New releases for week of May 26

  In “The Scarecrow” by Michael Connelly, Jack McEvoy, a police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, has been told to hit the bricks. He decides to go out with a bang though by pursing a story about a teen gangbanger.
  As the reporter begins looking into the murder that got the teen arrested, he begins to think the kid is innocent. After a similar killing brings him to Las Vegas, he starts to suspect that someone is watching him ... and someone is. Look for a review of this novel at The Book Nook soon.
  Also expected out this week is “Shanghai Girls” by Lisa See. The book, set in 1937 Shanghai, focuses on two sisters, Pearl and May, sold into marriage after their family goes from riches to rags.
  Also hitting shelves this week: “Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits” by Wayne W. Dyer; “I’m Down: A Memoir” by Mishna Wolff; “Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa” by Mark Seal; “Diamondhead” by Patrick Robinson; "The Sorceress (Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Book 3)” by Michael Scott; “Nightwalkers” by Peter T. Deutermann; “The Unseen” by Alexandra Sokoloff; “The King James Conspiracy” by Phillip DePoy; “The Wide Smiles of Girls” by Jennifer Manske Fenske; “See No Evil” by Jamila Gavin; “Far Bright Star” by Robert Olmstead; “Peril on the Sea” by Michael Cadnum; “An Honorable German” by Charles McCain; “Castration Celebration” by Jake Wizner; and “Sprout” by Dale Peck.