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 | | Title No: 77855 MYSTERY MAN (Book #1 in the "Dream Man" series) Ashley, Kristen ROMANCE Novel Series Title Extent: 228pp Grand Central Publishing (August 2013) First volume in the highly successful self-published "Dream Man" series followed by WILD MAN, LAW MAN, and MOTORCYCLE MAN, selling more than 85.000 copies. Grand Central Forever are repackaging these novels and starting with MYSTERY MAN in August 2013. While drinking cosmopolitans, Gwendolyn Kidd meets the man of her dreams. Then she takes him home. Then she wakes up alone. But her fear that she lost her dream man turns into a relationship with a mystery man when, night after night in the dead of night, he comes back for more. Hoping it will blossom into something real, she lets him. Gwen’s struggling with the decision to end their crazy non-relationship when her sister-from-hell, Ginger’s best friend pays a visit and warns Gwen that if she and her sister don't get smart, they'll both get d-e-a-d, dead. Gwen has no clue what’s going on but she’s used to Ginger’s antics and decides to lay the problem on her sister’s biker boyfriend's doorstep. Bad choice. She hits the Denver Underground radar with a big, loud ping. This means Gwen’s Mystery Man, Cabe “Hawk” Delgado has to step in to keep her safe. But when Hawk gets a dose of Gwen in the daylight, he makes the decision that he finally wants real with Gwen. However when Gwen gets a dose of badass, bossy, straight-talker Hawk in the daylight, she decides she’s done. Thus begins the head-to-head of the Commando vs. Cosmo Girl as Hawk woos Gwen in his own unique way, Gwen survives firebombs, drive-bys, kidnappings, hot pursuits by biker hotties and gorgeous police detectives and discovers the heartbreaking reason why Hawk kept her at arm’s length. And as all this happens, Gwen finds that her sister’s troubles are serious trouble and she must decide who to keep alive: her sister-from-hell or the man of her dreams. http://www.kristenashely.net Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77854 OWN THE WIND (Book #1 in the Chaos series) Ashley, Kristen ROMANCE Series Title Novel Extent: ms232pp Grand Central Publishing (June 2013) The first new book in a spin-off series from the author's successful "Dream Man series". First published in April as e-book, the print edition is forthcoming in June 2013. Tabitha Allen grew up in the thick of Chaos-the Chaos Motorcycle Club, that is. Her father is Chaos' leader, and the club has always had her back. But one rider was different from the start. When Tabby was running wild, Shy Cage was there. When tragedy tore her life apart, he helped her piece it back together. And now, Tabby's thinking about much more than friendship . . . Tabby is everything Shy's ever wanted, but everything he thinks he can't have. She's beautiful, smart, and as his friend's daughter, untouchable. Shy never expected more than friendship, so when Tabby indicates she wants more-much more-he feels like the luckiest man alive. But even lucky men can crash and burn . . http://www.kristenashley.net Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77818 BABAYAGA Barlow, Toby FICTION Novel Extent: 479 pp Farrar Straus Giroux (August 2013) From the acclaimed author of Sharp Teeth comes a novel of postwar Paris, of star-crossed love and Cold War espionage, of bloodthirsty witches and a police inspector turned into a flea - and that’s just the beginning. Will is a young American ad executive in Paris. Except his agency is a front for the CIA. It’s 1959 and the cold war is going strong. Zoya is a beautiful young woman wandering les boulevards, sad-eyed, coming off a bad breakup. In fact, she impaled her ex on a spike. Zoya, it turns out, has been a beautiful young woman for hundreds of years. Inspector Vidot is a hardworking Paris police detective who cherishes quiet nights at home. But when he follows a lead from a grisly murder to the abode of an ugly old woman, he finds himself turned into a flea. Add a few chance encounters, a chorus of some more angry witches, a strung-out jazzman or two, a weaponized LSD program, and a cache of rifles buried in the Bois de Boulogne - and that’s a novel! But while BABAYAGA may start as a joyful romp though the City of Light, it quickly grows into a daring, moving exploration of love, mortality, and responsibility. Toby Barlow is the author of Sharp Teeth (Harper, 2009), which was optioned for film by FilmFour. He is executive creative director at the advertising agency JWT in Detroit and is also a contributor to the literary magazine n+1 and the Huffington Post. "The pair of virtuosic, murdering witches at the heart of Babayaga are two of the most vivid and entertaining characters in recent fiction. Beneath Barlow's zany, persuasive conjuring runs a touching meditation on love." - Sarah Blake Praise for Toby Barlow's SHARP TEETH: "[A] gut-wrenching, sexy debut." - PW (starred review) "Tremendous." - Nick Hornby Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77821 THE LOST STARS: PERILOUS SHIELD (2) Campbell, Jack SPECULATIVE FICTION Science fiction Series Title Ace Books (October 2013) A thrilling spin-off from Jack Campbell’s The Lost Fleet series. THE LOST STARS: TARNISHED KNIGHT delivered "excellent tales of space battles and struggles against tyrants and aliens." (Night Owl Reviews) Now the New York Times bestselling author returns with the next chapter in the overthrow of the Syndicate Worlds’ oppression.... Following a successful coup, the leaders of the rebel Midway Star System struggle to forge a government free enough to please its citizens yet strong enough to secure power. But in a world where former rulers have become new foes, an alien threat to humanity may turn old adversaries into uncertain allies. General Artur Drakon knows three words describe someone who confides in a Syndicate CEO: Stupid. Betrayed. Dead. Despite his misgivings, he partnered with another former CEO to overthrow Syndic forces. Now, with an enigma fleet menacing their hard-earned independence, he can ill afford to trust her - or lose her support. President Gwen Iceni believes Midway is humanity’s defense against the enigmas. Syndicate training taught her self-preservation in a crisis, yet she’s determined to fight for the star system’s fate - even if it means joining forces with Drakon - and an officer of the hated Alliance. Their plan places the Midway flotilla at great risk in hopes of greater reward: recruiting the personnel necessary to man warships against the enigmas. But before facing the alien advance, Drakon and Iceni must survive hidden dangers closer to home: all-too-human threats that could jeopardize Midway’s freedom - and their own lives. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77885 NEARER HOME Castro, Joy SUSPENSE Crime, Mystery Extent: 276 pp Thomas Dunne (July 2013) The irresistible, razor-sharp second book in the post-Katrina New Orleans-set crime series featuring unforgettable and gutsy reporter Nola Céspedes Early one morning, Times-Picayune crime reporter Nola Céspedes goes for her regular run in Audubon Park. More than the heat of the dawning New Orleans day, she’s trying to outrun her growing unease with the man she's seeing, who is pushing her to get more serious. Instead, Nola finds herself at the scene of a crime when she discovers a dead body. Worse, Nola recognizes the victim: Judith Taffner, her former journalism professor at Tulane. Not convinced Dr. Taffner’s murder was the random work of a psychopath, and not one to put much trust in the good ol’ boys of the NOPD, Nola takes it upon herself to investigate. She discovers that Dr. Taffner was working on two explosive stories, both of which would shock even this notoriously corrupt city. And when an apparently related murder occurs in the middle of New Orleans’ packed Jazz Fest, Nola realizes it’s only a matter of time before she becomes a ruthless killer's next target. Rich with details of New Orleans and featuring an original, tough heroine as fascinating as the city itself, Nearer Home is the perfect follow-up to Joy Castro’s Hell or High Water, confirming her status as a talented new crime writer to watch. Joy Castro teaches literature at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. She is the author of Hell or High Water, Island of Bones and The Truth Book (selected as an ABA Book Sense Notable Book in 2005) "Exquisite New Orleans background . . . a flawed but plucky heroine, and skillfully paced suspense make this a stay up way past your bedtime read." - Booklist (starred) Praise for Hell or High Water: "A terrific mystery . . . I can’t wait to see what Joy Castro does next." - Dennis Lehane "So thick and rich with authentic New Orleans details that you’ll be wiping sweat off your brow and smelling the crawfish étouffée. Joy Castro has crafted a complex, conflicted, and hauntingly real heroine with Nola Céspedes." - Alex Kava Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77841 DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN Cole, Jessie FICTION Novel Extent: e-ms 69.000 words Fourth Estate (July 2012) Nominated for the ASL Gold Medal Longlisted for the Dobbie Literary Award "One of the standout debuts of 2012" - The Adelaide Advertiser Vincent is nearly forty years old, with little to show for his life except his precious sixteen-year-old daughter, Gemma: sensitive, insightful and wise beyond her years. When a stranger crashes her car outside Vincent and Gemma's bush home, their lives take a dramatic turn. In an effort to help the stranded woman, father and daughter are drawn into a world of unexpected and life-changing consequences. Darkness on the Edge of Town is a haunting tale that beguiles the reader with its deceptively simple prose, its gripping and unrelenting tensions, and its disturbing yet tender observations. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77851 SIEGE 13 Dobozy, Tamas FICTION Short Story (-ies) Extent: 360pp Milkweed Editions (February 2013) *Winner of the Rogers Trust Fiction Prize *Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award *A Quill & Quire Book of the Year *Amazon.CA Best Book of 2012 pick From Tamas Dobozy comes a collection of stories full of wit and irony reflecting on the Soviet Budapest Offensive at the end of World War II. Built around the events of the Soviet Budapest Offensive at the end of World War II, the stories in Siege 13 are full of wit, irony, and dark humor. In a series of linked stories that alternate between the siege itself and a contemporary community of Hungarian émigrés who find refuge in the West, Dobozy utilizes a touch of deadpan humor and a deep sense of humanity to extol the horrors and absurdity of ordinary people caught in the crosshairs of brutal conflict and its silent aftermath. Canada: Thomas Allen; French: Thomas Allen; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77847 A BIRD'S EYE Fagan, Cary FICTION Novel Extent: ms119pp House of Anansi Press (August 2013) Growing up in a Jewish neighbourhood in the 1930s, young Benjamin Kleeman falls in love, first with Corrine Foster and then with magic. Hiding his new passions from his parents - the long-suffering Bella, an Italian immigrant, and Jacob, a talented but failed inventor of elaborate mechanical devices - Benjamin begins apprenticeships in magic and life itself, learning along the way that everything is more complicated than it seems. With wit, tenderness, humour, and, startling beauty, Cary Fagan brings a gifted young man’s rise to a peculiar kind of stardom, wonderfully alive. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77870 EL CASO DEL MAGO RUSO Fernández-Luna, José María SUSPENSE Historical Novel Ediciones B (February 2013) It’s the year 1916. Ramón Fernández-Luna, who enjoys well-deserved fame throughout Spain for his intelligence and shrewdness, is immersed in catching the famous thief, the Fantasma or Ghost, when he receives an order to investigate the disappearance of the Gran Kaspar, a famous Russian magician, accused of theft and murder, from the Modelo prison. This is an absorbing novel, original and magnificently constructed that takes place on the fence between reality and fantasy with a background abundant in rich details from the era where the higher classes of Barcelona mix with those from the squalid dwellings of the poor neighborhoods. A case inspired by the real life Ramón Fernández-Luna, the best chief of the Criminal Investigation Department that Spain has ever known and who was well-deservedly known as the "Spanish Sherlock Holmes". Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77838 STOP HERE Gologorsky, Beverly FICTION Novel Extent: 256pp Seven Stories Press (November 2013) Ava, Mila, and Rosalyn all work at Murray’s Diner in Long Island. They are friends and coworkers struggling to hold together their disordered lives. While Ava privately grieves the loss of her husband in the first Iraq War, Mila struggles to dissuade her seventeenyear-old daughter from enlisting in the second. Rosalyn works as an escort by night until love and illness conspire to disrupt the tenuous balance she’d found and the past she’d kept at a safe distance.The promise of a new relationship with a coworker soon begins to restore Ava’s faith in her own ability to feel, and Mila learns through wrenching loss that children must learn from their own mistakes. But ultimately it is love - for one another and for their wayward families - that sustains them through the pain and uncertainty of a world with no easy answers. With tender, unadorned prose and a supremely human sympathy for the triumphs and defeats of everyday life, in this long-awaited second novel Beverly Gologorsky delivers a moving and incisive story about loss, friendship, and healing in the shadow of a seemingly endless war. BEVERLY GOLOGORSKY is the author of the acclaimed novel, Th eTh ings We Do to Make it Home, named a Notable Book by the New York Times, Best Fiction by Los Angeles Times, and a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great Writers Award. She lives in New York City and Maine. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77832 THE MIDNIGHT QUEEN (Book One in the Midnight's Daughter's Trilogy) Hunter, Sylvia Izzo Fantasy Novel FICTION Extent: e-ms 130.000 words Ace Books (Fall 2014) This novel is a perfect marriage of Susanna Clarke and Naomi Novik, a historical fantasy of magic and menace, music and romance, rife with intrigue and atmosphere... We begin with Gray Marshall, erstwhile graduate student of Merlin College, Oxford. Disowned by his father and humiliated by Professor Callender, his domineering tutor, Gray is now bereft of his magic and a virtual prisoner on the Professor’s country estate in Brittany. He feels betrayed by his friends and abandoned by the gods, but has found an unlikely ally in Sophie Callender -- who has her own excellent reasons to dislike her father. Their isolated existence is disturbed by an unprecedented visitor: Lord Carteret, chief advisor to King Henry XII. His visit is no mere social call; to their horror, Gray and Sophie learn that their ultimate goal is regicide, and to install the young Crown Prince as puppet ruler. With some surprising help, Gray and Sophie flee Callender Hall on what is at once an escape and rescue mission, which takes them from the Breton countryside across the Channel and ultimately to the Royal Palace in London -- as well as from a once-fraternal affection to a deep and ardent love. THE MIDNIGHT QUEEN is the first novel in the projected Midnight’s Daughters trilogy (see attached synopses for sequels). By day, Sylvia works as a copy editor for a scholarly press, and holds a B.A. in English and French literature, with a particular interest in the medieval and early modern periods. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77827 IF I SHOULD LOSE YOU Lester, Natasha FICTION Novel Extent: 272pp Fremantle Arts Centre Press (September 2012) "Through a cast of memorable characters, If I Should Lose You pitches art against life, and in the process exposes life in all its frailties. Here is a story that resonates long after reading.’" - Andrea Goldsmith Clare is a brilliant heart transplant surgeon. She sees hearts as purely functional - until she falls in love with Dan. Then a sudden tragedy forces Clare to rethink the way she views love and medicine and the consequences of this are felt many years later, by her daughter Camille. Camille has two daughters of her own, and one, just five, is critically ill. Camille has no time to caretake her failing relationship with her husband and no time to face up to a niggling suspicion she holds about her mother, as Camille is the one person who can save her daughter. Camille is an organ donor coordinator and her daughter needs a new liver. Just how far will she go to keep her daughter alive - and what might the costs be? http://www.natashalester.com.au Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77874 LAS LAGRIMAS DE SAN LORENZO Llamazares, Julio FICTION Novel Extent: 200pp Alfaguara (2013) A story about paradises and hells lost - about fathers and sons, friends and lovers, encounters and goodbyes - that thread a life through the flow of time and the moorings of memory. The protagonist, a university professor in his fifties, returns to Ibiza after a restless life of roaming Europe without ever settling down. On Ibiza he has spent the best times of his youth and he brings his son with him to witness the magical celestial spectacle, the Perseid meteor showers also called the Tears of San Lorenzo. The mutual contemplation of the sky, the scent of the land and the sea and the memories of days long past give way to melancholy and imagination. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77050 KILLING PILGRIM (Marko della Torre Series #2) Mattich, Alen SUSPENSE Thriller Series Title Extent: ms 122.00 words House of Anansi Press (January 2014) In the sequel to Zagreb Cowboy, Marko della Torre leaves Zagreb, to wait at his father’s house in Istria as prosecutors finalize the case against him for shooting a colleague - a detective who works for the Zagreb police. The UDBA, Yugoslavia’s notorious secret police, has been officially disbanded now that Croatia has claimed independence, though in fact its departments have merely been renamed or redistributed among the military intelligence services. At his father’s house, della Torre is confronted by a young American woman who latches onto the disgraced secret policeman, asking him to help her find out if an UDBA agent killed Olaf Palme, the former prime minister of Sweden, on the orders of the Yugoslav authorities. In exchange, she offers to persuade people who know people to help della Torre in getting him off the hook for trying to kill a colleague ... Canada: Anansi Press (October 2013); Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77869 HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA McKay, Laura Jean FICTION Short Story (-ies) Extent: 224 pp Black, Inc. (July 2013) HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA is a powerful and impressive debut which will appeal to fans of Alice Munro, Nam Le, Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. Beyond the killing fields and the temples of Angkor Wat is Cambodia: a country with a genocidal past and a wide, open smile. A frontier land where anything is possible - at least for Western expatriates. In these loosely linked stories, Laura Jean McKay takes us deep into this complex country, exploring the uneasy spaces where local and foreign lives meet. Three backpackers board a train, ignoring the danger signs - and find themselves used as a bargaining chip in the hands of the Khmer Rouge. Elderly sisters are visited by their vampire niece from Australia and set out to cure her. A singer creates a sensation in swinging 1969, on the eve of the American bombings of Cambodia. These are bold and haunting stories, deftly told. Laura Jean McKay’s writing has been published in The Best Australian Stories, Sleepers, the Big Issue, Women of Letters and Going Down Swinging. She has been shortlisted for national and international awards and in 2011 won the Alan Marshall Short Story Award. http://www.laurajeanmckay.com Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77860 ACORN Ono, Yoko FICTION Poetry Extent: 216 pp illustr. OR Books (June 2013) ACORN is a book of inspirational poetry and art that invites the reader to uncover profound and often complex truths, in words and imagery that are playful and accessible. Yoko Ono offers intriguing, surreal exercises that can open our eyes to better ways of relating to each other and to the planet. Extending the intricate strands she first wove together in her widely-acclaimed book Grapefruit nearly a half century ago, the publication of Acorn will be a major event. Speaking from New York, Yoko Ono commented: "Acorn is poetry in action with participation. It’s something I originally created for the internet. For 100 days, every day, a different instruction was communicated. Now it’s being published in book form. I’m riding a time machine that’s going back to the old ways! Great! I added my dot drawings to give you further brainwork. I hope you enjoy it." Following OR Books’ publishing model, ACORN will be for sale exclusively from the publisher as a print-on-demand paperback and an e-book. OR will also prepare a clothbound collector’s edition for subsequent release. A portion of the proceeds from the collector’s edition will be donated to advocacy organization Autism Speaks. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77808 BELFAST BLUES Owens, Dermott SUSPENSE Thriller Extent: 122.000 words on submission A debut thriller featuring an offbeat duo of private investigators in Belfast. Sean, a technophobe, relies on his beautiful partner, Brona, for her tech skills, but he’s also smitten with her. Sean has no idea of Brona’s dark secret - her plan to avenge her mother’s death. When they are hired to search for a missing young woman, they are propelled into a maelstrom of seedy mobsters, international investigators on the trail of a big-time art thief, a local gallery owner of dubious identity, and a fortune in stolen art. Dermot Owen balances all the plots and subplots with the skill of an experienced juggler. Dermot Owens lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. When he’s not writing, he spends his time painting and listening to indie music. He is married to the novelist Sharon Owens and works as a Senior Systems Analyst. He has published short fiction online. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77864 RUINING ME Reed, Nicole ROMANCE Extent: ms91pp self-published (September 2012) Eighteen year old Jay Stevenson is living a horrible nightmare. Two years ago, she had the world in the palm of her hand, but in one moment, it was ruined. Secrets, lies, and the worst imaginable betrayal haunt her new reality. Burying her problems under a cold façade seems to be the only way to cope until it all catches up with her. Soon, she loses control of the lonely world she built around her, and the past, present, and future collide. Three guys are there when it all comes crashing down: JT, the perfect boyfriend she never wanted to give up; Rhye, the local bad boy "rock star" who made her forget the past; and Kane, the funny and sweet tattooed bartender who wants her future. Secrets must be kept. Choices must be made. Is it possible to move forward while still chained to the wicked vices of the past? Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77865 RUINING YOU Reed, Nicole ROMANCE Extent: ms self-published (January 2013) For a girl who dared to tempt death, living is the only promise that matters now. Jay’s life almost came to a forced end when her darkest secrets were revealed and the one who she chose to give her future to was ripped away. Now, everything she kept hidden is the topic of everyone’s conversation, and not all are sympathetic. Someone wants her horrific past to dictate her future, and another is determined to help her choose a different path. Kane and Rhye know that Jay is worth the fight, but waiting for her to find herself may ruin them all. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77868 SHAMAN Robinson, Kim Stanley FICTION Novel Extent: 155.000 words Orbit (September 2013) Following his novel 2312, nominated both for the Hugo and the Nebula Awards, Kim Stanley Robinson turns his attention toward our distant past: the Ice Age and the Paleolithic Era - that extraordinary time in human history when stone tools, art, and religion were first conceived. 32,000 years ago, Earth was in the grip of rapid climate change, and humankind struggled in small bands to survive on the edge of the glaciers that bound up most of the Northern Hemisphere. Yet out of this tenuous existence came the first glorious gestures of human imagination. The painted caves of Chauvet show us a human spirit gripped with profound inspiration. This is a tale of the society that created them, and the making of the paintings themselves. Loon is our Shaman-in-training, and as the story opens, he ventures out on his rite of initiation into manhood, a harrowing journey into the wild, utterly alone, and without tools, clothing or even flint to make a fire. Worse still, it is below freezing and the wilderness is home not only to animal predators, but to beings the tribe calls "Old Ones": Neandertals, whose uncanny intelligence and sharp instincts make them particularly dangerous adversaries. Loon survives his rite of passage, but returns to the tribe with a permanent limp and a taste for the world beyond. Orphaned from a young age, Loon has been taken under the wing of an old shaman who now struggles to pass along the old ways. But to Loon, the old knowledge is an unwelcome burden, trapping him in a role he never chose. Now, his grueling experience isolates him more than ever. Loon’s discontent draws him to a dangerous outsider - Elga, an alluring girl from another tribe that he chooses as his mate. Elga is not what she seems, however, and the following year she is kidnapped back by her former tribe. Loon must pursue her captors to the far north of the world, and onto the great ice cap, where he is enslaved and needs to be rescued in turn. Though Loon achieves his goal, the ordeal ultimately divides his tribe, inspiring Loon to break with the old ways. Finally, caught up in the mysteries of his life, Loon stands alone in the womb-like cave of Chauvet, and begins to paint. Of his latest work, Robinson says, "It's only science and archaeology that allow us to write historical fiction with any accuracy." His respect for science, the natural world, and especially the written word are in full evidence in this powerful story of art, life, death and the desire to be remembered. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77866 A QUIET KIND OF COURAGE Schneider, Anthony FICTION Novel Extent: 248 pp Penguin Books South Africa (March 2013) A QUIET KIND OF COURAGE is a multi-generational story that examines the nature of political struggle and its impact on an individual’s family, told through the eyes of Henry, an ageing Jewish ANC activist exiled in New York, his son Glen and grandson Saul. Schneider probes the conflicting complexities of love, guilt, honour and trust that acts of courage really demand and the repercussions that follow. As Henry faces his own declining health in old age he has to come to an understanding of what he has done and make peace with the choices he once made. Some fifty years later he sends his grandson on a mission to seek out some of his old comrades in order to make a documentary about the former Struggle, the outcome of which is to prove very different to what he anticipates. When Saul is kidnapped in rural South Africa his life takes a dangerous turn, just as Henry and Glenn must navigate revelations and changes in New York. Spanning past and present, South Africa and New York, this is a gripping story of emigration and arrival, the experience of exile and the meaning of home. "A depth, a synthesis of human contentions, intellect, emotions, self-searching, fully realised... a work of the meaning of exile. I hope this daring novel will be widely read!" - Nadine Gordimer "Reads like a thriller... but the writing style is flowing and sophisticated... elegantly written.... This book has left a deep emotional crater in my psyche." - Business Day Anthony Schneider is founder and CEO of an Internet strategy firm based in New York. He has written non fiction in the past notably a book on management skills inspired by the TV serial The Sopranos: TONY SOPRANO ON MANAGEMENT. His heart is however firmly focussed on fiction. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77840 THE FUTURE FOR CURIOUS PEOPLE Sherl, Gregory FICTION Novel Extent: ms 87.000 words Algonquin Books (Spring 2014) THE FUTURE FOR CURIOUS PEOPLE follows the entwined lives of a group of new adults set in motion by the fabulist premise of a look into the future. Evelyn and Godfrey wonder if their current romantic interests are the people they will be with years from now - or if they are just wasting their time. Dr. Chin and his amazing envisionist machine may have the answers they seek, but they’ll need to make sure they don’t get hooked on Chin’s machine. He discourages repeaters. This novel combines the talents of 27-year-old newcomer Gregory Sherl and award-winning author Julianna Baggott. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77820 SO WEIT WEG WIE MÖGLICH Spieß, Martin FICTION Novel Extent: MS ca. 120 pp Deutschsprachiges Original Daniel ist Ende 20, als sein Vater stirbt. Er fliegt nach New York, um auf andere Gedanken zu kommen. Dort wohnt er bei einem Priester, einem alten Freund seines Vaters. Sie führen Gespräche über den Vater, das Leben und Gott. Daniel lernt die Studentin Dana kennen. Die Beziehung zu Dana scheitert am Ende, aber Daniel bleibt die Erkenntnis, dass Menschen zwar sterben, aber andere weiterleben. Weiterleben müssen. Und glücklich sein. SO WEIT WEG WIE MÖGLICH ist eine Geschichte über den Tod, das Leben und alles dazwischen. Über die Frage, wie wir es hinkriegen, mit all der Enttäuschung und dem Schmerz, der uns widerfährt, umzugehen. Und mit dem Glück, wenn es denn mal kommt. Roman, Vollständiges Manuskript liegt vor, ca. 120 Seiten. (Ein Ernst Piper Buch) Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77837 IN THE GARDEN OF STONE Tekulve, Susan FICTION Novel Extent: 344pp Hub City Press (May 2013) **A Library Journal "Spring Pick"** ***Winner of the 2012 South Carolina First Novel Prize*** In the Garden of Stone is a harrowing multi-generational tale about the nature of power and pride, love and loss, and how one impoverished family endures estrangement from their land and each other in order to unearth the rich seams of forgiveness and redemption. http://www.susantekulve.com. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
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 | | Title No: 77750 BLACK & WHITE Albers, Wes SUSPENSE Crime, Mystery Series Title Zova Books (2012) Praised by William M. Lansdowne, Chief of Police of San Diego as "a story that might be all too real" and by New York Times bestselling author Gayle Lynds as "gritty and rewarding . . . a top-notch cop novel," BLACK & WHITE is the first in a series about a street cop trying to do what is right when everyone around him isn’t. When a call from dispatch sends John Hatch to a gruesome murder scene, his gut tells him there's something more than the homicide team uncovers. But he's a street cop, not a detective, and he's got trouble enough with his hot-headed new partner and the disaster that is his personal life. One by one, the duties of the job take their toll as he confronts the daily reality of the streets- the druggies and wife beaters, cheaters and crooks- that remind him how short life really is, and how nothing about the life of a street cop is as black and white as you want it to be. Wes Albers has worked for more than 20 years with the San Diego Police Department, first as a patrolman, then as a sergeant. Synopsis for sequel FIEND available upon request. http://www.authorwesalbers.com Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77752 CLEAR SKIES, NO WIND, 100% VISIBILITY Armstrong, Théodora FICTION Short Story (-ies) Extent: 304pp House of Anansi Press (March 2013) The first book to launch a new list of short fiction and story collections at Anansi Press, is Théodora Armstrong's startling debut fiction collection CLEAR SKIES, NO WIND, 100% VISIBILITY. "The stories in this collection are a rare phenomenon, capable of placing the reader in places so familiar one forgets they've never been there. The writing is crisp, taught, and evocative, and each story has a separate pleasure to give. Théodora Armstrong is a terrifically talented young writer, and this is a superb debut." -- Steven Galloway, bestselling author of The Cellist of Sarajevo Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77696 THE JOSHUA STONE Barney, James SUSPENSE Thriller Extent: 95,000 words William Morrow (October 2013) In 1959, in an underground laboratory in a remote region of West Virginia, a secret government experiment went terribly awry. A half dozen scientists mysteriously disappeared, and all subsequent efforts to rescue them failed. In desperation, President Eisenhower ordered the lab sealed shut and all records of its existence destroyed. Now, fifty-four years later, something from the lab has emerged. When mysterious events begin occurring along the New River Valley in West Virginia, government agents Mike Califano and Ana Thorne are sent to investigate. What they discover will shake the foundations of science and religion and put both agents in the crosshairs of a deadly, worldwide conspiracy. A powerful and mysterious force has been unleashed, and it’s about to fall into the wrong hands. To prevent a global catastrophe, Califano and Thorne must work together to solve a biblical mystery that has confounded scholars for centuries. And they must do so quickly, before time runs out . . . forever. http://www.jamesbarney.com/ Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77672 HOUR OF THE RAT Brackmann, Lisa SUSPENSE Crime, Mystery Extent: 372 pp Soho Press (June 2013) Iraq War vet Ellie McEnroe has a pretty good life in Beijing, representing the work of controversial dissident Chinese artist Zhang Jianli. Even though Zhang’s mysterious disappearance of over a year ago has her in the sights of the Chinese authorities. Even though her Born-Again mother has come for a visit and shows no signs of leaving. But when her mom takes up with "that nice Mr. Zhou next door," Ellie decides that it’s time to get out of town - given her mother’s past bad choices of men, no good can come of this. An old Army buddy, Dog Turner, gives her the perfect excuse. His unstable brother Jason has disappeared in picturesque Yangshuo, a famous tourist destination, and though Ellie knows it’s a long shot, she agrees to try to find him. At worst, she figures she’ll have a few days of fun in some gorgeous scenery. But her plans for a relaxing vacation are immediately complicated when her mother and the new boyfriend tag along. And as soon as she starts asking questions about the missing Jason, Ellie realizes that she’s stumbled into a dangerous conspiracy that may or may not involve a sinister biotech company, eco-terrorists, an art-obsessed Chinese billionaire and lots of cats - one that will take her on a wild chase through some of China’s most beautiful - and most surreal - places. Lisa Brackmann has worked as a motion picture executive and an issues researcher in a presidential campaign. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Rock Paper Tiger, was an Amazon Best Book of 2010. USA: Soho Crime (June 2013); Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77807 BELINDA’S RINGS Chong, Corinna FICTION Novel Extent: ms 248 pp NeWest Press (March 2013) "I can still remember the time when I was little and I suddenly realized I was me, and there wasn’t anyone else quite like me in the world. I was eating a Popsicle and staring up at a woolly mammoth." Half-Malaysian, half-English teenager Grace (but she’d prefer it if you called her Gray instead) is not a perfect little supermom-in-the-making like her older sister Jessica, and would rather become a marine biologist than a mother - although she does understand how to take care of special-needs kid brother Squid better than anyone else in her family. When her mother Belinda abruptly runs out on her family and flies across the Atlantic in order to study crop circles in the English countryside, Grace is left alone to puzzle out her life, the world, and her unique place within it. With a warmth and a boisterous sense of humour reminiscent of Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness and Peter Hedges’ What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? author Corinna Chong introduces us to two lovable and thoroughly original female characters: persnickety, precocious Grace, and her impractical, impulsive mother Belinda - very different women who nevertheless persistently circle back into each other’s hearts. Corinna Chong is a writer, editor, and graphic designer. Her writing has appeared in Grain, NoD, and The Malahat Review. BELINDA'S RINGS is her first novel. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77691 MRS. POE Cullen, Lynn FICTION Novel Extent: e-ms 97.000 words Gallery (October 2013) In 1845, the fame that had eluded Edgar Allan Poe at last seems assured with the publication of The Raven. But just when New York and the rest of the world is falling in love with him, he falls in love with Frances Osgood, a poet known mostly for her children’s verses. Both parties are married - Poe to his first cousin, Virginia, who was thirteen when she married him, and Frances to a prominent painter with a weakness for women. In the gothic thriller MRS. POE, Frances Osgood chronicles their intense mutual attraction as it descends to a downfall so complete they are lucky to escape with their lives. Virginia Poe, it seems, has no plans to give up her husband lightly. MRS POE will appeal to fans of other novels about famous American men and the women in their lives, such as Nancy Horan's Loving Frank and Paula McLain's The Paris Wife. A deeply evocative story of love and obsession, MRS POE captures a remarkable period of time - New York City in 1845 - and an extraordinary love affair between two unforgettable people: Edgar Allen Poe and Frances Osgood. Lynn Cullen is the author of The Creation of Eve (Putnam, 2010), named among the best fiction books of 2010 by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and as an April 2010 Indie Next selection and Reign of Madness (Putnam, 2011). Her novels have been translated in Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese. She is also the author of numerous award-winning books for children, including the young adult novel I Am Rembrandt’s Daughter, which was a 2007 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and an ALA Best Book of 2008. Italy: Neri Pozza; Lithuania: Gimtasis Zodis; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77655 THE ROAD BETWEEN US Farndale, Nigel FICTION Novel Extent: 426 pp Transworld (June 2013) 1939: In a hotel room overlooking Piccadilly Circus, two young men are arrested. Charles is court-martialled for 'conduct unbecoming'; Anselm is deported home to Germany for 're-education' in a brutal labour camp. Separated by the outbreak of war, and a social order that rejects their love, they must each make a difficult choice, and then live with the consequences. 2012: Edward, a diplomat held hostage for eleven years in an Afghan cave, returns to London to find his wife is dead, and in her place is an unnerving double - his daughter, now grown up. Numb with grief, he attempts to re-build his life and answer the questions that are troubling him. Was his wife’s death an accident? Who paid his ransom? And how was his release linked to Charles, his father? As dark and nuanced as it is powerful and moving, THE ROAD BETWEEN US is a novel about survival, redemption and forbidden love. Its moral complexities will haunt the reader for days after the final page has been turned. Nigel Farndale is the author of the bestselling THE BLASPHEMER, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Novel Award. His previous books include HAW-HAW: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Biography Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. http://www.nigelfarndale.com UK: Transworld (June 2013); Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77718 THE BLACK COUNTRY A Novel of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad Grecian, Alex SUSPENSE Thriller Historical Extent: 351 pp Putnam (May 2013) Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad returns, in the stunning new historical thriller from the author of the acclaimed national bestseller The Yard. The British Midlands. It’s called the 'Black Country' for a reason. Bad things happen there. When members of a prominent family disappear from a coal-mining village - and a human eyeball is discovered in a bird’s nest - the local constable sends for help from Scotland Yard’s new Murder Squad. Fresh off the grisly 1889 murders of The Yard, Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith respond, but they have no idea what they’re about to get into. The villagers have intense, intertwined histories. Everybody bears a secret. Superstitions abound. And the village itself is slowly sinking into the mines beneath it. Not even the arrival of forensics pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley seems to help. In fact, the more the three of them investigate, the more they realize they may never be allowed to leave. . . . Alex Grecian is the national bestselling author of The Yard and the long-running and critically acclaimed graphic novel series Proof. Praise for The Yard: "Outstanding. If Charles Dickens isn’t somewhere clapping his hands for this, Wilkie Collins surely is." - The New York Times Book Review UK: Michael Joseph (June 2013); Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77717 THE SLIPPAGE Greenman, Ben FICTION Novel Extent: 289 pp HarperPerennial (April 2013) William Day shares a simple suburban and childless existence with his wife, Louisa. When she approaches him with the unexpected demand to build a house for themselves, William must confront some uncomfortable truths about his life and future: Is this the ultimate dream? Is this what one should desire? As William feels the urge to reexamine his own expectations, he loses his footing and enters into 'the slippage' - a state of boredom, frustration and unfulfilled needs. Will an affair with an ex-girlfriend bring William out of this trap, or will it confirm the obvious? With vivid imagery and sparkling metaphors, Greenman portrays a modern relationship with his trademark sarcastic wit, shining light on what it truly takes for a marriage to survive. Ben Greenman is an editor at the New Yorker and author of several acclaimed works including Celebrity Chekhov, What He's Poised to Do, Please Step Back, Superbad, A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both. His fiction, essays and journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Opium, and elsewhere. "Ben Greenman's relentlessly funny novel engages with the mystery whereby a seemingly sane man can take steps to simultaneously solidify and destroy his life. Greenman is a brilliant and wry stenographer." —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77761 KILL CITY BLUES (Sandman Slim 5) Kadrey, Richard SPECULATIVE FICTION Fantasy Extent: 101.000 words Harper Voyager (July 2013) KILL CITY BLUES is the 5th title in the fabulously edgy urban fantasy Sandman Slim series from New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey. The series features a magician named Stark who’s been murdered, then forced to spend eleven years in Hell working as a hit man for various warring factions down under. But what do you do after you’ve crawled out of Hell to wreak bloody revenge? In KILL CITY BLUES, James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has managed to get out of Hell, renounce his title as the new Lucifer, and settle back into life in LA. But he also lost the Qomrama Om Ya, an all-powerful weapon from the banished older gods. Older gods who are returning, and searching for their lost power. The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall - a multi-story copy of LA - infested with Lurkers and wretched bottom-feeding Sub Rosa families, squatters who have formed tight tribes to guard their tiny patches of this fake LA. Somewhere in this kill zone is a dead man with the answers Stark needs. All Stark has to do is find the dead man, recover the artifact, and outwit and outrun the angry old gods - and a few killers - on his tail. But not even Sandman Slim is infallible, and any mistakes will cost him dearly. "These novels are incredibly hard-boiled, and the endings are not Happily-Ever-After. But Kadrey’s a fascinating writer and no matter how vicious Sandman Slim gets, we’re rooting for him." - Charlaine Harris "Richard Kadrey continues to knock them way the hell out of the park." - Cory Doctorow Richard Kadrey has published eight novels and over fifty short stories. Film option to Dino de Laurentiis Co. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77684 THE SHADOW OF OWLS Keeble, John FICTION Novel Extent: 152.000 words University of Washington Press (Fall 2013) THE SHADOW OF OWLS is a literary thriller set in the Idaho Panhandle during a freezing early winter in the year 2000. Kate DeShazer (who goes by Kit) is a biologist pursuing a major research project that puts her on a collision course with government and petroleum industry plans to run a sea-floor pipeline with tie-ins to the existing Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Kit is kidnapped, and her husband, a logger, is swept into a search for her that takes him into the world of white supremacists. While it has shades of Graham Greene-like suspense, the book is at its heart an exploration of a loving relationship put under extreme duress, and the hard test under such circumstances to hold on to one's principles. John Keeble has been called one of the major writers of the Pacific Northwest. About his early novel, the national bestseller YELLOWFISH (1980), Raymond Carver said, "YELLOWFISH is, without qualification or hedging, a great work of imaginative literature... This is the one." Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77803 THE FULL RIDICULOUS Lamprell, Mark FICTION Novel Extent: ms 216 pp Text Publishing (October 2013) THE FULL RIDICULOUS is a first novel about a father and a husband who adores his wife and kids - but that can't stop his life crashing down around him. Michael O’Dell is hit by a car. When he doesn’t die he is surprised and pleased. His wife Wendy and his teenage children are, of course, relieved. But that is just the start of it. Daughter Rosie punches out a vindictive schoolmate; son Declan is found with a stash of illicit drugs. A strange policeman starts harassing the family and ordinary mishaps take on a sinister desperation. And Michael finds he can’t concentrate, or control his anger and grief, or work out what to do about any of it. So what, really, is the point of him? And how can he get himself back together? It's the full ridiculous. Mark Lamprell’s entertaining rollercoaster of a novel examines the terrible truth: sometimes you can’t pull yourself together until you’ve completely fallen apart. Mark Lamprell is an award-winning film maker and screenwriter. His most recent movie Goddess is a box office hit in Australia and will be released internationally later this year (you can see the trailer here). THE FULL RIDICULOUS is his first novel. Canada: House of Anansi; Israel (to come) Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77811 SOMEONE McDermott, Alice FICTION Novel Extent: 72.000 words Farrar Straus Giroux (September 2013) An ordinary life - its sharp pains and unexpected joys; its bursts of brilliant clarity and moments of profound confusion - lived by an ordinary woman: this is the subject of Someone, Alice McDermott’s extraordinary return to form, seven years after the publication of After This. Scattered recollections - of childhood, adolescence, motherhood, old age - come together in this transformative narrative, stitched into a vibrant whole by McDermott’s deft, lyrical voice. Marie’s first heartbreak and her eventual marriage; her brother Gabe’s brief stint as a Catholic priest, subsequent loss of faith, eventual breakdown; the Second World War; their parents’ deaths; the births and lives of Marie’s children; the changing world outside her Brooklyn window - McDermott sketches all of it with sympathy and insight. This is a novel that speaks truthfully of life as it is daily lived; a crowning achievement by one of the finest American writers at work today. Alice McDermott is the author of six previous novels, including After This; Child of My Heart; That Night - finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Charming Billy - winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes. She has also won a Whiting Award and has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. UK: Bloomsbury; Italy: Einaudi; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77689 WAIT FOR ME Naughton, Elisabeth ROMANCE SUSPENSE Extent: 206 pp self-published (March 2012) Self-published in 2012, WAIT FOR ME is currently #2 on the Amazon Kindle Bestseller list (only behind Nicholas Sparks), and her Amazon Author Ranking is currently #10 overall. WAIT FOR ME is #6 on the IndieReader Bestseller List and #4 on Digital Book World’s eBook Bestseller List. WAIT FOR ME is also a 2013 Bookie Award Nominee for Best eBook of the Year and a 2012 Readers’ Crown Awards Nominee for Best Romantic Suspense. It has now sold well over 60,000 copies, including over 40,000 copies last week alone, and it has received over 571 five-starred reviews on Amazon. #5 on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller List for Fiction E-Books. Sold over 130,000 copies since the beginning of 2013. #3 on the NYT ebook and #6 on the combined NYT print&ebook bestseller list. After a tragic accident left her with no memory, Kate Alexander struggled to fit in with a husband and world that didn’t feel right. She’s had no reason to question what friends and family have told her, not until her husband is suddenly killed and she finds a photo of a young girl in his office. A girl who can’t be anyone but a daughter Kate didn’t know she had. Ryan Harrison lost his wife in a plane crash five years ago. To cope with the pain of her loss, he dedicated himself to his job and to raising their daughter. Now a successful pharmaceutical executive, Ryan has everything a man could want - money, fame and power - but he’d give it all up in a heartbeat for just one more day with the woman he still loves. As Kate begins to dig into a past she doesn’t remember, evidence leads her to San Francisco and puts her on the path toward Ryan, a man who sees in her the woman he loved and lost. Kate feels a draw to Ryan, one she can’t explain, but is that feeling enough to convince her this is where she’s supposed to be? As Ryan and Kate search for answers, they uncover lies long buried, a passion hotter than either expected and a danger that threatens - even now - when the second chance they’ve both been searching for is finally within reach. A former junior high science teacher, bestselling author Elisabeth Naughton now writes sexy romantic adventure and paranormal novels full time. She is the author of the Eternal Guardian series, Firebrand series, and the Stolen Trilogy. Her work has been nominated for numerous awards including the prestigious RITA® awards by Romance Writers of America, the Australian Romance Reader Awards, The Golden Leaf and the Golden Heart. http://www.elisabethnaughton.com Spain: Ediciones B; Italy: Corbaccio; Croatia: Znanje; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77746 DOOMED Palahniuk, Chuck FICTION Novel Extent: 330 pp Doubleday (October 2013) Madison Spencer is still 13, still precocious, and still dead. After her failed revolt against Satan and breaking curfew on Halloween, she has been exiled from Hell for one year, doomed to wander the earth as a spirit. Haunting her celebrity parents, Madison learns of the obscene cult they have started in her name, and the calamitous havoc it will wreak on heaven, hell, and earth if she cannot stop it. The hilarious and provocative sequel to the bestselling DAMNED, DOOMED is classic Chuck Palahniuk. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77786 CONFUSION Perry, Sarah FICTION Novel Extent: 76.600 words Serpent's Tail (2013) Solitary bookshop owner John Cole decides to walk out of his life one hot summer’s day. He will close the shop and take his brother up on the oft repeated invitation for John to come and stay with his family any time and for as long as he wishes. While making the journey out to his brother’s home in Norfolk, John’s car breaks down on an isolated country road. He goes to look for help, and stumbles across a large beautiful house whose residents welcome him in. But there is more than meets the eye to this strange community. His new hosts all know him by name, have prepared a room for him and claim to have been waiting for him all along... Unsettling and beguiling, and beautifully lyrical, this stunning debut novel marks Sarah Perry as a terrifically talented literary novelist of the very highest calibre. Sarah Perry was born in 1979. She has recently completed a PhD under the supervision of Sir Andrew Motion, examining madness and transgression in Gothic fiction. A winner of the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize, she has taught on the Creative Writing programme at Royal Holloway, London. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77700 THE CLOUD Richtel, Matt FICTION Novel Extent: 420 pp Harper (January 2013) Disoriented and bloody after a near-deadly fall onto the subway tracks, freelance journalist Nat Idle discovers that a beautiful stranger has come to his aid - and that the burly man who barreled into him had intended to do Nat harm. What he doesn’t know is why - and his quest for answers leads him to uncover a handful of mysterious deaths, and a bizarre neurological disorder plaguing children of the Bay Area - as he ventures into the Cloud. In a brave new world, the Cloud is where we store data, secrets, dreams. But it is something more - something insidious with the power to change not just how we interact with the world, but our behavior, and brains. Nat, in search of the truth, finds himself lost in a psychedelic maze, discovering things that cannot possibly be, realizing there is no one and nothing he can trust - not even in his own mind. Matt Richtel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times technology journalist and novelist. He is the author of two previous critically acclaimed novels, Hooked and Devil's Plaything, and his fiction, like his journalism, focuses on the impact of technology on how people live, behave, and love in the 21st century. He won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his series on distracted driving. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77733 THE OPENING NIGHT MURDER A Restoration Mystery Rutherford, Anne SUSPENSE Crime, Mystery Historical Extent: 309 pp Berkley Prime Crime (2012) The triumphant return of King Charles II in 1660 is occasion for much celebration in London. The Merry Monarch’s unquenchable thirst for entertainment creates opportunities for everyone from tavern keepers to brothel owners to actors. One of these is Suzanne Thornton. No longer a kept woman since her man has fled, she sees an opportunity to reopen a theater and stage the classics - Shakespeare, Marlowe, and the like. And now, thanks to Royal decree, Juliet can be played by a woman. Suzanne secures financing from an old lover, assembles a troupe, and restores the venue - none other than the historic Globe Theater. Tragically, during the opening night performance, a dead body lands on the stage. After the curtain comes down, Suzanne finds herself a suspect. But she also finds that murder is good for business - the next night’s performance is sold out. Wishing to live to enjoy her success, Suzanne undertakes her own investigation to find a killer who may try to close her down for good Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 76627 THE PERIPATETIC COFFIN And Other Stories Rutherford, Ethan FICTION Short Story (-ies) Extent: 224 pp Ecco Press (May 2013) A wildly inventive debut collection in the tradition of Jim Shephard and Kevin Wilson: strange, imaginative and refreshingly original stories that explore how the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours. Riotously inventive and lushly drawn, the stories in Ethan Rutherford's The Peripatetic Coffin bring into sharp focus both reality as we know it and as it could be. Lighting out into territories recognizable and foreign, The Peripatetic Coffin navigates landscapes and historical moments wildly divergent from each other, moving with brio between settings as seemingly familiar as a summer camp - with an unusually high rate of camper fatality - to a futuristic whaling expedition set against the backdrop of scarcity and environmental cataclysm, in stories that vibrate with peril and intensity. Whether introducing us to the beleaguered and unlucky crew of the first Confederate submarine as they mount a doomed mission during the waning days of the Civil War or two boys whose obsession with skateboarding and monster movies masks the more mundane but very real violence in their own life, Rutherford charts the course of unforgettable characters who are confronted with, and battle against, the limitations of their lives. Alternately funny, menacing, and deeply empathetic (and often all three at once) these are stories that stand alone, but are linked as a whole by their attention to the surface of things and what lurks beneath it, and to the tension between the visible and the unseen. Ethan Rutherford’s fiction has appeared in One Story, Ploughshares and American Short Fiction, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2009 (ed. Alice Sebold). His stories have received Special Mention in the 2009 and 2010 Pushcart Prize anthologies, and he has received grants from the McKnight Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. He holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Minnesota, and currently lives in Minneapolis where he is a guitarist for the band Pennyroyal. "Oh how I love these stories! Ethan Rutherford can slay you with humor and buoy you within the midst of tragedy. His range is amazing. Every story is 100% Grade A storytelling. I bow down to "The Peripatetic Coffin." - Alice Sebold Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77762 THIS IS BETWEEN US Sampsell, Kevin FICTION Novel Extent: ms 221 pp Tin House Books (November 2013) Spanning five years of one relationship’s ups and downs - the insecurities and passions, the sadness and joy, the hopes and disappointments - THIS IS BETWEEN US is an intimate collection of personal moments between a man and a woman, both divorced, both with a child, and both trying to create a good life together in Portland, Oregon. Full of sweet moments, emotional time bombs, blunt sexuality, and laugh-out-loud scenes, Kevin Sampsell navigates this novel’s couple through their first kisses and secret dates to breakups, reunions, and God knows where the hell else. Kevin Sampsell is the author of the memoir, A Common Pornography (2010 Harper Perennial), and the short story collection, Creamy Bullets (Chiasmus) and the editor of the anthology, Portland Noir (Akashic). Sampsell is the publisher of the micropress, Future Tense Books, which he started in 1990. He has worked at Powell's Books as an events coordinator and the head of the small press section for fifteen years. His essays have appeared recently in Salon, The Faster Times, Jewcy, and The Good Men Project. His fiction has been published in McSweeney’s, Nerve, Hobart, and in several anthologies. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77806 HELP FOR THE HAUNTED Searles, John SUSPENSE Thriller Extent: 362 pp William Morrow (September 2013) Fourteen-year-old Sylvie Mason awakes on a winter night to the voice of her mother across the hall, answering a phone call. It is Sylvie’s sister Rose asking her parents to meet her at a church on the outskirts of town. They drive the slippery roads and once there, first her father, then her mother, go inside. Having drifted off to sleep in the backseat, Sylvie is startled by the sound of gunshots. She gets out and walks through the snow to the church door, listening for some sound of her parents inside, but there is none. Nearly a year later, we meet Sylvie again in her guidance counselor’s office, struggling with the deaths of her parents, who were murdered on that night, and living in the care of Rose, who, she wonders, may be to blame. As the story moves back and forth in time, through the years leading up to the crime and the months following, we learn that the girls’ parents, Sylvester and Rose Mason, had an uncommon occupation, helping troubled souls find peace. The ever inquisitive Sylvie begins exploring their world of demonology, pursuing the mystery of what happened that night as she comes to terms with her family's past and uncovers secrets that have haunted them for years. Capturing the vivid eeriness of classic Stephen King as well as the tender quirkiness of John Irving’s beloved novels, HELP FOR THE HAUNTED is that rare story that brings to life a richly imagined and wholly original world, through the voice of its unforgettable young heroine. John Searles was Books Editor and then Editorial Brand Director for Cosmopolitan Magazine for over 15 years and remains an Editor-at-Large. He frequently appears on NBC’s Today Show and CBS’s The Early Show to discuss his favorite book selections. His essays, articles and reviews have been published in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Redbook, Out, The Daily Beast and many others. the author of BOY STILL MISSING and STRANGE BUT TRUE, which were both national bestsellers in US. Both previous novels have been optioned for film. John wrote the screenplay to STRANGE BUT TRUE which has been purchased by GreeneStreet Films in partnership with award-winning producer Ross Katz and will be filmed in Canada in Fall 2013. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77726 SHADOWKILLER #3 Staub, Wendy Corsi SUSPENSE Thriller Extent: 419 pp Harper (January 2013) Allison Taylor MacKenna feels as though she'sawakened at last from a ten-year-long nightmare.But her darkest hour has yet to come . . . Nestled in the warm, domestic cocoon of loving husbandand family, Allison finally feels safe - unaware that astranger's brutal murder on a Caribbean island is the first step in an intricate plan to destroy everything in her life. For seasoned NYPD Detective Rocky Manzillo, the signs are clear that something terrible has emerged from the shadows:a murder victim left without a face and a faded photograph that yields a startling connection. Now, as Allison's murky memoriesof a troubled childhood creep back to light, a cunning predator who shares her history prepares toenact a horrifying retribution - and won't stop killing untilAllison faces a shocking truth . . .and pays the ultimate price. The final book in the trilogy that began with Nightwatcher, and Sleepwalker. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77699 THE CAIRO AFFAIR Steinhauer, Olen SUSPENSE Thriller Extent: e-ms 111.000 words St. Martin's Press (Winter 2014) February 2011: The Arab Spring is raging, with Hosni Mubarak overthrown by the Egyptian people, and North Africa in turmoil. At a café in Budapest, meanwhile, a diplomat, Emmett Kohl, is gunned down in full daylight and the murderer - a hired mercenary - disappears without a trace. Emmett had previously worked in Egypt and was consulted on a highly confidential CIA plan, nicknamed "Stumbler," to be implemented in Libya, post-Gadaffi. His wife, Sophie, is told by the CIA to return back to the States, but she begins to investigate the murder instead, traveling to Cairo and meeting with top Egyptian intelligence operatives to try to uncover the secrets behind Stumbler. The deeper her investigation goes, though, the more she finds her own past implicated, and that in the intelligence world, no deception goes unanswered. Olen Steinhauer, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tourist and An American Spy and six other novels, is also a two-time Edgar Award finalist. "Not since John le Carre has a writer so vividly evoked the multilayered, multifaceted, deeply paranoid world of espionage." - —The New York Times Book Review (about An American Spy) http://www.olensteinhauer.com US paperback: Picador; UK: Atlantic/Corvus Books; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77694 MY BEAUTIFUL ENEMY Taylor, Cory FICTION Novel Extent: MS 280 pp Text Publishing (May 2013) Arthur Wheeler is haunted by his infatuation with a Japanese youth he encountered in the enemy alien camp where he worked as a guard during WW2. Abandoning his wife and baby son, Arthur sets out on a doomed mission to rescue his lover from forced deportation back to Japan, a country in ruins. Thus begins the secret history of a soldier at war with his own sexuality and dangerously at odds with the racism that underpins the crumbling British Empire. Four decades later Arthur is still obsessed with the traumatic events of his youth. He proposes a last reunion with his lost lover, in the hope of laying his ghosts to rest, but this mission too seems doomed to failure. Like Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Snow Falling On Cedars and The English Patient, My Beautiful Enemy explores questions of desire and redemption against the background of a savage racial war. In this context, Arthur’s private battles against his own nature, and against the conventions of his time, can only end in heartache. Cory Taylor is an award-winning screenwriter. Her first novel, Me and Mr Booker, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Pacific Region). Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77690 SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT Tregillis, Ian SPECULATIVE FICTION Fantasy Extent: e-ms 109.000 words Tor (December 2013) SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT is a Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler-inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinas’s vision of Heaven. It’s a noir detective story starring fallen angels, the heavenly choir, nightclub stigmatics, a priest with a dirty secret, a femme fatale, and the Voice of God. Somebody has murdered the angel Gabriel. Worse, the Jericho Trumpet has gone missing, putting Heaven on the brink of a truly cosmic crisis. But the twisty plot that unfolds from the murder investigation leads to something much bigger: a con job one billion years in the making. Because this is no mere murder. A small band of angels has decided to break out of heaven, but they need a human patsy to make their plan work. Much of the story is told from the point of view of Bayliss, a cynical fallen angel who has modeled himself on Philip Marlowe. The yarn he spins follows the progression of a Marlowe novel - the mysterious dame who needs his help, getting grilled by the bulls, finding a stiff, getting slipped a mickey Angels and gunsels, dames with eyes like fire, and a grand maguffin, SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT is a murder mystery for the cosmos. Zur Prüfung anfordern |
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