• The Beautiful Bureaucrat: A Novel
  • Author: Helen Phillips
  • Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
  • "Riveting... thrillerlike...drolly surreal...Ultimately, The Beautiful Bureaucrat succeeds because it isn't afraid to ask the deepest questions." The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice"A joyride...a new species...[a] very beautiful, very honest book." -Karen Russell, SlateNAMED A MUST...
  • The Bangkok Asset: A novel
  • Author: John Burdett
  • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
  • Sonchai Jitpleecheep - the brash and beguiling Royal Thai Police Force detective who has been our guide through John Burdett's five previous acclaimed Bangkok novels - is back. The former monk and devout Buddhist, forever battling to protect his karma from the assaults of morally compromising cases, is now faced with...
  • Palmetto Moon: A Lowcountry Novel
  • Author: Kim Boykin
  • Publisher: Berkley Trade
  • June, 1947. Charleston is poised to celebrate the biggest wedding in high-society history, the joining of two of the oldest families in the city. Except the bride is nowhere to be found… Unlike the rest of the debs she grew up with, Vada Hadley doesn’t see marrying Justin McLeod as a blessing—she sees it as a life...
  • Mirages of the Mind
  • Author: Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi
  • Publisher: New Directions; Tra edition
  • A hilarious and nostalgic account of twentieth-century Muslim life on the Indian subcontinent Basharat and his family are Indian Muslims who have relocated to Pakistan, but who remain deeply steeped in the nostalgia of pre-Partition life in India. Through Mirages of the Mind's absurd anecdotes and unforgettable biographical...
  • The Descartes Highlands
  • Author: Eric Gamalinda
  • Publisher: Akashic Books
  • One of the Philippine Daily Inquirer's Top 10 Books of 2014A NewPages Book Stand Editor's Pick"Darkly spellbinding...With a keen eye for splendor amid the grotesque, Gamalinda writes with a poet's heart and a philosopher's mind, while enthralling readers with emotional, gritty storytelling."--Booklist"A...
  • Zero Hour
  • Author: Clive Cussler
  • Publisher: Berkley; Reissue edition
  • The dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from the grand master of adventure… It is called zero-point energy, and it really exists—a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it…until one scientist succeeds....
  • Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology...
  • Author: John Joseph Adams
  • Publisher: Titan Books; Uncorrected...
  • HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD!  From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in a steampunk bordello, the weird western is a dark, gritty tale where the protagonist might be playing poker with a sorcerous deck of cards, or facing an alien on the streets of a dusty frontier town.Here are twenty-three original...
  • A Woman Loved: A Novel
  • Author: Andreï Makine
  • Publisher: Graywolf Press
  • The fascinating story of a young Russian filmmaker's attempts to portray Catherine the Great, before and after the collapse of the Soviet UnionCatherine the Great's life seems to have been made for the cinema--her rise to power; her reportedly countless love affairs and wild sexual escapades; the episodes of betrayal,...
  • Downton Abbey: Your Backstage Pass...
  • Author: Jessica Long
  • Publisher: Createspace
  • Like that other British TV favorite, Call The Midwife, Downton Abbey has found a special, solid place in our hearts. It was an instant hit when it first came to our screens on PBS in January 2011 and people have been talking about it ever since. Downton Abbey, home of the Crawley family and their servants, depicts a time...
  • The Reckoning: Book Three of the Niceville...
  • Author: Carsten Stroud
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • The astonishing final installment in the page-turning trilogy that Stephen King calls "an authentic work of American genius." Niceville has an almost unearthly beauty when the sun tops the ancient nearby mountain called Tallulah's Wall and bathes it in soft Southern light. But there's a reason Native...
  • The Joneses
  • Author: Shelia M. Goss
  • Publisher: SBI/Strebor Books
  • Keeping up with the Joneses isn't all it's made out to be. In this intriguing novel full of drama and plot twists, one family tries to hold on to their "perfect" life before their secrets, lies, and scandals are exposed.

    On the outside, the Joneses seem like the ideal family: Royce Jones, a funeral home...
  • The Never Never Sisters
  • Author: L. Alison Heller
  • Publisher: NAL Trade
  • An absorbing, highly entertaining novel about family secrets, The Never Never Sisters introduces you to the strong-willed and big-hearted Reinhardt women, as they reunite one summer in New York. Gifted storyteller L. Alison Heller has written another witty and moving page-turner that will captivate readers and keep them...
  • Grail Knight
  • Author: Angus Donald
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press;...
  • In 1200 A.D., much in England has changed. Richard the Lionhearted has died and his duplicitous brother John has taken the throne. The Earl of Locksley has been outlawed by his old enemy, now the king, and Sir Alan Dale has had the estates granted to him by Richard I taken away again. But still Alan Dale lives comfortably...
  • We Were On a Break
  • Author: Lindsey Kelk
  • Publisher: Harper

  • 'Witty, funny, warm and wise' Marian Keyes

    Is it a break? Or is it a blip?

    'You've just had a holiday,' I pointed out, trying not to yawn. 'Wasn't that enough of a break?'
    'I don't mean that kind of break.'

    There's nothing worse than the last day of holiday. Oh wait, there is. When what should have...