Click here to view the Marketplace cart of these titles and more. Fiction Jeff Abbott – Inside Man Sam Capra's friend has been murdered, and Sam goes undercover inside one of Miami's most prominent Mafia families. Abbott is a three-time nominee for the Edgar Award. LJ PrePub Alert.
Sally Beauman – The Visitors The NY Times bestselling author tells the story of Lord Carnarvon's discovery of King Tut's tomb through the eyes of two young girls, one of them the daughter of an archaeologist. LJ PrePub Alert.
Chris Bohjalian – Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands Emily ran away by herself when a power plant in Vermont had a meltdown and both her parents were killed. Her father was in charge of the plant, and there are rumors that he was drunk when the accident happened. 150,000 print run.
Terry Brooks – The High Druid's Blade Legend has it that Paxon Leah is descended from the royals and warriors who once ruled the Highlands and waged war with magic weapons. But they are long gone and he leads a quiet life running his family's modest shipping business. But when a stranger abducts his sister, he grabs the only weapon available, the antique sword hanging above the mantel, and a powerful magic is unleashed. 100,000 print run.
Marcia Clark – The Competition LA District Attorney Rachel Knight deals with a high school massacre, but two of the students picked as killers may actually be victims. LJ PrePub Alert. Clark's Guilt by Association, also featuring character Rachel Knight, has been optioned by TNT for a series.
Jude Deveraux – For All Time According to legend, the woman who can distinguish the heir to the throne from his twin means that she is his true love. Alas, he is already promised to someone else. Nantucket Brides trilogy, Book 2. 100,000 print run.
Ian Doescher – William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return Return to the galaxy far away as the brooding young hero and a power-mad emperor and their jesting droids match wits and soliloquize in impeccable iambic pentameter.
Jennifer Estep – Poison Promise Reading this, Number 11 in the Elemental Assassin series, doesn't really require having read the other ten. This is an action-packed urban fantasy.
Janet Evanovich – Top Secret Twenty-One Stephanie Plum is back for the 21st time, and Stephanie is still a bounty hunter looking for a used car dealer who has jumped bail. 1,000,000 print run. An Amazon Best Mystery, Thriller and Suspense Book of the Month.
Jane Feather – Trapped at the Altar Jane Feather has more than 10 million copies of her sensual historical romances in print. Romantic Times has called her a "consummate storyteller."
Robert Galbraith – The Silkworm Galbraith (J. K. Rowling) uses the second book starring private eye Cormoran Strike to have fun with the publishing industry. Don't miss this one. 400,000 print run. An Amazon Best Mystery, Thriller and Suspense Book of the Month.
Yasmine Galenorn – Night's End Urban fantasy star Galenorn received the 2011 Career Achievement Award given by Romantic Times Magazine, and her titles are always mass market bestsellers. This is the conclusion to her Addictive series.
Conn Iggulden – Wars of the Roses: Stormbird The first in a new series by the bestselling author. This one begins in 1437 when the Lancaster king Henry VI ascends the throne of England. Try it with fans of Game of Thrones, which is based loosely on the War of the Roses. LJ PrePub Alert.
Erika Johansen – The Queen of the Tearling This one will be a bestseller. A 19-year-old princess has been raised in the woods by an elderly couple, but has now come of age and must return to the land of her birth and claim the throne. The Queen's Guard comes to escort her, but she doesn't know who to trust, and the adjoining country's queen is set to invade. First in a trilogy. 500,000 print run. Booklist starred review. The Warner Bros. film will star Emma Watson.
Stephen King – Mr. Mercedes King's first hardboiled detective novel. 800,000 print run. An Amazon Best Mystery, Thriller and Suspense Book of the Month.
Dean Koontz – The City Koontz continues to push the envelope, refusing to write what is expected. This is the first person narrative of an African-American boy growing up in a musical family in urban America during the 1960s. 400,000 print run.
Mary Lawson – Road Ends Lawson's writing has been compared to Elizabeth Strout, Richard Ford, and Rick Bass. Twenty-one-year-old Megan has never been outside of Struan, Ontario. She's the caregiver, housekeeper, and linchpin of the family, but she decides it's time to have a life of her own and heads to London (England, not Ontario).
Laura L. McNeal – Dollbaby A big-hearted coming of age debut set in civil rights era New Orleans. When Ibby's father dies unexpectedly in the summer of 1964, she is deposited with her eccentric grandmother Fannie in the Garden District. Fortunately, Fannie's black cook Queenie, and her smart-mouthed daughter Dollbaby, take her under their wings.
Jojo Moyes – One Plus One Single mom Jess, Goth teen Nicky, his sister Tanzie, their 80-pound dog, and a technology millionaire who volunteers his "top of the line" car with himself for driver, travel from the English shore to Aberdeen, Scotland where Tanzie is competing in a high stakes math competition. High jinks ensue. Moyes is the two-time winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association of the UK. 150,000 print run. USA Today: Hot Books of Summer. Booklist starred review.
Marcia Muller – The Night Searchers Sharon McCone Mystery number 30. PI Sharon McCone is dubious when a couple comes to her about a devil worshipers performing human sacrifices in San Francisco. LJ PrePub Alert.
Celeste Ng – Everything I Never Told You Lydia's mother wants her to become a doctor, and her father wants her to be popular. Now she's dead at the bottom of the lake. LJ PrePub Alert. Ng won the Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan, which was also won by Arthur Miller, Mary Gaitskill, Jesmyn War and other well-known writers.
James Patterson & David Ellis – Invisible Emmy Dockery takes leave from her FBI job to pursue a hunch that hundreds of rapes, kidnappings and murders across the nation are the work of one man. 999,000 print run.
Rebecca Rotert – Last Night at the Blue Angel Not many first novels get a 100,000 print run, but this one did. Set in early 1960s Chicago when the jazz scene was thriving. Naomi, a jazz singer who has sung at the Blue Angel club for years. LJ PrePub Alert.
Anthony Ryan – Tower Lord Ryan is one of the self-publishing success stories, having moved up to a Big 5 publisher. His first book Blood Song set out a fascinating world of conflicting religions and wars fought over them. This book continues the tale in an epic fantasy for fans of Robert Jordan or George R. R. Martin. Best Fantasy Books Blog: Most Anticipated Books of 2014.
Rachel Seiffert – The Walk Home An Irish family that has lived in Glasgow for decades after fleeing the Troubles, are threatened when he father marches in a parade that brings those troubles back in a real way. From a Booker Prize finalist named one of Granta's 20 Best of the Young British Novelists. The Guardian: Books for 2014.
Anne Rivers Siddons – The Girls of August The bestselling author is back with the story of four women who have vacationed together at the beach from the time that their husbands were in medical school. 150,000 print run. LJ PrePub Alert calls it "classic beach reading."
Lauraine Snelling – Heaven Sent Rain Dinah Taylor has an orderly life that is just the way she likes it, but then a seven-year-old boy shows up in front of her office building with his dog. After she buys him breakfast, he shows up the next day, and the next.
Rufi Thorpe – The Girls from Corona del Mar A debut novel that is grabbing some attention. Lorrie Ann has always been a sweet girl, protected by her family, while Mia is tough, having had to content with a drinking mother, her troublesome younger brothers, and a pregnancy at age 15. But when tragedy strikes Lorrie Ann she becomes a different person and Mia can't seem to help her. LJ PrePub Alert.
John Verdon – Peter Pan Must Die A mystery pulls former NYPD officer Dave Gurney out of retirement to investigate. Who killed a prominent real estate developer planning to run for office? Was it really his adulterous wife? LJ PrePub Alert.
Jennifer Weiner – All Fall Down The bestselling Weiner is back with a story that addresses the topic of addiction to painkillers. Allison Weiss's husband resents that she makes more money as a blogger than he does as a newspaper reporter. They live in a house they can't afford. They're fighting all the time, and Allison turns to pills. Booklist starred review.
Jacqueline Winspear – The Care and Management of Lies Winspear's well-known Maisie Dobbs series stars a heroine who was a nurse in WWI. This historical novel takes place a month before the war breaks out and concentrates on the women left at home to manage their lives and the family business. 100,000 print run.
Nonfiction
Patrick Buchanan – The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Roe from Defeat to Create the New Majority Buchanan was a Nixon advisor and tells the story of Nixon's resurrection after his stinging defeats in the 1960 Presidential election against JFK, and the 1962 California governor's race, to become President in 1969. 125,000 print run.
Hilary Clinton – Hard Choices 600,000 print run. The Atlantic: Books to Read in 2014. In the Capital: Best Political Books of 2014. An Amazon Best Biography & Memoirs Book of the Month.
Elizabeth Drew – Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall Forty years after Watergate, Drew, the legendary reporter has a new edition of her bestselling work that includes new insight into Nixon's efforts to regain respectability after his downfall and new information not available at the time. Every library needs to have this one.
Michael Farquhar – Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness… It is said that Michael Farquhar writes history as if he were Doris Kearns Goodwin's smart-ass, reprobate kid brother. Here he collects the best, most captivating and shocking true tales of Romanov iniquity.
Lee Grant – I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir Lee Grant, an Academy Award winning actress tells the story of being blacklisted during the McCarthy era and her 12-year fight to exonerate herself. LJ PrePub.
Sally Hogshead – How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value through the Science of Fascination To become more successful, you don't have to change who you are—you have to become more of who you are. This book reveals who you are at your best so you can create better relationships.
Joshua Horwitz – War of the Whales: A True Story A crusading attorney and a marine biologist stumble onto one of the US Navy's best kept secrets—a submarine detection system that flood entire ocean basins with high intensity sounds that drive whales onto beaches. Science writer Horwitz has turned this true story into a page turner. USA Today Hot Summer Books.
Jenna McCarthy – I've Still Got It…I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It "Awkwardly true tales from the far side of forty" tackling everything from cosmetic surgery to skinny jeans and the meaning of life by the former radio personality.
Abby Lee Miller – Everything I Learned about Life, I Learned in Dance Class By the star of Lifetime's Dance Moms. Miller turns kids into stars, but she has more general advice on life success in this book. 100,000 print run.
Marja Mills – The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, rarely gives interviews, but Mills moved next door to Lee and her sister Alice, and spent eighteen months getting to know the Lees and their circle of friends.
Amanda Petrusich – Do Not Sell At any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78 rpm Records Acclaimed music writer Petrusich tells the untold story of a quirky and important subculture—the world of 78 rpm records and those who celebrate them.
Joan Rivers – Diary of a Mad Diva Anais Nin, Anne Frank and Sylvia Plath wrote the world's most famous diaries. And where are they today? Dead. But the world's OTHER great diarist, Joan Rivers, is alive and kicking. And complaining.
Ja Rule – Unruly: The Highs and Lows of Becoming a Man Ja Rule has sold 30 million records worldwide. His story is riveting and funny as he shares tales of his coming of age—from renting $30,000-a-month mansions to scrubbing his own prison cell, to traveling the world and falling head over heels in love with his junior high school sweetheart and going on to make her his wife and the mother of his children. 50,000 print run.
Robert L. Snow – Killers in the Family: Inside a Real Family of Criminals Bound by Blood A rash of murders in Indianapolis in 2008 brought attention to a robber and murderer named Brian Reese. Turns out he learned his life of crime at home. His father was the lookout man and his mother was the getaway driver. He and his three brothers had more than three dozen convictions among them. But the family secrets were even darker than that.
Tim Spector – Identically Different: Why We Can Change Our Genes Even real life "clones" with the same upbringing turn out to be very different. The answer is in the genes.
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Thursday, July 3, 2014
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