New releases: May | Lexington Herald Leader

These books have been released or are scheduled to be released this month.

MAY 7

Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan

Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris

The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Though the Heart of the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey

Icons by Margaret Stohl

The Lucy Variations by Sara Zarr

VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave by Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter and Martha Quinn with Gavin Edward

MAY 14

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein — Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding by Mario Livio

Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M.E. Thomas

Inferno by Dan Brown

Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age by Allen Barra

The Outsider: A Memoir by Jimmy Connors

MAY 21

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny and the American Dream by Deepak Chopra and Sanjiv Chopra

Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty

Into the Abyss: An Extraordinary True Story by Carol Shaben

The Redeemer by Jo Nesbø

Theodore Boone: The Activist by John Grisham

MAY 23

The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien

MAY 28

American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love and Politics by Dan Savage

Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz and David Aaron Baker

My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt

The Son by Philipp Meyer