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Finally Available for the First Time! Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird– read by Sissy Spacek
Bestsellers Hilary Clinton – Hard Choices
Adult Fiction Debbie Macomber – Love Letters One couple books a room at Cedar Cove's Rose Harbor Inn to work on saving their marriage. Two Facebook friends meet face-to-face to see how they get along in real life, and the innkeeper is falling for her handyman. This series has been aired by Hallmark.
Henning Mankell – An Event in Autumn Mankell's Swedish detective Kurt Wallander mysteries have sold over 40 million copies worldwide. Here's the new one.
Sue Miller – The Arsonist When an arsonists begins setting fire to the homes of the summer people in a small New England town, neighbors begin to regard one another with suspicion.
Haruki Murakami – Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage This book sold a million copies its first week on sale in Japan. Murakami excels at putting the reader into the head of his main characters. In this one, a 35-year-old man is living a solitary life on autopilot and attempts to break out of the cycle.
Karen Slaughter – Cop Town Bestselling author Slaughter has written her first standalone novel—a tale of crime set in Atlanta in the mid-1970s. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job as a cop, and things aren't going well—her (male) uniform is too big, the APD doesn't welcome women, and she's having trouble handling a gun. Then she's partnered with Maggie Lawson in a strategy designed to isolate them from the rest of the men on the force. But the move backfires.
Adult Nonfiction Peter Finn & Petra Couvée – The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book In 1956, and Italian publishing scout visited Russia's beloved poet Boris Pasternak. When he left, he smuggled out the original manuscript of Pasternak's first novel, Doctor Zhivago, which the author knew would never be published in the Soviet Union because it would be considered to be an assault on the 1917 Revolution. Here's the fascinating story of what happened next.
Wendy Holden – Haatchi and Little B: The Inspiring True Story of One Boy and His Dog Owen (Little B) has a genetic disorder that leaves him largely confined to a wheelchair. Haatchi, an adorable Anatolian Shepherd puppy was abused and left for dead on the railroad tracks and was struck by a train and left massively disabled. But Little B's parents introduced them to each other and their unbelievable bond changed them both in miraculous ways.
Liz Murray – Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard Liz Murray found herself homeless at age 15 in the Bronx. When her mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and managed to complete high school in two years while homeless. She won a New York Times scholarship and graduated from Harvard. PW starred review.
Hampton Sides – In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeanette A U. S. naval expedition to reach the North Pole set sail from San Francisco in 1879 on the USS Jeanette. Two years into the voyage, the ship was trapped in pack ice and the hull was breached. The crew abandoned the ship, which sank, and found themselves marooned a thousand miles north of Siberia with hardly any supplies, but they set out to walk to safety.
Pamela Skaist-Levy & Gela Nash-Taylor – The Glitter Plan: How We Started Juicy Couture for $200 and Turned It into a Global Brand The story of two friends obsessed with the idea of the perfect T-shirt. Pam and Gela eventually sold their company Juicy Couture to Liz Claiborne for $50 million.
Teens Eoin Colfer – The Hangman's Revolution The author of Artemis Fowl offers Book 2 in the W.A.R.P. series for teens. After a time travel trip to the Victorian Age, young FBI agent Chevie Savano returns to modern day London to find it very different from the London she left. Europe is being run by a fascist movement, and she is just learning the secrets of the time travel machine when her teacher is killed by the secret police.
Katherine Howe – Conversion From the author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. Senior year at St. Joan's Academy is a pressure cooker, and several students fall ill with strange symptoms—uncontrollable tics, hair loss, violent coughing fits, seizures. The media descends on the town, which Colleen Rowley discovers was once Salem Village. Based on a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago.
Veronica Roth – Four: A Divergent Collection Four 50-75 page long stories set in the Divergent universe. Fans will be thrilled to have more. Also available separately.
John Sandford & Michelle Cook – Uncaged In the dead of night, young animal rights activists sneak into a biomedical research lab and release hundreds of mutilated animals. First in a new series. Booklist starred review.
Margaret Stohl – Idols The Icons came from the sky, ended our civilization by stopping human hearts. Now they're after the four Icon Children—the only humans immune to their power. But the four discover that there may be a fifth child, and they go on a search to find the missing child.
Kids Andrew Clements – The Map Trap Alton has loved maps since he was little because maps contain more information than just locations and that's why he likes to draw maps as well as read them. But when his maps are stolen from his locker, he could be in big trouble. After all, his maps explain things like what he really thinks of his friends…and his teachers….and the principal. Middle grades.
Dan Gutman – Miss Klute Is a Hoot! The My Weird School series has sold 7 million copies so far. In this one, the reading scores at Ella Mentry School are way down, so Mr. Macky has hired Miss Klute, a Labradoodle therapy dog to help. Ages 6-10.
Shannon Hale – Fire and Ice At the frozen edge of the world, four heroes, supported by the gifts of their spirit animals, fight to stop the ruthless Conquerors. Fourth book in the bestselling middle grade Spirit Animals series.
Victoria Kann – Pinkalicious and the New Teacher It's the first day of school, and Pinkalicious misses her old teacher until she comes up with an idea to make the classroom feel a little more familiar and a lot more pinkerrific. Bestselling series for ages 4-8.
James Patterson & Chris Tebbetts – Save Rafe! Rafe, everyone's favorite troublemaker, is headed back to his dreaded middle school where he learns he will be held back a year unless he can prove himself on an outdoor survival excursion. Ages 8-12.
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Friday, July 18, 2014
Weekly eHighlights: Audiobook edition
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