Some of the new releases we’re especially looking forward to this month include Sebastian Faulks revival of Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster; a powerful family drama centered around the practice of fracking (Fractures); a penetrating look at our consumer culture and the world of “stuff” – wanted or not (Want Not); and the return of popular Amy Tan. Among first novels, we have a laid-off war correspondent tracking down her friend’s killer in Big Sky country (Montana); two highly-praised historical novels; and the Danish Crime Novel of the Decade (The Dinosaur Feather). Speaking of crime, Paretsky, Bruen, Smith and Spencer-Fleming are always known to deliver. As is Gene Wolfe, in the Fantasy genre, and his new book sounds particularly fine. Elsewhere in SF/Fantasy, Cherie Priest wraps up her Clockwork Century steampunk series, and an alternative history of the 20th century featuring an alien-engineered peace is guaranteed to shake you up (Burning Paradise). Finally, if the spirit of Halloween is still haunting you, check out the gothic Victorian thriller Rustication.
Click the titles below to read more or to place them on hold.
General Fiction / Literary Fiction
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks
Fractures by Lamar Herrin
Want Not by Jonathan Miles
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
First Novels
Montana by Gwen Florio
The Dinosaur Feather by S.J. Gazan
Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch
The Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.S. Duffy
Crime Fiction / Suspense
Tatiana by Martin Cruz Smith
Critical Mass by Sara Paretsky
Purgatory by Ken Bruen
Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming
SF / Fantasy / Horror
The Land Across by Gene Wolfe
Fiddlehead by Cherie Priest
Burning Paradise by Robert Charles Wilson
Rustication by Charles Palliser
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