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Week of January 13, 2014

Releases for the week of January 13th include Kent Haruf's BENEDICTION, a story of life and death, and the ties that bind; VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE, Karen Russell's collection of stories that was named Best Book of the Year by O, The Oprah Magazine and Huffington Post, and was an NPR Great Read of 2013; and SOME GIRLS, SOME HATS AND HITLER: A True Love Story by Trudi Kanter, the astonishing memoir of a woman whose courage and resourcefulness kept her and her beloved safe after the Nazis invaded Austria.

Week of January 6, 2014

Releases for the week of January 6th include A WEEK IN WINTER, the late Maeve Binchy's final novel; TENTH OF DECEMBER, a short story collection from George Saunders and a National Book Award finalist; THE DESCENT, the conclusion to Alma Katsu's The Taker trilogy; and LIFE AFTER LIFE, Kate Atkinson's vision of the first half of the 20th century as witnessed --- and lived --- by one woman.

Week of December 30, 2013

Cotton Malone and his 15-year-old son, Gary, are headed to Europe in Steve Berry's THE KING'S DECEPTION. As a favor to his former boss at the Justice Department, Malone agrees to escort a teenage fugitive back to England. But after he is greeted at gunpoint in London, both the fugitive and Gary disappear, and Malone learns that he’s stumbled into a high-stakes diplomatic showdown --- an international incident fueled by geopolitical gamesmanship and shocking Tudor secrets.

Week of December 23, 2013

After only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay Boxer is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career in James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's new Women's Murder Club novel, 12th OF NEVER. A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, an eccentric English professor has been having vivid nightmares about a violent murder and is convinced it’s real. Lindsay doesn't believe him, but then a shooting is called in --- and it fits the professor's description perfectly.

Week of December 16, 2013

Facing his 63rd winter, Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations --- both pleasurable and painful. Thirty years after the publication of THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE, in which he wrote so movingly about fatherhood, Auster gives us a second unconventional memoir, WINTER JOURNAL, in which he writes about his mother's life and death.

Week of December 9, 2013

When Evie Ferrante learns that her mother has been hospitalized, she finds her mother's house in chaos. Sorting through her mother's belongings, Evie discovers objects that don't quite belong there, and begins to raise questions. Evie renews a friendship with Mina, an elderly neighbor who might know more about her mother's recent activities. As Evie investigates her mother's actions, a darker story of deception and madness involving Mina emerges in Hallie Ephron's THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN.

Week of December 2, 2013

An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke Qiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an invasion of Taiwan. Jack Ryan’s administration is determined to thwart China’s ambitions, but in Tom Clancy's THREAT VECTOR, the stakes are dangerously high as a new breed of powerful Chinese anti-ship missile endangers the US Navy's plans to protect the island.

Week of November 25, 2013

Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Drawing on the rich history of the 20th century and featuring cameos from such notable characters as Joseph Kennedy and Amelia Earhart, THE AVIATOR'S WIFE is a vividly imagined novel of a complicated marriage --- revealing both its dizzying highs and its devastating lows.

Week of November 18, 2013

After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie’s bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton’s premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it’s on Stephanie to track down the con man in NOTORIOUS NINETEEN: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich.

Week of November 11, 2013

In 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, undertake what initially appear to be two unrelated investigations. The two cases eventually connect in surprising fashion, but not before two murders and other felonies complicate matters even further. And not before the two sleuths are hindered, assisted and exasperated by the bughouse Sherlock Holmes, in THE BUGHOUSE AFFAIR: A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini.

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