New Titles for Adult Standing Order Fiction
May 16, 2013
Omens: A Cainsville Novel
Armstrong, Kelley
In this launch of a new series from the author of the hugely popular “Otherworld” books, wealthy, 24-year-old Ivy Leaguer Olivia Taylor Jones is happily engaged when she discovers that she is adopted–and that her biological parents are serial killers imprisoned for life. Olivia’s efforts to find out more about them take her first to her mother’s former lawyer, Gabriel Walsh, and then to secretive Cainsville, IL, where she and Gabriel look into evidence that could prove her parents’ innocence. There, Olivia finds herself using strange talents hidden since childhood that give her special appeal to the spooky Cainsville residents while bringing out the bad guys.
The Whole Enchilada: A Novel of Suspense
Davidson, Diane Mott
When a colleague–a woman who resembles Goldy–is stabbed, and Goldy is attacked outside her house, it becomes clear that the popular caterer is the main course on a killer menu. With time running out, Goldy must roll up her sleeves, sharpen her knives, and make a meal out of a devious murderer, before that killer can serve her up cold.
Sweet Thunder
Doig, Ivan
In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, from a year-long honeymoon with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former boss upon the itinerant charmer, who debuted in Doig’s bestselling “The Whistling Season,” promises to be less windfall than money pit. And the town itself, with its polyglot army of miners struggling to extricate themselves from the stranglehold of the ruthless Anaconda Copper Mining Company, seems–like the couple’s fast-diminishing finances–on the verge of implosion.
The Kill ListForsyth, Frederick In Virginia, there is an agency bearing the bland name of Technical Operations Support Activity, or TOSA. Its one mission is to track, find, and kill those so dangerous to the United States that they are on a short document known as the Kill List. TOSA actually exists. So does the Kill List. Hotshot Garwood, Julie Peyton Lockhart and her sisters have inherited Bishop’s Cove, a small, luxurious oceanfront resort, but it comes with a condition: The girls must run the resort for one year and show a profit–only then will they own it. It’s soon apparent to Peyton that their efforts are being sabotaged, but she refuses to let the threats scare her–until she’s nearly killed. She calls on her childhood friend and protector, Finn MacBain, now with the FBI, and asks for his help. He saved her life once; he can do it again? The Last Witness Griffin, W. E. B. / Butterworth, William E. Russian girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of them are dying or just disappearing. The trail leads right to Philadelphia–where Payne learns that’s not all. It isn’t just Russian girls who are vanishing. Teenage girls are being lured from foster homes. Police department sources are turning up dead. The lone living witness has gone into hiding, with everybody–the Russians, the cartels, some of Philadelphia’s most powerful politicians–all looking for her. It’s up to Payne to find her–and hope he gets to her first. I, Saul Jenkins, Jerry B. / MacDonald, James Told from the point of view of the disciple Luke, the apostle Paul and “Auggie,” a modern-day scholar, I, Saul, is a fast-paced story of intrigue and mystery. Readers will be reminded of Indiana Jones and the DiVinci code as they become absorbed in this page-turner by a master storyteller. Along the way they will learn of the fictionalized but plausible story of the life of Saul who relentlessly persecuted Christ’s followers prior to his conversion when he became known as Paul. The Beast Kellerman, Faye Beast by Faye Kellerman has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. Mistress Patterson, James / Ellis, David Ben isn’t like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he’s a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben’s infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone is out to stop Ben from uncovering the truth about Diana’s illicit affairs. Bones of the Lost: A Temperance Brennan Novel Reichs, Kathy When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane highway, Temperance Brennan fears the worst. The girl’s body shows signs of foul play. Inside her purse police find the ID card of a prominent local businessman, John-Henry Story, who died in a horrific flea market fire months earlier. Was the girl an illegal immigrant turning tricks? Was she murdered? The Last Kiss Goodbye: A Charlotte Stone Novel Robards, Karen Dr. Charlotte “Charlie” Stone has dedicated her career as a psychiatrist to exploring the darkest territory of all: the hearts and minds of serial killers. It’s a job she’s uniquely suited for, thanks to the secret talent that gives her an uncanny edge–Charlie can see dead people, whose tormented spirits cry out to her for the justice only she can provide. This blessing–or curse–gives Charlie the power to hunt down and catch madmen and murderers. It’s also turned her love life upside down by drawing her into a hopelessly passionate relationship with the lingering ghost of charismatic bad boy Michael Garland. Posted by Jenifer Brown
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For the ARC of this, please comment to the post. This is probably one of the titles David Glenn will cover at the Random House Book Buzz event next month, as it comes out in mid-July. Thanks to all of you who are planning to come.
New Titles for MOSE Lifelong Learning
May 13, 2013
Echoes of My Soul
Tanenbaum, Robert K.
This riveting chronicle of the infamous Career Girls Murders, a case that led to the Supreme Court’s enactment of the Miranda Rights and the abolition of the death penalty in New York State, follows the murder of two young women, the innocent man convicted of the crime and the young D.A. who refused to give up until justice was served.
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
Ferguson, Niall
A provocative examination of the institutional dysfunction that the author believes is threatening the Western world argues that such key values as a free market and representative government are being increasingly compromised while future generations are inheriting unmanageable levels of debt and fallout.
Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey Through a Country’s Descent into Darkness
Corchado, Alfredo
A Dallas Morning News Mexican Bureau Chief who was the first reporter granted an interview with Mexico’s first democratic president traces his 2007, 24-hour effort to end a threat against his own life by a paramilitary group that sought to prevent his investigations into Mexico’s drug trafficking and government corruption.
Posted by Jenifer Brown
Jeannette Walls ARC – Cross-posted from BiblioFiles
May 13, 2013
Last week I highlighted audio giveaways from the profusely prolific James Patterson (& company). This week I’m going to the other end of the spectrum and offering the latest from Jeannette Walls, one of those writers who really make it count when they release something. Her memoir The Glass Castle (2005) and novel Half-Broke Horses (2009), were phenomenally successful. The Silver Star, due out next month, again promises long-awaited satisfaction for millions of readers.
If you’d like the ARC of The Silver Star, please comment to this post with the name of the Sno-Isle branch where you’d like to pick it up, and I’ll be sure it gets there.
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Walls, Jeannette. The Silver Star. Scribner, June 2013. Abandoned by their artist mother at the age of twelve, Bean and her older sister, Liz, are sent to live in the decaying antebellum mansion of their widowed uncle, where they learn the truth about their parents and take odd jobs to earn extra money beforean increasingly withdrawn Liz has a life-shattering experience.
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Though he’s almost more an imprint than a single author these days, James Patterson continues to be extraordinarily popular both locally and nationwide. His prodigious output comprises multiple series for a variety of ages including Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Private, Maximum Ride, and Daniel X, among others.
Recently we harvested some free retail audiobooks from publishers at a local conference. They are all brand new and unused, but cannot be added to the collection as they are abridged. Please comment to this post to claim any or all, just letting me know the Sno-Isle branch where you would like to pick them up.
Here are the titles and publisher blurbs:
When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, Lindsay Boxer discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco’s most untouchable criminals. Then she’s called next to the most bizarre crime scene she’s ever witnessed: two bodiless heads elaborately displayed in the garden of a world-famous actor.
Retired DC policeman Alex Cross is called on by his former partner to help track down a serial rapist. They discover a connection between the rapist and his wife’s killing years earlier, she was gunned down on the street in front of her husband.
Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man’s pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.
James Patterson delivers the fifteenth installment of his acclaimed Alex Cross series. During a family reunion, Detective Alex Cross receives word that a close relative has been brutally murdered. Determined to catch the culprit, Cross joins forces with his lover, Detective Brianna Stone, and pursues the case all the way to the seediest sections of Washington’s underbelly.
It’s Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross has been called out to catch someone who’s robbing his church’s poor box. That mission behind him, Alex returns home to celebrate with Bree, Nana, and his children. The tree decorating is barely underway before his phone rings again, a horrific hostage situation is quickly spiraling out of control. Away from his own family on the most precious of days, Alex calls upon every ounce of his training, creativity, and daring to save another family. Alex risks everything, and he may not make it back alive on this most sacred of family days. Alex Cross is a hero for our time, and never more so than in this story of family, action, and the deepest moral choices.
Edgar Awards Announced
May 6, 2013
The Mystery Writers of American last Thursday announced the winners of their prestigious Edgar Award. We have most of the big categories. This is Dennis Lehane’s first.
Best Novel
Boston, 1926. The 20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the citys most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one–neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover–can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampas Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a spellbinding tour de force of betrayal and redemption, music and murder, that brings fully to life a bygone era when sin was cause for celebration and vice was a national virtue.
Best Paperback Original
Pavone, Chris. The Expats.
Along the cobble-stoned streets of Luxembourg, mother and expat Kate Moore suspects that another American couple are not who they claim to be and as her paranoia grows, she becomes increasingly terrified that her own past is catching up with her. A first novel. (suspense).
Best Fact Crime
French, Paul. Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China.
In the last days of old Peking, where anything goes, can a murderer escape justice?Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela Werner’s body sends a shiver through already nervous Peking. Is it the work of a madman? One of the ruthless Japanese soldiers now surrounding the city? Or perhaps the dreaded fox spirits? With the suspect list growing and clues sparse, two detectives—one British and one Chinese—race against the clock to solve the crime before the Japanese invade and Peking as they know it is gone forever. Can they find the killer in time, before the Japanese invade?Historian and China expert Paul French at last uncovers the truth behind this notorious murder, and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking.
Best Critical/Biographical
O’Brien, James. The Scientific Sherlock Holmes. One of the most popular and widely known characters in all of fiction, Sherlock Holmes has an enduring appeal based largely on his uncanny ability to make the most remarkable deductions from the most mundane facts. The very first words that Sherlock Holmes ever says to Dr. Watson are, “How are you? You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.” Watson responds, “How on earth did you know that?” And so a crime-solving legend is born.
OverDrive has just announced that as of May 8th, the entire digital catalog of Hachette titles will be available for public libraries to buy. The model will be one ”copy”/one user with no special restrictions. That means there will be no metering or expiration to access. Thanks to Jim for forwarding the official news release from OverDrive.
According to Publisher’s Weekly, 3M will also have access to the catalog, but they have not yet confirmed this with us.
Hachette is the parent publisher of Little, Brown and Company and Grand Central Publishing, so this is thrilling news indeed.
