Here are some of the new titles we’ve ordered:
FICTION
Ancient Light
John Banville
An actor in the twilight of his career reflects on a poignant first love affair at the age of 15 with his best friend’s mother and inexplicably lands a role opposite a famous but fragile actress who helps him come to an astonishing realization.
Black Fridays
Michael Sears
Struggling to rebuild his life after a two-year prison term for unscrupulous choices, former Wall Street hotshot Jason Stafford is tapped by an investment firm to investigate the suspicious death of a junior trader, a dangerous assignment that is complicated by his efforts to reclaim his young autistic son from his unstable ex-wife.
Bone Bed
Patricia Cornwell
Receiving a grisly communication in the wake of an eminent Canadian paleontologist’s disappearance, Kay Scarpetta investigates the discovery of a body in Boston Harbor and clues about other unsolved cases, a situation that makes Scarpetta wonder who she can trust.
Death in the Floating City
Tasha Alexander
Entreated for help by a childhood nemesis who has been wrongly accused of murder, Lady Emily launches an investigation in Venice that takes her from elegant palazzi to slums, libraries and bordellos before she links the crime to a centuries-old puzzle.
Dick Francis’s Bloodline
Felix Francis
Suspecting a fixed race when his successful jockey sister comes in third in a competition she could have won, television presenter Mark Shillingford has an explosive argument with his sister and is shocked when she dies in an apparent suicide hours later.
Fallen Masters
John Edward
A novel of metaphysical suspense by the acclaimed psychic medium and author of Crossing Over and What If God Were the Sun traces an ultimate confrontation between good and evil as it unfolds on both the Earthly plane and the Other Side.
Geneva Trap
Stella Rimington
When a Russian intelligence officer insists on speaking to no one but her about cyber sabotage that has brought down a U.S. communications satellite, MI5 agent Liz Carlyle learns of a plot to hack into the West’s military and begins a race against time to stop a mole who would reignite the Cold War.
Goldberg Variations
Suasn Isaacs
A septuagenarian business owner evaluates her grandchildren as possible successors to her multi-million-dollar beauty empire, including New York movie studio editor Daisy, womanizing sports PR representative Matt and religious Legal Aid lawyer Raquel.
Irish Country Wedding
Patrick Taylor
Resolving to handle his usual round of eccentric patients before marrying his sweetheart, Dr. O’Reilly of the colorful Ulster village of Ballybucklebo helps clear the name of a pigeon-hunting cat and encourages a promising student while his assistant, Barry, considers a romance with a politically outspoken teacher.
Last Wool and Testament
Molly Macrae
Returning to the small town of Blue Plum, Tennessee to settle her grandmother’s affairs, Kath Rutledge, the new owner of a fiber and fabric shop called the Weaver’s Cat, must also prove her late grandmother’s innocence in an unsolved murder with a little otherworldly help.
Live By Night
Dennis Lehane
In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.
Lost Night
Jayne Castle
Rachel Blake, who is trained in an exotic form of martial arts and gifted with special abilities, finds her peaceful existence shattered by the arrival of Harry Sebastian, the descendant of a notorious pirate, who needs her help in tracking down the dangerous rogues who have violated the Preserve.
Mad River
John Sandford
When three teenagers with dead-end prospects begin a Bonnie-and-Clyde killing and robbery spree through rural Minnesota and send footage of some of their exploits to a local television station, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers joins a growing number of cops trying to stop them only to encounter a shocking turn of events.
Peaches For Father Francis
Joanne Harris
The author of Chocolat continues the story of Vianne, who returns to the French village of Lansquenet with her daughters before allying herself with a desperate Father Frances Reynaud to reverse disturbing local changes.
Racketeer
John Grisham
When a Federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why.
Rogue
Mark Sullivan
Two years after walking away from his job and his team in the middle of an operation, former top-level CIA operative Robin Monarch resurfaces in St. Tropez as a thief who steals from the super-rich and who in the wake of a heist gone wrong is led into a carefully woven trap to force him to complete the mission he abandoned.
Salvation of a Saint
Keigo Higashino
When a man about to leave his wife is found murdered and the wife has a too-convenient alibi that convinces a smitten lead detective of her innocence, Professor Manabu Yukawa is tapped by a concerned Kaoru Utsumi to solve a seemingly impossible case.
Secret Keeper
Kate Morton
Withdrawing from a family party to the solitude of her tree house, 16-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking murder that throughout a subsequent half century shapes her beliefs, her acting career and the lives of three strangers from vastly different cultures.
Shadow Girls
Henning Mankell
Ordered by his editor to write a crime novel to reignite his stalled career, poet Jesper Humlin reluctantly travels to Gothenburg, where three unlikely pupils of an impromptu writing workshop draw him into their culturally driven, compelling worlds.
Sleep No More
Iris Johansen
Entreated by her mother to help find a missing woman who has escaped from a mental hospital, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is shocked to discover the woman’s true identity and enlists the help of rogue FBI profiler Kendra Michaels to survive a plot by a killer that is targeting her family.
Sutton
J. R. Moehringer
This clever imagining of the surprise pardon of Willie Sutton, one of the most notorious criminals in American history, on Christmas Eve in 1969, traces the remarkable life of this mysterious man, who was known to police as the Babe Ruth of Bank Robbers, and his doomed, dangerous romance with his first love.
Tier One Wild
Dalton Fury
Former disgraced Delta Force commander Kolt “Racer” Raynor tackles the most dangerous mission of his career when an American al Qaeda commander organizes a terrorist team and amasses stores of deadly weapons with the intent of shooting down American aircraft.
Twelve
Justin Cronin
A follow-up to The Passage continues the efforts of survivors of a government-induced apocalypse to endure their violent and disease-stricken world while protecting their loved ones; while a century into the future, members of a transformed society determinedly search for the original twelve virals.
We Are What We Pretend to Be
Kurt Vonnegut
A posthumous double volume of the influential author’s first and last written works, published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of his birth, includes the bitter satire, Basic Training; and the unfinished final novel, If God Were Alive Today.
What the Heart Remembers
Debra Ginsberg
Convinced that the heart she received in a transplant holds the memories of its former owner, Eden Harrison leaves for San Deigo where she meets Darcy, a young widow whose musician boyfriend has mysteriously disappeared.
Working Theory of Love
Scott Hutchins
While working on what he hopes will be the world’s first sentient computer, Neill Bassett tries to deal with unresolved feelings for his ex-wife as well as an intended one-night stand who is turning into much more.
NONFICTION
Digest Diet: Breakthrough Science! The Best Foods for Fast, Lasting Weight Loss
Liz Vaccariello
Offers a 21-day weight-loss plan based on groundbreaking science and newly discovered foods and habits that aim to help release body fat, as well as recipes, testimonials, an exercise routine and more.
End of Your Life Book Club
Will Schwalbe
A Hyperion editor in chief and journalist recounts how his mother and he read and discussed books during her chemotherapy treatments, describing how the activity involved a wide range of literary genres, furthered their appreciation for literature and strengthened their bond.
Fine Print: How Big Companies Use “Plain English” to Rob You Blind
David Cay Johnston
Presents a sobering analysis of the ways everyday people are systematically victimized by corporate interests, revealing small-print tactics in commonplace consumer agreements while sharing recommendations for how to combat consumer-targeting abuses.
Into The Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Dakota Meyer & Bing West
A Medal of Honor-awarded Marine sniper shares the controversy-marked story of his heroic contributions during a 2009 Taliban ambush during which he saved a company of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors, a victory that compelled him to disobey orders and assume command without reinforcements or artillery support.
It’s Your Business: 183 Essential Tips That Will Transform Your Small Business
J. J. Ramberg, Frank Silverstein & Lisa Everson
The host of MSNBC’s Your Business offers tips and practical advice for small business owners and entrepreneurs on a wide range of topics including finance, human resources, public relations and sales that will help them succeed.
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard
The anchor of The O’Reilly Factor recounts the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy–and how gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
Living Beautifully: With Uncertainty and Change
Pema Chodron
The American Buddhist nun counsels readers on how to live compassionately and well during times of instability, demonstrating the use of the Three Commitments practice to promote relaxation, embrace challenges and refrain from doing harm.
Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
Jonathan Jones
An art critic for The Guardian presents a richly detailed account of the Renaissance artistic competition between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the legendary “lost” masterpieces The Battle of Anghiari and The Battle of Cascina on the wall of the Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio.
Luck or Something Like It
Kenny Rogers,
Providing a revealing look at the world of country music, the country music legend, who has known when to hold ’em, when to fold ’em and when to run, shares the story behind his meteoric rise to fame, including the highs and lows, and the secrets behind his biggest hits.
Muck City: Winning and Losing in America’s Last Football Town
Bryan Mealer
Traces the intertwined stories of an orphaned quarterback, a celebrated football coach and an aspiring medical student whose prospects were collectively shaped by the formidable challenges, shameful history and football enthusiasm of their hometown in the Florida Everglades.
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Chrystia Freeland
A journalist and industry specialist for Reuters examines the growing disparity between the rich and the poor, taking a non-partisan look into the businesspeople who are amassing today’s colossal fortunes and preferring the company of similar people around the world.
Things That Matter
Nate Berkus
The acclaimed designer presents a sumptuously illustrated guide to meaningful home decorating that builds on a premise that a house’s objects reflect its owners, providing tours and stories about some of the favorite family and celebrity homes the author helped design.
Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London
Nigel Jones
A dramatic history of the Tower of London places its story in a context of national and international events, drawing on primary sources to explore its diverse functions as a British symbol, epicenter for violent events and modern tourist attraction.
Windows 8 Secrets
Paul Thurrott & Rafael Rivera
This ultimate insider’s guide to Microsoft’s major new release of its Windows operating system reveals tips, tricks and secrets, explains best practices for customizing the system, investigates the differences between Windows 8 and previous versions and more.
Published on October 23, 2012.
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