban London, a boy at a party (Alex Sharp) meets an intergalactic tourist (Elle Fanning). The story is included in Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman (Morrow, $16.99, 9780062699541), which is being published May 22.

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