| Welcome to the new, improved Big Books Blast! OverDrive's Collection Development team presents, Weekly eHighlights: Your Guide to What's New at OverDrive. Stop by every Thursday to get your fix of the best new content and recommendations from us. This week's eHighlights include major new releases from heavyweights such as James Patterson, E. L. Doctorow, and Jo Nesbo. Also, don't miss our selections from the backlist, and stay tuned for next week's edition. Happy Reading!  Fiction Jennifer Chiaverini – Mrs. Lincoln's Rival
Penguin eBook
Beautiful, intelligent, regal, and entrancing, young Kate Chase stepped into the role of establishing her thrice-widowed father in Washington society and as a future presidential candidate. Her efforts were successful enough that The Washington Star declared her “the most brilliant woman of her day. None outshone her.” None, that is, but Mary Todd Lincoln. Though Mrs. Lincoln and her young rival held much in common—political acumen, love of country, and a resolute determination to help the men they loved achieve greatness—they could never be friends, for the success of one could come only at the expense of the other. Follow up to the popular Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker. E. L. Doctorow – Andrew's Brain
Random House and Books on Tape
This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been an inadvertent agent of disaster. Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves
LJ Prepub Alert. LJ Starred Review. CNN: 18 Books to Read in 2014. New York Magazine: A No-Frills Buyers' Guide to January Books. The Millions’ Great 2014 Preview. The Atlantic: Books to Read in 2014. Kim Harrison – The Undead Pool
HarperCollins eBook and Audio
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to the supernatural adventures of Rachel Morgan in the penultimate book of the Hollows series. Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan knows magic—earth, ley line, even the forbidden demon magic—and that knowledge has saved her life more than once. But now something—or someone—is attacking Cincinnati and the Hollows, causing spells to backfire or go horribly wrong while living vampires attack humans and Inderlanders alike. The pressures build when the city is quarantined to contain the unreliable magic, and Rachel must stop the attacks before the undead vampire masters who keep the rest of the undead under control are lost and it becomes all-out supernatural war.
Goodreads Can’t Wait Books of 2014 #6. Nancy Horan – Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Random House and Books on Tape
At the age of thirty-five, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for Belgium–with her three children and nanny in tow–to study art. It is a chance for this adventurous woman to start over, to make a better life for all of them, and to pursue her own desires. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her children repair to a quiet artists’ colony in France where she can recuperate. Emerging from a deep sorrow, she meets a lively Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her junior, who falls instantly in love with the earthy, independent, and opinionated “belle Americaine.”
By the author of the bestselling Loving Frank. Laura Lippman – After I'm Gone
HarperCollins eBook and Audio
When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette “Bambi” Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Day dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative–if not all legal–businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July in 1976, Bambi’s comfortable world implodes when Felix, facing prison, vanishes. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband–or his money–might be, she suspects one woman does: his devoted young mistress, Julie. When Julie disappears ten years to the day after Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she’s left to join her old lover–until her remains are discovered in a secluded park.
150,000 copy print run. LJ PrePub. CNN: 18 Books to Read in 2014. Phillip Margolin – Worthy Brown's Daughter
HarperCollins eBook and Audio
Like thousands of other Americans in the nineteenth century, Matthew Penny, a young lawyer, believes that he and his wife, Rachel, can forge a better future out West. But after she drowns on the Oregon Trail, Matthew arrives on the frontier with nothing but shattered dreams. Worthy Brown, a slave from Georgia, journeys west with his master, Caleb Barbour, who promises to reward Worthy and his daughter, Roxanne, with their freedom if they help him establish a homestead in Oregon. When Barbour reneges on his pledge, Worthy’s hope for a fresh start with his child is destroyed. Over two decades in the writing, Worthy Brown’s Daughter is a compelling white-knuckle drama about two broken men risking everything for what they believe in.
LJ PrePub Alert. Deborah McKinlay – That Part Was True
Hachette and Blackstone Audio
When Eve Petworth writes to Jackson Cooper to praise a scene in one of his books, they discover a mutual love of cookery and food. Their friendship blossoms against the backdrop of Jackson’s colorful, but ultimately unsatisfying, love-life and Eve’s tense relationship with her soon-to-be married daughter. As each of them offers, from behind the veils of semi-anonymity and distance, wise and increasingly affectionate counsel to the other, they both begin to confront their problems and plan a celebratory meeting in Paris–a meeting that Eve fears can never happen.
250,000 print run. Big galley giveaway at BookExpo. LJ PrePub Alert. Jo NesbØ – The Cockroaches
Random House
When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Surrounded by round-the-clock traffic noise, Harry wanders the streets of Bangkok lined with go-go bars, temples, opium dens, and tourist traps, trying to piece together the story of the ambassador’s death even though no one asked him to, and no one wants him to–not even Harry himself. Book 2 in the bestselling Inspector Harry Hole series. James Patterson & Mark Sullivan – Private L.A.
Hachette and Blackstone Audio
The police can’t help you. The press will destroy you. Only one place to turn: Private. Former CIA agent Jack Morgan inherits his father’s renowned L.A. detective business, along with a caseload that tests him beyond endurance. An NFL gambling scandal and eighteen unsolved schoolgirl slayings is enough; then he learns of the horrific murder of his best friend’s wife – and now he has to decide between getting justice or revenge. As he closes in on the killer, a workplace imbroglio threatens to blow the roof off his elite agency.
750,000 print run. Matthew Quick – The Good Luck of Right Now
HarperCollins eBook and Audio
For almost four decades, Bartholomew Neil has done nothing but live with his mom. When she begins calling him Richard–for reasons unknown–and then dies, Bartholomew is woefully unprepared. A clue comes in the form of a “Free Tibet” letter he finds in his mother’s underwear drawer, and so Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life, writing Richard Gere a series of highly intimate fan letters. Jung’s theory of synchronicity, the mystery of women, the Dalai Lama’s teachings, alien abduction, cat telepathy and the Catholic Church are all explored in depth by Bartholomew’s epistles–but mostly the letters outline one man’s heartbreakingly earnest attempt to assemble a family of his own. By the author of The Silver Linings Playbook.
150,000 copy print run, extensive book club outreach. LJ PrePub. Anna Quindlen – Still Life with Bread Crumbs
Random House
A superb love story from Anna Quindlen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rise and Shine, Blessings, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.
LJ Prepub Alert Ian Rankin – Saints of the Shadow Bible
Hachette and Blackstone Audio
Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. He is investigating a car accident when news arrives that a case from 30 years ago is being reopened. Rebus’s team from those days is suspected of helping a murderer escape justice to further their own ends. Malcolm Fox, in what will be his last case as an internal affairs cop, is tasked with finding out the truth. Past and present are about to collide in shocking and murderous fashion.  Nonfiction Helen Azar – The Diary of Olga Romanov: Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution
Westholme Publishing
The First English Translation of the Wartime Diaries of the Eldest Daughter of Nicholas II, the Last Tsar of Russia, with Additional Documents of the Period. In August 1914, Russia entered World War I, and with it, the imperial family of Tsar Nicholas II was thrust into a conflict they would not survive. His eldest child, Olga Nikolaevna, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, had begun a diary in 1905 when she was ten years old and kept writing her thoughts and impressions of day-to-day life as a grand duchess until abruptly ending her entries when her father abdicated his throne in March 1917. The Diary of Olga Romanov: Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution, translated and introduced by scientist and librarian Helen Azar, and supplemented with additional primary source material, is a remarkable document of a young woman who did not choose to be part of a royal family and never exploited her own position, but lost her life simply because of what her family represented. Nicholas Epley – Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
Random House
In this illuminating exploration of one of the great mysteries of the human mind, University of Chicago psychologist Nicholas Epley introduces what scientists have learned about our abilities to understand the most complicated puzzle on the planet–other people–and the surprising mistakes we so routinely make. Mindwise will not turn others into open books, but it will give you the wisdom to revolutionize how you think about them–and yourself. LJ Prepub. Brandie Glanville – Drinking and Dating
HarperCollins eBook and Audio
Feisty, funny, and almost fabulous: A relationship guide and collection of outrageous dating mishaps from the unfiltered and often inappropriate Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star. Despite Brandi’s life in the public spotlight, she has the same difficulty meeting, trusting, and even dating new people as the rest of us–perhaps even more. She hopes to develop a lasting, loving relationship, but it’s been a struggle. With her signature tell-it-like-it-is voice, the single mother of two brings you along on her journey as the controversial but charming former fashion model shows her all-too-human side, candidly sharing the humorous and unforeseen ups and downs–literally and figuratively–in her search for love.
100,000 print run. Annie Jacobsen – Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Hachette and Blackstone Audio
In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich’s scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis’ once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler’s scientists and their families to the United States. Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg; one was convicted of mass murder and slavery. They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the U.S. space program. Was Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, or did it help America win the Cold War? LJ PrePub. Daniel Jones – Love Illuminated: Exploring Life's Most Mystifying Subject (with the Help of 50,000 Strangers)
HarperCollins eBook
As the editor of a column about love in the New York Times, Daniel Jones has been privy to the deepest personal revelations of tens of thousands of strangers. Deluged with stories of scheming cheaters, hopeless romantics, racy texts, and fierce devotion, he has spent much of the past decade wading through love’s muck and majesty–and has taken plenty of notes along the way. In Love Illuminated, he uses his unique perspective to tease apart life’s most mystifying subject.
75,000 print run. Harold Lancer – Younger: the Breakthrough Anti-Aging Method for Radiant Skin
Hachette
Renowned Beverly Hills dermatologist Dr. Harold Lancer is the expert on whom Hollywood’s top celebrities rely to maintain their radiant complexions and to reverse the effects of aging. Now, he offers readers his groundbreaking, 3-Step Method to rejuvenate their skin at home. Based on years of clinical research, Dr. Lancer’s regimen stimulates the skin’s own transformative healing power for lasting results. He provides a road map to help readers navigate the mixed messages of today’s dermatological advice, avoid expensive invasive treatments, and see through the empty promises of so many beauty products. Lancer is dermatologist to the stars, among them Oprah, Ellen Degeneres, Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansen, and Hugh Jackman.
75,000 print run. LJ PrePub Alert. Doug Most – The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
Books on Tape
In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a halt, a solution had to be found. Two brothers–Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York City–pursued the dream of his city being the first American metropolis to have a subway and the great race was on. The competition between Boston and New York was played out in an era not unlike our own, one of economic upheaval, job losses, bitter political tensions, and the question of America’s place in the world.
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers. LJ PrePub. Kevin Roose – Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits
Hachette
Kevin Roose, New York magazine business writer and author of the critically acclaimed The Unlikely Disciple, spent more than three years shadowing eight entry-level workers at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and other leading investment firms. Roose chronicled their triumphs and disappointments, their million-dollar trades and runaway Excel spreadsheets, and got an unprecedented (and unauthorized) glimpse of the financial world’s initiation process. Roose’s young bankers are exposed to the exhausting workloads, huge bonuses, and recreational drugs that have always characterized Wall Street life. But they experience something new too – an industry forever changed by the massive financial collapse of 2008. And as they get their Wall Street educations, they face hard questions about morality, prestige, and the value of their work.
LJ PrePub Alert. Scott Stossel – My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
Random House and Books on Tape
As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness. Scott Stossel gracefully guides us across the terrain of an affliction that is pervasive yet too often misunderstood. Drawing on his own long-standing battle with anxiety, Stossel presents an astonishing history, at once intimate and authoritative, of the efforts to understand the condition from medical, cultural, philosophical, and experiential perspectives. My Age of Anxiety is learned and empathetic, humorous and inspirational, offering the reader great insight into the biological, cultural, and environmental factors that contribute to the affliction.
Kirkus Starred Review and Winter Best Bets. Robert I. Sutton – Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less
Random House and Books on Tape
Sutton and Rao have devoted much of the last decade to uncovering what it takes to build and uncover pockets of exemplary performance, to help spread them, and to keep recharging organizations with ever better work practices. Drawing on inside accounts and case studies and academic research from a wealth of industries — including start-ups, pharmaceuticals, airlines, retail, financial services, high-tech, education, non-profits, government, and healthcare — Sutton and Rao identify the key scaling challenges that confront every organization.
LJ PrePub. Quartz: 12 Business Books You Will Need to Read in 2014. "Johnny Walker" and Jim DeFelice – Code Name: Johnny Walker
HarperCollins eBook and Audio
Ryadh Khalaf Alahmady, code named "Johnny Walker" was a translator who guided the US Navy Seals though Iraq's most dangerous regions. He tells his story with the help of Jim DeFelice, who co-wrote American Sniper. Night after night, while his homeland was being destroyed around him, he guided the U.S. Navy SEALs through Iraq’s most dangerous regions. Operating under the code name “Johnny Walker,” he risked his life on more than a thousand missions and became a legend in the U.S. special-ops community, many of whose members credit him with saving their lives. But in the eyes of Iraq’s terrorists and insurgents, he and his family were marked for death because he worked with the Americans. Then the SEALs stood up to protect the man who had watched their backs through the entire war. To easily order any of the titles listed here, please go to: eHighlights Metered Access eHighlights One Copy/One User Plus, don't miss: Newly Available Great Backlist Titles Metered Access Newly Available Great Backlist Titles One Copy/One User Kate Seivertson is a Collection Development Analyst at OverDrive.  |
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