AUBURN – New books announced for June at the Auburn Public Library have been announced.

Fiction

“Foreign Body,” Robin Cook. When her grandmother dies during routine surgery in India, fourth-year medical student Jennifer Hernandez takes an emergency leave to investigate. The conspiracy she uncovers will shock the world – if she lives to reveal it.

“Careless in Red,” Elizabeth George. Trying to recover from the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Lynley’s solitary retreat to Cornwall is rudely interrupted when, out on a long day hike, he discovers the body of a young man at the base of a cliff.

“Exiles,” Ron Hansen. In this fictionalized account of an 1875 tragedy, five young nuns, exiled from their German homeland and en route to a new life in Missouri, are among the fatalities when the steamship Deutschland runs aground in the Thames.

“Twenty Wishes,” Debbie Macomber. In her latest to take place on Seattle’s fictional Blossom Street, Macomber tells the story of four widows who, led by bookstore owner Anne Marie Roche, decide to start acting on their lists of life wishes.

Nonfiction

“Audition: A Memoir,” Barbara Walters. From the Today Show to the ABC Evening News, from celebrity interviews to the View, Walters’ broadcast career has been like no other. Here she describes the journey in her own words.

“Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation,” Cokie Roberts. In her follow-up to “Founding Mothers,” Roberts continues to chronicle the vital but long-overlooked contributions of remarkable women to the birth of thefledgling country.

“The Last Lecture,” Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow. Ceremonial, career-assessing “last lectures” are a tradition on university campuses, but what would you say if yours marked, not the end of your career, but the end of your life to terminal cancer?

“Escape,” Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer. This memoir, by a woman who fled the abusive plural marriage in which she had eight children, sheds stark light on the intimate realities of women’s lives in a fundamentalist Mormon enclave.

Teens

“Bunker 10,” J.A. Henderson. On Christmas Eve, December 2007, the highly secretive, state-of-the-art military installation known only as Pinewood explodes. What is the fate of the 185 military personnel – and the seven very special teenagers – inside?

“The Night Tourist,” Katherine Marsh. A ninth-grade classics prodigy is plunged into his own real life Odyssey when a near-death experience exposes him to the myth-like realm and denizens of New York City’s ghostly underworld.

“Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean,” Justin Somper. Twins Connor and Grace never believed the old shanties about the dangerous seafaring rivals, the pirates and the vampirates, until they are shipwrecked, separated and captured by you-know-who.

“Underground,” Jean Ferris. Stephen and Charlotte, two young slaves who work at Kentucky’s Mammoth Caves, are torn between the ties of home and friendship and the desire for a better life when they learn the caves harbor runaway slaves heading north.

Children

“A Boy Named Beckoning,” Gina Capaldi. This picture-book biography tells the story of Native American Carlos Montezuma, who, at the age of 5, was wrested from his family, sold into slavery and grew up to become a doctor and civil rights activist. For readers in grades three and four.

“Those Amazing Musical Instruments,” Genevieve Helsby. Here’s ag tour of the instruments, with funny stories and facts about each. A CD-ROM provides samples of each instrument’s voice. For kids in grades four to six.

“The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity,” Jutta Richter. This book tells the story of an alley cat who stops Christine on her way to school each day. Their conversations make her late, get her in trouble and give her much to ponder about life. For kids in grades three and four.

“Wiil Waal,” retold by Kathleen Moriarty, translated by Jamal Adam. In this Somali folktale recounted in two languages, a sultan asks his people to bring him the part of a sheep that best symbolizes what can divide people or unite them. Can you guess what it is? For kids in preschool through grade three.