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Fiction David Bezmozgis – The Betrayers When Patrick Norris returns from the horrors in Afghanistan excited about his new freedom and ready to start a business, he finds that the California ranch his family has owned for generations has been destroyed by a wildfire and his parents are facing ruin. One of the 25 Most Anticipated Canadian Books of 2014.
Paolo Giordano – The Human Body From the bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, comes his next novel about a platoon of young men and one woman soldier who leave Italy for Afghanistan. Each handles the mix of boredom and fear in his or her own way. When a mission goes awry, they find their lives changed in an instant.
Grady Hendrix – Horrorstör This one is a staff favorite here at OverDrive. Something very strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning employees find smashed furnishings, but the security cameras show nothing. Three brave employees volunteer to stay overnight. Let the horrors begin! Kirkus said: "A treat for fans of The Evil Dead or Zombieland, complete with affordable solutions for better living.” Made to look like an Ikea catalog.
Ann Leckie – Ancillary Sword The sequel to Ancillary Justice, which won the Hugo, Nebula, British Science Fiction, Locus, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards!
David Liss – The Day of Atonement Liss writes page turning tremendously smart historical thrillers with appealing characters. This one is set during the Inquisition, when a thirteen-year-old boy must flee for his life. After ten years in exile, he's ready for vengeance. Liss has won the Barry, Macavity, and Edgar awards.
J. Lynn – Stay with Me Jennifer Armentrout also writes under the name of J. Lynn, and the #1 NY Times bestselling author of Wait for You and Be with Me is back with the story of twenty-one-year-old Calla, who has never been kissed, never seen the ocean, never even been to an amusement park. She has built a safe cocoon to protect herself from her strung-out mother. Now the cocoon is shattered, as she finds out that her mother has not only stolen her college money, but has run up credit card debts in her name.
Caitlin Moran – How to Build a Girl What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you was not enough? Build yourself by using books and poetry and songs and bad heroes. In 1990, Johanna Morrigan shames herself badly on local TV, and decides to reinvent herself. The publisher says "Imagine The Bell Jar written by Rizzo from Grease."
Jason Mott – The Wonder of All Things By the author of the NY Times bestselling and critically acclaimed debut novel The Returned. At an air show a plane crashes into a crowd of spectators, and a thirteen-year-old girl is forced to share the gift that she has kept secret—she can heal people. Now the whole world is flocking to her door.
Jess Row – Your Face in Mine Kelly Thorndike is greeted by an African American man he doesn't recognize. It turns out to be his high school friend Martin, who when Kelly knew him, was a skinny Jewish kid. Martin has had "racial reassignment surgery." Now he wants to reveal his identity and ignite a controversy that will help sell this surgery to the world. Row is one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists and a Pushcart and PEN/O. Henry Prize winner. io9: All the Essential Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Coming in 2014
Garth Stein – A Sudden Light When fourteen-year-old Trevor goes with his father to visit the mansion built by his great-great-grandfather, he begins to suspect that there's a soul in the mansion that wants it to be returned to nature. By the author of The Art of Racing in the Rain. Booklist starred review.
Chrysler Szarlan – The Hawley Book of the Dead This debut novel has received a starred review from Booklist and lots of advance praise using words like "haunting," "scintillating," "enthralling." Billed as a must read for those who loved The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and A Discovery of Witches. Reve and her husband are world famous illusionists, but when an intruder switches out her trick pistol, she accidentally shoots her beloved husband onstage. When she goes home to the old farmhouse that's been in the family for centuries, she finds an ancient leather bound journal which seems to hold magical powers.
Merritt Tierce – Love Me Back Based loosely on the author's own life (Tierce was headed to Yale when she found out she was pregnant and returned home to waitress), this book follows Marie, who manages to get a job at a steakhouse, but succumbs to drugs and alcohol. Tierce was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree last year, and is also a Rona Jaffe Award winner.
Sarah Waters – The Paying Guests Set in 1922 London where ex-servicemen are disillusioned, people are out of work and hungry, and a genteel widow and her spinster daughter are obliged to take in lodgers who shake up their household. The latest book by the bestselling Waters, who has been short listed for the Man Booker Prize three times, a two-time Orange Prize finalist, and one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. The Independent Best of 2014 Books.
Nonfiction
Paul M. Barrett – Law of the Jungle: The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who'd Stop at Nothing to Win An almost unbelievable tale: the human rights attorney who filed suit in 1993 against Chevron on behalf of a group of powerless Ecuadorian Indians who sought recovery for the environmental devastation of their jungle region, was every bit as sleazy as the multinational he was suing. The legal battle goes on, and Barrett of Bloomberg BusinessWeek doesn't let Chevron off the hook either. Kirkus and Library Journal starred reviews.
Hunter Davies – The Beatles Lyrics: The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts Just read the title–enough said!
Lena Dunham – Not That Kind of Girl This book will be huge! Lena Dunham, the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's Girls has written a collection of essays reminiscet of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris.
Francis Fukuyama – Political Order and Political Decay The first volume of this work was called "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time" by the New York Times Book Review. In this, the second volume, Fukuyama covers the period from the Industrial Revolution to today and takes up the question of how societies develop strong and accountable political institutions. A major intellectual achievement destined to be a classic.
Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly – Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her husband astronaut Mark Kelly share their passion for responsible gun ownership after the 2011 Tucson shooting that nearly took her life.
Bob Herbert – Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America Longtime NY Times columnist Bob Herbert filed his last column in 2011 and set off on a journey across the country to report on Americans who were being left behind in an economy that hasn't fully recovered from the Great Recession. Here are portraits of some of the people he met. Herbert traces where we went wrong and spotlights the dangerous shift of political power from ordinary Americans to the corporate and financial elite.
Walter Isaacson – The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Isaacson is back after his blockbuster bestseller about Steve Jobs with a biographical look at the pioneers of the computer and the internet. Beginning with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s, he goes on to cover other innovators such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Tim Berners-Lee and more.
Nicholas D. Kristoff & Sheryl WuDunn – A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity From the husband and wife authors of the #1 bestselling Half the Sky, this book is a deep examination of people who are making the world a better place, and how we can support them.
Mario Lopez – Just Between Us Hard to believe that A. C. Slater of Saved by the Bell is turning forty, but he is, and Mario Lopez shares with wit and candor his successes and disappointments in the entertainment business and how his tight-knit family has helped keep him grounded.
Andrea Martin – Lady Parts Andrea Martin, one of the funniest women in Canada, shares her remembrances of a life in show business, family, motherhood, relationships, and why she flies to Atlanta to get her hair cut!
John C. Maxwell – Good Leaders Ask Great Questions Bestselling business expert Maxwell is back with a book examining how the right questions can be used to advantage. Every leader has room to grow, and Maxwell gives great advice. Walter Mischel – The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control Mischel is a renowned psychologist famous for designing the marshmallow test: A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. After following the children faced with this test over many years, we see that self-control and the ability to delay gratification are critical for a successful life.
Randall Munroe – What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions From the creator of the wildly popular web comic xkcd. Munroe uses stick figures and scientific knowledge to give hilarious, but true answers to questions like "How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live?" Munroe actually runs computer simulations and pores over research to come up with good answers—though they often end with a prediction of the annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.
Jenny Nordberg – The Underground Girls of Kabul Investigative journalist Nordberg explores the history and reality of an enduring Afghani custom called the bacha posh—girls who dress and pass as boys. These young girls are usually members of families in which the only children are girls, and they live as boys as long as the community goes along with it or the lie holds—usually until adolescence. She profiles several girls to highlight their struggles in a society where women have few rights. Booklist and Publishers Weekly starred reviews.
Leon Panetta – Worthy Fights The autobiography of a man with a stellar career in public service. Panetta was an army officer, a respected member of Congress, Clinton's budget czar and White House Chief of Staff. He then "retired," but worked with his wife on a charity, became a member of the Iraq Study Group, and eventually became the director of the CIA, and after the death of Osama bin Laden, he became the US Secretary of Defense. A great political memoir.
Terry Pratchett, foreword by Neil Gaiman – A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction A collection of the finest nonfiction from throughout Sir Terry Pratchett's career. Since he is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease, this may be some of the last of his work that we see.
Carlos Santana – The Universal Tone The long-awaited autobiography of a musical legend.
Sheila Weller – The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour—and the (Ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV News The author of Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon, is back with the story of the long, lonely, and often ugly scramble to the top in television news.
Mandy Wiener & Barry Bateman – One Tragic Night: The Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial Don't miss this one, as Paralympic superstar athlete Pistorius is all over the news for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. South African journalists draw on evidence from the trial and interviews with family and friends of the couple to put together an authoritative account of what happened from the night of the killing to the controversial verdict.
Lawrence Wright – Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David A dramatic day-by-day account of the famous 1978 Camp David conference when President Carter convinced Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the Middle East—one that endures to this day.
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Thursday, October 2, 2014
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