|
Forthcoming Books: December 2014
|
Here are some of the best-reviewed books coming up in November. You can request them before they are published, and the library will contact you when they are available.
|
|
|
The Strange Library
by Haruki Murakami
From the internationally acclaimed author of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage comes a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.
|
|
|
Skylight
by José Saramago
A first English-language edition of a previously unpublished early novel by the Nobel Laureate author of Blindness shares the intertwined stories of residents at a faded Lisbon apartment building in the late 1940s. 10,000 first printing.
|
|
|
The Rosie effect : a novel
by Graeme C. Simsion
In a highly anticipated sequel to The Rosie Project, Don Tillman, after his wife Rosie announces that she is pregnant, sets about learning the protocols of becoming a father while helping his best friend Gene, who is living with them, reconcile with his wife Claudia.
|
|
|
The Boston girl : a novel
by Anita Diamant
Recounting the story of her life to her granddaughter, octogenarian Addie describes how she was raised in early 20th-century America by suspicious Jewish immigrant parents in a teeming multicultural neighborhood. Online reading group guide. By the author of The Red Tent and Day After Night.
|
|
|
Blue Avenue
by Michael Wiley
Introducing homicide detective Daniel Turner and his troubled friend 'BB' in the first of this atmospheric crime noir series." Summoned by his old friend, homicide detective Daniel Turner, to identify the trussed-up, naked body of a woman, found wrapped in cellophane amongst a pile of garbage on Blue Avenue, a down-at-heel area of Jacksonville, Florida, businessman William Byrd or BB is in for a shock. He recognises the dead woman as Belinda Mabry, the girl with whom he spent an intense and passionate summer twenty-five years before.
|
|
|
Here
by Richard McGuire
An innovative graphic novel presents the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. 75,000 first printing.
|
|
|
You know who killed me
by Loren D Estleman
Tackling a murder case involving a suburbanite whose widow is flooding the community with reward offers, Amos Walker follows leads to a Ukrainian mobster who is in the Witness Protection Program. By the Shamus Award-winning author of American Detective.
|
|
|
Asylum city : a novel
by Liad Shoham
Tel Aviv police officer Anat Nachmias isn't convinced the case is closed when an African man confesses to the murder of a social activist. By the author of Lineup. 20,000 first printing.
|
|
|
Irene : The Commandant Camille Verhoeven Trilogy
by Pierre Lemaitre
Draws on five contemporary and classic literary murder scenes in a prequel to the award-winning Alex that finds Camille Verhoeven linking a brutal double murder to a cold case before his pregnant wife is abducted by the killer.
|
|
|
Last Days in Shanghai : a novel
by Casey Walker
Embarking on a business trip to China at the side of a reprobate Congressman who goes missing after a drunken bender, aide Luke Slade stumbles onto a web of corruption when he is set up for a Chinese mayor's murder. 10,000 first printing.
|
|
|
Vanessa and Her Sister
by Priya Parmar
Set in early 1900s London, a historical novel examines the adult lives of sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, focusing on the controversial and popular circle of artists and writers known as the Bloomsbury Group.
|
|
|
The Convert's Song
by Sebastian Rotella
When his childhood friend Raymond Mercer, who has converted to Islam, becomes the prime suspect in a terrorist rampage, P.I. Valentine Pescatore teams up with an alluring French agent to find the truth, which leads them from the jungles of South America to the battlegrounds of Baghdad.
|
|
|
The bishop's wife
by Mette Ivie Harrison
Inspired by a true crime, a Mormon mother of five investigates the missing wife of a fellow parishioner as she becomes increasingly unsettled by the patriarchal structure and secrecy of their church.
|
|
|
Enter pale death
by Barbara Cleverly
While investigating the "accidental" death of Lady Lavinia Truelove, which he believes is murder, 1930s Scotland Yard Detective, and World War I detective, Joe Sandilands discovers surprising secrets about England's most powerful families and must decide if he is willing to risk a future with the girl he loves to find the truth.
|
|
|
Crimson Angel
by Barbara Hambly
Benjamin January is forced to travel to rebellion-torn Haiti of 1838 when his brother-in-law is murdered while searching for a family treasure that is tied to a dangerous secret. By the author of Good Man Friday.
|
|
|
The Italian Americans : a history
by Maria Laurino
In a companion book to the four-hour PBS series, stereotypes and nostalgia are stripped away to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the Italian-American experience and to explore and celebrate the rich legacy of Italian-American life. 30,000 first printing. TV tie-in.
|
|
|
|
|
|