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Fives and Twenty-Fives

Michael Pitre · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

It's the rule--always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb, stay in the vehicle and scan five meters in every direction. A bomb inside five meters cuts through the armor, killing everyone in the truck. Once clear, get out and sweep...
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The Rabbit Back Literature Society

Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Only nine people have ever been chosen by renowned childrens author Laura White to join the Rabbit Back Literature Society, an elite group of writers in the small town of Rabbit Back. Now a tenth member has been selected a young literature teacher named Ella. Soon Ella discovers that the Society...
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Uncle Janice: A Novel

Matt Burgess · Doubleday
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Twenty-four-year-old Janice Itwaru is an "uncle" - NYPD lingo for an undercover narcotics officer - and the heroine of the most exuberantand original cop novel in years.A New York City cop who can last eighteen months in Narcotics, without getting killed or demoted first, will...
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The Vanished

Lotte Hammer · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Lying at the bottom of his apartment stairs, a postman is found dead. At first glance, his death appears to be a simple fall, a straightforward accident and the perfect case for Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen to return to after a severe heart attack. But when he is called...
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Omega Days

John L. Campbell · Berkley
Format: Paperback

Readers who enjoyed The Strain Trilogy, by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, will find plenty to satisfy them here.—San Francisco Book Review When the end came, it came quickly. No one knew where or exactly when the Omega Virus started, but soon it was everywhere. And when the ones...
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The Blue and the Grey: A Victorian mystery

M.J. Trow · Creme de La Crime
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Introducing 19th-century private investigators Matthew Grand and James Batchelor in the first of a brand-new historical mystery series. April, 1865. Having been an eye witness to the assassination of President Lincoln, Matthew Grand, a former captain of the 3rd Cavalry of the Potomac,...
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Chew Volume 11: The Last Suppers

Rob Guillory · Image Comics
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Tony Chu, the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from what he eats, is getting closer to finding the answers he's been looking for - answers about the bird flu that killed millions, answers about the conspiracy to keep people from discovering the truth....
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The Island of Doves

Kelly McNees · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 369
Format: Paperback

Vivid and enthralling, Island of the Doves tells the story of two women in early nineteenth century America - one typical of her time, one extraordinary for it - who transform each other's lives.Susannah Fraser lives in one of Buffalo's finest mansions, but her husband has made it a monstrous...
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Refund: Stories

Karen E. Bender · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

We think about it every day, sometimes every hour: Money. Who has it. Who doesn't. How you get it. How you don't.In Refund, Bender creates an award-winning collection of stories that deeply explore the ways in which money and the estimation of value affect the lives of her characters....
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Shotgun Lovesongs: A Novel

Nickolas Butler · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Impressively original." --The New York Times"Sparkles in every way. A love letter to the open lonely American heartland ... A must-read." --People"The kind of book that restores your faith in humanity." --Toronto StarWelcome to Little Wing.It's...
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Re Jane: A Novel

Patricia Park · Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

"Re Jane is snappy and memorable, with its clever narrator and insights on clashing cultures." - Entertainment WeeklyFor Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she's been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane...
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Snatched: A British black comedy

Bill James · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

Bill James is on top form in this sharply satirical black comedy set behind the scenes at a museumGeorge Lepage, the new Director of the Hulliborn Regional Museum and Gallery, has great hopes that his tenure in the post will be short and profitable. He has visions of early retirement, and perhaps...
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Mummy Cat

Marcus Ewert · Clarion Books
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Deep within this maze of stone, a creature wakes up, all alone . . . Mummy Cat prowls his pyramid home, longing for his beloved owner. As he roams the tomb, lavish murals above his head display scenes of the cat with his young Egyptian queen, creating a story-within-a-story about the events...
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Ash Falls

WARREN READ · Ig Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback

A routine prisoner transfer on a rural highway ends with the bus upside-down in a ravine, the driver dead of a heart attack, and convicted murderer Ernie Luntz on the loose, his eyes fixed on the mountain range in the distance, over which lies his hometown of Ash Falls.Set in a moss-draped,...
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The Walking Dead Volume 27: The Whisperer War

CHARLIE ADLARD · IMAGE COMICS
Pages: 136
Format: Print book

THE WHISPERER WAR PART 1The time has come. The forces are aligning. The war has begun! Has Rick brought about the demise of everything he's built? Or will he triumph once again? Know this... there will be a cost.Collects THE WALKING DEAD #157-162.
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