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Fiction Ilona Andrews – Magic Breaks Number 7 in the Kate Daniels series, this one is the best one yet, according to reviews. Kate is a mercenary who makes her living cleaning up magical problems. Fans agree that this is urban fantasy as it should be written. An Amazon Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of the Month. Goodreads Can’t Wait Books of 2014 #13. Romantic Times Book Hankering 2014 Pick for Paranormal and Urban Fantasy.
Amy Bloom – Lucky Us By the author of Away, which was called a literary triumph by the New York Times. Two young half-sisters in 1940s America travel between Hollywood, Long Island, and London, as one dreams of becoming an actress. Bloom is a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award nominee. 125,000 print run. An Amazon Best Book of the Month. Booklist starred review.
Jessie Burton – The Miniaturist In 1686 a very young woman arrives in Amsterdam to meet her new husband, but neither he, nor his sister, nor their house is welcoming. Critics loved it, calling it "haunting," "gripping," "magical." This title rocked the London Book Fair last year, and is now available in the US, where it was one of the hottest galleys at BEA and ALA.
Lev Grossman – The Magician's Land Critics agree that this final book in Grossman's trilogy is the best of all. The series has been called Harry Potter for adults, but it's more than that. It follows the adventures of a richly drawn young group of magicians as they grow from adolescence into adulthood and deal with the questions of humanity and identity. Best Fantasy Books Blog Most Anticipated Books of 2014. io9: All the Essential Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Coming in 2014. 150,000 print run. Booklist & Kirkus starred reviews.
Deborah Harkness – The Book of Life Last in the trilogy begun by A Discovery of Witches. A historian witch and a vampire scientist search for an alchemical manuscript coveted by many in the demon world.750,000 print run! Goodreads Can’t Wait Books of 2014 #26. An Amazon Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Book of the Month.
Emma Healey – Elizabeth Is Missing Maud Horsham knows that she is slipping into dementia, but when a moving van takes away her best friend's belongings and Maud can't contact her, she is forced into the role of detective because no one will listen to her insistence that something has happened to her friend. Flavorwire: 25 Women Poised to Lead the Culture in 2014. An Amazon Best Mystery, Thriller and Suspense Book of the Month. BookPage Best Books of the Month. Booklist starred review.
Kevin Hearne – Shattered Atticus O'Sullivan is the last living druid, and he has walked the earth for nearly two thousand years. In this, Book 7 of the Iron Druid Chronicles urban fantasy series, Atticus thaws a long frozen arch druid who is a father figure of sorts, and his apprentice has finally become a full druid herself. Now the three must face the Norse god Loki in an epic battle. Best Fantasy Books Blog Most Anticipated Books of 2014. An Amazon Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Book of the Month.
Rebecca Makkai – The Hundred-Year House Gothic, charming, witty, mischievously funny, this book begins in 1999 and rewinds back to 1900 as a young couple, living in the carriage house of their family's estate, dig through the records of an artist colony that once existed there, but are hampered by the ghost of the woman's great grandmother, who is determined not to let them find the truth. The Millions’ Great 2014 Preview. Makkai has had pieces in Best American Short Stories for four years running. Booklist, Library Journal & Publishers Weekly starred reviews.
Jamie McGuire – Beautiful Oblivion Third in the bestselling new adult Maddox Brothers series. Trenton Maddox, the king of Eastern State University, comes home after a tragic accident to try to come to grips with his guilt. Fiercely independent Camille Camlin is sure she can keep their relationship platonic, since after all, she grew up as the baby sister of four rowdy boys and knows how to handle men. 600,000 print run. An Amazon Best Romance of the Month. The beautiful cover will help this book.
Liane Moriarty – Big Little Lies At the beach town's public school trivia night, strong cocktails cause a fight, and someone falls off the balcony and dies. Was it really an accident? Flash back six months, and we see the cast of characters at the kindergarten open house. But all is not as it seems—don't we all tell lies? Hot galley at BEA. An Amazon Best Book of the Month. Kirkus starred review.
Haruki Murakami – Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Tsukuru Tazaki is one of a group of university friends who get together at every holiday. Suddenly, the others say they never want to see him again and he knows why. But Tsukuru doesn't know why. Over the years he tries to make new friends and wonders what happened, but he finally decides to seek the truth when he turns 35. The Millions’ Great 2014 Preview. Sold a million copies in Japan in its first week. The Atlantic: Books to Read in 2014. Huffington Post: 30 Books You Need to Read in 2014. 250,000 print run. Kirkus starred review.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips – Heroes Are My Weakness A down-on-her-luck actress arrives at cottage on a secluded island in the middle of a snowstorm only to find that the occupant of the main house which overlooks the cottage is the writer of horror fiction who betrayed her when she was just a teenager. He knows a dozen ways to kill people with his bare hands. Can she trust him? Has he changed? 200,000 print run. Romantic Times: Book Hankering 2014 – Romance. Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist & Library Journal starred reviews.
Sherryl Woods – Swan Point A new entry in the heartwarming Sweet Magnolias series. In Serenity, SC, Adelia Hernandez moves herself and her four children into an old fixer upper to start a new life after a divorce. Greg Franklin has returned to Serenity after leaving years ago with the reputation of troublemaker. His mom was the town slut, and he responded to the gossip by fighting. But now, after a lot of therapy, he's back to make amends. The group of women who call themselves the Sweet Magnolias are determined to match them up, but Adelia's priority is her children, who are still reeling from the divorce. 100,000 print run.
Nonfiction Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Yes…this classic title is now available in eBook for the first time.
Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald – The Real Cost of Fracking Bamberger, a veterinarian, and Oswald, a pharmacologist, combine their expertise to show how contamination at drilling sites translates into ill health and heartbreak for families and their animals. Kirkus starred review.
Vicki Croke – Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II When Japan invaded Burma in 1942, Billy Williams, who had been there since 1920, joined the British armed forces, operating behind the lines with his elephants to build bridges, transport people, and deliver supplies. When the Japanese put a price on his head, he led a risky expedition over the mountains to India with a bedraggled group of refugees and his elephants. Part biography, part war epic, and part wildlife adventure.
John W. Dean – The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Nixon's resignation,John Dean, Nixon's legal counsel who testified against him at the Watergate hearings, puts together a chronology to show what Nixon knew and when—and says he has the answer to what was on the eighteen and a half minutes of missing tape recordings. 100,000 print run.
Paul Finebaum – My Conference Can Beat Your Conference: Why the SEC Still Rules College Football ESPN radio show anchor Finebaum has a survey of Southeastern Conference football, saying it has “the most decadent football stadiums…the most obscene operating budgets…the kind of personal scandals that give TMZ a reason to live…the most obnoxiously large marching bands,” but is also the center of the college football universe.
Roxane Gay – Bad Feminist: Essays Gay, author of the acclaimed novel An Untamed State, is an up and coming young cultural critic. Here, in a collection of essays, she takes on topics like the trivialization of literature written by women, her love/hate reaction to Fifty Shades of Grey, and the complexities of race and gender in pop culture.
Matt Higgins – Bird Dream: Adventures at the Extremes of Human Flight An account of the most treacherous extreme sport on earth—BASE jumping—which means jumping off of a Building, an Antenna, a Span, to land on Earth…oh, and you do it with just a "wing-suit" which makes you look a little like a flying squirrel. This book covers the history of the sport and some of its most flamboyant characters. Kirkus & Library Journal starred reviews.
Ben Macintyre – A Spy among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal 2013 marked the 50th anniversary of British spy Kim Philby's defection to Moscow, and resulted in the release of many new documents. Macintyre made good use of those newly available files to tell the story of Philby, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War—while he was secretly working for the enemy. An Amazon Best Biography & Memoir of the Month. 250,000 print run.
Hampton Sides – In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette In 1879, the steamship USS Jeannette, on an attempt to reach the North Pole, became trapped in ice for two years, and then when it was suddenly released, it was crushed by the ice pack and sank. George W. De Long and his crew quickly abandoned ship and began a horrible 1,000 mile trek over the ice toward Siberia. Highlighted in a USA Today article asking booksellers for great books of summer. 150,000 print run. Kirkus & Publishers Weekly starred reviews.
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