| Fiction
The panic unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community in a seemingly idyllic suburban community.
Hachette Digital eBook A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China. Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British; now Peanut must disappear on Beijing’s surveillance-blanketed streets. Debut spy thriller set in China by a former BBC China correspondent.
Penguin Group (USA) eBook Mab has just traded Harry’s skills to pay off one of her debts. And now he must help a group of supernatural villains.
Krista Davis – The Diva Wraps It Up Penguin Group (USA) eBook The holidays are domestic diva Sophie Winston’s favorite time of year. But when an argument erupts and a murder ensues, it becomes clear that the recent string of events is anything but accidental.
Penguin Group (USA) eBook The new novel from New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder, “the master of the modern thriller,”* about a father who is forced to make a choice with unspeakable consequences.
Boris Fishman – A Replacement Life HarperCollins eBook A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York.
Dorothea Benton Frank – The Hurricane Sisters HarperCollins eBook and audiobook Frank, with her hallmark scintillating wit and crisp insight, captures how a complex family of disparate characters and their close friends can overcome anything through the power of love and reconciliation.
Laurell K. Hamilton – A Shiver of Light Penguin Group (USA) eBook Merry Gentry, ex–private detective, now full-time princess, knew she was descended from fertility goddesses, but when she learned she was about to have triplets, she began to understand what that might mean.
Smith Henderson – Fourth of July Creek HarperCollins eBook and audiobook In this shattering and iconic American novel, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion, and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation’s disquieting and violent contradictions.
Cristina Henríquez – The Book of Unknown Americans Random House eBook and Books on Tape audiobook A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to millions of Americans as it tells the story of the love between a Panamanian boy and a Mexican girl.
Elin Hilderbrand – The Matchmaker Hachette eBook and Blackstone audiobook A touching new novel from bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand in which a woman sets out to find love for those closest to her – before it’s too late.
Penguin Group (USA) eBook The heroine inherits a bookstore from a great-aunt who befriended Goodnight Moon's Margaret Wise Brown.
Blackstone audiobook Based loosely on an incident in the life of Margaret Mead.
Herman Koch – Summer House with Swimming Pool Random House eBook Featuring the razor-sharp humor and acute psychological insight that made The Dinner an international phenomenon, Summer House with Swimming Pool is a controversial, thought-provoking novel that showcases Herman Koch at his finest.
Michael Koryta – Those Who Wish Me Dead Hachette Digital eBook and Blackstone audiobook When 13-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he’s plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The result is the start of a nightmare.
Penguin Group (USA) eBook Rosamund is an Earth Master in the Schwarzwald, the ancient Black Forest of Germany. For like her fellow Earth Masters of the Schwarzwald Lodge, Rosa is not a healer. Instead, her talents lead her on the more violent path of protection and defense..
Mark Lawrence – Prince of Fools Penguin Group (USA) eBook Hailed as “epic fantasy on a George R. R. Martin scale, but on speed” (Fixed on Fantasy), the Broken Empire trilogy introduced a bold new world of dark fantasy with the story of Jorg Ancrath’s devastating rise to power. Now, Mark Lawrence returns to the Broken Empire with the tale of a less ambitious prince…
Beverly & David Lewis – Child of Mine Baker Publishing Group eBook Flight instructor Jack Livingston has been raising his eight-year-old adopted niece, Natalie, since the accident that took her parents’ lives. Eight excruciating years ago, Kelly Maines’s baby was kidnapped. Can this be, at long last, Kelly’s beloved daughter?
Sarah Lotz – The Three The world is stunned when four commuter planes crash within hours of each other on different continents. Facing global panic, officials are under pressure to find the causes. With terrorist attacks and environmental factors ruled out, there doesn’t appear to be a correlation between the crashes, except that in three of the four air disasters a child survivor is found in the wreckage.
Susan Mallery – Until We Touch Harlequin eBook Larissa Owens knows where she stands–Jack sees her as just another one of the guys. No matter what her heart wishes, Jack’s her boss, not her boyfriend. But then Larissa’s big secret is revealed by her mother.
George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, editors – Rogues Random House eBook The latest story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois is filled with subtle shades of gray. Stories by Gillian Flynn, Neil Gaiman, Patrick Rothfuss, Connie Willis, and others. Includes a new Game of Thrones story.
Richelle Mead – The Immortal Crown Penguin Group (USA) eBook Justin March and Mae Koskinen, the beautiful supersoldier assigned to protect him have been charged with investigating reports of the supernatural and the return of the gods, both inside the Republic of United North America and out.
Random House eBook and Books on Tape audiobook James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat. Through this new friendship, he is introduced to the drawing-rooms of high society, and finds love in an unexpected quarter. Then, suddenly, he vanishes without a trace.
HarperCollins eBook After learning his wife survived the attack that killed him fifty years earlier, angel/PI Griffin Shaw is determined to find Evelyn Shaw, no matter the cost. Yet his obsession comes at a price. Grif has had to give up his burgeoning love for reporter Katherine “Kit” Craig, the woman who made life worth living again, and dedicate himself to finding one he no longer knows. Paranormal noir.
Hachette Digital eBook Michael Ford has finally escaped his chequered past to lead the respectable life he’s always dreamed of, preparing to settle down with his fiancée Annie. But the quiet is shattered when his brother, Jack, comes back into his life. Jack is a world-class con man who has finally overplayed his hand.
Random House eBook and Books on Tape audiobook It’s 1938 in San Francisco: a world’s fair is preparing to open on Treasure Island, a war is brewing overseas, and the city is alive with possibilities. Grace, Helen, and Ruby, three young women from very different backgrounds, meet by chance at the exclusive and glamorous Forbidden City nightclub.
Jeff Shaara – The Smoke at Dawn: A Novel of the Civil War Random House eBook and Books on Tape audiobook A tale of history played out on a human scale in the grand Shaara tradition, The Smoke at Dawn vividly recreates the climactic months of the war in the West, when the fate of a divided nation truly hangs in the balance.
HarperCollins eBook Beauties, entrepreneurs, debutantes, and style mavens, they are the epitome of New York City’s high society. But being a Saybrook comes at a price—they are heirs not only to a dizzying fortune but also to a decades-old family curse. The author of Pretty Little Liars turns to adult fiction.
Nalini Singh – Shield of Winter Penguin Group (USA) eBook Having rebuilt her life after medical “treatment” that violated her mind and sought to suffocate her abilities, Ivy should have run from the black-clad Arrow with eyes of winter frost. But Ivy Jane has never done what she should. Now, she’ll fight for her people, and for this Arrow who stands as her living shield, yet believes he is beyond redemption.
Hachette Digital eBook and Blackstone audiobook Caught between his parents, and unsure of who to believe or trust, Daniel becomes his mother’s unwilling judge and jury as she tells him an urgent tale of secrets, of lies, of a crime and a conspiracy that implicates his own father.
Penguin Group (USA) eBook Two weeks in a remote island villa with America’s most dysfunctional family – what could possibly go wrong? The Posts are going on their first family vacation in years, and it’s going to be a special one.
Random House eBook and Dreamscape Media audiobook Veteran Tanner North disarms bombs in New York City and business seems to be picking up, putting him on alert. While in the military, he faced his share of challenges but when a rescue in Kosovo went bad and a young mother lost her life, he blamed himself for the failure. Susan Wiggs – The Beekeeper's Ball Harlequin eBook Bella Vista’s rambling mission-style hacienda, with its working apple orchards, bountiful gardens and beehives, is the idyllic venue for Isabel’s project…and the perfect place for her to forget the past. But Isabel’s carefully ordered plans begin to go awry when swaggering, war-torn journalist Cormac O’Neill arrives to dig up old history.
Nonfiction University Press of Kentucky eBook Duncan Hines (1880—1959) may be best known for the cake mixes, baked goods, and bread products that bear his name, but most people forget that he was a real person and not just a fictitious figure invented for the brand. America’s pioneer restaurant critic, Hines discovered his passion while working as a traveling salesman during the 1920s and 1930s.
Abby Lee Miller – Everything I Learned About Life, I Learned in Dance Class HarperCollins eBook Organized by “Abbyisms,” her unique and effective philosophies on hard work, competition, and life, this straight-talking guide provides clear and proven advice for achieving success, from figuring out your child’s passion to laying the groundwork for an exciting future career.
Sarah Boston – Lucky Dog: How Being a Veterinarian Saved My Life House of Anansi Press eBook Weaving funny and poignant stories of dogs she’s treated along the way, this is an insightful memoir about what the human medical world can learn from the way we treat our canine counterparts.
Joanna Rakoff – My Salinger Year Random House eBook Rakoff paints a vibrant portrait of a bright, hungry young woman navigating a heady and longed-for world, trying to square romantic aspirations with burgeoning self-awareness, the idea of a life with life itself. Charming and deeply moving, filled with electrifying glimpses of an American literary icon, My Salinger Year is the coming-of-age story of a talented writer.
John J. Ratey – Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization Hachette Digital eBook Investigating the power of living according to our genes in the areas of diet, exercise, sleep, nature, mindfulness and more, Go Wild examines how tapping into our core DNA combats modern disease and psychological afflictions, from Autism and Depression to Diabetes and Heart Disease.
Tom Robbins – Tibetan Peach Pie HarperCollins eBook and audiobook Robbins offers intimate snapshots of Appalachia during the Great Depression, the West Coast during the sixties’ psychedelic revolution, international roving before Homeland Security monitored our travels, and New York publishing when it still relied on trees.
John Waters, read by John Waters – Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America Macmillan audiobook only A cross-country hitchhiking journey with America’s most beloved weirdo, John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads “I’m Not Psycho,” he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers.
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Thursday, June 5, 2014
Weekly eHighlights: Adult Edition
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