Archives - Fall Preview

Today's featured title is HOT WATER by Erin Brockovich with CJ Lyons.

No stranger to balancing an intensely demanding work schedule with the stresses of keeping her family together, AJ Palladino now faces another challenge: she is leaving her young son home with her ailing parents so that she can travel to the site of a new case involving a nuclear power plant in peril. And it will take all her skills to keep her cool while the action and tension build to a fever pitch.

Today's featured title is THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC by Julie Otsuka.

Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE (“To watch EMPEROR catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like LORD OF THE FLIES and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD” --- The New York Times) is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago.

Today's featured title is SALVAGE THE BONES by Jesmyn Ward.

A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; she's fourteen and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting.

Today's featured title is THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern.

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, no paper notices plastered on lampposts and billboards. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

Within these nocturnal black-and-white-striped tents, awaits an utterly unique experience, a feast for the senses, where one can get lost in a maze of clouds, meander through a lush garden made of ice, stare in wonderment as the tattooed contortionist folds herself into a small glass box, and become deliciously tipsy from the scents of caramel and cinnamon that waft through the air.

Welcome to “Le Cirque des Rêves.”

Today's featured title is THE MOST DANGEROUS THING by Laura Lippman.

Set once again in the well-wrought environs of Lippman’s beloved Baltimore, THE MOST DANGEROUS THING is the shadowy tale of a group of onetime friends forced to confront a dark past they’ve each tried to bury following the death of one of their number. Rich in the compassion and insight into flawed human nature that has become a Lippman trademark while telling an absolutely gripping story, THE MOST DANGEROUS THING will not be confined by genre restrictions, reaching out instead to captive a wide, diverse audience, from Harlan Coben and Kate Atkinson fans to readers of Jodi Picoult and Kathryn Stockett.

Today's featured title is MULE: A Novel of Moving Weight by Tony D'Souza.

From an award-winning "savvy storyteller" (Entertainment Weekly) comes a page-turning, zeitgeist-capturing novel of a young couple who turn to drug trafficking to make it through the recession.

Today's featured title is DOMESTIC VIOLETS by Matthew Norman.

Tom Violet always thought that by the time he turned 35, he'd have everything going for him. Fame. Fortune. A beautiful wife. A satisfying career as a successful novelist. A happy dog to greet him at the end of the day.

Today's featured title is EXLEY by Brock Clarke.

Part literary satire, part mystery, EXLEY unleashes the enormous talent of a writer whom critics have compared to Richard Ford and John Irving and whose work has been called "absurdly hilarious" (Entertainment Weekly) and "wildly entertaining" (Daily Candy).

Today's featured title is LITTLE BLACK DRESS by Susan McBride.

Can there be magic in a Little Black Dress? Susan McBride, author of THE COUGAR CLUB and the Debutante Dropout mystery series, answers with a resounding, unequivocal, "Yes!" McBride's mesmerizing tale of two sisters whose intertwined lives are torn apart by a remarkable dress that opens up doors to an inescapable future is an ingenious work of the imagination that recalls the novels of Claire Cook and Jill Kargman. A sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking look into two generations of women, this LITTLE BLACK DRESS is something every fan of quality contemporary women's fiction will want to own.