HARDCOVER FICTION
The Last Werewolf by Glen David Duncan – Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but you’d never suspect it. Jake is a werewolf, and after the unfortunate and violent death of his one contemporary, he is now the last of his species. Here is a powerful, definitive new version of the werewolf legend—mesmerising and incredibly sexy. In Jake, Glen Duncan has given us a werewolf for the twenty-first century—a man whose deeds can only be described as monstrous but who is in some magical way deeply human.
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A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin – Dubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his landmark series—as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.
Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago – An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the best-selling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican.This is a sensual, riveting tale, set in a place where human passions and cruelties collide: thrilling history that has never before been brought so vividly and unforgettably to life.
Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock – From the acclaimed author of Knockemstiff—called “powerful, remarkable, exceptional” by the Los Angeles Times—comes a dark and riveting vision of America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree.
Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano – A novel that imagines the life of Flannery O’Connor after she is diagnosed with lupus and returns from New York City to her home in Milledgeville, Georgia where ordinary and extraordinary people chart their own courses through life and, in the aftermath of one tragic afternoon, they are all forced to look at themselves and face up to Flannery’s observation that “the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
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HARDCOVER NONFICTION
The Shooting Salvationist by David Stokes – In the 1920’s, the Reverend J. Frank Norris railed against vice and conspiracies from his pulpit to a congregation of more than 10,000 at First Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, the first “megachurch.” Following the death of William Jennings Bryan, Norris was a national figure poised to become the leading fundamentalist in America. This changed, however, in a moment of violence when he shot and killed an unarmed man in his church office. Norris was indicted for murder and, if convicted, would be executed in the state of Texas’ electric chair. The murder trial became front page news, leading to a courtroom drama more intense than the high-profile trials of today.
David Stokes will be here at BookPeople Monday, July 18th, 7p to speak about the crazy but true story of The Shooting Salvationist. Free and open to the public, come on down!
Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich – Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA and help him steal the most precious objects in the world: the moon rocks. Mezrich has pored over thousands of pages of court records, FBI transcripts, and NASA documents and has interviewed most of the participants in the crime to reconstruct this Ocean’s Eleven–style heist, a madcap story of genius, love, and duplicity that reads like a Hollywood thrill ride.
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PAPERBACK FICTION
Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman – National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has written a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays.
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