The summer is hot as these exciting books join our Midwest Connections Picks starting in August.
Click on the title links below for much more information about each one of these books for adults. And check out our children’s Midwest Connections Picks for summer reading , too.
Buy these books from your favorite locally owned and operated Midwest independent bookseller! Click here for the new searchable directory of our MBA member bookstores.
While I’m Falling
by Laura Moriarty
Hyperion Books
$24.99, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-1-4013-0272-6
Fiction
The tug-at-your-heart new novel by the bestselling author of The Rest of Her Life and The Center of Everything. Every mother and daughter should read this story of a family in the midst of profound change!
“While I’m Falling deftly captures the moment a child realizes that growing up means being responsible for your parents’ mistakes-and preventing yourself from making the same ones. Laura Moriarty keeps getting better and better.”
-Jodi Picoult, author of Handle with Care

Missing Mark
by Julie Kramer
Doubleday / Random House
$23.95 Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-52477-3
Fiction / Mystery & Suspense
This novel is set in the Twin Cities.
“Julie Kramer has done it again! Her second Minnesota mystery features sassy, independent-with-a-vulnerable-side Riley Spartz investigating a missing groom and a missing BIG FISH. The White Bear Lake setting and snappy dialogue move the plot along nicely to a satisfying conclusion. I loved it!”
– Susie Fruncillo, Co-Owner, Lake Country Booksellers, White Bear Lake, MN
Shiver
by Maggie Stiefvater
Scholastic Press
$17.99 Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-545-12326-6
Young adult fiction set in the Minnesota Boundary Waters area / supernatural romance
Dazzlingly talented newcomer Maggie Stiefvater brings readers a powerful supernatural love story in Shiver. This chilling, beautifully crafted novel brings two teenagers together against all odds.
“Oh. My. Goodness…I got totally sucked in, took most of Sunday to read the second half, and bawled through the last fifty pages. Teenage girls are going to love this!! I’m going to pass [this] on to one my colleagues tomorrow so she and her 15-year-old daughter can read it. I’m going to include a kleenex for each of them.”
– Kathy Adams, Education Specialist, Valley Bookseller, Stillwater, MN
The Fifth Floor
by Michael Harvey
Vintage / Random House
$14.95 Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38629-8
Mystery and detective fiction set in Chicago
Booksellers – The new Midwest Connections Pick sign and shelf-talker are available now for The Fifth Floor! Click on the book title to go to this book’s Midwest Connections webpage.
Also available from Vintage –
The Chicago Way
$13.95 Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38628-1
PRAISE for The Fifth Floor
“The perfect Chicago detective story, complete with a loving tour of the city’s funkier locales that’ll make any displaced Chicagoan long for home.”
-Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City
Click on the links above for more information about these books.