
The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise by Julia Stuart is proving to be the little engine that could! Fresh off of hitting the New York Times bestseller list, this charming and whimsical novel is winning over critics, booksellers, and readers alike! Rave reviews, an excerpt, and book club links after the jump.
More >Dracula in Love, Karen Essex’s new novel, just went on sale Tuesday. Sink your teeth in..
London, 1890. Mina Murray, the rosy-cheeked, quintessentially pure Victorian heroine, becomes Count Dracula’s object of desire. To preserve her chastity, five male “defenders” rush in to rescue her from the vampire’s evil clutches. This is the version of the story we’ve been told. But now, from Mina’s own pen, we discover that the story is vastly different when told from the female point of view.
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More >Calling all surfers, athletes, and New Yorkers: The Surfer’s Environmental Alliance (SEA) is hosting its 4th Annual SEA Paddle NYC event one week from today: Friday the 13th! What better way to spend the most memorable of Fridays than along the Hudson cheering on elite surfers as they paddle 28 miles around NYC? Join Garrett McNamara, big-wave legend, and one of the subjects of Susan Casey’s upcoming book THE WAVE as he and his fellow surfers raise money for SEA and Autism Awareness. Check out video of the event after the jump.
More >Click through to learn more about New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava’s new book Damages, and watch her tour the Crime Scene House at Nebraska Wesleyan University and find out how real forensics experts get their training.
More >Rules of Betrayal is a masterfully plotted novel that cements Christopher Reich’s reputation as one of the most admired espionage thriller writers today. Visit Reich’s website, like him on Facebook, and buy the book!
More >Ayelet Waldman’s lyrical follow-up novel to Love and Other Impossible Pursuits went on sale yesterday. You can visit the author’s website, like her on Facebook, or follow her on Twitter. Plus, listen to this interview from NPR yesterday!
More >Colossal, ship-swallowing waves. Exotic locales. Adrenaline-infused, extreme surfing. Mesmerizing writing. What else can you want from a blockbuster fall book?
Find all this and more (impeccable reporting, palm-sweating surfing stories, frightening facts about the ocean—need we go on?) in this fall’s THE WAVE by bestselling author of THE DEVIL’S TEETH, Susan Casey. Check out a new video of giant waves and an interview with author Susan Casey and big wave surfer Laird Hamilton after the jump.
More >Steampunk meets Sherlockian mystery in this rip-roaring adventure in the sky.
Johannes Cabal, necromancer of some little infamy, returns in this riotously clever and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue.
In this genre-twisting novel, infamous necromancer Johannes Cabal, after beating the Devil and being reunited with his soul, leads us on another raucous journey in a little-known corner of the world. This time he’s on the run from the local government.
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Here at last is the cover for THE CONFESSION, John Grisham’s forthcoming legal thriller, in stores October 26.
More >The world is sweating. Billions of gallons a day oozing, dripping, puddling, staining. Beading on foreheads, glistening on backs, trickling down anxious underarms. Sixty percent water, with traces of sodium chloride, ammonia, calcium chloride, copper, lactic acid, phosphorous, and potassium. The universal metaphor for hard work. It’s sexy. It’s disgusting. And if you happen to be the vice president of underarm research for the world’s largest maker of antiperspirants, it’s gold.
The world is sweating and it’s Henry Tuhoe’s job to stop it. Or at least make it smell better.
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