Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, June 9:
Contrapposto: A Novel by Dave Eggers (Knopf, $32, 9780593803509) follows a lifetime friendship between two artists.
Daughters of the Sun and Moon: A Novel by Lisa See (Scribner, $29, 9781982117054) takes place in 1870s Los Angeles, where three Chinese women struggle to build lives.
A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America by Brook Wilensky-Lanford (Atlantic Monthly Press, $38, 9780802167347) is a history of the U.S. focused on religion and spiritual movements.
Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America's Future by Fergus M. Bordewich (Knopf, $35, 9780593803363) explores the country's centennial through the eyes of Rutherford B. Hayes, Alexander Graham Bell, railroad magnate Tom Scott, and sculptor Edmonia Lewis.
The Fourth Branch: How State Government Can Save Our Union by Daniel Squadron (Zando, $28.95, 9781638933854) looks to state governments to counteract dysfunctional federal leaders.
Rasputin Swims the Potomac: A Novel by Ben Fountain (Flatiron, $29.99, 9781250776549) is satire about a professional wrestler in the White House.
Villa Coco: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer (Doubleday, $30, 9780385551977) focuses on a young man working for the elderly owner of a Tuscan villa.
Children of the Wild: A Novel by Kevin Powers (Harper, $30, 9780063488571) follows a trio of young people in rural Virginia as the U.S. enters World War I.
The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton, $35, 9781324006848) is a guide not just to identifying birds, but how to identify with them.
The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris by Andrea Wulf (Knopf, $38, 9780593803400) is a biography of 18th-century naturalist George Forster.
Devils We Know by L.T. Thompson (Bloomsbury, $20.99, 9781547615230) is the final title in the YA historical fantasy duology, Devils Like Us.
Greatest Bedtime Story Ever by Jessie Sima (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665974523) is a picture book featuring an aspiring author who, while trying to find inspiration, finds a dragon instead.
Paperbacks:
Waist Deep: A Novel by Linea Maja Ernst, trans. by Nicolette Sherilyn Hellberg (S&S/Summit Books, $18, 9781668246085).
You Won't Forget Me: A Novel by Mazey Eddings (St. Martin's Griffin, $19, 9781250343840).
Baby in a Box: Stories by Sarah Braunstein (W.W. Norton, $19.99, 9781324051060).