The Greensboro Public Library is seeking suggestions from residents on titles for the One City, One Book community read in the fall of 2023.

In "The Lemon Man," Dublin, Ireland, hitman Patrick Callen discovers a baby after killing its drug-dealing father. Unwilling to leave the child behind in the filthy apartment, he takes it with him. Soon, he finds himself struggling to change diapers and trying to figure out what babies eat. But caring for a baby and working as a hitman is not a good mix, and the complications that arise threaten to get Patrick killed. Associated Press reviewer Bruce DeSilva says Keith Bruton's debut is a fast-paced crime novel that is both hilarious and hardboiled, its main character both ruthless and oddly sympathetic.

"Heat 2" by Meg Gardiner and Michael Mann; HarperCollins (480 pages, $28.99) ——— In the age of reboots, limited series and sequels it makes too much sense, because it would make many cents, that one of the greatest action movies made eventually would continue. The 1995 movie, “Heat,” starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino and directed by Michael Mann, is back in the form of a novel. A hit movie ...

NONFICTION: A novelist recounts the experience of caring for her ailing, dependent mother. "Mothercare" by Lynne Tillman; Soft Skull Press (176 pages, $23) ——— "Death was a longtime fascination," novelist Lynne Tillman writes in "Mothercare," her powerful new memoir. At age 5, decades before the contours of a heartbreaking family illness became visible, she asked her father to bury her in a ...

FICTION: A teenage girl gets pregnant in 1960s Ireland and surrenders the baby against her will. Thirty years later, a letter arrives. "The Making of Her" by Bernadette Jiwa; Dutton (336 pages, $26) ——— In 1964 in Catholic, Catholic Ireland, 17-year-old Joan falls hard for a young blond man she sees each evening, toiling up the hill on his bicycle near the factory where she works. She knows ...

PITTSBURGH — The idea for Sarah James' debut novel had been around in one form or another since she was 19. All it took was more than a decade to gestate into something tangible. The 32-year-old Forest Hills native had always been interested in World War II, specifically the Manhattan Project that led to the U.S. creating the world's first nuclear weapons. During her undergraduate days, James ...

FICTION: An elegant, soaring debut novel about a young Chinese man who returns home to look for his missing father. "A Map for the Missing" by Belinda Huijuan Tang; Penguin Press (400 pages, $27) ——— Belinda Huijuan Tang's lovely debut novel, "A Map for the Missing," unfolds slowly and confidently, revealing the secrets in the hearts of its characters, one by one. Protagonist Yitian Tang is ...